The server will be down tonight for approximately 1 hour, 00:00 and 01:00, to apply fixes and updates.

CLASS SKILLS
Crusader
Gladiator's Whirlwind 2 cooldown reduced from 24s to 14s.
Whirlwind 3 cooldown reduced from 16s to 14s.
Coup de Grace cooldown reduced from 12s to 9s and the bonus damage increased to 10/15/20/25/30%.
Dissection bonus damage increased to 10/20/30% and now returns 10/20/30% of the damage as a heal.
Open Wounds bonus damage increased to 20/30/40% and now returns 10/20/30% of the damage as a heal.
Mangle bonus damage increased to 20/30%.
Impregnable Cataclysm 2 efficiency increased from 5/6/7 to 8/9/10.
Blood Craze now also reduces Magic Hit as well as Physical Hit.
Vampiric Curse now affects up to 6 enemies within a 10m radius (around self, no target required) (was single target upto 12m).
Blood Congeal now also has a chance to cause Immobilize.


TITLES
Added two new titles, Sakura and Dark Angel, to the store.






FRIENDS & BLACKLIST
Lots of fixes and a redesign to the friends system.

Bug Fixes
Fixed a memory leak that would eventually crash your client when opening the Friends window.
Fixed crash and dump when exiting the game client after having the friends list open.
Fixed occasional client crash when hovering the RP hearts in the friend list.
Fixed friends list not updating properly when a player goes offline.
Fixed the unnecessary update and refresh to the friends list every 20s - it will only update now when one of your friend's status changes, like when they move map, go offline, come online, level up etc.
Fixed bug with Blacklist sometimes not being honoured after moving to a different map or dungeon.

New Feature
You will now receive friend requests that were sent whilst you were moving map or to a dungeon - the message box will appear as soon as the new map is loaded. I will probably make use of this feature for party invites and whispers too but I want to make sure it's working 100% first.

User Interface
The Blacklist and Revengelist have been moved into tabs at the top of the Friends list, everything in one smaller and tidier place now.

Replaced the portraits with class icons and combined them with the player's level and a tooltip showing the class text so that information could be removed from the main list allowing the friends list to be much smaller in size.

The heart now represents your Relationship Points with the friend, filling up the heart holder as you get more RP with them. Hovering over the heart will show you how many points you have.

Removed the pager buttons, the friends list is now one big scrollable list ordered by name with online friends at the top.

You are now notified of incoming friends requests in the chat window as well as the usual message box so you can see if you missed a request whilst AFK.

AUCTION HOUSE
You can now register upto 40 items for sale.
The bid price text in the Auction tab will now change to blue when there are bids on the item.

The issue of being able to bid on, or buy out your own items has been resolved.
The issue of getting your character stuck and unable to move or even logout after using an nsDB link of an item on the auction house when opening it with a Remote Convenience Scroll has been resolved.


NPC STORES
In a recent update I put in some restrictions when buying unusable items from NPC stores. This was to safeguard players from buying things they could not use, and also to reduce the amount of requests I receive asking for refunds on mistaken purchases. Whilst it worked well, I feel it's a bit too restrictive as there are occasions where you may want to buy an unusable piece of armor or a weapon to use as a reforge, or buy recipes in bulk to level up your assistant skill, etc. So the restrictions have been removed and instead NPC stores now highlight items in red if you cannot use them.



It doesn't mean that you can't buy it, but that you cannot currently use it due to level, job, reputation, assistant skill level etc.


ITEMS
Battlefield Armor
Level 100 Battlemaster's armors are now available from the battlefield vendor. The Physical and Magic Defense are the same as Dead Man's Peak armors and they also have similar 4th/5th stats along with Stamina, Physical Protection and Magic Protection.

The cloth and plate sets are using reskinned CQ85 models and the mail set is a reskinned version of the Tech Tribal costume. Colours are muted browns with silver or gold highlighting, a move away from the normally brightly coloured armors.



Gloves cost 142,560 BFP.
Boots cost 106,920 BFP.
Hats cost 178,200 BFP and require Friendly with League of Athanor.
Leggings cost 213,840 BFP and require Honored with League of Athanor.
Chests cost 249,480 BFP and require Honored with League of Athanor.

Battlefield Accessories
Battlemaster's Protective accessories Physical and Magic Protection increased to 150.
Battlemaster's Evasive accessories Physical and Magic Evasion increased to 180.

Battlefield Weapons
Level 100 Battlemaster's weapons increased in price slightly.

Dead Man's Peak Armor
I was quite conservative when deciding the stats on Dead Man's Peak armor because I'm trying to reign in some of the silly numbers we are getting into, with higher and higher numbers on gear as it gets released. Clearly new armor needs to be better than what it is replacing (or provide alternative stats) so it's difficult to get a balance of the item being worthwhile or overlooked due to less than expected gains. Anyway, I think the offensive stats on the Peak sets are fine but some of the defensive stats like Magic/Physical Defense and Max HP were set a bit low so I have increased them for all classes.

Physical and Magic Defense has been increased by approximately 10% on all pieces for all classes.
Max HP stat increased by approximately 10% for all classes where the item has Max HP.
Peak Plate set (Templar/Champion) helm and gauntlets had the Aggro stat changed to Max HP and leggings had the Max HP stat changed to Physical Defense.

Peak Silk set (healers) 2-part and 4-part set effect Max HP increased by approximately 10%.
Peak Iron, Steel and Plate 4-part set effect Max HP increased by 10%.
4-part set effect: Stamina, Strength, Agility, Wisdom and Intelligence increased by approximately 5%.

Myrmidon Armor & Weapons
Most Myrmidon/SB level 85+ armor/weapons with Hit or Crit have been changed to All Hit/All Crit to benefit the Myrmidon's Phoenix Stance skills.

Recipes Tradability
Many Battlefield store recipes have been set to untradable as they should have been anyway. If it's on a Battlefield store it's because you need to do battlefields to obtain it.
Several recipes with reputation requirements were incorrectly set to be tradable, they are now untradable.

OTHER
The issue with some high level recipes rarely dropping from world bosses has been resolved.