August 2025 Version Update

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Patch notes:

Updating bg in the morning

Which npc item got nerfed, reservin my reaction slot

A solid 99.99% its not spark or accolades, but I'll legitimately cackle if it is.

Called it; I mean, it was found like 18 months ago, but yeah

201 gil profit... can't have that.

I would legitimately be curious as to how much possible profit could be made by a bot crafting 24/7. Like, how much gil are we even talking about here?

Aroundabouts 3m a day per character

Maybe 5m, if you were 110 alc, HQ could spit out 8

81 Alchemy, including items and synthesis image support.

You'd be HQ'ing about 50% of the time. Average 4.5~5 Eye drops per set of mats.

I guess the next question is, did anyone even see any bots doing this? Like, standing at the alchemy guild?

Weirdly, whenever I saw alchemy bots standing around the guild, they were doing one of the status inflicting potions. I forget which one; I want to say paralyze potion maybe? I remember thinking "what's the point", since the ingredients sell for about the same as the finished product.

We used to have a shitload of tarus named bndsfhjkgbnjkdfnbgjkdnbjgkh who were in the alchemy guild in packs of 6. Never paid attention to what they were crafting.

On Asura, I often saw bots at the alchemy guild, probably doing this. Good riddance, lets see what they find next.

I saw a bunch of new accounts entering the guild, buying something and leaving.

If no one had ever seen it happening, then it wouldn't have been brought up as a problem last year

Did they just fix COR damaging Caturae through their shields after 14 years?

Lol nope never mind. Check below.

Oh damn you might be right. I initially read it as a fix to Limbus' monsters DT, as Quick Draw for some reason wasn't been affected by that (I didn't even notice if that was the case) but you're probably right.

Not sure this was the right thing to do. Even if it was an error, fixing it after so many years, after people take for granted that it does work like that sounds... an awful decision.
Unless there are more Caturae-like (or mobs with elemental shields) coming in the next month patch.
But if that's the case they should've fixed it just for those mobs.
"Fixing" it for everything else after so many years sounds just wrong to me.

Supposing that's what they did! Someone go and test it please!

There is a single new item available:

"Arrapago Ring", cast_delay=30, cast_time=8, level=99, max_charges=1, recast_delay=72000,

"Enchantment: Teleport (Arrapago Reef)"

Panic over? Went 3/3 on breaking Pil's shield with Fire Shot, and doing damage. Couldn't confirm that it wasn't Magic damage that was needed, but this might be fine.

Okay, yep. Got Blunt aura and Fire Shot still damaged through. We're ok!

Where does this send you? I can't help but feel like we already have plenty of ways to get out there...

Sends you close to princess peach location, the Ashu Talif, I suppose?

Dunno as I have no idea where to get it from (Besieged?) but it's likely imo.

There's a survival guide that warps you like a short walk off a cliff away. What a pointless ring.

Not useless for a new player who's never been there before. Arrapago is really messy to navigate and you have to do it to unlock the Survival Guide to begin with.
Now if it is was worth it to add a new item just for that, and especially lock it behind the never-happening-***-besieged is a different story entirely.

All of that supposing it really DOES bring you there, which like Lili said sounds likely but who knows.

just to clarify the notes say that this adjustment was only within Limbus

I never saw them in the Bastok guild that much (although I was rarely there), but water elementals were botted 24/7 in shrine of ru'avitau

Unfortunately, as expected, Besieged level 12 rewards 7500 exemplar points. If the goal is level 15, I guess it'll be 10k for 13, 12.5k for 14, and 15k for level 15.

Thorny I need to use the address patcher every update?
Or just when pol.exe is updated?

I also did not pay attention if pol.exe was in the list today.

How do you guys even manage to catch Besieged online?
Not even trying to polemize here, I'm being honest and clueless.

Since when they upgraded Besieged, I managed to catch it online a whole amount of TWO times.
Once in June by pure luck (was about to happen) and once in July, noticed it in the Region Info > Besieged section that they were preparing, had to wait around 3 *** hours for the battle to actually start.

I login every day for at least 2 hours (but it's usually more) and I check the Besieged info pretty much every bloody time, on login and before logging out.
Never, always *** nothing.


I mean I would **LOVE** to actually participate in Besieged, what the hell am I doing wrong? How can you people bloody farm thousands of new points already and I can't even get the AMAN silver voucher for 2 monthly runs?

I usually do /bmap randomly to see if any are preparing. But then from TVR missions (I don't think it was RoV) you get notifications of when the army starts moving.

You need this KI to alert you in game when besiege is starting

How are you managing to miss Besieged.

Does Asuran besieged end before it even begins? You can literally see if a besieged is close by looking at the besieged map.

If it says advancing, expect an attack within the hour.

Once advancing kicks in it used to take between 30-40 minutes, yeah. They accelerated the enemies in a somewhat recent update. Even the slowest (the trolls) don't seem to take more than 20 min to reach the city now once advancing kicks in.