Updates & Release Notes

Changes:
- New classline: the Summoners
- Find Horus in the world to learn more
- September content: Riftfall
- To lessen the chance of repeat matches in Kingdom wars, rosters are now slightly shuffled before matching
- Orns won in Kingdom wars are now determined by total battles (opposed to battles won)

Changes:
- Memory hunting: Less desired Amity traits can now only seed as the secondary or tertiary trait of an Superior+ Amity
- Zwei-Fencer: Added the "Sweep" ability
- Increased the heal rate of the Windswept status effect. Additionally, it can now be healed via the "Dispey" and "Clease" spells
- Exploiting multiple elemental weaknesses simultaneously via Omnimancy will no longer apply the weakness damage modifier multiple times
- Due to low interest and engagement, Live PvP has been removed from the Arena. Live PvP from the Allies menu remains

Changes:
- New Specialization: The Zwei-Fencer
- Kingdoms can now receive orns from completing Kingdom quests. Additionally, completing Kingdom quests will contribute to a Kingdom’s level
- The Bloodshift status effect now blocks healing, no longer deals damage over time, and its temporary stat boosts are rolled in to the effect itself
- Fixed an issue that may have caused the description of some Amities to have their shown values rounded up or down by 1%. This change does not effect the actual values in use during battle
- Follower adjustments:
- Anubis: Replaced Lacunus with Fire Sigil, Ice Sigil, Earth Sigil, Lightning Sigil
- Crow: Added Peck
- Dog: Added Heal
- Wolf: Added Bite, Great Heal
- Hellhound: Added Doublecut, Mute, Threaten
- Zu: Added Peck
- Reaper: Lowered attack, added Scythestrike and Horizontal Slash
- Twilight Wisp: Slightly lowered the heal chance
- Fjalar: Added Aerial Barrage
- Fafnir: Added Pray II and Revive III
- Scruug: Replaced skills with Miasma, Wail, Winter Wind
- Ebon Scruug: Replaced skills with Wail, Despair, Hubris, Miasma II, Winter Wind III
- Cthulhu: Removed Drain II, Mindblast, Tidalseal, Tidalstrike, added Octoblast, Fey spells
- Mighty Slime: Added Bastion III, Sortie, Provoke II
- Ortanite Golem: Added Provoke II, Mend Wall III
- Undead Golem: Removed Mend Wall III, Added Provoke II, Golem’s Fortitude, Ward of Bone
- Fey Dragon: Replaced skills with Winter Wind II, Natura II, Wildfire II, Chain Lightning II
- Storm Dragon: Added Chain Lightning
- Ice Dragon: Added Winter Wind
- Fire Dragon: Added Wildfire
- Earth Dragon: Added Natura
- Dark Dragon: Replaced skills with Sleep, Casted Shadows, Nightmare
- Griffin & Mighty Griffin: Added the Tempest and Tempest II skills
- Pegasus: Added Pray, Revive
- Great Pegasus: Added Pray II, Revive III
- Dark Pegasus: Added Casted Shadows II
- Turul: Added Aerial Barrage, Peck
- Colossus: Replaced skills with Protection II, Onslaught, Stone Stare
- Cerberus: Added Appease II
- Warg: Added Appease
- Gwyllgi: Added Appease II
- Dire Wolf: Added Appease II
- Steward Wolf: Added Appease II
- Succubus: Added Haste+
- Harpy: Added Haste
- New Followers:
- Great Reaper
- Living Sword/Breathing Sword
- Living Dagger/Breathing Dagger
- Living Hammer/Breathing Hammer
- Living Armor/Breathing Armor
- Living Arsenal/Living Arch-Armor
- Mammon Acolyte
- Improvements to Follower AI
- Followers can now make more intelligent situational decisions
- Followers can now make more appropriate decisions when in Party Play
- Improvements to Memory Hunting:
- Increased the memory interaction range to 250 meters
- Fixed an issue that could cause shattered memories to spawn on water
- Improvements to memory hunt seed generation
- Memories are now visible on the “Items” layer instead of “Events” layer
- Slightly decreased the effectiveness of the Hybrid skill Amity trait
- Unlocked some additional Amity effects
- Removed the warmup turns of Diffuse Ward I & II. Lessened the warmup turns on Diffuse Ward III
- A few new items, monsters, and skills
- Increased the amount of PvP brackets for T10/T11 players
- The T11 arena drop pool is now equal to the T10 drop pool
- Slightly tightened Kingdom War matchmaking criteria
- Follower names and renamed area names are no longer shown when a player is blocked
- Addressed some performance issues in Other Realms
- Bug fixes

Changes:
- August content: Get ready for dragons!
- Assets for the July Mechanics Patch
- New monster sprites
- Memories now show on the "Items" layer
- Bug fixes

Changes:
- Per recent feedback about Memory Hunts:
- Addressed an issue that may have caused Diluted Mnemonics to not be produced as frequently as wanted from the Oracle Temple
- Further buffed the rate of getting Diluted Mnemonics from the Oracle Temple

Changes:
- Memory Hunts
- Players can now enjoy our new GPS feature: Memory Hunting
- Perform Memory Hunts to attain Amities, a new equipment item that gives unique passive player traits
- Translations for Chinese (Simplified)
- New Building: the Oracle Temple
- Used in the crafting of items for Memory Hunting
- New specialization: the Oracle
- Arcane enchanting is now possible at the Demonforge
- Additional new sprites and artwork
- The codex can now be searched by item drop name
- Elemental alignments for affect your Follower as well
- Life siphon effects now proc once per turn, rather than per item/passive
- Misc bug fixes and improvements

Changes:
- Rise of the Unfelled is now available in French
- Improved the visual distinction and size of some buildings
- Reduced the effective touch area of larger buildings
- Bug fixes

Changes:
- Fixed an issue that may have caused live PvP to double match players
- Live PvP now has a turn time limit of 15 seconds. Afterwards, the AI should take over for the turn
- You can now flee live PvP matches
- World monster despawn is now less aggressive

Changes:
- Hey travelers - thanks a ton for trying out the new storyline!
- To address your feedback, we have performed a server patch that will allow players that had previously started the old storyline, "The Aftermath", to continue it alongside the new storyline, "Rise of the Unfelled".
- Please note that Dungeon and Gauntlet rewards will still only reflect your progress in "Rise of the Unfelled" if you have begun the new storyline.

Changes:
- New Storyline: Rise of the Unfelled
- Existing players can migrate to this storyline at their discretion
- Migrating to this new storyline will remove access to the previous storyline
- The storyline is currently available in the following languages: English, Spanish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Vietnamese, Russian, Polish, Japanese, Ukrainian, Traditional Chinese, Korean
- A fresh new interface for Area Exploration & Control
- To reduce player confusion, the Ghost term has been removed
- Most building types now cost gold instead of orns
- New building sprites
- New Quality of Life improvements to the build menu
- Spiked Shield balance adjustments
- Spiked Shield can no longer crit
- Spiked Shield better respects the actor's attack stat and the opponent's defense stack, reducing its previous armor piercing
- The penalty for using Spiked Shield on classes other than Gilgamesh has been lessened
- Ascended players can now reverse their ascension levels, returning some of the materials spent
- Added an achievement for Live PvP
- Greatly increased live PvP rewards
- Balance: Improved the additional follower action rate given by the passives Valhallan Way and Valhallan Strength
- The Sleep status effect is now removed upon receiving damage
- Players can now opt to not summon event raids when using Summoning Scrolls
- Multiple potions can now be crafted at once in the Herbalist
- Due to increasing device limitations, removed Android 5 & 5.1 support
- Improvements to World monster seeding logic
- New PvE content
- Bug fixes and performance improvements

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