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‎Bugfixes: Distinguishing the Alberta shops.

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GM-Pereca: Created page with "==Gunslinger and Whitesmith class customization are set for updates.== '''Please see the following threads for details:''' * [http://www.pandoraonline.net/forum/showthread.p..."

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Created page with "==Gunslinger and Whitesmith class customization are set for updates.== '''Please see the following threads for details:''' * [http://www.pandoraonline.net/forum/showthread.p..."

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==Gunslinger and Whitesmith class customization are set for updates.==

'''Please see the following threads for details:'''

* [http://www.pandoraonline.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=30778 Gunslinger Update]
* [http://www.pandoraonline.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=30790 Whitesmith Update]

3 free resets will be provided for free in Prontera to Blacksmith/Whitesmith and Gunslinger.

'''Please note:''' we reserve the right to reverse or adjust any skill customizations in hero. If a skill is changed such that it's nerfed in heRO, but still relatively buffed compare to vanilla RO, skill reset/item refund/item decard are not always provided.

==Other Class Updates/Balances==

===Thief Class:===

* Steal is completely randomized again: the order of items on a monster no longer factors into which items you will steal

===Alchemist Class===

* Twilight Alchemy 3 creates 50 alcohol instead of 100 alcohol. Its item requirement is modified to check for 50 alcohol instead of 100 as well. This should address the problem where Twilight Alchemy 3 provide too much alcohol.
* Lif's flee is lowered by 20 when Lif uses Mental Change. This should maintain the offensive power for Lif that many players enjoy, without Lif being too tanky via being a dodge tank due to the massive agi increase in heRO

===Super Novice:===

* Both versions of the Super Novice chant is now supported
'''Code:'''
Dear angel, can you hear my voice? / Guardian Angel, can you hear my voice? ^^;
I am NAME SuperNovice~ / My name is NAME, and I'm a Super Novice~
Help me out~ Please~ T_T / Please help me T.T

==Other Balance Changes==

Movement speed is capped at the value of 50 for both players and monsters

This is meant as a PvM balance due to an upcoming monster skill change (see below)

'''For reference:'''

* Normal player moves at speed 150
* Agi Up lowers this value by 25
* Speed Potion lowers this value by 50
* Frenzy lowers this value by 25
* Bio3/Bio4 MVP moves at speed 100 when they are not buffed

==Other Item Changes==

* Rosebud Lif card now grants immunity to both Poison and Deadly Poison status.

==Monster Changes==

===Monster Skill Update===

'''NPC AGIUP is revamped.'''

* '''Old effect:''' flee rate is doubled and movement speed increases by 50 for 6 seconds per level
* '''New effect:''' movement speed increases by 100 (with a cap to movement speed 50) for 3 seconds per level.
* '''New effect:''' can be dispelled by Slow Grace
* '''Reason:''' double flee in PVM effectively makes certain monsters impossible to hit, or they can only be killed by Sniper. This unfairly forces all players to use flee ignoring skills only, which greatly limits the amount of classes that can serve as damage dealers. This change allows a lot of melee classes to have a chance at high end monsters/MVPs again. The burst of speed provided by this skill allows monsters to catch up to players to reduce the reliance on kiting or ranged attacks, encouraging melee combat (the movement speed doesn't matter if you are already tanking it and engaged with it). We hope that this will slightly close the gap in performance between most melee classes with the ranged classes.

'''NPC Attribute Change is revamped'''

* '''Old effect:''' if a monster uses level 1 version of a skill that changes its element, it will take on a random elemental level (level 1 to level 4)
* '''New effect:''' if a monster uses level 1 version of a skill that changes its element, it will take on level 1 of that element instead of being random.

'''Note:''' There is no change to level 2 to 4 as they already changed to the corresponding elemental level. This should remove randomize and allow players to plan their proper strategies around it

===New Monster Skills===

* Wide Poison
* Wide Lex Aeterna
* Wide Deadly Poison
* Wide Web
* Wide Analysis
* Wide Enervation
* Wide Gloomy Day
* Wide Ignorance
* Wide Laziness
* Wide Unlucky
* Wide Weakness

As the name implies, AoE versions of these status effects may now be used by monsters in the future. Currently, no regular monsters use these skills, but do not be surprised when these skills are added retroactively to existing monsters. Likewise, these skills may become available via items in the future.

This is heRO's first time in creating custom skills, so we focused on "easy" skills that are straightforward and is just a status swap of some existing skills. Hopefully we can implement other type of skills in the future to introduce new things into the game.

===Existing Monster Changes===

'''The following monsters' skills are changed as a result of NPC_AGIUP change. Their level of NPC_AGIUP cast is lowered from their original level to 1 (3 seconds long of a huge movement speed up):'''

* Cecil Damon
* Deviruchiring
* Eremes Guile
* Fulbuk
* Thanatos Desperos

All MVPs with NPC_AGIUP is lowered from their original level to 2 (6 seconds long of a huge movement speed up)

'''The following monsters have their skills modified as a result of Gunslinger skill change:'''

* Nidhoggur's Shadow: Desperado lv 5 => lv 4
* Trentini: Piercing Shot lv 5 => lv 4
* Hollow Poring: Desperado lv 8 => lv 7, Spread Attack lv 8 => lv 7
* Big Ben: Desperado lv 7 => lv 6, Tracking lv 9 => lv 8, Gatling Fever lv 10 => lv 8
* Jora: Desperado lv 10 => lv 9, Rapid Shower lv 10 => lv 9 (no change to other skills)
* Lutia Outlaw: Desperado lv 5 => lv 4, Ground Drift lv 10 => lv 5, Spread Attack lv 6 => lv 4

'''Note:''' By virtue of having no changes, Whispers of Surtur got a buff and is stronger since its Gunslinger skills are buffed.

* Sea Tiger no longer drops Opened Coconut
* Galapago drops Opened Coconut at 30% down from 100%

==Qualify of Life Improvements==

* All songs have buff icons, except for Poem of Bragi, Loki's Veil, Mr Kim a Rich Man and Into the Abyss (technical limitation; we'll try again next update cycle)
* Gunslinger buffs also have new buff icons
* Elemental resist potions now have buff icons

==Bugfixes==

* Skills that use Spirit Spheres will properly fail if the Monk lost the required number of Spirit Spheres by the end of its cast time
* Fixed a specific interaction where Eddga card nullifies Concentration for Lord Knights
* Plagiarism NPC no longer sells Thief/Rogue skills to fix a bug
* Opened Coconut is sold by the Brasilis NPC again
* Margaretha Solin card is added to OCA and DCA (we didn't realize this card is not in the official OCA list; it is fully intended for this card to be in OCA and DCA)
* Auger Driver is now displayed properly when it is unidentified
* Auger Driver properly has 2 slots now
* Randel card has its card suffix corrected
* Alberta NPC gear shop sells Monocle[0] (it was removed from Prontera shop to make space in an older update)
* Alberta NPC gear shop sells Sunglasses[0] (it was removed from Prontera shop to make space in an older update)
* Tasty White Ration is swapped to Oriental Pastry: so that magic buff food has the same duration as its physical counterpart. There was no reason for magic users to have a shorter buff duration on its consumable. You can now consume Tasty White Rations and it'll automatically convert them into Oriental Pastries.

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 * [[Auger Driver]] properly has 2 slots now
 * [[Randel card]] has its card suffix corrected
-* Alberta NPC gear shop sells Monocle[0] (it was removed from Prontera shop to make space in an older update)
+* Alberta NPC Tool shop sells Monocle[0] (it was removed from Prontera shop to make space in an older update)
-* Alberta NPC gear shop sells Sunglasses[0] (it was removed from Prontera shop to make space in an older update)
+* Alberta NPC Armor shop sells Sunglasses[0] (it was removed from Prontera shop to make space in an older update)
 * Tasty White Ration is swapped to Oriental Pastry: so that magic buff food has the same duration as its physical counterpart. There was no reason for magic users to have a shorter buff duration on its consumable. You can now consume Tasty White Rations and it'll automatically convert them into Oriental Pastries.

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	* [[Malangdo Culvert]] Hard Mode- roughly x4 in drop rate		* [[Malangdo Culvert]] Hard Mode- roughly x4 in drop rate
	* Dimensional Gorge- roughly x2 in drop rate		* Dimensional Gorge- roughly x2 in drop rate
		+	* [[Lutia Mine]]- roughly x2.5 in drop rate

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 * [[Rosebud Lif card]] now grants immunity to both Poison and Deadly Poison status.
-New Item: Past Anniversary Gear Box, which drops selective Anniversary Gears at equal chances. It drops gears that cannot be obtained year round via quest/existing monster drops (except [[Pandaring Backpack]]). See [[Seasonal_Gears#Anniversary|this link]] and take a look!
+New Item: Past Anniversary Gear Box, which drops selective Anniversary Gears at equal chances. It drops gears that cannot be obtained year round via quest/existing monster drops (except [[Pandaring Backpack]]), in order to slowly get previously exclusive or time-gated gears into regular rotation and increase gear accessibility for all players. See [[Seasonal_Gears#Anniversary|this link]] and take a look!
 ==Monster Changes==

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	Note: this warper change is retroactive, but for this to apply to existing characters, there is a bit of work. You have to talk to the warper and see the town list and then see the dungeon list with the character who has the most unlocks available on your account. Every time you do this, the NPC will recognize your existing unlocks and apply it for every other character. If this is not working, please contact GM-Ayu.		Note: this warper change is retroactive, but for this to apply to existing characters, there is a bit of work. You have to talk to the warper and see the town list and then see the dungeon list with the character who has the most unlocks available on your account. Every time you do this, the NPC will recognize your existing unlocks and apply it for every other character. If this is not working, please contact GM-Ayu.
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		+	We will slowly make some character-wide only changes to be account wide, but this will not happen overnight as there are a lot to convert. However, the future goal is that unlocks, points and systems should be applied account wide as much as possible going forward.

	==Bugfixes==		==Bugfixes==

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-==Gunslinger and Whitesmith class customization are set for updates.==
+==Gunslinger and Whitesmith Class Update==
 '''Please see the following threads for details:'''
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 * Both versions of the Super Novice chant is now supported
-'''Code:'''
-Dear angel, can you hear my voice? / Guardian Angel, can you hear my voice? ^^;
+Dear angel, can you hear my voice? / Guardian Angel, can you hear my voice? ^^;<br>
-I am NAME SuperNovice~ / My name is NAME, and I'm a Super Novice~
+I am NAME SuperNovice~ / My name is NAME, and I'm a Super Novice~<br>
-Help me out~ Please~ T_T / Please help me T.T
+Help me out~ Please~ T_T / Please help me T.T<br>
 ==Other Balance Changes==
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 * Sea Tiger no longer drops Opened Coconut
 * Galapago drops Opened Coconut at 30% down from 100%
 ==Qualify of Life Improvements==

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 * Gunslinger buffs also have new buff icons
 * Elemental resist potions now have buff icons
 ==Bugfixes==