UPDATE: 11:15pm EST Hotfix

  • Fixed not being able to hire escorts when you have a hired merchant already in that region.
  • Fixed being able to open horse saddlebags from inspect window while mounted.
  • Fixed not being able to split stacks inside of saddlebags.
  • Player and pet corpses now stay protected by Karma rules when their owner is logged off or in a different area of the game.
  • Conflict status icon (Aggressor/Victim/Chaos/Allegiance) are now visible on pets.
  • Fixed not being able to dress your merchant.

General

  • Houses now have support for friends in addition to co-owners.
    • House containers now support setting a security level of friend.
    • Friends may open locked house doors.
  • Increased the distance of no housing allowance around guard walls.
  • Resolved an issue where several skills would not gain if at zero skill. Skills affected are the following:
    • Healing
    • Mining
    • Fishing
    • Lumberjack
  • The Barrens and Black Forest graveyards are no longer neutral guard protected.

Combat

  • Resolved an issue preventing blue karma level players from defending themselves against orange players, without first flagging Order.
  • Player and pet corpses now stay protected by Karma rules when their owner is logged off or in a different area of the game.
  • Updated conflict Icons in the Karma settings window to reflect proper Aggressor/Victim visual states.
  • Conflict status icon (Aggressor/Victim/Chaos/Allegiance) are now visible on pets.
  • The following spells and attacks now require line of sight to affect targets:
    • Earthquake
    • Meteor
    • Death’s Deathwave (In addition Deathwave no longer harms other undead creatures.)

Miscellaneous

  • Karma rewards are now split between party members.
  • Low level champion mobs no longer drop ability books.
  • Magic scrolls drop at a reduced rate from fishing chests.
  • General monster balances and tweaks.
  • Open backpacks of pets now close properly upon mounting the pet.
  • NPCs and creatures killed by guard protection lightning are no longer lootable.
  • Resolved an exploit allowing you to use “Stand” while not sitting to teleport.
  • Nearby player ghosts no longer result in hide skill failure for players.
  • Resolved an issue where two awakening dragon bosses would spawn during the final stages of the awakening spawn.
  • Server restart will no longer spawn another awakening dragon boss.
  • An open portal to Catacombs now closes upon server restart.
  • Catacombs pots can no longer be picked up and looted.
  • Merchants inside Catacombs are now invulnerable.
  • Resolved a bug where killing a blue player did not count towards achievement progress for the “Murderer” achievement.
  • Corrected the “Murderer” achievement description.