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Nightwraith

July 30, 2026

Enhanced Boss Breaker

Boss Leaderboard Update

The centerpiece of this update is a major expansion upon the Boss leaderboard from last week. This update will feature 4 new leaderboards:

  • Faction All-Time
  • Faction Daily
  • Streaks
  • Best Times

The new Faction Boss Breaker achievement will be given to the Faction that wins the daily Boss Bounty. This award is obtained by the Faction with the most daily boss kills as an aggregate of all its members. In the case of a tie, the Faction with the highest Influence will win.

The new Streak Tracker leaderboard will record the number of days in a row an individual wins the Boss Breaker achievement. The leaderboard will display the longest streak and current streak. Winning the Boss Breaker achievement 5 days in a row will count as a streak. Every 5 days after that will update the achievement. This leaderboard will be blank as of this update until enough streak data has been collected.

The Best Times leaderboard will records the best all-time completion times for each boss, including the round number and actual time. This board will be unpopulated at first since we just added the appropriate boss tracking in this update!

Winners of the new achievements will receive in-game mail at the end of each day.


AI Adjustment

After the AI update last week, some found our smarter NPCs a bit too smart, always choosing the perfect strategy to negate your defenses and resist your best attacks. To address that, we've created multiple AI profiles designed to fine tune intelligence for each NPC. Now some NPCs will be closer to the "classic" NPC AI, particularly Legendary and Nightmare bosses (already quite challenging), in which the NPCs randomly roll a skill/attack.

TheAlonzoHarris Shop

TheAlonzoHarris Shop has updated with the following CC items:

  • Sea King's Wrath CC
  • Sea King's Terror CC

 

Bug Fixes / UX Improvements

  • NPC drops with drop rates now shown on the NPC's stats panel.
  • Clicking the names on the Faction and individual leaderboards in the Boss Slayer leaderboard will jump to the Faction page or character page respectively.
  • Boss Slayer leaderboard button added to the main interface.
  • The end of battle screen will now count war drops you've banked towards your total cap. Previously, this appeared as a bug if you had already maxed out your war items but they were banked. You would never get a drop because the server saw the items, but the client would not until you unbanked the items. A helpful note will alert you if you have banked war items.

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