After a long silence, the stars stir once more. A new journey begins this time, far beyond the familiar reaches of Oro. Welcome to Karkia, the fifth planet in your cosmic odyssey. But beware, this is no ordinary expedition.
Karkia has suffered a devastating cataclysm, transforming much of its surface into a hostile, volatile wasteland. Even under Arua's gaze, survival here is uncertain. The air is thick with danger, and allies are few, if any remain at all. Navigating Karkia won't be as simple as channeling your magical essence. The planet's atmosphere interferes with direct travel, making teleportation unreliable or entirely impossible. Even the seasoned Station Guides refuse to approach, unsettled by the planet's oppressive aura.
If you're to uncover the secrets of Karkia and survive its wrath, you'll need to find another way in. One that doesn't rely on old paths, but forges new ones. An inhabitant of Oro may provide some clues.
Are you ready to step into the unknown?
Karkia has suffered a devastating cataclysm, transforming much of its surface into a hostile, volatile wasteland. Even under Arua's gaze, survival here is uncertain. The air is thick with danger, and allies are few, if any remain at all. Navigating Karkia won't be as simple as channeling your magical essence. The planet's atmosphere interferes with direct travel, making teleportation unreliable or entirely impossible. Even the seasoned Station Guides refuse to approach, unsettled by the planet's oppressive aura.
If you're to uncover the secrets of Karkia and survive its wrath, you'll need to find another way in. One that doesn't rely on old paths, but forges new ones. An inhabitant of Oro may provide some clues.
Are you ready to step into the unknown?
Patch Notes:
- Added the following new maps into Karkia:
- Sky Land of Krayah
- Land of Sins
- Forsaken Lake
- Cave of Deception
- Obliteration Field
- Added a new leveling system exclusive to Karkia (and future expansions):
- Your character must be Level 228 to enable this feature (therefore, you must also be Level 228 to visit Karkia).
- Karkian Level starts from Level 1 and has a current maximum of Level 40:
- Consider the Karkian Level an extension of your normal character level.
- Increasing your Karkian Level does not add skill or stat points to your character. Instead, it becomes an adaptability state which works on Karkia to become stronger against it's inhabitants.
- Each future expansion will have its own "level", meaning progress you make on Karkia will only have an affect on Karkia.
- When you Reborn, your Karkian Level is also reset.
- Your Reborn level does not decrease experience gain on Karkia.
- Added the new quest system to Karkia.
- Added the following items to Karkia:
- Requiem of Souls weapon tiers in normal and blue varieties
- Added new armor sets:
- Harbinger Set
- Magus Set
- Rogue Set
- Judgement Set
- Added a number of new masks.
- Added a new shield.
- Added a number of new jewellery items.
- Added a number of new pets.
- Added a new cart set.
- Added a new Castle Gear set.
- ... and more! ...
- Added 18 new achievements.
- Added 3 new Easter Egg titles:
- MVP (Unique!)
- Slayer
- War Lord
- Edited the mechanics of Wisps in Sea of Dawn to aid against griefing.
- Decreased the follow range of Libertas.
Some important notes:
- We have split the complete armor sets into 2 updates. There are additional armor sets to come which build upon sets gathered from dungeons elsewhere in the game.
- There are more areas of expansions to be released, but we must ensure that this first batch update remains stable. This is too large of an update to release everything at once, and there is no reason to have unncessary delays in the mean time.
Classic:
- Eldeon can now be accessed by speaking to your friendly local Station Guide:
- This is a custom implementation, and will not be the Eldeon you may have known over the years, with new spawn points, monsters, and drop tables.
- The items below have been added to the drop tables, craft tables, and/or its stats have been adjusted.
- Updated the following weapons:
- Dark Steel Crossbow
- Mythril Crossbow
- Legend Labour Hammer
- Golden Righteous Sword
- Golden Desperado Dual Wield
- Golden Phantasma Knuckle
- Grand Longinus Spear
- Grand Giant Sword
- Grand Twister Wand
- Golden Lynx Bow
- Legend Mythril Crossbow
- Grand Bastard Gun
- Dark Ferrel Cannon
- Composite Crossbow
- Knight Killer
- Saint Collapse Axe
- Saint Ikaness Staff
- Updated the following equipment sets:
- Grand Plate
- Saint Heaven's
- Holy Heaven's
- Dark Wild Hawker
- Demon Wild Hawker
- Golden Redfield Chairman
- Elven Redfield Chairman
- Legend Plate
- Updated the following face items:
- Trendy Glasses
- Old Man Mustache
- Fake Mustache
- Bunny Eyepatch
- Leaf Mask
- Eagle Beak
- Lovely Eyepatch
- Updated the following back items:
- Tribal Backshield
- Hook Wing
- Mighty Hook Wing
- Updated the following weapons:
A special thanks once again for Justin's contribution to changes to Classic, as well as anyone who contributed to planning the changes. It is they who have spearheaded the development of the changes, and full thanks must be given to them for their time and dedication to seeing the expansion through.
A further special thanks to Razor, who contributed to the development of Karkia over the years. Without his vision and dedication, it may never have become a version we were happy to call our Karkia.
With the stability and performance improvements released in Arua v437 stable, we are are in a position where we can now release this update. It was important to get the performance improvements released in particular, as we wanted to ensure that returning players wanting to check out the new expansions have the best possible experience, and the feedback from some who returned prior to this update release has been great and the improvements instantly noticable. Thanks for your patience - happy exploring!
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Update
Below are the combined patch notes for Arua v441-v443:
- Added the Grand Karkian armor sets to the drop tables.
- Decreased the attack power for Watchers, Diatoms, Cave of Deception monsters and Kings across Karkia.
- Decreased Cursed Karkian spawn rate from Judge bosses.
- Decreased the materials required to craft Jewelry of Twilight.
- Edited Sphere of Requiem so that it now gives a guaranteed blue weapon instead.
- Edited the stats for Shifting Relic of Khaiperyon and Shifting Relic of Omnazos.
- Edited blue versions of Requiem of Souls weapons so that PvE Critical Damage turns into Critical Damage.
- Edited item descripton from Fortitude Wings.
- Edited the Karkia Monster Capsules:
- They now require 50 Summoning Gauge.
- Offensive stats have been decreased.
- HP stat has been increased.
- Fixed missing blue prefix on some new armor pieces.
- Fixed the drop tables for Land of Sins monsters.
- Fixed Toxic Charm so that it now applies Poison status by a chance.
- Increased the drop rate for Kings across Karkia.
- Increased the drop rates for Umbrasilver and Nyxstone items.
- Increased Golem's Cores drop options.
- Revamped Soul of the Oathbraker drop table to drop valuable items more often.
Classic:
- Drop tables of various Eldeon monsters, Grandmaster Goblin, Junon's Goblin King, and Behemoth have been adjusted.
- Edited the Sikuku Commander spawn area.
- Updated the following backshields:
- Dual Rapier Backshield.
- Crystal Backshield.
- Minotaurous Backshield.
- Tribal Backshield.
