Big update this morning when i logged on to test... It's still downloading lol i'll keep u posted...
Yes, test is here and it finally downloaded... I'll write my full report on it in a few days once we get all the info straight, but so far some big things for u people to know are: No more water heal... now all it does is make your hp regain faster. Also there are new sprites for all characters, they're pretty kool. There is no more silencing mops on di, you can silence them... but they still cast magic and it hurts!!! Str now lasts for 10 minutes but costs 2x the mp.
Here is some more info:
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Currently in Testing
The following has been published to the US Test Server on February 10th; these updates include all Episode 3 content:
• Added Diad Fortress and Siege and related NPCs and creatures; entrance is located on the third floor of the Lastabad Dungeon.
• Added Oum Dungeon and related NPCs and creatures; entrance is located outside of the Diad Fortress gates.
• Added Mineral Dungeon and related NPCs and creatures; entrance is located inside of the Diad Fortress.
• The Lastabad Dungeon has been rebalanced. This area has changed in the frequency and difficulty of monster spawn, so please exercise caution when exploring this familiar hunting area.
• Added "Dual Pink" PvP system.
• Guard NPCs will no longer attack players when witnessing PvP attacks.
• Reduced the number of Werldern Mercenary Squad NPCs inside of the Iron Gate Guild.
• Strengthened Elven Forest Guardian NPCs.
• Added Storage Dwarves to Giran and Gludin Traders Villages.
• Added multiple Haste Master NPCs to Hidden Valley and Singing Island.
• Updated player character appearances for Elf, Knight, Royal, and Wizard classes.
• Added new attack animations for Knight, Royal, and Wizard classes.
• Added "social actions" for Elf, Knight, Royal, and Wizard classes; toggled with Alt-1, Alt-2, Alt-3, and Alt-4. Please Note! PC-only at this time.
• Added Class Damage Bonus for Dark Elves.
• Updated object appearances for several existing items.
• Rebalanced various polymorph options.
• Added several new magic spells.
• Rebalanced various attributes for several magic spells.
• Updated summoned creature lists for Summon Monster spell.
• Updated various Magic Window spell icons.
• Updated various spell-effect icon attributes.
• Rebalanced various attributes for several magic ingredients.
• Increased drop probabilities for several magic ingredients; Magic Gems will no longer be sold in stores.
• Added several new items and craftables.
• Decreased arrow weight.
• Updated various texts to reflect episode-related content.
• Added Dark Elf Carrier polymorph option.
• Added several new quests and related NPCs.
• Increased spawn frequency for the Level 45 Royal Quest NPC Maid of the Ice Queen.
• Increased spawn frequency for the Singing Island Amulet/Black Key Quest NPC Lesser Succubus Queen.
• Corrected an issue with certain spell effects being removed when teleporting.
• Corrected an issue with player character shadows.
• Corrected an issue with sound effects played in the vicinity of the Lair of Valakas.
• Corrected various map-related issues on the third floor of the Lastabad Dungeon and in the Tower of Insolence.
• Corrected various text errors.
Known Issues:
• Players will be unable to create hunting parties.
Please Note! All Episode 3-related nomenclature is tentative at this time and subject to change prior to live publish.
NOTE: This is a list of potential changes for Lineage I. There is the possibility that these items will not be published to the US servers as they are listed here, or that they might not be published at all. The changes listed here are still in testing, and are subject to change or removal from the list.
Test Server can be taken offline at any time unannounced, during the testing process. Frequent resets and offline maintenance occurrences are a necessary part of our testing. Please do not contact Support regarding the Test Server becoming unavailable.
Currently in Testing
The following has been published to the US Test Server on August 2nd:
Currently in Testing
The following has been published to the US Test Server on September 2nd:
Revisions related to upcoming LoA-specific content:
Please Note! Resource changes only; LoA-specific content will not be visible to Test Server players.
The following has been published to the US Test Server on October 3rd:
Currently in Testing
The following has been published to the US Test Server on June 7th:
NOTE: This is a list of potential changes for Lineage I. There is the possibility that these items will not be published to the US servers as they are listed here, or that they might not be published at all. The changes listed here are still in testing, and are subject to change or removal from the list.
Currently in Testing
The following has been published to the US Test Server on August 12th:
Currently in Testing
The following has been published to the US Test Server on July 1st:
| Cloak of Freedom | Fancy Cloak of Freedom |
|---|---|
| Dark Elf Cloak of Freedom (for Levels 1-39): AC -8, +1 WIS, +1 DEX, +10 to MP, +20 to HP, +2 HP recovery rate, +10% Carry Bonus | Dark Elf Fancy Cloak of Freedom (for Levels 40+): AC -12, +2 WIS, +2 DEX, +20 to MP, +30 to HP, +4 HP recovery rate, +20% Carry Bonus |
| Elf Cloak of Freedom (for Levels 1-39): AC -8, +1 STR, +10 to MP, +5 MP recovery rate, +20 to HP, +2 HP recovery rate, +10% Carry Bonus |
Elf Fancy Cloak of Freedom (for Levels 40+): AC -12, +2 STR, +1 INT, +20 to MP, +10 MP recovery rate, +30 to HP, +4 HP recovery rate, +20% Carry Bonus |
| Knight Cloak of Freedom (for Levels 1-39): AC -8, +1 STR, +1 DEX, +2% to MR, +20 to HP, +2 HP recovery rate, +10% Carry Bonus, maintains hasted state while equipped |
Knight Fancy Cloak of Freedom (for Levels 40+): AC -12, +2 STR, +2 DEX, +3% to MR, +30 to HP, +4 HP recovery rate, +20% Carry Bonus, maintains hasted state while equipped |
| Royal Cloak of Freedom (for Levels 1-39): AC -8, +1 STR, +10 to MP, +3 MP recovery rate, +20 to HP, +2 HP recovery rate, +10% Carry Bonus |
Royal Fancy Cloak of Freedom (for Levels 40+): AC -12, +2 STR, +20 to MP, +6 MP recovery rate, +30 to HP, +4 HP recovery rate, +20% Carry Bonus |
| Wizard Cloak of Freedom (for Levels 1-39): AC -8, +1 WIS, +10 to MP, +5 MP recovery rate, +20 to HP, +2 HP recovery rate, +5% elemental resistance for all four elements, +10% Carry Bonus |
Wizard Fancy Cloak of Freedom (for Levels 40+): AC -12, +2 WIS, +1 INT, +20 to MP, +10 MP recovery rate, +30 to HP, +4 HP recovery rate, +10% elemental resistance for all four elements, +20% Carry Bonus |
Please note! All Cloaks of Freedom cannot be enchanted, traded, dropped, or stored, but can be deleted, and will be removed from the game at the end of the event.
The following has been published to the US Test Server on June 1st:
• Corrected a text display error with the teleport list of the Windawood Castle Gatekeeper NPC.
Currently in Testing
The following has been published to the US Test Server on August 24th:
The following has been published to the US Test Server on June 27th:
A whole stack of bug fixes and new features was published to the US test server this weekend.
There is the possibility that these changes will not be published to the US Live servers as they are listed here, or that they might not be published at all. The changes listed here are still in testing, and are subject to change or removal from the list.
The Test Server can be taken offline at any time unannounced, during the testing process. Frequent resets and offline maintenance occurrences are a necessary part of our testing. Please do not contact Support regarding the Test Server becoming unavailable.
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• Players banned from Global Chat will no longer be banned from Party, Pledge, Alliance, and Local Chat as well; Trade Chat remains affected.
• Added “social actions” for all classes for the Mac client; toggled with Ctrl-W (“Greeting”), Ctrl-E (“Victory”), Ctrl-D (“Taunt”), and Ctrl-F (“Waiting”).
• Updated area location indicator text to include additional regions and reflect location difficulty.
• Experience indicator for characters Level 40 and higher will now display to four decimal places.
• Items with +0 enchantment will no longer display the “+0” when moused-over or identified.
• Moving a single item to an occupied inventory slot while holding the Ctrl key will now swap the inventory positions of the two items; without holding the Ctrl key or when moving two or more items at once, it will simply insert the moved items into the slot and shift adjacent items as usual.
• Corrected various text errors and omissions.
• Adena can no longer be deleted.
• Short Bow can now be used by all classes.
• Corrected a timing issue with several spell-effect icons.
• Updated and added spell-effect icons for several spells; reduced spacing between spell-effect icons.
• Added an Elf-only spell-effect icon for regeneration at the Mother Tree and smaller regeneration trees in the Elven Forest; non-Elven classes are unaffected by the Mother and smaller trees.
• Updated Magic Window icons for Advance Spirit and Dress Evasion.
• Corrected a Status Window display error with the ER effect for Dress Evasion.
• Corrected a duration error with Decrease Weight.
• Corrected an issue with Absolute Barrier not providing protection from certain creatures’ attacks.
• Updated animations for Lightning Storm and Mass Slow.
• Added target range requirement to Lightning Storm.
• Decreased duration of Dress Evasion from 10 minutes to 5 minutes; increased effectiveness.
• Evaded ranged attacks will now also evade any corresponding magically-granted ranged damage bonus as well.
• Paralyzed status will now override poisoned status.
• Corrected an attacking sound effect issue with the Dark Elf Carrier polymorph option; option no longer allows attacking while unarmed.
• Laia will now morph enemies into Oum instead of Orcs.
• Various Mainland Aden Doppelgangers will now teleport back if they stray too far from their initial spawn point.
• Corrected a potential spawn issue with certain Lastabad Dungeon creatures.
• Rebalanced various attributes for the Cursed Ettin and Lesser Succubus Queen.
• Updated appearance for Rock and Stone Golems.
• Corrected a Wizard class spell-casting duplicate animation display error for the Mac client.
• Corrected an issue with Bomb and Deep Flowers attacking when paralyzed.
• Corrected an appearance issue with Ken Rauhel.
• Corrected a status display error with dismissed pets/tames/summons.
• Corrected a blank display error with the Game Tip Window.
• Corrected a display error with large adena sums in the Trade Window.
• Text Macro Window can now be used with all chat channels. Please Note! PC-only.
• Increased Personal Shop maximum price per item from 10 million adena to 100 million adena.
• Personal Shop “Buy” option will no longer display amount wanted to seller.
• Removed the NPC Regina from the Elven Forest.
• The NPC Orim will now buy Fungus Poison.
• The Trader NPCs Emart and Carupu will no longer buy throwing knives.
• Dark Elves eligible for the Kaiser Weapon Crafting Quest can now also participate in the Karif’s Caliph Pouch Gambling Quests.
• Added Castle/Fortress Gatekeeper teleporters to all castles to provide teleportation service to various locations throughout Aden for a fee.
• Added Chat Window confirmation text for castle gate repair.
• Decreased castle tax rate for Diad Fortress.
• Increased maximum income for Giran Castle.
• Giran Castle NPC pledge renamed to Lastabad Teranu.
• Moved “teleport home” location for Gludin Town.
• Teleporter NPCs throughout Aden will now provide teleportation service to the nearest Lawful and Chaotic Temples for a fee. Please Note! Non-Elven classes risk being attacked by Elven Forest Guardian NPCs when visiting the Lawful Temple in the Elven Forest.
• Added Market Teleporters to Giran, Gludin, Ivory Tower Town (Oren), and Silver Knight Town Traders Villages to provide teleportation service to other Traders Villages for a fee.
• Added Aden Chamber of Commerce merchants to Giran, Gludin, Ivory Tower Town (Oren), and Silver Knight Town Traders Villages to buy various items.
• Directed teleportation is now allowed in Traders Villages; random teleportation will remain unavailable.
• Characters restarting in a Traders Village will now reappear in the same Traders Village.
• Corrected various map-related issues on the third floor of the Silver Knight Town Caves, the first floor of the Elven Dungeon, in Ivory Tower Town, and in the Tower of Insolence.
• Corrected certain keyboard and attack-related latency issues.
• Adjusted keyboard and mouse-wheel potion usage speeds to match one another.
• Increased cursor changing speed.
• Increased overall “brightness” in-game.
• Screenshots will now be saved as bitmap images instead of targa files. Please Note! PC-only.
• The Windows Key will no longer function when logged into the game. Please Note! PC-only.
Original Thread: NCsoft MessageBoards
The following has been published to the US Test Server on May 31st:
Source: NC Testing Forum