v. 99 - Chaos: Age of Artisans Update Notes

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v. 99 - Chaos: Age of Artisans Update Notes


New Content
Ardentmill
Ardentmill is the town where you can learn harvesting and crafting professions, and where you can purchase items related to these professions. You can reach Ardentmill by using the portal labeled "Crafting Town", which is located in most towns.
Important NPCs:
* Grant is the village elder, who allows you to learn professions.
* Saffron teaches Herbalism.
* Cole teachese Mining.
* Ally teaches Alchemy.
* Gere teaches Smithing.
* Intaglio teaches Accessory Crafting.
* Nack sells items necessary for crafting and tickets to the Secret Herb Patch/Mine.
* Ramsey and Angelica sell new recipes.

Professions
Requirement: Lv.30 or higher with 2nd job advancement
* There are two categories of professions: harvesting and crafting.
* There are two harvesting professions: Herbalism and Mining.
* There are three crafting professions: Alchemy, Smithing, and Accessory Crafting.
* Learning Herbalism is a requirement before you can learn Alchemy.
* Learning Mining is a requirement before you can learn Smithing or Accessory Crafting.
* After learning a profession, you can unlearn it through that profession's master. Your level of mastery in that profession will return to zero if you choose to unlearn it.
* Herbalism allows you to gather seeds and flowers which are located in Saffrons Secret Herb Patch in Ardentmill and some hunting maps. It also allows you to use those to create items needed for Alchemy.
* Mining allows you to gather ores which are located in Coles Secret Mine in Ardentmill and some hunting maps. It also allows you to refine ores to create items needed for Smithing and Accessory Crafting.
* Alchemy allows you to create buff potions and transformation potions using herb oil.
* Smithing allows you to create weapons and armor using refined ore. You can eventually learn how to make an Android companion.
* Accessory Crafting allows you to create equipment items such as rings, pendants, and shoulder accessories using refined ore.
* Using your profession earns you experience in that profession in order to raise its mastery level. Higher levels of mastery enable you to harvest or craft better items.
* Some items for further crafting can't be made. Some can be bought from Nack, Ramsey, or Angelica in Ardentmill, others are dropped by monsters.
* The Production Skill menu is set to the key by default.

You will gain Fatigue Points while performing profession skills. If your Fatigue Point meter fills up, you won't be able to use profession skills again for a little while. You can reduce your Fatigue points by using certain potions sold by Nack in Ardentmill or by using a Fatigue Reset Coupon from the Cash Shop. Your Fatigue Points will also reduced by five each hour, and they will be completely reset to 0 each day at 12 AM Pacific.


[B]Expanded Content
Traits
The professions system gives you more ways to expand your character's traits. Traits allow you to increase certain abilities of you characters, and they can be leveled up. The traits are: Ambition, Empathy, Insight, Willpower, Diligence, and Charm. You can view your traits in the Character Info menu or in the Production Skill menu if you are Lv.30 or above. Each trait has 100 levels. Here are some ways to raise your traits.
* Ambition: Increase it by hunting boss monsters. Effect: Increases your Attack for Battle Mode (coming soon).
* Empathy: Increase it by harvesting herbs. Effect: Increases your Max MP and your Quest EXP.
* Insight: Increase it by mining. Effect: Increases your Accuracy and Avoidability and allows you to check the Hidden Potential of items without using a Magnifying Glass.
* Willpower: Increase it by participating in party quests. Effect: Increases Weapon Defense and Magic Defense, and builds resistance to abnormal status effects.
* Diligence: Increase it by crafting. Effect: Increases scroll success rates and doubles profession mastery gain.
* Charm: Increase it by gaining fame, equipping Cash equipment, changing your hair or face style, or changing your hair, eye, or skin color. Effect: Gives quests to add a Pocket slot to your Equip Inventory, to gain special items, and to gain Facial Expression Cash Item. You can purchase Pocket Items from Nave in Henesys Market.
* Raising your level in a trait will eventually unlock quests that will reward you with medals specific to that trait.

Item Pot and Imps
* The shortcut for your Item Pot is the [Y] key by default.
* The Item Pot can contain herbs, ore, or an Imp that can be obtained from monsters over Lv.20.
* There are two types of Imps: Orange Imps and Gemstone Imps.
* Double click an Imp in your item inventory to raise it in an Item Pot.
* Imps grow by eating equipments that are of a level similar to you or by eating monster drops.
* Feeding an Imp will raise its Closeness for a set duration.
* You can gain rewards by successfully raising an Imp. Better rewards are given for higher Closeness points.
* Double click on the fully grown Imp to put it in your item inventory.
* When your Imp gets sick, you can purchase a cure from Nack in Ardentmill.


New Events
Master Professional - 07.11.2011 - 08.09.2011
You will be rewarded with special items for reaching Lv.7 of a harvesting profession or Lv.5 of a crafting profession during the event.
* The Master Herbalist: Gain a special shovel and herb bag.
* The Master Miner: Gain a special pickaxe and mineral bag.
* The Master Alchemist: Gain a reusable drink to lower your Fatigue level, and gain a potion recipe.
* The Master Blacksmith: Gain a reusable drink to lower your Fatigue level, and gain a multiple use glove recipe for your job.
* The Master Jeweler: Gain a reusable drink to lower your Fatigue level, and gain a multiple use face accessory recipe for your job.

Profession Boom Up Event - 07.11.2011 - 08.09.2011
* 2x chance to earn an item of your harvesting profession rank or higher while harvesting.
* 10x chance to earn an item of your crafting profession rank or higher while crafting.

Learn about other events already in progress by clicking here.

nerfed profession event? o_O

Nerf is to make something worse so isnt the lowered level for the special items a good thing?

Nerf is to make something worse so isnt the lowered level for the special items a good thing?

Not when the item isn't the same as the KMS one. Well at least the Accesory king one. Everything else i believe is the same?

It's a different event that kMS also had.

It appears we're not getting the Level 4+Level 10 recipe event.

To clarify, this is where the Snowdrop recipes come from. It was level 8 in kMS though, at least, as far as I know, now it's level 7, which is odd, because you need to be level 8 to make the items at a 100% (or 95%) rate, they're level 110. The recipes allow you to make 10 level 110 gloves for your class, 10 level 110 face accessories for your class, or a 10 day recipe for the +2k MaxHP protion.

* The Master Alchemist: Gain a reusable drink to lower your Fatigue level, and gain a potion recipe.

I'm interested in this. (Going to make an Alchemist since I'm rather eager for all those transformation potions)

................DAB recipe?

I think we just got trolled xD

HALP ME CHOOOOOOSE :O

We can learn Mining and Herbalism, right?

* The Master Jeweler: Gain a reusable drink to lower your Fatigue level, and gain a multiple use face accessory recipe for your job.

[SIZE="1"]What?! Wasn't this suppose to be Angelic Ring & Dark Angelic Ring recipes? [/SIZE]

We can learn Mining and Herbalism, right?

No only one harvesting profession and one crafting

No only one harvesting profession and one crafting

So if I wanted to harvest both ores and flowers (?) on one character, I'm out of luck?

So if I wanted to harvest both ores and flowers (?) on one character, I'm out of luck?

Yea, that will not work.

NO DAB? WHAT THE F'UCK?

Yea, that will not work.

Damn.

Thanks.

loling @ all the ppl that spent bilions just to get their lvl 10 jewel crafting to get free dark angelic ring reciple from event
imo its a good thing since its more fair to those "poor" ones

@down

im talking about obtaining the DAR reciple, most ppl that didnt collect ores / spent bilions wouldnt have a chance on getting it from event.
Now everyone have equal chances so even with money you wont get it that easy. thats my point.

@ 2x down
yes i know since i play this game since 2005 and i also had pretty big ore collection on my old account.
dont forget that some accessories that are lvl 130 require pvp tokens (or whatever they are called, mostly shoulderpads) and you still can make the items at lower lvls of your profesion (tho you risk on failure) , also some of them are not really worth crafting since diff between them may be just 2-3 luk (like on belts ;s)

loling @ all the ppl that spent bilions just to get their lvl 10 jewel crafting to get free dark angelic ring reciple from event
imo its a good thing since its more fair to those "poor" ones

lol this is worse to the poor people, because with it you could get a good amount of mesos if you had a lot of characters lvl 30+, and now i am almost sure it will be cash related (gachapon, icecubes, etc)

loling @ all the ppl that spent bilions just to get their lvl 10 jewel crafting to get free dark angelic ring reciple from event
imo its a good thing since its more fair to those "poor" ones

I had almost all the ores handy. Years of PQing does wonders, you know. ^O^

Still, people who get to level 10 first will be able to control the prices of level 130 equips and such. That doesn't seem very good.

imo its a good thing since its more fair to those "poor" ones

Uh, no way in hell is this more fair to the poor players. Now the only confirmed way to get it is through drops.

DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW RARE IT IS FROM DROPS?