11/04/2009 - Maintenance

Common Patch

- The compensation event and Halloween event have ended.
- The update event's experience bonus has ended, with drop rate increase event now starting.
- Netcafe attendance event has started.
- Added new Morroc chasm guide NPC.
- Corrected Tetra Vortex skill description.
- Corrected Tetra Vortex to show 4 separate hits regardless of type of sphere used.
- Corrected an issue with Tetra vortex's attack power.
- Corrected a issue with Hell Inferno and Drain Life damage formula.
- Corrected an issue with max preservable skills with Reading Spellbook/Freezing Spell.

Main Servers

- Implemented Warlock skill balance update.

Sakray Test Server

- The boss monster of the Brazil Localized map dungeon 'Boitata' has its slave monster 'piranha' changed to slave type.
- Changed the monster level, attack power and experience of the following monsters: Marionette, Deviruchi, Heater, Assaulter, Sting, Anubis, Majororus, Arclouse, Ancient Mummy.

As always, thank you Doddler.

So, any notion of what, mathmatically, these balances are going to be?

- Implemented Warlock skill balance update.

Nice update, thx Doddler for the traduction.

Spanish Traduction.

Originally Posted by TheAntiElite

As always, thank you Doddler.

So, any notion of what, mathmatically, these balances are going to be?

If you mean the Warlock balancing, it's what was done last week but now added to the main kro servers

Originally Posted by Doddler

Common Patch
- Corrected Tetra Vortex skill description.
- Corrected Tetra Vortex to show 4 separate hits regardless of type of sphere used.
- Corrected an issue with Tetra vortex's attack power.

My guess is they fixed it so TV cant do 5 hits anymore, however i hope they made it so Mystic Amplification increases the damage of all TV hits, not only the first one.

I'm quite happy they made TV do 4 seperate hits even when using the same element instead of having TV do overlapping numbers when several element balls of the same kind are used.

I'm dreaming on a AB balance update, until it happen, I'll still dream.

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Originally Posted by Kyrie

I'm dreaming on a AB balance update, until it happen, I'll still dream.

Hasn't it happened already?

@patch, well, nothing too interesting... the small rebalance on those monster made me curious though. And well, what's with that random guide in Morroc?

And i'm still waiting for informations about the existance of third expanded classes...let's wait again, then. Quite useless patch, by the way.

Originally Posted by Doddler

Common Patch

- Corrected Tetra Vortex skill description.
- Corrected Tetra Vortex to show 4 separate hits regardless of type of sphere used.
- Corrected an issue with Tetra vortex's attack power.
- Corrected a issue with Hell Inferno and Drain Life damage formula.
- Corrected an issue with max preservable skills with Reading Spellbook/Freezing Spell.

To show 4 separate hits regardless of type of sphere used. I guess that's the issue with the weird delay when only using one type of sphere. Logically guess, attack power change is probably tetra vortex hitting 5 times..although I really hope that's not the case xD.

The formula changes sound very interesting, but probably won't know what they changed until the update is done.

I have some mixed feelings on the Tetra Vortex update. On one hand, they made the skill absolutely amazing by giving it elemental flexibility, but on the other hand if you want to get every single possible combination of TV you have to get level 4 of all the orbs, and if you do that, unless you get the absolute minimum of the entire TV tree, you can't get Comet at all and you can't get anything from the other tree, including Release or Spellbook, etc. It's now the tightest skill tree I know of.

Maybe they could buff the orbs so they summon an extra 1 per level with a max still set at 5 to reduce some of the skillpoint requirements...

Originally Posted by Janus Zhervall

I have some mixed feelings on the Tetra Vortex update. On one hand, they made the skill absolutely amazing by giving it elemental flexibility, but on the other hand if you want to get every single possible combination of TV you have to get level 4 of all the orbs, and if you do that, unless you get the absolute minimum of the entire TV tree, you can't get Comet at all and you can't get anything from the other tree, including Release or Spellbook, etc. It's now the tightest skill tree I know of.

Maybe they could buff the orbs so they summon an extra 1 per level with a max still set at 5 to reduce some of the skillpoint requirements...

You can summon 5 of any orb with just level 1.

Any idea when the new homunculus system is supposed to make its debut?

what they know, they've already told us, lets take this 1 step at a time people, doddler and crew arent holding anything back from us.

Originally Posted by bluefox

Hasn't it happened already?

@patch, well, nothing too interesting... the small rebalance on those monster made me curious though. And well, what's with that random guide in Morroc?

i happened long time ago

- Corrected a issue with Hell Inferno and Drain Life damage formula.

What problem in these skills?

- Corrected an issue with max preservable skills with Reading Spellbook/Freezing Spell.

We store more than 3 spells of the same type? Or will decrease this value?

Because Drain Life previously bypassed Stasis, my guess is that Drain Life and Hell Inferno may have been bypassing magic immunity.

Originally Posted by Doddler

You can summon 5 of any orb with just level 1.

There goes my concerns! Now I have another question, though. What exactly is different between levels of orb summons?

Damage (with Release) and duration.

Originally Posted by Doddler

Because Drain Life previously bypassed Stasis, my guess is that Drain Life and Hell Inferno may have been bypassing magic immunity.

Let's hope is that man.

Originally Posted by bluefox

Hasn't it happened already?

Unless you consider pointless nerfs to FS ABs to be balancing... then no.