A wide sunset view across a forested valley: a cloaked figure with a staff stands on a mossy stone ledge at the left, facing a cliff-top castle on the right whose walls are fed by falling water.
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Performance Improvements, New Tutorial, & More!

** Crossposted from Discord**

New Build is live on Steam!

New Tutorial

@captaindave5393 has put together a new tutorial based on feedback from players. Let us know how you like it in #ideas-and-suggestions

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Performance Improvements
We've been working hard to improve performance and have seen even more significant gains in FPS, with far less hitching on our test hardware. Server stability should be greatly improved as well
World Design Updates
@captaindave5393 spent some time going over much of central Irumesa, improving roads/paths, creating PoIs, and adding a new mini boss, Kresh, in the swamplands near Marshdale!

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Trading Post Progress
@sprocket_bbf is very hard at work on the Trading Post - we're in the testing phase, making sure everything is working properly and is very user-friendly. Should be ready soon!

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Next Up: Lightning Weapons
@samael5142 is hard at work on modeling the legendary equipment - check out one the epic new lightning weapons in progress!

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Loot Table Tweaks
As requested, we're starting to reduce pure raw silver (a quick & dirty solution I added long ago) and add a variety of drops to monster tables to make loot more interesting! This is not a nerf to gold per kill but a re-allocation to more loot

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Miscellaneous
-Right clicking Blessed Orbs, Radiant/Void Cores, and Molten Cores will now teach the associated recipes
-Right clicking Pristine Dragonscale teaches you all Lair Of Exiles Tier 2 Gear Recipes
-Added Vilethorn Rebels to MH Task System (Level 30 Monsters)
-Added Frostmaw Colossus to MH Task System
-Added Thundercoil Djinn to MH Task System
-Added Wind Golems to MH Task System
-Hills of Deliverance received a massive buff in enemy damage and health
-Added Walls to Golden Road
-Overall changes to the world, including a major revamp to Marshdale area
-Paladin's ability have been properly scaled with mana
-Added a jail where infamy players will spawn
-Fixed an issue where black drakes were not spawning at location 2383, 2505, 4
-Increased CD for Shadow Goblin's "Constricting Shadows" from 8s to 12s (also changed % chance to cast from 100% to 75%)
-Fixed a bug where you could get the Forgotten Book before starting first Empyrean class quest
-Improved all profession quest dialogue to instruct player how to craft an item
-Added Woodworking and Leatherworking Quests to their respective trainers
-Added zone logic that triggers call to action dialogue boxes for NPCs in Solitary Isles
-Fixed a bug where Elementalist's Chain Lightning's proc'd effects were not working properly
-Fixed a bug where Elementalist's Frost Shock's Thunderstruck proc was incorrectly adding fire damage
-Added an outline to the interactable Stalagmite for the "Elemental Surveying" Quest
-Added "Healing Received" XP modifiers to all relevant Demon Knight abilities
-Added Alchemy Profession Experience for Alcohol and Grape Paste
-Fixed loot table for Kresh
-Added a variant of Half Ork to the Monster Dex: "Half Ork Bruiser"
-Added Vampire Guards and Vampire Mystics to the Monster Dex
-Fixed T1-T3 jewelcrafting tasks to reflect the appropriate gem
-Set T3 task to craft level appropriate rings
-Apple trees now gatherable with WC axe in inventory
-Changed tree model to optimize overall polygon count (15k -> 3k per tree)
-Reduced the number of materials for walls and terrain tiles in Solitary Isles
-Deleted unnecessary and high-cost doodads in Solitary Isles
-Consolidated and updated the shaders of all the materials in Solitary Isles
-Non-hotspot water will now only catch up to t3 fish.
-Rod CD increased to 6s up from 4s
- Fixed a bug where the quest marker wouldn't show on the world map when tracking a quest
- CTRL + ALT no longer stop movement
Note: I will be traveling next week with less availability than normal, @captaindave5393 @sprocket_bbf & @simsinister will be around to assist with anything you need. Don't hesitate to ping us!