Wartune Pre-Launch Maintenance 12/1 0:30 AM PST (Select Servers Only)!

[R2_Dagny]

Wartune will be having a Pre-Launch Maintenance on Thursday, the 1st of Dec at 0:30 AM PST for the following servers:
S1, S202, S206, S212, S215, S221, S225, S228, S232, S235, S239, S243, S267, S270, S274, S277, S280, S283, S286, S349, S376, S379, S436, S440, S443, S446, S449, S452, S455, S486

S4, S38, S44, S6, S10, S12, S17, S56, S59, S74, S77, S464, S467, S470, S473, S480, S483, S489, S525, S531, S537, S492, S495, S498, S503, S509, S514, S520, S542, S549, S555, S561, S566

S14,S20,S23,S26,S29,S32,S35,S41,S47,S112,S115,S118,S121,S125,S128,S131,S134,S137,S140,S143,S146,S149,S15 2,S155,S159,S162,S165,S168,S171,S174,S177,S180,S183,S186,S191,S196,S246,S250,S253,S255,S258,S261,S264,S3 17,S320,S323,S326

S62, S64, S68, S71, S83, S87, S90, S93, S96, S99, S102, S105, S109, S199, S304, S307, S310, S313, S354, S357, S337, S340, S343, S346, S367, S370, S415, S418, S424, S427, S458, S461, S476

Maintenance is expected to take approximately 3 to 5 hours, but could be shorter or longer. Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates or changes.

Note:
Please be aware that Astrals Captured, but not claimed or sold will be lost during maintenance. If you have Astrals left unclaimed, please claim them before maintenance starts. Thank you.
Considering the various bugs such as ranking/Hot Event resets and Dimensional War reward issues that may result from undergoing maintenance, we’ve prepared the following compensation for all servers involved:
500,000 Gold
500,000 Daru
Extreme Stamina Potion x1
Lvl. 2 Bonus EXP Scroll x1
Double Honor Scroll x1
Hennax50

Patch Notes:
1. Athena’s War has replaced Titan War and will unlock every Thursday at 20:00!
2. Ares War has replaced the Class Wars and will unlock every Friday at 20:00!
3. Imperial War has replaced Guild Battle and Cross-server Guild Battle and will unlock every Saturday at 20:00. The distribution of Guild Treasure Chests will soon be disabled. Guild Leaders should distribute all Guild Treasure Chests as soon as possible.
4. Road to Glory has replaced the old solo arena and is available to Lvl. 16+ players.
5. Magic Square has replaced the Tower of Kings and is available to Lvl. 38+ players.
6. Added Titan Animation and Energize system. New Titans: Just Titan, Ocean Titan, Revenge Titan, Dark Titan, Time Titan.
7. Added Titan Temple which unlocks after being knighted.
8. Added Astral Elevation which unlocks after Class Advancement.
9. Added Rider's Chest.
10. Removed Chaos War.
11. Marriage Optimizations:
1) Raised the Wedding Ring level cap and corresponding marriage skill level cap.
2) Added more items to the Venus Shop.
3) Added Marriage Satisfaction titles.
12. City Buildings will automatically upgrade as the character upgrades without the use of Gold.
13. Adjusted content for the Weekly VIP Packs and rewards for the VIP Wheel.
14. Fixed the issue in which players were not be able to add their significant other to their friend list if it was full.
15. Fixed the issue in which the system would automatically consume Balens without warning when players tried to upgrade or enchant their Eudaemon equipment with required materials that were still locked.
16. Fixed the issue in which some titles did not fully display.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your support! See you all in-game!

[Meikura001]

Before I can put in my take on each of those, I am hoping that this isn't just some "glitter" nerf pack and that I am hoping there are some bugs that have been reported for the longest time needing to be fixed are fixed. I am also hoping with the new (er, changed) additions that the stuff won't be expired so people can better use them to get good things instead having to settle for mediocre just because there was a time limit on such. And on that note, I am hoping in such things that matching is much better to make it fun and enjoyable. I mean, there is no way a freshly level 30 with about 20-30k BR should be facing 4 level 80's with Titan skills, right?

Okay, and now with the show:

1. Titan war was alright. However, it was laggy for the majority. While it was originally for Thursdays (prelim) and Saturday (final), it changed for Tuesdays and Thursdays to make way for new scheduling. The points given out were not sufficient for items needed by lesser players, and the matching is just horrible (unless you're a Clifford). So, now TW has a new name, just hope not the same bunk.

2. I never liked Class Wars ever since they put in the multi-platform. It handles like a school bus in terms of latency (lag) and sometimes people get shafted out of a win against a weaker opponent. With my system, I just AFK these and go on my business (watching a movie, show, or whatever tickles my fancy). And since it's on a Friday, I probably won't be on since some of my shows are on a Friday or it's time out with the family. Good luck, Ares.

3. Okay, this one has many ?? hitting up on my head all at the same time. I am hoping this one isn't limited to the top 8 guilds, and by the looks of it, seems like it's going to flop since Guild War is at Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. So my question is this: HOW ARE THEY GOING TO DO IT? Also, it's sad they will be removing guild chests. Some players find use for those in their earlier stages of development until they get a suitable amount of resources to be made in the farm.

4. Never cared for solo arena ever since patch 5.8 came out and people had monstrous BR and skills. Another R2 game, Shadowbound had theirs at a tier system so the new unit will not have to face monstrous level'd/Power players. Each level bracket battles their way to be number 1 in their glory. I am hoping they made the rewards great for all the hard work players put in these days.

5. Now, this one I am going to be weary on. The old Tower of Kings is just a "one size fits all" template. A level 38 team (brand new) could not take on Titan players with Red dual sylphs for the First Easy Stage. This has been an ongoing problem that a few suggestions were made including a design map on how ToK supposed to be made and deployed for all players to enjoy. I will give it a shot once it hits mainstream.

6/7. Sorry, I am not there yet, so I really can't say on this.

8. This is something new. I am not sure it will garner any support since most of the game isn't enjoyable to this point. It might have it's short termed glory as it gets maxed all around. I get sucky astrals anyways so I didn't care for it much. Perhaps one day, when I am really bored, I will just have a go at it.

9. And what does this supposed to mean? It can't be the stables as it shows the mounts we obtained or the shop where more mounts can be bought with beast souls. I am going to think it's a u/bound balen thing like the clothing chest where you can get a mount along with some junk by chance. If so, I may not want to waste my u/b on such until after I get dual sylphs.

10. I am going to miss Chaos War; not because of the fights I may never see, but because of the folks on my server saying a few colourful words when it comes to battling the other side. The point structure given does suck and I am always a few hundred shy of getting the pyre horse mount that I have to settle for advanced sepulcrum (since there is an event only for this). My old team got their horses when we had that merge, but my new ones didn't (ho-hum).

11. Ah Marriage! Wife and I had our characters hitched just to test this out. It has its moments but I am hoping it will get better. Of course, I am curious as to what additional items are being added to the Venus shop since the only things are those for enhancing happiness/ring. Another question begets this when it comes to titles: are those going to update for the players who are married and have their satisfaction to a certain milestone?

12. Welp, I guess I will encourage those to save their gold and watch their buildings shoot up as they level. Does this apply to the academy skills as well when the building levels? If so, there goes pointless hours of farming Kyanite. I like the old way as it helps me to cap off the Kyanite use across the board. But we shall see with this one, folks.

13. VIPs are going to love that, I am sure. I just hope much better rewards await them or there will be a drop in VIP sales.

14. I never had this problem as I had space for my wife and her team on each of my guys. However, if I may point to place the significant other at the top of the farm list so they can be accessed much easily. I liked the old way when it comes to farming, but I have to make due (and cuts) just to get to my wife faster.

15. I had an instance where it took balens if I was upgrading their equipment at a faster rate. Yes, I am a rapid clicker if I got enough to take it to the max and cap it there. I am hoping this will end the dilema of such.

16. How about not centered? Some titles made me wonder who does the designing as it is not Feng Shui. Okay, maybe I just used that to get around, but still, there are reasons why some titles I use and some I don't. Also, now that we're on the subject, why did you take away the sparkle effect of some of them. If you're going to take something that is lag inducing, how about you start with the swirls around icons that now one really gives a s*expletive* about?

I don't know if it's inconvenient enough, but if this wasn't thoroughly tested out at the developer across something other than their internal network, then I am sure people are going to have problems. I pretty much could go for the following:

1. Permanent locking of the icon bar. I don't like to see eleventy billion icons expanding each time I do something. If I close the bar, then I want it stay closed. If I want to check out something, I will open the bar and check it out myself.

2. Permanent chat closure. There are times I do not want to talk let alone read something that some player posted just because they are having a bad day. Some games have this feature and it worked wonders for those of us, why couldn't this one?

3. Destruction of Lag!! Yes, you read that right, the lag has to go. I just did a Spyware scan and find about 3k instances from the R2 gaming server (some of which are either text or jpeg files). Most people don't like tracking cookies or javascript with the same nature. And I think it adds to the network resources and threshold/load not to mention taxing on the CPU/Memory. In versions prior to 5.8, I was able to run all 5 smoothly and without a problem. Now, I pray good luck for those that are trying to run 1.

4. More non-spender events, please. It's okay you are trying to promote spending (as I know there are some senseless folks who do regardless of the state of the game), but we need more days of non-spending events as well. Three days a week isn't going to cut it. I read your schedule. Bring back the old stuff as new players still need on newer servers after they are merged within 30 days.

5. As with #4, bring back unlimited events. There is no reason why (other than to p*expletive* us off) the events should be limited. Some folks have stockpiles of stuff they cannot do with just because of this in place. I have gems enough to make level 7s, I don't know why I should wait monthly just to finish off what I had to get some stupid reward.

6. Every day is game day! Make the mini-games in the Game Box every day. Some of us have a fancy for one game than another and would love to play it for a week if we can. Also, helper rewards need to be increased! 2 stankin' nickels for helping someone's fish isn't what I (or other players) had in mind.

7. Weekly dungeons (Spire, Magic Square, BI) should have their EXP and rewards adjusted since these were once daily. You may get with the new players if this was a NEW GAME. However, it's four years and all players are used to the math on such. So can we please adjust fairly? Thanks.

8. Auto-AFK on multiplayer dungeons. With the introduction of post-patch lag issues, many players find it difficult to keep up when it comes to pressing/clicking keys in a fight. If Auto-AFK is enabled, I am sure most players will just let 'er rip and go forth.

9. The rewards/compensation needs a major overhaul. I was thinking more like the level based rewards (but also for those who are starting out as well since you had to put the maint right in the middle of their development). Newer players might like these as they are starting out, but the older players go "meh" and move on.

10. Default parameters/settings. Would it kill anyone to change the default from sounds on to off? Sometimes I had to clean the cache and when I load up a fresh load, the sound comes on (I always had it off) and it sounds like a garbled mess if I had more than 2 going. This will help load the game faster from a fresh reset.

11. Saved position. Some games have this going which is pretty convenient to log back into the last place you were in, especially during maintenance. However, in this game, especially in Cloud City, you are defaulted back at the position with the biggest lag inducing swirl of it all, Outland Portal. I had managed to save my position by going to sleep in my homestead, but that is always thwarted by either a maintenance or an upgrade when I log back in. I really don't want to walk back and forth just because I got disconnected (either R2's end or my end) from the start position to my destination.

12. Grouping matching and separate arenas. No one can really say there isn't enough players anymore thanks to the cross platform addition, so why couldn't be there any separate zones for certain levels of players: Regular Level Players in their own, Class Advancement Players in their own, Knighted Players in their own, and Titan Players in their own. I am sure it will make Battlegrounds much more fun if people fight at their own classification. Also if we can have this for Arena, it will bring many people to fight for more than just 3 mere seconds.

Okay, as much as it takes me to write all this, I will stop before I have an aneurism. Feel free to drop some tiddies on this.

[R262181389]

3. Is regular guild battle being removed and will just have Imperial War?

5. Not sure if this is going to be better or not, seen a video on the gameplay of this and looks long and boring.

[Meikura001]

Somehow the post has surfaced and I was able to take a gander before I wrote my long speech (LOL).

It seems the regular guild battle is going to be removed and it will be similar to Outland's Post Grab. I am hoping I will fight a different guild each week instead of the same folks. The 1 million guild wealth is kind of steep, but I guess it will make up with the gold amounts we get (and people's contributions) from other sources to offset any costs.

And I am holding on to dear life for Magic Square as it looks like it's going to be like Guild Altar (which is problematic with all those regenerating sprites). They should just make it "if you kill a spot, it stays dead".

[Mibbette]

Don't take away the free Imperial Seals from VIP chests!!

[R238423534]

A few quick questions. Would very much appreciate it if they are answered before tomorrow's patch maintenance.

1) Solo Arena has been taken out. Would Arena Shop change? Do we get to keep the Insignias and League Insignias?

2) Guild Battle has been taken out. What would these 2 Advanced Guild Skills be?
Advanced Guild Skill: Guild Battle Honor Bonus
Advanced Guild Skill: Guild Battle Insignia Bonus

3) Chaos War is taken out. Would we lose the Chaos Stones we've already earned last night (11/29/2016)?

[MemoryLane]

A few quick questions. Would very much appreciate it if they are answered before tomorrow's patch maintenance.

1) Solo Arena has been taken out. Would Arena Shop change? Do we get to keep the Insignias and League Insignias?

2) Guild Battle has been taken out. What would these 2 Advanced Guild Skills be?
Advanced Guild Skill: Guild Battle Honor Bonus
Advanced Guild Skill: Guild Battle Insignia Bonus

3) Chaos War is taken out. Would we lose the Chaos Stones we've already earned last night (11/29/2016)?

1. Arena Shop is still the same shop as always, and in the same location. Solo Arena doesn't affect the arena shop, as insignias are not a Solo Arena reward.

2. Advanced Guild Skills for Guild Battle are for Imperial War now.

3. Pre-launch servers will no longer have Chaos War, and Chaos Stones are no longer located on the profile, so most definitely any that have been earned will be gone.

[R238423534]

1. Arena Shop is still the same shop as always, and in the same location. Solo Arena doesn't affect the arena shop, as insignias are not a Solo Arena reward.

2. Advanced Guild Skills for Guild Battle are for Imperial War now.

3. Pre-launch servers will no longer have Chaos War, and Chaos Stones are no longer located on the profile, so most definitely any that have been earned will be gone.

Ahh...this is important info!
Spent my Chaos Stones on prelaunch server before shutdown.
Thanks ML for the timely response.

[LadyLotte]

Memorylane.... I have 1 question... in Imperial war.. Im guild boss.. do I finally have a guild battle option where all can enter and I dont have to set a list? Cause that would be awesome.

[Carassimira]

should be interesting. i really have no idea what should be interesting about this patch, but it should be. since the mods and the regular whiners are still here playing

[Buuurman]

Don't take away the free Imperial Seals from VIP chests!!

That was my first reaction too. People use them to skip the stupid quests like "kill 30 monsters in $dungeon" wich you cannot do in one run and thus takes alot of time (or 10 balens to skip). Most people find the seals very usefull (but R2 wants to sell more Spirit covenants i suppose).

Overall this patch has some improvements and i certainly like the new dungeons etc but if you look closely enough you see that cashers gave more advantages than non-cashers at the point that some things aren't fair anymore. With Athena's war as biggest example, you can buy Inspire-bonusses wich makes HP higher, Dmg higher or increases Rage and awakeningpoints.

So when i buy the last (rage and awakeningpoints) i have the advantage to start with a stronger skill (maybe even a delphic) and i can sylph sooner. Combine that with the higher dmg-inspiring and you'll feasting on the body's of other players. Where is the balance on that? Oh, and you are not inspiring just you but the whole party, makes the gap between cashers and non-cashers even greater.

Oh i've had one extra question. With the ending of CW every player looses his option to buy Elite-refinement crystals. For most players that isn't a big deal but there are loads of players out there with read gear without proper refinement (many players made that mistake). I was one of them and it took months to correct it but how about after the patch? Will players still be able to buy them (without balens)?

[Shiva_]

having spirit of covenant doesnt help with quest like kill 30 monsters, stil need bb or imperial seal to do it fast. its not like bounty quests
only thing you can activate the quests at any place.

[NotWhoUThink]

With Guild battle now being replaced, and the rewards changed as well, how do we obtain Insignia and Honor from this new format?, is Medialion's now going to be done away with? or are we back to the days of farming in BG's to get our source of honor?

[Xharry005x]

City Buildings will automatically upgrade as the character upgrades without the use of Gold

can we all get a refund on gold spent on building upgrades lmao

does any 1 know were we getting truncheons from which shop will they be in as its not athenas or ares wars

[miraclebaby1512]

I hope the rest of us Servers get it.. some of the servers they merged my server with or too got it and I still did not get it... S63 here