New World – March Alpha Update

This month’s alpha update for Amazon Game Studios’ upcoming MMORPG New World introduces Ebonscale Reach – a new high-level Asian-inspired area featuring new enemies and an instanced expedition. Beyond that, the update adds a new PvP game mode, a good deal of story quests and voice overs, and numerous miscellaneous adjustments.

Before you get to the patch notes linked above, you may also want to read this lore-rich article introducing Ebonscale Reach. And here are some update spotlights:

NEW ZONE: EBONSCALE REACH

Ebonscale Reach is a fertile territory named for the black fungus that grows in abundance there. The area is home to the remnants of a long-forgotten Dynasty who must contend with the demons of their past in the form of a fallen Empress. Here, amid lush wetlands, majestic waterfalls, and stunning architecture, players will counter the atrocities committed by the Empress’s Corrupted forces and the Dragon Magic she has been cultivating for centuries, ultimately exposing her true plan, which reaches far beyond the shores of Aeternum.

• Ebonscale Reach is located north of Monarch’s Bluffs and west of Brightwood and is intended for player level 51 and above.

EBONSCALE REACH: NEW ENEMIES

• Several new hostile inhabitants of Aeternum now populate Ebonscale Reach, including Corrupted Dynasty Musketeers, Heavies, Warriors, Spear Captains, Summoners, and Maidens, as well as Tigers and Corrupted Tigers.

NEW EXPEDITION: GARDEN OF GENESIS

The Garden of Genesis is an expedition leading into the birthplace of the Angry Earth, where players must face elemental protectors in order to penetrate into the nursery’s primordial heart. Like the rest of Edengrove, the Garden has been infected with a mysterious Blight, and though the Angry Earth will never accept outsiders into their sacred space, only the players have the power to purge the Blight and begin the Garden’s restoration.

• The entrance to this expedition is located in the northwestern part of the crater in Edengrove.
• Players must have completed the following quests in the area before entering the Garden of Genesis:
  • Survivalist Ellwood’s quests in Edengrove at the Last Stand Outpost
  • Ranger Herath’s quests in Shattered Mountain at the Mountainrise Outpost

GARDEN OF GENESIS BOSS ENCOUNTERS

• The Caretaker: Beware the murky waters in the den of this once-gentle giant.
• The Blighted Greenskeeper: This blighted soul stands guard at the very heart of the Garden of Genesis.