April 26, 2012

Cabal Expansion Part VI: Arcane Trace







Here are the Korean Server's patch notes to Cabal Online's next release, Arcane Trance. Enjoy the awesomeness!

For the earlier patch notes, please check the following:
Cabal Episode 9 put to the test
Cabal Episode 9 already in the works








Cabal Expansion – Part VI : Arcane Trace

Released Date : Apr 18th 2012

■ Fixes

1. Hale’s Artifact quest can not finish the dungeon
2. In some certain situations, player can not gain EXP while leveling in fields
3. Minor changes for title system
4. Fix some bugs related to the Referral system
5. Fix some bugs related to the Request system
6. Fix bug related to the doubling price of items which are registered in Auction Hall

■ Changes

1. Changes some basic crafting recipes
  • Removal of some recipes
    • HP/MP Potion, Return Stone, Goodluck Potion, Glory Potion, Epaulet of Proof
    • CA Unit
    • Astral Core (Mithril)
    • Astral Core (Blue Mithirl)
    • Perfect Coating Kit
    • Plasma Plug
    • Add some recipes
      • Perfect Core (Low), Perfect Core (Medium), Prefect Core (Highest)
      • Slot Extender (Highest). Upgrade Core (Highest), Force Core (Highest)
      • Charm upgrading recipes
      • Diamond Cube
2. Change the selling price of items
  • Change basic selling price of items
    • Reduce the price of selling items to NPC by 1/5 price of item in NPC
    • Selling price of items depend on grade of upgrading
      • Higher grade of upgrading gives more Alz when selling
      • Crafting Material price changes
        • Material Core and Quartz Core selling price reduce to 1/10 of current price
        • Trans Force price
          • Trans Force I : 30,000,000 Alz
          • Trans Force II : 20,000,000 Alz
          • Trans Force III : 15,000,000 Alz
3. Change related to drop of materials
  • Stop dropping materials
    • Material Cores, Quartz Cores, Circuit Jewels
  • Change the drop area of materials
    • Shining Yellow Powder, Unknow Circuit
4. Extracting items and change of failure
  • Only items at grade +1 or more give Upgrade core (Piece)
  • Material Core and Quartz Core can be obtained via extracting items only
5. Some unique items drop with tradable property (at low chance)
  • Lycanus Weapons / Drosnin Earrings / Drei-Frame gears
6. Party tooltip change
  • Include Channel and Map in the party tooltip when moving mouse over
  • Add the battle style icon in the tooltip
  • Show the online / offline status of party member
7.  Quest Capsule of Mission Dungeon displays the location information
  • Auction Hall allows searching by the location
  • Tooltip of Quest Capsule displays the information the location
8. Quest Capsule and Costume classified
  • Quest Capsule
    • Type : Quest Capsule and Minesta Quest Capsule
    • Region : Based on territories
    • Costume
      • Chaos Box
      • Nation Costumes
      • Weapon Costumes
      • General Costumes
      • Special Costumes
9. Increase the number of favorites for Auction Hall
  • Add one more line for favorite links in Auction House (now is 2)
  • Allow using shortcuts for accessing Auction House favorite links
  • Switching between lines : F1 – F2
  • Switching between links : 1 – 0
10. Increase the maximum number of quest can be performed at once from 10 to 20
11. Location of the button to move the chat window
  • Top left of chat window
12. Change related to help system
  • Add / Change the help buttons  in some UI for
13. HP of Guardians’  in Mission War regen when  the ownership has been set
14. Improve the Special Inventory
15. Remove in-game Cash Shop “Blessing Bead – Expanding Warehouse”
16. Modify the font size and selling fee of Auction Hall
17. Remove the Formula Card category in Auction Hal

■ Additions

1. Add new NPC
  • Name : Chloe – Manufacturing Merchant
  • Location : Port Lux – next to the warehouse
  • Function : Manufacturing referral, selling manufacturing-related items
  • Item for sale
    • General Material : Disc, Shape  Catridge and other materials
    • Mixture (for Damage Amplificator)
    • Trans Force (material for crafting Battle Mode 3 skill books)
    • Stop selling crafting materials and Formula Cards in other NPCs
2. Add the Referral System
i, Basic Craft reconstructing
  • All the existing recipes will be transferred into the Request feature of Referral System
  • Level Requirement : From 50 and above can use the Referral System
Ii, Register and Produce with the Request feature
  • To register a product, give Alz / Quest item to NPC Chloe as the registration fee
  • The registration process can be done at the certain time
  • To register a product, player must reach a certain grade of favor
  • Based on the time, varies products will be available in NPC Chloe
  • The request  can be success / fail. If the request is successful, the list of available outputs will be displayed
    • If it’s failed, all materials will be gone

    1 – Current Favor Point
    2 – Favor Grades
    3 – Request Interval
    4 – Possible Results
iii, Favor
  • When the player meets the certain favor point of the product, that product will be able to register it in the Request window
  • Each range of Favor grade will be categorized in the Request Window
  • Trying to request items in the catergory which is lower than the current Favor grade of character will not increase the character’s Favor point
    • Ex: If the character’s current Favor point is 2,500. Trying to request product in 1000 – 1999 Favor grade will not increase the current Favor point of character
    • The Favor grade / Favor point will not affect the success / fail chance of requesting
    • A system message will appear when the producing progress is completed
      • If the character is in a party, whole party members will receive the message
iv, Issues related to existing basic crafting system
  • The existing grade of basic craft will be converted into the Favor Point / Favor Grade
  • Stop selling and dropping all Formula Card
  • There are replacement methods for the old Formula Cards
    • Battle Mode 3 Skill Book : Request token for Battle Mode 3 Skill Book crafting (character binding)
    • Damage Amplificator : Request token for Damage Amplificator crafting (there is chance to fail when trying to request this)
    • Forgotten Temple B1F and Mutant Forest  – Mithirl Item crafting : Stop selling
    • Bike Epic Crafting : Temporary stop (will be applied by different methods)
    • Removal of Transmuter and related quests
      • The Extraction feature can be used by clicking the Extract icon in the inventory (next to the Upgrade icon)
      • Converting Bike slots
        • Temporary stop (will be applied by different methods)

Transmute Button
v, Changes related to the benefits from premium services
  • Premium / Craftman / Blessing Bead – Plus : Change the Craft EXP bonus 25% to the bonus Favor Point in Request feature
  • Remove 25% bonus of Crafting EXP from Premium PC Room
3. New accessory : Charm
  • Add 3 new Charms
  • Can be equipped with existing accessories and can be upgraded
    • For upgrading, requires : Upgrade Core (Highest) – Stain Clone
    • When it’s failed, all materials will be lost
    • From upgrading level 5 and above, there is new option : Battle Mode Duration increase
      • The option wont affect the duration of Aura mode
      • When extracting Minesta Charms the output will be Stain Clone and Minesta Diamond Charm
        • Stain Clone will be depended on the grade of Minesta Charm
        • Minesta Diamond Charm : Use for requesting Diamond Cube. Can not be equipped
        • Diamond Cube : Open to get a random Minesta Charm (Sapphire / Ruby / Emerald) with random grade (+0 – +6)
        • Charm at +0 grade is planned to be sold in the Cash Shop (in future update)
4.  New Mission Field : Arcane Trace
  • Entry
    • Required level : 180 or higher
      • When the character reaches 180, the Map Code and Warp Code will be given automatically
1, 2 – GPS Warp
3, 4 – Port Lux Guards





  • Only character with nation can enter
    • Character without nation can not enter
  • Enter methods (2 abilities)
    • Via GPS Warp function
    •  Talk with NPC : Ray Davidson – Port Lux Guard
    • To exit the field Arcane Trace, talk to NPC Bren / Kim at the start of the field
    •  Map features
      • The field consists 7 regions and a base center where the boss can be spawned
      • The boss will be added later (in future update)
      • Drop Minesta Diamond Charm
5. New dance style
  • Add new dance style – Dance 3 – The shuffle da nce
  • Can be used by triggering the skill from Skill Window, register and use from Quick Slot, use chat command (/dance3,  /Dance3, /shuffle)
  • Features are the same with other dance styles

6. Add new quest
  • Quest group : Land of Death
  • Quest name : Legacy of Hale
  • Start NPC : Porter Porter – Port Lux
  • Required level : Lv 79 (BS Lv. 8)
  • Reward :
    • EXP : 750,644
    • Skill EXP : 20,230
    • Additional feature : Hale’s Artifact will be rewarded on completion
7. Add new categories for unique items
  • [Accessories > Earrings] : Drosnin Earring
  • [Weapon] : Lycanus
  • [Armor – Armorset (Helm / Suit / Boots / Gloves)] : Drei Frame (WA) / Drei Frame (FS)
  • [Armor – Battleset (Helm / Suit / Boots / Gloves)] : Drei Frame (FB) / Drei Frame (FA)
  • [Armor – Martialset (Helm / Suit / Boots / Gloves)] : Drei Frame (BL) / Drei Frame (WI)
8. Add the confirmation window and tooltip for DP system
  • End-game notification window will be appeared to notify about the amount of DP and warning that it needs to be acquired to avoid disposing
    • Total amount of DP will be appeared in the notification window before  switching between characters, request to exit game
    • Tooltip of dungeon GPS icons will display the amount of DP
    • The amount of DP can be gained on dungeon completion will be displayed in the dungeon entry item
9. Return stone and Potions will be sold in bigger stacks
  • NPC Shops : Port Lux and Fort Ruina Core Alchemist
  • Items : HP Potion (Lv 3) / MP Potion (Lv3) / Return Stone in 200 / 500 ea packs
* The new system of Professional Crafting will be updated later, at this moment the professional crafting system is temporary unavailable.

1 – Learned Manufacturing Categories
2 – Learn new Manufacturing Category
3 – Total Category
4 – Current Energy
5 – Manufacturing Details
6 – Manufacturing Progress Bar

Meister Items

■ Mission War

1. Change the reward of  Mission War
  • Change reward name
  • Change the outputs of opening Cube War Award
    • Change the Hardness Capsule to Potion of Luck
2. In the Mission War, depends on the nation of character, the outfit of Battle Mode 3 will change the color


Apr 19th 2012 Patch notes

■ Fixes
1. Fixed bug that caused can not complete the Killian Ring Quest
  • Change the reward of quest “Remain of Deceased”
  • Add the “Dead Man’s Bone” material into the Referral System
2. Fix the bug related to the  Achievement System which is related to the Favor Grade acquiring
3. Can not search for Highest grade of cores
■ Changes
1. The  default radio button in the Request UI will be unchecked as default
2. Delete some categories of existing materials
  • CA-Unit
  • Force Amplicator (Force Booster)
3. Decrease the EXP of monsters / bosses in Panic Cave
Shuffle Dance – aka Dance 3

Apr 25th 2012 Patch notes
■ Fixes
1. Fixed the bug that player could not complete the “Artifact of Hale” quest
  • To reset the quest progress, player can sell the quest bugged item to NPC then kill monsters and get the non-bugged quest item
2. After switching between Favorite Link Lines, can not add new Favorite Link, bug is fixed
3. Can obtain Alz from selling Skill Books to NPC which are from training Dungeons (Weakened dungeons)
4. Bugs related to Arcane Trace terrain
5. Timer of Special inventory displays abnormally
6. In some situations, trying to make Diamond Cube caused error
7. In certain conditions, quests can not be accepted or proceeded
8. “Low” grade category in Auction Hall caused error when trying to filter the search result
9. Total number of achievements displays abnormally (as 0)
10. Shouting (/L) cooltime has been applied abnormally
■ Changes
1. Change related to Request System
i) Add new recipe
  • Recipe for converting Material core
  • Recipe for converting Quartz Core
  • Recipe for Stain Clone
    • Recipe : Stain Clone Set
    • Output : A set of Stain Clone : Up to 5 Stain Clones can be generated as output
    • There is chance to fail
  • Dungeon Entry / Disc Dye Recipes
    • Will be implemented later
ii) Change the Request success rate
  • Increase the success rate of raw materials
    • Upgrade Core (Crystal) / Force Core (Crystal) / Extender Circuit / Plasma Circuit
  • Raise the success rate of requesting buff potions, based on the grade
Request / Registration UI
iii) Token items for NPC Chloe
  • Change the number of required items (tokens) for registering tokens
  • Add daily quest which rewards tokens
    • Quest : Support the developing of new materials
    • NPC : Chloe – Manufacturing Merchant
    • Required : Level 50 or more
    • Reward : Token of Chloe (Character Binding)
    • Can be performed once per day

NPC Chloe

iv) Change the materials for requesting
  • Plasma Circuit / Extender circuit
  • Sword Master Potion (Excellent) / Magic Master Potion (Excellent)
v) Change the icon of Sword / Magic Damage Amplificator
vi) Increase the success rate of requesting Diamond Cube
Registration Diamond Cube
2. Change the material drop
  • Familiar Mineral
    • Expands the area of drop
    • Increases the drop rate
  • Silver Jewel (new material)
    • Add new material
3. Change related to Arcane Trace
  • Change GPS map
  • Move the character to the start point instead of saving the last location after reconnecting from disconnection
  • Adjust monsters’ stats
Arcane Trace Screenshots
Monsters in Arcane Trace
4. Change the result of extracting items
  • Increases number of Upgrade Core (Piece) / Force Core (Piece) / Material Core / Quartz Core
  • Shadowsteel and Aramid item grade can  not produce Material Core (Shadowsteel) / (Aramid) and Quartz Core (Citrine) when extracting
5. Selling to NPC price changeNPC shops selling items related changes
i) Change the selling items price (sell into NPC shop)
  • Force Amplifier : 100,000,000 Alz
  • Material Core (Aramid) / (Shadowsteel) and Quartz Core (Citrine) : 10,000 Alz
ii) Change the properties of some items in NPC
  • Empty Bottle / Disc (Lv. 1) / Shape Cartridge (Lv. 1) : Account-Binding
6. Change selling property of some materials
  • Force Amplifier / Material Core (Aramid) / Material core (Shadowsteel) / Quartz core (Citrine) / CA Unit : Can not be traded
7. Change categories in Auction Hall
i) Add new category
  • Quest Items > Mission Item > Killian Ring material
    • Allow registering Killian Ring material item
  • Quest Items > Mission Item > Stain Clone
  • Manufacturing-related Items > General Materials >  Beetle Shell
  • Manufacturing-related Items > General Materials > Paramus Painted Berry
  • Manufacturing-related items > Disc Dye
ii) Delete existing category
  • Manufacturing-related Items > General materials > Empty Bottle
  • Manufacturing-related Items > Core / Jewel > Material Core > Aramid
  • Manufacturing-related Items > Core / Jewel > Material Core > Shadowsteel
  • Manufacturing-related Items > Core / Jewel > Quartz Core > Citrine
  • Manufacturing-related Items  > Disc > Disc (Low)
  • Manufacturing-related Items > Shape Cartridge > Shape Cartridge (Low)
iii) Change some categories
  • ‘Core Enhancer’ category name change to ‘Reinforcing Supplements’
8. Change the quest script of “Support the developing of new materials” from NPC Chloe

■ Additions
1. In-game Cash Shop add some items”
  • Minesta Charms
  • Blessing Bead – Warehouse Increase
■ Mission War
1. The outfit of character in Battle Mode 3 in Mission War displays abnormally


Apr 26th 2012

■ Changes
1. Merging Shape Cartridge
  • Old : Sword / Armor / Battle / Martial / Artifact (5 kinds x 4 grades = 20 kinds  in total)
  • Change : Low / Medium / High / Highest (4 kinds in total)
  • On logging in, all old Shape Cartridges will be converted automatically
  • NPC Chloe sells Shape Cartridge Low
  • Some drop of Shape Cartridges are bugged now (still drop old Shape Cartridges), will be fixed later
2. Change the Category in Auction Hall
i, Add new category
  • Craft related items > Shape Cartridge > Sword / Armor / Battle / Martial / Artifact : Categories will be deleted
  • New Category :  Craft related items > Shape Cartridge
ii, Old type Shapes can not be registered. All old Shapes which were registering will be set to expired
3. Achievement related changes
i, Add overview mode
  • Allow viewing the last accomplished achievements of your character, you buddy, your guild
  • The list will be updated real-time
  • Maximum items can be displayed : 100
  • In each category : The best character will be displayed, who got the highest Achievement Point
ii, Achievement Ranking
  • Rank based on the Achievement Point
  • Updated every hour
  • Maximum items can be displayed : 100 characters
iii, Notification
  • Change the effect of appearing Achievement notification
    • System message will be displayed for people in a certain range
      • In the Mission War, the notification won’t be displayed
■ Additions
1. Add new Requests
i) Disc Refining Request
  • Allow refining Disc
  • Lower grade of Disc can be refined into higher grade one
  • The output will be generated randomly in stack
ii) Shape Cartridge Refining Request
  • Allow refining  Shape Cartridge
  • Lower grade of  Shape Cartridge can be refined into higher grade one
  • The output will be generated randomly in stack
iii,  Place holder for Dungeon Entry Request
  • Dungeon Entries can be made from some general materials and Dimension Stone (new material)
iv, Lottery Coin Request
  • Allow requesting Lottery Coin, when using Potion of Luck can be gained (character-binding)
    • The quality of Potion of Luck will be vary
  • Materials
    • Lotto Coin : All map from Forgotten Ruin and above have chance to drop Coin (Duration 1 hour)
    • Coin Lotto Warranty : Can be bought from NPC Chloe for 100,000 Alz
2. NPC Chloe sells new item
  • Item : Dimension Stone x1 , x10
  • Price : 100,000 Each
  • Property : Account Binding

Apr 27th 2012

  Fixes
1. Some results of extracting generated errors / bugged outputs, bug is fixed
2. Client runs abnormally due to some error of ENC files, bug is fixed

May 02nd 2012

■ Fixes
1. Mass storing item in Warehouse caused error in some situations
2. Can not register some items even the Favor Point is met
3. In certain situation, can not purchase items which are automatically registered in Personal Shop
4. Bug related to Lotto Coin (dropped abnormally in Arcane Trace)
■ Changes
1. Citrine / Shadowsteel / Aramid  changed to allow extracting
  • No Material Core / Quartz Core is generated as output
2. Material items for requesting Dungeon Entry will drop in various area
3.  Change old Shape Cartridges into new Shape Cartridge (check the Patch notes Apr 26th for more details)
  • All registered Shapes in Auction Hall will be set as Expired
4. NPC Chloe sells Discs / Shapes (Low)
5. Lotto Coin related changes
  • Change the duration of the item : Lottery Coin :
    • Old : 1 hour
    • Change : 3 hours
  • Adjust the success rate of requesting Lotto Coin
■ Additions
1. Lottery Coin Request
  • Allow requesting Lottery Coin, when using Potion of Luck can be gained (character-binding)
    • The quality of Potion of Luck will be vary
  • Materials
    • Lotto Coin : All map from Forgotten Ruin and above have chance to drop Coin (Duration 3 hours)
    • Coin Lotto Warranty : Can be bought from NPC Chloe for 100,000 Alz
2. Add icons for some requests in Request UI
  • Add icon for Material Core
  • Add icon for Quartz Core
  • Add Dungeon Entry request
    • Allow requesting Lake in Dusk – Marquinas Outpost Dungeon Entry Item
    • Material for requesting can be found in NPC Chloe or obtained as drop
  • Disc Refining
    • Disc at lower grade can be refined into higher one
3. Add Chloe’s Token into the in-game Cash Shop

Please notice that the orange color texts mean those feature are being tested in the Test Server. They are not available in the public server and they are subject to be changed in the future.

May 09th 2012
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■  Fixes
1. Fix the bug that caused dropping old Shape Cartridges in Lakeside and Tower of Dead B2F
2. Purchasing items in Auction House caused error, fixed the bug
3. Auction House caused error when trying to search by clicking Favorite buttons
4. Pet in the additional slot (while using Pet Slot Extender) still can receive Pet EXP after the Pet Slot Extender expired, bug is fixed
5. Effect icon is still maintained when the buff has been released already, bug is fixed
6. Achievement Point gains abnormally, bug is fixed
7. Can not release buffs, bug is fixed
8. Bug related to the Requesting system, can not use Chloe’s Token for registering recipe
9. Bug related to the Achievement Rank system, the name of character is displayed incorrectly
10. Press hot key F to bring the Manufacturing UI caused client disconnection, bug is fixed
■  Changes
1. Charm related changes
  • Change the Extend duration of Battle Mode option
  • Additional Achievement / Title related to Charm
2. Stain clone turned into Reflection Stone
  • On logging in, all old Stain Clones will be turned automatically to Reflection Stones
3. Change the Request to manufacture Stain Clone set
  • The materials have the property Character Binding
4. Changes related to Lotto Coin
  • Different recipes can be choosen based on the expected result (amount of Alz)
  • Change the property of Potion of Luck : Can not be sold to NPC / Can not be traded
5. Change the background music of mission field Arcane Trace (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1PQxw3omFM&feature=youtu.be)
6. Change the message when player tried to to register a recipe which needs higher Favor Point
7. Change the Request icon of some
  • Stein Clone Set
  • Disc Refining
  • Shape Cartridge Refining
  • Lotto Coin
  • Astral Core (Mithril) / Astral Core (Blue Mithril)
8. Change result of extracting items
  • Old : Items from Bluestin – Mithirl give Material Core / Quartz Core
  • Change : Items from Bluestin – Mithirl give Astral Core
■  Additions
1. Achievement related changes
i, Add overview mode (Achievement Rank)
  • Allow viewing the last accomplished achievements of your character, you buddy, your guild
  • The list will be updated real-time
  • Maximum items can be displayed : 100
  • In each category : The best character will be displayed, who got the highest Achievement Point
ii, Achievement Ranking
  • Rank based on the Achievement Point
  • Updated every hour
  • Maximum items can be displayed : 100 characters
iii, Notification
  • Change the effect of appearing Achievement notification
    • System message will be displayed for people in a certain range
      • In the Mission War, the notification won’t be displayed
2. Manufacturing System : Weapon
i) Manufacturing Level
  • Proficiency of manufacturing items is now determined by 11 levels
ii) Item grades separation
  • As the output of Manufacturing System, there are 
    • General Item
    • Master Item (aka Meister in previous posts)
    • So from Bluestin – Mithirl there are 14 grades of items
  • General item: Using general material while manufacturing
    • To produce weapons in different levels with different options
    • There is chance to get additional options regardless to the item grade
  • Master Item: Required General item (2 slot) and other materials to manufacture
iii) Skills and Energy
  • There are separated skills for each kind of item
  • Depending on the item, different amount of energy will be consumed when trying to manufacture
  • The skill point will be raised by 1 when the manufacturing process is failed
  • Even when failed, the consumed energy would not be returned
  • Based on the level of Weapon Manufacturing, character can or can not craft 2-slot items (take a look at below table)
* Armor and accessories production is expected to be updated at a later date.

May 10th 2012
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■  Fixes
1.  Fix the bug that caused some antivirus programs detect Cabal execution file as the virus / malware
■  Changes
1. Change the way of displaying Achievement
  • Old : When the Achievement is gained, the system message will be displayed to the all around players
  • Change: Display for party / small area of nearby players

May 11th 2012
– 

■  Changes
1. Change the structure of Item Manufacturing System
i, Change the structure of System
  • Old : 20 CategoriesNew : 38 Categories
    • Weapon : 6
    • Armor : 12
    • Accessory : 2
      • Player who managed to obtain some Categories of the old Crafting System will be converted to new Manufacturing System
ii) Increase the number of Manufacturing Categories, a character can obtain
  • Old : 4 slots
  • Change : 6 slots
    • There are quests to get Master’s Token as reward.
2. Change related to General Weapon manufacturing
  • Allow batch producing, change option details and levels
3. Lowered the energy gained by leveling between manufacturing grades
4. Change the image of Lottery Coin
■  Additions
1. Add the Armor Manufacturing System
  • Number of category : 12
    • Plate
    • Gauntlets
    • Greaves
    • Visor
    • Coat
    • Gloves
    • Boots
    • Headgear
    • Suit
    • Hands
    • Shoes
    • Headpiece
  • How to manufacture item:
    • Artisan Item : Produce with common materials
    • Craftman Item : Artisan Item with Top-Epic option
    • Master Item : Items with 3 options
2. Add the Accessory Manufacturing System
  • Number of category : 2
    • Ring
    • Amulet
  • Old recipe can still be done in the new Manufacturing System
    • Some materials change (quantity of Discs / Jewels)
* Currently in the Manufacturing System, regardless of skill level, all accessories can be made, this is subject to change in the future
3.  The Manufacturing System will be changed
  • New rings and amulet recipes are in reviewing progress
  • All materials related to the Manufacturing System can be changed continuously for testing / refining / adjusting purpose

May 16th 2012


Public Server
■  Fixes 
  1. Fix some bugs related to Refection Stone
  2. Quest information of some Minesta quest display incorrectly, bug is fixed
  3. Material for some recipes of Refferal System changed
 ■  Changes
  1. Change the name of new manufacturing system introduction quests
  2. Change image of some recipes
■  Additions
1. Add image for some recipes
Test Server
■  Fixes
1. Master items required greater amount of materials than display, bug is fixed
2. Shadowtitanium weapons give Astral Core (Titanium) as output. Bug is fixed, change to Astral Core (Shadowtitanium)
3. When player removes the Manufacturing Kind from the list, the recipe, energy did not reset, bug is fixed
■  Changes
1. Changes related to Manufacturing System.
i, Scalar Manufacturing System
  • Success rate
    • Low grade item has thehigher chance to success
    • High grade item has lower chance to success
    • Higher manufacturing level gives more chance to success even at High grade item
  • Chance to get top result
    • Depending on the item grade
  • Chance of manufacturing 2-slot item
    • Depending on the item grade
ii) Changes related to Skills and Energy
  • Raise the skill point gained when manufacturing success
  • Change the amount of energy consumed for manufacturing
iii) The availability of 2-slot based on Manufacturing level
iv) Accessories Manufacturing Change
  • Ring: 19 categories / Amulet: 16 categories
  • Add :
    • Ring of Luck
    • Critical Ring
    • Amulet of Pain +7
  • Remove some existing recipes
v) Add 8 categories for accessories
  • Category
    • General Ring (Low – Highest)
    • General Amulet (Low – Highest)
  • Details
    • Based on the old ones and added some modifications
    • Tradable
  • How to get
  • Low : Manufacturing uses general material
  • Medium : Manufacturing Low grade accessories
  • High :  Manufacturing Medium grade accessories
  • Highest :  Manufacturing High grade accessories
vi) Change the order between categories of Armor Manufacturing
2. Change the result of extracting progress from Circuit Jewel Lv6 to Circuit Jewel Lv7 (some accesories)
3. Remove the automatic activation of Force Kick in Battle Mode 3
  Additions
1. Add the Boss Battle for Arcane Trace Mission Field
i) Start
  • The battle will be held in a particular channel
  • In Test Server it will be held in Channel 3 at 19:00 everyday. This will be adjusted (both time and channel)
  • Add the information window, which displays the information of Boss Battle in Arcane Trace
    • Displays the number of region owned by each nation
    • Displays the HP of Boss
    • Displays the current attacking / defending nation
      • *Attacking nation : The nation which has the permission to attack the boss (this battle is turn-based)
      • Displays the information window only entered the Arcane Trace
ii) Battle Progress
  • Battle time : 1 hour
    • Included
    • Time for occupying Towers
    • Time for attacking Boss
  • Towers attacking
    • To occupy the Tower, players must defeat the Guardians

  • Boss attacking
    • The nation which gets more Towers will get the permission to attack the Boss
    • If both nations have the same number of Towers, both nation can attack the Boss
    • If the nation which get the permission to attack the boss does enough damage on the boss, all members who participating the battle will receive a Special Buff
    • The special buff has not yet implemented, will be updated later

  • Battle ending
    • Killed the Arcane Golem
    • Time for battle passed (1 hour)
iii) Victory
  • Battle Victory : Kill the Boss (Arcane Golem)
  • Compensation
    • Only players of the nation, which killed the boss, have the right to obtain items
    • Boss drops Accessory +8
    • * The boss can drop the brand new item, which will be implemented later
2. Additional Warp point
  • Each region has one warp point
  • Those warp point can be used only in the battle time
3. Accessories +8
  • Acquisition
    • Drop from the Arcane Golem boss of Arcane Trace in Arcane Battle
  • Item Information

May 18th 2012


Test Server
■  Fixes 
1. Moving the mouse over tooltip in the result panel of Manufacturing UI displays incorrectly information
  Changes
1. Arcane Trace battle related changes
  • Battle time adjustment
    • Old : 1 hour
    • Change : 40 minutes
  • Monster adjustment
    • Boss : Adjust stats / Attack pattern
    • Tower Guardians : Increase stats
  • Change the bosses drop
    • Multiple item drop : Randomly 4 – 10 items
    • Slightly increase the chance of Accessories +8 drop
2. Changes related to Manufacturing System
  • Remove recipes
    • Ring of Luck (Medium)
    • Critical Ring (Medium)
  • Chance some accessories manufacturing materials
  • Success rate is adjusted
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May 23rd 2012
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■ Fixes
1. Pet Monster size displays abnormally in Arcane Trace, bug is fixed
2. Amount of sold Alz in Auction Hall displays not in colorized, bug is fixed
3. Changes related to General Weapon / Armor crafting materials / recipes:


  • Bluestin Weapon / Armor : General Weapon / Armor
  • Titanium – Shadowtitanium Weapon / Armor : Only 1 slot General Weapon / Armor
  • Osmium – Mithirl Weapon / Armor : Only 2 slots Weapon / Armor


■ Changes

1. Change related to time of Arcane Battle

  • Old : Sunday 20:00
  • Change : Sunday 20:30

2. Change related to item extraction

  • Add the Circuit Jewel Lv7 as the output : Random quantity : 1 – 10
  • Some items which give Circuit Jewel Lv6 will give Lv7 instead

3. Change related to Amulet of Pain +7

  • Stats changes
    • Old : Def +15. Def Rate + 15. Max Crit. Rate +4%. Crit. DMG +10%
    • Change : Def +15. Def Rate + 40. Max Crit. Rate +4%. Crit. DMG +12%
  • Required level
    • Old : 99
    • Change : 115

4. Item extraction output

  • Target : Bluestin – Mithril
  • Change : Output will be Astral Core instead of Material Core / Quartz Core

5. Reduce cooltime of some general manufacturing recipe : to 6 seconds

  • Support the development of new materials (Daily quest)
  • Material / Quartz Core Conversion
  • Disc Conversion
  • Cartridge Conversion

6. Quest “Management of Artisan’s crafting” changes

  • Change the quest type
    • Change to daily quest, can be performed once per day
  • Change the reward
    • Old : 4x Craftsman Token
    • Change: 1x Craftsman Token

7. Remove the bug that caused to reset Battle Mode 3 combo status when use Force Kick skill
8. Change some areas of Arcane Trace to safezone

  • Start Point

9. Adjust the amount of Energy consumption
10. Change the rate to get top-epic item when trying to craft General Items
11. Change the speed of charging Energy


■ Additions
1. Additional production system : Replace the of Professional crafting system
i) Production System

  • The default Hotkey : F
  • Category: 38 categories
    • General > Orb / Crystal / Katana / Blade / Daikatana / Greatsword
    • General > Gauntlets / Greaves / Visor / Plate / Gloves / Boots / Headgear / Coat / Hands / Shoes / Headpiece / Suit
    • Ring / Amulet
    • Master > Orb / Crystal / Katana / Blade / Daikatana / Greatsword
    • Master > Gauntlets / Greaves / Visor / Plate / Gloves / Boots / Headgear / Coat / Hands / Shoes / Headpiece / Suit
  • Production Slot : Change from 4 to 6
  • Production Registering :
    • To register an Artisan production, requires Artisan Token
    • To register a Master production, requires Master Token
  • Production level
    • Change the craft level to 11 levels
  • Skill and energy
    • Each skill represents for a Crafting output branch
    • Each skill requires a specified amount of Energy
    • Skill point raises when success and on failure (gains 1 skill point)
    • On failure materials will not refunded
  • Ability to make 2slot items
ii) Weapon / Armor Production


  • How to Make
    • Artisan items: Produced with common materials
    • General Top-Epic items: Item which is manufactured by General Top-Epic can obtain additional option
    • Master items: Using rare materials but the result item can have 3 options
    • Artisan, General and Master items, each type has different color for item name

iii) Accessory Production

  • Ring: 19 kinds / Amulet: 16 kinds
  • Some old recipes are deleted
  • General Ring / Amulet :
    • Low : General Rings / Amulets at Low-grade
    • Medium : Rings / Amulets at Medium-grade
    • High : Rings / Amulets at High-grade
    • Highest : Rings / Amulets at Highest-grade

iv) Convert the Existing professional craft into Producing category

  • Professional craft will be converted into the equivalent Producing categories

2. Master Production daily quest

  • Quest name : The Management of Production – Master Grade
  • Start NPC : Port Lux – Manufacturing Merchant Chloe
  • Required : Leve 100 + and BSLv 11+
  • Mission : NPC and dialogue
  • Reward : Master’s Token
    • Use for registering Master production recipes
    • Character Binding

3. Add the Boss Battle for Arcane Trace Mission Field
i) Start

  • The battle will be held in Channel 13 – at 21:00 everyday (HERE IS SCHEDULE FOR KOREAN SERVER, THIS WILL BE CHANGED DEPENDS ON YOUR GAME PUBLISHER)
  • Add the information window, which displays the information of Boss Battle in Arcane Trace
    • Displays the number of region owned by each nation
    • Displays the HP of Boss
    • Displays the current attacking / defending nation
      • *Attacking nation : The nation which has the permission to attack the boss (this battle is turn-based)
      • Displays the information window only entered the Arcane Trace
ii) Battle Progress


  • Battle time : 1 hour
    • Included
    • Time for occupying Towers
    • Time for attacking Boss
  • Towers attacking
    • To occupy the Tower, players must defeat the Guardians



  • Boss attacking
    • The nation which gets more Towers will get the permission to attack the Boss
    • If both nations have the same number of Towers, both nation can attack the Boss
    • If the nation which get the permission to attack the boss does enough damage on the boss, all members who participating the battle will receive a Special Buff
    • The special buff has not yet implemented, will be updated later
  • Battle ending
    • Killed the Arcane Golem
    • Time for battle passed (1 hour)

iii) Victory

  • Battle Victory : Kill the Boss (Arcane Golem)
  • Compensation
    • General Golem: Each turn these Golems will be respawned up to 6 monsters
      • Drop Multiple Items : 3x items
    • Arcane Golem:
      • Drop Multiple Items : 50x items (YES, it’s 50, not a mistake)
      • Only players of the nation, which killed the boss, have the right to obtain items
      • Boss drops :
        • Accessory +8 (see below for list of Accessories)
        • Upgrade Core (High / Highest)
        • Slot Extender (High / Highest)
        • Critical Ring +3 / Ring of Luck +3

4. Additional Warp point

  • Each region of Arcane Trace has one warp point
    • Those warp point can be used only in the battle time

5. Accessories +8

  • Acquisition
    • Drop from the Arcane Golem boss of Arcane Trace in Arcane Battle
  • Item Information


 6. Update the list of Categories / Items in Auction Hall


  • Update the list of Categories / Items in Auction Hall for fitting with new list of items / craft systems
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May 30th 2012
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■ Fixes

1. Earring of Guard +5 – +7 could not be extracted, bug is fixed
2. Fixed quests related bugs
3. Selling crafted items in Personal Shop caused error
4. Materials for some Artisan / Master items dispayed abnormally
5. Upgraded Artisan items can not be used as material for higher grade
6. Abnormal usages of Odd Circle in some situtations
7. Searching Charm in Auction Hall returns incorrectly result in some situations


■ Changes

1. Production-related changes
i) making successful adjustments

  • Chance to success when crafting items adjustment
    • Based on Skill Grade
    • Chance of crafting 2-slot item adjusted

ii) Energy related changes

  • Change the charging amount of Energy from 3 to 5
  • Energy consumption when crafting changed

iii) Renamed some crafting categories
iv) Redesigned professional-crafting UI
2. Changes related to Referral System

  • Change materials for requesting Conversion recipes
    • Material Core conversion
    • Shape Cartridge conversion
    • Disc conversion
  • Change the success rate of some material core conversion recipes

3. Changes related to Extraction
i) Change the ability of extracting Equipments and Accessories which are sold in NPC
ii) Master item Extraction

  • Extraction outputs
    • Option Scroll : Chance to get if item has more than one slot
    • Upgrade Core (Piece) : Chance to get if item has upgrade (from +1 and above)
    • Force Core (Piece) : Chance to get if item has slot (from 1 and above)
    • Perfect Core: Chance to get if item is upgraded from +13 and above
    • Master item does not give Astral Core , Material Core

4. Increase the drop rate of Mithirl 2-slot items

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May 31st 2012
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■ Fixes
1. Bug that allow viewing the result of Pet Training, bug is now fixed
2. Some monsters spawned unusually, bug is fixed
■ Changes
1. Arcane Battle changes
i) Change the battle of UTS server

  • Battle will be held at 20:00 daily in Channel 3
  • Turn-based duration changed from 3 minutes to 2 minutes

ii) Additional skills

  • During the boss battle when the HP of boss reaches a certain amount, boss will cast additional skill, the moment of Skill casting
  • Can be checked in Boss HP gauge

iii) Additional Battle Buff

  • Kind
    • Person Battle Butt
    • Battle Based Buff
  • Person Battle Buff
    • Based on the number of participants, buff will be given
    • Smaller number of participants, stronger buff will be given
  • Battle Based Buff
    • By defeating Boss, each turn the Battle Based Buff will be given
    • By defeating Boss, two turns in a row the stronger Buff will be given
    • Buff based on the times of defeating Boss
  • Feature
    • Person Battle Buff and Battle Based Buff can not be stacked with Saints’ Weapon Buff and GM’s Blessing Buff

iv) Adjust monsters / boss stats of Battle

  • Adjust Boss / Monster HP
  • Adjust the Boss Attack
  • Adjust the Boss Defense

v) Change sound effect of boss
2. Change the way handling Distance and Range of Skills related to the attack from the illegal programs

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Jul 29th 2012
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Some information about Unbinding Stones

There are 2 types of stone : Requested Stone & Arcane Golem’s Stone
- Requested Stone : Obtained via Requesting with NPC Chloe, when using this stone fail on item, your item will be DESTROYED
- Arcane Golem’s Stone : Obtained from minions of Arcane Golem of Rage, when using this fail on item, your upgrade level of your item will be decreased (ex was +12, used fail -> +11)
Below is the screenshot of Arcane Golem’s Unbinding Stone (High) and some facts about Unbinding Stone (Both from requested and from Arcane Golem’s minions)

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Jul 30th 2012
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You know, crafting systems are overhauled in EP9 : Arcane Trace. There is no more Basic Crafting with formula cards , there is no more professional system with output rated as sillier-than-drops-from-dungeon Credits: http://mrwormy.wordpress.com/
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