wow Atlantica just got a major patch update today
it's a whopping 378MB patch
and here's what i got from the site:
Patch Notes:
OPTIMIZATION
Loading speed has improved. Loading time for high population areas should be noticeably decreased.
NEW MERCENARY: HWRANG
* The quest for recruiting Hwarang has been added.
* You can start this quest with NPC [Hwarang Kim Yoo Shin] near Bulguksa (level 112).
* Skill Books for his magic, Hwarang's Aura, Seal Instrument, and Hwarang's Fury, have been added.
- These books can be obtained from monsters in Bulguksa.
- They can also be attained from boxes given by NPC [Goncourt].
- [II] and [III] books can be crafted with Book Crafting skill.
FREE LEAGUE
* Holy Guard's healing and physical defense have been decreased.
* Main characters' physical defense has increased.
* Max skill level of Lighting Spear is now 70 with the use of Charms.
* Damage from Officer's Shotgun's 'Lightning Bullets' has decreased.
* Free League Auto-Battle rewards have been decreased.
BATTLE
* Monk's AI has been improved in Free League Auto-Battle.
- Monks will now use Holy Guard.
- Monks will use Awakening when the combo count is 1.
# When using Auto-Battle, mercenaries will now attempt to use a potion when out of magic power.
# The amount of magic power used during Auto-Battle has been increased for players above level 100.
# The bug that caused items to not be looted correctly when using Seth's Will magic has been fixed.
# In PVE, the weapon's magic chance rate has been increased for the following:
- Valhalla's Bow, Sealed Dragon's Fang, Storm Bringer, and Officer's Shotgun.
# During battle, other players can no longer perform a Trade Request or Repair Request from you.
MAGIC
* The Maniac's Storm Blast magic skill has changed to passive, similar to the Pirate's 'Toxic Sword' skill. The effect of Storm
Blast skill has also been improved.
- The duration will remain the same and higher Storm Blast skill levels will increase the casting chance rate.
* Maniac can now learn the Guard Dispel magic skill.
* In PVE, Princess' Order magic skill has been improved.
- Princess' Order's defense will increase as the skill level increases.
- Amount of defense and accuracy added by Princess' Order has been increased.
* Graphical effect of War Cry has been modified.
* Graphical effect of Hell Flame has been modified.
* Graphical effect of Freezing Axe has been modified.
ITEM
* The Thoroughbred can now be purchased at a fixed price from the Market.
* The Unicorn and Prismatic Unicorn have had their models improved.
* Graphical effects have been added to weapons grade +4 and above.
* The grade of items has been changed from [Beg], [Int], [Adv], [Pre] to [i], [II], [III], [IV].
* Some materials have been removed and replaced by others:
*
o Mercury -> Crystal
o Sharp Tooth -> Sharpened Claw
o Horse Hoof -> Horse Hair
o Deer Antler - >Green Mold
o Peppermint -> Green Mold
o Laurel, Willow Bark -> Jasmine
o Energy of Soil -> Energy of Atmosphere
o Energy of Ground -> Energy of Wind
o Energy of Cloud -> Energy of Wind
o Energy of Earth -> Energy of Hail
o Energy of Continent -> Energy of Sky
* The fee for exchanging boxes with De Mere has been increased for certain boxes.
* The required Elements for the crafting of Divine, Depraved, and Phoenix equipment have been increased and other required
materials have been decreased.
* Monster Item Info bonus to looting additional items has been decreased to 80% from 90%.
* The amount of gold attained from battle has been decreased.
* The gap between the minimum and maximum number of Elements that can be attained from dismantling Freezing equipment has been
reduced.
- The average amount of elements attained has not changed.
* The icons for Officer's Shotgun, Life Potions, and many consumable items have been changed.
JACKPOT LICENSE
* You will now receive a message when your Jackpot License expires.
* The following Individual Dungeon items can no longer be obtained through the Jackpot system:
Water Dragon Scale, Insect Shell, Dust of Death, Torn Page, Poisonous Fang
MONSTER
* Monster [Leviathan] has been placed in Southern Europe on the Titan Server.
[Leviathan] will change his location every 30 minutes.
* A Bandit area has been added near Northeast Asia.
* Poison-Horned Python's magic skill will now hit all mercenaries; however, damage and action power reduction have been reduced.
* Experience from monsters in Bulguksa, Ghost Town, and Mysterious Saloon has been increased.
* Mutated Spider King's magic graphical effect has been changed.
* Admirer of Shiva's magic has been changed to Ranged type.
* The following boss monsters' defense has been decreased:
Giustiniani, Constantinus XI, Sedna, Machine Gun Brooks, Reckless Control System, Tlaltecuhtli King
* Ignorant Savage's difficulty and experience have been increased and Enraged Savage's attack power has been increased.
* The magic skills of the Enchanting Warriors in Mysterious Saloon have been changed.
* The attack type of the following monsters has been changed from Bow to Sword:
Fire Hound, Hell Hound, Evil Wolf, Hell Wolf, Young Cerberus, Cerberus, Hell's Watchdog, Blazing Lizard
* A bug which caused Bulguksa monsters' levels to display incorrectly in Monster Info has been fixed.
* A bug related to the Health Points of transforming monsters has been fixed.
* Monster Info for non-existent monsters has been removed.
* It is now possible for players to achieve 100% Monster Info.
* Guild and Nation Dungeon monsters' locations will now display properly in Monster Info.
* You can now share Tainted Unicorn Monster Info.
* The graphic models of Crystal Guards, Crystal Safeguards, Dark Crystal Safeguards, Lone Guardsmen, and Bloody Safeguards have
been changed.
* Head Miners' magic skill effect bug has been fixed.
TOWN
* The fee for services in Rome and Chang An has been increased.
Chang An's Trading Post Fee has not been changed.
* Travel Agency's base fee has been increased.
GUILD
* Guild Activity Points have been added. Existing guilds' Guild Activity Points will be set to 28,000.
- Guild activity points are earned by each guild member's contribution.
- Guild members can contribute to Guild Activity Points by killing monsters.
- A maximum of 2,000 Guild Activity Points can be earned by a guild per in-game month (1 day real time).
- Town Control will now require a guild to have at least 28,000 Guild Activity Points to apply.
* Guild Initiates cannot participate in Guild or Nation Dungeons.
When a guild member is added, they are automatically set as an Initiate. This guild rank cannot be changed for 12 hours from the
time of joining the guild.
* When a guild leader is impeached, their Guild Rank is set to Initiate.
When a guild leader is impeached, Initiates are not eligible to become the guild leader.
* When starting a guild craft, the amount of materials needed will be displayed.
* While guild crafting, a crafting progress interface has been added.
* A bug which caused a Korean-text error message to display when setting up a guild craft has been fixed to now display the
message in English.
* If a guild does not reach level 20 within 45 days, the guild will now automatically disband.
NATION
* War NPC Generals have been modified in the following ways:
- NPC Generals can no longer battle against other NPC Generals.
- NPC Generals' formation has been changed and difficulty increased.
* An emoticon shortcut has been added to the Chat box interface.
* You can now use emoticons in Whisper windows.
* You will now be notified when you have more than 25 messages in your in-game Mailbox.
* An issue with certain players' Friends List which prevented them from adding or removing friends has been fixed.
QUEST
* Forest of Spirits (Sapporo) - Naonari's Auto-Move location has been modified.
* Jayavarman's Quest - if your Accessory Crafting skill level is 0, it will automatically be increased to 1.
* A new "Travel Agency" quest has been added to Hu Xue-yan's quest line.
* Prophet Quest - "Crazy Desert Eagle's" Auto-Move location has been modified.
* Narayan's "Important Crossroads" quest must be completed to achieve level 50.
SOTHEBY'S AUCTION
* The Auction's items and opening times have been added.
- Item Types -> Power Saw and Instrument
- Weekends (Saturday and Sunday) -> 5:30pm PDT and 11:30pm PDT have been added.
GENERAL
* The Exorcist's voice sound files have been updated.
* Updated all mercenaries' sound effects for hits, critical hits, etc.
* Independent Mercenary Adventurer job rewards have been modified.
Two of the lower-value rewards have been changed to better rewards.
* After you report a user using the 'Report' feature from the right-click menu, the result of the user's verification attempt will
be sent to your in-game mailbox.
* Report verification code window will no longer appear during Free-league.
* Character portraits have been changed for female main character, Spearman, Beast Trainer, Archer, Witch, Shaman, and Gunner.
* The Hall of Fame Individual Dungeon rank bug, which caused incorrect character names to be displayed, has been fixed.
* Bank Fee bug, which caused the fee to become 1 at very high rates, has been fixed.
* If you go over the Bank limit, the gold from items sold on the Market will be sent to your in-game mailbox instead of depositing
directly into your Bank.
* When you exchange items with NPC Pointry, you can now enter the quantity of items that you wish to receive.
* The rare versions of mounts (Dark Mercury Rider, Helios' Golden Griffin, Prismatic Unicorn, and Gold Mars Rider) can now be
placed in the Mount Book.
* The hospital will now display mercenaries' names correctly when healing and reviving.
* The hospital will now display mercenaries' levels correctly.
* Mercenary Grade system has been modified.
The starting grade of a mercenary will now be 1, and each upgrade will increase the grade by 1.
* Automatic Graphic option has been added.
- Depending on the situation, the graphical settings will be automatically changed to increase performance.
- You can Enable/Disable this setting from System Menu -> Settings -> Graphics.
AREA
* Southern Europe has been modified.
o Witch Town [Magic Library of Night Shadow] has added east of Berne.
o [Sanctum of Clear Prophecy] has added west of Berne.
o [Spartan Sanctum of Fighting Spirit] has added north of Athens.
* Northeast Asia has been modified.
o [Raccoon Village] has been added near Kyoto.
o [Land of Power] has been changed to [Chang-san], the spearman's hometown, northeast of Beijing.
* Innocent Villagers have been added in a small prison near Pusan.
* [Forgotten Warrior's Battlefield] has been modified.
* Individual, Guild, Nation dungeons' teleport locations have been modified.
* NPCs and dungeon locations in Southern Europe have been modified.
o Vivian and Novice Witch have been moved to [Magic Library of Night Shadow].
o [Forgotten Warrior's Battlefield] and Ancient Spartan Hero have moved to [Spartan Sanctum of Fighting Spirit].
o Pandora, Calliope, Kleio, and Thalia have been moved to [Spartan Sanctum of Fighting Spirit].
o Dispatcher Edward has moved to the [Parthenon] in Southern Europe.
* Battle map in Lijiang Woman's Village has modified.
* Goonzu World's teleport limit has been changed to level 90.
* NPC Philos has been moved to just inside the entrance of Coal Mine Base Camp.
wow Atlantica just got a major patch update today
it's a whopping 378MB patch
and here's what i got from the site:
Patch Notes:
OPTIMIZATION
Loading speed has improved. Loading time for high population areas should be noticeably decreased.
NEW MERCENARY: HWRANG
* The quest for recruiting Hwarang has been added.
* You can start this quest with NPC [Hwarang Kim Yoo Shin] near Bulguksa (level 112).
* Skill Books for his magic, Hwarang's Aura, Seal Instrument, and Hwarang's Fury, have been added.
- These books can be obtained from monsters in Bulguksa.
- They can also be attained from boxes given by NPC [Goncourt].
- [II] and [III] books can be crafted with Book Crafting skill.
FREE LEAGUE
* Holy Guard's healing and physical defense have been decreased.
* Main characters' physical defense has increased.
* Max skill level of Lighting Spear is now 70 with the use of Charms.
* Damage from Officer's Shotgun's 'Lightning Bullets' has decreased.
* Free League Auto-Battle rewards have been decreased.
BATTLE
* Monk's AI has been improved in Free League Auto-Battle.
- Monks will now use Holy Guard.
- Monks will use Awakening when the combo count is 1.
# When using Auto-Battle, mercenaries will now attempt to use a potion when out of magic power.
# The amount of magic power used during Auto-Battle has been increased for players above level 100.
# The bug that caused items to not be looted correctly when using Seth's Will magic has been fixed.
# In PVE, the weapon's magic chance rate has been increased for the following:
- Valhalla's Bow, Sealed Dragon's Fang, Storm Bringer, and Officer's Shotgun.
# During battle, other players can no longer perform a Trade Request or Repair Request from you.
MAGIC
* The Maniac's Storm Blast magic skill has changed to passive, similar to the Pirate's 'Toxic Sword' skill. The effect of Storm
Blast skill has also been improved.
- The duration will remain the same and higher Storm Blast skill levels will increase the casting chance rate.
* Maniac can now learn the Guard Dispel magic skill.
* In PVE, Princess' Order magic skill has been improved.
- Princess' Order's defense will increase as the skill level increases.
- Amount of defense and accuracy added by Princess' Order has been increased.
* Graphical effect of War Cry has been modified.
* Graphical effect of Hell Flame has been modified.
* Graphical effect of Freezing Axe has been modified.
ITEM
* The Thoroughbred can now be purchased at a fixed price from the Market.
* The Unicorn and Prismatic Unicorn have had their models improved.
* Graphical effects have been added to weapons grade +4 and above.
* The grade of items has been changed from [Beg], [Int], [Adv], [Pre] to [i], [II], [III], [IV].
* Some materials have been removed and replaced by others:
*
o Mercury -> Crystal
o Sharp Tooth -> Sharpened Claw
o Horse Hoof -> Horse Hair
o Deer Antler - >Green Mold
o Peppermint -> Green Mold
o Laurel, Willow Bark -> Jasmine
o Energy of Soil -> Energy of Atmosphere
o Energy of Ground -> Energy of Wind
o Energy of Cloud -> Energy of Wind
o Energy of Earth -> Energy of Hail
o Energy of Continent -> Energy of Sky
* The fee for exchanging boxes with De Mere has been increased for certain boxes.
* The required Elements for the crafting of Divine, Depraved, and Phoenix equipment have been increased and other required
materials have been decreased.
* Monster Item Info bonus to looting additional items has been decreased to 80% from 90%.
* The amount of gold attained from battle has been decreased.
* The gap between the minimum and maximum number of Elements that can be attained from dismantling Freezing equipment has been
reduced.
- The average amount of elements attained has not changed.
* The icons for Officer's Shotgun, Life Potions, and many consumable items have been changed.
JACKPOT LICENSE
* You will now receive a message when your Jackpot License expires.
* The following Individual Dungeon items can no longer be obtained through the Jackpot system:
Water Dragon Scale, Insect Shell, Dust of Death, Torn Page, Poisonous Fang
MONSTER
* Monster [Leviathan] has been placed in Southern Europe on the Titan Server.
[Leviathan] will change his location every 30 minutes.
* A Bandit area has been added near Northeast Asia.
* Poison-Horned Python's magic skill will now hit all mercenaries; however, damage and action power reduction have been reduced.
* Experience from monsters in Bulguksa, Ghost Town, and Mysterious Saloon has been increased.
* Mutated Spider King's magic graphical effect has been changed.
* Admirer of Shiva's magic has been changed to Ranged type.
* The following boss monsters' defense has been decreased:
Giustiniani, Constantinus XI, Sedna, Machine Gun Brooks, Reckless Control System, Tlaltecuhtli King
* Ignorant Savage's difficulty and experience have been increased and Enraged Savage's attack power has been increased.
* The magic skills of the Enchanting Warriors in Mysterious Saloon have been changed.
* The attack type of the following monsters has been changed from Bow to Sword:
Fire Hound, Hell Hound, Evil Wolf, Hell Wolf, Young Cerberus, Cerberus, Hell's Watchdog, Blazing Lizard
* A bug which caused Bulguksa monsters' levels to display incorrectly in Monster Info has been fixed.
* A bug related to the Health Points of transforming monsters has been fixed.
* Monster Info for non-existent monsters has been removed.
* It is now possible for players to achieve 100% Monster Info.
* Guild and Nation Dungeon monsters' locations will now display properly in Monster Info.
* You can now share Tainted Unicorn Monster Info.
* The graphic models of Crystal Guards, Crystal Safeguards, Dark Crystal Safeguards, Lone Guardsmen, and Bloody Safeguards have
been changed.
* Head Miners' magic skill effect bug has been fixed.
TOWN
* The fee for services in Rome and Chang An has been increased.
Chang An's Trading Post Fee has not been changed.
* Travel Agency's base fee has been increased.
GUILD
* Guild Activity Points have been added. Existing guilds' Guild Activity Points will be set to 28,000.
- Guild activity points are earned by each guild member's contribution.
- Guild members can contribute to Guild Activity Points by killing monsters.
- A maximum of 2,000 Guild Activity Points can be earned by a guild per in-game month (1 day real time).
- Town Control will now require a guild to have at least 28,000 Guild Activity Points to apply.
* Guild Initiates cannot participate in Guild or Nation Dungeons.
When a guild member is added, they are automatically set as an Initiate. This guild rank cannot be changed for 12 hours from the
time of joining the guild.
* When a guild leader is impeached, their Guild Rank is set to Initiate.
When a guild leader is impeached, Initiates are not eligible to become the guild leader.
* When starting a guild craft, the amount of materials needed will be displayed.
* While guild crafting, a crafting progress interface has been added.
* A bug which caused a Korean-text error message to display when setting up a guild craft has been fixed to now display the
message in English.
* If a guild does not reach level 20 within 45 days, the guild will now automatically disband.
NATION
* War NPC Generals have been modified in the following ways:
- NPC Generals can no longer battle against other NPC Generals.
- NPC Generals' formation has been changed and difficulty increased.
* An emoticon shortcut has been added to the Chat box interface.
* You can now use emoticons in Whisper windows.
* You will now be notified when you have more than 25 messages in your in-game Mailbox.
* An issue with certain players' Friends List which prevented them from adding or removing friends has been fixed.
QUEST
* Forest of Spirits (Sapporo) - Naonari's Auto-Move location has been modified.
* Jayavarman's Quest - if your Accessory Crafting skill level is 0, it will automatically be increased to 1.
* A new "Travel Agency" quest has been added to Hu Xue-yan's quest line.
* Prophet Quest - "Crazy Desert Eagle's" Auto-Move location has been modified.
* Narayan's "Important Crossroads" quest must be completed to achieve level 50.
SOTHEBY'S AUCTION
* The Auction's items and opening times have been added.
- Item Types -> Power Saw and Instrument
- Weekends (Saturday and Sunday) -> 5:30pm PDT and 11:30pm PDT have been added.
GENERAL
* The Exorcist's voice sound files have been updated.
* Updated all mercenaries' sound effects for hits, critical hits, etc.
* Independent Mercenary Adventurer job rewards have been modified.
Two of the lower-value rewards have been changed to better rewards.
* After you report a user using the 'Report' feature from the right-click menu, the result of the user's verification attempt will
be sent to your in-game mailbox.
* Report verification code window will no longer appear during Free-league.
* Character portraits have been changed for female main character, Spearman, Beast Trainer, Archer, Witch, Shaman, and Gunner.
* The Hall of Fame Individual Dungeon rank bug, which caused incorrect character names to be displayed, has been fixed.
* Bank Fee bug, which caused the fee to become 1 at very high rates, has been fixed.
* If you go over the Bank limit, the gold from items sold on the Market will be sent to your in-game mailbox instead of depositing
directly into your Bank.
* When you exchange items with NPC Pointry, you can now enter the quantity of items that you wish to receive.
* The rare versions of mounts (Dark Mercury Rider, Helios' Golden Griffin, Prismatic Unicorn, and Gold Mars Rider) can now be
placed in the Mount Book.
* The hospital will now display mercenaries' names correctly when healing and reviving.
* The hospital will now display mercenaries' levels correctly.
* Mercenary Grade system has been modified.
The starting grade of a mercenary will now be 1, and each upgrade will increase the grade by 1.
* Automatic Graphic option has been added.
- Depending on the situation, the graphical settings will be automatically changed to increase performance.
- You can Enable/Disable this setting from System Menu -> Settings -> Graphics.
AREA
* Southern Europe has been modified.
o Witch Town [Magic Library of Night Shadow] has added east of Berne.
o [Sanctum of Clear Prophecy] has added west of Berne.
o [Spartan Sanctum of Fighting Spirit] has added north of Athens.
* Northeast Asia has been modified.
o [Raccoon Village] has been added near Kyoto.
o [Land of Power] has been changed to [Chang-san], the spearman's hometown, northeast of Beijing.
* Innocent Villagers have been added in a small prison near Pusan.
* [Forgotten Warrior's Battlefield] has been modified.
* Individual, Guild, Nation dungeons' teleport locations have been modified.
* NPCs and dungeon locations in Southern Europe have been modified.
o Vivian and Novice Witch have been moved to [Magic Library of Night Shadow].
o [Forgotten Warrior's Battlefield] and Ancient Spartan Hero have moved to [Spartan Sanctum of Fighting Spirit].
o Pandora, Calliope, Kleio, and Thalia have been moved to [Spartan Sanctum of Fighting Spirit].
o Dispatcher Edward has moved to the [Parthenon] in Southern Europe.
* Battle map in Lijiang Woman's Village has modified.
* Goonzu World's teleport limit has been changed to level 90.
* NPC Philos has been moved to just inside the entrance of Coal Mine Base Camp.