(1.7.2 Client) Update Version 3
The Wildwalker

 

Hello, Evolved Community, 

As promised with the launch of Technician and Edgerunner in the previous expansion Wings of Rebirth, this expansion took significantly less time to apply/construct, but surely not less effort!
We'd like to take this opportunity to thank our Beta testers for their astonishing work during the Open Beta phase, which surpassed the previous expnasion Beta by centuries in terms of detail awarness, bug detection and overall testing reviews, seriousness and professionalism.

Thank you team!

Its just normal to expect, that we've adjusted, updated and perfected other things beside only adding a new class and therefor sit tight as you are up for a long reading. Some of the QoL changes were already available on our Discord under #upcoming and others will be revealed within the official: Evolved PWI - The Wildwalker Expansion

 

Changes

 

New client 

Unfortunately, this step was necessary as The Wildwalker patch, once we've finished it, resulted in an unexpected size of 5GB, which didn't allow any sort of manual or automated patching process without corruption or failure of the update. Therefor, we have decided to provide a new client that will be available during the next 2 weeks (14 days) from the official Discord Announcement allowing you to dive straight into the new advanture of your Wildwalker!

The client link will be available on our website as well as on Discord attached to the official announcement. 

Attention: This client is necessary in order to play as a Wildwalker and most importantly to continue playing on Evolved PWI as the previous 1.6.5 client will become obsolete. 

Evolved PWI - Downloads

 

The Wildwalker

• Added a new Class: Wildwalker 

The Wildwalkers are a rare and powerful race, but their bloodline has long been weak. Among them, Syvos stood out as the most gifted child. His strength drew the attention of the Wraith Army, which sought to harness his power. To protect him, the Wildwalker Lord sealed away Syvos’ abilities and sent him to live as an ordinary human.

Growing up in Sanctuary, Syvos lived a humble life, often eating at different homes in the village. By the age of fifteen, he was the strongest among the boys. He always sensed he was different, but still shared the dreams and emotions with his friends, especially his feelings for Yilian, the kind and playful daughter of the local teacher. Syvos did all he could to make her smile and be close to her. (...)

• The new class is of the race Untamed and will be available within the character selection screen for you to play!

 

Wildwalker - Evolved adaptation

Evolved PWi has adapted Wildwalker completely to our known progression methods in terms of cultivation, gear/skill progression and gear/book availability.

• Added Rank 9 Recast 4 - This set doesn't exist on PWI and will function as the endgame gear on Evolved PWI
• Added Rank 9 Recast 3 - This set doesn't exist on PWI and will function as the endgame gear on Evolved PWI
• Added Rank 8 Recast 1 - This set doesn't exist on PWI and will function as the endgame gear on Evolved PWI
• Added Rank 8 Recast 2 - This set doesn't exist on PWI and will function as the endgame gear on Evolved PWI
• Addded Twilight Temple Weapons - These weapons don't exist on PWI
• Added Nirvana Weapons (Twilight & Lunar) - These weapons don't exist on PWI
• Added Warsoul Weapons - These weapons dont exist on PWI
• Added Frostcover Weapons - These weapons dont exist on PWI
• Added Lunar Glade weapons - These weapons dont exist on PWI
• Created Sage and Demon Books - These dont exist on PWI - Available in all known Sage/Demon Book Forges and/or Bosses
• Certain Books were picked to function as Morai Books - available in all known Morai Forges
• Certain Books were picked to function as Primal Books - available in all known Primal Book Forges
• Various known bugs within the skills, that were present on PWI were fixed
• Skill descriptions were re-worked completely to accurately represent the functionality of each individual skill
• Many animations, such as embrace were re-worked completely to be visually more appealing and look decently functional instead of lazy coded and bugged
• Other minor fixes within the class itself (model, look, movement etc)

In conclusion, you will obtain all your necessary items with Wildwalker the same way you'd obtain them with another class. Follow the same paths and farming spots/dungeons or forges and you won't miss out on anything. This step was taken in order to assure fairness between classes and their progression speed because Wildwalker is missing many previous features and items  (Morai Books, Primal Books, R9R4, R9R3...)

 

Nation Wars (Balance)

Nation wars - Balance system got completely updated and changed to require our custom criteria in order to form either Flame or Dark nation. The previous settings were completely outdated and related to outdated criteria such as refinement of equipment or possession of Rank 9 armor, which on Evolved PWI is achieved by nearly everyone within a very short timespan. The new criterias are based on more modern, Evolved endgame related stats such as:

• Spirit - a very powerful damage modifier that can decide over success or failure on the battlefield
• Cultivation - Celestial Saint (last) cultivation was picked as the 2nd criteria
• Sky Boundary - Shifting Sky X (last) was picked as the 3rd criteria

We hope that these new categories/criterias/stats will be more than sufficient to balance your Nation Wars experience far better than previously available.

 

Skill addition & fixes

The following skills were adjusted/changed:

• Dragon Rising - Will now provide the proper stun effect (knockdown - Paralyze) on all levels and versions (Demon/Sage -> Sanctified/Glyphable)
• Mortal Revision (Verdant Glyph) should display the proper cooldown on enemies now
• Absorb Soul (Sanguine Glyph) is now applying the correct damage (Wood)
• Quid pro Quo was able to steal Shield of Monstruosity - Now its fixed and it wont be possible anymore
• Blessing of Immortality (Ultimate skill) - will now correctly double the Health of your target
• Reflection of the Moon - wont be able to steal an extra Edgerunner skill anymore
• Divine Pyrogram (Argent Glyph) - Cooldown was corrected to 5 seconds
• Shadow Prey (Argent Glyph) - Fixed to trigger 3 times as the skill description suggests

The following skills were newly added:

• Charred Dimension (Squad buff) - Technician Class
• Blade Hurricane (Squad buff) - Edgerunner Class

Note: we are well aware, that these buffs aren't part of the 1.7.2 patch of PWI, but still decided to include them in order to accomodate all the players that eagerly requested these new buffs so they could unlock the full potential of their recently added classes. 

 

Simple Mode (Update)

The simple mode will now also remove Fashion Auras and Fashion Wings, as well as other customizations to provide a smooth experience during player crowded/clustered areas, especially during huge Territory Wars or generally huge PVP orientated environments.

• You may now activate the Simple Mode more comfortably via the new button available near the mini map

 

Faction Privilege Settings

This feature will allow Guild Leaders to set up privileges to their members regardless of their rank. Enabling a comfortable coordination in terms of allowance to:

• Recruit new members
• Kick members
• Group Mail sendings
• Diplomacy declaring
• Slogan adjustments

 

Faction Storage

The long awaited feature is introduced in The Wildwalker Expansion - allowing all members of your guild to store & share their items quickly and easily through the new Faction Storage feature. Unlike on PWI, we have decided to add a very unique form of Faction Storage, that has the potential to theoretically store an inifinite amount of items if upgraded to the max capacity.

The initial storage is completely free. Upgrades will require coins and a completely new item Guild Storage Box that will be introduced in one of our upcoming patches!

You may also modify the privileges to access the storage through the new Guild privilege feature

 

3D Inventory Models

Completely unique to Evolved PWI - You may now view your character within your inventory by its original 3D model instead of just an image. 

Example:

 

Editing character - real time

Long awaited and often requested feature is now introduced with The Wildwalker Expansion - You are able now to edit your characters face in real time. Every change you apply within the Makeover screen will be directly transfered to your character face icon (left upper corner).  This new feature allows a more comfortable editing of your favorite character without any surprises when done blindly through the ini. file editing!

 

Engine Update

The Wildwalker Expansion will introduced a major engine upgrade, that will hopefully further stabilize the client allowing our players a comfortable experience, especially in player crowded areas. This update will (hopefully) address some of the bug reports, that were brought to our attention during very massive PVPs, TWs etc. 

Please make sure to leave a honest feedback after spending some time on the new Evolved PW - 1.7.2 Client on our Discord, and help us progress even further in terms of stability, experience and smoothness of your gaming experience!

 

PVE Rank 9 Fourth Cast (R9R4 - PVE) - Update

Our members have raised their concern about PvE Weapons having no real purpose and being often overlooked. Therefor we have came up with a solution, that might appeal to you all. The R9R4 set (In total completion - all 6 pieces equipped) will from now on on the (6) Bonus stat apply a unique buff to your character:

• Magic users - Rewarded with Blazing Red Soul - A powerful buff that potentially can double your damage output!
• Melee users - Rewarded with Cascaded Doom - A powerfull buff that potentially can increase your critical rate and critical damage for a certain amount of time!

We hope, that these adjustments will bring more variety within the PvE section and enable fascinating builds during everyones Dungeon runs!

 

Quest Guidance

We've added a new way to make questing a lot more userfriendly to all newcomers and newbies on Evolved PWI. The following adjustments have taken place:

• Mob higlighting (Constant) - You won't need to track quests any longer that are available in your Quest log to make mobs highlighted with a graphical beam. Creating detection of necessary mobs even easier
• Quest description on the mob - Once you hover over a mob, that is needed for a quest it will display a small text box with a short explanation of the Quest the mob is required for

 

Re-worked settings UI

We've also re-worked the settings UI in order to have all previously displayed new features either turned OFF or turned ON depending on the likings of our users.

The new UI, including all new toggle-able options is displayed below:

 

Heavenfall Temple (Experience Grind - Newbies)

We've decided to boost the experience grind within Heavenfall Temple (Instance) to provide a better leveling experience for newcomers and enable a new method beside Phoenix Valley, Frostcovered City and Card Bosses.

The following adjustments have taken place:

• The Experience orbs (on all levels) were trippled (x3) - This is the most common item rewarded throughout Heavenfall Temple.

We hope, that this little change will make the start on our server even more comfortable for new players than it already is.

 

Other changes & fixes

• Modified Evolved Pet Cage and Evolved Super Pet Cage (icons) - used once per character, won't consume the item more than once anymore
• Fixed Heavenfall Temple card (reward) interface to function properly regardless of the UI scaling
• Increased stack for Souledge items to 9.999
• Fixed rubberbanding in Celestial Vale - the circular model representing all classes in 3D stone models
• Added Wildwalker to the Celestial Vale circular stone model
• Added button to quickly enable/disable Simple mode near your mini map
• Fixed Autopath induced client crash
• Fixed Lotus related issues that didn't display completions of goals properly
• Fixed Re-awakening menu to display the correct text
• Fixed various, over the months, collected bug reports on the client crash fraction
• Pillar of the Scarred at 236 692 has been modified to remain permanently at its location - it won't spawn every hour anymore
• Added requested Titles (Cosmetic)
• Added requested Guild Banners
• Added requested Guild icons
• Fixed Action points menu to display auto-complete boxes properly for everyone

Soul Harvest - Event

Beside the insanely huge patch we have also decided to launch simultaneously our beloved Soul Harvest - Event granting your chance to aquire unique rewards such as the Blood Weapons!

For more information about the Event and how it works, please check out the Soul Harvest Guide.

 

Bard (Coming soon)

As mentioned in our initial announcement - The new Tideborn class: Bard is already nearly done. However, we didn't want to rush things and decided to reward it with its own Beta phase. This will give us enough time to polish the class properly, minimize bugs at the launch and provide an optimal experience the moment Evolved PWI upgrades to version 1.8.1

We'd also like to use this patch note entry to explain that a new client WON'T be necessary for the Bard launch as we've already coded all heavy-client-changing modifications within the new 1.7.2 client, which will assure Bards launch without any new client being mandatory for play.

You will be able to select Bard on the character selection screen but you won't be able to create the class (yet). We hope that you are just as excited for the future Bard class launch just as much as we are!