Adventurers, take note! Now, when embarking on quests that require specific item collections, such as gathering zombie hands for the delivery cart quest, these items will only drop from monsters once you've officially started the quest. This change ensures a more streamlined and rewarding journey as you complete your tasks. Happy questing!

Feathers and Fury: The Great Fowl Frenzy Lucky Dip is now live! For those who participated in the event and received any of the new paintings, you can now bring those deeds to Luke, the Dimensional Shrinker, in exchange for a Lucky Dip bag! Take your chance at winning a special-colored shoulder parrot with a unique teleport effect, a rare mount, colored exploding decoration barrels, or a mini-colored event painting! If you have duplicates, this is a perfect opportunity to get something new! This is only available for the next 7 days!

The Thief's Arcane Jackpot is now live! Visit Silas Shadowstep outside Britain Bank for your chance to win amazing Talisman prizes. Three lucky winners will be drawn, so don't miss out! The cost is 10 raffle tokens, which can be found as loot on Paragon monsters. The lottery will be drawn on 09/01/2024.

Players can now dismember the bodies of other players into pieces, including the head, torso, arms, and legs. Use these macabre trophies to decorate your house with the body parts of your defeated victims.

In the latest update to Shards of Britannia, a series of enhancements have been made to improve the experience for players embracing the life of a thief. Here’s a breakdown of the updates:

• Perfect Crime: Players now have a 10% chance to remain blue after successfully stealing from another player.

• Stealing from monsters no longer turns players grey.

• Stealing Cooldown: A new progress bar has been added to track the cooldown period after stealing, giving players a clear visual indicator of their readiness for the next heist.

• No Criminal Action or Karma Loss: Players will not incur criminal actions or lose karma when stealing from monsters.

• The Black Goods Thieves Guild Master in Buccaneer’s Den has expanded his inventory with a range of new talisman items, purchasable with Thieves Coins:

• Magic Thieves Hood: Adds special visual effects when using a smoke bomb, enhancing the thief's dramatic escape.

• Shadow Dancer's Talisman: Increases the maximum chance to stay hidden during PVE stealing to an impressive 95%.

• Shadow Reach Talisman: Extends the distance from which a thief can steal, allowing for more strategic positioning.

• Shadow Snoop Talisman: Increases the distance from which a thief can snoop, making it easier to scout out potential targets.

• Lucky Charm Talisman: Adds an additional 10% chance to commit the perfect crime.

• Talisman of Precision Disarmament: Adds a 20% bonus chance to disarm player-trapped containers, improving safety when pilfering goods.

• Thieves Lucky Reward Bag Talisman: Adds a 20% bonus chance to receive a Thieves Coin when turning in black goods reward bags.

These updates bring new depth and excitement to the thief gameplay experience, encouraging players to refine their skills and explore the art of stealth and deception in Shards of Britannia. Happy stealing, and may the shadows be ever in your favor!

• The Black Goods Thief Guildmaster in Buccaneer's Den now offers an option to turn in Black Goods reward bags. There's a 10% chance to receive a Thieves Coin when you do so. Be sure to empty your loot from these bags before handing them in!

• Stolen items will now go directly into players loot bags.

• Thieves will now face a dramatically lowered success rate when attempting to steal from monsters engaged in combat.

• Fabled fishing nets chance to spawn monsters increased from 50% to 100%

• The new PVE stealing patch is now live! Players can steal enhanced loot from all dungeon monsters, with tougher monsters yielding better rewards.

• Skill-Dependent Revelation: The chance for thieves to be revealed while stealing from monsters now depends on their combined skills in stealing, snooping, stealth, and hiding.

• No Smoke Bomb Cooldown: Smoke bombs no longer have a cooldown period after being used to steal from monsters.

• New Treasure: A newly introduced "Ingeniously Drawn" treasure is now available exclusively through PVE stealing.

• Black Goods Drops: Monsters now have a chance to drop black goods, which can be turned in to the Thief Guildmaster located in Buccs Den.

• High-Tier Loot Access: Thieves can only access high-tier loot tables if they are members of the Thieves Guild. These loot tables now include a variety of new decorations, masks, clothing, and special thief items.

• Camouflage Potion Restriction: Players in the Thieves Guild can no longer use camouflage potions.

• Incognito Spell Update: New names have been added to the incognito spell.

We are thrilled to announce that Season 4 is now live!

This Season started on July 22nd, 2024 and ends on or around Oct 22nd, 2024

Participate today in-game by opening the Season Challenges window with the default Right Bracket [ key or by typing /challenge

By completing challenges you can unlock vast rewards that change with each season. We hope you enjoy!

Thanks for being here and for your continued support!

We've identified the root cause and have deployed a fix for the issue causing players in Minoc or other regions to have issues with the Launcher Connectivity, effective immediately. You should now be able to login fully again. Sorry again for the interruption!

The dungeon token vendor in Shame is now offering two special masks for sale. These exclusive masks are available for purchase for a limited time only. Don't miss out on the chance to get yours by the end of September!

The upcoming faction event has been rescheduled to the following week. Please see our official Discord for all the details.

• Ore elementals now have an increased chance to spawn in the daily dungeon and a decreased chance to spawn in the safe weekly dungeon.

• Most of the mounts in the game now have sounds added for walking and running, although a few are still not working at the moment.

We are thrilled to announce that Season 4 will kick off on the 20th of July, coinciding with our anniversary celebration! This season promises to bring new challenges, exciting content, and fantastic rewards.

Stay tuned for more details as we approach the launch date. Thank you for your continued support, and we can't wait to embark on this new journey with you!

Mark your calendars for July 20th and join us in celebrating our anniversary with the start of an incredible new season!

Nacromancer:

• Haunt:

  • This spell has been fixed.. hopefully for good.

• Blood Siphon:

  • It is now a channeling spell with a 1 minute cooldown.
  • When casted, on impact will inflict the full spell damage as before, then it will start channeling.
  • Every 2 seconds, the spell checks the distance between the caster and the target.
  • If the target is within 6 meters, the spell siphons health from the target, converting it to the caster's health.
  • The amount siphoned is inversely proportional to the distance (closer targets result in more health drained).
  • The spell ends if the target dies, moves out of range, or the duration expires.

  -- A necromancer in the heat of battle can cast Blood Siphon on a weakened enemy, ensuring their own survival by draining the life force of their foe. This spell can turn the tide of combat, especially in prolonged engagements where maintaining health is critical.

• Animate Dead:

  • It now takes the shape of the dead target, if no targets are available it guarantees one skeleton.
  • The caster can animate up to a maximum of 5 dead creatures or skeletons at a time.
  • The summons will follow you by default and you can command them to attack.
  • Each animated creature or skeleton will last for 60 seconds before disintegrating unless killed.
  • The spell searches for valid corpses within a 15-unit radius of the target location.
  • The spell filters out corpses that have already been raised by another necromancer.
  • Each animated dead creature will now shield the caster from one hit (if they are alive and the caster gets hit) and then be dispelled, providing both offensive and defensive support.

  -- A necromancer surrounded by enemies can use Animate Dead to summon an army of skeletons or reanimated creatures from the nearby battlefield. These temporary allies can distract and weaken opponents, shield the caster from harm, and follow the caster's commands, giving the caster a strategic advantage.

• Mitigate Poison:

  • This spell will now cure poison, and cure has been removed from Noxious Decay.

Gravedigging:

• Updates:
  • The amount of Grave Dust that can be dug up has been increased.
  • While digging you have a chance to cast Cocoon spell on yourself at no cost (This should apply to non-Undead too), this gives you a one-hit protection and a stat bless on break.
  • Caged Souls have been added to the loot table, these are cages that hold 10 souls and can be sold/traded to undead players or claimed by undead players.

Please report any bug that you might encounter using the /bug command in game.

• The test center is now open for anyone who would like to log in and help test some new PVE stealing updates for thieves. Shame dungeon is open, and you can attempt to steal from all mobs from levels 1 to 3. Each higher level provides better loot. If you find any black goods, you can turn them in to the thief guildmaster. Any feedback on bugs, drop rates, etc., is most welcome.

• A new farmer found near the cotton fields in Skara Brae will trade a Percheron mount for 10 magic valorite cotton. This rare cotton plant sometimes spawns in regular cotton fields, but when harvested, it becomes extremely volatile and heavy. You will need to use a horse and cart to take the cotton to Wizard Luke before it decays after 60 minutes.

Valorite cotton is a rare and mystical plant that grows in cotton fields all over Britannia. The cotton harvested from these plants is imbued with the essence of valorite, a precious magical mineral known for its strength and magical conductivity. Valorite cotton is said to have originated from the tears of a valorous dragon that sacrificed itself to protect the land. Fields of valorite cotton are therefore considered sacred, and harvesting the cotton is seen as both an honor and a responsibility.

Though many magical uses for valorite cotton exist, most are shrouded in mystery and remain to be rediscovered by modern wizards and scholars. The full potential of this extraordinary material is still waiting to be unlocked.

• Get your faction toons ready to battle it out in a best-of-three pillar event in one month's time! There will be prizes for all members of the winning faction and for the player with the most overall kills. Prizes will be announced soon! Check events in our official Discord!

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UPDATE: due to the number of users having issues connecting their Discord accounts, we have moved this over to a multiple-choice Ballot Box placed in front of West Britain Bank in-game.

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