Stoneshard update for 16 December 2021

THIS UPDATE IS SAVE-COMPATIBLE

MAIN CHANGES

• Fully implemented the Guild Quarter of Brynn. There you’ll be able to find:
• Blacksmithing, leatherworking, and carpentry workshops.
• Jewelry workshop.
• The Three Pots Tavern.
• Added a number of secondary NPCs to Brynn and animations to the already existing NPCs.
• Added Barrels of Beer - the first commodity item in the game.
• Added 4 new two-handed swords, one of them is also unique: Veteran Longsword, Lordly Longsword, Espadon, Ornate Two-Hander.

BALANCE

• Tweaked the economy. Fully revamped buying and selling prices in different settlements. Increased restocking times for most NPCs.
• Tweaked weapons’ stats and levels to better suit the new damage system and the updated economy. These changes WON’T AFFECT already saved items.
• Tweaked the amount of Experience awarded for killing most enemy types.
• Changed Resistances for Wraiths, the Undead, and chitinous enemy types.
• Rebalanced some enchantments. Removed the Damage Reflection enchantment.
• Added an expiration mechanic to Deathstinger Jars.
• All Proselytes in distant dungeons now have a “Crimson Gift” passive that will boost their power until high tier Proselytes are fully implemented.
• Giant Rats and Bats no longer spawn in distant Proselyte dungeons.
• Changed Resistances for stone objects.
• Reduced Stone Boulders’ Durability.
• Increased Reputation gain from fulfilled tasks.
• Greatly increased Experience gain from destroying nests, hives, and burrows.
• Destroyed Deathstinger Hives have a chance to drop Hornet Honey. Destroyed Harpy Nests sometimes drop jewelry and gems collected by their previous inhabitants.
• Reduced Cooldown Reduction for “Double Lunge” upon landing a hit or killing an enemy. Removed the skill’s hidden Accuracy bonus.
• “Danse Macabre” now reduces Resistances to a lesser degree.
• Greatly reduced the chance for enemies to drop treatises.
• Rebalanced weapon drops on enemy death.
• “Daze” now applies a small debuff to Accuracy and Fumble Chance.
• All Injuries now reduce Healing Efficiency.
• Changed the Witch’s Hut loot.
• Greatly increased the variety of unique items that can be found in secret rooms and distant dungeons.
• Changed rewards for killing the Troll: all items now have roughly the same power level and for the most part can’t be acquired from other sources.

FIXES

• Tweaked enemy spawns in dungeons.
• Re-added the option to trade with most Brynn NPCs.
• Re-added Physical Resistance to armored enemies.
• Fixed snakes not spawning on the surface.
• Fixed passive effects not working as intended when moving to a new location.
• Synchronized the Herald's animations with his speech lines.
• Added routes to some secondary NPCs in Brynn.
• The Brynn hover on the global map now also shows the names of its quarters.
• Fixed Kromm’s stock: he no longer trades in high level items.
• Fixed the inability to take a cart to Osbrook from the Brewery.
• Nests and hives can no longer be injured.
• Fixed Skeleton Minibosses not dropping weapons on death.
• The Heraldic Note now also grants Brynn reputation.
• Fixed quest items getting unequipped upon failing an associated contract.
• The quest marker now leads to the correct quarter of the city when closing Brynn contracts (this fix doesn’t affect ongoing contracts).
• Added an option to eat Hop Cones.
• “Push the Falling” now replenishes Energy instead of Health.
• Reputation changes from tasks and dialogue lines are now correctly displayed in the Reputation log.
• Fixed misses being incorrectly displayed in the log (they used to be displayed as dodging a fumbled attack).
• Fixed vegetation objects spawning on top of one another.
• The Experience bar now becomes inactive upon reaching level 30.
• Fixed hives getting displaced when destroyed.
• Fixed most traders’ stock not working as intended.
• Fixed the incorrect tier of “Stance Training” and “Final Push”.
• Fixed the damage penalty of “Hooking Chop” increasing with higher Strength.
• Fixed Brynn elves being assigned an incorrect NPC type.
• Brynn elves will now fight back when attacked.
• Drinking from a well now reduces the same amount of thirst as drinking from a waterskin.
• Fixed “Danse Macabre” not granting Dodge Chance.
• Fixed some high tier skeletons lacking weapon abilities and dropping incorrect weapons on death.