Shadow Hunter

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.

Hey all, there's a few pinata topics that have come up recently and I wanted to talk about them here so there's an 'official word'.

Pinatas in Club Worlds:
* These are 100% at your own risk. We encourage you to destroy all pinatas immediately and we do not guarantee the safety of any pinatas.
* In fact, in the future, it might be easier to get to pinatas. We're adding a way to jump to your friends within worlds, plus we're always adding crazy mechanics like the Shadow Hunter attacks. On top of this sometimes there are bugs that let people move places we don't expect. Pinatas are vulnerable and full of loot, expect their demise.

Pinatas for Cubits:
* At this point there are people who create a bunch of alt accounts just to get a bunch of personal pinatas via cubits. This is against the spirit of pinatas.
* In the future all pinatas will be credit only! We'll leave the current winter ones where they are, but spring is coming and the future pinatas will be only available for credits. We feel like the loot tables are generous to all players, and we have some plans to even bolster up the number of parties people throw (megaphones anyone?)
* We feel like this will keep the value there for the people who purchase them and we're looking at more things to add to the store for cubits in the future, specifically flask related and related character customization features.

* Deconstructing should no longer cause crashes
* The ultimate Shadow Hunter arrow sounds more ultimate
* Shadow Hunter can no longer hunt other players with the Sun Snare ability
* Flask of Zeal now always restores energy even when jumping
* Fixed updraft bug where you could fly up forever
* Fix for getting way too many trophies
* Recipe lairs are now +33% more common

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.

In the beginning, the world was ruled by Elysians, and Trovians lived in peace and harmony. But jealousies arise, even between gods.

Shining radiantly in her kingdom in the sky, the Sun Goddess led the Elysians and Trovians with wisdom and compassion. Over time, the Moon Goddess grew jealous of this harmony and schemed to steal their devotion for herself. Working in the dark, she forged a secret pact with the shadowy Q’bthulhu allowing the forces of evil to enter the Inner Realms.

Evil rarely holds to its bargains, and Q’bthulhu and his minions were no exception. Battle was waged from dawn until dusk, and as the sun set on the day of the invasion, the Sun Goddess knew the realms would not last the night.

Left with a single choice, the Sun Goddess sacrificed herself in a radiant explosion that shattered her domain and repulsed the forces of shadow. With her last breath, she imbued the Trovians with her power, appointing them protectors of the realms to continue the fight.

Radiant Ruins

A collection of majestic sky islands are all that remain of the sundered realm of the Sun Goddess. Each is covered with ancient, trap-filled ruins suspended over the crashing seas below. And each holds important treasure: runic knowledge of the Elysians filled with immense and mysterious power.

Bold adventurers can reach the islands of the Radiant Ruins through a special new portal and take to the air to explore the hidden secrets of their once-hallowed halls!

Runecrafting

The pursuit of Elysian power is known as Runecrafting, the latest profession to come to Trove. Utilizing the magical recipe paper and mysterious crystals unearthed in the Radiant Ruins, Runecrafters can craft new artifact Tomes. These arcane books unlock powerful boons to adventuring (like gaining extra resources as you gain experience), as well as the ability to craft special and patterned blocks (plus styles no longer available!).

The best part? Radiant Ruins and Runecrafting (along with Wings and the Shadow Hunter Class) will be available when the Take Flight Update launches next week – on Feb. 10, 2015!

The all-seeing Shadow Hunter Class is coming soon to Trove!

The Shadow Hunter is a fearsome sniper armed with a deadly bow, razor-sharp arrows, and a whispering crystal that can see through walls. Preview its abilities below and look for the class to emerge from the shadows in the upcoming Take Flight update!

• Dark Whispers (Passive): A special crystal lets the Shadow Hunter track a target through any obstacle while peppering them with empowered shots.
• Radiant Arrow: Fire a scintillating shot that pierces through walls – and other enemies!
• Sun Snare: Set a trap that dazzles your foes with a luminous flare, knocking them senseless for a short time.
• Arrow of the Goddess (Ultimate): Mark ALL nearby enemies with Dark Whispers and let fly with a Radiant Arrow touched by the Goddess herself.

Don’t get left in the dark, the Shadow Hunter is coming soon!

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*