Changelog: Radiant Wilds Patch 3

✦AI summary10h

The Radiant Wilds Patch 3 focuses on revitalizing the Mists with better rewards and easier PvE, introducing a comprehensive Navigation System, and implementing combat balance changes across various weapon lines.

▲Buffs15

Mists
- Significantly increased the value of chests and boss rewards to make the Mists more attractive to average players.→Increased
- mobs:Reduced mob stats to match pre-Horizons update levels, making PvE objectives like Camps more accessible.Horizons values→Pre-Horizons values
- Treasure Chests / Crystal Spiders:Increased spawn rates of chests and spiders to provide more objectives outside of Camps.→Increased
- Fey Dragons / Griffins / Veilweavers:Doubled spawn rates of high-tier mobs in Enchanted Mists to reduce the cost of Fey Armor artifacts.1x→2x
The DepthsIncreased base Fame rewards by 10% to better reward full groups.→+10% %
Bows
- Speed Shot:Increased the range of Speed Shot.13m→15m m
- Speed Shot:Speed Shot can now be recast once within 4s, providing another speed boost and resetting the first-slot ability.→Added
Frost Staffs
- Freezing Wind:Freezing Wind now applies its root instantly.Delayed→Instant
- Freezing Wind:Increased instant damage of Freezing Wind.150→200
Nature StaffsRejuvenating Breeze:Reduced cooldown of Rejuvenating Breeze to improve sustained group healing.20s→15s s
QuarterstaffsHurricane:Reduced base cooldown of Hurricane for Iron-clad Staff.38→29 s
SwordsMajestic Smash:Landing a finishing blow with Kingmaker now increases damage of all allies within 11m by 20% for 5s.→Added
War GlovesEarth Crusher:Reduced the self-slow of Ravenstrike Cestus to make the ability feel less clunky.40%→25% %
PotionsBerserk Potion:Normalized the defense penalty for all tiers of Berserk Potion to -10%.Tier-scaled→-10% %
GeneralHideout:Increased health for Hideout Phase 1 and Phase 2.15k/25k→20k/40k HP

▼Nerfs9

MistsBrecilien Entrance:Removed the Brecilien entrance from unenchanted Lethal Mists to prevent it from being too safe an exit from the Outlands.Unenchanted Lethal Mists→Removed
The DepthsReduced Fame rewards for players entering with fewer than the maximum intended group size.→Reduced
Avalonian Dungeonschests:Reduced silver output from all chests to prevent unsustainable silver generation in the economy.→Reduced
BowsSpeed Shot:Reduced initial damage of Speed Shot to compensate for its new recast ability.66.54→25
CrossbowsFlickershots:Reduced damage of Flickershots on Arclight Blasters to curb excessive burst damage.94→81
DaggersGhost Strike:Increased cooldown of Ghost Strike for Deathgivers to reduce its escape and brawling frequency.20s→25s s
Holy Staffs
- Holy Beam:Increased cooldown of Holy Beam to prevent excessive single-target healing.10s→12s s
- Holy Explosion:Reduced knockback distance of Holy Explosion but normalized it to ignore CC resistance and armor scaling.15m→10m m
ArmorsForce Shield:Reduced the healing bonus of Judicator Armor.30%→25% %

✚Bug fixes1

Nature StaffsCleanse Heal:Fixed issue where CC effects and debuffs would not be cleansed correctly.

◆Other changes8

MistsAdjusted matchmaking to encourage randomization and prevent players from intentionally meeting up.→Randomized
Frost StaffsFreezing Wind:Removed the slow effect from Freezing Wind.Active→Removed
Quarterstaffs
- Hurricane:Flattened cooldown scaling with Item Power to make performance more consistent.1s→0.5s s
- Hurricane:Changed energy cost to a percentage of max energy to discourage low-tier item usage.14→10% %
General
- Navigation System:Added a new system to create routes to regions, party members, and death locations via map and chat commands.→Added
- Alternate Spell Casting:Players can now assign secondary casting modes (e.g., Quick Cast vs Normal Cast) to separate keybinds for abilities.→Added
- Guild Seasons:Redistributed Season Point generation to increase the value of lower-quality territories and reduce the advantage of high-quality ones.High-quality bias→Redistributed
- Controller:Added radial menu minimap actions, D-pad navigation, and free repositioning for crafting UIs.→Improved