Spellwake News

Other features:

• The Gauntlet, an area with a set of themed challenges.
  
• All equippable items can now be crafted (previously only weapon, armor and shield)
  
• Three new crafting types
  
• 17 new unique items
  
• Unique beacons
  
• Sparks, a new item type that can transfer an item property to a selected item
  
• Tech, a new equippable item slot that can grant a second semi-active skill
  
• Two new shrines
  
• Timeshifted beacons
  
• Soulcatchers: Sparks that can drain specific item properties from bosses
  
• Lots of minor features, balance fixes and bug fixes
  

Although there is a new boss in the Gauntlet, the winner of the ladder is still the first player to kill Zirth, the uber end boss. The season continues for three months regardless. How many players will manage to defeat both Zirth and the new boss?

Join us on Discord for discussion, questions and trade: https://discord.gg/3uYDnms

Ladder season 3 is called "The Evil Mist". The Evil Mist is a method for the invaders to almost effortlessly planeshift hordes of creatures into the material plane. The mist is created by Mist Beings that simply breathe it. The mist is multidimensional, sifting through the weave between planes, jumping from place to place. It is always present in a single area and changes location frequently.

Major features of this update include:

• Four new classes: Doomcaster, Avenger, Knight and Mystic.
  
• Four new crafting options: Enhance, Imbue, Sap and Transform.
  
• Beacons: Objects you can activate to make an area more difficult for one minute, adding rewards.
  
• Catalysts: Items that grant short-duration skills called Surges.
  
• More than 20 new skills.
  
• More than 20 build-around unique items.
  

A major change has also been made to the skill system. In the old system, each skill had a level between 1 and 20. In the new system, you either have a skill or not. Once picked, a skill has maximum effect immediately, though its power scales with character level. You pick one skill on level 1 and then one every four levels (4, 8, etc) for 26 total at level 100.

The season beings December 27 at 16:00 GMT. Join us on Discord for spoilers, questions and discussion: https://discord.gg/6ZzbGM.

All changes and bug fixes are listed in the change log:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/g8deyhsrg73c2an/Changelog.txt?dl=0
Last season, only four players won by defeating Zirth. Will you manage to kill Zirth and win the ladder?

This version contains a PvP update, added single player functionality, changes to healing, a new version of Assault, new items, skills and bug fixes. Enjoy!

As always, the change log can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/g8deyhsrg73c2an/Changelog.txt?dl=0

Today, we are announcing a new type of server called event server. This week's event is called "Elite Forces". All monsters have much more life and damage and instant kill chance is capped at 1%. However, all monsters drop more gold.

The regular servers will still be running so you can play on either server with any character.

We are also announcing a "pro challenge": Make a new character on an event server and play to level 100. Whoever makes the fastest speedrun on an event server will get ten million gold reward next week. If you make the speedrun in a party, gold reward will be shared between party members.
Check Discord for speedrunning rules.
https://discord.gg/3uYDnms