Source: https://forum.albiononline.com/index.php/Thread/208347-12-February-2025-Rogue-Frontier-Patch-1/
Rogue Frontier Patch 1 - Version 28.010.1 - February 12, 2025
Changes
Item Destruction
Combat Balance Changes
Axes
Relentless Assault’s damage has been increased, to help Crystal Reaper find its place in the meta.
Skystrider Bow’s Sky Bolts now deal more damage and hit more easily, especially against close-range targets.
Hoarfrost has received a significant buff to increase its baseline effectiveness.
Pulse Shock is intended to support melee-oriented transformations, but not so strong as to be the default damaging Q. Therefore, its damage has been reduced.
Purifying Combination's cooldown has been increased to remove some of Fists of Avalon’s power as a non-commital mobility option.
Circle of Inspiration’s maximum targets have been increased to make Druid Cowl more suitable for large groups.
Fixes
Spell Fixes
This patch follows up on previous combat balance changes, enhances some less prominent weapons and abilities, and introduces additional changes and fixes.
Changes
Item Destruction
- Items can no longer be destroyed if a player is ejected from the Roads of Avalon
- Many item types that previously did not create a trash item upon destruction (e.g. consumable items) began to do so with the Rogue Frontier update
- This has been reverted, and those items once again do not generate trash
- This has been reverted, and those items once again do not generate trash
- In addition, we would like to clarify the changed rate of item destruction in the Rogue Frontier update
- Equipable items had their destruction rate increased from 30% to 33%
- Non-equipable items had their destruction rate decreased from 36% to 33%
- These rates have not changed at all in this patch
- Equipable items had their destruction rate increased from 30% to 33%
- Energy destruction from Territory Raiding has been increased from 10% to 20%
Combat Balance Changes
Axes
Relentless Assault’s damage has been increased, to help Crystal Reaper find its place in the meta.
- Relentless Assault (Crystal Reaper)
- Damage: 90 → 105
- Damage: 90 → 105
Skystrider Bow’s Sky Bolts now deal more damage and hit more easily, especially against close-range targets.
- Sky's Fury (Skystrider Bow)
- Dash range: 7m → 10m
- Buff duration: 3.5s → 3.75s
- Damage per bolt: 130 → 140
- Bolt hit delay: 0.6s → 0.4s
- Dash range: 7m → 10m
- Undead Arrows (Whispering Bow)
- Cooldown: 12s → 10s
- Cooldown: 12s → 10s
Hoarfrost has received a significant buff to increase its baseline effectiveness.
- Avalanche (Hoarfrost Staff)
- Snowball damage: 60 → 120
- Snowball Knockback distance: 5m → 10m (knockback duration unchanged)
- Increased slow trail width: 4m → 5m
- Snowball damage: 60 → 120
Pulse Shock is intended to support melee-oriented transformations, but not so strong as to be the default damaging Q. Therefore, its damage has been reduced.
- Pulse Shock (all Shapeshifter Staffs)
- Damage: 109 → 97
- Damage: 109 → 97
- Shadow Panther Transform (Prowling Staff)
- Transformation movement speed: 6.5 → 5.5
- Transformation movement speed: 6.5 → 5.5
Purifying Combination's cooldown has been increased to remove some of Fists of Avalon’s power as a non-commital mobility option.
- Purifying Combination (Fists of Avalon)
- Dive Kick cooldown: 20s → 25s
- Dive Kick cooldown: 20s → 25s
Circle of Inspiration’s maximum targets have been increased to make Druid Cowl more suitable for large groups.
- Circle of Inspiration (Druid Cowl)
- Max targets: 5 → 10
- Max targets: 5 → 10
Fixes
Spell Fixes
- Evasive Jump (Royal Shoes): Fixed issue where immunities could incorrectly be purged
- Infernal Boulder (Hellfire Hands): Fixed issue where a line of sight was required
- Sky Bolt (Skystrider Bow): Fixed issue where a line of sight was required
- Fixed issue where islands would sometimes not be selectable in the Travel Planner UI
- Fixed issue where linking Kill Trophies in chat would not display correctly
- Fixed issue where it was not possible to reach Elite Levels on the Destiny Board using the Learn button
- [MOBILE] Fixed issue where chat channel buttons would not work
- [MOBILE] Fixed issue where long-pressing in various UIs would fail to bring up tooltips
- Fixed issue where Small Treasure Chests had gone missing from red zones