Game Arena - Free Energy event ends
With the maintenance and patch, marks the end of the event. We hope you enjoyed it and will likely make use of this suggested event in the future again.
We did some close review over some of the combat systems as we are ensuring that combat is in fact working as intended, since Pegasus testing has some slight variances between the live server, we are trying to clear up. Some of the fixes contained in today's patch will impact game play and some are merely visual updates to how some mechanics were working to begin with.
Shields & Magic Tools
The block amount for physical and magical on these items have been updated, as they were previously set to block double the listed amount, but we felt that was a little arbitrary, so the 'doubled' amount has been updated to be the true amount displayed. It will make it appear as if the block amounts were 'doubled' when this was actually how the mechanic has been working from the start.
Old Skill Books
I know many of you may want to have held on to these items for nostalgic reasons, but unfortunately, we need to clean house to prevent some confusion. The old skill books that one used to purchase in order to learn class skills, are being removed from game play. You will be compensated the zulie amount listed, in full, for each skill book that is removed.
Bug Fixes
- Corrected Mystic Deviation to utilize DEX instead of INT, as intended.
- Corrected issues with block rate calculations (display was correct, mechanics were not)
- Corrected issue with block amount bonuses being applied to defenses.
- The defense of Offhand equipment was not intended to lend their defense values to the damage reduction formula, to further reduce damage beyond a successful block.
- Corrected issue with physical block amount being less effective against physical skill damage.
- This would be why some skills were not reducing damage correctly, when blocked against a physical attack. This would dramatically affect Magic Tool users, as their physical block rate was already low and should now return to the intended normal, which would effectively double the block amount, now that it is fixed.
- Corrected clan mark display appearing over objects.
- Corrected issue with lingering skill effects causing client to crash.
- After much investigation, this was the reported #1 crash issue for the Game Arena modes. If there are additional crashes, please report them so we can continue investigations, but we expect there to be far less crashes experienced from all game play, including Game Arena modes.
- Corrected issue with damage absorption skills not healing caster.