Rise of the Archons will go offline at 9:00 BST on Monday morning May 1st. The server will be back online by 10:00 BST

While little is known about Prajna Island, a few of the locals on the island have shared some vital information!

• Rare species of elephants and tigers lurk in the province which is also home to wild growing watermelon vines
• The mining caves were overrun with unpleasant creatures hundreds of years ago after mining there uncovered mutagenic materials
• One of the caves is ruled by a Lord capable of conjuring bones into beings
• The Minotaurus King and his guards take no prisoners
• A ferry to the island often runs from Border Town for those that can afford it

• Increased damage on Fire Wall, Frozen Ground, Scorch to make up for the earlier correction
• Increased damage on Meteor and Blizzard to make up for the earlier correction
• Increased base % of Magic Shield
• Increased base and max % on Frozen Shield, lowered ice resistance
• Auction House minimum tax of 1 Gold or Game Gold
• Auction House added more pages to “search”
• Game Shop fixed
• New level 33 barbarian armour skin..
• Decreased dura loss on item repair by 66%
• Increased damage on Hunter’s arrow attacks
• Devastation starts off with a range of 2 and ends with 3
• Thunder Nova starts off with a range of 2 and ends with 3
• Ice Barrage MP dropped
• Fireburn and other equivalent will stop working if both players are not on same map
• Holy Fire and Holy Shock no longer target NPCs or guards
• Holy Fire and Holy Shock cast rate increased by half a second

HP Increases:

• Pyromancer + 25%
• Stormcaller + 25%
• Mystic + 10%
• Hunter + 15%
• Monk + 20%
• Assassin + 8%
• Necromancer + 8%

Today’s update is more of a assessment on the monster lag than anything exciting. A few procedures have been cleaned up and some statistical functions added to see where we might be able to make things run more smoothly.

There are a few updates that made their way into today’s reboot:

• Fixed Punish not always hitting at distance
• Decimate only uses 1 poison per successful swing
• Fixed MorgulBlade consuming poison
• Updated shop stock on Frozen Ground
• Other various clean ups

Been working hard over the weekend for this one. Hope to tackle a few of the major issues as well as some of the finer ones.

General Updates:

• Added Sabuk secret passage and Zombies!!! Ahh!!
• Added “Skill Reset Scroll” quest (Lest we Reset) and in Game Shop (there will be more quests for this scroll at various higher levels)
• Added skill books and armours to level 30+ monsters
• Sub-Bosses given level 1000+ status and new drop files
  • WoomaGuardian
  • GiantKeratoid
  • EvilTongs
  • WhiteEvilBoar
  • RedThunderZuma
• Fixed a damage calculation bug for skills such as Fire Wall and Frozen Ground
• Added rare drops to super and champion monsters (blue/red)
• Added rare drops to normal monsters (v. low chance)
• Fixed issue with recently tamed pets that were then attacking allies
• No log out allowed in Wooma Temple Palace
• Expanded doorways at Wooma Temple Palace -> Wooma Temple 2nd Floor and back
• Players, pets, monsters cannot be pushed or recalled onto doorways
• Some skills now begin cooldown on log-in
• Halfmoon, doublslash and thrusting can now be disabled when you have low MP
• All character classes now have access to 13 skills by level 40

Barbarian:

• Lowered the level of Storm Thrust from 35 to 20
• Added Terrifying Roar at level 35
• Added Twin Drake Blade at level 38
• Added Rage at level 40
• StormThrust made weaker and adjusted progression
• Fire Thrust made weaker and adjusted progression
• Fire Thrust and Storm Thrust cost mana 

Pyromancer

• Added Sanctuary at level 35
• Added Scorch at level 38
• Added Magic Booster at level 40
• Increase pauses between hits on meteor
• Increase damage on Fire Blast
• Increase damage on Suanni

Mystic:

• Shinsu is now faster
• Shinsu does more damage on level progression
• Increased Soul Abulet damage
• Increased Burning Amulet damage
• Increased Burning Amulet’s burning damage
• Added Summon Angel at level 35
• Added Tiger Charge at level 38
• Added Revitalise at level 40
• Added more MC to Oracle

Assassin:

• Added base 8 A.Speed
• Lowered A.Speed on weapons
• Lowered level of skill Ruthlessness to 30
• Added Petrification at level 35
• Added Crimson Tempest at level 38
• Added Defiance at level 40
• Increased power of Corrupt Sword

Hunter:

• Lower level Hunting Wolves from 37 to 28
• Added Isolate at level 38
• Added Head Shot at level 40

Stormcaller:

• Added Charged Heart at level 35
• Added Blizzard at level 38
• Added Focus at level 40
• Frozen Ground stays at 30 second duration (no degenerative ‘progression’)
• Increase damage on IceBlast
• Increase damage on Thunder Strike

Necromancer:

• Skeleton gets more HP when it upgrades graphics (player level 28)
• Decimate runs with Morgul Blade and consumes poison bags
• Added Blood Bond at level 27
• Added Unholy Power at level 38
• Added Soul Shatter at level 40
• Added more gains to skeleton DC on skill progression

Monk:

• Lowered the level of Holy Shock from 36 to 15
• Added Diamond Skin at level 35
• Added Jade Lightning at level 40
• Increase gains on Divine skill for all round more damage
• Increased target success rate of Holy Fire and Holy Shock

Reboot will take place at 17:00 BST and end around 17:30 BST.

Congratulations on the two level 35 players. 

• Ice Barrage will no longer push players
• Blunt Shot will no longer push players
• Blunt shot has a increased push range (1-3 yards) to maximum of 8 yards away from monster
• Hunter summon orb delay fixed once and for all (maybe)
• Updated BluntShot, LegShot and SplinterShot tooltips
• Revive will not cool-down if you miss………
• Frozen Ground will no longer cast onto areas you cannot walk
• Frozen Ground progression fixed and added freeze-rate tool-tip
• Frozen Ground damage progression balanced (slight decrease to slight increase)
• Fire Wall damage progression balanced (slight decrease to slight increase)
• Increased the rate at which Resting Experience is gained (every minute after resting)
• Added a “Windowed Mode” tab in options to enable and disable windowed mode – game reboot required
• Auction House fixed error with dura (sorry if you were caught out by this)
• Auction House fixed item ghosting on pressing escape after submitting an item
• Auction House listings are now new to old
• Guild creation NPC added into Bichon Wall Palace
• Random Teleport disabled in Wooma Temple Kings Room
• Half gains for PK points per kill
• Sabuk Wall potion shop added
• Fixed bug with achievements

Tomorrow we will finally add the skill reset system! There will be a quest to allow you to reset points for free, with more quests coming later on at certain points in the game. A scroll will also be added to the Game Shop. Again sorry for the delay, I know many people need this due to our changes to skills.

Updates:

• Skills 31+ have been removed from shop and put into drops
• Armours 33+ have been removed from shop and put into drops
• Soul Amulet damage increased
• Burning Amulet damage increased, fire burn duration doubled
• Contain skill is wider, has a new stat “level to contain” and can only be used once
• Rounding correction on skills such as E-Shock so that level 10 is required for 5 pets
• Fixed missing Fallen Hero Achievement
• Fixed Blunt Shot level up requirement
• Undead Soldier removed cooldown
• Summon Shinsu removed cooldown
• Fixed MAC/Curse bug
• Added Woomataurus Horn to drops…
• Added @roll for group leaders, random number out of 100
• Added Dice to Peddler NPCs
• Fixed buff “Can not find skill” error
• Lowered Archer delay after summoning orbs
• Added some smoothing to Assassin double slashing to help with speed increases

Please remember you need to patch the game to receive some of these benefits. If you have not patched then it is more likely that you are missing out, rather than gaining anything.

Congratulations on 60 players reaching level 29+ today. As promised the level cap will be raised.

New Level Cap: 39
Soft Level Cap: 36

Soft cap buff:

• +20% Magic Find
• +20% Gold Find
• +20% Drop Rate

Today’s updates and fixes:

• Ancient Cunning increased from 1-3% to 2-5%
• Added two new achievements 5k Stone temple kills and 6k ZT kills
• Lowered delay after casting Fire Orb / Ice Orb skills
• New command @who added (display user-count)
• New command @pkpoint added (display player kill points)
• Increased duration you can lay on the floor dead to 6 minutes
• Fixed bug showing placeholder quests!!
• Fixed spelling errors on deal cancellation
• Fixed tooltip update problems on skills
• Fixed Evil Ape quest in West cavern
• Moved text overlay of HP on revelation to above bar
• Dead monsters do not show on nameview
• Spell lock now remains after using a non-lock skill
• Simplified Book of the Dead quest
• Lowered DC accross all Barbarian weapons
• Increased Decimate damage output
• Increased Slash skill damage output
• Dispatch does 10% more damage to undead

New Silver Quests:

1. Spelunking
2. Candle in the Wind
3. The Bat Man
4. Betting Man
5. Gambling Man
6. Should’ve Gone To
7. Ready Steady Cook
8. The Spider Man

General updates and modifications:

• Halfmoons now work despite number of surrounding monsters
• Poison colours now show on blue/red monsters
• Fixed a progression bug with Mystic/Monk questline
• Zombie charger description updated to show poison duration
• Shinsu speed increased slightly
• Quest window will automatically load each time you select a quest NPC
• Standard double slash skills slowed down so A.Speed is more effective

Modifications to Stormcaller class:

• XueLong cooldown lowered on
• XueLong attack distance extended
• Electric shock increased to 5 pets
• Electric shock pet taming level increased to + 3
• Thunder Nova requirement dropped 1 level to 23
• Ice Barrage requirement dropped 1 level to 26
• Frozen Ground requirement dropped 3 levels to 28
• Frozen Shield requirement dropped 1 level to 33

Thank you for taking the time to complain and help us improve the game

New Level Caps:

• Hard level cap at 32 (at level 32 you will no longer be able to receive exp from monsters)
• Soft level cap at 29 (at level 30 you will receive 50% exp and at level 31 you will receive 25% exp)

The level cap will be raised on the day that more than 30 players have reached the soft level cap, or on the 21st April (whichever comes first).

If you reach the cap, we would like players to be positive and try to explore the game. Maybe help out a new player or start another
yourself (50% experience bonus for your second character). We like to read your constructive criticism on the forums so you are
invited to post and highlight things you like or do not like.

Today’s update (10:30 BST until 11:00 BST):

• Variable spawn rates increased for all dungeons
• Slightly reduced group exp share proportions for larger groups
• No longer kicked from group on death
• Increased resting exp to reflect the increased level cap
• Fixed price on HealthBundle(M) bundle
• Stormcallers may only tame 1 blue aura pet
• Fixed issue with Guild NPCs not letting you join
• Pyromancer and Stormcaller HP increased by 33%

We appreciate that this is a very different game to other servers, and that the metrics do not match up to your expectations, that
however, does not mean they are wrong (or even right). Things have been set up to satisfy the grand design, which is going to unfold
over the course of the game being online. Such includes, another 20 or so skills for each character class. The skills are coded
mostly ready for the game, just not yet assigned to a level. With your input, we can fill in the gaps of character balance with these
skills

Quests. We did not anticipate the level of interest there would be in quests. We also thought that the 50 or so quest available would
be enough to keep you entertained. Clearly this was a mistake. You are loving the quests, and there is no where near enough! We are
working hard to implement many, many, more quests, however, since it takes around 1-2 hours to write and test each one, this is going
to be an ongoing project.

We plan on releasing updates daily for at least the next month to stay on top of issues. Reboots are likely to happen in the early mornings.

We hope you have fun

We have opened our site for beta subscriptions. You may now sign up to become a beta tester on RotA. All registrations will be considered for closed beta testing which will be announced at the beginning of March 2017. for more information check out this link!