Notes On Patch Update Of Jan. 21

[boomsticky]

Details on the patch update are listed below:


Mana Shield

* A new magic skill, Mana Shield, can now be cast by Staff mains.
* Book: Mana Shield can now be purchased at the market for a fixed price.


Quest Bonuses

* Upon completion of a quest, players above Lv. 94 will now receive bonus experience (1% of the required experience to level up) up to 3 times a day.

- Mercenaries will receive bonus experience relative to their level.


Quests

* Two new Constantinople Battlefield sub-quests (Lv. 96+), Battlefield Betrayer and Fausta’s Escape, have been added:

- Battlefield Betrayer: Players will be rewarded with Conqueror’s Equipment Box for each stage cleared and also receive Gaius’ Treasure Box as the final reward. Gaius is located in Constantinople Palace Bailey.
- Fausta’s Escape: Players must choose either the Title Acquisition Quest item or Conqueror’s Equipment Box as their final reward upon completion. Fausta is located in Constantinople Palace Bailey.

* Main quest-line rewards for Constantinople Battlefield and Frozen Adlivun have been upgraded.
* Increased quest item drop rate and quantity for Constantinople Battlefield.
* Increased Machine Lubricant drop rate and quantity for Recruiting Inventor quest.
* Reduced the required number of Veteran Snipers and Luxurious Clocks for the Dark Archer quest to 10.


Buff System:

* Six new titles have been added:

- New titles can be obtained through individual dungeons and new sub-quests: Players must complete the prerequisite Priest title quest to start the Divine Punisher title quest.


PvP

* Free Leagues division brackets have been changed: Div. 18-17 – Lv. 20-29; Div. 16-15 – Lv. 20-39; Div. 14-13 – Lv. 30-49; Div. 12 – Lv. 40-59; Div. 11 – Lv. 50-69; Div. 10 – Lv. 60-79; Div. 9 – Lv. 70-89; Div. 8 – Lv. 80-99; Div. 7 – Lv. 90-109; Div. 6 – Lv. 95-119; Div. 5-1 – Lv. 100-120.

- Your division will not change.
- Players can neither advance above nor fall below their level bracket.


Community

* Players can now view guild members’ last login information from Guild Office > Manage Guild > Members.
* Buff information will now be displayed to guild members each time their guild increases in level.


Items

* Book of Expertise has been added to the game, which allows you to obtain 1,000,000 Workload. Book of Expertise can be obtained from Goncourt by trading 10 Books of Craftsmanship.
* The required quantity to exchange Book of Experience [Adv] and Normal Crafting Secrets has been lowered from 20 books to 10.
* The book exchange fee has been raised to 10,000 gold for crafting and experience books.
* The icons for Legendary Viking’s Spirit Stone, Immortal Spirit Stone, and Dust of Death have been changed.
* The maximum number of scrolls that can be used in a monster battle has been increased from 2 times to 3 times. The maximum number of scrolls that can be used in PvP competition remains unchanged at 2.


Crafting

* Crafting skills under “My Info” have been sorted to list highest skills first.
* Craft Items have been sorted to list highest levels first.
* Skill experience points gained from dismantling equipment have been adjusted. Higher grades will now result in more skill experience points.


General Changes and Bug Fixes

* Expanded the size of China in the Northeast Asia Map to proper scale:

- The locations of Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, and the Sea Palace have been moved to be correctly represented on the map.
- The locations of NPCs Hu Xue-yan, Zang Heng, Zhao Gao, Sun Bin, and Cai Lun have been changed.

* Additional background music has been added to the general map, boss dungeons, Yggdrasil, and Northern Europe.

[badna0]

not a fan of the new fl rules... but meh we'll see how it pans out. The dismantling buff is nice, though, and mana shield sounds intriguing.

[boomsticky]

Players can now view guild members’ last login information from Guild Office > Manage Guild > Members

/o/

yay

[Frosty]

* Increased Machine Lubricant drop rate and quantity for Recruiting Inventor quest.

lol

i like the 1% bonus exp thing

[badna0]

lol @ frosty, i remember you guys doing that.

[Tamiki]

I'm leiking the mana shield, but I'm using my points on scud,blessing and guard break @_@

[Spectre]

maybe the FL rules will make it more fair though, i've seen people fighting in FL where its a lvl 89 vs a lvl 60 because same Div...not fair IMO

[badna0]

Originally Posted by Teuflisch

maybe the FL rules will make it more fair though, i've seen people fighting in FL where its a lvl 89 vs a lvl 60 because same Div...not fair IMO

but on the other hand, you'll have the level 100+'s alt-characters with streamlined pvp pwnage builds who can whoop up permanently on all comers simply because their build can't be beaten at that level.

[Adun]

I noticed they added the Elementalist to the info book.

[DarkRayne]

Great so it appears I'll be stuck in div 9 now since I'm in that level range. It had better even the system out, tired of it being impossible to win in any division against people 15+ levels higher >_>

[Fineti]

Yay! Now I can try out PvP, since the game decided to bump me into division 12 for no reason. >_>

[Javier]

Lol, Fine, your worries are over.

...Also, they improved lube drop rate? Iirc I was getting a pretty decent stream of lube when we did the inventor run. Improve the drop rate of DRAGON CRYSTALS, gdit.

I'm worried about the changes to Goncourt too, I mean 10k/book exchange is ridiculous. This means that 100k is only going to get us 10 book exchanges (as compared to 100 in the past). Book prices are going to soar >.> And goodbye Bookworm title, no way I'm ever going to complete that now.

[Allea]

Originally Posted by jayyy

Lol, Fine, your worries are over.

...Also, they improved lube drop rate? Iirc I was getting a pretty decent stream of lube when we did the inventor run. Improve the drop rate of DRAGON CRYSTALS, gdit.

I'm worried about the changes to Goncourt too, I mean 10k/book exchange is ridiculous. This means that 100k is only going to get us 10 book exchanges (as compared to 100 in the past). Book prices are going to soar >.> And goodbye Bookworm title, no way I'm ever going to complete that now.

Well that's only for the exp/craft books...and exp books aren't tradable in the first place anyways...so only craft books would be affected...otherwise I liked this patch overall too but I've always been on and off on Atlantica.