Update 24.3 – Balathor’s Revenge

The wait is nearly over: the hot new Update 24.3 – Balathor’s Revenge will hit the servers on Tuesday, 15th October 2024! Look forward to tons of new content, bringing even more action and adventure to Metin2!

New Guild Dungeon: Balathor’s Crypt

A gigantic enemy lurks in the depths – the mighty dragon Balathor has arisen from his slumber, thirsty for revenge! The new guild dungeon will take you on an epic battle against this fearsome opponent. But you must meet certain requirements before you can enter. Use the time remaining until the patch releases to prepare yourselves!

You must fulfil the following criteria to be able to enter the guild dungeon:

• A new quest series has been added, at the end of which comes the battle against Alastor.
• Your party must consist of between 4 and 16 players who have all reached champion level 4.
• Your guild must be at least level 21 and all combatants must belong to the same guild.
• The guild must have existed for at least 24 hours, and similarly you must have been a member of it for at least 24 hours.
• You need either 600 guild rank points or the new entry ticket.

Pay a visit to Dragon Watcher Dolnarr to start the dungeon. In the dragon’s icy lair, you can expect an epic confrontation, with fabulous rewards waiting upon success, including:

• Transform with the new Hwacha Polymorph Marble
• Skill books for three new guild skills
• Crafting materials for the new Serpent’s Cowl helmet
• Yang, 1-star catalyst and much more!

New Helmet: Serpent’s Cowl

In Balathor’s Crypt you’ll find crafting materials for the new Serpent’s Cowl helmet, matching the existing Serpent set for characters from level 120.

New Guild Skills

The existing guild skills are now available in all guild dungeons, such as Meley’s Lair, the Palaces of the Dragon King and Balathor’s Crypt. In addition, there are three new skills which can be learned from the drops in Balathor’s Crypt:

• Balathor’s Storm: Grants immunity to fainting and slow.
• Balathor’s Will: Grants immunity to stun, shackle and freeze.
• Balathor’s Resolve: Grants immunity to knockback.

New Community Window

The existing Friends window has been upgraded to a more feature-rich Community window. You can use this not only to manage your friends and block lists, but also make your status visible to other players. Here are two examples of how to use this new feature:

• Activate the Auto-Hunting status, indicating to friends or guild members that you might not be at your PC.
• Activate the Shop in Use status, indicating to your friends that you have goods for sale. They can then see your current location, including channel and map!

Plus there are other improvements relating to blocking players and their actions.

Revamped Game Options

The existing separate menus for game and system options have been combined and overhauled to make it easier to find what you’re looking for. The new menu has four categories: System, Game, Keyboard and Loot. A new Reset button has been added, and any changes you make are applied directly on a per-character basis.

Here are a few highlights from the new options:

• System Options: You can now determine separately whether to completely show or hide Yang drops. This option does not affect your other drop settings.
• Game Options: Block settings have been moved into the new Community window.
• Keys: The menu now scrolls for a better overview.
• Loot Options: If you switch tabs without saving, you’ll now be asked for confirmation.
• Game Launcher: The standard settings for music and sound effects have been turned down for new installations.

Debuff Improvements

Debuffs applied to your target now appear directly below the element buff on the enemy’s health bar. Mousing over it will bring up the debuff’s name and remaining time.

• Once a debuff only has 3 seconds left, its icon will start to flash.
• Debuffs are sorted from left to right according to their remaining duration.
• The poison/bleeding debuff remains as a greyed out icon after expiring, to indicate that it was already applied to this target.

Auto-Hunting Improvements

The Auto-Hunting feature has been improved to make it easier to customise to your requirements:

• You can now set which monster rank and level to attack. (You will continue to defend yourself if you are attacked.)
• You can set your focus to attacking monsters within a certain radius of your current position.
• Your focus area is now visibly highlighted.
• Skills are no longer used if the target is not within range.
• Dew items can be added to the Auto-Hunting slot.

New Attribute: Block Penetration

The new Block Penetration PvP attribute allows you to break through your enemies’ block stat. There are three ways to get the new attribute:

• As a new 1st–5th bonus on gloves and bracelets.
• As an Indigo Wolf Soul buff effect for Lycans from G1 (Grand Master).
• As a potion from the merc system (deployment reward).

Have fun,
The Metin2 Team

NEW FEATURES

New Guild Dungeon: Balathor’s Crypt

• Located beneath Mount Sohan
• Entry requirements:
• 4–16 players of champion level 4 or higher
• Guild level 21 or higher
• New quest series must be completed, at the end of which Alastor must be defeated at any difficulty
• Entry requires 600 guild rank points or the new Passage Ticket (Balathor)
• Rewards: Materials for crafting and upgrading the new Serpent’s Cowl and more

New Serpent’s Cowl

• New helmet matching Serpent armour and weapons
• For characters from level 120
• Can be crafted by Dragon Watcher Jaharr using materials from Balathor’s Crypt
• Upgradeable to +15
• 1x fixed bonus:
• Magic/melee attack value
• 1x random bonus:
• Sung Ma’s Will (STR)
• Sung Ma’s Will (VIT)
• Sung Ma’s Will (INT)
• Sung Ma’s Will (RES)
• Precision
• Magic Resistance
• Resistance to monster attacks
• Block Attack
• Evade Arrow Attack

New Guild Skills

• Can be acquired from skill books in Balathor’s Crypt
• Balathor’s Storm: All guild members are immune to fainting and slow for a certain time
• Balathor’s Will: All guild members are immune to stun, shackle and freeze for a certain time
• Balathor’s Resolve: All guild members are immune to knockback for a certain time

New Hwacha Polymorph Marble

• The new Hwacha Polymorph Marble transforms the player into a stationary siege weapon
• It has a duration and can be used repeatedly
• Damage stats are unchanged, but it provides ‘Strong against Dragons’ and deals AoE damage
• Can be obtained in Balathor’s Crypt

Auto-Hunting Improvements

• You can now set the rank and level range of monsters to hunt
• You still defend yourself against any monsters which attack you, even if they don’t match your settings
• Dew items can now be used for Auto-Hunting
• You can set the radius of your focus
• The focus area is now displayed visually
• Skills will no longer be used if there are no enemies in range
• Fixed certain issues with characters getting stuck in terrain

Block Penetration

• New attribute which penetrates your enemy’s block stats in PvP
• Can be acquired via:
• As a new 1st–5th bonus on gloves and bracelets
• From the Lycan skill Indigo Wolf Soul (G1)
• From new potions which are awarded in merc missions

Debuff Indicators

• Applied debuffs are now displayed on the enemy target bar
• Once a debuff only has 3 seconds left, its icon will start to flash
• Poison and bleeding debuff icons remain as a greyed out icon once they expire
• Debuffs are sorted according to their remaining duration

New Community Window

• The Friends window has been upgraded to a more feature-rich Community window. The Community window has three components: Friends, Guilds and Settings

Friends:

• Access the friends list, block list and friend requests here
• Incoming friend requests are limited to 20
• The friends list displays the location, guild name, status and status message of your friends
• The friends and block lists are limited to 50 entries
• You can set various statuses for your character which all your friends can see:
• Online
• AFK
• Auto-Hunting
• Shop in Use
• Offline
• You can also set a status message which your friends can see

Guild:

• Here you have access to the familiar guild window
• The list of guild members is displayed here directly

Settings:

• Block settings have been moved here from the game options
• More fine-grained controls are available than before
• You can set here whether or not you wish to share your level and location

Revamped Game Options

The game, system, key and loot options have been consolidated and are now available under separate tabs within the game options.

System Options:

• You can now set the visibility of Yang drops independently of other drop settings
• You can set the view distance, and the maximum view distance has been greatly increased

Game Options:

• Block settings have been moved into the new Community window
• AFK options have been moved into this tab
• Game options are now saved on a per-character basis

Keys:

• You can now choose whether to save your keybindings for this particular character or for the entire client

Loot Options:

• If you switch tabs without saving, you’ll now be asked for confirmation

Launcher Settings

• Added a new toggle to show/hide Yang drops
• The default volume for music and sound effects has been reduced

Other

• When auto-running, spinning the camera while holding the mouse now only rotates the camera and does not change the character’s bearing

Event Window

• The currently available items from item drop events are now displayed in the event window

Website Pop-up

• Removed the ‘Don’t show again today’ checkbox
• The pop-up won’t show again for 24 hours after the user closes it. This is saved per character

BUG FIXES

• Players are no longer logged out when they use a portal to teleport.
• The information that a weapon is transformed is now shown in the weapon tooltip in all user interfaces.
• Respawning via Auto-Hunting no longer throws the player out of the Serpent Temple.
• The Fighting Tiger’s name tag is no longer displaced from the character model.
• The Mok Memorial no longer gets stuck in the wall of the Spider Dungeon.
• When creating a shop with a duration of more than 990 days, the shop now works as expected.
• The group dungeon Meley’s Lair only starts once all group members are in the dungeon.
• The equipment window no longer moves when left-clicking on it.
• The blue highlight when selecting guild signs is no longer misplaced.
• An error message now appears when trying to equip items while Auto-Hunting.
• The correct number of quest items is now displayed in the UI for the ‘Strengthen the Rampart I’ quest.
• An error message now appears when trying to equip Dragon Stones during combat.
• Summoned mounts no longer disappear in the Zodiac Temple.
• The Blue Dragon Egg pet’s name is no longer displaced from the model.
• Fixed some graphical issues on the 4th floor of Nemere’s Watchtower.
• Fixed some graphical issues when the Dark Seer’s Robe was equipped by female Suras.
• Additional coordinates are no longer displayed when hovering the mouse over portals on the minimap.
• The AFK feature no longer logs players out.
• Using Mining in the Combat Zone now works as expected.
• Blocked players can no longer send messages to players who have blocked them.
• The event banner no longer prevents players from using the button bar.
• The language chat filter now works correctly.
• Players now receive a blocked/AFK message on all channels/maps when trying to send a DM to a player who has blocked them.
• The buff symbol for Guild Battle elixirs no longer disappears when teleporting or logging out.
• The Magic Sura’s Flame Spirit skill no longer stops dealing damage when the character is wearing items with certain bonuses.
• The absorption percentages for Sashes and Aura Outfits are now calculated correctly.
• The number of players in the ranking information for group dungeons in Meley’s Lair are now displayed correctly.
• Adding Dragon Stones to private shops no longer removes items from the quickbar.
• The large NPC Finder map now correctly displays the character’s position in the Spider Dungeon.
• The quest helper symbols for the quests ‘Five Hearts’, ‘Needle in a Snowstack’, ‘Commiserations’, ‘Forced Investigations’ and ‘Watchtower of Ice’ are now displayed correctly in the NPC Finder.
• The map list in the NPC Finder is now displayed correctly after changing the client language.

Patch Notes from Today's Maintenance

We are aware of the following issues and are actively working to resolve them:

• Previously saved game settings (such as Show Names, Monster Info, etc.) may not load correctly. We recommend manually saving your preferred settings for each character.
• Players can currently send direct messages to non-existent or offline players without receiving a notification.
• Ninja characters in stealth mode may still be visible in certain situations.
• Friend requests to users who are not online may fail to send.