I'm an old player. I kinda dropped out when the suppose big patch that kinda screw up the entire game system. Since that day I haven't played since until now. So what's new around here? is there new changes? new quest fix?what else should I know?
Check the announcements section , go from update #1 until the last one , there's pretty much everything you need to know
Nessi is a troll LOL. But I guess I'll try summing things up, hm... First of all, staff has gone through huge changes. Old admin John left. Admin Mike left, on bad terms. You can read this for an essay on why he left. Former admin Dimitri also left on bad terms, permanently banned for exploiting about 4b in items left on his old GM after he left staff. Andreas went from forum moderator to jr. developer to admin. Also, quite a lot of lower staff changes. We now have four GMs: Stan, Fergus, Yan, and Kai. And four GM interns: Mati, Sof, Muff, and Ray. So yeah, Sila, Eli, Jeen, Matty, Chris, Martin, Kite, Kiv all left voluntarily. I think that's everyone who left since new source came out? I think? Oh right and Haku was fired for account sharing his GM with his little brother and Charlie was fired because he GM abused too. Read this for lols. Read this for even more lols. Most of the extremely broken stuff has been fixed. Our buddy lists work (100 max, not 250 max like we had in old source). Guilds work, alliances work (can alliance up to 5 guilds at once). Almost all skills work. I heard Meso Explosion sometimes doesn't give exp? And outlaw's Flamethrower is bugged? Something like that. I can't recall any other skills that don't work. Zak and Krex all now work reliably. Yes, we still have to GFX. HT is back. We also have Castellan (Toad) a boss from the new area Ninja Castle (access from Mushroom Shrine and talk to Palanquin). You need a total of 16.3k HP to live this boss reliably. Here's a video of friends of mine killing it. But ~bosshp is gone. FM button is gone too. We have mandatory boat rides. Remember how we could skip the Ellinia to Orbis boat ride by paying 25,000 meso? Now we have to buy Fast Travel Tickets from Albert in FM to skip boat rides like that. They expire after a set number of days though. Oh and hired merchants expire too now. But at least we have the regular shop permits? Ah right, I should mention we can now egg as many HTPs as we want. Before, if we egged a crappy HTP, we were screwed since we could only egg once per character. But now, we can redo the egg quest on a character as much as we please. We can still only egg an HTP once. But now we can chaos the last two slots without having a permanently screwed up HTP. On the topic of HT, we can no longer jump into the wall during preheads or smash our characters' faces down at the bottom of the main body rocks to remove the weapon cancel. But paladins have a 5 minute CD skill that removes weapon cancel instead. DrKs have a 5 minute CD skill to remove weapon attack up, weapon defense up and heroes have a 5 minute CD skill to remove magic cancel. Also to guarantee survival at HT now, aim for 9.8k HP. HT now buffs its attacks so a buffed leg stomp requires 9.8k HP to live. Wing touch damage still requires 9.1k HP. Absolute minimum HP for survival is now 7.5k HP to survive buffed ranged magic attack from Head A and Head C. If you goby farmed in old source, don't bother doing it now. Goby mechanics are broken, or fixed if you term fixed as whatever the mechanic was in GMS. 1 hit petri leech sells for 150m solo, 75m split. Split leech is a common thing now, leeching two separate buyers. Almost no one buys or sells 1 hit skele leech and remember how skele maps were full all day every day? Yeah, skeles are dead now. No one buys or sells maps on smega at all anymore. Low level leech is 80m solo, 40m split, and most bishops sell ulu 1 or ulu 2 leech for 80m solo, 40m split, and with 60m an hour NPCing the equips and finding godly 56 att Red Cravens, it's the main bishop way to make money as far as I can tell. Oh and White Scrolls are 500m, Chaos Scrolls are 500m, and AP Resets are 17m.
Many sad and hype about the changes. -I press F to those who got fired -So Zak and Krex still need GFX? that's really annoying. Still, that means VMware is viable still right? -With the release of Japanese Castle map, I guess it'll be a new training ground for the high level right? like for lv132+ because I don't really want to grind the same old way over and over. - I press F to the ~bosshp. It was a useful command to find bosses in CWK maps. but yeah thanks for listing these thing out for me. I also notice that there are CWK exchange quest as well as item forging, meaning it is now possible to trade badges and get balanced fury? although there were patches that demanded every ITCG item to turned into gold, I don't know if it works properly. I also did a big foot on the first day of my return as well. Still annoying trying to hit it between its bugged invincible animated frame (I'm a 132+ NL btw), hope some patches could fix it.
Err, regarding CWK exchange quests and balanced fury, only 1 person has done it on this server: https://royals.ms/forum/threads/latest-accomplishment-thread.2508/page-310#post-614636 https://royals.ms/forum/threads/latest-accomplishment-thread.2508/page-327#post-670052 https://royals.ms/forum/threads/latest-accomplishment-thread.2508/page-327#post-670531 https://royals.ms/forum/threads/latest-accomplishment-thread.2508/page-328#post-672885
so I guess blanaced fury is finally fixed huh. That's cool, then I should get myself some of that once I have all the material.
VMware is still viable! Not sure on how Ninja Castle is for midgame grinding, but O4 is still the best for endgame grinding. You can make Balanced Furies, technically... But... It's really, really hard LOL. As in, the one guy who made it made it last week and it took him over a year of DAILY BADGE FARMING AND EXCHANGE ON MULTIPLE CHARACTERS in order to make it. So... Yeah, I guess you can but you're better off waiting for CWKPQ to be released since Taos come from it. Currently Taos only come from the badge exchange quest which has like... One exchange per character per 24 hours...
