E5 Information

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E5 Info

Postby tanda on Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:19 am
We will have our E5 updates at least a month after Korea. This is to make sure any major issues have been found before we update. Any major issues found will delay our release.

Epic 5 Part 1
This is currently live on the Korean Test Server

Part 1 Contents

Pet Skill Renewals. There will be no more unimplemented pet skills. Angels, Centaurs, Salamanders, and Hawkmen get their own skills.

Pets' Buffs will not be castable on any random person. For example, their buffs might be limited to the Pet or the owner.

Pets will gain stats every level.

Cerberus and White Dragons will be added.

New Dungeon will be added.

New Armor: 2x R3, 1x R4, 1x R5

New Weapons: 16x R6

New Cloaks: 1x R2, 3x R3, 1x R4, 1x R5, 1x R6

New Helms: 1x R1 - R5

Decorative Pet System will be added. (Crab & Rabbit)

They will not do anything yet. In the future they might have some function.

Level Limits for Dungeons

Roaming System - Roaming Guards around the outside of the towns. Unclear what future functionality they will get.


E5 Part 2
Scheduled for July in Korea. This work is not complete. I would consider it subject to change.

Part 2 Contents

Add 2 Dungeons

Possibly Add new Pets

New Armor: 2x R4, 1x R6

Soul Stones: Add Rare and Set Soul stones

Equipment: Add Set Items

Mount: A new mount, Qilin

Possibly add functionality to decorative pets, or add new decorative pets

Character Class Rebalancing

Ok, here comes the big ones. (Actually it doesn't look that big)
1. Creature skills and stats renewed.

2. 6 highest level of each server, including skell fighter, copied.

3. White Dragon/Cerberus empty and tamed creature cards added.
-They will only drop in the new dungeon.
-(White Dragon's Creature Riding skill is not working at the moment. It is planned to be added in Epic 5 Part 2)

4. E5 Logo, log-in screen, and loading screen changed.
New Logo, but without the background -> https://2img.net/h/i31.photobucket.com/albums/c398/Iluvatari/8e9b508a.jpg

5. The island and the dungeon added.
-You get there from a warpgate.
-You get to the dungeon through another portal.
-The monsters in the island are as strong as the current dungeon mobs. (Lv 121-125)
-The monsters in the dungeon are even stronger than the current dungeon mobs(+++, not ++). (Lv 125 - Lv 145)
-And mister boss, Betrayal, is Lv 150.
-Dungeon siege time: doesn't matter for us.

6. Moving guards around the villages added.
-Their roles will be added later. For now, they'll just walk around.

7. 13 R6 weapons, and an R6 shield, added.
-R6 equipment, as well as their ancient counterpart, will only drop from the new dungeon.

8. Item weight reduced.

9. Soul Stone durability reduced.

10. Skill tooltip will be more detailed, so that you can see what changes when leveling it up.

11. Rupee rewards for quests greatly increased.

12. Creature Card drops changed.
-Mobs of the same kind will drop the cards.
-Mobs that are not similar can also drop the cards.
-If the mob is not similar to the creature, the drop rate will be lower. The higher the level of the mob, the higher the drop rate.(?)

13. Money held limit system added.
-Avatars will only be able to hold 10B in inventory, and 100B in warehouse. Silver and Gold ingots added as currency.

14. The color of the monster's named have been changed so you can tell the difference between aggro mobs and non-aggo mobs.
-Aggressive mobs will have their name Red.

15. Avatar and Creature IDLE motions added.
-If you don't move for some time, the IDLE movements will appear.

16. (?)Empty bottle sets used for the creature production will be sold every day in the Auction House with a "Short term" period.(?)

17. Being able to teleport to your own dungeon is now also possible during siege.(?)

18. Sorry guys, but no more moon rabbit armies for you. If you heal/buff decoration mobs, they will not follow you anymore.

19. That grass you pick up in trainee island for that quest will respawn faster.

20. Changed so that Orange Potions, and 2 other items(I think healing related) won't sell in shops anymore.

21. 2 pets, Rabbit Chu and Hermit Crab, added.
-Summoned the same way as mounts.
-First time the pet is summoned, you can enter a new name, only once.
-The pet simply follows the avatar.
-The pet won't attack, and won't be attacked, by monsters.

22. Creature cards and creature retraining potions will be sold at the merchant NPC in Rondo, Horizen, Katan, and Laksy.
(FOR TEST SERVER ONLY)
-NPC Basics for 10K Rupees.
-Ex-commons for 20K Rupees.
-Ex-uncommons for 40K Rupees.
-Angel/Kenta for 80K Rupees.
-Cerberus/WD for 160K Rupees.
-Rabbit and Crab for 2080 Rupees.
-Retraining Potion for 100 Rupees.


Astarot's rates will be 5x for Exp, and 1x for drops.

Alot of complaints about pets MP, Get your flame suits on Wink

R6 Weapons can be found here, along with the 2 new pets, that pretty much do nothing at the moment:

http://rappelz.nflavor.com/community/inside02.aspx?menu=read&no=34

This certainly does sound intresting.

It sounds like E5 is adding a lot more than E4 did, but lets just hope it goes smoother than E4. (More additions means more things can go wrong)

after a short time of gameplay i have been noticing that the server or at least salamander server goes down for short periods of time. It has happened to me 2 times in a three day period and once after that about 4 days later.

Otherwise the gameplay seems smooth.