It has been nearly a year since we opened the first English server for Arcane Online and 4 months since we released V2.0. Today we are glad to announce the details of the new update v2.2 scheduled for Wednesday 26th April!
KEY FEATURES
- New Raid Dungeon for 20 players: the Devildom
- New Legacy items: Stone Tablets
- New Buddies: 8 New Heroic ‘Special’ Buddies
- New Items: Elemental Shards
- New Fund and Level Up rewards
- And many User Interface improvements!
Disclaimer: although we did our best these past weeks to test the new update, there might still be some bugs or typos we haven’t spotted 🙂 Also some bugs or issues reported by players may not be fixed in this version, if not announced in the patch note below.
If you see something off, please contact us via the Help menu in-game.
Thanks for your support and happy reading!
FULL PATCH NOTE
★ NEW RAID DUNGEON: DEVILDOM
- The Devildom is a new dungeon available from level 40, for up to 20 players!
- The Devildom opens 3 times a day at 6:00AM, 11:00AM, and 8:00PM server time for 1h to accommodate most of the time zones.
- The entry is per level brackets: 40 to 49, 50 to 59, 60 to 70 – the difficulty of the dungeon scales accordingly.
- Each Raid lasts 10min and is composed of 4 phases.
- All players who enter and fight will make some points which will decide their ranking.
- If the Raid manages to clear the Devildom within 10min, each member will earn some Devil Tokens based on their ranking.
- If the Raid can’t clear the dungeon, or you have 0 points, no Tokens will be received (just the EXP/Gold obtained by killing monsters)
- In case you get disconnected, you can re-enter the dungeon eventually.
- If the Raid is full, you can’t enter but a new Raid will be created (there can be X Raids for the same dungeons at the same time, if lots of players :))
★ NEW LEGACY ITEMS: STONE TABLETS
- You can purchase Stone Tablets (common) in the Devildom Shop with 20 Devil Tokens.
- Stone Tablets increase HP and another stat of your choiceamong STR, INT, AGI or STA (depending on the tablet type)
- You can equip 2 Stone Tablets, but not of the same type.
- Stone Tablets can be upgraded in the Forge up to level 30 using unequipped Tablets. The higher the level and rarity of the tablet, the more EXP is given (like Runes, the EXP is ‘transferred’ if you already levelled up a tablet)
- 2 Stone Tablets lv30 can be fused in the Devildommenu to craft a lv1 Tablet of higher rarity (up to relic). Only enchantments (if any) of the first tablet used for the craft will be transferred.
- Stone Tablets can also beauctioned but will bind on equip.
- Stone Tablets of higher rarity could be obtained directly later on, in Shop or Events.
★ NEW BUDDIES: 8 HEROIC ‘SPECIAL’ BUDDIES
- 8 NewHeroic ‘Special’ Buddies have been added to the collection: Golden Eagle, Flame Raven, Hell Goblin, Ghost Wolf, Fire Drake, Cupid Fairy, Cute Snowman and Velociraptor.
- Special Buddies can only be obtained by Fusion (or rarely in Shop or Events)
- There will be now 14 Heroic Buddies, 4 normal and 10 specials, each will have 1/14 chance to be obtained (you will thus have 10/14, 71% chance to get a Special Heroic buddies when you fuse 2x Epic buddies lv.30)
- The new Heroic buddies come with existingskills tier III(like True Grit III or Spell Force III)
- There is no Legendary or Relic buddy, so the maximum number of gear pieces you can equip on Buddies remains 4 once you own a Heroic buddy.
★ NEW ITEMS: ELEMENTAL SHARDS
- New items can be purchased at Merchants for Gold: the Elemental Shards (you will need to complete the Lv.25 quests "Rescue the Princess" to be able to use these items.)
- Shards exist in each of the 5 Elements: Fire, Frost, Dark, Light, Poison and Tiers based on level.
- Once you equip a Shard in the new Quickslot shortcut and activate it (visual effect on the item), 1 Shard will be consumed every time you hit an enemy and will deal the corresponding Elemental damage (minus target’s Elemental resist for such element, if any).
- If an AoE hits 5 enemies, it will then consume 5 Shards…
- … except that the Shard won’t be consumed if it isn’t required to finish off the enemy (i.e. enemy has 10,000 HP left and you inflict 11,000 damage without the Shard).
- The Shards tiers are as follows:
- Tier I: Lv25+, 21 Gold/Shard, +86 Element Damage;
- Tier II: Lv40+, 62 Gold/Shard, +511 Element Damage;
- Tier III: Lv55+, 94 Gold/Shard, +1556 Element Damage;
- Tier IV: Lv70+, 111 Gold/Shard, +3686 Element Damage.
- Shards Tier IV are not available in Delm (due to zone level difference) but can be obtained via the Guild Hall, Dominion Hall or Remote Merchant.
- Activate the Shards to burst your damage when needed!
- Note: You will receive an Elemental Shard by mail to activate the Tutorial.
★ NEW FUND AND REWARDS
New Fund
- The Treasury Fund will be replaced with a New Fund, still accessible via the Treasury tab in the "Tasks" menu (formerly "Events"
- The current Fund required XXh login time to finally be able to claim the rewards; the New Fund will allow you tocollect rewards daily as long as you reach the daily login time target.
- There are 10 rewards, and the daily login time is 1h to 5h (31h total instead of 80 to 100h before); meaning if you reach the target daily, you can get all the rewards in 10 days.
- Rewards have been improved and the price of the Fund has been changed. Now for the cost of a 400 Ruby package, you can get 400 Rubies + 550,000 Gold + Items like Seals, Materials and Lucky Boxes!
- The Fund will also give 400 VIP pointsupon purchase.
- The Fund never expires, so you may collect all the rewards at your own pace, depending on your available playtime. 🙂
Important Note Regarding the New Fund
- The current Fund will be removed from the Shop on Tuesday midnight server time!
- During the maintenance, all the players with a Fund activated will receive the 100h login rewards, whatever remaining time is left on their Fund (and the Fund will be closed)
- In case you don’t have a Fund now, you may consider buying one to get the free Extra loots! (or close your and get a new one maybe if 80h+ now)
New Rewards
- New LevelUp rewards have been added in the "Tasks" menu.
- You can collect additional rewards every 10 Levels, including Gold and Items!
- New Achievementshave been added in relation to Mounts, Buddies and Devildom.
- Note that some of the new Achievement rewards (i.e. Mounts, Devildom) may be upgraded soon (TBC), if that’s the case then the players who already collected them will receive the new rewards as well.
★ UI/UX IMPROVEMENTS
Main Screen
- A new Skill Slot button has been added next to the 4 skills and buddy skills. If you tap on it, it will enable you to switch to a new Skill slot bar. You can thus now have 8 skills, put the 4 most used in the Slot bar I and others like buffs in the Slot bar II.
- A new Shards Quickslot button has been added next to the potions quickslots. It will appear once you finish the lv25 quest and get your first Elemental Shard. Tap on the quickslot to activate/deactivate the Shard, long press on it to choose a new Shard (like Potions)
- A newshortcut button to Ride your mounthas been added next to the "Auto-Hunt" button. You can thus mount/dismount directly from there (note that as it is now, if you wear an Avatar then you won’t see the mount but the stats will increase)
- The quick access buttons next to the Shop and Avatar have been re-organized. Now events related icons (Playtime, Jewel, Login, Buff, etc) will be gathered under a "Event" icon and reward related icons (Attendance, Level Up, Mail) with be gathered under a "Reward" icon. This will avoid having too many icons displayed at the same time. Tap on the button to display the additional shortcut icons. Note that the Mail will now appear under the "Rewards" icon!
- The "Events" menu at the top has been renamed "Tasks" and icon has been changed.
- The number of Seals left is now displayed top right.
- When you deal damage, you will now see 2 values: the big number is your Physical or Magic damage; the smaller number on top next to the rainbow colored icon is your Elemental damage (both were mixed in the previous version)
Chat
- Emojis have been added! You can choose Emojis from the list or just type the word in parenthesis. You will see the word shortcut when you use an Emoji. Hopefully they can replace some bad language we sometimes see :p
- There is a new language channel when you tap the button top right in the World Chat for "Other" languages. Please use it if you want to chat in your own language.
- TheSystem chat will now display both the damage received AND the damage inflicted, so you can do more theorycrafting here 🙂
- The System chat will also show the Gold/Exp received properly when in minimized view (before you could only see it when chat is full screen).
- A newBattleground chat has been added.
- The Custom chat will now save your preferences (could be reset sometimes before).
- Known issue: the text typed is slightly misaligned with the character name.
Enchantments
- An enchantment rating has been added to gears: a grade from F to SS will appear on each gear to indicate how many of the 10 enchantments have the max possible value.
- Note that it is just an indicator and it does NOT represent how well the gear is enchanted! Having the right enchantments for your class is obviously much more important than hitting the max value!
- Also keep in mind that as enchantments max value increases every 5 levels with new gear, the rating will then go down.
- Note that we are discussing with the developers to change the system so that it does have some meaning eventually… (like a pro-rata of the max possible power you can get from enchants, or if enchants are within 10%~15% of the max value you get the grade, etc.)
Dominion
- An indicator for the number of players in the Dominion is now displayed, as well as an Exit button.
- There is now anew "Observer" mode, in case your can’t enter (like Siege War)
- You can now customize your War Cry in the Dominion as well (please don’t abuse it :))
- It is now possible to group in the Rental Hall.
Others
- Skills: there is a new option in the Settings called "Allow to Move and Cast" which, if disabled, will force the character to stop when it casts a skill. This will reduce the risk of having the skill interrupted (going on cooldown with no effect) but can block your character from moving if you play on Auto and the AI is casting skills repeatedly (this update was live for 1 week in v.2.0.8)
- Duels: added a third time slot at 6:00AM server time to offer options to players in different time zones than the server time.
- Guardian: if you decide to awaken the Guardian with Rubies, the cost will depends on the time remaining before awakening instead of a fix cost for each Guardian level.
- Repair: the button will now appear in Dominion and Temple of Trials as well when needed (it didn’t before).
- Merchant: the user interface has been updated to give options to choose between Potions/Items or Shards. Just tap the button at the top.
- Farm: new Havest Now (all Trees) button.
- Mail: limit has been increased from 100 to 250 characters
- Enemy list:you can now reorder it by tapping the Name / Level / etc (like Ally list)
- Guild:you can now inspect the characters who applied to the guild and see their gear.
- Guild: the Leave/Disband guild button has been relocated bottom right to avoid tapping it by mistake.
- Treasure Maps:these itemscan now be added to quickslots (like potions).
- World Boss: now you won’t be excluded from the damage dealer list if you lose the World Boss aggro (too far, etc) as long as you stay in the zone and at least one player still has the aggro (it will avoid not receiving the Chest / Dailies in some cases)
- Wings: you can hide the wings from the character window (like the Avatar)
- Mariano and Angel Wings: it is now possible to keep them in the Storage (but not the World Boss Legacy!)
- Shaman: in the open world, it is possible to tap on a group member icon in the Group window in order to select it as a target for the heal (tapping the character directly to select it is still possible)
- A warning message will be displayed in case you try to activate a buff while you have already the same buff active.
★ OTHER STUFF
Dailies
- New Dailies have been added for a total of 26pts:
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Clear the Devildom once, twice or thrice (10pts, 5pts, 5pts)
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Add EXP to a Stone Tablet (4pts) – no need to level it up
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Use 500 Elemental Crystals (2pts)
- The Battleground daily has been modified: the Daily for finishing the Battleground twice has been removed, and you now get 8pts for finishing the Battleground once and thrice.
Dungeons Buffs
- You can now buy Dungeon buffs with Gold.
- Buffs are: +25% to Attack/Spell Power; +25% to Physical/Magic Defense; +25% to Max HP.
- The Group leader can choose the buff he wants when he creates the dungeon (up to 3 buffs simultaneously).
- EDIT: Buffs will apply to the player(s) activating them, as well as Mercs. If players use different buffs, Mercs will get both.
- Buff icons will appear on top of the character(s) in the dungeon.
- In Solo dungeons, if you use the button to Re-enter the dungeon, you can choose to keep the buffs or not.
Trophies
- The New Heroic ‘Special’ buddies Fire Drake and Velociraptor can make you learn the skills True Grit III and Six Sense III, both increasing the Trophy Drop rate from 30% to 40% (skill level 1 to 30).
- You can now Draw Trophies for Rubies in the Bestiary I. Each draw costs 50 Rubies and give you 1 to 5 Trophies. Warning: you have 85% chance to get 1 or 2 Trophies, so you may use this system when you need to complete a collection.
Avatars and Ornaments
- You can now bind ornaments one by one, hence saving inventory/storage space 😉
- You can also synthesize 50 Ornamentsby dismantling the corresponding avatar card in the Crafting window (i.e. dismantle a Caerbannog card and you will get 50 Caerbannog Ornaments)
- You can finally craft Heroic Avatar Cards by fusing 2 Specific Avatar cards of the same collection in the Crafting window (i.e. fuse a Amarok and Evil Dead Card with Sage Stones to obtain a Mummy Card)
- An issue was fixed with the Dark Knight Female Avatars which was giving +32 Dark Damage instead of +24 like all other Event avatars.
Misc
- Fixed a bug with the Shamangroup Heal ‘Salvation‘ which didn’t heal the group in the Battleground but just the caster.
- Skills like the Shaman’s Flame Snake or Mage’s Static Storm won’t be displayed anymore if you turn off "Show other players’ effects" in the Settings.
- Fixed a bug which could allow to move in Duels before the duel starts.
- Fixed a bug which could lead to a crash when a mass mail is sent to all guild members.
- Fixes a bug where the Abyss icon could overlap with the Treasure Map icon.
- Known issue: the app sometimes disconnects or force close when entering the world or other loading screens in some situations. We hope this will be fixed in the next build.
Guilds
- Once you leave a guild, you won’t be able to rejoin a guild for 48h.
- This has been implemented by the developers to prevent guild members changing guild to farm the Dominion Bosses or else.
Shop
- The new Night Hawk event avatar is coming to the Shop, try your luck!
- New Glyph Transmutors can be purchased for Rubies
- Glyph Transmutors transform ANY 5 Common Glyphs into a Rare Glyph for YOUR class!
- Rare Glyphs Transmutors transform ANY 5 Rare Glyphs into an Epic Glyph for YOUR class!
- The New Fund will also be available upon release.
Other minor bugs and text fixes, and improvements.
And that’s it for this update! 🙂
We’d like tothank all the players for their many feedback and suggestions since we launched the game, a lot of the UI improvements and bug fixes here were made after being contacted by players in the Help section. Sometimes it can take time to be implemented, months eventually depending on the complexity of the issue and developers schedule, but eventually many of the suggestions can end up in-game!
We sincerely hope you enjoy the new updates and its improvements.
Please contact us via the Help section if any issue!
-the Arcane Online team