Darkfall: Unholy Wars

This is the first of our scheduled patches before Christmas.

New Dungeon
It’s time to meet the Erodach and Davosh in this new epic dungeon.
We've posted some screenshots of the new Dungeon on Darkfall Unholy Wars' Facebook page.

The Dungeon:
Sinspire Cathedral is a new epic dungeon that has It's entrance located in the Banegorge area of Agon. Sinspire is an epic dungeon in size, difficulty as well as denizens. Players will navigate through a huge environment inspired from Gothic style cathedrals, with the ultimate goal of reaching the dungeon Boss. A new dynamic door system will require players to perform certain kills to proceed or even escape. On the way to the dungeon boss players will encounter the Erodach, the dungeon's mini boss. The Erodach is a high rank caster monster that uses some special attacks and custom AI to challenge the players.

At the dungeon's finale, players will need to defeat Sir Davosh the Damned to claim their reward and escape the Cathedral. Sir Davosh is a monster of the highest difficulty that uses many new and devastating custom skills. Players will need to pay attention to their surroundings and employ new strategies as well as impeccable coordination to succeed.

Dungeon Lore:
Sinspire Cathedral - Inspired by sin of the deepest depravity, the hallways of this once holy place have warped and twisted to reflect its dark history. Once the cathedral was a bastion of light, a holy place where the good and pure enjoyed a place of respite from the chaos without. But, as with all things that bask too long in piousness, it's own blindness allowed the darkness to enter.
Sir Davosh, one of the mightiest champions of light, fell prey to dark whispers of an agent of Sin, his mind slowly filling with paranoid jealousy and rage, and blanketed by a thin veil of self-righteous zeal. On the very eve of his wedding these dark machinations came to fruition. Blind rage born of paranoia transformed Davosh into a dervish of mad violence, slaying the congregation and wedding guests in a terrible bloodbath. Finally, even his own bride to be fell to his blade, a dark and withering curse on her last, dying, breath.

Now and till the end of time, Sir Davosh the Damned eternally roams the dark corridors of the Cathedral, with the cured souls of his congregation as his only company. It is rumored that the Erodach, the agent of Sin whose machinations brought this unholy blight into being lurks in the shadows, ever adding fuel to Davosh's rage.

Sir Davosh the Damned - Once, a holy champion of the light, Davosh swayed to far into piousness and believed himself untouchable by the darkness. Thus it was that the Erodach, the highest agent of Sin, was able to influence his deepest thoughts. Eventually, paranoid rage and madness caused Davosh to slaughter his own bride and congregation on the eve of his wedding, forever cursing him unto undeath.

The Erodach - The highest agent of Sin, the Erodach roams places twisted by his machinations, ever desecrating the land around him to twisted versions of it's former self.

Clan asset damage protection
Clans can now protect their holding structures from damage

Asset damage protection is available as an additional option when applying conquest protection to a holding (in the holding overview GUI)

It can only be applied in addition to conquest protection and not separately.
The same restrictions and time-limits apply, as with conquest protection
Including asset damage protection, with conquest protection, incurs an additional cost for the protection
The cost of asset damage protection is based on the power level of the holding being protected

Power level is, literally, the number of building modules that it took to build the structures that are currently in the holding
For each power-level-point, asset damage protection costs 10 Dominion, per-hour

Example: In a holding that only has the bank built (10 building modules), applying asset damage protection will add 100 Dominion, per-hour, to the cost of basic conquest protection

When asset damage protection is active, all structures in the holding will show the word “Protected” in the HUD, when targeted by a player

When asset damage protection is active, structures cannot be damaged/built/upgraded

General changes
Reduced Spirit Bond cooldown by 50%
Treasure map drops from fishing have been reduced to 25%
Removed Small Treasure Maps from Sea Scraping
Treasure Maps from Sea Scraping only drop on the 3 top danger areas.
Large Treasure Maps from Sea Scraping only drop in the top danger area.
Reduced chances to get any treasure map and Ship Modules from Sea Scraping.
Greatly increased the drop rate of monster dropped treasure maps.
Sea located top danger areas tiles have been trimmed to not overlap to adjacent tiles.

Building modules spent on holding construction are now taken from the clan-vault, not the player’s backpack
Reduced broken gear weight by 80%
Added feats for fishing, ship building and the new dungeon
Clan holdings and villages are now considered Danger Area III
Added Skymane Silk in Theyril Chest
Fixed the indestructible clan walls bug
Fixed a bug where the crafting skill level was not being updated when creating many items in one crafting session
Added repair shards to the loot tables of all villages
Changed the base cost of conquest protection
For Cities, increased to 500, from 100, Dominion, per-hour
For Hamlets, increased to 250, from 50, Dominion, per-hour
Clan kick/ban permission changes:
Managers and members, with the permission, can kick/ban other members only
Leader can kick/ban anyone
More updates and additions to player, monster, and environment sounds

World changes
Fixed the Terrain under the Sea Fortresses.
Prop and Terrain Fixes in Andruk
Revamped all the Shadow Knight spawns
Revamped all the Ghoul spawns

This is the new chat patch we talked about last week and it also includes the addition of deployable and city Cannons.

You can check out a screenshot of the new chat as well as a screenshot of a new Cannon posted on the Darkfall Unholy Wars page on Facebook.

New Feature

New Chat, including emotes and chat bubbles (with the option to turn them off)
Emotes can be used by the bottom right button in the chat, or by typing out the full emote command (e.g. /guitar) Keybind options are included.
Chat bubbles will only appear for messages that are sent through the local area channel.
You can cycle through previous sent messages using Ctrl+UP/DOWN

New Spawnable Cannon (Eruptor Cannon)
It can be crafted through engineering and requires a new material (Flash Cotton), only available as a Village reward (rare)
Added cannons to clan city towers

General Fixes

Fixed a bug with ship building and some fishing feats not being completed
Some ability and AI teaks for Sir Davosh and Erodach
Asset protection cost has been decreased by 70%

This is the third of our scheduled patches before Christmas, that includes the new actionbars, the Prowess Monoliths, and other fixes and various updates.

You can check out screenshots we posted on Facebook of the Prowess Monoliths, the Actionbar and the new skill icons.

Prowess Monoliths

Three enabled prowess monoliths have been placed in the world. They will become active once a day, all at nearly the same time, for half an hour while the system is being evaluated. You can check their activation times on the map by enabling the clans map overlay.

Each of the three monoliths is of a different tier.

Lake Aegrah close to the center of the map – Tier 1
Grenguk in Cairn – Tier 2
Iyrtanhall in Yssam – Tier 3

Tier 1 - Only rewards players that have up to 15000 prowess.
Tier 2 - Only rewards players that have up to 45000 prowess.
Tier 3 - Rewards all players regardless of their gained prowess.

Prowess gained from Monoliths is not affected by diminishing returns.

The higher the tier the higher the prowess reward per tick. Every 60 seconds the monolith will deliver a deadly blast to everyone near it, making it imperative to step off momentarily.

No item can be spawned on the monolith. In the case of mounts or other movable spawned items, if they are driven onto the monolith while it is active, they will get destroyed immediately.

Actionbars

• New actionbars and skill icons, including numerical cooldown indicators.

• Added three options for each radial slot (Available in radial wheel configuration - default: TA
  Select default attack after the skill executes
  Perform default attack when the skill is unavailable (disabled/cooldown)
  Executing the skill directly using the shortcut key assigned to it

• You may use “Ctrl+x” (by default) to switch between expanded and compact mode.

Examples using the new actionbar functionality:

• If you are casting a short cooldown spell such as thunderbolt, you now have the option to NOT cast the default “staff bolt” in between.
• You may cast a spell immediately upon selecting it (without having to press any mouse button), for that extra 0.2 second speed. For example: transfer spells, tornado, heal-self.
• You may have a skill selected to better monitor its cooldown, while you are using default attacks.

By default, left and right Radial Wheels keep their current functionalities, until skill slots are manually customized.

General Changes

• If you release and press the mouse button again, while a skill is charging, the skill will not automatically restart after it is cast ( a.k.a. the “extra arrow fired” bug)
• Added a chat button to toggle the input area's visibility.
• Implemented an anti-spam mechanism in which long messages must be sent at least 20 seconds apart for the same channel.
• Enabled selection of sub-channels in the chat tab options window by using Ctrl+ left mouse button.
• Added/tweaked some sound notifications on drop,drag,use and equip of items
• Added whisper and friend online/offline audio options.
• Changed friend online/offline sound notifications

General Fixes

• Fixed a bug where playing an emote while switching weapons would result in the player appearing to wield both weapons.
• Fixed a bug where monsters would not attack mounts or mounted players.
• Fixed a bug where disabling “Message Tags” would also hide the timestamps.
• When only one chat window is active the close button becomes disabled.
• Fixed block friend command not working.
• Fixed a bug in anti-spam system that allowed the player to post many messages the first time the chat was opened.
• Fixed the text paste on chat input to respect the 300 character limit.
• Fixed the activation of a channel command when the command is pasted (instead of typed).
• Fixed so that when pressing enter, the chat window will focus the last focused window that has input activated
• Fixed a bug where some channels would not keep their settings after relog
• Fixed a bug where you could not whisper a friend from the social window.
• Fixed the double whisper sound.
• Fixed a bug where multiple UI sounds were being played during loading screen.
• Fixed a bug where strongboxes could be deployed at the bottom of the sea.

Thank you for reading.