Players will now get automatically unmounted when using skills or attacks.
Gathering while using a mount has been made easier. The mount will now visually be hidden while gathering, instead of unequipping.
The amount of Red Chips obtained in the Emerald Battlegrounds has been increased from 0.2 per point to 0.4 per point.
The maximum amount of Red Chips obtainable in the Emerald Battlegrounds has been increased from 150 to 250.
The amount of points required to win Emerald Battlegrounds has been reduced by 50%.
The amount of points required to win TDM / CTF has been increased by 40%.
The amount of Red Chips obtained in TDM / CTF has been reduced from 1 per point to 0.8 per point.
Teams in Team-Based PvP will now behave the same way parties do. This means you can use the "Party" chat to communicate with your team, attack the same monsters, and share heals/buffs.
Players will no longer get removed from parties when joining PvP-based events.
Please note however that Team-Based PvP teams still have priority over parties. You can remain in your party during Team-Based PvP, but it will be ineffective as all functionalities will be overtaken by the team functionalities.
Love Chocolate is no longer Soul-Linked.
Some changes were applied to the way HP scaling for Raid & World Bosses is applied, to potentially reduce the amount of HP they lose within the first few seconds of the fight.
Statues and Crystals are now shown in the Emerald Battleground's map (M).
Guild Siege times have been updated to the following:
Tuesday - 21:00 UTC
Thursday - 15:00 UTC
Saturday - 16:00 UTC
Sunday - 15:00 UTC
Balance Changes
Billposter / Force Master
Mantra Generation will now generate 1 Mantra for kill participation, instead of refreshing duration on last-hit kill.
PvP Balance Changes
The respawn protection has been increased back from 1 to 2 seconds (Guild Siege / CTF / TDM).
Players under respawn protection are now immune to crowd control.
Emerald Battlegrounds Balance Changes
Increased the PvP damage multiplier from 0.10 to 0.12.
Magician
Teleportation can no longer be used if the Magician is under attack.
Speed (mounted and unmounted) is now multiplied by 1.5 when within the Emerald Battlegrounds.
Psykeeper's Basic Attacks will now have increased projectile speed against players in the Emerald Battlegrounds (similar to the speed against monsters).
The respawn protection has been increased from 1 to 5 seconds.
Bug Fixes
Corrected an issue where the Emerald Battlegrounds buffs could be temporarily obtained while outside of the Battlegrounds.
Corrected an issue making it possible for Assists / Ringmasters to acquire Mantra stacks.
Corrected an issue causing the client to sometimes crash when teleporting between locations.
Corrected an issue where DoT damage was being reduced twice in the Emerald Battlegrounds.
Special attacks (such as Imperial Gust, Volley, Erupt Earth, Mentalist Summons...) should now work properly against players in the Emerald Battlegrounds.
Fixed a bug where Kalgas Event Crate was not dropping from the correct boss (will now drop from the final boss).