Spooky

Five bosses, one after another, each one tougher than the last. It is where Spooky Keys come from, and the ladder the rest of this update hangs off.

Getting in — it is earned, not bought

The five bosses

Emberbone WraithBoss I · The opening encounter

Hollowshot RevenantBoss II · The hunt deepens

Pallid Crypt KingBoss III · Ruler of the crypt

Gravebound KnightBoss IV · The final guard

Dreadwing FiendBoss V · The last nightmare

They start around the middle of Ultimatum's ladder and finish above its hardest boss. They hit the same as Ultimatum's do — they just take a great deal more killing.

What a clear pays

• A handful of Spooky Keys for every party member, plus extra keys for your donator rank. The rank keys are added before any multiplier, so they double on a Double Raid Keys day too.
• A small chance at a Spooky set piece outright.
• Season Pass experience.
• The payout is spelled out in chat — your rank bonus, your multiplier and the total that landed.

The Prestige Perk shop carries a x2 Spooky Raid Keys Scroll, and there is a new achievement line that pays Spooky Keys as your clear count climbs.

The Spooky Chest stands with the rest of them at ::chests and takes one Spooky Key per open. Most opens pay CryptX Coin or Ultimate Upgrade Scrolls in bulk. The rare tiers pay a Spooky set piece or a Spooky Attachment, both announced to the server.

14 pieces, one for every slot the Halloween set covered: Head, Body, Legs, Gloves, Boots, Shield, Scythe, Crossbow, Staff, Amulet, Ring, Aura, Wings and Arrows. Each one is its Halloween counterpart with 30% more of everything — not one headline stat, every number on the item.

Tier 12 Upgrading

Upgrading has a new Tier 12 tab. Each Spooky piece is built from its Halloween counterpart, a Spooky Attachment, coins and Superior Upgrade Scrolls. The Attachment is the gate on every recipe — it drops from the Headless Horseman and from the Spooky Chest, and it no longer works by being used directly on a piece.

Spooky Attachments are required for every Tier 12 recipe. Get them from the Headless Horseman or the Spooky Chest.

Set-wide changes

• Spooky Wings double vote points the way the Halloween Wings did.
• Promo and cosmetic gear — partyhats, Centurion, Summer, Raje and the rest — now takes its stats from the Spooky set instead of the Halloween one.
• The Server Bonus NPC's boosts were raised to stay double the new best in slot.

Three new boxes — Minor, Ultra and GRAND Spooky Box — and they have taken the Halloween trio's place in the Donation, Global and the boss drop tables, the Realm VIP and Treasure chests, and ::deals.

Minor Spooky Box
A new Halloween-themed mystery box

Ultra Spooky Box
A higher-tier mystery box

GRAND Spooky Box
Grand rewards and revised rare tables

The voting board, daily codes, goodie bags and the Royale Crate still pay the Halloween trio for now.

• All three boxes can pay a Spooky set piece.
• The GRAND box has retired the Diety tables to make room.
• Rare pulls are announced to the server with new animated icons — and they are now actually drawn in the chatbox, which they never were before.

The login screen is now the Hallow's Rest graveyard, animated. Your saved account slots show that character's real appearance — the gear it is actually wearing — instead of a generic head, once that account has logged in once on that client.

• The 14 Halloween pieces dissolve now that they are not the top tier.
• Any Cipher rounds still banked on your account are cashed out in coins the next time you log in. The Cipher minigame is retired.
• The Headless Horseman gives up its rare drops far more often. That is the Halloween gear set and the Spooky Attachment — the gate on every Tier 12 recipe — so the whole upgrade path got noticeably shorter.

• Five Extreme prayers were doing nothing. Lucky, Duper and Cluely were being thrown away before they reached your drops; Fortify only widened your AOE if you happened to have a berry potion running; and Dupe Protection re-rolled duplicates in silence. All five work, and the last one tells you when it fires.
• The Duper figure on ::mydr never moved however much of it you had.
• Mystery box rare-pull announcements were invisible — built, personalised, sent, and never drawn in the chatbox.