New features

Garden of Heaven

The Garden of Heaven is a new territory which can be reached via the portal in the palace of each kingdom (Derion: Bruna’s King’s Palace, Valorian: High King Neban Maha’s Palace). In this area players from the opposing kingdoms can always be attacked. When the war in the Garden of Heaven is not taking place, all gates on the map are open. The Garden of Heaven also contains the portal into the two new instances ‘Hell Flame Labyrinth’ and ‘Marduk’s Nest’.

War in the Garden of Heaven

This new feature has been added to the game for all PvP enthusiasts. It’s the biggest PvP feature in Gates of Andaron and the number of participants is unlimited. The aim of each kingdom is to defeat the leaders and the guards of the opposing kingdom. The war in the Garden of Heaven takes place on Saturdays, 30 minutes after an area conquest. Just before the war starts, all players that are still in the Garden of Heaven will be teleported to their capital city. As soon as the war begins, the gates are closed. As soon as the war is over, a short peace time of 5 minutes is activated, just like during area conquests. This is extended by the remaining duration if the war in the Garden of Heaven finishes before the 40 minutes have elapsed.

Gemstone system

The smiths of Iberia have found a new way to enhance armor and weapons and make them more effective. They can embed magic gemstones, which you can loot from monsters or buy in the cash shop, into armor and weapons. These gemstones increase the skill level of your items by one level. However, no more than five gemstones can be affixed to every weapon or piece of armor. Be careful, for your chances of success are reduced with every gemstone that is worked into the item. As it is fine craftsmanship, all gemstones that are already affixed to your item are destroyed if the process fails.

Hell Flame Labyrinth

The Hell Flame Labyrinth, headquarters of the mighty Firelord Mollek, can be entered via a portal in the Garden of Heaven. Mollek and his followers await groups of high level heroes and pose a threat to every lone fighter. All monsters in the Hell Flame Labyrinth have an increased resistance against skills that cause surface damage and that anesthetise opponents (excluding warrior and night walker skills). So prepare yourself for tough combat. Items from the Hell Flame Labyrinth cannot be used for refining. Additionally the items can only be repaired with the travel tools.

Marduk’s Nest

Marduk, the feared dragon, expects the arrival of frivolous heroes so that he can teach them a lesson. Players of the highest levels that have already mastered the Hell Flame Labyrinth will find more and tougher challenges here. Marduk’s Nest should not be sought out alone, for all monsters here also have a high resistance against skills that cause surface damage or that can anesthetise opponents (excluding warrior and night walker skills). You can find the entrance to Marduk’s Nest via the portal to the Garden of Heaven. You cannot use items from Marduk’s Nest for refining. Additionally the items can only be repaired with the travel tools.

Utility Bar

Don’t know where the next smith or merchant is? Then use the utility bar and your character will automatically run to the next NPC who offers the chosen function.

Further improvements

• Four new hairstyles for every race/gender combination. These can be directly chosen when you create a character or be changed with a cash shop item
• The pearl merchant Rusiela has arrived in Tebekut and is selling her pearls there. Pearls are magical items that can yield all sorts of items when they are shattered. Unfortunately you never know which items will appear.
• There is a reward inbox now. If you get sent mystery boxes for successfully taking part in an area conquest, castle conquest, a war in the Garden of Heaven or a war in the mission maps, they will not appear in your normal inbox anymore but in your reward inbox. You can reach the reward inbox via your normal inbox.
• Endendros' coins can only be swapped for bonus points at specific NPCs (in every capital city). 100 Endendros’ coins are needed to receive 1,000 bonus points. However, the bonus point shop is not available yet. You can start filling your bonus point account now though. When the bonus point shop opens you can start spending immediately.

Changes

General

• Twitter function has been removed
• The paths of the guards in the areas of Hesed, Ardir, Gebra and Tyconteroga have been changed.
• Endendros’ coins cannot be traded anymore.
• Some monsters have now received the skill of discovering hidden characters and can now also attack them.
• Red mushroom spirits now appear at random positions and reappear six hours after their death. As soon as a red mushroom spirit appears, it is displayed in the note chat.
• The animation of the magic attack has been changed.
• The prices of the lendable items in Markut and Keter are reduced by 10%.
• The lendable items are now improved items for 3 days: +12 items for 5 days: +15
• The NPCs Mini and Max now have their normal size again.
• Secret documents, invitations to the second battle and war declarations for the Arahur Rampart and the Narwashi Battle can now be sold to NPCs.
• The effects of the Cash Life Ampulla (previously called Stimulator) and Cash Mana Ampulla (previously called energy drink) cannot be removed by a chaos arrow anymore and will also not be lost by the death of the character.
• Whips cannot be looted in instances anymore.
• The Osiris gemstone is now tradeable and can be sold to NPCs (10 Silver).
• The required amount of water of the worlds for producing the cloak of the wind has been reduced to 10.
• The amount of items needed to produce weapons and armor has been reduced.
• The items that are needed to produce weapons and armor can also be looted by monsters from level 1 now too.
• All armor and weapons that have a skill level below 38 cannot be produced anymore. The items needed for this cannot be looted from monsters anymore.
• Items that have an enhanced main attribute can also be upgraded now. However, the enhancement on the main attribute is then lost.
• The normal mount dealer Mark now also sells white and black mounts for Gold.

Gor

• Players from Gor now receive rewards for the war in the mission maps if they successfully supported the winning kingdom.
• Players from Gor can now accept and complete repeatable quests from the Highland (level 76 quests). However, this is only possible while the character is below level 82. The ‘Tokamin‘ quest cannot be completed after a change to Gor.
• Players from Gor can now change the kingdom that they want to support every day.
• Players from Gor can now support the kingdom of their choice and are not limited in their choice anymore.
• The mechanism that keeps the balance between the kingdoms has been changed. Now only the highest active character of a player counts (previously all characters of all players were used for this calculation) to determine the balance between the kingdoms. The balance is now calculated via the active characters.

New balancing mechanism

• There are three bonus/reduction levels that are dependent on the balance between the kingdoms.
• If the difference between the kingdoms is below 5%, it will be viewed as balanced.
• If the difference between the kingdoms is larger than 5% and smaller than 6,5%, level 1 comes into force.
• If the difference between the kingdoms is between 6,5% and 8%, then level 2 comes into force.
• If the difference between the kingdoms exceeds 8%, level 3 comes into force.
• The current status can be checked by Slaytan in Tebekut

Support of the weaker kingdom

• Level 1: received honor and achievement points that are earned through PvP, are increased by 10%.
• Level 2: received honor and achievement points that are earned through PvP are increased by 20%.
• Level 3: received honor and achievement points that are earned through PvP are increased by 30%.

Support of the stronger kingdom

• Level 1: received honor and achievement points that are earned through PvP, are reduced by 30%.
• Level 2: received honor and achievement points that are earned through PvP, are reduced by 60%. Characters will also not receive a reward from the war in the mission maps.
• Level 3: received honor and achievement points that are earned through PvP, are reduced by 90%. Characters will also not receive a reward from the war in the mission maps, area conquests, castle conquests and the battle in the Garden of Heaven.

PVP

• The patrons in the area conquest now have a higher level and more health points.
• The gate guards in the area conquest have a higher level and more health points.
• The ‘Teleport to the Capital City’ function, which appears next to the minimap has been redesigned and now displays a list with all the areas that your kingdom has occupied. So now you can teleport directly to the areas you wish to defend.
• The rewards for successfully taking part in the area conquests have been changed.

War on the Northern Front

• Received money was increased from 18s 2c to 36s 4c.
• Life elixir now restores 1,200 health points (previously 600). However, you now receive 3 instead of 5 life elixirs.
• Mana elixir now restores 1,200 mana points (previously 600). However, you now receive 3 instead of 5 mana elixirs.

Headquarters of the Northern Front

• Received money was increased from 36s 4c to 72s 9c.
• Life elixir now restores 1,200 health points (previously 600). However, you now receive 5 instead of 10 life elixirs.
• Mana elixir now restores 1,200 mana points (previously 600). However, you now receive 5 instead of 10 mana elixirs.

War on the Southern Front

• Received money was increased from 62s 8c to 124s 15c.

Headquarters of the Southern Front

• Received money was increased from 124s 15c to 248s 31c.

Mentor system

• The level of a mentor, if they are in a group with their mentee and the mentor system is activated, is set at the following levels: 19, 29, 39 and 49.
• No more honor can be earned if the mentor system is activated.
• As soon as the mentor system is deactivated, honor points can be earned again.
• If the newbie is in active mentoring system range, neither honor nor achievement points can be earned.
• Opponents that are not using the mentor system lose honor points when they are defeated.

Interface

• The portal menu has been redesigned.
• The cash shop storage has been redesigned.
• The interface for sending mails has been redesigned.
• Small changes made in the character selection, so that the character’s place and level is correctly displayed.
• The shadow in the character selection is now displayed correctly.
• The quest window has been improved and enhanced with new functions.
• In the tutorial a ‘Skip tutorial’ button has been added to the first window.
• The icons of inactive skills have been changed.
• If a character dies and arrives at a resurrection point, a popup is displayed with the option to resurrect immediately. You do not have to go to the monk anymore.

Quests and Instances

• The instances Dungeon Labyrinth and Solaphrem's Grave have been redesigned.
• The quests for the first two instances of each kingdom have been redesigned and enhanced.
• The quests in Yesode, Horusland, Tibered and Tarat have been redesigned.
• The repeatable quests in Yesode, Horusland, Tarat and Tibered have been replaced with new quests.
• All remaining repeatable quests right up to the quests in the Highland have been redesigned.
• More portals have been added to the areas to reduce the walking distance.

The automatic level up rewards have been adjusted.

• Level 5: +6 Weapon (permanent)
• Level 9: +6 Armor (permanent)
• Level 15: bag with 8 storage Boxes, Secret Document
• Level 20: +12 Weapon (limited to 6 days), 10 Arch Magician’s Formulae, 10 Apprentice’s Formulae, Secret Document
• Level 30: +14 Weapon (limited to 7 days), Secret Document
• Level 40: +14 Weapon (limited to 7 days), Secret Document
• Level 50: +16 Weapon (limited to 10 days), Secret Document
• Level 60: +16 Weapon (limited to 10 days), Secret Document
• Level 70: +18 Weapon (limited to 14 days), Secret Document
• Level 80: Secret Document

Classes

Warrior

• Defense Position

  • Magic defense has been reduced from 135% to 125%.

• Defense Call

  • Magic defense has been slightly reduced.

• Anaesthesia

  • Cooldown time has been changed to 30 seconds.

• Battle Cry

  • Cooldown time has been changed to 28 seconds.

• Hell Whirl

  • Cooldown time has been changed to 28 seconds.

• Blockade

  • Cooldown time has been changed to 28 seconds.
  • Duration has been changed from 8 to 5 seconds.
  • The duration is increased by 1 second with each skill point.

Night Walker

• Mute

  • The cooldown time is 32 seconds now.
  • For every skill point the cooldown time is increased by 0,5 seconds.

• Throw Sand

  • The cooldown time is 32 seconds now.
  • For every skill point the cooldown time is increased by 0,5 seconds.

• Fear

  • The cooldown time is 32 seconds now
  • For every skill point the cooldown time is increased by 0,5 seconds.

• Conniving Attack

  • This skill does not have a cooldown time anymore.

• Gruesome Blade

  • This skill does not have a cooldown time anymore.

• Poison Aura

  • The initial damage was increased from 20% to 25%.

• Poison

  • The initial damage was increased from 20% to 25%.

Archer

• Wind Blessing

  • Anaesthesia is not thrown back anymore.

• Lapiris’ Protection

  • Cooldown time was increased from 18 seconds to 33 seconds.

Evocator

• Blockade

  • The cooldown time has been changed to 25 seconds.
  • The duration has been reduced from 8 to 5 seconds.
  • The duration is increased by 1 second with every skill point.

• Anaesthesia the Dark Demon

  • The cooldown time has been changed to 25 seconds.

• Battle Cry of the Dark Demon

  • The cooldown time has been changed to 25 seconds.

• Frost Prison of the Light Spirit

  • The cooldown time has been changed to 25 seconds.

• Hell Flame of the Light Spirit

  • The cooldown time has been changed to 25 seconds.

Priest

• Dignified Suffering

  • The cooldown time has been reduced from 480 to 420 seconds.
  • Dignified suffering does not use up health points anymore, but uses mana points.
  • On skill level 1, 100 mana points are used per second. This value is reduced by 25 mana points per skill level.

• Cure

  • Animation has been redesigned so that it is shorter now.

Bug fixes

• An error that led to warriors not being able to drag their standard attack back into their action bar in some circumstances has been fixed.
• An error that led to the calculation of a critical hit not functioning properly for some surface damage skills has been fixed.
• An error that led to the paper-scissors stone game not continuing has been fixed.
• An error that led to the priests not being able to buff each other has been fixed.
• An error that led to the players not being able to leave the King’s Grave has been fixed.
• Several quest errors that led to not being able to complete quests properly have been fixed.
• An error that led to night walkers with active invisibility not using up any mana when they opened a personal shop has been fixed.