What We've Been Up To - May 15 - May 21, 2026

Design and Narrative

• Continued population work on the Caldera in Kosa Ull.

• Implemented ranger base abilities.

• Lots of PTR bug fixes.

• Design work on Rogue and Monk base abilities.

• Continued NPC placement work for the Port of Rulun.

• Continued work on NPC dialogue for Faerthale City.

• Finalized experience curve adjustments based on data seen so far from PTR.

• Work with programming team to support some itemization efforts.

Worldbuilding and Environment Art

• Caldera areas of Kosa Ull.

• Continued buildout for Detihauna.

• Continued refinement pass on Sea Dragon Hatchery interiors.

• Finalizing second round of structural/prop concepts for Faerthale City.

Character Art and Animation

• Animation work for additional Badia de Cara creatures.

• Polish work on some player character animations.

• Work on variations of various NPCs to help add more diversity to Badia de Cara.

• Continuing work on ambient life VFX for Badia de Cara.

• Early explorations for Ashen, Lucent, and Ember Elf visual diversity.

• Finalizing materials for updated player robes.

• Beginning work on updated base meshes for non-robe armor types.

Programming

• Finalizing Mastery UI for initial MVP testing.

• Final round of updates to ability system to support mastery options and new ability types.

• Mail system bug fixes and polishing.

• Continuing work on market system.

• PTR Bug fixes and Investigations into player-reported issues.

• Implementation work on updated experience gain formula.

• Working with Design team to make combat tuning adjustments based on data and feedback.

• Starting work on itemization support features.

• Updated water plane behavior to better handle areas where rivers split/merge or spill into oceans.

• Setup for initial testing cases for underwater NPC movement and land/water transition logic.