01/13/2010 - Maintenance

Common Patch

- Added the Bossnia event. To access talk to the Bossnia Guide in Prontera/Geffen/Payon/Morroc/Lighthalzen/Rachel.

- Corrected an inproper route for combo casting of Asura Strike.
- Corrected the Warlock skill drain life functioning incorrectly when used against players rather than monsters.

- Fixed a system error that sometimes occured when setting hotkeys.
- Corrected a bug where when the interface was hidden that casting skills would cause the client to crash.

Main Servers

- When creating a God Item, the NPC in the guild dungeon will only accept leaders of guilds that currently control a fort in that realm.

- Added new information to the guide NPCs in towns.

Sakray Test Server

- Added a cap in the damage that can be reflected using the Crusader skill [Shield Reflect] and Royal Guard skill [Reflect Damage]. These skills can no longer reflect more damage than the user's max HP.

- Corrected a bug where the Royal Guard skill [Inspiration] was not removing Guillotine Cross poisons.

- Fixed it so you could remove skills from the shortcut bar by dragging them off.
- Fixed the skill shortcut bar displaying skill levels incorrectly sometimes.
- Corrected an issue where when dropping an item it would not always show up in the message log.

Nice nerf on reflecting skills.

Thanks the translation Doddler

- Added a cap in the damage that can be reflected using the Crusader skill [Shield Reflect] and Royal Guard skill [Reflect Damage]. These skills can no longer reflect more damage than the user's max HP.

Bye bye reflect abuse! I was waiting for this for soooo long.

- Added a cap in the damage that can be reflected using the Crusader skill [Shield Reflect] and Royal Guard skill [Reflect Damage]. These skills can no longer reflect more damage than the user's max HP.

Ohohoho.

I find it funny how they still haven't added the RG/Sorcerer fixes to the main servers.

Kinda liked the maintenance... Reflect is gone, one of the best maintenances ever

@Doddler

It's 2010!! Eheh

Reflect MvPing down the drain.

Now onto the math. The more the HP you have, the higher the reflect cap is though you have to balance it with reflect gear. Although SS's 65% more reflect(Cross Shield has 130 DEF), makes it 105% reflect is sufficient and the good bit is that it does not require you to take damage more than your MHP to reach its damage cap. So overall, it only killed the MvP part of reflect but on other aspects, it's still the same.

Still possible to reflect 100k damage but not 300k... or that dreaded 1M reflect on a Shrine Baphomet.

It's not really that bad. I must say that it's just right.

Originally Posted by Doddler

- Added a cap in the damage that can be reflected using the Crusader skill [Shield Reflect] and Royal Guard skill [Reflect Damage]. These skills can no longer reflect more damage than the user's max HP.

PWN!

Bye bye kamikaze RG

It worries me that they didn't mention Shield Spell there. If anything, it'll become the new skill for reflect abuse :|

Oh but it greatly slows the MvPing process since it will now require multiple RGs to reach that much damage before this fix and that each needs to prepare Shield Reflect/Reflect Damage then wait for Reflect buff to proc with SS. It's clearly stated that the reflected damage cannot surpass that of the RG's MHP and it's not possible to have 300k MHP on a single RG.

Originally Posted by Doddler

- Added a cap in the damage that can be reflected using the Crusader skill [Shield Reflect] and Royal Guard skill [Reflect Damage]. These skills can no longer reflect more damage than the user's max HP.

Awesome! No more reflect killing abuse.

Originally Posted by Doddler

- Fixed it so you could remove skills from the shortcut bar by dragging them off.

Assuming that works for items on the shortcut bar too. Pretty nifty really.

- Added a cap in the damage that can be reflected using the Crusader skill [Shield Reflect] and Royal Guard skill [Reflect Damage]. These skills can no longer reflect more damage than the user's max HP.

OMG..
I think now will not find this RG type...

- Fixed it so you could remove skills from the shortcut bar by dragging them off.

When I showed it to my friend, she told me: "WOW, The future is now"
Preety nice sums Gravity's efforts to make RO more modern game. Anyhow, quite welcome feature.

Oh and this reflect nerf is very welcome.

was reflect really "abused" that much?

and when will iRO get the bossnia event if ever?

Originally Posted by uome

was reflect really "abused" that much?

and when will iRO get the bossnia event if ever?

Hopefully never. Its wayyyyyy too abusable.

Great, now is no way to stop Assura or edps.

Originally Posted by Red Gentleman

Great, now is no way to stop Assura or edps.

Well I doubt anyone can live an (full SP) Asura now anyways and EDP isn't quite as deadly. Not to mention Royal Guards will have more HP than Shura or GulX so even if you survive the attacker probrably still dies.

All big MVP on iRO are killed with shield reflect and have been since before ep 12; it is abused on huge scale.

Asura/EDP sinx will still die to reflect in pvp if they have less max hp than the reflecter.

It also promoting Royal Guards with 100+(120 Ideally) Base Vit.

Originally Posted by Doddler

- Corrected a bug where the Royal Guard skill [Inspiration] was not removing Guillotine Cross poisons.

LOL.

Originally Posted by Dr. Azzy

All big MVP on iRO are killed with shield reflect and have been since before ep 12; it is abused on huge scale.

there will just be another exploit to take its place im sure...though i wonder how things like Beelzebub with exile will be done now since you won't be able to tank it long enough...