Ethyrial, Echoes of Yore News

Guilds
Guilds have been added to Ethyrial thanks to schreeder bacoustrips & Bardcore ! They can be created for the price of 10 gold at any of the guild managers in Edrivine, Ardholm, or Silverlake.



Adventure with your friends and gain Fame for your guild by engaging with any content in the game. 10% of the Skill XP you gain will passively contribute to your guild's total fame and level.

UI Improvements (Part 2)
Thanks to Chisme & Bardcore we have a handful of new UI elements updated to fit the new aesthetic:

Guild Window
Settings & Esc Menu
Character Window (to be further upgraded soon)
Mouseover Tooltips (now display Total Level, Guild, Class, and Title)
Item Tooltips
Spellbook
Bag / Backpack Window
Matchmaking & Report Windows
World Map Window

Upcoming:
MonsterDex
Social Window
Character Window v2
Inventory + Bank Updates
Trading Post
Skills Widget

Cloak Physics v2 🦸
Clebarius has been absolutely cooking on new armor for everyone, which will be available in the upcoming Bloodoath Citadel dungeon. He also made it his personal mission to make the cloaks way more epic. Check out how those beauties flow in the wind 🌬️

New Quests!
Chisme has added three new quests around Edrivine:

Elemental Surveying
The Speedy Soldier
Den Defenders

We have 3 more coming very soon - all with pretty neat rewards!

New Rare Drops
Over 60 new drops have been added to the Rare tables, filling out gaps, correcting old items, and adding new flavor to the leveling process. A few super rare items were added as well. Good luck finding them!



Sunken Depths Map ⚓
Cubano has been hard at work on the new environment maps. His latest creation is an awesome underwater cavern! 🪸

Class / Discipline Colors
"Schools" now have defined colors to represent them - this list of disciplines should cover any class concepts that may be added in the future and will be represented in mouseover tooltips when hovering a player

Performance Improvements
We've done a lot of work attempting to make the game run more smoothly on all hardware. The LOW graphics profile should now actually improve your FPS. Primarily this is achieved by removing shadows completely and lowering the texture quality. Let us know your feedback on these changes or if you notice any bugs

Miscellaneous:

The CD for creating a new character is now 1 min, down from 5 min
Players can no longer gain infamy when damaging themselves
Tooltips now appear on the minimap again
Accepted Quests now get printed into the System chat channel
The minimap no longer breaks after teleporting
The chat now fades in when typing
Timestamps adjusted to monospace and to 12h format
PMs now work properly
We believe we have fixed the VeryLongTestName bug which could happen due to network data being received out of order. Let us know if you encounter this again
Backgrounds have been added back to the quest objectives
The moon color near the minimap has been fixed to show the correct color based on the current moon phase
The Combat Utility should now reset into view with "Reset UI"
Mouseover & target outlines have been made significantly more apparent and recolored
The small white border has been removed in the 3d model in the character window
The hammer auto attack animation has been updated
Broken particle FX have been removed from radiant weapons
Particle Effects have been made to be more efficient. No more than 2 effects can be present on a weapon at once
Hit FX has been updated with a small blood splat
A small amount of Bloom has been added for a subtle glow to lights
Chat only scrolls down when sender is player

PART DEUX
Notes:

Substantial improvements to the flow on Solitary Isles to welcome new players (We'll continue to test this over-and-over until the experience is impeccable)
Imbued & Enchanted Murkhide Leather Fixed
Brawler Horizontal Kick, Jab, & Uppercut tuned
Guide Dialogue added to guards in Farwood and Edrivine which sends players to nearby content
Ranger's Summon Spirit Wolf now spawns the wolf on the player's tile
Cooked Scorpion Meat xp value adjusted
Ethyrite Scythe blueprint corrected
Wooden Fishing Rod recipe corrected
Enchanting Tutorial quest bug fixes
Jesse Ferds dialogue bug fixes
Many monster loot tables that were giving excessive materials (i.e. spiders) were adjusted
Crocodile meat added
More ladders updated so they can be left clicked
A low level special secret has been re-added to the game
Multiple class quest enemies have been re-tuned to match the level of the quest
New items added to Corrupted Grove dungeon
New items added to Old Mines bosses
Monster Hunter quest descriptions updated for some quests without directions
Wizard's tower ladders fixed
Lifeburst and Ancestral Plea tuned
Shroom Hunting Shot power further reduced
Spider and Snake Poison durations reduced
Hallowed Portal now teleports the player further away from the entrance so they don't get stuck in a loop
Assassin Poisons now only require the assassin class to use
Talking NPCs can now talk again
Aftershock and Earth Slash tuned
Greater Air Elemental model updated

NEW QUEST: The Astrological Aristocrat
A new quest, designed by @Chisme has been added to Dawnrock. Head on over and check out the short quest that has a bit of humor, thrill, and an awesome reward for those who are level 17+!

NEW UPGRADE: Platinum Trimmed Cloak of the Alpha
Quendra would be happy to upgrade your cloak to level 40 if you provide her the platinum leyline thread to do so! +Stats, New Trim

SFX & VFX Class Polish Complete
Chisme crushed it on these!

Shadowcaster
Elementalist
Brawler
Assassin
Shadowblade
Hunter
Spellblade
Berserker
Infuser
Crusader
Ranger
Warden
Cultist
Earthguard
Guardian
Priest
Dragon Knight
Enchanter
Demon Knight
Druid

More New Music
3 new music tracks have been added to the Login Screen, Solitary Isles, and Irumesa - enjoy!

What We're Working On
Clebarius is cookin on the new armor! 2/3 sets are done so far.

Guilds are nearly ready thanks to schreeder & bacoustrips! Bardcore is finishing the UI, as we have all of the data. We are finalizing MOTD and Player Notes, and then will release!

The Bank overhaul is almost complete as well. @Sprocket is going hard on this, and we're doing internal testing this week to make sure it's ready for players.

Cubano is working on the "Forsaken Battlefield" map, check out his work in progress!

Miscellaneous:

FOV Check bugs should be fixed. This is what caused players or monsters that were mid-cast to be untargetable
Subtle effects have been added back for weapon imbues in addition to status effects, which should help indicate when weapons are successfully imbued.
Fortified & Strengthened Drakonium Shield recipes have been fixed
Cooked Spider meat XP value reduced slightly
Cleanse Spirit effect updated
Pike now weight 1lb each rather than 3lb
Tutorial Island and Solitary Isles quest / NPC dialogue continues to receive updates to improve the new player experience
Infused Murkhide Leather now stacks to 100
Spider Hunters quest bugs have been fixed
Paladin Holy Wrath proc chance increase slightly
Healing Salve 10 second cooldown reduced to 1 second
Wolf meat and adrenal gland drop rates were doubled, we've corrected this
Rinthisle gathering chance was bugged and is now corrected
Lunarion Shadow Resistance was previously 35% - ideally for open world leveling mobs we will keep resistances at or below 25%. This has been reduced to 25%
Basics of Cooking now awards the new cooking recipes
Infused T8 items have had their attribute values corrected
T1 catch chances have been updated to increase variety of fish and ensure Pike is not too difficult to catch
The forest spirits on SI have been renamed to Wisps so as not to cause confusion with the mobs on Irumesa
The Leyline Lillies within the Alpha Wolf encounter will now heal the player when walked on
Punch and Kick animations have been sped up to flow much better than before

Thanks so much for your support while we continue to build the world of Ethyrial - see you in game!

Steam Patch 3.2.0 is now live! Happy 4th of July for those of you in the US 🎇

New UI Elements
The Conversation Window has been reworked to be higher quality and feature a 3D portrait of the NPC you're conversing with
The Context Menu has been re-skinned and has an improve visual responsiveness
The Chat Menu has been reworked with an updated font, new visuals, a guild tab, and the option to enable timestamps
Damage numbers can be toggled on/off in the settings menu and have been reworked visually. Offensive numbers will now show ALL individual damage numbers rather than grouping them. Incoming numbers are affected by gravity and use an easy to read font
The battle utility has been reskinned and the damage source bars made larger & easier to read
New Font applied to Loading Screens
Bardcore & Chisme have been killing it implementing these new frames so show them some love! ❤️

Class SFX & VFX 🔥
We've added hundreds of new sounds, such as impact/hit effects, start/channel/finish cast, weapon hit sounds, and more to our library so we can substantially increase the audible fidelity of the game. Chisme has been cranking on this and has fully or partially updated quite a few classes already, including:

Crusader, Berserker, Dragon Knight, Demon Knight, Spellblade, Earthguard, Shadowcaster, and Infuser

New Music 🎷
Yes! I'm a huge nerd and love finding new music for the game. So I've added ~ 20 new tracks, most of which are for dungeons since we were lacking ambient noise for them. We have the music tracks linked in our disccord for you to have a listen!

Mires of Woe
Cubano was cookin' last week on a new Swamp-themed map. Check it out!

QoL & Bug Fixes 🐛
3rd Person Cam:
Left-clicking to rotate the camera will no longer rotate the character to face the camera direction
The cursor stays locked in place when rotating the camera
Holding left click while right-click dragging will make the player run forward in the direction of the camera
After releasing the mouse button after a drag, the cursor will no longer interact with objects below it

Guilds 🛡️
Guilds are complete on the backend and we will be working on the UI for this next 🫡

Settings:
"Lock Element Position" Setting added to lock UI elements
"Reset UI" button added so frames can be restored to their original positions
Toggle chat timestamps added
Floating Damage numbers can be toggled on/off
"Target Both Friendly & Hostiles" can be toggled on or off. Enabling this will allow you to have a friendly and hostile target simultaneously

Misc:
Hotbars now properly save and new players will have the default keybindings assigned to their hotbars
Pathfinding has been significantly improved in most cases. We are still working on this, but the zig-zag movement should be gone when clicking-to-move
Corpse Name Tooltips now have a slightly larger font size
Icons will now appear on some enemy frames to signify their category. We need to update the entire database which we will do gradually over the next week or so
Various optimizations implemented to help improve framerates and general performance
Using the search function within the spellbook should be substantially faster
Cloaks have finally been fully updated with physics and wind effects, and now render properly in game
Hotbar slots now have a light background when 'Show Hotbar Background" is disabled
New right hand stab and slash animations added to some skills
Animations have been reworked so that abilities will always take priority over auto-attacks and will blend back into the auto attacks after being used
Continued SI Quest updates
Tutorial Improvements

Thanks for your patience, we appreciate all of your support from the bottom of our hearts. Excited to adventure with everyone in game!

Steam Patch 3.1.9 is live

Changes and fixes:

- Jess continues to make progress on the Explorer's guild area located near Marshdale, which will house content for high level woodcutters/woodworkers, fishermen, and skinners/leatherworkers.

- Pestering SudsMcDuff to get you guys the Warrens of Thought dungeon (levels 10-13) in the Edrivine Sewers!

- Hotbars should now properly save settings and spell slots.

- We've attempted to implement new fixes to address any desync issues. Let me know if you notice any disappearing players or resources after this patch.

- Dragging Items that are in Hotbar slots should no longer drop them on the ground.

- Menu Icons have been recolored to match the rest of the UI.

- Aetherthistle color has been corrected.

- More SI Quests and Conversations have been updated. Let us know if you encounter any bugs.

- The minimap should no longer zoom out far enough to cause crashes when clicking to move.

- Researching a monster should now be possible once per enemy.

- Continued Pathfinding improvements. (Still not perfect, but getting better)

- Crafting should now dismount players properly.

- Spirit Blast and other spells which affect the player's own time should now work correctly.

- Tab Targeting and interacting with monsters that are close to the player tile should be much more reliable.

We've Rolled out a new tutorial, which serves to educate new players on the most basic systems before heading to Solitary Isles. Gather, Craft, and Fight on a serene Island just off the coast of Seaholm. Let us know if you have any feedback on this - we will continue to improve it over time and make sure that new players stick around to try out more of Ethyrial!

Added a highlight around Dorian's Locker when reaching that part of the quest.

Bugfixes for various conversations around SI.

Updated Guardian "Grit" status effect icon.

New Loading Screen added.

Corrected Stewed Crab recipe XP.

Grass color corrected.

Thanks for your patience as we continue to build out the foundation of a great MMO. Let us know if you encounter any bugs or issues in Irumesa!

Steam Patch 3.1.8 is now up for grabs 🙏

Notes:

- Infusers pets have proper Unit Frames now.

- Party & Raid Frames now work correctly.

- Class / Status Effect Resources go above the hotbar.

- You can now toggle the XP bar and HP/MP bar above the hotbar on/off from the settings menu.

- Hotbar keybindings are now always capital letters.

- Player Infobar/Nameplate will always show in combat

- There is now a setting to make the player Infobar stay on permanently.

- Clicking on the player will now untarget your friendly target.

- Infobars/Nameplates no longer disappear if the unit shares a tile with the player

- Castbar on the Infobar/Nameplate no longer shows "Fireball" when doing previously unsupported tasks.

- Your enemy target now has their name colorized red, so you can tell who you have targeted.

- Your Friendly target similarly has a green name.

- We will update these 'active target' designs soon with a more aesthetically pleasing solution, such as a light border.

- Diagonal Movement now works at any camera angle.

- Invert Camera Rotation setting has been fixed.

- Right Click Camera Rotation setting has been added to the settings menu.

- Various bugfixes related to diagonal movement.

-Shadow Knights and Paragons should have a longer aggro radius, so they don't drop combat after casting a spell.

- Minimap is now larger and zooms out further (possibly too much)

We're testing adding some wind effects for cloaks, which should be rolled out soon along with the actual working physics enabled cloaks.

- Players should now properly dismount when performing an action such as gathering.

- Overweight and Well-Fed Icons updated. Let us know if you like these or not.

- Continued work on SI Quest Dialogue.

- More new dungeon maps being cooked up

- Duskbow DPS adjusted upward slightly.

-Brawler uppercut will now properly interrupt casting when used with the right amount of stacks.

- Thanks for your support while we work out the kinks with the latest patch! ❤️

-Team OG