December/January Developer Update

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The Dragon's Neck Dev Update

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Happy New Year! We're excited to share some details on new base classes, as well as announce 6 new Prestige Classes that will be added prior to launch. Now that the Holidays are behind us, we will continue to make steady progress towards our Open Beta time period. We do not yet have a firm date/time for Open Beta, however we are expecting to have one (Projected Open Beta Date) by the end of January. Although this update may seem short, there is a lot of detail inside the links below. Enjoy!

As Beta has progressed, we have made updates and changes to a variety of classes, spells & feats, please see below.

Class Updates:

• Druid Wildshapes Updated​
  • !wildshapeoff will now remove Druid Wildshape.​
• Cleric Domains​
• Bards no longer receive Elf Proficiencies​

Spell Updates:

• Polymorph Self & Shapechange Removed from Spellbooks.
• Timestop Removed from Spellbooks.

Feat Updates:

• Whirlwind no longer requires Expertise.
• Weapon-related Feats expanded to included new Base Weapons.

New Base Class Details:

• Blighter
• Dread Necromancer
• Favored Soul
• Hexblade
• Spirit Shaman
• Swashbuckler
• Warlock

* Beta Testers: These classes are currently in implementation-phase. We'll let you know when they are ready for review.

New Prestige Classes:

• Arcane Trickster
• Dragon Devotee
• Duelist
• Ghostwalker
• Warsling Sniper

Full Class List

Future Updates:

• Itemization Changes: We expect to make some adjustments to the entry-level weapons/armor that are available to players.
• Spell Modifications: Spells will be seeing some significant changes to match not only the setting, but also tune them appropriately.
  • Specifically, spell levels 7-9 will see the largest adjustments.

We'll be aiming to finalize some additional details on systems in the coming weeks.