NPCs#
- New boss: The Lampwarden, in the vein chamber at the bottom of the Crystal Mine. He fights with magic alone, never a plain hit, in a fixed order you can learn: Crystal Shatter, Crystal Furrow, Shatter, Crystal Cage. Below a quarter HP he speeds up
- Crystal Shatter bursts as a + of spikes, then as an ×. Stand in the gaps or get clear
- Crystal Furrow sends three lines of spikes out from him. Step between them
- Crystal Cage rings you in spikes with one gap on the far side from him. Run for the gap before the inside bursts
- Each Shatter leaves a crystal on the floor. At 60% and 30% HP he raises his lantern for Lamplight Flare. Hide in a crystal's shadow, the pale blue strip behind it, or take a huge hit. At 50% he raises two Skeletons
- He drops Lampwarden's Lantern and the Little Lamplighter pet. Every kill also gives Hex Beads, Witch's Eyes, Crystals and Silver Coins, and sometimes Coal and Iron Ore
- 11 more Skeletons in the Crystal Mine
- The Reaver Captain is now Varric the Smokefang, and his pet is the Smokefang Wolf Pup. The Possessed Hobgoblin boss is now Ugrot the Unrested, and his axe is called Gobbler
- Trolls walk, run and swing slower, so you can now outrun them. Each hit is about twice as hard as before and cuts through far more armour
- NPCs that swing slowly now animate in time with their hits
Worn gear#
- Lampwarden's Lantern: a two-handed orb, Magic 25, 215 damage. It fights like an Arcane Orb III, Arcane Blast included, and lights the dark. It cannot be enchanted
Codex#
- Rare drops, pets included, are now guaranteed. Kill an NPC enough times (four times the drop's odds) and the drop is yours, as long as that slot in its log is still empty. Only the first copy is guaranteed; after that it is luck again
- Kills you already have count toward it, so some of you will get the drop on your next kill
- Once an NPC is Mastered, each rare drop you haven't found shows the kill that guarantees it
Mounts#
- The Brown Horse is now a Brown Horse Deed. Reading it teaches the Brown Horse spell and puts it on your Action Bar. Cast the spell to mount, and cast it again to dismount
- Horses already in bags and banks have become deeds
- Your horse no longer takes a bag slot and can't be lost when you die
Inventory#
- Pets are always kept when you die, and they no longer take one of your kept slots
Chat#
- 8 emoji: 🙂 😄 xD 😉 😛 😮 🙁 <3, or 😄 😁 :laugh: 😉 👅 :surprised: :sad: ❤️
- New Interface setting Chat text size: Small, Medium or Large
- World chat no longer announces every boss kill. It announces only your 1st, 5th, 10th, 25th, 50th, 100th kill and on, and names the party members who helped
- Gobbler, Smokefang Daggers, Blood Arcane Orbs V to VII and Lampwarden's Lantern are always announced in World chat
Cooking#
- Dishes now give more XP than cooking the fish or meat plain. Omelette / Cake / Herbed Cake XP, old → new:
- Shrimp: 2.5 / 5 / 7.5 → 12.5 / 15 / 17.5
- Meat: 4.25 / 8.5 / 12.75 → 21.25 / 25.5 / 29.75
- Trout: 14.25 / 28.5 / 42.75 → 71.25 / 85.5 / 99.75
- Bull Meat: 10 / 20 / 30 → 50 / 60 / 70
- Salmon: 28.25 / 56.5 / 84.75 → 141.25 / 169.5 / 197.75
- Bear Meat: 18 / 35.75 / 53.75 → 89.5 / 107.25 / 125.25
- Sturgeon: 45.5 / 91 / 136.5 → 227.5 / 273 / 318.5
- Barnacle Bass: 65 / 130 / 195 → 325 / 390 / 455
- Stormjaw: 87.5 / 175 / 262.5 → 437.5 / 525 / 612.5
- Vesperfin: 112.5 / 225 / 337.5 → 562.5 / 675 / 787.5
Farming#
- High Farming now gives up to 5× as much from herb and fibre patches on average (was 4×). That is up to 25 herbs per picking (was 20) and 250 fibre per harvest (was 200). Each harvest varies a little
- Slaughtering your own birds gives more Feathers: Hen 10 → 15, Rooster 20 → 30, Copperneck Hen 10 → 30, Copperneck Rooster 20 → 60, Goose 30 → 45, Gander 30 → 90, Stormneck Goose 30 → 60, Stormneck Gander 30 → 120
- Young birds show their sex (Rooster chick, Gander gosling). You can pick up or slaughter young males before they grow
- Farm tab: each pen gives its produce, young, feed and muck their own line, with a time or status for each
Gathering#
- Five more River Fishing Spots
Interface#
- The cursor now shows a small badge for what a click will do: Attack, Talk-to, Chop, Mine, Fish, Take, Enter, Trade, crafting stations and Cast
- New walk-here marker: a red pennant on a pole, on the ground and on the minimap
- Bag tooltips no longer float far above the cursor
Music#
- New song: Mind the Lamps, the Lampwarden's theme. It is also the Crystal Mine's music
World#
- Far hills take on the weather between you and them. They turn grey under cloud and fade sooner in rain and storms
- In rain the clouds drop onto the hilltops
- Windmill sails turn, faster in a storm
- Sun and moon glitter on rippling water
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