Rules Changes (Season 12)

Here are the rules changes to-date for Season 12; pending changes will be added here as they’re resolved. This only includes changes to existing skills and mechanics – new skills will be added to the rulebook directly!

Broad Game Changes

• Classes: The Necromancer class will be replaced with Witch starting this upcoming season.
  • Witch is still in development and will be posted with the new rulebook draft!
• Selling Gear: Players can no longer sell out-of-game personal gear for in-game gold.

General Rules & Interaction Changes

• Burning & Treeform: If you are burning and then treeformed, the burning count is paused as long as you are treeformed and resumes once you are reverted.
• Cascades: Cascades count as an area effect; they hit swarms, cannot be endured, and can be evaded by other effects that evade area effects. Taking a normal skill or spell and cascading it – such as causing a flame ray to cascade – changes the delivery of the effect (so missile spell resistance will not resist a flame ray cascade, etc). If a cascade does not take effect on an individual player, it still continues to the next and is not disrupted.
• Catching Missiles: If you resist missile weapons, you still cannot catch them and must drop them immediately (as disarm).
• Drowning: If you become conscious while still in the water, you do not have time to make an action (eg, call a spell or skill) before becoming unconscious again.
• Flying & Reach: If you have Flying and Reach, you can strike down from Soaring.
• Movement & Stealth: If you have a movement ability (such as Flying, Swimming, or Tunneling) and Hide or Stealth, you can remain hidden while using those movement abilities.
• Shatter & Natural Weapons: If natural armor or weapons become shattered (such as through acidic blood or shattering armor), it counts as an injury and can be healed with magical healing.
• Shatter & Specific Monsters: Golems take shatter to their limbs and torso as Hack & Impale respectively; these are reset if the Golem is reset. Monsters made from items, such as death knights, are still functional if their armor is shattered.
• Shatter & Zones: If using Shatter or Melting Grasp on armor, you must target a zone that type of armor covers (ie, forearms for leather). All armor is shattered, not a single AV worth. If using Shatter or Melting Grasp to target something on the head, such as a helm, target the open zone instead.

Ability Rules Changes

• Deadly Damage: Deadly Damage is not a kill effect, enough damage to kill you regardless of how much you take.
• Delay: Only works for 20-counts.
• Disembowel: Disembowel is now a Strike, not a Tag; it is also Invoked.
• Dispel: Dispel now has a range of 10′ of the caster, not 10′ of the spell.
• Endure: Cannot endure area effects, such as auras or breath weapons; only things which hit the the limb specifically.
• Explode Ball: Doesn’t Ruin the body; does set the body on fire.
• Impale: Impale is now a Strike, not a Tag.
• Intercept: Taking the damage from Intercept is a cost to using the skill, and is taken regardless of any resistances/immunities to damage or damage types.
• Leap: You cannot change direction while Leaping; it’s a straight shot.
• Missile Weapon Resistance: Includes missile weapons, boulders, thrown potions, and animal packets.
• Shatter: Shatter (and melting grasp) has to target a physrep, not a player’s body.
• Stun Ray: Is now a physical effect, not a mental effect.
• Threat Vitals: Is now primal and a metal effect.
• Wilderness Healing: Also gives you +1 Mana while in wilderness.