Ilysia News

Ilysia has been overhauled with it's largest gameplay update: Tides of Corruption! – Step into our evolving Early Access VRMMORPG and experience the first chapter of your adventure. Journey through the new land of Lavea, tackle new quests, face formidable challenges, and battle through our first dungeon—all within the completely overhauled Level 1-10 Early Access experience! Be part of the growing world as we expand and refine the adventure ahead!



[h2] Gameplay & Features[/h2]

• New Tutorial area with clear instructions
  
• New The island of Lavea, levels 1-10 content
  
• New XP and balance changes
  
• New Armor and Weapons
  
• New attribute balancing across items
  
• New Controller motion system, improving interaction and weapon control
  
• New Main Storyline and side quests
  
• New Quest types - gathering, skill use, item use, and Repeatable Quests including dailies, weeklies, monthly added
  
• New Interaction - Grabbing and looting items from the world
  
• New Mailbox System added – Send & receive items, coins, and messages!
  
• New mechanic - Resource gathering
  
• New inventory option - Quickslots and Quickslot comfort options in Codex
  
• New Body Slots feature for storing/retrieving weapons from hips/shoulders
  
• New Chest quick storage slot—drop an item into your chest to store it directly in your backpack
  
• Consuming food now makes you Well Fed, preventing additional food consumption
  
• New Wrist UI stats HUD
  
• New Wrist UI targeting system
  
• New Rune of Returning fast travel home stone. Set your Home location at mail boxes
  
• New Quest and Mob XP and damage balancing
  

[h2] Class Skills[/h2]

• Healing can now be correctly applied to other players
  
• Warden summoned Combat pets now functional
  
• Shield Blocking fixed
  
• Taunt Skill: Increased duration and threat amount
  
• Taunt Skill: Lowered cooldown
  
• Shield Bash: Added visual effects
  
• Ice Shard: Freeze duration lowered
  
• Self Heal: Cooldown lowered
  
• Instant Heal now Targetable to other players
  
• Instant heal: Cooldown lowered
  
• Healing Pool: Tooltip no longer displays physical damage
  
• Rebalanced cooldowns for healing spells
  
• Increased healing amount for various healing skills
  
• Fixed bug preventing healing spells from affecting pets
  
• Fixed bug causing healing spells to affect mobs
  

[h2] Professions & Crafting[/h2]

• New Fishing and mining profession and leveling system
  
• New Cooking profession and leveling system. Including over 40 discoverable recipes to start
  
• New Basic Weapon and Armor UI-based crafting system
  
• New VR Cooking minigame
  
• Many new harvestable ingredients
  
• New Cooking recipe discovery mechanics
  
• New fish added to fishing tables
  
• Discovered Cooking recipes can be viewed in the codex and track how many times you've crafted each item
  

[h2] Mobs & Encounters[/h2]

• New Mobs: Corrupted boar, bear, wolf, cultists, Corrupted Trogre, several elites
  
• New Mob Type: Rare – introducing new rare enemies with unique challenges and rewards
  

[h2] UI & Graphics[/h2]

• New Quest, NPC, Item, Store and interaction UI
  
• New Login scene
  
• New dungeon portal FX added
  
• New Skill Nexus training platform
  
• New rotation buttons for character selection scene & wardrobe player doll
  
• Interaction highlight indicators added to wardrobe gear slots
  
• Toggle for Body Slots On/Off added to Codex
  
• Fixed Reset Skills button UI on Skill Trees
  
• Updated visuals in Trogre's sanctum
  
• Several bows resized
  
• Various world objects and terrain issues corrected
  
• Selling and trash Cancel button UI fixed
  
• Default music volume lowered
  
• Updated racial descriptions in character creation
  
• Turn-in dialogs now have a scrollbar for longer text
  

[h2] General Fixes & Adjustments[/h2]

• Fixed warping bug hurting players when entering instances
  
• Loot dropped by mobs is now only available to the party that killed the mob for five minutes before becoming free-for-all
  
• Drinking potions now has a 30-second cooldown
  
• Notifications added when a player is unable to use a consumable
  
• New Loot chests added to the world
  

Hello Ilysians, and Happy Holidays! We are nearing time for the first Public Test Realm for the upcoming major content patch. We're pleased to announce that we've reached an important milestone in the codebase, and we are now "Feature Complete" for PTR 1. We're doing our final sanity pass on the content now, and we'll have more to say very soon after we get through the holidays. In the meantime, we're deploying a patch to extend our current Winter and Wrath of Bal'Ramos events, and to address an elusive bug that was causing mobs to run around during combat.

[h3]General Fixes:[/h3]

• We will be extending the Winter and Wrath of Bal'Ramos events as we finalize the PTR and work on the release of 0.4.0.
  
  
• Addressing the issue of mobs running wildly during combat - we have identified the root cause of the issue and deployed a fix.
  

[h2]Update 0.3.6 - Winter Holiday Patch Notes:[/h2]


[h3]Holiday Event Changes:[/h3]

• The holiday season has returned to Aenor!
  
  
• The Gromch is rumored to be roaming about the island again.
  
  
• The Gromch has a couple new tricks up his festive sleeves.
  
  
• The doomsday crier has a new quest to challenge the Gromch for a holiday title.
  
  
• Improved logging to trap server disconnection issues.
  

Dark omens are stirring across the Isle of Aenor... Strange happenings have been reported, and a mysterious Doomsday Crier has appeared in city taverns foretelling of ominous events on the horizon.

The time has come - the Wrath of Bal'Ramos limited-time event and questline kicks off at 9:00 AM UTC on Friday, October 4th!

Team up with your fellow heroes to confront the forces threatening the isle as destructions looms... while there's still time. These are the events and updates that will lead us to the grand unveiling of brand-new lands in Ilysia, waiting to be explored and conquered!

Exclusive Event Reward & Character Reset:
As we introduce the rebalance to stats, items, and leveling in the new content coming, we'll be performing a full character reset at the end of this event to provide the best possible experience on the new continent. Your efforts won't be going unrewarded, though — players who complete the limited-time questline on Aenor during the Wrath of Bal'Ramos event will earn the prestigious "Defender of Aenor" title on their accounts. This permanent mark of valor can be used on all your characters now and in the future as part of our new title system. Claim this accolade before the event ends and let everyone know of your heroic deeds!

[h2]Patch 0.3.5 - Wrath of Bal'Ramos Patch Notes:[/h2]


[h3]New Features:[/h3]

• New server side event functionality - World events in Ilysia can now change dynamically without needing new client builds.
  
  
• New weather functionality - Event based weather functionality added to Ilysia.
  
  
• New Prestige Awards System - support for account-bound awards has been added to Ilsyia.
  
  
• New Title System - Earn, select and display titles on your characters.
  

[h3]New Event: The Wrath of Bal'Ramos[/h3]

• New Questline - Do your part to slow the destruction of Aenor, and earn your prestige title before time runs out.
  
  
• New World Objects - Lava Fissures have appeared on Aenor... seek them out at your own peril.
  
  
• New NPC - The Doomsday Crier now appears in every town - seek him out to take on the new challenges.
  

[h3]Event Schedule[/h3]

10/4 - The first lava fissures will open across Aenor, as the Wrath of Bal'Ramos event kicks off.
10/18 - Second fissures and quests unlock.
11/1 - Third fissures and quests unlock.
11/15 - Final fissures and quests unlock.
11/29 - The destruction of Aenor will commence, and servers will shut down at midnight.
11/30 - 12/2: Ilysia update and kickoff of new content.

[h3]General Fixes:[/h3]

• Skills you have learned now have a green ring around them in the trainer UI.
  
  
• Melee combat sounds have been improved.
  
  
• Bal'Ramos sounds have been fixed.
  
  
• Fire elementals now cast Fire Nova in addition to other skills.
  
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• New page in Codex - Claim Items page - view items you've been awarded.
  
  
• New fishable - Bonefish.
  

Thank you all for being with us as we approach this monumental point for the game. This couple of months is an opportunity to be a part of the history of Ilysia with this limited-time event before the destruction of Aenor as we know it. Tell your friends - the time is now to answer the call and defend the world from almost certain peril. Who will be brave enough to rise up and claim the Defender of Aenor title? See you there on Friday!

[h3]General Fixes:[/h3]

• Made changes to Smooth Turning logic and increased base speed of rotation options.
  
  
• When a Mob is using a spell or skill, the name of the spell/skill will now be displayed on the Skill Bar.
  
  
• Quest indicators and Waydar icons have been expanded on to include a few new types.
  
  
• Waydar now shows Quest turn-in locations more clearly.
  
  
• World Quest item pick-ups should be more reliable now.
  
  
• Aegon (outside of Eurus) has been fixed and now offers his missing quest.
  
  
• Added a new Aenor Region minimap image.
  
  
• Memory management adjustments have been made in an effort to smooth out performance on Meta Quest 2. We will continue to make improvements to this for our next update.
  

[h3]New Mob:[/h3]

The Toka have been studying the magic of the Igara Shaman and are learning how to master the elements. Keep your eyes out for the new Toka Wizards - and be careful!

[h3]New Item:[/h3]

While attending GDC back in March, we were approached by our new friends from GLYTCH Energy, who were excited to meet us and wanted to collaborate on something special. We loved their ideas, and to celebrate our new partnership with GLYTCH, a special potion called Mana Surge has added to the game!

It's a brand new consumable that's been created by the Toka to help them (and hopefully you) become stronger. It can be found at certain vendors for the right price. Also, a Toka named Brewmaster Glurrch can rarely be found wandering in the wilds and he may drop one when defeated.

The real-world counterpart to the Mana Surge potion, an Ilysia-inspired energy drink with the same name created by GLYTCH, is also now available for purchase via the online GLYTCH store and in select Walmart stores across the US.