Server Changelog

Note: The content of this changelog will come into play when the server is back up on June 25th after our extended upgrade outage.

New Client Release

A new client has been released for heRO, and with it come many changes. You must uninstall the old heRO and download the new client to connect to heRO. As usual, we will have the full installer, and then a BGM folder for those who care about BGM. We recommend that you continue to whitelist the new heRO directory on your Antivirus, as the heRO patcher may be identified as a virus (which is no different than the current heRO client.) This new client will not only bring lots of quality-of-life changes but also unlock a lot of further development potential for heRO. Please look forward to all the future customizations and new features that the new client will allow heRO staff team to develop and expand upon this game!
If you are using Windows and you are having trouble with Windows Defender or are concerned about Windows Defender's warning for heRO, please follow this guide here: [Whitelist heRO for Windows Defender]

Reporting Bugs

With the massive number of changes and improvement in quality of life, we ask everyone to please report all issues in the heRO discord if anything behaves differently compared to the old client and is not mentioned in the changelog. heRO discord will open its community thread feature for easy reporting of issues without support tickets- so you can see if another player has already reported your problem. We remind all players that if there's anything that's not mentioned in the changelog and you decide to keep a change private to your mechanical benefits, that will be treated as bug abuse. It is to all players and the server's benefit to report any bugs and issues so they can be addressed swiftly.

Gameplay Changes

• Equipment loadout is now available. You have 2 sets of equipment ready such that when you swap between the load-outs, all equipment will change accordingly, including costumes.
• A new platinum skill "Equip Switch" is given to all new characters. You can hotkey this skill so that you can swap equipment loadout on demand. (note: for existing characters, the job manager will grant you this skill when you talk to it)
• If the target of a spell moves out of line of sight, the spell is cancelled but you will get SP and catalyst cost refunded
• Mob pathfinding has updated according to official emulation changes, with some customization: this results in mobs' walking differently compared to the current client and they update their target finding faster. Unfortunately, this makes them scatter faster compared to heRO's old behaviour (but not immediately give up chasing a hidden Assassin either, unlike other servers). We have customized it so the mobs are more likely to stay grouped up when they are chasing a target that has disappeared so it is to the hiding player's advantage, but it is still not the same as heRO's current implication where all mobs walk to the same cell where the player is hiding and stays there for a second or two.
• Finger offensive is a single multi-hit attack (similar to Sonic Blow)
• Storm Gust knockback will follow Hercules's emulation changes instead of official's "random" Storm Gust knockback (South-west portion of Storm Gust will tend to knockback to the northeast. The edges are most likely to push things away from the Storm Gust.)
• Ice wall will follow iRO's implementation instead of Hercules or kRO's emulation when it is cast directly on a non-boss mob: the mob only leaves ice wall via the west and south. If the target of their chase is north or east of them, they will try for 220 loops in an idle mode while being allowed to use chase skills. What is the duration of 220 loops vary depending on what the monsters see as options and how fast the server processes these possibilities. If it's a boss-flag mob, the mobs will be stuck in Ice wall as if it's an ankle snare until Ice wall expires.
• You can spend skill points if you are mounted on a Peco again
• Frenzy bug where Frenzy cancels all self-buffs in current heRO client should be fixed
• Miracle of the Sun, Moon and Stars have been buffed to have a 0.1% chance instead of 0.02%
• Union of the Sun, Moon and Stars no longer cost a skill point to learn it: it will appear and disappear depending on your soul link status similar to Beast Strafing
• Some spells have its
• Emergency Recall can no longer be used outside of War of Emperium
• Monsters that are invincible (such as Great Demon Baphomet and Lost Dragon) are immune to reflect or Tarot Card of Fate's fixed damage, even if the client displays that they take damage
• Dragon gears from Abyss 4 no longer reset any internal equipment timers, such as Snow Leopard card or Yggdrasil Crown
• Pet intimacy is now also at 5x the rate for gaining intimacy, to reflect heRO's 5x exp rate

Styla Changes

At Styla, as a celebration of the new client release, you can freely choose between different class costumes. New hairstyles and palettes are also available. Also, all existing palettes have been updated to have all 20 hair colors available as well. Palettes to class costumes are subject to change in the future as we improve compatibility. Class costumes are only available to trans characters at their final class, or to Soul Linkers, Star Gladiatiors, Ninjas, Gunslingers and Super Novice. Please note that in a future update, class costumes for these classes will not be freely available to all characters and will require unlock.
For Taekwon, you need to unlock your class costumes based on your Taekwon Points. At 100 and then 200 points, you will unlock your available class costumes.
Note that class costumes are disabled in WoE. You will revert to your normal class appearance when you enter a castle and restored when you leave.

NPC Changes

• Job Manager will automatically grant Equip Switch and First Aid Platinum skill if you do not have those skills
• NPCs in Prontera have been mildly shuffled in location

Known Issues

• Platinum skills can get removed upon trans and levelling up again. If this happens, contact a GM to fix it for you.
• Costume brokk's Steelcap's item description is messed up
• Ring of the Flame Lord and Ring of Resonance improperly list that it can be equipped by extended classes, even though it should be upper trans-only (trans 2-1 and trans 2-2)
• Extended classes and Homunculus do not have heRO's custom updated in-game skills description that is accurate (regardless if the skills are customized or not)

Note that some of the known issues or other technical issues may have their solutions or workaround documented here

Old Changelog

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Updates before October 9 2021 are recorded in the heRO forums