In Ahmarra, we’re trying a new approach to endgame loot with the goal of making boss drops feel exciting and rewarding while still protecting players from extended runs of bad luck.

In recent worlds, endgame bosses could drop their gear directly, while each victory also awarded a reagent that could eventually be exchanged for the item you wanted. For Ahmarra, we’re putting more emphasis back on earning major gear from the bosses themselves.

• Hats, Robes, Shoes, and Wands will drop from Ahmarra’s final bosses.

• Repeated victories will improve your odds of seeing the gear you’re after, with an eventual guaranteed drop.

• Amulets, Athames, Decks, and Rings have been moved to Crafting.

• These recipes require Level 190, but otherwise have no additional restrictions.

• Some of these items may turn up in unexpected places.

We’ve made a major balance pass across Beastmoon Beastforms to make their stats, spells, and School identities more consistent.

When we first shared our plans for these updates, the Beastmoon community had a lot to say! That feedback helped shape the direction of the redesign, and we continued gathering feedback as each Beastform was updated and refined. As a result, some of these changes have evolved quite a bit from what we originally discussed.
 

Beastform Balance

• Spell values have been rebalanced across all Beastforms using a more consistent framework based on each form’s School, size, and role.

• Beastform Health has increased to compensate for increases in spell damage. Battles should still have a similar overall pace, but both Health and the numbers on your spells will be larger.

• Ice has moved into the higher-value, lower-Health group of Schools, leaving Life as the School with the highest-Health Beastforms.

• All Beastforms now start with 1 Pip.

More Consistent Spell Decks
Every Beastform has received a review of its spell deck and progression.

• Every Beastform now has at least one spell that can be used without meeting an additional condition, available from Tier 1.

• Every Beastform also has more access to 0 and 1 Pip spells, including multiple low-cost options at earlier Tiers. With every turn becoming more important, this should give forms more opportunities to contribute instead of being left without a spell they can cast.

Magic Wheel Updates
Beastform spells have been updated to more consistently follow the Magic Wheel, giving each School clearer strengths, counters, and opportunities to work with other Schools.

• Beastforms now more consistently create and counter the effects associated with their School.

• More effects can now be both countered and synergized with, including Taunt, Pacify, Minions, Helpful and Harmful Afterlife effects, and Helpful and Harmful Auras.

• Balance Beastforms have received a larger consistency pass, with more defined interactions using Echoes, Swaps, removal, and synergies between effects.

Spell Cleanup
We’ve also cleaned up several Beastmoon spell mechanics:

• Stun, Dispel, and Mantle have been removed from Beastform spells. These effects can cause another player to lose their turn entirely, which is especially punishing in Beastmoon’s short battles and leaves less room for players to respond strategically.

• When non-Balance Beastforms remove hanging effects, they now also remove any Protection on those effects. Protection is still useful when using Swap effects.

• Several spell visuals have been updated to make Beastmoon spells easier to distinguish from one another.

The Reagent and Chest audit has been extended to Lemuria! You'll now find Cantrip Chests and faster spawning reagents in Lemuria, along with the new Old One's Data reagent.

Castle Magic Spells have been added to apply the rules from the PvP leagues to Roland Silverheart. You can now purchase them and apply them to dueling sigils in your homes.

Level 180 PvP-only sets have been added to Marco Artigiano. These will be replaced with PvP-only variants of the 190 sets over time as the year proceeds. As a result, some of Marco’s previous offerings have moved to Jordo Mistborn. The non-templated gear and PvP Trading now reside on Jordo.

Two new Treasure Cards have been added to Jordo as well. Double Lash and Hound unchained can now be found on Jordo Mistborn, Duella, and Madam Magda.

Housing Items
Over time, the housing item section of the Crown Shop has become ‘cluttered’ for lack of a better word. The long lists of older items and bundles have created a harder than necessary Crown Shop experience. As we go forward, we want to bring players a Crown Shop experience that is easier to navigate and will give us the best opportunity to make newer and better offerings. We also understand the frustration players feel when buying something for Crowns only to realize later it is also available for gold. In an effort to remedy this, many furniture sets and individual furniture items have been removed from the Crown Shop and will not return. All items affected have been given a gold price and will be available for sale at various NPC housing vendors across the Spiral. The relocation of items will help improve the player experience and allow us to develop more impressive housing item offers in the future.

During this process, we also decided to give some additional benefits to these items to make player interaction with them more enjoyable. All school and world furniture set items can now be purchased in individual quantities. Affected items will also now be auctionable and available to be placed in the Bazaar. This is to help compensate for their new locations not being as accessible as the Crown Shop.

Some Crown Shop bundles have also been affected by these changes. All bundles including these items have been reviewed. If they return to the Crown Shop, their prices will be adjusted to reflect that the included items no longer have a Crowns value.

1. Where can I purchase the affected items in the game?

• Affected housing items are now sold by NPC housing and furniture vendors throughout the Spiral. Refer to the list below to find each item’s new vendor.

2. Why was each item assigned to a particular housing vendor?

• Each affected item was assigned to a vendor that best matched its theme and practical placement.

3. How was the gold price per item determined?

• For individual items, the gold prices remain the same as they were in the Crown Shop.

• For world and school furniture set items, size, detail, and overall set gold price were factored into the final pricing.

4. What if I have not progressed far enough in the story to access an item’s housing vendor?

• We considered this concern when making these changes. To improve access, all affected items are now auctionable and can be bought and sold in the Bazaar in Olde Town.

5. Can I receive compensation or a refund if I previously purchased one of these items with Crowns?

• Because these items were available for Gold and Crowns simultaneously, refunds are generally not available. Contact Customer Support if you believe your situation may qualify as an exception or is more specific.

6. How will these changes affect bundles and offers that include the affected items?

• All bundles containing affected items are being reviewed. If they return to the Crown Shop, their prices will be adjusted to reflect that the included items no longer have a Crowns value.

This is a list of all affected items, and where they can now be found.

Gear/Inventory

• Empty decks may now be placed in a gear vault.

• Added a new Elixir to expand Jewel Inventory Space.

• Darkmoor Ultra-Rare gear is now auctionable.

• Gear acquired in the Blighted Veil Raid can now be upgraded to level 190.

Spells

• Spells can now be upgraded with Spellements, even if you don’t currently have the spell trained.

• Taunt and Pacify now reduce their remaining duration at the end of the combat round.

• Auras cast during the same round now replace each other.

• Selected Target spells can now correctly target multiple enemies when a Fusion involving that spell is available in your hand.

• Shadow-Enhanced Selected Target spells, such as Abyssal Wurm and Shade Scimitars, can now be enchanted.

• Fixed particle rendering bugs for spell cinematics and cantrips in zones with atmospheric effects.

Housing

• Added Housing Sign options for Guild Open Houses and for the Krokotopia Apartment.

• Roland Silverheart in the Arena has new Castle Magic spells to change the rules for PvP at your house. There are new Housing Sign options for each of these PvP rules.

• Fixed and updated animation and interact behavior for Cyrus's Reflecting Pool Furniture Item.

Miscellaneous

• When you are waiting for Team Up, you may click on the names of other players in your team to inspect them.

• Fixed a loading issue caused by having a significant number of badges.

• Spelling fixes.

• When an object is revealed using Reveal Invisible, it now stays for 60 seconds instead of 15.

• Fixed a loading issue caused by having a significant number of badges.

• Fixed an issue where searching the guild roster with uppercase characters found no players.

• Fixed an issue where trainers would sometimes not show quest completion requirements before training a spell.

• Players can now type the degrees in the Rotate tab of the Advanced Housing Window.

• Fixed hanging text on the T-Borg's version of Brimstone Revenant.

• Fixed Helpbat Bat being improperly labeled Damage.

• Fixed Pet Jewels that provide Item Cards not being properly excluded from Decks.

• Fixed level restriction on Gorta Leprechaun and Cryo Cat.

• Fixed Zelcia in Khrysalis not offering some jewels.

• Fixed Deckathalon Rewards showing the incorrect reagent images.

• Fixed Karamelle, Lemuria, and Novus Silver Chests not dropping spellements.

• Corrected the name of 2 Selenopolis Music Scrolls.

• Increased the damage and blade value of Pops’ Knuckle B.

• Fixed Oni’s Attrition Item Card costing the wrong Pips.

• Fixed Ninja Piglets Item Card having the wrong spell text.

• Fixed Volcanic Golem B not granting shields after enemy death.

• Fixed Minotaur C not being fusable.

• Fixed Boiling Kraken spell text not showing the proper damage.

• Fixed the Geistbox Celestial Intervention spell healing enemies instead of self.

• Fixed Abominable Weaver Path B not granting shields after enemy defeat.

• Updated Thieving Dragon B and Monster Mash B to clear Aura before hitting.

• Fixed Freeze Ray and Climaclysm Shadow Fusions not showing pacts.

• Fixed Death Lore Spellement badge ordering.

• Fixed the minion count in the weaving encounter "Chamber of Legends."

• Fixed Old Quack’s Minions respawning too early in the Selenopolis Pyramid.

• Fixed an issue where Chief Whip would spam cheats if defeated at the same time as other mobs.

• Adjusted Minion Health.

• Added FX to Grandfather Spider’s Natural Attack.

• Updated the models on Arcanum Scholars to be more HD.

• Added a talk animation for Tritons.

• Fixed the lighting and placement of the Triton Portrait Housing item.

• Fixed a cinematic issue with Nautilus Unleashed Tier 5.

• Fixed a sorting issue with the countdown timer on sigils.

• Allowed mounts in the Dasein Estate.

• Spelling Fixes

• All fishing vendors are now consistent – they allow you to sell fish, but only Lucky Hookline can show tournaments or Catch of the Day.

• Created a new “Hound Unchained” Treasure Card from Portal of Peril, Guild, and PvP Vendors.

• We’re experimenting with a new way to show objects or NPCs that act as teleporters from one zone to another in Ahmarra. We’re hoping to improve the messaging on how players can travel across zones.

• Added a new teleport icon above teleporters.

• Added a label: “World Teleport Object.”