Strange Orc activity has been seen near Prontera. It is almost as if they are planning something.
Voting NPC will be added for Guild Leaders vote on a new WoE II time for us to try out on the week of June 12th. Please post suggested times in this thread and I will have it added to the NPC. The NPC is in the Northern area just below the Castle by the Shaking Hands statue.
Double EXP ends
Options for our rescheduling test
Fridays 4-6pm (Current time)
Fridays 5-7pm
Saturdays 4-6pm
Sunday 6-8am
You can only vote once, so choose the one you really want.
After discussion with the Production and GM Teams, it has been decided that the 30 day tradable God Items will be available indefinitely.
Will be creating a 2013 patch notes part III next week.
Community requested Specific Maps changed to just-before-renewal spawn settings will be getting our custom changes back.
Glast Heim Maps
Clock Tower Maps
Geffen Dungeon
5/21
This week is pretty light for classic's maintenance as we prep next month's RO 10th anniversary event, but we do have double exp to bring to the table for this week. I'm still getting caught up with everything here so I'll be gathering up suggestions and such for next week's maint.
New Quest Added look in Prontera for Dewey outside the Knight's Guild
-Orc Lord is being removed from Orc Dungeon
5/14
Campitor Here again...
Good news and bad news,
Unfortunately the studio was unable to deliver the May Event to us for this week. This was due to work currently being done on 14.2 for the renewal server. There is no set date for 14.2 to be implemented on renewal however, I do have some screenshots from testing to share with all of you! (These will be posted here the moment we get them uploaded.) Unfortunately the text is still in Korean as we are/will be localizing and translating it for consumption!
Now why would this influence an event for the classic server? When we create or receive events we make them work on both servers. Even if it requires a little tinkering; See: Valentines day quest with Orc Lord instead of Orc Lady looking for Love in all the Wrong Places. We should be getting the May event for next week and will be extending it so that Late May and Early June will be very much packed with events.
Patch Notes for this week are as follows:
Monsters in the Spotlight
- Rachel Spotlight will be going in.
- Agav
- Anacondaq
- Anopheles
- Beholder
- Desert Wolf
- Baby Desert Wolf
- Echio
- Gazeti
- Gremlin
- Hillwind
- Hodremlin
- Ice Titan
- Iceicle
- Isilla
- Kobold (Stabby Stabby)
- Kobold (Smashy Smashy)
- Kobold (Pokey Pokey)
- Kobold (Pew Pew)
- Roween
- Seeker
- Snowier
- Vanberk
- Valfreyja castles located in the Rachel Area will be opening up. There will be more ground for fighting over, holding, and taking! (This is WOE 2)
- Lighthalzen Gains an Eden Group NPC
- Secured Chain Mail and Formal Robes are getting an enchanting npc. This is to bring them in line with normal slotted Chain Mail and Formal Robes
- VIP Bonus Event ends
- There may be more to come...
Just a reminder for everyone on 5/14 Rachel WoE 2 castles will be coming so be ready for more castles to kill each other over!
5/7
Campitor: Oda has been sent into the wastes to bring law to the lawless. This week's patch notes are...
- Anolians have returned to the clock tower basement level 4. They have finished their yearly hibernation and desire the blood of those who dare enter.
- Rachel Update has been added. This includes the town, maps, ice dungeon, and airship.
- Kiel Hyre Spotlight leaves monsters and drops returning to normal.
- Double EXP Ends
- New Groove Pack Arrives
- VIP Event extended by 1 week will leave 5/14
- Taurus Crown/Diadem gain at +7 or higher 20% exp bonus until 5/21 when that sign is no longer active.
- Metal recyclers and animal control have removed all mail boxes from the cities of Rune Midgard. These rusted bird covered eye sores were bringing down property values. The Postal Annex remains for handling all mail related needs.
Apologies for the non-midweek maintenance last week. Classic doesn't allow for partial server maintenances so while we wanted to restore the custom changes for Anubis/implement block for icewall on Odin 3 we were not able to get the time to do the full server maintenance that those changes would require. The lack of communication on that is my fault.
Double exp being extended by one week on classic.
Majority of maps (150+) are being adjusted to correct 13.2 pre-renewal spawn amounts, Sphinx gets it's Anubis' back.
Rachel is coming next week, we're doing testing to make sure that things get implemented more smoothly than usual. It will come along with a exp/drops/spawn boosting spotlight as well!
This week we are doubling the number of badges you get for completing Tierra Gorge!
Custom spawn changes implemented two weeks ago will be re-added.
"dead zone" around Kafra NPCs in Eden Group expanded to address crowding
Evil Marcher hat STR bonus fixed
Ice wall disabled on Odin 3 map
MVPs are relearning Earthquake and Hell's Judgement
Earthquake and Hell's Judgement
-Baphomet
Earthquake
-Orc Lord
-RSX-0806
-Valkyrie Randgris
-Ifrit
Hell judgement
-Dark Lord
-Dracula
-Samurai Specter
-Lord of the Dead
Alchemist brewing list is resetting today.
4/23
-1 week double exp event
-Battlemanual and Bubblegum effect 10% bonuses end tonight, so use them up quick as you please.
-Point sale bonus ends at 5pm tonight.
-HE Battle Manuals on sale in the kafra shop. NPC "Experienced Man" will be taking in HE Battle Manuals and giving a x3 Battle Manual. He can be found by the south central crossing in Prontera.
-Working on Flavius to see what the major malfunction is.
-Need more community art login screens! We have Odin's temple, Kiel Hyre, and many more locales to explore now (Rachel in just a week or so)
-Odin shrine 3 is being implemented tonight.
-Testing of repeatable EXP kill quests (up to level 60 hodes quest) implemented.
-Koneko Hat and Side Cap will be on sale in the kafra headgear NPC in the Eden Group.
-Looking at monster respawn time and density tweaks based on this thread.
- Abyss Lake 3 spawn times returned to pre-event times.
- Decreasing spawn times on select biolabs 3 monsters.
