Information December 2024 Balance Changes [Explained]

Reminder: This only contains the balance related changes.



Welcome to our balance changes thread for the December 2024 Patch! While the main focus of this update was the Christmas event, we’ve again managed to sneak in a few changes, while they may seem small, their implications may be far reaching, let's check them out!




「 Macro change 」

• Attacking skills (NOT Buffs) can only be placed ONCE (no multiple copies) in the in-game skill macro
• Ults (Meteor Shower, Blizzard, Genesis, Dragon Roar) can now be placed in the in-game skill macro

Macro-ing multiple copies of the same attacking skills in a skill macro provides a relatively long window of time where players can deal continuous damage without interacting with the client. This has enabled strategies like juggling multiple clients with minimal effort, allowing players to scale their capabilities disproportionately.

By removing the ability to include multiple copies of the same attacking skill in a skill macro, we are reducing the time window for casting attacking skills across clients. This change makes it harder to manage multiple clients and, more importantly, decreases the practicality of using larger and larger numbers of clients. While scaling via multiple computers remains an option, it requires more setup and is arguably more challenging due to the need to monitor multiple screens and multiple setups.

We acknowledge that this change may also impact single-client players, particularly when chatting in-game without compromising damage output. However, we believe this adjustment is a necessary tradeoff for better game balance.

「 Party Quest "Adventurer Scroll" 」

• Players can now obtained the "Adventurer Scroll" item, which allows teleportation to maps with specific party quest (PQ) NPCs.
• Clearing the specific PQ will reward a one-time use teleport on the Adventurer Scroll.

Upon reaching Lith Harbour at level 10, Rosa will now offer a quest that rewards the "Adventurer Scroll" item. This item allows the character to teleport to maps containing specific party quest (PQ) NPCs. Initially, no teleport options are available upon receiving the item. Teleports become available as a one-time use after clearing the related PQ. The one-time teleport can be repeatedly obtained but will not stack; only one use is available at a time.

One of the major hurdles getting PQ parties together is the amount of travel to reach certain PQs just to find the lobby empty. We implemented this transportation to allow for players to return to the PQ lobby once a party is ready to start a PQ. There will be additional PQ updates in the future, so please look forward to them!

「 Weapon Speed 」

• Certain 1H Axes, 2H Axes, and 2H Maces have their weapon attack speed faster by 1.
• Full weapon list as follows:
  • Spoiler: 1H Axes: 6 >> 5

    • Fireman's Axe
    • Dankke
    • Buck
    • Hawkhead
    • Mihail
    • Gaea
    • Vifennis
    • Tomahawk
    • Dragon Axe
    • Maple Steel Axe
    • Reverse/Timeless Bardiche
  • Spoiler: 1H Axes: 5 >> 4

    • Speargrave/Flairgrave (One-Handed Axe)
  • Spoiler: 2H Axes: 7 >> 6

    • Sabretooth
    • Chrono
    • Tavar
    • Dragon Battle Axe
  • Spoiler: 2H Maces: 7 >> 6

    • Heavy Mace
    • Square Hammer
    • Monkey Wrench
    • Golden Mole
    • Pickaxe
    • Titan
    • Sledgehammer
    • The Blessing
    • Gigantic Sledge
    • Leomite
    • Maple Doom Singer
    • Golden Smith Hammer
    • Dragon Flame
    • Maple Belzet
    • Pink Seal Cushion
    • Blue Seal Cushion
    • Timeless Bellocce
    • Reverse Bellocce
    • Speargrave
    • Flairgrave

Certain warrior weapon categories had a number of weapons that suffered from slower swing speeds compared to their counterparts in addition to having worse average swing/stab multipliers. This change will allow players who opt to use these off-meta weapon types to perform reasonably in the early to mid game.

「 Style Saver 」

• The cost for using Style Saver is now 2m (down from 10m), thanks for the suggestion here!

The population of Style Saver users tends to consist of more casual players who do not engage in intense grinding. We believe it is fair for the meso sink here to not be overly taxing, making it more accessible and generally more welcoming to Fashionstory enthusiasts.




「 Ephenia 」

• Ephenia no longer have Strong resistance to Fire and Ice.
• Added a custom made Queen of Fairies Throne available rarely through the drops from killing Ephenia.

Paladins that used a weapon charge against Ephenia suffered damage reduction from both of Ephenia's strong against neutral and strong against elemental affinites. Removing the Strong resistance to Fire and Ice now allows Paladin to not be doubly penalized by elemental resistance, putting Paladins more on par with other classes in Ephenia. This change will also make Archmages and Archers to do slightly more damage through their summons, as they no longer suffer from the damage reduction.

「 The Boss 」

• Added a custom made The Boss Vault Chair available rarely through the drops from killing The Boss.

We understand that there is a strong expectation and hope for the DK changes to come sooner than later. However, this is a large-scale project that requires more time to fully develop. As alluded by Pasta here, even in this patch, we are conducting custom interface testing that will be a part of the eventual DK update. We appreciate your patience as we work on bringing these changes to life.

While there are many more changes we would like to do, we'll need to save them for another patch. As always, your sincere feedback is much appreciated!

Thanks as usual to all our current staff members with the changes!