Production Build #27.7.X10

Patch Notes 27.7.X.10

Happy New Year!

After a short break for the holidays, we came back to a fun bunch of bots trying to crash our servers. We modified a few things and they should no longer be able to do any harm.

Also behind the scenes, we’ve been working on new features and the longer term projects we discussed in our last producer letter. It’s sometimes slow going (trying to get it right), but we’re committed to continue to provide at least small updates as we go to make sure the game stays fresh.

Today we have a small release with a few bug fixes, skins and pet stones.

Fixes

• Fixed pet sprite sizes in the UI
• Fixed stacking pet tool tip in the pet yard

New

• Inuit Skin (made by Beige) http://i.imgur.com/qeSS3rM.png
• Snowcloaked Rogue (made by Poshun) http://i.imgur.com/5os1ejj.png
• Added several pet stones for existing pets, to be released as we go along. Stay tuned!

Changed

• Removed candy cane items

Patch Notes 27.7.X10.2

Winter themed content & Chinese New Year Themed Content
While we keep working towards our next meaningful content releases, this release will mainly be adding themed content. We have included a whole batch of character skins, pet stones and special editions of gear that will be released over the next weeks. You will also find that the Nexus has been decorated with celebratory Chinese Lanterns as well as a beautiful Chinese Dragon.
New Drops
Snake Pit

• You will now have a chance to find the Eternal Snowflake Wand

Ocean Trench

• You will now have a chance to find the Arctic Bow

Shatters

• You will now have a chance to find the Ice Crown

All the drops you usually find in these dungeons can still be found as well.
New Character Skins

• Penguin Knight (Knight)
• Frimar Knight (Knight)
• Frozen King (Necro)
• Blizzard Sorcerer (Sorc)
• Ice King (Priest)
• Icicle Dial Mystic (Mystic)
• Yuki Onna (Mystic)
• Chinese Dancer Trickster (Trickster)

New Pet Stones

• Desert Cobra (Pet Skin)
• Rooster (Pet Skin), regular red + rare golden
• Chinese Dragon (Pet Skin), small & big
• Chinese Lantern (Pet Skin), small & big
• Gingerbread Man (Pet Skin)
• Mini Polaris (Pet Skin)

Special Edition Items

• Enchanted Ice Blade (Crystal Sword reskin)
• Staff of Iceblast (Staff of Extreme Prejudice)
• Eternal Snowflake Wand (Wand of the Bulwark)
• Artic Bow (Coral Bow)
• Frost Drake Hide Armor (Hydra Skin Armor)
• Frost Elementalist Robe (Robe of the Grand Sorcerer)
• Ice Crown (The Forgotten Crown)
• Frost Citadel Armor (Acropolis Armor)
• Tome of Frigid Protection (Tome of Holy Protection)

Fixed

• Vault Chest and Character Slot Unlocker will no longer equip on shift click. It needs to be used directly from the inventory (a help message has been added).

Patch Notes 27.7.X10.3 - The Rise of Deca

In accordance to the recent riots observed on Reddit - and in order to preserve peace and balance to the Realm - we are happy to announce the inauguration of the mighty Empire of Deca:

• All insults will be automatically filtered in-game and replaced by “Hail Deca!”
• Guilds have all been disbanded. NO PLOTTING AGAINST THE MIGHTY EMPIRE.
• Attempting to speak over our honored SpamBotsTM will now be a bannable offense
• The Alchemist has been permanently exiled from the Realm. NO FREE ITEMS.
• All players must buy and wear the Deca uniform skin in order to enter the Nexus (available for a meager 9,999 gold).
• All our testers and contributors have already been enslaved. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

Alright joking aside, I want to touch a quick word on the recent bans so people can understand a little better how our banning system works:
Unless the offense is very bad (hacking, death threat…), we start with a few temporary bans.
That means people who are perma-banned are either in this first category, or they already have a ban history.
That you don’t get banned for doing something against the ToS once doesn’t mean we won’t punish you if we catch you. And no, most often we won’t give you an extra warning.
On the topic of the entire JewElimination guild permanent ban: We do agree that the situation was handled too roughly overall. If you were banned for simply being part of the guild and had no other violations outside of that, please send us a ticket about the issue to get unbanned - however, the leader will remain banned. It goes without saying that in the future, please avoid joining guild with such names as you might get banned.
On a more serious note: Don’t be an ass, as simple as that. We don’t want to (and we won’t) police everything that’s being said - you’re not going to get banned for joking around with a friend where no one gets hurt, or for swearing because you didn’t get that UT you’ve been farming for weeks. At the same time though, if you’re being overtly racist or if you are attacking someone, even if your language is tame know that you risk a ban.

Alright, now that this is cleared up. Patch notes!
New!

• Dungeon Chest Events will be coming back this month! Keep an eye out for the week-ends
• Bella’s Dungeon is also coming back for Valentines!. You will be able to procure Keys with both gold and fame
• Added Tome of Frigid Protection, Enchanted Ice Blade and Staff of Iceblast Winter Reskins to the Drop Tables of their respective UTs (Tome of Holy Protection, Crystal Sword and Staff of EP).
• Snowflakes Token no longer drop in-game (and are no longer available in Mystery Box)
• Added Feeding Power to Snowflake Tokens. Snowflake Tokens will be removed in a later Patch in March, so use them quickly!

Fix

• Ice Dial Mystic, Snow Cloaked Rogue, Chinese Dress Trickster and Ice King Priest are now correctly shaded when dyed.
• Dragon Tamer ST Set can now be dyed.
• Ice Crown and Enchanted Ice Blade Winter Reskins have been visually updated.
• Glacius (Boss) Sprite has been fixed.
• Artic Bow has correctly been renamed Arctic Bow
• Fixed 16x16 Pet Stones Icon not scaling properly

Cosmetics

• Added new skins for Valentines and Mardi Gras

Balancing Updates
Enemies
Ghost Bride
Initial invulnerability for 2 seconds in the starting phase.
Grave Caretaker
Initial invulnerability for 2 seconds in the starting phase.
Davy Jones
Initial invulnerability for 2 seconds in the attackable phase.
Doubled health (8000 -> 16000)
Bows
Tiered
Damage:

All Triple Shot Bows
Arc: -3.25 (11.25 -> 8)
True Range: +1.05 (2.51 -> 3.56)
A more narrow gap means higher true range, which is the distance at which you can hit all shots.
Leaf Bow
Damage: +2.5 Avg (95-125 -> 95-130)
RoF: +10 (150 -> 160)
SPD: +2 (0 -> 2)
DPS graph here - old versions are darkened.
Katanas
Tiered
Range: +0.55 (4.2 -> 4.75, +10 speed, +15 ms)
Damage:

Doku No Ken
Damage: -5 Avg (130-150 -> 120-150)
RoF: -5 (125 -> 120)
Ray Katana
Damage: +33.5 Avg (60-95 -> 111-111)
Annoying Firecracker Katana renamed to Sullen Blade
Range: +0.55 (3.2 -> 3.75, +5 speed, +29 ms)
Damage: +20 Avg (50-70 -> 40-120)
Arc: -10 (30 -> 20)
Void Blade
Lifetime: -300 ms (4500 -> 4200)
Just a small nerf, as the changes on the much affected enemies should already be enough of an indirect nerf.
DPS graph new vs. DPS graph old.
Lair of Draconis UT Armors
Water Dragon Silk Robe
ATT: +3 (3 -> 6)
DEF: +2 (10 -> 12)
SPD: +1 (5 -> 6)
WIS: +3 (0 -> 3)
Leaf Dragon Hide Armor
DEF: +4 (9 -> 13)
SPD: +6 (0 -> 6)
WIS: +3 (0 -> 3)
VIT: +3 (0 -> 3)
Fire Dragon Battle Armor
ATT: +1 (3 -> 4)
DEF: +2 (15 -> 17)
Other
Crystal Wand and Frozen Wand
Damage: +2.5 Avg (75-95 -> 75-100)
RoF: +10 (100 -> 110)
Doom Circle
WIS: +2 (0 -> 2)
VIT: +2 (0 -> 2)

As always, thanks for Poshun & Beige for providing us with Skins and visual fixes! I will be hosting a new Art Contest soon, so get your drawing tool ready!

Patch Notes 27.7.X11 - The Guildening

Hey there people!
In this update we’re updating the Guild Halls and adding a Login Calendar filled with goodies which will start in March, along with a few minor changes.

New:
Login Calendar

• Coming up in March you should be getting a daily pop-up reminding you to check your login calendar for free items.
• You will find the Login Calendar NPC next to the Tinkerer in his cave.
• There are two different calendars each with its own set of items
• The Non-Consecutive Calendar (1st Tab) will update every day you login on Realm.
• The Consecutive Calendar (2nd Tab) will need you to come back every day - if you miss a day it will reset to Day 1!
• On both calendar, each reward can only be claimed once.
• The Calendar will be reset at the start of every month, so don’t forget to claim your rewards before April or they will disappear!
• In case you run into any bug, please send us a ticket with as much info (and screenshots if applicable) as possible!

Updated
Guild Halls

• The Guild Hall have been updated for convenience based on the different Guild Levels! Depending on your Guild Level, you will also have access directly to the Pet Yard, Quest Room and Wardrobe!

Fixed

• Account Creation Confirmation Mail no longer links to Wildshadow’s non-existent Blog. Totally in time, wooh us!
• The Tinkerer now sits behind his desk in the Quest Room instead of chilling in front of it like an adorable doofus.
• Updated a few item sprites (Enchanted Ice Shard, Ring of the Northern Light, Frimarra)
• To avoid a bug where Skin Items would sometimes be consumed without the Skin being unlocked (due to massive lag in the Nexus), Skin Items can now only be used in the Vault.
  That’s all for now folks! Next update should have quite a few things for you to enjoy!

Patch Notes 27.7.X11.1 - The Fixening

Good lord, is it me or are the servers crashing today? I mean, more than usual eh. Well, turns out we finally managed to get some fixes for all the crashing and duping that’s being going on - and not a minute too soon, with the hacked client spreading and all.
In order to combat the duping that’s currently going on, all items dropped by players will be in Soulbound Bags by default. You can still trade with other players, but you will have to use the Trade feature.
Is that going to be forever? We can’t say for sure, but at least for sometimes since Drop Trading has always been less secure. On the bright side, with that out of the way it’s one less Duping Exploit and one more step towards thinking about making new items not Soulbound (not going to happen now though, we still have quite some exploits to fix).
Note that all items should be back to correctly being Soulbound or not Soulbound!

Alright, now that this is cleared up. Patch notes!
New!

• The most common Crashing Exploit should be fixed! Stability, yay!
• Items dropped from players will now be in SB bags. Use the Trade feature to trade items with other players!
• Items should now be back to their correct Soulbound / Not-Soulbound status.
• Chase the Leprechaun! A rare monster that only appears at most once per Realm, killing him (you monster) will open a portal to the Rainbow’s End for some unique loot! The Leprechaun will disappear in two weeks, happy hunting!
• Ice Tomb End of Winter Event! The Ice Tomb will now spawn an Event Chest with all the Winter Reskins, as well as some Stat Potions! Find the entire Loot Table at the end of this post.
• /pause ! You can once again pause in Cloth Bazaars and Guild Halls!
• You can now use /w or /whisper as alternative to /t or /tell
• You can now use /tp as alternative to /teleport

Fix

• A few skins have been updated to fix existing issues (notably with dyes).
• Tunnel Rat Achievement is fixed!
• The Character Slot Price should now update correctly when purchased.
• Farm, Insect and Penguin families now display correctly

Cosmetics

• Plenty of new skins and pet skins for Spring!

Missed in the last patch notes

• Added player amount to /who
• Adjusted lock list position

Balancing Updates
Drops

• Drop chances at the Shore, Low- and Midlands areas have been increased, more improvements that adress the early game experience are on the way! And don't worry, other balance changes are on the way too!

Polish and Quality of Life

• Encounter minions will despawn in slightly under a minute after the Encounter has been defeated
• The Interact Hotkey should now work with everything in the Guild Hall.
• Various Improvements and fixes have been applied to the Skin Selection UI

Known Bug

• Pets are currently healing less frequently than they should.

As always, thanks for Poshun, Beige and Kingged for providing us with Skins and visual fixes!

Drop Tables
Leprechaun Rainbow Dungeon

• St Patty's Brew
• Miss Shamrock Wizard Skin
• Clover Bow
• Sword of the Rainbow's End

Ice Tomb Chest

• Enchanted Ice Blade
• Staff of Iceblast
• Eternal Snowflake Wand
• Arctic Bow
• Frost Drake Hide Armor
• Frost Elementalist Robe
• Ice Crown
• Frost Citadel Armor
• Tome of Frigid Protection
• Speed Pot
• Vitality Pot
• Wisdom Pot

Hotfix - Pet Bug, Server SoulBound & Vault Price Fix

Hey there people!
We just applied a Hotfix that should fix the Pet bug. The bug that caused Vault Chest price to go above 500 gold and the occasional bug that made all items on the server Soulbound should also be fixed.
If there's any bug that remains please drop a word there!

Note: If you can't connect right now don't worry, patch is still being applied. It should be up in a few minutes.

Patch Notes X12 - Spring Cleaning Time!

Hey there people! We’re back at it with a new Patch! Not too many new things this time but a ton of fixes and some balance changes! Also read until the end to get a preview of what will be coming in the future!

New!

• Spring time is here! Cherry blossoms are blooming all over the Nexus with the Hanami Theme, made with love by our Japanese artist Beige.
• Free cosmetics for all! Mini Stheno Skin, Mini Nut Skin and Bes/Geb/Nut Artifacts (Pet Stones) have been added to their respective bosses Drop Table!
• Added Exit Portals to Belladonna’s Garden, Lair of Shaitan and (for the future) Ice Tomb
• Added Portal of Cowardice to Puppet Master’s Theatre, Candy Land, Beachzone and Rainbow Road
• Leprechaun Hunt has been extended! You have a couple more weeks to chase after our green mini-Sonic. Gotta go fast!
• Added /p as alternative to /pause

Removed

• Ice Tomb Keys will no longer appear in the Nexus Shop / Mystery Box
• Ice Tomb Event Chest has now been removed
• Snowflake Tokens have now been removed from the game
• Winter Areas / Mobs are back to their usual form
• Winter Reskins will no longer drop

Cosmetics

• The Sexiest Skin on Earth, the Beefcake Rogue, has been added to our files. April Fool’s! (or not?)

Fixes & Tweaks

• Password Recovery Email will now display the correct support link
• Error Message "Could not find item in inventory. Please wait a few minutes and try again" has been replaced by "Please re-enter your Vault and try to use the item again"
• The Tinkerer now offers a XP Potion (1h) as Tier 1 reward and Potion of Wisdom (SB) + Potion of Vitality (SB) as Tier 3 reward (small change while we work on the Tinkerer Rework)
• The version number is now X.12! Goodbye 27.7!
• Vault Chest Price Bug / Server-wide SB Bug should be fixed this time! God damn bugs!
• The ST skins for the Skuld and Phylactery sets no longer suffer from Cyclops syndrome when walking!
• Fixed text when connecting to Vault or Realm
• Fixed odd phrasing in options (hotkey tool tips)
• Fixed Yard Caretaker being tiny in the UI
• Fixed pet names not showing on arena leaderboards
• Fixed initial stacked Cursed Blasts in Encore and Halloween Cemetery
• Fixed stacked white arc in Ivory Wyvern's 2nd phase
• Fixed Skuld slowly migrating south when not activated

Deadwater Docks:

• Jon Bildgewater stays away from the spawn/portal
• Jon's Parrots no longer drop anything
  • Buffed Jon's drop rates slightly to compensate

St Patrick Event:

• Fixed empty Oryx taunt when the Leprechaun is defeated
• Pot of Gold has more HP and much lower damage thresholds, giving everyone a chance
• Weapons now have (lovely) sounds!

Balancing Updates

• Slightly decreased Abyss drop rate and increased Sewers drop rate
• Coral Venom Trap drop chances are now more appropriate for a White Bag
• Tomb UTs will be less common
• To compensate for drop rate adjustments, damage thresholds have been significantly decreased

Ocean Trench

• Increased overall EXP gain (Sea Horses also give EXP again! And no worries, it will not be exploitable)

Thessal the Mermaid Goddess

• Paralyze Immune
• Increased HP from 69000 to 96000
• Coral Bombs inflict Pet Stasis for 8 seconds
• Waves inflict Weak for 6 seconds
• Increased Armor Break duration from 2.4 to 4.0
• Can't be stunned during Armor Break and Wave phases (warns with purple flash at the end of Tridents)
• Small invulnerability during Tridents (2.6s) and at the start of the last phase (8s)
• Shoots Tridents faster in the first phase, Armor Break slightly faster in the first and second phase
• All shots (including Coral Bombs’) now pass through players
  • Deep Sea Beasts inflict Slowed for 2 seconds

New Player Experience
To continue our efforts of smoothing out the experience for new players there have been more changes and additions!
Tutorial

• The Tutorial has been updated with information about permadeath, nexusing, pets, fame, camera rotation and options
• You can no longer nexus from the main tutorial - this is to make sure new players actually finish it - and don’t worry, you can still go to options and click “back to home” or simply refresh/restart your client to escape if you need to
• Camera rotation is now enabled by default
• Toggle off-center view is now X by default (should not affect you if you already have X bound to something else)

Balancing

• Adjusted drop rates in High Lands and lower level dungeons - Pirate Cave, Forest Maze, Forbidden Jungle and especially the Spider Den
• Slightly reduced the damage and chase speed of certain High Lands mobs
• High Lands mobs give EXP again like they are supposed to

What’s Next

• Four Dungeons are currently close to completion: Sil3x’s Mountain Temple (1st Wing), Sues’ Goblin Lair, Kiddforce’s Lost Halls and MrUnibro’s Epic Hive. Get ready because they’ll be released soon!
• Alchemist & Tinkerer Rework: The Tinkerer & Alchemist are being revamped to allow a better Daily Quest System!
• The promised Art Contest has unfortunately been on hold for quite some time due to us running out of time (mostly due to bugs and exploits). Don’t despair, it will still happen!
• Q&A Videos (may only be audio)! A few people have voiced their support for us to do regular Q&A sessions, and we’re exploring the possibility (mostly: do we have enough time).
• We’re still hard at work to fix the existing bugs and exploits that are plaguing the game! Please remember that using Real World Trading Sites or buying Gold Accounts is strictly forbidden and will get you permanently banned without warning (including your mules and your main account).

That’s it for now! If you have questions, remarks or suggestions, fire away!

公式アナウンスにない変更点

• エイプリルフールイベント開始
  • Hydra Skin Armorが一時的にBUFFED Hydra Skin Armorに強化 (+1MP)
  • アイテム・イベントモブのグラフィックや名前を差し替え (コミュニティのまとめ)
  • Giant Oryx Chicken
    • HPを強化(65k→80k)
    • Apocalypse Featherをドロップ
• Pet Rock

Patch Notes 27.7.X12.1 - End of March Mini-Patch

Hey there people! Just a few fixes here and there, nothing to see move along.

Fixed

• Fixed Undead Dwarf God spawn rate
• Fixed Pot of Gold Invulnerability Time (25 sec now instead of 5*2 sec)
• Crystal Prisoner Clone & Steed should no longer have their Winter reskins
• Some small polish fixes here and there

I told you to move along! Shoo shoo!