apologies to anyone who experienced gaining thousands of glory etc

thank you to everyone who reported it, haha

Between moments of illness, wanted to push out at least some work for the path here, some fixes / light changes, of the thousand little tweaks I'd love to make, haha

• Stormbringer now correctly applies Charge when dealing lightning damage
  
• Agni Helm now correctly scales with Willpower
  
• Qamar now correctly only does astral damage if at least one armor slot is empty
  
• somewhat increased the King's hit / life
  
• Asclepa now correctly does 5 * willpower damage
  
• Arjana blind / freeze increase changed to dexterity / 5
  
• Master Repulsion psychic / astral damage increase now also scales with skill level, needs enemies to gain stacks
  
• Briar Mage no longer applies entangle on game turn, now applies entangle to a few enemies at global range and increases all physical / poison damage by stacks of entangle on the target * 10

Additionally, the new project has a steam page:

Lands of Achra

Much effort is being put toward this. Beyond anything, the response PoA has gotten has filled me with a lot of love and energy, and I want to build out the world even more here

The actual scope will no doubt be less grandiose than what I'm imagining, but if anything there will be plenty of builds to make, bare-chested battling of monsters, and poem-fragments, of those who roam the distorted earth...

realized people really like the "cashout" gameplay of anroth so softened the power-point penalty

customary rebalancing of recent things, boosted master repulsion as well

• Tethic monks depowered somewhat
  
• Master Freeze now applies a lot less self-freeze on stand still and no longer increases all freeze applied (forgot to do this)
  
• Master Repulsion now applies 5% of Repulsion on self * skill level
  
• Ogham now only performs a prayer once per initial attack, not per empty armor slot (still scales heavily with ranged AOE)
  
• Anroth now spends all your power points when you learn it
  
• Fixed a bug that was causing Hadad 3rd prayer to charge with any unit attacking
  
• Fixed Apophis 3rd prayer not gaining 2 charges
  
• Fixed Agni items not healing
  
• typos / other bugs

transal chakram went infinite, haha - changed it, and fixed some other bugs

This update has a lot of buffs, with some infinite combos being corrected, plus two new funky prestige classes, one of them being very overpowered (probably, haha, I want to see what people do with it). Some new threats: Scorch damage multiplier + a new "Purge" enemy trait. An Eaten Star void zone

General
• You can now clear your current character data / all data from the title menu
  
• Hovering over enemies on the world map will show your relevant resistance next to their damage type
  
• Scorch total damage now repeats per 20 stacks
  
  
  Culture / Class / Religion
  
  
• Ihra now also gain protection on entrance
  
• Brud now also heals off of Plague
  
• Arjana reworked, now applies Blind on hit, increases all Freeze / Blind stacks by Dexterity
  
• Kull no longer increases all evasion, now just gains 3 evasion on step / dodge
  
• Naqui now also gains 1 attune on being attacked
  
• Baghatar now instead deals +5% damage per empty prayer charge
  
• Reaver extra attacks now also trigger on initial attack
  
• Worm first prayer now deals 300 Psychic damage to self if no enemies live
  
• Mehtar reworked, now on game turn / prayer does everything per stack of dream (up to 5): summon a phantasm, apply 1 Dream to self, perform a Hit against one 1 enemy in a 4 tile range
  
• Hadad 3rd prayer now gains charges when you attack, max charges raised to 6
  
• Apophis 3rd prayer now gains 2 charges on glory rising, consumes all charges when used
  
• Pallas 3rd prayer now upgrades main-hand if no off-hand equipped, also upgrades block
  
• Yu now gains Refraction = Willpower and adds +3 to all applied effects
  
• Phoenix self-damage now occurs on prayer / stand still, instead of game turn
  
• Eresh now works in the path of dust
  
  
  Powers
  
  
• Added "on learn" text to several "on entrance" powers to clarify the mechanic, especially extra familiars being summoned
  
• Chamakana now also triggers off of slash / pierce damage
  
• Morbumancy / Pyromancy / Cryomancy damage increase now scales with skill level * stacks on the target
  
• Frostpulse damage scaling increased
  
• Geistform reflavored as Crystalform, no longer limits speed, doubles inflexibility
  
• Master Freeze no longer heals, now deals damage to all enemies with Freeze
  
  
  Prestige
  
  
• Added Anroth, "powerless" prestige class, doubles attributes (when learned), fully heals and upgrades weapons when glory rises
  
• Added Ogham, can't manually use prayers or receive divine interventions, performs random prayers per empty armor slot on initial attack
  
• Dread Legion / Grave Chant added to possible Necromancer requirements
  
• Master Freeze should no longer prevent self-scorch application from Surtmir
  
• Doomsayer now prevents enemies from removing Doom
  
• Crowform damage now also scales *5
  
• Frenzied One self-damage trigger changed to on stand still / being attacked, instead of on attack
  
• Strijela now deals main-hand weapon damage instead of Pierce damage
  
• Executioner changed to "on killing an enemy" (infinite attack combo)
  
• Psychonaut now requires you to deal psychic damage in a 3 tile range to trigger the teleport (infinite damage combo)
  
• Surtmir should now be able to apply Scorch to self through Master Freeze
  
• Arch-Lizard and Gallus armor requirements reduced
  
• Death Knight now also applies Doom when allies block / shrug off
  
  
  Items
  
  
• Xyston description changed to "a unit" stepping next to you (includes allies)
  
• Emerald Helm now only heals 5% but also triggers on prayer
  
• Marsh Trabea now applies Evasion instead of Poise
  
• Robe of Vigor now grants allies +10% of your max Life, and increases Vigor life gain by 50
  
• Agni Skirt and Agni Helm reworked to be more like Agni Mantle, scaling with Dexterity / Willpower, Mantle now applies 10 * Strength Scorch
  
• Hamid Pendant now deals fire damage to you equal to your Corrosion stacks
  
• Talwar given "on attack" trigger
  
• Vine Scythe, Fire Scythe and Doom Blade given "on attack" trigger
  
• Transal Chakram now performs a hit against a random enemy whenever anything teleports
  
• Rebel Jambiya now once again doubles the target's lowest-stack harmful effect
  
• Jade Helm reworked as Jade Veil, now performs a Hit against attackers, damage equals total effect stacks
  
  
  Enemies
  
  
• Curbed the cycle scaling for max life non-guardian enemies
  
• Raised the glory-reward of several early enemies
  
• Added Purge to a number of enemies - removes all effects from the target on hit

Can't say I'm comfortable being in the slow update era of the Path, but it's to work on the new iteration, a more expansive game of battles and lands

Gratitude to everyone, new and old, thank you for the support

I am HONORED to present some new Granga and Swamp content, haha. Focused on adding some more enemies, funky prestige classes, and in general buffing a lot of stuff that seemed weaker (this is in general what I like to do). I've actually felt guilty since everyone in early access got to experience really rapid additions and all the new people haven't gotten to "enjoy" that. However I think the burnout is pretty much gotten over, it was very helpful to take a break

General
• Added FPS limit option
  
• TAB no longer instantly enters a new world-tile if it's the only option
  
• Slightly increased item spawn (ideally it's possible to find everything pre-void)
  
• Some new verses from the vizier-imp
  
  
  Enemies
  
• Added 2 new special Void location: Astral Swamps and Blue Tower
  
• Added Tethic Monk as an early enemy
  
• reduced Jawhara cycle-hp scaling
  
  
  Culture
  
• Skeleton starting health lowered to be in line with Imp / Morlock
  
• Arjana now also heals on being attacked
  
• Albaz heal increased
  
• Protection (Ihra) no longer removed on self-damage
  
  
  Class
  
• Baghatar now deals +1 damage per stack of each effect on self
  
• Myrmidon now deals +20% physical damage per point of Inflexibility
  
• Upuat now requires empty chest armor to enter Jackalform
  
  
  Religion
  
• Apophis's first 2 prayers max charges raised to 9
  
• Worm first prayer no longer deals self-damage
  
• Eresh's passive heal / damage now scales on number of items in your bag, damage range is now global
  
• Eresh first prayer no longer removes Doom
  
• Mouths of Eresh are now correctly tagged as Undead
  
• Dumuzi's first prayer now also removes Doom
  
• Mehtar extra hit range increased to 4
  
  
  Powers
  
• Psychic Retort now instead grants repulsion on being attacked
  
• Shimmergang now summons Blinksnakes (reptiles), that teleport themselves / enemies on hit
  
• Sparkform should now apply when you learn it as well (to match other "on entrance" powers)
  
• Grika (Ice Familiar) now redeals blunt damage as ice
  
  
  Prestige Classes
  
• Added Elementalist, 20 points in "kinesis" powers
  
• Added Suwag, 20 points in Gore Cleave
  
• Added Aqliyya, 20 points in Mindfighter
  
• Starjumper now instead teleports to a random tile on step (trying this out)
  
• Sahasi now deals +3 damage per stack of Poise on self
  
  
  Items
  
• Crimson Staff ability range raised to 4
  
• Muruna Sash now also performs an extra attack on step
  
• Hamid Pendant no longer protects you from fire damage triggered by Corrosion
  
• Mask of Acid now works on non-adjacent attackers
  
• Staff of Earth now applies 3 Poise to self on stand still and scales damage with encumbrance
  
• Xyston now also performs an attack against enemies that step adjacent to you
  
• Several Shields gained an "on being hit" trigger (Skiagh, Fire Shield, Bleed / Acid / Meditate shields)
  
• Skiagh now applies much more inflame
  
• Tachi damage raised to 100% of Main-hand Hit and given wind animation
  
• Amethyst Helm damage raised to 300% of Main-hand Hit
  
• Ragna Axe changed to on attack, deal Fire and Ice damage to a random enemy = 100% of Main-hand Hit (previous form had an infinite damage combo)
  
• Changed several swords into axes, robes into necklaces / trabea
  
  
  Bugs
  
• Rebel Jambiya no longer sometimes applies non-harmful effects
  
• Stormbringer no longer also applies charge on kill (old effect)
  
• Bloodrage should now heal allies if they get it
  
• Poison Familiar's poison damage should now work correctly
  
• Inuqqa should now correctly protect against damage from freeze when standing still
  
• made some changes that should help with crashes relating to loading a save from the demo / older version into the new version - it should at least not immediately crash now, and give you a chance to clear your save in-game instead of messing with the files
  
• Fixed many more less-remarkable ones
  
  
  *Next update is going to focus on some new kinds of feats, and ways for the game to back up your save in case of steam cloud messing up / other stuff

Wanted to make a post welcoming all the new players and to say more content is coming (examples above). The release went a lot better than I expected and I've taken the opportunity to begin to recharge my energies

In general, even though it's been deemed "version 1" I want to add a lot more enemies and fill in more gaps, so that's the general roadmap for the Path, along with many other things that I'm not thinking of, haha

It's been amazing getting to meet all you new folks both here and in the discord. Thank you to everyone who commented on the last big post, it kept my spirits high throughout the launch

Simultaneously, I've also begun some preliminary work on a continuation of the Achra universe, now that I've learned more about how to build a game, and seen that other people actually enjoy this dark ancient-earth fantasia

So there may be some additional updates on this stuff as well

Thank you again. The response for PoA has given me a way to pour out a lot of creative enthusiasm, and everyone I've interacted with has motivated me to take the work further