Arvita update for 24 March 2023

Update 3.1a

• General/Server

• Upon releasing after dying, player's equipment has a 35% chance to be destroyed. All consumables/inventory items are still 100%. Repair cost has been reduced to 50% of the item's value per durability. This change was voted on by the community and we will test out to see how it is.

• Monsters now run a behaviour pattern reflective of their type. (Only some monsters are affected today, over the course of the weekend, all monsters will receive a complete overhaul of their abilities, stats, damage and behaviour.

• Player actions and fellow monster actions will dictate how specific monsters will react or behave.

• Players can now be staggered by monsters. If a player is staggered, nearby monsters will seek the opportunity to burst the player.

• Players casting spells, especially heals, may cause specific monster types to target that player. Regardless of current tank threat.

• Conditions like health, nearby player/monster count, stats, actions, and movements may all change the monster behavior.|

• Clients will now sync monster positions better. Needs testing to see if invisible monsters are still a thing.

• GDOC debug mode now turned off. You can no longer disable GDOC (Why would you, it gives u better performance)

• Improved visual post processing clarity across the board.

• Weather

• It may occassionally rain in some zones.

• Ground gets kinda wet if it does.

• It may awkardly rain in Testertown but not TestRegion2, vice versa.

* Items

• Medium Armor weight, reduced.

• Heavy Armor slight weight reduction.

• All equipment now have 35% death chance instead of 100%.

• Zone Changes

• Tier 1 Resource nodes will only spawn 80 to 90% of time. Meaning there can only be 9 out of 10 nodes up at once. This is to increase randomness.

• Tier 2 Resource nodes will only spawn 70 to 80% of the time. Meaning there can only be 8 out of 10 nodes up at once. This is to increase randomness.

• New - Dense Nodes

• Dense Nodes can be harvested up to 12 times.

• Have slightly higher drop chances.

• Exist in only areas guarded by powerful elites.

• More resource nodes added to TestRegion2.

• More resource nodes added to Grand Heart Plains

• Added some zone names, will add more in 3.2

• TesterTown has received a face lift.

• Magical runes added in some hidden areas. (See if you can find them! 5 Guild Trophies to the first to post a picture of it in the general chat)

• Increased vegetation and post processing in some areas.

• A new cave has been added to Grand Heart Plains.

• Lord Botan and his men have arrived on the Grand Heart Plains.

• User Interface

• Added a toggle UI button at the bottom right corner of the screen.

• White box now properly replaced by a default image or your class image (May be buggy for some classes)

• Only new characters will have their class icon for now.

• Action Bar Redo

• Target frame redo, you can now drag it.

• Party frame redo, you can now drag it.

• Party members should properly display their buffs now.

• Fixed Character Window hiding the clone character model when equipping a cape.

• Disabled some UI elements.

• Chatbox refined and moveable now.

• Minimap disabled

• Added a compass at the top of the screen

• Items

• Tier 3 Yew and Tier 3 coal now available.

• New Item - Adventurer's Backpack, purchasable from the Adventurer's Association but requires Iron Rank to use. Grants 500 carry weight.

• New Item - Gatherer's Backpack, purchasable from the Adventuerer's Association but requires Iron Rank to use. Grants 800 carry weight but adds 2 seconds to swing timers.

• New Item - Linen Pouch sold from Adventurer's Association.

• Linen Cloaks are now sold from the Adventurer's Association.

• Bugfixes

• 1 HP / 1Mana bug should be fixed.

• Well Water now working (Finally)

• Fixed "It's All Ogre Now" to properly require only 1 Ogre Boss Kill

• Fixed Quest Text

• Fixed some mismatch item descriptions.

• Fixed revive to properly target a dead player.

• Fixed collision issues in certain areas.

• Fixed doors to now be instant when changing areas.

• Fixed lighting issues regarding Crest Ocean URP.

• Fixed animation getting stuck when jumping with a staff during combat.

• Fixed deathloop animation for in some rare cases.

• Fixed Old Man to properly reward a his quest regarding a hidden satchel item.