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heRO Stability and Hosting Update

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 19:13:22 -0500

Hello everyone,

Since mid March, heRO has been suffering from some major stability issues. The complications began when we started having problems with our original host which caused heRO to experience a week of continuous downtime. This led us to the decision to end our contract with them and move the server to Admin Pandora’s house in the meantime. Since that change was made we have suffered an average of 1 server outage every week. Players are also suffering periodic lag spikes that were previously absent when heRO was on a dedicated host.

The past few months have been an exercise in patience and understanding as we have all been adapting to the unexpected change. Although we attempted to compensate for this period of instability by providing increased rates or 6/6/4 along with some free goods, it is clear that our previous reliable server is sorely lacking. The current instability of the heRO server does not live up to our old reputation of nearly no downtime for the past 15 years. Clearly, the current setup is not working.

Admin Pandora and GM-Pereca have secured a new hosting service so that heRO can return to having a dedicated host again. Pandora's interaction with our new services have been quite positive and there has already been a vast improvement in customer service compared to our previous host. We hope that with the move back to a dedicated service, we can solve the majority of the performance/lag issues, along with the periodic downtime.

Moving to our new host will be our new priority in order to restore stability to heRO. While we're working and preparing to move hosts again, we ask for players to be patient with the ongoing outages and lack of major content. Testing and development will be delayed as a result. A major PvP related update scheduled for early July will be pushed to August, while the PvM update for the next dungeon/Gunslinger change will be pushed to late August/early September instead. However, smaller updates such as item tweaks, bug fixes, quality of life improvements and expanding existing systems (such as costume crafters) will continue to take place as normal.

Once again, we sincerely apologize for the server issues lately, and we hope that the change in host will provide everyone with a better experience with heRO in the near future~

TLDR: heRO is moving to a new dedicated server host.

Other Changes

Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:53:13 -0500

April 4th, 2017

Easter Quest
- The Easter Quest has been released! Talk Princess Annabelle in Prontera to start it!
- Complete the quest to earn a Rabbit Bonnet [1], and get a chance to earn an Easter Bunny Pet, or past Easter Headgears!
- Easter Bunnies now spawn in towns, PVP arenas and BG!

Item Changes
- Avian Wings have been revamped, see here for more info.
- Unidentified Fish and Malangdo Cans can now be stored and sold to NPCs. They cannot be vended, dropped, traded, or put into guild storage, however.
- Poor Cans can are no longer character bound.
- Nightmarish Amon Ra's OCA and runestone drop rate was lowered to 30%.
- Large Defense and Magic Defense Potion Boxes can now be placed in guild storages.
- Coin Bags and Malangdo Coins can now be traded and stored, but not vended.
- Shaman Earrings can now be dropped and stored.

Monster Changes
- Increased Giant Octopus' gear drop to 12% up from 7.5%.
- Increased Giant Octopus' Coin Bag drops to 15%.
- Wight, Strigoi and Draugr have received a slight experience increase.
- Mantis now drops tasty bug at .45%.
- Strigoi now drops ancient spellbook at .45%.

Other Changes
- Easter Bunny Pet now has a loyal effect: When attacking, there is a 3% chance to recover 5 SP every second for 4 seconds (20 total SP).
- Added Strigoi and Mantis Pet chosen by a Fairy Auction Pack winner. Strigoi eats Damp Darkness, which can be bought from NPC shops. When loyal, it increases resistance to the curse status by 5%. Mantis Eats Monster Feed and when Loyal, it increases resistance to the bleeding status by 5%.

Easter Bunny (Pet) Eggs

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:47:03 -0500

Hallo heroes,

There seems to be a problem with the Easter Bunny Eggs (Pet ones, not the misc item ones that you turn inti Annabelle) not hatching.

If this occurs to you, please find Pandora, Aki, Nara, Mystra or Vanadis to exchange it for a new one.

Thank you.

Patch Changelog

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:42:25 -0600

Latest Patch Changes

2010-03-03

Female Alchemist Palette Fix
Future secret stuff

Server Changelog

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:20:25 -0600

Lastest Changes

For the latest changes, please see Server Changelog in our wiki.

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2010-04-15

New Content/Changes:

Warper now saves at and warps to Louyang Dungeon.
Warper now saves at and warps to Ayothaya Dungeon.
Warpers added for Brasilis town.
Warp In point for /Moscovia Fields changed to up near the savepoint.
Warper and SaveNPCs in Veins moved down with Cool Event Guy, Healer, etc.
Some NPCs generally moved to provide more space for players.
Bee Wing drop rates have been upped significantly on all item choices. Please rechoose your item at the Queen Bee NPC, even if you rechoose the same item, in order for the upped drops to take effect.
Webs now definitely do not work in Infinity Tower.
Satan Morroc is spawning again.
A little bit of general fixing.

Events:

Easter Annabelle NPC removed.
Easter Bunny mobs removed.

Administrative Changes

GM-Windslip has left the team. Goodluck for the future!
GM-Circe up to GMlevel 60
Intern-Azote up to GMlevel 40, and no longer an intern!

Server news

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:43:06 -0600

Today is the official launch date for our server. After much efforts made by our GM-Team, the server finally reached a state where it is ready to be launched. Be certain that there is still much to come but the most important setting are already in place. We focused our energy on creating an experience where no classes would be put in any advantage over the others. We will also keep a close eye on the WoE. We want them to be enjoyable.

The start-up GM-Team is made up for 7 people who have played RO for around two years. We have been able to carry our (previous) guild through 5 different servers which vary greatly in sizes (average of 30 players to 1500 players). After seeing them die, we decided that we can not do much worse (do not worry, we make periodic backup and our game server is located at a different location than our web server. That should ease the process of creating those back up.

Anyway, I have already talked too much. We hope you are going to enjoy your time passed on this server. If there is anything, such as suggestions/ comments/ complaints, you can be sure that there will be at LEAST one GM who will listen to you.

Road to 99! ^_^

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:22:37 -0600

Our first 99ers will be rewarded with prizes!

The GM team has decided to give a reward to the first of each class to reach 99. (There will also be prizes for the first advanced class to reach 99 but we're not there yet).

Baby character count in their job, not separatly (example a baby wiz counts as a wiz), but super novice have their own category.

Here is the prize that each person who is first of their class will get:

1 OCA (Old Card Album)
1 OPB (Old Purple Box)
1 OBB (Old Blue Box)
2 GB (Gift Box)
5 Allegiance Points (Because Thea/Melot will be proud of you for being the first of your class to reach 99!)

Here are the classes we will give prizes to, I'll add the name and date once they are reached by someone. Good luck!!

First level 99 Hunter ~ Cessy on December 2rd 2005
First level 99 Assassin ~ -Neo- on December 4th 2005
First level 99 Sage ~ Wanderer on ? ? 2005
First level 99 Knight ~ Alexander on December 17th 2005
First level 99 Crusader ~ Kaede on ? ? 2005
First level 99 Rogue ~ ramsey on ? ? 2005
First level 99 Blacksmith ~ Jaina on January 5th 2006
First level 99 Priest ~ SPIEGEL on ? ? 2006
First level 99 Monk ~ Rock Lee on January 26th 2006
First level 99 Wizard ~ Edward Elric on January 27th 2006
First level 99 Dancer ~ Cream on February ? 2006
First level 99 Bard ~ SoulStealer on March 20th 2006
First level 99 Alchemist ~ Medved on March ? 2006
First level 99 Soul Linker ~ TaeKwonDude on April 3rd 2006
First level 99 Taekwon ~ Aero on April ? 2006
First level 99 Super Novice ~ Marshmellow in September 2006
First level 99 Star Gladiator ~ Sync in January 2007
First level 99 Novice ~ Hitsugaya Toushiro in April 2007
First level 99 Baby Class ~ Yuri (Baby Assassin) in April 2007
First level 99 Ninja ~ Uzumaki Arashi in October 2007
First level 99 Gunslinger ~ Barrel in November 2007

First homunculus to reach second form ~ HibikiTheAlchemist's Lif in April 2008
First level 99 Homunculus ~ Unknown

From the other thread, our first level 99 Reborn ~ Alexander in ? ? 2006
http://pandoraonline.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=1408