Maintenance 2013-06-25

From the Maintenance Notes:

All Servers Summer Seasonal Sale Sunny Flower and the Sunflower Ring will be available starting at 00:00 EST tonight. They will be available on each day of the sale. New Limited premium items will be available each day. Limiteds are only available for 24 hours, and will change every night at 00:00 EST (server time). During the sale, some consumables will be discounted. These too will change each day. Spring's Seasonal items may be exchanged in Morocc with 'Special Donate Exchanger' for 500 points. Loki Cedi Expansion Now introducing a long-anticipated (and incredibly well-kept secret) expansion to Cedi! Three new tiers have been added. It helps to think of these tiers as "bonus" tiers. A new NPC, BillyBob, has been added to the upstairs of the Yuno airport (y_airport 44 41). BillyBob will trade two of your Bio Samples and Cedi for a nectar and an ambrosia (new tier catalyst). This ambrosia may be traded to the Beacon at Odin's Temple (odin_tem01 134,137). Therefore, for every 2 D runs you do, you will get 1 regular C run and a D-2 run, this is the same for C-2 and B-2 runs. There is no A-2 tier. Six new MvPs have been added. 100 new items have been added. The new tiers will drop Orbs that may slot into certain equipment. There are three flavours of Orbs: red orbs slot into the 3rd slot, and white and blue orbs which slot into the 4th slot. This means there are nearly as many combinations for these orbs as there are stars in the universe! Prof. Willy at the Republic Library (yuno_in04 119 100) will slot these orbs for you, and tell you more. Star Wings now has [4] and will give +30 to all stats. Naght Seiger's card script has been updated to match its description. Spike[2]'s description has been updated to reflect a change made in the 17/01/11 maintenance. Rainbowring has had a monster_noteleport mapflag added to it, in order to stop mobs teleporting to unreachable areas of the map. Any bugs in the latest custom episode update have been ironed out. The Kraken's Legs in the Kraken's Lair will no longer respawn after they have all been killed. This is an attempt to fix a current bug with the Kraken gaining invulnerability when it shouldn't have. You will now be unable to warp out of the Halls of Abyss. If you wish to leave, you can either die or use the NPC generally located in the middle of the map named "Dimensional Crack". Itty Bitty Poring City has had a nojumpcoord mapflag added to it. This means that you will no longer be able to specify co-ordinates with @jump. You will be teleported to a random location regardless. Auras will now display during War of Emperium. Lenneth has been removed. Guildpoints have been capped at 999,999. You will not be able to gain more than this. Baby WoE has been disabled to assess on-going lag issues. The castle will be taken by the Staff guild after maint, and held until it is re-enabled. A Feeling and Hatred resetter has been added at Prontera, near the Reset Girl. A Feeling reset will cost 300 points. There is a three day cool down for this. You may specify how many Hatreds you want to reset. Base rate is 50 points for one Hatred, 75 points for two Hatreds and 100 points for three Hatreds. There is a cool down of 1 hour for resetting, but the cost will be increased until 5 hours, at which point resetting will cost the base rate again. See the NPC for more details. An anti-AFK procedure has been added to the MvP Arena. A 5 minute timer will start once you are warped into an MvP room. If you talk to the NPC in the middle of the room, it will reset the timer to 5 minutes. If the 5 minutes elapse, you will be warped out. If you are warped out 3 times for AFKing, you will start being jailed. This is to combat alts and bots in the MvP Arena. Guaranteed Refine Tickets have been replaced with Safe Refine Tickets. These work similar to how iRO's SRTs work, in that if you fail the refine, your equipment will go down one refinement level rather than break. If you have a GRT, you may exchange it for a choice of SRTs at any Safe Refiner. Safe Refiners may be found at Splendide, Manuk, El Dicastes, Nieve, Orc Village and Glastheim(P) Due to how SRTs work, the chance for a successful refine is half the usual rate. However, you need not decard your card when using the NPC as these will be preserved, success or fail. This is similar for any enhancements you may have in that equip. SRTs drop from all tiers of Cedi (+5, +6 drop from D; +6, +7 drop from C; +7, +8 drop from B; all drop from A) also from the new tiers of Cedi (+5, +6 drop from D-2; +7, +8 drop from C-2; +9, +10 drop from B-2) and Reginleif. They are tradeable, unlike GRTs. Mob Changes: All Itty Bitty Poring City MvPs have been rebalanced. HP across the board has been significantly reduced, and all MvPs are now Medium sized (like regular Porings) and their races have changed. In the case of Poring GM only, it is now Large sized, Plant race and level 4 Neutral. Please see @mi for specific details. The MvPs' skills have also been changed and diversified, as well as that, but they also have a new AI so they know how to better use their skills. Item Changes: Carnwennan will now de-cloak you if you remove the weapon. Pharaonic Crook will now decrease the amount you heal by 100%. High Orc Lord Card's effect has changed, from reflecting long-range attacks to just reducing them. It otherwise remains unchanged. The penalties offered by Mortus Vivens Card will remain for 30 seconds after unequipping the weapon it is compound in. Old Card Albums are now untradeable. The point is to increase individual farming of OCAs, rather than purchasing them from people who do use AFKers/bots in the MvP rooms. Skill Changes: Beast Strafing has been reverted. It is now only usable on Beasts and Insects, as well as Fish and Plants. Eir MvP Spawning Event has been added South of Prontera Contains over 50 different MVPs. Each MVP has drops enabled. MVPs are divded into three tiers based upon difficulty, availability, and spawn time. Tier A - MVPs from this tier can only spawn once a day. Tier B - MVPs from this tier can only spawn twice a day. Tier C - MVPs from this tier are not restricted. The frequency and number of MVPs that spawn in a given day is random. Additionally, "fake" MVPs spawn with each legitimate MVP. These MVPs share all the skills, slaves, and attributes of the original MVP. However, they do not drop items or experience. Tier A - 1 Real, 1 Fake. Tier B - 1 Real, 2 Fake. Tier C - 1 Real, 4 Fake. Once the real MVP has been killed, all of the fakes will disappear. A new MVP will not spawn unless the MVP from the previous tier has been killed. An announcement will be sent globally each time an MVP spawns, and again when it has been killed. An announcement will be sent on Protera Field whenever a Fake MVP is killed. The winner of the event is decided by whoever lands the last successful hit on the MVP. MVP loot will be awarded in the usual fashion, but the person with the last hit will be rewarded with an Event Point. Eir & Tyr Custom Episode - I.i A Glast from the Past (& Kraken's Lair) 16 new maps have been implemented, most of which are completely custom and never-seen-before. Two new maps north of cmd_fild03 to do with the new quest. Six new field maps - called the Faroe Islands - leading off these maps. A new dungeon - called the Thulean Plateau - can be found on far_isld05. It comprises of three levels. One new town - whose name is secret (but you may have already worked it out). Three indoor maps about the new town. One new instanced map used in a quest - for both solo and parties. 20 new mobs and two new MvPs - Skoll - who can be found within the Thulean Plateau - Verdadyr AKA Fluffy - fought in the final story quest. Over 70 new items, including cards for each new mob, equips, useables and others. Over 15 new quests - three of which are main storyline; one is an instanced boss fight, which after completion, allows the fighting of a super-strong version of the same boss with a party. Also introducing the long awaited Golden Wings slotting quest. Test trialling a new NPC talk system in order to increase immersiveness (please leave feedback regarding this!). To start, talk to Haeroditus at yuno_in03, 120, 188 (this is the Sage's guild, entrance to which is at 323, 280). Pre-requisites: Onward to the New World quest. Also introducing the Kraken's Lair instance: This instance will see you help hapless Nobby the Novice on his search for riches and fame! The instance will take place on the official Izlude Dungeon F6 map, but the instance and quest is entirely custom. Six new mobs and one new MvP - the Kraken. The instance itself has no inherent reward; rather, you are rewarded upon the completion of special, secret objectives which you will have to find out for yourself! The instance has a 2 hour cooldown. You may PM NPC:Nobby the Novice to check how long you have until re-entry. You may find Nobby the Novice on iz_dun04. Custom Episode Update - I.ii Rambunctious Ruins Two new field maps have been implemented east of Faroe Island 04. These are Rosaceae Pass (gef_fild01p) and Knocknarea Heights (gef_fild02p). Faroe Island 03 has been renamed Faroe Island Outpost. A new dungeon, the Nightmare Pyramids, has been added. It is made of two levels and located on far_isld03. Two quests will need to be completed before gaining full access to the dungeon. PvP is permanently enabled on the 2nd floor! *** Six new mobs may be found within the dungeon, along with one new MvP - Nightmare Amon Ra. Three new mobs may be found in the Geffenia fields. 5 new quests have been added. These may be found in the existing maps as well as the new maps. One of the new quests will also give you access to the teleporting system for the Custom Episode maps. This system demands that you must visit the teleport location and activate the Orb before being able to warp there. You may also warp around Glastheim after finishing this quest for quicker movement. Quest List: The Nightmare Within - Entry quest to Nightmare Pyramids and teleportation system A Hidden Past - Entry to second level of Nightmare Pyramids Curse of the Pharaoh King - Multiple rewards The Cure - Headgear (Made by Oasis) Secret of the Tears - Headgear (Made by Oasis) Approximately 35 new items have been added as drops from mobs and rewards for quests. Note for New Additions Please keep in mind that these custom episodes and monsters were originally designed and created for Loki's mechanics. They have been balanced to an extent, but player feedback is welcomed in this thread. These new fields and dungeons were balanced for Eir and Tyr assuming you have a party with you. Do not complain about difficulty because you cant Solo Kite the new content with your Wizard. Players are being warned in advance that items, cards, equipment, etc may be buffed and nerfed at a later date. Do not sell or buy items because you assume the effect will change for the better or worse. Some items have been implemented without effects. A thread will be created to discuss what effect they should have at a later date. Notoriety Dungeon Update Nieve and Orc Dungeon have had a few changes made to the monsters inside. HP for common mobs has been severely reduced. HP for the MvPs has been doubled. General attack strength has been reduced across the board. Orc Knights VIT has been reduced considerably. The vision range of the MVPs has increased. Drop rates, spawn times, etc. remain unchanged.