
Hey NosPlayers,
tomorrow we will have a game update maintenance.
When exactly?
Wednesday, March 19th 2025 starting at 9:00 CET. Our game servers, as well as some of our services, will be unavailable during that time.
What is being changed?
- The Early Game Rework will be applied.
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Hello everyone 
We know you’ve been waiting for some of these changes and we’re happy to announce that with this patch we’ll be making adjustments to the Mystic Arts, Sunchaser & Warrior specialists, as well as some other specialists.
We’re also improving the early game in this update with a lot of different changes. Please read on for more details.
Early Game Improvements - Patch Notes
We know that after all these years, it can be quite tiring to level up new characters or even get into the game as a new player. Therefore we’re introducing new character selection options.
From now on, you have the option to start directly as a Swordsman, Archer, or Mage. But if you’d prefer to play things the original way, don’t worry, as you can still choose to start as an Adventurer.
When choosing to start as a level-56 character, you will start in Mount Krem and receive the following:
- Resistances
- Fairies
- Starting equipment
- Specialist cards
- Basic necessities such as arrows
We’ll also be making changes to the existing quests for the main storyline. You can find an exhaustive list at:
https://nostale.comastuff.com/Early_Game_Rework.pdf
But that is not all! In future you will receive additional rewards when completing various quest milestones:
- Upon completing the Act 4 quest line, you will receive an item that allows you to upgrade specialists 1, 2, 3 or 4 to job level 41 and upgrade level +9, as well as some additional equipment.
- Upon completing the Act 6.1 quest line, you will receive an item that allows you to upgrade specialists 5, 6, 7 or 8 to job level 41 and upgrade level +9, as well as champion level 10 equipment.
- Upon completing the Act 7.1 quest line, you will receive an item that allows you to upgrade any specialist to job level 41 and upgrade level +9, as well as champion level 25 equipment.
Specialist Balancing:
It is now over a year since we announced the balancing changes for the Sunchaser, Warrior and Mystic Arts specialists. Now we are proud to reveal that time has come.
Besides those 3 specialists, we have made smaller adjustments to the Firestorm, Assassin, Scout, Thunderer, Tide Lord, Berserker, Voodoo Priest and Archmage.
We know that balancing specialists is a major concern, and we will strive to make changes like these more often in the future.
You can find out more about the changes here: https://nostale.comastuff.com/SP_Balancing.pdf
Additional changes:
- You will now be able to complete party Time-Spaces until level 99
- The minimum level for SP10 Time-Spaces and the Celestial Spire has been reduced to level 84
- The Underworld Devil, Strong Tree Zombie & Fernon Dryad have had their HP reduced
- Teleportation and ship costs have been removed
- The Crossbow of Courage is now level 56
- You will no longer be able to use transformation scrolls such as the Bushi Transformation Scroll in the Land of Life
- The raid list UI will be increased
- The blacklist will be increased
- Changes to the contents of the Ultimate Giant Arma Raid Box
- You can now buy an additional family warehouse expansion at the Family Manager
- You will now neeed Level 80 to enter Act 4 (Frozen Crown)
- TimeSpace 73 will now grant less gold when completed
- 50-59, 60-69 & 70-79 Instant Combats will now no longer grant any gold
- Gold has been removed from the SP1 & SP2 Martial Questline and will now grant 250.000 Gold at the end of the Questline respectively
- Arena of Talents will no longer grant any Experience, Job Experience, Reputation or Gold
- The icons of the buffs "Opportunity to Attack" & "Sidestep" have been changed
- The minimum entry level for Land of Death is now 65
Bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue with special skill areas
- Fixed an issue incorrectly displaying the availability of Act 5.1 quests
- Fixed an issue with drop chances from quest items when multiple quests were active
- Fixed an issue where the Sun Wolf could get infinite HP
- Fixed an issue with the Polluted Water Prison where more than 8 hits were allowed
- Fixed an issue which caused an error to appear with the Fairy Effect Selection Scroll
- Fixed an issue where Shining Sparkle Shoes could not be used from the skill bar
- Fixed an issue where the Eye for an Eye and Spiky Leather tattoo effects erroneously stacked
- Fixed a visual issue in the trading window where you could register a trade without any information
- Bound by Moonlight will no longer be removed when Bound by the Full Moon’s Light is blocked by anti effects
- The ‘Casting skill failed (including magic)’ effect now also affects skills with 0.0 casting time
- Fixed an issue which caused damage from the Lotus Snare enhanced effect not to display
- Fixed an issue which caused the increased damage of combo attacks not to be consistently applied to attacks with area damage
- Fixed an issue with several Sunchaser and Draconic Fist Buffs & Debuffs not being able to exist at the same time
The NosTale Team