Ueda

Fix NPC Walk Animations (didn't work quite right yesterday) Fixed Chakra Steal and Life Steals against players not working More bug fixes to A* Pathfinding method (Hopefully) Fixed bug causing NPCs to not move for awhile Fixed Snake Poisons and probably more cases of NPC's debuffs not working right Fixed the visual bugs posted here Fixed Takumi Seals mission bugging out for players You'll still need to be manually debugged if you are already bugged

NPCs Movement Rework final_628f904733766b00620a0db7_693098.mp4 NPCs can now Run if enabled Art will be required to make this word with certain enemies, for the time being we'll keep it disabled for most, but we'll look into slowly making bosses & other enemies run to give added challenge for higher level players. There's still more to be done here, but this is the start of running for enemies, smarter bosses etc. A* Pathfinding (for select NPCs) Pathfinding is still relatively expensive performance wise, but we will use this for bosses and monsters that should be smarter like human enemies. final_628f8fa2ee12010069eae839_698768.mp4 New Wandering Wandering NPCs (without targets) will no longer wander tile by tile randomly but walk to a small distance randomly. In the future we might add patrolling NPCs for villages! NPCs moving tile to tile is now smoother Animation plays in the right order, not constantly moving the same hand and leg forward. And the interpolation between tiles is now smoother. Disabled experimental new Friends UI Fixed visual bug here Clear Stuns, Snares, Debuffs & Buffs off newly spawned Mobs/NPCs/Enemies

Each Jutsu can now have different Stat Scaling Jutsu Descriptions will also display how much it scales. In the old system, all STR jutsu scaled 33% and others scaled 60%. Now each individual Jutsu can have any percentage, even negative stat scaling, or 5000% stat scaling if we wanted... (but why?) Warning: This was a big rework of our stat scaling system as a whole and as such, some inconsistencies might occur. If you notice something working oddly, let us know immediately! Jutsu with Multiple Stat Scaling We can now add jutsu that scale with multiple stats. This will be useful to add Combo Mastery jutsu and Clan jutsu, where we want it to scale with multiple stats eg. Strength + Intellect. For the time being, this is used on Fuuma Wind Shuriken. Improved "Item/Inventory No Space" Handling Quest Items, Sealable Scrolls & Rewards are now sent to you via mail if your inventory is full. Warning: This is a huge change to how a very old mechanic worked. There might be a few edge cases where this might cause some sort of error or exploit (hopefully not). If you do find one, report it immediately. Abusing it will only lead to getting permanently banned when you are discovered. Fuuma Wind Shuriken will now scale with Intellect, Strength & Agility We've added the feature to make Non-Mastery Jutsu like Fuuma Wind Shuriken and future Clan Jutsu scale with multiple stat points. As long as you have the stat point in an attack stat, it will scale with it. Adamantine Sword speed reduced from 1.2s to 2s I hadn't touched the balance since it was created in early 2021 because nobody has it, which is why it was so weird. Renamed Iron City HQ to Iron City Tower Reviewed and corrected hundreds of Jutsu/Technique Descriptions Also removed the stat scaling info from the description and moved it to the new feature (Admin/GMs Only) Fixed bug where every map change would result in an error message/warning (Admin Only) Set Item fixed Our event editor "Set Item" is also fixed now for the first time since 2016-ish. One day, Seth just decided Set Item action would do nothing if you didn't have the item in your inventory. When it was originally meant to Set it to X amount even if you don't have such an item. Added "No Trap" tiles to Iron City Towers/HQ map to prevent cheesing Nobu Fixed Cheesing Dark Monkey King Boss Fixed visual bug reported here

Chests & Raid Points are now unaffected by knockbacks This could be abused to move raid points to different areas Fixed Knockbacks on Weapons Regression from previous knockback fixes Fixed Summons damaging themselves Fixed Tendo Gloves Artwork having missing frames NPC Buffs (Like DoTs and Heals) can now scale based on stat selection This will also fix this reported bug Added Warning message when player has too many traps/projectiles There has always been a limit of 25 traps + projectiles a player can have present at once, but that has never been clear, leading to some thinking it is a bug. (Experimental) Fix to bug where AoEs casted on Dead Enemies would not work (GMs & Admins) Made /heal also revive the target if they are fainted Fixed unpassable tile Fixed mapping visual bugs reported by SovranFire

Sub-boss Mobs Part 2 On top of Angry Larva and Spiders. We've added... Enraged Wolf Overgrown Stinger Big Snake Spicy Venomous Snake Enraged Tiger Huge White Tiger Giant Cursed Host Huge Scarab King Bear Fat Tunneller Mad Desert Coyote Mother Scarab Angry Hawk Bad Raccoon Bandit Fierce Dragonfly Spirit Fox Raging Boar Evil Black Boar Mad Emperor Penguin Alpha Snow Leopard These mobs have a longer (5min+) spawn time and have higher stats, but grant up to 10x more XP and drop rate. Reduced Honey cast time to 1 second Reduced Poison Antidote cast time to 2 seconds Fixed Antidotes healing Burn instead of Poison yesterday

https://www.ninonline.org/forum/forums/index/topic/30931-shiny-monsters/#comment-142269

Minimap will now display the names of the linked maps In Nin Online, there's 2 ways maps are linked, by warp tiles or by setting maps to be linked entirely in each direction. This previously was not reflected on the minimap, but now is. Started using Map Requirements on Hospital, Academy, Housing District & Jonin Standby Station entrances Warp should start faster, maps should be slightly more lightweight and PvP Timers will be considered before warping users into these maps now. Added Antidote Maker in the Sand Village Greenhouse Antidote Maker takes Dried Herbs obtained in the Desert and turns them to poison antidotes. Added Bandage Maker in the Mist Village Market Bandage Maker takes Cotton obtained in Forest maps and turns them to bandages to stop bleeding. New visual for Ayako the Bee Keeper Ayako will continue to turn Honey Combs into Honey. Honey now heals burns Honey used to heal HP. It will now cure burns. All of these new status items will Added Sub-boss versions of Larva, Spiderling & Wolf on certain maps with those Mobs These mobs spawn every 5 minutes and typically have around 5x more HP, 3x more damage but give 10x more XP and 10x more drop rate. More of such mobs coming soon. Reduced kills required for "Bad Larva" Mission from 80 to 50 Reduced XP gained from "Bad Larva" Mission from 180 to 160 Added more Bee Hive spawn locations & amounts Added more Cotton Plant spawn locations Added more Ripe Herbs spawn locations (Admin only) Lots of fixes to game editors. A lot of our editor functionality broke when we remade the new client but we haven't had the time to address them until now. Fixed Flame Bullet Technique Hitbox

Map Requirements Previously all map entry requirements had to be handled manually by scripting complex events/scripts. Now maps can have options to just reject entry based on different requirements. This will allow us to dramatically simply certain maps, leading to a minor optimization (probably not much) in loading maps, but also one major change. Warps done in the old method ignored PvP checks. By using these new requirements, we can perform the checks while not ignoring PvP timer. Increased maximum number of Variables and Switches each Player account can have from 255 to 500 Increased Maximum number of Unique NPCs the game can have from 255 to 500 Added Cooldown on Slug heals (25 Seconds) Added Range for Slug heals Minor - 1 Tile Major - 2 Tile (Hopefully) Fixed game not starting for users with old graphics cards without modern shader support Fixed soap bubble technique not hitting players multiple times when they land in the chain reaction Fixed slugs not healing Fixed hiding UI causing the game to drop performance Fixed visual glitch with Sakame clan outfit on male characters Fixed visual glitch with Jakusha clan outfit having a glove sprite on one frame Fixed warping to a Corp map accidentally causing a permanent black screen until a GM debugs you (Admin Only) Fixed Map NPC Properties not clearing previous map's data from editor (Admin Only) Fixed Map Properties Form not being editable (Admin Only) Improvements to Item Editor

Prevent players from being warped into GM Room Prevent Events from being hosted in GM Room

https://www.ninonline.org/forum/support/ Support ticket!

One of the most common complaints in Nin Online is lag. It's the same for any online game. Common complaints come with comparisons to other games and/or with insults in it - things like "fix your server" are also thrown about a lot. Why games like WoW and Runescape don't lag as much? They do. The typical connection to a WoW Server is anywhere from 50ms to 500ms+ depending on what server you play on. https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/724514-What-is-your-average-latency-in-WoW#:~:text=Average latency%3A ~20 ms. https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/what-is-the-maximum-acceptable-latency/276360/2 Isn't it because server application is poorly coded or spaghetti code? This is how Nin Online runs when you connect from local host. As you can see, the ping fluctuates between 2-15ms. Near the theoretical limit. Nin Online's server is modern, lightweight, threaded and utilizes a very powerful low-level networking library. Most of the game's visuals run on the client which allow for instantaneous response times, for example in movement, and is then "validated" on the server and corrected if it was illegal (to prevent cheating). Is it because you're running it on a cheap dedicated server? It's an expensive, gigabit internet, unlimited bandwidth, 32gb Ram. With 75 players online the server application is only utilizing 1.7% of the server's CPU and 1gb/32gb of the dedicated server's memory. So why do I lag? The game's dedicated server is located in North America, near the border of Canada and the US. The reason it is, is due to the majority of the English speaking world being located around that area. The majority of the existing player base is also located in the US and Canada. This is a heat map of our paying userbase. Unfortunately, there are physical limitations of how optimized we can make the server. We could theoretically shave off another 10ms of ping with micro-optimizations, but the majority of what is being felt by people with the worst ping is due to... ISPs cheaping out on Sea-cable access routes & throttling certain connections To understand ISPs and sea cables read https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/25/asia/internet-undersea-cables-intl-hnk/index.html https://nordvpn.com/blog/what-is-bandwidth-throttling/ https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Internet-speeds-vary-between-countries Don't take my word for it, this is a video by NoPing, a company that uses dedicated servers to create a virtual tunnel, a more direct access to our game servers by bouncing packets between it's servers with good access to sea cable routes towards any location. videoplayback.mp4 A lot of players tell me they use software like NoPing, ExitLag etc. to get better Ping, without understanding why it works. But once you understand how it works, you should come to the realization that the only way it could possibly work is if you don't actually have the best sea cable routes you could. How else would a VPN make things faster? Distance between the server and you and the physical limitations of material sciences You can use tools such as https://wintelguy.com/wanlat.html to estimate how much latency you should feel across distances. This is not taking into consideration the quality of cables and how indirect the routes might be. It's graphical lag, not Latency Lastly the a common complaint is people misunderstanding what they're experiencing. If the game is hanging visually for a second and no input can be made. It's graphical lag not Latency/ping/network lag. I don't lag in X game and Y game You're most likely talking about some game that has localized servers, or a different server architecture. Games like Minecraft and Fortnite. You might also be talking about games where there is no server authority. https://doc.photonengine.com/en-us/bolt/current/troubleshooting/authoritative-server-faq If you're talking about WoW or another MMORPG. Most likely those games aren't fast-paced combat games, they usually hide the clunkiness behind mechanics that don't reveal lag. Like standing still and casting for 3-4 seconds for a spell in WoW. My connection to the server Lastly, I'd like to say that my connection to the server is around 240ms Before we rewrote the server, it used to be around 500-800ms. So that's how far it's come. If we use the tool I mentioned earlier to calculate what latency I should have... https://wintelguy.com/wanlat.html We only need to assume equipment latency of 49ms for it to be the theoretical speed limit. And that's assuming that I have the world's most direct sea cable path straight to the server. Most likely, my ISP is sending my network packets to some part of the US and then to Canada. And I'm from the country with the world's best Internet connection speeds. What does this mean? Not much, just means we really can't do much to make your connection better to Nin Online's server at this point. The next way we can do it is by localizing it to more regions, but that's a whole different topic. I dare say at this point, Nin Online's server runs faster than server software developed by many AAA game companies in the 2000s, a lot of credit to just technological advancements.

Added Animated Grass to Edge of Fire map. Fixed Bears spawning in unreachable player in Forest Near the Ledge map. Fixed the following bug reports Ukiyo Traditional Robe art bug Light appearing at top left of screen bug Fixed /ignore not working Changed how Glacier Bear works to make it less irritating thereby fixing this Fixed Poison and other DoTs causing Cloak of Invisibility to break Fixed some enemy jutsus breaking through Substitutions and still dealing damage Fixed mud river technique and other knockback jutsu not knocking back when weapon is equipped Changed how Hawk Summon Jutsu function to alleviate issues Also made the Wild Slashes from Hawks red to distinguish it from Sword Master's yellow wild slashes. Fixed client-side issue causing character movement to freeze up for awhile when you try to cast a jutsu that you're not using the right weapon for Fixed client-side visual bug that showed stats decreasing instead of increasing when you had more than 3 buffs on at a time Fixed visual UI glitch Fixed visual glitch on the shadow of Tigers Fixed HP Bar Bug where ex-Team members HP Bars didn't render Fixed bug where Beast Slayer Title was given to people who hadn't finished the Mission or killed the Kuraken Added confirmation messages for when you ignore or unignore a player

“The Balance Team accepts that some mistakes have been made in the last patches and in our rush to push out a patch following the buff/debuff stack bugfix. A few things have been overlooked and this patch aims to fix those. This will be the last major adjustment patch for Wind/Med until we’re ready to discuss Water/Bubble and Earth masteries and push those changes later this month/early June. Thank you for your patience during these rapid changes.” Wind (Str) Mastery Slashing Tornado Technique cooldown time increased from 16/15/14s to 17/16/15s Slashing Tornadoes Technique cooldown time increase from 16/16/14s to 17/17/15s Wind Mask Technique cooldown time increased from 15/13/13s to 18/18/16s Wind Cyclone Technique cooldown time increased from 23/22/22s to 24/23/23s Crystal Fan Level Requirement decreased from level 55 to 50 Crystal Fan Melee 500ms Stun effect changed to 300ms Snare Blood iron Fan Level Requirement increased from level 50 to 55 Blood Iron Fan Melee 500ms Stun effect changed to 500ms Snare “After making the Fan Mastery all shiny and new, we wanted to see how the current cooldowns played out with the kit being able to use these jutsus very successfully together at relatively low cooldowns, so we’re making small adjustments to give Fan some downtime and counter attack opportunities after its very fluid snare flowchart, which it’s high level fan melees are now apart of, which forces opponents to save a well timed flicker for escapes.”(with a clear CC increase from Crystal fan to Blood Iron Fan) Medic (Int) Mastery Antibodies Activation Intellect Requirement increased from 15 to 35 Rank IV Poison Debuff duration decreased from 12s to 8s Poison Cloud Technique cooldown time decreased from 22/22/21s to 18/18/17s “The change to poison cloud change was a question of ‘How much DoT damage is healthy to load onto the back of a single jutsu now that debuffs can’t stack?’ And the correct answer was definitely not 60 damage so it's going to tick one less time. After its buff/rework, Antibodies is now too strong to only require 15 Int to use.” Weapons & Ninja Tools Bubble Prison Technique (Poison) Snare Duration decreased from 2000ms to 1600ms Poison Kunai’s Snake Poison Debuff changed to 8s duration, 4s interval, Take 4 HP per tick “All poison debuffs now universally last for 8 seconds and tick twice, this separates their function from bleeds and burns. Seathorn pipe snare duration is currently too much value on a single melee when combined with the reworked poison debuff ticking for more damage sooner.”

https://www.ninonline.org/forum/ideas/idea/9-health-bar-color-change/ Added Color Blind mode because someone PMed me in-game asking for it.

Rework to HP Bars (From this Ideas Post) Colored HP Bars Firstly, we added colors to HP Bars based on whether or not the player or NPC is friendly or not. This was suggested in the Ideas Platform here. Green (Yellow for Colorblind) - Self and Allies Blue - Party Member Red (Purple for Colorblind) - Enemies Orange - Allies but Danger Zone / War Zone Improved Accuracy of HP Bars Secondly, we perfected the accuracy of the HP Bars. Previously, the HP Bars wouldn't show accurately the first and last 5% of Health of the Target. You must have noticed that even when the bar was empty, the target still survived for a good while. Now, the moment the bar is empty, the target should be very dead. Colorblind Mode This is currently for red/green color blindness. This was requested a minute after we launched the new HP Bar reworks. We should aim to make Nin Online accessible and fair for everyone after all. Death Animations / Sounds We added the ability for the game to play an animation and sound effects when another player character dies and when your own character dies. Fixed Charging Chakra being interrupted by Traps Traps like Fire Wall Technique no longer interrupt the trap owner's chakra charging.

Thanks for the wholesomeness!

“Since Damage over Time debuffs can no longer stack and reset each other when applied, even at different tiers, (Burn I/II/III and Poison I/II/III/IV being affected the most) some balance changes have to be made so that players aren’t losing hundreds of debuff damage from their kit while farming or over the course of a fight. Adjustments were made based on the following ideas about these debuffs.” Burn DoT Applied by higher base damage Int scaling element jutsus, short duration and fast tick speed with medium damage ticks. Solidifies Fire as the premiere damage element with extra damage on all 6 jutsus Bleed DoT Applied by higher base damage Int scaling element and Str WM jutsus, long duration and slow tick speed with low damage ticks. Helps Wind and Str WM stay strong single target hunting masteries by stopping a target from regenerating HP or changing maps Poison DoT Applied by lower base damage Int scaling medical jutsus, medium duration and tick speed with high damage ticks. Gives Int Med a healthy amount of DoT damage for an offensive support and rewards skill in timing the reapplication of poisons to get the most overall damage from just 3 debuff jutsus. Fire Mastery Rank I Burn Debuff changed to 3s duration, 1s interval, Take 3 HP per tick Rank II Burn Debuff changed to 3s duration, 1s interval, Take 6 HP per tick Rank III Burn Debuff changed to 3s duration, 1s interval, Take 9 HP per tick Dragon Fire Combo now inflicts Burn III instead of Burn I. “Fire players shouldn’t lose damage for landing their jutsus less than 7 whole seconds apart at max rank, they only need to delay 3 seconds to get max value from their cooldowns.” Medic (Int) Mastery Status Extraction Technique Cast Time changed from 2s Walk Cast to 1s Walk Cast Rank IV Poison Debuff changed to 12s duration, 4s interval, Take 20 HP per tick Rank III Poison Debuff changed to 8s duration, 4s interval, Take 16 HP per tick Rank II Poison Debuff changed to 8s duration, 4s interval, Take 12 HP per tick Rank I Poison Debuff changed to 8s duration, 4s interval, Take 8 HP per tick

Buff/Debuff Stacking Changes First off, to make this clear, the fact that buffs were stackable at all was a bug. It was one that we foresaw would remain in place for a long time, so we balanced around it. We've finally fixed it because it's the same problem that is allowing charms to be abused, stacking them for all the effects. The system was always supposed to look for buffs with the same ID, but never did. It has now been resolved. Buffs of the same kind, including Charms, Bleeds, Burns, Poisons, will no longer stack. It will always use the latest version of the buff. Eg. If you have Bleed I and you get Bleed II. Bleed II will replace it. We understand that this is a major change to Masteries that apply statuses, primarily Wind, Fire & mostly Medic. We will rebalance based on this mechanic change. Mega-fixes to Quick Login Feature Refresh Tokens We've discovered both bugs and major security flaws to our login system that have now been fixed. Previously, we were abusing oAuth2 slightly by saving access tokens, which we have now realized wasn't secure. This allowed banned users and accounts that have changed passwords to continue to have access to the game via Quick Logins. We now use refresh tokens for quick logins instead of access tokens. The good news is now that we use refresh tokens, we can securely authenticate players indefinitely. Meaning you will not need to reauthenticate your character every 2 weeks. They will remain available to quick login forever. Nothing changes for you, the end user besides this! Relogging in of all previous authentications will be required. Sorry for the inconvenience. Fixed some users "Login" buttons being greyed out wrongly Some users were having a weird error that made them unable to use the quick login feature randomly. Sometimes restarting the client fixed it, sometimes it didn't. But it is fixed now! Thanks to @Klone for sitting down with me to test. Fixed Minimap Crashes Fixed an issue with saving minimap configurations that caused some players clients to crash on login. Advanced Lighting Disabled will now turn off Projectile/Animation Lights If you go into your options menu and disable Advanced Lighting, it will now respect your bad decision and hide all the lighting effects in the game, including Projectile and Animation lights. More exile/pardon abuse fixes Fixed another issue allowing players to have teams between Village and Missing Ninja. Thanks @Raijuro for helping with this. Confirmation Prompt for Leaving Corporations You will now receive a confirmation prompt before leaving corporations when you click the Leave button in the Corp UI. No more accidentally leaving corps and waiting for 3 days. Other Changes Fixed Samehada and Chakra Steal Jutsu/Items healing HP when used against Players instead of CP. Cleaned codebase of misspelled "again"s aka. "agian" - Wolf's bad spelling. Clear player's summons before Auto Tournament round starts (could be abused to have summons in tournament matches) Fixed an XP Sharing Bug that could allow new characters to suddenly receive XP from Mobs. Fixed Server closing socket connection with client too early and not sending the reason why the client didn't manage to connect.

This has been fixed. Thank you!

The community balance team is a new initiative currently led by @Raitou Greetings from the player balance team. This is our first patch and we’re excited to hear the community's feedback. There have been a few bold changes, but generally the goal was to balance masteries to a point where they will not require further changes. These changes were made with both solo mastery and mastery combinations in mind as well as all levels of play and game activities. A significant amount of thought and discussion went into these changes, focusing on streamlining mastery identity, so that when you are playing a certain mastery, the kit feels connected and has specific strengths and weaknesses. Wind (Int) Mastery Vacuum Sphere Technique CP Cost decreased from 30/30/30 to 28/26/24 Vacuum Sphere Technique Cooldown Time decreased from 20/20/19s to 18/18/17s Wind Claw Technique Cooldown Time increased from 17/16/16s to 19/18/18s Wind Claw Technique End Cast Time increased from 500ms to 800ms “We’re increasing Wind claw’s self-stun to offer a fair counterplay window to Wind’s ultimate jutsu. The cooldown time is also being increased to give wind players longer downtime on their burst and encourage more use of the mastery kit, rather than just using Wind Claw on cooldown.” “Vacuum is still in a weird spot, we want to make this jutsu more viable, but lack a clear idea of how best to rework it to fit wind’s kit, given our current limitations in jutsu mechanics” Wind (Fan) Mastery Slashing Tornado Technique Projectile Speed increased from 200 to 100 Slashing Tornadoes Technique Projectile Speed increased from 200 to 100 500ms Self Stun removed on Slashing Tornado Technique and Slashing Tornadoes Techniques Wind Cyclone Technique Cast Time decreased from 2s to 1s Giant Folding Fan no longer knockbacks Pink Giant Folding Fan no longer knockbacks Black Giant Folding Fan no longer knockbacks “We want to keep the identity of the Fan Mastery without giving wind + element users in sand easy access to CC.” “Tornadoes is still keeping its cast time - we want to move away from the Idea of flicker guaranteed hard crowd control without significant stat investment, just slapping on a 1s cast time made the jutsu very weak even at max level. It’s safe to give the jutsu some power back in the form of increased projectile speed and removed self stun.” “Wind cyclone cast time has been decreased to promote the theme of Fan having a more fluid and usable series of jutsus with less cast time and self stun than before.” Medic (Int) Mastery Poison Senbon Technique Cooldown Time increased from 11/11/10s to 14/14/13s Poison Senbon Technique Stun Duration increased from 800ms to 1200ms Poison Senbon Technique Range decreased from 15 to 12 tiles Poison Senbon Technique CP Cost increased from 12/12/12 to 16/15/15 Poison Senbon Technique Poison Debuff changed from Rank 1/1/2 to 1/2/2 Poison Senbon Technique Base Damage decreased from 20/20/21 to 15/15/16 Poison Scalpel Technique Cooldown Time decreased from 8/8/7s to 7/7/6s Poison Scalpel Technique Base Damage decreased from 23/23/24 to 20/20/21 Poison Scalpel Technique Poison Debuff changed from Rank 1/2/2 to 1/2/3 Poison Scalpel Technique CP Cost increased from 10/10/10 to 14/14/14 Poison Cloud Technique Poison Debuff increased from Rank 2/2/3 to 2/3/4 Rank IV Poison Debuff changed to 20s duration, 5s interval, Take 10 HP per tick Poison Cloud Technique Cooldown Time increased from 16/16/15s to 22/22/21s Poison Cloud Technique Base Damage decreased from 31/31/32 to 25/25/26 Poison Cloud Technique CP Cost increased from 25/25/25 to 30/30/30 Cursed Seal Technique CP Cost decreased from 60/55/55 to 50/45/45 (Experimental) Cursed Seal Technique changed from % stat buff to +10/15/20 all stats for a 30s duration. (Experimental) Cursed Seal Technique Casts Required for Ranks increased from 100/250 to 150/375. “Int med has been underperforming and was voted underpowered by 72% of players who took the most recent balance survey.” “We want this mastery path to be more viable. This is why adjustments were made to the kit to fulfill its role as a medium damage potential, buffing and debuffing poison DoT support.” “Poison cloud now applies a nerfed poison IV debuff at max rank which now does a total of 40 damage (20 second duration poison debuff that deals 10 damage per tick every 5 seconds). Poison Cloud base damage was reduced to account for this overall damage increase.” “Antibodies and Cursed Seal now give flat stat bonuses so that all players feel like they have access to true buff jutsus that are usable in both PvE and PvP.” “Cursed Seal should feel like a scary endgame self buff that allows for an all or nothing burst window that you risk a 3 second cast time to use.” Medic (Chk) Mastery Treat Wounds Technique Cast Time decreased from 2s to 1s across all ranks Treat Wounds Technique Base Heal decreased from 25/25/25 to 20/20/20 Mystical Palm Technique CP Cost increased from 50/45/45 to 175/150/150 Chakra Scalpel Technique Cast Time changed from 1s stand cast to instant cast Chakra Scalpel Technique now has a 1s self stun at the end of its cast Chakra Scalpel Technique base damage buff decreased from 4/9/14 to 1/2/3 Cell Regeneration Technique Chakra Requirement increased from 50 to 60 “We’ve changed treat wounds to offer more engaging gameplay for medics in fights. We want the dedicated chakra medics to benefit the most from healing jutsus, so its base healing has been decreased so that medic players who invest in less chakra get a less efficient heal.” “Mystical Palm technique has been changed to feel more like a chakra med jutsu - while it’s still available to Int meds, we want to increase the opportunity cost for successfully reviving a player as someone other than a primary medic.” “Chakra scalpel made for fairly frustrating gameplay, where you either successfully cast it and had an extremely strong melee, or fail to cast it and are useless outside of heal jutsus and senbons. This change guarantees a chakra scalpel buff with more balanced damage, but keeps the window to punish medics for using it with poor positioning.” “Overall, these changes will reward the dedicated chakra med, making use of high chakra investment for its scaling and making those splashing some stat points into chakra as a secondary medic less effective.” Water (Bubble) Mastery Bubble Prison Technique (Weapon) Snare Duration decreased from 1400ms to 800ms

Dear Ninja, We're deprecating the old suggestions section of the forum in favor of a more intuitive one. It's our "Ideas Platform" where players can post, upvote and downvote ideas in specific categories. Link to Ideas Platform Our original suggestions section started in 2013 and is filled with ideas that get lost to time, duplicates and such. This platform will help neaten it as we can manage what is being worked on and what has been shipped. To commemorate the launch of this new platform, I've also made a development log - that compiles past suggestions that were added at some point - titled "Rory doesn't listen to players". Enjoy!

Horoscopes/Charms Rework Mirai the Fortune Teller realized it was horrible business practice to sell only one kind of charm to each customer. So she now sells players who know what horoscope they are any kind of charm. Eg. Virgos can buy Pisces charms. Charms are also now tradeable. Business is booming now, and so to keep up with the demand, Mirai has increased the sale prices of charms to 25 Ryo each. Upgraded Server to .NET 6 2 years ago, we moved the server from Visual Basic 6 to C# with .NET Framework 4.5.2. A year ago, we announced that we had upgraded to .NET 5 and turned the server into a lightweight console application, along with a ton of changes like moving it to use a cloud database (MongoDB) as it's backend. Keeping up the momentum and updating our technology stack is important. So today, we upgraded the server to target .NET 6, Window's latest release of the .NET framework. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-6/ It's not as big an upgrade as in those past updates, but .NET 6 is said to be up to 40% faster than .NET 5 and has optimizations in specific aspects of the framework our server software harnesses such as JSON, GC, File I/O, Reflection, Threading, Networking, Buffering. Improved DoT Animations & Lighting Stacking Fixed Charms Buff Descriptions Fixed certain charms being able to be used together