Brimir Update (v1655)

The ceiling on Marks is open. We also went after two things that had sat there a long time without anyone explaining them — a frenzy that ended the moment you lit it, and weakness guidance that simply was not true.

⭐ Mark Stage 6 — earned, not bought

If Stage 5 was your ceiling, we had nothing left to give you. Stage 6 is the one stage you do not buy with materials. You win it.

• The Trial of the Mark now stands at the Sacred Grove. Two opponents — Starkad the Unmoving and Hrolf the Butcher
• The win condition is the proof itself. Einherjar endure five minutes; Berserkers must finish it inside five
• Six-point rewards — Rampart of Valhalla raises your taunt and shield ceiling; Apex of Strife adds learning and detonation

🔥 Overclock Chant — it now grows as it heats

You got the full effect the instant you lit it, and that was that. It was a toggle with nothing to decide. Worse, heat resets each battle, so the shorter the fight the better the rune — exactly backwards.

• Ten stages now. As heat climbs, attack speed and damage climb with it — and so does the spirit energy drain
• It is weaker in trash rooms, because there is no time to heat up. In long fights it is stronger than before
• More spirit energy takes you deeper. The upper stages are expensive, so only a full tank pushes to the top — until now spirit energy did nothing at all for this rune
• Overclock Reactor is new. It holds the same heat on less spirit energy, reaching stages the circuit never could

📕 Weakness and resistance — the false guidance is gone

• The fixed elemental chart is gone.
• The Codex now shows each enemy's real weakness and resistance, for enemies you have actually met
• Enchanting changed. It no longer adds damage — it ignores that element's resistance. Weapons pierce; armor takes less of that element. It is now something you choose after checking the Codex

🛡️ Threat — locking an enemy down finally holds its eyes

• Crowd control now builds threat.

💎 New runes

• Three new runes — Crystal Mail (Magic Power into Toughness), Marrow Floodgate (Toughness into Magic Power), and Overclock Reactor. Found by reforging at the altar in the Seeped Pool

The pilgrimage to the Heart continues.