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12/28/2019 8:01:20   
Divine Nexus
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Verlyrus
Reimagined Cat
December 27, 2019
Book 3: A Hero is Reimagined
Hey there, heroes!

It's been an amazing year full of awesome releases, devious challenges, and crazy story beats! What was your favorite release this year? Let us know on Twitter or the forums! We'd love to hear from you.

But now, it's time for the final release of 2019! This is the beginning of a massive Reimagined project that seeks to streamline and rewrite DragonFable's main story (up to a point). Targetted areas of the story include Book 3, up until The Tournament of Champions, the beginning of Book 1, up until the Dragon Egg Saga (and a little bit afterward too), and some of Book 2.

This rewrite and reimagining will aim to make playing through the story flow much more naturally, as well as more consistent. NPCs in towns and quests will be reworked to direct players more along the path of the main story.

This week, we've reimagined the Book 3 introduction: A Hero is Thawed!



The quest "A Hero is Thawed" has been rewritten to make sense and hopefully feel less arbitrary to new players.

Following the introduction, Maya in Book 3 Oaklore has had her dialogue and options reworked. Excessive and unnecessary buttons have been removed, and she now has a branching dialogue tree for new players that explains the current state of the Kingdom of Greenguard, and what is going on in the world after the Hero was frozen. Returning or veteran players can access this dialogue by clicking the "Do I... know you?" button.

The (spoilers) ambush in the woods has been reworked and rewritten to a) make sense, b), be more consistent, and c), not softlock you if you lose the fight.

These changes should help the world feel more consistent and less... nonsensical... for new players, as well as streamlining Book 3's start with clear directions.

This week, the maximum number of inventory and bank slots available for purchase has increased!

You can now get a maximum of 200 Bag Slots and 100 Bank Slots. The new slots are available for 500 Dragon Coins each.

Also this week, a bunch of trinkets skills have been fixed/adjusted.

Bacon Storm
-No longer has built-in Bonus
-No longer lockeed to Magic
Beacon of Hope
-Now applies its intended defense buff (+80).
-Now properly plays its animation.
Blue Box
-Removed "Resisted" pop up.
Boom Voice Bew
-Now deals 140% damage as described.
-Attack is now locked to Metal element for both normal and stun effects.
Booty Sniffer (All versions)
-No longer has built-in Bonus
-No longer locked to Magic
Chi Blast
-Skill now properly caps at 25% HP max damage.
-Charge notification now goes up to 100%.
-Minimum damage reduced to 6%.
-Mana cost in notification is now accurate (was previously half the cost).
-Now has a base MP cost of 0.
Fry's Coffee
-Now applies 10 Boost (down from 20)
-Description is now accurate.
Crogen Amulet
-Buffs are now applied on use instead of the turn after.
Summon Destiny Dragon/Summon Young Destiny Dragon
-No longer has built-in Bonus
-Buffs are now applied on the turn used, instead of the turn after.
Elemental Unity
-No longer has built-in Bonus
-No longer locked to Magic
-Now accurately does 200% base damage. (was doing slightly more.)
Fireworks!
-Now increases crit by 30, up from 3.
-Now applies for 5 turns.
Blinded by Love
-No longer has built-in Bonus
-No longer locked to Magic
-Duration of effect reduced to 1 turn, from 4 turns.
Ice Gem
-No longer locked to Magic
-Now costs 50 MP to use.
Ice Princess Tear
-No longer lockeed to Magic
-Now costs 50 MP to use
-Name and description have been updated to be accurate.
Limeworks
-Damage reduced to 4 hits of 25%, down from 4 hits of 60%.
-Effect duration reduced to 2 turns, down fro m4 turns.
Mirror Eye Trinket
-Now has a cooldown of 10 turns.
You Are Here
-Now properly applies its effects.
-Cooldown increased to 30 turns.

Finally, the Frostval Storybook will be leaving the Book of Lore with next week's release. The Winter's Harbingers DC item shop will also be leaving with next week's release. AND The Maluerous: Remthalas war will stop dropping Defender Medals next week! Make sure to get your Defender Medals and seasonal goodies while you can!

And that's all for this week! Thank you all for an amazing 2019, and see you next year! Let's make it even better yet!

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< Message edited by Gingkage -- 12/28/2019 18:31:41 >
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12/28/2019 12:57:24   
Kurtz96
Member

Do I have to replay these reimagined quests to do the future releases? I am up to date on the story of book 3.
AQ DF MQ  Post #: 2
12/28/2019 17:40:57   
Vikken101
Member

You dont need to replay them, they are just changed now, when you replay them.
Post #: 3
12/31/2019 19:48:24   
katcult
Member

Anyone else having an issue loading characters that have the Summon Young Destiny Dragon equipped?
AQ DF  Post #: 4
1/1/2020 13:37:36   
  Verlyrus
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Anyone else having an issue loading characters that have the Summon Young Destiny Dragon equipped?

This should be fixed now! Sorry.
AQ MQ  Post #: 5
1/1/2020 18:59:43   
ProbablyCallum
Member

Glad to see that the worst section of book 3 and probably Dragonfable as a whole is in Doverly's sights. Am really looking forward to seeing what they can salvage of early to mid Suleneska. Still cant believe the DF devs at the time let a forum mod who didnt even finish book 1 write a story that went absolutely went nowhere and contributed nothing but unresolved plotthreads and bad self insert ocs of various mods.

< Message edited by Cronomancer Callum -- 1/1/2020 19:25:53 >
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1/1/2020 19:37:51   
TFS
Helpful!


^Harsh, but I agree. Early Sulen'eska's inability to change (or even establish) a status quo, coupled with an excessive amount of characters and plot threads that don't affect (or are even again mentioned in) any other part of the entire game created an incredible barrier to entry behind which the best parts of the game are locked. I'm really looking forward to seeing DF's two best writers yet clean up the worst parts of the game; finally I'll be able to recommend DragonFable to friends without having to delve into the "it gets good after season 50 guys i swear" rhetoric.

Happy New Year's, it looks like 2020 is going to be a great one.
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1/1/2020 21:02:00   
Princess Shiki
Member

^ Yeah, there were so many characters introduced that nobody really got any characterization. IMO that's one of the stronger points of DF, is that a lot of the secondary characters still get a pretty decent chunk of screentime and development. Many of the Sulen'eska characters were shown so briefly and then brushed aside never to be seen again before we even really knew who they were. Book 3 contains some of my favorite video game plotlines so I'm excited to see Sulen'eska brought up to their level.
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1/1/2020 22:42:46   
mountaingoat2
Member
 

The most confusing parts for me when I was catching up in Sulen Eska was the characters introduced with the dragon war and fairy court. Coming to mind are some of the fairies and Saellah. Also Elryn since he appears in Book 2 but there's no impression of already knowing him when meeting at Espina Rosa. Even though this storyline introduced a lot more people, I really enjoyed the Espina Rosa dynamic and I hope we see those characters again. Maybe in the upcoming war with Magesterium
BRB gonna replay those quests again.
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1/2/2020 5:44:29   
katcult
Member

Thanks for the quick fix!!!
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1/2/2020 7:16:45   
Flabagast
Member

I guess some of early Sulen'Eska tried cram in a lot of stuff in a few short quests. Namely the Fairy Court, the Clawkin, the Dravir and their origin story, as well as the respective characters relating to each (Melissa, Nikki and Mritha). We saw a little more of Mritha during the Dragon Rider War and when Kara went missing, and we saw Melissa again at the Gala but other than that these characters and factions haven't had any proper impact on the story.

Still waiting for Elryn to make a comeback too, since we did go to a lot of trouble getting him out of Espina Rosa... and then never really seeing or hearing from him again in Book 3.

It'll be interesting to see how the team go about fleshing that part of the story out a bit more.

< Message edited by Flabagast -- 1/2/2020 7:27:27 >
AQ DF MQ  Post #: 11
1/2/2020 13:07:02   
TFS
Helpful!


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Still waiting for Elryn to make a comeback too, since we did go to a lot of trouble getting him out of Espina Rosa... and then never really seeing or hearing from him again in Book 3.

This too. While the Espina Rosa arc was actually really cool, it felt way too detached from the rest of the game to really justify taking up such a large amount of the main story. Like, the protagonist is one of the most valuable assets to the Vind and they ship him off for several months to rescue... some guy who doesn't do anything to help the Vind or is ever seen again? While Espina Rosa was really well-written and actually had developed, believable characters (unlike the earliest parts of Sulen'eska, IMO) it still felt more like a side story than main story.

< Message edited by TFS -- 1/2/2020 13:08:18 >
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