Beta Weekend #6 – Dev Diary
Skill Progression
We have made an update to skill progression as it relates to the Narrative path for Warriors, Mages, and Rangers.
Previously, you were required to increase your skills by doing Town Objectives and applying those skill points with a Skill Trainer NPC.
While that path hasn’t changed and is still an option for those who wish to progress in that manner, you will now have your base skills unlocked when you reach your first narrative transition point.
This means you will be able to progress through that transition point by using your skills in combat to raise them, in addition (or in lieu of) doing Town Objectives.
Base skills in this context refer to the 5 primary skills you are able to raise through Skill Trainer NPCs:
- Warrior: Weapon Skill, Tactics, Healing, Anatomy, Parry
- Mage: Magery, Eval Intel, Meditation, Wrestling, Inscription
- Ranger: Archery, Tactics, Healing, Anatomy, Tracking
The Manticore Legend
Rumors are swirling about the legendary Manticore—a beast so fearsome that none who have encountered one have lived to tell the tale!
One researcher for the Moonglow Zoo has dedicated their life to the pursuit of finding these elusive Manticore creatures.
However, on the precipice of greatness, the researcher was severely injured and unable to complete their work.
Will you take up the reins and attempt to track down the Manticore lair to honor the researcher and their work?
Find Researcher Fluxo Gelson and review their Research Notes to learn more!
Veylara The Thoughtshaper
Outcast from the Lycaeum for pursuing forbidden magics, it has been revealed that Veylara The Thoughtshaper is involved with the Shadow Reavers.
Confront her in her secret lair beneath the Covetous Mountains!
Misc Changes
- Empty bottles will now go to your virtual resource bank instead of your backpack when using a potion. If you have empty bottles in your pack, you can sell them to a provisioner.
- Added leather resources to pigs and boars and increased leather resources on more dangerous creatures in the world—recruit a friend to help you slay these fearsome beasts and reap the leathery rewards!
- The Lost Lands are now accessible through various entry points! Just don’t get lost… in the lands…
- Rangers who failed to slay the Daemon in the Hidden Library can now use the objective scroll in the area to resummon the Daemon and enact revenge.
- The Yacht Club will no longer trap pets inside… were they secretly in cahoots with the Magincia Black Market?
