Knight

Arriving on 3/24/15!

This week we are introducing a small preview of the upcoming Fish and Ships update by including a ship (and sail) in the Power Pack, through Mastery, and a big ship in the Chaos Chests. On top of this new clubs now have deep water in the Sea of Regret and there are new terraformers that can be crafted for this deep sea of regret (cheap) and a deep Sea of Tranquility (more expensive).

We're also introducing Chaos Factor which grants one chaos chest per day on log in per point. These are very hard to get. You can get one at rank 100 mastery, one if you have max mastery, one per $1000 spent (which you can now view via Glyph and soon in game), and chaos chests now very very very rarely drop a tradable coin which grants one.

Finally, we're running an event this week in which every Shadow Arena and Dungeon grant double damage to one random class. Have fun!

== FEATURES==

Ship and Deep Water Preview
* The Power Pack now contains a clipper class Trovian ship and Trovian sail. All previous purchasers will of course be granted these automatically.
* Mastery rank 70 now grants a clipper class mastery ship and rank 80 a mastery sail
* You can acquire the starter sail in the hub
* The chaos chest contains a rare galleon class chaos ship.
* Club worlds now start with deep seas of regret.
* There is a craftable deep sea of regret terraformer which is quite cheap
* There is a craftable sea of tranquility terraformer

Chaos Factor
* Chaos Factor is now live. For every point you have you will gain a chaos chest every day that you log in.
* You earn one point at rank 100 mastery, one point at max mastery (as long as you keep it), and one point per $1000 spent on the game. There is also a very very very rare tradable coin that comes from chaos chests and grants one permanent point on consumption.

Shadow Power Event
* For this week only all Shadow Arenas and Dungeons will grant double damage to one random class!

== GAME UPDATE==

New in the Store
* You can now purchase the Bone Knight and Elysian Guardian costumes on the store!
* The Chaos Chest has been randomized. See what you get this week!
** Look for a giant ship, a magical pet, and a bouncy bug.

Adventure
* There are now multiple starting zones in adventure worlds which are rotated between. This should make it much easier to find content near where you spawn in.

Mastery
* Mastery rank 100 now grants a non-tradable choas coin.
* Rank 110 has been added and now grants the wings that used to be at 100.
* You'll notice that post-100 there are no longer rewards for the middle ranks. We don't want to keep giving adventure power post 100, and are looking at some other designs for how mastery works post-100. In the meantime we'll focus on major rewards only past 100 while we work on this.

Crafting
* Terraformers no longer cost Glim and have had their costs updated.

Classes
* Shadow hunters will no longer mark allies.
* Candy Barbarian's candy now has a much shorter delay before auto-looting

Bug Fixes and Polish
* Fix for some club worlds not loading at all, and some loading slowly
* Purple and gold dungeon portals have more informative text on them
* Balefire Beast dragon form has had its missing thigh fixed
* Club worlds at capacity will now be able to add ten club members above the normal capacity. No more getting locked out of your club events!

Community Content
* New Fae Wilds lair from Screamheart.
* New Fae Wilds dungeon from Cogarkillz.
* New Undead Hills dungeon from Ixion.
* New Fae Wilds dungeon from Karokendo.
* New Dragonfire Peaks dungeon from VirtuousRob.
* New staff styles by EyeballPrincessII, LippyLapras, Walyn, HandofGod, Zoe, Kayzheox, AngeloTGC, nikolako, MiszterSoul, and Byoo have been added to the game!
* New bow styles by TeeKayM, Khastiel, currazooxd, ZeleX, Nomeneta, Cman0147, KeKo, Dex, Tenku, Delvulria, Dave203, Jusiv, Tribe, Condorspark, MokeyMokey, Fiscon, DJ_Lobster, Sir_Anthony, Ryuuktsu, Thunderised, hardline, FuzzyDerp, Fayd, GadgetCAT, FriedSushi, and MonsterAnt have been added to the game!
* New melee weapon styles by Kratori, Rercon, Neverlast, Fizzinc, Erudito, Aodahn, 0R305, TNT_101, Shjohn, Equinoxide, Byoo, Sotilis, magicbat, AceGonzalez, Kukui, Kariaro, Rokiux, Horrormallow, Revoniel, Volfide, DaveOverload, Thunderised, and Vinyll have been added to the game!
* New face styles by Humpypants, chocobag, InfineonJ, Paper97, LETAL1TY, Kingmickey, Eriri, and Angelrow have been added to the game!
* New hat styles by TigerLove, Smorph, Stedms, Aodahn, MappyT, Aviarei, MajorTom, Ranen, Brava, and Mythlit have been added to the game!
* New pistol styles by Rajeeb, Screamheart, Zsword, and Voyvoda have been added to the game!
* New staff styles by EyeballPrincessII, LippyLapras, Walyn, HandofGod, Zoe, Kayzheox, AngeloTGC, nikolako, MiszterSoul, and Byoo have been added to the game!

Arriving on 3/18/15!

This patch features four new mounts, including two new crafted corgis and two colors of FriedSushi's excellent Cookiephant mount. There's also a few new Knight skins in the chaos chest this week from player submissions (Bone Knight and Elysian Guardian) which will come to the store the following week. Both have some great new VFX, helms, and weapons. Overall this week we've really taking adventuring up a notch with more lairs and more loot. There's the adventure box, more loot from dungeons, and just a ton more lairs in general. Read on for the full list of changes!

== FEATURES==

COOKIEPHANT ADVENTURE BOXES
* Cookiephant adventure boxes are live!
* These are a new type of loot box that will rotate over time. Once they rotate out they may come back in the future, but likely not for some time!
* They drop relatively commonly from monster kills, and only slightly more often from quest chests.
* They commonly drop glim, flux, and other adventure resources. Uncommonly drop random style boxes and eyes of Q’bthulhu. And finally, they rarely drop the Blue and Pink Cookiephant mounts!


== GAME UPDATE==

GENERAL
* Players now have 2 jump by default!
*Update to hub! Added a pirate store building, and updated the trending world building.
* You will now enter a hub world at the start location.
* Ally: Samantha has leveled up, and now has more stats.
* Fixed a bug where some players received "World not found" when invited to a world by a player marked as Offline.
* When leaving a world, you will now relinquish your claim to any cornerstones.
* We'll now drain the login queue a little more slowly after server updates to prevent what appear to be client lockups.
* Sick of your old, tired cornerstone? Use /clearcornerstone to get rid of all of the clutter and get a new, shiny, blank cornerstone! (Note that all items, blocks, and everything else on your cornerstone will be permanently deleted and will not be refunded!)


STORE UPDATES
* Chaos chests have been randomized. Open some up to see what is new this week!
* Chaos chests feature early access to two new knight costumes this week: Bone Knight and Elysian Guardian!


CLUBS
* Clubs logs will now be listed with the most recent logs last in the console window.


CLASSES
* Base attack damage for basic attacks has been notably increased. This should make early levels easier if you’re mostly using basic attacks to defeat monsters.

KNIGHT
* Smash now applies a brief stun.


SHADOW DUNGEONS AND ARENAS
* Shadow Vendors should now accept interactions from all players, not just those who opened that particular Shadow Portal.


ADVENTURE WORLDS/BIOMES
* Many more lairs now spawn!
* Recipe lairs now only spawn at U1 and up.
  - Note: The exception to this is Permafrost biomes, where recipe lairs still spawn at any level. This will be corrected in a future update.
* Recipe lairs now spawn more often!
* Dungeon chests now drop two pieces of equipment! Rejoice!
* Random signs should no longer show up in Frontier lairs and dungeons.


BOSSES
* Fixed bug where the teleporter boss affix was incredibly broken and triggered all the time.


CRAFTING
* Pemborg and Infinium Pemborg are now craftable!


UI AND SETTINGS
* You can no longer use middle mouse button in place of the left mouse button in the UI.
* Switching worlds when in builder mode will no longer result in the placement object showing, even though you're in adventure mode.


VISUALS
* Lots of visual love for the hub!
* Contact shadows and block damage now fade with fog.
* Fixed an issue where sometimes the sun would draw in front of clouds.
* Fixed clipping issue with sky when deep underwater.
* Sovereign Spire hat style should now sit more centered on character heads.
* Minor issue with Rod of Northern Skies's model was fixed.

AUDIO
* Fix s bug where wind sounds sometimes stop while gliding.


COMMUNITY CREATIONS
* New Dragonfire Peaks lair from Lazy_Kyu.
* New Dragonfire Peaks lair from Stedms and Zoe.
* New Dragonfire Peaks lair from Yeron.
* New melee weapon styles by Kratori, Rercon, Neverlast, Fizzinc, Erudito, Aodahn, 0R305, TNT_101, Shjohn, Equinoxide, Byoo, Sotilis, magicbat, AceGonzalez, Kukui, Kariaro, Rokiux, Horrormallow, Revoniel, Volfide, DaveOverload, Thunderised, and Vinyll have been added to the game!
* New hairstyles by PinkNekoGirl, Cechoo, Fhilian, and tmahwk have been added to the game
* Plasma Fences, Hedges, Pipes, Formicite Ore, Ladder, and the Diagonal Rope decor pieces have all had their models fixed. Thanks Elpix!
* New decor by Ocgineer, Cutterx, Mikabella, Blinky, Insaint, Meowsifer, Qoaleth, CloBunny, PsicoVoxeL, Doberman, Gooball, TehRedReaper, and Demondice has been added to the game!

Arriving on 3/10/15!


== FEATURES==

NEW EPIC WINGS: NEON NIGHTSKY
* A new set of wings, the Neon Nightsky (designed by Tribe and Comply), can now be crafted from your Crafting Bench! This will not be easy or cheap!
* The community will need to come together to find the location of the four hidden crafting stations before you can even attempt to craft these impressive wings.


== GAME UPDATE==

GENERAL
* When using Join in your friends list or /joinme, the joining player is now teleported to the current location of the other player.
* Fixed a bug where mass looting could fail if you are targeting a piece of loot or a usable object.
* Deconstructing equipment for materials will now also save the equipment's style to your collection if you don't already have it. Style Savers have been rendered obsolete and converted into Deconstructors.
* Mag Riders now trample grass and other collectibles like mounts do.
* Seasonal spring ladybugs have emerged from their eggs and now roam the hub worlds.
* The game will no longer crash when placing monorail tracks in flowing liquids.
* Players should now get Vox the black budgie in RIFT when reaching level 20 on any class!


STORE UPDATES
* Chaos Chests have been randomized. Discover what new treasures they hold this week!
** This week's Chaos Chests preview Pemborg the Robo Corgi!
* Blood Knight and Sharp Shooter Costumes are now on the store and in the costume mystery box!
* Dance Pad is now on the store!


CLUBS
* You no longer lose magic find when dying in a club world!
* Club logs are capped to 2000 lines.
* You can now kick out non-club members or lower-ranked club members from club worlds.


CLASSES

DRACOLYTE
* Fixed a bug where the Rapt Berserker passive would trigger when Dracolyte's Burnt Offering exploded.

NEON NINJA
* Enemies snared by the Neon Ninja's stasis attack are no longer knocked back by attacks.

SHADOW HUNTER
* The Radiant Arrow ability now charges 30% faster.
* The Sun Snare trap now lasts 10 seconds down from 20.


SHADOW DUNGEONS AND ARENAS
* Shadow Arenas and Dungeons now drop Shadow Shards instead of Flux.
* A representative of the Shadow Market has begun appearing in Shadow Arenas and Shadow Dungeons!
* Exchange your Shadow Shards at the representative for Shadow Caches, which contain eyes and tentacles. There's also a rare chance at wings, as well as a Heart of Darkness!
* Should you get lucky and find a Heart of Darkness, the Shadow Market will gladly take those of your hands in exchange for some extra-shadowy goods. But what value do these hearts hold for this mysterious being? Should you really be furthering its possibly-nefarious agenda? Are you sure you want to be trafficking with beings of shadow...?


ADVENTURE WORLDS/BIOMES

* Permafrost and Dragon biomes no longer have Formicite or Infinium veins and now spawn more of their respective elemental ore types.
* Other biomes now spawn fire ore much less.
* The Neon City Pinball dungeon should now generate correctly.

CRAFTING
* Have multiple stacks of components? Crafting can now use items from all of your stacks!
* Shadow Keys no longer costs Glim to craft, and now cost additional gems and fragments.


UI AND SETTINGS
* Block-meshes now switch to LOD proxies in the distance. This should help performance in dense vegetation such as farms. Use /loddistance (valid values 15-96, default is 60) to increase or decrease LOD distance.


AUDIO
* Fixed a bug where wing sounds would persist after entering a portal while flying.
* Fixed a bug where liquid sounds would play infinitely after fighting NPC's in liquid.
* Fix to non-positional sparkly sound caused by other Shadow Hunter - SharpShooter Skins firing weapons.

Arriving on 2/10/15!

== FEATURES==

NEW CLASS: SHADOW HUNTER
* Shadow Hunter is now live! This class uses a bow to do massive damage to enemy targets with charged shots, while the shadow trapped in their gem whispers about who to kill.


ENTER THE SKY REALMS
* You can now craft a portal to the Sky Realms!
* Mine Crystallized Clouds, harvest Radiant Shards, but you'd best come prepared with wings, or it's going to be tough to keep up!
* A new rare mount, the Nimble Nimbus, can now be found rarely in the Sky Realms!
* Updraft blocks are now craftable in the Fun Factory!


WINGS ARE NOW LIVE!
* Wings are now obtainable in game!
* Mastery Rank 20 and 100 now grant wings!
* Stormcaller's Wings are now in the store!
* Wings of Darkest Night now drop incredibly rarely from Shadow Arenas.


NEW PROFESSION: RUNECRAFTING
* Runecrafting is now live! Obtain some radiant shards from the Radiant Ruins, then learn a whole bunch of new block recipes to build to your heart's content! As your runecrafting skill increases, you'll unlock a variety of colored, metal, glass, and glowing block recipes.
* At the higher levels, you'll be able to craft vault style unlockers that will unlock a Vault style, as well as tomes that you can equip to grant yourself additional resources of a specific type as you adventure!
* A new mount, the Floating Formula, can now be crafted by Runic Masters at the Runecrafting bench!


== GAME UPDATE==

GENERAL
* Added 101 new colors of colored blocks (split between standard, glass, metal, and glow).
* Added emotes! You can now /wave hello or goodbye or take a nap with /zzz. Characters with no input for 2 minutes will also now automatically start snoozing.
* Fixed the dreaded "Received user acknowledgement" login bug.
* Mastery rank now goes to 100!
* The Magic Find tooltip now has correct text.
* Fixed a bug where players who are loaded in while already in flight appear to fall and teleport back up repeatedly.
* Fixed a bug where being hit by an enemy could cancel jumps and other movement.
* Chests now take fewer hits to destroy.
* Spikes can now be destroyed by bombs.


EQUIPMENT SLOTS CHANGE
* The Mount, Mag Rider, Flask, Wings, and Ally slots are now class specific.
* As a result of this change the Mount, Mag Rider, Flask, and Ally slots will be empty on log in and will need to be re-equipped.


STORE UPDATES
* Chaos Chests have been randomized!
* Uberman, a new costume for the Gunslinger, is live!
* Prisms are now 1000 Credits.
* Heart-a-Phone is now in the store and now turns your target's name red for 24 hours.
* You can no longer purchase the textured block recipe in the store for bordered blocks. You now earn these through Runecrafting.
You now gain 2 no-trade flask coins instead of the fixed flasks in the Power Pack.

CLASS UPDATES

GUNSLINGER
* Gunslinger's Blast Jump ability now increases height less but gives you a temporary slow fall effect
* The Gunslinger now slowfalls after hitting with a basic attack
* Fixed bug where Gunslinger's passive instant charge shot couldn't be fired at zero energy.


CRAFTING
* Mining Troves, Party Animals, and Recipe Blocks will now drop the new type of block recipe that teaches you a random block recipe that you don't already know.
* You can now deconstruct stacks of the same item.
* Red equipment can now be deconstructed for flux plus 1 eye.


ADVENTURE WORLDS/BIOMES
* Magic Carpet drops are now more common in Uber 4 and 5, and are otherwise less common.
* Uber 4 and 5 worlds are slightly harder.
* The King's Tomb dungeon will no longer spawn in Undead Hills.
* The Haunted Mansion dungeon will now spawn properly in the Undead Hills.


SHADOW ARENAS AND DUNGEONS
* Shadow Arenas and Dungeons are now slightly harder.


VISUALS
* Improved cloud distribution, especially while moving. Clouds now respond immediately to lighting changes.
* Fixed a bug where the knight could lose Iron Will shield VFX upon being hit.
* Significantly reduced CPU cost of camera-based player opacity.
* Fixed a bug where exiting gliding by jumping put the player into the wrong animation.
* Resource blocks now blend into the terrain better.


COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS
* Accesories on hairstyles will now, for the most part, ignore hair color and retain their own coloring
* New decor by Tribe, MajorTom, Qoaleth and Screamheart has been added to the game!
* New hairstyles by Dragoes, GadgetCAT, and Subtitles have been added to the game!
* New mask styles by TigerLove, Ixion, chocobag, and Claire have been added to the game New hat styles by Kukui, Ranen, TheZoobler, Aviarei, Shyster, MCfan567, Turtlenade, Dusty_Mustard, Floretha, Agent_41, and Phoenix have been added to the game!
* New staff styles by Zeeg, MediocrityGoggles, Smorph, nolanvoid, KtlavskoX, FedoraTip, and FriedSushi have been added to the game!
* New melee weapon styles by Karokendo, Sentium, Zeeg, Zodriac, ForJagler, Turtlenade, AllieCat, RoflGofl, Blindside, Miredirex, Seral, Enthropy, ElMexicano, LETAL1TY, LippyLapras, Hypatech, Smearg and Fhilian have been added to the game! New pistol styles by Zipperumpazoo, BlueMango, and Voodoo have been added to the game!
* New bows by Tribe, Aodahn, Jonny_Spikey, Screamheart, nolanvoid, Floretha, Greenitthe, PinkNekoGirl, Tyhler, Riptide, FriedSushi, GadgetCAT, Stedms, Ixion, RutilusFalx, EdgeG, Cougarkillz, Solipso, MapletXD, LinguisticallyInept, Drakfyre, MiszterSoul, TehRedReaper, MysticLugia, LippyLapras, Ranen, TheGiv32, miopiIV, watermellonduke, JumpyBunny, Dragoes, Leeman, CloBunny, _Protichsx_, Qoaleth, GinnyBinny, Bahamuth, Quedifuv, Linker, FrozenCross, Taiboi, Uniquisher, Jallafish, Wallow75, Aspis, Sephyr, Shyster, MajorTom, Buckerneir, Dirkalo, MrTuffnStuff, TomixD, Rhylight, PsicoVoxeL, Leeon, Nomeneta, Caspersaur, tmahwk, Prototype, Rade_Dobison, pasi123567, GreyRellik, demosito, Stedms, Aodahn, TheZoobler, FriedSushi, PinkNekoGirl, HandofGod, Tribe, Khali, Eriri, Mirage, Ecky, Kiyomi, Kyiro, Zimanta, Nomeneta, CassIV, TeeKayM, Soulrenor, Dave203, Kopandazavr, TheGiv32, Robotik, Ginkgo, Lucifuge, Prototype, cczeus, Tresette, taelg, AshtonGrey, Byoo, and Kane8066 have been added to the game!
* New Neon City dungeons from Khastiel and Lamafao.
* New Undead Hills dungeon from Screamheart.
* New Treasure Isles dungeon from FriedSushi.
* New Candoria lairs from Habosbabafos, Thresio, Markec1983.
RN: New Undead Hills lairs from Tribe and WINRAR-exe.
RN: New Highlands lair from Condorspark.

Picking the Class that best suits your playstyle is a piece of cake! Or maybe it’s easy as pie. Either way, it’s definitely dessert related – especially if you’re a Candy Barbarian (we’ll get to that later).

In Trove, there are two main combat styles:

Melee Classes
This is the playstyle for those who want to get up close and personal when vanquishing foes. These Classes use weapons like swords, axes, and maces to lay the smack down.

Pick a melee class if you like the idea of being front and center during a fight. Melee attacks, for the most part, are Area of Effect (AoE), which means that your attacks will hit all enemies in your path. As you level up your character, you’ll be able to gather a group of enemies and hack and slash your way to victory!

• Candy Barbarian – This cantankerous, carbo-loading crusher pummels enemies into submission. Love the idea of Vanilla Swirlwinding your way into the fray and crushing foes with the sweet wrath of Eis-Crom? The Candy Barbarian might be the hard-charging brawler for you.

• Knight – None can escape this stalwart Trovian’s sword of justice! The Knight can bludgeon enemies with a variety of melee weapons, run over the bad guys with the powerful Charge, or use their Iron Will to heal damage and protect against attacks. This is a great class to play for fighters who like to have extra survivability when the going gets tough.

• Neon Ninja – Style and subterfuge are the name of the game for this flashy assassin. Shadow Flip grants you a speed boost and stealth to hide yourself from enemies. Stasis Blade attacks allow you to rush through enemies and root them in place, while the Final Technique gives your weapon a huge damage boost.

• Dracolyte – Fueled by powerful draconic magic and joined by a loyal dragon whelp, the Dracolyte is one feisty flame thrower. If you need more convincing, level up this class and you’ll eventually unlock the ability to transform yourself into a powerful dragon!

• Boomeranger – The Boomeranger can be a melee or ranged fighter: Equip a sword and stand toe to toe with your enemies while peppering them with bombs and boomerangs to the face! It’s great for players who like to be able to choose either play style.

Ranged Classes
Lovers of bows, pistols, magic attacks, bombs, or cannons will want to pick from one of our many ranged classes.

This playstyle is great if you want to focus your fire on a single enemy, blasting away its health before its weapons have been unsheathed!

• Pirate Captain – What’s a pirate’s favorite letter? It’s B, for all the bonds of friendship forged over the years. Also, for blowing stuff up. Probably mostly the second one. The Pirate Captain fights with his trusty Parrot by his side. You can even toss down a cannon and your parrot pal will pummel landlubbers while you blast away with your shotgun. #noscope

• Shadow Hunter – This hawkeyed dead shot aims to hit the bullseye with green arrows. Fire devastating projectiles through all who dare oppose you (including those pesky walls) and snare baddies with luminous traps. This is a great class for those who want to lock down enemies and shoot on the move.

• Ice Sage – Chill your enemies to the bone with a wintry array of frost magic. With powerful attacks and a Frost Ward to ward off incoming blows, this is a great class for players who want to mix offense and defense. What killed the dinosaurs? The Ice Sage!*

• Fae Trickster – Become the master prankster of the Trove universe. Destroy your enemies with distraction and deceit. Beguile foes with your Faerie Dance, and wreak fanciful carnage with your devastating Glitterbombs!

• Gunslinger – Dual-wield pistols, charge up your attacks to deal heavy damage, and use the powerful Run and Gun attack to burst down packs of foes.

• Boomeranger – The Boomeranger is back on the list! Equip a bow to snipe from afar, stun enemies with your handy boomerang, and blast them to pieces with bomb attacks. The Boomeranger’s a class that’s great at locking down enemies – and then blowing them away!

*These claims are unsubstantiated, and there is no evidence to support any characters in Trove having a direct impact on the global population of dinosaurs.

If you want to see these classes in action, click here and check out some of our videos!

Pirate is a reference from an old pizza commercial.
Knight was somewhat inspired by a City of heroes dance /boombox.
Barb does not have a specific reference, but "awkward man on dance floor" was the idea
Ice sage ,Fae , and shadow hunter do not have specific references... However I'd be curious so see what reference people think they look like. (Carmelldansen: no, just no.)

*the adventuretime dance will be updated soon-a tad smoother*