Prominence II RPG: Hasturian Era

v3.0.0 - A New Beginning

This update does NOT need a world reset, but it is encouraged due to how much stuff has changed, but it is ultimately up to you!

Important Changes

• The Hasturian Era Begins. This update introduces both the final chapter of Void's Invasion, and the start of Hasturian Era.
• Complete Talent Tree Overhaul, featuring 16 passives, 9 active abilities and +100 stat talents!
• Player Leveling! With talent points earned every 2 levels! The maximum level in Hasturian Era is 65, if you update from void's invasion, your level will be set automatically.
• Artifact Upgrade Trees. Upgrade your artifact with its own upgrade tree that contains stat increases and passives!
• Mob Scaling, tied to player levels with multiplayer support.
• New Class: The Bard, a new custom class that buffs allies by playing music, with different buffs depending on the instrument, and they can even ANY song too, by just drag and dropping the MIDI files! This class will be expanded further in updates with custom armor sets and spells too!
• New Ability Books:
  • Warrior's Codex (Melee Burst Skills)
  • Rogue Handbook (Melee DPS Skills)
  • Tome of the Eternal Winter (Melee DPS Skills)
• Corruption System. A high risk high reward system where you get stronger but fall into madness. With integration between talents & artifact tree passives.
• Infusion System. Find infusion smithing templates to infuse Etyr and Corruption into any weapon, armor, or tool.
• Cinderstone Trophies. A new item has been added that allows you to craft QoL items such as the Explorer's Compass, among others. Their recipes were adjusted to require this item, which is dropped by campaign bosses or made using mythical essences! Making these useful items accessible later on in the gameplay.
• A rewritten Void's Invasion. Following an Elden Ring inspired writing style, and focusing more on the story with slightly cryptic indications.
• Spanish Translations! The Void's Invasion and Hasturian Era storylines are now also in Spanish. This does not apply to other questlines due to it being a very time consuming task for me. Other languages aren't planned as of now, as I only speak english and spanish.
• A lot more! The changelog is too big for it to fit in a Discord message, so go read the full changelog in CurseForge or Modrinth!

What's coming next?

• v3.0.5 - Hasturian Era's First Boss Coming shortly after v3.0.0, this update will add the first boss of Hasturian Era, along with the first quests leading up to it, and Thunderwrath's Overhaul (Including Upgrade Tree).
• v3.1.0 - Cinderstone Depths This update will bring the new Cinderstone Depths dimension, and for the first time in Prominence, the capital city of Vaaz.

Balance Changes

• Sharpness and Smite enchantments now go up to level VI
• Made Sharpness and Smite slightly harder to get
• Protection enchantment now mitiages up to 30% damage
• Armor's damage reduction was reduced on higher levels of armor
• Heavily nerfed Ribbonwrath
• Disabled Absorption Potion Charm
• Disabled Resistance Potion Charm
• Nerfed XP gain from Ancient Knowledge by 50%
• Made the Warden a level 65 boss
• Unique Drop Changes:
  • Ender Dragon's chance reduced from 50% to 35%
  • Wither's chance increased from 5% to 10%
• Reduced unique weapon loot chances by ~40%

Artifact Changes

• Added Upgrade Tree for Fyr'alath
• Added Upgrade Tree for Supernova
• Added Upgrade Tree for Ash'edar
• Added Upgrade Tree for Frostmourne
• Added Upgrade Tree for A'zhar
• Added Upgrade Tree for Fury of a Thousand Fists
• Fyr'alath now gives 10 reabsorption instead of 4
• Frostmourne now can use any death knights skills and gives +25% of blood, unholy and frost powers. Has the obliterate ability by default.
• Fury of a Thousand Fists can now use skills and spells from tomes
• Thunderwrath can now use skills from tomes (Such as Warrior's Codex)

Quest Changes

• Addded Infused Molten Remnants as rewards for hard non-campaign quests
• Added player leveling quest on tutorial questline
• Added Chapter III of Void's Invasion
• Void's Invasion questline was revamped to follow the same writing style as Hasturian Era
• Added initial starting chapter of Hasturian Era
• Updated The Prison Questline (Made by Ascens)
• Adjusted Spellcasting Questline (Made By Ascens)
• Adjusted AE2 Questline (Made By Ascens)
• Fixed description on some tech reborn quests
• Removed obliterated items from Powah questline

Lore Changes

• The previously known Kingdown of Chorbia is now Kingdom of Ly'rell
• The Night Lich is now seen as the agglomeration of the souls of all kings from the Kingdom of Ly'rell

Other Changes & Fixes

• Power level is now Item level, and the max item level was readjusted to 1050
• Added new texture for the Molten Core
• Buttons now have a glow when hovering, and lava drips out of the cracks
• Default main resourcepack is now Ashen (Excluding UI)
• Added new fancier plates for tool tiers
• Added new Discord Rich Presence with new logo. This new RPC also shows the player's level and item level
• Fixed various loot tables with invalid loot
• Fixed cryptic eye being unobtainable, now it's enchantable (thanks muon!)
• Fixed damage scaling of mythic bosses
• Fixed MI systems randomly losing power
• Fixed crash when fighting the Fallen Icon
• Fixed soul sand spawning stupidly rarely
• Fixed end biomes having a square placement
• Fixed end crashed ships and other BetterEnd structures having no loot
• Fixed end cities' chests not being integrated with lootr
• Fixed a ton of bugs from mod updates
• Removed Peridot, Sapphire, Ruby, Steel and Bronze armors/tools from Tech Reborn (Replaced by other sets)
• Removed Botania's cloaks

Recipe Changes

• Nature's Compass now requires 1 Cinderstone Trophy to craft.
• Explorer's Compass now requires 3 Cinderstone Trophies to craft.
• Pocket Wormhole now requires 1 Cinderstone Trophy to craft.
• Stone & Iron Building Wands now require 1 Cinderstone Trophy to craft.
• Diamond Building Wand now requires a Stone and Iron wand, plus a Cindestone Trophy and 6 diamonds to craft.
• Bater Wucket now requires a Cinderstone Trophy to craft.

Mods

• Added Faster Random
• Added Particle Core
• Added Death Knights
• Added Puffish Attributes
• Added Common Network
• Added Extra RPG Attributes
• Added Simply Skills
• Added Leawind's Third Person
• Added Arch-RPGMana
• Added Accessories
• Added Accessories Trinket Compat
• Added Rogues & Warriors (RPG Series)
• Added Ranged Weapon API
• Added SDRP
• Added Wither Spawn Fix
• Added BetterEnd Crashed Ships Tweaks
• Removed Dungeons and Taverns (Issues)
• Removed Shoulder Surfing (Replaced)
• Removed Fish of Thieves (Issues)
• Removed Trinkets (Replaced)
• Removed Simple Discord RPC (Replaced)
• Removed CraterLib (Redundant)
• Removed Repurposed Structures (Redundant)
• Updated most mods

Resourcepacks

• Added Ashen
• Added Ashen Mod Compatibility
• Added Ashen Custom Mobs
• Added ReApplied
• Removed HTP Deep Aether (Redundant, no use)
• Removed HTP Aether Redux (Redundant, no use)
• Removed Repurposed Structures Datapacks (Removed main mod)

Credits <3

All the people that helped me work on this update, without them this would've taken wayyy longer. Thank you so much guys <3

Artists

• Mim1q, for doing most of the new textures and models from the custom content, including on Death Knights and Eldritch End.
• Sideralis Music, for doing music and sound design.
• Aim_boot, for working tirelessly to support most mods from the modpack for his Ashen resourcepack.

Development

• Sweeney, for developing various passives and the Bard class for the Talent Tree.
• Joespeph, for co-authoring Eldritch End and developing it.
• Roost_er, for developing an addon with future custom content for Hasturian Era.
• Mim1q, for aiding in some development of Eldritch End.
• Ascens, for providing quest changes and some new questlines!

Testers

• Lady Fool
• Almdudlerking
• ChaoticJen
• Eden
• Sideralis Music
• HiddenTides
• Sweeeney
• Roost_er
• Blaze_Warfare
• And the rest of Hastur Cultists <3 that tested both in the test server and privately.

The Hall of Fame

• ChaoticJen, for testing profoundly and reporting countless bugs, giving feedback, and more. With a playtime of over 500 hours in the test server!
• Lady Fool (d9ze), being the first to hit Level 65, and even doing so 3 times. With a playtime of over 900 hours in the test server!
• AlmdudlerKing, for testing and reporting a lot of bugs, giving feedback, and more. With a playtime of over 160 hours in the test server!
• Eden, for testing, reporting bugs, and forgetting to send their playtime.