Here is a official patch list which is much much MUCH cleaner and much more in depth than the other one I had.

Epic 5 - Part 1 Patch Notes

Pets:
Pet Skills have been renewed. Angels, Centaurs, Salamanders, and Hawkmen have their own skills.
Pets will gain stat points with every level now.
Pet’s buffs can no longer be cast on random players; they are limited to the pet and the owner.
Two new pets have been added, Cerberus and White Dragon.

Area and Dungeon:
A new area, Veiled Island, and a new dungeon, Temple of the Ancients, have been added. This dungeon contains monsters from level 125 to level 150, the boss: Betrayal. The entrance to this new area is located south of Lasky and northwest of Rondo.

Client:
New logo and loading screen art have been added.

Items:
Rank 6 weapons and shield have been added. All enchanted weapons will now have a “glow.”
New Rank 1- Rank 5 armors and helms have been added.
Weights of certain items have been adjusted.
Players are now able to hold up to 10,000,000,000 rupees and store up to 100,000,000,000 rupees.
Decorative Pets, Helmet Crab and Sun Rabbit, have been added.
Empty bottles and Creature Wind Scrolls have been added to Merchant NPCs.

Drops:
Drop rate for certain consumables have been tweaked.
All monsters can drop a pet card.

Misc:
Idle animation has been added to characters and pets.
Neutral critters, such as Moon Rabbits, no longer follow when healed or buffed.
Roaming town guards have been added to towns.
Tool Tips have been added to character and pet skills.
Rupee rewards from quests have been increased.
Aggressive monsters’ names are now red.

Metapage.

I only expected 1 new event for the release of Epic 5, but appearently theres 2 more! Heres the scoop!

Olympic Event

In celebration of the Olympics, there will be an Olympic Event for two weeks, from August 12 to August 26. During this time, monsters have a chance to drop an Olympic Event Gift Box. When this box is used, players can obtain one of many items ranging from decorative armor, Olympic medals, to lucky boxes and pockets. With high status bonuses, the United Ring will be the most sought after item from this event.

Olympic Box:
Decorative Armor: 3 different decorative armor pieces.
Lucky Medal: Obtain 10,000 – 1,000,000 rupees when used.
Lucky Box: Obtain either a strike or defense cube when used.
Lucky Pocket: Obtain one of many rings when used.

United Ring:
Made from combining all the rings from the events in your combination box. The Desired Ring must be used in the main slot of the combination screen.

Welcome Back Event

With the release of Rappelz Epic V, we would like to introduce an event for the players who have not been on for two or more months. When logging into a character who meets this requirement, the player can speak with the Gift Rental Helper NPC in any major town and borrow weapons and armors for a short period of time. Welcome back!

As a side note, the Olympic Event is a basic Drop Event where you kill a mob and open a gift box that includes event items, more than likely these items are timed.

The Welcome Back event is a new type of event where a NPC will give you a item based on the current conditions of the event. This event is specifically helpful for bringing back old players who do not have good enough gear, so they can ‘rent’ (as in get a timed item) a few items for use in leveling and regaining their wealth. Oddly enough when I tried this NPC I was given R4 looking gear but the stats are R5. The stats are decent at least.

Level – Up Event

With the advent of Epic 5 we are anticipating an increase in the amount of new players that will be coming to the game as well as our veteran players rerolling new classes to immerse themselves in Epic 5. With this in mind, we are introducing our “Level-Up Event” to assist new players in leveling up as well as getting acquainted with Rappelz.

What is it?

Rappelz Level-Up Event.

What is the purpose of the event?

To assist new players in getting acquainted with Rappelz by giving new players a step-up to even out the playing field with players that have been around much longer.

How do I participate?

There will be a NPCs in all the towns, including the Trainee town, called “Level-Up Helper”. You must go to the Level-Up Helper prior to leveling to level 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 to accept the leveling quest. Return to any Level-Up Helper after you have reached level 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 to receive your Level-Up gift boxes.

What are in these gift-boxes?

Each 10 levels will yield different gifts from the gift boxes; the value of the gifts increases as you level up. These gifts range from consumables to aid you in your adventures to costumes that you can show off to your friends.

This event consist of a new NPC called “Level-Up Helper” who gives you items for every level at lv20-50, these items can range from special Cash Shop items to special suits that were given during the Halloween Event. Unfortunately if you are lv50 or above you cannot use this NPC.

Enjoy Epic 5, I know I will! The new dungeon is brutal!

Metapage.

Apparently Tanda Server went down some time ago and many of the inhabitants sprouted to every server to whine and yell about what happened to tanda and spam ‘Tanda OWNS’ to the shout on other servers. Not so fun for the inhabitants of those servers…

Well heres some news.

Hello,
The Tanda Server is back up!

Now stop whining!

Metapage.

There has been a new report about new Cash Shop Items! I hope the new items are of actual niceness and not crap…

Hello,

Thursday afternoon (California Time) we will be adding several new items to the Item Shop.

Check back here for more information!

I’ll report whats new after the information has been released.

Metapage.

Yea I been waiting a long time today to see what was new in the Cash Shop since it was reported that SEVERAL new items would be added to it. Well it appears that this is whats new…

Decorative pets (no effect, time limit 7 days )
sun Rabbit 200 GP
Helmet Crab 200 GP

Ancient Horseshoe 450 GP
(while mounted movement speed will increase by 100 points, valid for 30 days)

Cloak
VI Matle of the blue dragon 2880 gp

Feather of Teleportation (10) 600 GP
Feather will allow you to warp to a party member, guild member, alliance member

Altered pieces of wisdom ( 10) 800 GP
(increase character wisdom by 50 points, last 2 hours)

Altered pieces of intelligence (10) 800 GP
increase character intelligence by 50 points, last 2 hours)

Altered pieces of Agility (10) 800 GP
increase character Agility by 50 points, last 2 hours)

Altered pieces of Dexterity (10) 800 GP
increase character Dexterity by 50 points, last 2 hours)

Altered pieces of Vitality (10) 800 GP
increase character Vitality by 50 points, last 2 hours)

Altered pieces of Strength (10) 800 GP
increase character Strength by 50 points, last 2 hours)

Altered Pieces are also sold as a single item for 100 GP each.

There are no pictures of the Decorative Pets so theres no way to see what they look like… Also WHY only 7 days??? Since there is no function for those its just a waste of money… Anyway its up for you to decide what to buy. I only have two complaints, wtf is with the ‘altered’ pieces, barely anyones uses regular pieces… also WHERE THE FRIGGIN HELL ARE THE R5/R6 CAPES AND HELMS?! The only R6 cape is so ugly I highly doubt a R6 would bother to buy that…

I do have something to report about the R5/R6 capes that aren’t in the cash shop yet. Tanda reports that the capes ‘are not ready yet. We hope to have them soon.’

Yea…

http://img236.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dddddwg7.jpg

Why the hell was it ready in the beta…

*IMO they are overhyping Rappelz again…*

Metapage.

Yea you heard right, there have been some reports of a 12 hour cooldown… If you seriously want to wait 12 hours to cooldown a single skill then be my guest! So far I am not entirely clear as to what skill is requiring such a absurd cooldown rate, but it appears to be the pet production skills (such as the RP Fairy Blessing, which was a better skill in Epic 4). I did not pick this skill mainly cause it costs some amount of rupee to buy the damn bottle and make the damn thing only to expect… it to do crap. Thats the best you can expect from this game, some skills written do not guarantee that it will work as you might imagine. One such skill I hoped to work well was the Shadow Illusion skill which should prevent the RP from being hit too much, but doesn’t guarantee it…….

In any case be sure to skill your pets good, you could always just buy the Pet Respec Potion in the Cash Shop, its half off!

Metapage.

Of course people will praise that something was changed in the world of Rappelz! Some stuff is changed for the better and some stuff was nerfed for the worse. Here are some examples.

In Epic 3 there was the ability to summon your mount and mount them via the mount command (which is still there even in Epic 4), but was changed in Epic 4 to immediately spawn for quick escapes. This was a useful feature which was a plus in my opinion.

Now after implementing the Soulstone system in Epic 4, many many MANY people were nerfed in character stats which caused alot of clerics to lose alot of skills and drain mana so fast it wasn’t funny. After the growing pains they got over it and tolerated it.

Now in Epic 5, more crap happened. This is only Part 1 so only pets are involved. My Red Pixie used to deal alot of damage and it wasn’t exactly skilled well since I purchased it from someone else. After successfully skilling it properly in Epic 5, I notice its doing the same amount of damage! Geez it does less physical damage and same magical damage! I haven’t even seen the blue pixie and I have already heard crap about it!

In the new dungeon ‘Temple of the Ancients’ the mobs there are too friggin hard! Even R6 players had a very hard time trying to deal with the Linked Mobs (if you attack one mob, the mob of that species around the one you attack will immediately aggro you) which is instant death, coupled with the piss poor healing and mp regeneration rate (yea they nerfed the ability to gain mp better). People tend to die easier in the new dungeon. Ok you could just try to level outside in the snowfield where dogs are much easier and exp is less. Well those damn dogs hurt just as bad as the mobs in the dungeon and they don’t friggin die! Geez did they fuck this game up or what.

Lets add more to the giggle room. The drop rate, many report the drop rate has considerably dropped for all items, even crap you should usually get. Do you seriously want to play this game for 12 hours straight just to farm for one item which has been nerfed from dropping (almost near impossible to get)? Well many have said they quit and I don’t blame them.

As for the drop rate, even the damn Olympics Event items drop rarely than they should……. Also when one does drop, why the hell do they contain R2 Def Cubes……

Ugg this is screwed up, the economy is widened but the items in it have become so dry that its arid for all players. If the transistion from Epic 3 to Epic 4 was of any lesson, people will have to tolerate the new regulations eventually.

P.S. The new R5/R6 stuff still isn’t in the Cash Shop, yea I know I mentioned it earlier but damnit I know the developers are NOT patching those items. They work in Epic 5 beta of the American release, WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU WANA FIX IT! Its obvious that gPotato just wants to release this junk R6 cape so fools could buy it and later release the interesting capes, this adds more diversity and more money into the game. What a underhanded move….

Metapage.

I seemed to miss a few minor details about the new items so heres the official list.

Altered Pieces

These consumable items can raise a stat by 50 points for two hours! The effect does not go away when you die. They come in Strength, Vitality, Dexterity, Agility, Intellegence, and Wisdom varieties.

Feather of Teleportation

This consumable item will let you warp to any Party, Guild, or Alliance member.

Ancient Horseshoe

This timed functional item will increase your mount’s movement speed by 100.

[VI] Mantle of the Blue Dragon

This Rank 6 Cloak has been added to the shop.

Pet Re-specialization Potion

This consumable item will be 50% off until the end of the month.

Decorative Pets

These premium items are just for fun! You can get a Sun Rabbit, or a Helmet Crab. Try them now while they are still at their special introductory price!

I don’t know why Pet Respec is in there, its not a new item…. It is given as a discount tho (as if you would need it unless you screw up your pets JP).

Metapage.

Here is another sale advertisement from the developers, its unlikely we will get the same sale, but its very likely we will get the items inside that sale.

The first set involves Rank II, III, IV, V, and VI items, I have no idea what they do.

The second set involves the new helms and capes that SHOULD of been in the Cash Shop by now. I’ll be eyeing that Angel Wings Cape :p.

The last set I am not totally sure, they appear to be Rank II-VI Strike/Defense/Skill Elements but with a different icon set. Maybe a sale for those items. Expect people to get scammed from those things :p.

Metapage.

There is more Cash Shop Stuff! All are crap in my humble opinion. The new items are 1h Sword, 2h sword, daggar, spear, 2h axe, 1h mace, 2h mace, bow, crossbow, 1h staff, 2h staff, and 1h axe rank 5 packages. The package also includes 3 eprotects, 3 ALTERED pieces of vitality, and as a ‘free bonus’ a helmet crab that lasts for 30 days.

Now my opinion on this package is that the items are NOT ancient so since Rank V items drop so rarely, gpotato is trying to make a buck from selling these packages (of course for a limited time). The eprotect is to help it with enchantment, the vitality pieces are a odd bonus, and whats with the free bonus of a non functional helmet crab thats just for show? I don’t know…

Metapage.