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Announce News Post #2572

Overhaul Updates

Written by: Ieptix the Anomaly
Date: Thursday, March 24th, 2016
Addressed to: Everyone


I come to you with updates! A couple of the items I mentioned in the
previous post are being held back for the moment due to technical
reasons, but should be out within the weekend.

Here's what's released in the game proper:

- Faeleaf and Earwort now consume/require dust balance.

- Truss, Roped, Shacked, Entangled have all been condensed into one
entangled aff.

- A new category of afflictions, writhe afflictions, has been added. At
present, only the new entangled affliction is in this category. See AFFS
LIST/AFFS INFO.

- Bearhug now deals crushedchest. Further, Tae'Dae with the level 5
racial perk will cause instant death when using bearhug on a target with
crushed chest whose health is under 25%.

- Resilience has been removed, and lessons refunded to all who learned
it.

- The damage resistance aspects of Resilience have been merged into the
Combat skill.

- All players will now shrug venoms as though they had transcendent
resilience.

Here's what's live in the Overhaul arena:

- It is now possible to apply ice to the BODY, which will cure the
ablaze affiction and pyromancy burns, in that order.

- The old FOCUS abilities are disabled.

- Drinking slush, eating dust, and smoking steam now have new focus
options added to them, allowing specification of what affliction should
be cured first. This will override default curing priorities if used
(e.g. in the case of Aeon), but cannot get around effects that block
curing of an affliction (e.g. you cannot focus powerspikes to cure it
before other aurics, or cure aurics in octave). The focuses are:

- FOCUS: No prereq, use of the cure takes 1.5x the balance time.
Example: EAT DUST FOCUS HAEMOPHILIA.

- POWERFOCUS: Requires and consumes 1 power of any type. Example: SIP
SLUSH POWERFOCUS ANOREXIA.

- BEASTFOCUS: Requires the presence of a beast, requires and consumes
beast balance. When released fully, this will be a trainable power
replacing the existing beast curing abilities, but at present it is
available to all beastmasters in the overhaul arena. Example: SMOKE
STEAM BEASTFOCUS ACHROMATICAURA.

Penned by My hand on the 7th of Juliary, in the year 437 CE.


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