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Fae Trickster Updates

• Correction: Ego Blast's critical damage multiplier is unchanged from Live. This was erroneously reported as changed in the previous patch notes.

Additional Updates

• Lunar Lancer's subclass ability can no longer be used to turn in to a giant. Sorry for all the Godzilla rp out there!
• The Book of Bound Brilliance is now available to craft at the Adventurer’s Crafting Bench! This Legendary Tome will grant 5 Bound Brilliance once a week.
• Bound brilliance has been removed from the Leaderboard Reward Chest loot tables.
• Fixed a rounding error in power rank for gems.
• Empowered gems with the same ability can no longer be equipped at the same time; note that this won’t fix any currently equipped duplicates.
• Diamond Dragon Eggs can now be loot collected in to 250 diamond dragonite.
• Elemental worlds now drop Shadow Key Fragments, Moon Key Fragments, and Eclipse Key Fragments. These all have a chance to drop from clearing 1-star and 3-star dungeons, similar to how gem boxes currently drop in Prime Worlds. Patron status gives two such chances (which may result on any given chest as 0, or 1, or 2 of the drops that a Prime World chest of the same Uber level would drop.)
• Prime Worlds now drop more Shadow Key Fragments, Moon Key Fragments, and Eclipse Key Fragments. 1-star Dungeons will see their drops increased by approximately 50%, while 3-star dungeons will see their drops increased by variable amounts. Patron status doubles such drops.
• The Shadow Tower Lobby portals now only open to the specific difficulty for their platform.
• Prophetic Dance Pad now credits both Mew2ian & Spree as creators.
• Fixed leaderboard scrolling in the Shadow Tower leaderboards.
• The Shadow Ranger costume box now unlocks the appropriate costume.
• The Maelstrom Monitor (purchased from the Shadowy Market for Titan’s Souls) is now tradable.
• Fixed a hole in the Spikewalker Sail.
• Pressing ‘E’ to enter the selected world now works in the Trovian Atlas.
• Nodes in the Trovian Atlas now highlight on hover.
• Fixed an issue causing Tomb Raiser's subclass to give much less Critical Hit Chance than intended.
• The character sheet icon will now update when the equipped subclass is changed.
• Returned the Reveling Reindeer’s missing feet.
• Fulguras is no longer a tripod.
• The Workbench once again appears on the Builder's Crafting Bench.

PTS only

• A special login event just for PTS has begun! Each daily login for the next three days will grant:
  • 1 Gem Forge
  • 500 Bound Brilliance
  • 500 Binding Darkness
  • 15 Level 25 XP coins
  • 15 Level 20 XP coins
  • 1,000,000 Flux
  • 9999 Eyes of Q’bthulhu
  • 500 Hearts of Darkness
  • 500 Diamond Dragonite
  • 100 Titan Souls
  • 100 Lunar Souls
  • 25 Stellar Empowered Gem Boxes
  • 100 each of yellow/red/blue Shadow Gem Boxes
  • 1,000,000 each of yellow/red/blue gem dust
  • 500 Ninth Lives
  • 5 Builder's Rough Focus
  • 5 Builder's Precise Focus
  • 5 Builder's Superior Focus
  • 5 Contained Chaos Spark
  • 50 Class Gem Keys
  • 250 Shaper’s Stars

Producer's Note

This week is the start of a round of changes designed to make the early and mid-game of Trove a smoother experience. We've spent some time recently tracking and watching new player data, and that combined with community feedback is driving a series of changes that you will see roll out over the coming weeks. Also this week look for the Beta version of our French and German translations which you can choose to opt-in to and try out in the settings menu.

Class Trials

• You now have the option to try out a class before you purchase it!
• Trial Classes can be played up to level 4 before you stop earning experience.
• Trial Classes do not get stat bonuses from Mastery Rank, nor from any unlocked Dragons.

Weekly

• New Chaos Chest! Get an all-new Pop Dance Pad if you're lucky!
• Spring Piñatas are almost gone! Get them now for 50% off before summer arrives!
• Ships are also 50% off for this week!

Mastery Changes

• Reduced mastery points required for all ranks up to 5 to 25 points, 6-10 to 50 points, and 11-20 to 75 points.
• Players who have already bypassed these levels will see a bump in their Mastery Rank.

BETA for FR/DE Translations
A very BETA version of our initial translations for FR/DE is now accessible from within the game.
If you'd like to help us track down issues please check out this thread.

Misc Changes & Updates

• Quick play Battle Arena now requires mastery rank 5 (down from 10).
• Fixed a bug where some dragons weren't properly giving Power Rank.
• Fixed a bug where Saltwater Sam's shop window would open then immediately close if you were standing slightly too far away.
• Capitalized a bunch of buttons in the UI to make them more consistent.
• Fixed an issue with Scintilla's movement speed boost where nearby players were being granted 100 movement speed, not 105.
• Increased the chance of gem boxes dropping in prime Uber 1 and 2 adventure worlds.
• Club cards now cost 3500 flux to craft. There are many very small clubs that are currently being stored on our servers and this is starting to create some data storage bottlenecks. We will be making other changes (tech and design) going forward and and also took a look at exactly how easy it is to create Clubs and decided we could stand to raise the bar.
• In Adept, Elite, and Master worlds there is now a small chance to get a higher level piece of equipment. You probably won't be high enough level to use it yet, but hang on to it until you can!
• Exposed some additional strings to localization.
• Damaged blocks will no longer draw in front of VFX.

UPDATE added 6/14/2016:

• The Claims box on screen now gives clear indication that there are claims ready to collect.

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.