Ruin

Upgrade your gear with a redesigned forge. This update also brings faster rune discovery, clearer quest rewards, improved character creation and more options for addons. Forging & Runes Reworked Item Forging with an equipment list and upgrade previews. Forging improvements now benefit item stats and equipment effects. Forge All and Discover All now finish instantly, stopping at the first success.

Heroic+ Added Broodmother’s Lair Heroic+ 16–18 with five affixes and tougher enemies. Added Catacombs Heroic+ 7–9 with two affixes and tougher enemies. Heroic+ bosses are now level 23. Deaths now cost 90 seconds in Broodmother’s Lair +16–18 and 45 seconds in Catacombs +7–9. Claims and Buildings Unfunded claim contents now take 12 hours to decay from 50% to 25%, stopping there while the claim exist

Beast Master & Companions Added tameable Spider pets with Web, Poison and Burrow. Spider Web roots enemies for 6 seconds with a 1 minute cooldown. Spider Poison stacks up to five times, scales with pet melee attack power and has a 3 second cooldown. Spider Burrow heals 2% health per second for 30 seconds, with digging animations, dust and burrow sounds. Enabling Burrow autocast makes the spider us

Fishing Added temporary fishing whirlpools that grant +25 Fishing when your bobber is near them. Whirlpools now have varied appearances and separate lifetimes, fading in and out as they move between locations. Added Prawn, Fish Guts and Flying Fish bait, with new Fishing recipes at the workbench. Fishing now lets you choose your bait, with rarer fish requiring suitable bait. Duskscale Puffer can n

Beast Master & Pets Added Bash Command, sending your pet to stun its target for 5 seconds with its next melee attack. Rampage now grants four rapid attacks that activate when your pet reaches melee range without interrupting normal attacks. Added Inner Beast, increasing your pet’s size and damage by 50% for 20 seconds. Kindred Spirit legendary passive allows your pet to inherit 30% of your stats.

Combat & Ranger Withering Spores now scales with ranged attack power. Smouldering Shot now deals explosive area damage followed by three burning ticks. Explosive Charges is now a blue rune, applying one-second charges without delaying existing explosions when refreshed. Added Smouldering Ground, an epic rune that turns Smouldering Shot into an instant six-second burning area. Added Close Quarters

Combat & Enchanting Added Unbound Inferno, a blue rune that turns Fire Storm into a 2-second cast with independently placed storms lasting 10 seconds. Holding an ability key now lets the current channel finish before casting again. Higher rarity equipment now gives more disenchanting materials, with level 20 Epic and Legendary gear yielding Arcane Shards. Updated five weapon enchant recipes to req

Combat & abilities Paladins can now use Iron Resolve, reducing damage taken by 50% for 6 seconds. Added Pyroclysm, a Pyromancer only spell with a 3 second cast, heavy Fire damage, a burn and no cooldown. Enemies far above your level are now much harder to hit and critically strike. Added glancing blows to ordinary melee attacks, with a minimum of 1 damage and labels shown only in the combat log. R

Combat & Classes Added Challenging Shout, a generic area taunt, and a green cooldown reduction rune. Added Iron Resolve for Warriors, reducing damage taken by 50% for 6 seconds. Added Fear for Necromancers, making enemies flee for up to 15 seconds. Added Vanish for Rangers, allowing them to escape combat and become invisible. Added Silent Stride and Patient Hunter runes to improve Vanish. Helpful

Combat & Abilities Made Smash generic, with Attack Power scaling and no default attack speed effect. Added Devastating Hits for creatures three or more levels above the player. Added Multi-hits and stored Multi-hit auto attacks when kiting certain powerful mobs. Updated Defence protection, with a level 20 boss target of 240 total Defence. Reduced Block’s bonus to 20% and capped total block chance

Bosses & World Content • Added Pyroth, a new dragon world boss designed for 20 geared players. • Added Aleric the Wise, a new rare boss spawns at start of the Catacombs. • Added Skittermaw’s burrowing phase and spiderling waves. • Improved boss animations, sounds and effects for Pyroth and Skittermaw. Loot & Mounts • Added the Pyroth ground mount at 10% chance to drop. • Added an epic Eagle Helm t

Cleric • Reaching level 20 on a Paladin now permanently unlocks Cleric, even if that Paladin is deleted. • Cleric has the legendary: Holy Spirit, a legendary companion that echoes 25% of your direct damage and healing. • Holy Spirit grants nearby allies 5% increased damage and healing within 30 yards for 10 seconds after using a damage or healing ability. New Cleric Runes • Searing Judgment (Blue)

Guttermass Added Guttermass as a new boss in Catacombs. Guttermass Loot Added Cinderblood Band, which retaliates against attackers for 5 Fire damage. Added Slimeguard Buckler, whose blocks can grant a five second shield absorbing 5% of maximum health. Added Ooze Covered Cloak, which can release a three second toxic cloud when you take damage. Added Heart of Guttermass, which prevents death and res

Dungeons & Bosses Added The Cadaverous, a new boss in Catacombs. Added larger central boss warnings with a warning sound. Chomp’s chase warning now names the player he is hunting. Chomp’s death now opens the gate leading onward. Added “Leave Instance” to your portrait menu after completing a dungeon or Heroic+ run. Heroic+ Added Heroic +10, +11 and +12 to Broodmother’s Lair. Added Web Cocoon, trap

New Dungeon: Catacombs Added first phase of Catacombs dungeon, will be release a new boss every couple of days. With Chomp being the first boss, a total of 6 bosses are planned. Combat & Runes Added Seismic Momentum: build three stacks with weapon abilities, then unleash a shockwave dealing 100% weapon damage to up to six enemies. Added Righteous Riposte: parrying grants Paladins bonus Holy damage

Cooking Added Scrambled Eggs at Cooking 0, granting 2 Stamina. Added Eggs on Toast at Cooking 10, granting 3 Stamina and 2 Strength. Added Herb Omelette at Cooking 20, granting 4 Stamina and 3 Agility. Added Baked Eggs at Cooking 30, granting 5 Stamina and 3 Intellect. Added Lava Chicken at Cooking 40, producing five portions that give melee attacks a 10% chance to breathe fire, Fire Breath deals

Housing & Building Fixed terrain reverting inside house claims, including tiles around the house. Fixed claimed slopes disappearing after server restarts. Abandoning a house, raft or Wooden Cog now gives a protected one hour move out timer. Players can build a replacement home during the move out timer. Players can only have one home counting down to abandonment at a time. Fixed the build menu off

Boats & Housing Added the Wooden Cog, a faster ship with more momentum than the raft. The captain’s wheel now steers the cog and moves its rudder. Corrected inverted boat controls. Empty boats now lower their sails and coast to a stop. Fixed passengers appearing to run on the spot. Added a Climb Up action for players with boat permission. Boat owners can place furniture on suitable flat surfaces.

World & Collision Fixed players falling through terrain on steep slopes. Fixed terrain height inconsistencies after map updates. Prevented terrain recovery from creating extreme cliffs beside guild claims. Fixed players sinking through the lower floor of corner towers. Interactions & UI Improved right-click detection so camera dragging does not trigger world interactions. Kept vendor, repair and c

Water Water reflections now ripple and distort with the waves instead of looking like a mirror. Added shimmering sun and moon reflections across the water. Shore waves now roll towards the coast and leave ripples behind. Made whitewater brighter, with moving, bubbling foam. Replaced repeating surface patterns with highlights that respond to the light. Fixed the camera cutting through the water sur

Animals & Farming Added the new Husbandry skill, which increases through caring for owned animals. Chicken Coops now hold up to 4 chickens, 8 food stacks and 4 egg output stacks. Chickens now remain as items inside the Chicken Coop while their wandering version appears in the world. Only wild chickens can be captured. Chicken Coops now support Everyone, Guest & Owner and Private permissions. Chick

Auction House Bids now update the auction row with the new bid price, bidder and time remaining without resetting the current search results. Carts Carts now move better over bridges, slopes and uneven terrain. Foreign carts can pass through other players’ claims, but claim owners and guests can walk through them so carts cannot block doors. Pets, Mobs and Navigation Pets and guardians now follow