New Class — Necromancer
• Added the new Necromancer playable class.
• Necromancer is a Shadow based caster that commands permanent and temporary undead guardians.
• Necromancer can be unlocked account wide by using the new Tome of Necromancy.
• Locked classes are now displayed at the end of character creation with a faded portrait and lock icon.
• The Skeleton Archer Grimoire no longer unlocks an ability. It is now a Gray quality vendor item worth 20 Silver.
New and Updated Runes
• Grave Command — Green Necromancer Rune: Unlocks one additional Guardian Command slot per rank. This rune is automatically unlocked for Necromancers.
• Storm Theft — Blue Stormcaller Rune: Purge steals the most recently applied removable beneficial effect and grants it to the Stormcaller for its remaining duration.
• Stormcaller: Purge - removes 1 benificial effect from enemy
• Warrior: Hamstring - Instant melee attack that slows enemy for 40% for 8 seconds.
• Added hidden bad luck protection to unidentified runes to prevent extremely long unlock dry streaks.
Auction House
• Added a complete Auction House, accessed by right clicking an Auction House NPC in nightrun keep near the bank NPC.
Reward Caches
• Quests now reward a Quest Cache containing one level scaled piece of Green, Blue or Epic equipment.
• Battleground victories from levels 1–19 reward a Quest Cache.
• Level 20 Battleground victories reward a Heroic Cache.
• Successfully completing a level 20 Heroic+ rewards a Heroic Cache.
• Failing or timing out a Heroic+ rewards the weaker Quest Cache.
• Heroic Caches contain two level scaled equipment items and five bonus Embers.
• Heroic Cache equipment has a 70% chance to be Blue and a 30% chance to be Epic.
• Cache rewards are delivered through the mailbox if the player’s inventory is full.
Loot Notifications
• Bottom center loot notifications are now larger, brighter and displayed above other UI windows.
• Items, abilities, runes and caches glow and spark using their rarity colour.
• Ember rewards now appear in the loot notification using a separate light-yellow colour.
• Hovering over a notification pauses it.
• Hovering over an item, ability or rune icon displays its tooltip above the notification.
• Added a reveal sound when new loot appears.
Blackwood Castle Battleground
• Captured bases now remain contested for 1 minute before changing ownership.
• Players cannot respawn at a contested base.
• The previous owner can recapture a contested base before the timer ends to immediately restore control.
• Battleground messages now announce when a base becomes contested and when it is claimed.
• Flag markers now use clearer neutral, Blue and Red states.
• Contested flags display expanding white markers, while owned flags display their team colour.
• Added a new contested sound when a flag enters the contested state.
Other Improvements
• Improved chest interaction checks so visible chests on shelves are no longer incorrectly blocked.
• Real walls and other solid objects will still correctly prevent interaction.
• Improved undead summoning animations, spawn effects, guardian sounds and Necromancer spell visuals.