Prontera's secondary trading area has become the Marketplace Bazaar: more than 100 shops set up live, each one with the seller's own character. Also check out the item and Abyss Lake adjustments.
Marketplace Bazaar: the little shops came to life
- Your little shop now really exists in Prontera: the secondary trading area became the Marketplace Bazaar. Every player with items listed on the Marketplace Cash gets a physical shop set up by a clone of their character, selling for you 24 hours a day, whether you are online, offline or farming on the other side of the world. The clone uses the look of your favorite character on the website (or the highest-level one on the account), with equipment, emblem and guild title included.
- Buy directly at the shop: clicking the seller opens the game's normal purchase window, paying in Cash. The seller receives the Cash on their account within seconds if online, or upon entering the game. Reservations through the website keep working as always: first to pay gets it.
- A showcase with an address: the shop name is the same one set in the Marketplace Manager ("Name your shop" option), with the [C] badge for Cash sales. On the website, each little shop's page shows the coordinates of where it is set up in the bazaar.
- Prime spot for featured shops: shops with an active feature (Featured Showcase) take the 6 central spots at the entrance of the bazaar. Buy a feature and your shop moves there on its own.
- Listings now last 14 days: the Marketplace listing period doubled (it used to be 7 days), so your shop stays up longer without needing to be relisted.
- Exclusive area: manual trading (the Vending skill) stays in the primary area, in Zeny. The secondary area belongs entirely to the Marketplace shops.
Items
- The Perfect Forge Ring became a Costume Accessory: before, it took up the left accessory slot, competing with your stat accessories. Now it moved to the Costume Accessory slot (the same as the Elemental Ring and the Anti Grave Ring), so you keep the refine bonus without giving up a real accessory. The effect stays the same: +10% chance when going to +5 and +6, and +5% from +7 to +10.
- Boosted Manager Card: the cast time reduction went up from 5% to 10%, and it now also cuts 2% of the after-cast delay. On top of that, it gained a new combo: equipped together with the Alarm Card, it grants +6 DEF and +6 MDEF.
Abyss Lake
- Abyss Lake respawn readjusted: in the previous update we made the regular monsters of the Abyss Lake Caves respawn instantly. That was our mistake: the pace became too strong, especially on the third floor, and it unbalanced farming compared to the rest of the game. We apologize for the back and forth. The respawn times went back to the originals, with one improvement that stays: the golden Acidus of the third floor, which in the classic game took 10 minutes to respawn, now comes back in 5. Detardeurus and Hydrolancer remain as they always were.
