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Patch Notes - December, 16, 2008

Level Cap Increase

• The level cap has been increased to 120; players who have continued to collect experience points will have it added to their next level.

New Regions

• Players can now travel to North America and Central China, which can be reached from Northern Europe and Northeast Asia, respectively.

New Mercenaries

• Added new B-Class mercenary, Spartan.

• Added new B-Class mercenary, Sailor.

• Hero Robin Hood and Hero Bluetooth can be upgraded to Dark Archer and Northern Viking, respectively, becoming C-class mercenaries.

Quests

• Players can start the Sailor quest (level 100+) by speaking with Mary Read, near the entrance of the Ghost Ship of the Caribbean.

• New mercenary quests for the Northern Viking and Dark Archer have been added.
• Northern Viking: Start quest by speaking with Freydis near the entrance of Frozen Adlivun. Upon completion, player will receive the Legendary Viking’s Spirit Stone.
• Dark Archer: Start quest by speaking with Chironia, near Prague. Upon completion, player will receive the Immortal Spirit Stone.

• Constantinople Battlefield sub-quest has been added.
• Quest can be obtained from NPC Murat and NPC Mustafa near Istanbul (Lv. 96 and above). Upon completion, player will be rewarded with a main character-only weapon.

Dungeons

• Individual Dungeons:
• Players can now explore new, “individual” dungeons: Hypogeum of Death, Forbidden Abyss, and Arachne’s Nest.
• Individual Dungeons are restricted to a group of 6: your 5 highest mercenaries plus your main character.
• Access to each dungeon is possible buy purchasing corresponding keys from the merchant Pointry.
• Players will be rewarded with a selectable box. Rewards will be mailed to your inbox upon completion of the dungeon.

• Guild Dungeons
• Guilds can now explore these new dungeons: Temple of the Banished and Golden Dragon’s Cave, located in Central China.
• Both dungeons are high reward-yielding dungeons that can be accessed with a Broken Stalactite key. Players will be rewarded with a Sealed Dragon’s Emblem Box, containing high-quality items, including a rare weapon. 5 Broken Stalactite **Keys will be sent to inbox of the Nation King ruling over Chongqing every day at 6 a.m. PST

New Buff System

• Each player title will now give buffs. The effects of a buff will be removed upon logging off; however, players can select a different title to get a different buff. Buffs will be renewed every day at 6 a.m. PST.

• Guild buffs added.

• All buffs will be removed while in the Free Leagues and tournaments.

PvP

• A mercenary auto-battle option has been implemented in the Free Leagues. Players who select this option will be matched up against other Free League beginners who select this option.

• A doppelganger of your party will be created for battle when there are no opponents to face in the Free Leagues.

• The total duration of the Free Leagues has been changed to 90 minutes.

• King’s Judgment is restricted to 10 times per day.

• Chaos Wind has been fixed to 5 turns in competition.

• Damage for a Sword main’s Dark Seed has been increased for competition.

• Increased duration has been fixed to 5 turns.

• Free League bracket has been tightened for fair competition.

• Players will now be matched up against others within one division.

• A Challenge send system has been added. This allows players to send a Challenge to random players for up to 5 times.

• Players will receive Battle points and Atlantis Coins for PvP that occurs through a Challenge sent.

Community

• Guild level cap has been increased to 110.

• A guild position of Chief Officer has been added. This position will act as the second in command to the guild master, and will have increased authority, including the authority to apply for town control.

• Nation-related notices can be observed in the “Nation Establish” window.

• The leading guild under a nation can no longer establish or rejoin a nation for 24 hours.

• The cost for establishing a nation will increase every year in accordance with in-game time.

• The king cannot change the capitol without the consent of the guild leader in control of the capitol city.

• The friends list has had its cap increased to 50.

Items

• Book: Multi Arrow [Beg] and Book: Ice Ridge Axe [Beg] can be purchased for a fixed price in the market.

• All crystals can be purchased for a fixed price in the market.

• Players can no longer craft Power Up Licenses (20-hour).

• Level requirements for mounts have been reduced.

Crafting

• Book: Multi Arrow [Int, Adv] and Book: Ice Ridge Axe [Int, Adv] can be crafted with the craft skill book.

• The ingredients to craft Giant and Redemption jewelry have been reduced.

General Changes and Bug Fixes

• The frequency and times for the Arena have been changed; the Arena will be held six times a day, at 12 a.m., 4 a.m., 8 a.m., 12 p.m., 4 p.m., and 8 p.m. (all Pacific Standard Time).

• The trade limits for personal and email trade have been increased to 1 billion; the trade limits for the personal store and market have been increased to 5 billion.

• The Northern Europe map has been updated. Please check for updated festival areas and gardens.

• Fields are now sorted based on their characteristics.

• Fixed a bug that forced players to return to the first menu in the default Skills window when using Share Info.

• Guilds/Nations must meet level requirements when obtaining Guild/Nation Dungeons.

• Sub-quests which used to reward rare weapons now offer boxes as an alternative.

• Mercenary formation for the Arena has been diversified.

• Players can select to show/hide helmets and armors from their equipment window in the inventory. The option from the settings has been removed.

• A bullet icon has been added for gun/cannon/bow users. The icon will display how much ammunition you have remaining: yellow for 1-49, red for 0.

• Players can now confirm the Auto-Battle status from the Description window in the inventory.

• An “Auto-Battle” text will appear when Auto-Battle is enabled.

Patch Notes - October 27, 2008

Halloween Event

• Fixed graphical bug when displaying male staff users wearing the Jack-O'-Lantern.

Stamina

• Fixed a bug that gave additional stamina points using Share Info and Give a Gift to award stamina points beyond the 5-point-per-day limit.

Hainan Island

• Fixed a bug that allowed PK on Hainan Island.

General

• Fixed chatting bug to show all text appropriately.

• Changed font size for inventory item text.

Free Leagues

• Reward for consecutive victories is no longer given.

• Reduced wait time for matches so players can fight more battles.

Patch Notes - October 23, 2008

Guild / Nation Dungeons

*Added Guild level limitation for Guild/Nation Dungeon keys. Guild/Nation Dungeon's can be entered over certain guild level as inscribed on the key.

Free League

• Bow/Axe/Spear attack power has been decreased in PvP.
• Probability for Critical Strikes in PvP has been decreased.
• Reduced equipment enchants efficiency for PvP.

• Added Mercenary Auto-Battle mode for Free League.
• This system allows auto-battle for mercenaries, but the main character is controlled manually.
• Free League will match players using the Matches players using this mode during free league which helps beginners enjoy free league.
• Player must do one manual battle first in order to use mercenary auto-battle mode.

• Increased Gunner's magic skill, Wild Shot, accuracy in competitions.

• Princess' magic skill, Princess' Order, health recovery and defense have been increased in competitions.

• Reduced Spartan's magic skill, War Cry, duration in competitions.

My Store

• Fixed registered items disappearing when teleporting after opening My Store.

• Fixed advertisement pop up disappearing when sitting or Auto-Crafting after opening My Store.

• The fees for transactions in My Store have been removed.

Challenge

• Added Send Challenge system.

• When registered, the system will send challenge to players with appropriate criteria for easier use of challenges.

General

• New battle scenery has been added for many areas.

• Can now check other players' Auto-Battle status from the Details window. (Auto-Battle text will appear when player is using Auto-Battle)

• Increased reward of gold and experience points for Yggdrasil Quest

• Increased gold transaction limit to 1 million gold for trading and mailbox and 5 million gold for My Store and Market.

• Players can hide their clothing accessories and helmet from equipment window in the inventory. This function allows other players to see applied settings. With this function added, the ‘Show Helmet' setting has been removed.

• Now players can choose low resolution texture mode in graphics under settings. The player must restart the game to apply changed settings.

• Fixed incorrect height value of the central town square in northern Europe.

• Fixed graphical effects on giant mushrooms inside the Nest of Insects.

Battle

• Increased reward of gold and experience points for Constantinople Battlefield Quest

• Deleted monster's party configuration in Constantinople Battlefield dungeon 2~3 floor. Corresponding monster will not engage in battle in parties.

• Fixed problem of one character using 100 action power when moving during battle. Move consumes 50 action power.

• Basic scroll use limit is reduced from 3 to 2. (Affects both competition, monster battles.)

• A player can use 1 additional scroll every 7 turns instead of 5 turns during battles against monsters.

• Limited amount of times players can join a battle. For example, when 3 players start a battle, they can only join 2 more times if they leave. When starting a battle alone, friends can join the battle up to 4 times.

• The number of bonus character scrolls a player uses will not be added to the total number of scrolls used in competition. Thus bonus characters can be used until the end of competition.

Quest

• Perfume of Amnesia(Cretan Labyrinth), Mysterious Box(Yggdrasil), and Perfume of Peace(Witch Recruiting Quest) are only usable during the duration of the quest.

• Increased reward of gold and experience points for Witch Recruiting Quest. (The reward for the Witch Recruiting quest has been upgraded to higher than the Beast Trainer Recruiting Quest rewards and below the Exorcist Recruiting Quest rewards.)

• In The Warrior's Path Quest, quest that yields Cursed Sword Muramasa, has been changed to yield Sword Box. Dinosaur Master Quest, quest that yields Ded Moroz's Staff, has been changed to yield [Trainer's Secret Box]. Each Box yields additional rewards as well as the main character only weapon.

• Quest items' drop rate for Oracle Quest has been increased.

• Reward for Constantinople Battlefield quest, gold and Exp has been increased.

Item

• Players will receive 50% additional experience when using Power Potions.

• Players can purchase [Byzantine Elephant] using riding points.

• When using [Power Potion], in addition to the existing benefit that will damage enemies 50% more, the player will receive 10% less damage. (Not applicable in competition.)

• A player can now acquire [Spirit Shield] and [Spirit Orb] from [Spirit Equipment Box].

• Icon has been changed for Valhalla's Bow, Sealed Dragon's Emblem Box, and Broken Stalactite Key.

• [Powder of Musk] and [Trade Permission] can now be purchased at a fixed price in the market.

• Icons for Spirit Equipment has been changed.

• Type and amount of jewelry acquired from dismantling a ring has been changed. The higher the grade of a ring, the higher value of the jewelry a player can get.

• Items dropped by the monster of Frozen Adlivun has been changed.

• Now all monsters drop [Frozen Savior's Equipment Box/Frozen Defender's Equipment Box/Frozen Destroyer's Equipment Box] and [Conqueror's Equipment Box].

Added Sub-Quest: Freyja's Necklace Quest

• Freyja's Necklace Quest in Yggdrasil has been added.

• A player can start Freyja's Necklace Quest at level 95, and it can be started by visiting NPC Heimdall near Yggdrasil.

• Snowstorm's Resting Place has been added to the Northern Europe area where Rocky, the Flame Ruler Monster hides.

• Upon the completion of this quest, the player can obtain a Javelin Gungnir, the fifth main character-only weapon.

• A player can reset the quest through NPC Hui Chao using [Secrets of Time: Freyja's Necklace], which can be crafted with license crafting.

Added Black List System

• Black List system has been added.

• Your Black List can be checked through community - Black List.

• Any player who PKs or uses King's Judgment on another gets added to the victim's Black List automatically.

• A player can find the location of Black Listed players automatically, and is able to auto-move and PK that player.

Added Hall of Fame

• Hall of Fame has been added. Players can check the competition and guild/nation dungeon rankings.

• Community - Find Party has been deleted and Hall of Fame has been added instead.

• Hall of Fame will be reset periodically. (Not applied currently)

King's Judgment

• The guild leader of a guild that has a ruling town and also a part of a nation can now use King's Judgment. The authority of King's Judgment has been extended to guild leaders with ruling town.

• As the king's authority expands, a new announcement system about King's Judgment has been added to the game.

Dungeon

• Guild points have been added as a reward for clearing the Tower of Babel.

• All guilds will receive guild points for clearing nation dungeons.

• Entry level for shadow area of Hanging Gardens of Babylon has been changed to level 70, the same as the quest entry level.

• Two nations can use the nation dungeon Tower of Babel simultaneously.

• Enhanced performance of game for Shogun Castle of Death's battle map.

• Fixed lighting problem for Labyrinth: 1F area

Crafting

• The workload for ring items has been reduced.

• A player can craft a new ring for lv.100 mercenaries using ring crafting skills.

• The materials required to craft colorful thread, colorful fabric, and gorgeous colorful fabric have been changed.

• The production rate for the above colorful items has been increased.

Competition

• Changed competition time to 80 min. in a Free League.

• All matches will be made simultaneously in 10 minute intervals.

• Free League match time has been changed to 9 min.

• The effect of the Prophet's attack debug magic has been increased in PvP competition.

• Increased damage for combo magic Bomb Attack [Cannoneer(Smoke Bomb) + Princess (Signet)] in PvP competition.

• Decreased damage for combo magic Hell Flame [Swordsman (Dark Seed) + Shaman (Hex of Darkness)] in PvP competition.

• Increased damage of Flame Sword magic in PvP competition.

• Lady Knight magic Light Slash's cooldown has been decreased from 3 turns to 2 turns in PvP competition. Decreased magic damage slightly.

Magic

• Staff main character only magic Evanescent Scud and combo magic Bursting Beam's damage has been increased.

• Other mercenaries can now give their turn to a Janissary using Shooting Stance by guarding.

• Lady Knight magic Light Slash's cooldown has been decreased from 3 turns to 2 turns.

Community

• Refuse Whispers function has been changed to the Block function.

• Players added to the block list will not be able to chat or whisper.

Monster

• Changed area affected by magic used by Scorpion.

Interface

• Remaining Power Up Potion and License time and points will be displayed on the top-right interface of the screen.

• Skill Interface has been expanded for more comfortable crafting.

• Fixed out-of-focus problem when selecting item in select option box.

• Fixed vibration symptoms for scroll bar in the guild's member function interface.

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