Shroud of the Avatar – Update of the Avatar #298

by GolemDragon · September 24, 2018

Greetings Friends! Today we have a few minor updates on Shroud of the Avatar. We also have a recent post here on the Codex from Saturday. Here’s what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

State of the Game and of Portalarium Post
Fishing Phase 2 Updates: Lava Fishing Rod
Release 58 on QA Server

State of the Game and of Portalarium Post

Every so often, it is nice to do a more detailed post about a game, whether it be a review, criticism, analysis of story, or any other number of type of writing. I was going to publish it Friday night, but to give more time for Portalarium to respond, I waited an extra 24 hours. While I never got a response again on something, I was still happy to have spent time over the past 2 weeks, putting together information, discussing things with a wide variety of people in various communities, and reconnect with old contacts whom I haven’t seen since certain conventions.

So feel free to check out the new article and pardon the shameless plug of my own content. You can also check out Sergorn’s review of SotA from last month.

Fishing Phase 2 Updates: Lava Fishing Rod

Fishing Phase 2 is going to include some expansions to the fishing system the dev outlined during the later part of the Release 57 livestream. The strangest expansion devs mentioned was the addition of Lava as a water type you can fish in! This week Devs unveiled the first Lava fishing rod made by Scott “Scottie” Jones! Lava fishing was invented by Kobolds to catch the rare flaming fish, lava eels and other hot trophies. Lava fishing rods are made out of materials that won’t melt in lava like high grade tempered steel, carbon, and diamond.

Here’s a list of some of what Fishing Phase 2 includes and hopefully will be appearing over the course of Q4 this year:

4 Different Water Types: Fresh, Salt, Fetid (Swamp, Dungeon, Sewer), and LAVA!!!!
More Fish: New fish types to go with the new water types including more rare and fantastical fish (rainbow trout that have actual rainbow coloring).
More Loot: Devs will add more random loot to fishing.
Different Bait and Lure Types: Different lures/baits work better/worse with different water types and for catching different fish. Gems are the only lure that works in Lava.
Bait as Active Skill: To use all the different bait types this will now become an active skill, much like seeds are the active skill in Agriculture
Trophy Data: Players will now have a chance to catch a “trophy fish” that will have extra data on it including information like Weight, Who Caught, When Caught, etc.
More Recipes: More recipes using the new fish introduced as well as new recipes using original fish.
Group and Social Bonuses: Randomly selected Player Owned Towns with water will get a short fishing bonus. Devs will also be introducing an experience bonus for fishing while grouped.

Release 58 on QA Server

An early version of R58 is on the QA server. R58 is full of new content most of which is now on the QA server for early testing. As always Devs could really use help to test all of this amazing content before it goes live!