Changelog: Rogue Frontier Patch 3

This patch brings important refinements and bug fixes but primarily focuses on combat balance changes.

Changes

Destiny Board Changes

• The Reaver line bonus has been reworked to prevent unintended interactions with spells and other effects
  • Bonus defense/damage vs mobs should now work as intended for higher-tier enemies
  • Armor and magic resistance reduction effects are now more effective against higher-tier enemies
  • Aside from these interactions, there should be no noticeable difference when fighting mobs

With the introduction of the Gold Market Stabilization system, Common Chests that typically dropped a single Bag of Silver could sometimes be empty. To prevent this without altering the stabilization system, we have moved Silver from Common Chests to higher-value chests, and replaced them with Tomes of Insight to ensure a guaranteed reward.

• Common Chests now drop Beginner’s Tomes of Insight instead of Bags of Silver
• Uncommon, Rare, and Legendary Chests now contain more Bags of Silver          

UI Changes

• To standardize Cast Time and Cooldown Rate modification values, they now always display a positive value to indicate longer durations and a negative value to indicate reductions
  • The item stat 'Cast Time Reduction' has been renamed to 'Cast Time' to align with this system

• Reduced chat frequency for /HCE, /LFG, /TR, and /REC by increasing message cooldown from 30 seconds to 2 minutes

Combat Balance Changes

Arcane Staffs

Evensong has offered powerful offensive utility but is almost always used with plate armor. Its base damage has been increased to help players who want to lean more into being a DPS threat.

• Dark Sphere (Evensong)
  • Damage: 100 → 112

Axe players in ZvZs have been overperforming, frequently hitting more than 10 enemies. To address this, the damage and complexity of Raging Blades have been reduced.

• Raging Blades (all Axes)
  • Removed: Targets within 2 meters take no damage
  • Damage per tick: 26 → 22

Giant Steps has been far from its previously overwhelming state. A portion of its slowing aura has been restored to reinforce Forge Hammers as a tanky disruptor.

• Giant Steps (Forge Hammers)
  • Slow: 20% → 35%

Great Holy Staff has been underperforming, so part of its resistance increase has been restored.

• Holy Explosion (Great Holy Staff)
  • Resistance increase: 0.12 → 0.16

To give Lifetouch Staff a unique role, Holy Touch’s target is now immune to Crowd Control for the channel's duration (unless self-targeting). In addition, its range has been increased to improve its reliability in modern Albion.

• Holy Touch (Lifetouch Staff)
  • Added: Target is immune to all crowd-control (unless self-targeting)
  • Range: 6m → 9m

Fling has struggled to find success. To improve its effectiveness, its stand time and cooldown have been reduced, making it easier to confirm an Impaler hit.

• Fling (Glaive)
  • Standtime: 0.85s → 0.6s
  • Cooldown: 20s → 18s

Swords already have strong chase potential due to their passive movement speed bonuses. To balance this, Heroic Strike’s above-average range has been reduced.

• Heroic Strike (all Swords)
  • Range: 4m → 3.5m

Fleet Footwork has provided War Gloves users with a solid mobility option while also serving as an exceptional DPS tool. Its damage output has been reduced to bring it more in line with alternatives.

• Fleet Footwork (all War Gloves)
  • Auto-attack damage buff: 150% → 125%

Ambush has remained a top-tier damage boost while also offering great defensive capabilities. Its maximum damage bonus has been reduced to allow other aggressive chest armors to be more competitive.

• Ambush (Assassin Jacket)
  • Damage buff per stack: 4% → 5%
  • Max buff stacks: 10 → 6 (max damage bonus 40% → 30%)
  • Stack rate: 0.5s → 1s (time to max stacks: unchanged)

A few underused shoe abilities with restrictive conditions and mobility trade-offs have been improved.

Giant’s cooldown and uptime have been adjusted to make Guardian Boots a more available defensive option.

• Giant (Guardian Boots)
  • Cooldown: 60s → 40s
  • Duration: 8s → 6s

Mark of Sacrifice, Shield Charge, and Swift Cut have been standardized to a 15m range with below-average cooldowns, as their target requirements have been too limiting.

• Mark of Sacrifice (Hellion Shoes)
  • Range: 12m → 15m

• Shield Charge (Knight Boots)
  • Cooldown: 20s → 18s

• Swift Cut (Assassin Shoes)
  • Range: 11m → 15m

Fixes

Spell Fixes

• Holy Beam (Holy Staffs) no longer adds a spell effect icon to the target’s buff bar
• Hamstring (Swords): Fixed issue where the tooltip displayed an incorrect cooldown
• Ambush (Assassin Jacket): The damage buff can now be purged and no longer persists if the caster does not deal damage within the first 7 seconds

UI Fixes

• Fixed issue where icons on the Region Map could duplicate over time
• Fixed issue where some tooltips would remain visible and follow the cursor
• Fixed issue where Medium Treasure Chests were not visible on the map for players in a neighboring region

Other Fixes

• Fixed issue where Elite Cursed Harvester did not count towards the Albion Journal mission ‘Defeat any Reaper or Harvester’
• Various additional graphical, animation, terrain, audio, UI, and localization fixes