PATCH Oct 30: Skills match tooltips, new hair and faces, instances survive restarts, new Item Mall cards

Server restart at 17:08 UTC brought a large patch: character creation, skill and buff numbers, dungeons, the Item Mall and a refreshed client. You need the new client; the launcher updates it automatically.

Characters

New hair, face and colour models were added to the character creation list, and a client crash at the level 60 level-up hint is fixed.

Items and NPCs

Seria (Roumen) now sells the Old Bag (7 Days) for 15 gold. Shield costumes now count as shields correctly. Corrupted Ring(def) now gives defence only, and Cyan Talisman's magic attack is corrected. Items above an expired storage or bag slot now come out into your inventory instead of getting stuck. Dropped weapons no longer take up a licence slot, HP/SP Magic Potions fill your whole pool, and wings and other created items with an empty slot are fixed.

Skills and buffs

Skill numbers now match the tooltips. Buffs that raise defence, magic defence or magic attack now apply once instead of several times: Albireo's +100% defence was acting as x4 and is now x2, Berserk lowers physical defence once, and Mighty Soul defence applies once (the Mighty Soul 14-16 tooltip is corrected). Damage-% buffs such as Berserk and Mighty Soul now correctly raise your skill damage too. Resistances from buffs and gear reduce status effects as the tooltips say, and attack speed buffs like Violence now raise your attack speed.

Heat of Fury is a toggle, one cast lasts 60 seconds, and the cooldown overlay shows on cast-time skills. Heal at level 21+ and skill rank dips are fixed, and Fatal Jump damage is down 5% with a corrected tooltip. The Expanding Power shield is now 200% of your max HP, and HP Increase and SP rates count your gear's HP, so buffers get more. Set items keep their Toughness tier durations, the Dead set tiers now deal damage on a real skill, and a party leaver can rejoin his own dungeon copy.

Dungeons and maps

Instances such as Tower06 and WarH now survive a server restart, with a crash snapshot every minute. Hunter's War (WarH) accepts party entry for levels 105-120 and now runs its full script. In SWar the start-room gate opens and party entry works. In Siren the exit door works, and in Tower06 you can leave to Urg and get 30 minutes. Tainted Freloan Leg now deals half damage.

There are new levelling spots in Legelheim, Arkroute (Ark Dungeon 1 and 2 give 1.7x EXP), Vale and BerVale, and R_Darkness has more monsters (345 to 458). Skills are now learned automatically on level-up, class change and login (up to level 125), so no more missed scrolls. Menu logout is instant if you have not been in combat for 10 seconds, and the old countdown no longer shows.

Item Mall

A new Drop Card category brings the Hunter's War Rant +50% Drop (1 Hour, 2 Hours, 1 Day), and there is a new EXP Boost Card +200% (2 Hours). Booster prices were reworked so longer cards are cheaper per hour, and reset items, bundles and storage items are cheaper. The first-purchase bonus is live, and Hot Deals sit on the shop home page. The launcher can open the store from the game screen with your login, and the Linux/Wine launcher installs Gecko from our own mirror.

Client

The interface art is refreshed: a new skin and fonts, main interface, option window, plain HP/SP orbs, new loading screens and upscaled icons and portraits. There are more resolution options, the window title colour is fixed, and the Appa mount scale is fixed. The client also carried a Halloween look (logo and loading screens) for the event weekend.

Happy hunting - the CORE Team.