Patch A.5.3

Global Event Adjustments

With the fast clears of the current global kill event, we are adding a few new tiers to keep some more goals for the community to reach during the event.

NEW REWARDS PLACEHOLDER

We have also decided to reduce the amount of ET clears required for the event, as it is clear that with the current amount of players, it would be hard to reach the final amount of 40 clears.

• Global ET clear event reward threshold lowered from 10/20/30/40 to 10/15/20/25

Magma 3 Adjustments

For awhile Magma 3 has felt "not worth it" and there are some other issues where the drops that do feel good put you overweight very quickly so they weren't able to be buffed.

I've simply turned most of the common drops into bundles and then upped drop rate of Magma Essence in general for more rerolling fun.

This has also opened up some item slots on mobs allowing me to add more drops to the mobs to make them even more valuable since we are limited to a certain amount of items per mob.

All containers weight 0 so you can farm longer without the need for a Kafra card as much.

We're also buffing all the Lava Leather Gears so they feel significantly better both individually and as a full set.

Lava Leather Gear Buffs

Gear	Before	After
Lava Leather Hood	ATK +5, Combo with Binoculars(DEX +2, FLEE +5) Combo with Evil Wing Ears(STR +2, DEF +3)	ATK +10 MATK +10 ASPD +2% Combo with Binoculars (DEX +2, FLEE +5, ASPD +1%) Combo with Evil Wing Ears(STR +2, DEF +3, ASPD +1%) Combo with Black Frame Glasses (INT +2, HP+200, ASPD +1%)
Lava Leather Suit	Fire Resist +5% Phys. Damage to Fire +5%	All Stats +1 Fire Resist +5% Phys. Damage to Fire +5% Magic Damage to Fire +3%
Lava Leather Manteau	Formless Monster Resistance +5%	Formless Monster Resistance +5% Monster Skill Damage Resistance +5%
Lava Leather Shoes	Stone Curse Resistance +5%	Stone Curse Resistance +5% HP+ 500 SP+ 75 Large Monster Resist +3%
Full Set Combo	Physical and Magical Damage to Fire Monsters +10%	Physical and Magical Damage to Fire and Formless Monsters +10% When above 50% Max HP: Grant Endure Effect When below 50% Max HP: Grant Kaahi, Level 1 status.

Spawn Changes

Rigid Lava Golem now spawns 2 of them every 15 minutes instead of every 5.

Drops Changes

Monster	Drop	Rate Before	Rate After
Rigid Lava Golem	Old Red Box	Added	100.00%
Rigid Lava Golem	HD Oridecon	1.49%	25.01%
Rigid Lava Golem	HD Elunium	2.97%	45.00%
Rigid Lava Golem	Magma Essence × 2	100.00%	Removed
Rigid Lava Golem	Box of Magma Essence (20)	Added	100.00%
Rigid Lava Golem	Fallen Leaves Branch	Added	2.97%
Rigid Nightmare Terror	Blue Herb × 2	100.00%	Removed
Rigid Nightmare Terror	Blue Herb Box (3)	Added	100.00%
Rigid Nightmare Terror	Old Red Box	1.25%	1.50%
Rigid Nightmare Terror	Magma Essence	40.00%	50.00%
Rigid Kaho	White Herb × 2	100.00%	Removed
Rigid Kaho	Mini White Herb Box (3)	Added	100.00%
Rigid Kaho	Sardonyx	Added	2.97%
Rigid Kaho	Old Red Box	1.25%	1.50%
Rigid Kaho	Strawberry	100.00%	Removed
Rigid Kaho	Strawberry Bundle (3)	Added	50.00%
Rigid Blazer	Sardonyx	Added	2.97%
Rigid Blazer	Strawberry	100.00%	Removed
Rigid Blazer	Strawberry Bundle (3)	Added	50.00%
Rigid Blazer	Magma Essence	40.00%	50.00%
Rigid Earth Deleter	Sardonyx	Added	2.97%
Rigid Earth Deleter	Old Red Box	1.25%	1.50%
Rigid Earth Deleter	Strawberry	100.00%	Removed
Rigid Earth Deleter	Strawberry Bundle (3)	Added	50.00%
Rigid Earth Deleter	Magma Essence	40.00%	50.00%
Rigid Sky Deleter	Dragon Skin	27.46%	Removed
Rigid Sky Deleter	Sardonyx	Added	2.97%
Rigid Sky Deleter	Magma Essence	40.00%	50.00%
Rigid Explosion	White Herb × 2	100.00%	Removed
Rigid Explosion	Mini White Herb Box (3)	Added	100.00%
Rigid Explosion	Sardonyx	Added	2.97%
Rigid Explosion	Fallen Leaves Branch	0.36%	0.60%

Monster Adjustments

Monster	Before	After
Rigid Kaho	Casts level 5 Ganbantein on a random nearby target.	Casts level 5 Banbantein on a random nearby target (removes only Land Protector instead of all unit skills).

Soul Linker/Ascetic Adjustments

Based on some feedback, we are making a few adjustments to Soul Linker/Ascetic's stacking for Unleashed Spirit to make it feel smoother in play.

1.) Orb stacks now apply as Soul Linker again. They are simply applied to a monster for each time they are hit with Esma.

2.) Monsters with orb stacks now take 2.5% more damage per orb stack from the Soul Linker/Ascetic that applied them.

3.) Unleashed Spirit's base duration changed to 3/6/10/15 seconds, based on number of Spirit stacks when used.

4.) Hitting an enemy with 4 orb stacks increases duration of Unleashed Spirit by 15 seconds.

5.) Orb stacks are no longer consumed when increasing duration of Unleashed Spirit. However, Unleashed Spirit's duration can only be increased once while its active.

6.) During Unleashed Spirit, every other Esma apply an orb stack to the enemy instead of every Esma.

This can all sound a bit confusing, but what this means is simply that you are not punished if the monster you are currently hitting does not have 4 orb stacks when you cast Unleashed Spirit. Now you can simply get your own stacks, cast Unleashed Spirit, and then if you hit an enemy with 8 Esmas (so 4 orb stacks are applied), you can then increase your duration.

Generally the gameplay will be the same, but now it shouldn't feel as punishing for small mistakes.

Also a few fixes/adjustments to other skills:

7.) Soul Ascetic's now immune to all damage while casting Wrath of the Fallen.

8.) Wrath of the Fallen now properly roots and hits all targets within its intended range.

9.) Spirit Link no longer removes Talismans/Talisman buffs, if used on your current tethered ally.

Skill Sim

Courtesy of Sonikki's work, we now have a proper skill simulator that works and adapts for both desktop and mobile that is accurate to current alfheim.

Project Alfheim Skill Sim

You can check it out by clicking the link above!

Adjustments

1.) Taekwon Mission bonuses are now across the entire master account. For the bonuses to apply you still need Taekwon Mission learned.

• To migrate existing progress, the character with the most completed missions across your master account was chosen as the source. Missions and bonuses from other characters on the same master account are not carried over.

2.) Added the command @tkmissiondisplay, which will make the current missions progress display above the characters head when killing monsters (similar to kill quest display).

3.) Added @tkmissiondisplay to @settings to enable it on login.

4.) Added new random options showing up and option to reroll again on all reroll NPCs.

5.) All Jewels (item ids 718-729) have had their weight lowered from 10 > 2.

6.) Removed skill requirements from Dawn Break.

7.) Devotion effect is now paused while the devotee is in stasis from Kaizel or Aegis of the Immortal.

8.) Binoculars can now be equipped by Gunslinger classes as well.

9.) Panda Head and Bear Head costumes can now be slot exchanged with Airy npc in the main office for Middle Versions of their respective costumes.

10.) Every other Falling Star dropped now grants 1 AP.

11.) Dimensional Gorge can now be entered while Satan Morocc is dead, even without fully completing the quest (you still need to get the Continental Guard Paper).

12.) Can no longer enter portals to the next floor in ET while under Hell's Power.

13.) Heat skills no longer deal any damage while in a Partyfinder party.

14.) Added "Monster skill damage resistance" to @battlestats (under resistances).

Bug Fixes

1.) Grand Cross now properly works with leech again.

2.) Fixed not receiving Sweets Festival Coins if in a party with "Party Share" option on item sharing.

3.) Monsters on cloned Airship Assault map now properly drop loot.

4.) Heaven's Kick can now properly be auto-targeted after Solar Explosion when hit hits multiple targets.

5.) Miracle now doesn't keep debuffs on the player when dying.

6.) Fixed Aspersio Scrolls not refreshing Aspersio if a higher level of Aspersio had first been applied.

7.) Spirit Link can now be used on other Soul Linkers/Ascetics.

8.) Auction House no longer sends mails to second highest bidder about highest bidder not claiming item a day early.

9.) Expanded Job Rings now show the trans skill trees for the expanded trans classes available (Night Watch, Soul Ascetic, Sky Emperor).

• Even if worn as the pre-trans class, the trans skill tree will be shown, but points can't be put into the trans skills.