Areas Improvement: Abiz part 2 #
Phase 2 of Abiz areas improvements discovers even more of the secrets of Abiz. The Sultan of Hebedzi has gone missing with his entire family, and the most trusted advisors need help to figure out what happened. What is really going on in Abiz? What role does the Old Hermit play? Explore Abiz and solve several new quests, to find the answers.
This update includes:
- New encounters that offers a challenge for level 40 characters now populate the more remote, and closed off, areas of Abiz. Travel to the Rim areas at your own peril!
- New brilliant items: Blacksmith’s Code, Staff of the Nine Lights, Medusa’s Stone Tipped Arrows, and Wyrm God Avatar Plate, as part of new Abiz quests
- Several new high level quests. For level 40 characters to explore the locations of Abiz. Including the Temple of Storms and the Elemental Planes.
- New Dungeon Lair of the Archer for level 40 characters.
New Level 40 Dungeon: Lair of the Archer #
A new level 40 dungeon has been added, deep inside of the Abiz desert. Who is this deadly Archer? Whats its scope? Play the new quest line on Abiz to find out!
Areas Improvement: Underdark part 2 #
Added 2x Underdark – Deep Caverns areas that will replace all the previous Underdark – Deep Caverns areas. These areas are CR 10-20 for the most part, and include new encounters and several new quests
With this patch we also took the change to properly reconnect underdark areas together and give them more sense based on their surface connections. For this we added a new Underdark – Deep Tunnels area that serves as a connection to the new Underdark – Deep Caverns and Underdark – East. This change added a new link from the underdark to the surface via Tomb of Forgotten Heroes (which is not not linked to Nocturnae Caves anymore)
Areas Improvement: Moonglow #
All Moonglow areas have been touched, some received an heavy revamp, some were just slightly touched. Moonglow areas receive new NPCs routines, new conversations, new quests and more life has been added to the Moonglow region. This update includes:
- 2 quest lines connected to Moonglow Dungeons: Old Tower and Damned Tower
- Revamped of the Old Tower level 21+ dungeon: Merged areas together in a single area. Reworked final boss fight room
- Rework of the Damned Tower level 40 Dungeon: This is a total rework! Check below for more details!
- Added a few additional misc quests to do in Moonglow and nearby zones
- Merged all Moonglow interior areas in a single Buildings area
- Merged old Moonglow – Sleepy Forest area into Moonglow – Enchanted Forest area
- Reworked the Deep Tunnel that connects Northern Pass – Durel River to Moonglow – Enchanted Forest
- Generally improved Moonglow NPCs quality, areas look and adjusted all encounters.
- Added custom music soundtrack to Moonglow City area
Dungeon Rework: Damned Tower #
Damned Tower was the very first level 40 Dungeon we added back in 2019. The dungeon worked out so far but it was lacking internal building logic, scalability and a real meaning.
This rework completely reshapes the entire dungeon, by adding new creatures, new mini bosses and a new story. This dungeon rework also introduces a new expansion of the Dungeon tileset, that allows raisable floor tiles.
This is also the first reworked dungeon to get a completely new boss fight soundtrack! [Author]
Level 40 Dungeons: Loot adjustments #
The level 40 Dungeons serve, mostly, as a mean to gather Boss Tokens for both older and newer players. The most efficient way to do this is to farm fast level 40 dungeons in solo. This makes longer level 40 dungeons less attractive to players. Also, for new players that need proper gearing to join raids when they reach level 40, it gets hard for them to gear up properly by only farming for Boss Tokens.
To improve this, we have:
- Improved loot in the longer dungeons (i.e. Fury Tower, Temple of the Deads, Gnarled Fist Monastery, Damned Tower and Lair of the Archer). Final bosses on these dungeon now can also drop socket gems and also a selection of Legendary Purple Items (small chance). These dungeons are suitable for solo or parties of 1 to 3 unexperienced / badly geared players.
- More Celestial Bronze Keys have been added to high level quests. Also another Celestial Bronze Chest offers more options for new players trying to get the equipment needed to join raid groups.
- Boss Tokens drop in longer level 40 Dungeons has been slightly increased
New Placeable skill/ability check system #
A new system has been added to allow a player to perform an automatic skill / ability check while clicking on a particular placeable. A successfull check will have the placeable describe a specific situation, while failing won’t give the player enough data to properly understand the situation around that placeable. If failed, a player will be able to try again in some rounds. A first implementation of this system can be found on the new Damned Tower dungeon
NPCs Walk Waypoint System Reworked #
The base game system has been reworked and improved. All NPCs will now walk their daily routines properly, both in day and night.
They will resume their walking routine even if interrupted by a player via a conversation, or if interrupted because of a fight.
Misc Changes: #
- Added a total of 16 New Tilesets and 2 epansions to existing Tilesets to the game. The first implementation of these additions can be seen in the reworked Damned Tower dungen (Dungeon tileset expanded), and into the reworked Norther Pass – Deep Tunnel area (Caverns and Mines tileset expanded). Many more implementations of these new Tilesets will follow in future patches! For this addition, you’ll have to download approx 1.7GB of data the first time you will connect to the server after this patch.
- Added Welcome voice chat to NPCs when talking to them via non-standard conversation systems
- Adjusted the special traps system to have traps casting AOE spell at the activation location instead of being fired at the target that triggered the trap
- Adjusted the Weather System to be more realistic (less heavy rain and less snot storms), also fixed snow storms and reduced the amount of fog added during these events
- Updated World Bosses Loot Tables: World bosses now have the chance to drop several different items, from sequencer items, Special Brilliant Items, Legendary Items, to some special Mounts.
- Updated eligibility for World Boss loot so that the player that manages to PickPocket a healing potion from the boss gets automatically eligible for loot.
- Adjusted Mounts minimum level required: Level required per mount tier has been reduced.
- Tier 1 requires level 5
- Tier 2 requires level 10
- Tier 3 requires level 15
- Tier 4 requires level 25
- Tier 5 requires level 39
- Tuned down Black Mamba cobra in West Benzor
- Increased size of special Black Rats in Jarval Avignon Castle
- Added guard in Benzor Sewer plaza, it protects NPCs from creatures erroneously getting there
- Split Benzor Sewer Scrag Quest in 2: The first requires to kill 50 scrags, the second to kill the scrag boss
- Boosted all XP, Gold and Tokens quests rewards. Some quests received a big boost, while some just a minor.
- Adjusted Ajatar pet appearance to match new boss appearance
- Added return portal at the end of Galbarog’s Temple
- As a way to help new players find their way into the world, all new characters on ADOH now are automatically set at level 3 at first login.
Fixes: #
- Fixed OnBlocked event for NPCs not allowing them to manually open doors flagged as plot (undestroyable)
- Fixed NPCs talking to the player even if the player has the in combat status
- Fixed item Item Level Required color shown on an item description if the item is examined while on the inventory of another creature/placeable
- Fixed potions being draggable on another player. You can drag a potion on a friendly associate, but not on another player
- Fixed some broken GTS items that were set as Vengeful by mistake
- Fixed some old Vengeful Nordock Weapons that still had the old vengeful damage values pre rebalance patch. With this patch, their Vengeful values are set accordingly based on the original damage property value the item now has.
- Fixed Sword of the Dead Legion appearance for those that had it broken
- Fixed Slaad shifter split ability dealing magic damage instead of acid
- Fixed Nature’s Balance spell spamming the visual VFX at each application
- Fixed players dying in the Fugue Plane
- Fixed Balor death explosion hurting allied NPCs
- Fixed AI going to check for perceived dead NPC corpses even if already in combat with an alive creature/player
- Fixed a database call from Rod of Wanders that was causing SQL errors to be broadcasted to all online players
- Fixed in-game Aasimar description
- Fixed base game Balor appearance that was overwritten by new balor appearance