New World Update 1.9.4
Greetings, Adventurers!
New World Update 1.9.4 downtime will begin at 11:00PM PT (6:00AM UTC) on May 23 and and kicks off the Fury of the Spriggan event. Downtime is slated to last approximately 1 hour.
The Earth has been restless since the Ennead awoke. Empower your weapons, confront Dryads, and save Aeternum from the Fury of the Spriggan. Courageous players can join 20+ Adventurers in open world encounters from May 24 to June 13 for daily, event-specific rewards.
Dryad Shamans have been spotted throughout Brightwood, Ebonscale Reach, Edengrove, Mourningdale, and Brimstone Sands. Construct Flame Braziers to strengthen your weapons before these deadly foes overrun Aeternum. Check out the full reward and lore breakdown for more details.
Removed 1 deprecated lore note from Windsward that caused the game to soft-lock on interaction.
Fixed a lighting issue on Malevolence Tower in Edengrove.
Fixed an issue that caused the Invigorated Punishment Perk to apply on basic attacks instead of just abilities.
Dark Ascent
Added 15 frames of invulnerability to the Dark Ascent startup while the player is rising into the air.
Detonate
Increased the self-Rend on the Brutal variant from 15% to 30%.
Weapons crafted from Unstable Casts at the Flame Core Forge will no longer roll dual attributes.
Weapons crafted from Unstable Casts can now roll the Sentry attribute perk.
Armor crafted from Unstable Casts will no longer roll the Indestructible perk.
Memento Amissium will no longer drop on death.
Elite Chests in the Empyrean Forge now have a 50% chance to drop Flame Cores.
Fixed an issue that caused Flame Cores to incorrectly drop twice in open world Elite Chests.
Fixed a rare issue that caused small loot containers (like Supply Caches) to
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