Early Access v0.8.6

Point Release 5 - April 23, 2019
source: https://www.legendsofaria.com/point-release-5-april-23rd-2019/

Taxes

 * Plot tax rate significantly decreased ( for 12×12 / for 30×30)
 * Plot re-size commit cost significantly increased ( for 12×12 / 30×30)
 * Land Deed purchase price increased to match commit cost of minimum land size
 * House blueprint purchase price doubled
 * House resource build cost doubled
 * Plots with negative balance will be foreclosed on Mondays at server noon instead of Saturdays
 * First Plot auctions now start one hour after foreclosure
 * Plot auctions last 4 days up from 30 minutes, allowing bidding opportunity for all
 * Plot auctions starting bid is calculated from cost of plot land size
 * Plot taxes can now only be paid by Plot Owner/House Co-Owners
 * Plot taxes can be paid directly from bank balance

New Death System

 * Ghost players enter the Astral Plane and are unable to see other mobiles with the exception of abilities that grant sight at great limitation
 * Upon death a player will not instantly release to their ghost. When released, the player will be moved to the nearest resurrection shrine
 * Returning to the site of your player corpse will offer an ability to resurrect with minimal resource pools and all remaining belongings returned
 * Players can choose to resurrect at a shrine following their death, which will leave all belongings on the corpse
 * You can now Resurrect a player’s corpse while said player is in a different region
 * Pets will be partially released upon player death and will resume ownership on resurrection within range of your body
 * Added Spirit Walk; a cooldown ability which teleports a ghost player to the nearest applicable shrine
 * Added Ephemeral Projection; an ability that allows a ghost player to see other mobiles near their corpse and for a short period when activated
 * Map indicators now show dungeon entrance if corpse is inside

New Mount System

 * Standard mounts can no longer be dismissed to statues
 * Mounting a horse is no longer instant / being dismounted no longer carries a debuff
 * Mounting a horse simply requires an interruptible short channel
 * Engaging in combat, casting spells or engaging in standard actions will dismount the rider
 * Ethereal mounts are now available with summon/unsummon straight to player inventories that will wear over time and eventually break from normal use
 * New Spell! Etherealize will allow the caster to turn their targeted mount into a statue
 * New Reagent! Ether will allow the casting of Etherealize, crafted by an Alchemist from items obtained from: liches, skeleton mages.
 * Legacy mount statues may be used to summon a horse which cannot be dismissed.

Allegiance Improvements

 * The Allegiance system now has seasons. Rankings reset at the start of each new season
 * Players are now ranked directly against their peers
 * Allegiance ranking is updated upon server restart
 * New ranking information added to the Allegiance window
 * Joining allegiances now requires new members to have attained maximum stats (150/150)
 * Adjustments made to the transfer of Favor (rank points) on kill

Crafting

 * Chances to receive specific crafting orders based on your skill level has been adjusted
 * Some new crafting order rewards are now accessible that were not previously. This includes some new dye colors, furniture and bless deeds
 * Iron blacksmith table is now craftable (added recipe)
 * Colored hatchets and mining Picks are no longer rewards and are instead craftable by different materials.

Miscellaneous Improvements

 * Doubled the duration of Hamstring from 6 to 12 seconds and increased the cooldown from 20 to 60 seconds
 * Updated Kryss secondary ability to bleed
 * Updated Poniard secondary ability to Mortal Strike
 * Adjusted bow difficulty to improve skill progression
 * Adjusted Obsidian crafting difficulty to improve skill progression
 * Adjusted difficulty on boards to allow crafters to GM on high end materials
 * Hunter spider now has the appropriate pet slot assignment
 * Fixed Black Forest town chest that was stuck in a wall
 * Dice rolls are now System Messages
 * Range increased on Destroy Foundation to allow players to destroy foundations
 * Fixed an issue that always counted owner’s guard protection when protecting pets
 * Higher skill characters are no longer offered low skill missions
 * Fixed missions being given based on incorrect skill level
 * Mission difficulty level for tamers now uses AnimalTaming instead of Beastmastery
 * Lockboxes can be opened via lock picking
 * Players affected by Chilled debuff will be immune to Frost damage for the duration
 * Disabling effects such as stun now set to lowest speed vs locking in place, also applies to casting
 * Fixed Stasis removing Immunity when effect was ended early
 * Opening the map in a region you have not memorized will open the zoomed world map instead
 * Founder Mount Statues have been temporarily disabled; on use player will be given a system message
 * Allegiance leaders’ default interaction when out of combat is now converse instead of attack
 * Stablemaster added to Black Forest Outpost
 * Escape Scrolls now sold in Oasis and Black Forest
 * Catacombs Wraith Knight now has the appropriate amount of health
 * Run speeds across monsters have been slightly reduced
 * Female bandits now have the same HP as male bandits
 * Reduced overland spawn in The Barrens
 * Updated descriptions on Manifestation and Evocation
 * Ogre bosses now drop ability books
 * Vile spiders now drop vile leather instead of beast leather
 * Hearths located in Inns are now a heat source
 * Wilderness Mission Dispatchers have returned!

Hotfix – April 26th, 2019
Source: https://www.legendsofaria.com/point-release-5-april-23rd-2019/


 * All players can earn one ethereal horse statue per day from logging in during the weekend (April 26- April 28)
 * Players are now lootable immediately upon death
 * Player corpses no longer disappear on logout before release
 * Regular horses can now be dismissed to stable
 * Players are no longer dismounted for the following actions:
 * Manifestation Spell: Portal
 * Manifestation Spell: Mark
 * Manifestation Spell: Etherealize
 * Manifestation Spell: Ward Evil
 * Activating Hearthstone
 * Activating Escape Scroll
 * When using the Atlas
 * Increase activation time on hearthstone and escape scrolls to match portal spell.
 * Stuns/Disables now much slower snare, casting movement speed unchanged
 * Blocking with shields is fixed
 * Empty corpses will turn into a skeleton on death.
 * Fixed individuals that are dead, but not released can teleport through doors in dungeons.
 * Ethereal horses are now slightly less transparent
 * Etherealize Potion added (Difficulty: 90 – 100)
 * Potion of Mending added removing bleed and mortal strike (Difficulty: 75 – 100)
 * Cure Potion now requires 0 – 25 skill.
 * Increased Crafting Order rewards drop rates
 * Ether now requires 5 essence to create instead of 10.

Hot Fix May 1st, 2019

 * Fixed an issue with plot auction times not working properly.
 * When turning in a craft order, player now receives a system message to tell them what they got
 * Vile Leather is now called Vile Leather (not Fabled Beast Leather)

Hot Fix May 4th, 2019

 * Fixed an issue that caused pets to disappear when player dies