Patch 2026-08-31

Patch 2026-08-31

build 65cb8f141

Patch 2026-08-31 - the world-event protection round. Dying at a world event now costs nothing and the boss can no longer be dragged away from the fight, every player runs the fast combat simulation once reserved for player killers, Obsidian and Tiger Eye become armor-and-clothing only, and deaths in private instances stop eating corpses. This page covers everything player-facing since Patch 2026-08-30.

World events

• Asheron's Protection. While a world event is running, any player who dies within its reach loses nothing: no vitae, no item or coin drop, no enchantment purge. You still die and return to your lifestone, with the message "Asheron's power holds death's toll at bay. You lose nothing."
• Bosses stay at the fight. A named boss is now tethered to where it spawned: it only hunts players who are actually at the event, and stepping outside the tether snaps it back onto the crowd. One player can no longer drag the boss away from everyone else.
• Sky Rift scenery now arrives in one of four color schemes.

Changes and tuning

• Fast combat for everyone. Every player now runs the full server-side combat simulation that used to be reserved for player killers: quicker spell release with no pre-cast turn delay, retail-speed potion drinking, and melee that sticks to a moving target.
• Obsidian and Tiger Eye are armor-and-clothing only. Obsidian equipment mods and Tiger Eye armor tinkers no longer apply to jewelry, cloaks or trinkets; descriptions and targeting now say so.
• Serpentine Salvage from loot works. A Serpentine salvage bag you fill yourself from looted salvage is now usable for spell rerolls; previously only the ready-made bags from the Salvage-Broker worked.
• Mules are off the boards. Storage mules no longer appear on any /top leaderboard.

Fixes

• Deaths in private instances drop nothing. Dying inside a private, on-demand copy of a dungeon - a Proving Grounds arena, First Pin, the Loom - no longer leaves a corpse with your items in it. Those corpses were destroyed with the instance and could never be recovered. If this already happened to you, tell a mod.
• The Withered and the Olthoi soldiers lost their magic immunity. Both lines silently ignored all non-projectile magic - life drains and debuffs simply did not land. They now resist with their skills like everything else.
• A Prismatic Drift Stone on a life caster grants Life Rending, not Critical Strike.
• Martyr's Hecatomb flies as an arc. The spell now lobs on the gravity trajectory of its family instead of flying flat.
• Zero-value rares fit the mule's sell pane. Rares with no listed value can now be dragged into your mule's sell pane to deposit them; handing them over already worked.