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War of Emperium: Second Edition

We're proud to announce the release of War of Emperium: Second Edition! It will continue at the same time that WoE:FE took, Saturday, February 21, 2026 8:00 AM! The heRO GM team would like to extend a huge thank you to all players who helped test, and we hope you all enjoy WoE:SE! (Note that the Barricade/Guardian changes are still coming in a future update).

The corresponding Wiki page will be updated to have WoE:SE information.

War of Emperium: Second Edition Treasure Chests

Treasure Chests have been updated for WoE:SE only. No changes to treasure chests are made for old chests in case they are used for events or other occasions. The treasure chests have identical drops, except for 1 item: the SE God Item ingredients. Compared to the official, you will notice that Asprika also have 5 different ingredient pieces, instead of 4 like the official RO. WoE:SE will produce 1 of the following 10 treasure chests as possible rewards. The drop rate of the God Item ingredients for Brynhildr and Asprika is identical to WoE:FE's drop rate for any FE god item ingredients. On top of that, WoE:SE chests will still contain a chance to get a bag that contains FE God Item Pieces, so the old God Items are still obtainable (though at a slightly lower rate than before, since you are now working towards both FE and SE God Items simultaneously) You can see the treasure chests in the following:

• Treasure Chest
• Treasure Chest
• Treasure Chest
• Treasure Chest
• Treasure Chest
• Treasure Chest
• Treasure Chest
• Treasure Chest
• Treasure Chest
• Treasure Chest

Note: DBSearcher has an issue where duplicate items aren't shown. The treasure chests should drop 1 Heroic Gear Chest at 100%, then 4 more Heroic Gear Chest at 22.5%. This should make it substantially easier for guild leaders to share the fruit of their labour.

Heroic Gear Chest, commonly produced by Treasure Chests, can be seen here:

• Heroic Gear Chest

This update also changes the existing content of the Heroic Armor Chest, Heroic Garment Chest, Heroic Footwear Chest and Heroic Shield Chest. These chests, alongside all the new headgear and various weapon type chests from Heroic Gear Chest, have also gotten a major boost. A lot of low tier gears (Coat, Jacket, Guard, etc) are removed, and new gears are added. Now, any items dropped by a mob may be available, including previously excluded top tier gear such as Orleans Glove, or Endless Tower unique drops (Naght's twin swords) or Monocle[1]. The rate is extremely low, but the chance is always there. We hope that they will be a fun addition for potential high roll as a reward from both WoE, or also other sources of getting the gear chests.

OBB and OPB Update

OBB and OPB have not had a meaningful update for over a decade. They are severely power crept and no one has any interest in them anymore, even though they are common drops from MVP reward. To spice things up and to make them interesting for players again, they went through a massive overhaul. Most OBB etc items are now always relevant for heRO, as they will be hatter items, brewing items, forging items, or items used in healer quests. OPB has a significantly better rate to get good items compare to OBB, including the Heroic Gear Chest which will become the main way for equippable gears to be generated in OBB and OPB. To see the full change, please take a look at our DBSearcher:

• Old Blue Box
• Old Purple Box

Poring Smash Changes

By player suggestions, we have made some quick changes for Poring Smash due to OBB/OPB related changes. As OPB's value increased, their drop rate from poring smash has been adjusted while other drops are increased to compensate. Furthermore, all Porings within Poring Smash minigame has a chance to drop an Adventurer Knife so novices can enjoy a boost to ATK and HIT to hunt the porings a little bit faster. The bosses have a reduction in their Hit Points so that there's a lower number of novices needed to gang up and defeat them. Smash Masterpoporing has its HP reduced from 30000 to 25000, while Smash Mastermarin has its HP reduced from 50000 to 45000. Finally, Smash Lovering, the reward for defeating either Smash Masterpoporing or Smash Mastermarin, has its drops changed to drop the Heroic Gear Boxes as well.

SP Gaining Gear Changes

It has been reported that Earth Deleter and all racial-dependent cards (such as Beetle King) that they are supposed to only work on melee attacks. We have verified that this is the intended behaviour on the rAthena emulators and official server. So we will officially declare that we will follow the Hercules emulator behaviour where these card effects work regardless of the range of the weapon/skills involved, and that this is an intended interaction. All related items have their item description updated to reflect this.

Bugfixes

• Fresh Rose description is updated to no longer mention Soul Drain
• The level requirement for Black Dragon Robe is now accurately at lv 85
• Costume Cow Hat 1 renamed to Costume Cow Hat
• Costume Cow Hat 3 renamed to Costume Pink Cow Hat
• Fixed the weight of Condensed White Potion item description
• Fixed the sprite issue for Costume Light Bulb Hairband, along with the nonsense item description

Known Issue/Bugs

Please note that Discord's report-issues channel is utilized for players to submit issues discovered in the game. Discord posts may be more updated due to daily submissions by players.

• "Autobonus" type issues happen whenever it involves equipment combo (such as Storm set)
• Taekwon, Star Gladiator, and Combo Monks have issues with how to chain their combos due to attack delays
• Nab equipment set does not properly remove Preserve if the user has not learned Preserve as a Stalker
• Certain Paladin mount palettes do not work properly
• DBSearcher does not show MVP Drops
• DBSearcher does not recognize some monsters that spawn in Scaraba's Nest or the fields to the east of it
• DBSearcher does not show drops that are repeated on the same monster (e.g. any biolab monsters that have their unique etc item dropped twice at different rate)
• Platinum skills may randomly be loss upon skill reset. If this happens, please contact a GM.
• Ring of Friendship may still get exp via quests
• Gravitational Field is temp banned in town and GvG due to potential to crash player client
• It is possible to have more than 30k items in the storage via Restock. However this is strongly not recommended as DB may start deleting item from that stack once it's over 30000.
• Buwaya Cave's treasure box weakness may spawn multiple weakness points if multiple people from the party talks to the NPC inside the box at the same time
• Buwaya Cave randomly sends players to the box instead of sending them to the box only on re-entry of the instance
• Buwaya Cave also randomly allows players to enter normally on re-entry instead of always being sent to the box
• Faeheim Smuggler quest may not always trigger the smuggler spawn to continue the quest. If this happens, contact a GM.
• Elemental resist potion status icon seems inconsistent
• Male hairstyle #82 does not work
• New hairstyle does not work with all hair colors

Old Server Changelog

Feb 17 2026
Feb 8 2026
Feb 3 2026
Dec 24 2025

For list of old change logs, please click on this link