Patch Notes: Orna: the GPS RPG Patch 3.9/Hero of Aethric Patch 1.4
Hey Travelers and Heroes!
Rollout has commenced for both Orna: the GPS RPG Patch 3.9 and Hero of Aethric Patch 1.4!
These updates bring with them a slew of new game features including Deep Dungeons, Monuments and more! Let’s dive into the patch notes!
New Feature: Monuments
Monuments are a new, single-player dungeon type that you can find throughout the world in Orna: the GPS RPG and within the T5 area of Meropis in Hero of Aethric.
There are 4 different types of Monuments, each themed after one of the Fallen Gods – Ithra, Thor, Demeter and Vulcan. If the Monument serves the Fallen God that represents your faction, entry will be free! Otherwise, it will cost 1 Gaunlet (now called Skeleton) key to enter.
You will navigate through these dungeons in the same manner as Towers, but with a larger diversity of mobs to face off against. There is a much larger chance that these battles will include event mobs, so Monuments stand as a great place to focus on your event quest completion.
When it comes to our events, we’re looking to lean further into our mantra of “Play Your Way”. For those who enjoy world farming type events, that is still a completely valid way to play and reach your goals, however, Monuments will offer up another activity that may be better suited for different types of players.
Monuments reward players in unique ways as well. As you travel through these dungeons, you’ll be collecting Proofs of Monument, which can be spent in the Monumental Guild Hall on materials, consumables and even Event Followers! As an End of Dungeon reward, you’ll receive 1 of 4 buffs as you exit that will last you for 2 hours.
As part of the Monumental Guild Hall, you will also now receive Proofs from defeating World Raid Bosses. These Proofs of Felling can be spent on higher end materials in the Guild Shop. In addition to this, event Summoning Scrolls will now be crafted at the Monumental Guild Hall, replacing the previous method of doing so at the Herbalist.
New Feature: Deep Dungeons
Also releasing this patch are Deep Dungeons. A multiplayer-enabled explorable dungeon type that will be replacing Goblin Fortresses and Mystic Caves.
In this new casual activity type, you will battle and mine your way through procedurally-generated dungeons. Each floor will contain a goal to accomplish to dive deeper into the depths of the dungeon (how’s that for alliteration).
This content type is perfect for those who are newer on their journeys, as it will offer up some good experience and end of dungeon rewards for those who partake.
For additional rewards there is also a Spelunking Guild, which will provide materials, Sprite Packs and more for the best miners out there.
We’re excited for you to get your hands on this one!
New Passive Guild: Seers’ Guild
In our goal of offer players additional rewards for playing their way, we have added a Guild that focuses on Memory Hunts. The Seers’ Guild can be found within the Oracle Temple and will offer up materials, consumable and Sprite Packs in exchange for Proofs of Remembrance – you know the drill!
Miscellaneous Changes
- You can now exit towers by using a button on the top left of your screen. The Tower will be re-enterable for a set duration so be sure to check how long you have left in the Resume Overlay.
- Towers will now include event hordes. These will be linked to the current ongoing events allowing for more opportunities to farm event currency (and more diversity to your climbs!)
- Towers and Monuments will now spawn in a more evenly distributed manner, meaning you will find less clusters of these activities and overall find more of them as you move around.
- Hero of Aethric has had a big performance update, moving around the world should be more fluid!
- Fallen God sprites updated.
- Thanks to community feedback, Replica Titan followers have been overhauled.
- Bestial Bond 1 can now be found as an Amity trait offering up non-Valhallen classes access to these follower modifiers.
- In Hero of Aethric, NPCs will now have a fixed location within a tier appropriate town, no longer will you have to search far and wide to turn in a certain quest!
- Your Inventory will now contain a Currency tab which will keep track of the various Proofs you obtain throughout your adventures.
- AI Improvements
- Changed the display of Followers in shops, allowing for easier access to their codex page.
- Balance adjustments:
- Spells the have lowered PvP damage now reduce the damage before defense is applied (opposed to after)
- The change ensures that defense values are correctly applied to the reduced power
- [PvP] Reduced the damage of Fey Cataclysm, Fey Fulmination, Fey Glacier, Fey Inferno
New Event: Winter Wild Hunt
Building off of our 10 Days of Raids event, we’re launching a new December event called the Winter Wild Hunt. This event will celebrate the amazing year we’ve had for events in the Ornaverse by offering up 3 day waves of past events.
The waves are as follows:
Wave 1: The Legends of Lyonesse (December 1-3)
Wave 2: The Crimson Festival (December 4-6)
Wave 3: The Return of Kerberos (December 7-9)
Wave 4: Of Giants and Titans (December 10-12)
Wave 5: Ragnarok (December 13-15)
Wave 6: The Mischievous Clurichauns (December 16-18)
Wave 7: WyrmHunt (December 19-21)
Wave 8: Finesse (December 22-24)
Wave 9: Sisters of Morrigan (December 25-27)
Wave 10: The Fool (December 28-30)
For the duration of the event, the Monumental Guild Hall will have a craftable Festive Scroll which will target raids from the current wave of the Wild Hunt.
For a full list of other events happening in December, be sure to check out playorna.com!
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That’s it for our patch notes. We’ve been working hard on these features and are happy to finally get them into your hands. As always, we’ll be hanging around the Discord (and Reddit, Twitter, Facebook etc.) to hear your feedback on all that’s coming to our titles this month!
To anyone celebrating any holidays this month, we hope you have some great time spent with family and friends. Happy Winter Wild Hunt!
