Updates & Release Notes

Changes:
- Beowulf:
- Slightly increased class stats
- Removed bonus follower synergy with Tamer/Beastmaster, but buffed follower passives to meet the same stat values (or greater) as before
- Removed Mana Siphon and Critical Hits passives
- Valhallan Protection rate increased by 4%
- New Passives:
- Ascension Synergy: Your Ascension level will now increase follower stats as well
- New skills:
- Call of Skadi: Increases the chance of your follower performing an offensive spell.
- Call of Jord: Greatly increases the chance of your follower protecting you.
- Freyr/Freyja:
- Removed bonus follower synergy with Beastmaster, but buffed follower passives to meet the same stat values as before
- New skills:
- Call of Brynhild: Increases the chance of your follower performing a buff or debuff.
- Bahamut:
- Removed bonus follower synergy with Tamer/Beastmaster, but buffed follower passives to meet the same stat values as before
- New skills:
- Call of Idun: Increases the chance of your follower performing a healing spell.
- Deity:
- Slightly increased class stats
- Removed the HP Siphon passive
- New passives:
- The Deity: Deific Channel is occasionally automatically cast while in battle
- Heretic:
- Increased magic stat to be more competitive with melee classes
- Added the Steadfast II passive
- Iconoclast now begins its effect from 100% mana, rather than from 50% mana
- Omnimancer:
- Increased magic stat to be more competitive with melee classes
- Added the Life Siphon passive ability
- New skills:
- Refract: Grants a great chance to return some to all of an opponent's attack damage back at them. Refractions are more successful when magic users attempt them.
- Grand Mystic:
- New skills:
- Reflect: Grants a chance to return a portion of an opponent's attack back at them. Reflections are more successful when magic users attempt them.
- Blademaster:
- New skills:
- Counterattack: Grants a chance to return a portion of an opponent's attack back at them. Counterattacks are favorable to win in PvP draws.
- Assassin:
- Removed the Last Breath passive
- New passives:
- Annwn Subterfuge: It is easier to apply status effects to your opponents. Additionally, status effects given to your opponent will last longer.
- New skills:
- Counterattack II: Grants a great chance to return a portion of an opponent's attack back at them. Counterattacks are favorable to win in PvP draws.
- Anubis:
- New skillset: Flame VI, Spark VI, Tremor VI, Frost VI, Lacunus II
- Other changes:
- The new "Call of..." skills will work most effectively with Valhallan classes
- Hybrid classes such as the faction god classes and Valhallan classes now have their Attack and Magic stats equalized
- Defeated World Raid Bosses now extra random item and material rewards

Changes:
- Translations for Hungarian and Romanian
- Revamped battle system and enemy AI
- Themed Dungeons
- Live PvP in the Arena
- Refreshed menus and many user interface improvements
- Added an in-battle options menu to control visibility of some battle settings
- Added "Horde mode" to Dungeons, allowing solo players to fight hordes of enemies at once|
- The Arena, Dungeons, World Raids, and Coliseums can now be completed as a party
- Summoned World Raids may now be made private to you and your party
- Balance adjustments:
- PvP opponents now must manage mana
- Spiked Shield will now consume Ward on missed attacks
- Status effects that cause damage per turn will affect each turn of casting multi-turn spells
- The Castle Keep upgrade now grants a Colisuem
- The Herbalist can now be made public
- View distance is now visible on the map
- New status effect display and icons
- Battles now include an overview and historic action log
- New specializations: the High Cleric, Time Mage, and the Chronomancer
- New spells and skills
- Tons of bug fixes and quality of life improvements

Changes:
- New World Raids: Yggdrasil & Arisen Yggdrasil
- Two-handed items may now grant weapon abilities
- (Balance) New Realmshifter passive ability: High Tenacity
- Damage taken from self-inflicted statuses such as Berserk and Bloodshift can no longer deplete HP to 0
- High Tenacity replaces Apothecarist III
- Apothecarist III is now available to the Assassin specialization
- July content
- Preparations for Live PvP and party combat
- Performance improvements and bug fixes

Changes:
- Added bottles as drops to some monsters
- Added herbs as drops to Witch-like enemies
- Allowed level 250 players to share experience while in party, but not receive it
- Fixed an issue where an out-of-date global ranking might be seen on a player's profile

Changes:
- Translations for Traditional Chinese, Dutch, and Norwegian
- Origin Town additions
- Visit your party members' towns with the Wayvessel
- Craft potions at the Herbalist
- Build and populate your town with the Town Hall
- Collect offerings from your villagers with the Citadel
- Bring villagers to your town with Residences
- (Endgame) Further increase your power with the Altar of Ascension
- You can now party with any Ally
- Character account management improvements
- You can now have multiple characters under one email address
- Passwords are no longer required
- Removed the previous "Low" graphics option
- Legacy item normalization
- Please see https://www.reddit.com/r/OrnaRPG/comments/m9f9xm/sticky_marchapril_upcoming_changes/ for more information
- New help section with FAQ
- Regional chat
- New music: Origin Town + Boss
- Decorations can now be made public
- Visual and graphical improvements
- Bug fixes & stability improvements

Changes:
- Japanese translations
- Saved equipment sets
- Autodismantle by tier
- Equipment with crit rate bonuses now have more of an effect on skills and spells
- Followers now cost gold until T8
- April content
- Added the ability to either extract or destroy adornments at the Blacksmith
- In-app widget to get help
- Added the ability to re-challenge completed Codex entries
- Multi-hit skills now show a damage summary
- Added new Kingdom option to specify Kingdom language and desired member activity level
- Extra T10 class sprites
- Players can now use fishing lines at nearby health fountains
- (Balance) Increased the Assassin's Assassinate passive action rate
- Bug fixes

Changes:
- Added NPCs to the Codex
- Bug fixes and performance improvements

Changes:
- Added Followers to the Codex
- Added status effects to the Codex
- Decreased the stat penalty when dual wielding weapons
- Added upgraded off-hand skills to some off-hand equipment
- Added new off-hand skills when dual wielding
- Added a new passive to the Sequencer: Quickcast
- May reduce the turns required for multi-turn spells by 1 turn
- Increased the Follower storage limit in the Keep
- (Balance) Increased the chance for the Sequencer's doublecast to occur
- (Balance) Faction Statuses:
- Frozen: increased the chance to heal and slightly decreased the chance to miss a turn
- Rot: increased the defensive debuff
- Burning: added an offensive debuff
- (Balance) Decreased the base Ward bonus of the Arisen Surtr's Cuirass from 12% to 8%
- (Balance) The Spiked Shield skills are now much less effective with non-Warrior classes
- New Kingdom war blessing: Blessing of Peace
- Nullifies any other hexes and blessings used in a Kingdom war

Changes:
- Summoning Scrolls are now more likely to spawn a World Raid Boss of the player's tier
- Reduced the material and orn cost of the Keep
- Added the Master Angler achievement
- Fixed an issue that allowed the Kerberos's elemental alignment weaknesses to be overridden
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Bastion spell from increasing defenses
- The Coliseum is now slightly easier and now rewards materials
- Slightly increased the Beowulf class's stats
- Misc bug fixes

Changes:
- The Codex
- Off-hand equipment may now grant special abilities
- Kingdom Gauntlets now require up to 3 defeats to be considered lost
- Area gridlines will now use colour to denote unclaimed or your own territory
- Quality of Life improvements including more spell/skill/item battle memory
- Faster bulk item dismantling/dropping
- Bug fixes and misc improvements
- Additional translations

Changes:
- Increased Defense and Ward stats for some Tier 9 & 10 World Raid gear
- Fixed an issue preventing Kingdom quests from spawning for level 250 Kingdom members
- Removed Drenched as a status immunity from some monsters
- Performance and stability improvements

Changes:
- Translations for Spanish, German, Czech, Vietnamese, and Indonesian
- New world building: the Coliseum
- UI tweaks and improvements
- The current month's Daily Rewards now show in the World Hub
- Bug fixes and stability improvements

Changes:
- The Rot status effect now slightly decreases defense and resistance
- NPCs may give additional, randomly generated quests
- Arisen Morrigan can now be summoned as a very rare World Raid Boss
- Godforging

Changes:
- Polish Translations
- Allies (Friends) list & messaging
- Decreased the stat penalty of dual-wielding
- Daily Rewards
- Bug fixes and performance improvements

Changes:
- Dual-wielding
- The off-hand slot may now be used to equip a second weapon at reduced stats
- New dual-wielding melee specialization: The Duelist
- New dual-wielding mage specialization: The Sequencer
- French translations
- Added "Single Touch" map control scheme
- Can be enabled / disabled in the game's options
- Fishing
- You can now use Fishing Line near bodies of water to start a fishing session
- New Building: The Refinery
- Added an extra challenge for your Kingdom with Berserk Raids
- Berserk World Raids may now be found, granting additional rewards
- Some followers now have "Protect Chance", granting the chance to protect the player from an enemy attack
- The Beowulf class now has the passive "Valhallan Protection", granting any follower protect chance
- New specialization: The Seeker (grants additional view distance)
- Graphical updates
- New map textures
- New sprites for some building types
- Fixed an issue where some coastlines may not contained water biome monsters