Server Changelog

[GM-Ciar]

The following includes fixes to errors that seemed to have occurred between 2012 and 2014, where New World (and Fairy's Paradise) official and custom mob skills were accidentally merged, causing unintended monster behavior and a notable difficulty spike. This is an addendum to the New World Updates from mid 2018.

Overall
• Removed and cleaned up duplicated skills
• Removed possible reactions to being webbed or ankle snared (except on Tendrilrion)
  
  Garden Watcher
• Removed Dark Breath, Dark Cross, Safety Wall, Heal, and Curse Attack
• Changed Jupitel Thunder to be uninterruptable as compensation
• Changed Lightning Crash to be instant cast from 0.5s as compensation
  
  Centipede
• Combo attack is lowered from 3 to 1, and is no longer used as frequently
• Venom dust is now targeted instead of randomly placed around itself
• Removed poison status attack (duplicated in purpose by venom dust)
• Quagmire is now lv 1 instead of lv 5 (lv 1 does the job to dispel speed buffs already)
  
  Centipede Larva
• Venom dust is targeted at the main target, instead of random area
• No longer uses Poison status attack (duplicated with venom dust in practice)
• Poison attribute attack is no longer as frequent
  
  Nepenthes
• No longer uses Stop
• Earth Property Attack's frequency has been reduced
• Only uses energy drain when Nepenthes is attacking, not when player is in sight range
• Stun success rate lowered from 70% to 50% (The idea is you still have to fight it at range)
  
  Tatacho (Normal Mob)
• No longer uses Ganbantein
• No longer tries to stun the target again after hammer fall
  
  Hardrock Mammoth
• Removed skill behavior that no longer functions in Hercules (Our current emulator)
• Changed earthquake to be 40% chance every 20 seconds at half health or lower, instead of staggered chances based on hp (due to the above)
• Changed heaven's drive to be 20% at all hp instead of staggered chances based on hp (due to the above emulator situation)
• Changed endure level from 20 to 1 to lower mdef gains
• Changed wide stun from being spammed randomly every 18 seconds to being used only when targeted once every 18 seconds
• Dragon fear changed to be 20 second cooldown
  
  Tatacho (Hardrock Mammoth Follower)
• No longer uses ganbantein
• No longer teleports away from MVP (to then be pulled back immediately)
• No longer gives up chasing with the MVP
  
  Pinguicula
• No longer uses stop
• Stun and sleep base success rate is lowered
• Will always chase the target (AKA, it is now vulnerable to mobbing)
• Lv 3 earth attribute attack is changed to lv 2 holy attribute attack to fit her element in heRO
  
  Luciola Vespa
• No longer counters assassin specifically to grimtooth with a counter-grimtooth
• No longer uses lv 3 combo attack (but will still use lv 1 combo attack)
• No longer uses lv 5 piercing attack (but will still use lv 3 piercing attack)
• No longer uses lv 2 poison attribute attack (but will still use lv 3 poison attribute attack)
• No longer uses pulse strike
  
  Cornus
• No longer uses provoke, critical wounds, shield reflect.
• No longer targets cloaking assassins specifically with ruwach
• No longer has a 10% chance to cast pulse strike lv 3 (but will retain the 20% to cast pulse strike lv 2)
• Will critical hit less often
• Will use combo attack less often
  
  Naga
• Lv 5 brandish spear rate is halved
• No longer uses Lv 9 spear boomerang (will still use lv 3 spear boomerangs)
• No longer provokes again on lower HP
• No longer uses Lv 10 pierce (will still use Lv 5 pierce)
• No longer uses a 2nd Lv 9 waterball regardless of health (will still use Lv 4 waterball on low HP)
  
  Hillsrion
• No longer uses multi-attack as frequently
• No longer provokes again at low HP
• No longer gains as much mdef from endure
• Critical wound is down from lv 3 to lv 2 (to match official's)
• Will only use Increase Agility to buff when it is not attacking
• Increase Agility level lowered from 20 to 10
  
  Tendrilrion
• No longer uses spiderweb
• Thunderstorm no longer has a cast time (Previous behavior was a remnant back from when Tendrilrion chains thunderstorm instead)
• Thunderstorm is now lv 20 at the target instead of the original behavior, which was intended for 8 castings of lv 10 randomly around it
  
  Hillsrion (Tendrilrion Follower)
• Now uses wind attribute attack Lv 3 instead of neutral only to stress wind armor usage
• Lowered combo attack rate as compensation for the above
• Mdef bonus from endure is lowered
  

If for some reason monsters still use some of their previous behaviors, please submit a support ticket, or notify GM Ayu or GM Ciar via discord.