The "Coming Soon" Thread

[GM-Ayu]

Hey we haven't posted in here for awhile, so let's do a quick rundown of what's in the pipelines!


January 2021

We have a lot planned in January 2021 and we hope to deliver it to you soon!

• 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
  

What is further down the road for 2021? In no particular order, here is a non-exclusive list:


Gunslinger Rework

It's still on the table and in the works but it won't be happening in January. We aim to touch up almost all skills for the Gunslinger similar to Ninja, but making all 5 gun types have some niche from each other is proving difficult.

Costumer Expansion

It's not RO without new hats to gather. Nobility Costumer will have his options expanded, so be sure to keep working towards those nobility points! We are looking at a minimum of 10 new costumes for the nobility costumer, including the ones from player suggested wishlist of costumes in 2020.

Faeheim Archipelago

You had a sneak peek at the town and one of the new Schematic Costumer available in the archipelago, thanks to Ciar's custom map work. In year 2021, we hope to bring the vast majority of the archipelago to the players. Archipelago fields will most likely be similar to Faeheim mainland where it's more for mid-level adventurers, or small duo party/well-geared solo hunting at the highest. Gears will most likely support extended classes and secondary builds.

Holiday Quests

As is tradition, the first half of the year has plenty of holidays such as Valentine's Day and Easter. Look forward to new quests to earn new and old holiday hats!

More Class Touchups

There are some classes that do not require such drastic change as extended classes and will have some of their skills lightly touched upon, such as Blacksmith, Assassin, Hunter and so on.

Class Combo Cards Redo

Similar to how Ninja and Alchemist have been either given a class combo set or have its class combo set revised, when a class's base skills are touched up, we'll also release/update their card combo to be fitting for 2021 standards. Hold on to your class combo cards if you are interested in it!

Drop Rate Re-Review

We did massive drop rate overhaul in 2017, and we'll revisit drops 4 years later again to make drop rate for old items reasonable by 2021 standards. As the concept of "one easy source to grind it out, and one harder source to trade difficulty for drop rate" seems like a welcomed approach, we'll go through some old items to see if we can make them come from multiple drop sources of varying difficulty.

What about Taekwon?

We'll definitely look at Taekwon but unfortunately I'm still stuck on what their niche is and how they differentiate themselves from other melee classes: Knight is the generalist with a bit of everything and can mob. Blacksmith is the highest single target damage class. Star Gladiator got a niche against very selective boss monsters (but is very good at that one thing), while Soul Linker is a slower super novice that can't buff but is tankier and got the rare holy/shadow magic. We gave Ninja the niche of having hybrid-like stats. But what about Taekwon itself, even if ranking? We haven't really figured it out yet, but when we do, we'll definitely take a large scale look at Taekwon as a class.