Three days ago the Ice Knight patch was released in the official server. Much faster than I expected, but I don’t mind fast content.
In the test server, the Ice Knight was pretty easy to beat but it’s different now because the Ice Knight is stronger in the official server.
Not only Ice Knight was added, we got a bunch of Lunar New Year events which makes this patch a lot more better.
It’s the Year of the Rabbit, so that’s why you see giant bunny in the world selection screen along with characters wearing hanbok. (traditional Korean clothing).
Let’s start with Ice Knight! I’ve got the Ice Knight mode pretty much explained in this blog entry. But I’ll explain it again.
The new Ice Knight mode from PvP can be played when there are 10 people in the map. Sometimes players hate waiting for others, so they just leave the channel.
When the match starts, there is a time limit of 7 minutes. One player will be randomly transformed into the Ice Knight and the other players will be known as the Challengers.
The Ice Knight can win or the Challengers. In the test server, it was easy to defeat the Ice Knight but the tables have turned in the official server.
I’m an overseas player and since PvP is realtime, I do have trouble with some issues like lag. But playing as the Ice Knight was pretty fun, though the people didn’t want to be killed and wanted the match to end as soon as possible.
The Ice Knight has a special ‘ice gauge’ where the player can earn ice energy by attacking the Challengers.
If the ice gauge gains ice energy, the Ice Knight can use special abilities.
▲ Ice Chop [Command: ↓ + attack key]
The Ice Knight swings his axe forward to hit and possibly stun many challengers.
Requires 5 ice energy
▲ Ice Smash [Command: ↑↑ + attack key]
The Ice Knight transforms his axe into a giant sword and can smash and freeze many challengers.
Requires 20 ice energy
▲ Ice Tempest [Command: ↓→ + attack key]
The Ice Knight can attack many challengers with a powerful force of ice, leaving damage over time.
Requires 40 ice energy
▲ Ice Panic [Command: ↓↑ + attack key]
The Ice Knight can cast a strong curse that’s able to transform challengers into snails.
Requires 60 ice energy
I’m having a hard time playing Ice Knight because PvP is not so popular in my world. But maybe that’s just me and my timezone though…
If the Ice Knight wins then player who was the Ice Knight will get a lot of Battle Points and EXP, but that also depends on how high the score is.
It’s the same with the Challenger. If you score high as a Challenger, you will receive a lot of Battle Points and EXP.
I don’t think I’m going to play Ice Knight a lot because of the lag issue.
There is an event going on where you can earn the Ice Knight medal.
The medal is not that hard to get, but the event ends soon in February.
Every day when the clock hits 2 PM Korean time, the Cursed Knight NPC appears in Henesys for an hour. The Cursed Knight has a quest available for you.
To complete the quest, you have to enter the Ice Knight mode and you have to transform as the Ice Knight. This can of course take a long time since it’s random. It took me 6 tries to be the Ice Knight…
I was doing pretty good as the Ice Knight, but people were getting angry that I kept attacking them. So for their sake I didn’t attack and stood still until they defeated me. When there was little left of my HP, I used Ice Tempest to amuse myself hihihi.
I was finally done with the boring match and the NPC in Battle Square gave me the Ice Knight medal! ♥
[Ice Knight medal]
The Ice Knight medal adds +2 to all stats and it gives you +100 Charm EXP!
Here is a video of me playing in Ice Knight mode. Please note that I’m having difficulty due lag issues because I’m playing overseas.
Since it’s almost Lunar New Year, there have to be events to celebrate~
There will be three days of x2 EXP from 1 PM till 4 PM on February 2nd till February 4th, but unfortunately I can’t attend this event.
However, I can attend the other events!!
From 10 AM till 10 PM, every 30 minutes you’ll receive an invitation to join a raid with other players to take out a giant rabbit. You can join the raid up to ten times each day.
The mission is really clear. Defeat the giant moon bunny with other players. This raid is so easy that it can be completed in seconds.
What makes this event good? The prizes!
If you take out the giant blue moon bunny, you get EXP and one of the following items:
- Moon Bunny shoulder pad (3 days)
- Random scroll
- Fairy’s Pendant (1 day)
- x50 Rice Cake Soup
If you take out the giant red moon bunny, you get EXP and one of the following items:
- Moon Bunny tail (3 days)
- Random scroll
- Fairy’s Pendant
- x50 Rice Cake Soup
So far I only got the Rice Cake soup. T_T
The second event is where Cassandra gives you a clover of four yellow leaves which can change in a clover of four green leaves when an hour has passed.
When an hour has passed, you have to go back to Cassandra and give her the clover to receive a New Year’s gift.
Not bad for the first try? I got the advanced android (female) recipe. Too bad I’m not a blacksmith, so I guess I’ll have to sell this.
The gift from Cassandra can give you:
- Blue & Red Moon Bunny transformation potion
- Fatigue recovery potion
- Rabbit Foot’s charm equipment (7 days)
- Remote store Tommy
- Random 15% & 60% scrolls
- Mana Elixirs, Power Elixirs, Cheese, Rice Cake Soup
- Potential scroll
- Riding mount (10 days)
- Advanced android (male and female) recipe
- Almighty Ring recipe
- Giant Potion, Advanced Giant Potion recipe
The third event is really good. Whenever you kill a monster, mine or collect herbs, you can find these item pot bags.
The bags have a low drop rate. When you have the bag, you double-click it to raise it.
The bag has four levels and you have to raise the bag by feeding it equipment or ETC. This is a long process because item pot can sleep for many hours and you have to make sure you don’t starve the bag or else it’s dead.
The bag will change with every new level. When the bag is at its last stage, you can see a rabbit coming out of the bag. You can then click the bag and it will transfer to your inventory where you can click it again to receive a reward.
These are the prizes that you can get from raising the bag:
- Blue & Red Moon Bunny transformation potion
- Fatigue recovery potion
- Moon Bunny shoulder pad (6 days)
- Bunny Chair
- Remote store Tommy
- Riding mount (10 days)
- Moon Bunny Tail (6 days)
- Carrot Earrings
- Random 60% scroll
- Stachel’s herb bag, Nobum’s mining bag or a bag with 5 slots for herb collecting or mining
- Advanced potential scroll
- Advanced Equipment Enhancement scroll
- Chaos scroll 60%
- Clean Slate scroll 10%
The prizes are pretty good. But I will not raise this bag because it takes too much time and it takes away too much equipment from me, lol.
During this Lunar New Year event, there are new time limited cash items.
This cash item is the Protect Shield. It prevents items from being destroyed.
The Protect Shield effect only works with equipment enhancement scrolls on items until 8 stars.
The second new promising cash item is the Microwave Range. During the event, monsters will drop Ice Cubes(ETC).
If you have a Microwave Range, you can melt the ice cubes and receive a prize from it. But what kind of prize?
There’s a long list, but I’ll pick a few from it:
- I am a lucky guy ★ medal
- Black Tiger’s Toenail shoulder pad
- 12 slot bag for herbs
- 12 slot bag for minerals
- Chairs
- Fairy’s Pendant
- Evan (M) & Goddess (F) hair coupon
- Lv. 120 and 130 recipes
- Barrier scroll (prevents an item from being destroyed)
- Lucky Day scroll (adds 10% success rate)
- Golden Hammer
- Many other scrolls
- All Dragon weapons
- All special Lv. 105 weapons (from Dragon Rider PQ)
- All Van Leon weapons
- and more…
I’ve seen the microwaves sell for 12,5m each in Free Market. All I got on the test server was a lot of potions…
Three weeks ago, I raged about the lack of compatibility of Windows Vista and 7. It’s all fixed now.
I’m not getting disconnected at boss runs anymore. I even had a duo run with a friend yesterday and the run was flawless~
The UI doesn’t mess up anymore, no more weird errors.
I’m relieved that Nexon has fixed this issue.
