1.1.9 Shadowy Depths

1.1.9 is here and it brings some major changes to the game. Changes that should make combat much more fun, engaging and a little more tactical.

1.1.9 changes a lot of things, from adventures, celestials, monsters, enchantments, new features, how you attack, gold dust, gold, slight kingdom updates and more ...

Let's go over a few of these. There will be links to the appropriate help doc pages below.

Attack has changed

in 1.1.8 and previous versions, you would select a monster and click attack. This attack would throw everything at the enemy. Now, we have five new attack types. When you hover over these in game, tool tips will tell you what they do. I would suggest reading the Combat docs and the Races and Classes section, specifically around your class.

The idea is this:

• Attack: Uses with both weapons (fighters only) or best weapon equipped, followed by affixes, rings and artifacts.
  • Best for: Rangers and Vampire as well as Fighters and Thieves who Duel Wield.
• Cast: Uses either both damage spells, both healing spells or one of each - what ever you have equipped for spells.
  • Heretics can cast with out spells at 32% of their int. With spells its 30% of their int on-top of their damage bonuses and spell damage.
  • Prophets who attack with damage spells will do so with: 15% of their chr or 2% with out a spell.
  • Prophets will heal at 30% of their chr on top of their healing spell.
  • Rangers will heal for 15% of their chr on top of their healing spell.
  • Vampires who use this attack have double the chance to fire off Vampire Thirst if their damage spell lands.
  • Best for: Heretic and Prophet (Prophet should have two damage spells and two shields with added dur enchantments on them)
• Cast and Attack: Uses spell in spell slot one and weapon in left hand.
  • Best for Rangers with healing spell as, regardless which hand you put the bow in, it will be used for your attack.
  • Ok for Prophets with a weapon and a healing spell.
  • Ok for Thieves with a Weapon/Damage Spell/Heal Spell.
  • If your spell misses, you will fumble with the weapon. Even if you have a healing spell, which never misses.
    • If your spell hits, your weapon can be blocked/miss.
• Cast and Attack: Reverse of the above. Use Spell in spell slot two and weapon in right hand.
• Defend: Withstand damage, including spell damage. You have increased armour when you use this attack. Instead of attacking you will first fire off your affixes, rings, artifacts and then the enemy goes. During the enemy phase you have a higher chance to block their attack and their spells.

The order of attack is largely the same:

• You attack
• Enemy Attacks
• If you are alive you use life stealing affixes (see enchanting) to heal.
  • If you are dead, we will resurrect you to one health, at which point any life stealing affixes you have will fire. If you are a vampire these will stack, if not, we use the best one you have.

Couple other notes:

• Artifact damage has changed, we now take the first one at full strength damage and then use the second on at half strength.

• Life stealing affixes will stack as such:

  first affix % * (summed amount of rest * 0.75)

  note: sum of the rest refers to not just summing the rest of the affixes but summing them at half strength. So if you have 14 10% life stealing enchantments your calc is:

  .10 * ((13 * 0.05) * 0.75)

  Vampires can steal a max of 99% of the enemies health. Life stealing affixes will also not fire at any time if the monsters health is below zero. That is if your weapon/spell would kill the creature your life stealing affixes will not fire, but the rest of your items will for (over kill). Life stealing affixes that do not have damage attached to them (such as some high end enchantments) are not considered kill enchantments. That is you cannot kill with life steal alone.

Monsters and Celestials

There are now 15 new monsters per plane. These are harder critters that make use of one of two new features: Devouring Light (voidance). Critters in the drop down, far down the list have a small chance to void you. We will go over that in a moment.

Celestials have been made harder, surface celestials are still easy while dungeons, The Child is near impossible without a special quest item called: Dead Kings Crown which makes use of the second new feature: Devouring Darkness (devoidance)

Monsters now drop more gold. Celestials cost in conjuration is much cheaper than it was before.

Voidance and Devoidance

Theres a new concept that you can read more in depth details about in the voidance/devoidance helps docs. essentially it works like this:

• Devouring Light (Voidance): Some high level monsters have these (very low %) and celestials start with this at 50+%.
  • When an enemy voids you, you loose your modded stats, boons and any and all enchantments. This severely weakens Vampires who depend on Life stealing affixes to do large amounts of damage.
  • If you are voided you will know at the beginning of the battle, even if you die you will still be voided to that enemy. You can revive and switch enemies to remove the voidance.
    • The only place this does not hold true is Celestial Fights (they can void you per attack) and Adventures (each new monster is a new fight, but the concept applies that if you are voided for that monster you are voided for the entirety of that monsters fight.)
  • Some high level enchantments that cost 1 billion gold will have non stacking voidance on them.
    • If you void the enemy they cannot use enchantments.
  • If this fires on your turn an enemy can still void you.
• Devouring Darkness (Devoidance): Only on quest items. There are few new Quest items that can increase devouring light. You have to upgrade them one at a time. Enemies cannot devoid you.
  • If this fires on your turn, the enemy cannot void you.

A Devouring Darkness Cancels a Devouring light, but a Devouring Light or Darkness cannot cancel them selves. That is you cannot void an enemies Devouring Darkness with your Devouring Darkness.

Devouring Darkness Quest Chain:

To get Devouring Darkness you need to follow a quest line that gets more and more expensive as you go. First you need to purchase the Creepy Baby Doll from The Soldier on surface for 25k Gold Dust.

Next you will need Labyrinth access and to speak to the Wondering Merchant to begin upgrading the item. The first item will make your (damaging) affixes irresistible, regardless of if they are already irresistible or not.

Upon upgrading you will get your first bit of voidance and devoidance. You can upgrade till you have 100% voidance and 85% devoidance.

Once a player has the dead kings crown they are considered top tier as nothing can hit them unless their devouring darkness does not fire.

These quest items will stack with voidance enchantments.

New enchantments

There are some new enchantments for all classes that help to progress your character. From low to high level enchants.

Some of the top tier enchants have what are called Stacking and Non Stacking attributes about them. This has been explained in the enchanting docs.

For example, one of these might increases your stats, give you life staling and a bit of non stacking Devouring Light.

If you are not a vampire the life stealing will not stack. If you are a vampire it will.

For other classes, the stacking aspect would be the stats, skill buffs and damage buffs. This means that while yes the voidance aspect of this enchant will not stack, depending on your class the life stealing might and regardless of class the stats/skills and other bonuses will stack.

These new high end enchants are considered end game goals for some as the damage you can output from having 14 of one and 14 of another is insanity.

Gold Rushes and Gold Dust Changes

Gold rushes have changed, they are now a 1/1000 chance to happen with half the bonus from the map and/or adventure.

Gold rushes now give you 10% of the current gold you have on hand. The more gold, the higher your gold rush when you do get one, characters can hold 2 trillion gold on them at one time.

For adventures it will be: Monster gold + Character Gold * 0.10. Where as for regular battles its Character Gold + Character Gold * .10 (you already were rewarded the monster gold before the gold rush - should you get one)

Gold Dust has changed slightly. Now there is a new Quest item, Grain of sand, which gives you a 25% chance every time you disenchant, to take your total gold dust and add the skill bonus of disenchanting to it as interest. Again, the higher the disenchanting and the more gold dust you have, the more you get when this fires.

Kingdom Treasury, Morale and Defence Changes

Kingdom treasury now allows you to deposit gold, up to the max amount a kingdom can have: 2 billion gold.

If a kingdom has 2 billion gold, they get a 100% extra defence towards buildings and units when being attacked.

If you withdraw any amount you loose the defence but a percentage of gold you took out. The way this new defence bonus is calculated is by taking the gold you have in the kingdom and dividing it by 2 billion.

If items are dropped on your kingdom and you have 2 billion gold then they will have their damage reduced by half of your defence bonus. In other words if you have gold and some defence bonus, half of it will be used to reduce the total damage to your kingdom.

Depositing gold increase morale (regardless of how low) by 15% per deposit regardless amount. Withdrawing any amount of gold reduces morale by 15% per withdraw.

There is a new skill to train: Lust for Gold. This has a max level of 999 and will provide up to ~100% interest at max level on-top of the interest your keep level/keep max level gives you. If you have no gold - on the hourly reset will give you 1 gold. Then every hour after that build interest on-top of that.

The Treasury calculation is: kingdom treas. + kingdom treas. * (keep level / keep max + Lust for Gold skill bonus)

New Plane: Shadow Plane

There are locations here, for later use. How ever there are no adventures and no celestials. You will have a to kill a Storm Giant in Dungeons to get the item to drop to be able to use traverse.

When players enter here a global message will go out as well as a more extended server message to tell you that you entered a place where monsters (even the weakest) are 25% stronger (including the Devouring Light). Your damage will be 25% less when you attack enemies.

There is a 50% XP boot and a 75% item drop rate down here.

Players are advised not to enter till they have some kind of voidance on them, be it an enchantment or quest item. This is considered the end game place to be. Characters can settle kingdoms and walk on water down here.

New Level Cap

There is an expensive quest item you can get after you achieve the first one. The first quest item drops off the Satanic Cult Leader and is called: Leather Sash. You then take this and 50k Gold Dust to Labyrinth to trade for the Sash of the Heavens which allows your character to level from 1000 to 3500 (new level cap). This new level cap will increase per month by 100 levels.

Characters with out the Sash of the Heavens will see their max level as 1000. Once you have the Sash, your max level will update on the character sheet and game screen to reflect the new current level cap.

Shop Comparison and Equipment Changes

Characters can now click compare in the shops. This will open a very similar window to equip screen. With this you can compare your equipment to what you want to buy, and choose to buy and replace.

Equipment, that of the equipped and/or an equipped set that is bought will just replace the item in that position. Bows will remove all weapons - or what ever you are holding your hands and equip the bow.

When equipping items from your inventory, the same concept is applied. We replace the item in the slot. This makes upgrading sets easier than before.

New characters can use the compare screen from the shop to quickly buy and equip starting gear.

If you have a set equipped we will take the item from the set and put it back into your inventory when equipping. If you have a set equipped and no room in the inventory you won't be able to "replace the item" either via equipping or the shop.

• Note: New characters now start with 1000 gold to spend, see the new tips section of the help docs to help manage your early game money.

Adventure have changed

Adventures have changed such that now you have a chance to face off against multple enemies per floor. This means more items, more exp, skill exp and gold.

Skill exp and Exp it's self will roll over over with adventures. That is if you have 50 xp and your adventure would give you 150,

Thats 2 levels instantly. Same concept for skill exp.

Some adventures may have floor descriptions while others do not. This is a slow and stead process that wll happen over time for me to put in all the floor descriptions. As a result some Adventures amount of floors may change.

Each adventure will have its own unique floor descriptions to help flush out the world a little more lore wise and give you a sense of "I was just on an adventure"

These are the largest changes to the game. There are tons of bug fixes and tweaks through out. For example one of the new things I am starting to do going forward is switching from Bootstrap to Tailwind. You can see this in the new Monster page when veiwing details about a monster and then new Adventure Logs page.

As time goes on other pages will also change over to tailwind, which allows for a cleaner, more propfessional looking site.

Welcome back to Planes of Tlessa.

1.1.8 is a large update, which is unusual for "patches". This patch is designed to flush out how attacks are done based on the items you have equipped, your class and the enemy you are fighting.

1.1.8 also brings with it the new Live Character Sheet - which, for those of you who play with your character sheet in a separate tab, is beneficial.

1.1.8 also brings a whole host of fixes, changes and minor tweaks here and there as well as some performance updates.

Lets jump right in shall we?

New Affixes and Affix Categories

If you look at the Enchanting help section and scroll past the Affix list, you'll see a new section that details these new Affix Types.

There are also a ton of new affixes, bringing the max level of enchanting to: 120 with a cost of: 150 Million Gold Per enchant.

Types

• Class Bonus - These increase you class bonus and cannot stack. We take the highest of all that you have.
• Damage - These do damage, can be resisted (unless other wise stated) and cannot stack. We take the highest of the ones you have equipped.
• Life Stealing - These can steal the enemies life and give it back to you. If you are a vampire these will stack and can fire twice. Once during your attack phase and once after the enemies attack phase assuming you, and the enemy are not dead. These can be resisted. If you are not a vampire these will not stack and will only fire after the enemy attack phase assuming you or the enemy are not dead.
• Stat Reduction - These can and cannot stack. Prefixes that reduce all enemy stats will not stack, we will take the first one we find if you have multiple, regardless of - if it is better or not then the others. The suffixes can stack. These can be resisted and are applied at the beginning of your attack phase before the enemy stats are calculated, these can fire on each subsequent attack, but the first time is the only one that matters as it affects their starting health (for prefixes and dur reduction suffixes).
• Entrancing - These do not stack and fire before you attempt to attack, unless resisted. If the enchantment is successful then the enemy, on your turn, cannot dodge or block but can still resist spells, affixes and artifacts.

As you might have noticed, all of these, with the exception of (some) damage based enchantments can be resisted by the enemy. There is a new quest called: The Creepy Doll that you can do by paying The Soldier 25k Gold Dust to get: The Creepy Baby Doll which makes all your affixes irresistible.

This is important for fighting celestials because:

• All Monsters and Celestials can resist your affixes, spells and artifacts out right. Meaning these items and enchantments will do nothing.
• Monsters (drop down list) all have the same resistances to spells/artifacts and affixes how ever their resistances are MUCH lower then Celestials who have a much higher chance to resist the further down the planes you travel (sur (slightly harder resistance) -> laby (moderate resistance) -> dun (much higher resistance))

This will all play a much more important role in 1.1.9 which will introduce a revamped attack section with more buttons then just "attack".

Live Character Sheet and Shop Changes

The character sheet is completely live now. Any time a skill updates or you equip items, or even gain a level - that character sheet will update in real time.

This will make managing your inventory and sets much easier.

This also means when you go to equip and item fro your inventory, the equip page will now open a new tab. You can open multiple tabs and equip multiple items - just be cautious around items that request a position, as, for example:

If you open two tabs with two rings and equip one, in one tab, the other tab will not update to show the equipped ring position. This is because the compare page (details on the page) is a already cached when you open it.

• When you destroy you no longer get gold dust. Be careful of destroying enchanted items.
• Disenchanting multiple items will now update the character sheet over time and update the chat section as well as show you a total of gold dust.
• Disenchanting will now level enchanting. When you disenchant, your enchanting skill will get 50% of it's regular XP (after all applicable bonuses - including equipped items and quest items)
• Disenchanting has been nerfed to give you between 2 and 10 gold dust + skill bonus interest.

The shop has also been updated. Now when you buy items the items will process in the background. You'll be given each item you can afford "over time" (few seconds - its a job that runs in the back ground). The chat will update to show you each item you purchased, as well as any failures to purchase an item or successes to purchase all selected items.

Your character sheet will also update in real time as each item comes in.

Quest item Fixes

Quest items, specifically those that can drop and be traded in is now fixed. A prime example is Weapon Smiths Book. There are a variety of ways to get this book, but you can trade it to The Witch in Labyrinth to get a upgraded version.

This lead to a bug where you could get multiple of these books and trade them all in and get multiple of these upgraded books. This has been fixed and duplicate quest items have been removed from all players.

If you have the: Weapon Smiths Book and the Weapons Smiths Master Book, you will loose the Weapon Smiths Book and any duplicates of the Master you have, so you only hav the one. If you do not have any upgraded versions, you will not loose anything.

PCT Chat Command Fixes

Those of you who have access to the /pct command when there are Celestials about, will now be able to use it on surface. There was a bug with the command not properly moving you to the right location - or at all.

Timeout issues with PCT are fixed, there is no time out with using this command.

New Quest items:

• Creepy Baby Doll: "Makes your affixes irresistible to the enemy. (None of your affixes will be resisted)." (purchased from The Soldier (sur) for 25k Gold dust).
• Disenchanters Magnifying Glass: "Increase your xp and skill bonus by 45%. Used automatically." (Purchased from The Soldier (sur) for 25k Gold Dust).
• Alchemist Book: "Increase Alchemy XP and Skill bonus by 45%. Used automatically." (You should have alchemy unlocked if you are going for this). (Purchased from The Witch (laby) for 25k Gold Dust).

Other Bug Fixes:

• Celestials that disappear will now use the right plane name in their global message.
• Unit Movement has been fixed to allow long running jobs to happen. This allows you to send units over 4 Hours away with out fear of you loosing your units as the job "magically" vanished.
• Quest items table now shows you the description of each quest item.
• Gold Rushes are nerfed - they no longer use looting but do use map and adventure bonuses. These now reward up to 1 million+ gold.

And a whole host of others.

Performance updates:

There are some performance updates you should notice.

• When attacking/crafting/enchanting - we send the timer value through the response right away and pass the rest off as a job that process in the background. This can mean you see the timer before you see the XP, Drops, Craft/Enchant Success/Failure. This was done to help mitigate the "You have been a busy bee." box.

This has not been applied to celestial fights but will be in 1.1.9. This also has not been applied to map movement (of any kind) as there isn't a huge issue there.

A look ahead and 1.1.9

A small look ahead is in order I say. Lets see whats coming. This is just the outline, the meat and bones will be in the next update. Because of how important 1.1.9 is for the planned automation (1.1.10-1.1.13) any bug fixes for 1.1.8 will be done as hot patches (meaning they will not increase the version number)

1.1.9 will bring three things to the table:

• Kingdom logs will now act like adventure logs, the icon on the side will glow red when you have been attacked and bounce. The log will be highlighted in your logs report. You will also see a notification.
  • Kingdoms under attack (that you own) will turn into a new icon to indicate that you are under attack at that location.
  • Kingdom over view: View all your kingdoms and details - but you cannot manage them from here.
• New Item Types will be introduced and expanded upon later with new "sub skills" of existing crafting skills that will be automatically levelled to half of what ever your current crafting skill is for weapons, armour and spells.
• New Attack Buttons with icons. Each button with do a different type of attack instead of using throwing everything at the enemy. For example - attack would just use your weapons, artifacts, rings and affixes, while spells will only use spells and artifacts, affixes and rings.
  • New skills will be introduced that can be trained and will be important. For example Casters will no longer use accuracy, instead they will use Casting Accuracy. Critical Strikes will be introduced to help you do double the damage.
  • There will be: 5 total attack types.

This is just a sneak peak of 1.1.9. If you have feature ideas or requests for 1.1.9 (not bug reports) then feel free to post those in the discords #suggestions section and of course any bugs for 1.1.8 in #bugs.

1.1.9 makes way for a new class to be introduced, a special kind of class that does not use weapons to attack. Can you guess what it is? Let me know in the #general tab of discord if you think you know.

• Issues where you could have two spells in your inventory set and it not be considered "equippable" has been fixed.
• Issues with Item Equipping throwing 500 has also been fixed.
• Issue with selling large amounts of items to the shop has been fixed.

Note: 1.1.8 will bring a new inventory system to handle the strain of disenchanting or using large amounts of items.

New Feature: Live Game Map Count

The game map count for all players will now update every second to let you know how many (logged in) players on what plane.

This number is seen on the map under: Characters on map, and is a live reflection of the current signed in count.

Some slight bug fixes and changes were made to how the kingdoms update per hour.

• Information Page for Quest items has been fixed.
• When a character is enchanting, we will select the next item in their list - assuming they have any.
• Fixed Quest Book list on the crafting information page.

New Chat Commands

Players can now type /pc and /pct to either find the location of a public Celestial Entity, if there are any, or to find and teleport, across planes, to said Celestial Entity for free, with a 10 second move time out.

In order to use /pct players must pay The Soldier 5000 Gold Dust. This is a new quest.

You can find chat commands in the information help section under Chat Commands.

New Quest and Item

There is a new quest for The Soldier on the Surface plane called: Hunting Expedition. To complete this quest, you just message him and he will take 5k Gold Dust from you and give you a new item called: Crystal Eye Glass, which allows you to use /pct command.

A small look ahead

Note: The ideas here are not completely flushed out, this is just an idea.

During the 1.1.x patch cycle a patch will come to change how you fight monsters both in Adventures, Celestials and Regular Fights.

This change is still being worked on but the idea is to add new buttons and ways to attack, for example:

• Attack - Would now attack with both your weapons (+15% of strength (or +15% dex if bow)) + artifacts + rings
• Spells - Would now attack with both your spells (+15% (int) for Damage Spells and +15% (chr) for healing spells) + artifacts + rings
• Spell / Attack - Would Now cast your spell (+15% int/chr) in slot 1 and then attack (+15% str (or +15% dex if bow)) and then use rings and artifacts
• Attack / Spell - Would attack (+15% str (or +15% dex if bow)), then cast spell (+15% int/chr) in slot two and then use rings and artifacts
• Defend - Would increase AC by 25% of str making it hard for enemies to hit you, but reduce dodge % by 50% while firing off rings and artifacts.

Each one would be a separate button for when you got to attack the monster. Your class would apply a 10% bonus to the total damage for the appropriate attack type, IE if you were to click the Attack/Spell button as a heretic, that extra 10% is only applied to your spells.

This will introduce new skills:

• Critical Strike: which uses the skill bonus percentage to determine not just if you get a critical strike but by how much extra. Ie: a damage of 200 with a Critical strike would do: (200 * 2) + 200 * skill bonus damage
• Regeneration: At the end of the enemy attack if you are not dead, this will have a chance to fire, which is 10% of your dur, how ever this skill also effects your dur stat by adding the skill bonus to your durability. Thus the higher the level, the more durability you get to a max of ~100% extra dur at level 999. This will also trigger if you attack with spells and have healing spells equipped.

These skills would be for everyone.

This changes attack, so that now you do not have an attack button that just attacks with everything you have.

These buttons would apply to Celestial Fights and Regular Monster attacks while for adventures, players can choose an attack style or they can choose to "throw everything at the enemy" which would be the same as just clicking attack.

This will also introduce new Affixes that:

Introduce a new mechanic: Life stealing - will steal life when you attack, Mages Wrath - Increases spell damage % among others. This means that Affixes can also now fire on attacking.

These are just some ideas, some may come out before others. How ever this new mechanic of attacking provides a bit more depth, as now you have options on how you attack the enemy.

This also means enemies will have ben gone over to make sure they are still balanced over all. Some new mechanics to enemies such as charm and the ability for a player to avoid that or for enemies to annul your equipment will also be made to give some more depth to how attacks are preformed.

If you have thoughts, ideas or suggestions feel free to leave them in discord!

This release is just bug fixes:

• Now when players enchant items, the selected prefix and suffix will not be forgotten.
• Players who save crafting sets of items, will see the proper XP bonus and get the proper XP bonus per craft/enchant.

There is a new weekly event that will trigger every Wednesday at 1pm America/Edmonton time. A global message will go out when it triggers and for an entire day, there is a 80% chance for Celestials to spawn when characters move around the map. These entities can spawn on any plane at any location, so make sure you have the planes unlocked and your quest items to walk on water, both in surface and dungeons.

Market board changes

• When players go to list an item, edit a listing or view an item they will ow see a much better layout of information for the item.

Inventory Sets bug

• There was an issue where you could put, for example 3 damage spells into an inventory set and it was still considered equipable. This has been fixed.

This update fixes crafting and enchanting and rebalances the books associated.

• Base books you find on surface will only give you 25% more XP and 15% Bonus.
• Crafting and Enchanting check is now skill bonus + your roll (between 1, 400) > dc check of between 1, 400 (enchanting can add an additional amount for "dc increase" but will never go above 399)
• If your crafting/enchanting is over 100% you will instantly craft the item and get XP as long as the item or enchantment is not trivial for you. (crafting list can be found here and enchanting list here

Gold Dust Lottery

Every day at 12:00pm America/Edmonton time a new event will fire. One player has the chance to win 10k Gold dust while the rest get between 1, 1000 gold dust.

Players do not have to do anything to get the reward. If you are logged in and the timer hits, you'll see a message popup in chat.

Gold Dust Changes

When players disenchant, they're skill now plays a bigger role:

• If you are successful you will get between 30 and 1000 gold dust per item + your skill bonus. The higher the skill bonus, the higher the amount of gold dust.

This release fixes two bugs:

• Admin chat not works properly.
• Market board now loads properly.

Welcome back to Planes of Tlessa. Today we have a new feature apart of the 1.1.x patch cycle called Class Bonuses.

Class Bonuses

Every class has a chance at firing off a bonus. Thee bonuses can do different things based on the class and all, with the exception of vampires, have restrictions. You can read more in the help docs for classes. Just click on the class for your character or head to your character sheet.

Essentially every class, with the exception of vampires has a 5% chance to:

• Fighters will do Modded Attack + 5% of modded attack as long as they have a weapon equipped. Weapon Damage only.
• Thieves will dance around the enemy and attack them - they hit automatically (spells, artifacts, weapons - everything) - with out being dodged, but can still be blocked. Must have two weapons equipped.
• Rangers will do three additional attacks as long as they have a bow equipped and cannot be blocked or dodged.
• Prophets will fire their healing spells again, must have a healing spell equipped. Can fire on resurrection.
• Heretics will fire their damage spell again, must have a damage spell equipped. Spell evasion does apply.
• Vampires: Upon landing a successful attack, regardless of equipment, you will do an addition 5% of your dur in damage.

Other Fixes

• Kingdoms will now give proper population per hour based on morale, please refer to the kingdoms help docs.

Welcome back to Planes of Tlessa. I am so excited to announce the release of 1.1.0

This release brings a lot of new features, fixes to existing features and new items, skills, stats and so much more. Tlessa is continuing to evolve and grow and I am happy to have you along side me.

NPC's and Quests

There are now Npc's and Quests that players can participate in.

Npc's are entities that you interact with via the chat typing in, or copy and pasting, their exact commands.

Npc's can do one of three things: Conjure, Quest and Hold Kingdoms.

Npc's who can conjure or are involved in quests, requires you to be at their location to interact with them. If you don't know where they are you can type in their command and they will tell you where they are located (and which plane).

The only NPC who does not require you to be at their location and works across planes is The Kingdom Holder, other wise known as: The Old Man.

There are a variety of NPC's across planes, some deal with quests and some deal with conjuring Celestial Entities.

Celestial Entities

Players can now challenge them selves and participate in a competitive Monster Fights with these special creatures that have a very small chance to spawn on their own via the characters on the map moving around (teleport, set sail and regular movement can potentially spawn a Celestial.)

Celestial Entities can be fought by any one, including multiple players. The Celestial Entities get harder and cost more to conjure as you traverse the planes. For example the Celestials in Labyrinth plane are harder then those on surface, while Dungeons (new plane) are eve harder still.

Each plane has its own set of rewards that get better the further down you go.

These can be conjured either privately or publicly.

To earn the rewards you and only you, no shared rewards must kill the creature. Hence the competitive nature.

Spell Evasion and Artifact Annulment

Players who equip rings can now raise their spell evasion and artifact annulment stats on their character sheet. While this won't mean anything against regular critters, Celestial Entities can Reduce the spell damage you do and your artifact damage.

How ever, with rings equipped, yes they will still reduce your damage, but you can also reduce theirs. The higher your evasion/annulment, the less damage they can do. Over a 100% means they will never do damage with spells and artifacts.

New Currencies

Players can now earn two additional types of currencies. One is Gold Dust and the other is Shards.

Gold Dust is required in conjunction with Gold to conjure Celestial Entities.

Shards and Gold Dust are used in Alchemy to create usable items that can be used on your self or dropped on kingdoms to do damage.

Gold Dust is earned via Disenchanting, while Shards are only earned by killing Celestials.

Alchemy

Players can now unlock a new skill called Alchemy. When you open your character sheet, you will see a new skill that is locked. Clicking on this will tell you the quest to complete to unlock it.

Once unlocked the player can now use Alchemy under craft/enchant to create usable items. These items can be sold on the market, do not drop and cannot be bought from the shop.

Note: The Level for Alchemy is 400, how ever there are not enough items to get you there. More will be added in time.

Items and Kingdoms

Players who unlocked alchemy can now craft special usable items that can only be dropped on kingdoms.

These can do a lot of damage - when a lot of them are used together. You can only use these items when you are attacking a kingdom.

Note: It is fair game and not against the rules for a player to just walk around dropping these.

Players will also now get a log when an item is dropped on the kingdom.

Players will also now see enemy data in their attack logs. Clicking on this will either tell you the damage you did to the kingdom you attacked, minus morale. Or the damage you did to attacking units. This is a separate tab on the log it's self.

Kingdoms have also been updated to max the unit cap at 100k for every unit and max the treasury at 4 Billion Gold.

Kingdoms now also gain interest on their treasury gained per hour at a rate of Keep Current Level / Keep Max Level * 100.

NPC Kingdom Holder

Players will now notice that if they do not walk their kingdoms for 5 days, on the 6th day their kingdom will loose morale every hour until the NPC takes it.

At which point a player may walk up to that kingdom, message the NPC responsible for holding the kingdoms and pay the cost (if they have a kingdom) and then be given the kingdom.

Items do not damage the morale of a kingdom directly, they damage buildings that if reduced to 0, then effect the morale. Players still have to send in settlers to further reduce morale and then take the kingdom.

Players may also wage war on these kingdoms to take them by force.

If the NPC kingdom is not touched for 5 days after it is taken, it will disappear from the map.

Disenchanting

Disenchanting is a new skill and the only way of getting gold dust. Both Destroy and Disenchant actions will destroy the item.

For disenchanting, the higher your skill, the higher the chance to successfully disenchant and thus get between 1-150 gold dust per item or 1 if you fail.

This skill is leveled as you disenchant items

For destroying, you only get between 1-25 Gold Dust.

Class Skills and New Stats

Every class in the game now has a class skill, this skill can increase: Base Damage Modifier, Healing Modifier, Fight Timeout Modifier, Base AC Modifier or a combination.

Every class skill with the exception of vampires has a restriction on how their skill bonuses get applied. For example, Fighters need both Weapon and Shield to get both AC and Damage Bonus as they level the skill, or two weapons to get the attack, or a shield (or two) to get just the ac bonus.

Each class skill can be seen by visiting: Races and Classes help documentation and clicking on your class to see your specific skill.

There are now two new stats: Agility and Focus.

Agility is used for Rangers and Thieves and is their To Hit Stat. While they still use Dexterity for damage.

Focus is used for Prophets and Heretics to be used as their to hit stat, while they still use CHR and INT for damage respectively.

Weapons will not increase Agility or Focus - but Armour will. Bows will increase Agility and Dexterity, while spells will increase Focus.

Craft Only Sets and Bows

There are four new sets for players who's skill level in the appropriate crafting skill is in the 200's

These cannot be bought from the shop, do not drop and can be sold on the market (with affixes attached). They start at 2.1 Billion Gold and go to 2.4 Billion Gold.

Bows are a new weapon type designed for Rangers. Thieves would benefit, but their class skill requires them to duel wield two weapons. Bows cannot be duel wielded. They are held in both hands. You may pick which ever hand.

Bows only increase AGI and DEX as well as Fight Time Out Modifier (applies to all skills that affect the Fight Time Out Modifier).

Resurrection

Healing spells now have a chance to resurrect you in battle. Prophets are the only class that get an automatic 5% towards their Resurrection chance. You can see this chance on your character sheet.

Having two healing spells equipped will stack this bonus.

Monsters

Monsters have been re-balanced so that players in top tier shop gear can make it down to the bottom of the critter list and be able to take on some surface celestials.

Players will be able to make it most of the way down Labyrinth and Dungeons critter list with the shop gear.

Note: This assumes there are no affixes attached.

Dungeons (new plane)

Dungeons is a new plane with a new type of water. Players will have to kill a celestial on surface to get the quest item to then turn into the Dungeon Master NPC on Labyrinth. Players will have to speak to him twice to turn in the quest item you got from the celestial and then again to turn in the item he gave you to get the final item.

Players will need to kill a critter in Dungeons to get the Quest item to walk on Dungeons water.

Dungeons also has the longest set of adventures ranging form 30 minutes to over an hour.

Inventory Changes

Inventory now has something called sets.

You will also see your inventory is split into multiple tabs now:

• Inventory - Hold weapons and Armour (counts towards inventory max)
• Equipped - Holds equipped items (does not count towards inventory max)
• Sets - Holds ten tabs worth of items, can be equipped if it follows the set rules other wise it is treated as a unlimited stash tab.
  • These do not count towards inventory max.
• Usable Items - Holds your usable items (counts towards inventory max)
• Quest Items - Hold Quest items (does not count towards inventory max)

Sets allow a character to save equipped items as a set to quickly equip it later. Sets cannot be mixed and matched or have non set items equipped along side them. It's one or the other when equipping. For example, if you try and equip any item while a set is equipped, we will remove the whole set and equip just that item.

Sets can be quickly equipped, if it follows the set rules by going to the set tab and clicking: Equip Set

It is suggested that players equip the items they want as a set and then click: Save as set in the equipped section. To unequipped a set either equip a non set item, another set or click Unequipped All from the from equipped tab.

Players can move items from their inventory (only) into sets. You can even empty a set, assuming you have the space.

There is no limit on how many items you can have in a set.

And so much more ...

There are so many other changes that have come to Tlessa. Small fixes, tweaks to the UI, the map will now be in the center of the screen, under actions, when the window size is less then 1920 px's wide. You can even open and close the map.

Other changes include:

• Seeing more verbose messages for attacking. This also applies to adventures.
• Planes now have bonuses from just being on them, XP, Skill XP and Drop rate chance bonuses. These only apply to non surface plane locations. Check out the new planes documentation for more info.
• Players can now head to settings and delete their account, upon doing so all your kingdoms, across all planes, are handed to the NPC Kingdom Holder, your market listings are deleted, your character is deleted and your user account containing your email and password are also deleted. You will receive one final email confirming this is done.