After the summer update’s test phase came to an end last Tuesday, we would like to thank everyone who participated and shared their thoughts on the test server board.

Based on the valuable feedback and suggestions we received, we made numerous adjustments throughout the test period. In this article, we have summarised the most important changes for you.

Changes to Shards of a Broken Moon:

• We have increased the creature density in the Asura Citadel hunting grounds.
• The Forbidden Gardens hunting ground has received a more efficient layout, the creature density has been increased, and the experience from true feverbloom asuras has been increased to 7,850 XP.
• We have adjusted the catnip and gilded bell mechanics so that raid creatures despawn sooner, and limited the maximum number of simultaneously active raids to three.
• The Moonsnow Magnolia boss drops more loot, but can now remove magic fields.
• We have made various other adjustments to Moonsnow Magnolia to make the fight more accessible.

Changes to Make Believe:

• We have increased the creature density in the hunting grounds as well as the experience gained from the devoted radiant creatures.
• Mimar Haffar boss has received various adjustments to make the fight more accessible, and now also rewards you with significantly more XP.
• Maior Domus boss has received several changes and balancing tweaks to make it a great but fair challenge. Similar to Mimar Haffar, the XP gain has been increased.
• Phosphorus boss does more damage to reflect the fact that his last phase should be the biggest challenge of the fight. The XP gain has been increased to be more in line with the bosses from Rotten Blood.

Gear and Items:

• Moonsilver Chopper (Axe 2H): Switched elemental damage from fire to energy.
• Moonsilver weapons: Their Weapon Proficiency has been adjusted, their primary skill boost has been increased by 1.
• Moonsilver helmets: Changed all augments from Mana Leech to Critical Extra Damage, and also tweaked various stats to make them more powerful.
• Enchanted Flamingo Amulet of Valor / Precision / Harmony: Increased primary skill boost by 1.

Feature changes

Echo Raids:

• Killing a creature has a chance to instantly spawn an Echo Raid above its corpse. This is additional to the Echo Raids that spawn over time.
• The respawn time of Echo Raids has been reduced.
• We have increased the chance for Echo Wardens to spawn. The chance is doubled when you have completed the Bestiary entry for the creature.
• Echo Wardens additionally always drop a Proficiency Catalyst, with varying chances for Lesser, Regular, and Greater Proficiency Catalysts.
• Echo Raids that spawn Influenced Creatures, create four Influenced Creatures instead of three.
• Creatures spawned by an Echo Raid despawn after 10 minutes.

Weapon Proficiency Manipulation:

• We have adjusted the strength of various perks
• We have added perks for additional spells.
• We have simplified some perks that previously depended on a specific skill level. These perks now scale with your highest combat skill level instead

Discovery System:

• We have slightly improved the interface.
• You will receive a message in the server log when you leave a subarea that has not yet been fully discovered.

During the test phase, we also communicated several other minor bugfixes and smaller changes that have been implemented.

Stay tuned!
Your Community Managers

Dear Tibians!

With today's server save, we have implemented the following fixes and changes:

• We fixed an issue that prevented Virtues from affecting the monk.
• We fixed an issue where Chivalrous Challenge had a reduced range.
• We fixed inconsistent behaviour with Death Echo when targeting through doors.
• The charm upgrade potion now grants the correct trigger chance bonus to supported offensive charms.
• We fixed an issue where the incantation assignments for Aura of Sapped Strength and Aura of Exposed Weakness were swapped.

Happy hunting,
Your Community Managers

Dear Tibians!

How a vocation feels is shaped by many different factors. From a design perspective, two aspects are especially important: numerical values and mechanics.

Numerical values include things such as damage output, XP per hour, loot per hour, waste, defenses, healing potential, and other measurable factors. Mechanics, on the other hand, define how a vocation actually plays: rotations, spell shapes, damage types, positioning, and the overall flow of combat.

During the vocation adjustments test server, our main focus was on the mechanical side of these changes. We wanted to make sure that we achieved our three main goals:

• Strengthen the identity of each vocation
• Introduce meaningful gameplay innovation
• Improve overall quality of life

The extensive feedback we received during the test server also proved invaluable. It helped us refine many aspects of the changes and contributed significantly to the current result.

Overall, we are quite happy with how the changes turned out in regard to these goals. Now, with the release on the live game worlds, we were finally able to gather reliable data on the numerical impact of the new tools and adjustments.

A slight increase in power is something we are comfortable with. The current version, though, exceeds what we consider healthy for the long-term balance of the game. For that reason, we have reduced the power of some of the new mechanics with today’s server save, without changing or removing their core gameplay.

Knight

• Blood Rage
• Skill bonus reduced from 30% to 25%

• Battle Healing
• Multiplier with shield reduced from 3 to 2

• Combat Mastery
• Bonus damage and healing changed from 12/10/8% to 14/12/10%

• Healing Spells
• Mana cost of several healing spells increased:
  • Wound Cleansing: from 40 to 60
  • Fair Wound Cleansing: from 90 to 135
  • Intense Wound Cleansing: from 200 to 300

• Divine Defiance
• Dodge reduced from 15% to 12%
• Magic level bonus reduced from 7.5% to 6%

• Divine Caldera
• Base damage reduced from 160 to 150
• Augment II increased from +8.5% to +10%

• Divine Barrage
• Base damage reduced from 140 to 130
• Augment I reduced from 10% to 8%
• Augment II reduced from 15% to 12%

• Sharpshooter
• Skill bonus reduced from 40% to 32%

• Beam Mastery
• Damage bonus reduced from 40/60/80% to 25/40/70%

• Great Death Beam and Great Energy Beam
• Base damage reduced from 170 to 155

• Death Echo
• Base damage reduced from 85 to 75
• Augment II increased from 8% to 12%

• Mana Buffer
• Multiplier increased from 8 to 10

• Forked Glacier
• Base damage reduced from 97 to 90

• Forked Thorns
• Base damage reduced from 105 to 97

• Strong Ice Wave
• Base damage reduced from 150 to 140

• Mana Buffer
• Multiplier increased from 8 to 10

• Chained Penance
• Initial range increased to radius 4

In addition to these changes, we have addressed several issues discovered after release, including fixes related to bonuses not being applied correctly, such as the Virtue bonus for Monks. You can find the exact changes in the fixes and changes news, which was also published today. 

The impact of these changes will be reevaluated once they have been live for some time. Further adjustments may still be needed to ensure that all vocations remain distinct, enjoyable, and healthy for the game in the long term.

Fulfil your destiny!
Your Tibia Team