Changelog

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

posted by Shaolin

posted by Shaolin

Third Season of Blacktalon is back September 2nd, 2022 (7pm UTC).

As we said previously, every donation point from season 1 and 2 will be given back. But to not inflate the market and make a better balance to the game, the store, blue diamonds and legacy points will be delivered in a schedule as the following:

Relic Fusion

If you find a particularly valuable relic, you can attempt a fusion which will, in result, improve the base stats of the desired relic if you succeed the procedure. You can access the relic fusion interface by going into the Others menu, at the top of your client, as shown in the image. Upon clicking it, the relic fusion interface will open.

To proceed with the fusion one must place three of the same relic and tier at the upper slots. In the bottom slots you will place up to three reagents that are used to increase your odds of successfully fusing relics, which will be better elaborated below. Reagents are not mandatory for this process, but bear in mind that the success chances are not so good without them. Once everything is in place, make sure you have enough to cover the gold cost, located at the bottom part of the fusion menu and then hit Fusion to start the process. An animation will play and you will then know if you have succeeded or not. If you fail, there is a chance that some of the materials used in the process will return, including relics.

Tower Arena

The tower arena is divided by floors, the next one being more difficult and more rewarding than the previous one. You can start the tower arena at anytime with no entry cost, however, if you want so, you can use a Tower Ticket that will be consumed in order to improve your rewards.

Bestiary

Bestiary is a system that allows players to have more information about a monster, such as how much experience it gives, how much health it has and its orb loot. You can find the bestiary menu through the Others menu, like shown in the image.

Waypoint System

The waypoints are a quality of life system that allows players to fast travel through different locations throughout BlackTalon. From normal locations, such as creature spawns, to specific places, such as the dungeon lobby, tower arena and daily bosses, players can access key places within the click of your mouse.

Spell Improvement

You can upgrade some of your spells and skills to further aid your progression against powerful beings and daring challenges throughout BlackTalon. The spell improvement system provides you with the possibility to make a spell better by increasing its effects.

Smelter

Smelt a variety of equipments and crystals to get gold, resources or lower tiered crystals

Cast

You can now stream your character or watch what other players are doing via our cast system! Could be a challenging quest or a chill time with some fishing., you decide! Use the command !cast to either look for players who are streaming their gameplay or stream one yourself.

Changelog

Added

Daily Job tasks np (increased experience while doing them)

New world boosts

+100% bestiary kill counts for 1 hour

+100% task kill counts for 1 hour

+40% boss loot rate for 1 hour

Removed

All equipment essences removed from the game

Experience bonus from all source, excluding scrolls and stamina

General Changes/Fixes

Better walking (now you can stack with other players more easily)

Break System changed to "Smelter" (under "Others" menu)

Smelt a variety of equipments and crystals to get gold, resources or lower tiered crystals

Reduced drop chance of secret dungeon key (pits of inferno)

Now the daily bosses charge is only consumed after you defeat the boss (if you die, charge wont be consumed)

Complete rework of Soul Scroll bonuses (removed some 'useless' bonus and improved the scaling)

Increased upgrade rate3 ->4.5

"Achievements" renamed to "Milestones"

Changed the outfit reward from the story line mission to eliminate Arthoix (brotherhood => knight)

All cities will be open so players can buy houses. Spawns will be locked until you have enough level to enter them.

Dark Island task bosses rooms were removed and readded into a new main room, accessible through the NPC.

Skill tree changes:

Completely reworked skill tree

Each vocation will have different nodes and bonuses

Structured with 4 paths (with 2 being vocation exclusive and 2 common to all)

You can only obtain 1 "Big Nodes" from the same path.

Removed points gained from quests and "Milestones"

Relics:

Because of the new fusion system, we reduced the base values of a lot of relics (they will be the same or better at tier 2)

Relic container reduced to 3 slots. You will be able to increase the slots through the game

Milestone:

Bonus balanced

Elite Creatures changed to be global instead of area separated

Hunting Ground will now be separated through areas instead of uniques

Jewelcrafting

Reduced the level requeriment to craft Upgraders: T2: 10 => 1 / T3: 35 => 25 / T4: 75 => 50

Vocation Changes

Spell improvement for level 80 spells (only damage-wise)

Increased Health or Mana gain per level to promoted vocations by 15

Warriors:

Increased damage of "Cyclone" and "Hundred Blade" by 14%~

Bowmans:

Increased "Magic Arrow" ticks by 1

Increased "Arrow Fury" targets by 1

Druids

Increased damage of "Carniphila Attack" and "Eternal Winter" by around 13%

"Nature Regen" base healing 5 =>3 & spell bonus 0.25 =>0.15

Mages

Reduced damage of energy missiles by13

Client Changes

Changed client layout

Improved bot casting speed, it will cast faster now

Option to hide obtained cosmetics at the store

posted by Shaolin