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3/15/2019

can you bring back kiel on MVP summoner?
 
https://irowiki.org/wiki/VIP_Summoner

Campitor:  Addressing MVP summoner is on our to do list but several things must come first.

MvP Summoner can be updated?

I like the idea of update periodically the MvP summoner, for example every 4 months (January ~ May ~ September). I know maybe a lot of people are fine with Central Lab and other instances, but for me one update looks nice and can be added good MvPs like Fallen Bishop, Gloom Under Night, Tao Gunka, Kiel D-01, etc.

​Campitor:   Addressing MVP summoner is on our to do list but several things must come first.

Campitor, is there any chance that your cat will make a comeback for patch threads?

Spoiler

​Campitor:  Shes gotten alot more camera shy and just wants to sleep under blankets all the time now.

So, Camp & Crew:
As a player who has recently came back after a long, long hiatus I'm interested in getting caught up with all the quests and exploration stuff that RO has to offer. Sure, it's a little flat compared to more modern games, but it's charming and it is part of why I like the game so much. However, I'd like to understand what the big hurdles are for receiving new content from kRO. I know ROM is a huge monetary drive for warp portal/gravity, especially compared to iRO's small population. Is kRO charging per update and prohibiting your ability to make changes to the game? I recall in the past (pre-renewal, I think) where they had given more autonomy to iRO and allowed you to implement quests and such. Do they still allow those sorts of changes or are you on a much tighter leash these days? 
 
 
Sorry for the 20-questions, but I'm genuinely curious what the pain points are from the dev perspective!

​Campitor: Hello!
Unfortunately for kRO its a matter of bandwidth. Were getting as much as they will give us and always pushing for more. We are also trying to address issues from the past where at the end of year we are no longer on schedule. So rather than plan for the year we are planning by quarter to keep each partner on schedule.

can you elaborate on BG Happy Hour and BG reward?

​Campitor: After WoE BG token rewards are double to encourage participation. We will also be updating the BG npcs to give away many WoE supplies with a token + zeny cost. Then we will start making WoE versions of PVP gear.

1. How IRO gonna solve this coming issue:
The OCP we have currently killed almost all future coming dungeon dropped/quest acquired gears?
I mean if OCPs are better than the gears we have right now, it is fine, but it also makes future gears from KRO useless.(17.1 weapons are fine because we don't have many OCP weapons, but those garment, armor, boots, heargears are completely trash compare to OCP)
JRO has already changed all gears they get from KRO to keep the balance. Maybe we should follow that, otherwise I dont see any motivation for players who paid for OCP to farm new gears, which is bad.
 
2. BTW, will you bring JRO's enhancement system to IRO? Lots of ocps can be enhanced, you can make the enhanced material as reward of WOE/MVP drop to encourage ppl to play this game.
 
3. Did Gravity said anything about dupe issue in our server?

​Campitor: We are considering these upcoming (and current problems). kRO is still working on the duplication issue.

Any updates on fixing the effect of Celine Kimi Card?

​Campitor: We are still waiting on the bug fix for this card.

Release NOGH please. Vanilla OGH has no challenge somewhat. Even BRO release it before iro.

​Campitor: It is scheduled for later in the year.

Will we have the cards of Brasilis and Moscovia still at the beginning of the year?

​Campitor: We will ask the studio about more cards shortly.

Boitata Card please.

​Campitor: We will ask the studio about more cards shortly.

I actually like OCPcetion box which 1 box contain 3 random ocp box. I wish you could provide it on cash shop or sell it during firesale.

​Campitor: We will look into doing something similar in the future.

To RO1 staff

What's your favorite type of Poring

Jelloshaker: Pouring
Magus: Magmaring
Astra: Poporing or Pouring!
Xealot: Mastering 
Cordite: Baby Poring >_>
Campitor: Stapo
 

I have a lot of sakray related questions.
 
I would very much like to test Sura in various ways on sakray, however, I am finding it very challenging to do so.
 
On Sakray the Old Detachment Ring presently does not receive the bonus from the combo with Old Blazing Soul, only the base effect +10 MDef is functioning. Any chance this will be sorted out? I would really appreciate being able to test it.
 
Tengu Shoes on sakray are also not functioning with their bonus's from skills learned, is this known and possibly being addressed?
 
The skill Guillotine Fist is impossible to place skill points into and be learned, thus blocking the learning of Snap. Is this perhaps intentional or any plan to be addressed? I ask because it has been this way for a exceptionally long time on sakray.
 
Is there any chance the Shadow Set Equipment's could be put on a NPC vendor on sakray?
 
There are many missing cash box's from the npcs, is there any plans to add them?
 
Could KitCoin please be added to one of the player request npcs so that one could test with enchanted costumes?
 
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Regarding the equipment swap implementation:
 
-I too would very much like to see when it is implemented that the hotkey for it also be put in. I believe it would be very cumbersome to use this feature without an hotkey or icon to place on the hotkey bar at very least. Is this being considered?
 
-I will miss seeing stats attached to the (alt+q) equipment page as they have been there forever. Is there any chance of a skin option or ability to keep them connected in some manner? Maybe a [>>] button to expand them to the right, left, down similar to how they expand downwards presently?
 
-The 10 second timer seems a tad excessive but understandable as a fail safe. Is this planned to be set at 10sec when being implemented? 
 
-Would it be in any way possible to utilize this feature for pulling the main gear set out of kafra stoarge? The gear swap thing does seem to remember what items are placed and cached in some manner, I think it wouldn't be too far of a stretch to allow it's capability into kafra storage's. Even if the timer was 30 seconds or longer to ensure all handshaking goes smoothly, the time saved by being able to would literally add up to days worth of more productive and enjoyed time in game. I think I spend around 30 minutes or more every time I switch over gear sets from character to character and I know several others who do as well. It really could potentially change the "Hang on I'm gearing" (a long delay that always seems unnecessary) to an immediate "One sec timer", "Ok, I'm ready to go lets rock". 
 
^Better explained,  The function that caches the pieces and overlap their icons with a shaded and double arrow circle bit, the thought would be those items remember that state when put into kafra and their association to the slot. I suppose the limiting factor is what portion is really triggering that state. But I'm sure one could see the convenience of being able to click a button and have their suit pulled out of storage.

​Campitor: We will update Sakray with the latest item effects and Kitcoins. Currently we cannot change the gear swap timer but will inquire about the possibility. You should be able to set a hotkey for gear swap.

So DST incoming~ any update on the actual time for Chaos WOE TE. I believe no one want a surprise earlier or later 1 hour woe te. Hopefully even after DST , it will still start at 11pm GMT+8 or 10pm GMT +7.

Please advise.

​Campitor: Chaos WoE TE will stay at the time the community pushed for.

Excelion Set when? YSF_Seyren when? this missing update's been almost a year now

​Campitor: Later this year we will push to get it as part of our "missing contents" patch.

Hello. Can i request for sheila boxter Update? Thanks!

​Campitor:  Yes Sheila Boxter will receive an update next week.

Mr. Camp, thanks for always holding this topic. Some updates may be late, but at least there is a channel where we can ask what's going on.
1) I would like to ask the current state os the Bounty Board project. I think it's on a 'hiatus' - and if there is any chance to be countinued soon. The BB is very important to us and could receive some updates.
2) The Eden holds the 91-99 bounty board that gives a lot of job exp, useful for trans classes and 3rd jobs. However, a lot of items require minimum level of 100 to be used, like the community headgears and some key items to some builds, like Valky Drop for Exorcists ABs. Would be possible to increase the level range of the bounty board by 1? So we can use the items and hunt for the exp.

​Campitor: 1. Bounty Board project should be having an update by the end of April.
2. Were trying to request the 100+ Eden Boards and gears from kRO and are in discussions on when we can get them.

can we request for a update with eve natalia npc

​Campitor:  1. I will try to fit it into the schedule.

I've a few things for this FAQ So I'll try to be as concise as possible.

 
First It's great that there's been quite a few QoL updates and stuff coming in like Ghost Palace enchant, really looked forward to that as well as gear swap, pretty cool. When I stream on weekends I do get feedback from players who play in other places (you know what this means) and they appear interested in iRO but some stuff keeps them at bay. Very clear things, actually. but The following can be something that could boost interest in iRO and attract more people given you guys have done a great job bringing in a lot of stuff lately.
 
Now: given we had the marriage update, we still need VIP or marriage covenants to get married. Is it possible to design a quest that will enable us to not need a marriage covenant? Not saying to make it easy that people won't consider the Marriage Covenant. Seeing from this previous thread: https://forums.warpp...ns-and-eatgear/ it is important to still keep the cash shop sales going. I am suggesting a quest that would allow a couple (or a dual clienter ._.!!) to get married by doing several parts of a quest that will be well worth in terms of time and effort that would equate to them being able to say "Should I buy the marriage covenants or VIP? or should I do the quest. Either one I can do and be okay with." give players a choice. In "other places" they don't need a marriage covenant and scoff at the fact 500 KP per character is required to even get married.
 
Second: Malangdo Culvert. It is a great instance it is a great money maker but again, people outside looking in say "Why do you guys need VIP to get in? boo p2w lol" I have a suggestion for a quest, not completely easy but to enable access to Malangdo culvert to a person or a party should they wish to enter but not all have VIP. Once again I understand there's money to be made but Malangdo is such a great instance and the seagod's angers are a great market as well for players with enchantments (and in conjunction with accessories or other items that have combos with certain enchants). 

I propose a quest that also leads the player to having the choice of "should I get VIP or should I work on these quests to gain access?" In other words a choice in which they can pay to skip the quest or have the non-vip players get a chance at it. Maybe not making it AS good as the VIP but at least make it good enough that having VIP only makes malangdo enchant a nice bonus. Again people outside looking in "do not have this issue" where they come from. 
 
Next: Ghost Palace and Geffen Magic Tournament. From looking at content online and youtube, we know there's GMT enchants available. Ghost Palace enchants are here and it is wonderful! it truly is, but this will lead into another of the viewer's concerns: it is too grindy and I don't have all the time to be farming this religiously daily. and also the classic "but sunbear your temporal ring is way better than the GMT enchants why are you running GMT either way?" which falls into the progression and rewards.

I propose we increase the amount of coins obtained in Geffen Magic Tournament to a reasonable amount that would encourage the non-p2w players to do and enjoy while still aiming for the GMT cards and coins for when the time comes that we are able to enchant the rings from GMT. Make it worth their while. 
As well as increase the drop rate on Ghost Palace. I ran ghost palace during spotlight and obtained about 100 shards using steal and maybe the occasional bubblegum buff. imagine having to farm for approximately 100 days on your only character because leveling on 1x is painful enough as it is to get a sakray card, I mean, even a month is acceptable as I did with the Abusive Robe/Flattery Robe for 16.1 Banquet for Heroes.

While I understand the 1x grind is not something that can easily be tackled, I feel offering exp weekends if we reach a certain amount of "REAL" people on the server would be wonderful. People enjoyed Jumping Janeway (except for the fact they didn't have a magical reset stone to job change) and others enjoyed the 200% EXP boost we had. In fact, viewers of the stream praised the exp (but still said it would still be very grindy.


I really hope you read this through and answer the malangdo, marriage, ghost palace/GMT. These are suggestions/comments coming in from people who don't play iRO and i've explained leveling, bounty boards, quests, gramps and all the features to. Please feel free to ask about the marriage/malangdo suggestions if possible. I know you guys got done with 71,000 lines for the doram/demi human/player change but I was looking forward to last week's FAQ to ask this.

Thanks. (and sorry it wasn't that concise)

​Campitor: 1. We are considering options for future marriage plans. But if there is a free option it will have a hefty time/zeny investment.
2. We will consider it.
3. I will review the number of coins versus time to get item ratio.

Are the monetization plans still to keep pumping 300kp boxes for the remainder of the game life? OCPs content may be great and odds not so bad, but buying 150kp boxes(and bundles of 5 with extra candy in it) like few years back felt way better, idk, it felt like you could do more with your money than buy only 5 boxes.

​Campitor: I have been reading the thread https://forums.warpp...or-power-creep/ and interesting in the feedback everyone was posting. Were working on something that may be more positive for the future. But until its ready we can't really share it.

​Campitor: It is scheduled for later in the year.

Thanks for the response Campitor.

As for the free marriage thing I had a quest in mind, and some ideas that I'd be glad to share and the zeny involvement too. 

Additionally as for Malangdo I had an idea for a quest as well which would really still make it so that people would have to choose between VIP or some long quest/entrance fee

As for the amount of Coins vs time ratio for GMT: You can obtain 110 coins total per single run (should you complete the full instance.)

Magic Reflector and Revised Encyclopedia Cost 900 Coins.

Physical Enhancer Ring and Magic Intensifier Ring cost 1350 coins.

Anti-Magic Suit and Geffen Magic Robe cost 1800 Coins.

9 days to get a single Shield  (8.18 days)
13 days to get one of the rings (12.27 days)

17 days to get one of the armors.(16.36 days) 
(I rounded up the numbers as it would be the amount of times you complete GMT for one of these)

Now, now all of them may be not be the greatest items but that's the deal when it comes to having OCP. Making these slightly easier to obtain (and enchant in the future) would at least let players feel a progression as they are working towards something better and these gears will hold out till then.

As for Ghost Palace during spotlight, I ran HE BBG buff and i used Steal with my GX inside the instance. I obtained about 90~100 Gray Shards. Today I ran it without HE BBG and If I am not mistaken I obtained about 39~50 grey shards. other times I have obtained about 60 shards should I get lucky on the steals and the drops. Other times I've gone out with 70 at least and maybe the worst day has been about 20. Also consider that not everyone uses Steal.

If you wanna calculate using an average of perhaps 50 shards per run or even with 100(with spotlight) you can have the following scenarios:
4 days maybe even 5 to obtain a single Thanatos Weapon
2-3 days for each piece of Gray Armor

and as for Sakray Knight Card that would be about 200 days for the day.  (assuming 50 shards daily, and I mean DAILY.)

I strongly believe the rates for the Thanatos Weapons and the armors are very very reasonable. Enchanting wise, idk what to expect but I can assure you that outsiders LOVE thanatos weapons and the enchantments because it literally become one of the best weapons to use throughout leveling until you reach the point of "I want a +12 Red Twin Edge with 3x AK and the EA6 Enchant" or others. Reducing the amount of shards for a knight sakray card might make more sense than boosting the rate of the gray shard drop. 200 days assuming you do it daily and get at least 50 gray shards a day is way more than it took to get a single abusive robe or flattery robe from 16.1. 

EDIT:

I ran Ghost Palace today with a level 122 Geneticist and I obtained 17 Grey Shards, I ran it with basic gear, no Steal Clip (and of course i'd take too much damage, somewhat unrealistic for newbies to try and use steal as a class that isn't flee based) seems quite painful for it not being a higher number. Now, trying to get 10,000 for a Sakray Knight Card, not so sure  how much effort new players would wanna take, it feels like the time it'd take is just way too much for anyone who isn't accustomed or understands how this would play out. Thanks for reading. (This isn't really my question for this FAQ, I just wanted to give you numbers based on what I was asking that could be changed as a QoL for new players and attract people to play and not feel overwhelmed by the time it takes to collect instance loot vs how rewarding it is in comparison to OCPs already existing

Edited by CaptainSunbear, 16 March 2019 - 12:14 PM.

Giant's Protection

Can we have its full combo includes gaint boot and giant bow?

any plans in finally laying down to rest (closing) those dead things (server) and just focus on whats left (idk)?

Can you bring in the Refine Event Rave next week? Please

could you possibly re-consider applying the discount skill with mastela? i've read in one thread here back in 2017 that it is because its quite "unfair" for slims. but does that really matter now?

what the list monster in spotlight right now?LOL

Help expand this list by letting me know if any towns/kafras were forgotten

[add]

alb2trea 62, 69 (near Sunken Ship Kafra)
alberta 29, 238 (near north Alberta Kafra)
alde_gld 220, 166 (near Luina Kafra)
aru_gld 171, 261 (near Valfreyja Kafra)
aru_gld 302, 103 (near Valfreyja Kafra)
aru_gld 303, 357 (near Valfreyja Kafra)
aru_gld 58, 186 (near Valfreyja Kafra)
aru_gld 94, 52 (near Valfreyja Kafra)
auction_03 147, 40 (near Mail Annex Kafra)
bat_room 148, 153 (near Battlegrounds Waiting Room Kafra)
einbroch 52, 201 (near west Einbroch Kafra)
gef_fild10 76, 340 (near Orc Dungeon Kafra)
gef_fild13 251, 117 (near Britoniah Kafra)
geffen 198, 124 (near east Geffen Kafra)
glast_01 198, 275 (near Old Glast Heim Kafra)
harboro1 291, 198 (near Rock Ridge Kafra)
izlu2dun 109, 58 (near Byalan Island Kafra)
izlude_a 133, 149 (near Izlude 2nd channel Kafra)
lasagna 206, 188 (near Lasagna catfra)
lhz_in02 228, 284 (near Lighthalzen Hotel Kafra)
lighthalzen 193, 320 (near north Lighthalzen Kafra)
lighthalzen 92, 248 (near north west Lighthalzen Kafra)
mal_in01 172, 34 (near Malangdo Culverts Kafra)
malangdo 182, 139 (near Malangdo storage NPC)
malaya 69, 79 (near south west Port Malaya Kafra)
mjolnir_02 85, 359 (near Mjolnir Dead Pit Kafra)
moc_paraup 12, 185 (near Eden Group Kafra)
moc_ruins 64, 164 (near Morroc Ruins Kafra)
mora 50, 131 (near Mora storage NPC)
morroc 168, 261 (near north Morroc Kafra)
pay_arche 58, 124 (near Archer Vilalge Kafra)
pay_gld 303, 191 (near Greenwood Lake Kafra)
payon 178, 226 (near north Payon Kafra)
prontera 146, 87 (near south Prontera Kafra 1)
prontera 148, 34 (near south Prontera Kafra 2)
prontera 164, 326 (near north Prontera Kafra)
prontera 277, 197 (near east Prontera Kafra)
prontera 35, 212 (near west Prontera Kafra)
prt_fild05 290, 227 (near Prontera Culverts Kafra)
prt_gld	146, 113 (near Valkyrie Realm Kafra)
sch_gld 102, 201 (near Nidhoggur Kafra)
sch_gld 145, 82 (near Nidhoggur Kafra)
sch_gld 292, 248 (near Nidhoggur Kafra)
sch_gld 297, 100 (near Nidhoggur Kafra)
sch_gld 85, 315 (near Nidhoggur Kafra)
yuno 277, 219 (near north east Juno Kafra)
yuno 332, 108 (near south east Juno Kafra)
dicastes01 188, 206 (Center of Dicastes)
te_alde_gld 220, 166 (TE Kafragarten Realm)
te_prt_gld 140, 113 (TE Gloria Realm)


[relocate]

yuno 149, 187
	Reason: another NPC is covering it
malaya 231, 204
	Reason: Eden NPC is covering it

Edited by KriticalAssassin, 17 March 2019 - 07:41 AM.

what the list monster in spotlight right now?LOL

Mora Eclage

will we get new loading screen?

remove account bound restriction on mini boss and MVP cards?

Edited by YongkySH, 19 March 2019 - 05:38 AM.

Any news on the remaining Illusion Dungeons?    Wish more people did them 

Any news on Rune Improvement? Or anything RK related?

The MVP tomb timer is messed up. I can not calculate MVP's next spawn time. Can you look into it, please?

LikeDark Lord, it says that he died at 17:12. But, I was reading it at 6:00 AM PST time ???!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Please check that during the next maintenance!

Thank you

CAn you update Alora Npc +8Headgear > costume exchange to

include MVP drop Headgears

Community headgears

Zodiac Crowns and diadems please. 

Edited by Scrappy51, 19 March 2019 - 08:03 PM.

can you bring back kiel on MVP summoner?

thats a yes or no question

the choices are yes or no

not accept another long and bul-_- answer

example:

can you bring back kiel on MVP summoner?

answer: no

the choices are yes or no

not accept another long and bul-_- answer

Campitor:  Addressing MVP summoner is on our to do list but several things must come first.

 

Allow me to translate:

Short-term: No
Long-term: Yes (Maybe)
 

Allow me to translate:
Short-term: No
Long-term: Yes (Maybe)