There will be a maintenance and update in the early hours of Thursday. Not sure of the exact time right now.
EVENTS
Cruel Cletus
A brand new raid boss that will be summoned at events. This guy is a beefed up and highly evolved friend of Lost Mysterion and has borrowed and improved quite a few of his skills to add to his own arsenal. Those lucky enough to find and defeat him and his minions will have a chance of looting a
Lustrous Ticket - starting a premium quest rewarding premium items, 3 new variants of the famous and much loved Rhinestone's Tear earring for level 85 players (see ITEMS section below for stats). He also drops a bunch of potions, Shining Trophies and the much sought after Epic Demon and Ghost pets.
New GM Events
New event buffs added that will be used as event rewards for the entire server and as additional buffs to complement the usual weekend event buffs.
+5% Dmg Undead/Humanoid/Spirit
+5% Dmg Animal/Dragon/Giant
+5% Dmg Plant/Insect/Animal
+5% PvP Dmg
+5% MP Absorb
+200 Range
New
1 hour GM buffs have also been added that will be given to players as rewards for smaller events.
WORLD BOSSES
Namazu
What happens when a Licka Mung Fish comes into contact with toxic waste? Namazu happens! This world boss can be found roaming the Pandahama Island and requires a raid to defeat. He is rumoured to be in possession of epic accessories (see ITEMS section for the accessories and stats).
DUNGEONS
Magic Tower
New solo dungeon, The Magic Tower will be coming soon. You will find a new NPC in Shrouded Valley, Old Wizard, where you will be able to gain entry as soon as it's tested, refined and released. It's there now for GMs and myself to test and will be opened for players soon.
The Magic Tower is a quest driven dungeon where the monsters get progressively more difficult as you ascend it's 10 floors. Each floor represents an existing (or upcoming) dungeon and you will be required to complete the floor's quest before you can progress to the next floor.
Each quest has a selection of rewards for you to choose from including Bonus Experience, Gold, Magic Tower Tokens or several different buffs. The buffs will help you on the next floor and you should always choose carefully because failing a floor's quest has a penalty debuff.
Magic Tower Tokens can be spent at the Magic Tower Custodian in Shrouded Valley on various foods and potions or a new title.
When the dungeon is tested and released it will initially be for level 50-65 levelling players, with Hard and Insane mode coming soon afterwards for the higher level players.
MAPS
Fire Pit
The winner of Fire Pit is now granted a 15s immunity buff giving them ample time to loot the chest without being pushed/pulled away from the chest and making them lose the loot.
Crystal Tower
This map has been designated as a Free4All PvP event map.
Party/Raid formation is allowed.
Guild and Guild Union members can attack each other if they are not in the same party.
Chaos Point gain/loss disabled.
Respawn point set to the southern circle.
BATTLEFIELDS
Aeterna - Capture the Flag now awards the same Battlefield Points as BoA, basically points were doubled.
All battlefields now require 3 players on each side or they will not start.
Whyyyyyy?
Because battlefields are not meant to be duels and I'm tired of people complaining about imbalance, or about AFKers, couples not hitting each other, feeding etc. etc. Having more players and more variation on each side will go some way to fixing these issues without me having to start merging some of the tiers/ranks. I would also like to see less camping of the lower tiers for easy points and get the level 85 battlefields busy again. More players = more fun!
BEGINNER REWARDS
Added new
Armor Box to newly created characters containing a full level 20 Unique quality armor set and selection of weapons.
Removed level restriction of the Skill Reset Potion awarded by the job change quest.
Increased the max level restriction of the beginner potions to level 20.
Removed the Wanted Paper box.
Players that complete their first job change will receive a mail awarding a level 30 Unique weapon suited to their new job that is also enhanced to +3.
LEVELUP MAILS
Players will now receive mails at level 15, 25, 30, 35, 40, 50, 65, 75 and 85 informing them of dungeons they can now enter, job change pointers etc. and a stack of gold.
15: Informs the player of Circus and has a ticket attached.
25: Informs the player of Laioha.
30: Reminds player to visit Shilly to start their job change.
35: Informs the player of Decomus.
40: Informs the player of Wood Garden and has some Armor and Weapon Enhancement cards and tells them where to get more.
50: Has some Wanted Papers and explains where to find more.
65: Informs the player about Temple of Atlantis.
75: Reminds player to visit Lady Galadriel to start their job change and Sedy to start the CQ.
85: Rewards the player with a
Battlefield Equipment Coupon that starts a quest to talk with Boris Eagle Eye to get a full +10 PvP armor set for 7 days to get them started in the top tier battlefield. These armor sets are exactly the same as the current level 85 sets available for Battlefield Points (Thaumaturge, Combatant's and Exterminator) but they expire after 7 days - they are sealed but untradable.
ITEMS
Lustrous Ticket Quest Rewards
Lustrous Mythril Earrings: All Stats 250, All Attack 250, Attack Speed 3%, HP Absorb 2%.
Lustrous Blood Earrings: All Stats 250, All Hit 250, Damage Absorb 3%, PvP Damage 3%.
Lustrous Angelic Earrings: All Stats 250, Healing 450, Damage Absorb 3%, Attack Speed 3%.
Namazu Drops
Red Ring of Omens: All Attack Power 440, Phys Crit 230, Phys Hit 200, Atk Spd 3%.
Blue Ring of Omens: All Attack Power 440, Magic Crit 230, Mag Hit 200, Atk Spd 3%.
Green Ring of Omens: Healing 440, Mag Atk 440, Mag Hit 200, Atk Spd 3%.
Agile Earring of Omens: Agi 440, MP Cost -15%, HP Absorb 4%, Atk Spd 3%.
Empowered Earring of Omens: Str 440, MP Cost -15%, HP Absorb 4%, Atk Spd 3%.
Intelligent Earring of Omens: Int 440, MP Cost -15%, HP Absorb 4%, Atk Spd 3%.
Wise Earring of Omens: Wis 440, MP Cost -15%, Range 50, Atk Spd 3%.
Evasive Necklace of Omens: Phys Eva 240, Phys Hit 200, HP Absorb 4%, Atk Spd 3%.
Resistant Necklace of Omens: Mag Eva 240, Phys Hit 200, HP Absorb 4%, Atk Spd 3%.
Defensive Necklace of Omens: Phys Defense 2200, Phys Hit 200, HP Absorb 4%, Atk Spd 3%.
Protecting Necklace of Omens: Magic Defense 2100, Phys Hit 200, HP Absorb 4%, Atk Spd 3%.
Forceful Bracelet of Omens: Phys Atk 440, Phys Hit 200, Range 50, Atk Spd 3%.
Wise Bracelet of Omens: Healing 440, MP Recovery 160, Range 50, Atk Spd 3%.
Recovery Bracelet of Omens: Mag Atk 440, MP Recovery 160, HP Recovery 160, Atk Spd 3%.
Forceful Medal of Omens: All Attack 440, Physical Crit 230, Phys Hit 200, Atk Spd 3%.
Magical Medal of Omens: Magic Attack 440, Magic Crit 230, Magic Hit 200, Cast time -6%, Atk Spd 3%.
Golden Temple Drops
Fixed the bonus cooking and alchemy material drops from bosses in Golden Temple. They now have a chance to drop additional materials as originally intended.
Fixed the equip cards (All Stat, Regen etc.) additional drops from some of the bosses. They now have a chance to drop a 2nd card.
Adjustments to Existing Items
Slight +Hit increases on some level 75-85 armor sets. On average these sets gain about 100 Hit spread over 2 parts.
Class restriction removed on Imbued Livid, Ulric and Nereus weapons.
Diamond Ore changed to Unique rarity to stop spam announcements.
Moolah changed to Epic to spam Fire Pit winnings so people are aware they can actually get moolah!
INTERFACE
Increased the amount of characters allowed in mails to 300.
Increased the size of the quest journal.
MECHANICS
Logout timer increased to 10s.
You can no longer instantly quit the game by clicking the Close button. Clicking Close will now act the same as selecting Quit Game from the menu. If you are on a PvP map you best find a safe place before attempting to logout and stop using it as a way to escape.
BUG FIXES
Fixed AI/Scripting of monsters with more than 40 million HP, such as the Sandstorm Bears and the new world and event bosses.
Fixed secondary weapon skills showing up on the wrong quickbar for newly created characters.
IP check fixed. If you kill another character with the same IP address, you will not be rewarded with Chaos Points or +1 to your kill count.
Fixed Kraken Hard mode destroy armor skill.
Fixed layout of quest journal's quest information text.
Language fixes in many quests.