Live Client 404.327.11 Istaria Community Manager May 30, 2023
	Fix: Updated launcher error message for an unexpected exception during login. Read More...

Blight Client 404.439.2 Istaria Community Manager May 30, 2023
	Fix: Fixed launcher not staying on last shard used. Read More...

Blight Combat Changes Istaria Community Manager April 10, 2023
	The combat revamp is now in pre-alpha on Blight! This revisit of Istaria's combat systems intends to improve combat, assist in balancing, and offer new features. We will be listening carefully to player feedback during this extended testing period. We expect there to be significant changes, based on your feedback. Stay up to date with us on Discord, forums, and support. You can send in feedback through:     Support system: https://support.istaria.com     Email: [email protected]     Discord: https://discord.gg/istaria     Forums: https://community.istaria.com/forum/ Please note that the support site and email guarantee your feedback is seen by every developer. Discord posts may be missed by some on the team, but you do get more back and forth communication with Discord.

Blight Delta 316 Istaria Community Manager April 3, 2023
	Combat Overhaul This update contains the combat overhaul in its entirety. There are a significant amount of changes and you can read about them in more detail in this document: https://tinyurl.com/3faeyec8 NOTE: This is part 1 of the overhaul and further patches will be coming soon as testing is conducted. Please do consider taking the time to hop on Blight and try out the changes. We have a new way to send in feedback. A cutting edge technology called "email" has been setup. Rather than writing things down old school, you can type into your computer and the letters will fly across the internets and arrive for all of us to see: [email protected] This guarantees that your feedback is seen by every developer (unlike Discord posts that may be missed by some). As always, the support system is also available at https://support.istaria.com Summary of changes: To-Hit and Avoidance (Dodge, Parry and Block) have been entirely reworked and are now more predictable. Separate evasion checks have been removed and are part of the dodge check.  All players (and monsters) now check for dodge. Direct reduction of damage by armor has been replaced by a % reduction (called mitigation). Glancing Hits and Critical Hits/Heals have been added to the combat experience. Armor has varying levels of effectiveness against physical, mystical, arcane and special damage types now. Ethereal Damage/Armor has undergone an overhaul. Ethereal Armor and Damage Ethereal Damage is no longer a Damage-Path, but instead is now a damage type (similar to Spirit or Flame or Slash). This means that it will be checked against standard armor (though armor is less effective by 50% against it). As a result of this change, ethereal armor has been replaced with ethereal resistance and a new stat called ethereal ward has been added. This stat can be buffed/debuffed and applied to equipment like any other ward stat. Read More...

Into the Future: Using AI to Enhance Istaria Istaria Community Manager April 1, 2023
	Hello Istarians! We have exciting news to share with you today and we can't wait to dive in. I am sure all of you have heard of the recent advancements in AI, but in case you have not, let us give you the rundown. Recent innovations in technology have resulted in very powerful AI - or artificial intelligence - programs, able to take prompts in plain English and return nearly anything you could ask for - scripts for plays, stories, conversations, and even images. AI has grown from the simple decision-making programs powering things such as our own monsters' wander paths to self-educating electronic brains capable of learning and evolving. As you all know, we at Virtrium are a very small but dedicated team. Any help we can get to improve our game, we are excited to jump on. One of our biggest bottlenecks in producing new content and updates is the amount of manpower required to produce interesting storylines and art assets. We have seen the advancement of AI and are ecstatic to use it as a tool to improve our workflow. To this end, we have decided to scale back the human involvement in our development process and submit to our new AI overlords. We hope as being among the first adopters of this unique technology that we may be spared in the upcoming collapse of society. The development process has been redefined to the following: Read More...

Blight Client 404.427.1 Istaria Community Manager March 21, 2023
	Fix: Fixed incorrect horizontal line on the character window Read More...

Launcher Version 5.05 Istaria Community Manager March 8, 2023
	Fix: Fixed a typo for new character creation on Order.

Chaos Restart Istaria Community Manager February 25, 2023
	Someone spilled their coffee on Chaos this morning and now it's cranky and needs a restart.  It should be back online by 10:30 am PST. The restart is complete and Chaos is back online.

Santva's Helper Event 2022 Istaria Community Manager December 26, 2022
	Greetings, one and all! Recently, a hatchling has reached out to the Imperial Army for the assistance of the Gifted. She tends to Santva Claws' gift stock, acquiring materials for gifts and such. After the celebration, she found herself short of materials for the upcoming year. With millions and millions of materials to gather over the year, there's no time to lose, Santva's Helper is requesting your council in New Trismus within the date range of December 27th (Chaos @ 12pm CST) and December 28th (Order @ 12pm CST). Many children and hatchling's next Gnomekindle is at stake! Santva's Helper

Silvane Istaria Community Manager October 17, 2022
	We noticed that Silvane was near completion on Chaos. Congratulations for your dedication. We’d like to tell you more about it.   The Silvane event is a side content of Stronghold of Nature update, the main course being the story quests at the Tower of Nature. Its goal was to provide a one time shard scale event where adventurers could protect crafters during their work, to bring the players community through a common project and also to offer a teleporting system close to the tower.   We’ve heard you wanted more than just crafting and we have listened. We asked AmonGwareth if we could go further, he took a puff on his cigar and told us: “Come get some.”. We understood it as a yes. Ghosts in the rebuilt structures were meant to be used for “future content”. They will be put to good use with the next content update: more stories about Silvane and unique purchasable items will be available. We are sorry to not provide the new content earlier, but we need to admit: Chaos players were faster than we expected.   Thank you for your patience and for playing Istaria.   Istaria Development Team