As always, this update introduces a variety of new content, mechanic changes, other tweaks and fixes. Some highlights include:
The new PvP skull system
PvP bans are long gone! After too many unjustified kills, you will enter murderer state (previously black skull, now yellow skull) as before. Once a murderer, you can be killed justifiably by anybody, and will lose of your 5% experience on death.
If you continue your murder spree after this, you will become a serial murderer (black skull). In this state, you are punished for your bad deeds by a drastic slowdown in movement. On death, you will lose 10% of your experience, so be careful!
Continuing a murder spree resets the 14 day countdown to normal state. Your murderous deeds can be forgotten for a reasonable bribe to NPC Collin.
The new content
A new raid has been added: watch out for the terror of Lady Madness!
Santa Claus has come to town once again! Don't forget to ask him for a present!
The fruit of rebirth is a new item dropped by high level enraged monsters. On the brink of death, you can eat one for a miraculous recovery with a two minute cooldown.
Excited to reach a new level with your character? Now the whole server can hear the good news! When you reach a new milestone, a broadcast will be shown to all players. Alternatively, you can opt out by talking to NPC Frank in the Ellaria depot.
The new tweaks
There are too many to count!
The chance to get a free task cancellation has been raised, the party experience bonus has been revised to a maximum of 75%, and every player now gets one free talent reset!
Elusion spells such as Evasion, Brimstone Cloud and Primal Scream now prevent the player from being retargeted for 2 seconds. Use this to your advantage in intense PvP fights!
Skill loss on death has been reduced slightly to be more fair.
Thank you
This is just a taste of what's in the update. Thank you to all the players who helped test this update on the test server and provided invaluable feedback! The full changelog is below.
Quoting Changelog for 7.1:
- PvP bans have been replaced with a serial murderer state (black skull) after murderer state (yellow skull). A serial murderer is slowed down by 50% and will lose 10% experience on death. Murderers will lose 5% experience on death, and can be justifiably killed by anyone. Continuing a murder spree will start over the 14 day reset countdown.
- Improved free task cancellation: if a player cancels a task 5 times within 30 minutes, chance for free cancellation will be changed to 25%, with up to 4 cancels within 30 minutes - 16.(6)%, with three cancels - 10 %. In other cases it will be a 4% chance.
- Changed the party experience bonus to a maximum of 75% with 25%, 20%, 15%, 10% and 5% increments.
- Reduced the damage of certain targeted AoE spells based on distance to target. Enlarged the area of Hailstorm.
- Added scaling to Frenzy and Fortification spells.
- Ranger Precision spell now scales appropriately and is stronger than individual ranger buffs.
- Barrels can now be destroyed with the Purification spell. Barrels can no longer be thrown or moved in protection zones. Moving barrels now has a cooldown.
- Added a new raid: Lady Madness.
- Added the fruit of rebirth: fills health and mana with a two minute cooldown. Can only be used when dying. Dropped by high level enraged monsters.
- Added server broadcasts to highlight player achievements. To opt out, talk to NPC Frank in the Ellaria depot.
- Added one free talent reset.
- Attacking a monster will now lose the followed player.
- The price for blessings has been scaled by player level.
- Added an antidote for paralysis available from NPC Nicholas.
- Evasion, Brimstone Cloud and Primal Scream now prevent the player from being retargeted for 2 seconds.
- Players can no longer attack or be attacked for 3 seconds after login.
- Rogues coming out of stealth can no longer attack or be attacked for 3 seconds.
- Nerfed Elder Ent and Xyioquan Ent paralyze.
- Reduced the defense of Orc Wizard.
- Reduced the damage of bosses Wojatupp and Ajnamen
- Reduced the chance to summon Cave Terrors by Yahgans.
- Reduced skill loss on death slightly.
- Changed the statistics of dragon ring and azure ring (1% critical boost instead of additional defending), and massive steel ring (simply defense, instead of additional defending).
- Added a new login screen image.
- Added a "sell all" option to merchant dialogs.
- Added an "invite to party" option to the friends list.
- Increased the loot rate of semi-rare items from bosses.
- Adjusted the number of bosses in tasks.
- Improved sorting in the market dialog.
- Fixed travelling from Lyedel to Yarrael.
- Updated player status icons.
- Updated NPC price lists.
- NPC's can no longer be attacked.
- Fixed minor graphic and map issues.
- Fixed minor spelling and grammar issues.
See you ingame!
Sincerely,
Zezenia Staff