Patron benefits now follow your Discord role. The Nui Priestess skill-tree swap bug is gone. The in-game Marketplace is live as a closed-loop credit shop.
Patron is now Discord-linked
Hold the Patron role in the Rookery Isles Discord, you are a Patron in-game. Lose the role, you are not. The sync runs every 15 minutes against live Discord state; the change takes effect at your next login.
What being a Patron actually does in this build:
- Visible Patron buff above your hotbar so you can see your own status (the buff was being granted to every character before, which is why nobody could tell).
- Premium credit drip of 10 credits every 5 minutes while logged in (lowered from the upstream 100/5min to keep credits a real product).
- Premium labor regen rate (10 labor every 5 minutes instead of 5).
If you do not have the role, none of the above applies.
Nui Priestess skill-tree swap fixed
Swap a base skill tree at the Priestess, learn a skill inside the new tree, and the tree now stays put. Upstream had a packet-encoding bug that told the client all three of your ability slots changed at once, so spending a skill point reverted the swapped slot to the "Select a skill" picker. That is fixed.
If you were stuck mid-swap before this patch, talking to the Priestess again will let you complete the swap cleanly.
Marketplace open
The in-game Marketplace (cash shop) now sells items priced in Credits. Browse to Main / General / Travel / Housing / Custom / Award like you would on any ArcheAge server. First listings are going up over the coming days.
Two notes on how the Marketplace works on Rookery Isles:
- Credits only. Coins (in-game gold) is intentionally NOT a Marketplace currency. Credits are bought separately (website store coming soon) and stay distinct from gold.
- Credit Box on the way. A future patch adds a tradeable Credit Box item: whales buy credits with real money and convert to gold via the Auction House, free players earn gold and convert to credits via the same box. Closed-loop, taxed by the AH, no inflation pressure.
Starting balances
New accounts and new characters now start at zero Credits, Loyalty, Vocation, and AaPoints. Upstream sometimes shipped non-zero defaults; we have explicit zeros locked in for everyone going forward.
Behind the scenes
Three server-source patches in this build (EnterWorldManager.cs, CSSelectCharacterPacket.cs, SCAbilitySwappedPacket.cs). Patron sync cron RookeryIsles-PatronSync runs every 15 min. Marketplace admin lives in Echo's /echo/archeage3 page.