Patch 2.0.2.6

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PATCH 2.0.2.6​

This update brings the Speed Event, Initiation Trials, a new low-level World-boss, several quality-of-life improvements, adjustments to item drop rates and progression and a series of bug fixes to improve your gameplay experience.

Speed Event​

• Implemented the Speed Event. Read more about it on the original post here.
• HWID limit has been reset. You may now participate in the event even if you have already done it in the past.
• Chunjo Empire: Moving to the Chunjo Empire will be temporarily disabled for the duration of the Speed Event.
• Chunjo Empire: XP, Yang & Drop rates increased by 20% during the Speed Event.

Initiation Trials​

New Beginner Progression System: Introducing Initiation Trials, a new system designed to guide players through the game's essential features and mechanics. Follow Arin through a series of trials focused on exploration, combat, and collecting items, helping you discover the world and progress step by step. Complete trials to unlock and collect unique cards that mark your progression. Read more about it on the original post here.

New World Boss: Rhazek, the Desert Tyrant​

Rhazek makes his debut alongside the Speed Event, bringing a new threat to the desert.
Designed for adventurers between levels 35 and 60, offering a new challenge for early- and mid-game players.

Quality-of-Life Improvements​

Pet & Mount System​

• Toggle Pet/Mount: The pet and mount shortcut has been renamed to Toggle Pet/Mount in Keybindings (Ctrl+P by default).
  • Press the shortcut to summon your pet, and press it again to dismiss it without opening the Pet Window.
  • Automatically summons Toad in supported areas and your regular pet elsewhere.
  • When teleporting with an active pet, it automatically switches to the appropriate pet for your destination.

Inventory & Item Management​

• Bulk Opening: You can now open multiple boxes and clams simultaneously using Shift + Right-Click.
  • Choose to open 10, 25, 50, or 100 items at once.
  • If your stack contains fewer than 100 items, you can open the entire stack.

• Drop Filter: Drop filtering preferences are now saved individually for each character. Changes made on one character will no longer affect others, and settings persist between logins.
• Vitality Stones Crafting: Added bulk crafting for Vitality Stones, players can now craft as many stones as they want at once instead of talking to the Alchemist again for every stone.

Interface & Accessibility​

• Shortcut Hints: Tooltips across items, buttons, windows, and game systems now display available keyboard and mouse shortcuts.
  • Hints automatically adapt to your custom keybindings.
  • You can disable them in Game Options.

• Anti-Experience Doll: Added a visual indicator when experience gain is locked. Additional information is displayed when hovering over EXP bars or character EXP fields.

• Multi Farm Block: The taskbar and title bar icons now turn gray when your character's farmer role is disabled and return to their normal color when enabled, making it easier to identify active farmers.

Shops & Trading​

• Shop Search:While searching for items, shop names that do not match your search are now hidden.
  • Matching shop names remain visible even after visiting them.
  • Clearing your search restores the visibility of other shop names.
• Shop Purchase Confirmation: Player-shop purchases now clearly display the quantity, total cost, and price per item.
  • Purchases worth 50 million Yang or more require an additional confirmation to help prevent accidental or misleading transactions.

Social Features​

• Block Duel Requests: You can now block incoming duel requests and their notifications through Game Settings → Social → Block.

Refinement​

• Guaranteed Evolutions: The Refine Window now correctly displays a 100% success rate for guaranteed item evolutions, helping you avoid unnecessarily using an Artisan's Stone when a regular Blessing Scroll is sufficient.

Gameplay & Progression​

Early-Game Improvements​

• Increased general item drop rates from monsters, bosses and Metins below level 50.
• Increased the drop rate of beginner equipment.
• Increased upgrade success rates for equipment between levels 1–49.
• Reduced the minimum level required for the Armed Horse exam from 35 to 25.
• Reduced the minimum level required to enter Yongbi Desert from 30 to 25.

Skills​

• Language Skills: Now provide up to 5% damage resistance against players from the corresponding empire.
• Added clearer error messages when a skill-learning attempt fails because the character belongs to another empire or class.

Drop Rate & Reward Balancing​

Bonus Changers​

• Level 90+ bosses, Metins and Chaos Metins: Increased Bonus Changer drop rates.
• Level 50–89 bosses and Metins: Decreased Bonus Changer drop rates.
• Endgame Boss Chests: Increased Bonus Changer rates in chests from Azrael, Meley, Aqua Dragon, Razador, Blue Death, Wobba, Red Dragon, and other endgame bosses.
• Mid-Level Boss Chests: Decreased Bonus Changer rates.
• Deceitful Forest: Slightly increased the availability of Forest Bonus Changers.
• Meley Treasure Coffer: Increased Bonus Changer drop rates.

Bonus Adders​

• Significantly reduced Bonus Adder drop rates from boss chests.
• Removed Bonus Adders from Naaga and Reaper extra reward boxes.
• Slightly reduced Green Bonus Adder drop rates from Metins and Chaos Metins.

Vein Compass​

• New Drop Sources: It now drops from Rhazek's Chest and can be purchased from Item Mall.

Increased Drop Rates & High-Level Equipment​

• Golden Dragon Belly: Increased drop rates from Elite monsters and the Wobba Chest.
• Enchanted String: Slightly increased drop rates from Metins of Gloom, Ember, Vanity, Wrath, Calamity, and Malice.
• Meley Passage: Increased drop rates from the Meley Treasure Coffer.
• Slightly increased upgrade success rates for level 90+ equipment.

Decreased Drop Rates​

The following items have received drop rate adjustments:

• Stone Craft Book: Slightly reduced drop rates from bosses.
• Blessing Marble: Slightly reduced drop rates from bosses and Chaos Metins; removed from beta Chaos Metins.
• Bronze & Silver Inventory Keys: Slightly reduced drop rates.
• Passage Ticket: Slightly reduced drop rates from bosses.
• Upgrade Materials (levels 1–54): Slightly reduced drop rates.
• Energy Fragment: Slightly reduced drop rates.
• Special Pet Stamina Restore & Special Pet Stamina Boost: Slightly reduced drop rates.
• Sapphire Engraving Knife, Noble Epaulette & Purple Dragon Steel: Slightly reduced drop rates.
• Golden Dragon Tail & Yaghan-Gisul Stone: Slightly reduced drop rates.
• Coffer of Love & Red Flame Stone: Slightly reduced drop rates.

Bug Fixes​

• Devil's Catacomb: Fixed an issue where parties could become stuck if the player activating the Security Stone disconnected or switched characters during the countdown.
• Fixed item links not fading alongside chat messages.
• Fixed chat tabs overlapping the typing area when resizing the chat window.

Wiki​

• Corrected inaccurate item drop information for Master Chest III, Supreme Chest I, and Supreme Chest II.
• Minor updates to Wiki contents.

Warm wishes,
WoM2 Team.

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