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Friday, May 8, 2026
Book 3: Through the Frost - Cooling Down
Hey there, heroes!

This week, the finale of the Through the Frost storyline has arrived!

Alongside Vilmor, Cryozen, and your dragon, you tracked down a mysterious new hive of Hollow. Together, you discovered and defeated an old foe... And now only the end remains. Head over to Book 3 Dragesvard's Shore to finish this story!

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Also this week, a new cosmetic helm is available for purchase!

What a mysterious helm! The Ancient Ceremonial Helm of Ravens can be purchase from the DC Cosmetics shop for 300 Dragon Coins!

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We've also spent time this week setting up the DragonSlayer rework! While it's ALMOST ready for release, we want to take a little bit more time to iron out the details and test it out (Hopefully ready with next week's release!).

The reworked DragonSlayer class is all about knowing when to take hits and when to defend... and counter! While all of the skills and numbers won't be listed out this week, I'll briefly cover some of the mechanics here.

Slayer's Instinct activates when you receive a hit (once per turn), increasing all Damage Reduction by 3% (up to 15%). You can then expend 3 Instinct to gain 1 turn of +100 Defenses (in addition to your normal skill effects). This is ideal for building up the other main mechanic:

Slayer's Anaysis activates when you Defend a hit (once per turn), increasing your Crit by 10 (up to 50). Expending 3 Analysis is required for your 2 most powerful skills.

Defending a hit also enables you to Counter, granting you Bonus and Crit for your next turn and empowering most of your skills with stronger effects or damage. You can only Counter on the turn immediately after Defending, however, so choose your timings wisely!

We also have a preview of a few of the skills and effects this class has that help enable this Counter playstyle:

The Counter Stance skill is unique, in that it grants you Defense, but instead of a cooldown, the effect's potency recharges over a few turns. The longer you wait between uses, the stronger your Defense becomes! It also removes your Avoidance, ensuring that the monster doesn't just miss you.

A couple skills will grant you Prepared Parry, which lets your Counters become even more potent, increasing Crit and Boost for 2 turns after a successful Defend.

And, due to the heavy armor of DragonSlayer, the class has a passive -Avd and -Def built in. This helps reduce the chances of Avoiding attacks*, and also emphasizes using the class's built in tools to Defend and Counter. That said, there are definitely some strategies you can plan out by manipulating your Defenses! (*DragonSlayer's Avoidance skill has increased effectiveness to counteract this)

Also, certain Inn challenges involving Dragons, and the DragonKnight set's special will be adjusted as well.

We hope you'll look forward to trying it out next week! With all that said, as always, numbers and effects are subject to change as we test and fine tune and bug fix things.

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Finally, an option to automatically hide your helm when outside of battle has been added to the options!

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And that's all for this week!

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And, due to the heavy armor of DragonSlayer, the class has a passive -Avd and -Def built in.

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Slayer's Anaysis activates when you Defend a hit (once per turn)

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Defending a hit also enables you to Counter, granting you Bonus and Crit

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The Counter Stance skill is unique, in that it grants you Defense, but instead of a cooldown, the effect's potency recharges over a few turns. The longer you wait between uses, the stronger your Defense becomes! It also removes your Avoidance, ensuring that the monster doesn't just miss you.

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Slayer's Anaysis activates when you Defend a hit (once per turn), increasing your Crit by 10 (up to 50).

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Defending a hit also enables you to Counter, granting you Bonus and Crit for your next turn and empowering most of your skills with stronger effects or damage.

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A couple skills will grant you Prepared Parry, which lets your Counters become even more potent, increasing Crit and Boost for 2 turns after a successful Defend.

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Also, certain Inn challenges involving Dragons, and the DragonKnight set's special will be adjusted as well.

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Not surprised that Frostscythe finally bit the bullet at the end of this questline. There's was nowhere left for him to go and no improvement he could have possibly made while he still held onto his own delusions of grandeur as well as the hate and contempt he felt for everyone around him. The only path forward for him was just to be a larger menace down the line so I'm glad Vilmor had the opportunity to put him down for good. Furthermore, I appreciate the conversation the Hero and Vilmor have in the aftermath of Forstscythe death. Neither condemning the act of killing someone who insists on continuing to be a threat to others but also not rejecting the possibility of a nonviolent approach for those that could potentially be redeemed. In other stories you might just get one perspective over the other, so I like the balanced approach of just going about the issue via case-by-case basis.

As for Galanoth's ending, I love that he's taking the Dragonslayers in the direction that is about protecting people rather just being about the act of putting down dragons they come across. It feels rather fitting that's he taken this position after everything he's learned from his experiences with us and Genokratos. Moreover, it feels like a rejection of some of the bad habits that we saw from the Rose. Less about removing threats in an overreaching permanent way that will just lead to problems down the line and more about defending what actually matters and making sure innocent and good people don't get caught up in those troubles.

I imagine he will have to deal with a lot of bad actors eventually but for now I think this is pretty hopeful chapter to leave off on his story until we get into Book 4.