Gameplay Changelog — Last 2 Days

New Class — Necromancer • Added the new Necromancer playable class. • Necromancer is a Shadow based caster that commands permanent and temporary undead guardians. • Necromancer can be unlocked account wide by using the new Tome of Necromancy. • Locked classes are now displayed at the end of character creation with a faded portrait and lock icon. • The Skeleton Archer Grimoire no longer unlocks an ability. It is now a Gray quality vendor item worth 20 Silver. New and Updated Runes • Grave Command — Green Necromancer Rune: Unlocks one additional Guardian Command slot per rank. This rune is automatically unlocked for Necromancers. • Storm Theft — Blue Stormcaller Rune: Purge steals the most recently applied removable beneficial effect and grants it to the Stormcaller for its remaining duration. • Stormcaller: Purge - removes 1 benificial effect from enemy • Warrior: Hamstring - Instant melee attack that slows enemy for 40% for 8 seconds. • Added hidden bad luck protection to unidentified runes to prevent extremely long unlock dry streaks. Auction House • Added a complete Auction House, accessed by right clicking an Auction House NPC in nightrun keep near the bank NPC. Reward Caches • Quests now reward a Quest Cache containing one level scaled piece of Green, Blue or Epic equipment. • Battleground victories from levels 1–19 reward a Quest Cache. • Level 20 Battleground victories reward a Heroic Cache. • Successfully completing a level 20 Heroic+ rewards a Heroic Cache. • Failing or timing out a Heroic+ rewards the weaker Quest Cache. • Heroic Caches contain two level scaled equipment items and five bonus Embers. • Heroic Cache equipment has a 70% chance to be Blue and a 30% chance to be Epic. • Cache rewards are delivered through the mailbox if the player’s inventory is full. Loot Notifications • Bottom center loot notifications are now larger, brighter and displayed above other UI windows. • Items, abilities, runes and caches glow and spark using their rarity colour. • Ember rewards now appear in the loot notification using a separate light-yellow colour. • Hovering over a notification pauses it. • Hovering over an item, ability or rune icon displays its tooltip above the notification. • Added a reveal sound when new loot appears. Blackwood Castle Battleground • Captured bases now remain contested for 1 minute before changing ownership. • Players cannot respawn at a contested base. • The previous owner can recapture a contested base before the timer ends to immediately restore control. • Battleground messages now announce when a base becomes contested and when it is claimed. • Flag markers now use clearer neutral, Blue and Red states. • Contested flags display expanding white markers, while owned flags display their team colour. • Added a new contested sound when a flag enters the contested state. Other Improvements • Improved chest interaction checks so visible chests on shelves are no longer incorrectly blocked. • Real walls and other solid objects will still correctly prevent interaction. • Improved undead summoning animations, spawn effects, guardian sounds and Necromancer spell visuals.