Saving throws, item wear, achievements
Saving throws against spells have been reworked. Against a caster of your own level you now start at 40% to resist, and every level of difference adds or takes away 3%. Saves vs spell work with diminishing returns: the first points matter most. Your chance never drops below 5% and never goes above 90%. A made save always protects you from deadly spells, and a failed one is not death yet: there is a second roll. Cancellation and dispel affects follow a soft curve too. Score shows your chance to resist and how much damage your armor stops, and identify shows how an item changes that.
Item wear finally matters. Every full 10 points of lost condition costs 5% of an item's armor. The more worn a weapon is, the weaker it hits, and a sharp blade below 50 condition goes blunt until repaired. Items with no value don't wear.
Thirty or so new achievements, and help now knows all of them, plus class level titles, clan ranks and player names.
- Snowballs are back: in winter, snowfall piles up drifts, and you can pack snowballs from them and throw them at your neighbour. - Underwater, spells fail almost every other time, since neither voice nor hands obey. No mana is lost, and gills don't help. - get understands multi-word item and container names without quotes. - write can copy and paste paper sections through the editor. - fill with no target leaves puddles and portable containers on the floor alone. - vomit leaves a puddle of swill. - Jewelers ask you to confirm a repair and forget the quote after 5 minutes. Coal tongs save you from burns at the forge. - A witch curse that doesn't land tires the caster for a tick. - Energy drain and hand of undead heal the caster for the damage dealt, not the damage rolled. - New set "Dancing in Jeans" for the dove and the jeans from Sad Songs and Waltzes. - With fightspam off, the fight summary prints one line per victim. - Identify folds identical bonuses into one line and marks a blunted sharp blade in gray. - Arcadian words turn water into wine and beer in fountains too, from 50 mastery. - The carpenter's wooden bracelet can be crafted again. - The scroll of knowledge recognises its owner after a remort. - Cooldown timers in affects are magenta, like in the web client.
As always, thanks to everyone who tests new features and reports bugs!
