Black Rose Keep
PRELIMINARY Patch Notes (Build 0.17.249) Sept 10, 2025
World
> Merchants and Trainers in the village of Demith now consider themselves residents of Demith
and have mostly cut ties with their old hometowns.
> An Alchemist trainer now resides in Demith.
> Goblin junk stashes in Thronefast are now less likely to respawn immediately after being looted by enterprising scavengers.
NPCs
> We are beginning a process to increase the strength of many of our named NPCs to provide more of a challenge.
This is an ongoing process, and tuning adjustments will be made over the next several content releases.
> Ashbreathers now consider the ubiquitous beetles infesting their home to be less of a threat and should be less likely to attack them.
> Zaruk the Sightweaver’s Life Drain ability should no longer be able to drain additional life from players
after they have died and released to their bind point.
Items
> Corrected tooltip for Myrmidon’s Battlegrips.
> Increased duration of the proc on Scepter of Smoldering Symbols from 6 to 9 seconds.
> Fixed Twisted Dragonbone Ring usable classes (added WIZ, removed SHM).
> Adjusted the distribution of items in Tel’Daedras’ loot table so that some of the rarer items have an increased chance to drop.
> Changed Draconic Adept’s Headband appearance to something more appropriate.
> Updated Soldier’s Kite Shield and Reinforced Tower Shield.
> The description text for Ruddy Mushrooms now properly explains their effects when consumed.
Quests
> Corrected an issue that was preventing the final quest item from being awarded to players that successfully defeated Tel’Daedras.
Players who previously did not obtain the item will need to defeat her again; the item should then be awarded to all players present.
Players should make sure they have at least one inventory slot open and are present in the room when she is killed
to receive the quest item.
> Updated the quest objective for The Secret of the Stones. Players who have this quest active in their journal
will need to abandon it and retake it from the quest giver. Once that is done,
the quest will be able to be completed after obtaining the quest item (mentioned above) from defeating Tel’Daedras.
> The Molten Sentinel should once again drop their associated key.
> The quest “Burlap for Elawin” has been retitled to use the correct NPC’s name. If you have this quest currently active in your journal,
the title change may not be reflected, but you can still complete the quest.
Gathering
> Apple trees have been updated for better visual identification from a distance.
Class Adjustments
Necromancer
> Lifetap line healing increased from 33% to 50%
Rogue
> Toxic Elixir duration increased from 20 seconds to 30 seconds.
Bug Fixes
> Fix for zone names not having spaces between multiple words when being displayed below the compass.
> Fixed an issue where sometimes it wasn’t possible to change chat channel colors.
> Fixed a group issue that happened sometimes after zoning where a group member would be told they weren’t in a group,
despite still having group UI elements and other group members seeing them in the group.