[International] Olympus: Ascend | Opening 20/11/2021

[Steck_Ihn_Rein!]

Originally Posted by erixor

# Events
- Sealed Vessel Event has been disabled. Sealed Vessels have been deleted.

# Fixes
- It is now impossible to invite players to a duel when the challenger or the opponent is in a raid team
- Fixed a bug where Celestial Tower floors would sometimes not end correctly
- Fixed mate position not saved in miniland. The mate position in miniland will not be saved if the pet you're moving is in your team
- Fixed "Fafnir Blaze" skill not killing players if they had additional HP (given by snacks, skills etc...)

# General
- Made a few changes to monster behavior to ensure smoother lures (should be mostly visible in Ice Dungeon with the frost stags for example). This might also fix the issue in Valehir where melee classes are not able to hit the boss at the beginning of the raid. If the issue still persists, please let us know!




# General
- Implemented Pet Trainer system. See more on
- Added Switzerland and Brazil titles to Soraya.

# Fixes
- Fixed Demon Warrior's Swarm of Bats being removed on getting hit.



# General
- Made more pets immune to extaction. (event exclusives, collectibles etc.)
- Removed confirmation requirement for extracting "Chicken".

# Fixes
- Fixed Basic Skin not working on Pet Tamer SP.
- Fixed some tamable mobs in Frozen Crown being 2-star.
- Fixed "The Pet Trainer specialist gains x% more experience" titles not working.
- Fixed a visual bug causing skills to visually "reset" after extracting essence or taming a monster.
- Fixed an issue with mate position not working properly in Miniland.



# Fixes
- Fixed a bug where captured / tamed monsters would not be visible in miniland before relogging

# General
- Pets will now be ordered in your pet list. Pets with a summoning book will be displayed first.



# Pet Trainer
- Made all skills of Pet Trainer SP immune to cooldown reduction.
- Reduced the cooldown of "Gentle Whip" from 10s to 7s.
- Reworked the new pet skills obtained via Pet Trainer SP to be a bit more appealing.

- First Aid:
- [NEW] Provides a 30/35/40/45/50/55/60% chance that you receive no damage. In addition, 30/35/40/45/50/55/60% of the damage you should have received is added to your HP.
- Defensive Stance:
- Cooldown: 150/135/120/105/90/75/60 -> 90/80/70/60/50/40/30
- [REMOVE] Non-elemental damage received is decreased by 5/10/15/20/25/30/35/50%.
- [NEW] No HP consumption
- Aggressive Stance:
- Cooldown: 110/100/90/80/70/50/30 -> 90/80/70/60/50/40/30
- [NEW] Movement speed is increased by 0/1/1/2/2/3/3.
- Area Stun:
- Renamed "Blackout"s to "Disoriented".
- [REMOVE] Movement impossible
- [NEW] Dodge impossible
- [NEW] Move in a different direction against the player's will for 2/3/3/4/4/5/5 seconds.
- [NEW] Gibberish is spoken.

# General
- Added "Invincibility in PvP" and "Rage Mode" on respawn at Caligor to help with camping and giving better chance of fighting back.
- Replaced "Complete Raid" quests in Act8 questline with "Kill Avatar" quests.

# Balance
- Daniel Ducate:
- Reduced cooldown of "Ghost Ship" from 47s to 45s.
- Harlequin:
- Increased cooldown of "Purified Flames" from 43s to 45s.
- Purified Flames:
- There is a 1/3/5/7/9/11/15% -> 10/15/15/20/20/25/25% chance that damage received from magic attacks is increased by 5/5/10/10/15/15/20%.
- Palina the Puppet Master:
- Increased cooldown of "Teddy Hit" from 20s to 45s.
- Increased duration of "Concussion" from 10s to 20s.
- Concussion:
- There is a 10/10/15/15/20/20/25% -> 10/15/15/20/20/25/25% chance that damage received from melee attacks is increased by 10/15/15/20/20/25/25% -> 5/5/10/10/15/15/20%.

# God's Altar
- [REMOVE] Desert Costume Set
- [REMOVE] Rudi Rowdy
- [REMOVE] Peepo Stonks Emote Unlocker

- [NEW] Fabled Costume Set
- [NEW] Colorful Jeep
- [NEW] A what Emote Unlocker

# Fixes
- Fixed Unknown Land not having "Small Ruby of Completion" drop.
- Fixed the following rune powers being able to kill instead of leaving HP at 1:
- Apocalypse Power
- Wolf Power
- Explosion Power
- Lightning Power
- Bear Power

hew dear friend i have the question
when i download the server it says connection error how i can fix?
i have new version of this
and when i watch on wiki the videos they do not exist can you help?

[Aethiv]

****, I've just read through server's wiki and it's looking quite interesting. I just hope that leveling wont be too fast

[erixor]

05/10/2023
Server Version: 2.257.0
Client Version: 1.323.0

# Fixes
- Fixed the following rune powers preventing enemies to get one shotted:
- Apocalypse Power
- Wolf Power
- Explosion Power
- Lightning Power
- Bear Power

08/10/2023 - 15:30 (Server Time)
Server Version: 2.258.0
Client Version: 1.326.0

# General
- Made Belial and Fafnir startable with just 1 player instead of 5.

# Balance
- Increased the range of One-Winged Perti's Fiery Breath from 2 to 12 and changed target type from "Select One" to "Around Enemy in 3 cell".
- Changed target type of Sheriff Chloe's Big Bang from "Select One" to "Around Enemy in 2 cell".
- Increased the range of Bone Warrior Ragnar's Shadowfall from 2 to 12.
- Increased the range of Akhenaton the Cursed Pharaoh's Anubis' Whisper from 1 to 12.
- Reduced the movement speed bonus of Petal Wings from 2 to 1.

# Fixes
- Fix Concussion duration being 10s instead of 20s.

[yadiga]

My personal review about the game;

It is not right for the community manager/team manager to play the game, it is not right for almost the entire support team to be gathered in 1 family, it is not right to refuse people with better potential to become game masters, just to make a community manager's friend a game master. These damage the game itself. Besides being a PVE server with probably the best potential, it also has one of the worst managements I have ever seen in my life. As almost 6 months old player I had a few tickets and in all tickets they didnt even ask if it was helpful or not. They just close the ticket. Many people complain about the support system/support members, including those who actively play the game. And you guys still make the same mistake. Gathering almost all support staff into one family.

[Blowa]

Originally Posted by yadiga

My personal review about the game;

It is not right for the community manager/team manager to play the game, it is not right for almost the entire support team to be gathered in 1 family, it is not right to refuse people with better potential to become game masters, just to make a community manager's friend a game master. These damage the game itself. Besides being a PVE server with probably the best potential, it also has one of the worst managements I have ever seen in my life. As almost 6 months old player I had a few tickets and in all tickets they didnt even ask if it was helpful or not. They just close the ticket. Many people complain about the support system/support members, including those who actively play the game. And you guys still make the same mistake. Gathering almost all support staff into one family.

Hi,

If you feel like a ticket hasn't been correctly handled, you can request the ticket to be escalated to a supervisor, up to the head team.

Also, I don't really understand what our community manager/team managers have to do in all that:
- our community managers (Snake/Kamex) are pushing for rewarding events for players, they are not directly involved on the support unless really needed
- our team manager (Sound) supervise our support team with his experience.

it is not right to refuse people with better potential to become game masters

If you feel like your application deserved a different result, feel free to open an application ticket and ask your case to be re-reviewed.
I don't actually think you can objectively assume that someone has a better potential than someone else.

Actually, I can disclose the reasons why we'd refuse someone from joining our support team (I believe all those reasons are reasonable reasons):

• Bad English
• Not enough playtime
• Lack of time
• Applying for selfish reasons

Of course none of us are perfect, we are all humans and if you feel like we are doing something wrong and have examples, feel free to open a ticket, we'll surely review it and avoid making the same mistake twice

[Plounger]

Gds don't play actively on the server. They are out of touch. Video below sums it up:

[erixor]

Originally Posted by Plounger

Gds don't play actively on the server. They are out of touch. Video below sums it up:

Hello!

If you disagree with a Game Design decision or if you have ideas on how to improve the gameplay, you can do suggestions on our discord in the #game-suggestion channel.

We read and discuss all of them internally with team members and active testers that actually play the game and are able to give us input whenever the Game Design team has doubts or questions.

Do you have any example of something "out of touch" ? Something more precise than 2 sentences and a simpson's video might be a bit more useful to us if we want to improve the server.

[Plounger]

Originally Posted by erixor

Hello!

If you disagree with a Game Design decision or if you have ideas on how to improve the gameplay, you can do suggestions on our discord in the #game-suggestion channel.

We read and discuss all of them internally with team members and active testers that actually play the game and are able to give us input whenever the Game Design team has doubts or questions.

Do you have any example of something "out of touch" ? Something more precise than 2 sentences and a simpson's video might be a bit more useful to us if we want to improve the server.

First event of the "rotating special events" was 20% fame boost. Even if it's aimed towards helping new comers. Kinda weird. Some raids are done by few players. yet it takes months to get small redesign

Also suggesting anything in the mentionned channel seems quite pointless as we can guess how it is handled behind the doors. Like anyone who talks about anything regarding balance/design outside of defined circle in the #englishchat gets ridiculed by either someone from testing team or gd team without having a real conversation. It must be somehow close with the suggestions.
Maybe that behaviour is explained by the team having well defined view on how the game must be. Therefore if anyone suggests anything that is not in the view gets denied. But obviously that pov is not fit anymore on a server that old and it feels on the server activity
Or maybe, it's due to the circlejerk between testers/gds. It is understandable as these are old players and know each other well. But consider removing some people and adding new ones to refresh that. Espicially in the game design team
To make it short : narrow minded gd team with a circlejerk issues between some members of staff/testers

[erixor]

Originally Posted by Plounger

First event of the "rotating special events" was 20% fame boost. Even if it's aimed towards helping new comers. Kinda weird. Some raids are done by few players. yet it takes months to get small redesign

Getting 20% more fame does create more incentive for players to do raids doesn't it? More raids being started also help new players finding teams. It might not help as much as "x% chance of getting a new raidbox", but it still helps.

About the "it takes months to get small redesign" part, as I said, you can make suggestions.

Originally Posted by Plounger

Also suggesting anything in the mentionned channel seems quite pointless as we can guess how it is handled behind the doors. Like anyone who talks about anything regarding balance/design outside of defined circle in the #englishchat gets ridiculed by either someone from testing team or gd team without having a real conversation. It must be somehow close with the suggestions.

So you don't do suggestions because "we can guess" and "it must be somehow close" ?

Asking something publicly on a Discord is completely different from doing an actual suggestion. But suggestions need to be thought through to be something viable for the activity and the economy of the server in the long run.

That being said, we do discuss ALL suggestions internally and keep track of them. Sometimes we'll decline them of course, but if you make a suggestion and never receive an answer, it's most likely because we're discussing it or that it'll be implemented in the future.

Most of the recent changes have been motivated by two main reasons:

- Player Suggestions
- Feedbacks from Game Designers who DO play the game

Originally Posted by Plounger

Maybe that behaviour is explained by the team having well defined view on how the game must be. Therefore if anyone suggests anything that is not in the view gets denied. But obviously that pov is not fit anymore on a server that old and it feels on the server activity

Indeed, we do have a "view" for the server, especially on the "economical balance" aspect, so it doesn't end up with uncontrollable inflation or an insane generation of resources.

Originally Posted by Plounger

Or maybe, it's due to the circlejerk between testers/gds. It is understandable as these are old players and know each other well. But consider removing some people and adding new ones to refresh that. Espicially in the game design team
To make it short : narrow minded gd team with a circlejerk issues between some members of staff/testers

We do that on a regular basis, and we have recently recruited 4 new testers and 2 new support members. Our applications are permanently open, to be tester, game designer or game master. I'm quoting one of our Community Managers here:

[Steck_Ihn_Rein!]

Originally Posted by Plounger

First event of the "rotating special events" was 20% fame boost. Even if it's aimed towards helping new comers. Kinda weird. Some raids are done by few players. yet it takes months to get small redesign

Also suggesting anything in the mentionned channel seems quite pointless as we can guess how it is handled behind the doors. Like anyone who talks about anything regarding balance/design outside of defined circle in the #englishchat gets ridiculed by either someone from testing team or gd team without having a real conversation. It must be somehow close with the suggestions.
Maybe that behaviour is explained by the team having well defined view on how the game must be. Therefore if anyone suggests anything that is not in the view gets denied. But obviously that pov is not fit anymore on a server that old and it feels on the server activity
Or maybe, it's due to the circlejerk between testers/gds. It is understandable as these are old players and know each other well. But consider removing some people and adding new ones to refresh that. Espicially in the game design team
To make it short : narrow minded gd team with a circlejerk issues between some members of staff/testers

you are rly right itd dumb how they reacting
i making suggestion about more drop exp and easier get gear and neutral staff and they delete my suggestion
i ask blowa why he delete and he say he dont like my suggestion
they do server how they want not how player want
then i ask friend of blowa why he do this he say he does not like playerbase when i am his friend he will accept my opinions
check all channel is empty only channel 1 has around 10~20 player
everyone quitting
if you dont make game better your game will die
you need improve

[Blowa]

22/10/2023 - 18:30 (16:30 Server Time)
Server Version: 3.2.0
Client Version: 1.331.0

# General
- Added Family Warehouse options to Rudin Albisco in Frozen Crown Citadel.
- Added new NPCs to Port Alveus Square that can be used to acquire a free SP1/2/3/4 once every day.
- Added "Movement speed is increased by 1." buff to basic Angel/Demon/Fire/Ice Wings.
- Increased the rewards of Arena of Talents:
- Winner gets 15kk -> 20kk gold and 30k -> 300k fame
- Loser gets 200k -> 2kk gold and 5k -> 30k fame

# Balance
- Reduced the wait time at the start of Zenas and Erenia raids from 30s to 10s.
- Removed the bottom-left avatar in Alzanor raid's second room.
- Changed PvP damage multiplier from 0,33 -> 0,5 everywhere except Caligor (this is experimental and may change in the future, the goal is to reduce the length of a PvP fight)

## Scout
- [Eagle Eye]:
- [REMOVE] Chance of inflicting critical hits is increased by 10%.

## Sunchaser
- [Nature's Healing]:
- Every 2 seconds:Restores (Player Level x45 -> x30) HP.

## Dragon Knight
- Draconium Shield:
- Cool time: 20s -> 25s.
- Triple Lunge:
- Damage against targets with pierced armour is increased by 25% -> 15%.
- Piercing Dragon:
- Damage against targets with pierced armour is increased by 50% -> 40%.

## Costumes
- Navy Costume (Permanent):
- There is a 5% chance that damage received from all attacks is reduced by 80% -> 30%.
- Fluffy Rabbit Costume (m/f) (Permanent):
- There is a 5% chance that damage received from all attacks is reduced by 80% -> 30%.

## Rune Powers
- [Lightning Power]:
- Every 2 seconds HP is reduced by (Player Level x15/15/15/15/15/20 -> x10/10/10/10/10/15).

## Hats

- Scout Hat:
- Damage dealt in PvP is increased by 13% -> 8%.
- Damage received in PvP is reduced by 13% -> 8%.

- Jennifer's Feathered Hat:
- Damage dealt in PvP is increased by 10% -> 5%.
- Damage received in PvP is reduced by 10% -> 5%.

- Ceremonial Helmet:
- Damage dealt in PvP is increased by 10% -> 5%.
- Damage received in PvP is reduced by 10% -> 5%.

[erixor]

29/10/2023 - 17:30 (16:30 Server Time)
Server Version: 3.7.0
Client Version: 1.335.0

# General
- Added new NPC to Lopello Library that can be used to obtain MA SPs once a day if the respective questline has been completed.
- Reduced the required count of "Heaven/Hell Daily Quests" achievements from 25 to 10.
- Made CLevel Acts accessible starting at 90Lv. instead of 99Lv.
- Removed raid requirements in the Act7 questline.
- Moved the NPCs in the Family Arena to the Individual Arena.
- Removed the +12 limitation for using Rune Solvent, based on community poll results.

# Rainbow Battle & Arena of Talents
Listening to your concerns about PvP not feeling rewarding enough, we have revamped the entire reward system from PvP activities. Instead of activity-specific rewards, we have decided to use the same reward item: Battle Token. This new item can be used to exchange with the old AoT/RBB rewards, as well as new ones we have added, such as Tattoo Chest or Upgrade Chest. Additionally, there will be a main reward you can obtain, rotating every 4 weeks, starting with Lucky Rat. You will be able to convert your current Mithril Medals, Gold Medals and Rainbow Coins to Battle Tokens at the Arena.

Gold and fame rewards of RBB have been increased, too: 30kk gold and 300k fame for winner, 5kk gold and 30k fame for the loser team. We have also implemented the requested Rejoin and Surrender features, enabling you to join back a RBB match if you lose your connection, or vote on surrendering if the battle seems hopeless. You can use `$ff` command to initiate the voting process 3 minutes and 30 seconds into the RBB.

# Rune/Tattoo/Trophy Upgrades
- Added Pity System to Runes, Tattooes, and Trophies.
- Added rates of success for Trophies to the wiki.

# Balance
- Desert Robe/Belly Dancer Costume:
- There is a 5% chance that damage received from all attacks is reduced by 80% -> 30%.

# Fixes
- Star level will not be displayed anymore for squad member pets inside the tower
- Fixed the following pets that couldn't use skills:
- Beast King Avatar
- Spirit King Avatar
- Celestial Spire Sylvan Spirit
- Celestial Spire Owlbear
- Celestial Spire Moss Gloop
- Celestial Spire Dark Elf

[erixor]

05/11/2023 - 16:30 (15:30 Server Time)
Server Version: 3.9.0
Client Version: 1.338.0

# Events
- Halloween Event has ended. The following items were deleted:
- Yellow Pumpkin Sweet (Event)
- Black Pumpkin Sweet (Event)
- Yellow Flask
- Red Flask
- Bag of Sweets (Event)
- Foxy's Raid Seal
- Jack O'Lantern's Seal
- Spooky Tarot Card [Scarecrow]
- Spooky Tarot Card [Dracula]
- Spooky Tarot Card [Ghost]
- Foxy's Wonder Chest
- Jack's Mystery Box
- Halloween Costume Scroll (Event)

# Fixes
- Fixed an issue causing certain masks / hats to be untradeable after crafting
- Fixed Talent Arena spectator mode not working
- Carno Raid quest will now be skipped correctly (Part of act 7.1 main quest)
- Fixed an issue with Wardrobe allowing players with "Red Divine" reputation to pick any reputation icon from top 50
- The following pocket dimensions are now available at level 90:
- Hell's Ruins 1
- Hell's Ruins 2
- Heaven's Ruins 1
- Heaven's Ruins 2
- Ancelloan's Will 2
- Ancelloan's Will 5

# Costume Balance
- Fluffy Rabbit Costume:
- There is a 5% chance that damage received from all attacks is reduced by 80% -> 30%.

# ***'s Altar
- [REMOVE] Fabled Costume Chest
- [REMOVE] Colorful Jeep
- [REMOVE] A what Emote Unlocker

- [NEW] Basic Wings Chest
- [NEW] Leo the Coward
- [NEW] PeepoG Emote Unlocker

- [NEW] Chocolate Weapons Random Chest
> Chocolate Weapons give +5% gold and +5% fame boost.

[erixor]

12/11/2023 - 16:30 (15:30 Server Time)
Server Version: 3.12.0
Client Version: 1.340.0

# Archer SPs

## Fire Cannoneer

- [Explosive Enhancement]:
- The radius of all area attacks is increased by 1 -> 2.

- [Turbo Loader]:
- Duration: 15s -> 20s.

- Cannon Panning:
- [REMOVE] Has a 60% probability of causing [Weaken Defence Power].
- [ADD] Has a 80% probability of causing [Paralysis]

> The Fire Cannoneer struggled to find a spot in the game. We made the explosions bigger so you really feel like carrying a giant rocket launcher and also gave Cannon Panning a more suiting debuff so you don't have to feel bad using the skill and can use it in preparation for Ultimate Cannon better.

## Scout

- [Mobile Trap]:
- Duration: 5s -> 3s.

- Sniper:
- Has a 90% -> 70% probability of causing [Mandra Stun].

- [Strong Mandra Poison]:
- Cast time for a melee attack is increased by (30 / 100 -> 20 / 100) sec.
- Cast time for a ranged attack is increased by (30 / 100 -> 20 / 100) sec.
- Cast time for a magic attack is increased by (30 / 100 -> 20 / 100) sec.

- [Lethal Mandra Poison]:
- Cast time for a melee attack is increased by (50 / 100 -> 30 / 100) sec.
- Cast time for a ranged attack is increased by (50 / 100 -> 30 / 100) sec.
- Cast time for a magic attack is increased by (50 / 100 -> 30 / 100) sec.

- [Head Shot]:
- Critical damage received is increased by 15% -> 50%.
- [REMOVE] The effectiveness of recovery items is decreased by 80%.
- [ADD] Healing HP impossible.

> Even after the latest nerfs Scout still stands his ground as the most versatile archer SP. With these changes we try to improve the experience of playing against a Scout without the Scout player noticing too much difference. In exchange we wanted to put more significance on hitting the perfect Scout combo with some buffs to Head Shot.

# Swordsman SPs

## Ninja

- [Sharp Edge]:
- Attack level is increased by 2 -> 1.

> The recent range buffs on Ninja's skills combined with the increased damage multipliers made Ninja really powerful, so we remove just a little bit of that power.

# Mage SPs

## Holy Mage

- Healing:
- Consumption MP: 50 -> 1500.
- MP is reduced by 5% -> 3%.

- Group Healing:
- Consumption MP: 1000 -> 5000.
- MP is reduced by 10% -> 5%.

> We had to increase the base mana costs of Holy Mage's healing spells because you could still cast them a lot on low amounts of mana. The total mana consumption stays roughly the same.

## Volcano

- Volcanic Roar:
- Target: Around Enemy in 3 -> 4 cell.
- Has a 70% -> 100% probability of causing [Paralysis]

> The Volcano struggles a lot to hit his untargeted aoe skills so we try to buff his most important setup skill so it doesn't feel as frustrating.

# Martial Artist SPs

## Demon Warrior

- Nosedive:
- Attack Range: 7 cell -> 10 cell.

- [Demonic Powers]:
- Damage dealt is increased by 5% -> 10%.
- When debuffs are applied to you, attack and defence power are increased by 10% -> 5% per debuff.
- [ADD] Movement speed is increased by 1.

> Demon Warrior seems to be in a decent spot with his damaging capabilites. However he suffers from long animation times, so we try to give him some more fuel to keep up to his enemies.

# Costume Balance

- Bushi Costume (all colors):
- There is a 5% chance that damage received from all attacks is reduced by 80% -> 30%.
- Aqua Bushi Costume:
- There is a 5% chance that damage received from all attacks is reduced by 80% -> 30%.

# General Balance

- Changed PvP damage multiplier in Arena of Talents from 0,5 -> 0,4.
- Removed additional HP upon entering PvP activities.

> Listening to recent feedback we decided to readjust the damage multiplier in Arena of Talents because it felt too fast for most players now. We also remove additional HP upon entering certain maps now to restrict the abuse of Dragon Potions in PvP.

[erixor]

It has been two years since we opened Olympus' doors, and we have reached this amazing milestone all thanks to you guys! To celebrate this special occasion, we have arranged some special events over the course of next week, which everyone will surely enjoy!

Coupon & Giveaway

Starting on 17th, you can take part in some OC giveaways. You can also grab a coupon for some awesome goodies. Join our for more information

Event Frenzy

Starting on Friday 17th until Friday 24th, the following events will happen:

Whole Week, from 17th to 24th

Increases FXP earned by 100%.
Increases experience earned by 100%.
Increases reputation earned by 30%.

Every day a different event

17th : Gold Earned +50%
18th : Double Drops +30%
19th : Double Boxes on All Raids +40%
20th : Gambling Success Rate +20%
21st : Specialist Upgrade Success Rate + 40%
22nd : Tattoo Upgrade Success Rate +40%
23rd : Perfection Upgrade Success Rate +40%
24th : Rune Upgrade Success Rate +40%

Thank you all for the support for the last 2 years!
We will keep on pushing for new content