Here are just some of the additions made in the October 9 game update, "The Widening Gyre." The following list is comprised of detailed notes straight from the developers themselves. For a summary of things of interest, be sure to consult the official event article, The Widening Gyre.
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Miscellaneous Improvements
All Mana stones now destroy themselves at a flat 10% rate, regardless of their efficiency.
Advanced alchemists can now craft their own versions of Health and Mana elixirs.
The pyreal gets an icon makeover.
The Olthoi have a new look. . .
A bug causing a situation known as "Green Link Lag," where players clients were receiving data but unable to output data back to the server, has been identified and fixed.
A bug with the @fillcomps command has been fixed so that when a player switches between characters on the same account, the correct values for that character are displayed instead of those of the previous character.
A bug introduced last month where the camera angle was skewed slightly has been fixed. The camera angle should be back to where it was before Septembers event.
The bug where trying to stretch the enlarged chat UI box caused a crash of the client has been fixed.
There was a bug where the Dread Ursuin was not dropping its trophy item at all. It is now dropping at the correct percentage.
Apprentice Mage Robes have had the "Inept spells" removed, their Mana burn rate reduced, and their Mana tank total boosted to 250.
Xarabydun gems "Impulse spell" has had its duration boosted from twenty minutes to three hours.
There is now an exit portal in the Swamp Gardens.
Upon leveling, characters immediately replenish HP, Mana, and Stamina totals.
New characters now start with 500 pyreals instead of 100.
New characters that have the Bow or Crossbow skill now start with 250 arrows or quarrels instead of 100.
New characters that begin with magic skills now start with five of each starting component instead of one.
The Soldier template now trains Crossbow instead of Bow, and specializes in Arcane Lore instead of training in it.
The Bow Hunter template has new starting attribute values: 40/30/100/100/50/10, and a new set of skills, specializing in Bow, Melee Defense, and Arcane Lore, and training in Item.
Each template now has a set of "recommended skills" which are listed in the description for each template in character generation.
Minor Details
The locked gate in the subway dungeon has been removed.
The North Exit portal in the North Black Claw dungeon now actually leads to the North Exit instead of the South Exit.
The destination for the random landscape portal: "Mid Direlands Portal" is now, surprisingly enough, in the Mid Direlands instead of somewhere in Northern Osteth.
There was a bug where a quest flag was not working for the Laboratory Key to the Sylsfear Chest. This has been fixed. The quest flag for this key is now two weeks.
Players can no longer recall through portals created by the various portal gems (to the nine newbie towns and three archmages).
Stats have been slightly tweaked on the weaker bows in the game to make them more similar with respect to one another: Longbow, Shortbow, Yag, Nayin, and Shouyumi.
@help fillcomps now refers to the different types of component categories.
The description of the Simulacra Helm now correctly refers to itself as a "helm" instead of a "shield."
Fixed a bug where Gromnies were not always able to successfully attack players if the players were on uneven terrain. This has been fixed.
Fixed a minor typo in creating Diluted Health Infusions where text referred to "fire" instead of "health."
Robe of the Tundra now covers the head.
The icons for the starting Soldier template during character generation now display axes instead of swords.
