#harrowhold

[ladyoftheflowerkingdom-blog]

ROLL OVER BEAST!

[dakotera]

KTERA | 3/2 Patch Notes - Dual Option System

Brief summary: (credit to Loriri (Idi0ticGenius) for translating)

Dual Option System

Introduced for the following gear:

Tier 11

Omen (aka Veldeg, Guile 2.0, or simply Mid-Tier)

Ambush

Behemoth

Tier 12

Cataclysm (aka VM9)

Leviathan (aka VM9.5)

Dungeons

Harrowhold re-opened as a 20-man raid

Not available for Instance Matching System

There are total of 4 phases and each clears provide different rewards

Drops: Royal Dragon, Superior Innerwear, Goddess Tear, Dyad Niveot Structure, VM9.5 retool items, and Evil Dragon’s Crimson Essence (Leviathan Essence for VM9.5), etc

High-Tier Dungeon Rotation

'Demokron Factory Hard Mode' and 'Timescape Normal Mode' closed

'Bathysmal Rise Hard Mode' and 'Akeron's Inferno Hard Mode' re-opened

Both drops: Accessories (T2), Ambush/VM9 designs materials, Tier 11 Feedstock, Extensive/Premium Alkahests, Materials for Diadem, etc

Velik’s Temple Normal and Hard Mode nerfed, greatly decreased monster HP

GvG

Fixed an issue where a guild can declare and withdraw repeatedly so that the opposing side could not Forfeit

Reduced time required to Forfeit from 60 minutes -> 30 minutes

Increased GvG re-declaration from 1 hour -> 3 hours

GvG declaration cooldown will apply after withdrawal instead of when GvG was declared

Changed GvG declaration fee:

Small - 300 to 500

Medium - 900 to 1200

Large - 1500 to 2000

Changed GvG maintenance fee:

Small - 5 to 15

Medium - 15 to 30

Large - 25 to 45

Items

Changes to in-game method to obtain Dragon Mount

Old method:

scale -(50:1)-> Hardened Egg -(RNG)-> dragon or claw/talon -(8:1)-> Mysterious Egg -(RNG)-> dragon or claw/talon

Becomes

scale -(10:1)-> Old Scroll -(RNG)-> dragon or scroll piece -(40:1)-> guaranteed dragon.

Either method requires 400 scales in total anyways, but you get 5x more attempt on the first RNG method to get dragon (underlined) because you are converting 10 scales per scroll instead of 50 scales per hardened egg.

[dakotera]

KTERA | March 2nd Patch Preview

Brief summary (credit to Loriri (Idi0ticGenius) for translating):

Harrowhold Re-opens

Reduced to a 20-man raid instead of 30-man

New mechanics have been added

New loot has been added, including: VM 9.5 retool items, royal ghost/diamond dragons and superior innerwear (the one with better stat).

The dungeon will remain as weekly based dungeon, which resets every week.

Dual Option System

It will only be available for Tier 11 gear or higher.

To enable this feature, press Shift + Right-click on your gear. You will have to pay a one-time fee using gold. The amount of gold will vary by item type.

After activation, pressing Ctrl on your gear will allow you to check the equipment’s Alternate Options but not save the stats.

To switch to Alternative Option stats, press Shift + Right-click on your gear again when viewing your profile or inventory.

Re-rolling an equipment is no different from before. The only difference is that there will be Button 1 and 2 to select the alternative option for the selected equipment.

You can utilize Save Outfit feature on Profile (P) to quickly switch between dual options.

High Tier Dungeon Rotation

The current season’s high-tier dungeons “Demokron Factory Hard Mode” and “Timescape Normal Mode” will be replaced by “Bathysmal Rise Hard Mode” and “Akeron’s Inferno Hard Mode”.

Check out the link for pictures which better explain the Dual Option System.

[dakotera]

Brief summary:

Class Changes

Warrior revamp - Edge generated by warrior skills no longer stacks on a target, but instead is displayed underneath a players HP/MP bars.

Class Changes #12 by Yosha

New Items

There’s a new equippable item, the circlet.  It goes in the head slot of your profile, and any cosmetic item previously in that slot has been moved to the costuming tab. 

Circlets offer Defense and Balance modifiers, and affect your item level.

They drop in Ruinous Manor (all), Broken Prison, Lilith’s Keep (Hard), Shadow Sanguinary (Hard), Sky Cruiser Endeavor (Hard), Harrowhold, and the Civil Unrest zone.

Also available from battleground reputation stores.

Included in equalized gear sets for battlegrounds.

We’ve added a way for you to enhance existing noctenium infusions.

An Uncommon Noctenium Refiner (available from Vanguard Initiative Quartermasters for 700 credits) condenses 400 Noctenium Infusions into an Uncommon Noctenium Elixir.

An Uncommon Noctenium Elixir increases a skill’s noctenium effect by 50%, and increases all skill damage for 10 minutes, during which time Noctenium Infusions are not consumed.

The effects of an Uncommon Noctenium Elixir are cancelled when entering a battleground.

Additionally, Noctenium Infusions no longer increase PvP Attack/Defense. 

Accessory Resizing

You can now improve the stats of high-end accessories, using a Resizing kit.

Manor, Estate, Blubred, and Landsheart necklaces.

Manorborne, Estateborne, Blurbred, and Landsheart rings and earrings.

A resized accessory’s start and random options get a slight upgrade.

You may equip two resized accessories with the same name, but they are not tradeable, and still bound to the original character.

Dragon Scales

We’ve added a new reward type to Vanguard Requests.

Dragon Scales can be exchanged at the Dragon Scale shop for Hardening Dragon Eggs, Health Potions, and Bravery Potions.

Using a Hardening Dragon Egg randomly gives you either an Iron Dragon or Crimson Dragon skill manual, or a Dragon Claw.

You can convert 8 Dragon Claws into a Mysterious Dragon Egg, which generates either an Iron Dragon or Crimson Dragon skill manual.

Guild Changes

We’ve made several changes to guild quests, the guild UI, and Civil Unrest: Velika.

The guild UI now displays the offline time of guild members.

We’ve added circlets and accessory resizing kits to Civil Unrest mobs.

Rally quests now randomly appear throughout the day, and are no longer “first come, first served.” We’ve also changed them so that they may be abandoned.

Harrowhold

We’ve made some balance adjustments to our signature 30-player raid. In addition to overall play balance, we’ve:

Reduced the range of Vergos’ gaze pattern in phases 2 and 4.

Changed the Flame/Dust pattern in phase 3 so that either element can appear at random.

Additionally, the changes to the warrior’s Edge generation mean that Velik’s Blessing no longer enhances Scythe.

Bug Fixes

Bug fixes for class skills, Harrowhold and more.

[dakotera]

New Dungeon: The Broken Prison

The Broken Prison is a new 5-person, level 65 dungeon that takes players into Lakan's Prison to investigate some mysterious activity...and a possible escape. 

Required level: 65

Minimum Item Level: 417 (for instance matching)

Entry teleportal located in the southwest corner of Deva Silver, in Oblivion Woods

Entry Limit: 1 per day (Elite: 2 per day)

Bosses: Gorgoth, Molek, Balbatos

Loot: alkahests, designs and materials for Imperator and Ambush sets; designs and materials for Quatrefoil Brooch; Manorborne and Estateborne accessories; Tier 10 enchanting materials.

The Broken Prison features seven new achievements.

Dungeon Updates: Harrowhold

We've made a few adjustments to this raid:

Players can no longer use Goddess’s Blessings in Harrowhold.

We have adjusted Vergos to be more challenging.

Quests

We made various improvements and refinements to Vanguard quests and quest tracking:

When players hit level 65, the quest tracker automatically resets, leaving just the three highest-priority quests.

Players no longer automatically acquire the following early level 65 zone quests: Etching to Get Started, Hands with Many Hats, Engineering the Outcome, Friends of the Family.

We added an item level requirement (item level 417) to the story quest Wrath of Dragons.

For PvP servers, we removed the quest ‘The Outlaw.’ Players can still learn the Outlaw Declaration skill directly from Skill UI upon reaching level 65.

We removed special battleground Vanguard Quests.

Items:

We made a minor improvement to a couple of loot boxes:

We updated the Monarch's Treasure Chest and Prince's Treasure Chests from Tier 5 alkahests to Tier 6 alkahests.

Guilds

We reduced the Guild-versus-Guild declaration fee and penalty:

We reduced the declaration fee from 50 percent to 300/900/1,500 guild funds (for small/medium/large guilds).

We reduced the penalty by 66 percent (2/3) to 5/15/25 guild funds per hour (for small/medium/large guilds).

Battlegrounds

We made some changes to Kumas Royale:

Kumas Royale is now two separate battlegrounds: one for players from level 20-64, and one for level 65 players.

The level 20-64 Kumas Royale equalizes all players to level 65.

We changed the requirement for kicking a player from a party in Kumas Royale from 80% party agreement to 100%.

UI Changes

We made a change to the TERA UI:

You can now change the Raid Party UI size, by going to Options > UI Settings > Scale Combat Elements > Raid Parties.

Bug Fixes

Flight skills now revert to default locations when you dismount from a flying mount.

We corrected an issue with Bamarama incorrectly refunding bets under conditions other than the world server going down.

[dakotera]

We’re releasing a new build Tuesday, January 10 following maintenance featuring a new dungeon (Broken Prison) as well as balance changes to Harrowhold. 

Mount Tyrannas server will be shifting to a PVP-65 ruleset, where only level 65 characters will be able to use and acquire the Outlaw Skill. If you are below level 65 and currently possess the skill, it will be unusable until you reach level 65.  The skill will be automatically granted upon reaching level 65, like other skills you gain when levelling up.

We’re making this change in preparation for major game updates coming later this year—namely a complete retuning of leveling and progression, as well as the introduction of the new glaive-wielding class. We anticipate these updates will drive a large number of new players to the game. Eliminating the ability to be ganked by uber-geared high-level players will help to ensure a more positive experience with TERA for these new players, regardless of the server they choose to join, and make them more likely to stick around and become a lasting member of our community. Ultimately, this change should contribute to a larger and healthier player population in the long term. For our existing players on Mount Tyrannas, this change may be unwelcome to some. We want you to understand the current PvP configuration on MT is unique to Western-published versions and not actively supported worldwide. This was problematic in the past for a number of reasons. New PvP-focused features aren’t developed with our configuration in mind. The team here at EME must also maintain what is an entirely unique server type, which introduces roadblocks that sometimes impact our ability to quickly deploy new builds. By making this change and bringing our server configuration more closely in line with that of the majority of TERA globally, we’re better positioned to integrate future PvP-focused features.