Changelog

We are very happy to announce Blacktalon’s 6th season!

(01/09/2023) 6 PM UTC.

Some info about donation on seasonal server:

- The points drop system will stay the same as in the previous season. Each drop being the 10% of the total value donated (with a minimum and maximum) such as the following table:

Chaos Unleashed

Chaos is affecting the whole world of Blacktalon, birthing chaos corrupted creatures and raid bosses. Be aware that they are stronger versions of the normal mobs (can stack with elites) and can carry challenging modifiers. Corrupted monsters will reward you with increased experience and loot.

   

Modifiers

Creatures (monsters and players) can carry chaos modifiers which have various effects, some examples of them are:

The modifiers have different values for players, you can check them using your compass

Chaos Compass

Every day, two respawns of every continent (some continents are divided by 2 parts) will be corrupted by the chaos. Making so every time a monster respawn it will have a chance to become corrupted. Every time you kill a corrupted monster from that, you will receive 1 chaos essence. Depending on the continent, you will have a limit of how much you can collect.
For example: In mainland lower you can only collect up to 200 essences daily, but in mainland high you can collect up to 400. Reaching the limit in a lower level area does not block you to obtain essences from a higher area

You can check your current limit and the monsters corrupted with your Chaos Compass

Dungeons

Corrupted dungeons will spawn chaos monsters of the level you selected on your compass. It will give increased experience and by killing the boss you will gain some chaos essence.
There is a daily limit of 6 dungeons that rewards chaos essence. You can still do more than 6 corrupted dungeons daily for increased challenge and experience

Hunting Grounds

As dungeons, it will also spawn chaos monsters of the level you selected on your compass, increasing their experience but also orb chance (and boss drop). You gain Chaos Essence by defeating the boss.

The daily limit for reward is 3 hunting grounds

Tower Arena

Same as other systems, it will spawn chaos monsters of the selected level in your compass, but it will not increase experience and monsters loot, since they don’t give it. Instead it will increase floor loot drop. You gain Chaos Essence after exiting the tower depending on the amount of floors you have completed.

The daily limit for reward is 2 towers (it will count only up to 2 tickets)

Soul Scrolls

You can spend a good amount of chaos essence to corrupt a soul scroll of your preference. It will make them give double the amount of bonus and a random modifier for your character. You can only equip up to 3 corrupted soul scrolls at once

Consume/Extract

Continent Boss

Continent Bosses are a long dated system in BlackTalon, but due to some issues with it, we decided to do a little rework to make them more accessible to most players. Before, Continent Bosses were only summonable by sacrificing crystal fragments that corresponded to that continent’s boss. Now, all Continent Bosses will automatically spawn in fixed spawn times instead, without the need for players to actively summon it. The previous crystal fragments that were used to summon these, will now grant a personal bonus loot for that boss, keeping in mind that the crystal type will still need to be matched for its corresponding boss. 

Special Furniture

Our furniture system was very lackluster and was in clear need for a rework. Before, each furniture had a few options to choose from, some of them were useless, and needed to be recharged with a toolbox every now and then. Now, furniture is divided into two types: Normal and Premium. 

How they work now:

• They will give only one bonus (the owner will choose which one)

• The owner can use it anytime they want (respecting the cooldowns)

• Others players can use, but the furniture will consume charge by that, which can be recharged with toolboxes

• Existing toolboxes will no longer work anymore and a new one will be added to BD shop and rare boss drop, exclusively

Normal furniture will have a fixed cooldown of 22 hours regardless of the buff type, and extra copies of the same furniture will not be usable in case you used one before.

Premium furniture has a varied cooldown per buff type and is not limited by the extra copy rule, meaning that you can gather more than one of the same furniture if you wish and still obtain the buff it provides. The buff list was greatly increased and toolboxes are no longer necessary.

Equipment Bag

Equipment bags are now no longer stackable and now have rarities attached to them, which will be dependant on which rarity elite creature it was obtained from. Starting from strange rarity, it will only show 1 item available to grab, up to 5 items at mythic rarity. You can also upgrade the bag's rarity, but it will have an additional Blue Diamond cost to its normal fee.

Currency Storage

We now have a bank interface to deposit common currencies. It can be accessed from anywhere from the Others menu and supports a variety of currencies to be stored, such as gold, blacktalon coins, rarity tokens

and event tokens. 

Supply Stash

Our supply stash also got some love in this update. It is now more responsive and quick, with filters to ease navigation in it. You can now also blacklist a few items from being stowed, if you wish to do so. And lastly, the amount of stacks for each item has been increased. Also, the scroll effect is now permanent, therefore it was removed from the blacktalon coin shop and added to the blue diamond shop

Death Recap

This is a new feature that allows you to see more detailed information about your death. Things like date and hour, which and how many monsters or players you died to and experience loss are available to be seen. You can also see other player's informations if you wish so.

Class Changes

• Thief

• Increased base health by 20%

• Increased damage done by poisons from “Imbue Poison” by 25%

• Increased weapon damage by 20%

• Spell “Reaper Affliction” now have an area of effect and an instant damage effect

• Spell “Consumation” have a base chance of 35% to refresh poisons (it can be increased further with spell improvement

• Fixed an issue where the poison damage wasn’t being properly increased by damage boosts

Skill Tree nodes changed:

• Poison Specialist: +20% poison damage -> +30% poison damage

• Blade Expert: Reduced Poison Damage -35% -> -25% // Increased instant spell damage 25% -> 35%

• Quick Blades: Changed to every weapon hit instead of every hit from off-hand. Also it will be possible to apply the poison from “Imbue Poison” to any creature affected by the AoE

• Bowman

• Dislocating Spell removed. Added new arena spell:

• Decoy Dummy: Bowman summons a dummy in the target (or self) location for 4 seconds, the dummy will challenge near creatures and will have maximum health depending of the player

New Class

• Bard

It specializes in support, having decent survivability among all classes. When promoted, it changes its name to Minstrel and gain new spells.

Performance Style

• Changes between 2 types of performances: soloist (self buffs and increased damage on spells) 

• orchestra (party member buffs)

Synchronizing mechanics

• You can synchronize to an ally so that affected spells that the bard or minstrel cast will instead occur around the synchronized ally instead of around you.

To learn more about the new class, access the wiki

https://blacktalon.online/wiki/index.php?title=Bard

Relic Changes

• Sight of surrenders eye 6% reflect -> 8% critical damage

• Shadowthorn spikes 7% reflect -> 15% block strike

• medusa shield 5% reflect -> 3% healing

• bag with stolen gold 3% reflect -> 150 speed

• sun mirror 5% reflect -> 13% strike block

• alptramun's toothbrush 7% reflect -> 12% critical damage

• Terror impaled 14% damage -> 10% damage

• ocyakao amulet 16% damage -> 13% damage

• ishim boots 18% damage -> 15%  damage

• Ornate mace 10% damage -> 15% damage

• Brainstealer Brain -> new bonus: 15% attack speed

Milestones

• Redistributed HP/MP% values of grade 3 and 4 of dungeons (only normal dungeons) to Continental Bosses of the same continent

• Reduced by half the amount needed of collected nodes for “Master of None” milestone

Donation Packages

Changed donation packages, remove almost all items gained in the packages. Now you will only receive the points and blue diamonds (with values greatly increased)

Blue Diamond Shop

Cosmetics

Added:

• Foxmouse mount: 3 bd

Reduced:

• Lightning and Magma Wings: 5 bd => 3 bd

Others

Added:

• supply stash remote access: 2 bd (one time buy)

• continental shard: 100x = 1 bd / 600x = 5 bd

• tower ticket: 1x = 2 bd

• vip chest: 2x = 1 bd

• cosmetic doll: 1x = 4 bd

Store Rework

Our store had a major UI redesign. It now features its own page for items on sale and recently added items, for quick and intuitive user experience. You can now also bulk buy offers in our store, being the maximum amount of items purchaseable at once 100 (not 100 purchases).

We had a few little fixes and features that compromise of: 

Being able to send gifts to other players;

Purchase history now showing quantity as well;

Fixed issues when transferring Blacktalon Tokens.

Tutorials

We now have a tutorial module to help new players to find their way throughout our game. It’s optional and it has specific trigger events, like specific levels, when you kill your first monster, when a raid happens, etc. It is also worth mentioning that, while not mandatory to do, it is extremely recommended to do so even if you are a veteran player, since it will yield out a nice reward upon completing it fully!

Client Changes

• Soul scroll filters

• Visual improvement in spellist

• Now it is possible to see the total count for the selected milestone

• New UI for dungeon window

• Added ‘Informative Widgets’ (You can change the opacity in Options->Interface)

• Changed some buff icons

• Now is possible to disable wings floating animation

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We are very happy to announce that  Blacktalon’s 5th season will be online in 3 days.

(05/05/2023) 6 PM UTC.

-  You can already create your character.

Some info about donation on seasonal server:

- The points drop system will stay the same as in the previous season. Each drop being the 10% of the total value donated (with a minimum and maximum) such as the following table:

To open the soul imbuing window, go to the top menu and click on Others > Soul Imbuing

• Soul scrolls are now linked to your character (not equipment)

• Created a shop to buy soul scrolls using the currency Soul Fragment. These soul scrolls are bound to your character and can only be bought if you completed its bestiary

For legacy server: The soul scroll (and unlockers used) from your equipment will be transferred to your purse

Instanced Quests

Now you can do quests without being annoyed by unwanted intruders. 

• You will have to setup an instance for the desired quest

Instances can be either public or private.

 Public Instances can be viewed and joined by anyone without approval of the instance leader

 Private Instances can be viewed by anyone, but entering requires instance leader permission

 You do not need to organize a party beforehand. If the party was organized beforehand, then when party leader hits the Create button, everyone in the quest vicinity that’s in the party will be teleported inside

 If someone wishes to join a private instance, they must send a join request to the instance leader, which will decide if that player is allowed to join or not.

Quest Difficulties

You are now able to choose a quest difficulty.

Quests now have 3 difficulties: Easy, Normal and Hard.

 Easy difficulty applies a negative modifier to monster's health and damage, while also reducing rewards;

 Normal has no changes applied;

 Hard has an increase of all of the modifiers above.

Daily Boss

We had some changes to this system. Now it has selectable difficulties with scaling rewards accordingly, alongside the introduction of the Soul Fragments into it.

• Each increasing difficulty will result in higher boss health, damage and loot rate, while also adding more loot to the drop table, including soul fragments as a guaranteed drop starting from difficulty 5.

• Added a new daily boss *The pale worm* for players of level 1300 and more.

Raid Boss

• Raid bosses will now spawn in a separated room, to enter it the players will need to enter the teleport located in the spawn

• Normal Raid bosses now will spawn after 1 minute.

Traits

Traits are a new attribute that you can imbue to your equipment (Weapon/Shield/Helmet/Armor/Legs/Boots). You will require a Universal Trait Token or a specific trait token for the equipment set. The trait will be randomly assigned (type of trait and value) and you can only have one trait per equipment.

Class Changes

• Druid

 New level 200 spell “Spiritual shift”: Allows the druid to imbue their spirit with souls of nature, each one granting them a buff and a debuff. This spell is toggleable and can be deactivated. Possible souls:

• Thief

 Cursed poison maximum stacks doubled from 6 to 12

Roulette

Added a roulette for you to gamble away. Several prizes ranging from Soul Fragments to special cosmetics and relic boxes can be obtained.

How to obtain roulette coins:

 Store: 35 premium points for 1 coin and 290 points for bundle of 10

 New donations extra rewards

 In-game events

Client Changes

• General layout change.

 We have reworked some parts of the layout to bring a fresh and dynamic new experience for the players. 

Some of the changes are:

 Basic layout images changed

• New chat module. 

It is possible to move the chat window to wherever you want. You can hide it with “Ctrl+Enter” or Enable/Disable with “Shift+Enter” (It will fade in/out)

Server Save

From now on there will be a server save every day at 00:00 UTC time.

Story Line

Added instanced rooms for story line bosses.

Relocated story line Edrahil Boss Room from Elves quest to forest fury spawn.

Relocated story line missions from quest maps to normal hunting areas (you can check the quest log)

General Changes/Fixes

 Added multiple missing relics to be smeltable.
 Added all of the daily bosses charge to loyalty shop.
 Added an option to buy Guild Slots using premium points (Guild Management window)
 Added a new daily boss on high desert ‘The Pale Worm’
 Added lion bag on new daily boss ‘The Pale Worm’
 Changed normal/heroic aragorn's - summons will now reduce the casting time of its warning spell
 Changed the entrance of Secret Dungeon (Pits of Inferno) from Poi quest to serpent spawn cave.
 Changed the entrance of Secret Dungeon (Ancient Mummies) from Ruins of Nuur (crown set) to mummy 
spawn.
 Changed the entrance of Secret Dungeon (Pirates) from Pirates Paradise quest (pirate voodoo doll) to    gryphon spawn.
 Changed the entrance of Tower arena from Waypoint to teleport at mainland temple.
 Increased cost to craft soul unlockers
 Increased level cap of mining, woodcutting, herbalist from 85 to 95 and fishing from 100 to 110.
 Increased the amount of speed that can roll on equipment
 Reduced Demon Oak wave time by half
 Reduced level requirement from metal set: 300 => 250.
 Reduced crafting skill required from Platinum tools and also iron, silver, gold, platinum ingots and bars.
 Replaced plate set reward from the evildoers quest with upgraders stones and a new mount.
 Replaced shimmer weapons from elves quest with a new relic.
 Fixed Daily Boss Crystal Warlord not giving energy and guild exp
 Fixed Cursed King mechanic.
 Fixed the armor value of the creatures Olaf and Snowman, they had the values ​​exchanged between them

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