Server Changelog

[GM-Ciar]

Pet Related Item Updates & More

• Strigoi's tame drop was increased from 0.45% to 0.75%
  
• Dryad's tame drop was increased from 0.60% to 0.75%
  
• Mantis' tame drop was increased from 0.45% to 0.75%
  
• Scorpion's rusty iron drop was increased from 0.60% to 0.75%
  
• Marina's deadly noxious drop was increased from 0.60% to 0.75%
  
• Imp's tame drop rate increased from 0.60% to 0.75%
  
• Baphomet Jr. now drops its own pet equip at 0.75%
  
• Pickies now drop their own tame at 0.75%
  
• Rocker now drops its tame at 0.75%
  
• Plankton now drops transparent head protector at 0.75%
  
• Willow now drops bark shorts at 0.75%
  
• Wootan Fighter now drops tropical banana at 0.75%
  
• Choco now drops Monkey Circlet at 3%
  
• Orc Hero no longer drops monkey circlet
  
• Chepet now drops Sohee's pet equip, golden bell, at 3%, and its red scarf drop was increased from 0.15% to 3%
  
• Peco Peco now drops its own tame at 0.75%
  
• Orc Warrior now drops its tame at 0.75%
  
• Munak now drops its tame and pet equip at 0.75%
  
• Bongun now drops its pet equip at 0.75%
  
• Yuki Onna now drops Incubus' tame, girl's naivety, at 0.75%
  
• Shinobi's Grilled Rice Cake drop was replaced with its tame at 0.75%, and Kabuki mask was replaced with Shinobi's pet equip at 0.75%.
  
• Tengu now drops Kabuki mask at 0.60%.
  
• Stone Shooter now drops its tame and equip at 0.75%
  
• Isis' necklace [1] drop was replaced with Queen's Hair Ornament at 0.75%
  
• Sohee no longer drops evolved small ribbons, and now drops silver knife of chastity at 0.75%. The ribbon item has been moved to Alice and Kathryn Keyron, who originally dropped an identical but effect-less version of the item
  
• Goblin Leader now drops its own tame and equip at 3%, while angry snarl has been removed for space.
  
• Nightmare Terror now drops its tame and equip at 0.75%.
  
• Wicked Nymph no longer drops Mandolin or Lute. Instead it drops its tame and pet equip at 0.75%, and Lute is now dropped by Hermit Plant. Miyabi Doll's Mandolin drop rate increased from 0.60% to 0.75% as compensation.
  
• Dullahan now drops its tame and pet equip at 0.75%.
  
• Loli Ruri now drops its pet equip at 0.75%.
  
• Bathory now drops very red juice, Loli Ruri's tame, at 0.75%.
  
• Flora now drops Leaf Cat's tame, very soft plant, at 0.75%.
  
• Cookie (Green) now drops green jewel bag, Leaf Cat's pet equip, at 0.75%.
  
• Logi now drops Imp's pet equip, Horn Barrier, at 0.75%.

Aug 2 2019 Edit: these were added on the same day after some discussion but I forgot to add them to the changelog.
Other Loot Updates

• Winter Leaf Cat now drops Kaldian Bream at 30% up from 15%.
  
• Silver Filir's Kaldian Bream drop was increased from 15% to 75%.
  
• Silver Filir Chick now drops Kaldian Bream at 60% instead of 15%.
  
• Pingvi's Kaldian Bream drop was increased from 12% to 75%.
  
• Angvi now drops Kaldian Bream at 100% up from 18%.
  

[GM-Ciar]

• An issue where Chen Card did not provide any attack was fixed.
  For technical posterity: "bonus bAtk,min(35, readparam(MaxSP)/30);" should be "bonus bAtk,min(35, MaxSp/30);" AKA don't use readparam for MaxSp.
  
• Fixed a technical issue with Robe of Counter similar to the above one.
  

[GM-Ciar]

• Due to an error when creating the item, Soul of The Ironforge (Accessory) was refinable, unlike all other accessories. This issue has been fixed, as in, it's unrefinable now.
  
  If you have a refined Soul of The Ironforge, it will automatically be removed when equipping it. Please contact a GM to remove the refines. Everything else (cards, etc) will obviously remain the same.

[GM-Ciar]

• Fixed issue where Costume Galapago Cap had the incorrect View ID (AKA looked like another hat).

[GM-Ciar]

• Fixed an issue with Lutia's Adelaide Investigation quest where the book-searching portion could not be completed.
  
• Nightmarish Pyramid F2's water now behaves like actual water (can be used to waterball, create holy waters etc).

[GM-Ayu]

Just made your first character on HeRO and could use some help getting by? Well, you might like this update!

The Class Training quests are old quests that teach the first class jobs about their skills, as well as their role from a general lore standpoint. These have been modernized to reward a small amount of consumables such as grape juice and bass fish, slightly more exp for questing so early on in the game, and 2 pieces of the new "Initiate's" gear set!

There's 5 total new "Initiate" gears. They give small bonuses to help new players start out, and are meant to be replaced as the player becomes more experienced.

• The class training quest will reward Initiate's Shield, and Initiate's Suit or Armor. The quests are slightly changed compare to official but the official guide is sufficient as a starting point.
  • Acolyte Training Quest
    
  • Archer Training Quest
    
  • Mage Training Quest
    
  • Merchant Training Quest
    
  • Swordsman Training Quest
    
  • Thief Training Quest
    
• Geffen Bard quest will reward Initiate's Cloak. Its exp reward has also been increased.
  
• Faeheim Introduction Quest will reward Initiate's Shoes.
  

Information regarding the gears are available in the wiki:

• Initiate's Shield
  
• Initiate's Suit
  
• Initiate's Shoes
  
• Initiate's Cloak
  
• Initiate's Armor
  

(Note: This was pushed earlier than planned due to the unexpected reboot required tonight. If there are any issues with these quests, please report them to a GM as usual.)

[GM-Ciar]

• Medusa & Selkie were added back to OCA.

To clarify, and to leave this on forum so GMs and players don't have to run back and forth for info on the matter:

- Creamy, Medusa, and Joker Card are not in OCA official servers for some reason, and HeRO, using Hercules files, followed suit.
- In 2016 or maybe early 2017, Creamy, Medusa and Joker were added
- In early 2018, presumably after a situation with old blue/purple boxes giving nothing when opened, GMs reverted the Item Groups file (states what can be opened from OCA, DCA, Boxes etc) to an old version, and during file re-updates the cards weren't re-added.
- Joker & Creamy card were readded atfer I was contacted ingame about it recently.
- I couldn't find info on Selkie Card's removal, but I suspect I did it after the removal of Selkie from Muspel.

[GM-Ayu]

New Items

Smoke Emitter[1]

Book of Psyche[2]

Pocket Watch[1]

More new items are added, but are awaiting for a patch regarding description updates.

Item Update

Holy Saber has been reworked!

The item has an overlapping niche with Ritual Sword to be a terrible version of it. Even if you want def piercing, Platinum Shotel indirectly does a better job since critical bypasses all defense, making this item completely pointless. Therefore, it has been given a new effect.


Applicable Job: Now Paladin only.

New effect: For every refine rate of this weapon, add a 3% chance to counter attacks with Level 1 Pressure when the wearer is casting Gospel.

The next patch will update its description to reflect the new effect.


Uncarding services will be offered exclusively for this item and cards inside this weapon up until Sept 22nd. Please contact a GM ingame or send in a support ticket to setup for the uncarding service.

Loot Changes

These are the changes affected by the new item drops that are available immediately.

• Noxious now drops Sapha's Ring at 0.6% instead of Freyja Boots at 0.3%
  
• Noxious now drops Smoke Emitter[1] at 0.15%
  
• Venomous now drops Smoke Emitter[1] at 0.15%
  
• Clock Tower Manager now drops Book of Psyche[2] at 1.5% instead of Memory Book[0] at 1.5%
  
• Clock Tower Manager's Clock Tower Hat has increased its drop rate from 0.6% to 1.2%
  
• Nightmare Arclouze now drops Freyja's Boots[1] at 0.45%
  
• MVP Professor Celia now drops Pocket Watch[1] instead of Pocket Watch[0]
  

General Rune Drop Rate Boost

The lowest tier rune makes enchanting of beginning gears and common hats to be easy. They are typically on low level monsters with the intention that most players end up with a couple by the time they are level 70 naturally. However, their low drop rate results in new players out-leveling the location before any runes dropped. Therefore, all monsters with the runes are getting their drop rate boosted.

• Archer skeleton 0.3% => 1.2%
  
• Isis 0.6% => 2.4%
  
• Minorous 0.36% => 1.8%
  
• Alarm 0.72% => 3%
  
• Sting 0.9% => 3%
  
• Cruiser 0.3% => 1.2%
  
• Injustice 0.6% => 2.4%
  
• Merman 0.72% => 3%
  
• Cookie 0.3% => 1.2%
  
• Clock 0.72% => 3%
  
• Orc Lady 0.3% => 1.2%
  
• Megalith 0.45% => 1.5%
  
• Fur Seal 0.6% => 2.4%
  
• Dragon Tail 0.6% => 2.4%
  
• Geographer 0.3% => 1.2%
  
• Goat 0.6% => 2.4%
  
• Gibbet 0.36% => 1.8%
  
• Mi Gao => 0.3% => 1.2%
  
• Tamruan 0.6% => 3%
  
• Pitman 0.36% => 1.8%
  
• Erend 0.75% => 3.3%
  
• Rawrel 0.75% => 3.3%
  
• Siroma 0.36% => 1.8%
  
• Nightmarish Mummy 0.6% => 2.4%
  
• Christmas Hylozoist 0.6% => 2.4%
  

[GM-Ciar]

• To try and alleviate accidental outfit changes, if you use a temporary Santa Suit or Summer Suit, you can now use another and it will be removed.
  
  Example: Wear temporary summer suit, want to remove it -> use another temporary summer suit, and its removed

[GM-Ciar]

• Updates
  
• The Warper Co. now offers warps to the Bifrost Tower!
  
  Bug Fixes
  
• Fixed issue with styla where the Light Allegiance Palette was given to Dark Allegiance members and vice versa.
  
• Removed 1 duplicated warps from Eclage Field to Bifrost Field.