Server Updates

Heals

• Heal Pledge and Nature's Blessing now heal an extra 1% per point of the caster's CHA.

Dog fights

• Matches auto-start again 30 seconds after boot. Trey in Giran was answering "not selling" because the series never started on its own.
• All dog fight text (Trey's shouts, board, corner names, ticket names) is now localized. The odds line shows the real multiplier.

Bug races

• Tickets showed as "Longsword". They show their real name now, without a stray "+N" from the round marker.
• Clerks refused to buy tickets back because the buy-back list was cleared the moment the next round began. Tickets now stay redeemable for three rounds as intended.

Classic polymorph forms move at your level's speed

• The 26 forms added Sept 23 were attacking at the flat base rate, which felt slow and stuttery at 80+. Attack, damage, and spell pacing now scale with your level. Walking is unaffected.
• Dark ranger (90) and ranking dopel (70) had the same bug and are fixed.

Pledge houses

• Listing a house on the auction board no longer grants the 5,000,000-adena basement for free.

Duels

• A party leader can accept a duel again. The check was inverted, so only non-leaders could accept.

Pledge buffs

• The Einhasad pledge buff no longer sticks after leaving a buff map by dungeon-timer eviction, map cleanup, or a GM move.

Attendance

• Fixed a timing bug that could wipe an account's daily attendance progress on login.

Monsters now heal during a fight

• Any monster hit faster than its regen interval never regenerated before. Regeneration now ticks through combat.
• Because those values suddenly mattered, they were normalized: bosses heal 5% of max HP per minute, regular monsters 20% per minute. Thirty-one bosses that had no regen now do. Monsters that were at several hundred percent per minute are brought down so they stay killable. (Subject to review)
• Monsters that had no regen still have none. Guards, merchants, dolls, and the Talking Island training dummies are unchanged.

Evil Reverse weapons

• The Evil Reverse proc now lands three hits in a row, each rolling the weapon's damage and draining a fifth as HP, with the proper sprites for hits two and three. (Damage subject to review)

Classic polymorph forms

• Twenty-six classic polymorph forms are added, gated at levels 80, 82, 84, and 87. Five Death Knight sprites return to their classic attack timing.

Spells and skills

• Quake now works. It was flagged as a debuff, so every cast failed its landing roll while still spending MP and the Spirit Crystal, and auto-buff drained you recasting it.
• Destroy no longer answers "1 second until available" when cast the moment the overlay clears. The server cooldown now ends before the client's.
• Twenty-one attack spells (Destroy, Shadow Stun, Avenger, Eternity, Asura, Tempest, and others) no longer refuse to cast when you stand in a safety zone. They follow the normal rule: they hit monsters, and do nothing to players or pets when either side is in a safety zone. Bone Break and Desperado can no longer land on a player inside a safety zone.
• Spell scrolls now follow the same invisibility rule as spellbook casts. Buff scrolls no longer work while invisible.
• A refused cast no longer costs anything. Spell scrolls, Coma's Blessing Coin, and the NPC Enchant Weapon and Blessed Armor services are only consumed when the cast succeeds.

Elves

• Forgetting your element now dismisses your elemental spirit and ends element-locked buffs like Fire Shield, Iron Skin, and Storm Shot. Element-free buffs are left alone.
• Greater Elemental rebalance: all four spirits share the same body, STR 20 / HP 720, and differ by buffs and attack spell. The fire spirit gets Fire Touch, a 6-tile Sunburst, so it can actually use its spell. Water and wind bolts now hit as hard as fire and earth. The 50+ CHA tier hits about twice as hard and the spirit's MP regen is raised so it can sustain that cast rate.

Buffs

• Greater Haste is removed from /buff and town wizards. They now give Aqua Shot or Bless Weapon, Enchant Dexterity, Enchant Mighty, Aqua Protect, and Concentration.

Other

• Pets and summons now weigh what they already carry correctly. A summon that refused a large stack but accepted it piece by piece was counting held items at a third of their weight.
• Six raid NPCs (the four raid dragons, God of Hell, Ariok of Hell) are now correctly flagged as bosses.

Buffs

• Town wizards and the /buff command now give the same six buffs with no weapon required: Greater Haste, Enchant Dexterity, Enchant Mighty, Aqua Protect, Concentration, and Aqua Shot with a bow or gauntlet equipped or Bless Weapon otherwise. Shield is no longer included.

Crash and disconnect fixes

• Clicking a house on the auction board no longer disconnects you. Any house not currently listed now shows a "nothing happened" message instead.
• Re-entering the Time Rift after a disconnect works again. Your dropped session no longer holds your seat, and Tikal no longer consumes the entry item without letting you in.
• Clicking a treasure chest right after a battle tournament ends no longer errors.
• Unique doll auto-fill with two or more eligible dolls no longer fails and empties the panel.
• The racing rank list no longer errors or shows you someone else's rank when a racer drops out mid-update.

Messages and display

• A pledge that loses its house to unpaid tax now gets a system message when it happens.
• An arena cancelled for low attendance no longer announces it to the whole server, only to people at the arena.
• A refused pledge join request now tells the applicant instead of doing nothing.
• "No such player" when inviting to a chat party now includes the name.
• The Valakas Crystal +4 tooltip now shows the correct 2 ranged damage. The actual bonus never changed.
• The unlimited EXP potion icon no longer sticks on screen on some safety-zone tiles. The countdown pause on those tiles may still under-report time left. That is a known leftover pending a balance decision.
• The dungeon-timer recharge prompt now appears in your client language.
• Shutdown and save-data announcements are spelled correctly.

Rules

• Pledge leader checks now compare the leader's ID, not name. Since pledge names can be reused after a disband, this can only refuse someone who was wrongly allowed before.
• Awaken: Lindvior is flagged self-only in the data, matching the other three awakenings. It already behaved that way.

Performance

• Melee hits, walking, dying, leaving a pledge, enchanting, magic doll awakening, relic panel toggling, and a background inventory scan all do far less work. No rule, number, or message changed. You may notice the server is more responsive under load.

Renamed skills

• Dragon Knight "Destroy" is now "Guard Break". The mage spell Destroy is unchanged.
• Passives renamed to match the client: Titan: Rock, Empire: Overlord, Greater Summon Monster, Striker's Gale: Shot. The "Titian" typo on teaching items is fixed, along with several capitalization mismatches.

Vision Teleport

• Casting now asks you to pick a destination tile instead of opening the bookmark window or teleporting at random.
• A rejected cast no longer leaves you frozen in the teleport-wait state, and no longer plays the generic teleport swirl.
• Can now be cast from inside a safety zone.
• The Vision Teleport book now requires level 85.

Casting ranges corrected (server now matches what the client lets you target)

• Increased: Chill Touch 3, Curse: Poison 3, Curse: Blind 3, Earth Jail 8, Pollute Water 5, Phantasm 4, Howl 4.
• Reduced: Turn Undead 6, Call Lightning 6, Cone of Cold 6, Sunburst 3, Fog of Sleeping 3, Ice Meteor 8, Shock Stun 1.

Learn levels

• Elf Spirit Crystals now use 45 / 60 / 75 tiers (Earth Guardian 60, Aqua Shot 45).
• Call Clan Advance book: level 90. Avenger crystal: level 85.
• Passive books: Resist Element 30, Armor Guard 60, Titan: Rock 75, Counter Barrier: Veteran 85, Armor Break: Destiny 85.
• Illusion: Lich and Illusion: Golem now check the correct learn level. Several spellbooks that could be read too early are now gated correctly.

Durations and costs

• Halpas lasts 16 minutes. Divine Protection lasts 5 seconds. Curse: Poison lasts 30 seconds.
• Tempest now costs 15 MP and 30 HP as intended (it previously mis-deducted MP).
• Blind Hiding: Assassin and Shadow Armor: Destiny consume 1 Dark Stone. Holy Walk: Evolution consumes 1 Magic Gem.
• Brave Union's cooldown on a fresh cast is now the correct 24 seconds rather than the buff duration.

Other

• Howl, Gigantic, and Titan: Rising are now warrior-only, matching the rest of the warrior skill set.

Summons

• Elven Greater Elemental summons now scale with your Charisma: each point gives the spirit -1 AC and +2% HP. At 25/35/45 CHA the spirit keeps an extra elemental buff on you, and at 50 CHA it swaps its bolt for its element's attack spell (Sunburst, Cone of Cold, Call Lightning, Eruption).
• The four spirits are rebalanced onto common footing.
• Summoned Spirit of Wind now uses the correct Great Spirit sprite instead of a boss model.
• Summons that spend MP on spells now regenerate it. Previously a spell-only summon could stay drained forever.

Skills

• Blind Hiding has a fixed 10-second re-cast cooldown, matching the client overlay (was 24s).
• A hidden Dark Elf's own potion flashes and buff glows are no longer visible to other players when they have Blind Hiding: Assassin.

Combat

• Chaotic characters now actually receive the attack bonus from their Baphomet tier (+1/+3/+5 damage). It was recorded but never applied.

Pets

• Growth Island and the Forest of Life maps are pet-only EXP zones: your companion earns the kill EXP and you earn none there, with or without a pet out.

Siege and pledges

• Red Knights enlistment at Deporoju works again. It requires level 80, no existing pledge, and a castle whose siege is in its ready window.

• Call Clan Advance works again. The spell rejected every cast. It now pulls a target who is in both your pledge and your party, on the same map, and not stunned, dead, shopping, fishing, or mid-teleport.
• Attendance rewards can be claimed from the older reward screen. Claims sent that way silently did nothing.
• Lawful and chaotic Baphomet bonuses apply from login, not from your first alignment change.
• Castle guards chase a little further, up to 23 tiles from their post, and no longer forget attackers who move out of range.
• Pledge join failures give the correct reason instead of a mismatched message.
• Dungeon timer no longer refunds time on the first teleport of the day.
• Character saves no longer lose an item picked up mid-save.
• Hero-weapon scroll on the wrong weapon now tells you why instead of doing nothing and eating the scroll.
• Blessed item tooltips no longer show "+201" where "+20" was meant.
• Paid teleporters show a proper client message when you lack the item, in your own language.
• Alchemy consolation prize now announces the correct item after it exists.
• Bug race board no longer does nothing when clicked before the first race or between rounds.
• Running Man clears the previous winner on reset.
• Combat event force-close warnings now go to participants only, not the whole server.
• Dogfight bets can no longer slip in against a phase that already ended.
• Weaponless damage reflection matches the original formula again.
• NPC regen rate changes take effect, and effect timers no longer clear paralysis applied by something else.

Skills

• True Target (Royal) now works as intended. Marking a player gives your pledge and party mates a damage bonus against them for the duration. The cast is announced in pledge chat (party chat for non-pledge party members) and plays its cast animation. Monsters can still be marked, but only for the visual.

Bosses & Drops

• Valakas of Terror now spawns in Valakas Nest with his real loot table and boss mechanics, on a 3 to 5 hour respawn. The previous Nest spawn was a placeholder with no drops.
• Elemental zones now drop Restoration dragon hearts: Wind zone drops Lindvior, Water drops Fafurion, Earth drops Antharas, Fire drops Valakas. Drop chance scales with monster strength, with bosses dropping more.
• Halpas' Commitment drops have been cleaned up. It no longer drops from monsters under level 50 or in stacks. Drop chance now scales with monster level, with a higher chance from bosses.

Maps

• Aden map safety zones now follow the actual town outlines instead of rough rectangles. House doorways in town count as combat zones.
• Nightmare Island is no longer incorrectly flagged as a safety zone.

Hit chance rework

• Physical to-hit now uses one formula for every matchup, including pets.
• Weapon +hit and enchant now count toward accuracy. They were previously ignored.
• Monsters no longer gain accuracy against high-dodge players.
• Spear reach bugfix.

Dodge buffs

• Uncanny Dodge and Mirror Image no longer apply twice.

Companions

• Monster AC now affects your pet's hit chance.
• Max HP is now fixed by level and CON instead of a per-level dice roll. Expected HP is unchanged.
• Templates updated STR/INT floors, and CON worth 1 AC per point.

Equipment presets work again

• Saving or switching an equipment preset was landing in a fallback path and logging as unhandled. It now has a proper handler.

Raids and bosses

• Flame Sword holders can enter the Valakas raid without ditching the sword. The raid used to start only on the visit that gave you the sword.
• A boss skill set to 0% never fires. It used to fire 1% of the time.
• Valakas: the meteor no longer deals a flat 100 to every raider, the absorb-orb window always clears even if the boss dies during it, and the leo cleanup actually removes the leos.
• Raid loot lands on a walkable tile.

Items and inventory

• Items are no longer destroyed by a partial inventory add. The operation is refused instead of silently eating the remainder.
• Rank potions can no longer take experience away. They refuse unless they would actually raise your experience.
• Teleport scrolls are not consumed on a bad landing spot.
• Item transformation refuses up front when you lack enough target items, instead of announcing success and doing nothing.
• Event drops add to an existing stack instead of overwriting the count, and a dropped evil seed no longer swallows the rest of a monster's loot.
• Auto-potion honours cooldowns for every potion type, matching manual drinking.
• Party adena is split correctly: each member is offered their share, not the whole pile.
• The Halpas / Siren blessing icon clears when you unequip the item, and armour-set and time-limited armour bonuses are tracked on the correct piece.
• Alchemy refuses an input list that names the same slot twice.

Pledges

• Pledge join failures show the correct message. A prince joining another pledge, an unknown pledge name, and an invalid join type each sent the wrong error before.
• Pledge bless now expires at its configured 48 hours instead of 96. The client already showed 48 hours and members' effects expired on time. Only the server's phantom timer was wrong, which was also re-granting the buff to members who relogged inside that window.
• The tower-collapse announcement names the pledge instead of an empty string.

Combat and characters

• Divine Protection no longer errors out mid-hit after a level loss.
• Swinging while overweight tells you once, not every weapon interval.
• Pets revived by Call of Nature come back with MP, not just HP.
• Companion daily training resets exactly once a day, including across New Year.
• The wanted title clears when the wanted buff is removed.

Events

• Pet racing is available again right after a race (the track stayed closed for five minutes).
• Haunted House no longer locks out a player who relogs mid-event.
• Ultimate Battle rounds use all six spawn layouts. Five of them never appeared.
• Fishing: rare catches are announced on the map you're actually on, the event catch chance is exact, and teleporting to a bad destination no longer ends your session.
• LFC and Death Match got a batch of lifecycle fixes: no double rewards on tower close, level errors to the right team, no empty matches from stale confirmations.

95 more bug fixes, the first pass over the low-severity audit findings. Things you'll notice:

• Slow debuffs now affect players. MOVESPD_REDUCE slows only ever worked on monsters — players were immune.
• PvP rating can't be farmed at the floor. Killing someone already at minimum rating no longer creates a point out of nothing.
• The Giran beginner-helper NPC is level-gated. It was handing out Haste and full heals to anyone at any level; it now only helps low-level characters.
• Charisma changes update your stat window immediately (it was the only stat that didn't).
• The phantom arena rooms are gone — the two "demo" rooms nobody could enter no longer appear in the list.

Exploits closed: Another sweep of pay-before-grant fixes — emblem enhance, LFC entry, Tempest's reagent, Horun skill learning, clan towers, magic-doll slots, and achievement rewards can no longer be gotten for free via a well-timed failure or crash. Item transformation and polymorph card counts can't be raced for dupes. Portals only trigger when you're actually next to them, crafted dialog replies can no longer spend your Unique Cards or teleport GMs, bookmark items respect the bookmark limit, auctions extend only on real bids, and the server now enforces the kept-mail cap. Emote spam is validated and rate-limited.

Characters & accounts: Deleting a character now cleans up all its data everywhere (20+ tables). Character settings can no longer be silently lost.

World & spawns: Removed tower NPCs stay removed instead of respawning. Monsters with certain skills no longer get stuck on one target.

GM & user commands: A batch of hardening — more commands validate their inputs properly; negative amounts are rejected everywhere.

82 more bug fixes — the second and final sweep of the medium-severity audit. Things you'll actually notice:

• Pet and summon PvP damage is noticeably higher. Their damage reduction against players was applied twice (÷64 pets, ÷25 summons); it now applies once, as originally intended.
• Character PINs work again — the PIN gate had been left permanently open since a login refactor. If you set one, you'll be asked for it.
• Speed check tightened. Movement "budget" no longer piles up while standing still, so clients can't blink several tiles at once. Normal play is unaffected — report any rubber-banding on bad connections.
• Bans now actually disconnect you, server-side, including the account's other online characters.

Exploits closed: A big batch — racing TAM point balances negative, repeat-claiming the Return of the Ice escort reward, remote door opening via fake coordinates, snatching solo-bonus drops, pet withdrawal with someone else's amulet, clan actions without leadership, selling more items than you hold, zero-delay attacks via throwing knives, and auto-potion bypassing the shock-stun lockout. Fees and payments (polymorph synthesis, relic enchants, Sherme/Maeknob crafts) are now charged atomically — no more free items on a failure.

Events & bosses: Ultimate Battle no longer gets stuck active after a failed teardown, and its spawns/scores survive database hiccups. Boss skill tables load fully even with one bad row. Pet Match timers, guardian corpses, firewalls, and treasure chests all clean up properly.

Pets, bots & AI: Companion regen and stats survive bad data. Re-logged royals get their Brave Avatar again. Bot pathing and sieges are much cheaper on the server.

Quality of life & stability: Private mail refunds its 50 adena fee if the message fails to send. Buddy lists and premium shops recover from database errors instead of staying broken until restart. The online-player counter no longer drifts upward. Lots of performance work: shop catalogs, clan buffs, polymorph panels, and broadcasts are all significantly cheaper.

91 bug fixes from our ongoing code audit. Internal protocol modernization for 14 legacy packet classes.

Combat & skills: Bless damage reduction no longer counts twice. Mortal Body / Raging Force are no longer skipped on multi-level jumps. Invisibility drained MP ~3x too fast. MP-drain weapons now work on monsters. Wind Shackle, Counter Detection, Sting selection, and Breath of Magic all fixed. Armor HP/MP bonuses no longer drift your max HP/MP permanently.

Items & shops: Beginner quests no longer consume your whole material stack. Sherme no longer destroys 32 dragon marks when you're short on adena. Multi-item purchases can't take your items without paying. Level-up gifts no longer glitch when merging into a stack.

Maps & teleports: No more getting stuck teleporting, stranded on collapsing instance maps, or having bookmarks silently deleted at login. Leaving the Haunted House no longer kicks you from Pet Racing.

Events & bosses: Timed events no longer open a minute late; boss spawns no longer skip or double-fire. Dog-fight and bug-race betting edge cases fixed. Quest kill counters credit the final kill correctly.

Stability: Fixed crashes and stuck states around relogging, awakening, charms, pledgeless players, and summons — plus a large batch of under-the-hood thread-safety fixes.

Bug Fixes

• Monster stuns fixed — Shock Stun, Earth Bind, Bone Break, and boss-skill stuns now hold monsters for their full 1–4 second duration instead of wearing off almost instantly.
• Curse Paralyze works on monsters — the freeze now actually lands (previously monsters just turned gray and never froze), and Remove Curse can cure it.
• All 16 elemental spirit rings, Ring of Hero, Pants of Varga, and Guardian Hunting Tower now show properly on the ground when dropped.
• Max HP loss on level-up fixed — characters with a passive HP mastery (Gigantic Blow / Pride line, etc.) no longer lose the bonus HP when leveling up or using elixirs.

Changes

• Polymorph Control for casters — casting Shape Change while you hold a Ring of Polymorph Control now opens the pick-a-form dialog for yourself and others.
• Oren Snow Wall — the oversized Elmore packs have been thinned out to normal numbers.
• Valentine's Day Chocolate now tells you the event isn't active instead of being consumed as food.
• The Checkbook has been removed.

Elves & Teleportation

• Fixed Elves level 50+ teleport control.

Pets, Summons & Companions

• Ported /petpotion <10–90> command: set the HP% at which your pets and summons drink healing potions (default 40).
• Pets and summons drink haste potions properly again. (Like old client)
• Fixed being unable to hand items to tames & summons.
• Loot carried by a summon is no longer destroyed if its master is gone when it dies or returns to nature.

Combat

• Armor Break and Wide-Area Armor Break debuffs now only apply to players (PvP-only); they no longer affect monsters.

Quests

• The Monster Codex now counts kills correctly — it was inactive after server restarts.

• World map teleport fixed. Clicking a town on the world map now teleports you (consumes one Blessed Scroll of Teleportation; a Ring of Teleport Control waives it).
• Weapon repair fixed. Blacksmith no longer crashes the client. All damaged weapons are repaired directly at 200 adena per damage point, cheapest first.
• 8-for-1 revive. Double-click any [R]/[L] revival item with 8 copies for a guaranteed reward — no roll, no chance of loss.
• Revival items fixed. Resurrection Order is back on sale (1,000,000 adena) at Leaf of Life vendors. Blessed Leaf loss chance corrected to 80%. Light of Eternal Life no longer destroys the Soulless weapon every time (5% success). (Subject to review.)
• Titan Rock / Bullet / Magic now correctly trigger only below 40% HP (50% under Titan Rising).
• Gender Change Potion no longer kicks you to character select, and has no level requirement.
• Hard-skinned monsters restored. Golems, mimics, turtles, crocs, dragons, bosses and other armored monsters again halve arrow damage and wear down weapon durability on hit.
• Ice Demon drops its full loot table again (25 entries).
• Ice Crystal Cave: frozen statues are passive 1-HP statues again; only the bow Ice Queen Guard is aggressive; spawn counts restored.
• Fishing Merchant Marco now sells Bait, the Growth Rod, and the Reel of Growth.
• Axe of the Wind from Mino is now the enchantable version.
• Signboards in towns display their text again.

Fixes

• Major Fields and Tower of Domination Summit open again — they'd been stuck closed since the zone-gate refactor.
• Ice Demon's Pocket and Ice Queen's Box now contain items.

Combat

• CHA now gives +1 hit (melee/ranged/magic) at 35 and another +1 at 45.

Performance

• Bless of Ein deductions no longer hit the DB on every kill.
• Duel-point and standby tables cached instead of queried per kill/hit/chat.
• Faster DB connection borrowing.

Cleanup

• Removed ~150 unused merchant NPCs, the cash-shop and limit-shop systems, the Wish Lamp event, and ~30 dead/empty box items.
• "Bless of Ain" renamed to "Bless of Ein" throughout (code, config, DB columns).

The migrator is being reapplied. More changes to come at a later date.

Pets → Pet Tokens

• Pets are now valued by how much effort went into raising them, not just their level.
• Untouched, low-level tamed pets convert to nothing.
• Old pet weapons and armor are converted into Pet Tokens instead of being deleted. Each piece pays out based on its tier.

Items

• Old spellbooks whose item IDs now teach different spells are not carried over, so nobody can learn new-server content they never earned. This affects the old books for: Create Magical Weapon, Call Pledge Member, Teleport to Pledge Member, and the elf crystals for Earth Skin, Entangle, Fire Weapon, Wind Shot and Wind Walk, plus five other books whose IDs are now used by Freezing Armor, Enchant Accuracy, Ice Meteor, Ice Spike and Elven Gravity.

PvP Records

• Kills during declared wars now count toward your transferred KDA and Elo rating, alongside ordinary open-world PvP kills. Ratings seeded from old-server history will reflect this.

Magic rebalance

• Mage attack spells rescaled to the classic baseline. Energy Bolt, Meteor Strike, Destroy, Ice Spike and friends now average what they did on the old server, with much tighter min/max spreads (no more 17× swings). Ice Meteor is tuned to ~450 avg.
• Smoother SP scaling. Every mage spell now gains a uniform +3% per SP with no dead zones between SP 10/20/30/40. Fresh mages will hit a bit softer, well-geared mages noticeably harder — a real gear progression arc.
• Destroy: rebalanced (≈405–1609 per cast). Eternity matches Destroy. Ice Spike is now a cheap, cooldown-free single-target Meteor at half the damage. Blizzard buffed to ≈96–144 as the only screen-wide AoE.
• Spell crits unified: every spell has a 10% base crit plus an INT curve (no more 0% crit zone above INT 25). Per-spell crit overrides are gone.
• Avenger now does 15% of target max HP per hit, with the execute chance triggering at ≤25% HP as the description says — it is no longer a guaranteed one-shot.
• Death Heal now reverses 30% of the heal into damage (was 100%). Boss versions (Fafurion, raid) match.
• Confusion, Mind Break and Bone Break have their classic damage back.
• Chill Touch / Vampiric Touch now heal you for the full base damage dealt, scaled by your alignment (100% at max lawful, tapering down as you go chaotic — chaotic casters keep their damage bonus instead).

Healing & alignment

• All heals +50% across the board.
• Alignment now affects heals symmetrically: +1% per 1,000 lawful, −1% per 1,000 chaotic. Turn Undead chance gets the same lawful bonus.
• Chaotic characters get a matching bonus on the "dark" family: Curse Poison/Blind/Paralyze, Weapon Break, Darkness, Weakness, Fog of Sleeping (landing chance) and Chill Touch / Vampiric Touch / Blizzard (damage).
• Nature's Blessing now also heals summons, pets and companions of you and your party.
• Heal Pledge is clan-only again (it was accidentally healing every visible player and monster).

PvP

• Classic pink-name rule restored: attacking a chaotic player no longer turns you pink.

Pets, summons & companions

• Hitting your own pet, summon or companion no longer makes it turn on you, doesn't command your other pets to attack it, doesn't flag you pink, and doesn't cost you alignment if you kill it.
• Companion stat breakpoints: reaching 20 and again 30 in a stat grants a flat bonus — STR: +1 melee dmg/hit · CON: +1 HP regen, −1 AC · INT: +5 skill dmg, +1% proc.
• Companion INT crit is now live — companion spells can crit.
• Companion Fury gauge fills faster the higher your CHA (+1% per point).
• Fixed companions showing spendable stat points that couldn't actually be spent.
• Hatchling eggs carry over from the old server as-is. Bring them to Banku: a Green egg exchanges for a Blue Hatchling Pet Basket, a Yellow egg for a Red Hatchling Pet Basket.
• Legacy pet weapons/armor from the old server are converted into Pet Tokens on migration.

Items

• Spellbooks, Memory Crystals, Dragon Tablets and similar spell-learning items now stack.
• One Bite Chance, Lastavard Supplies Bag/Box, Bandit Pouch, Ice Demon's/Ice Queen's Pocket, Druga's Bag, Cursed Blood and Scroll of Soul now stack.
• Aden map items removed from NPC shops.
• Old-server spellbooks whose item IDs now teach different spells won't carry over.
• The Create Magical Weapon spellbook (retired) has been removed from the game and from inventories.

Bug fixes

• Ivory Tower Ramia no longer squeezes you from range — the grab only fires when adjacent.
• Detection no longer strips a hidden player's invisibility cloak when the reveal itself is blocked (assassin hide immunity), and correctly checks the target's ghost state.

Skills

• Heals rebalanced. Heal, Extra Heal, Greater Heal, Full Heal, and Pledge/Blessing now scale properly by tier again. Full Heal is once more the strongest single-target heal, Greater Heal remains the most MP-efficient self-heal, and Pledge/Blessing pull ahead when healing 3+ allies. INT now adds more HP per point.
• Tempest, Ragnarok, and Asura fixed. These spells were triggering their full AoE once per nearby monster, causing multiplied damage, reagent use, and client freezes/crashes in large groups. They now cast exactly once.
• Cube: Lich / Cube: Golem no longer permanently stack their stat bonuses on the caster with every cast. The bonus now expires normally.
• Missing buff icons restored: Venom Resist, Resist Elemental, Resist Magic, Mobius, Solid Carriage, Pride, Gigantic, Illusion: Lich, and Illusion: Diamond Golem now display their icons when cast/learned and after relogging. Gigantic, Solid Carriage, and Pride also apply their stat bonuses immediately on learning instead of after your next relog.

Items

• "One Bite Chance" treasure box no longer hands out "+5 Adena" / "+5 Honor Coin". Any existing enchanted Adena/Honor Coins (including market listings) have been corrected to +0.

Web Market

• The Mailbox is now shared per game account — any character on the account (or Account Storage) can claim a parcel. Pick who receives it with the character selector.
• Account Storage no longer gets stuck "in use" after using the warehouse in-game.
• Selling a stack: you can now enter the price per item or for the whole stack, and both are shown.

Experience

• Fixed negative / garbage EXP shares on high-HP boss kills.
• Pet EXP now follows the legacy formula (with level penalty) instead of a flat ×50, and a single kill can no longer carry a pet past its next level.
• Companion EXP reworked to match pets: legacy-style gain, one level per kill, level penalty applied.

Items

• Ring of Sema / Ring of Orim now correctly show their charges (max 20) and can be recharged again.
• Marriage ring recharge now costs 100,000 adena and requires your spouse to be nearby, as on the original server.

Fixes

• Fixed various bugs with TAM.
• Buff icons restored for several skills that applied correctly but drew nothing on your bar: Death Heal, Absolute Blade, Grace Avatar, Titan: Rising, and Soul Barrier's non-passive form.
• Death Heal no longer cleanses its own caster, and no longer applies Water Life / Pollute Water scaling twice. Re-casting it now properly refreshes the debuff. Black Elder's Death Heal got the same fix.
• Kill credit for reversed heals now goes to whoever applied Death Heal, not to the healer.
• Reinforced / Fortified T-Shirt tooltips no longer repeat the damage reduction tooltip twice.
• Stuck Aden houses — 67 lots were flagged for sale but missing from the auction board, leaving them permanently unreachable. They now repair themselves at startup and return to the normal auction cycle.

Changes

• Raid boss Death Heal now reverses heals into damage as intended (it previously applied a debuff that did nothing), and shows the same icon as the player version.
• Justice Beta Pack (Elf) now also contains +7 Dragon Slayer and +8 Divine Elven Shield.
• Retired items: Temple of Shadows keys and Elemental Commander have been removed from circulation, including copies in player inventories. Their shop entries and craft recipes are gone.

Exploits & Security

• Fixed various exploits related to confirmation prompts (Yes/No dialogs).
• Players can no longer read other players' mail.
• Doors and castle gates can no longer be opened or closed from another map.
• Items can no longer be handed to other players' pets, summons, or companions.
• Approving a pledge application now requires Guardian rank or higher.
• Crafting recipes can no longer be completed with fewer materials than required.

Crashes & Disconnects

• Setting a title longer than 16 characters now shows a message instead of disconnecting you.
• The blacksmith's "repair weapons" option no longer crashes the client when you have nothing damaged.
• Stat reset (candle) can no longer permanently destroy your earned stat points.

Combat & Skills

• Evil Reverse on Hidden Demon weapons now gains +1% proc chance per enchant level. The Hidden Demon Greatsword now procs it as well.
• Cancellation no longer strips haste granted by equipped items.
• Poison immunity (Venom Resist / immunity gear) now cures poison you already have, not just new poison.
• A spell that finds no target no longer consumes your spirit crystal.
• AOE weapon procs no longer hit pets and summons standing in a safety zone.
• Pets and summons no longer attack players protected by a safety zone.

Monsters

• Passive bosses (TOI bosses, Death Knight, Kurtz) now drop aggro when the player teleports away, dies, or logs out.
• Monsters now leash home when pulled too far — they reset to their spawn with full HP/MP, cleared hate, and cured status. Groups reset together, so a group can't be split by pulling one minion.
• 17 bosses had inconsistent aggro settings. Four Lastabad bosses were fully passive; eleven (including Grim Reaper and Lich) could be walked past while invisible; Great Black Elder ignored Polymorphed players.
• Pickup NPCs no longer zigzag uselessly when several items are on the ground.

Marriage

• An engagement ring is now required to propose. Failed proposals at the altar now tell you why.
• Fixed proposals binding to the wrong player when another dialog arrived mid-proposal. Accepting no longer breaks a third player's marriage.
• All eight engagement rings can now be recharged — four of them previously became permanently dead once drained. The 1000 adena fee is only charged if you actually have a ring to recharge.

World

• Timed zones (Forgotten Island, the four Major Fields, Tower of Domination Summit) now enforce their schedule on every entry route, not just the teleporter NPC.
• Two Forgotten Island ↔ Golem Laboratory portals were wired to each other's exits and are now corrected.

Other

• Items that have just dropped can now be picked up reliably.
• Private shop mode is refused above 1.5B adena with a clear message, instead of sales silently failing.
• Devil's Blood (and Trainee Devil's Blood) now work with auto-potion for Royals.

Treasure Boxes — Properly check if contents will fit in the player's inventory before opening.

Pets & Companions — When collecting, items you can't carry stays with the pet or companion instead of dropping to the ground. — On paths where the pet is removed, overflow now goes to your personal warehouse before the ground.

Marriage — /propose no longer checks gender. Any two characters can marry.

Dragon Slayer — Now usable by elves and knights. Removed from the Druga Clan heirloom boxes.

Pledges — Emblems can't be changed while your pledge is at war.

Skills — Illusion Avatar can no longer be cast on other players inside a safety zone. Self-cast is unchanged.

Private Shops — Time-limited items can no longer be listed (altar keys, veteran gear, magic dolls, Dagger of the Heavens, polymorph turbans, Bow of Illusion, etc.).

Food — Basilisk Egg Soup now grants its regeneration.

Combat — Curse: Paralysis sends a chat warning when it lands, so you can react before the freeze.

Summons — Return to Nature no longer works in a safety zone. Items you can't carry go to your private warehouse instead of the ground.

Commands — /buff is blocked while dead, paralyzed, sleeping, shop-running, or under Earth Bind / Shock Stun / Bone Break / Confusion — and no longer charges you first.

Elves & NPCs

• Ellyonne now actually works. Her menu buttons — the four elemental picks, init/count, the adena reset, and the Candle of Reminiscence reset — did nothing when you talked to her. All functional now.

Polymorph

• Closed an exploit that let any player morph into 17 item-gated forms (Ring Master, event, and EV forms) without owning the ring or event item that unlocks them. These now correctly require the item.
• Scroll of Polymorph no longer eats your scroll on a failed morph (restricted map, missing gate item, etc.). The scroll is only consumed when you actually change form.
• A refused polymorph no longer strips your Absolute Barrier or resets the timer on the form you're already using.
• Fixed forms with duplicate data rows loading inconsistently between restarts, which could shift a form's level requirement.

Items

• Removed the last live sources of the polymorph collection cards (10501–10503).

Skills

• Blood Lust: nearby players no longer keep seeing the aura on someone whose buff already expired.
• Focus Wave, Hurricane, Sand Storm, Dancing Blaze: cleaned up the messaging. No more doubled cast/expiry lines, no more doubled cancel message when unequipping, and Sand Storm and Dancing Blaze now show their own aura instead of the generic Brave Potion one. Dancing Blaze no longer reports "Fire Weapon has worn off." Recasting Focus Wave no longer falsely announces that your haste expired.
• Known cosmetic issue: the client itself prints "Your haste has worn off." on any brave-buff cancel; that can't be suppressed server-side.

Social

• Re-adding someone already on your buddy list no longer errors out. It's now a silent no-op, and a buddy who has since changed their name has the entry refreshed instead of failing.

⚔️ Combat & magic

• Protector guardians' counter-attacks now respect Absolute Barrier and other invulnerability effects, the same as any other magic.
• Zou's pull yanks enemies again. Its targeting filter was inverted, so it dragged the protector's own red knights around and did nothing at all to opponents.

🎒 Items & equipment

• Lindvior's Kirin: the weapon's spell-power bonus now actually applies to your spell damage.

🎉 Events

• Time Rift is enabled by default, and is scheduled automatically when the server starts.

🌍 World & quality of life

• Drop messages name monsters the way the world does. The drop line used the raw server-side name, so it could read differently from the label above the monster you just killed.
• The party drop line finally names the monster that dropped the item — its old template had no slot for one at all.
• Boss auto-distribution lines read correctly. The old message had its slots filled in the wrong order and came out as "<monster> has obtained <item> of <player>"; it now plainly names the player and the item.
• The skill-disassembly shop is now per-class. Two players using it at the same time no longer see or consume each other's stock.

🔧 Staff tools

• Server announcements now appear on-screen for everyone. Messages posted from the staff dashboard show up as a notice banner in game — until now they were delivered but never actually displayed. (This completes the dashboard announcement work noted in the previous post, which covered only the posting side.)

✅ Resolved

• The Japanese and Chinese client login crash is fixed. The corrupted translation tables were rebuilt and published to the patch server — your launcher picks them up automatically on next start. You no longer need to set the launcher language to English.

⚠️ Two balance corrections

• Spell critical rate is coming down. Gear that grants magic critical was being counted twice on every crit roll. It now counts once, as the item describes. Casters will notice fewer crits — the old rate was a bug, not the balance target.
• Companions hit buffed players for less. Companion attacks ignored most defensive buffs — Dragon Skin, Lucifer, Absolute Barrier and the tiered damage-reduction buffs simply didn't apply. Companions now respect exactly the same mitigation as player-versus-player combat.

⚔️ Combat & magic

• Your MP bar updates the moment you cast. Casting deducted mana on the server but never told your client, so the bar sat stale until you teleported or regenerated. Every action that changes HP or MP now reports it immediately — this was the most-reported bug of the week.
• Ally, enemy and same-clan marks appear above characters again in combat fields and on presentation maps. They had silently stopped rendering entirely.
• Area-effect monster damage is clamped the same way raid boss skills were on the 16th — heavy mitigation can no longer turn an attack into a heal.
• Weapon special-enchant procs are back to the classic 1% rate.
• Wide-area raid attacks use their configured damage range instead of a hardcoded value, strike each player once per activation instead of once per sweep, and their tightening circle actually tightens.
• Boss combo skills respect paralysis that is already applied.
• Eternity's delayed second hit is scheduled safely and can no longer fire into a dead session.
• Charm slots recover when stuck, refuse duplicate assignment, and always clear when deactivated; removing a Top Buff no longer requires still holding the charm.
• Your four saved polymorph slots survive login — every login had been clobbering them. Ranking-class polymorph scrolls work (their names were too long to store), and the Death Knight polymorph is fixed.

🎒 Items & equipment

• Red Shadow Dual Blade grants the melee critical it advertises.
• Crystal Staff applies the magic damage it advertises.
• Doppelganger charm rolls its activation once instead of twice, at the rate the item states.
• Timed items show their true remaining time — long windows were being truncated.
• Four tooltip lines that read "CharacterAbility" read "Ability" again.
• Armour ancient-book level caps check the real armour type instead of the wrong one.
• Accessory spell power now counts toward spell damage, and accessory heal-defence reads as whole percents.
• Named item copies keep their magic name and their time-limit expiry message.
• Inventory sort can no longer lose items if something fails partway through.

🐾 Pets & companions

• Evolving a pet carries its held items across instead of destroying them.
• Pets dropping items check capacity first and fall back to the ground, rather than the item vanishing.
• Companion experience no longer overflows at high values, training experience stops at max level, and death-penalty experience saves as one piece so a crash can't split it.
• Companion accuracy no longer inverts inside combat zones.
• The pink-name timer counts down the time you have left instead of counting up.

🛡️ Clans, houses & alliances

• Unpaid house tax now warns you first and gives a three-day grace period before the house is seized. Seizure is deterministic too — it no longer depended on how recently the server had restarted.
• Clan emblem uploads work. Every emblem upload had been failing.
• Alliance merges: the absorbed clan's house goes to auction instead of being orphaned, and the receiving clan's officers keep their rank instead of being demoted to Trainee.
• The clan brave buff no longer stacks two tiers on the same member, and ends cleanly.
• One clan's buff failure no longer breaks the buff for other clans.
• Clan point rewards are credited correctly when the killer has no clan, or when a clan was deleted mid-fight.
• The clan ranking list no longer fails as a whole when a single entry has no date, and officer applications route correctly.
• The tutorial clan keeps the announcement and emblem it was given.

🎉 Events, raids & dungeons

• Running Man's stun trap lasts seconds instead of milliseconds — it had been ending a thousand times too early.
• Ant Queen rewards grant correctly, once per player.
• Dogfight: one failed match no longer aborts the whole series, a staff cancel cleans up properly, and the winner announcement names the right game.
• Death Match cleanup runs even when only one member is left.
• LFC: your fee is refunded if the instance can't be created, and arena thorn damage counts as environmental instead of landing on your record as a PvP kill.
• Dungeons: consumed time is saved as you play, timers can't drain twice, and one player's error no longer stops everyone else's timer.
• Pet racing: cancelling with an empty roster resets properly, and leaving clears you from every ranking bucket.
• Haunted House's member count matches the names actually listed.
• Tournament rounds no longer stall when a monster fails to spawn.
• Inn rentals re-check every requirement at the moment you pay.

💰 Trading, auctions & economy

• Auctions re-check bidder eligibility when the auction resolves, and refund the bid if the bidder no longer qualifies.
• A failed payout is reported instead of telling the seller they were paid when they weren't.
• Extending an auction deadline writes only the deadline — it no longer overwrites the rest of the listing.
• Consignment purchases and gifted items confirm payment and delivery before the item is created.
• Party loot and adena sharing now require party members to be on the same map, not merely within range.

🏆 PvP

• Open-world war kills now count toward your KDA and Elo rating.
• Missing PvP damage-balance data applies x1.0 instead of zeroing your damage.

🌍 World & quality of life

• Renaming a character carries your relic and quest progress with you.
• Five player commands that had been locked to staff by mistake are usable again.
• Temporary stat buffs (stat elixirs, ice) end at logout instead of following you into your next session.
• Crafting enforces the whole recipe server-side — level, class, alignment and materials — and rejects recipes you don't qualify for before anything is consumed.
• After reconnecting, HP/MP regeneration, buffs and timers always tick for the new session; a dead session can no longer hold them hostage.
• Auto-hunt uses the same potion list you can actually select.
• Monsters killed by another monster's effect no longer hand out experience and drops with nobody credited.
• Picking up an item only animates and credits when the pickup actually succeeded.
• A startup cleanup routine could delete legitimate warehouse, clan and trade items whose ID fell in a wide range — only genuine event tickets are cleaned up now.
• Permanent effects (invisibility, staff HP-bar) no longer quietly become temporary ones that expire.
• Assorted NPC fixes: boxed-in NPCs recover instead of standing still, castle guards re-acquire their target, and walking NPCs stay tracked on the map.

🔧 Staff tools

• The web dashboard's command queue works. Nearly every queued command had been failing outright; announcements can now be posted straight from the dashboard.
• The standby toggle gates features live instead of requiring a restart.
• /pk on enables PvP rather than blocking it — the switch had been inverted.
• Hardened behind the scenes: attendance day-rollover, monster-spawn reload, NPC and skill data parsing, animation-rate handling, and concurrent companion stat writes.

✅ Resolved (updated 18 August)

• The Japanese and Chinese client login crash listed here is now fixed. The corrupted translation tables were rebuilt and published to the patch server — your launcher picks them up automatically on next start. You no longer need to set the launcher language to English.

⚔️ Combat & raids

• Raid boss skills can no longer heal you. Certain boss attacks could roll a negative value and restore the raider's HP instead of dealing damage — now floored at zero.
• Fixed healing-reduction accessories — a high-enchant accessory could cancel all healing reduction instead of applying its intended amount.

💰 Economy & housing

• Hardened house auctions further: under heavy load, the deadline extension and periodic scans can no longer double-resolve an auction or disturb a live bid (which could have affected a bidder's escrowed adena).
• Fixed the premium feather reward granting the wrong amount.

🎉 Events & instances

• Fixed an LFC issue where a GM force-close crashed the match and paid full rewards.
• Fixed instance / copy-map handling so a room can't be handed out twice or corrupt the base map.
• Fixed a rare event-logout timing crash.

🌍 World & monsters

• Monsters now regenerate HP correctly after taking damage (and the Ancient Guardian wakes as intended).
• Fixed deleted doors leaving permanent invisible walls.
• Fixed a full inventory aborting a monster's exp/drops and leaving an impassable corpse.

🔧 Behind the scenes

• Fixed a slow resource leak from hatchling dolls, removed some dead code, and hardened build/test safety.

🔒 Security & exploit closures

• Closed an exploit that could destroy items lying on the ground anywhere on the map. Dropped items are safe again.
• Treasure chests can only be opened when you're standing next to them.
• Bot-summoning items are now consumed on use (one item could previously be reused forever).
• Bows and other ranged weapons now respect their real attack range — shots beyond your weapon's reach are rejected.
• Closed several offline-reward / TAM point exploits that could pay out repeatedly.
• Crafting now validates elemental-enchant materials strictly — forged inputs are rejected before anything is consumed.
• Closed a house-tax dodge, a bug-race ticket replay, and several shop-billing holes (see Economy).

⚔️ Combat & skills

• Duel points now actually award on kills in duel zones — the system was configured but had never paid out.
• The Judgment emblem's special-pierce bonus now applies and removes correctly when you toggle it (previously only on login).
• Fixed several buffs stacking on re-cast — re-buffing an already-buffed target, BLESS_WEAPON, and POTENTIAL/Pride/Gigantic now apply once.
• Fixed level-down "reviving" expired HP buffs.
• Fixed Mortal Body applying an incorrect HP amount.
• Chat restrictions (silence, chat-ban, ghost, map rules) now apply on every chat channel.
• Firewall damages players correctly.

⚠️ Balance correction — armour HP/MP

• Armour HP/MP bonuses were being applied twice. Armour with an HP or MP bonus was granting double its listed value; it now grants exactly what the tooltip says. You will notice lower max HP/MP on affected gear — the old number was a bug, not the intended stat.

🛡️ Clans & chat

• Whispers are private again — they no longer appear as chat bubbles everyone can read.
• The block list works now (blocking a player had never actually functioned).
• Clan leaders (Prince/Princess) hold the top rank with full pledge permissions; migrated clans were remapped to the renewal rank system.
• Clan merges now verify everyone fits before anything happens — a merge could previously leave surplus members permanently clanless, overflow the member cap, or list the joining leader twice.
• Clan merges now respect the server's alliance rules.
• Emblems are no longer lost on rename or inherited by a recreated character name.

🐾 Companions, pets & summons

• Summons despawn when you log out, like pets and dolls always have — no more ownerless summons lingering in the world.
• Companion buffs that expired while summoned no longer come back for free on re-summon.
• Companion elixirs respect their per-companion lifetime limit, and stat resets correctly account for elixir-granted stats — the reset can no longer be cycled for free stat points.
• Healing potions no longer work on a dead companion (revive it first).
• Pet capacity counts summons too.

💰 Economy, shops & housing

• House tax can no longer be dodged by relisting for auction — failed auctions don't reset the deadline, and unpaid-tax seizure works as intended.
• Bug-race tickets from previous rounds are now void — old losing tickets can't be cashed when their number recurs.
• Dogfight betting works now — ticket purchases had failed for everyone since launch.
• Fixed Aden shop N-Coin not being charged, shop purchase limits miscounting, and private-shop buy orders — all bill and track correctly now.
• Fixed the Druga pocket purchase losing your adena on a full inventory.
• Beta Shop merchant added; blank scrolls swapped for the doll catalogue; five dragon-raid dolls pulled from sale.
• Pet tokens repriced and extended to level 82; migrated pets valued by effort, not just level.
• Crown of Mummy Lord boxes now contain the agile variant.
• The free power-level NPCs are retired.
• Rare-drop announcements only fire for genuine world drops now.
• Legacy import: accessories import at half stats (rounded down); Ring of Laia / Ancient Giant map to the correct items.

🎉 Events

• RunningMan actually polymorphs you now — the poly traps and wand had been doing nothing (and the wand could crash) since a config change dropped their data. Original forms and durations restored.
• Fixed the deathmatch event staying "in progress" ~30 minutes after a win.
• Fixed TAM fruit occasionally applying with a wildly wrong (weeks-long) duration.

🤖 Bots & automation

• Hunt bots no longer vacuum up and delete other players' dropped items.
• Bot AoE attacks no longer blame or damage innocent bystanders.
• Auto-buff no longer strips and re-casts elf shields (Iron Skin / Fire Shield) in a loop.
• Auto-potion no longer burns a haste potion every fraction of a second while a haste item is equipped.

⏱️ Dungeons

• Dungeon time can no longer be recovered via an offline shop, and a reset error can no longer grant unlimited dungeon time.

🌍 World & NPCs

• Death drops respect alignment again — lawful characters don't drop on death; chaotic characters drop at classic rates. (A bug had everyone dropping at least one item on every unprotected death.)
• Guards no longer freeze their area when they die.
• Raid teleport portals that errored now work.
• Safe zones vs. combat zones are classified correctly (some maps treated combat areas as safe).
• Liberated pets/summons no longer drop loot they shouldn't.

🏆 PvP

• Elo ratings are live — seeded from your PvP kill history, shown on the PvP ranking board and in-client chart. Staff are excluded; castle-siege kills don't count toward your personal score.

✨ Quality of life & stability

• Reconnecting after a crash/hang takes over your old session instead of refusing with "already in use."
• Levelling up no longer blanks your screen; candling no longer freezes mid-level-up (staff can free a stuck character on the spot).
• Characters that gained exp ahead of their level are no longer locked out.
• Equipment charisma applies as a bonus stat instead of overwriting your base stat.
• Trainee Potion of Greater Healing (and one other) heal correctly; healing numbers show instantly.
• Selling at certain shops no longer errors; ranking/enchant boards no longer time out.
• Item stack counts save immediately — a crash can't roll them back.
• Multi-client limit raised to 8 per PC. Fixed a walking stutter and a cancelled-attack crash.
• PC-cafe attendance flag toggles correctly.

🔒 Security & exploit closures

• Closed a crafting exploit that could mint max-tier elemental attributes.
• TAM offline rewards can no longer be re-claimed on repeat, and no longer pay for time you haven't been offline yet.
• Growth Island no longer gives a full level per kill.

⚔️ Combat & skills

• The Judgment emblem's pierce now applies and removes as you equip/unequip — no relog needed, and it no longer lingers afterwards.

🐾 Companions & pets

• Companion EXP share is only deducted when a companion is actually out.
• Legacy pet → Pet Token payouts rebalanced to reward pets that were actually raised.
• Fixed some pet bugs.

💰 Economy & shops

• Elf treasure boxes now give the Agile Crown of Mummy Lord instead of the Royal Crown of Mummy Lord.
• Added dolls to the Beta Shop.
• Increased the global Exp rate.

🌍 World & NPCs

• Death drops now respect lawful alignment again.
• Fixed guards never dying properly.

✨ Quality of life & stability

• Fixed the screen going blank on level-up at 80+ — every player and NPC vanished until you relogged or reloaded.
• Fixed a crash when casting with nobody in sight (Blind Hiding).
• Fixed an error when opening the sell list on NPCs that don't buy anything.
• Fixed the candle window freezing on the +10 button.
• A stale session no longer blocks you — logging in now takes over the account instead of refusing you the first time.
• Fixed movement errors when walking mid-attack.
• Fixed a bug that could block a character from logging in.
• Misc bug fixes.

🛡️ Clans & pledges

• Fixed migrated clan ranks landing on the wrong numbers — pledge founders had no permissions in the pledge window. Leader, Guardian, Normal and Trainee ranks are now correct.
• War declaration, emblem changes and employ/demand now correctly recognize the Royal (leader) rank.

🎒 Items & inventory

• Stackable item counts now save immediately instead of up to 10 minutes later.
• Fixed items permanently inflating your CHA every login — which tripped the anti-cheat and kicked the character.

🐾 Pets & summons

• Active summons now count against your pet capacity everywhere.
• Fixed a pet-shop purchase that could mint multiple amulets from a single buy.

💬 Chat

• Whispers no longer echo publicly as normal say to everyone nearby.

🌍 Monsters & raids

• Fixed the Antharas raid being completely broken (the portal failed to spawn).
• Fixed "of Growth" monsters spawning far stronger than their siblings, and corrected randomized-exp monsters giving inflated experience.

Ten years ago, we made a promise: a stable, secure, and exploit-free Lineage experience for an entire decade. We kept that promise. Through every patch, every siege, every late-night grind — Lineage Justice on 3.63 stood rock solid with an active team behind it, day in and day out.

Now we're making that promise again. The next ten years start today.

We're launching an entirely new server and client built from the ground up with modern infrastructure — containerized microservices, enterprise-grade monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus, centralized log aggregation with Loki tracking every movement for unparalleled security, and AI-powered monitoring to detect cheating attempts before they ever impact your gameplay. Our custom encryption meets NIST standards. Had this not been abandonware in North America, we would have rivaled a true NCSOFT deployment.

But we're not just talking about infrastructure. We have a massive content roadmap ahead — new areas, new items, custom quests, and features that will roll out steadily over the coming months and years. If you thought the first decade was something special, you haven't seen anything yet.

Welcome back to Aden. The best is yet to come. — Charles