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Version 0.13.1 Latest
Arcanists who take Fire Against Fire or Load and Limit from Applied Arcanist Hal Meren in Cinderwake Hollow now see each briefing and each report play out as a fully voiced cutscene. Each scene plays once on its own, and you can rewatch it from the quest page. Press Space to pause or Esc to skip.
Follow the spiral stairs at the western home in Fallbed Gardens to find a furnished loft overlooking Rootwake Glade.
The game now lives at play.vowsofwar.com, and old play.dorenvar.com links take you there. Sign in once on the new address; your characters, Embers and progress are all there. Settings saved on your device start fresh. If you added the game to your Home Screen, add it again from the new address.
Support is now support@vowsofwar.com. Mail to the old address still reaches us. Purchases now show Vows of War at checkout and on card statements, and the Terms of Sale, Refund Policy and Privacy Policy name Vows of War as the business. Nothing in them changed otherwise.
Version 0.13.0
The Hookline Cradle has a crescent catch frame under the Hookline's last bend, with a rope net you can land in. Walk out along the drop board beside the Cradle's arrival walk and step off the end into the net. A stair climbs back up to the walk.
Terrain colors blend more naturally around Junction Road and elsewhere on the local Atlas.
Equipped capes trail as you run, sway as you turn, and settle when you stop.
Every quest in the Vantik starting zone has been rewritten. The routekeeper, the rigging lead, the windreader and the rest now explain what they want in plain words, and the working terms of the cliff get explained the first time somebody uses one.
Avel’s stone brace carries a visible test load, his practice trough shows shallow running water, and the Ridge Camp crew works behind a marked chalk line.
Read destination names directly on the East Road and Road Watch wayposts. Inspect each sign for the full directions.
When you meet Hal Meren at the Cinderwake service board or in the Emberyard, you’ll see his silver hair and gold-embroidered indigo robes.
When you meet Applied Arcanist Hal Meren in Cinderwake Hollow, you can hear his new greeting, quest dialogue, and remarks around the workshop.
Homehook's landing has a market street. Stalls under teal, cream and gold canopies line the road from the route board to the terrace stair, selling fruit, cloth, pottery, rope, fish, bread, spices, lanterns and flowers, with bunting strung across the lane.
Graphics settings now have a maximum frame rate: 30, 60, 90 or 120, or Match display. A lower maximum saves battery and heat, and on older computers a steady 30 can feel smoother. Raw mouse input in Controls & comfort skips your system's mouse acceleration in Chrome and Edge. Laptops with two graphics chips now ask the browser for the faster one.
Quests in Galehook Rookeries and the other newer starting zones now flow like Greenreach's. When a quest needs you to talk to someone, that talk is its own choice when you speak to them, and accepting a quest that opens with a talk goes straight into it.
The game has a new name: Vows of War. Dorenvar is still the world you play in, and your characters, Embers and progress are unchanged. You'll see the new logo, a new title screen and new app icons. If you added the game to your Home Screen, remove the old icon and add it again to get the new one. The game's website is now vowsofwar.com.
If Dorenvar is still coming back online after an update, the game briefly waits and retries so you can return to character select with your existing sign-in.
Fixed an issue that could make NPC voices and other streamed audio silent in Safari.
You can jump onto the low mossy boulder near Ridge Camp and stand on its top.
Version 0.12.0
Palisades, a Watch patrol, and a sign facing both approaches mark Ashroot Gate on the East Road.
Right-click the map to go from your zone to its continent, then right-click again to see the world.
You can hear Charles Berkenfield’s new performance in Rootwake, including his greeting, ambient remarks, and four quests.
Galehook Rookeries now stands on a sheer cream sea cliff over open sea, with surf, sea stacks and mist. Homes and banners climb the cliff above Homehook and Latchwind, Latchwind Perch flies a crown of streamer masts, and the Threehook Span is a suspension bridge. Hubs have their own gear and seating, stairs are cut into the rock, and rails are open timber and rope.
You can hear more quest dialogue at Bellwatch, Beamwood, Alderfan, the eastern courier stop, and on the path to Southbough.
Arrows, spells, and melee strikes now give visible feedback on both straw targets near Ashroot Gate.
The aiming cursor and fixed crosshair are easier to see against bright ground, dark terrain, and combat effects.
Voiced NPC greetings now have a small speaker button beside the greeting text.
Junction Road raiders now keep watch, repair their gear, sort stolen supplies, and tend a cookfire at small roadside camps.
Logging out shows that your progress is saving, then returns you to character select as soon as the save is confirmed.
Mira explains the discovery in conversation. She offers a way into the expedition controls when you can start, join, or resume the work.
Quest keepsake rewards now explain that they use no bag space and link straight to the collection on your character sheet.
When you turn in a quest, the NPC’s response appears first, followed by your completed objectives and rewards.
The feedback form opens while your screenshot is prepared. The attachment still includes your game, HUD, and open windows.
You can hear quest offers, replies, and turn-ins around Rowan’s Yard, Ashroot Gate, and the Haycut.
Choose and confirm how you greet Sera Vey, then open her quest from the same conversation.
The character preview stays in place when your stats refresh or you reopen the sheet, and it updates as you change gear.
Tamsin steps away and ducks when raiders ambush you on the way to Ashroot Gate. She follows again once the danger has passed.
The target frame shows your active damage effects with their ability icons and remaining time.
Dominion residents can opt in to defend Cinderwake Hollow from level 10. Enemy visitors level 10 and up are flagged outside marked protected areas.
From level 10, you can choose to defend Greenreach by enabling PvP. Enemy visitors are flagged outside protected areas, while unflagged residents remain safe.
The minimap points to your destination after you pick up a player-led escort and guides you back when the quest is ready. If a nearby conversation gets the main interaction prompt, you can still loot with Z or a separate Loot button on touch.
Update prompts stay hidden when you already have the latest game version. Settings offers installation once the latest update is ready.
Training windows now show the result of your request while you keep browsing. Banks also explain when they serve the other faction.
Quest markers guide you to the opening conversation in Galehook, Ashen Coast, and Rootwake.
Version 0.11.0
Tap a skill to aim toward a nearby enemy, or hold and drag to choose your aim before releasing. Drag to the × to cancel. A smaller HUD leaves more of the world visible, with quest icons you can expand for details and separate portrait and landscape control layouts you can adjust in Settings.
Dorenvar shows a loading screen while it checks your account and loads your character list.
Start moving anywhere in the lower-left movement area. The joystick follows your thumb as you slide, giving you more room to move while you look around or use abilities.
The opening Greenreach conversation moves on shortly after each spoken line finishes. If voice is off or unavailable, you still have time to read the subtitles.
Find movement, combat, interaction, window shortcuts and your class abilities in separate sections of the Controls reference. The guide shows your current controls, keeps help and settings within reach, and uses a category picker on smaller screens. Controls & comfort also groups movement and camera options separately from combat assistance.
Quest details now scroll beneath the character's portrait and name, while Back and Accept or Complete stay at the bottom. A visible scrollbar and reading hint show when more details are below.
Rowan’s rack now clearly displays coats, weapons and supplies. You visibly take your field issue and put the coat away, ready to equip it from Bags.
You'll receive a one-minute heads-up before the world briefly restarts, with a final reminder to finish combat and avoid starting another encounter.
If an update finishes installing after your tab stops waiting, App & downloads offers Reload to finish update. You can also finish the update when you enter the world.
Your swimming fatigue indicator now stays clear of Menu, Chat and View in portrait and landscape.
Version 0.10.0
Face the opposing faction in Whitewake Signal Field, a contested area for levels 15–20. Fight for the signal post during evening events, earn modest daily rewards, and recover safely at faction staging if you fall.
Find posted invitations in towns and near dungeon approaches. Once you are near the entry level, inspect a notice for the meeting place, directions and recommended group preparation. Reading a notice leaves your quest choices to you.
Mouse-look help now sits beside your messages and stays hidden while you use menus or other windows. After you capture the mouse twice, it becomes a small help button. Hover over it or press H for Controls.
Some NPCs now act out the actions described in their quest dialogue. On touch, tap Watch to hide the text and look around, then Read to return to your place.
You automatically learn your class abilities through level 5 as you level up. Existing characters also gain any missing early abilities. Later lessons still require a class trainer.
You can jump over Tideglass bridge parapets and swim through its canals and lagoon. Find a sloping bank or water stair to climb out, and return to shore before deepwater fatigue sets in. Bridge walls now have solid sides and caps.
Enemy health now waits for confirmed damage instead of briefly jumping back up. Your player frame shows combat and rest status, and eating or drinking keeps its useful explanation when it cannot start.
Update checks, downloads, installation and notification messages now appear with their related controls. Game updates also handle large downloads more reliably.
After clearing the Ashroot hayfields, Serin now shows a return marker. Hunting objectives use dashed rings so you can tell an area to search from an exact quest target.
You can jump onto the Bellshoal repair platform and shared tables, benches and crates, stand on their tops, and jump or walk back down.
Version 0.9.0
Open Achievements with Y or from Game windows to celebrate exploration, collections, dungeons, exchange learning, and the work your guild builds together.
Ask local guards where to find class trainers, profession trainers, vendors and other services. Your chosen destination appears on the minimap and World Map until you arrive or clear it.
Meet Charles Berkenfield and his three Lowhearth companions in Rootwake Glade’s Fallbed Gardens. Concord adventurers level 3 and above can help their unusual patients through a new four-quest side story.
NPC conversations now separate spoken words from actions, making both easier to follow. Several Tideglass notices and readings also explain their meaning more clearly.
Your desktop game-window shortcuts now sit in a compact vertical icon rail, with hotkey labels and hover details. A backpack end slot on your main action bar opens Bags with B or I. Notice badges and the travel cooldown stay available, with a reveal button for notices outside a scrolled rail. Mobile keeps its existing menu and touch shortcuts.
You can hear more local chatter near the care bench in Fallbed Gardens.
Your feedback screenshots now include the HUD and open windows. Press F8 from an open window to report what you are looking at.
Your first level-up adds an optional quest to meet your class trainer. Maps open near you, with named public places in Tideglass, and window hotkeys work from focused buttons.
Tideglass conversations, quest instructions, signs and observation posts explain the Watch’s tools and crossing precautions more clearly.
Berrit and Tovan have more to say near the care bench in Fallbed Gardens.
More people across the starting lands greet you and speak as you pass.
Your close map now labels more towns, districts, named areas and cave entrances. Labels respect your current floor and make room for nearby markers.
Pia explains the people and tide notices at Blue Ledger House more clearly. Three more people in Briarwood greet you with voiced dialogue.
You can hear Pia and the Ashen Crucible freight agent greet you when you talk to them.
You can hear more local chatter in Greenreach and Ashen Crucible.
You can hear more local chatter in Ashen Crucible and Tideglass Reach.
You can hear more greetings and local chatter throughout the starting lands.
Crabs and their crawling cousins have a clearer walking motion. Tideglass driftwood has more natural roots, and a ferry landing no longer flickers against the court paving.
Tutorial play, resume and restart options now disappear once your character reaches level 5. Older practice progress no longer sends experienced characters back into the tutorial. Your character and control preferences stay unchanged.
You can see all four Lowhearth companions keeping their places while tending their patient.
Quest reward previews show the items and quantities you receive when you turn in your work.
If you know Sure Exit, hits during Clean Exit now let you keep gathering or doing other quest work. A later unprotected hit still stops your work.
Training reminders, Abilities, and ability tooltips now name your trainer's actual workplace or settlement, making it easier to find your next lesson.
Version 0.8.0
Challenge another player at Whitewake Practice Green, whether they belong to your faction or the other side. Fight with your own abilities and equipment in a consensual, nonlethal bout.
Tideglass has a new town on the estuary with walkable shores, and its quests have been rewritten from the ground up with more fights, more discoveries and more personality.
Press the backtick key to keep running forward. You can rebind it under Settings, Controls & comfort. Bags, the map, chat and other windows stay usable while you run.
Greenreach has new spoken narration.
Every region now has its own painting when you enter the world, and the loading screen rotates through 235 tips that fit your class, region and device. A few dad jokes slipped in.
You are reading them. Open View Release Notes from the App & downloads page in Settings to see what changed in Dorenvar, date by date.
NPC conversations now open on the left side of the screen, in a slimmer panel at eye level and clear of the character you are talking to. Service buttons stack in even rows with room for long names.
You can see your character and your current target beside their health bars, with portraits that reflect your appearance, equipment and Shifter form.
See who you're talking to with a portrait and name bar in NPC conversations and quest windows. Their name and the close button stay visible while you scroll.
New characters now see quest markers, objectives, party members, other players, gathering nodes and dungeon markers on the minimap. Creatures, vendors, trainers, bankers and your bound home stay hidden until you switch them on in the Legend.
When all that is left of a quest is a closing word, the quest now reads Ready to turn in. One click plays the last lines and opens your reward.
Your larger XP bar now has 20 segments, each worth 5% of a level. Your money is shown in your bags with gold, silver and copper coin icons, leaving the player frame clear below the XP bar.
The Escape menu is down to its main actions, and Settings is now a larger window with five pages. Portrait phones get a category picker.
You can hear more greetings and everyday conversation in Greenreach and Briarwood, Cinderwake Hollow, Tideglass Reach, Rootwake Glade, Ashen Crucible and Galehook Rookeries.
Your XP bar has clearer dividers and shows your level percentage on desktop. Hover over it, or tap it on mobile, to see exact XP, percentage through the level, and bars remaining until your next level.
Fixed a problem that could prevent entering Rootwake Glade.
Fixed invisible walls around Tideglass buildings and stalls, and pillars you could walk through.
Version 0.7.1
Press F8, choose Report a bug or idea in the menu, or type /bug, /idea or /feedback in chat. Your report can include a screenshot and details about the moment, and you choose what to send.
Fixed problems found in Galehook playtests, including patrols, escorts and events, quest progress and rewards, and stairs and routes.
The first trainer reminder now also appears when a quest reward gives you a level, Abilities names the right instructor after you travel, and reminders fit on narrow phones.
Version 0.7.0
The world now follows a 24-hour cycle with moonlit nights, and each region has its own weather.
Choose how the mouse behaves in Controls & comfort. Action is the new default: mouse look is the resting state, and windows give you the cursor until they close.
The world has a new surface style, with fuller materials and light across every zone.
Version 0.6.0
The Vantik have a starting zone for levels 1 to 5, with 47 quests, vertical routes and wings you earn. Passages lead onward from the rookeries.
Version 0.5.0
The Kaldreth have a starting zone for levels 1 to 5 in the Scarred Dominion, with 42 quests, a cave to explore and declared yield duels.
The wolf, bear and stag have new gaits, jointed legs and better models, so each form moves like the animal it is.
Version 0.4.0
The Thaeli have a home of their own. Rootwake Glade is a new starting zone for levels 1 to 5, with 31 quests, its own creatures and narrated opening.
You can now reset a forgotten password from the sign-in screen with an emailed link, and verify your email address from your account.
Every humanoid in the world has new animation. Feet plant properly, walks and runs have their own rhythm, and characters can sit, kneel, hold a combat stance and carry weapons properly.
Version 0.3.0
Two new professions are open to everyone and never take a primary slot. Fishing is a calm cast and wait, then a short skill reel, in almost any water. Field Care is a trade for treating wounds.
Tideglass Reach gets its second chapter for levels 5 to 10, with 39 quests, class trials and a party hold with two bosses. Tideglass professions come with it.
Herbalism, Mining and Skinning now share the two primary slots with the crafting trades. Cooking stays open to everyone. Characters over the limit keep their two highest skills, and an unlearned profession keeps its skill and recipes.
Version 0.2.0
All eight professions now run from your first lesson up to the level cap, with new recipes and materials along the way.
Chat now has channels and tabs, with whispers, emotes, a friends list, ignore, reports and a player menu. Open the player menu with a right-click or a long press on another player.
Every new character now needs a name, and the field tells you right away if a name is taken. Random names now draw from about 9,200 options that fit each race.