Changelog/Updates/Add-ons

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SUBCLASS QUEST CHANGES
To enhance the PvPvE experience and give more opportunities of engaging  PVP conflicts we applied some changes to both quest golkondas and TOI golkonda.
Both spawns are now announced serverwide with a global message. TOI announce is specific so you will know he is there waiting for you, while the quest golkondas have a more generic approach and will require you to find which one is (or rely on the website that is updated only once every 10 minutes)
TOI now have a much lower respawn time, offering a respawn that is 18 hours (instead of 36h!) becoming a more centric point for engaging fights with a great reward.
His alive status is also shouted few times every hour (ONLY inside the Tower of Insolence) to remind you of his presence in case he is still alive waiting for an opponent.
To give more focus in TOI and balance the higher respawn, we randomized more the respawn time of the scattered quest golkondas.
Quest golkondas respawn every 32-72 hours (instead of 32-56 hours) but still always at least one quest longhorn available around every 12 hours.
The death time of quest golkondas have been removed from the website, but the status of dead/alive remains still visible.


TATTOOS CHANGES
The prices of tattoos have been adjusted to remove the requirement of crystals.
The price from level 1 to level 4 is basically the same as before but the crystal cost have been re-distribuited around other materials (or different quantities of existing ones)
A noticeable change on the EMPOWERED Lv4 tattoos: their cost is now massively reduced to make them more appealing choice once you up your tattoo to level 4 (still requires the Vial of Enchantment obtainable only in Garden of Eva)

(level 3 tattoos are currently not available ingame until next reboot/update that should happen within 24hours)

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TATTOOS
- Tattoo of Mahum (Crt. Damage) got a new progression curve 8%,12%,16%,20%,40%. This means the tattoo now gives twice the bonus of Tattoo of Ogre (PAtk) while dealing a Critical. (Mahum is better than Ogre when the Critical Rate is higher than 50% or when you rely on burst damage)

- Tattoo of Wall (Shield Defence) got a new additional effect: Increase AGGRO by a chance when attacking (scales with the level of tattoo).
It also got a better progression curve from 10% up to 80% (in case you are a tank with a good shield, this tattoo could be a better choice than the Tattoo for PDef).

RAID BOSSES
- Respawns have been changed for all raid bosses to remove the extreme advantage of dualboxers with lv1 dead character monitoring the respawn.
All RANDOM respawn windows have been massively shrinked to make every boss a great gathering point for everyone (and not just extremely hardcore or "char-cam" users)
This should bring many more PvP encounters.

GARDEN OF EVA
- All towns now teleports you directly on the cliff inside (external ring)
- All doors open/close time have been halved
- The random teleport cost have been changed to Adena instead of Mark of Andarta
- Added Shining Bow exchange (from Draconic Bow) to the rewards (500 Marks)

BUGFIXES
- Banish Seraph landing rate have been adjusted to Interlude (same rate of Turn Undead)

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Some changes have been made on tattoos after this month of massive testing over them.

TATTOOO
Tattoo of Rabbit rewritten: now the two paths are "+speed -mdef" and "+speed -pdef". The % remains same. (all current rabbit tattoos have been changed to one or the other)

Tattoo of Mana Burst: different curve (but still lv1 is 10mp and emp is 50mp) that encourages progression with a growing 30% bonus each level instead of "reduced bonus" (from 50% to 20%) as was before.
The new curve:
lv1 = 10mp/3sec
lv2 = 15mp/3sec
lv3 = 22mp/3sec
lv4 = 35mp/3sec
emp = 50mp/3sec

Please consider that tattoos are, by design, considered to be used like:
lv1 = lv20 char
lv2 = lv40 char
lv3 = lv60 char
lv4 = lv70 char
emp = lv76 char

Tattoo of Mana Recovery: massive reword on this tattoo. It was a bit meaningless to level up because the initial bonus at level 1 was extremely high for the price and for the designed level (20).
In addition the whole level up from lv1 to EMP was not really worth as EMP was not even twice the effect of lv1 and in fact each level was giving from a maximum of +20% (lv1 to lv2) to a minimum of +12% (lv4 to emp) compard to the previous level and compared to all other tattoos.
After nearly a month of analysis of ingame usage and players gameplay we adapted the curve to fit correctly the leveling progression.
The new curve starts lower and gives 30% increments from each previous level and at maximum level (EMP) the effect have been raised to reach a 200% of ManaBurst tattoo on same level.
The new curve:
lv1 = 35mp/sec
lv2 = 46mp/sec
lv3 = 60mp/sec
lv4 = 78mp/sec
emp = 100mp/sec

Is still a great tattoo (more than 300% of mana compared to ManaBurst on early levels) but at least now it gives more space to recharge classes and it have a meaning to be leveled up instead of sit forever at lv1.

Please consider that tattoos are, by design, considered to be used like:
lv1 = lv20 char
lv2 = lv40 char
lv3 = lv60 char
lv4 = lv70 char
emp = lv76 char

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SKILLS
The Transfer Pain maximum distance from pet have been slightly reduced by 10% to prevent hiding the pet behind rocks

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PVP AREA

Whole GoE Area have a 10% movement bonus.
Whole GoE Area every 1 minute gives WindWalk lv1 to everyone (except who have block windwalk debuff)
The three main bosses have been massively rewamped with new skills sets and in case of Kratos and Rakazan, also minions.

GoE now offers 4 new bosses inside the 4 secret rooms, they respawn every 6 hours +/- 4hours (from 2 hours to 10 hours).
Killing those raidboss gives you 1 Fragment of Soul of Andarta.
Collecting all 4 fragments gives you a Soul of Andarta.
You can exchange the Soul of Andarta for:
a) Level up soul crystals (amount of souls required is based by crystal level)
b) more to come

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BUGFIX
Olympiad area bug have been fixed

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Garden Of Eva
The random teleport inside GoE is now free!
We have added an additional teleport in the starting location so you can get into action from the beginning.

New mechanics:
In GoE have been added 4 raidbosses located inside 4 secret rooms.
Those raidbosses, with respawn 2 to 10 hours, awards you and your full party a quest item called Fragment of Andarta.
Every boss have a different fragment, collect them all and you can obtain a Soul of Andarta.
Soul of Andarta can be used to enhance various items, for example to level up your soul crystals from lv10 up to lv13 or to refill your tattoos.


Tattoos Refill
Is now possible to refill you tattoos in Garden of Eva!
The base price is in Mark of Andarta and Adena, for lv4 or EMP tattoo is required also a Soul of Andarta.

Price List for refill:
level 1 = 20 marks + 40.000 adena
level 2 = 50 marks + 80.000 adena
level 3 = 120 marks + 160.000 adena
level 4 = 150 marks + 320.000 adena + 1 Soul of Andarta
Emp = 150 marks + 640.000 adena + 1 Soul of Andarta

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Soul of Andarta: is now a stackable item
Deflect Arrow: (in test mode) is currently a Toggle skill

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Monster Finder for Tarantula have been updated.
Now the worldmap/heatmap works fully with all Tarantula spawns.
http://www.dragon-network.net/drop/map.php

also, each monster now shows spawns info and neighbours:
example: http://www.dragon-network.net/drop/npcinfo.php?id=20039&server_id=1

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Is now possible, in the LAUNCHER, to choose in SETTINGS menu the LOW CPU mode that allows the game to run in background with the old IL behavior (choppy, laggy and freezing) for low speed computers running in dualbox or multitasking.

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- Corrected issue with Trex at Dino island
- Mana gain active augmentation now working
- All augmentation on trigger have higher chance to activate now
- Charm/Aggro arguments have noticeably higher trigger rate
- Aggro rate for aggression and hate aura raised by 35%
- Various stability fixes

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To boost up questing rate we applied the following changes:

Kernon, Hallate, Cabrio, Barakiel: fixed respawn changed from 38h to 17h
Baium: fixed respawn changed from 161h to 103h

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On NEXT update (can be in few days as there are no reboots planned. But if server crashes it gets already active)

Some minor/major (depends what class you play) changes have been made around Deflect Arrow:

progression of the drawbacks and mana consumption changed to be less invasive (MP consumption is now linked to the skill level).

lv1:
+16% arrows protection (as before)
-8% cast speed in robe (was 10%)
-3% attack speed with dagger (was 5%)
-20% bow range (was 30%)


lv2:
+24% arrows protection (as before)
-12% cast speed in robe (was 15%)
-6% attack speed with dagger (was 10%)
-20% bow range (was 30%)


lv3:
+32% arrows protection (as before)
-16% cast speed in robe (was 20%)
-9% attack speed with dagger (was 15%)
-3% attack speed with duals  (was 10%)
-20% bow range (was 30%)


lv4:
+40% arrows protection (as before)
-20% cast speed in robe (was 25%)
-12% attack speed with dagger (was 20%)
-6% attack speed with duals  (was 20%)
-20% bow range (was 30%)

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On the next reboot:

- Hero weapons stats fixed to correct values
- Manuscript added to Antharas
- GoE Raids got more minions and some stats boost
- Trick and Transmutation will be active [event]

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- Clan war no longer need CTRL. Now you don't have to hold CTRL and you will become flagged.
- No more debuffing friend in pvp zone
- Pvp Zones added to TOI, Valakas and Antharas (others will be reconsidered)
- Testing (trick and transmutation fix) , locally for now; if all fine we will re-enable the event.
- Various stability fixes