07/08/2008 + 07/09/2008 Maintenance Changes

[Resplendent]

Anniversary Event closure. All Ticket Giving NPCs removed.
The ticket-> Prize exchange NPC will remain in game until 7/15/2008.
Einbroch Prize Medal redemption NPC will now give correct Job exp to 2nd class characters who are job 41-50.
Vesper will now drop the 4th Vesper Core item, at the appropriate rate, instead of an extra Old Purple Box
AI changes

Valkyrie Randgris: should now respond more aggressively to "rude hits"
Randgris's Followers: Will now be more supportive of Randgris's efforts to defend Odin's Temple.
Salamander, Kasa, and Sword Guardians (Thors) will no longer cast shield reflect all the time. This should enable more classes a chance to reasonably fight them.




These are the changes to the game today. The intention of the AI changes it to make the mobs still be a challenge without being a pushover.

Randgris' mob will heal Randgris now but only under certain conditions (rather than the much prior 40k heal every few moments). This should eliminate the solo killing of Valk via fwings and single hits.

The Thor's changes are to allow melee chars a chance to fight these monsters. Prior they would have Reflect up near 100% of the time. Kasa's will be more difficult than they were when Thor's were introduced, but more managable than they were prior to this maintenance (due to reflect not being up 100%). Sword Guardians and Salamanders had their Reflect chance/level lowered a bit as well to make it feasible to attempt to melee them.


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07/09 Maint Additions


Staff of Destruction and Divine Cross will drop again from Monsters as their effect is corrected.
Valkyrie Randgris will use her power more wisely when confronted with challengers.
A problem with the medal turnin NPC will be fixed.

[Batman]

wtf is a rude hit?

[Xxelos]

All very interesting stuff. My guesses on how the "Randgris Followers" (aka Randgris's mob) Is that they might work like Galions and Roweens now? Perhaps the mob is on a seperate AI. If so, I hope this change happens to most, if not all monsters who summon mobs. +_+

[Talin]

wtf is a rude hit?

A hit where the monster is unable to retaliate. Correct me if wrong.

[Shadow]

WB TKMs.

[Jayed]

so who thinks randgris does earthquake as a retaliation to rude hits hmm hmm

[Mint]

Good thing I didn't delete my TKM.

[John]

It appears to be a counter measure to trap killing. It'll probably Earthquake, Heal or Teleport, that's my guess.

Whilst nerfing Shield Reflect can be a good thing to a degree, I don't think many people are going to bother going there with TKM's as they'd still die from Clashing Spiral before the Kasa is dead.

[Shadow]

Apparently you never tried TKM killing before SR was added.

Also lol, first john post since early june not about ticket leveling!?

[Kaorri]

Whilst nerfing Shield Reflect can be a good thing to a degree, I don't think many people are going to bother going there with TKM's as they'd still die from Clashing Spiral before the Kasa is dead.

Not to be rude, but LOL. Thors was pretty much overrun by TKMs before shield reflect was initiated on Thor monsters. There should be a thread with screenies around in forums on how to TKM level in Thors XD If Shield Reflect isnt on all the time I can definitely see people returning to Thors--may be not to the degree that it was when it first came out, but I can definitely see it returning at a steady rate especially for Stellar days.

[Cherrie]

It doesnt state anywhere that they dont cast SR anymore, just the likely hood is less so I don't see it as the Return of the TKM Thor Days in theory

[kgirluvr]

anyone know specifically what was wrong with the medal job exp?

[Danny]

So... what's it like down there?

[Biochemist-ness]

anyone know specifically what was wrong with the medal job exp?

it was giving 10x the exp it was supposed to be giving.

[Shadow]

anyone know specifically what was wrong with the medal job exp?


Job 41-50 non trans second class was getting 500,001 exp/medal only WITH a manual, without a manual the exp was normal.

[Shadow Lotus]

Job 41-50 non trans second class was getting 500,001 exp/medal only WITH a manual, without a manual the exp was normal.A guildie of mine j50ed her alchemist w/o a battle manual, went from j45-50 with like 8 medals.

On another note, has anyone found out exactly what the AI change was? It would be nice to be able to go back on my champ knowing in what situation it would cast shield reflect.

[Soukosa]

Vesper will now drop the 4th Vesper Core item, at the appropriate rate, instead of an extra Old Purple Box


Guess this answers the question as to what drop was removed for its card.




AI changes

Valkyrie Randgris: should now respond more aggressively to "rude hits"
Randgris's Followers: Will now be more supportive of Randgris's efforts to defend Odin's Temple.
Salamander, Kasa, and Sword Guardians (Thors) will no longer cast shield reflect all the time. This should enable more classes a chance to reasonably fight them.




I was dreading the day they'd do this. Makes it hard to list accurate info on things like this since it no longer follows the source of the information I use...

[Jayed]

I was dreading the day they'd do this. Makes it hard to list accurate info on things like this since it no longer follows the source of the information I use...

Seems like maybe you need to make a toggle to switch between the 'universal' database and the 'iRO' database

[Ichigo]

Valkyrie Randgris: should now respond more aggressively to "rude hits"

bye bye traps.

[jaded]

Did they re-add Divine Crosses and other drops that were taken out due to being bugged?

[Shadow Lotus]

Yeah those were added in a while back apparently. No more 190 aspd. =/

[frapps]

^not for beelz although its possible this maint could have doubt it though

[Resplendent]

Bump for 7/9 additions.

[fairygirl]

Boo! They didn't fix Divine Cross. It still doesn't give you MATK +15% when you equip it by itself.

[Soukosa]

Seems like maybe you need to make a toggle to switch between the 'universal' database and the 'iRO' databasePast experience has taught me to stick with one version of a game. RO's even more complicated than when I had tried that so it would be even worse. The design of the site doesn't really allow for such a thing anyways, which was built to help reduce as much server side processing as possible.


Boo! They didn't fix Divine Cross. It still doesn't give you MATK +15% when you equip it by itself.What about the Staff of Destruction? All rod type weapons have an inheritable attribute of +15% magic attack but Gravity did something weird with these two... For some reason, they put these two in their own item class instead of putting them with the normal rod class. So from there I guess they forgot to put in the aspd delay for this new class thus giving anyone the max possible aspd regardless of their stats. If the SoD doesn't give proper magic attack then they probably just didn't program in this inherient boost to it for this new class. Gravity's amazing sometimes, aren't they?