Season 5 Updates

System Changes

Rank Regulation Changes

• Future events and quests will be more accessible to lower-rank members as a result of these changes.
  
  
• Characters now begin with 500 Mana instead of 200 and receive +500 Mana every time they rank up.
  
  
• Statistics and Spell Slots have been adjusted providing characters with more overall statistics and spell slots.
  
  
• Specializations are now unlocked at A-Rank instead of S-Rank.
  
  
• Users can claim the following amounts of mana and attributes based upon their current rank in their Character Statistic Sheet citing this page: D-Rank +300 Mana, C-Rank +500 Mana and +20 SP, B-Rank +600 Mana and +40 SP, A-Rank +600 Mana and +60 SP, S-Rank +80 SP, X-Rank +100 SP and Z-Rank +120 SP
  

Quest & Social Interaction Changes

• Users can now complete 8 Neutral Quests or Social Interactions throughout the entire month instead of being limited to 2 Neutral Quests per week.
  
  
• Jewel modifiers from completing above the word count minimum for Social Interactions have been increased from 50% and 25% to 50% and 75% respectively.
  

Attribute Regulation Changes

• Intelligence now provides users with a +5 meters Spell Range increase per tier up to 40 meters.
  

Weapon Mastery Regulation Changes

• Ranged Weapon Mastery now provides a +10 meter range increase on all Spells attached to Ranged Weapons per tier instead of a +5 meter range increase on all basic Shot Spells.
  

Guild Regulation Changes

• Guildmasters must now be S-Rank at a minimum, and at least 3 of the founders must be A-Rank or higher.
  
  
• Upon creating a guild, the guild must assign a founder member as the Guild Ace
  
  
• Ace acts as a substitute guild master who is capable of creating their guild events and Quests and acting in the guild master's stead in their absence
  
  
• Guildmasters and Guild aces are capable of claiming two of their Guild's spells.
  
  
• Activity is now considered to have completed three activity checks within the past 6 months.
  
  
• Minor clarification: Characters only receive a legendary custom upon completing their first Guild Event.
  
  
• Guild Members, Allies of the Guild and Guildless members who intend to join the Guild during the event are now considered the only viable participants in Guild Events.
  
  
• Several new purchasable perks have been added to the Guild Shop for the Guild Building.
  

Reputation Regulations Changes

• An additional reputation tier has been added at 75,000+ which replaces the initial 40,000+ reputation tier
  
  
• 20,000+ Reputation tier has been raised to 25,000+ Reputation and 40,000+ Reputation tier has been raised to 50,000+ Reputation
  
  
• Threat Level reputations have been increased by one tier at base overall starting at 5,000+ instead of 2,500+.
  

Bank Regulations Changes

• Guild Bank and Shop has been merged with the Bank Regulations
  
  
• New banks now possess regulations that offer different features and limitations.
  
  
• A Bank has been created for each major country for people to explore and heist if capable including the Fiorian Reserve (Era, Fiore), Blackwood Bank (Oak, Fiore), Rosailles Mint (Rosailles, Minstrel), Illingrad Repository (Illingrad, Pergrande), Anthea Deposit (Anthea, Seven), Madhya Countinghouse (Madhya, Bellum), Albion Fund (Albion, Caelum), Nataqin Catacombs (Castle of Harmony, Enca), Crypt of Denurmeru (Denurmeru, Desierto) Fjallgard Vault (Fjallgard, Iceberg), Hallsburg Trust (Hallsburg, Bosco), Nenequetzal Archives (Nenequetzal, Stella), Tianjing Treasury (Tianjing, Sin), and Shinkoku Exchange (Shinkoku, Joya).
  

Heist & Raid Regulations Changes

• Guild Raid Regulations have been moved to the Raids, Heisting, Bounties & Incarceration Regulations
  
  
• Raids and heists must be performed by at least two members.
  
  
• Members from either side can only post on one topic of the raid at a time. If their topic ends, they may leave to go to another raid topic to continue to raid/defend.
  
  
• If both sides have a win from their respective raid threads they can move to open a third tie-breaking thread or call it a draw and both parties end said raid.
  
  
• Guild Buildings and Properties can only be raided two months after creation.
  
  
• Raiders must have a just cause to justify the raid. This restriction can be waived with the agreement of both defenders and attackers.
  
  
• Attacks with proven OOC motivations will be punished for some time with exclusion from raids and invasions.
  
  
• Attackers with valid IC motivations can get rewarded for a successful raid even if the defenders don’t join.
  
  
• Bank heists have three tiers and each can be performed once per month overall.
  
  
• Reputation and Bounties/Contracts gained from Raiding, Pillaging and Heisting have been increased from 500 Reputation to 1,000 Reputation and 500,000 Jewels to 750,000 Jewels respectively, note this bounty figure is modified by challenge tiers when heisting.
  
  
• Performing Raids and Heists that are undefended results in a reduced reward.
  
  
• Raiding the Rune Knights or The Shinigami Convocation will always result in the full bounty for attackers.
  

Incarceration Regulations Changes

• Rune Knight members are exclusively capable of preventing Hellsea Bastille Prisoner escapes alongside whomever originally claimed the bounty of the prisoner/s if applicable.
  
  
• Illegal Guild Members are exclusively capable of preventing Boiling Rock Prisoner escapes, alongside whomever originally claimed the contract of the prisoner/s if applicable.
  
  
• Users now receive rewards equivalent to a neutral quest when completing their sentence or breaking out of prison except for the jewel rewards, up to S-Rank rewards.
  
  
• Characters with a threat level below Disaster can participate in Global Events.
  

Mentoring System Changes

• Mentors and Students are eligible to claim fights between them as though they were Arena fights regardless of their location, doing so counts towards the same fight limit as other Arena Fights.
  
  
• Users now receive their student modifier for Quests and Fights with or alongside the mentor, this does not stack with the Arena Fight modifier listed above.
  
  
• When a mentorship ends as a result of rank differential, the cool-down is now reset allowing a user to become a mentor directly after as a result.
  

Item & Magic Changes

Item changes

• Throne of the Ancients has been shelved pending rework.
  
  
• Fragarch's requirements have been changed requiring the user to be an adventurer, meanwhile users can only wield the Fragarch.
  
  
• Ribbon of Sharing has been tweaked to have a hard limit of transferring up to 320 SP per attribute to a single companion.
  
  
• Shinigami Eye no longer passively causes focused targets to behave as though they had a minor physical and magical weakness when attacked by the user instead provides the user with Two signature spells that cause minor physical and magical weakness upon a select target when attacked by the user. Owners of the Shinigami eye may purchase something from the Mysterious Merchant Shop for the same amount or less than the purchase amount when selecting explictly an alternative eye modification it will not impact the item slot count.
  
  
• Thanos Gauntlet's Mind Stone: Memory Consumption, Power Stone: Mass Destruction and The Snap have been changed to once per topic
  
  
• Thanos Gauntlet Reality Stone: Mana Domain Spell has been made an instant rather than having a sustained cost and improved.
  
  
• The Portable Fractured Sky has been moved from the Fractured Sky Shop to the Mysterious Merchant Shop and has been reclassified as an orb.
  
  
• Orb of Magi has been moved to the thematic shop and has been reclassified as a weapon.
  
  
• All Books and musical instruments have been reclassified as one-handed weapons.
  
  
• Seven Stalker Weapons have been reclassified as Mythic weapons and possess mana burn relative to one rank lower and the same rank as physical and ranged weapons respectively.
  
  
• Fate's Guise's Astral Projection Cool-down now begins after the user has entered a topic with the spell rather than upon its conclusion.
  
  
• Bai Long's Bai Long, the Cruel Dragon is now listed as once per topic instead of 30 days.
  
  
• Seven Stalker Ranged weapon basic shots now go on a one post-cooldown after nullifying a spell instead of the full cool-down, note this can be further reduced through cool-down reduction.
  
  
• Verne's overdrive transformation now provides +160 instead of +100 for strength and speed while costing 5% mana per turn instead of 10% and has a once-per-topic cool-down instead of 30 day.
  
  
• Pact of the Beastmaster's fusion spell now allows for access to the companion's mana pool, and can now be used once per topic instead of every 14 days however can no longer be used to absorb multiple companions at once.
  
  
• Fukkatsu's Flesh Manipulation can now be used once per topic instead of once per month.
  
  
• Boryuko Shard Explosion can now be used once per topic instead of once per month.
  
  
• Verne's Speedster transformation now costs 5% mana per turn instead of 10% per turn.
  
  
• Dragon Slayer Sword now receives damage equivalent to two ranks lower than the damage dealt from offensive spells and healing spells from Clerics.
  
  
• Excalibur's mana burst has been clarified to last for a single turn.
  

Weapon Catergorizations

• Bows, Guns and Magical Weapons have been reclassified and now possess baseline bonuses as listed below:
  
  
  • Staffs, Rifles & Longbows now give a flat 10-meter spell range increase
    
    
  • Wands, Pistols & Shortbows now give a flat 10 m/s spell speed increase
    
    
  • Orbs do not provide the user with intelligence instead they possess a mana pool that they can use based on the rarity of the item.
    
    
  • Musical Instruments now cause spells cast through them to receive a base 20% mana cost discount
    
    
  • Books and Scrolls now cause spells cast through them to receive a base 1 post-cool-down reduction.
    
  
  
  

Forge changes

• Forge item points have been increased by +10 points across the board.
  
  
• An extra element including magical and ranged weapon classifications has been added to the forge.
  

Additional Item Slots

• Item slots are now limited to 4 per item type.
  
  
• Additional Weapon slots from Weapon Mastery can be used for either their weapon or off-hand slot.
  
  
• Characters that reach Grand Master in a weapon type have their weapon and off-hand item cap increased from 4 to 5 for said weapon type.
  

Shop Item Commissions

• Shop Item Commission pieces have been moved to the Event shop and are now exclusively owned by the recipient unless they become inactive. Event and giveaway commissions will be moved to a thematic shop and then can be bought by another, after which they can then be lupined.
  

Mysterious Merchant Changes

• Characters can only ever possess one Mysterious Merchant item per item slot, Weapon Slot and Off-hand Slots are considered separate item slots.
  
  
• This rule does not apply to the modification or pouch slot items.
  
  
• Multi-slot items such as the Veritas and Aequitas and Yin Yang only count as one Mysterious Merchant item as part of this rule.
  
  
• Redundant Item restriction drawbacks on Mysterious Merchant Weapons have been removed as they are now covered by the previous rule.
  
  
• Users who possess multiple Mysterious Merchant items in the same inventory can claim a full refund by referencing this change in the Refund Reviews and receive a Mysterious Merchant purchase ticket.
  
  
• Users no longer need to use the Mysterious Item Transfer to transfer regular shop items as some banks now serve that function.
  
  
• The cost for Mysterious Transfers has been reduced from 1.5x to 1x for thematic items and 2x to 1.5x for Mysterious Merchant items.
  

Magic Changes

• Requip has been returned to the regular Magic Shop section
  
  
• Take-Over Magics found in The Mysterious Merchant have been moved to their respective soul-type sections in the regular shop
  
  
• Other Magics found in The Mysterious Merchant have been moved to the regular shop in a new section titled; Lost Magics. Like Slayer and Take-Over Magics, these can only be owned by one person at a time.
  
  
• Take-Over Magic, 3rd Generation Dragon Slayer Magics now occupy two enhancement slots, custom magic of those types also occupy two enhancement slots, with the exception of Devourer Dragon Slayer occupying a single enhancement slot
  
  
• Lost Magics occupy one enhancement slot.
  
  
• Greed Magics stated drawback of only being able to use the greed spell has been revised to start instead that Greed is the only spell that can be used with the magic itself.
  
  
• God Slayer, Demon Slayer and Spirit Slayer now ignore God Soul, Demon Soul and Beast Soul Elemental Resistances respectively, further details can be found in their shop description.
  
  
• Race-restricted magics now more accurately reflect their requirements.
  
  
• Thousand Staffs of the Void Magic has been reworked entirely and renamed Thousand Staffs of Abundance Magic and is available for general purchasing, the original claimant may obtain the magic for free.
  
  
• God Soul: Kama, The Burning Arrow of Love has been completely reworked more details can be found in the magic.
  

Enhancement Changes

• Faster Casting and Triple Elemental Magic Enhancements have been clarified to require two enhancement slots as they replace Fast Casting and Double Elemental Magic Enhancements respectively.
  
  
• Armor Penetration now splits the damage between the target and their armor
  
  
• Advanced Armor Penetration now deals damage to both the target and their armor
  
  
• Armor Ignore has been added to the enhancement section which entirely ignores the target's armor.
  
  
• Removing the Holder Enhancement no longer reduces the user's weapon mastery.
  
  
• Companion Magic Enhancement has been added to the enhancement section which provides modifiers to the user and their companion when in range with each-other.
  
  
• Characters now receive an enhancement slot at 121 Intelligence.
  

Ultimate Spell Changes

• Users can no longer apply drawbacks on Ultimate Spells for additional effects.
  
  
• Owners can no longer apply auto-hit or topic-wide effects to their ultimate spell.
  
  
• Users can no longer apply the auto hit and topic-wide effects onto ultimate spells
  
  
• Users whose ultimate spells or customs items will be entitled to change them without the need for retraining or paying to rework them.
  

Season 5 Updates

Miscellaneous Additions and Changes

Class Changes

• Sentinel, Cleric, Spellsinger, Spellhowler, Sorceror and Summoner can now wield Orbs and Books in their off-hand slot, if they are wielding either a wand or staff in their weapon slot then they can ignore strength requirements to wield and use their off-hand for exclusively those weapon types. Physical attacks from orbs and book item types are two ranks lower than the user's strength while they do not receive any benefits from Weapon Mastery.
  
  
• Hunter's racial immunity has been clarified to apply for racial fear abilities solely.
  
  
• Spellswords have regained access to the off-hand slot with shields while the Titan Specialization now causes the user to entirely ignore speed penalties from equipment.
  

Race Changes

• High Vampire has been updated to more accurately reflect their base race returning blood vision and changing their 20% constitution buff to a 20% Speed buff.
  
  
• Nephilim, Seraphim, Fae, Fairy, Daemon and Demon race mana cost and cooldown reduction perks have been adjusted to be usable as both mages and adventurers.
  

Real Estate Changes

• Property Perks now provide other participants on the property with a minor boon as long as they are roleplaying with the owner on the same topic.
  
  
• Additional property perks have been made offering both social and combat options.
  
  
• Housing, Holdings and Islands now receive 2, 3 and 5 Property Perk slots respectively.
  

The Amaforth Academy Changes

• The Amaforth Academy page has been updated to clarify how to sign up for a college as a student and teaching staff, further details can be found in the topic itself.
  
  
• Colleges are now listed on Characters' profiles in their field
  
  
• Colleges can only ever have two Professors and three Teachers at a time
  
  
• Characters can be members of up to 3 Colleges at a time and a teacher or professor of one college.
  
  
• Members of a College may complete thematic college-neutral quests that give +5 mana per rank, this counts towards the user's neutral quest allocation. Completing them as a student alongside a Teacher or Professor doubles the overall mana reward while Teachers and Professors receive 50% more mana when completing them with a student.
  
  
• Sentinels mentioned in the College of Augmentation have been replaced with Spellsword both in the Amaforth Academy topic and sub-forum
  
  
• College of Invocation now provides Characters with a 20% discount for Summoning and Defensive Spells
  
  
• College of Augmentation no longer provides Characters with a 20% discount for Defensive spells.
  
  
• The user receives Arena Fight modifiers when fighting against Teachers and Professors of the same college/s they are in within the Amaforth academy, doing so counts towards the same fight limit as other Arena Fights.
  

Character Bonus Program

• The Item and Magic Discounts offered through the Character Bonus Program have been restructured, see the Character Bonus program page for more details.
  
  
• The bonus now also applies to Guild Event Quests, Social Interactions & Fights.
  

Tarot Cards Changes

• The Fool Tarot now provides Adventurers with Mana Cost Reduction based upon their Intelligence instead of a 50% Word Count Reduction for Weapon Mastery.
  
  
• The Magician Tarot now decreases the cost of percentage-based spells and transformations when struck by a spell equal to the rank of the character, however, the effect no longer applies to the user's spells
  
  
• The High Priestess Tarot no longer provides a flat +10 m/s for Spells as Mages and Item Spells for Adventurers instead giving a scale +5 per rank, up to +20 m/s
  
  
• The Empress Tarot now also causes the user allies to receive elemental resistance from the user up to moderate resistance.
  
  
• The Emperor Tarot now causes everyone around the user to have their elemental resistance mitigated by one rank based upon the user's magic or their weapons as an adventurer
  
  
• The Hierophant Tarot now gives the user a self-buff for constitution and endurance lasting for two turns as a mage while giving adventurers a passive self-buff of Constitution and endurance
  
  
• The Lovers Tarot now causes the user to also receive healing over time instead of damage if their partner strikes them with said effect.
  
  
• The Chariot Tarot now applies the full base speed of the user instead of half the user's base speed
  
  
• The Hermit Tarot now gives additional jewels and experience when fighting groups by themselves however causes them to have reduced rewards when fighting with allies.
  
  
• The Fortune Tarot now causes users to receive additional Jewels from fighting during heisting and completing them while reducing the bounty from successful heists
  
  
• The Justice Tarot now also applies to enemies threat level
  
  
• The Hanged Man Tarot now caps the user reputation up to 50,000 even through extrasensory abilities such as the world
  
  
• The Death Tarot now allows the user to become a Lich after dying in a red topic when they complete a moderate storyline about their resurrection
  
  
• The Temperance Tarot causes the user to gain a resistance against detrimental supplemental effects, note this does not include debuff effects.
  
  
• The Tower Tarot now causes the user's armour to receive physical resistance while causing them to become immune to knock-back
  
  
• The Star Tarot now allows the user to cast a spell from the sky without range limits, this is alongside the original passive of 20% mana cost reduction and 1 post-cool-down for magic spells and item spells for Mages and Adventurers Respectively.
  
  
• The Moon Tarot now also causes the user's spells to have the invisible magic circle effect during the nighttime
  
  
• The Sun Tarot instead causes the user to blind those who look at them over time.
  
  
• The Judgement Tarot now causes those around the user to share their attributes and resistances equally except for statistics from items.
  
  
• The World Tarot now allows the user to perceive people around them as though their reputation was one tier higher instead of knowing everything about them.