Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues

Release 71

Welcome to Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues Release 71! “How to Play” instructions and game update notes on Release 70 are available here.

Build Number 1075 – November 17 4:00AM

Updates

Fix for an issue which could break the UI after dragging a world item to your character. This was an emergency patch after discovering this could break new user experience.

Build Number 1074 – November 16 6:00AM

Updates

Fix bug that caused a decoration item to be lost when attempting to place it in an invalid location
Numerous fixes the existing player owned town deco spawners
Player owned town animal spawners are now available in the crown store
Combat performance improvements for Ice Field, Ring of Fire, Meteor Shower, Soothing rain
Visual fixes to a few convention reward items
Conversation and quest fixes for Xenos
Liche casters will now be far less resistant to Life Magic
Player owned town size increase for Mith Ly’atharin

Build Number 1073 – November 7 7:00AM

Updates

Fix for Bandit armor chest stats for the Uncommon, Rare, and Legendary versions
Store cleanup and text work

Build Number 1072 – November 6 7:00AM

Updates

Tartarus Cursed Maze now PVP
Ardoris teleporter now correctly takes you to Ardoris!
Typo fixes for the Crown shop
Cherry petals falling VFX now correct brightness
A number of new store items for Thanksgiving items, fairy items
Break Weapon and Break Armor get a chance to dispel a positive buff on targets.
Several more artifacts added to the Enchanting list including Sword of Speed, Wand of Air, Wand of Fire, Mace of Unsummoning, Staff of Death, Crossbow of Accuracy

Build Number 1068 – November 1 7:00AM

Updates

Fixed exception when attempting to combine glyphs that do not combine with then broke the hotbar
Soltown street signs color coding to yellow for critical signs
Geometry error in login reward house fixed
Ardoris, Central Brittany, and Owlshead city POT teleporters and VFX birds added to the crown store
Improvements to Necropolis Barrens spawns
Grey wolves face geometry rework
Cherry Blossom tree collision improved
Mannequins improved to crash through far fewer wearables
Solace Bridge Outskirts work to eliminate stuck spots and also eliminate spots where new players were falling to their deaths
Added missing 2H Life effects enchantment
Fixed bug that had players interact with interactives under the cursor even if there was UI blocking it
Fixed Miniature Fire Elemental deco issues with collision and incorrect visuals

Build Number 1067 – October 31 5:00PM

Updates

Tartarus has been split into 2 scenes, one is a PVP maze and wave battle and the other, all PVE battles. This also resolves the issues some were seeing where they able to attack their own party members
Brittany trainers should now stay put and be easier to find
Exception fixed with picking up a POT Plot that was causing some odd behavior
Aerie: Fixed an issue where the “Give Vault Key to Marlin” task marker wasn’t going away.
Rose flower arrangements can now be placed as POT decos
Estgard: Updated the auto-complete flag for 3 Courage-related tasks.
Fireplace decos no longer flicker quite so crazily
Despair improvements including some door work
Party restriction removed from Despair so it will now behave like most other dungeons
Tenebris Harbor: Players can no longer pick up a “lucky nugget” if they already have done so. Also, any players stuck with an extra one can talk to Zan in the guard camp to have it automatically removed.
Kas Vault: Changed from two Tier 5 ghosts to one Tier 4 ghost, and from 2 Tier 5 spiders to one Tier 5 spider (with one less spawn location–the one that overlaps with the ghosts).
Kobold Expeditionary Camp: Updated quest journal hint to mention the camp is north (not northwest). Also, improved criteria for displaying associated compass marker.
Necropolis Barrens: Added the Tier 15 brown spider
Compendium of Pain and Suffering: Faun_CP06 continues to have a virtue event (#31) associated with killing it. Howerver, the amount changes is now 0 Courage (as opposed to -1 Courage). This is because the Oracle needs to know you are killing Fauns, but you aren’t getting penalized for it.
Epitaph: Players can no longer collect a Vermilion Lens if they have already done so.
Book of Memorialized Names: Updated with new name
Holiday Lights now hang much more reliably on exterior walls
Sword of speed will now have 100 base durability
Solar Flare will now correctly damage things
Verdantis Mines terrain will no longer show grass
Cost of Eggs and Pecan Nuts set back to 4
Warp spiders have another new ability
Store text bug fixes
Batch crafting improvement: reuse unused ingredients after a failure instead of sending them to inventory. This was based on feedback from players at SOTACon
Sword of speed no longer has incorrect colors when placed as a deco
Grim Reaper mask no longer crashes through avatar face, but correctly hides it
Fishing in a party will no longer generate a party roll for each fish caught!
Moving off lot while placing a new decoration (still dragging, not dropped), prevents further decoration
Added koi fish back to the koi pond green marble dungeon room
Obsidian Altar can now be scaled all the way up to 120% and still be placeable
Removed extra gold nameplate from Marlin Trophy
Scarecrow mask is no longer set to be dyeable (was never intended to be)
Spiders in Web Deco with Crawling Spiders now draw in front of the web instead of behind it.
/bugspray emote animation now functions correctly for the female so that the plunger moves as it should
Fiedx bug that prevented dynamic plot boundaries from being visible while moving the dynamic plot
Isabelline Stone 2-Tier Outdoor Fountain now has water appearance correctly scaled
Isabelline Stone 2-Tier Outdoor Fountain can once again be placed
Owl’s Head: Fixed a number of issues with guard responses.
Fix bug that caused a decoration to momentarily re-appear on the lot when being removed
Owl’s Head: Mervyn now always displays his “Adventurer Trainer” title.
Despair: Disabled one of the five “doorman” access codes pending implementation of required hints
Death Shield will now behave as described int he release notes. While still very effective, it will no longer let extreme death mages approach 100% damage blocking