• A new end-game instance dungeon: expect the challenge level to rival that of Nydhoggur's dungeon. We haven't had any new challenge dungeon since biolab, so we hope that the veterans will look forward to this!
• 6 new pieces of equipment from new end-game dungeon along with new cards from monsters of said dungeon; mostly supporting existing mainline builds emphasizing High Wizard and High Priest
• New hatter update: so hold on to your Old Red Boxes from Hatter! Say goodbye to some old hats such as Autumn Leaves and Dragon Skull in place for some new ones.
• Massive quality of life changes, such as faster renting/returning to private DB rooms, quiver NPC returns, and a new NPC for Gunslinger/Ninja ammos
  

Quote:A few "miniboss" cards are also slightly nerfed so that they are suitable to be added to OCA in a future update (no ETA).

Pre-emptively speaking for inevitable question: "should I hold on to OCA/DCA?" If you fear pool dilution and likes the content of them now, open them. If you want to wait for the potential expansion to venture into the unknown, save them if you can wait. There's no ETA for when this will change, so I don't know how long the wait will be either. That depends on network related issues to see if we can get test servers back up and running, which is still dead since early March.

• Gunslinger
• Whitesmith
• Assassin Cross
  

• Weekly prep time for WoE takes more time than any of us would like
• Winners snowball to win harder because WoE chests provide helpful consumables for future battles
• There are certain gears and cards where their presence or high refine effect are so powerful that instead of the usual logarithmic scaling, they provide a major exponential power boost, which makes it harder for newer players to catch up
• WoE First Edition is a relative solved meta for pre-renewal servers: 15+ years in heRO resulted in a very static meta, even with custom items in play
• GMs need to recognize that some changes will remove some strategical aspects of WoE, and accept that some strategical elements will be removed for the sake of the overall health of the WoE scene that is in desperate need of help
• GMs need to be willing to make certain sacrifices in pursue of the team's vision of how the game should be played in 2022: and that is to accept that some people aren't going to be happy, and they may leave because of it
  

• WoE2 will replace Saturday WoE:FE with 1-2 open test runs in mid/late July, and then implemented for real in August
• Make changes to classes, regardless of how they behave in default pre-renewal servers. What default servers have decided on almost 20 years ago no longer have any bearing on how heRO envisions the game to be played.
• Rework all Glorious Weapons to be more in line with heRO customization instead of taking them as-is from the default game: standardizing their refine breakpoints to be at +6 and +9, and close the gap in differences between the weapons so some weapons don't overshadow all others so blatantly. We customized everything else, so why wouldn't we customize these too?
• Prepare to rework any other BG weapons or gears as we see fit, if necessary
• Make BG gears be tradeable: to allow easier time for players and guilds to share gears like anything else
• New banning of gears, cards and items: Yggdrasil berry, Yggdrasil seed, Deviling card, Ghostring card
• Add items on watchlist to either ban them from further gameplay or rework their effects if they are to be reintroduced in WoE2: such as Maya Purple card or Ghostring card
• Make balance changes on monthly basis as necessary for things on GM's watch lists
• Randomize all chests between all castles of the same WoE type to avoid any potential where guilds are more/less active depending on which castle is in rotation
• Update all WoE chests with new rewards to justify the time devotion/resources for WoE2
• Introduce 2 new God items: Asprika and Brynhildr, which require WoE2
• Reduce the insane item requirements for food cooking items
• Change rule to require video (not screenshot or ingame replay) evidence to address GvG induced PvM frictions, especially in MvP
• Implement @noks and remove FFA rules the moment it gets out of hand: if we can't handle PvM competitions cordially, then it'll be gone for everyone
• Give compensation to nerfed/banned gears and cards to all affected player
  

• Introduce more items in "boxes" such that fighting monsters or completing repeatable quests will reward multiple etc item or common consumables that are usually needed in WoE2 preparations
• More BG accessibility: have some of the current BG rewards be accessible outside of BG
• Release gears targeted at WoE scene to introduce potential build diversities and introduce small changes to the meta via item changes
• Investigate on ways to reduce the tedium of skills that require someone to be outside of a guild party on purpose in GvG settings (Provoke, Mind Breaker, Sharpshooting)
• Port any changes that seem effective from WoE2 back to WoE1 later after any potential launch issues for WoE2 are addressed (Sept and onward)
• Look into ways to bridge the gap in effectiveness of a ranking and non-ranking brewer
• Investigate into technical know-hows for new Twilight Alchemy skills (specifically, to mass brew Blue Potions)
  

• Access to Guild Dungeons by paying for it (if you want free access, you'll need to be a castle owner)
• Do more source edits to change the game as we see fit in 2022
• Custom monster skill creation to introduce new PvM challenges unique to heRO
• Release more formerly exclusive items via regular quests- specifically the 3rd class hats that were previously art contest rewards exclusive (after stat rebalancing)
• Rework the Thanatos Tower Quest and the Monster Extermination Quest to be less asinine
• Prepare a new town + a new instance as the next end game dungeon, which we want to be on the same level of difficulty as Blackout Clocktower instance
  

• War White Potions and War Blue Potions will make a return. They will cost you 100z or less. Essentially, server will sponsor all of your HP/SP healing needs for free. Your days of weekly witched starsand hunt and BG time for war blues are over.
• War Concentration/Awakening/Berserk Potion returns, also at near free of charge.
• War White Potions will be buffed to be the same as a Mastela Fruit for WoE only
• War Whites and War Blues do not count as a "Potion" for the purpose of any item/skill effects that specifically boost the healing effect of a "Potion" instead of general healing items (such as Rogue Link)
• Newly banned items: Ghostring Card, Deviling Card, Yggdrasil Seed, Yggdrasil Berry. De-card will be offered for all items with Ghostring Card and Deviling Card with no drawback.
• Selkie card is reworked completely: "that build" is not living past July. De-card will be offered for all items with Selkie card with no drawbacks.
• Stunning Star Eyepatch will be buffed from 10% stun resist to 20% stun resist. De-card will be offered for all Stalactic Golem carded sunglasses/glasses, with no drawbacks.
• Normal condensed red/yellow/white potions will be buffed to weigh 1/2/3 respectively
• We are aiming for the removal of all skill catalyst costs in WoE such that you do not consume any items or ammos for skill usage in WoE. Bombs away!
• Guardian Stone Repair and Barricade Repair will not cost you any stone, oridecon, elunium, steel, trunks, emveratcon, or any gemstones. Instead, they will only require a "Guardian Stone Repair Kit" and "Barricade Repair Kit" respectively. These kits will also be sold by NPC, at near no cost. However, you still need to play the corresponding "mini-game" as if you used the proper material.
• Almost every glorious weapon will be reworked to bring all of them closer to each other. Everyone will be given a chance to exchange any glorious weapon for any other glorious weapon, at the same refine. This way, all +9 glorious gears will not be "wasted" as you can transfer it to be "the next OP +9" glorious weapon, be it for WoE or for PvM against demihumans.
• You cannot ask to exchange glorious weapons for points or enriched oridecons. You can only exchange for another glorious weapon of the same refine.
• Some glorious weapons are buffed, and some glorious weapons are nerfed.
• Yes, the most asked one of all, Glorious Fist +9, is part of the nerf list. Instant-cast asura is not staying, in WoE or PvM. Go punch things while you have it before WoE2 changes arrive.
• We admit that not all glorious weapons will be equally useful, even though they will all target a specific niche. Said niche is not going to be practical all the time in WoE situation (such as the crit katar)
• Guild dungeons will be accessible to all guilds even if they do not own a castle. You can pay 400k to unlock ALL guild dungeons for 24 hours for you and everyone within your guild (so you can pool your resources across your guild for the 400k).
• All chests will go through an update to catch up to 2022 standards to reward your WoE victory
  

• Maya Purple card vs Box of Sunlight: farming both of these suck. But if we give out free box of sunlights, then you might as well give maya purple to everyone? Do we even want Maya Purple in WoE2? In a world where you need to win multiple fights due to barriers instead of emp rush, is sinx even good?
• Creator is obviously the power suspect because previously AD is being gated by an unfun mechanic called "insane upkeep required inbetween every WoE" so even if you have multiple creators available, your guild cannot possibly sustain multiple creators with ease in the long run. Now that you can, and with DR/GR gone, are they out of control? We'll wait and see. However, if creator turns out to be overpowered, we will not be balancing them by making their skills expensive/time consuming to use again. Rather, we'll address power of AD directly via damage edits for WoE only (similar to how Assumptio works differently in and out of WoE).
• There's a few other classes besides Creator/skills on my watchlist, but out of respect of not to "give away secret builds", I'll just say that I acknowledge their existence from your PMs with me and I am aware of these concerns. We'll see how they do in August and go from there. I appreciate all of your willingness to share your opinions and theorycrafts on discord with me.
• Ghostring card: got dumpstered by being banned in PvP and that's all it's good for. We'll think of redesigning this iconic miniboss card later
  

• Stunning Star Eyepatch needs to be moved out of V4P and into an easily accessible place that is not time gated
• Adjust Food cooking ingredients list to be less ridiculous
• Based on how free healing HP/SP potions work, consider if there should be an expansion to free consumables for WoE, especially Box of Gloom since shrooming is unbelievably boring
• Consider looking at other BG items or glorious defensive equips: if they also need to be revisited and rebalanced accordingly- to bring them more in-line with the existing glorious gears as the standard
• Another 2 pairs of watchlist skill: Scream and Frost Joke. They aren't necessarily overpowered in a vacuum, but they are overcentralizing in small population WoE since you are forced to deal with stun/freeze, and all your gears/builds twist in a really restrictive way that you have to handle these 2. If we want to introduce changes to break the prison of a solved pvp metagame, then being freed from these 2 skills' highly reliable stun/freeze rate should at least be considered.
• We're also very aware that melee has the clear short end of the stick compare to ranged damage dealers (be it physical or magical). They got many fundamental problems to solve, but that is a problem we've decided to tackle later since there's already many other changes happening.