• A part of the XP that you've acquired since you reached level 200 is transferred to the new system.
• Everyone starts out on equal footing and only the XP gained since the December update will be taken into account in the new system.

What will we do?

• The first will represent your character's total accumulated XP. That's the current gauge, which won't change: the experience you've acquired above and beyond level 200 is accounted for and it continues to progress as you gain experience.
• The second represents your progression in the Prestige* levels. Each Prestige level will unlock a variant of one of your spells (check back later in November for the devblog detailing the spell variant system!).

FAQ:

Will experience bonuses for lower-level characters still apply?

There's a problem with your system: gaining experience will increase the length of the bonus.

How many Prestige levels will be available in December?

What will happen when the maximum Prestige level is reached?

Objectives

• Offer new spells for each class: We would like to create more variety and versatility in the classes so that some of the secondary roles can evolve into primary roles for example. We would also like to create more variety in the pertinent elemental branches for all of the classes.
• Allow characters in the same class to distinguish themselves, to create original “builds” and add a significant degree of choice (the mechanism of a spell “deck” ). At present, the system’s unlimited spell points don’t make it possible to have an element of choice concerning spells, since all of the characters in the same class have access to the full range of their spells during combat. With the spell choice system, we increase the overall versatility of the classes, while obliging players to select spells between battles (not all of the spells can be used in the same battle).
• Giving players additional tools to help them adapt to the game’s difficulty. We want to make a wider variety of class builds possible and allow players to partially modify the capacities of a class to meet their requirements (specific Boss, quest battle, etc.). For example, we want certain classes to be able to increase their protection abilities to the detriment of damage inflicted, if their group lacks sufficient protection.
• Make the game more accessible to new players while also making it richer for experienced players. The variants will ultimately allow us to make the first spells unlocked by a given character simpler while simultaneously allowing us to offer spells with more tactical depth beyond level 200.

How it Works

Removal of Spell Levels

Flexibility

Common Spells

Tournaments and Competitive PvP

Q & A

Will it be possible to save several variant choices (as we do for custom sets)?

How can a player prepare a tactical PvP response if we don’t know which variants our opponent will use beforehand?

Isn’t there a risk that the classes lose their identity with the addition of these new variants and become too flexible?

Will spells have more than one variant?

Punishments

• Voyager’s Punishment: A punishment that improves the positioning role. It makes it easier to cast spells from a distance but also decreases the caster’s vitality.

• Scathing Punishment: A punishment that improves the damage inflicting role. It increases the Sacrier’s potential for damage, but also makes them less resistant.

• Survivor’s Punishment: A punishment that improves the tank role. It increases the Sacrier’s vitality and allows them to add a life steal effect on some spells. In return, they inflict less damage.

Scathing Punishment

Voyager’s Punishment

Elemental Spells

Air Element

• Assault: The spell has been revamped and now lets you switch places with a target in close range, while also causing Air damage.
• Light Body: Inflicts damage at close range and gives 1 MP to the caster each time.
• Light Speed: Teleports caster in a line and causes Air damage in the cells crossed. If the Sacrier’s health is low, they will earn a Dodge bonus.

Fire Element

• Blood Bath: The caster inflicts Fire damage on themselves while also dealing it to an enemy. Allies in contact with the target are healed. If the Sacrier is near death, then their healing potential is increased.
• Motivational Pain: Inflicts Fire damage on the caster and to any enemies in the spell's area of effect. Gives the caster a damage bonus for one turn.
• Blood Loss Ritual: The caster inflicts Fire damage on themselves while also dealing it to an enemy. Reduces the target’s mobility.

Water Element

• Absorption: Steals life based on Water element.
• Projection: Takes the Sacrier closer to the target and deals Water damage to the target.
• Safe Position: Deals Water damage and reduces enemy mobility. If the Sacrier is near death, then they become more resistant

Utility Spells

• The effects of Evasion, Punishment and Life Transfer stay the same: the first allows the Sacrier to dodge a close-combat attack, while the second deals damage based on the Sacrier's health. Lastly, the third one transfers some of the caster’s health to nearby allies.
• Flying Sword has been changed to adapt to the Sacrier’s active punishment; its characteristics are going to be altered based on the active punishment.
• Attraction still attracts a target, obviously. But it also transfers some of the Sacrier’s health to the target in the form of healing if it is an ally, and in the form of damage if it is an enemy.
• Transposition now functions on allies as well as enemies and has the same special effect as Attraction, based on whether the target is an ally or an enemy.
• Bodyguard replaces the Sacrifice spell. It allows the Sacrier to receive damage instead of an ally, but the damage suffered during its effect is magnified.
• Invigorating Sacrifice allows the caster to sacrifice some of their ability to cause damage in order to regenerate health.
• Self Sacrifice: The caster loses health points in order to cause damage in an area around them.

Characteristics Update

• 1 for 1 from 1 to 100
• 2 for 1 from 101 to 200
• 3 for 1 from 201 to 300
• 4 for 1 from 301 upwards

“Pay no attention to the mess, come in, come in!”

You see! Suddenly, no-one's complaining anymore!

After the first zone, which was clearly inspired by cowboy movies and the Wild West, the new chapter is filled with pyramids and fantasy worlds full of treasure.

 

 

VS.

"Roger, fill her up and check the oil while you’re at it. If you don’t mind.”  

If you manage to reach the northern part of the zone without any unfortunate encounters, and don’t wind up becoming worm meat, you will find what appears to be the ruins of a great city. Hieroglyphics engraved on remnants of the walls will confirm: the art team loves hard rock, moustaches and... OMG, COVER YOUR EYES, KIDS!

So, stuck between a worm-filled desert and our artists’ imaginations, we’re not out of the sandbox yet...

And when anyone mentions pyramids, we all think of hieroglyphics. Among the broken jars and scattered gold coins (since artists aren’t just emotional messes!), some of the symbols might look familiar... But if you think we’re going to tell you everything right now: Well, you can forget it! 

The head architect for this part of the zone is no other than... Milou! 

Like any pyramid worthy of its title (those of Ohwymi are no exception!): Ancient Egyptian folklore can be seen everywhere, right down to the tiniest detail: booby traps, treasure, mummies that look like Mumm-Ra from the Thundercats, and jackals and unfriendly scarab beetles. Everything in this little world is deadly (it’s a bit like Australia)!
 

So now you know (almost) everything about the artwork behind the scenes of the second Ohwymi zone. Join us in-game this December to discover these hidden treasures with your own eyes!
 

Ochre Dofus

Crimson Dofus

Emerald Dofus

Vulbis Dofus

Abyssal Dofus

Cawwot Dofus

Watchers Dofus

Ice Dofus

Other Dofus

• Turquoise Dofus: there is no equivalent trophy and we feel that guarantees it a place and sufficient interest.
• Dolmanax: it remains very powerful, considering its prerequisites and additional bonuses given by its characteristics, and has no equivalent among the trophies.
• Dokoko: there's no equivalent trophy, and its healing capacity is unique enough to guarantee it sufficient utility.
• Kaliptus and Grofus: these two Dofus have a unique Prospecting bonus that isn't present among the trophies, and they're stackable.
• Cloudy: there's no equivalent trophy, and it is still sufficiently powerful.
• Dofawa: one day, this Dofus will be changed, and it will change your character's words so that every "Dofus" becomes "Trophus".

Q & A

Are you planning to create distinct slots for the Dofus and the trophies?

Do you plan to create a set bonus with the Primordial Dofus?

When will you add new Dofus?

Rage and Bestial Form

A Good Hunter

The Elements

• Fire: This path has useful spells for pursuing Prey. For example, by stealing MP or moving closer to it.
• Earth: The Earth Ouginaks are more resistant, they have a health stealing spell and can reduce damage received.
• Air: The Air element is the best element for inflicting pure, all out damage; they have a more flexible range, and can decrease and increase damage.
• Water: This elemental path is less powerful than the others in terms of damage values. However, the long range of the Water path gives them the flexibility to finish off an enemy in retreat, or to inflict damage before coming into close contact.

The Ouginak class will be available for testing on the beta server soon. Let us know what you think!

Expected to begin on April 18^th, the server fusion will result in a few game modifications. Here are the details.

The Server Fusion will take place in several waves. We'll start on April 18^th with the fusion of the following servers (which will be grouped together to form a single server):

• Rushu (int)
• Rosal (int)
• Solar (int)
• Aermine (int)
• Zatoishwan (int)
• Shika (int)
• Dark Vlad (nl)
• Ereziah (it)
• Nehra (de)
• Padgref (ru)

On the new international server, a new general communication channel will be added for some languages (IT, DE, NL, RU) to allow players from these communities to communicate more easily.

Our communication will, therefore, initially be focused on our international players. We will guide them through this first stage and only then, once we know everything's working as it should, will it be the French servers' turn.

We'll need to wait a minimum of one week between each wave of fusion to make sure the process has worked correctly, without any major incidents. Of course, we're talking about the minimum deadline, but it may be extended if we encounter any problems. In any case, we'll keep you informed of our progress.

Character Names, Guilds and Alliances

After the fusion, it may be that several characters, guilds or alliances have the same name. If that happens, the following rules will be applied.

Character Names

• The character who is level 50, who has logged in within the last 12 months and who has held a subscription will be given priority in keeping their name.
  • If two players have priority for the same name, then it goes to the character with the oldest creation date.
  • If two characters the same name but neither of them has priority, then it goes to the character with the oldest creation date.
• We'll add the original server tag to the end of the other characters' names. These characters will be given the chance to change their name free of charge via a potion provided (linked to the character for life). They won't have to change their name when logging in, they can change it whenever they like.

For example, for a renamed character that was originally named Simsoft from the Jiva server will look like this: Simsoft-[Jiv].
 

Guild Names

• The guild with the oldest creation date gets to keep the name.
• The other guilds will be given a tag at the end of their name, indicating their original server. They will be able to change their names free of charge using a potion given to the leaders (linked to the character for life).

For example, for a guild named Roxor from the Pouchecot server: Roxor-[Pou].
 

Alliance Names

• The alliance with the oldest creation date gets to keep the name.
• The other alliances will be given a tag at the end of their name, indicating their original server. They will be able to change their names free of charge using a potion given to the leaders (linked to the character for life).

For example, for an alliance named DevRoxxor from the Bowisse server: DevRoxxor-[Bow].
 

Alliance Tags

• The alliance with the oldest creation date gets to keep its tag.
• The other alliances will have a number added to the end of their tag. They will be able to change their tag free of charge using a potion given to the leaders (linked to the character for life).

For example, for an alliance with the tag SAV: SAV2.

We don't talk about active or inactive guilds or alliances. Once they're inactive, they're automatically deleted. So, it's not possible to have an inactive guild or alliance.

Don't forget that as long as one member is active, their guild and alliance is also considered active. As it stands, guilds and alliances with no active members are automatically deleted.

The creation date of guilds and alliances will therefore be the only criteria taken into account to determine which one will have priority over any other guilds or alliances sharing the same name.

What will happen to perceptors?

Perceptors will be removed from all maps during the fusion. However, their inventory will be transferred to their owner's bank.

What will happen to alliance prisms?

Alliance prisms will be removed. Unfortunately, we can't return nuggets, but the modules present on them will be transferred to the alliance leader's bank.

We would therefore advise you to anticipate this and collect the nuggets before the server fusion.

Will the naming of characters be relaxed?

Yes, we plan to make the naming of characters more relaxed. It will be possible, for example, to use class names, two dashes and apostrophes.

Are you going to free up the names of characters that haven't played in a long time?

Yes, we're planning on freeing up the nicknames of accounts who have never held a subscription and who haven't been logged in for over two years.
 

Houses and Paddocks

We have developed a system of "instances". In other words, several versions of houses and paddocks will be able to exist on the same server. Of course, each owner will only be able to access their own paddock or house and won't be able to use the other instances.

When you hover over the entrance to the house or paddock with your mouse, a tooltip will display the names of all the owners.

Will it be possible own several houses on the same server?

Currently, you can only have one house per account per server.

This limit will still be in place when buying a house, but an exception will be made if an account already owns several houses over separate servers that are going to be fused together. In this case, the owner will still own all their houses after the fusion.

It will therefore also be possible to own several instances of the same house after the fusion.

Will it be possible to own the same house several times?

Yes. If a player owns the same house on servers that will be fused together, they will be the owner of several instances of this house.

In this particular case, in addition to the owner's name, the original server will also be displayed. This will be especially useful in choosing which instance to access.

How will mounts in paddocks with several instances be displayed?

If several guilds own the same paddock, several instances of this paddock will exist:

• The members of the guilds that own the paddock will see the mounts from their own guild;
• Characters who are not members of these guilds will see the mounts from one of the guilds.

Are you going to keep the abandoned house and paddocks system?

Yes, but abandoned instances cannot be put up for sale. Instances that become abandoned will automatically disappear and, eventually (as more and more are abandoned), there will only be one instance of each house or paddock left.

If there is only one instance of a house or a paddock, it will be possible for it to become abandoned and it will automatically be put up for sale.

When an instance is deleted, its basic purchase price is reimbursed (not the real purchase price).

Will it be possible to sell a paddock or house, even if there are several instances of it?

It will be possible to sell your instance of a paddock or house, even if there are several instances of said paddock or house.

Will mount certificates be transferred over?

Certificates (whether invalid or not) won't be deleted during the fusion and will therefore be transferred.

Will abandoned paddocks and houses be transferred over?

Abandoned paddocks and houses will not be transferred over during the server fusion. They are no longer in use and we would like to reduce the number of instances of houses and paddocks over time.

How will home potions work if a player has several houses?

If a player only has one house, it won't work any differently than with the current system. However, in the case of players who have several houses, an interface will be displayed allowing them to choose their teleportation destination.

Banks, Items and Trade

If an account has several banks over different servers that are going to be fused together, the contents of these banks will be combined in the new bank.

Items in Marketplaces at the time of the fusion will be placed in the bank and the sale fee will be refunded.

Characters in Merchant Mode at the time of the fusion will be removed and the associated fees will be refunded.

The contents of public inventories (trash, for example) will be deleted at the time of fusion.

Will artisans' signatures be transferred over?

Artisans' signatures on items will be correctly kept (and automatically updated in the case of changes to the character name) following the fusion of the game servers.

What will happen to the average prices?

Information about average prices will be pooled (between servers that will be fused together) to generate new average prices.

What will happen to the rune shattering rate?

Information about shattering will be pooled (between servers that will be fused together) to generate new rates.

Haven Bags

The chest contents of the different Haven Bags (used on the servers to be fused) will be grouped together in the new Haven Bag chest.

The chest's item limit may, therefore, be temporarily exceeded. Please note that as long as the chest limit is exceeded, you won't be able to add anything else to it.

If you have Haven Bag rooms on different servers, they will be grouped together, but it won't be possible to exceed the maximum number of Haven Bag rooms. Therefore, certain rooms may disappear. In this case, the following rule will be applied: the rooms kept will be the ones containing the most scenery elements.

For example:

• Haven Bag Room A: 10 chairs and 1 table
• Haven Bag Room B: 15 carpets

If your account's maximum number of rooms is 1, only Haven Bag Room B will be kept.

The number of rooms kept takes into account the purchase of additional rooms.

We have decided to give priority to the rooms containing the most elements because this lets the players choose for themselves which rooms they most want to hold on to (by "emptying" rooms they don't wish to keep).
 

Server Distribution

The aim of the Server Fusion is to bring together enough players on each server to guarantee an optimal game experience (like on Agride, for example).

The criteria used for the choice of server distribution are the communities and the number of players connected at peak hours.

Will Agride be fusioned?

No, Agride will not be fusioned with other servers. Historically, this is our host server for new players, so its population has been permanently renewed over the last few years. At the moment, players on Agride benefit from an optimal game experience and we would like to keep it that way.

Additionally, we would like for it to continue working the way it is now (no incoming migration, outgoing migration permitted and preferred server for the creation of new characters).

Are you taking into account the RP and PvP communities?

When determining how servers will be grouped, our main criteria is the number of simultaneous players at peak time.

"PvP and RP group presence" type criteria are not taken into account, because they're difficult to quantify. Furthermore, should we make sure that each new server has at least one PvP and RP community? Or, on the other hand, should we try to group these communities together?

We think that the server fusion is a new adventure. Communities are going to evolve naturally, according to the players' wishes, regardless of any choices we make.

Are economic differences taken into account?

We aren't taking into account economic differences between game servers. They are far too complex to estimate (each item may have its own price) and, generally speaking, the economies all work the same way from one server to another. There are some differences, but these will all be smoothed out quickly with the fusion anyway.

Will the migration move small servers onto existing servers?

There won't be any "host" servers. The fusions will combine multiple servers into "new" servers. We want all our players to start off again on an equal footing in this adventure.

We're taking advantage of these changes to modify the physical architecture of our servers and use more efficient architecture.
 

Services

Will it still be possible to change server after the fusion?

The character migration service will be available after the fusion for communities with several servers, in other words, Spanish and French.

Are you planning on suspending any services during the fusion?

To avoid various problems when announcing the server distribution, we will temporarily deactivate the following services:

• Migration of a character to another server
• Transferring a character to another account
• Changes to character names
• Changes to guild names
• Changes to alliance names

Miscellaneous

Are you going to adapt the number of harvestable resources?

The ecosystem for harvestable resources was planned to work on servers with a large population and we don't expect it to require any changes. As the value of resources depends in part on their rarity, it's to be expected that some resources are more difficult to obtain.

The trade value of harvestable resources is often seen as being insufficient. We think that with a bit more competition, this value could increase.

We will, however, be keeping an eye on any problems you may encounter and will adjust the respawn speed of the resources if necessary.

Isn't there a risk of there being too many characters in some maps?

We don't expect this to be the case because the game was designed to work with a large number of players. However, if we notice that some activities (quests, professions, harvests, etc.) become unworkable on certain "overpopulated" maps, we will make some changes to better redistribute these activities throughout the game.

Will it be possible for a French player to play on an international server?

This rule isn't going to change. The international server is for those players who don't have their own specific server.

Will the server fusion have a direct impact on the Epic and Heroic servers?

The fusion doesn't concern these two servers, so they won't be affected by these changes.

Will we keep our friends list?

The friends list will be kept after the server fusion.

Where will the characters reappear after the fusion?

There won't be any changes to the way it currently works. When a character logs back in, they will be in the same place as where they last logged out.

What will happen to the age bonuses of monsters and resources?

Bonuses (shown via stars above the monsters and resources) will be reset after the fusion.

What will happen to the community challenges?

All community challenges will be cancelled and any fees paid will be refunded.

With update 2.41, we wanted to add a one-on-one mode (1v1) for the Interserver Kolossium (ISK). Here are the details.

Up until now, we've been reluctant about promoting 1v1 PvP, primarily for the following reasons:

• The difficulty in finding a satisfactory way of balancing this game mode.
• The risk of dividing players between too large a number of PvP modes and reducing the number of visits to the Kolossium (increased waiting times).

We now have some potential answers to these problems and that's why we wanted to introduce a 1v1 Kolossium mode.

We know that 1v1 PvP is a very important and passionate aspect of the game to some players. It offers quick-fire confrontations that bring out a single winner. This is also, theoretically, a more accessible activity because it doesn't require knowledge of the synergies between classes.

How It Works

The 1v1 Kolossium will work on the same basis as the other Kolossium modes. The player will be able to register for 1v1 mode and the matchmaking system will search for a suitable opponent and suggest that both players engage in combat.
If they agree, they will then be teleported directly onto the fight map.

1v1 mode will have a specific ranking (like the two 3v3 solo and 3v3 team modes, which each have their own ranking) because characters vary greatly in efficiency in these game modes.

Balancing

Class balancing in 1v1 has always been problematic because of themarkedly different roles, abilities, and game mechanics between classes. It is our opinion that 1v1 PvP is currently the least balanced PvP experience.
The abilities and game mechanics are so different that classes suffer a big "Nemesis”-type mechanic (class A may find it almost impossible to defeat class B, who has very powerful abilities to counter class A).

To get around this issue, we're going to dynamically register the results of each class against the other game classes (by level groupings and in 1v1 only) so we can calculate class A's average chances of beating class B.
This information will then be used by the matchmaking system to offer more balanced fights.

For example, if characters from the Sadida class have a better chance of beating characters from the Iop class in 1v1, the matchmaking system will take this statistic into account and will look for a “less effective" Sadida character to go head to head against a “more effective" Iop character to compensate for this imbalance between the two classes and offer a fight in which, theoretically, both characters should have a 50% chance of winning.

Waiting Time

Since the introduction of the ISK, the number of people visiting the Kolossium has increased considerably and we think we will be able to introduce this 1v1 PvP mode without significantly reducing the number of people in 3v3 mode.

It's difficult to predict how players who currently use 3v3 mode will to react to the arrival of 1v1 mode, but we know that some of our 1v1 mode fans don't play in the current 3v3 Kolossium mode. Their arrival will, therefore, increase the global Kolossium audience rather than reduce the number of players in 3v3 mode.

We also plan to look into the feasibility of simultaneous registration for several game modes (1v1 and 3v3 solo) to allow players to "populate" several Kolossium waiting lines at the same time (as soon as a fight becomes available in either game mode, it will be offered to the player).
This sort of feature isn't planned for the release of 1v1 mode; it's just a possibility we're looking into.

Rewards

1v1 mode will offer the same type of reward as the classic Kolossium (experience, Kolossokens, and kamas). We would like players to be able to progress through the game and generate enough wealth to craft or buy equipment.

However, the end-of-fight rewards won't be as good as those for 3v3 mode, because 1v1 fights generally don't last as long and because we want to encourage players to play in a team.
Currently, we're planning to divide the rewards from 3v3 mode by two to get the 1v1 mode rewards, but we might increase these rewards depending on the average duration of the fights and the waiting time imposed.

Maps

Initially, 1v1 mode will use a specific Kolossium map, but over time, we plan to create a dedicated group of maps.

Q & A

When will 1v1 Kolossium be available?

The 1v1 ISK should be available in beta form at the same time as the 2.41 beta version.

However, this system is still at an experimental stage, and we can't guarantee that the 1v1 ISK will be available in the 2.41 final version.
If results are satisfactory during the beta phase of version 2.41, we will integrate it into the 2.41 final version.

Will a 1v1 ranking (leaderboard) be available on the official website?

In the long run, we plan on adding a 1v1 ranking on the official website (as for the 3v3 modes), but we can't yet guarantee that it will be available in time for the 2.41 final version release.

Are you planning to do any specific class balancing for 1v1?

We think that the class victory ratio system is a better-suited solution to the 1v1 balancing concerns than implementing specific balancing.

Is the ISK 1v1 going to replace the alignment attack system?

We're not planning to prevent attacks on characters of other alignments, but we do eventually want to remove the honor points system, which is too full of errors to work correctly (it's too easy to circumnavigate and exploit).

We think that a 1v1 Kolossium system will provide a much better 1v1 PvP experience, with a very large number of fights available, material rewards and experience to progress, much more balanced fights, and a much greater number of different opponents (thanks to the ISK).

For us, it's also the opportunity to better pool our efforts for arena PvP.

Will the class victory ratio system also be applied to 3v3 mode?

Initially, this system will only be used and tested on the 1v1 Kolossium.
If this system works well, we will look into the possibility of also allowing the 3v3 modes to benefit from it, but in a different way. We may consider using the victory rate of class pairs compared to other class pairs, so we can estimate the strength of the different class synergies.
This is a very ambitious project from a technical point of view and it is not currently planned. But we are aware that it's a solution that is likely to improve the quality of Kolossium fights.

• Shields are only useful for a minority of characters (they're of no use in PvE or in the Kolossium, for example).
• The conditions to equip them are based on an obsolete honor points system that is too often circumnavigated and leaves too much room for cheating and pre-arranged fights.
• Shields are considered large cosmetic customization elements, but they can't be used with two-handed weapons.

Intentions

• Usefulness for all characters: shields will give bonuses that will be useful in all types of combat (PvP and PvE).
• Significant impact on playing style: shields will have new effects that might have a big impact on the way a character is played.
• Choice mechanic: shields that will benefit from large bonuses will also have penalties to encourage players to make decisive choices when selecting a shield.
• Optimal accessibility: only a level criteria applies to use a shield and all characters can use them regardless of the type of weapon they have equipped.
• Destruction of resources: shields must allow you to consume monster, boss and kolossoken resources.
• Interactions with smithmagic: it must be possible to modify shields through smithmagic and generate runes.

   

New effects and decisive choices

• Increase damage dealt (in percentages) in melee/from a distance/by weapons/by spells.
• Reduce damage suffered (in percentages) in melee/from a distance/by weapons/by spells.

• Increase damage suffered (in percentages) in melee/from a distance/by weapons/by spells.
• Reduce damage dealt (in percentages) in melee/from a distance/by weapons/by spells.

Hands Free

Crafting

Transition Between Old and New Shields

• Old broken shields: they can no longer be exchanged for other shields when talking to the Bouwada NPC. They can be equipped, but not crafted, and they can still be used with Mimisymbics. They will lose their PvP resistances. Examples: Swallowed Akwadala Shield, Horned Kloome.
• Shields made in game: they will be renamed and you will still be able to equip them, but not craft them. They can be used with Mimisymbics. They will lose their PvP resistances. Examples: Asse Shield, Mount Stinkky Shield.
• Cosmetic shields (shop): these shields will lose their PvP resistance effects (if they have any), but you'll still be able to equip them and use them as cosmetic items. Examples: Solaris Shield, Chisp Shield.
• Cosmetic shields (events): there are no changes to these shields. They don't currently have any effects and are purely cosmetic. Examples: Kimbo Shield, Dramak Shield.
• Tournament shields: these shields will lose their PvP resistance and will once again become purely cosmetic shields. Example: 646 Champion Shield.

Rune Destruction, Smithmagic and Generation

Q & A

Are you planning any alternative rewards for alignment PvP?

Why keep the old versions of the shields, which get in the way when consulting the Marketplaces?

Will the shields make the characters more powerful?

Will the shields' new effects be taken into account when previewing damage?

Are you planning to add new shields after update 2.41?

In order to make your game experience even better, we've been working on a new feature that will make its appearance in update 2.41: Quest Tracking! In this interface, you'll easily be able to track the progress of your ongoing quests and their objectives.

The days of opening the Quest Book hundreds of times to check your progress in the An Eternal Harvest quest are over. Now, you can play in comfort!

How It Works

When you receive a new quest, it will be automatically added to the Quest Tracking interface (you'll be able to deactivate automatic adding and add quests manually via an option in your Quest Log).

The Quest Tracking interface will open once you begin tracking a quest and will close when there are no more quests to track. You'll be able to track 3 or 5 quests, depending on the option selected. If the interface is full when you receive a new quest, it won't be tracked.

You will also be able to track quests directly from the Quest Book using the "Track" button, by clicking on the "pin" icon in the quest list or by clicking on an objective's "landmark" icon!

The names of the stages will no longer appear in Quest Tracking. You'll simply see the quest name and the objectives, which will update automatically. To find out more about the stage, you can consult your Quest Book.

You can use the pin-shaped button to activate or deactivate specific tracking of certain quests.

Each quest added will display the 3 first objectives and will activate the associated landmarks if there are any, so as not to overburden the interface and the landmarks on the map and the minimap.
If, however, you would like to see all of a quest's objectives, you can display them using the "See More" button. A "See Less" button will display just the 3 first objectives again.

As soon as an objective is attained, it will disappear from the list and the next one will appear.

The Quest Tracking interface for the An Eternal Harvest quest, for which the landmark is activated for the first three objectives.

Quest objectives are given a specific color for each tracked quest. This makes quest tracking easier, especially when you're looking at the map or the minimap! The quest name is displayed when you pass the cursor over the area where it's located on the map and the minimap.

You also have the option of minimizing the interface to a simple icon, placed at the edge of the window (movable). You know, just in case you'd like to pause your "Doing Quests" activity in favor of the "Tearing Apart Mobs" activity!

"I'll do some quests later! Over here, Droopik!"

Interactions

By right clicking on a quest you can:

• Stop tracking this quest.
• Display or hide quest landmarks on the map and the minimap.
• Move the quest up in the list.

By left clicking on a landmark you can activate or deactivate the landmark on the map or on the minimap.

By right clicking on an objective you can:

• Remove the objective from quest tracking. If there is only one objective, this will also remove the quest.
• Hide the landmark for this objective.

By left clicking on the green item name or monster name, you can open the bestiary where you will find more specific information about it.

Please note that various information messages (commonly known as "feedbacks" in the studio) are displayed in the chat, in particular to warn you that you've reached the maximum amount of quests trackable in the interface when trying to add a new one.

Options

• Track 3 quests maximum / Track 5 quests maximum
• Automatically track accepted quests
• Automatic resizing of the window: this option is selected by default. If you untick the box, you will be able to change the height of the window to suit you. The width of the window can always be changed, whether this option is ticked or not.
• Hide all landmarks
• Font size: small - medium
• Opacity of the window background: 50% - 70% - 90%

We hope you'll find this new interface especially helpful during your adventures in the World of Twelve. As for me, I wish you all the best in game! Now, I'm going to get back to the mock-up of the interface for...

Q & A

Why don't the landmarks always show the exact location of the objective?

This is mainly due to transitions between external and internal areas, which are problematic for us (especially underground, in the mines, etc.). This is an area where we'd like to make some improvements.

• "High-level" content refers to content at difficulty levels higher than Frigost II: Frigost III, obviously, but also the Divine Dimensions, the Underwater Extension and a few individual dungeons (Tal Kasha and Shadow, for example).
• It's probably pretty clear what we mean by "simplification": we'll be making this content less difficult. See below for details.

• Impose time limits: X dungeons (or X attempts) per day. This solution is totally artificial, and although we have tried to limit the addition of daily content over the years, we don't want to do it in this particular form.
• Impose limits on exchanges: prevent players from exchanging items acquired in the dungeons, so that they have to make their way through every last bit of the content (often several times) if they want all the rewards. Needless to say, we don't much like this solution either: DOFUS relies in large part on its exchange system, and limiting that would do much more harm than good.
• Produce a lot of content: 20 dungeons will probably give players a longer in-game experience than 5 dungeons. But that would also mean investing more resources – and besides, quantity is not the same thing as quality.
• Produce replayable content. This was the preferred solution before Achievements were introduced: adding content with very rare, highly randomized loot, thus ensuring a very long lifespan. We have turned away from this approach (to some players' great disappointment, we know) for two main reasons: 
  1. DOFUS is a tactical game, so it's inherently less interesting when played repeatedly: once you've won a battle, doing it again is much easier. The whole challenge is coming up with a winning strategy. The battle doesn't change from one iteration to the next (or not much, mainly to limit the impact of random factors on the outcome of battles), so it often unfolds in an (almost) identical way every time.
  2. Having to go through the same dungeons again and again heavily penalized single-account players and less frequent players, who didn't necessary have the time to go through these dungeons regularly. On average, players had to complete 15 to 20 dungeons per character in order to build even a single item. Furthermore, at the time, it could sometimes take dozens of hours to finally complete a dungeon (what with having to go through every room again on each attempt, and 8-character battles that took a long time), and certain players didn't get any reward at all if they were unlucky.
• Produce more challenging content: offer relatively difficult dungeons that require a major investment of time and effort to achieve victory, but with a big reward for the first victory.

• We don't want to ignore the increasing number of players who have reached level 200 but find that the content at that level requires far too much time and effort to complete.
• We want to make this content more accessible to a wider variety of class compositions.
• Given that we now have a lot of high-level content, we can more easily reduce the "lifespan" of each dungeon without giving the impression that our "end game" content is over too quickly.

• Removing or replacing certain mechanics: We want to make certain battles more accessible by limiting the number of things players have to keep track of. For example, in the Catseye battle, the system of black glyphs has been replaced by damage if a monster starts its turn in the same cell as a character, while splash damage and healing have been removed (when attacking a monster or character who was on the same tile number as another).
• Reducing certain effects: Similarly, by reducing the strength of certain effects, we ensure that they do not require as much attention, because mistakes are not punished so severely. Against Vortex, for example, resuscitated monsters now have less health and less MP.
• Making monsters easier to understand and predict: We have modified most of the monsters in the affected zones (except for Tal Kasha, Merkator,and Shadow, for which only the bosses have been changed). 
  • Removing certain unnecessary or redundant spells: for example, Skt-Zo can no longer give shield points, and Spookkoth's place-swapping spell no longer exists.
  • Reducing certain monsters' mobility: reduced MP and added recast intervals on certain teleportation spells.
  • More constraints on casting spells that were previously too easy to cast: addition of straight-line casting for certain long-range spells, reduction in certain monsters' range, longer cooldown periods.
• Improved visibility for certain effects: We have recently developed new tools to make combat easier to understand, and we're taking advantage of changes to the dungeons to use those tools retroactively whenever possible on the dungeons that came out before the tools were available. For instance, when battling the Queen of Thieves, the bomb that is going to explode at the end of the current character's turn will now be indicated by an icon.

• Catseye
• Vortex
• Queen of Thieves
• King Nidas
• Koutoulou
• Meno
• Dantinea
• Tal Kasha
• Merkator
• Shadow
• Missiz Freezz
• Klime
• Nileza
• Count Harebourg
• Sylargh

• Classic Magical Orb: the one currently in use. Its price will be cut in half, from 10 euros* to 5 euros* (or from 6000 ogrines to 3000), and it will still be an in-game object.
• Introducing the Unlimited Magical Orb: a new service that lets you redistribute your characteristics as much as you like, across all characters on your account, for a period of 30 days. The price for this new service will be the same as for the current Magical Orb (10 euros* or 6000 ogrines).

Q & A:

When is the Unlimited Magical Orb activated?

What happens if I buy more than one Unlimited Magical Orb?

Are you planning to let users save “builds” for their characteristics?

Will existing Magical Orbs be changed?

Will there be any changes to how characteristics are redistributed through Otomai in-game?

What's this?    

Objectives

• It provides classes with new skills by adding these 21 spells.
• It offers more ways to customize your characters.
• It allows each class to better adapt to different situations, while making class builds more flexible.
• It introduces interesting rewards after you reach level 100.
• It improves the system for choosing spells, which was previously based on spell points and didn't really allow for customization (anyone could eventually have all spells at level 6).
• It makes certain spells more accessible by offering variants that are simpler, and it gives other spells more depth by offering more complex variants.

Reorganization of Existing Spells

• The special spell for each class (acquired at the temple) will now be part of a character's progression, i.e. unlocked like any other spell at a particular level.
• As a result, changes have been made to the levels at which spells are unlocked.
• Spell points have been removed, and class spells now have 3 ranks. It's no longer necessary to invest spell points to improve a spell; each rank has a level requirement and automatically unlocks once a character has reached the required level. A spell can automatically evolve in this way two times.
• Common spells (Leek Pie, Release, etc.) now only have one level, based on their previous level 6, and they have no variant.
• Dopple Summons have been removed. We didn't want these Summons to have too much of an impact on combat as their actions can be hard to anticipate, and so we reduced their power over the years. They have become less relevant and are now even problematic: they draw out fights without being interesting or reliable tools in tactical terms. We contemplated various ways of making them more interesting (e.g. make them controllable, more powerful but also more temporary), but nothing worked out in the end. In any case, they're made redundant by class spells and are simply not interesting enough to outweigh their downsides (issues with clarity in combat and increased play time).
• Changes to existing spells: it was counterproductive to create a variant for spells that were not functioning adequately. Therefore, we took advantage of this project to review certain class spells. You'll find more details about these changes in the changelog for the December update.

Class by Class

Cra

Ecaflip

Eliotrope

Eniripsa

Enutrof

Feca

Huppermage

• Air-type spells have an Earth-type variant, and vice versa.
• Water-type spells have a Fire-type variant, and vice versa.

Iop

Pandawa

• Karcham now allows you to carry as well as throw an entity, but throwing it now requires a line of sight.
• Its variant, Chamrak, has less throwing range but does not require a line of sight.
• Boozer and Bamboo Milk have also been combined: if Boozer is thrown while the Pandawa is Drunk, they become sober again.

Osamodas

• Dragon: Healing
• Gobball: Damage Reduction
• Tofu: MP
• Toad: AP

Ouginak

Rogue

Sacrier

Sadida

Foggernaut

Sram

Xelor

Masqueraider

• The spells Cowardly and Classic Mask have been improved.
• Psychopath spells don't generate as many different effects but are more effective (lower AP cost, higher values, etc.).
• A new spell has been added (replacing Masquerade, which will become the variant of Ardour) that will summon a mask to lock enemies and share damage with its summoner (allows you to more effectively perform the role of Masqueraider Dopple).

• Mask variants produce different bonuses but can always be used to cast the same spells.
• A spell's variant is always used with the same mask.

Class Sets

The Beta

Q & A

What will happen to non-natural spell points?

Is there going to be a system for quickly changing out variants?

Why don't common spells have variants?

Won't this make classes too versatile?

Background

• Sacriers could change Punishments several times per turn, and this allowed them to perform multiple roles easily.
• The system that required Sacriers to have less than half their health points to take advantage of maximum power Punishments was not very intuitive and generated an overly strong threshold effect.

The Revamp

Punishments

Suffering = Power

• The more Suffering that Sacriers accumulate, the less life they have and the more damage they inflict.
• The less Suffering they have, the more life they have and the less damage they suffer.

• Very offensive elemental spells increase Suffering.
• Defensive elemental spells reduce Suffering.

• Positive Suffering (1 to 10): Sacriers gain damage but lose Vitality with each increment of Suffering. 
  • At 6 and above, they change appearance and gain a better damage bonus.
• Negative Suffering (-1 to -10): Sacriers gain Vitality with each increment. 
  • At -6 and below, they change appearance and gain a damage reduction bonus.

• Their roles are no longer determined by Punishments that take the place of other potentially more interesting spells.
• Sacriers' actions are what determine their role over time.
• Sacriers' damages are inversely proportional to their capacity to withstand damage (the less Vitality they have, the more damage they can cause, and inversely).

Spell Organization

• 1 positioning or movement spell
• 1 "offensive" spell that increases Suffering
• 1 "defensive" spell that lowers Suffering

• The spell Transposition no longer needs a specific state to be cast.
• The spell Convalescence no longer needs a specific state to be cast.
• The spell Punishment no longer needs a specific state to be cast, and no longer applies the Gravity state.
• The spell Pain Shared has been replaced by a new spell that increases Suffering by 2 levels. 
  • The spell Pain Shared spell is now used as a variant.
• The spell Evasion now operates in a slightly different manner: It now applies Close Combat Invulnerability and always pushes back one cell in close combat attacks.

Spell Variants

Goals

• Offer infinite progression beyond level 200
• Showcase the experience earned beyond level 200 with cosmetic rewards
• Offer useful bonuses for moving up Omega levels
• Not increase the power of characters beyond level 200

How It Works

Cosmetic Rewards

Useful Rewards

• 5 pods
• 1 market slot
• 1 slot in merchant mode

Conversion of Prior Experience

• The Omega levels provide useful and cosmetic bonuses, but will not make certain characters (with huge amounts of experience) more powerful than the others.
• These levels are unlimited, so there is no risk that certain characters would have already attained the maximum Omega level immediately on the release of Update 2.45.
• We do not envisage competitive challenges surrounding the Omega levels, and therefore we didn't have any particular reason to start all players at Omega level 0.

Q & A

Are you planning a competition or specific rewards for characters that reach the highest Omega levels?

Will There Be Achievements for Attaining Omega Levels?

Do you plan to introduce power bonuses for Omega levels?

Our primary goal: Making exploration exciting

How the new system works

• Detection: Monsters have a field of vision (between 2 and 4 cells; these parameters may continue to change). When a character enters this field of vision, an attack may occur.
• Evaluation: By default, virtually all monsters in the game will be able to attack characters if the difference between the monster's level and the character's level is sufficiently large. If this difference is greater than 50 levels, the monster will attempt to attack the character (e.g. a monster at level 140 will attempt to attack a character at level 80). The number of levels that triggers an attack may change based on the results of our tests and your feedback.
• Attempted attack: If the target evaluation condition is met, and if the character is within the monster's field of vision (i.e. within a few cells of it) for more than 3 seconds, then a battle will start. As soon as a monster detects a potential target that it might choose to attack, a small symbol will appear above it to warn players that it's time to get out of there! The field of vision for attack purposes is determined by the leader of a group of monsters.

Highly aggressive monsters

Monster movement

Future changes

Questions

Can harvests be interrupted?

Why aren't there any consumables or Achievements to make characters immune to monster attacks?

How do monsters decide which characters to attack?

Our initial approach was to clean up Astrub, freshen up the level design so that long-time and new players could discover or rediscover this emblematic spot in the game.

We had many influences when starting out on the overhaul of Astrub. We had also set ourselves the goal of "rationalizing" the city, organizing it so that the flow of players would be distributed evenly throughout all the maps.

This was important for us because it brings the city to life. The city is considerably smaller, but it is much more efficient and getting around is much more practical.

We took care to stay on a flat map and not add elevation so players wouldn't get lost. Indeed, initially, our idea was to include backgrounds in which the city of Astrub was built on several levels.

Pre-production graphic search

However, doing so really hindered movement, and knowing that Astrub welcomes new players, we couldn't allow the level design to be complicated.

Pre-production graphic search

Astrub Historic City Center

We added new elements in Astrub to strengthen the city's mercenary roots, which run deep in the architecture of the city buildings. This dense city center contains the important hot spots: the Militia Tower, the Bank, the Marketplaces, the Zaap, etc.
 

We kept the city's historical background and its walls surrounding the Old Town, which will no longer hinders players' movements.
 

The Divine Temple will welcome newly incarnated souls when they arrive in the World of Twelve from Incarnam. This building contains all the class statues, which allow us to save space and optimize the number of maps.
 

The connection between Incarnam and the physical plane is provided by a hyperzaap that teleports players to the Divine Temple. This connection was lacking coherence before (coming down in a hot air balloon and returning via a statue). We'd been itching to make this change for a while.

The Divine Temple

The Marketplaces were merged and classified in 3 categories – resources, consumables, and equipment – to stay in line with your inventory.
 

We paid particular attention to ensuring that maps with important points of interest (zaaps, for example) would also not be maps that players only cross to get from one place to another (the result of that had been to slow down players "who are just passing by").

The Astrub Suburbs

Crafting workshops

Around the historic city center, the Astrub Suburbs are bustling with life. That's where you'll find the crafting workshops, set out in such a way that complementary professions are near each other.
 

New elements made their appearance: a new public paddock, a library, and a new zone, the mines. The Mines will take on a larger role in the adventure, with a new family of monsters.
 

This overhaul also covers the zones next to Astrub. Thus, the Cemetery of Heroes, Astrub Fields, Astrub Rocky Inlet, Forest, Meadow, and Mine have also been modernized.
 

Directional road sign

It will be easier to find your way: wide roads will be heading to the four cardinal directions of the World of Twelve, and there is even a complete network of main and secondary roads. Road signs will also indicate which direction to go.
 

Gains to character experience have gradually increased over the various updates (via challenges, achievements, idols, secondary character bonuses, faster fights, modular dungeons, stars on monsters, capturing and fighting monsters in arenas, etc.)

Characters are gaining levels more rapidly than a few years ago, but proportionally, we don't think they are replacing their low-level and mid-level equipment fast enough (despite the introduction of many mechanics to increase loot drops over the various updates). This encourages players to keep the same equipment for too long, whereas we'd like them to take advantage of the wide variety of equipment available in all level brackets more easily.

Our Objectives

These are our main objectives:

• Make it easier to acquire and renew low-level and mid-level equipment;
• Allow for better synchronization between low-level and mid-level equipment renewal and character leveling up;
• Reduce the number of fights required to craft equipment;
• Balance the various low-level and mid-level equipment bonuses in order to increase the choice of viable equipment available; and
• Maintain a high level of equipment destruction by generating Smithmagic rune.

Equipment Recipes

Equipment recipes (excluding trophies and shields) up to level 100 have been simplified and harmonized. Our goal is to offer low- and mid-level recipes that are faster to craft.
In parallel, this change will simplify profession progression for low-level and mid-level equipment crafting.

In the longer term, we intend to review some of the level 100+ equipment recipes. We think that recipes for very high-level equipment are generally satisfactory, so it's unlikely they'll be simplified or modified to any significant degree.

Resource Drop Rates

There will be a higher probability of obtaining resources from monsters (mainly low-level and mid-level ones) in order to reduce the number of fights required to craft equipment.
For example, common resources (currently 10% drop rate) will now have a 50% drop rate for level-1 monsters, 30% for level-100 monsters, and 10% for level-200 monsters. This will make it easier to obtain resources at low and intermediate levels when characters cannot easily acquire many loot bonuses.

Progression for Harvesting Professions

Progression for harvesting professions has been improved: The experience gained from harvesting has been doubled in order to speed up access to more harvestable resources.

Bonus balancing

The changes we are making have given us the opportunity to balance the power of items up to level 100. In most cases, we have increased the power of items that are too weak and reduced the randomness between minimum and maximum bonus values. Certain effects have been added or improved, while others have simply been replaced.

These changes are not retroactive: You need to use Smithmagic runes or New Leaf Orbs on modified items crafted before Update 2.46.

Smithmagic Rune Generation

Smithmagic rune generation is currently 10% higher overall than destruction.
In version 2.46, we decided to reduce Smithmagic rune generation by 20% in order to reduce this discrepancy between generation and destruction, and also to compensate for simpler recipes and increased resource drop rates.
It will be easier to produce low-level and mid-level items, so it will be easier to produce Smithmagic runes.

We think the price of Smithmagic runes is very low overall, and we plan on gradually reducing Smithmagic rune generation in future updates if it may have a positive effect on item and resource destruction.

However, we don't know what balance might be found with the price of Smithmagic runes. Some players are limited by the budget they are willing to invest in item Smithmagic, while others adjust the budget they are prepared to invest in Smithmagic based on their objectives. These two approaches to Smithmagic have different effects on the rune market, and we cannot assume that a X% decrease in Smithmagic rune generation will translate into a X% increase in the price of Smithmagic runes.

We will probably have to iterate to achieve the right balance.
Smithmagic rune generation is one of the main sources of item destruction (and therefore resources), so we think it's important to use this as leverage to increase or maintain sufficient usefulness and value for all resources and items.

Even if you think you've explored every nook and cranny of Frigost, you just might have missed a nation that's been very discreet up until now: the Stubbyobs, represented in this part of the world by the Freezammer clan.

 

Lurking under Mount Scauldron, the Freezammer clan have until now cast a very small shadow, especially since Djaul cursed Frigost. Recent events, however, seem to have given them reason to make their mark, and their extreme hostility has pushed the Guard of the Day Without End to beg adventurers for help, in the hope of reining in their anger.

Among the Stubbyobs of the Freezammer clan, a few – the Tankanvils – are especially hardy. Specialized in close-quarters protection, they won't hesitate to take the blows for their allies.
 

Tankanvil

There are also the Rokrushers, who can easily hit several enemies at once with their hammers. The Warmonbeers use their axes in surprising ways, making them effective at long range.
 

Rokrusher

Warmonbeer

Some Stubbyobs ride tame Mastogobs; these Beardrammers are very dangerous in close-combat and use their Mastogobs to move around more rapidly.

Beardrammer

The Gobbosses also ride Mastogobblies; they use these mounts to keep at a distance from their opponents while they attack them with their slings.
 

Gobbosses

The head of the clan is the very angry King Dazahk Freezammer. His magical mount makes him especially mobile, and he uses his kingly charisma to motivate and reinvigorate his troops.

But all these warriors have one thing in common: They are quite short on patience, and this can be felt in how they fight. If too much time goes by before they can smash their weapons (or heads) down on something, they get all worked up and become even more dangerous – including to themselves.

In update 2.47, we are going to introduce a great many changes to the mount breeding system and a new species of mount.

Our mains goals

• Limit excessive mount generation (mainly Dragoturkeys) to ensure that they are worth more, and to redistribute mount production among a larger number of players.
• Increase overall resource destruction and stimulate the breeding item economy.
• Strengthen the decreasing profitability mechanic: The more players (server-wide) breed mounts, the more breeding item consumption must increase and therefore limit the profitability of breeding even more mounts (establishment of a natural and dynamic balance).
• Limit the practically exponential proliferation of Dragoturkey capacities, and enable the natural introduction into the game of the chameleon trait for Dragoturkeys.
• Maintain a constant and healthy challenge around breeding, and no longer offer a system in which herds can be "purified" and then infinitely duplicated without any constraints.

Here are the changes we are envisaging:

Pooling Sheds on an account level

Shed will be managed at the account scale, and no longer specifically per character (like banks).

We would like to discourage the multiplication of characters to artificially increase shed size.

The shed size will not be increased (it will stay at 250); we do not want to encourage breeding on a more massive scale than is currently the case (which is contributing to mount production that we feel is excessive).

We believe that players should make choices about which mounts they want to keep, and that this is a useful mechanic to allow players to not cover all breeding possibilities too easily and allow more players to find a "place" in this system.
 

Wear and Tear, and Choice of Breeding Item in Public Paddocks

Public paddocks are necessary to ensure simple access to the breeding function for most players, but the lack of wear and tear on breeding items allows certain players to multiply without any limits the number of mounts they breed in public paddocks, by multiplying the number of characters used for breeding.

We are going to remove the breeding items present by default in public paddocks, and have players use their own items (in an instanced manner).

With this change, we want to reintroduce a simple and natural mechanism already present in private paddocks: breeding more mounts will increase wear and tear on breeding items, speed up their destruction, require more of these items be produced, and therefore increase their price.
This mechanism should regulate disproportionate mount production and contribute actively to resource destruction in the game.

Public Paddock Size and Bonuses

Public paddocks will have 10 slots in Bonta and Brakmar and 5 slots in Astrub.
The bonuses earned in public paddocks will be reduced by 20% compared to bonuses in private paddocks.

Number of Public Paddocks

There will be 1 paddock in Bonta, Brakmar, and Astrub.

Transmission of Dragoturkey Traits

Currently, traits are transmitted almost exponentially (over time, it becomes easier and easier to transmit selected traits to other Dragoturkeys).
We do not find this mode of operation satisfactory because it pushes Dragoturkey breeding toward an "optimum" that makes it possible to flood the Dragoturkey market with optimized mounts.
We are going to lower the possibility of transmitting Dragoturkey traits to a 1 out of 20 chance.
It will still be possible to optimize transmission of traits between Dragoturkeys but it will no longer be possible to maintain specific traits infinitely for an entire herd.

Dragoturkeys Generation Reduction

We are going to limit the number of reproductions to 5 per Dragoturkey (compared to 20 currently).
We feel that this change is necessary to reduce Dragoturkey production and lower the possibility of infinitely "duplicating" optimized herds.

Natural Reintroduction of the Chameleon Trait for Dragoturkeys

The Chameleon ability will be able to appear (and be transmitted) naturally in Dragoturkeys.
It will not be reintroduced in the shop.

Impossibility of Breeding Wild Mounts with Non-Wild Mounts

Breeding wild mounts with non-wild mounts will now be impossible.
We believe that the possibility of breeding wild mounts with non-wild mounts makes it too easy to breed and introduce 1 pure genealogy, which goes against the concept of breed genealogies.

Changes in Breeding Item Recipes

All breeding item recipes will be modified to reduce the number of ingredients common to all recipes.

We would like the Boss essences to be the important and limiting factors in these recipes, rather than common ingredients.
We are also going to add "missing" breeding items (those that correspond to Boss essences that haven't yet been used).

Breeding Item Bonus Balancing

Currently, an excessive number of breeding items are not produced or used enough because their bonuses or durability are not deemed sufficient.
We have balanced the bonuses and characteristics of the least-used items; among other things, we have increased the durability of certain breeding items.
 

Mount Bonus Balancing

Dragoturkey bonuses will be modified so that the first generations' bonuses will be more competitive with those of the later generations.

We also want to ensure that each of the three species of mounts has a significant and specific bonus.
Dragoturkeys will be specialized via a large Vitality bonus, Seemyools will have exclusivity over the MP bonus, and the new species of mount will have a specific bonus that we'll let you discover.

New Species of Mount

A third species of mount will be available with the release of version 2.47; it should fill certain gaps and create a new breeding market.
This species will be more difficult to capture and breed and is destined for the most experienced breeders.

Our goal is to maintain simplified breeding with Dragoturkeys and offer more demanding breeding with Seemyools and the new species.

Characteristic Scrolls (Almost) Exclusive to Dragoturkeys

Doploon gains from fighting Dopples will be eliminated for several reasons:

• Ultimately, we want to significantly limit the impact of Dopple fights. This daily mechanic is very time-consuming and lacks the depth (uniquely solo activity that does not offer several ways of viewing or going about it) to justify players regularly repeating this activity and devoting a large portion of their playing time to it.
• We would like to refocus characteristic scroll production on Dragoturkeys to ensure better long-term profitability of this action; breeding them will be a potentially large source of destruction in 2.47, and that should improve the value of resources.

Wanted notices will continue to provide doploons, and can still be exchanged for characteristic scrolls.

Recipes containing doploon pebbles have been modified to use Kolossoken pebbles (in order to increase Kolossoken destruction as a side effect).

Conclusion

We know that these changes mainly place restrictions on breeding and will decrease mount production.

Our goal is to get back to a "healthy" breeding system generating fewer mounts.

We would like individual mount prices to go up, and for that, we need to ensure that the breeding market is not as saturated as it currently is.