Category: Archeage

Introduction

So… the Korean inven forum is kinda dead since Summer Update pt.2 unfortunately. XL is still bullish about their decisions and are not backing down from their messed up game changes. I’ve been kinda busy playing Civ 6 with my GF, hence the delay in this patch note’s translation.

Summary

• New zone available in Auroria named “Magical Lands”
• Mech chasing in-game event that gives access to attempt the new raid boss.
• New Raid boss named “Illusion Blade Nehliya” that drops BD tier weapons.
• Gold balance changes
• New shitty UIs.

Magical Lands [마법의 땅]

During the Dark Age, Ipnysh erected a sealing stone to separate the Serpentis from the world and also created a miniature version of the world in the Magical Lands and spread the sealing stones throughout the region. Once Ipnysh finished preparing for the final fight, it lured the Serpentis into the Magical Lands and connected all the sealing stones, thus successfully banished the Serpentis away from the dimension. Crevices in the Magical Lands were made during the process.

After some time, now became the era of princes. The wizard Iybnis (이브니스) started a magical school in this land due to the abundance of Mana and the artifacts Ipnysh left behind. However, the school was not safe from the end of Auroria. Now only the defense mechanoids are left in the area with the ruins of the school and Ipnysh’s seal.

Unfortunately, Raven and Serpentis’ followers found the seal stones and tampered them that caused cracks in the dimension, which made Serpentis’ aura to once again influence this world. The defense mechanoids meant to block Serpentis even malfunctioned due to Raven’s magic and Nehliya finally is about to show itself from the Gap between the dimensions.

Risopoda Chaser (Event to spawn new Raid boss)

Loreal was one of the guardians of Erenor that was specialized in handling Mechanical devices. The endless zerg of Serpentis’ forces during the war against the Serpentis was a huge problem for the outnumbered Ipnysh. The Ipnysh were individually very powerful, but fighting the huge forces of the Serpentis only kept hurt the Ipnysh.

As a result, Loreal created mechanoids to help him fight the combat. The first mechanoids were relatively simple in feature, but were highly effective. Loreal continuously improved the mechanoids and the Ipnysh organized a mechanoid army to fight against Serpentis.

Raven was the one that found the old mechanoids. He studied the leftover marks of Serpentis left on the mechaniods. The seal in the world’s miniature was still intact and Raven planned to destroy it with these mechanoids. The berserk mechnaoids are functioning now so the adventurers must chase and stop them.

The faction that succeeds to complete this event gets to enter the Imprisonment where the Illusion Blade Nehliya appears. The rewards from the Mech chasing event can be received by any faction as long as the faction completed it. It is unsure if only one faction can enter the boss zone (meaning it is unsure if other factions can contest the boss try.)

Illusion Blade Nehliya

Serpentis tried to find ways to get back to the world for thousands of years. Finally Raven and Serpentis’ followers would help Serpentis from doing so by creating a crack in the Dimension small enough that only the Illusion Blade Nehliya would be able to fit in.

The world she encountered looked empty.
As if a rough plan, the lonely rocks, the wind breezing.
But she already knew all about it. The fact that this was all just a lie.
Once she spawned the mirror the Queen gave, the true looks of the world started to appear.
Hirnor’s living things shined like delicious fruits and the loyal worshipers felt it’s old master’s return.
The hibernating Ipnysh’s mechanoids sensed an irregular, but there was no one left worthy to lead them.

She did not rush.
She is carefully placing the mirrors within the miniature world and is trying to look into this world.
This beautiful world is the what the queen desires.

dayum full of liberal translations.

Nehliya went to the world to scout by the queen’s command. Due the dimension being separated by the Ipnysh, Nehliya has limited senses. But she is able to look at part of the world with the ‘Illusion showing Mirror’ she received from her queen. Since Nehliya’s body did not fully pass through this dimension, normal physical attacks cannot hurt her and psychic waves come out of the boundary of the dimension prevents anyone from getting closer. The mechanoids meant to stop her either got destroyed or went berserk by Raven, so the adventurers must prove their worthiness and then enter the imprisonment to defeat Nehliya.

As already explained, only the faction that stops the mechanoid can enter the zone where Nehliya spawns. Without the proper requirement fulfilled adventurers would either get petrified or not deal any damage so, in order to kill the boss, players will need to swiftly stop the mechanoid.

From encountering Nehliya to defeating her, the adventure will not be easy. As hard as it is, the rewards will be great.

I’ll translate the items in English later when I get the time.

It is considered that this weapon set is BD tier equivalent, but doesn’t require any awakening, which makes it easier to make than BD weapon.

GG for whoever is going for BD gear.

Gold Balance Changes

1. Adjusting the supply of Gold

One of the loots you can get by farming are coin purses. It’s an easy way to make money compared to trading, but the gold to labor ratio wasn’t too good. Another downside of it was that you have to spend a lot of coin purses to to make a sufficient amount of gold.

This update improves the gold per labor ration for Coinpurses and adds a new special Coinpurse in loot tables to help adventurers that do not enjoy running trade packs make a sufficient amount of gold. This special Coinpurse is not only obtainable by looting mobs, but is also available in the Archepass quest rewards and from the Garden daily quest reward, adventurers can still make the minimum amount of gold without investing much time on farming.

• Ancestral/Garden Coinpurses have improved gold per ratio.
• Mysterious Coinpurses are only available during war time in Garden which has even better gold per ratio.
• Mysterious Coinpurses are available as additional rewards in lvl 6+ Garden daily rewards.
• Archepass quest rewards will give an RNG coinpurse like item. (100 labor for 10~100 gold) I think it’s shitty.

A lot of people will worry about an inflation due to the increase of Gold, but XL is going to carefully adjust the amount of gold you can get from trading. (This probably means a nerf.)

2. Adjusting trade run gold

This update makes it so that the game now calculates the amount of gold a trade run give to take into consider of the number of conflict/war zones one would have to pass through as well as whether the player actually passed through those conflict/war zones. As a result, long trade routes will give you more gold and trade routes that pass through conflict or war zones will give you more gold.

3. Gear Synthesis

Like mentioned in the last Amigo patch note, the overall gear synthesis cost is getting reduced. Also certain stages that extremely increases gear progression will get improved.

• Synthesis now costs 15 labor per synthesis item (Originally was 20.)
• Synthesis gold per exp is now cheaper. (Max reduction: Hiram 20%, Dungeon 19%, Raid boss 13%, Noryette 16%, Hereafter 21%.)
• The number of infusion and scrolls obtainable from Eastern Hiram Mountains daily/weeklies are increased by 25~50%.
• EHM Meadows daily now gives Garden infusions (instead of the rare grade infusion.)
• Synthesis related Abyssal Library and Golden Shrine rewards are increased by 2~5 times.
• Lunagem socketing prices are reduced by 10%.

Miscellaneous Improvements

1. Combat Buff UI

During combat, there are skills that comsumes charges of a buffs to improve its effectiveness. (For example, Malediction uses charges to improve blade fall.) These buffs are hard to notice right away, because they are shuffled in with other combat buffs.

This new UI separates those buffs so that they can be easily viewable. The UI can be dragged to where the user wants it to be in the screen.

2. Renewed HP Bar

When fighting against mobs with high HP, the feedback about the amount of damage you dealt to the boss is non-existent. Dude you need to give us a dps meter instead of this dog useless HP bar. This shit change actually makes it harder for players. Though this is a rather insignificant effect, XL wanted to show that players are actually dealing damage and that the mob is losing its HP.

3. Raid Gold Payout changes

Instead of entirely removing the gold tax when sending gold payouts to saved raid frame lists, now the raid lead requires a certain amount of previous leadership or current leadership to not have to pay for the gold tax.

Conclusion

This patch includes some new interesting content as well as some balance patches.

XL says they are going to do their best to balance the economy. (I doubt they will.)

Introduction

Well well well… I don’t think anyone will be pleased for the this patch, but here it is. It’s seriously making me want to quit the game honestly, but I do want to feel the golden ages of Archers that’s going on in KR. They’re not even op; they’re just usable now.

I know I’m late with the patch. I’ve been dumbfounded with the patch and forgot to translate them lol

Here’s an obligatory image for the patch note XL uploaded in their post. One of the main quest will be where you have to chase this umm… worm thing with a car to stop it from malfunctioning.

Anyway, here we go.

Summary

• June patch (Pt.2) includes vehicle modification patches and July (Pt.3) includes new main quests after the garden main quest.
• Improving the Trading system. (AKA. Taxing players for no reason just to reduce the amount of gold in the game.)
• New KR Unchained server and KR Legacy server merges.

Fucking up the Trading System

First of all, let me be clear that I’m very biased towards this change, but like literally everyone in the KR Archeage forum is mad about this patch.

No one knows how this will translate to NA/EU with Gamigo publishing our region and how the tax for the AH is already different in NA/EU compared to KR, but only time will tell (or I guess only Gamigo will tell).

So XL always wanted to increase the Auction House tax within the game. There were previous attempts trying to increase it, which ultimately got cancelled due to massive uproar. XL seems to be finally pushing it and ignoring player concerns. Moreover this tax will be getting applied to not only the Auction House, but also mails, personal trades, and building sales. Their excuse is that adding taxes to every single user trading mechanisms would umm… prevent/sway away people from buying gold… which is absolute bull shit, but that’s what XL is claiming anyway.

On April, there was a huge item exploit in which XL ended up not revealing the details about. Players reported that a Chinese gold seller sold at least 1 Million gold on Korea’s Unchained server for extremely cheap prices. This caught XL’s attention, hence a massive wave of ban of innocent players got banned.

After this incident, XL decided to push the following changes:

• Now taxing 20% of the gold being traded in Auction house, Personal trade, Mail, and Building Sales on every server. (Legacy and Unchained. Unchained had slightly higher tax than Legacy and now both are now 20%.)
• Increased the maximum amount of gold that can be trade with Personal Trade and Mail for every server. Previously had a 200k gold limit.
• Archelife (KR Legacy’s version of Patron) benefits now get 25% discount from the existing tax for Auction house trades. (Lulu Pouches do not get this benefit. Lulu pouches are basically KR’s version of APEX.)
• Removed Auction house 50% tax exemption from PC cafes.
• Lulu Pouches now have a 10% tax when listing and will have a min/max limit price on how much you can list the item for.

So basically the first 2 dot points are already in effect for Korea’s Unchained server. As a big picture, overall the tax will get increased by about 5% instead of the 20% written above, because patron benefits include a 25% exemption.

TL;DR: There’s already 10% for AH tax. This patch increases tax to 20%, but the Patron players will be paying 15% for tax instead.

Other types of trades mentioned above don’t seem to benefit from Patron tax exempt, but I’ll double check this later.

Setting the min/max price is for XL to artificially control how much they want their gold to be worth with their credit and to prevent gold irregular transactions happening with basically APEX. Currently Lulu Pouches has a 1% tax like NA/EU’s APEX, but if they expect Lulu Pouches to be used as a currency (due to gold being taxed), they’ll start increasing the tax for Lulu Pouches as well.

XL claims the exact numbers are not finalized, but they already posted Part 2 of the Summer Update without further mentioning the trade system tax changes so…. yeah… probably will stay the same.

XL is also working on a Raid gold payout distribution feature, which has been explained in Part 2 of the patch. I’ll talk about it in the next post.

New KR Unchained Server and Legacy Merge

KR Unchained Server

In May 28th, KR is getting a new Unchained server. Unlike NA/EU that got multiple unchained servers at the start, KR only got one, so it kind of makes sense to open another server. Apparently KR’s Unchained server is continuously getting new players, which is good news.

Legacy Merge

KR’s servers: Damian, Eahnna, and Orchidna server has been losing activity, so XL is planning to merge the three servers this Summer. Further details will come soon. Wait where’s Nui server’s merge?

Anyway this was some grim news. But yall take care from the Coroner.

Introduction

The long awaited Amigo post after the LAN Amigo has finally come.
Not all the changes they mentioned during the LAN Amigo are in this post. Actually some were slightly changed as well.

Here’s a Summary of the changes the post will discuss about:

Summary:

• Meina, Glenn, Jola has a chance of respawning as a stronger version of itself.
• Skills changed for Archery, Sorcery, Malediction, Battlerage, and Swiftblade.
• Percentage stats – like Evasion – that is gained by player’s base stats have been slightly changed.
• Language Proficiency has been increased to 20k. (No longer will have symbols.)
• 3rd season of Mistsong Banquet is out.

Stronger Meina, Glenn, and Jola

These three bosses are familiar names for the players. They used to be formidable bosses against the players, but now the players have become too strong and these bosses don’t really challenge the players anymore. Now these bosses have a chance of respawning upon death as a stronger version of itself and drops better loot so behold!

Meina and Glenn

Unfortunately they don’t really mention the new patterns it might have so it is up to the KR players to figure out what they do.

Jola

Like Meina and Glenn, there only talked about the lore of these new bosses. So there’s not much to mention about. If you want to know the lore, let me know and I’ll translate them as well.

Skill Balance Changes:

Archery

The changes are roughly what they mentioned how Archery would shape into during the LAN Amigo.

The intention the Archery changes are the following:

• Focusing on changing the fighting style by making it more movement oriented with some CC skills.
• Improving ways to counter situations when the opponents are untargettable and improved methods of chasing the opponent.
• Adding more skill combos and expanding Archery to become usable by itself.

Skill	Changes
Concussive Arrow (Includes Ancestral Skills)	Combo: 17% increased damage against snared targets.
Double Recurve	(All Ancestrals) While in effect, Concussive Arrow becomes instantly castable. (Life) 3% Crit Rate increase for 3 seconds.
Snipe	(All Ancestrals) Combo: When hit, stuns flying targets for 5 seconds. (All Ancestrals) Combo: 21% increased damage against snared targets. (Lightning) Changed so that it can be used during casting. (Like how flame concussive arrow works.)
Missile Rain	(Basic) Changed to a 5 charge skill that can be used on targeted location. (Mist) Can be used without targeting an enemy.
Deadeye	Name changed to Hit & Run (Liberal Translation). While moving, player receives the def pen buff. When stationary for 1 second, the buff is removed. No longer gains range increase buff
Steady Shooting	Cannot shoot targets closer than 4m. No longer walks while skill is on. (Players still have 0% parry, block, and evasion.)

Possible new combo: Hit & Run, Steady Shooting, Stealth (10 stack), 30m Snare, Stalker’s Mark, Double Recurve, Concussive Arrow, 3x Blazing Arrow, Charged Bolt.

Sorcery and Malediction

Malediction was always in the discussion of skill balance, because it had great damage and also was able to adapt on many sticky situations. As the developers are aiming to separate Sorcery and Malediction, they can’t just simply nerf Malediction as well. This patch won’t solve all the problems, but XL is trying to form an environment where both skill-sets can be used separately by removing the synergy between the two skill-sets.

Skill	Changes
Soulbound Edge	Removed Combo effect that gains increased damage with Malicious Binding. Prioritizes targets within 20m that are hit by Crashing Waves.
Ring Throw	Reduced skill range to 5m (from 10m). Cannot be used on targets that are behind you.
Flamebolt (Flame)	Casting time changed to 1s (from 1.5s). Reduced damage based on the casting time change. (Roughly 33% reduced per hit.)
Arc Lightning	46% increased damage against targets that are affected by Burning, Freezing, and Electrical Shock. Removed existing 70% Crit Skill damage increase.
Mana Fountain	Removed Attack Speed increase effect. Decreases Cast Time 25% (from 15%). When equipped with 2H weapon, reduces Global Cool Down (GCD) for Sorcery skills by 10%.

Battlerage and Swiftblade

Luckily the synergy between Battlerage and Swiftblade isn’t as great as Sorcery and Malediction due to Swiftblade utilizing the Left hand weapon. At this moment, it it not strong enough as a DPS skill-set itself, so users currently incorporate it with Battlerage. In the future, the Dual Wield Swiftblade users will be able to rely less on Battlerage.

Skill	Changes
Battlerage Trip effects	When equipped 2H weapon, trip increased to 3.5s (from 3s). When equipped 1H weapon or Dual Wield, trip reduced to 2.5s (from 3s).
Blink (Includes Ancestral Skills)	Can use the skill during GCD while in effect of Fleeting Footsteps. (Fleeting Footsteps buff doesn’t remove while using Blink during Combo effect)

Miscellaneous Skill-sets

Skill	Changes
Backdrop: Wave	Removed Concussive Arrow instant cast.
Enervate	While on effect, target cannot receive buffs from songs.
Critical Discord (Includes Ancestral Skills)	While under effect of Discord, target cannot use Shield related skills.
Pain Harvest	Immune to Bleeding while caster is under effect.
Mettle	Bear’s Vigor gains 5% of received damage as Mettle (from 10%). Boastful Roar deals damage equal to 100% of your stacked Mettle (from 60%). Mocking Howl increased threat level by 500% of your stacked Mettle (from 100%).
Shield Slam: Gale	Cool Down reduced to 2s (from 4s). Removed effect that cancels target’s skill cast.

Percentage Stats

Like mentioned in the LAN Amigo, the devs can no longer increase percentage stats that are gained by base stats as they are reaching its limits. As a result, they are changing the linear increase of these percentage stats into more of a logarithmic one so that as the base stats increases, the efficiency of the percentage stats will slowly decrease. Get nerfed mage suckers.

One thing to note that having 1000 Strength and 1000 Agility gives the same amount of Focus compared to having 2000 Strength. Same applies to Cast Time as well.

XL decided not to completely remove Parry from Strength and Evasion from Agility, because it would affect class synergies. On the other hand, Evasion was completely removed in Intelligence. To compensate this, Intelligence and Spirit gained more Cast Time than XL previously planned for.

As for compensating for the reduction of Crit Rate across every stats, XL increased the Max Critical Damage cap from 300% to 350%. This affects Archers the most, because the change lets Archers use Steady Shooting without wasting the Crit Damage increase effect from it. Also affects Dual Wield Swiftblade players as well.

The table does not show stat changes for Block Rate as well as some other percentage stats, but they have been applied the same treatment.

Basically…
When Stamina < 2000, Block Rate after the patch will be higher than before.
When Stamina > 2000, Block Rate after the patch will be lower than before.

Armor Type Changes

Cloth type is shit and everyone knows that. XL decided to buff Cloth as a result and also decided to slightly buff Plate as well. Plate really didn’t deserve a buff in my opinion.

7 Set Cloth Effect

• Removed Shackle Reduction.
• Silence duration reduced to 30% (from 20%).

7 Set Plate Effect

• Shackle duration reduced to 30% (from 20%).

Attack Speed Changes

Until this patch, while casting Magic skills and Healing skills with scepters, staves, clubs, and greatclubs Global Cool Downs (GCD) were not applying the weapon’s attack speed. This resulted on having a constant GCD regardless of the type of weapon you are equipped with. In this patch, XL now applies attack speeds from scepters and staves to reduce GCD. (Clubs are not implemented yet and will come in the June patch.)

Here are some attack speed changes for each weapon type:

• Scepter: 1.2s -> 1.0s (No changes in atk speed or skill dmg, because old atk speed wasn’t applied before.)
• Staff: 1.3s (Attack speed 30% reduced. Skill damage 30% increased.)
• Shield: 2s -> 1s (Shield skills now use shield’s attack speed instead of right hand weapon’s attack speed)

To clarify,
these changes don’t affect Cast Times of skills. The decrease of attack speed by using a staff basically increases the GCD when using Magic skills.

The equation for skill animation speed & skill damage are the following:
Reference

• Skill Animation Speed = Base Skill Animation Speed / Weapon Attack Speed
• Skill Damage = Base Skill Damage * Weapon Attack Speed

In regards of Shield skills, in previous builds, Shield Skills skills used the Right hand Weapon’s attack speed when calculating attack speed. As a result, users could have different GCDs when using shield skills even with the same shield.

Side Note for some abandoned changes

These are some explanation about the changes discussed during the LAN Amigo that was ultimately abandoned/postponed.

Shield Block during GCD

During the LAN Amigo, XL mentioned that they were thinking about removing shield blocks while the player is in GCD. This was aimed to nerf DPS classes that equipped a shield. This change was abandoned, because it was also going to hurt tanks and healers which XL did not intent. As a result, XL will be looking for better implementations.

Sonic Wave breaking Imprison

A lot of the players showed concerns about Sonic Wave breaking Imprison. XL thought of this change, because there were not enough skills to counter Defense and XL didn’t want the tempo of the fights to slow down by more and more players picking Defense. However Imprison is a key skill used by Tank players while Sonic Wave is used by many DPS players. This change was thought to just immobilize Defense players, because there are much more players equipped with Sonic Wave than Tanks equipped with Imprison.

Mistsong Banquet Season 3

Like Season 1, Season 2 was a big hit and XL decided to make season 3 of the Mistsong Banquet.

Change Summary:

• After round 16, a Treasure Mole appears which needs to be killed in a limited time.
• Round 21 is added that spawns mobs (max # of mobs: 50) from round 20 with short intervals.
• Laser Cannons damage and range are increased and Thunder Cannon’s attack speed is slightly reduced.

Round 16 is a break round where you won’t lose even if you weren’t able to kill all the Treasure Moles. But these moles give you a lot of Crystals and is key for succeeding round 21. Round 21 will spawn a ton of Guardians, so it is important to kill as many as you can while maintaining your middle tower’s HP up to round 20.

Thunder Cannon and Flame Cannon was superior to the Laser Cannon so the Laser Cannon got buffed while the Thunder Cannon’s efficiency got reduced by roughly 3%.

Language Proficiency Expansion

XL fucked up with the language proficiency way back then and is finally fixing them. Even with 10k max proficiency players would still have symbols in their chat. Players’ configured language was also getting reset upon exiting instances. The necessary mats are pretty cheap, so don’t worry about it 🙂

Necessary Materials:

• 50 x Paper
• 5 x Memory Ink
• 5 x Leather
• 8 x Dawn Lake Light Essence

Changes:

• Expanded the max language proficiency to 20k which entirely removes symbols from your chat.
• Configured Language is never reset until user changes it.
• Current speaking language can be checked from the a UI.

Don’t worry. Your existing language tutors can also teach you up to 20k proficiency so you don’t have to go to those locations.

Weapon & Armor Type Change Scrolls

The armor type change scrolls available in Unchained can only be used for Hiram gears below T5. This new scroll allows players with T5 Hiram or T3 Library to change their armor type.

XL also released Weapon Type Change Scrolls as well which lets player change Hiram and Library weapon types. These scrolls are RNG and are sold in the Credit Shop. Wait what? lol

Even with these Weapon Type Change scrolls, you cannot change a 1 Hand weapon into a Right hand Weapon, change 2 Hand weapon into a 1 Hand weapon, etc. Basically Bows can’t change itself to anything else until XL releases the new upcoming Rifle.

Lunagem Type Changing

Lunagems were a pain to change, because you would have to unsocket them, transmute them, and then socket them again. XL is adding a Lunagem Tranmuting stone in the Credit Shop that uses 200 labor to change a single Lunagem. lol free money for XL YAY

Luckily for the Koreans, XL will be giving a certain amount of these gems for free, because of the Skill Balance changes like how they did with the Armor Type Scrolls with the Armor Type balance changes back then.

Don’t worry and trust Gamigo. You know deep down in your heart that they won’t gives those scrolls to us for free.

Conclusion

XL is gracious enough to give their KR players free Lunagem transmuting stones and free Stat Migration items, because of the changes from this patch. I doubt Gamigo would ever give those to us, but I guess we never really know.

I suspect that, in the future, XL will nerf the Sky Emperor Glider. A bunch of whiners are requesting XL to nerf it in the KR Archeage Forum. I hope they don’t…