SP Balance & Quality of Life Adjustments - Patch notes

Hello,

We know how important regular balancing updates for SPs are, particularly for the older ones, which is why they will be the focus of this update. Our larger SP balancing patches tend to have a particular emphasis, e.g. the last iteration focused on the 5th generation SPs.

That’s only partly the case this time round. We’ve analysed which SPs have been under/overperforming for some time, and made changes specifically to these SPs. The update will also add a few quality-of-life improvements to the designs of certain SPs. Some buffs and debuffs have also received changes which were not part of the SP balancing measures. We hope these changes will provide for more all-round balanced gameplay in both PvE and PvP.

We’re also taking the opportunity to make a few smaller changes to the SP12.

The following SPs have received changes:

• Ranger
• Blue Magician
• Gravity
• Battle Monk
• Avenging Angel
• Renegade
• Master Wolf
• Thunderer
• Smaller changes to SP12
• Smaller changes to various buffs & debuffs

All changes can be found here: https://nostale.comastuff.com/Guides/guides.php?id=72

Changes:

• The contents of raid boxes from Dr Dimensio’s raid have been updated.
• The contents of raid boxes from Lola Lopears’ raid have been updated.
• Healing effects can no longer be applied to Lord Mukraju.
• The effect ‘The cooldown time for reusing magic skills is reduced by x%.’ is now capped at 80%, and stacks with the ‘Reduces skill cooldowns by x% (max. 80%).’ effect.
• The obsolete Sheep Farm Raid Seal, Dodge Meteor Raid Seal and Bushi King Defence Raid Seal items are no longer awarded as rewards during the Valhalla quest series.
• The Godslayer quest from Act 7 now correctly awards the Simple Raid Box of Belial instead of the old raid box.

More details can be found here: https://nostale.comastuff.com/Guides/guides.php?id=73

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug which could interrupt the Pet Trainer side quests.
• Fixed a bug which would erroneously mark The Catsy People Time-Space for new level-56 characters as completed.
• Fixed a bug where the Achilles enemy in the Act 10.2 Secret Cave Time-Space could not be attacked with targetted skills.
• Fixed a bug which caused the daily Perpetual Death quest to be displayed as the Endless Cold quest in the accept window and quest log, despite having distinct names when being accepted from the NPC Captain Enrico.
• Fixed an issue where the no-drop effect caused by the Dimension Sickness debuff was not applied to monsters whose loot lands directly in your inventory.
• Fixed an issue where the glow effect from the Holy Floral Energy buff would shine through the floor and other objects.
• The Dimension Sickness debuff is no longer reapplied after changing maps during raids and Time-Spaces when starting on a map channel other than 0.
• Fixed a bug where the drop rate reduction caused by the Dimension Sickness debuff did not apply to monsters defeated by NosMates.
• The special Beanie Hat reward item from the Final Showdown Time-Space is now correctly awarded to the player upon completion.
• Fixed a bug where clicking on a raid boss’ HP bar to target them would render the character unable to move.
• Fixed an error which caused lag whenever a new monster wave spawned in Time-Spaces and the Celestial Spire Catacombs.
• Fixed an error which made it possible to reduce the cooldown of skills beyond the 80% cap.
• Fixed an error which prevented using the basic attack of the second form of the Draconic Fist specialist after increasing job level.
• Fixed a bug where the values were swapped in the effect ‘There is a x% chance that the enemy’s skill cooldown will be increased by x%.’
• Fixed a bug with the new Champion Blessing Scroll (Random, Guaranteed) which erroneously warned about the item failing.
• Fixed a visual bug which caused the chat to randomly erroneously display that items/gold had been obtained.
• Fixed a visual bug which could cause the Renegade specialist’s sword to appear oversized in certain circumstances.
• Fixed a visual bug where the damage from the red pillars of flames in the Belial raid was not displayed.
• Fixed a visual bug where the damage of the Body Bomb debuff was not displayed.
• Fixed a visual bug where the glow effect of the Obelisk of Light was not removed.