Outlands Patch April 2, 2025
2025-04-02
Released
2025-04-28 - 4 months ago
Outlands Patch April 2, 2025 is a major update for Outlands.
This patch introduces significant changes to Followers in PvP, including damage caps and restrictions in event zones. It also adds Arcane Essence commodities, adjusts scoring and introduces penalties for several PvP events (Town Struggles, Dungeon Flashpoints, Corpse Creek Contests), reworks Meteor Swarm and Chain Lightning in organized PvP, integrates OutlandsID further with Housing and Rental Vendors, and includes numerous quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes.
Major Updates
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Arcane Essence Commodity | Players can now craft and trade Arcane Essence Commodities (5,000 essence each) and set prices on Rental Vendors. |
| Followers PvP Damage Cap | Tamed/Summoned followers now have a cumulative damage cap per 3-second window against players in PvP, scaling with Control Slots and Follower Skills. |
| Followers PvP Restrictions | Followers' spells ignore Magic Reflect and don't cause Interrupts in PvP. Summoning and Combat Commands are restricted in PvP Event Zones / Faction areas. |
| PvP Event Adjustments | Updated player kill points for Town Struggles, Dungeon Flashpoints, Corpse Creek Contests. Added Excessive Player Count penalties and a Beacon point cap for CCC. |
| Meteor Swarm / Chain Lightning PvP Rework | Spells have adjusted handling in Organized PvP situations (Faction areas, Event Zones), hitting only non-Blue targets with damage scaling based on the number of players hit. Penalties apply for hitting friendly Faction members. |
| OutlandsID Integration | Characters on the same OutlandsID are treated as owners for Houses and Rental Vendors for access purposes. |
| Stationary Vendor Penalty | Players who are stationary for too long receive a penalty preventing vendor purchases until they move. |
Arcane Essence
- Arcane Essence now has a new graphic and has been updated in related menus.
Arcane Essence Commodity
- Players can now make Arcane Essence Commodities.
- Arcane Essence Commodities hold 5,000 per commodity.
- Players can set Pricing Manifest prices on Rental Vendors for Arcane Essence Commodities.
Followers
PvP Damage
- When a player is in PvP with another player, there is a Follower PvP Damage Window that resets every 3 seconds.
- During these windows, each Follower (Tamed/Summoned) belonging to a player is capped at inflicting a cumulative Damage equal to its Follower PvP Damage Cap against another player.
- The Follower PvP Damage Cap is calculated as: (Creature's Control Slots * (1 + (Controller's Total Printed Follower Skills / 100)))
- Any cumulative damage inflicted by a Follower during a window that would exceed its Follower PvP Damage Cap will be reduced to 0.
- Follower Skills include all of the following:
- Example
- A player has 100 Animal Taming, 100 Animal Lore and 100 Veterinary for a total of 300 Total Printed Follower Skills.
- They are using a Bullvore (3 Control Slots) and a Black Widow (2 Control Slots).
- The Bullvore can inflict a maximum of `(3 * (1 + (300 / 100))) = 12 Damage` every 3 seconds against another player in PvP.
- The Black Widow can inflict a maximum of `(2 * (1 + (300 / 100))) = 8 Damage` every 3 seconds against another player in PvP.
Magic Reflect and Interrupts
- Spells cast by Followers against other players will ignore Magic Reflect on the player (will not be reflected and will not remove the Magic Reflect on the player).
- Spells cast by Followers against other players will no longer have an effect on the player's 1st-4th circle Interrupt Window for PvP.
Summoning in PvP Events / Factions
- Players will no longer be able to cast Summon spells while in an active PvP Event Zone (TS / DF / CCC / SR), a Faction Castle, or within the boundaries of a Faction Waypost.
- Any Summoned Followers that enter these zones will be automatically unsummoned.
Followers in PvP Events
- Players will no longer be able to issue Combat (Attack / Guard / Patrol) commands to any Followers while in an active PvP Event Zone (TS / DF / CCC / SR), a Faction Castle, or within the boundaries of a Faction Waypost.
- Any Followers inside of these zones that has an active Attack / Guard / Patrol command will be switched to Follow mode.
Murderers / Criminals
- Dispelling or attempting to dispel a Murderer/Criminal player's Summoned Follower will now correctly flag the caster as being attackable (grey) by the Murderer/Criminal for the next 2 minutes.
Town Struggles
- Fixed an issue that was causing abandoned Mounts from not being deleted in Town Struggle Bases after Town Struggles.
Player Kills
- Player Kills are now worth 15 Points Team Points.
- Player kills are now worth a flat 15 Individual Points to each player involved in the kill (no scaling by Damage Dealt %).
Dungeon Flashpoints
Inactive Guild Penalty
- Fixed an issue that was not correctly applying Inactive Guild Penalties to guilds participating in Dungeon Flashpoints.
Player Kills
- Player Kills are now worth 40 Points to the killing Guild.
- Player kills are now worth a flat 40 Points to each player involved in the kill (no scaling by Damage Dealt %).
- Fixed an issue where Dungeon Flashpoint Kills would incorrectly give a "Corpse Creek Contest"-related system message.
Excessive Player Count Penalties
- If more than 10 players from a guild have participated in the event, all Individual and Team Score earned by that guild will suffer a penalty of 10% per player beyond 10 (with penalties up to a maximum of 90%).
- Examples
- Guild A has had 12 players from their guild participate in the event so far.
- All of their incoming Individual and Team Score earned will now suffer a `(2 * 10%) = 20%` penalty.
- Later, Guild A now has had 16 total players from their guild participate in the event.
- All of their incoming Individual and Team Score earned will now suffer a `(6 * 10%) = 60%` penalty.
Corpse Creek Contests
Player Kills
- Player Kills are now worth 40 Points to the killing Guild.
- Player kills are now worth a flat 40 Points to each player involved in the kill (no scaling by Damage Dealt %).
Beacons
- Guilds are now capped at earning a maximum of 40 Points per control tick from holding multiple Beacons (i.e. 2 Controlled Beacons, or 1 Controlled Beacon + 2 Contested Beacons).
Excessive Player Count Penalties
- If more than 10 players from a guild have participated in the event, all Individual and Team Score earned by that guild will suffer a penalty of 10% per player beyond 10 (with penalties up to a maximum of 90%).
- Examples
- Guild A has had 12 players from their guild participate in the event so far.
- All of their incoming Individual and Team Score earned will now suffer a `(2 * 10%) = 20%` penalty.
- Later, Guild A now has had 16 total players from their guild participate in the event.
- All of their incoming Individual and Team Score earned will now suffer a `(6 * 10%) = 60%` penalty.
Factions
- Moving over a Faction Flag will now also count as double-clicking that Faction Flag (and the player will attempt to pick it up).
Meteor Swarm and Chain Lightning
Organized PvP Handling
- If a player casts the Meteor Swarm or Chain Lightning spells in an Organized PvP situation, handling for the spell will become adjusted.
- Organized PvP Situations include the following:
- Faction Player inside of a Faction Castle or within 50 tiles of a Faction Castle Wall
- Faction Player within 50 tiles of a Faction Flag
- Faction Player within 50 tiles of a Faction Waypost
- Participant in a Dungeon Flashpoint inside the Event Zone (Dungeon 1st Floor)
- Participant in a Corpse Creek Contest inside the Event Zone (Corpse Creek region)
Targets Hit
- If a Meteor Swarm / Chain Lightning spell adopts Organized PvP handling, the spell will not hit any players or followers that are Blue (innocent).
Meteor Swarm Damage
- If a Meteor Swarm spell adopts Organized PvP handling, the damage inflicted to all players will be determined based on the total number of players hit, as follows:
- 1-5 Players Hit: 5 Damage
- 6 Players Hit: 7-9 Damage
- 7 Players Hit: 9-14 Damage
- 8 Players Hit: 11-17 Damage
- 9 Players Hit: 13-20 Damage
- 10 or more Players Hit: 15-24 Damage
- Example
- Team A has 5 players and Team B has 8 players and every player on each team casts Meteor Swarm and hits the entire opposing Team.
- Team A with 5 players will inflict `5 * (11 to 17 Damage) = 55 to 85 damage` to each member of Team B.
- Team B with 8 players will inflict `8 * (5 Damage) = 40 damage` to each member of Team A.
Chain Lightning Damage
- If a Chain Lightning spell adopts Organized PvP handling, the damage inflicted to all player will be determined based on the total number of players hit, as follows:
- 1-5 Players Hit: 6 Damage
- 6 Players Hit: 9-12 Damage
- 7 Players Hit: 12-18 Damage
- 8 Players Hit: 15-24 Damage
- 9 Players Hit: 18-30 Damage
- 10 or more Players Hit: 21-36 Damage
- Example
- Team A has 5 players and Team B has 8 players and every player on each team casts Chain Lightning and hits the entire opposing Team.
- Team A with 5 players will inflict `5 * (15 to 24 Damage) = 75 to 120 damage` to each member of Team B.
- Team B with 8 players will inflict `8 * (6 Damage) = 48 damage` to each member of Team A.
- Note: The Organized PvP handling of these spells is intended to give small groups a "counterplay" against large groups, while minimizing the ability of large groups to "brute force" inflict a large amount of damage due to having sheer numbers casting the spell.
Faction Friendly AOE
- Because Faction players cannot damage members of the same Faction, Faction players will have a Damage Penalty applied to any Organized PvP Meteor Swarm / Chain Lightning spells that have Friendly Players within the AOE radius.
- For each Friendly Faction player within the radius of an Organized PvP Meteor Swarm, the spell will suffer a 20% penalty (up to a maximum of 80%).
- For each Friendly Faction player within the radius of an Organized PvP Chain Lightning, the spell will suffer a 30% penalty (up to a maximum of 80%).
Spells & Abilities
- Reactive Armor
- The Reactive Armor spell will no longer give 2 separate system messages when expired or removed.
- Summoners Tome
- Fixed an issue where the Air Elemental Cyclone upgrade would not correctly increase the number of Targets potentially hit.
- Knockback
- Players and creatures that are currently experiencing a Knockback effect causing them to move tiles (including "reverse Knockback" effects such as Rift Daemon Rifts abilities) cannot be affected by an additional Knockback effect until the first one resolves fully.
- Sacred Journey
- Players will now receive a "Your sacred journey effect has now expired" system message when their active Sacred Journey bonus has expired.
Items & Equipment
- Mount Tokens
- Updated all Monster Hunter Society Mount Tokens to correctly use the Monster Hunter Society Hue (2817) instead of the incorrect War Aspect hue (2503).
- Shepherd's Crook
- When player's equip a Shepherd Crook, it will now automatically set that Shepherd's Crook as their active one for the "Focus Aggression" followers mechanic.
- Players will receive a "This is now your active shepherd's crook" system message if it wasn't previously their active one.
- Wardrobe
- Traveler's Lanterns and Yuletide Candles can now be stored in Wardrobes.
- Cavernam's Icebound Amulet should now be storable in Wardrobes.
- Craftsman's Toolbox
- Used crafted Fishing Nets can now be combined together with the Craftman's Toolbox.
- Mastery Chains
- Players can now shift-click any Mastery Chain in their backpack and select the "Activate this item" context-menu entry to Activate that mastery chain (instead of having to equip it).
- Fixed an issue where the "Recover Mastery Chains" mechanic available at the Pawnbroker would not remove the Locked Down status on chains retrieved from houses (and would be unmovable in player Backpacks).
- Ship Upgrade Tome
- Fixed an issue that was causing Ship Paint Upgrade Deeds to lose their unique graphic when removed from a Ship Upgrade Tome.
- Adventurer's Satchels
- Fixed an issue where Liftlock being enabled on an Adventurer's Satchel would prevent items inside the Satchel from being able to be moved.
- Outlands Collectable Cards
- Fixed an issue that was causing Outlands Collectable Cards for Field of Souls 2024, Graveyard Bash 2024, and Kings Faire 2024 being removed from an Outlands Collectable Card Tome to appear as their 2023 versions.
- Players can PM Luthius in Discord to swap any cards affected by this error.
OutlandsID
Houses
- If a player is the Owner of a House, then all characters across their OutlandsID (all accounts) are now also treated as the Owner of that House for access-related purposes (Refreshing / Securing / House Menu Mechanics / etc).
- The "actual" character Owner of the house will still be displayed in the Housing Menu.
- Players can still only place one House per Account.
Rental Vendors
- If a player is the Owner of a Rental Vendor, then all characters across their OutlandsID (all accounts) are now also treated as the Owner of that Rental Vendor for access-related purposes (Vendor Access / Vendor Menu / etc).
- The "actual" character Owner of the Rental Vendor will still be displayed in the Housing and Vendor Menus.
Vendors & Purchases
Stationary Vendor Penalties
- If a player Recalls/Gates/Hikes, or has been stationary for 5 minutes or more, they will have a Stationary Vendor Penalty applied to them.
- While a player has a Stationary Penalty, all Vendor Purchase attempts will be blocked.
- A player's Stationary Penalty will be removed once they walk or run 5 steps.
- Players will receive a system message informing them if they have a Stationary Penalty in place.
Player Mechanics
- Hiking
- Players are no longer prevented from Hiking (using an Atlas Book) if they are flagged as Recently in Combat or Recently in PvP, but will still be prevented if they have a Heat of Battle effect in place.
- Players can no longer Hike if they currently flagged as Criminal.
- Effectively, restrictions for Hiking will now more closely follow restrictions in place for Recall/Gate Travel.
- Special Effects Text
- Overhead text from a number of very frequent abilities/effects, such as Disease, Chill, Frenzy, etc, will now only be visible to the player or follower's controller who applied them.
- Overhead text from a number of special effects that affect multiple targets, such as Lightning Aspect "*shocked*", will now only be visible to the player who caused the effect.
- These changes are intended to reduce the amount of "text spam" occurring during bosses and large group content.
- Stealth Footprints
- Footprints left by stealthing creatures with non-humanoid body types now has new graphics.
- Stealthed Tamed Followers will now leave Footprints behind less frequently.
Crafting
- Crafting items using Aspect Phylacteries will now provide a limited amount of Artisan Experience / Event Contribution (for crafting events like Cavernam Expedition) similar to Aspect Cores / Distillations.
- Renamed the Picket Dip East/South Deeds under the Tinkering crafting menu as Yellow Pickpocket Dip Deed and Red Pickpocket Dip Deed (both are always east-facing).
Aspects
- The Command Aspect "Inspiration" and Water Aspect "Tidal Boon" aspect specials will no longer Hinder a player's Followers briefly when triggered.
Frost Aspect
- If a player using Frost Aspect for Weapons, Spellbook, or Armor switches to another aspect for that respective equipment, all Chill effects currently active on creatures that were applied by that player will immediately expire.
Housing & Decoration
- House Demolition
- When players Demolish a house, any House Sign Restyles and Trash Barrel Restyles unlocked for the house will now be converted back into Deeds and placed into the player's Bank Box.
- Interior Decorator
- Moving items with an Interior Decorator in a house will now only be blocked by Players and Followers at the same x/y location (will not be blocked by Rental Vendors, Barkeepers, etc).
- House Decay Lottery
- House Decay Lottery Claim Tickets now have an updated graphic and hue.
Codex
Fishing Codex
- Fixed an issue where the Heave stance would result in potential misses while on Land.
Fencing Codex
- The description for Blackguard stance is now: "Successful hits have a 3% chance per rank to inflict a Disease effect on target that deals 200% Damage spread out over 20 seconds (on Stealth attack will instead deal 66% Damage)"
- Note: This change now mirrors the handling for the Swordsmanship Weapon special "Bleed" handling on Stealth Backstabs (i.e. amount is reduced to 1/3rd of normal for backstabs).
Dungeons & Bosses
- Time Dungeon
- Fixed a rare issue where players could get locked out of being able to use Time Dungeon Runes or Relics.
- Using the Time Dungeon Statue of the Shepherdess will now only retrieve Followers that are currently inside of Time Dungeon.
- BossResults
- Players will now only be able to see `[BossResults` for a boss if either they or someone in their guild participated in the fight.
- Custodians
- Custodians will now spawn 5 minutes after a Mini-Boss or Boss Kill has occured (previously was 15 minutes).
- Omni Bosses
- Any Mastery Chain Links added to the corpse of an Omni Boss (because a player was unable to receive them) will now be shuffled amongst the items of the corpse, instead of being added to the end of the items "list".
- Boss Abilities
- The Aegis High Priestess ability "Web Trails" will now apply a 4-8 second duration Hinder effect on each impact that does not stack (previously was 6 seconds that would stack).
Achievements
- Updated the Chest Antiquities (Mythical) achievement to correctly require 10 progress and provide 50 Reward Points (players who have already completed the achievement will be given 40 Reward Points).
- Fixed an issue where buying Tickets in 100x increments for Housing Decay Lotteries would not increase progress on the Raffler (Mythical) achievement.
- Updated the Animal Bond achievements to show the Min Taming requirements of creatures for each achievement.
Creatures & NPCs
- Creatures
- Creatures will now perform their "Hurt Animation" when being hit by a Melee Attack / Spell / etc at most once every 1 second (to avoid non-stop animation spamming when attacked by multiple players/creatures).
- Guard NPCs
- Added a number of additional safety checks to prevent players (or followers) from being able to attack Guard NPCs or flag Criminal against them.
Miscellaneous
- Strangelands
- Removed the Summoner's Tome from the Deathmage template loadout (currently doesn't gain benefit from it).
- Catch of the Week
- Fixed an issue where clicking the "Catch of the Week" button in the menu for Opened Fish Bait would not launch the Catch of the Week menu.
Test Shard
Player Editor Statue
- Fixed an issue with the green Player Editor statue on the Test Shard where the player's Tactics bonus from an equipped Aspect Weapon would cause a conflict with manually setting a player's Tactics skill.
[Go Command
- Using the `[Go` command on the Test Shard while in a Rental Room (Malas Map) will now warp the player and their followers to Prevalia Town Center, or to Corpse Creek if they are a Murderer.
- Players can now use the `[Go` command on the Test Shard to reach Cavernam 4.