The following adjustments have been made to the Elemental Confluence hunting ground:

-All the elementals in the Confluence now randomly drop a new form of treasure: plinite. Plinite is the solidified energy (or "heartstone") of the elemental. It can be sold to the gemshop as is, or one can attempt to manually extract the plinite's elemental power core. Careful extraction is done via the EXTRACT verb and requires a lockpick and training in both the Picking Locks and Disarming Traps skills. If successful, the core is extracted and the plinite casing preserved for sale to the gemshop.

One can also use brute force to pry open the plinite via the OPEN verb. Doing so automatically destroys the plinite casing but allows the core to be recovered without a skill check. Prying open the plinite casing while still in the Confluence is dangerous however, as the surrounding environment will amplify the released energy from the shattered plinite.

The recovered cores are mostly relatively valuable gems, but some contain unusual magical effects based upon their appearance (all activated via the RAISE verb). Possible effects include the ability to quickly leave the Confluence, the ability to be immediately drawn to your nearby attuned entry portal to the Confluence, enhanced protection from the innate dispel attack of the elementals, enhanced protection from elemental damage, temporary reactive elemental flares, temporary enhancive boosts, and more!

-The creatures in the "hot side" of the Confluence (lava, fire, steam, and lightning elementals) have been adjusted upwardly in level (with updated statistics to match):

Fire Elementals - Level 99
Lightning Elementals - Level 100
Lava Elementals - Level 100
Steam Elementals - Level 99

-A significant bug was detected that was causing all the elemental's TDs (particularly spirit ones) to be extremely low. This is has been corrected. While the creature TDs are still lower than average, they are no longer dozens of levels lower than they should be.

Coase

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