The inscription overhaul is here and this post will detail some of the overall changes to the game to support the new system.
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- Mystic Spellbooks can now be crafted by Grandmaster Scribes.
- Volatile Spellbooks can now be crafted by Grandmaster Scribes.
- Combat Manuals can now be crafted by Grandmaster Scribes.
- Veterinary Manuals can now be crafted by Grandmaster Scribes.
- Songbooks can now be crafted by Grandmaster Scribes.
- Sacred Runebooks can now be crafted by Grandmaster Scribes.
- Shimmering Essence can now be crafted by Grandmaster Scribes.
- Restorative Shard Essence can now be crafted by Alchemists.
- Harmonious Shard Essence can now be crafted by Alchemists.
- Memory Shard Essence can now be crafted by Alchemists.
- Keen Shard Essence can now be crafted by Alchemists.
- Distilled Shard Essence can now be crafted by Alchemists.
- Unstable Shard Essence can now be crafted by Alchemists.
- Leather Tome Cover can now be crafted by Tailors.
- Tome Locket can now be crafted by Blacksmiths.
- Tome Spine can now be crafted by Carpenters.
- Strategic Map can now be crafted by Cartographers.
- Cartography Pen is now sold again by scribes.
- Item Identification skill has a new ability which allows the player to disenchant magical items into Shard Essence.
- The entirety of the loot tables have been re-balanced with all of the new inscription resources in mind.
- Boss reagent caches have been added. Large amounts of reagents will drop from boss encounters and will be scaled by boss difficulty.
- Radiant Shards can be obtained by defeating boss encounters throughout Britannia.
- Radiant Shard Clusters can be obtained by harvesting rare crystal clusters found in dungeons.
- A chance for stamina regen items to drop has been added and is scaled based on difficulty and limited in quality.
- Treasure hunting loot has been re-balanced and some magic book resources can be obtained from it.
- Magical Items can now be broken down into a new resource called Shard Essence.
- Magical Items from monsters will now drop higher quality magical prefix and suffix from more difficult monsters.
- Chances for magical items to drop have been slightly increased.
- A new resource, carbon, will now be harvestable as a secondary resource while mining.
- Tome Binding resources have been added to loot tables.
- Magic Book resources have been added to loot tables.
- Citrine gems have been added to loot tables.
- Chambersite gems have been added to loot tables.
- Tome Binding resources can be purchased from vendors.
- Heavy Silk Thread is sold by Tailors.
- Keyframe is sold by Tinkers.
- Wood Adhesive is sold by Carpenters.
- Ink can be purchased from Scribes.
- Cartographer's Pen can now be purchased from Scribes.
- Essence Conduit can now be purchased from Tinkers.
- Treasure hunting has been enabled again and tuned for Britannia loot and monsters.
- Treasure hunting maps loot has been re-tuned.
- Drop rates for Treasure maps have been re-balanced.