Siege Alterations
Siege Alterations are changes applied to certain behaviors, items and skills in Battlegrounds, King of Emperium, War of Emperium and/or Draft War of Emperium environments, which are made in an attempt to balance the game and create a more engaging Player vs. Player experience.
Updated to Patch: 193
General Customizations
The following changes are applicable to all Siege environments:
Game Mechanics
- All players receive 90% less damage from skills and 50% less damage from auto attacks.
- All players receive an innate 20% after cast delay reduction bonus.
- All Baby characters are considered Medium size, including baby Dorams.
- Items and skills which ignore reflect have a cap of 30%.
- General Fixed Cast Time reduction has a 0.7 seconds cap. Proc chances, such as
Zaha Doll Hat, can exceed this limit and stack.
- Critical Wounds lowers the effectiveness of healing received by 10% per level instead of 20%.
- Any methods of identifying items, such as
Magnifiers or
Identify, are disabled.
Items
- Most of the advanced equipment, shadow gears, cards and costume stones are disabled, please check carefully or reach out for help in pvp related discords or channels.
- Recently enabled gears:
- All weapons and all temporal circlets from Glast Heim: Challenge Mode.
- Brilliant Light and Sinful accessories (including all enchantments).
- Victory Wing Ears and Deep Blue Sunglasses (slotted and unslotted)
- Noble Mask, Rosary Necklace, Golden Artifact, Silver Artifact.
- All Racing Caps.
- Patent Weapons (not the LT versions) except Patent One Sky One Sun.
- Great Hero Boots.
- Bio Weapon Helms (EDDA Hats) except Bull Crown and Celestial Jewel Crown.
- Recently enabled shadow gears:
- Reload shadow set.
- Penetration shadow shield and accessories, Tempest shadow accessories.
- All 2nd Class shadow gear.
- Super Novice shadow shield and Super Novice shadow gauntlet.
- 3rd Class shadow weapons except for Sorcerer, Shadow Chaser and Gunslinger.
- Mammoth shadow plate.
- All Race shadow shield and boots.
- Hiding shadow set.
- Recently enabled cards:
- Mutated White Knight and Mutated Khalitzburg Knight Cards.
- Void Mimic Card.
- Rekenber Senior Guard Card.
- Airship Crash Cards except the MVPs.
- Amicitia Dungeon Cards except the MVP.
- Rudus 4 Cards except MVP.
- Recently enabled costume stones:
- All Lapises.
- All Jades.
- WoE Robe now grants 10% HP and no flat HP. Recruit's Robe now also grants HP percentage instead of flat HP.
Evil Gloves does not grant
Spider Web nor autocast Kimi's Mind Confusion.
Mad Bunny and its [EVT] variant's Physical Reflect and autocast of
Magic Mirror are disabled.
Mettle,
Magic Essence,
Acute,
Master Archer,
Adamantine,
Affection or
Unyielding higher than level 5 are counted as if being level 5.
Vellum Flail applies Critical Wounds instead of No Recovery at a lower chance.
Purified Knight's Shield's DEF and MDEF bypass enchants are disabled.
- Endeavor Token Shop consumables are disabled, aside from
Gin Sacred Draught.
- All items not listed below have a 5-second cooldown:
- Mega White Potion, Mega Blue Potion, Violet Potion, WoE Blue Potion, BG Light Blue Potion, and their boxes, all Genetic Syrup Potions, Cursed Fragment, Butterfly Wing, Yggdrasil Seed, Ancilla, Pertz Runestone, Box of Gloom, Green Potion, Panacea, Aloevera and Warlock Spellbooks.
Golden Syrup healing has been reduced by 25%.
Illusion Immaterial Sword's SP Drain effect and chance are reduced by 10% each and SP Drain effect can only be applied through Auto Attacks.
Mental Destroyer’s SP drain effect will now only work with auto attacks.
Cards
Dark Priest effect only works with autoattackss.
[MVP] Sarah Card will keep its old effect for Siege environments: If the user receives damage greater than their current maximum HP amount, this card will decrease the damage received by a large amount.
Sropho Card effect only works with autoattacks.
Golden Thief Bug Card’s magic damage immunity no longer grants status or dispel immunity.
- All [MVP] cards follow a tiering system. The card can be limited or allowed based on its Tier. All MVP cards have their respective Tier listed on their 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 at the time they are classified as Tier 0.
- Tier 1
- Cards in this tier are limited to 3 per Guild in War of Emperium, and disabled in other Siege game modes.
- Tier 2
- Cards in this tier are limited to 5 per Guild in War of Emperium, and disabled in other Siege game modes.
- Tier 3
- Cards in this tier are disabled in King of Emperium but have no use limitations in all other Siege game modes.
Classes
Arch Bishop
Status Recovery can remove
Stasis effect.
- Increased
Adoramus damage by 100% in all Siege game modes
Genetic
- All Homunculus S are considered Demi-Human.
Guillotine Cross
Cross Impact's damage reduced by 40%.
- Increased the cooldown of
Cross Impact from 0.35s to 0.7s.
Kagerou and
Oboro
- Increased the damage of
Freezing Spear,
Flaming Petals and
Wind Blade by 50% in all Siege game modes.
- Increased the damage of
Kunai Explosion by 50%.
16th Night provides 55% MDEF Pierce for its duration in all Siege game modes.
Mechanic
Self Destruction's damage increased by 100%.
- Increased the range of
Arm Cannon to 11 cells in all Siege game modes.
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.
- Echo Song no longer gives physical def.
Ranger
Detect removes
Shadow Form at 100% success rate.
- Increased the damage of
Cluster Bomb by 100%.
Rebellion
- HP increased to 150%.
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.
- Reduced the Fixed Cast Time of
Shattering Storm to 0.7 seconds
- Reduced the Fixed Cast Time of
Slug Shot to 0.7 seconds.
Slug Shot can be endowed.
- Increased the damage from
Slug Shot to +150% in War of Emperium
- Increased the damage of these Rebel skills by 100% in all Siege game modes:
Platinum Alter will now grant 25% Defense Pierce while active in all Siege game modes.
Anti-Material Blast now also applies Crimson Marker on hit targets in all Siege game modes.
Royal Guard
Devotion automatically transfers the status effects
Defender,
Auto Guard and
Reflect Shield to the target, without requiring a recast.
Rune Knight
Dragon Breath's and
Dragon Breath Water's damage reduced by 25%.
- Using
Dragon Breath will now put
Dragon Breath Water into a 0.5s cooldown and vice-versa on all Siege game modes.
- Reduced the damage of
Crush Strike by 50%.
- Hagalaz Runestone no longer gives physical def.
Shadow Chaser
Manhole cannot be used repeatedly to trap targets already under its effect.
Shadow Form is removed instantly by
Ruwach,
Sight or
Phantom Menace.
- Reflected hit counter lowered from 5/6/7/8/9 to 1/2/3/4/5.
Full Strip and
Strip Accessory can now be removed with
Dispel,
Clearance and
Gospel (only the Royal Guard himself) in all Siege game modes.
- Decreased the damage reflection from
Reject Sword from 50% to 25%.
Sorcerer
Land Protector removes
Escape Ankle Snare unit.
Diamond Dust's damage increased by 100%.
Poison Burst's damage increased by 100%.
Psychic Wave's damage increased by 100%.
Earth Grave's damage increased by 100%.
Varetyr Spear's damage increased by 100%.
Spell Fist's damage is increased by 100%.
Soul Reaper
- HP increased to 150%.
Curse of Wicked Souls status effect increases Shadow Property damage for Soul Reapers only.
- Soul Reapers do not lose souls on death.
- Enabled
Espa and
Eswhoo to be able to be used against Players in all Siege game modes.
- Reduced
Espa and
Eswhoo fixed cast to 0.7s in all Siege game modes.
- Reduced
Soul Division fixed cast to 1s in all Siege game modes.
- Reduced
Soul Explosion cooldown from 60s to 30s in all Siege game modes.
- Reduced
Soul Explosion soul cost from 10 to 5 in all Siege game modes.
- Golem Soul no longer gives physical def.
Star Emperor
- Reduced the HP consumed by attacks while affected by
Solar, Lunar and Stellar Union from 8% to 4% in all Siege game modes.
- Solar Burst now deals 50% damage to all targets except the enemy hit by Prominence Kick in all Siege game modes.
Summoner
- Doram-race characters are considered Demi-human/Player race instead of Brute and Medium size instead of Small.
- 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.
- Increased the damage of
Picky Peck to 300% on all Siege game modes.
Catnip Meteor element follows element weapon element for Fire, Water, Wind and Earth only in all Siege game modes.
- Reduced the cooldown of
Catnip Meteor to 1 second in all Siege game modes.
- Spirit Marble now grants 55% physical defense pierce in all Siege game modes.
Super Novice
- HP increased to 150%.
Sura
Cursed Circle can be removed by
Dispell.
Cursed Circle cannot be cast on top of the Emperium.
Gates of Hell damage is altered.
- Altered the behavior of
Gates of Hell.
- Spirit Sphere cost increased from 2 to 5.
- Damage increased by +133%.
- Tiger Cannon’s combo now deals 50% damage to all targets, except the enemy hit by Dragon Combo in all Siege game modes.
- This does not affect hard cast Tiger Cannon nor Flash Combo.
Knuckle Arrow will no longer moves the caster to the target.
Warlock
Stasis does not block the cast of
Status Recovery.
Stasis no longer ignore walls.
Comet's damage is reduced by 50%.
Comet does not apply the Magic Intoxication status effect.
Comet's Mind Slots Cost got increased from 22 to 29.
Soul Expansion's damage is reduced by 33%.
Chain Lightning fixed cast time has been decreased from 1 second to 0.7 seconds.
Battlegrounds Customizations
The following changes are applicable only in Battlegrounds:
Game Mechanics
- 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.
- Weapons with refines greater than 15 will be treated as +15 inside Battlegrounds.
- Negative status effects last a maximum of 20 seconds.
- All gear break chances are halved.
Items
- Equipment Repair scroll repairs all damaged items instead of a single one.
Cards
Sropho Card grants -2 ASPD in Battlegrounds.
Classes
Genetic
Crazy Weed's Cooldown cannot be reduced below 4 seconds in Battlegrounds.
Full Chemical Protection has a 7-cells cast range in Battlegrounds.
Kagerou and
Oboro
- Reduced the cooldown of
16th Night to 30 seconds in Battlegrounds.
Minstrel /
Wanderer
- Increased the damage of
Severe Rainstorm by 100% in Battlegrounds.
Ranger
- Reduced the fixed cast time of
Aimed Bolt from 1 second to 0.7 seconds.
Royal Guard
- Reduced the cooldown of
Prestige and
Inspiration to 30 seconds in Battlegrounds.
Rune Knight
- Disabled the
Turisus effect of increasing auto-attack damage by 2.5x when Crush Strike is being used in Battlegrounds.
Shadow Chaser
- Altered the weight of DEX on Masquerade-type skills formula in Battlegrounds.
- Note: The actual change is a reduction to the minimum chance by about 20% and the maximum chance by 50%.
- Minimum chance: DEX / 20 -> DEX / 25
- Maximum chance: DEX / 4 -> DEX / 8
- Note: The actual change is a reduction to the minimum chance by about 20% and the maximum chance by 50%.
Triangle Shot has 2 seconds CD after using Feint Bomb in Battlegrounds.
Full Strip is disabled in Battlegrounds.
- Strip Armor, Weapon, Shield, and Helm skills disabled in Battlegrounds.
Sorcerer
Vacuum Extreme is disabled.
Mind Breaker is disabled.
- Duration of Crystallization from
Diamond Dust is lowered from 20 sec to 16 sec.
- Chance of Crystallization from
Diamond Dust (with aqua buff) is lowered from 30% to 20%.
Soul Reaper
- Soul Reapers receive
Soul Linker Spirit status at spawn.
Kaite increases physical damage taken by +50% instead of +400%.
Star Emperor
- Star Emperors receive
Taekwon Master Spirit status at spawn.
Solar, Lunar and Stellar Perception and
Solar, Lunar and Stellar Opposition are enabled on Battlegrounds.
Solar, Lunar and Stellar Union cannot be dispelled.
War of Emperium Customizations
The following changes are applicable in War of Emperium, Draft War of Emperium and King of Emperium:
Game Mechanics
- Barricades receive only 20% of the damage/healing inflicted.
- All Barricades and Stones will now be auto built upon a castle break.
- Increased the HP of castle Stones by times 10.
- Players take double damage from any source while casting
Emergency Recall.
Emergency Recall cancels and prevents the effects of skills that prevent taking direct damage or being interrupted.
- Players that have died more than 100 times in a single War of Emperium will now be unable to re-enter the castle.
Classes
Genetic
Crazy Weed's Cooldown cannot be reduced below 4 seconds.
Full Chemical Protection has a 7-cells cast range.
Banana Bomb can be used.
- This follows the old Item Sling skill numbers. Duration of the sit effect is 3 seconds, with a 1-second cooldown, usable by Genetics only.
Pyroclastic does not prevent weapon swapping in War of Emperium
- Note:Swapping weapon will remove Pyroclastic's effect.
Kagerou and
Oboro
- Increased the damage of
Freezing Spear by 50%.
Minstrel /
Wanderer
- Ensembles and choruses may now be performed with partners in the same guild rather than the same party.
- This change also applies to
Invulnerable Siegfried
- This change also applies to
Ranger
- Reduced the fixed cast time of
Aimed Bolt from 1 second to 0.7 seconds on War of Emperium.
- Reduced
Aimed Bolt damage by 40% in War of Emperium.
Rune Knight
Algiz Runestone can be used.
- Algiz applies the effects of Millennium Shield and 175 MDEF to all party members (excluding the caster) in a 9x9 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%.
Warlock
Comet's damage is reduced by 25% in War of Emperium.
Draft WoE Customizations
The following changes are applicable only in Draft War of Emperium:
Classes
Genetic
Full Chemical Protection is not removed by death.
Minstrel
Poem of Bragi applies to the caster's entire guild instead of just their party.
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PvP |
Battlegrounds • War of Emperium • Draft War of Emperium • King of Emperium • Duels • PvP Rooms |
Mechanics |
Siege Alterations • Siege Rules • Guild Dungeon Investment System |
Rewards and Vanity |