# Estium Alpha 2 Update (0.5.1009)

**Conjuration Summons**
- Summoning is now in the game, handled through the Conjuration skill. Four creatures, each its own ability, unlock as your Conjuration grows:
- **Spectral Wolf** (level 1) runs in and bites for piercing damage.
- **Bound Shade** (level 5) stays at your side and looses arcane bolts.
- **Rime Hound** (level 10) runs in and bites for cold damage.
- **Frost Elemental** (level 15) stays at your side and hurls shards of cold.
- Only one summon may accompany you at a time.
- Your summon **needs your tome in hand**. Switching weapons will cause you to lose focus and the summon vanishes.
- Two buttons above your health bar set the summons behavior: **Assist Me** and **Back Off**. The one in colour is the current mode. **B** switches between them (rebind it under Settings > Controls > Targeting). After Back Off, your summon waits for your next attack before it rejoins the fight.
- While a summon is out, your autoattacks hit for less, but the summon more than makes up for the difference.
- Nothing can attack your summon and it never blocks your path.

** Ritual of Convocation**
- A new Conjuration ritual at level 30 that can calls a party member to your side. You need a tome, some mana, and some helpers to assist in the ritual.
- Two party members click the arch to help you channel. The player you call must be at least 30 tiles away, and will get a prompt to accept.
- The rite **cannot** be used in dungeons, in caves, on Newbie Island, or on any other places that might result in a player getting stuck.
- You earn 150 Conjuration XP when the called player arrives (at most once every 10 minutes).

** Healing and Reviving**
- **Resurrect** is a new Thaumaturgy spell at level 50. With a staff, channel for 9 seconds to revive an unconscious player with 10 health. It costs 80 mana, **works in combat**, and it can even raise someone a failed First Aid left locked.
- **Attempt First Aid** now opens a picker: bare hands (15%) or any healer's kit you carry (a Basic Healer's Kit is 80%). Kits above your Chirurgery level are greyed out.
- The patient's prompt now shows your chance of reviving them.

**Spell Changes**
- **Fire Bolt** now sets its target on fire with a **Burning** debuff that damages it over time. Casting again refreshes your burn, and burns from different casters stack.
- **Condemn** now leaves its target **Condemned**: it takes additional magic damage from everyone for 15 seconds. The sunbeam follows the target and fades when the debuff ends.
- Condemn and Fire Bolt can **autocast**: shift-click the hotbar cell. They recast on your target whenever it is missing your debuff.
- Debuffs show as small icons above an enemy's health bar, with a fill for the time left and a stack count for Burning.
- The ability book now shows each ability's level requirement.

** Mounts**
- Taking a hit no longer throws you from the saddle at once. Every horse has **Tenacity**, the number of damaging hits it takes before it rears and throws you: Draft 8, Black 6, Bay, Chestnut and Palomino 5, Thoroughbred 3 by default.
- New **Mount / Dismount** key, **H** by default.

**Surging Vein Changes**
- The wait before a surge now reads **Charging**, and nobody can mine or chisel a charging vein.
- A surging vein **no longer gives ore.** Every swing still pays Prospecting XP, doubled gem odds and a higher multiplier, so a full pack no longer stops you.
- Chiseling a surging vein now counts toward the burst.

**Barrowroot**
- Ormund, the Antlered Thane, had a minor health increase, and his Binding Roots now holds everyone within 30 tiles.
- The Bone Steward has had his health reduced to 320 base (was 380).

**Other**

- Ore and bars no longer stack again. Any stacks you have are split at login into empty pack slots, then your bank. Nothing is lost.
- Skinning XP is **doubled**: 50 per skin, plus 4 per level of the hide's requirement.
- Lightning no longer flashes the sky, the ground or your screen. The bolt and the thunder remain.
- Photo mode has its own button on the bottom right menu bar. Shift+F10 still works.