We are pleased to announce that Epic III is in development. Each Epic will designate a major content update to Rappelz.

Our scheduled release for Epic III is December 21st so mark your calenders!

Below I shall list some of the update features that are planned for Epic III. Please note that these are not all of the features and that we will be adding more to the list as we get closer to release.

New Content:



Populated the Forgotten Portal with monsters. Monster levels will range from 26-44.
-Added a new monster: "Frog"

A new copy of each dungeon has been added. This brings the total number of dungeons up to 4. Each is a seperate instance of the dungeon and has a seperate entrance within the area.

2 more faces have been added to each race & sex.


Updated Mini-Map:



The NPC icons on the mini-map will now display whether they have a quest.

NPCs will be shown at the edge of the mini-map.

If you mouse-over the name of the mini-map an expanded view of the area will appear as long as your mouse remains over the name.

If you click on the mini-map an expanded view of the area will appear until you click on the mini-map again.

User can now adjust the transparency of the mini-map.


New Chat System



Removed the whisper chat box.

Users will now be able to use the command "Name Message to send a whisper.

Players can now click on other players names' in the chat window in order to send a private whisper.

Users can use the up and down arrow keys to cycle through previously whispered characters.


Guild Rejoin Rules Changed:



After leaving a "Normal" guild or a Dungeon owning guild; users can rejoin the previous guild immediately.

After leaving a "Normal" guild; users can create a guild immediately.

After leaving a "Normal" guild; users can join a Dungeon owning guild immediately.

After leaving a Dungeon owning guild; users cannot rejoin another guild for 7 days after leaving the previous guild.

Fixed a bug where users who left a guild could not create guilds after 7 days.


Gameplay Changes:



Equippable and consumable Item Shop items are now tradable. Timed items such as the Hidden Village Pass are not tradable.

The attack speed of all players have increased.
-Attack speed of weapons has been increased.
-Attack speed of monsters has been increased to balance the changes.

Some skills have had their cast time reduced.

Attack power of some weapons has been increased.

Base Crit Rate increased from 3% to 6%.

3 Crit Rule added. After a player crits the next 2 attacks have a higher chance to crit.

Prices of all weapons and armor has been lowered.
-Upgrade prices by blacksmiths has been reduced.

EXP and JP rates have been significantly increased.

The character's attack animations have been changed. (This has already been implemented)

Attack effects have been changed.

The starting location and starting guides locations have been adjusted to make it easier for new players.

The method to whisper has changed. You can now type: "name message in order to whisper to a player. You can also click on their name in the chat window to automatically whisper them.

Users will no longer receive an HP/MP penalty by using the ! chat. Instead there will be a period where users cannot send messages.

Drop rate of all quest items increased.

Item drop rates have been increased.

Changed the spear animation for Deva males.

Number of monsters required to complete certains quests has been reduced.

Trainee's island: The number of boss monsters has been lowered to complete quests.


User Interface Changes:



Users may now only run 1 instance of Rappelz at a time.

The loading screen images have changed.

The Rappelz Logo has changed.

Item names in the chat window will vary in color based upon their rank. (This has already been implemented.)

Log-In and Character Select windows have been changed.

Changed the UI so that 2 hotbars will be visible at all times.


Bug Fixes:



New characters will no longer be teleported off of the Trainee Island upon reaching level 5.

If a character is a guild leader he/she may not be deleted.

If you log out with your pk tag on you will now log back in with the pk tag on.

Boss monsters will now drop items during the Raid Time Attack.

The cool down timers will now show in 2 units (Days & Minutes for example.)

When a player logs out and logs back in the cool down guage for skills on the hotbar will be accurately displayed.

If a user deletes a character, that character will leave any party or guild they might be in.

Fixed some text concerning Godzilla.

When a guild member's information changes, it will be updated in the guild window.

Fixed creatures' passive skills.

Quest details will be updated properly.

Fixed some problems when your character has equipment that does not match the Recommended Level.

Fixed a bug with equipping a creature card on your belt.

Fixed a bug where battle parameters were not increased when raising some passive skills.

Fixed some issues with the ATI Radeon X graphics card.

Fixed a bug where users whose Rappelz crashed and were forced to close Rappelz via the Task Manager would get the "Your account already logged in" error.


Misc. Changes



Boss Worm Piranha spawn time reduced to 1 minute.

The models for the Crustalino and Likirus bosses have been improved.

The model for the Taranida summon has changed.

Rank 4 Asura Magician armor updated.

Adjusted some skills cooldown timer.

Modifications have been made to help prevent system performance lag.

Reduced the number of trees in certain areas to help prevent system performance lag.

Adjusted the graphics for the Asura Female dagger attacks.

Misc changes to increase server stability



That happens in the epicIII client witch will go live at dec.20