Ancient Kingdoms v0.9.22.0 - The Slayer's Legacy

A new update for Ancient Kingdoms is now live! This patch introduces the new Critical Resist stat, account-wide Slayer progression, new rewards and mechanics for Valaark, class balance changes, quality-of-life improvements, and plenty of bug fixes.

Thank you all for your continued feedback and support during Early Access. ❤️

✨ New Features

• 🛡️ Added the new Critical Resist stat.

• 🏹 Dexterity now increases Critical Resist.

• 👀 Added Player Inspection (select a player and right-click to inspect).

• 🏆 Slayer progression is now shared across all characters on your account.

• 🏠 Added a new home screen background.

• 🐉 Added new loot to Valaark.

• ⚔️ Added more skills to Valaark.

• 🍖 Dragonbait Stew can now be used directly from the Skillbar.

• ☠️ Valaark now displays a debuff icon while affected by Dragonbait Stew.

• ⚠️ Added a warning when attempting to sell equipment containing an augment.

• 🔨 Added Rusty Hammer to shop vendors.

⚖️ Balance

• Warrior: Steadfast Guard Veteran Skill now has 10 levels.

• AdjustedClericReduced Holy Wrath cast time from 0.7s to 0.5s.

• Reduced crafting materials required for most healing potions.

• Adjusted Radiant Aether chances in AoE groups with 2+ players.

• Reduced Dracolyte Praetor's healing regeneration.

• AdjustedKing ThrymIncreased Ice Lance damage by 500 and reduced its cooldown.

• Increased Scroll Mastery profession gains when using scrolls.

• Increased Fatecharm Fragment drop rate.

• Fatecharms now require only 5 Fragments to craft.

• Increased Draconium Mold drop rate.

• Slightly reduced mercenary base health to better match player progression.

🛠️ Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed the Scribing Table in player houses.

• Reduced the delay between Herald of War and Avatar of War spawns.

• Fixed an issue when changing specs while wearing an armor set.

• Added the missing Fear Resist bonus to item levels.

• Fixed NPC trading issues.

• Updated the game to the latest engine version.

• Improved pet and mercenary AI behavior.

• Fixed several scroll text typos.

• Fixed Greed / Need / Pass tooltips displaying incorrect item sprites.

• Fixed gamepad activation interfering with mouse controls.

• Removed target raycast blocking important on-screen messages.

• Fixed Guard Break incorrectly reducing outgoing damage instead of only affecting Block Chance.

• Fixed the Dawnbound Hood visual issue.

Thank you for playing Ancient Kingdoms!

If you encounter any issues or have feedback after playing the update, please let me know in the comments below or on our Discord server.

👉 Official Ancient Kingdoms Discord

See you in Eratiath! ⚔️