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What changed

A new route to the world. Whoever suffered from lag was almost always suffering from the path, not from the server. There is now a second entrance, in Sao Paulo, and the client measures both as you log in and uses the faster one for you - nothing to configure. When the ping goes up, the message says which path you are on, and the world now measures each connection's quality to find where it still hurts.

Weekly ranking. Every Monday, after the server save, the top 10 of whoever grew the most that week in experience, skills, gold and hunting comes out. It lives in the Weekly tab of the highscore and on the site, and the first one closes on Monday, 26 October.

Collections and titles. The Cyclopedia gained a Collections tab, and each completed collection grants a title that shows in the character's look and on the site profile. The three hardest ones also grant an aura.

Five new attributes: fire protection, poison protection, energy protection, magic level and life leech. Shield, armor, helmet, legs and boots now take the special enchanting stone, which can bring 4/7/10% protection against fire, poison or energy, or magic level +1/+2/+3. Life leech returns 2/3/5% of the damage you deal as health, and shows up on armor and helmets.

Mastery of light and medium weapons now strengthens the whole type: each level gives +0.1% damage to every weapon of that type, heavy ones included. Taking one to level 10 is worth +1%, and the bonus stacks without a cap.

The dungeon window shows how much experience each difficulty pays.

Balancing

Rare monsters show up more often, across the three skulls.

From level 5 on, mastery asks for rare monsters killed with the weapon instead of players, and the skull required goes up with the level. Whoever was midway through a level restarts that count.

Damage charms now respect the monster's resistance, and whoever is immune does not feel the blow. Freeze now deals ice damage, and Curse, death damage.

Whoever dies in a Maze of Fury room only gets back in after the server save, and anyone with PvP PZ cannot enter.

Fixes

Fixed an issue where monsters were born inside mountains or walls.

The Last Rites was adjusted.

Several minor issues were fixed.

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