Our goals with this update is to improve new player progression and retention, provide incentives to do nests for veteran players, improve and allow proper solo-play (or small party play). Right now, we know that the PvE system is completely littered with garbage progression paths. This is why we designed this new system to improve the overall quality of the game. Keep in mind that this was a huge undertaking which involves the balancing of many new nests and gear. That being said, we ask for your patience and understanding as we may make more adjustments to HP, damage, and or stats of the new gear. Contributers to revamp: Alistair, Joorji
New Gear Flowchart
Here we have a neat-o flowchart that shows the progression path that we have designed.
Click here! if it's too small. This patch is going to be a big one so stay with me here. It's going to be a lot to take in. Note that not everything in this flow chart is implemented
Removed Gear Sets/Items
D/N: We’re removing these gear sets as they do not provide a satisfying and linear path of progression. This DOES NOT mean that we are removing them from the game entirely. We are however, removing every way to obtain these items. We are replacing the following gear sets with new ones shown below:
Starter Ace +15 Gear
Crescent Moon Equipment and Accessories
Full Moon Equipment and Accessories
New Moon Equipment and Accessories
Cerberus
Ranchea
Black Dragon Unique Grade Equipment and Accessories
Black Dragon Legendary Equipment
New Gear Sets/Items
D/N: Vibrant Sun and Golden Wind gear are ready to replace Cerberus, Moon, and Ranchea gear. They provide stats that are a portion of Twilight Luna stats. This will keep the gigantic gap between Cerberus and the other old gear sets and Twilight Luna gear. In order of power: Vibrant Sun < Golden Wind < Twilight Luna < Ardent Dawn
Vibrant Sun Equipment (beginner gear)
Golden Wind Equipment (average gear)
Requiem Arrow (beginner to average weapon tuner)
Fragmented Arrow (beginner to average armor tuner)
Hero's Golden Coin (material to buy tuners)
Ririka Accessories
Translucent Lunarburst (Golden Wind to Twilight Luna Chest/Pants/Helm tuner)
Transparent Lunarburst (Golden Wind to Twilight Luna Glove/Shoes tuner)
Crystalline Lunarburst (Golden Wind to Twilight Luna weapons tuner)
Removed Nests
D/N: Apologies if you liked these nests, they will return in the future with a rebalance in accordance with future gear sets. This means that they might not return as a beginner nest, but rather an end game nest
Guardian Nest
Mist Nest
Black Dragon Nest Normal
Rebalanced Nests
D/N: All items that are not within the tables have no changes. Also there's gonna be a lot of modernization in stats of bosses. We're going to be doing more modernization patches in the future for removing things such as undodgeable buff-wipes.
ALL CONTENT
Lowered critical resistance
Equalized boss elemental resist
All nests have adjusted clear chest selection rewards changed to gold pouches
Black Dragon Nest Memoria 1 - 3
All boss HP increased
Item
Old
New
Rollable
Kavasnacks
N/A
20
No
Slayer Points
N/A
100
No
Pillowsheep Stuffings
2
Removed
N/A
Black Dragon Nest Hardcore
Boss damage reduced
Item
Old
New
Rollable
Black Dragon Wraths
6
Removed
N/A
Black Dragon Legendary Equipment
Varies
Removed
N/A
Twilight Fragments
N/A
7; 2
7 Bound; 2 Rollable
Luna Fragments
N/A
5; 2
5 Bound; 2 Rollable
Desert Dragon Nest End Game
Clear count: Infinite (changed from 2)
Reduced the following bosses' attack power:
Lamia
Manticore
Golem
Item
Old
New
Rollable
Memory of Roy
5
10
No
Zakad Crystal
5
10
No
Arendel Trial Nest
Temporarily disabled to fix a bug
Boss HP increased for the following bosses:
Midir Guardian
Death Knight
Item
Old
New
Rollable
Helmet Skill Gems
several per chest
Removed
N/A
Downy Accessories
several per chest
Removed
N/A
Lv 70 Epic Crests
several per chest
Removed
N/A
Skill Gems
N/A
several per chest
Yes
Lava Sparks
N/A
several per chest
Yes
Third Core Nest
Nest clear chests now grant extra Pillowsheep Coupons on the silver chests
Item
Old
New
Steve Fiend Coupon
Chance of 1
Removed
Cerberus Equipment
2
Removed
Level 80 Hope Coupons
4
Removed
Lava Sparks
N/A
5
Pillowsheep Stuffing
N/A
1
New Nests
Cerberus Nest
The starter nest for new players. The nest is equalized so it won't require any gear to run it.
Clear count: Infinite
Max Player Entry Limit: 4
Max Revives: Infinite
Item
Quantity
Rollable
Garnet Fragments
4
No
Cerberus Paw
4
No
Archbishop Nest
Coming in to replace Guardian Nest!
Clear count: Infinite
Max Player Limit: 4
Max Revive Limit: 5
Item
Quantity
Rollable
Kavasnacks
5
No
Epic Grade Crests
10
No
Garnet Fragment
4
No
Ririka Accessories
6
Yes
Manticore Nest
Coming in to replace Guardian Nest!
Clear count: Infinite
Max Player Limit: 4
Max Revive Limit: 5
Item
Quantity
Rollable
Kavasnacks
5
No
Magic Grade Talismans
10
No
Garnet Fragment
4
No
Ririka Accessories
6
Yes
Daidalos Nest
Advance to the next level with Rune Amplifiers and materials to craft your gear tuners!
Clear count: Infinite
Max Player Limit: 4
Max Revive Limit: 5
Item
Quantity
Rollable
Kavasnacks
10
Yes
Lv 70 Epic Crests
6
Yes
Pillowsheep Stuffing
1
Yes
Downy Accessories
2
Yes
Garnet
6
Yes
Hero's Golden Coin
1
Yes
Daidalos Nest Hardcore
Grind for the big bucks...
Clear count: Infinite
Max Player Limit: 4
Max Revive Limit: 1
Item
Quantity
Rollable
Vahrein
2
No
Lava Sparks
10
No
Typhoon Krag Nest
Grind for well, whatever you might want?!
Clear count: Infinite
Max Player Limit: 4
Max Revives: 3
Item
Quantity
Rollable
Vahrein
1
No
Crystal Points
500
No
Red Dragon Nest Memoria
Acquire Ardent Dawn gear without a raid team! Although the cost is a lot of grind...
Clear count: Infinite
Max Player Limit: 6
Max Revive Limit: 2
Item
Quantity
Rollable
Flame Trinket
1
No
Lebrium Points
100
No
Volcano Trial Nest
The end game version of Arendel Trial Nest...
Clear count: Infinite
Max Player Limit: 4
Max Revive Limit: 3
Item
Quantity
Rollable
Flame Trinket
5
No
Aujere
10
No
Parchments of Trial
25
No
Wellsprings Pouches
5
No
Crystal Points
1000
No
Crystal Points
50 x 10
Yes
Modified Existing NPCs
Kylie
Removed Volcano Nest Shop
Removed New Player Shop (+15 Ace Equipment Shop)
GM.X
No longer sells Life-giving Essence, Superb Diamond
New NPC
Overlord Zeke
D/N: Brand new point shop! Introduces a new shop for veteran players to purchase exactly what they want instead of doing RNG drops. This will also allow people to do a nest (or trial) to get materials from other nests if they want. However, players should still run the nest/raid/trial where the item is primarily dropped if they want specific items. The goal of this is to make a system to supplement current drops from content NOT MAKE CONTENT IRRELEVANT. This shop is supposed to provide you options, not be the end-all-be-all for all nests/raids/trials.
Crystal Venture Shop
Item
Cost
Red Dragon Wrath
3000 Crystal Points
Red Dragon Scale
3500 Crystal Points
Memory of Roy
250 Crystal Points
Zakad Crystal
250 Crystal Points
Lava Sparks
100 Crystal Points
Dengal
500 Crystal Points
3rd Anniversary Buff
200 Crystal Points
Dragon Buff
200 Crystal Points
Dragon's Descendant
500 Crystal Points
Steve Fiend Coupon
500 Crystal Points
Enhancement Vouchers
500 Crystal Points
Talisman Vouchers
500 Crystal Points
Talisman of Jerovine
1500 Crystal Points
Talisman of Aujery
1500 Crystal Points
Ancient Elemental Enhanced Talisman
1500 Crystal Points
Aujere
100 Crystal Points
Attunement OVERloader
500 Crystal Points
Vahrein
500 Crystal Points
Illusive Burst Shop
Item
Cost
Sunbathed Dawnburst
1700 Lebrium Points
Fired Dawnburst
2000 Lebrium Points
Ignited Dawnburst
2300 Lebrium Points
Translucent Lunarburst
500 Slayer Points
Transparent Lunarburst
1000 Slayer Points
Crystalline Lunarburst
1500 Slayer Points
Lava Sparks
20 Slayer Points
Enhancement Voucher
50 Lebrium Points
Talisman Voucher
50 Lebrium Points
Vahrein
100 Lebrium Points
Revamp Exchange Shop
Item
Cost
Garnet Fragment
5 Superb Altheums
Garnet
10 Superb Altheums
Garnet
8 Exquisite Altheum
Garnet Fragment
3 Exquisite Altheum
Garnet
5 Life-giving Essence
Memory of Roy
3 Lava Sparks
Zakad Crystal
3 Lava Sparks
Flame Trinket
3 Volcanic Parchments
Vibrant Sun Weapon Box
1 Cerberus Front Paw
Vibrant Sun Off-Hand Weapon Box
1 Cerberus Front Paw
Vibrant Sun Headgear Box
1 Cerberus Front Paw
Vibrant Sun Body Armor Box
1 Cerberus Front Paw
Vibrant Sun Leg Armor Box
1 Cerberus Front Paw
Vibrant Sun Gloves Box
1 Cerberus Front Paw
Vibrant Sun Shoes Box
1 Cerberus Front Paw
Requiem Arrow
1 Hero's Golden Coin
Fragmented Arrow
1 Hero's Golden Coin
Project Flow
Project Flow is a series of class gameplay improvements/smoothing to PvE. See background info and all changes here Contributers to Project Flow this patch: Joorji, CoolCat
/\c29\ Sniper
[Awakened Tumble] lockout reduction, smoother transition to running
[Windforce] faster cast time
[Sliding Shot] lockout reduction
[Spirit Acceleration] lockout reduction
[Sylph's Aid] lockout reduction
/\c12\Mercenary
[Battle Howl] reduced lockout
[Calamity Crush] reduced lockout, camera lock removed
/\c25\Barbarian
[Bone Cleaver] faster input
[Overtaker] reduced lockout
[Frenzy] reduced lockout
[Demofist] reduced lockout
[Whirlwind] reduced lockout
[Impact Punch CM3] faster cast
/\c26\Destroyer
[Assault Crash] faster inputs, camera lock removed
[Crash mode] faster inputs, camera lock removed
[Roll Attack] faster cast
[Punishing Swing] reduced lockout
[Provoke] reduced lockout
[Destructive Swing CM3] reduced lockout, camera lock removed
/\c76\Dark Avenger
[Graves] consecutive slashes speed up cast time
[Piercing Crescent] transformed slashes and CM3 slashes speed up cast time
[Doomblade] reduced end lag
[Vengeance Storm] reduced end lag
[Soul Cutter] consecutive slashes speed up cast time, instant version can now be air casted
/\c48\Gear Master
[Gravity Grenade] lockout reduced
[Gatling Turret] increased spawn speed
[Cannon Turret] increased spawn speed
[Ice Turret] increased spawn speed
[Chainsaw] increased spawn speed
[Mechanic Mode Cannon] cast speed increased
[Mechanic Mode Chainsaw] lockout reduced
[Quackum Crash] lockout reduced
[Kami-Quackum] lockout reduced
[Tower Recall] lockout reduced
[PvE] Class Balancing Wave 10
Small update for all those Gear Master players. We had some trouble editing some of the Gear Master damage increases. This is more of a stepping stone. We are aware that Gear Master probably needs more love than this for it to be 100% viable.
Players using AMD/ATI graphics cards will no longer suffer from transparency issues
Before (left) and after (right)
Camera Zoom Extents
You can now set a custom default/max camera zoom extent. Edit Athena/gameconfig.json to set a custom maximum zoom. The default max zoom is 600. Most players like their camera at 700-800.
Please note that this zoom distance will be your default distance.
Have you ever wanted to play DN zoomed out like you're playing Guild Wars 2 (this is 1200)
Fading Memories Portal Removal
Title says it all... content in this portal has been moved to the Garden of Solace
Project Duck News
![Patch v518 - [PvE] Remastering Content](/content/images/size/w2000/2019/10/DN-2019-10-06-03-01-09-Sun.png)
