Changelog/2023/October 10/1

Hello!

Today we are opening Alpha to test a new feature that we are planning to add very soon. This feature allows players to extract active abilities from items and transfuse them to other items. This means you will be able to place any ability of your choosing on any item (mostly weapons) of your choice, although certain restrictions will apply.

Below is the functionality that has been set up on Alpha to allow players to test:

• Rogier is an NPC that you can find on the End Island, straight across from the Lone Adventurer, in a small cave behind the big hole.
• Talking to Rogier will make him move into the Hub at 66 71 -61.
• Once you complete his quest, he'll give you the option to either extract, reset or transfuse items.
• To extract an item, place the item you would like to permanently unlock the ability of inside Rogier's menu and click accept. This will permanently co-op soulbind the item. However, you will now be able to transfuse the ability onto as many other items as you please.
• To transfuse an item, place the item you would like to add or change the ability of on the left side of the menu. Choose one of your extracted abilities on the right to transfuse the ability onto your item. This will temporarily co-op soulbound the item as long as the new ability is present on the weapon. To remove the co-op soulbind you can reset your ability at Rogier and it will be tradeable again.
• Certain items have abilities that cannot be extracted and transfused on other items, such as Aspect of the Jerry, for balancing or other reasons. If you feel like an ability should be able to be extracted and transfusable and it's currently not, please let us know!
• The difference between abilities and passives has been made more obvious on items. Certain abilities of weapons have been moved to passives. *To be classified as an ability, the ability must have an active trigger, which wasn't the case on a number of items such as the Cleaver. *Passives are not extractable or transfuseable!
• Transmission Tuner has been changed to work with Rogier.
• Wither Scrolls Implosion, Wither Shield and Shadow Warp are now Ability Scrolls and can be extracted.

Balance Changes

• Ability Damage Scaling has been changed for all abilities and now is the same for every weapon. This means there will no longer be abilities that scale slower or faster depending on your intelligence. The base ability damage of abilities have been changed accordingly.
• Certain weapons have been recategorized into Wands

Designer Notes We've been looking forward to this addition for quite some time now, and we would like to share some of our reasons on why we ultimately decided to pursue this idea:

1. We want players to not feel restricted to specific weapons solely because they favor one item's ability over others, as that may hinder players from swapping to better gear with better stats as often during their progression through the game.

2. Being able to transfer abilities on other items will shift the meta of items more frequently than before and allow for more versatile builds that may change depending on your playstyle.

3. It will be much easier for us to implement new weapons into the game that are more impactful, as a simple stat increase can make a huge difference.

4. It will be much easier for us to balance abilities and items, as we now can balance abilities and items separately from each other.

We know it's a huge change to the game and we would like to make sure we implement this feature with all the balancing changes that might be necessary going forward before we release this update into SkyBlock.

If you encounter any issues - small, major, or critical, please report them here and make sure you select alpha.hypixel.net!