Siege Customizations

Siege Customizations are changes applied to certain behaviors and skills in Battlegrounds, War of Emperium and/or Draft War of Emperium environments, which are generally made in an attempt to balance the game and create a more engaging Player vs. Player experience.

General Customizations

The following changes are applicable to all Siege environments:

Game Mechanics

All players receive an innate 20% after cast delay reduction bonus.
All players receive 65% less damage from skills and 28% less damage from auto attacks.
All Baby characters are considered Medium size, including baby Dorams.
Critical Wounds lowers the effectiveness of healing received by 10% per level instead of 20%.
Some High Rank Shadow Gear are disabled. Affected Shadow Gear:
- Piercing Shadow Gear
- Reload Set
- 2nd Job Set
- 3rd Job Set

Items

Sropho Card only affects auto attacks.
Vellum Flail has a very low chance to apply its effect for 30 seconds (does not apply every hit).
The fixed casting time reduction bonus from the 850 Gold Coins hats and their EVT variant is disabled. Affected headgears:
- Amistr Beret [1], Ruff Officer [1], Fancy Feather Hat [1], General Helm [1], Spell Circuit [1].
The Tomb of the Fallen special enchants are disabled. Affected enchants:
- Mettle, Magic Essence, Acute, Master Archer, Adamantine, Affection.
'Memory'-type enchants from Edda Biolabs are disabled. Affected enchants:
- Seyren's Memory, Howard's Memory, Eremes's Memory, Kathryne's Memory, Margaretha's Memory, Cecil's Memory,
  Randel's Memory, Flamel's Memory, Gertie's Memory, Celia's Memory, Chen's Memory, Trentini's Memory, Alphoccio's Memory
Equipment from the Level 200 update are disabled, with following exceptions:
- Safety Weapons and Accessories from Einbech Dungeon 3 are enabled.
- Safety Accessories' combo effect (-0.3 FCT) is disabled.
Purified Knight's Shield's MDEF/DEF pierce vs Normal Monsters does not affect players.
The following Genetic craftables are disabled:
- Golden X, Red Herb Activator, Blue Herb Activator, C. Red Syrup Potion, C. Blue Syrup Potion and C. Gold Syrup Potion.

Genetic

All Homunculus S are considered Demi-Human.
Crazy Weed damage is reduced (the class rework change was not applied).
Cart Cannon does not take the base level modifier into account.

Guillotine Cross

Cross Ripper Slasher has a cooldown of 1 second instead of 0.3 seconds.
Enchant Deadly Poison multipliers for Soul Breaker are reduced by 50%.
Soul Breaker cannot apply critical hits.
Cross Impact cannot apply critical hits.
Cross Impact damage modifier is reduced (the class rework change was not applied).

Minstrel / Wanderer

Metallic Sound's Cooldown cannot be reduced to less than .5 seconds.
Reverberation's Cooldown cannot be reduced to less than .5 seconds.

Ranger

Unlimit changes:
- Provides 50% DEF pierce during the effect.
- Duration reduced from 1 minute to 40 seconds.
- Cooldown reduced from 5 minutes to 3 minutes.

Rebellion

Fallen Angel does not consume 'coins' and is usable with any/no weapon equipped.
Anti-Material Blast has a fixed 100% chance of applying its debuff.

Royal Guard

Devotion automatically transfers the status effects Defender, Auto Guard and Reflect Shield to the target, without requiring a recast.

Rune Knight

Ignition Break cannot apply critical hits.
Pertz Runestone (Storm Blast) cannot apply critical hits.
Lux Anima Runestone does not apply the 30% all size physical damage modifier or 30% short range modifier.
Isia Runestone does not reduce melee reflect.

Shadow Chaser

Manhole cannot be used repeatedly to trap targets already under its effect.

Sorcerer

Land Protector removes Escape's Ankle Snare unit.

Star Emperor

Hatred of the Sun, Moon and Stars has its bonus effect halved.

Summoner

Doram-race characters are considered Demi-human/Player race instead of Brute.
Summoners are allowed to wear WoE Robe set.
Spirit of Life gives its full damage bonus (100%) regardless of current HP.
Silvervine Root Twist has a non-reducible 2-second cooldown and does not refresh its duration if used on an already rooted target.

Sura

Cursed Circle can be removed by Dispell.
Cursed Circle cannot be cast on top of the Emperium.
Gates of Hell damage is altered.
Gates of Hell consumes 5 Spirit Spheres instead of 2.
Tiger Cannon is calculated individually for each target in the area of effect.
Gentle Touch Revitalize does not increase the damage of Gates of Hell and Tiger Cannon.
Asura Strike's regen debuff is increased to 5 seconds.

Warlock

Stasis blocks the usage of all skills except Status Recovery, and can be removed by Status Recovery.
Mystical Amplification damage increase effect is reduced (the class rework change was not applied).
Crimson Rock damage is reduced (the class rework change was not applied).
Soul Expansion damage is reduced (the class rework change was not applied).
Jack Frost damage is reduced (the class rework change was not applied).
Comet damage is reduced (the class rework change was not applied).
Comet does not apply the Magic Intoxication status effect.

Soul Reaper

Curse of Wicked Souls status effect increases Shadow Property damage for Soul Reapers only.

Battlegrounds Customizations

The following changes are applicable only in Battlegrounds:

Game Mechanics

Negative status effects last a maximum of 20 seconds.
All gear break chances are halved.
Every player receives the skill Freedom.
- An exclusive Battlegrounds skill that instantly cures the caster from any negative effect and can be use while disabled. Has a 2-minute cooldown.

Items

The SP Drain effect of Illusion Immaterial Sword is reduced (10% less chance to drain and 10% less drain amount).

Rune Knight

Turisus Runestone (Giant's Growth) does not apply the 15% increase in melee physical damage modifier.

Minstrel / Wanderer

Performer Chorus skills can be used without being in the same party (Ensembles still require a party).

Sorcerer

Vacuum Extreme is disabled.

Star Emperor

The Miracle of the Sun, Moon and Stars effect is disabled.

Sura

Snap is enabled.

Soul Reaper

Receive Soul Linker Spirit status at spawn.

War of Emperium Customizations

The following changes are applicable only in War of Emperium and Draft War of Emperium:

Game Mechanics

Barricades receive only 20% of the damage / healing inflicted.
Players take double damage from any source while casting Emergency Recall.

Items

The SP Drain effect of Illusion Immaterial Sword only applies through auto attacks.

Genetic

Crazy Weed's Cooldown cannot be reduced to less than 4 seconds.

Rune Knight

A new WoE exclusive Runestone was implemented, Algiz Runestone, in order to emulate Lux Anima's pre-rework effect.
- It applies the effects of Millennium Shield, Stonehard Skin, and 50% increase in healing effectiveness to all party members (not including the caster) in a 7x7 area and has a 1-minute duration and cooldown.

Sorcerer

Mind Breaker is disabled.

Soul Reaper

Kaite increases physical damage taken by +50% instead of +400%.

Draft WoE Customizations

The following changes are applicable only in Draft War of Emperium:

Minstrel

Poem of Bragi applies to the caster's entire guild instead of just the party.

MVP Cards

MVP cards follow a tiering system, which determines if it can be used or has any limitations in various Siege game modes. All cards include their respective tier in their in-game description.

Tier 0

Cards in this tier are banned from any Siege game mode. This tier is generally reserved as a blacklist for cards that have not yet been obtained and/or implemented.