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Coins

• What a monster drops in coins now follows its health and its level, rather than a fixed amount set per monster
• Harder monsters and bosses pay more coins an hour to a player geared to fight them. Fighting far below your level no longer pays well
• Monsters at the very start of the game drop a few more coins. Monsters between levels 8 and 40 drop fewer coins
• Trophies drop as often as before, but sell for a price set by the monster's new coin drop. Contract rewards follow the same coins

New bosses

• The Grain Pits — a room below Gallowfield, for combat 77. The Reeve walks the rows, and fights melee
• The Still-room — a room below Cinderward, for combat 85. The Stillwife is at the stills, and fights magic

New jewellery

• The Reeve's keys — a necklace for level 77, from the Reeve at 1 in 1,000
• The Stillwife's ring — a ring for level 84, from the Stillwife at 1 in 1,000

New bosses

• The Undermere — a room below Hollowmarsh, for combat 44. The Drowned Fowler waits at the bottom, and fights ranged
• The Webcrown — a room up in the Wraithwood's canopy, for combat 62. The Old Spinner is at the middle of it, and fights ranged

New jewellery

• The Fowler's lanyard — a necklace for level 40, from the Drowned Fowler at 1 in 1,000
• The Spinner's band — a ring for level 62, from the Old Spinner at 1 in 1,000. It breaks into a wyrd shard

Account

• Change your address or your password on the Account page. A new password signs out every other device
• An address mistyped at sign-up can be corrected from the page that waits for the confirmation link

Mailbox

• Letters can be 280 characters, up from 140
• The box you write in is three lines tall, and line breaks are kept
• Every letter has a Reply button, which fills in who it is to and puts you in the letter

Loadouts

• Save what you are wearing as a named loadout, from the Worn screen, anywhere
• Wear a loadout in one click at any bank door. It moves gear between the shelves and your body and never touches your bag

The arena

• The Tiltyard — a new zone between Silvenwood and Lanternfell, with a bank door and a mailbox. The west is a loop now
• Challenge anyone else standing in it, naming a loadout and a wager. Both of you are dressed at the moment the challenge is accepted, and neither sees what the other named until then
• A duel is fought by the ordinary rules, from the health you have, with the potions you carry. Both of you drink, both weapons drain
• The loser dies as a monster would kill them. The winner takes the pot less the house's 5%. Fleeing forfeits the pot and is written down as fleeing
• No experience is paid for a duel. You cannot challenge a character on your own account, and a challenge lapses after two minutes

Status bar

• Challenges waiting on you burn as a count beside the crossed swords, with the challengers' names on hover

Leaderboards

• Two new boards: contracts finished, and duels won

Profiles

• Two new sections: how many contracts a character has finished, and every duel they have fought — who against, for how much, and who won or fled

Character

• The Worn screen's regen line says what it counts: 14 hp / min, not 14 / min

Reference

• How duels work, beside How combat works

Alchemy

• Six new bottles: a vitality and a mending elixir, at three rungs each, brewed from a herb and ten of a band's enchanting dust
• A vitality elixir is +30% to your maximum health for as long as it lasts. A mending elixir is +300% to your regen
• A higher rung lasts longer — ten, fifteen and twenty minutes. The strength is the same at every rung
• Drinking another of a kind refreshes it rather than adding to it. Dying ends every elixir you had running; fleeing does not

Enchanting

• Armour enchants add armour and nothing else. They no longer add health

Character

• The Worn screen shows your regen, per minute, under Health. It burns with a sign when a debuff or an elixir has moved it
• A profile shows a character's stats as worn, with no debuff or elixir on them, in the same order as the Worn screen

Status bar

• Every running effect sits on one line as its name and its clock. Hover one for what it does
• Coins read short — 6.7k, 1.1m — with the full amount on hover. Everywhere else still shows every digit

The reference

• Every drop rate is now written as a fraction — 1 in 400, 1 in 2,000 — rather than as a percentage
• Rare drops were rounded to one decimal place and read as more likely than they are. Orwen's reliquary said 0.1% and is 1 in 2,000
• On an item's page, what drops it is laid out like what a monster drops: the name on the left, the rate on the right

Experience

• A kill pays two thirds of what it did. Every monster, at every level
• Gathering, crafting, breaking down and enchanting pay two and a half times what they did. Every node, every recipe, every enchant
• Nothing you have already earned has changed. Levels and XP are exactly where they were; only what the next hour pays has moved

Crafting

• Every recipe is now unlocked at the level its gear can be worn — boots at that level, then the head two levels on, the chest two more, and the weapon two more. They used to sit eight levels higher
• Forgesteel, wardhide and shroudsilk are made at 82 to 88 rather than 90 to 96
• A new rung above them: magmasteel, kilnhide and lavasilk, worn at 92 and made at 92 to 98

Gathering

• Magmasteel is mined on The Sulphur Steps, lavasilk grows in Reekhollow and scorchwood is cut in Slagreach, all at level 92
• Kilnhide comes off what lives above the Kiln's mouth, and the monsters there give up the new materials instead of the old ones
• Iron, wool and oak are worked at level 5 rather than 10; blacksteel, gossamer and bogwood at 15 rather than 20

The world

• The Ashen Waste asks for level 32, Emberfall 42, The Gallowsway and Cairnfell 52, and The Ashen Bailey 72 — so every material can be reached by the level that wears its gear

The volcano and the Keep

• Everything from Reekhollow up, the Kiln-Tender, Mereth and Orwen included, is harder: more health, a harder hit, and more armour. It is built to be fought in the new rung
• Their purses grew with the fights, so an hour there pays what it did

What falls off things

• Every rung of the ladder now drops a weapon, a helm, a chest and boots in every style — 96 new pieces, each off a monster of its own kind. They are four fifths of the crafted piece, never better
• Every piece of dropped gear is 1 in 400 exactly, everywhere. A few had been 1 in 300
• The Goblin sling and the Ashen staff are a touch weaker, so that what you make is always better than what you find
• Every ring and necklace is 1 in 1000, whoever drops it. Hollowtusk's tooth, Aelfwin's torc, the Tender's chain and Mereth's vigil were 1 in 400
• Orwen's reliquary is 1 in 2000

The new places

• Wainslough, off Gloamfen — level 8
• Blackford, off Blackmire — level 20
• Witherfold, off Cindergate — level 31
• Sootmarch, off The Ashen Waste — level 38
• Three monsters in each: one melee, one ranged, one magic, and a trophy off every one
• Nothing to gather in any of them. They are somewhere to fight rather than somewhere to work

Contracts

• Boards below level 50 now have more than one thing to post in every style. Some had only one, and posted it again every time

Monsters

• A monster says what it fights as on the zone page, on the reference index and on a zone's page — not only on its own page

The auction house

• Coins from a sold lot no longer go straight into your purse. They wait at the auction house until you collect them
• A new Sold section lists what has sold, for how much, and what the house took, with one button to collect it all
• Everything sold before today was paid at the time and is not owed

Mail

• A mailbox in every settlement with a bank door: Silvenwood, Aldenfield, Candlemere, Lastlight and the four camps, alongside Lucerna and Ironspire

The status bar

• Unread mail is an envelope and a number
• Burns with the coins waiting for you at the auction house, wherever you are standing

Times

• Chat, the mailbox, sold lots and the task history now show times in your own time zone, and the day dividers in chat follow it. Your browser reports the zone; nothing to set

The map

• Redrawn. Most places below Greenglade have moved apart, and the road west now descends instead of running level
• Nothing moved in the world itself: the same roads join the same places

West of Emberfall

• Slagreach, The Sulphur Steps and Reekhollow — the ground rising toward a live volcano, levels 86 to 92
• Wickmere, a camp on the near side of it: a tavern, a vendor and a bank door
• Mustergrave at level 79, a barracks below Cinderward, and what the necromancer has raised out of it

The Kiln

• Four floors inside Reekhollow, and you climb up into them rather than down: the bellows, the throat, the drift and the heart
• Levels 92 to 99, ending at the Heartforge colossus and the Magma shade
• The Kiln-Tender stands in the bellows at level 93

The Keep

• Grimhold's door was shut from the other side, and is not shut any longer
• The hall at level 95 and the spire at 99
• Mereth the Unsleeping keeps the hall. Orwen the Unburied is at the top of the spire

What falls off them

• A helm for each style off the level 86 monsters, at 1 in 381
• The Tender's chain, a necklace, at 1 in 381
• Mereth's vigil, a ring, at 1 in 381
• Orwen's reliquary, a necklace, at 1 in 951 — the strongest piece of jewellery in the game
• There is no new crafted rung. The ladder still ends at forgesteel, wardhide and shroudsilk

Alchemy

• Fumewort tonic, brewed at alchemy 99, healing 490
• Fumewort grows in Reekhollow, worked at farming 92

Enchanting

• Superior protection gives +20% armour and health, up from 15%
• Superior drain heals 4% of your maximum health on a killing blow, up from 3%

Balance

• The Wolf fights as melee. It had been shooting at you
• The Glade poacher, level 4 in Greenglade, carries the ranged gear the wolf used to. Wolf pelts drop as often as they did
• The Siegebloom tonic sold for 396 coins and cost 394 to brew. It is worth 73 now, in line with the rest of the ladder
• The castle's road has been redrawn to make room for the mountain west of it. Nothing about it has moved apart from where it is drawn

Fixed

• Tallowhearth asks for level 71 rather than 74, so everyone who can stand in Hallowgate can reach its board

The reference

• A boss is marked as one in the index, not only on its own page