10/28/2009 - Maintenance

Common Patch

- Corrected it so that the Shadow Chaser skill "Fatal Menace" can't be used on maps where you cannot teleport.
- Fixed a bug where the Arch Bishop skill "Coluceo Heal" would heal dead party members.
- Added sound effects to the Minstrel/Wanderer ensemble skills.
- Corrected a bug where the Royal Guard's skill "Reflect Damage" could be used to damage the emperium.

- Corrected a misprint on the Genetic Mix cooking manual for the ingredients of the "Siroma Iced Tea".
- Corrected a bug where with the Assassin Damascus (Valorous/Brave) where when equipped by certain jobs it would give a % MATK bonus rather than a fixed bonus.

- Fixed the Dark Knight Glove B having the wrong required level in the description.
- Corrected an issue where the Bradium Brooch's option "When you have 120 base AGI, CRIT+4" was not being properly applied.

- Ended the sale of the two permanent cash shop headgears.

- Updated the dialog of the Giant Majestic Goat creation NPC.
- Corrected a bug with the Sura job change quest.
- Corrected a bug with the Lighthalzen weapon supply quest.

- Removed the Sorcerer/Genetic compensation NPC.
- Added an 'apology' event for server issues.

1. In all fields and dungeons 'treasure box' will appear. These treasure boxes contain various consumables and gems.
2. A Buff NPC has been added to Prontera/Geffen/Payon/Morroc. The buff NPC will recover your HP/SP and give you increase AGI 10. NPC Locations are Prontera(123,68)/Morroc(191,249)/Geffen(136,56)/Payon(193,110).

Sakray Test Server

- Adjusted skill balance of the Warlock Job.

White Imprison

• The skill success rate is influenced by your JOB level.
• When White Imprison ends, it now deals Skill Level * 400 damage.
• When used on yourself, the skill lasts 5 seconds.
• The duration of white imprison is no longer decreased by the targets stats.
• When cast on monsters, it will last a minimum of 10 seconds.

Frost Misty

• The cooldown time is changed to 8 seconds.
• Freezing success rate is now influenced by your JOB level.
  • Updated the 'Freezing' status effect.
  • Now deals Move Speed -70% / Attack Speed - 30% / Fixed Cast Time + 50%.
  • Additionally, reduces physical defense by 30%.
  • Freezing status will now work on fire attribute monsters and players using fire attribute armor.
  • Freezing now has a minimum duration of 10 seconds.
  • The base freezing duration is increased.

Marsh of Abyss

• Variable cast time is completely removed.
• Cooldown time is changed to 2.5s ~ 4.5s.
• The effect is increased to 50% ~ 90% reduction in movement speed.
• Instead of reducing AGI/DEX, it now reduces evasion and physical defense.
• The reduction in physical defense and evasion is influenced by the casters INT and JOB level.

Siena Execrate

• The petrification duration is fixed (cannot be reduced) at 10/12/14/16/18 seconds.
• Success rate is increased by your JOB level.

Stasis

• Cooldown Time is changed to 180s ~ 220s.
• The duration of the stasis effect is increased.
• Stasis no longer blocks just magic, but also all buffs from song, dance, ensemble and chorus skills.

Drain Life

• The HP recovered by the caster is influenced by your BaseLV.
• The success of draining life is increased by your JOB level.

Crimson Rock

• The fixed cast time is reduced to 1s.

Hell Inferno

• The damage is changed from fire property to shadow property.
• The damage is greatly increased.
• The burning status has been updated.
  • The burning status is no longer removed when the target receives damage of water property.
  • The base duration of burning status has increased.
  • Burning now has a minimum duration of 10 seconds.

Comet

• Now deals neutral element magic damage.
• The fixed casting time is changed depending on the skill level.

Earth Strain

• The range is increased by 3 (with radius, it is increased by 6).
• The strip effect instead of just being shield and helm, with higher levels of the skill it can now strip armor, weapon, and accessory.
• Now has a fixed cast time of 1 second.

Tetra Vortex

• The element damage dealt is now based on the type of summoned spheres you have.
• For example, if you have summoned four fire balls, tetra vortex will deal 4 hits of fire property.
• Fixed casting time is now 1 second.

Summon Fire Ball / Summon Ball Lightening / Summon Water Ball / Summon Stone

• When released, the attack power is increased by the caster's Base level and JOB level.

Freezing Spell

• The max number of points available for preserving spells is increased by the users Base level and INT.

Warlock (finally) gets a Shadow skill? xD
Also, Neutral Comet ftw.

And I wonder how Chasers would react at Lock's Full Strip.

Awesome patch for Warlocks

Neutral element Comet, shadow element Hell Inferndo and new TV

I wonder if they make Hell inferno skill effect now grey/black instead of orange/red.

Ohhh and new sound effects for the song skills?

While some of these points only confuse me even more at understanding what Gravity is up to, Warlocks got a much needed buff.

Congratulations, Warlocks.

I wonder how many points for preserving spells there will be.. Warlocks got a lot more dynamic.

Gravity increased the "annoying power" of the warlocks... YAY!!!!

zomg~ not only strips shield and helm, but Armor, weapon and Accessories? Area Stripper lawl~

and fixed 1 second cast time. What could be better than that? :3

it's good that they fixed the stone curse status. Sienna should be useful now. also, neato shadow magic. only linkers had that previously...

i think warlocks should be pleased this week.

- Added sound effects to the Minstrel/Wanderer ensemble skills.

WELL FINALLY
Now if only the animations weren't weird monster sprites.

As for Warlocks, it's a nice patch, I guess? I'm a bit worried with the balance, though, mainly because of so many spells getting a "fixed 1 second cast time". I wonder if that refers to the fixed portion of the cast time, or if they're just getting an exact 1s irreducible cast time for them. Such a fast Tetra Vortex might be a bit scary...

Originally Posted by bluefox

WELL FINALLY
Now if only the animations weren't weird monster sprites.

As for Warlocks, it's a nice patch, I guess? I'm a bit worried with the balance, though, mainly because of so many spells getting a "fixed 1 second cast time". I wonder if that refers to the fixed portion of the cast time, or if they're just getting an exact 1s irreducible cast time for them. Such a fast Tetra Vortex might be a bit scary...

99% sure it just means the fixed portion is a smaller portion of the total cast time.

finally, some warlock love. Also, it seems that Gravity implemented the change to TV exactly as Gio has hoped, wherein the element dealt is now dependent on your summoned spheres. Makes TV a much more worthwhile and deadlier skill

WOW, AMAZING!!!1!

Comet and 2 earth/2 water TV will be THE killing machine.

I wonder if TV can hit 5 times now if you have 5 balls. Also, I take it they removed the " requires you to have summoned one Fire Ball, Water Ball, Lightning Ball and Stone before casting or the skill will fail" part too else it'd be pointless?

^ That makes me wonder if it will be possible to use TV with less than 4 balls too.

Originally Posted by Doddler

99% sure it just means the fixed portion is a smaller portion of the total cast time.

I hope so. Well, we'll find out in around 12 hours, I guess.

My favorite change was for tetravortex and summons spheres. Now tetravortex can be an awsome powerfull magic of the element of your choice (still you have to sacrifice a lot if you want more than one element), and now that the elemental spheres have increased damage from both base and job level they can be a serious choice to any build, not only a prerequisite for other skills.

About the element change on comet and hell inferno, let's see if now the wizzards stops complaining about psiquick wave.

Crimson Rock previously had a fixed cast time of 1.7s and variable cast time of 6.8s. Reducing fixed cast time to 1s doesn't mean that the 6.8s magically disappears. I don't think you have to worry about that...

My primary chars are a HW and a Stalker, - for me it's actually quite nice to copy Earth Strain as a Chaser XD

Doesn't Summon sphreres have a max number of balls?

Interestingly they gave almost all skills dependency (rather bonuses) on base level and int

and a mininum debuff duration...

I belive you STILL need 4 balls to summon it - on the korean patch the example used had 4 fire balls.
I fear for Comet Book owners, now that INT gives more memo slots... XD

I dont think comet books and TV books are ingame on the main servers, only on the testservers.

Too bad those aren't (yet) found on main servers. It might be a future MVP drop or a reward for some really hard quest though! XD

Nice update for the warlocks

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