Patch Notes 10/18/24 - Cake and Black Cats! Oh My!!!!

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10/18/2024







Maintenance Notes

Patch Version 0.11.64, Client Version: 10.7.0.0

Server Maintenance
2024-10-18, 11:00 Server Time


Happy 14th Anniversary Dragon Saga!



We are celebrating our 14th anniversary and we invite you to celebrate with us.
This year we have our 14th Birthday Cake and also we have a little guest.
The name of him is "Little Bob". Little Bob has something very special for you. When you talk to him he will be able to teleport you and your party members into the Dungeon of the Forgotten Past. The Dungeon will take you and your party members on a journey into Dragon Saga's past.
The Dungeon is an Expert Mode Dungeon, it does not offer a normal mode. All Expert Mode limitations apply, but you also get the 8 end rewards.


This Event continues until October 30, 11:00 Server Time.For more details have a look at the Patch Notes from October 2.





Halloween Event 2024


At the center of Port of the Winds Randy awaits you to give you some Halloween Quests.It's not needed to mention that the Events Costumes Little Ghost, Grim Reaper, Haunted Puppet and Undead Gamer are available. And also the [Event] Dragon Ranger Costumes are returning!


Besides all the costumes you can get all kind of useful and useless stuff like Halloween Accessories, Balloons and more. The Event will stay for 3 weeks (until November 7, 11:00 Server Time)
Also the Halloween Races are available too during the Event period


From the Halloween Maps you can obtains as mission rewards:
• Small Soul Box

• Armor Dust Box

• Weapon Dust Box

• Tiny HP Eternity Potion

• Tiny MP Eternity Potion

• Double Up EXP Potion (2.0x EXP for 10 mins)

• Halloween Coin Green (Arcade Mode)

• Halloween Coin Red (Chaos Mode)

• Halloween Weapon Box

• Pumpkin Weapon Box

• Money Bag

• Halloween Hair and Faces Boxes

• Beauty Gasha Box (New Hair Colors & Faces)

Halloween Coins

All coins are tradable at NPC Randy.

• Green Coins (F1): 3 Coins for 1 Halloween Gasha Box [Arcade]

• Red Coins (F2): 3 Coins for 1 Halloween Gasha Box [Chaos]

• Blue Coins (F5): 2 Coins for 1 Little Ghost Costume Box
• And a lot more you can trade for these coins


Contents of the Halloween Gasha Box [Arcade]:

[Event] Cat Mask (White)

[Event] Cat Mask (Brown)

[Event] Devil's Horn

[Event] Orange Wizard Hat

[Event] Mustache Nose

[Event] Ghost Sweeper

[Event] Pumpkin Backpack

[Event] Jack's Magical Broom

[Event] Chinese Ghost

[Event] White Werewolf Ears

[Event] White Werewolf Paws

[Event] Gray Werewolf Ears

[Event] Brown Werewolf Paws

[Event] Brown Werewolf Feet

Dark Bat Balloon

Purple Bat Balloon


Contents of the Halloween Gasha Box [Chaos]:

[Event] Cat Mask (Gray)

[Event] Black Wizard Hat

[Event] Spider Wing

[Event] Coffin of Rest

[Event] Jack O'Lantern Balloon

[Event] Lady Ghost

[Event] Skull of Devildom

[Event] Little Gentlement Ghost

[Event] Little Lady Ghost

[Event] White Werewolf Feet

[Event] Gray Werewolf Paws

[Event] Gray Werewolf Feet

[Event] Brown Werewolf Ears

Red Bat Balloon

Purple Bat Balloon

Halloween Pumpkin Hat


Bat Wing Box:

Red Bat Wings
Green Bat Wings
Teal Bat Wings
Pink Bat Wings
Blue Bat Wings
Colorful Paris Wings (rare)


Contents of the Big IM Consumables Box:
This box contains many different IM Consumables ranging from low to high value.

But that is not all! At NPC Randy you can trade in your farmed Halloween Coins for some other stuff:
the Mask Box containing a variety of masks, the wig box with some hilarious wigs, the halloween boxes with a lot of random stuff and the Flick and the Fillon Mount Eggs.

There should be anything for everyone!


14th Anniversary and Halloween EXP

October 18: 2.3x
October 19: 2.5x
October 20: 2.5x
October 21: 1.7x
October 22: 1.7x
October 23: 1.7x
October 24: 1.7x (until 11:00 Server Time)

Scaling Dungeons and Mission Maps (Early Access)
Ever wanted to play with your lower character level friend without the need of creating a new character to match your friend's level? We got you, now you can.
We are proud to introduce our Scaling Dungeons and Mission Maps feature.


From now on when entering a Dungeon or Mission Map with low and high level characters together in a party the Dungeons and Mission Maps are level scaling the high level characters to match the lower level ones.


How it works
When entering a Dungeon/Mission Map the game finds out the lowest character level of all party members. All other party members within a threshold of 5 levels are notscaled, while the characters that have a character level beyond that threshold are automatically scaled to the character with the highest level within the threshold.


Example:
Your party consist of 4 characters: a Lv. 21 one, a Lv. 24 one, a Lv. 22 one and a Lv. 84 one. The Lv. 21 one is the character with the lowest level in the party and is considered the base level for that party. All characters between Lv. 21 and Lv. 25 are within the 5 level threshold and are not scaled. So the Lv. 21, Lv. 22 and Lv. 24 characters stay unscaled while the Lv. 84 character is scaled down to Lv. 24 (which is the character with the highest Level within the threshold).


What is scaled
For characters which are scaled down, only PATK/MATK, PDef/MDef and the Element Damage (Attack) is scaled. All other stats remain unscaled (for example Critical Damage, Final Damage Reduction, etc.).
The particular scaled stats are always scaled to the highest value of all unscaled players (low level) in the party separately.


Benefits for the scaled Characters
While being in a scaled party, the scaled characters will get rewards at the end of the Dungeon/Mission Map again as long as the usual requirements are met (10% Damage Rule, no Dungeon rewards when the players are 10 levels above the Dungeon Entry Level, getting an appropriate score for the Mission Maps). Also monsters are dropping items (including Event Drops) again. This mean you can now no longer not only help your low level friends finishing their quests but instead become able to actively play and farm dungeons and mission maps together with them again no matter what your own higher character level is.


Another benefit is that you get EXP again while being in a scaled party. Also your low level friends get your shared Party EXP. One exception is scaled parties cannot be used to farm ExCos since a Lv. 85 character does not get EXP themselves but share the Party EXP to the other party members which are not Lv.85 yet.


While a player is not able to use skills which are not available at the scaled character level you are able to use skills whose Level 1 character level requirement matches your scaled level. That means if you have a skill Level of 10 on a particular skill and the level requirement for the skill level 1 is met you can continue using this particular skill on Skill Level 10.


Where there is Light there is also Shadow
The are some limitations regarding the end rewards when playing in a scaled party:

Mission Maps
For each scaled high level player in a party the whole party gets 1 end reward less.
In numbers:
1 High Level Player in the Party – 3 Rewards per Person
2 High Level Players in the Party – 2 Rewards per Person
3 High Level Players in the Party – 1 Reward per Person

Dungeons
If there is more than one high level player in a party the whole party gets 1 end reward less for every additional high level player.
In numbers:
1 High Level Player in the Party – 4 Rewards per Person
2 High Level Players in the Party – 3 Rewards per Person
3 High Level Players in the Party – 2 Rewards per Person


Expert Mode Dungeons are excluded from this system and no changes have been made to them.


Why it's Early Access?
Because having Early Access is trending nowadays...
Seriously, this is a whole new system and needs to be tested on a live server environment.
Early Access means that this or that could become subject to change if we find out that it does not works out how we planned it or in case of bugs and unforseen happenings. The additional Early Access shall inform you that things can change again until we make this system a full release.


The downscaled Level can be seen at different locations. Also the scaled stats are reflected in the character overview.



Quest Completer Item (Item Mall)

We have implemented a new Item Mall item called Quest Completer . This item works only for Hero Quests (Red Quests, JobChange Quests) up to Level 75. A specific Amount of this Item can be used to immediately complete such quests. The only exception is the quest 3rd Class Promotion - [Achievement and Hidden Map] Advice from Hel Krouzer which is excluded from being completed with the help of this item. All other Hero Quests and JobChange Quests have now a button added called "Skip" when the quest has been accepted and you open the quest inside your journal or by clicking on the quest tracker. Clicking on "Skip" will inform you about the amount of the Quest Completer Item needed to immediately complete the particular quest.

Important Information:
Completing a quest this way will grant you all quest rewards of the particular quest (EXP, Gold and Items).


After successfully using the "Skip" function your quest has the completed state. You still have to finish the quest completion process remotely (if possible) or at the Quest NPC if needed.
Completing a dungeon or mission map related quest this way will not give you any mission map or dungeon end rewards.


The amount of Quest Completer Items needed to complete a specific quest depends on the quest level (except of JobChange Quests):
1~19: 1 Item per Quest
20~29: 2 Items per Quest
30~39: 3 Items per Quest
40~49: 4 Items per Quest
50~59: 5 Items per Quest
60~69: 6 Items per Quest
70~75: 7 Items per Quest

JobChange Quests need 10 Items per Quest to be skipped no matter the quest level.

Important Information: The level requirements for the particular quest stays which means that you still have to progress (level up) your character to unlock higher level hero quests!

The Quest Completer Item is one-time sellabe for all characters Lv. 50+.

  


Item Mall

Extended (featured until November 7, 11:00 Server Time)
Special Options Creator – 600 IM
After November 17, 11:00 Server Time this Item can be found at the Consumable Tab.


New Items (featured until November 7, 11:00 Server Time)
1x Quest Completer – 50 IM
5x Quest Completer – 250 IM
10x Quest Completer – 500 IM
After November 17, 11:00 Server Time this Item can be found at the Leveling Tab.


Halloween Special Rotation Items (until November 7, 11:00 Server Time)
Dragon Wing Mount - 240 IM

Bat Broomstick Mount - 240 IM

Jacko Broom Mount - 240 IM

Wooden Cane Mount - 240 IM

Happy Reaper Support Pet - 240 IM

Mummy Andre Support Pet - 240 IM

Twitchy Skeleton Support Pet - 240 IM

Ivan Mount - 240 IM

Spiked Wing Box - 80 IM - Special Options can be created!

Hell Wing Box - 80 IM - Special Options can be created!

Demonic Wing Box - 80 IM - Special Options can be created!

Demon Horns - 80 IM - Special Options can be created!

Little Devil Balloon Box - 80 IM - Special Options can be created!

Evolution Weapon Box - 80 IM - Special Options can be created!


BigWheel Halloween Special
(until November 7, 11:00 Server Time)

Odd-Eye Kitty Costume

Sheep Doll

Black Witch Costume (female)

Skeleton Costume

Death Cheater Costume

Pumpkin Sorcerer Costume

Jack O Lantern (Advanced) Costume

Halloween Ghost Costume

Frankenstein Costume

Skeleton Man Costume

Mummy Costume

Red Devil Costume

MixBoard Halloween Special
(until November 7, 11:00 Server Time)

Voodoo Doll [Special]

Delightful Pumpkin Costume [Special]

Naughty Little Devil Costume [Special]

Sly Little Wizard Costume [Special]

Dracula Costume [Special]

Skelly Claus Costume [Artifact]

Jack O Lantern Costume [Artifact]

Ragged Ghost Costume [Artifact]

Ghost Busters Costume [Artifact]

Super Dragon Ranger [Artifact]


The following Costumes are available until October 30, 11:00 Server Time:
Chic Anniversary Outfit [Artifact]
Legendary Evolution Set [Legendary]