PvE Leveling Patch
This update is based on improving the quality of life in the Player versus Environment (PvE) environment.
⚖️ Balance
NPCs in some maps were too numerous and ended up being frustrating for the player. Additionally, their damage could be very high.
- The drop from dragons for the Dragon tunic has been slightly reduced (as I said, it’s a special object and when trading comes out we need to encourage trading with these items).
- The drop of the Eternatus trophy has been reduced (another special item that should be complex to obtain).
- Drastically reduced the number of NPCs: in desert, forest, Polo, Lindos, Esperanza and Veril maps (71, 72…) the number of NPCs has been reduced to make leveling up more dynamic.
- The EXP that Eternatus gives has been significantly reduced. The tunic it drops is already special enough without also serving to level up quickly to 60.
New Drop System (items that fall from NPCs)
In some cases the items dropped by NPCs were too repetitive or didn’t make sense for the area or level. Additionally, they were scarce for some classes and too abundant for others. This system didn’t make sense and has been remodeled. The opportunity was taken to level some related issues.
- New DROP system: The way NPCs drop items has drastically changed. Now, the NPC drops a random item from the entire game, not fixed items. The selection of this item is based on a level range of this same NPC. The DROP probability of NPCs has been drastically reduced, but the number of NPCs that give LOOT has been drastically increased. This way, we achieve greater versatility, so you don’t try to kill X NPCs because they are the ones that give the object you want, and you can kill any because almost all have a % chance of dropping objects, although much lower (it compensates).
- Quest items, the boat and the trophy have not been affected by the new DROP system, although level adjustments are detailed later.
- The drop from dragons for the Dragon tunic has been reduced. This item is non-droppable and should be special, it can’t be so easy to obtain.
- The boat drop has been reduced with the aim of encouraging their market.
- The drop from Eternatus of grails has been reduced (we don’t want what happened with Dragon tunics to happen) increasing the variety of objects it can drop.