News Tidbits [12 December 2023]

Balance

• Forsaken City, Dark Swamp and Demonic World changed open times.
  • These main mazes should open one by one
  • First maze open on 02:00 UTC, 06:00 UTC, 14:00 UTC, 18:00 UTC, 22:00 UTC. Second maze open in a hour, third maze open in two hours after first maze.
  • First maze can be any of FC, DS or DW. Second and third maze follow next rule: FC -> DS -> DW -> FC.
    
    • For example DS open on 14:00 UTC, then DW should be on 15:00 UTC and FC on 16:00 UTC
  • First maze follow next rule: FC -> DW -> DS -> FC -> DS -> DW
    
    • For example DS open on 14:00 UTC, then 18:00 UTC lets suggest should be FC, then 22:00 UTC should be DS, then 02:00 UTC should be DW, etc
  • Both Port Royal and New Providence have same open pool
  • Feedback UPD: Maze should open on static time
    • FC open on 00:00 UTC, 04:00 UTC, 08:00 UTC, 12:00 UTC, 16:00 UTC, 20:00 UTC
    • DS open on 01:00 UTC, 05:00 UTC, 09:00 UTC, 13:00 UTC, 17:00 UTC, 21:00 UTC
    • DW open on 02:00 UTC, 06:00 UTC, 10:00 UTC, 14:00 UTC, 18:00 UTC, 22:00 UTC
• Gem of Striking and all its derivatives can be fused to Bows and Fireguns, up to gem level 3
• Newbie Tutorial about parties nerfed reward from 15 minutes of double exp for everyone to healing cakes
• Pucca gets Boost Events. We should replace global server rates with Pucca Boost Events.
  • For example we had a global server rates boost for 2 hours. Now we're letting Pucca give you the same boost in the Time Sand system.

Progressive

• New Providence raised level cap to level 75, soft cap keep on level 65
• New Providence common gems can be combined up to gem level 4
• New Providence Black Dragon enabled with respawn of a bit more than 1 week
  • Second Rebirth Challenges for farm Rebirth EXP is disabled for now
• New Providence get a Locke's Map form Mazes.
  • No Metal Fragment and Wowo exchange, it's drop replaced with consumables

QoL

• Boat Haul Service have Docks reordered for easier use
• Rockery Haven Teleporter have options reordered for easier use
• Minibosses spawn on random positions. Added Miniboss Tracking. You can to purchase info about miniboss respawns time or current position. Find Naturalists Boxes near miniboss location. Purchase unlock info for next 3 days
• Experimental UI Scale can be enabled from Launcher Settings

Fixes

• Time Gel and Time Sand non bankable now

Database and Launcher should get new Maze times shortly. Ingame Events Journal show correct open times.

Pirate King Online Team