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Patch Notes - August 11, 2026

Important

Make sure your client is patched using the patcher - this is important to avoid in-game errors and crashes.

Farewell, Summer Merchant

The Summer Merchant has finished his business and moved on, so the Summer 2026 Event is now fully over - all summer activities and NPCs are gone until next year. Thanks for celebrating with us!

⚔️ Battlegrounds

Capture the Flag

Capture the Flag is a new mode added to the normal Battleground rotation. Carry the enemy flag to your own base marker to score:

  • First team to 2 captures wins. If the 15 minute timer runs out, the team with the highest score takes the win.
  • Taking or returning a flag is a 3 second channel and only one player can work a flag at a time. Touching your own flag returns it instantly, but only while it is lying dropped.
  • While carrying a flag you cannot attack or use skills, your move speed is locked at 175 (Increase AGI and speed potions have no effect) and a marker floats above your head.
  • Dying drops the flag on the spot. A dropped flag returns to base after 60 seconds, or immediately if the carrier logs out or leaves the match.
  • Respawns are wave based: you wait in your team pen and everyone is healed, buffed and warped to the front line every 15 seconds.
  • Rewards: 15 Valor Badges for a win, 9 for a draw and 7 for a loss, same as Flavius and Team Deathmatch.
Change Description
@bg Menu @bg with no arguments now opens the Battleground menu directly instead of printing usage text

⚔️ Skills

Change Description
NPC_CRITICALSLASH Now Neutral property, so armor element reductions finally apply to it: Ghostring armor takes 25% damage. Affects roughly 78 monsters, including Bio Lab and Thanatos Tower humanoids
Plagiarism You can now copy the same skill you already learned if a higher version is offered. Applies to normal in-combat Plagiarism as well, not just the NPC
Plagiarism Tutor The tutor now refuses the trade while Preserve is active instead of taking your 25,000z and doing nothing
Super Novice Weapons Fixed a bug where Super Novices could equip one-handed weapons of any weapon level while under Soul Link. The bypass at base 97+ now requires weapon level 4 as intended (Daggers, 1H Swords, 1H Axes, Maces, Staves)
Lupita The death reset NPC Lupita in Prontera Field south of the city (prt_fild08 (134, 359)) now also grants a 10 second temporary Super Novice Spirit status together with the death count reset. Free and repeatable, Super Novice and Super Baby only. Enough time to swap into headgear (base 91+) or level 4 weapons (base 97+), which stay equipped afterwards

Check Your Weapon

If you are currently wearing a level 1-3 weapon that only fit through this bug, it will be unequipped on your next login.

Meltdown (Whitesmith)

Meltdown has been reworked into a PvE debuff skill:

  • Cast time removed. SP cost remains at 50.
  • Duration increased: now 25 seconds at level 1, scaling up to 150 seconds at level 10 to match Adrenaline Rush.
  • On hit, imposes a 5 second debuff at a 100% rate on PvE targets, reducing the target's DEF and decreasing monster ATK by 35%. Works with Cart Termination, and hitting the target again within the 5 seconds refreshes the duration.
  • The debuff still does not work on MVPs, but it does affect mini-boss type monsters.
  • The 5 second debuff length is the same at every skill level, and it procs on normal attacks as well as skills.
  • Equipment breaking in PvP is unchanged.

🎒 Items

Avarice (Whitesmith Platinum Skill)

Whitesmiths can now trade their Bag of Gold Coins for the new platinum skill Avarice:

  • Requires an additional 200,000,000z upfront cost.
  • Upon confirmation, the Bag of Gold Coins is deleted permanently and the platinum skill Avarice is granted.
  • Removes the zeny cost of Mammonite and Cart Termination permanently, for that character only.
  • With the bag gone, there is no longer a weight detriment tied to the cost reduction.
  • Survives skill resets: Galdur and the Platinum Skill NPC re-grant it automatically.

The Lesser Version Still Works

If you don't want to spend the extra 200,000,000z, keeping the Bag of Gold Coins (50,000,000z from Galdur) in your inventory still drops Mammonite and Cart Termination to 500z per cast, at the price of 500 weight. The bag is now limited to one per character.

Change Description
Gigantic Lance New two-handed spear for Lord Knights only: 180 ATK, weapon level 3, 2 slots, 700 weight, base level 90. Always applies -10% ASPD. At +7 it gains -15% after skill delay, another -15% at +8 and another at +9, up to -45% at +9 or higher
Gigantic Lance Forger The lance is forged by the Gigantic Lance Forger inside the Prontera weapon shop (prt_in (174, 136)). Requires an equipped +10 Trident [2] and has a 50% success rate: on failure the Trident is destroyed. Refine level and cards are not carried over to the lance
Trident Removed from the Prontera, Comodo and Einbroch weapon shops. It is still forgeable by Blacksmiths and drops from Merman

🐾 Pets

Change Description
Civil Servant Civil Servant pets now support auto feed (feeds on Flavored Alcohol). Enable it from the pet window as usual

🏪 NPC

Change Description
Star Gladiator Quest NPC The Star Gladiator quest NPC outside the Payon inn no longer pops a dialog at everyone who walks past: only Taekwons who have not started the quest are greeted. The nearby Drunkard and Continental Messenger NPCs were also moved slightly out of the way

🛠️ Fixes

Fix Description
Tierra Gorge Barricades The Tierra Gorge Blacksmith now actually repairs your team's barricades for 50 Stone. The team check was broken, so previously nobody could rebuild anything
Tierra Gorge Walls Fortress walls now come down properly once the last barricade piece is destroyed
KvM Wipe-Outs KvM wipe-out matches no longer stall. The victory now triggers correctly and scores no longer go negative
Eternal Bastion Extra Lives Fixed Extra Life charges being wiped after your first death. Both charges earned at wave 75 and 90 now work, and the remaining charge icon no longer flickers off during the revive

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