“Pumpkin Broomstick, New Inventory, Wardrobe & Auction House Update”
Ether Online — Patch Notes
Halloween Event
New Mount Costume: Pumpkin Broomstick
Hallowan in Retta now offers the Pumpkin Broomstick Costume for 15,000 Halloween Vouchers, on the returning Mounts tab of the exchange.
A Mount Costume: place it in the Costume slot of the Pioh Arrangement window
Any Pioh can be ridden while it is worn, even one that normally cannot
When you mount, your Pioh takes the form of a Halloween broom with bat wings and a carved pumpkin lantern. You ride it side-saddle.
Only the look changes. Your Pioh keeps its level, stats and skills.
Account bound: it can move between your own characters through the account warehouse
New Item
Halloween Wedding Tuxedo Horns (M) — now available from Hallowan’s exchange for 100 Halloween Vouchers. Male characters can now collect a head piece for the Halloween Wedding set.
Exchange Change
Fragrant Holy Water x10 — now comes as Fragrant Holy Water [Bound]. The price is unchanged.
Halloween Vouchers: No More 9,999 Limit
Each character could only hold 9,999 Halloween Vouchers, and vouchers past that limit could not be picked up. You can now hold far more, so you can save up for the broom. A single stack still holds 9,999, so large amounts take more than one bag slot.
Account Bound Items
The Halloween Voucher and the costumes on Hallowan’s exchange are now account bound.
Halloween Voucher — cannot be traded, but can now be moved between your own characters
Wedding costume sets — male and female
Candy costume sets — male and female
Skull Masks
These items cannot be traded, mailed, listed on the auction or stored in guild storage. Use the account warehouse to move them between your own characters. Costumes you already own are account bound too.
Hollowflame Weapon Costumes
Well of Urd — Full Sets for Knights & Magicians
Knights and Magicians now get their full weapon costume set from one prize or one purchase.
Knight — the Hollowflame Sword now comes with the Hollowflame Shield
Magician — the Hollowflame Wand now comes with the Hollowflame Charm
Well of Urd — one Rare win gives you both pieces. If you already own one piece, you get the other. If you own both, you get 30 Astral Tokens instead
Event Shop — the Hollowflame Sword and Wand now cost 150 Astral Tokens, the same as every other class’s weapon costume, and include the second piece. The Shield and Charm are no longer sold separately
Hollowflame Wand — now the same size as the Hollowflame Staff
New Effects
The Hollowflame weapon costumes now come with a full set of their own effects, in Halloween orange.
Absorbing energy — glowing motes drift in from around the weapon and are drawn into it
Glints — small stars flash along the blade where the energy lands
Rising sparks — embers float up from the weapon
Orbiting comets — two comets circle the weapon, leaving a stardust trail
Dark smoke — the shadowy smoke around the weapon has been kept
Weapon glow — the costume’s orange markings now glow softly and pulse
The effects stay the same whatever your real weapon’s enhancement level, so a Hollowflame costume looks its best at any +.
Special Costume Slot
Special Costumes now go in the Costume - Skin slot, since they cover the whole body, gloves and boots. All future Special Costumes will use this slot too.
Applies to Vampiric Attire and Cool for School Uniform
Still counts toward your costume set effects
Still gives Max HP +450, and a costume in the Suit slot keeps its own bonus
The Special Costume shows over anything in the Suit slot
Your dye colours stay the same, in game and on the character selection screen
Skin Color items use the same slot, so wearing a Special Costume takes your Skin Color off, and the other way round.
If you already wear a Special Costume, it stays in the Suit slot until you take it off and put it on again.
Hide Costume Parts
You can now hide each costume part one at a time, and everyone sees your character without it.
Eye toggle on every costume slot — open Character Details and click the small eye in the top-right corner of a worn costume
Struck-out eye — that part is hidden and your gear or hair underneath shows instead, for all players
Every slot is separate — hair, head, make-up, skin, outfit, gloves, shoes, both accessories, weapon costume and shield costume
Visual only — the costume stays equipped and keeps its set bonus and buff
Saved on your character — a hidden slot stays hidden after relog, even if you put a different costume in it, until you click the eye again
Hiding your weapon costume shows your weapon appearance change again, if you have one
Other players inspecting you will not see hidden costume parts
The character select screen still shows all of your costumes.
Skills
Summon Meteor — Range Increase
The cast range of Summon Meteor and its variants has been increased from 11m to 14m, the same reach as Rush and Gale Dust Slash.
Summon Meteor, Meteor Summon, Comet Summon, Meteor Shock, Super Meteor Summon
Soul Summoner Fixes
Vessel of the Soul — now also triggers on Flash Orb: Harmony and Soul Shot: Annihilation, the versions of these skills upgraded by your Pioh. Before this, equipping a Pioh with one of these upgrades stopped that skill from generating Bound Soul
Magic Circle of War, Protection and Vitality — casting with 0 Bound Soul now shows “Not enough Bound Soul”. These skills have always needed at least 1 Bound Soul without consuming it, but without one the cast animation could play and give no buff
If the Flash Orb: Harmony explosion kills the target outright, that hit does not roll for Bound Soul.
Thief: Body Slash
Body Slash now gives its Insight bonus to more than the first target it hits.
A Body Slash thrown with Insight stacks now hits up to 3 targets with the full bonus, not just the first one
Only 1 of those 3 targets can be a player. Any other player in the line takes normal Body Slash damage
A monster standing in front of a player no longer uses up the bonus. Both now take full bonus damage
Your stacks are still used up once per throw, as before
Damage against a single target is unchanged
If Body Slash feels too strong or too weak after this, tell us. We can tune it without a maintenance.
New Mounts
Four more Pioh can now be ridden. Equip one and press F7 to ride.
Ice Mushroom — ride cross-legged on its cap
Pure Poririri
Sturdy Peritle — ride cross-legged on its shell
Balaskialf Exorin — ride its head in the bike pose
If a mount or rider looks off — sitting too high, too low, or off-center — just report which Pioh and we’ll fix it.
New Inventory
Your bag is now one window with all of your bags in it.
One scrolling inventory — everything you carry in one grid, no more separate bag windows
Up to 8 bags — put a chest or backpack in each bag slot to open more space
Sort — one button sorts every bag at once
Drag while scrolling — scroll the inventory while dragging an item to drop it anywhere
Expired bags — a bag whose time is up moves to the bottom of the inventory with an hourglass mark, so you can see what is still inside and move it out
Opens with Character Details — pressing I or C opens both side by side
Wardrobe
A new Wardrobe tab in the inventory, for costumes only.
Wardrobe Chest — 64 costume slots for 30 days, in the Cash Shop for 80 Ether Points
Up to 8 Wardrobe Chests at once
Weapon, shield, mount and body costumes all fit
A costume you take off goes straight into your Wardrobe while it has room
Using a new chest before the old one runs out adds 30 days, so nothing is lost by renewing early
An expired chest keeps its costumes, take them out or use a new chest
Auction House Update
The Auction House is easier to search, shows what things are worth, and now tells you when your auctions change.
Search by name — type any part of an item’s English name, upper or lower case
Sort by column — click Item, Level, Time Left or Price; click again to change the order
New filters — Usable by me, Buyout only, Hide mine, and Gold / Cash points
Market price — select a listing to see its last sale and the 7-day average sale price
Selling help — the Sell tab shows the last sale, the 7-day average and the cheapest listing now
Use Market Price — one click fills in your buyout and start price
Price warning — tells you when your buyout is far below or above the market
Grouped listings — the same stackable item now shows as one row at its cheapest price, with how many are listed
Show All — see every listing of that item; press Back to return. Untick Group to see every listing again
Gear, Pioh and soul cards are never grouped, since every piece is different
Auction notices — a message on screen and in chat when your item sells, when you’re outbid, when you win, when a listing expires, or when an auction you bid on ends
Eggs can now be found by name
Notices only appear while you’re online. The mail still delivers your items and money as before.
Bug Fixes
Mount soul gathering — souls now start flying to you as soon as you press the gather key while riding a Mount Costume, instead of after about 4 seconds. Also fixes the same delay on other mounts that use an animated riding pose
Long Pigtails (F) — the hair no longer disappears for everyone watching while a female Magician or female Berserker uses certain skills. Other pigtail-style female hairs are fixed by the same change
The Pioh and Soul Card books now open beside the inventory instead of on top of it
Creating a guild now requires a Guild Creation Charter in your bags
Relaunch through the launcher to get the latest version. Older clients will not be able to log in.