The Hive Gatekeepers hunting cost has been reduced and points offered per hunt increased for the weekend only. There was an issue with one of their drops being far too common, more so than desired, for those that used the Book of Luck. While all their drops are still the same, their drop table has been reorganized with the help of a proposal by Rod. The reorganization only serves to benefit all players, especially those with the Double Luck status effect.

I feel really bad that this happened and do apologize to those with Double Luck. I was only just informed about it but it's been taken care of now. For all those with Double Luck, we are looking at ways to make up for the bad experience you've had - not leaving you in the dust. Bear with me as my time irl is a bit limited at the moment but something will be done sooner rather than later.

In other news,

- For those who couldn't find them, the Phoenix Key event rewards can be found in the Shadow Facility.

- Boons are gradually gained by participating/being active in various aspects of the game. Think of it as leveling up - you earn XP by doing different things. The amount of XP you need per boon has been altered here and there (only to your benefit) and based on how this weekend and a few days after go, we will fix the rate of Boon XP/Boon gain at a specific value.

The Void Bow has a new mod slot Currently, the only upgrades compatible with that slot are Laser Sight and Poisoned Tip. Will there be more upgrades for it? Potentially, yes But I intend to let you upgrade the Void Bow in a slightly different way soon. More news on that front coming soon.

Speaking of Void Bow, transmissions between Aida and her supposed brother, Aiden, recently revealed that she's harboring a Giant Void Crystal. Earlier today, she claimed to be in possession of a limited number of Abyss Crystals as well. She said to only have a week's supply with her as of today so who knows if there's going to be anymore with her after a week?

Hope you all are enjoying the new set of minor updates (re: last blog post). For those sad that post office or exploration didn't get any kind of advanced job, you can safely hold your breath Expect to hear more on that front as well very soon.

And last but not least, the key contributors for the Phoenix Key event. Your rewards are the next thing I'm working on and they should be up early next week for you to either claim or pick up from your inventory (or void ). I've waited this long because I needed the Status Effects system and the new jobs to go up before I gave you those rewards so that you could really make good use of them.

~Aldo

So tonight will see the next map for Warfare, it will not be the winter map. No more information will be given out than that, you'll just need to think and plan quickly when it goes live at midnight server time.

Hunting is under the gun for some updates next, the first of these will see 5 new abilities added relating to hunting. Decreasing its cost slightly, increasing drop chances and that sort of thing. Check them out when they go up on Dev and let me know if you think any of over-powered, under-powered, whatever.

New hunting graphics will be added second along with a new UI for picking what you want to hunt. Then will come some new hunting NPCs to fill the 80 - 90 gap, with some new item drops hopefully. That's a bigger change though that will require a little more planning.

For those who will be staying up late with me tonight, good luck!