Festival of The Brave et Delta 317.4 (Live le 12/12/2024, Blight le 10/12/2024)

Festival of The Brave

FESTIVAL OF THE BRAVE

Istarians awake to fliers tacked to every tree, post, and wall that anything between a dryad and a half-giant could reach - and a few higher, where dragons pitched in. Across the top reads large, bold letters in neat script: "FESTIVAL OF THE BRAVE"

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FESTIVAL OF THE BRAVE

In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the Peace Accords, the Imperial Council has put forth multiple festivities.

[ Personal Looting of Stolen Imperial Supplies for One's Own Use ]
[ Rewards for the Safe Return of Platinum Coins ]
[ Competition for the Most Prolific Slayer of the Aegis Threat ]
[ Interactive Events ]

Please speak to Taranae in New Trismus for further details and to participate.
Imperial Council, 31 A.E.

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Last year, in December 2023, Istaria celebrated its 20th trip around the sun - two whole decades of the Gifted! Due to our update schedule and the intense combat overhaul, we were unable to put on the celebration we wanted to. This year, on the 21st Anniversary of Istaria, we are moving the clocks forward in-game one year to allow us to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Empire of Istaria, known as the Festival of the Brave.

The Festival

- The Festival celebrates the bravery of the Gifted who, by putting themselves on the frontline every day, protect the collective Living Races' world.
- From December 17th, 2024 to January 7th, 2025, we will be running multiple events that reward Imperial Platinum Coins and Event Tokens. These events may be attended by all levels and are built to be accessible, similar to the 15th Anniversary events of 2018. A timetable of scheduled events will be posted before the festival begins.
- Alas, even when celebrating, the Empire is never safe. The Gifted are always present on the front, pushing back the Aegis threat. To help morale, the Empire has authorized two unique concurrent activities.

Pilfering of Imperial Supplies

- Over the decades of war, the Aegis have often stolen Imperial supplies to support their own armies and harm the Imperial one. In normal circumstances, the Empire requires the safe return of these supplies - but an exception has been made. Temporarily, you may loot and personally pilfer the contents of Recovered Imperial Supplies.
- Occasionally, you may find these supplies when fighting Aegis-aligned enemies. They may be looted from Undead, Aegis Construct, and Aegis Animate classed enemies that spawn anywhere in the world. This is in addition to their normal loot.
- The second comes from finding and gathering Stolen Imperial Caches, a unique resource gathered with Ingenuity. These may spawn in most places of the world, namely:

Tier 1: Genevia, New Trismus, Lesser Aradoth
Tier 2: Dalimond Peninsula, Abandoned Island, Scorpion Island
Tier 3: Barasavian Desert, Feladan Forest, Aughundell Mines, Mahagra Tundra
Tier 4: Feladan Forest, Aughundell Mines, Kirasanct Tundra, Char, Western Deadlands, The Long Walk
Tier 5: Aradoth (Outskirts of Harro, Delgarath, and Mithril's Anvil), Spiritous Swamp, Satyr Isles, Frozen Wastes
Tier 6: Eastern Deadlands, Dralnok's Doom, Eastern Frontline (edge of the Eastern Deadlands)

- Imperial Supplies may contain blighted items and formulas, random tiered trophies, random tiered components, random tiered hoard, a Greater Event Token, or a smattering of Imperial Platinum Coins. Higher tier enemies offer a higher chance of dropping the supplies. You must be the minimum level of the associated tier to identify the supplies. They are attuned, but their contents are not.
- Unused supplies will vanish one week past the conclusion of the event. They are personal loot.

Aegis Slaying Competition

- On top of the pilfering of supplies, the Empire is hosting the first competition ever across all borders - an Aegis slaying competition.
- For each Aegis you slay, you will receive an Imperial Mark. This is an attuned, valueless piece of currency that cannot be used to purchase anything - instead, it is used to count the amount of Aegis you slay during the event duration.
- A Tier 1 Aegis will award a Lesser Imperial Mark, while a Tier 6 awards a Superior Imperial Mark. Lower-tier marks award less points than higher-tier ones; the amount of points coincide with tier.
- The top three Gifted with the highest number of points on a single character will be awarded as follows:

First Place

Unique Title: the Empire's Illustrious Sword (Biped), the Empire's Illustrious Claws (Dragon)
One per character on account
4000 Platinum Coins
12 Loyalty Tokens
Ability to concept and name a new title*

Second Place

Unique Title: the Empire's Illustrious Sword (Biped), the Empire's Illustrious Claws (Dragon)
One per character on account
3000 Platinum Coins
8 Loyalty Tokens

Third Place

Unique Title: the Empire's Illustrious Sword (Biped), the Empire's Illustrious Claws (Dragon)
One per character on account
2000 Platinum Coins
4 Loyalty Tokens

*The new title will not be unique to your character, but instead be made available to all players at a later date through a quest, dialogue, or other in-game avenue. Your creation will be forever a part of the game and credited to you in its description as a winner of this event.
While the wording and concept behind your title will influence the later placement, we cannot guarantee it will end up exactly how and where you may want it. We will do our best to respect your creative vision.

Rules and Procedures

- Points will be calculated based off of the highest scoring character per account.
*Accounts known to be owned by the same person will be treated as one account.
*Accounts shared between different players during the event duration will be treated as one account. Correction: Accounts shared between different individuals in the same household during the event duration will be treated as one account. Separate households are not allowed to account share as designated by our EULA.
*Intentionally attempting to skirt the rule will result in your disqualification for poor sportsmanship.
- Substantiated reports of griefing by individuals or guilds will disqualify the person or guild from the rankings. Play fair and be courteous; these are personal loot and working together can only help you.
*Griefing would mean blocking others from accessing spawns, stealing kills to prevent loot, and similar actions of poor sportsmanship.
- Utilization of any in-game or third-party macro or automation software is against the spirit of this event and our EULA - doing so may result in action against your account as well as disqualification from the event.
- A full high scores list will be posted following the conclusion of the event by name of highest-rated character. If you wish to be excluded from this or the event as a whole, contact us on the support website .

Rewards & Imperial Platinum Coins

This event's currency is Imperial Platinum Coins, obtained by opening Recovered Imperial Supplies and in higher quantities by participating in events. These coins can be traded in at Taranae to receive unique cosmetic rewards from this event, as well as some event rewards returning for the first time.

New Rewards

- Gold Filigree Jewelry Accent
- Platinum Filigree Jewelry Accent
- Gold-Edged Ivory Dragon Head Scale and Mask
- Platinum Dragon Head Scale and Mask of the Brave
- Gold Sparkle Aura
- Platinum Sparkle Aura
- Rare Dessert: Anniversary Cake
- Platinum Wisp Pet
- Brilliant and Lustrous Platinum Wyvern Pets
- Brilliant and Lustrous Platinum Wolf Pets
- 20th Anniversary Banner and Mural, Chevron and Stripe variants
- Plot and Lair Structure "Monument of the Brave"
- Plot structure "20th Imperial Anniversary Celebratory Cake" Floating and Stand versions

Temporary Exchanges

These items will be removed from the vendor in the next content update after the event.
- Event Token Exchange
- Pack of Superior Trade and Adventure Experience Vials
- Pack of Greater Trade and Adventure Experience Vials

Returning Rewards

Rewards returning prior to the 15th Anniversary are copies of prior items to keep ones earned during the event "authentic" . However, they are visually identical, with the exception of titles. This is experimental and we would enjoy your feedback.
These items will be removed from the vendor in the next content update after the event.
- Hours of Frost, 2016-17
*Title: Hoarfrost's Bane
*Blue, Green, Orange, Purple, and Red Present Mimic Pets
*Hours of Frost Ice Dragon Head Scale and Mask
- 15th Anniversary, 2017-18: Silver Anniversary Token
- 10th Anniversary, 2013
*Anniversary Replica Celebration Head Scale
*Anniversary Replica Celebration Formal Pants and Shirt
*Anniversary Replica Celebration Tuxedo Pants and Shirt
*Descendent Shepherd Dog Pet
*Anniversary Celebration Pattern Set

Additionally, just by participating in the event, you will receive the unique title the Empire's Valiant Sword or Claws.

Participation

- To participate in the GM run events, you simply need to show up at the scheduled date and time. All levels are welcome.
- To participate in the open world events including the Aegis slaying competition and to loot Imperial Supplies, you must speak to Taranae in New Trismus to retrieve the Festival of the Brave buff. You will not be able to loot the extra items otherwise!

DELTA 317.4 (Blight du 10/12/2024 et Live du 12/12/2024)

Content

- Tower of Nature Radiance debuff cannot be dispelled by players' spells or abilities anymore.
- Corrected a dialogue misordering issue on Burning Archer: 09, where Sidenis sends two blocks of text at the same time. You now properly have to greet them again to get the second part.
- Thomas no longer repeats part of his dialogue between the ending of Burning Archer: 08 and Burning Archer: 09.
- Burning Archer: 11 now properly refers to the items you have gathered as Yew Treant Sapling Limbs and not Knots in the quest feedback.
- The Quest "Town Marshall: Pelts for the Peddler 2" now properly guides you to the eastern side of the Lesser Aradoth for wolves.
- Corrected an inconsistency with the timeline and Malganival Lunus' life in quest "Relics of the Ancients".
- Quest "Rare Foods: Sage Advice" changes:
*Fixed step visibility issues.
*Revamped step descriptions.
*Split some step dialogues to prevent walls of text.
*Significantly reduced the waiting time at Versanto the Master.

Adventure

- Updated the description of Fireflies (ability and debuff) to no longer mention a change in speed or movement.
- Androgos' Armor IV (buff) no longer has a frequency timer of 11+ days.

Craft

- Socketing techniques now specify that they can only be applied to items post-creation if they are not scribed.
- Armor Socketing now properly mentions chest guards as a possible application spot.
- Monster components used for Spell: Rupture techniques now have it added to their description.
- Corrected Journeyman and Expert formulas for Warding Scrolls to properly require Scribing instead of Alchemy to craft Eytelira's Screen of the Arcanist IV.
- Bonus: Enchanting I from Title: Expert Enchanter now is named Bonus: Alteration I to reflect the skill name change.
- Bonus: Essence Structuring I & Bonus: Essence Structuring II from Title: Expert Enchanter and Title: Master Builder respectively are now named Bonus: Enchanting I and Bonus: Enchanting II to reflect the skill name change.
- The techniques Craft: Enchanting I through to V are now named Craft: Alteration I to V, and Craft: Essence Structuring I through to V are now named Craft: Enchanting I to V.
- Dragon Wing Scales can now receive the Defense: Parry techniques instead of the Defense: Block techniques. Several blighted scales can also receive Parry bonuses.

Epic Content

- The Valkor titles "The Tortured", "The Mourner", and "the Tormented" now properly change your title to the right phrase instead of their old versions pre-revamp.
- Son of Gigaroth now has his pre-24.2 damage and health multipliers.
- Fixed an issue where 'Overheat', the debuff from Hot Prisms, could be dispelled by normal means without the use of Cold Prisms.
- Fixed an issue where the Memory Crystal of Bayn Hill could be used without being consumed.
- Added a constraint to the Memory Crystal of Bayn Hill that requires its relevant quest to be active to be used.
- "Firestorm!" from Surtheim's final title quest now lasts 60 seconds (down from one day) and ensures your death at the end of it to prevent a quest stall.

Monsters

- Elith the Disgraced no longer shouts double messages at the player when using special abilities.
- Ancient Chests within the Myloc Colony are now known as Forgotten Chests to better distinguish them from the other types of chests in Dralnok's Doom.

World

- Dark Azulyte now spawns in azulyte fields on Serenity, Pleasant Canyon, Kenaf Port, Slate Hills, Sok'delak Mines, Drakul and Draak.
- Kenaf Port now spawns standard Cerulean Azulyte nodes (instead of just Lesser).
- Aurochs wagons in Aughundell are no longer partially sunk in the ground.

Miscellaneous Changes & Fixes

- Corrected Lealta's dialogue to refer to Event Tokens properly instead of calling them Raid Tokens.
- Event Tokens are now known as Greater Event Tokens and are worth 100 copper (up from 1). A different, lesser form has taken on the original name, worth 1 copper. All of Lealta's stock has been adjusted accordingly.
- Lealta no longer offers exchanges for Silver or Gold Tokens of Challenge; Omens, Vestiges, and Relics of the Rift; and Greater Fiery Tokens. She still offers the lower denomination version of each of these - this change is to simplify her stock and also to rectify an issue where the higher-tier versions of some currencies were overpriced.
- NPC and trader NPC target icon rings are now brightened to match the color of text.
- Fixed Blue Moon Turtle Shoulder Pet (Dragon and biped versions) and Jervis Turtle Shoulder Pet (Dragon and biped versions) constraints.
- Jewelry Tech Kit: Amulet of the Grand Magus is now known as Jewelry Tech Kit: Energetic Amulet of the Grand Magus
- All fireworks now play their sounds
- Reflect Attack will now do normal reflected damage, not out of control damage numbers.
- Corrected a broken tint on Elm Fishing Poles.
- Updated the tint on the trophy 'Giant Loricatus Beetle Compound Eye' to match other tier 2 trophies.
- Corrected the coin and hoard values on the trophy 'Veteran Tarantula Legs' to match other level 96 trophies.
- Corrected the coin and hoard values on the trophy 'Stark Hoarspur Leg' to match other level 46 trophies.

Typos & Grammar Fixes

- 'welgar' typo in the quest step text of Fall of Tazoon: Introduction.
- Adjusted the phrasing and grammar of some of the Onyndriss' dialogue in Earn Title: Surtheim - Firestarter.
- Fixed a few grammatical issues in the first dialogue step of Earn Title: Surtheim - Touched by Flame.
- Renamed "a ragged book" to "A Ragged Book" for consistency with other item names.
- Tashka Lusa's Obsidian Heart
- Burning Archer: 08 on the step "Inform Tomas in Dalimond that the Archwizard is continuing his research.".

Hotfixes

These issues were corrected via hotfixes on both Blight and the Live Shards in the intervening month, but we wanted to write them here for reference. Any change listed below is already impacting Chaos, Order and Blight.

- Novian Myloc Queen Hair is now tradable.
- The Quest for Monk: Epic: Way of the Dark Tiger now properly counts kills from Daknor's Kwellen followers.
- Might of Istara's Army will now properly proc only 25% of the time on the Ceremonial Chest Scale so that it follows the design of other Ceremonial items.
- Removed the obsolete guild structures from guild plots.
- Apple Oastic pet is no longer invisible.
- The Eastern Harro Logging and Tannery machines have been activated.