Black Friday Update Discussion Thread

[Leander]

Hello heroes!

BLACK FRIDAY, the traditional highlight of the season, is just around the corner! Get ready for our UPDATE including the brand-new Mannequin to be released worldwide tomorrow and already live on s1.de. Moreover, there will be an EVENT with everything from Friday, November 27, to Sunday: more XP, more gold, more epic items (level 50+ required), more forest rarities, a +20% more mushrooms sale at the mushroom dealer and of course you will only find black gems in the gem mine! In addition, you can find bundles with 100 hourglasses for the price of 10 and 10 for the price of 1 in the magic shop!



Sneak peak and full list of new features, changes and fixed bugs:

New features:

Character: new Mannequin feature (can be bought in weapon shop, 1,000 arena manager runes required)
General: new tutorial entries
Tavern: cauldron info displayed if quest reward is an item the witch needs
Magic shop: special bundles with 100 hourglasses during Black Friday event for the price of 10 hourglasses and 10 hourglasses for the price of 1 hourglass
Hall of fame: in addition to armor, resistances of other players are displayed now

Changes:

General: winter logo enabled
Town: enabled "under construction" sign of legendary dungeon again
Character: improved display of defensive runes, total resistance runes count towards individual resistances now
Arena: avatars of male gnomes, dwarves and elves face the opponent in fights now
Pets: selecting a pet is saved for the current game session now
Pets: pick a fruit to switch to the related pets
Pets: attributes of pets displayed with special color if power of the pack bonus is active
Guild: improved display of other members' activity
Daily login calendar: new Christmas artwork for December
Mushroom dealer: pro pack no longer overlaps display of "+20% more mushrooms"
Blacksmith: "swap runes" displays all runes including those of companions now

Fixed bugs:

Character: fixed an attribute display error of berserkers (e.g. because of potions)
Character: fixed visual bug of armor cap of battle mages
Character: fixed display of elemental damage of an assassin's second weapon
Arena: now druids wear their masks when suggested as opponents in the arena
Guild: buttons to upgrade the guild are grayed out now if you do not have enough gold or mushrooms
Options: changing settings no longer decreases brightness in the Steam version
Character: fixed display of strange values if only one weapon was equipped or when swapping left and right weapons
Hall of fame: fixed a bug that did not play back background music on some platforms

Wait, there's more! On Friday at 16 CET the new INTERNATIONAL WORLD #W45 will be launched with all events at once and a +20% more mushrooms sale!
World: https://w45.sfgame.net
Official guild section: https://forum-int.sfgame.net/forumdisplay.php?f=735

Enjoy the update and event!

[TFO]

am I the only one who prefers main stat gems over black ones? never understood why does everyone want the black ones... yet i am barely able to find main stat gems, I almost only get black ones...

[Gully]

I think people usually prefer black gems cuz of maths

And then, the higher the number of guild member with a 15+ hok, the higher the % of black gem dropping (even tho i never understood the math behind this )

[david4244]

Originally Posted by TFO

am I the only one who prefers main stat gems over black ones? never understood why does everyone want the black ones... yet i am barely able to find main stat gems, I almost only get black ones...

Ye, you are kind of the only1. It was debatable before the black gem boost (Like 1-2 years ago) cuz it was like if black gem gave 500 each, then main stat gave ~1000.

But after the buff, taking my char as an example, i am getting ~1100 stats for all from the big black gems, while like idk 1700 (might be slightly wrong on this1, as i instantly delete anything that's not black long ago) from main stats.

So it's kind of obvious which1 worth more 1x1700 stats or 5x 1100.
(especially on high lvl chars whom already having main stat + health "maxed out" --> 10m each stat on both.

[TFO]

interesting, i always assumed main stat and constitution is what really matters, since I reached 50% luck literally ages ago that does not matter either. so far i have not seen my character being much weaker than say the average players on my level...

[david4244]

Originally Posted by TFO

interesting, i always assumed main stat and constitution is what really matters, since I reached 50% luck literally ages ago that does not matter either. so far i have not seen my character being much weaker than say the average players on my level...

Main stat + cons is what matters ye. (Luck should be on 50% anyway with epics, as for off stats, the, should reduce a lil bit dmg but they are negligible)

But even if you are only considering main stat + Cons, following my example that's still 1100 main+ 1100 cons vs ~1700 main. So winning 500 Cons stat for free (plus the off stats and luck) so overall kind of a nobrainer to go for full black gems nowadays.

[Carnifex]

I'm not sure how mannequin really works. I put 4 items on it, then doing the change and my character loses all the other equipment except the 4 spots I have put items on the mannequin. So, it is a change only between those items the mannequin wears and the respective items my character wears. The rest of the equipment just disappears until I remove the items from the mannequin and do the change again.
So, if that's not a bug, if you don't have a second full set it seems to be useless. My idea is the mannequin's items to just replace the respective ones of the character and not necessarily changing the whole set.

[Leander]

Originally Posted by Carnifex

I'm not sure how mannequin really works. I put 4 items on it, then doing the change and my character loses all the other equipment except the 4 spots I have put items on the mannequin. So, it is a change only between those items the mannequin wears and the respective items my character wears. The rest of the equipment just disappears until I remove the items from the mannequin and do the change again.
So, if that's not a bug, if you don't have a second full set it seems to be useless. My idea is the mannequin's items to just replace the respective ones of the character and not necessarily changing the whole set.

Click the swap icon again or use the arrow keys.

"Hint: if your Mannequin still has free slots, only the equipped items of your Mannequin and Character are swapped. If either the Mannequin or your Character does not have anything equipped, all items are swapped in one go. If your Mannequin wears something, e.g. a belt, while your Character does not wear a belt, nothing happens. Therefore, your Character needs to wear the type of item you want to swap with the Mannequin." (Manual)