New Hunter's Vale Updates (2025)

[Rubius]

Hi everyone,

This week's patch will bring with it the first arrival of the Dungeon Updates to current Dungeons referenced in our PvE Roadmap thread: this time for Hunter's Vale!

As the patch notes will also include a hefty amount of Class Balance, and we expect much of the responses will be related to those, we're also posting the upcoming HV updates in this thread early, so we have a dedicated section for player feedback.

Here's the full early look at what's being updated, changed, and added soon:

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Hunter's Vale Re-work
The Hunter's Vale Dungeon re-work has arrived, just in time for the Wild Hunt!

This re-work is aimed at giving bosses actual mechanics for players to counter, making the easiest bosses more challenging while also reducing the amount of time spent on the Spirit of Kurnous fight. All boss buffs can now be stripped by any tank, and all DoTs / debuffs can now be cleansed by any healer. Here's the full list of changes:


Durthu Wood-Treekin & Wildwood Treekin
- Each of these bosses now has a defendable forward cleave
- Each of these bosses now deals defendable AOE damage
- Each of these bosses now has an additional 20% HP true damage attack
- Durthu will now apply a 20% parry debuff on his target. This is cleansable by all healers.

Thanan Tree Lord:
- This boss now has an AOE Defendable damage attack.
- This boss now has an additional 30% True damage attack.
- This boss now has a DoT + 50% Incoming heal debuff. This is cleansable by all healers.

The Three Mothers:
- Peregra the Hound Mother now has a 30% HP True Damage attack.
- Vorasyx the Wolf-Mother now has a 35% HP True Damage attack.

Cadaithaine Lion / Lioness:
- The Lion's Gushing Wound DoT is now cleansable by all healers.
- The Lion now has a strong Undefendable Bite attack. If the Lioness is killed, this will deal massive damage.
- The Cadaithaine Lioness' HP has been very slightly increased.
- Protect the Pride: The Lioness will now deal 50% more damage if allowed to get within 15 feet of the Lion.
- The Lioness can now be kited around the arena to CC or slow her. Moving her through an Oakfall Snare will snare her by 40% for 20 seconds, and if she chases you into the rock, she will stun herself for 4 seconds.
- The Oakfall snares can now be targeted and have been increased in size to make them more obvious.

Spirit of Kurnous:
- The Gates of Nature have had their HP reduced by 30,000.
- Kurnous' Absorb bubble in the final phase has been reduced by 50%.

Drops:
- Stag of Kurnous: There is now a very rare chance to get a 90-day Stag of Kurnous mount when defeating the Spirit of Kurnous. If this drops, two will be awarded instead of just one.

- New Seeds / Liniments: Two liniment buffs that were previously exclusive to the Pie Week / Ogre Stew event are now being added as permanently-available Liniments via new seed drops within Hunter's vale.

The equivalent of the Bucolic Beef Pie can now be grown as 30-minute Linis via the Wild Hunt Seed, and the 30-minute Pickerel n' Peas Pie equivalent can be grown via the Sapling Seed. These seeds can be found at a roughly 10% rate on all bosses within HV, including the optional mini-bosses which drop dyes.

Hunter's Vale QoL Improvements:
- A new Portal has been added at the far end of the tree bridge once the Cadaithaine Lion is defeated. This will allow players to jump back to the Puzzle location much faster, and should be useful in case the Eagles decide they want to drop you a little early.

- Many abilities used by mobs and bosses can now be shattered / stripped / cleansed by all players, regardless of class. This includes Treekin's Harden Bark, The Hound-Mother's Hound's Fury/Hound's Cry, and the Wolf-Mother's Protection of the Pack.

- A new Secret Boss has been added to Hunter's Vale. This boss has a 100% chance to drop one of the new blue seeds, a 50% chance to drop a second blue seed, and has a rare chance of dropping two 90-day Stag of Kurnous Mounts.

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Please feel free to use this thread for any questions or feedback on the updates, and let us know if any issues arise when the patch hits later this week - we'll be armed and ready to hotfix any new bugs as needed. That's all for now - thanks for reading!

[vanbuinen77]

"The equivalent of the Bucolic Beef Pie can now be grown as 30-minute Linis via the Wild Hunt Seed, and the 30-minute Pickerel n' Peas Pie equivalent can be grown via the Sapling Seed. These seeds can be found at a roughly 10% rate on all bosses within HV, including the optional mini-bosses which drop dyes.""


Whats the pie effects?

[Baaldr]

Looks like good stuff, would be cool to see some endgame gear in there as well, maybe something like the GB rings

[Rubius]

"The equivalent of the Bucolic Beef Pie can now be grown as 30-minute Linis via the Wild Hunt Seed, and the 30-minute Pickerel n' Peas Pie equivalent can be grown via the Sapling Seed. These seeds can be found at a roughly 10% rate on all bosses within HV, including the optional mini-bosses which drop dyes.""


Whats the pie effects?

The new Linis are:

Liniment of the Wild Hunt: Increases initiative by +60 and reduces the cooldown of your abilities by 1 second for 30 minutes.

Liniment of the Sapling: Increases Action Point regeneration by 1 and incoming heals by 10% for 30 minutes.

[vanbuinen77]

Will you be adding ranged and magic power liniments in the future?

[Han]

will purple seeds be available as well (low % drop chance) or is it just the blue ones ?

what about rest of the bosses ? currently the (other) seeds only drop in gunbad/bb , nothing in Bastion Stairs.

[wardfan220]

will purple seeds be available as well (low % drop chance) or is it just the blue ones ?

what about rest of the bosses ? currently the (other) seeds only drop in gunbad/bb , nothing in Bastion Stairs.

Purple Seeds do drop in Crypts also.

[Han]

obviously. bb/crypt or whatever the order equivalent is. but nothing drops in BS

[Nameless]

Liniments are good start to make it more repeatable but imo there should be more options for chars that doest have cultivation. Add some items drops that could be sell for 10 gold each so you could gain at least 50ish gold from the dungeon if u dont care about the loot or seeds.
Last boss fight was soo tedious hopefully not is less time consuming

Did completing hv now add to weekly dungeons influence?

[Rubius]

Will you be adding ranged and magic power liniments in the future?

There are plans for additional Pie Week / Ogre Stew Event exclusive liniments to become permanent additions as 30-minute Linis in the future. I can't share which ones yet, but stay tuned!

Last boss fight was soo tedious hopefully not is less time consuming

Did completing hv now add to weekly dungeons influence?

The last fight should be considerably faster now. And yes, Hunter's Vale should already contribute towards the Dungeon Weekly!