Update Notes - 17 August (Some still in pipes)

[Poltergeist]

There are some known bugs with the cleric NPC dialogs.
When they are fixed, this message will be removed.

Vitality/Death System Finalized
Full details

• GP cost removed from Raise Dead and Resurrection
• 5,000gp diamonds are now required to cast Raise Dead
• 10,000gp diamonds are now required to cast Resurrection
• 5,000gp and 10,000gp diamonds now available in some faction stores. There are future plans to include them in high level loot tables as well.

The intent for this change is to avoid unexpected 5k gp drains. The ingame spell description will also be adjusted.

Temple Changes

Respawn Locations
Character respawn locations will depend on where they died. The following is not a comprehensive list, and PC's that follow a particular deity should respawn at their deity's temple.

Metagaming knowledge of respawn locations to figure out faction affiliations, deities, or alignment will be met with extreme disapproval.

City Deaths

• Helmite: Church of Helm, Castrum.
• Legion: Legion Chapterhouse.
• Triumvirate: Temple of the Triumvirate.
• Eboncoin Pact: None of your business.
• Everyone else: Church of Helm.

Ground Deaths

• Helmite: Temple of Helm, Avanthyr.
• Legion: Legion Barracks, Gate of the Sunderer.
• Eboncoin Pact: Don't worry about it.
• Black Hand: Temple of Bane, Sestra.
• Evil Alignment: Temple of Bane, Sestra.
• Lawful Neutral Alignment: Temple of Bane, Sestra.
• True Neutral Alignment: Temple of Chauntea, Sestra.
• Chaotic Neutral Alignment: Temple of Selūne, Avanthyr.
• Good Alignment: Temple of Selūne, Avanthyr.

NPC Cleric Raises
NPC Clerics will revive dead characters for a tithe. Please roleplay your friend as being at death's door, but not actually dead. The afterlife is not a revolving door.

• Base raise price based on dead PC level.
• PC's that died due to monsters or NPCs cost 1/2 as much gold to raise
• Raising a PC at your own temple will reduce the cost of the raise.

NPC Restorations
Some NPC clerics will offer Restoration spells for a fee, using similar modifiers as for raises.

Faction Changes
Faction Store Changes

• Prices increased on all items.

Triumvirate

• Faction Store revamped.
• Rank names adjusted.

Bugfixes

• Too many to mention.
• Most of this stuff

Death Attack

Remember this?

It's ingame, and will undergo testing with trusted assassins before being rolled out to all assassins, darkwood stalkers, dark hunters, and lvl 20 rogues.

[Gamling]

This looks tasty.

[Kitsunestume]

I'm guessing the diamonds are not usable for crafting?

((although, that kinda weird. game-balance rule thing over logic))

[Poltergeist]

If you want to spend 5k on a diamond, you will be able to craft with it. That might need some testing, though.

[wangxiuming]

Sounds like cool beans!

[Kitsunestume]

will the exact-price diamonds be sell-able to vendors for their listed price as well, or will they be bought for the normal "really terrible exchange rate" as well?

It would be pretty cool to have a barter-value good.

[Poltergeist]

Normal markups and markdowns apply.

[Dragor]

Awesome Polt, I'm glad you're still doing stuff here

[Farmboy2003]

Huzzah for polt! Altough this will result in a lot of diamonds on the market, I wonder if it will cut the profit for miners...

[thaelis]

If you want to spend 5k on a diamond, you will be able to craft with it. That might need some testing, though.

Awesome! Now all we need is the other gems for sale too ><

Kinda doesn't make sense how Exigo, the biggest mining outfit in the Valley doesn't sell the very gems that they mine.

[sonuvalich]

Because the secret leader of Exigo is Scrooge McDuck, and he has to swim in his giant vault full of gems to even approach a semblance of happiness.

[Snowmane]

I see no mention of resurrecton signus's. Are those obsolete now?

*edit*

I doubt the new diamonds will be usable in crafting as I suspect the recipes probably looks for a specific resref and these new diamonds likely do not use the same resref blueprint.

[Snowmane]

It's ingame, and will undergo testing with trusted assassins before being rolled out to all assassins, darkwood stalkers, dark hunters, and lvl 20 rogues.

Just a question. I thought all death attacks would use this system. Are there plans to add this ability for level 10 arcane archers?

[Lotus]

Arcane Archers don't get death attack. They get an Arrow of Death.

[Snowmane]

My mistake