[Patch Notes] v1.2.0
[Patch Notes] v1.2.0
12 February 2023
Greetings,
Here is the patch rundown for v1.2.0.
Faction Ascendancy Expansion
The Arcadia Domain
The biggest part of the faction activity will take place inside of the Arcadia Domain. This large map contains several different environments, in which various activities will take place. Hero Grade Rank A-1 is required in order to enter. Players can enter by pressing the "Faction Area" button inside of their Hero Grade Window.
Please note it is not possible to teleport out of the Arcadia Domain, unless the player is standing inside of their Faction Hub.
Inside of the Arcadia Domain, PK will be enabled between Factions for 30 minutes every 2 hours. This happens at the following times:
- 01:30
- 03:30
- 05:30
- 07:30
- 09:30
- 11:30
- 13:30
- 15:30
- 17:30
- 19:30
- 21:30
- 23:30
Players can find an icon on the left side of their screen while in the Arcadia Domain. If that icon becomes red, this means PK is enabled. During this time, the Silverlight Celestials can freely kill the Shadowfall Tempests, and vice versa.
By participating in activities inside of this area, players will be able to Contribute to their Faction. This allows the Faction to gain Crownstones, and the contributing player to gain Contribution Points. These are explained in another point of the patch notes.
Faction Hubs
Two Faction Hubs can be found within the Arcadia Domain, inside of which several NPCs can be found, providing various services. Players will be joining their own Faction's Hub upon entering the Arcadia Domain, and they also act as a Respawn point.
It is possible to leave the Faction Hub by talking to the NPC in front of the gate. Entering the Faction Hub from the outside requires the same means, players will have to talk to the NPC on the other side of the gate.
Additionally, players cannot enter the opposite Faction's Hub. This means they are also acting as Safe Zones when PK is enabled within the Arcadia Domain.
Faction Dungeons and new equipment
Three new dungeons have been added, which are common to both Factions. In these dungeons, players can obtain the following, from the new tier of equipment:
- New Weapon Tier: Corpsemaker Weapons - Obtainable from Soul Sanctuary
- New Templar Tank Slayer: Great Sword - Obtainable from Soul Sanctuary
- New Armor Sets Tier: Corpsemaker Sets - Obtainable from Enmeda Woods
- New Jewellery Sets Tier: STR/DEX/INT - Obtainable from Space-Time Factory
These new pieces of equipment are using a special kind of upgrading:
- For Weapons and Sets, they can be upgraded to +10, and can then be converted to Dragonforged by talking to Augustus in Flarine.
- Jewellery pieces, once obtained, are directly benefitting from the Dragonforged Status.
- Dragonforged items use a different set of upgrading materials than General and Ultimate Items, and grant 2 "Rerollable Lines", which are obtained at +6 and at +10 (+11 and +20 for Jewellery pieces). Said lines each grant a small amount of a random stat, and can be changed by using a Dragon Serum.
Entrances to each of these dungeons can be found within Madrigal, and it is possible to teleport there via the Teleporter (V). Please note that each player may enter each dungeon up to 2 times daily.
Participating in these dungeons will allow players to Contribute to their Faction.
New Upgrading Materials
New upgrading materials for Dragonforged items have been added! Here is a list of their functionality and where to obtain them:
- Ethereal Dragonscale Powder
- Used for upgrading Dragonforged Weapons and converting Weapons to Dragonforged.
- Can be obtained via purchase at Carnelia.
- Ethereal Stone
- Used for upgrading Dragonforged Weapons and converting Weapons to Dragonforged.
- Can be obtained by defeating Level 130 monsters and monsters inside of the Hillid Mountains.
- Celestial Dragonscale Powder
- Used for upgrading Dragonforged Armor pieces and converting Armor pieces to Dragonforged.
- Can be obtained via purchase at Carnelia.
- Celestial Stone
- Used for upgrading Dragonforged Armor pieces and converting Armor pieces to Dragonforged.
- Can be obtained by defeating Level 130 monsters and monsters inside of the Hillid Mountains.
- Arcane Dragonscale Powder
- Used for upgrading Dragonforged Jewellery pieces.
- Can be obtained via purchase at Carnelia.
- Arcane Stone
- Used for upgrading Dragonforged Jewellery pieces.
- Can be obtained by defeating Level 130 monsters and monsters inside of the Hillid Mountains.
- Dragonforge Scroll
- Used for converting Weapons and Armor pieces to Dragonforged.
- Can be obtained via purchase in the Faction Contribution Shop.
- Dragon Stone
- Used as a Jewel to slot into Dragonforged Weapons of +6 to +10.
- Can be obtained by defeating Arcadia World Bosses and via purchase at the Orbs of the Huntsman store.
- Reverse Enigma Codex
- Used to remove a Dragon Stone from a Dragonforged Weapon slot.
- Can be obtained via purchase in the Faction Contribution Shop.
- Dragon Serum
- Used to awaken and re-roll the Rerollable Lines of Dragonforged equipment.
- Can be obtained via purchase in the Faction Contribution Shop.
Daily Quests
The NPCs located in the Faction Hubs require the players' help! Accept their various Daily Quests, and go hunt! It is possible to complete up to 5 Daily Quests per day within the Arcadia Domain.
Go and defeat various kinds of ferocious new monsters, which can be found around the Arcadia Domain.
By completing these Quests, it is possible to obtain rewards and to Contribute to your assigned Faction. Performing these quests while Player Killing is enabled will grant increased rewards. Performing a quest means both accepting and completing said quest during the same phase of PK.
World Bosses
On top of the previously shown new monsters, two new World Bosses can be found within the Arcadia Domain! Each of them spawns closer to one of the Faction's Hub, and can only be attacked by the opposite Faction.
These World Bosses, however, possess a Special Aura. Within a 45-meter radius around them, Player Killing is enabled, regardless of the PK status within the Arcadia Domain.
Defeating the Arcadia Domain World Bosses will reward each participant with items, as well as Contribution Points, and Crownstones for their Faction.
Crownstone Extractors
Six Crownstone Extractors can be found in the Arcadia Domain. These allow each Faction to automatically gain Crownstones every hour, based on certain factors.
Each Crownstone Extractor starts with a Score of 0, and this Score can go down to -500 and up to 500 depending on the circumstances below:
- Within a 45-meter radius around them, if PK is enabled:
- If one or more players of the Silverlight Celestials is present and alive, but no Shadowfall Tempests are, the score will go up by 1 every second.
- If one or more players of the Shadowfall Tempests is present and alive, but no Silverlight Celestials are, score will go down by 1 every second.
- Players will gain Contribution based on several factors if they participate in taking over a Crownstone Extractor.
Please note players under the following conditions will not be able to contribute to the above:
- Invisible Players (via Dark Illusion)
- Players using a Mount
Every full hour (each time the minutes clock strikes 0), the following calculation will be ran for each Crownstone Extractor:
- If the score is higher than 0, the Silverlight Celestials will gain Crownstones based on the difference.
- If the score is lower than 0, the Shadowfall Tempests will gain Crownstones based on the difference.
Seasons and Faction Exarches
Every 21 days, at 00:00 server time, a new Faction Season will begin. Once this happens, the following events will happen based on the previous season's results.
The previous season's Crownstones and Contribution Points will be converted into currency that can be spent over the duration of the new season.
The player with the most Contribution Points of each Faction will be crowned the Faction's Exarch. Faction Exarches are able to spend the previous season's Crownstones in order to activate various Buffs for their fellow Faction members.
All players will be able to spend their hardly earned Contribution Points from the previous season to purchase items from the Faction Shop. Make sure to spend them before the season ends, as they do not carry over between seasons!
The Faction Shops for spending Crownstones and Contribution Points can both be found within each Faction Hub, inside of the Arcadia Domain.
The Faction Window
Finally, players can find information pertaining to Factions within the Faction Window, which is located under Start->Custom Content. Here is a picture of it!
Regarding PvP content
We will be rebalancing PvP to introduce the new equipment once we judge a good amount of players have reached the new set of equipment.
We have decided to take a different approach for PvP equipment with this expansion, in order to allow PvP players to not farm two sets of gear. Here are the details:
- First of all, there is no new STA Jewellery Set.
- Players may obtain the already existing STA Jewellery set from Hollowvale Forest, or from Space-Time Factory.
- We will be adding new defensive (HP) equipment along with the PvP rebalance.
- This defensive equipment inherits the stats from the Corpsemaker Sets and Weapons, without the offensive stats.
- Items from this tier of gear are not benefitting from the Dragonforged status. Armor pieces are of the General tier, and Weapons are from the Ultimate tier.
- For a preview, the items are already available via the Item Database.
- We will be adding a way for players to convert their existing equipment from the Kalgas and Ankou dungeons into this tier of items, allowing them to retain all of their upgrades.
- This equipment will always be following the defensive stats of the best gear available, so feel free to upgrade it as much as you'd like, as this is the final PvP defensive equipment!
- The Scrolls related to the Alchemy Event have been updated to only function on these few items. Please note that they will be available with the same means, in order to make upgrading HP PvP equipment easier.
Updates pertaining to previously existing content
Changes
- The drop rates of the following dungeons have been increased by a substantial amount:
- Mars Mine
- Ivillis Temple
- Dekane Mines
- The Savage Wilds
- Volcano
- Catacombs of Anguish
- Cursed Aminus
- Ankou's Asylum
- Kalgas Cave
- Hollowvale Forest
- Terrenrial
- Rules for dismantling equipment have been updated:
- It is no longer possible to dismantle Level 105 Weapons.
- The amount of Nefarious Medallions obtained from dismantling Level 120, and old 130 equipment, pieces has been reduced.
- The following seasonal statues from the Dungeon Leaderboards have been adjusted:
- Ankou's Asylum -> Frostic Caverns
- Kalgas Cave -> Enmeda Woods
- Hollowvale Forest -> Space-Time Factory
- Terrenrial -> Soul Sanctuary
- The difficulty of the following dungeons has been adjusted from Easy to Normal:
- The Savage Wilds
- Volcano
- Catacombs of Anguish
- Cursed Aminus
- Please note all of these dungeons retain the same balance and drop rate. This change is done in order to increase the rarity of drops obtained by players in these dungeons.
- The following success rates have been increased:
- Upgrading an Ultimate Weapon
- Converting a Weapon to Ultimate
- Upgrading a Jewellery Piece from +19 to +20
- The amount of upgrades required for a guarantee at converting a Weapon to Ultimate has been decreased from 20 to 10.
- The following dungeons have had a rebalance, reducing the HP and ATK of all monsters:
- Mars Mine
- Ivillis Temple
- Dekane Mines
- The Savage Wilds
- Volcano
- Catacombs of Anguish
- Cursed Aminus
- Ankou's Asylum
- Kalgas Cave
- Hollowvale Forest
- Terrenrial
- A Spirit Rabbit has been added inside of the Twisted Lands.
- The price of Diamonds has been reduced from 250 Orbs of the Huntsman to 150.
Bug Fixes
- Corrected an issue causing Etherild and Dracfield not to display an image for Hard Mode selection.
- Corrected an issue in the damage formula simulation, causing the Damage Calculator Window to show incorrect results.
- Missing icons for the Start Menu have been added.
Donor Store
- Elite Membership (14 Days) has been added to the Donor Store.
- Masterwork Key now grants a (Special) Masterwork Box as special item.
- The Masterwork Box allows the player to choose which crafting material they wish to obtain.
- Primemetal Key now grants a (Special) Primemetal Box as special item.
- The Primemetal Box allows the player to choose which crafting material they wish to obtain.