Ancient Kingdoms News

[h2]✨ New Features[/h2]

• NEW BIG BACKPACK UI!! A revamped, spacious backpack interface to carry all your adventuring gear!
  
• Added Alchemy Table to Thogh Maldur for crafting powerful potions. 🧪
  
• Introduced faction costumes to the Wardrobe to show off your faction pride in style. 👗
  
• Factions now displayed on the Character Sheet for easier tracking.
  
• Started the Wizard Epic Quest! Begin your magical journey today! 🧙‍♂️
  
• New Veteran Skill Tier 3: Veteran Awareness to heighten your senses. 🛡️
  
• New Relic: Dawnstone - A radiant addition to your arsenal. 🌟
  

[h2]⚖️ Balance Changes[/h2]

• Druid Balance:
  
  • Slightly reduced cooldown of direct healing skills.
    
  • Increased HP healed by Radiant Spring and raised its mana cost.
    
  • Extended duration for debuff Balance of Illithor.
• Cleric Balance:
  
  • Increased HP healed by Healing skill.
    
  • Increased HP healed by Bastion of Health and raised its mana cost.
• Warrior Balance:
  
  • Decreased cooldown for Avatar of War and increased rage cost.
    
  • Slam now knocks back enemies instead of stunning.
    
  • Warrior Mercenary: Increased rage cost for Battle Shout.
• Ranger Mercenary: Gained Spirit of Wolf for enhanced mobility. 🐺
  
• Potions:
  
  • Superior Potion of Mana: Increased mana restored to 1,250 points.
    
  • Superior Potion of Rage: Increased rage restored to 1,250 points.
    
  • Increased cooldown of mana and rage potions from 30s to 40s. ⏳
• Stun chance while moving now scales with difference level.
  
• Increased normal XP earned from professions: herbalism, alchemy, mining, crafting, cooking, radiant seeker, etc. 📈
  
• Some mobs can now knock back players for tactical challenges.
  

[h2]🛠️ Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed pivot point for some mushrooms to improve visuals. 🍄
  
• Corrected bug with prison guards causing trains of Ember Liches.
  
• Fixed mercenaries recruiter stating incorrect required level to hire.
  
• Resolved issue with mercenaries and Veteran Level progression.
  
• Improved readability of character names for clarity.
  
• Fixed bugs related to the number of mercenaries you can spawn.
  
• Corrected Trolls Cave Map issues.
  
• Fixed mobs not switching targets properly while moving.
  
• Adjusted recommended level for quest Shadows of the Earth.
  
• Tarnished Crown of King Vaeril is no longer sellable to prevent main quest issues.
  

[h2]🔧 Gameplay Improvements[/h2]

• Bosses’ special skills are now less predictable for dynamic encounters. 😈
  
• Guild’s Adventurer Emblems are no longer Unique, and the merchant now offers x5 emblems per rune. 💰
  
• Healing skills targeting a monster will now also heal the monster’s target (including mercenaries).
  
• Mercenaries no longer spawn automatically on login; use Call of the Heroes or visit a Tavern to summon them. 🏰
  
• Updated Gauntlets of Command and Grasp of Dominion for enhanced performance.
  

* Fixed a bug related with prison guards of Krom Razz
* Removed save file protection because it's giving problems to some players

Greetings, Adventurers! We're excited to launch THE SKINS UPDATE (v0.6.25), bringing new customization options, balance adjustments, and quality-of-life enhancements to Ancient Kingdoms. Dive in, style your hero, and conquer the battlefield! Here's what's new:

[h3]⭐ New Features[/h3]

• Introducing the Ember Weaver, a new NPC in Milldenn offering exclusive skins!
  
• High-end bosses now drop Soul Embers!
  
• Use Wardrobes in your house to equip or remove skins effortlessly.
  
• Adjust screen resolution in settings, ideal for windowed mode.
  
• New Elixir of Restoration potion heals mercenaries for 1,250 HP (15s cooldown).
  
• New Veteran Skills: Gouge (Rogue) and Battlehoned Accuracy (General).
  
• Winterforge Update: Progress now at 80%!
  

[h3]⚖️ Balance Changes[/h3]

• Druid:
  
  • Flourishment: Improved mana regeneration.
    
  • Verdant Renewal (Merc): Reduced healing regeneration.
• Ranger:
  
  • Nature's Call: Increased mana cost.
    
• Wizard Mercenary:
  
  • Flame Blast: Decreased mana cost.
    
• Warrior & Rogue Mercenaries:
  
  • Now use a rage system similar to players.
    
• General:
  
  • Spirit of Wolf: Duration increased to 15 minutes.
    
  • Vowkeeper's Staff: Reduced spell power (was higher than intended).
    
  • Increased healing bonus cap.
    
  • Adjusted Arcane Resolution and Master of Arms bonuses by level.
    
• Mercenary Healing:
  
  • Scroll of Restoration: Heals 20,000 HP (120s cooldown).
    
  • Battlefield Restoration: Heals all mercenaries for 5,000 HP and restores 3,250 Resource Points (60s cooldown).
    
  • Elixir of Restoration: Heals 1,250 HP (15s cooldown).
    

[h3]⚔️ Pet & NPC Behavior[/h3]

• Pets now run away from area effects but won't move toward the player.
  
• Nyxarion & Formidrax: Increased follow distance to reduce accidental fight resets.
  
• Nyxarion: Slightly improved stats.
  
• Aggro Area no longer affects NPCs to prevent unwanted interactions.
  

[h3]📝 Quality of Life & Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Materials like Ethereal Hide, Essence of Pure Fire, Ancient Cyclops Bones, Black Dragon Scales, and Savage Blood are now unique and non-tradable.
  
• Reduced Adventurer Level required for Augments (Tier 1) and Radiant Emblems.
  
• Chest of Lost Adventurers now requires 5% Adventurer Level.
  
• Added protection to prevent launching multiple game instances from the same folder, safeguarding save data.
  
• Wardrobe price increased to 12,000 gp.
  
• Blazewalker Boots typo fixed, with adjusted stats.
  

Show off your new skins and conquer the realm! Share your feedback in the Steam Discussions. Thank you for your support, and happy adventuring!

* Fixed a bug affecting to bags

Welcome to the latest update for Ancient Kingdoms! The Guild's Adventurers and Balance update (v0.6.24.0) brings exciting improvements, balance tweaks, and bug fixes to enrich your journey. Check out the full details below!

[h2]⭐ General Improvements[/h2]

• Improved windowed mode: The game no longer forces fullscreen.
  
• Fixed a bug where bags didn’t save their last position correctly.
  
• Enhanced Skills window UI with new tabs for Veteran Skills and Professions.
  
• Fixed a bug affecting dungeon resets.
  

[h2]⚔️ Mercenary System[/h2]

• Warrior mercenaries no longer attempt to escape area effects unless in Defensive Stance.
  
• Mercenary prices are now more linear and cheaper for most levels.
  
• You can now hire one mercenary at level 10.
  
• All mercenaries gain increased AC/MR/PR per Veteran level.
  
• Warrior Mercenary: Increased AC/MR/PR scaling by level.
  

[h2]🏰 Adventurer’s Guild[/h2]

• Reduced cost of Adventurer’s Guild chests and emblems.
  
• Radiant Emblem can now cleanse your target (cooldown reduced to 10 seconds).
  
• Decreased materials needed for gathering or mining in Guild quests.
  
• You can now complete all Adventurer’s Guild quests daily as desired.
  
• New Tier 2 augments are now available from Adventurer’s Guild Chests.
  
• Skins are now obtainable from Faction Vendors.
  

[h2]🧙 Class Balance[/h2]

• Druid:
  • Improved scaling of "Thornspikes" with WIS.
    
  • "Flourishment" is now a base skill; "Purify" is a new ultimate skill (requires skill reset).
    
  • New Veteran Skill: "Poison Spray" added for Druids.
    
  • Increased buff duration to "Swiftness".
    
• Cleric:
  • "Pacify" damage reduction lowered from 25% to 20%.
    
  • "Cleanse" cooldown reduced to 5 seconds.
    
• Decreased scaling of AC buffs with WIS.
  
• Improved scaling of Damage-over-Time (DoT) effects with INT.
  

[h2]📜 Quests[/h2]

• Path of Scales: Now removes items upon completion.
  

[h2]📝 Notes[/h2]

• Some changes, such as the Druid skill updates, require a skill reset. Plan accordingly!
  

Thank you for your continued support!