This evening's short maintenance and a client update brought the following.
Combat and skillsLevels and partiesQuests and monstersCharactersWindows
Combat and skills
- Quick Blow and the Recruit skills can be used on a monster that stands right on top of you.
- A skill or magic hit while you hold a sword stick now also trains Sword Stick Mastery.
- A weapon mastery that you carried over from another job keeps working. Skill slots only take skills your character has learned.
- Improvised Combo plays the old Rush Beat animation.
- Monster drops now roll at exactly their listed rates. Before, they were a little higher than intended.
Levels and parties
- A large EXP reward now gives every level you earned at once.
- You can party with players up to 10 base levels above or below you.
Quests and monsters
- Declining Cody's quest no longer starts it anyway.
- Monika's quest is completed by handing the item in to Monika, not by picking it up.
- The Drops and Stony Spiders in Prontera Northwest Field no longer stand in one big crowd. They are spread over four camps.
- An item that two monsters dropped by mistake was taken out of their loot.
- The Uda bandits have their final sizes: the men and the leader are the same size, the women a little smaller.
- Warping out of the water no longer leaves your character in the diving state.
Characters
- The character creation screen is new: every hair style, eyebrow, eye style and colour is on one page, with a random choice and an undo button.
- Deleting a character now removes everything that belonged to it, including its market listings and the mail sent to it.
Windows
- The equipment window has a "Show sheathed weapon" box. When it is ticked, your character holds its weapon in the world while it is sheathed. Untick it for the old look.
- The preview in the equipment window follows your weapon set I and II, also when a set is empty.
- The breath bar no longer stays on screen after you go back to character select.
- A conversation with an NPC closes when you walk away.
- The sword stick is drawn correctly in and out of Swordstick Stance.
Start the launcher to get the update. If your launcher was open, close it and open it again.