Patch A.4.2

More Adjustments and Bug Fixes as follow up to A4.

Muspellskoll Changes

Muspellskoll is getting some adjustments for quality of life, a new mode, and some bug fixes.

Nightmare Mode

Nightmare mode behaves similar to Hard mode and shares a cooldown with the other party modes (normal/hard) but rewards with 400% total drops instead of 300% from hard. Muspell will have more HP in this mode, tankier fire pits, cast twice as often for his unique skills, and his flame spitter howl is almost twice as deadly. One of his other skills has been adjusted to cast two instances of itself instead of just the one as well.

Additionally, dying in this mode will lock you out of being res'd for 20 seconds.

This shouldn't make Muspellskoll as hard as people are hoping for and asking for but we hope its suffice for those of you who want a bit more of a challenge until we can get to the next major content update. Overall we're glad people are enjoying the fight enough to want a more difficult version.

Adjustments

1.) The demonstrations from Fire Rain no longer break your weapon in all modes.

Bug Fixes

1.) Muspellskoll will no longer heal back to 50% during stagger phases outside the first phase. If he is already below 50% health on his first stagger he won't heal either.

2.) Solo instance now properly has its own cooldown and cooldown bypass. The party based modes (normal/hard/nightmare) all still share a cooldown/cooldownbypass.

3.) Muspellskoll's cooldown bypass cost changed to 300 burning hearts and 25 magma essence.

4.) Demonstrations from fire rain should now be visible even if they were cast off screen like all other normal ground units.

Party Finder Changes

Party Finder is being used but some bugs came up and abuse cases have been found so we're adjusting the npc a bit.

Adjustments

1.) If no one in the intended level range for the party is in the party at any point, the kill count for the bounty will not increase.

2.) Party finder announcement requesting it to be filled now only happens twice instead of 4 more times after the initial announcements. (every 2 minutes instead of 1 minute.)

3.) Announcement clarifies that people can join even out of level range as a mentor.

4.) Players can only have one character in a party from a master account/gepard id. (this means one per pc and one per master account).

5.) Even intended level range players now have a 5 minute cooldown before being able to start a new party.

6.) Parties are locked upon starting a party finder party. (i.e. the person who started the party can't change party leaders. You can still leave, early, however)

Bug Fixes

1.) Cooldown for claiming rewards as a mentor are now properly 6 hours instead of 2 hours.

2.) Super Novice can now properly use all their skills as a mentor since they are considered first job skills.

3.) Skills that are on acolyte now like Ressurection, Kyrie Eleison, are now properly flagged as first job skills and can be used.

4.) Elemental Converters and Yggdrasil Leaves can now be used while in a party.

Spread Shot Rebalancing

We mentioned previously the ratios were wonky for Spread Shot when rebuilding its ratios last patch, but turns out status crit is multiplied by 10 in rathena, so that means each point of crit was giving 5% ATK ratio, not 0.5% like we thought. We knew the numbers were off but didn't quite understand until recently (thanks tnab).

Understanding it better now. Here's the new formula for Spread Shot. (note we still tested and rebalanced vs our loveable sropho dummy as always)

Skill	Before (A4)	After (A4.2)
Spreadshot	200% ATK at Level 10 + 5% ATK per Crit Chance (capped at 10 Crit Chance)	420% ATK at Level 10 + 3% per Crit Chance (Capped at 100 Crit chance)

Adjustments

1.) Elemental Origin drop moved from Elite Shotgun Buffalo Bandit > Elite Scimitar Buffalo Bandit. (drop rate remains 1%)

2.) Oridecon drop removed from Elite Scimitar Buffalo Bandit. Elunium drop increased from 38.59% > 57.81%

3.) Water Lily Hat[0] now given a slot. (this is so the item doesn't appear yellow text when given to you in the quest, it already comes carded in the quest)

4.) The @droploot command now works on individual loot maps but will make it to where the item is ignored in the drop table entirely for you instead of falling to the ground. This also applies to @autoloot.

5.) When selecting storage, the master storage is the primary option instead of personal storages.

6.) An Inn has been added to Einbech in the same location you craft gears with Dynite.

7.) Fly Form Beelzebub is now flagged as an MVP so he works with Convex Mirrors.

8.) Providence status buff now persists through log out.

9.) Item IDs are now displayed at the top of every items description.

10.) Cards that reduce damage from a mob of a specific element type like Les and Standing Soul Cards, will now also reduce magic damage instead of only physical.

11.) Warp Unlocker added to Test Dummies in prontera. Filed under the category "Special".

12.) The Nightmare MVP Event now runs once every 3 hours instead of every hour. Rewards have been increased to 150 Event Currency instead and also a Legacy Costume Box has been added to the rewards as well!

13.) Super Cute Doggo headgear can now be exchanged for a Costume Super Cute Doggo headgear that is middle only in the happy trails weapon shop in rock ridge for 25 Coins, 10k zeny.

14.) Costume Blessing of Fallen Angel (Item ID = 31183) can now be exchanged with Airi for Middle version of the same costume. (base is still upper)

15.) New Headgear added to Lower headgears for Premi Silvervine exchange: Baby Pacifier. Enables use of Level 1 Greed.

16.) Sherrif's Left and Right Badges now weight 0.

17.) Vigilante Shoes now grant +1 DEX (for a total of 2 dex) when refined to +9.

18.) The mobs in rock_fild02 that cast hasty fire in the hole now cast Mission Bombard instead.

19.) You can now open containers like OPB/OBB/ORB again while 70% overweight.

20.) Wizard's Frost Nova now hits on the same cell the caster is on.

Bug Fixes

1.) Fixed the client side for the Heal skill to appropriately reflect that its maximum level 5 now.

2.) Gullinbursti now summons an alternate Savage that is more reflective of vanilla Savage spawns and and drops.

3.) Elite Buffalo Bandits cards now properly drop at 0.05% rate as intended.

4.) Both NPCs in the Alfheim Marketplace properly warp you back to our new Main Office instead of the old one.

5.) Enchanted Peach Tree Card now accurately checks for a max heal level of 5 as a mastery instead of level 10.

6.) Elite Shotgun Buffalo Bandit now drops a Calf Anaconda at 0.5%.

7.) Buck no longer has mental health issues and imagines he has an assistant named Dakota. Instead he properly directs you to the main office for enchanting your gears.

8.) Warp Unlock added to just outside Rock Ridge Mines

9.) Fixed the Map Gats for OGH Cas 1 and OGH Churchyard on some cells that were walkable that shouldn't be, and vice versa.

10.) Halloween Candy Pouch and Winter Coat are now properly able to be purchased with Event Currency from Airi. Duplicate of Snowman Hat removed.

11.) Buffalo Bandit Mane, Rock Ridge Coin, and Dynite added to the buy shop list client side so they can be sold in buy shops.

12.) Spider Chariot now properly drops the flame thrower at 1.5% drop chance.

13.) Rock Ridge Cards added to OCA/MCA pools.

14.) Rock Ridge Cards added to the Card Captor Sakura system.

15.) All Rock Ridge Buffalos both field and mines now properly have rude attack teleport AI.

16.) The bartender in rock ridge's Cafe Sunny Saloon now checks for 10 rock ridge coins or greater rather than just greater than 10 rock ridge coins.

17.) Elemental Origin now properly requires Level 60 instead of 70.

18.) Muspellskoll's entrance NPC now properly checks if you've unlocked the warp on that specific character before allowing you to progress the quest to fight him so you aren't locked out of the quest.

19.) Stalkers now properly copy and use Warp Portal with Utility Plaigarism.

20.) Overkill damage no longer counts towards getting MVP or loot priority from a mob.

21.) Spider Chariot's mission bombard no longer stone curses through stone curse resists like Medusa Card.

22.) Stat Cat Resetter now lets you go to the normal menu even if you have free resets available allowing you to relearn quest skills or reset stats individually.

23.) The BGM player in the Cafe Sunny Saloon no longer affects maps it shouldn't. (it will only affect the saloon.)

24.) Baby Classes affected by the reworks are now forced into proper skill resets and have availability to reset.

25.) Fragment of Agony is no longer an MVP INSTANE MAT and instead says [M] as it should. Burned Part also has had its flag shorted to [M].

26.) Volcano Knife now properly rolls special options.

27.) Platinum Dagger now properly rolls normal melee options.

28.) Star Dust etc item no longer pretends its a card and crashes your client when you try to view its 'card art'

29.) Crimson Saber can now be equipped by Swordsman and Merchants.

30.) Destroyed Morocc is now considered a town.

31.) Warp Portal memos 2 and 3 properly work, and the duration on the ground unit now persists as it did before the rework at Level 4.

32.) Fixed many client side item descriptions.

33.) Kafra Teleportation Prices for Rock Ridge updated. (Alfheim Marketplace now matches Prontera)

34.) Fixed a bug with the auction house where people could not claim their items upon winning.

35.) Fixed a bug where items from OBB/OPB were not rolling random options when they should.

36.) Elite Scimitar Buffalo Bandit no longer casts Ignition Break.

37.) Items found in containers like OBB/OPB that should roll random options now do.

38.) Getting poisoned will no longer interrupt your auto attacks.

39.) Himmelmez's "fast forward dialogue" option now properly works on her final phase as well.

40.) Desperado's knockback now properly pushes outward in a direction based on on the monsters relative position to the caster. (it will push outward now instead of based on which way the caster was facing)

41.) Elite Buffalo Bandits no longer dispell in attack state.

42.) Summer Event Drinks and Summer Event Towels removed from the game.