Server Changelog

[GM-Ayu]

Server Changelog

All rates mentioned are at heRO's usual 5/5/3 rate, which is different from the current 6/6/4 apology rate.


Monster Rebalances
Overall: Scaraba needs no incentives so its runestones are shifted to other places to fit the philosophy of who gets runestones. Bifrost tower is overly conservative with its drop rates due to its mobiness initially, so that will be remedied by moving it to be in line with typical heRO drop rates for equipment from monsters.
• Antler Scaraba and Rake Scaraba no longer drops their runestones
• Necromancer now drops Mystic Rune at 0.45%
• Banshee now drops Ancient Rune at 0.45%
• Lichterns now drop equipment items at their expected drop rate of similar monster difficulty: main item now drops at 0.3% as a base line up from 0.15%
• Petal now drops Elemental Robe at 0.3% up from 0.15%
• Menblatt now drops Elemental Cape at 0.3% up from 0.15%
• Faithful Manager's Elemental Origin drop rate increased from 1.5% to 2.25%
  
  Item Rebalances
  Overall: tackling some flat matk silliness which traditionally is "equal" to ATK, but flat ATK means a lot more than flat MATK at the same number since MATK is a much higher number than ATK. We are also buffing some less used custom equipment so they are more of a viable side-grade options. Luxury Hat also gets a soft nerf for its absolute dominance as a defensive headgear without changing its defense. Some cards also have their effects split since they do a lot in a random, unjustified bundle for no adequately explained reasons. 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.
  
  No Gunslinger item will be changed until Gunslinger overhaul is complete.
  
  
  Bregora
• Int penalty removed
• Dex penalty decreased from -4 to -2
• Slot increased from 1 to 2
  
  Elderstahl
• Improved to be a stronger match to Elemental Sword for hybrid characters
• Base atk increased from 150 to 170
• New effect: INT + 3, MATK + 5%
  
  Leek In Mouth
• Is now equippable by all classes instead of every job except Novice
  
  Snake Spirit Robe
• No longer has any equipment restriction for class or level
  
  Luxury Hat
• MATK% decreased from 3% to 0%
• Weight increased from 30 to 70
  
  Elemental Robe
• MDEF increased from 5 to 7
  
  Elemental Origin
• Int increased from +0 to +4
• Slot increased from 1 to 2
  
  Elemental Ring
• Flame Launcher bonus: MATK increased from 35 to 60
• Lightning Loader bonus: cast speed reduction increased from 6% to 10%
• Seismic Weapon bonus: damage reduction to boss and non-boss enemies by 4% changed to reduction to all sizes by 4%
  
  Elemental Cape
• Def increased from 3 to 5 to match Dragon Manteau
• MDef increased from 4 to 5 to match Dragon Manteau
  
  Gray Boots
• For each refine, the MATK boost is increased from 1 to 2 (this boost extends to the quintupling effect of the combo accordingly)
  
  Shoes of Judgement
• Now provided STR + 2
  
  Shawl of Judgement
• Flee bonus increased from 10 to 20
• Def increased from 3 to 5
  
  Sapha's Ring
• Critical Wound activation chance increased from 2% to 4%
• Curse activation chance increased from 3% to 5%
• These buffs extend to the doubling effect of the combo accordingly)
  
  Sapha's Hood
• Now has a Flee + 10 bonus
• The bleed effect on melee attacks, throw venom knives and meteor assault is swapped to a silence effect
  
  Sapha's Cloth
• Original effect of poison/bleed when user takes physical damage is removed
• New effect: Increase resistance to Poison and Bleeding by 100%
  
  Sapha Equip Combo (Assassin Custom Gear Combo)
• 5 agi and 5 flee changed to 10 agi and 10 ATK
• Assassin cross bonus: deadly poison rate increased from 5% to 15% (doubled for dual daggers to 30%)
  
  Armed Guard Soheon Card
• ASPD bonus decreased from 5% to 3%
• Compensation: Users with this card equipped to their equip may ask a GM to remove this card from any equipment for free with no drawback. You keep the card and the equip.
  
  Elvira Card
• Old effect (Increase damage with Wind or Ghost property spells by 5%.
  Decrease Maximum HP by 5%.) is removed
• Reworked: Increase the damage of Lord of Vermillion by 40%
• Compensation: Users with this card equipped to their equip may ask a GM to remove this card from any equipped weapon for free with no drawback. You keep the card and the equip.
  
  Tikbalang Card
• No longer boosts the damage of Lord of Vermillion or Wind Blade by 25%
• Now boosts the damage of Thunderstorm by 50%
• Compensation 1: Users with this card equipped to their equip may ask a GM to remove this card from any equipped weapon for free with no drawback. You keep the card and the equip.
• Compensation 2: Users with this card can ask to trade it for an Elvira Card with a GM if they want
  
  Deviruchiring Card
• Activation rate now follows standard 0.5% on auto-attack (Vanberk rate) instead of 0.3%
  
  Faithful Manager Card
• Complete rework because original effect of MATK + 5 is as good as nothing
• New effect: [Book Type Weapon] When physically attacking, there is a 5% chance to cast Level 3 Wide Silence.
• Compensation 1: Users with this card equipped to their equip may ask a GM to remove this card from any equipped weapon for free with no drawback. You keep the card and the equip.
  
  Pouring Card
• No longer provides Int + 1, or affects frost nova/falling ice pillar
• No longer increases SP cost of Waterball
• Increase the damage of Waterball from 5% to 10%
• Compensation 1: Users with this card equipped to their equip may ask a GM to remove this card from any equipped weapon for free with no drawback. You keep the card and the equip.
• Compensation 2: Users with this card can ask to trade it for an Icicle Card with a GM if they want
  
  Yuki Onna Card
• Old effect removed (again)
• New effect: Add a 3% chance of causing the Frost status when inflicting Magic Damage.
• Compensation 1: Users with this card equipped to their equip may ask a GM to remove this card from any equipment for free with no drawback. You keep the card and the equip.
  
  Rudo Card
• No longer decreases your SP by 25 whenever it activates
  
  Wild Rider Card
• Old Effect: When physically attacking, there is a 0.5% chance to increase ASPD by 4% and decrease HP by 200 every second for 5 seconds.
• New Effect: ASPD + 2%
• Compensation 1: Users with this card equipped to their equip may ask a GM to remove this card from any equipped weapon for free with no drawback. You keep the card and the equip.
  
  Vanilmirth Card
• Activation chance changed from 1% to 5% to match standard weapon autocast cards, and now casts Level 3 Caprice instead of Level 2 Caprice.
• Card effect no longer stacks with CD In Mouth as a result of the level increase
• No compensation as this is a buff in every way possible
  
  Scaraba Card
• MATK bonus increased from flat 20 to flat 40
  
  Cendrawasih Card
• Effect changed from 10 flat MATK per 3 refine to 25 flat MATK per 3 refine
  
  Svigalae Card
• Flat MATK increase changed from 30 to 60
  
  
  Item Fixes
• Lounge Suit should have its slot again
• Costume Pigeon on Shoulder is now in the correct mid headgear slot
• More costumes are moved from the weapon tab to the armor tab
  
  

Regarding Mavka

The giant inflation elephant in the room: it was within region of acceptability without donation boosts. Some zeny farming spot will always be at the top and that's fine. There will always be a clear winner. However, when donation boosts kick in, that's when it starts getting absurd. GM team discussed about how to handle it, and in the end, we decided to take a more moderate, slower approach. We recognize that players have warped builds to specifically make Mavka hunting work, and players dedicated entire character slots to do nothing but this one task.

Once the current Mavka boost ends (to be fair to our donating supporters), we will be nerfing the NPC sale price of Crystal Mirror, but will keep all other drops (including the witherless rose) with no changes. The mirror price drop will be calculated to maintain Mavka to be the top spot, just that it'll be closer to the other known zeny spots in context of only selling NPC loot without selling to other players for cards/gears. Conversely, the existing monsters (mainly Iara) who also drop Crystal Mirrors will have their crystal mirror proportionately buffed so that statistically these other monsters will not get nerfed as a casualty.