Etherborn, a shadow looms over Etherscape, chilling the very air you breathe. The Frozen Blight is upon us, and with it comes an event that will test your courage and fortitude. Prepare yourselves, for the Frozen Blight are nearing, and not all will survive its icy grasp.
❄️ The Frozen North Beckons
Dare to venture into the Frozen North, a harsh, unforgiving realm cloaked in snow and riddled with treacherous ice caves. This desolate wasteland is fraught with dangers lurking around every corner, from the icy shores to the frigid inlands. Each step you take will be a battle against the elements and the sinister forces that now call this land home.
The path to the Frozen North is sealed, and only those who craft Frost Keys from other faction keys can unlock its secrets. This arduous task ensures that only the most resourceful and determined can breach the icy defenses.
Recipe to Craft a Frost Key
⚔️ Confront the Frozen Blight
A malevolent new faction, the Frozen Blight, rises from the frost. These cursed beings—Yetis, frost spirits, and frozen wraiths—are but harbingers of the terrors that await. Their chilling touch and deadly prowess will challenge even the most seasoned Etherborn. Prepare to face an onslaught of five new enemy types, each more terrifying than the last.
Face Off Against the Ancient Yeti Boss
✨ Harness the Power of Winter Essence
Amidst the ice and snow lies a new resource of great power: Winter Essence. This precious material is the key to crafting "Winter's Light" tokens, rare and limited NFTs that signify your resilience and mastery over the frozen wastelands. But beware, for the road to obtaining Winter Essence is fraught with peril.
Winter's Light tokens have a collapsing supply of 1000. Any supply that has not been minted by players at the end of the event will be burned.
Use Winter Essence to Craft Winter's Light
Along with the new Winter's Light limited supply token a new item property has been added called "Diminished Stacking". Diminished Stacking can be used instead of Max Stacking for account upgrades. When an upgrade has Diminished Stacking then each additional token you hold with give more benefit, but at a diminished amount (based on the percentage of the diminish). Winter's light has a diminish stack value of 80%, so each additional token gives 80% of the bonus of the previous one. So, for Winter's Light the benefit would be the following...
Stack Count | Diminished Value | Magic Find | Double Spirit Shard |
1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
2 | 1.8 | 4 | 2 |
3 | 2.4 | 5 | 2 |
4 | 3 | 6 | 3 |
5 | 3.4 | 7 | 3 |
10 | 4.5 | 9 | 5 |
14 | 4.8 | 10 | 5 |
Along with this change, the Aeonclipse Key and Archspire multiverse tokens have been updated to have Diminish Stacking 50% instead of Max Stack 1. This means you can now get benefit from holding more than 1!
Archspire and Aeonclipse Key with Diminish Stacking
Learn more about Diminished Stacking at the Whitepaper here.
☠️ Witness the Dangerous Beauty
The frozen battlegrounds are more than just a test of might—they are a spectacle of eerie beauty. Thanks to the breathtaking new effects designed by @NotSure, every clash with the Frozen Blight will be a hauntingly beautiful nightmare. This release is packed full of new particle effect upgrades for you to enjoy.
Examples of new particle effects
Beyond the new effects, you will now be able to deck out your character with a set of winter themed weapon skins. The Glacial Sword, Glacial Staff and Glacial Bow will be releasing shortly after the initial 0.16.1 build. Stay tuned for details on how you can unlock them.
New Glacial Weapon Skins
🪨 Take Mike on Your Journey
With this release, the December multiverse quest also begins. Fight your way to the top of the leaderboards by closing Multiverse Rifts and collecting Multiverse Essence. With this release, we have added support for Mike as a new pet which provides an all-new utility of increased inventory slots.
Multiverse Rewards + Mike
The December multiverse quest will have the following rewards...
Top 30: Mike + Elements
Top 31 - 50: Mike
Top 51 - 130: Oindrasdain
Top 130 - 230: Archspire
120 Aeonclipse Keys to random players that reach > 250 Multiverse Essence
🛡️ Security Advancements
Game security to prevent cheating is a existential priority for Etherscape. As a result, we have put a large amount of time and effort into security enhancements in this release. We won't detail all of the techniques used, but we are following these methodologies...
User server-side authority wherever possible to making cheating impossible
Block cheating techniques as much as possible
Add server-side detection and monitoring for cheating impacts
Record player activity for cheating reviews
Advanced tools to suspend and ban accounts and wallets as punishment.
With these techniques we are confident that we can protect the security and integrity against cheaters. As a reminder, you can review our policy on cheating here.
🗡️ Call to Arms
Etherborn, brace yourselves for a battle against the frozen shadows. The Frozen Blight will stop at nothing to consume all warmth and life, but with your eternal soul and unyielding resolve, you can shine a beacon of hope in these dark times.
The Frozen North awaits... Will you answer its call?
Read the full release notes for version 0.16 here.
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