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New Dawn: The Story Continues
Each week brings more challenges and more story quests. Search the Orrery camp on the crystal island to uncover secrets that connect the mining camp and the Lightbound Koshai to something even bigger.
Balance
Charrogg
Sporestruck Charrogg’s poison jets now deal less damage, but increase the poison meter more quickly.
Quality of Life
Audio
Shortened the length of the impact sound when hitting Behemoths with a Frost weapon.
Revised the sound that plays when a Slayer becomes poisoned.
Prevented the sound effect that plays during poison build-up from playing too frequently.
UI
Added a new Iceborne buff icon to differentiate the Iceborne omnicell buff from the Sturdy perk buff.
Bug Fixes
Gameplay
Bladestorm, Weight Strikes, Knockout King, Barbed, and Sharpened effects that grant a bonus after dodging through an attack now correctly state that the bonus only applies to the next attack within 5 seconds.
Aether Strikers
Updated the description of the Cyclonic Strikeplate mod to correctly indicate that it only increases part damage.
Chain Blades
Fixed an issue where the Reaper’s Dance slam attack would hit the air above Behemoths.
Koshai
Updated Lightbound Koshai movement animations to remove a hitch that could appear occasionally.
Polished trails on Lightbound Koshai’s radiant star projectiles.
Valomyr
Fixed an issue that could prevent Slayers from getting close to Valomyr’s tail.
Rumours
The Mane Attraction (V) objective “Kill Agarus with a terra weapon in under 15 minutes” now works as intended. Still not easy.
Challenges
Fixed an issue where challenge progress made during the first half of the New Dawn season was not displaying after the launch of 1.9.3.
Fixed an issue where daily challenges that called for Escalation completion would list incorrect difficulties.
The Selective Slayer: Drask challenge now correctly counts kills of any Drask.
Hunting Grounds
Patched up some holes in the ground and added more polish to Conundrum Rocks.
Improved performance while in encounters on this island.
Re-added a lost lore node. Here’s a hint: It’s a secret.
Fixed an issue where rings from the aether wind glider challenge could pop into view far away from the island.
Fixed an issue where the aether wind reward crystal could appear briefly for players who did not complete the track.
Ramsgate
Fixed an issue where some collectibles floated above ground.
FIxed an issue where a collectible was buried beneath a rock.
Cosmetics
Fixed some instances of clipping for the Gleaming Battlesuit chest transmog and the Gleaming Palm arm transmog.
Audio
Fixed an issue that could cause Hunt Pass music to stop playing in the Hunt Pass menu after some time.
UI
Rumour, bounty, quest, and challenge objectives will no longer be rounded up and appear to be complete when they are not.
Fixed incorrect formatting in the Artificer omnicell’s active description.
Fixed many instances of incorrect formatting in translated rumour, bounty, quest, and challenge objectives.
Fixed an incorrect pluralization of Lightbound Koshai in quest text. One Koshai. Many Koshai.
Fixed a number of low-resolution icons.
With poisonous Behemoths, we found that damage dealt by the attack that caused poisoning usually outweighed the danger of actually being poisoned. Often, Slayers would die from raw damage before the poison meter was filled. This was especially apparent as Behemoth damage scaled to higher levels. We plan to look at the poison status more generally in the future.