Written by gyl on Wednesday, December 19, 2007
With less than 24 hours to go before Granado Espada is open again, let's take a look at the new things we can expect. Also, do remember that all new features won't be released just yet. They announced that they'll be releasing features after features probably month after month. There's a tentative schedule from Ms. Hrin's blog as I'll be quoting her on this one.
RNPCs Angie and Karjalainen will be out tomorrow as well. Other RNPCs are planned to be released monthly. Lil' Viki and Feng Ling (Soso) is scheduled to be released next month, Jan 2008 while Edward Jameson & Kurt will probably be out in Feb 2008 and lastly, Gavin Jameson in March 2008. This is the tentative schedule and subject to change since this industry is so dynamic and changes might happen at anytime so please don't swear by my schedule.
- Ms. Hrin
Like what she said, don't get your hopes up too much. But what I think is sure are the new Premium Cash Shop Items that will be sold after GE goes live again. Here's a quick link to the
new premium items. The best thing to look out for is perhaps the Item Enhancement Booster than can get you to +6 with no risk.
So far it will only be the Bahia Island and Island of Fire maps will be open for tomorrow. The other new maps will be released a few months later.
Aside from the new way of reporting bots there's a super interesting new features that will blow away those who enjoy doing boss raids and PvPs. Granado Espada's v2.4 patch calls it the
Super Fight. It is much like an everything goes map where you can attack almost everyone.
Interacting with other players is a lot better now. You can now simply right click the name of the broader, your squad/faction mate and be able to whisper, view their profile, block or invite them to squad. This is rather convenient specially for people who wants to form a squad within the same faction.
V2.4 is really against botters. Not only do they added the
Report-Botters-In-game-Function, they also added requirement for logging out. Now you have to wait for 5 seconds before you can log out or exit the program with out moving or doing anything. This will be a headache to the botters in PK servers.
There's also some changes on some character classes. There's also a possiblity that Catherine and Jack's skill can be cancelled midway. Here's a direct quotation, again, from Ms. Hrin's Blog.
Changes to the Wizard class
a. “Reflection” has been changed to “Energy Shield”
b. While using energy shield, the shield will protect the user from damage by consuming SP instead of HP
c. Decrease Levitation stance attack range
d. Increase cool down time for “Photon Splash” and “Hole of Darkness”
e. Uses one Magical Orb for “Photon Splash” and two Magical Orb for “Hole of Darkness”
f. Reduces Mental RES when using Magical Piercing
g. Does not decrease movement speed and DEF when using Invisible Stalker skill
Change to Elementalist class
a. “Activate Mana” has been changed to “Elemental Blessing”
b. After casting “Elemental Blessing”, you will be allowed to defend against any attack once. After blocking the attack, “Elemental Blessing” will be gone
c. Increases damage of “Meteor Strike”, “Firewall”, “Blazing Pillar” and “Volcanic Eruption”
You can now craft HQ Gems and level 100 Equipments. Keep in mind that a level 100 Armors (like the ones from Katovic which you have to do a long quests) gives you 25 DR. Level 100 Elite Armor gives around 30 DR. Level 100 Equips are good alternatives for Elite Level 84 Armors and if you're still hunting or having a hard time looking for an Elite level 92.
Or if you're more of the gambler type, you can try your luck on Bellem Boxes! Yes! Potions' Drop rate have been decreased and Boss Spinelles, Gems, and even Equipments' drop rates are increased.
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