Dear players

The Halloween Event has returned! Halloween points can once again be found in corpses of hostile creatures and exchanged with NPC Grim for new Halloween themed house decorations and crimson reward boxes. We also added a way to upgrade your golden quivers, rune pouch and warrior's gauntlet with items obtainable from the Halloween Event. This year, players with no vocation can also face the Face of Decay in the Novus version of Haunted Crypt.

Please restart your game clients to apply a mandatory patch.

The following changes were made after the server save:

Connection loss protection changes:

• Added a limit of connection loss protection. Disconnected players will not be targeted by monsters for up to 5 minutes.

Halloween Event:

• The Halloween Event has started and will last from server save on 23 October to server save on 16 November.
• Updated NPC Grim offer with new Halloween themed house decorations.
• Added crimson reward box, available from NPC Grim.
• Haunted Crypt dungeon now has a chance to reward a crimson reward box on all difficulties.
• Updated Halloween decorations on Mauren Island.
• Spooky spirits may now appear near players for a brief moment.
• NPC Grim can now upgrade rune pouch, golden quiver and warrior's gauntlet into grim rune pouch, grim quiver and grim gauntlet.
• Grim rune pouch, grim quiver and grim gauntlet can be further upgraded into deathbound rune pouch, deathbound quiver and deathbound gauntlet.
• Upgrades require stuffed bags of halloween coins, golden pumpkins and golden skulls. Deathbound upgrades also require nightmare tokens, which can be found in crimson reward boxes.

Huntsman Guilld Event:

• The Huntsman Guild Event has started and will last from server save on 23 October to server save on 26 October.
• During the events, it's possible to reroll already completed Daily Hunts using Contract Rerolls.
• Free 3 contract rerolls are available during the event.
• All Daily Hunts have their experience reward doubled during the event.

Novus changes:

• Added Novus version of Haunted Crypt dungeon for players with no vocation. Requires level 40 and a party of 3 to 4 players.
• Haunted Crypt (Novus) can be entered next to NPC Grim.
• Added a new rare creature: furious chimpanzee. It has a chance to appear after killing chimpanzees.
• Added chimpanzee, entling and adept druid Huntsman Guild hunts.
• Increased experience yielded by giant skeleton from 1470 to 1940. It now drops knight legs and drops ancient boots more often.
• Increased experience yielded by nether spider from 1750 to 2620. It now drops knight armor instead of plate armor.

Distance combat changes:

• Distance attacks no longer miss. Instead, damage dealt by each shot is scaled by your hit chance.

Huntsman Guild changes:

• Hunts can no longer be shared after reaching 50% progress.
• Adjusted level ranges of typhon, corruptor and dreadlord hunts.
• Decreased experience reward of dwarf bonecutter, dwarf ironbound, dwarf vaultkeeper, minotaur sentinel, orc bloodfury, orc marksman, orc chieftain, orc hexcaller, orc overlord, orc blademaster, dark elf guardian, dark elf sharpshooter and dark elf swordmaster hunts.

Miscellaneous changes:

• Archbishop Zorbar boss fight: once the fight is started, a portal appears for 60 seconds, allowing other eligible players to join. Players are no longer teleported into the arena automatically.
• Medivia Coins Contest rewards can now be claimed for 7 days after the contest ends.
• Furniture packed by your own account can now be unpacked again without waiting for the unpack cooldown.
• The passage in Ice Mines (Elunor) blown open with a gunpowder barrel now stays open for 1 hour instead of 5 minutes.
• The Shattered Edge dungeon shortcut is now unlocked after completing the dungeon 5 times.
• Huntsman Guild tasks with other reward, such as the phoenix, water phoenix and shadow phoenix tasks, no longer count as item or experience reward tasks. It is now possible to have an other reward task active at the same time as item and experience reward tasks.

Item changes:

• Lightforged pick can now be used as a regular pick.
• Corrected tooltip of ashlord doll.
• Treasure maps are now listed in the Magical items category on the marketplace.
• Tidepiercer's on kill speed bonus now lasts 10 seconds instead of 5 seconds.
• Tidepiercer's underwater strength bonus has been increased from 8 to 20.
• Aether helmet now has 2% elemental resistance as property and now can be enchanted with additional 2% elemental resistance using painite crystals.
• Special abilities of some legendary tier items, as well as items with Energy Swing and Dragon's Breath attributes, can now be used without equipping the item.
• Special abilities of some legendary tier items, as well as items with Energy Swing and Dragon's Breath attributes, no longer deal damage to players.

Monster changes:

• Malformis and witness kills now count towards Sanctum Warriors' Harvest of Souls mission.
• Dark apprentice now takes 15% more damage from energy attacks.
• Decreased melee damage dealt by pyrolure.
• Ember exarch's lamp attack is no longer indicated with a cast bar. Lamp attack now casts less often.
• Increased experience yielded by phoenix from 18000 to 23400.
• Increased experience yielded by water phoenix from 24000 to 48000.
• Increased experience yielded by shadow phoenix from 42000 to 58800.