Updates & Release Notes

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* Memory Hunts
-- Players can now enjoy our new GPS feature: Memory Hunting
-- Perform Memory Hunts to attain Amities, a new equipment item that gives unique passive player traits
* Translations for Chinese (Simplified)
* New Building: the Oracle Temple
-- Used in the crafting of items for Memory Hunting
* New specialization: the Oracle
* Arcane enchanting is now possible at the Demonforge
* Additional new sprites and artwork
* The codex can now be searched by item drop name
* Elemental alignments for affect your Follower as well
* Life siphon effects now proc once per turn, rather than per item/passive
* Misc bug fixes and improvements

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* Rise of the Unfelled is now available in French
* Improved the visual distinction and size of some buildings
* Reduced the effective touch area of larger buildings
* Bug fixes

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* Fixed an issue that may have caused live PvP to double match players
* Live PvP now has a turn time limit of 15 seconds. Afterwards, the AI should take over for the turn
* You can now flee live PvP matches
* World monster despawn is now less aggressive

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Hey travelers - thanks a ton for trying out the new storyline!

To address your feedback, we have performed a server patch that will allow players that had previously started the old storyline, "The Aftermath", to continue it alongside the new storyline, "Rise of the Unfelled".

Please note that Dungeon and Gauntlet rewards will still only reflect your progress in "Rise of the Unfelled" if you have begun the new storyline.

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* New Storyline: Rise of the Unfelled
-- Existing players can migrate to this storyline at their discretion
-- Migrating to this new storyline will remove access to the previous storyline
-- The storyline is currently available in the following languages: English, Spanish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Vietnamese, Russian, Polish, Japanese, Ukrainian, Traditional Chinese, Korean
* A fresh new interface for Area Exploration & Control
* To reduce player confusion, the Ghost term has been removed
* Most building types now cost gold instead of orns
* New building sprites
* New Quality of Life improvements to the build menu
* Spiked Shield balance adjustments
-- Spiked Shield can no longer crit
-- Spiked Shield better respects the actor's attack stat and the opponent's defense stack, reducing its previous armor piercing
-- The penalty for using Spiked Shield on classes other than Gilgamesh has been lessened
* Ascended players can now reverse their ascension levels, returning some of the materials spent
* Added an achievement for Live PvP
* Greatly increased live PvP rewards
* Balance: Improved the additional follower action rate given by the passives Valhallan Way and Valhallan Strength
* The Sleep status effect is now removed upon receiving damage
* Players can now opt to not summon event raids when using Summoning Scrolls
* Multiple potions can now be crafted at once in the Herbalist
* Due to increasing device limitations, removed Android 5 & 5.1 support
* Improvements to World monster seeding logic
* New PvE content
* Bug fixes and performance improvements

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Beowulf:
* Slightly increased class stats
* Removed bonus follower synergy with Tamer/Beastmaster, but buffed follower passives to meet the same stat values (or greater) as before
* Removed Mana Siphon and Critical Hits passives
* Valhallan Protection rate increased by 4%
* New Passives:
-- Ascension Synergy: Your Ascension level will now increase follower stats as well
* New skills:
-- Call of Skadi: Increases the chance of your follower performing an offensive spell.
-- Call of Jord: Greatly increases the chance of your follower protecting you.

Freyr/Freyja:
* Removed bonus follower synergy with Beastmaster, but buffed follower passives to meet the same stat values as before
* New skills:
-- Call of Brynhild: Increases the chance of your follower performing a buff or debuff.

Bahamut:
* Removed bonus follower synergy with Tamer/Beastmaster, but buffed follower passives to meet the same stat values as before
* New skills:
-- Call of Idun: Increases the chance of your follower performing a healing spell.

Deity:
* Slightly increased class stats
* Removed the HP Siphon passive
* New passives:
-- The Deity: Deific Channel is occasionally automatically cast while in battle

Heretic:
* Increased magic stat to be more competitive with melee classes
* Added the Steadfast II passive
* Iconoclast now begins its effect from 100% mana, rather than from 50% mana

Omnimancer:
* Increased magic stat to be more competitive with melee classes
* Added the Life Siphon passive ability
* New skills:
-- Refract: Grants a great chance to return some to all of an opponent's attack damage back at them. Refractions are more successful when magic users attempt them.

Grand Mystic:
* New skills:
-- Reflect: Grants a chance to return a portion of an opponent's attack back at them. Reflections are more successful when magic users attempt them.

Blademaster:
* New skills:
-- Counterattack: Grants a chance to return a portion of an opponent's attack back at them. Counterattacks are favorable to win in PvP draws.

Assassin:
* Removed the Last Breath passive
* New passives:
-- Annwn Subterfuge: It is easier to apply status effects to your opponents. Additionally, status effects given to your opponent will last longer.
* New skills:
-- Counterattack II: Grants a great chance to return a portion of an opponent's attack back at them. Counterattacks are favorable to win in PvP draws.

Anubis:
* New skillset: Flame VI, Spark VI, Tremor VI, Frost VI, Lacunus II

Other changes:
* The new "Call of..." skills will work most effectively with Valhallan classes
* Hybrid classes such as the faction god classes and Valhallan classes now have their Attack and Magic stats equalized
* Defeated World Raid Bosses now extra random item and material rewards

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* Translations for Hungarian and Romanian
* Revamped battle system and enemy AI
* Themed Dungeons
* Live PvP in the Arena
* Refreshed menus and many user interface improvements
* Added an in-battle options menu to control visibility of some battle settings
* Added "Horde mode" to Dungeons, allowing solo players to fight hordes of enemies at once|
* The Arena, Dungeons, World Raids, and Coliseums can now be completed as a party
* Summoned World Raids may now be made private to you and your party
* Balance adjustments:
-- PvP opponents now must manage mana
-- Spiked Shield will now consume Ward on missed attacks
-- Status effects that cause damage per turn will affect each turn of casting multi-turn spells
* The Castle Keep upgrade now grants a Colisuem
* The Herbalist can now be made public
* View distance is now visible on the map
* New status effect display and icons
* Battles now include an overview and historic action log
* New specializations: the High Cleric, Time Mage, and the Chronomancer
* New spells and skills
* Tons of bug fixes and quality of life improvements

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* New World Raids: Yggdrasil & Arisen Yggdrasil
* Two-handed items may now grant weapon abilities
* (Balance) New Realmshifter passive ability: High Tenacity
-- Damage taken from self-inflicted statuses such as Berserk and Bloodshift can no longer deplete HP to 0
-- High Tenacity replaces Apothecarist III
-- Apothecarist III is now available to the Assassin specialization
* July content
* Preparations for Live PvP and party combat
* Performance improvements and bug fixes

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* Added bottles as drops to some monsters
* Added herbs as drops to Witch-like enemies
* Allowed level 250 players to share experience while in party, but not receive it
* Fixed an issue where an out-of-date global ranking might be seen on a player's profile

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* Translations for Traditional Chinese, Dutch, and Norwegian
* Origin Town additions
-- Visit your party members' towns with the Wayvessel
-- Craft potions at the Herbalist
-- Build and populate your town with the Town Hall
-- Collect offerings from your villagers with the Citadel
-- Bring villagers to your town with Residences
-- (Endgame) Further increase your power with the Altar of Ascension
* You can now party with any Ally
* Character account management improvements
-- You can now have multiple characters under one email address
-- Passwords are no longer required
* Removed the previous "Low" graphics option
* Legacy item normalization
-- Please see https://www.reddit.com/r/OrnaRPG/comments/m9f9xm/sticky_marchapril_upcoming_changes/ for more information
* New help section with FAQ
* Regional chat
* New music: Origin Town + Boss
* Decorations can now be made public
* Visual and graphical improvements
* Bug fixes & stability improvements

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* Japanese translations
* Saved equipment sets
* Autodismantle by tier
* Equipment with crit rate bonuses now have more of an effect on skills and spells
* Followers now cost gold until T8
* April content
* Added the ability to either extract or destroy adornments at the Blacksmith
* In-app widget to get help
* Added the ability to re-challenge completed Codex entries
* Multi-hit skills now show a damage summary
* Added new Kingdom option to specify Kingdom language and desired member activity level
* Extra T10 class sprites
* Players can now use fishing lines at nearby health fountains
* (Balance) Increased the Assassin's Assassinate passive action rate
* Bug fixes

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* Added NPCs to the Codex
* Bug fixes and performance improvements

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* Added Followers to the Codex
* Added status effects to the Codex
* Decreased the stat penalty when dual wielding weapons
* Added upgraded off-hand skills to some off-hand equipment 
* Added new off-hand skills when dual wielding
* Added a new passive to the Sequencer: Quickcast
-- May reduce the turns required for multi-turn spells by 1 turn
* Increased the Follower storage limit in the Keep
* (Balance) Increased the chance for the Sequencer's doublecast to occur
* (Balance) Faction Statuses:
-- Frozen: increased the chance to heal and slightly decreased the chance to miss a turn
-- Rot: increased the defensive debuff
-- Burning: added an offensive debuff
* (Balance) Decreased the base Ward bonus of the Arisen Surtr's Cuirass from 12% to 8%
* (Balance) The Spiked Shield skills are now much less effective with non-Warrior classes
* New Kingdom war blessing: Blessing of Peace
-- Nullifies any other hexes and blessings used in a Kingdom war

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* Summoning Scrolls are now more likely to spawn a World Raid Boss of the player's tier
* Reduced the material and orn cost of the Keep
* Added the Master Angler achievement
* Fixed an issue that allowed the Kerberos's elemental alignment weaknesses to be overridden 
* Fixed an issue that prevented the Bastion spell from increasing defenses
* The Coliseum is now slightly easier and now rewards materials
* Slightly increased the Beowulf class's stats
* Misc bug fixes

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* The Codex
* Off-hand equipment may now grant special abilities
* Kingdom Gauntlets now require up to 3 defeats to be considered lost
* Area gridlines will now use colour to denote unclaimed or your own territory
* Quality of Life improvements including more spell/skill/item battle memory
* Faster bulk item dismantling/dropping
* Bug fixes and misc improvements
* Additional translations