Production Build #X15.0.0

Patch X.15.0.0 - The Balance of Magic

Hey people!
Is… is that? Yes, we’re finally getting rid of 27.7 and going full X mode! Let’s celebrate that with the gorgeous Summer Nexus from Beige, and a refreshing summer rain of balance changes!
As for the Art Contest, we’re still going through all your submissions. Just like you guys, we’re super stoked about it - more than 200 participants took the challenge! Hopefully we will be able to reach out to the winners in the coming week.
Important Announcement: We will soon be lowering the price of several older Skins and Pet Stones for all of you out there. That means we will also have to lower the FP of those skins in particular to avoid having issues where Skins start being more interesting than Pet Food in the long run. If you have any duplicate skin lying around that you are not using, please make sure to feed them soon to avoid losing FP!
Month of the Mad God Announcement: No, we didn't forget MotMG - it will take place in August this year! Why the delay though? Well, we're preparing a lot of new stuff for MotMG - a lot of exciting stuff I might add! However, it's going to take us some more time, and we don't want to release a half-baked MotMG which would make everyone sad.
Note: If you can’t connect to the game, try using the website to see if the issue comes from the Client you’re using!

Edit: We are aware of people having issues with Muledump not working properly. We're working on a fix.

New!

• The Summer Nexuses are now live! With creativity and hard work, Beige brings us the latest Nexus Technology™ with a time-based Nexus, which goes through a complete Day/Night cycle every 8 hours!
• Mini Sphinx Pet Stone now drops from the Grand Sphinx
• Mini Crystal Steed Pet Stone now drops from the Crystal Prisoner
• Mystery Items are out! Using one will drop an random related item (Mystery Skins will drop Skins for instance). The quality of the item depends on the quality of the Unlocker (Gold / Silver / Bronze).

Fixes

• Using abilities while stunned functions properly and no longer results in disconnects (Shields, Quivers and Shuriken)
• Fixed ocean vent and wounded Thessal not appearing when they should (for real this time)
• Snake Pit Guard is no longer invisible on the mini map and displays its HP bar correctly
• Reduced another repetitive line from the Avatar
• Cleaned up Oryx Taunt strings (double spaces, etc.)
• Entering the Bazaar will now apply a 30 seconds lock during which the player will not be able to enter any portal
• All portals duration have been lowered to 30 seconds (including Shatters)

Polish

• Opening secret room now makes a sound like it was intended!
• Brought back backgrounds - Sprite Worlds have stars again! (only when Hardware Acceleration is off)
• Scepter of Geb renamed to Wand of Geb to avoid confusion
• Equipment Tool Tips
  • Abilities now display their cooldown
  • Set pieces now display the full set bonuses (lightly grayed if not active)
  • Traps and Scepters: added new properties and improved stat comparisons
  • Improved comparisons for MP Costs

Balancing
Sorcerer
Max Attack: 60 -> 70
Base Attack: 10 -> 12
Scepters
Scepters have received quite an overhaul! The goal with these changes is more engaging and strategic game-play, on top of making the choice of equipment more interesting.

• Wisdom scaling: past 50 Wisdom, Scepters will receive bonuses
  • Each point increases damage, the amount depends on the Scepter
  • Every 10 points will add an additional target (+3 for 80 WIS for example)
• Damage distribution: damage decreases for each subsequent target
• Narrower arc: lowered from 90°, now they actually have to be aimed to some extend
• Overall: damage increased significantly

Wands

• Damage increased to bring them more in line with other weapons
• Faster projectiles (without affecting range) to make them more responsive
• Bulwark now hits multiple enemies, range displayed in tool tip is more accurate

Traps

• Lower MP Costs
• Attack bonus for higher tiers
• Throwing Traps is faster
• Traps last 20 seconds instead of 30 seconds
• Coral Venom Trap
  • Feed Power: 500 -> 700
  • Fame Bonus: 4% -> 5%

• Added a new UT for pure damage and with other unique properties!

Realm

• Ghost Ship
  • Drops the new Trap of the Vile Spirit!
  • HP: 42000 -> 66000
  • Stun Immune
  • Paralyze Immune
• Great Coil Snake
  • Now only spawns a limited amount of Coil Snakes
  • Coil Snakes have less defense: 20 -> 5
  • Coil Snakes have more HP: 50 -> 100

Oryx has fortified his castle!
It has become a lot more sturdy! This intends to increase incentive for clearing, give slower players opportunities to catch up and make it better withstand the usually big groups of players.

• Destructible Wall
  • HP: 3000 -> 9000
• Fortified Destructible Wall
  • New walls that replace the regular ones on the bridge until the end
  • HP: 24000
• Living Floor and Quiet Bombs
  • Fixed a bug where Quiet Bombs could be destroyed instantly after spawning
  • Inflicts Weak for 5 seconds (in addition to Quiet for 5 seconds)
  • Projectile Amount: 18 -> 15
  • Projectile Speed: 50 -> 40
  • Damage: 10-20 -> 20
• The Stone Guardians
  • Depending on the party size, the Stone Guardians now regenerate!
  • HP: 60000 -> 80000
  • DEF: 100 -> 80

The Shatters
EXP in the Shatters has been increased across the board!

• Defense System (Avatar): 58 -> 1000
• Fire Mage: 39 -> 100
• Fire Adept: 78 -> 150
• Archmage of Flame: 39 -> 200
• Ice Mage: 39 -> 150
• Ice Adept: 78 -> 200
• Glassier Archmage: 39 -> 250
• Paladin Obelisk & Titanum: 117 -> 600
• Bridge Sentinel: 243 -> 4000
• Inferno: 243 -> 1000
• Blizzard: 243 -> 1000
• Twilight Archmage: 243 -> 4000
• Royal Guardian L: 39 -> 500
• The Forgotten King: 117 -> 7000

The Puppet Theatre
Puppets have significantly decreased HP!

• The Puppet Master: 110000 -> 70000
• False Puppet Masters activate sooner
• Knight Puppet: 5000 -> 2000
• Warrior Puppet: 4000 -> 1500
• Paladin Puppet: 3500 -> 1500
• Puppet Leather: 4000 -> 1000
• Puppet Robe: 3000 -> 800
• Sorcerer Puppet: 2500 -> 600
• Oryx Puppet: 45000 -> 35000
• Minion Puppet: 7000 -> 2000

Disappointed to not see any changes to Skulls? Not to worry, they're in the works!
Let us know what you would like to see changed about them!

Cosmetics

• Added a new batch of Summer Skins
• Fix to the following Skins / Dye Masks: Mini Rosen
• Added credits to: Bagston Pet Stone (MillSup)

That’s it for now! Big thanks to all our testers out there, you know who you are! Please enjoy the Summer Nexus and the new reworks. As always don’t hesitate to drop us a word if you have a comment or feedback - and don’t forget to feed those duplicate skins to your pets!

Art Contest Winner & Load Error Hotfix

When Patch X.14 hit back in May 18th, a few users suddenly couldn't log in anymore, always receiving "Load Error, Retrying". We finally tracked down the source of the issue and fixed it - if one of your account had this issue or you know friends with that problem, please make sure to tell them that it should be all good now!

Patch X.15.1.0 - Enter the Nest!

Hey there people,
We teased it, and you better beelieve it… The Nest is now live! Will you bee able to clear it, or will you bee one of the unfortunate to leave a tombstone in it?
EDIT: The Nest Encounter does not seem to be spawning at the intended rate, we will be looking into it asap

New!

• The Nest is out! Credits - Dungeon Lead: MrUnibro - Art: Beige, Poshun, Dappertron, Bloodqwen - Special thanks to: Krathan, Kiddforce, Atrapper
• The new Huntress ST Set, Queen Bee ST Set is out!

Month of the Mad God

• Did someone say... Month of the Mad God?

Reminder

• We will soon be lowering the price of several older Skins and Pet Stones for all of you out there. That means we will also have to lower the FP of those skins in particular to avoid having issues where Skins start being more interesting than Pet Food in the long run. If you have any duplicate skin lying around that you are not using, please make sure to feed them soon to avoid losing FP!

More to come… Soon...

25/7 Hotfix

• Fixed Killer Bee Nest Encounter invulnerability bug
• Fixed dungeon completion tracking for The Nest, Mountain Temple and Lair of Draconis (hardmode)
• Disabled outdated Guill reactions
• Adjusted Royal Jelly Feed Power
• Fixed Honey Circlet sprite
• Fixed typo in The Nest

Patch X.16.0 - Month of the MAD GOD & Lost Halls

Ahem ahem. Let’s start with a message from the entire Deca team today:
This release marks the first anniversary of the complete transfer of Realm of the Mad God from Kabam to Deca!
A little more than one year ago, we took over the operations and development of the game with the objective to breathe new life into it. It has been a great ride, not everyday smooth but always rewarding. Our team has grown in both size and experience, we met a lot of dedicated and talented community members who helped us designing exciting new content along the way and also could always rely on the Community as a whole to share great ideas, feedback, complaints, bug reports, kind words or fun memes!
We are looking forward to many more years of fun with Realm of the Mad God and are very thankful to you all for your support!
Well, with that out of the way, here comes the patch notes! Month of the Mad God and Lost Hall incoming in 30 minutes!
Note: If you can’t connect to the game, try using the website to see if the issue comes from the Client you’re using!

New!

• Month of the Mad God! You can check the schedule here. Month of the Mad God ends Tuesday September 5th.
• Lost Hall is live! Give Kiddforce, Toastrz & the rest of the crew a good pat on the back if you see them!
• The Oryx Horde has arrived! Look for Craig in the Realm and ruin his day like the evil adventurers you are! Hans, are we the baddies?
• Be on the lookout! Both Biff and the Leprechaun will also be back later during the month... with a vengeance!
• New Fame Box every Thursday starting on August 10th! Limit of 5 per player (Craig’s Welcome Fame Box limited to 1 per player)
• Deca Anniversary Package will be up in a few hours! Be sure to grab it before MotMG ends and get your free Gold Mystery Skin, Backpack and 100 Mystery Stat Pots (SB)! This pack is only available to players who created their account before August 1st 2017.

Shop & Items

• Nexus Shop revamp! You can now find older skins on sale directly in the Nexus.
• Dye Remover! You can find both Accessory & Clothing Dye Removers in the Nexus for 50 Fame.
• Pet Food update! Most Pet Food items price have been decreased and Feed Power increased.
• Skin & Pet Stone update! Skins’ & Pet Stones’ Feed Power have been adjusted according to their rarity.
• Moss, Stone, Mad God Tokens & Bags will drop during MotMG! Gather 10 Tokens to fuse them into the corresponding Bag, and open it to get a random prize! Participate in MotMG Events to get more tokens!
• Mystery Stat Potions & Mystery Keys have been added to the game! Note: Unlike the Ruby, Emerald & Diamond Key, Mystery Keys will drop a Key and not directly create a portal. Potions acquired from Mystery Stat Potions are Soulbound.

New Tops are soulbound

• In order to avoid the risk of new end-game content getting immediately ruined by duping, new tops will be soulbound at release
• Duping aside, we want players actually taking risks by running Lost Halls to acquire new tops
• New Tops may become un-soulbound in the future, however there is no current plan yet to do so.

Tinkerer

• The Tinkerer is taking some time off in preparation of a grand re-opening! Don’t worry, he’ll be back soon - expect some awesome changes!

Loot System and Dungeons
Thresholds
Damage thresholds have been lowered almost across the board. This mainly applies to Stat Potion and UT drops from Encounters and Godlands dungeons.
Potion Drops
We have introduced 2 minimum Stat Potions to various dungeons (mostly Godlands so far) and made probability more consistent!

Note: 2 minimum means 2 players will get 1 each guaranteed, 1 player will still only get 1 guaranteed.
Dungeon Generation
We adjusted the length and generation of a few dungeons, most notably Abyss of Demons and Toxic Sewers length has been decreased and the chance for Abyss Idols and Golden Rats has been increased.
Other
Puppet Theatre no longer has loot chests.

The Green Drake Egg drops from Greater Nature Sprites.

Balancing
Scepters Follow-Up
Scepter of Fulmination has decreased MP cost and damage but more targets.

• MP Cost: -10 (80 -> 70)
• Damage Base: -70 (220 -> 150)
• Damage Decrease: -10 (40 -> 30)
• Damage per WIS: -2 (8 -> 6)
• Targets Base: +1 (4 -> 5)
• Targets (WIS per): -4 (10 -> 6)

Skulls

• Overall: maximum HP bonus, lower MP Costs, damage increased significantly
• Wisdom scaling: past 50 Wisdom, Skulls will receive bonuses
  • Each point increases damage, the amount depends on the Skull
  • Every 10 points will add additional player healing range
• Damage and heal amounts are now separated to allow for damage balancing separately
• Ignore defense: enemy defense can be bypassed, the amount depends on the Skull
• Now shows a nova effect like Tomes for the heal to indicate range, flow particles have been disabled for now

Feed Power
Skull of Endless Torment: 250 -> 1000

Skullish Remains of Esben: 250 -> 800
Staff of Esben: 250 -> 700

Polish
Quality of Life

• Oryx's realm closing message is now also sent to all dungeons in the realm
• Trap tooltips now display their trigger radius
• The Beekeeper will now drop an exit portal if the Killer Bee Queen has already been defeated

Fixes

• Login calendar now correctly displays server time instead of local time. Please note that all servers run on UTC, meaning the daily Calendar resets happens at 5pm PDT for instance.
• Trying to log in through Steam when banned should now properly display a ban message instead of being stuck in a permanent black loading screen.
• Rogues will get sickened by sewage when invisible. No more hazmat cloaks, sorry Rogues!
• Haunted Cemetery
  • Removed self-heal for Possessed Child which prevents invisibility glitch and disconnect in area 2
  • Fixed teleport spots outside of areas 1 and 2
  • Rounded out safe spots in areas 1 and 2
  • Fixed enemy walk-able trees in area 2
• Strings
  • Fixed Empty Beach Bum Oryx taunt
  • Fixed various typos
• Other
  • Attempting to purchase Scepters from the Nexus store no longer breaks the buy panel
  • Scepter tool tips should be displayed properly when hovered on leader boards
  • Fixed treasure room hallways in The Nest
  • Several small and miscellaneous fixes

Aesthetics

• Leviathan has a new sprite and animations, still has like ten billion guns though
• Sword of the Acclaim and Hydra Skin Armor sprites have been adjusted
• Lair of Draconis has its original 8x8 portal

Cosmetics

• Added a whole new batch of Skins & Pet Stones
• Added credits to: Mini Sphinx Pet Stone (Fishdfishd)

Now go out there and enjoy MotMG! Big thanks to all our testers as always! Don’t hesitate to drop us a word if you have a comment or feedback.

A Biffy Update!

Small patch today to make y’all smile!

New!

• Biff is back! And he’s angrier than ever. Thanks, Craig...
• Bow of the Morning Star and Sword of Illumination drops are back!
• Silenced! A new condition effect, which blocks ability usage without affecting MP. It is not yet used on any enemies, but read on and you will understand why we introduced it like this!

Polish
Quality of Life

• Teleport Protection! When teleporting to another player, 1 second of Invincibility, Silenced and Stunned is applied.
  • Invincibility means projectiles pass through players.
  • You can still get hit briefly, if projectiles are already rendered for you (when close to the Encounter for example), so be careful and don't rely on it for short distance teleports!

Fixes

• Issues linked to Event Chest (100% drop rate, No Nexus, No Pets, Incredibly tanky mobs) should now be fixed.

Aesthetics

• Soulbound stat potions now have their own sprites to differentiate them from the regular ones.
• Mad Lab mini-map has new colors for vats covered by grates to differentiate them from the liquids.

Balancing
Loot

• Increased Haunted Cemetery UT chances further.
• Increased lesser Encounter UT chances slightly and reduced damage thresholds further.

Feed Power

• Prism of Dancing Swords: 400 -> 500
• Harlequin Armor: 250 -> 600

Shop & Items

• Dye Removers have been temporarily removed from the Nexus as they couldn’t be purchased.
• Fixed Chocolate Cookie price.

Note that we're aware of the complaints that some consider MotMG to be lackluster. While we know that there is less interactive events with GMs being involved, I want everyone to understand that time spent doing in-game events is time taken away from working on fixes, polish and new content. The team is working tirelessly to make sure you guys keep on having great stuff to look ahead to - and not just dump everything during MotMG and then disappear for the next few months.
That being said, we'll try to drop by in-game when we have some spare time to have some fun with you guys! Open some dungeons, spawn some bosses and all that jazz

10/8 Hotfix

• Doom Bows and Demon Blades no longer drop from their respective bosses (for the rest of MotMG), but the chances for Bow of the Morning Star and Sword of Illumination drops have been increased!
• Fixed teleporting next to walls sometimes not working (Prisms and Cloak of the Planewalker).
• Fixed Studded Leather Armor fame bonus.
• Fixed corks.

Patch X.16.2 - Goodbye my sweet Craig

Heyo everyone,
There’s quite a lot of things that we need to cover today, so I took the liberty of bringing Craig here to help me for once.
"How much is a lot?"
Three topics Craig. Three.
"That doesn’t sound like a l-"
OKAY LOOK CRAIG THREE IS A LOT ALRIGHT? EVEN SOME VERY LARGE GAMING COMPANIES HAVE TROUBLE COUNTING UP TO THREE. So, let’s start with the simple stuff, patch notes!

Event

• Biff is now gone from the Realm, hopefully for good.
• St Patty’s Leprechaun just came back! (Note: Statue Leprechaun is unfortunately causing some crashes, we’re currently trying to fix it)
• Player Teleportation temporarily allowed in The Nest (for Event Chest reasons)

Balance
Oryx Horde

• Statue can no longer be dragged to the far corner of the Earth.
• Earth Smash throw range decreased
• Earth Smash explosion delay increased

Bug Fix
Lost Halls

• Marble Colossus’ Lasers no longer remain after it has been defeated.

Manor of the Immortals

• Nosferatus can no longer spawn inside inaccessible walls.

Short and sweet. Now onto the second topic - DECA AMA is happening!
"What’s an AMA?"
Ask me anything.
"Do you like watermelons?"
No Craig, I mean AMA means “Ask me Anything”
"So you don’t like watermelons?"
God damnit Craig. Anyway, some of you may remember that we already had a thread up to gather your questions back in May (Pepperidge farm remembers). The main reasons behind this delay were mostly us preparing the release of The Nest, Lost Halls and MotMG - and we wanted to give you guys some clear answers regarding the future of Realm of the Mad God. Not to worry though, Realm’s golden days are far from over!
So, once again! Ask your questions in this thread, upvote those you want to see answered, and we’ll do our best to tackle them sometimes next week in a new thread. Please keep in mind that there are questions we can’t or simply won’t answers - for instance, “how many more lamborghinis did you buy since the start of MotMG?” or “do you use stack of $50 or $100 dollar bills to wipe your tears when you see people complaining about Event Chests on Reddit?”

"Sooo what’s the third topic? I’ve got rituals to go back to, adventurers keep on messing up my work…"
Ahhh the third topic Craig… the third topic is that I’m leaving DECA at the end of the month.
"But but but, you said that Realm’s golden days are far from over!"
Oh sure, and my departure isn’t going to change that. We’re going to have Alky joining the team, and R4ndomSXD will be taking over a lot of my current responsibilities - and that’s not to mention Silex and Krathan who are still very hard at work in the background! You’ll get to meet them during the AMA - but long story short, the team isn’t getting any smaller!
"Sooooo why are you leaving?"
You see Craig, there’s a moment in life where every man has to make a decision. I made so much money during MotMG that even with my top tier Tetris skills, I can no longer fit any more lamborghinis in my garage. I considered making additional garages, but…
Joking aside, I had an excellent time at DECA - finding people who truly care about the game and the players is sadly not always easy nowadays, so it was really great working with these guys. We’ve had some passionate debate about what we should do, what we shouldn’t do, what would make the game better and the like - moments that truly show the team is involved in what they are doing, and not just here because “eh, it’s a job”.
So yea. I’m leaving to follow a childhood dream of mine, otherwise I’d have likely stayed with DECA quite some more! If you have any questions for me, feel free to also ask them here and I’ll try to answer them as best I can. Remember that I will leave the questions regarding the game or DECA in general for the AMA.
Oh and Craig? You can go now.
"Uh, do I get a buff at some point with all that?"
No Craig, you’re still an intern. Now get back to work.
"Okay…"
Cheers people, and we might cross path again someday!
Myzzrym