Travelers,

The histories of Eterra have been saved, and we have many of you to thank for it. Your efforts have secured the knowledge of the land for time unknowable; but a devoted few who have proven to be true scholars of the land deserve to be recognized.

First to correctly submit the answers to all 7 questions: FatherToast has taken first place receiving the Forum Badge and in-game title of Last Archive Headmaster

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Coming in second place, congratulations to vonGorre, receiving the Forum Badge and in-game title of Last Archive Librarian




The final podium finalist coming in third place, is Gavryngaming, receiving the Forum Badge and in-game title of Last Archive Researcher




To the remaining entries, your efforts have not gone unnoticed and for that we offer you the Forum Badge and in-game title of Last Archive Student.



In-Game titles can be found in the cosmetics menu. Please allow 24 hours for your rewards to become accessible in each of your accounts.

On behalf of the Last Archive and all of us here at EHG, we would like to thank all of our participants for joining us and we look forward to seeing you all in our next event!

We have received a few reports of Forgotten Knight faction reputation being reset. As such we are reverting the recent change to SCF/SAF migration as the suspected cause in an effort to prevent players losing progression while we investigate.

• Reverted change: When you abandon the SCF challenge, the most progressed Forgotten Knights faction between SCF & SAF will be carried over.

• Reduced the area of the Orbiting Cold DoT ability.

• Removed rotating lightning ability.

• Poison pool deals 25% less damage.
  
• Poison pool now ends when the Nemesis is defeated.
  
• Poison spin attack deals 14% less damage.
  
• The across the screen projectiles now deal physical damage rather than fire.
  
• The poisons inflicted by the across the screen projectiles have 50% reduced duration.

Improved UX when closing panel with an item in the nemesis swap slot.

• If you manually press the close button while an item is in the Egg of the Forgotten swap slot, it will be returned to the inventory.
  
• If you close the whole nemesis panel while an item is in there (for example by pressing escape or closing the game), then the item will remain there, but the next time you open the Egg of the Forgotten panel, the swap sub panel will be open with the item visible.

The result of these changes is that if you get one Timeline up to 300 Corruption, and then go to a fresh Empowered Timeline, completing a single Echo will create a Shade Echo next to it, that will boost that Timeline straight to 296 Corruption.

• Bonus Corruption based on the difference between the highest Corruption Timeline and the current Timeline is now always 95% of the difference (from scaling based on distance and being capped at 60%)
  
• When the difference between the highest Corruption Timeline and the current Timeline is greater than 40, or you have at least 8 Gaze of Orobyss, and the current Echo Web does not contain a Shade Echo, then completing an Echo will create a Shade Echo next to it.

Added the following info to the death screen:

• How much damage was dealt by the killing blow.
  
• How much overkill damage the killing blow had (i.e. how much damage was dealt beyond what was necessary to reduce the player to 0 health).
  
• Whether the killing blow was a crit.

• Damage of ice breath attack scales up over the duration of the cast from 50% to 100%.

• Deal 24% less poison damage.

• Its Flamethrower deals 11% less damage.
  
• Increased duration of Flamethrower attack by 30%.
  
• Its melee attacks are 20% slower.
  
• Reduced visual noise of their fire warpath ability.
  
• Ignites applied from its Fire Ground have 30% reduced duration

• Sand Twister deals 17% less damage.

• Fixed indicator on Heorots’ triple ice nova attack displaying incorrectly after first cast.
  
• Optimized Heorot’s ice stab attack (performance and reliability).

• Holy Meteor attack range reduced by 60%.

• Deals 12% less fire damage.

• Added a visual indicator for the poison tail attack for theming.
  
• Sand Scorpions deal 24% less poison damage.

• Increased the time till detonation of his thrown javelin ability by 25%.
  
• Changed visuals to better reflect and indicate impending explosion.

• Their bow attack deals 12.5% less damage.

• Now idles for 1.3 seconds after howling.
  
• Reduced damage by 15%.
  
• Now tracks your movement slightly less well before leaping.

• Now tracks your movement slightly less well before leaping.

• Now always turn to the target before shooting their lightning beams.
  
• The rate of lightning beams has been reduced.

• Reduced size by 30%.
  
• Damage of ice breath attack scales up over the duration of the cast from 50% to 100%.
  
• Their ice breath has 25% less chance to inflict Frostbite each second.
  
• Their leap deals 17% less damage
  
• Their melee attack deals 12.5% less damage

• Damage of fire breath attack scales up over the duration of the cast from 50% to 100%.
  
• Their flame breath has 30% less chance to ignite each second.
  
• Reduced size by 20%.
  
• Reduced size of flame breath attack by 20%.
  
• Their leap deals 17% less damage
  
• Their melee attack deals 12.5% less damage

• The Snake Infection from their Poison Burst deals 25% less damage over its full duration.

• Has 78% more health.

• Grants 27% more experience.
  
• Grants 50% more gold when they drop gold.
  
• Grants 69% more items when they drop items.

• Grants 50% more experience.
  
• Deals 14% less void damage.

• Totem cast ranged reduced by 20%.
  
• Shield buff range reduced by 40%.

• Ground area deals 21% less damage over time.

• Their poison sphere spell now only applies 2 stacks of poison (from 3).

• The Energy Wave no longer has 100% increased poison effect.
  
• The Volatile Bulbs no longer have 100% increased poison effect.

• Its poison line attack deals 15% less poison damage over time.

• His phoenix spell deals 12% less damage over time.

• Deals 12% less fire damage over time.

• Reduced the duration of Poison and Armor shred from their traps by 30%.

• Shield Bash SFX changed when the cooldown is removed to be less repetitive and annoying to hear in rapid succession.
  
• Hammer Throw's initial speed of Hammers increased which decreases over time.
  
• Hammer Throw now throws from the hand more reliably.
  
• Updated VFX for Base, Cold, and Physical versions of Avalanche

• When you abandon the SCF challenge, the most progressed Forgotten Knights faction between SCF & SAF will be carried over.

• Lens tooltips are now visible when equipped in the Observatory panel.

• Fixed an issue where killing the Harbingers in an Aberroth boss run would erroneously complete Kill Any Boss prophecy targets, which would drop rewards that may be missed when being sent to Aberroth.
  
• Experience granted by the original timeline boss is granted by the harbinger instead if one spawns. This prevents an abuse case where you could repeatedly kill the timeline boss for xp and then portal out before killing the harbinger to farm favour (from xp).
  
• Fixed a bug where void puddles would not dispel fire puddles they spawned on top of

• Fixed a bug where some of the Stormsteel Nemesis' abilities would persist after they die.
  
• Fixed a bug where some of the Froststeel Nemesis' abilities would be angled if cast on a slope.
  
• Fixed a bug where taking Replacing an Egg of the Forgotten with an MG tagged unique, could result in its tag changing to CoF if it gained legendary potential. This only occurred if the CoF bonus increased the legendary potential it gained.

• Fixed VFX and Animations for various enemies
  
• Fixed Aberroth's Absorbing Chaos ability (Big Donut before Timeshattering Slam) to make it fade out in the final phase, rather than instantly disappear.
  
• Fixed a bug with the Altar of Oblivion where the bottom section would disappear rather than disintegrate

• Fixed an issue with gamepad where toggling dropped items details did not work properly.

• Improved hit-box of tri-elemental beam to more tightly match visuals.

• Fixed a bug where sometimes their visuals would not appear.
  
• Added a failsafe to ensure that their entrance animation will not override any ability animations.

• Fixed a bug where entrance animation wouldn’t play and played too quickly

• Fixed a bug where Spirit of Grael, Son of Artor could not be pierced by projectiles.

• Fixed a bug where their Flame Breath attack didn't disappear when they died or were stunned.

• Fixed Imperial Thetima very rarely spawning random encounters (e.g. Shrines, Nemesis) and only ever being able to spawn them in one spot.

• Vocal sounds were missing and have now been implemented for: Burning Pyromancer, Fire Lich Bone Golem Minion, Memory Vessel Skeleton, Imperial Soul Mage, Chaos Vessel Skeleton, Imperial Guard, Imperial Shadow Dungeon, Imperial Shadow
  
• Replaced SFX on the skill that procs when a Volatile Maw dies.
  
• Fixed an issue where SFX weren’t playing on subsequent earthquake impacts when specced into Seismic Tide.
  
• Revised volume of Flame Paladin’s vocalizations.

• Fixed a bug where Toxic Craving still applied the effects of one stack after all stacks were lost.
  
• Fixed a bug where Dancing Strikes's Rhythm could fail to trigger when using Windmill Ballet or Hidden Blade.
  
• Fixed a bug where abilities would sometimes fail to cast due to mana cost in online play, even if you had an effect from your skill tree that makes it free when out of mana.
  
• Fixed an issue with Ring Of Shields where the Shields were not visible.
  
• Fixed a bug where Runemaster's Never Late's threshold bonus was not doubling the additional critical strike chance of its buff, and was instead causing the Never Late buff to intermittently apply to spells without using a traversal skill.

• Fixed an error leading to reports of new offline characters not saving progress.
  
• Fixed an issue where required level to forge an item was erroneously including sealed, experimental, and personal affixes.
  
• Fixed a bug where a Timeline could lose stability if the player returned to the Monolith Hub after completing the first or second Quest Echo in the Timeline.

• Improved cosmetics store item details, including adding a way to view which item types are supported for weapon/shield MTX.
  
• Fixed a bug where the main menu close button was not easily clickable.
  
• Fixed a bug where the player character would move to follow the mouse when dragging a scrollbar if the mouse moved outside of the UI panel during the scroll.
  
• Fixed a bug that could lead to garbled item labels and error spam.

• Fixed several sources of desync issues and disconnects

• Fixed Seed of Ekkidrasi's "Endurance applies to Mana" effect using uncapped endurance. This fixes the player becoming immortal with 100% endurance and 100% of damage dealt to mana.

• Fixed a bug where Circle of Fortune's rank 10 bonus was not applying to boss uniques from arena, dungeons, Exiled Mages, and the Shade of Orobyss. As a result of this change Exiled Mage unique drops are now randomized per player, rather than being the same for each player.
  
• In online play, killing a Shade of Orobyss while dead now counts as a successful kill, granting stability and resetting your echo web. You are still able to respawn and collect your loot.
  
• Fixed an issue causing disconnection when entering towns.

• Changes made to Sturiax the Burning Sky (Osprix Firemage)
  
  • Slowed down meteor impact times by 0.3 seconds. (0.9 -> 1.2)
    
  • Phoenix Flamethrower damage ramps up over 1 second instead of starting at full blast.
• Added a new loot filter condition called Factions that will allow you to filter for faction-specific items.
  
• Increased XP reward for Harbinger and Aberroth quests.

• Fixed a bug where projectiles would get destroyed by nemesis spawn locations in offline play.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Monolith Of Fate side quest would not progress when talking to the Forgotten Knight in the End of Times.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Character migration prompt could show when you have the maximum number of characters.
  
• Fixed a bug where Shield Bash could not recover cooldown when stunning enemies if Incinerating Blows is allocated.
  
• Fixed a bug which prevented Online HC characters from using blessings discovered on other HC characters.
  
• Fixed a bug which prevented Online HC characters from using blessings discovered on other (including dead) HC characters.
  
  • This is retroactive and you will be able to use blessings discovered before this fix.
• Fixed the Scourge of the Depths helm and the Deep Watchers helm missing VFX.
  
• Fixed Crest of the Voidwalker portal MTX VFX.
  
• Fixed a bug resulting in an error "No translation found for tooltip..." when hovering over items.
  
• Fixed a bug causing CoF Rank 12 double rewards to be additive with Lens double rewards, rather than multiplicative.

• Added controller integration for Dungeon Door Panels and Boss Fight Confirmation Windows
  
• "B" or "Start" on Controller will now close the Nemesis panel

• Updated graphics for "Void Cultist" enemies
  
• Added Backer Reward painting to Arena Lobby
  
• Added death VFX to Weathered Statue enemies
  
• The mana cost displayed on ability tooltips now rounds to the nearest 0.1, rather than always rounding *up* to a whole number.
  
  • - It still prioritizes rounding up when it's in the range (0, 0.05] and would otherwise round to 0 despite having a positive mana cost. It's important to show a positive mana cost in this case to accurately indicate to the player that the skill can't be used when below 0 mana.
    
  • - Example: Previously, if a mana cost of a skill was 39.7, it would round the tooltip to 40. But if there was a mechanic that only happens with 40 mana cost, it wouldn't occur with that 39.7 mana cost. The skill will now display the mana cost of 39.7 mana to prevent this confusion.
• Displayed Mana Regeneration in Character sheet now rounds to the nearest 0.1 instead of rounding to the nearest whole number
  
• Added Indicator to Remove Only Stash Tabs

In the campaign nemesis does not spawn if the items were generated at least 15 levels above the zone level, or there is an egg present. Additionally, if the player interacts with nemesis in a campaign zone of a certain level, and then interacts with a nemesis in campaign zones at or below that level three more times, the nemeses will not appear for them in campaign zones of that level or below.

To prevent encountering the above Nemesis spawn protection in normal play, we have adjusted several area levels:

• The Council Chambers is level 11 (from 10)
  
• Erza's Library is level 12 (from 11)
  
• The Shrouded Ridge is level 17 (from 14)
  
• The Ruined College is level 24 (from 23)
  
• The Great College is level 24 (from 25)
  
• The Felled Wood is level 26 (from 25)
  
• Soulfire Bastion, Soulfire Keep, and The Soul Furnace show on the map as level 37 (from 24, 24, and 90 respectively). This does not affect the level of the actual dungeon tiers.

• Increased base nemesis spawn rate (before additional spawn rate from corruption) by 15%
  
• The nemesis icon is shown on the minimap at the same distance as the chat message triggers (from 67% of that distance)

• Fixed a bug where some cases of damage conditionals applied their effects even when the conditional wasn't met. For example, Doom Herald's more damage to damned enemies while channeling was applying to enemies that were not damned.

• Fix Minions animation getting stuck after a Scene transition

• Fixed a bug where aftershocks would appear at your cursor location when casting Earthquake, rather than on nearby enemies

• Fixed a bug where Trapas was not applying its listed +3 mana cost

• Fixed a bug where Side by Side could not be triggered by Explosive Trap
  
• Fixed a bug where Exposed Weakness could not be triggered by Explosive Trap

• Fixed a bug where double tapping channeled Flurry could put you in a state where you are permanently Flurrying

• Fixed a bug where Excited Bolts consumed a percentage of maximum mana, instead of a percentage of current mana

• Fixed a bug where Runic Invocation's Power Word: Devastation was causing the glyph's hit to apply 5 frostbite stacks per Heo rune, instead of its damage over time applying 5 frostbite stacks per second per Heo rune

• Players can now correctly set new skills when in Reaper form and when shifting out of reaper form

• Fixed a bug where Shattered Immunity's damage modifiers were applying as 4 separate multipliers, instead of as 2 separate multipliers

• Fixed a bug where Gathering Storm's Tempest Weapon did not affect Storm Bolts cast by Storm Totem with Unmatched Storms

• Fixed a bug where "Lost Connection" popup would not focus when using a controller
  
• Fixed controller issue where you can't switch eras when focused on quest details
  
• Fixed a bug with controller navigation in the MTX Shop Panel
  
• Fixed an issue with navigating Item Faction ranks with a controller
  
• Fixed an issue where the gamepad radial menu would not show new skill and passive indicators upon leveling up
  
• Improved controller navigation on Choose Blessing panel
  
• Fixed an issue where closing a menu would also activate the Character's ability that uses the same button
  
• Fixed an issue where moving the left thumbstick while comparing items would move the character
  
• Fixed an issue where Item selection on DualShock controller shows Xbox prompt
  
• Fixed an issue where an unnecessary prompt would appear during the Boss fight in the Summit
  
• Fixed a bug where channeling skills did not count towards keeping ground item tooltips hidden.

• Fixed a bug which could cause a second non-functional Nemesis to appear in a scene
  
• Fixed being able to add duplicate new Legendary affixes with the second Nemesis empowerment
  
• Fixed not being able to gain suffixes with the second Nemesis empowerment
  
• Reduced LP rolls when adding more affixes to Legendaries with Nemesis to counter effect of fixing the no suffix bug
  
• Fixed a bug where the Blood Nemesis had a bloody VFX after death

• Fixed a bug where Mage and Acolyte were holding Staves backwards
  
• Improved blending of Black Hole material in Alter of Oblivion
  
• Fixed incorrect postprocessing in the Monolith of Fate (hub), causing it to be too dark
  
• Disabled point light shadows in the Observatory, which was causing very heavy GPU usage on Ultra settings
  
• Fixed a missing Texture issue in The Outcast Camp
  
• Fixed an issue where player and NPC animations after a stun could desynchronize

• Fixed loot filter rules tooltip showing behind the loot filter panel
  
• Fixed game guide link button not posting a valid link to chat
  
• Ladder search now returns results containing the search term rather then only those starting with the search term
  
• Fixed Factions Panel Title not being Localized for Circle of Fortune or Forgotten Knights
  
• Loot filter tutorial is now only automatically shown when there are no loot filters instead of anytime no filter is selected.
  
• The info button in the Choose Blessing panel now only shows the tooltip when hovered over and is not clickable.
  
• Fixed player faction icons not being displayed correctly for players already on the server
  
• Fixed several bugs with stat displays on Character Sheet
  
• Fixed a bug where ground loot wasn't clickable while a boss health bar was displayed

• Fixed Misshapen Remains not dropping any loot
  
• Fixed a bug where the Scalebane Leader did not drop loot
  
• Fixed an issue with enemies that use the NPC version of Acid Flask were causing errors

• Fixed a bug where various Monolith bridges were not interactable after completing a Timeline for the first time
  
• Fixed an issue where players could get stuck, and loot inaccessible in certain areas in Ritual Lake Monolith Echo Map
  
• Fixed a bug where an inaccessible stash appeared overlapped with the Forge in The Armory
  
• Fixed a bug where a respawn point in The Ospryx Warcamp was too high up
  
• In the Isle of Storms quest you now only need to find and return one moon fragment to the Moonlit Shrine instead of both.

The team has already begun working on a large number of bug fixes and updates for a future patch. If you did not see your issue addressed this time around, rest assured it has not been forgotten. We thank you all for your patience and value your feedback.

• Fixed a bug for controller players that could cause an equipped item to drop to the ground

• The Sorcerer's Passive 2nd Bonus now correctly shows '1% more damage per 2 mana cost, up to 50% more'

• Evade tooltip no longer shows <n><n> twice
  
• Improvements to French Localization
  
• Corrected an erroneous '=' in the Old Tome dialogue

• Fixed an issue where interacting with the Alter of Oblivion with a controller could cause a crash

• Void Cleaver now correctly shows which weapon this is a cosmetic for.
  
• Aberroth's Memento now correctly shows it's name when moused over.
  
• Abyssal Legend and Abyssal Vanquisher supporter pack videos have been updated
  
• Oblivion shot bow image has been updated to show representative VFX
  
• Argentum Myrmidon gameplay video update - previously it showed a level of VFX that wasn't representative