The team from The Chronicles of Spellborn have updated their MMORPG.com blog with an overview of the Scroll 5: A Helping Scythand update.

New recruits and veterans alike will be greeted by the newly built Hawksmouth Docks at Hawk’s Landing. The Docks and the surrounding area are now home to some of the less fortunate people of the Enclave, waiting for some brave soul to help them out. They will introduce recruits to the game and offer rewards to those who assist them.

As well as this new content, a crafting quest has been added, introducing players to the crafting system by forging a brand new weapon and placing their first Sigil.

To enhance questing in The Chronicles of Spellborn, a Quest Tracker has been added for your convenience. The Tracker shows the uncompleted objectives that remain in a Quest, allowing adventurers to play without having to switch between the game and the Quest Log every now and then to check up on their progress. Players can select up to five quests to be tracked simultaneously.

Read Scroll 5: A Helping Scythand.

Without a doubt the best MMO that no-one is playing. I cannot figure out why this game isn't more popular. It's wonderful.

 I think it IS a great MMO, beautiful, immersive...great art design and sound. I think the problem lies in that there is nothing to do BUT fight and maybe some crafting.

 You do level with a story, but I felt like I was on a train track, even though that train was fun.

 I will bet that by this time next year they will have added something like housing and mounts to the game and given it more meat. I really like it, but I just wanted it to have a little more to do, you know?

 Beau

It has the potential to be a great game, but it's like someone said in the comments for the article: it's feels too much like you're paying to play an alpha. In some ways it's blatant that the things that should've been done haven't been - like code optimization. This game runs as smooth as glass on my mid range P4 computer, but can barely climb above 15 fps in cities on my Quad core - there's no excuse for that. I check in on it from time to time and I'm glad that they're continuing to fix and tweak the things that need it, but I still don't see it as a subscription-worthy game.

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Originally posted by imouthos
It has the potential to be a great game, but it's like someone said in the comments for the article: it's feels too much like you're paying to play an alpha. In some ways it's blatant that the things that should've been done haven't been - like code optimization. This game runs as smooth as glass on my mid range P4 computer, but can barely climb above 15 fps in cities on my Quad core - there's no excuse for that. I check in on it from time to time and I'm glad that they're continuing to fix and tweak the things that need it, but I still don't see it as a subscription-worthy game.

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Sorry. This game is nothing like an alpha. Even mentioning that it's like such just proves you are clueless as to what an alpha is, or even a beta. Because this game is in neither state. This game has the content to take you all the way to max level without grinding, which is more than 90% of the games released. In addition, all but few skills work exactly as described, as does the combat. The only thing lacking in this game is a player base, performance tweaks, and more things to do at 50.