Changelog: Realm Divided Patch 5
This patch unveils the Season 30 winner statues, introduces off-season progression in the Conqueror’s Challenge, brings balance updates to Avalonian bosses, and makes changes to the Faction Enlistment Bonus.
[h3]Season 30 Winner Statues Unveiled[/h3]
Statues have been erected in Conqueror’s Hall to mark the winners of Season 30: Contingent, Evil Kool Aid, and Summers. Congratulations to the triumphant guilds!
[h3]Conqueror’s Challenge Changes[/h3]
It is now possible to progress in the Conqueror’s Challenge between Guild Seasons. Any Might earned during the off-season will count toward the Conqueror's Challenge for the upcoming season.
In addition, the Might requirements for several season rewards have been adjusted:
- 8% Fame buff: 175,000 → 200,000
- Medium Chest: 225,000 → 300,000
- Gold Legacy Avatar Set: 300,000 → 450,000
- 10% Fame buff: 450,000 → 700,000
- Crystal Avatar Set: 680,000 → 1,000,000
- Big Chest: 1,000,000 → 1,500,000
[h3]Avalonian Boss Changes[/h3]
Following community feedback, some changes have been made to Avalonian bosses to bring them more in line with expectations for these mobs, while larger adjustments have been made to the biggest outliers.
- Avalonian Crystal Basilisk
- Health reduced by 35%
- Auto-attack damage reduced by 26%
- Damage reduction on the Crystal Basilisk from Overcharged has been halved
- Cleanse no longer applies the Holy Fire effect
- Avalonian Archmage
- Health reduced by 29%
- Orb and Laser damage reduced by 15%
- Orb phases have been delayed from 60% of max health to 40%
- Additional Tornados will now be created at 60% and 20% health (previously 66% and 33%)
- All other bosses
- Health reduced by 20%
- Physical armor reduced to align with magic resistance
- As a result of this change, weapons which deal physical damage will see an increase in damage
[h3]Faction Warfare Changes[/h3]
Faction Enlistment Bonus
Changes have been made to the Faction Point bonus that Factions with lower recruitment levels receive.
- The maximum Faction Enlistment Bonus that can be received has been increased from 150% to 200%
- The penalties for moving to a Faction with a higher Enlistment Bonus have been substantially reduced
- The maximum Faction Standing that can be retained after a move has been increased from 240,000 to 1,000,000
- The amount of Faction Standing that is lost when changing Factions has been reduced
- These penalties are based on the strength of the Faction being moved to, with lower penalties for weaker Factions
- The area within which players are eligible to receive Fortress Chest rewards has been increased, in order to include players defending the Fortress walls
- Lethal Faction Battle Standards can now be carried between red zone regions via tunnels
[h3]Combat Balance Changes[/h3]
Arcane Staffs
Enigmatic Staff has been given a slightly larger area and its self-slow has been reduced to enable it to be more effective in large-scale PvP.
- Protective Beam (Enigmatic Staff)
- Area size: 6m → 6.5m
- Self-slow: 50% → 30%
Many bows have been overperforming, mostly due to the new Multishot being too powerful, so its damage has been reduced.
- Multishot (all Bows)
- Damage vs players: 100 → 94
Although bows in general have been overperforming, Bow of Badon has been leading the pack, so Raging Storm’s damage has also been reduced.
- Raging Storm (Bow of Badon)
- Damage per tick: 23 → 21 (maximum damage: 552 → 504)
Following Realm Divided Part II’s DPS increase, Dark Matter has received some usability-focused improvements.
- Dark Matter (all Curse Staffs)
- Hit delay: 0.2s → 0.1s
- Stand time: 0.4s → 0.2s
- Energy cost: 16 → 13
Demonfang has caught a few stray resilience penetration nerfs, so some flat damage has been added to compensate.
- Blood Ritual (Demonfang)
- Damage: 120 → 130
Chain Slash’s chain range has been increased, as it was slightly too short to effectively chain to enemies in small-scale PvP. Its initial cast range remains at 6m to guard against excessive mobility in 1v1.
- Chain Slash (all Daggers)
- Chain range: 6m → 7m (initial cast range unchanged at 6m)
The height of Shadow Edge’s VFX has been moved closer to the ground to better match its hitbox, making it easier to aim and land.
- Shadow Edge (all Daggers)
- Adjusted VFX to more accurately match the hitbox
Frozen Hell has been given an additional effect to help it function better as a powerful defensive tank in PvP.
- Frozen Hell (Icicle Staff)
- Now has a 3.5m radius area in the center where an additional 30% slow is applied
Since its previous buff, Holy Beam has been steadily dominating across many different group sizes. Therefore, its maximum healing output has been reduced, with a greater reduction applied to the earlier ticks.
- Holy Beam (all Holy Staffs)
- Initial healing: 60 → 50
- Healing increase per tick: 5 → 6
- Total healing: 525 → 476
An amazing 10,000% damage increase has been applied to Bedrock Mace, alongside a change to how the knock-up functions against mobs, making it significantly more functional in PvE.
- Force of Nature (Bedrock Mace)
- Damage: 1 → 100
- No longer taunts mobs
- Knockback → Knock up for 0.6s (mobs only, player knockback unchanged)
Since the Crystal League now has proper double healer protection, Protection of Nature’s direct healing has been replaced with a stronger healing received buff, allowing Nature healers to support allies again without contributing to healing sickness.
- Protection of Nature (all Nature Staffs)
- No longer applies direct healing
- Healing received buff: 35% → 40%
Rejuvenating Breeze has potential as a counter to brawler chip damage. To encourage this, the maximum targets it can hit has been increased.
- Rejuvenating Breeze (all Nature Staffs)
- Max targets: 10 → 20
Pounce has been given CC immunity to make some of Prowling Staff’s worst match-ups more playable. Cartwheel will no longer be able to deny every Pounce.
- Pounce (Prowling Staff)
- Immune to CC (not damage) while dashing
Forest of Spears’ cooldown has been reduced to match Impaler, making it clearer what the damage-focused option should be.
- Forest of Spears (all Spears)
- Cooldown: 15s → 12s
Taunt’s hit delay and stand time have been reduced to make it feel smoother to use in both PvE and PvP.
- Taunt (all Plate Armors)
- Hit delay: 0.4s → 0.2s
- Stand time: 0.4s → 0.2s
The recent damage reduction has been a good first step, but Assassin Shoe users have still been too sticky for many builds to deal with. Their high range has been enabling new builds that were not otherwise viable, yet the consistency and reliability of Swift Cut have been too high for many other builds to handle, pushing them out of the meta.
- Swift Cut (Assassin Shoes)
- Dash speed: 34 → 30
- Cooldown: 12s → 14s
Command Mammoth has been too powerful as a backline bomb buffer. Its high overcap damage buff has been allowing bomb squads to kill opponents too quickly and too reliably, so the maximum damage increase has been reduced.
- Charge! (Command Mammoth)
- Damage vs. players buff: 20% → 15%
- High Command (Command Mammoth)
- Damage vs. players buff: 40% → 30%
Earth Shatter’s knockback has been changed to a knock-up, allowing Command Mammoth players to take more aggressive positions and set up their team mates.
- Earth Shatter (Command Mammoth)
- 16m (0.533s duration) knockback → 1.2s knock-up
[h3]Fixes[/h3]
Spell Fixes
- Fury (Soldier Armor): Fixed issue where the description was incorrect in some languages
- Force of Nature (Bedrock Mace): Fixed issue where the description stated the incorrect range
- Bloody Reap (Infernal Scythe): Fixed issue where the second swing could be broken by DoT removals (eg. Guardian Helmet's Emergency Shield)
- Sinister Swipes (Prowling Staffs): Fixed issue where the third hit execute would not be triggered if recast towards the end of the time window
- Fixed issue where the Faction Transport UI would sometimes show no available destinations in the dropdown
- Fixed issue where opening and closing the Party Finder repeatedly could cause the UI to break
- Fixed issue where, after leveling-up the Seasoned Tracker Destiny Board node, excess Fame would not be carried to the new level
- Fixed issue where it was possible to ping maps outside a player’s current region
- [MOBILE] Fixed issue where it was sometimes not possible to skip the intro video
- Various additional graphical, animation, terrain, audio, UI, and localization fixes