Dark Marsh
The day is finally here! If you're reading this, Dark Marsh is here and ready for you to explore! New mobs, items, skills, crafts, bags (trunks), morphs, and more can be found in the marshlands.

Dark Marsh Bosses
Both will have a solo challenge this time round! Take on The Father or Mother Nature solo with proof of the completion via screen recordings or alerting a mod, Dark, Alyssa, Destaith or Dino of your attempt so they can witness the fight.

Wood Cutting and Mahogany Trunks
When trunks? NOW! Mahogany Trunks have been added to Dark Marsh! However, to obtain the best bags, trunk, in the game you'll need to learn a new ability. Wood Cutting! You can cut down Mahogany Saplings with a Saw. How do you get a Saw? Head over to the Loggers Camp and help him with his Centaur problem. Also, he may have some more tasks for you to get a Chainsaw?

Forest Keepers and Lumber Lords
Two new factions have come to Fantasy Online 2 with the addition of Dark Marsh. Each come with new factions outfits, medallions, banners and crests!

Want to increase your faction rank? Take on mobs like Frogs, Gnomes, Dryads and Werebears, to increase your Forest Keepers rank and Mahogany Saplings, Centaurs, Forces of Nature and Mother Nature to increase your Lumber Lords rank!

Metamorph Rank 2 and Rework
Rank 2 Metamorphs are here and some of you got a preview of those earlier today! Head to Dark Marsh and take on the Elemental Fairies. Each one will drop unique crystals needed to upgrade the Rank 1 Skill Books.

In the process of adding Rank 2 Metamorphs we took a good look at the sprites. The morph sprites we currently have in game were from the original with minor touch ups to match the style of FO2 better but still had something off about them. Thanks to Alyssa's hard work we now have updated versions to fit the feel of FO2!

Debuffs
Coming with Dark Marsh the elemental Fairies will have different debuffs based on their element. Also, Mother Nature and Forces of Nature will have Root so get ready to stand there while praying your dodge doesn't fail you.

- Fire will have Burn. While Burn is active you will take continuous damage even while out of combat.
- Earth will have Thin Skin. While Thin Skin is active your Armor will be reduced.
- Wind will have Off Target. While Off Target is active your Crit will be reduced.
- Ice will have Degen. While Degen is active your Energy will deplete even while outside of combat.

Debuffs will have a cast interval and a success percent.
Example: Cast Interval is 30 seconds. Success Percent is 50%.
If it's successful then the debuff duration timer will start. When finished the mob can cast again.
If the debuff is unsuccessful, the 30 second interval timer starts again.

Tier Set Bonuses
Tier set bonuses are here! Get rewarded for using multiple of the same tier set gear. This includes armor, weapon, books and rings. Think of set bonuses as having an additional Tier Book that just gets applied behind the scenes. Below is a table showing off the bonuses for all tier sets along with a sneak peek at T5 bonuses.

Gold Pickaxe Crafting
You will now be able to craft a Gold Pickaxe as you enter the Forgotten Underground. Now go collect some RF Gold Plates and Gold Crab Relics and get to mining!

Gemstones, Salt, Coral and Souls
We've heard the talks on gemstone drop rates for quite some months now and understand a buff should be made. Alongside gemstones, there’s been talk of other valuable resources like salt, coral, souls, and even pearls from clams.

-   Onyx, Sapphires, Amethysts, Rubies and Diamonds will be receiving a buff from 5% drop change to 10%.
-   Diamonds were the odd one out with a 7.5% drop rate but will also be made 10%  .
-   Pearls from Clams and Big Clams will also receive a buff. Clams will go from 2.5% to 5% and Big Clams 5% to 10%.  
-   Salt Veins will now have a 3% chance to drop a Salt Slab.  
-   Coral Veins will now have a 3% chance to drop a Coral Slab.  
-   Graves will now have a 1% chance to drop a Soul Gem.  
-   Tombstones will now have a 2% chance to drop a Soul Gem.  

Feedback on Discord
As always, I appreciate everyone's feedback and love for the game. I read all the messages in the main discord and the direct messages, even if I don't reply. That being said, please keep feedback constructive without going after people for their opinion.
- Dino

Dino's Patch Notes
- Added Mobs
- Added Quest NPCs
- Added Quests
- Added Item drops to Mobs
- Updated HP/Gold values
- Added Mahogany Saplings
- Added Woodcutting Items
- Added Wood Crafter and Trunk Crafter
- Added Mahogany Trunk
- Moved Mobs to new locations
- Moved NPCs around
- Added Root Debuff to some mobs (more debuffs coming soon, along with Boss HP rebalance)
- Added Root to Mother Nature
- Updated Map with a shortcut
- Added Lumber Lords and Children of the Forest Factions
- Add Faction Shops
- Renamed Ground Metamorph to Earth Metamorph
- Added 2 Skill Shops
- Added Skills
- Added Metamorph Rank 2 crafter
- Added Gold Pickaxe Crafter
- Added Lockpick Quest Line to Dusty "The Guard"
- Rebalanced Vampiric Blade
- Rebalanced Twilightning Bolt
- Rebalanced Reckless Strikes self damage
- Rebalanced Thick Skin at rank 5 and above
- Added a TP Skill Book to MW Badger Camp
- Added a TP Skill book to ToLS to go to T5 crafters quicker
- Added Tier Set Bonuses
- Tier Books have been rebalanced
- Tier 1 Books received a buff while Tier 2,3,4 received nerfs.
- Testing Debuffs - Burn, Venom, Degen and Off Target.
- Added T5 Crafters (NO Crafts yet!)
- Added Antimatter Shell Crafter (NO Crafts yet!)
- Added T5 Book Crafter (NO Crafts yet!)
- Added T5 Ring Crafter (NO Crafts yet!)
- Started work on 1 Hand and Two Handed Tier Weapon options
- Updated Unobtainium Pickaxe Crafter NPC
- Updated T4 Ring Crafter NPC
- Updated T3 Ring Crafter NPC
- Buffed Gemstone drop rates from Veins to 10%
- Buffed Pearl drop rate on Clams from 2.5% to 5%
- Buffed Pearl drop rate on Big Clams from 5% to 10%

Gamer's Patch Notes

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  Updated to the latest BabylonJS.
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  Changed collision maps to load on demand instead of all at the start.
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  Upgraded our APathfinding from 4-directional to 8-directional. Some corners will produce much smoother paths now.
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  Replaced manhattan heuristic with octile in Afor a better cost function for 8-directional.
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  Started rewriting and cleaning up skill slot handling code.
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  Added Debuffs column to MobDefinition in MySQL.
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  Added parsing and using of this column server side.
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  And now mobs can have debuffs that they can cast on you.
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  Added debuff processing code server side.
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  Added root debuff code.
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  Fixed some bugs having to do with buff visual display.
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  Added skill ranks to buff display.
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  Fixed a couple bugs having to do with tooltips and buffs.
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  System buff code cleaned up and now uses our bitmap font.
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  Added skill dbuff visuals.
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  Fixed a bug where steam achievements weren't being unlocked due to a limit.
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  Fixed a bug where a corpse rotting could blow up the entire server in a nuclear winter.
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  Added debuff dot support server side.
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  Fixed a couple Steam achievements that were unintentionally hidden.
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  Fixed Holy Mirror
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  Fixed a bug on mobile where if you backgrounded the app it would reload the game when it foregrounded.
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  Added energy debuff code.
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  Added all the new achievements to Steam.
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  Fixed a bug where stat bonus tooltips weren't showing crit or atkp.
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  In-app purchases finally working on Android. whew
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  New Android build now available from Play. iOS build needs some work so next release will be later.
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  Fixed the display of drops on the mobs tab in the character window.
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  Level cap raised to 90.

P.S. - 15 years ago FO launched on Kongregate.