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[Oda]

Announcements: 

We are celebrating Veteran's day in the US next Wednesday so we will be having our weekly maintenance on Thursday instead of Wednesday. The maintenance will be happening at the same time as the normal maintenance, 9am-1pm PST (GMT -8)

 

Warpportal is moving servers starting on Sunday, November 15th and ending on the 17th. We are estimating up to 48 hours for the hardware to be moved to it's new home, during this time our games and websites will not be available. The time and dates of the move are subject to change, unfortunately this may change based on the mover's availability. We will keep you updated. 

 

Ongoing Events: 

 

-Niflheim/Glast Heim spotlight continues. During this event monsters from the dungeons and fields around those towns get a boost to exp and drops

 

-Vintage Trick or Treat Quest continues

 

New This Week: 

 

Classic Challenge dungeon will be implemented on the live server with the changes based on community feedback in our foundry. You will be able to travel to the Challenge Dungeon and encounter our tough monsters, and their special drops. 

 

The challenge dungeon was created out of our desire to create a tough new dungeon for players to tackle on Classic. To this end we have found and modified monsters with increased HP and attack, useful drops and smart AI. We placed these monsters in a replica of an existing dungeon and placed the entrance to this dungeon in the Prontera Graveyard. Players level 70 and up can enter. Since we are not able to add all of the New World monsters this is a way for us to introduce ways to obtain items that have not yet been available on Classic. 

 

Here's the drops and percentages for the new monsters: http://blog.gravityu...nster-Drops.png

 

 

Coming soon: 

 

Groove Pack for November coming next week!

 

Planning for the next PVP tournament to take place on pre-renewal Classic Test server

[Nathy]

What of the renewal client?

[PaulElgan]

What of the renewal client?

+1 for renewal client =D

[Jenna]

The renewal client is amazing. Please please update us on that! <3

[Alexiasa]

In Renewall , I like to participate in the tournament. I am level 175. I need would like me to participate. Where to leave the bases or where I write? Please

[Oda]

No updates on getting Classic put onto renewal. I can tell you that the moment I get an update I will let you know when I know. 

In Renewall , I like to participate in the tournament. I am level 175. I need would like me to participate. Where to leave the bases or where I write? Please

We will  have a thread up for the pre-renewal tournament suggestions soon. 

[Themes]

If the Challenge Dungeon is going to get introduced, can you write up a little introduction for people? Include things like location, purpose, drops and experience.

 

Are you also going to be able to add Spotlight or TI turnin NPCs to Asgard?

[MalianoSan]

are the servers staying in the same timezone? any information on the move we can get?

[Psicratus]

What of the renewal client?

+1 for renewal client =D

The renewal client is amazing. Please please update us on that! <3

We know how hard it is to implement it on our server and how Gravity feels about changes in general, but this would mean so much to us, Oda & Campitor <3

Btw, do we have any plans on having the King Poring quest again? I'm looking forward to it for some time

[rockymom]

As per Oda last night during Tiki Tuesday, the servers are staying in the same time zone. Just a new physical location in the same city.

[Xellie]

Don't forget to turn off the treasure/okolnir NPCs the week of the move. We wouldn't want the server getting flooded with god item parts/god items from undefended econs, would we?

[MalianoSan]

As per Oda last night during Tiki Tuesday, the servers are staying in the same time zone. Just a new physical location in the same city.

 

ty deb

[battle]

Don't forget to turn off the treasure/okolnir NPCs the week of the move. We wouldn't want the server getting flooded with god item parts/god items from undefended econs, would we?

 

Xellie the question you should ask is there even going to be a woe 2 that day. Because if not why not do woe 2 one hour after woe 1 on Saturday.

 

Oda Can you please make the challenge so its worth it for people with average equipment. give mobs 75k-110k hp because the only chars that be worth taking there are champs scholar hp and Meat shields(You Know What This is)

[Xellie]

Xellie the question you should ask is there even going to be a woe 2 that day. Because if not why not do woe 2 one hour after woe 1 on Saturday.

 

Oda Can you please make the challenge so its worth it for people with average equipment. give mobs 75k-110k hp because the only chars that be worth taking there are champs scholar hp and Meat shields(You Know What This is)

 

There won't be and they won't do that. Even If I was able to make that WoE (I can't) supplying 2 WoEs and participating in 3 WoEs(renewal) in a day would be ridic.

[teresias]

If the Challenge Dungeon is going to get introduced, can you write up a little introduction for people? Include things like location, purpose, drops and experience.

 

Are you also going to be able to add Spotlight or TI turnin NPCs to Asgard?

 

 

 

Oda Can you please make the challenge so its worth it for people with average equipment. give mobs 75k-110k hp because the only chars that be worth taking there are champs scholar hp and Meat shields(You Know What This is)

 

+1 on everything they've said.

 

Also, please consider including job battle manuals in next week's groove pack.  And maybe updating your spam filters to eliminate those annoying spam bots rather than us doing the modification on our client's config.

[Necrohealiac]

And maybe updating your spam filters to eliminate those annoying spam bots rather than us doing the modification on our client's config.

it's a .txt file. you're not exactly doing hard coding here.

[teresias]

it's a .txt file. you're not exactly doing hard coding here.

 

I know and it's easy to do too.  But shouldn't it be part of the weekly patch at least.
 

[Oda]

+1 on everything they've said.

 

Also, please consider including job battle manuals in next week's groove pack.  And maybe updating your spam filters to eliminate those annoying spam bots rather than us doing the modification on our client's config.

We ask players to update their spam config files because when we include it in our patches, the spammers also receive that data and update and intensify their spam attempts. 

[teresias]

We ask players to update their spam config files because when we include it in our patches, the spammers also receive that data and update and intensify their spam attempts. 

 

Oh, I see. I guess it makes sense.  Thanks Oda.

[Oda]

Test Aura is working! It's a rare drop from the MVP 

 

https://vine.co/v/eLqTVmOWFT3

[Necrohealiac]

is your body ready classic?

[battle]

Hey Oda, Camp We Going To Have Woe 2 on Sunday November 15?

[Campitor]

We were considering making WoE that might be affected by the move event WoEs that week, so that if were down when it should have happened it won't be as bad for users.

[DorianGray01]

Introducing the iRO classic challenge dungeon

My experience.

 

As soon as the servers went up we were overwhelmed by the urge to check out the new challenge dungeon, to honor the iRO gms valiant hard work and effort and here is our aproach: 

Party Setup: 1x High Wizard / 1x Bard / 1x High Priest / 1x SinX / 1x High Priest

 

We rushed through the dungeon freezing any monster standing in our way until we found a group of kobold leaders with an aura roaming in the middle of the dungeon, we cleared us a nice space in case for kiting purposes and then went at it. We were surprised at first that those bosses were surprisingly easy to tank (safety wall) and didn't do any sort of significant damage since they weren't able to hit our SinX tank anyways so what it came down to in the end was that we were basically just waiting for the boss to drop considering the 5m HP each of those guys have.

 

After 15min total in the challenge dungeon we killed 3x kobold leader boss monsters and as lucky as we were we even got 9 guild surplus boxes out of it.

 

In the end i would still say the dungeon deserves the name challenge dungeon, regarding the tremendous challenge you get out of enduring a bossfight that involves waiting for the moment it drops dead.

I still apreciate the gesture.

[Campitor]

Introducing the iRO classic challenge dungeon

My experience.

 

As soon as the servers went up we were overwhelmed by the urge to check out the new challenge dungeon, to honor the iRO gms valiant hard work and effort and here is our aproach: 

Party Setup: 1x High Wizard / 1x Bard / 1x High Priest / 1x SinX / 1x High Priest

 

We rushed through the dungeon freezing any monster standing in our way until we found a group of kobold leaders with an aura roaming in the middle of the dungeon, we cleared us a nice space in case for kiting purposes and then went at it. We were surprised at first that those bosses were surprisingly easy to tank (safety wall) and didn't do any sort of significant damage since they weren't able to hit our SinX tank anyways so what it came down to in the end was that we were basically just waiting for the boss to drop considering the 5m HP each of those guys have.

 

After 15min total in the challenge dungeon we killed 3x kobold leader boss monsters and as lucky as we were we even got 9 guild surplus boxes out of it.

 

In the end i would still say the dungeon deserves the name challenge dungeon, regarding the tremendous challenge you get out of enduring a bossfight that involves waiting for the moment it drops dead.

I still apreciate the gesture.

hrmm Okay I will tweak the AI some more. I think I know how to solve that.