Module Changes

Strife and Discord

VERSION 8023:

Raise Dead and Resurrection Cost Reduction:

After a discussion within the Admin team, it was decided to heed the feedback of the player base and reduce the costs for both Raise Dead and Resurrection services handed out by NPCs:

Raise Dead price tag lowered from 5000gp to 3500gp
Resurrection price tag lowered from 10000gp to 7500gp

The team of course reserves the right to make additional changes and tweaks to balance in this area

BI Event Support Related work:

We are beginning to roll out an initial test at recording player actions in the form of BI(Business Information) events. This saved data will be used to provide the team with insights of overall trends so that it can make informed data-driven decisions.

Once the work is more mature we will share screenshots of our less confidential dashboards, we promise!

Puffy

8024

Hullack Webbed Maze has been updated with a new spider CARES set up

Strife and Discord

Version 8025:

Armor patterns have been added to the Smithing store. You may still of course craft those as Tailors to save gold and this measure is more for those who do not mind sinking in some gold into the Armorsmithing art. The team of course reserves the right to tweak the prices
Continued implementations of BI events

Strife and Discord

Version 8038:

Bug Fixes:

Change Log:

Protection from Alignment(Law/Chaos/Evil/Good) was changed to be less godly, and no longer gives Mind spells immunity. Spell description also changed to reflect it:

When this spell is cast, the caster chooses a target to be protected from chaos, evil, good, law, or neutrality. The target receives a +2 deflection bonus to AC and +2 to all saving throws.Instead of the vanilla mind immunity, a bonus to the saving throw to any mind-affecting spells and spell-like abilities used by creatures of the chosen alignment is granted:

Caster Level 1-7 grants +5 bonus

Caster Level 8+ grants +10 bonus (does not stack with +5 from level 1-7)

Spell Focus: Abjuration grants +2 bonus

Greater Spell Focus: Abjuration grants +5 bonus (does not stack with +2 from Spell Focus: Abjuration)

Specialist Wizard (Abjuration) grants additional +5 bonus

Following spells received Spell Icon facelift, thanks to the amazing @TheMinionOfArabel :

New Content:

New spells added:

Work in Progress:

New Fishing System being tested before rollout
Additional BI events are added to increase game coverage

Puffy

Version 8040:

CARES updated along the roads
A handful of quests location changed
Major module changes reflecting todays event (What to be revealed after event)

Puffy

8041

Consortium is no longer available without a DM
Prestige fetch quest has been updated with a new list of available items to fetch (May affect current quests, ask NPC to check)
Rotting Goblin Tribe has more traps and a new range of harder goblins that can spawn, giving more of a challenge for high lvl pcs
Moonsea Ride Goblin Tribe has more traps and a new range of harder goblins that can spawn, giving more of a challenge for high lvl pcs
Hullack Forest Wyvernwoods/Firefall Vale are both updates with better CARES set up and the forest layout has been changed to optimise area usage
High Road Haunted Halls, East Way, have both have had some minor CARES layout improvements
Moonsea Ride quest has had a total revamp of all encounters, the quest is now highly suitable for being going hunting

Strife and Discord

Version 8057:

New portrait pack has been added with new portraits for players to choose from:

8 new Dwarven female portraits
30 new Dwarven male portraits
47 new Elven female portraits
28 new Elven male portraits
6 new Gnome female portraits
6 new Gnome male portraits
47 new Half Elf female portraits
8 new Half Elf male portraits
11 new Halfling female portraits
12 new Halfling male portraits
16 new Half Orc female portraits
26 new Half Orc make portraits
82 new Human female portraits
85 new Human male portraits

We will periodically add more portraits, so if you have a portrait that isnt in our pack and want us to add it in - Toss me a PM on Discord

Puffy

v8059

A new High Priest of Cyric has been appointed in Arabel as of 1363DR, with the mortuary reopening in the Sewers
Sewers have been updated to reflect this recent change
Treasure chest items update, somewhere missing charges or were a bit too good to be true
Fix attempted with the prestige fetch quest
Clean Up Crew is located in the South East area of the Sewers

Puffy

8060

Cat familiars no longer cast cat's grace, temporary measure until various bugs with familiars are reviewed
Added conversations to most of the major faiths in Arabel, detailing the lore. Have also added books IG and to the library with similar info
Some crafting components have lost some weight, such as feathers
Fixed the Cyric NPC who praised Talona

Echo

V8066

New Kings Forest Areas

Collinwood got a little edit
Glade of Scars is now a quest (7-10)
Troll quest moved to the Dhedluk map
Dhedluk also has 2 other quests (both 7-10)
King's Abyss access via Dhedluk map
You can access the forest from Immersea & Aunkspear.
One new area is not shown on the map above (it's underground!)
Lots of secrets to be found and more will be added soon.
Happy Hunting!

Some bug fixes as noted here:
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/62264/the-crafting-hall/2
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/62160/halfhap-exit-transition/5
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/62265/random-xp-loss
https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/62252/inaccessible-resource-node-in-irondrake-rock

SpiffyMeister

Griffin Hill is quite deadly and a current work in progress. Beware.

Puffy

8077

Updated Kings Forest Collinwood to spawn random CNR resources
Updated Dhedluk CARES and triggers
Maybe fixed https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/62411/copper-tin-iron-helms-missing
More edits to the CARES to come, please keep the feedback coming!

Voss_

8078

Griffon Hill updated to represent current events.
(Danger still present but given fair warning.)
Dialogue added to certain Tilverton Raven NPCs.
Tilverton peasants no longer sound like bears.

Puffy

8081

King's Forest has been updates in all areas with new CARES layouts, note the areas are MUCH MORE dangerous now!
Hillmarch has been updated to reflect recent events
CARES updated in Hillmarch and the mines
More crafting nodes will spawn, from 10 to 15
More tin will spawn, from 1/17 chance to 3/17 chance

Strife and Discord

Version 8106:

Added 112 new portraits of various races for selection on player creation
Replaced the Spell/Scroll icons of the following CoA spells to new ones, that were created for us by the amazing @TheMinionOfArabel :

Puffy

8112

City Walk has been updated to shorten quest time and make the quest more stream lined
Palace has been updated to reflect recent IG events
City signs have been updated
Collinwood has been updated to reflect recent IG events, and to stop hostiles from being dragged into the area
Bounty hunter has been added to Irondrake
Eveningstar has been updated
Blisterfoot has been updated
Fishing spots improved

Puffy

8115

Mountain Climbing and Immertrail have been rebalanced to the same powerlevel as Immerflow, and their rewards have been updated to reflect this
Gemstones and ore have been rebalanced in their PP value

Echo

v8118
Tilverton updated to reflect recent actions/events
Slingdyke updated to reflect recent actions/events
Griffon Hill updated to reflect recent actions/events
New Storm Horns areas added
New quest added to Storm Horns
Small edits to Helmlands maps to accommodate new Storm Horns areas

Puffy

Faction forum categories are now only visible to players if they are a member

Puffy

8122

Frog spawn has been lowered based of player feedback
CARES tweaked to improve balance
King's Abyss CARES tweaked for better spawn locations
Deadwell CARES tweaked to reflect recent event, note the area is more dangerous
New 7-10 quest, Fungal Ruins in Redwoods, Helmsborder
Downtown Quest updated to reflect recent events IG
Lucky coins cost tweaked in the Tymoran Store
Tilverton decorated to reflect recent events
Immersea, Southern Border updated to reflect recent events
New caravan stop added to Immersea, Southern Border
Slingdyke updated to reflect recent events
Transition added between Smuggler's Route and the Northern Caverns