Update General Patch Notes: Summer 2025

Welcome to the general Patch notes for the Summer 2025 event!

As you may be aware, this patch is the union of a pre-summer balancing patch, and the summer event, that were originally planned to stay separate.
As such, the content is a mix of both worlds, ranging from (pre-announced) class balance work, to cash shop addition, to custom content and a lot of backend work.
You will find the Balance changes and the Client updates in their own respective threads.


General Changes

• The Summer Event is now active! You can find information about it here.
  • The Freemarket Entrance has received a summer makeover!

• Some database optimizations have been performed, and as a result:
  • Characters with a high amount of quests data should no longer suffer from long loading times between channel changes.
  • Pet Item Ignore lists now once again persist between sessions (eg. channel change, relogs).

• New character buff types have been introduced.
  • Berserk: supports the two active states of Dark Knight's Berserk.
  • Berserk Shield: supports the extra status immunity of Dark Knight's Berserk.
  • Stacking Attack: an extra slot for weapon/magic attack buffs, that stack with the other two existing ones (potions/skills, and Enrage/Concentrate).
  • Stacking Experience: an extra experience buff that stacks with Holy Symbol.
  • Flat Stats: enables active buffs to affect the basic stats (STR/DEX/INT/LUK).
  • Flat HP/MP: enables active buffs to grant flat max HP/MP.
    • It stacks with Hyper Body, but is not affected by it.

• The Tombstone NPC next to Papulatus boss entrance will now track your Papulatus kills.
  • Once 200 kills are reached, you will be able to claim our custom Papulatus Mount!
    
    • The Papulatus Mount is a permanent Mount cover.
    • It will cover any regular Mount.

• New Custom Chairs have been added to bosses:
  • Krexel Chair
  • Scarlion Chair
  • Targa Chair
    
    

• All Speargraves and Flairgraves weapon icons now include a detail of the weapon type they represent, to easily distinguish them while still on the ground.
  

• The Cash Shop has been updated with some new items, including some brand new custom creations.
  
  Spoiler: List of Cash Shop additions

  Regular equipment
  

  • Scallywag Tricorne (custom hat)
  • Wyvern Suit (custom overall)
  • Wyvern Wings (custom cape)
  • Wyvern Gloves (custom gloves)
  • Wyvern Hat (custom hat)
  • Damage Reflect Shield (custom shield)
  • Homeless Cat Weapon
  • Cat Skein Chat Ring
  • Cat Skein Label Ring
  • Bubble Chat Ring
  • Bubble Label Ring
  • You and Me Under the Mistletoe Friendship Ring

  Pets
  

  • Honey B

  Pet Equipment
  

  • Honey Pot
  • Lonely Death's Scythe
  • Silent Death's Scythe
  • Lil Death's Aura

  Donor equipment
  

  • Nero Bucket Hat
  • Lily Bucket Hat
  • Yeti Fan Eye Mask
  • Yeti Fan Bucket Hat
  • Sweet Penguin Ice
  • Refreshing Penguin Ice
  • Yeti Fan Oversized Sweatshirt
  • Pure White Bunny Chat Ring
  • Pure White Bunny Label Ring

  Donor Pets
  

  • Toth
  • Vella
  • Lil Death

Changes and Bugfixes

General:

• Fixed some sound-related issues that would cause Mac players to crash around the Ellin Forest area.
  • The fix should affect all Ellin Forest monsters, including Chao and the Fairies.
• Summon kills no longer grant nerfed drop rates, if the player has been active in the past 2 seconds.
  • Note: "active" means that the player dealt more than 1 damage to any monster.
    
  • The attacked monsters don't necessarily need to be the same monster that the summon attacks.
• The delay of the first monsters respawn check of a map is now randomized, for a small set of maps.
  • This prevents the ability to synchronize map spawn timer on the same map across different channels.
    
  • Subsequent respawn checks scheduled timers are not affected.
• Pink Bean weekly reset bugs, introduced with the new boss log system, have been fixed.
  • Leaving the PB fight map before the boss is defeated no longer causes the script to fail to add the weekly clear to the player.
  • The "weekly" reset no longer happens daily.
• Challenges system:
  • Shadower's HP gain from tier 6 (level 150+) has been corrected, from 7750 to 7950.
    • This is a fix to a typo, as 7950 is the correct value to logically follow the rest of the updated amounts.
    • Players whose last gained tier was 6 can speak with Rosa again, to have their Charm HP improved.
  • Violet Sagecaps (item for the 1st Challenges questline) can now be re-harvested if the player loses them before they're no longer useful. Additionally:
    • If the player speaks with Wing the Fairy without having obtained all the required potion ingredients, the npc will mention that sagecaps can be reobtained.
      
    • The script for the next quest will now inform the player about the missing sagecaps (much like the missing Jay's book), instead of not even having a start script option in case the player doesn't have the item.
      
    • To reobtain the sagecaps, simply interact with the sagecap mushroom npc near Ellinia again.
  • Having a Challenge tier quest in progress (from tier 2 onwards) no longer causes Rosa to say that you have not completed any Challenge tier, when previewing the HP gain breakdown per tier.
    • The issue was only visual and did not affect the actual HP/MP gain formula.
  • Corrected the dialogue that shows when "Claiming" 0 HP/MP from completing a Challenge tier.
• Hired Merchants now stay open for 25 hours (up from 24), to allow players to reset their stores roughly at the same time of the day.
  • Additionally, a bug with Hired Merchant resetting on deleted characters has been fixed.
• The !roll command now displays a chat message if done in an event or boss map, much like the item loot message.

Items:

• Hog, Silver Mane, Red Draco and their Saddle item can no longer be dropped.
• The following Anniversary cosmetics have been fixed:
  • Maple Saint Two-Handed Sword (standing pose is now visible);
  • Maple Saint Two-Handed Axe (standing pose is now visible);
  • Maple Saint Maul (standing pose is now visible);
  • Maple Saint Crossbow (standing pose is now visible, and walking pose has been corrected);
  • Maple Saint Polearm (standing and walking poses when holding a Surfboard are now visible);
  • Black Ox Hat (various missing animations are now visible);
  • Pink Ox Hat (various missing animations are now visible);
  • Starlight Beret (various missing animations are now visible);
  • Enchanting Melody (various missing animations are now visible).

Maps:

• Buff zone trigger areas around Leafre's Dragon Forest have been temporarily disabled, pending a proper recode.

NPCs:

• Haircuts and Face styles available from Monique the Style Saver are now split into different pages, if the list of styles exceeds the maximum capacity for one.
  • This fixes an issue that caused the chosen style index to overflow, if the list was too long.

Quests:

• "DANGER! <3-Z. Mushroom>" : quest dialogue now correctly states that you eliminated 999 monsters.
• "Papulatus' counterattack" : quest dialogues have been rewritten, and Google Translator has been avoided.
  
• "[Party Quest] The Adventure Scroll" : quest info text now mentions that Rosa can be found in Lith Harbor.

Skills:

• Various descriptions for Dark Knight skills have been updated.
• Time Leap description no longer mentions the requirement for maxed Energy Charge.
• Chief Bandit stance visual effect has been changed to a custom small design.