In the next couple of hours, we’ll be releasing a new patch on the client and the server which introduces the first part of our Sprint Five Content as well as some other things.

Rare Fish

The highlight of this new patch is improvements and fleshing out further of the Fishing class. There are 3 new types of fish available in the world, all of which are “rare” fish which don’t follow the usual rules. They will appear in different bodies of water depending on a variety of factors (which the avid fisherman will need to discover if they want to be able to reliably catch them on an ongoing basis).

Two of these fish are ingredients in new potion recipes which allow you to quickly “mass produce” Concentrated Healing Potions, Luck Potions, and Empowered Strikes Potions.

Go back and speak with Ernest to start the new quests available to learn about these rare fish, gain new fishing gear (with stats!), and unlock these new potion recipes.

Stats on Fishing Gear

The new gear from the questline now features Strength, Intellect, and Luck stats. The Strength stat affects how easy it is to catch fish. All fish now have their own Strength stat, and how your Strength measures up against the fish’s determines how much “jerking” the fish will do, which affects how easy it will be to reel it in without snapping your line. You’ll want to acquire some fishing gear with Strength on it before attempting to catch the new rare fish. Intellect increases the likliehood of receiving “nibble” alerts, which will be vital to helping you track down where the rare fish are located. And Luck is now even more beneficial while fishing, affecting not only your chance to catch a fish, but now Luck gives you a chance to catch two fish at once on the same cast!

Gold Rush Cape Reward

When the new patch goes live, those of you who earned the Gold Rush achievement over the weekend should be able to visit the Backer Rewards vendor in Highsteppe and claim your new cape.

Shard Dungeon Mutations

This week’s Shard Dungeon mutations are Sickness and Last Stand. However, note that Last Stand no longer applies to bosses.

Other Changes

The fishing pole now has a HUD so you can see your health as well as any active buffs while fishing.

Fixed issues with the line not breaking while fishing, and tweaked it overall to be a little more difficult to catch strong fish.

Fixed an issue which was preventing Player Market stalls from properly supporting selling Dragons and Runemsith tilesets; both of these should be working now.

Fixed a bug which was sometimes causing the Player’s Dragon Terrarium not to appear.

Fixed an issue which sometimes caused the Pet Dragon to take aggro during some boss fights.

If you move your position greatly while fishing, your bobber will now reset. You have quite a bit of wiggle room, but if you were previously casting off a dock then moving to your bobber, that will no longer work.

We’ll update this post when the new client and server builds are available. Thanks!