New: In-Game Voice (Beta)

1. Voice Chat Inside the Game (Beta). Voice chat arrives as a beta: it is not finished yet, and more features and fixes will follow in the next updates. L2EVA now has its own voice chat, on Eva's Grace and Eva's Rise, with no extra program to install: the launcher (2.5.2, already out) carries it. A new Voice button on the potion bar opens the voice window (also Alt+Q), and a right click on it cycles: voice on, microphone muted, microphone and sound muted. You are placed in your rooms automatically: your party, your clan, your alliance and your command channel, and you move with them as the game changes. Push-to-talk is the default (the ` key, changeable), and it works while the game is in the background. Voice follows the same route as your game connection, regional connections included.

2. See Who Is Talking. The My rooms tab shows every room you belong to (alliance, clan, command channel, parties) and who sits in each, with "you are here" on yours. Speaking players light up there and on your party window, and your own status window shows whether you are on, muted or speaking. The Lobbies, Rooms and Calls tabs come in a later update.

3. Your Voice, Your Settings. The Settings tab lets you choose push-to-talk or voice activation (with a sensitivity setting), your microphone and speakers, echo cancellation, noise suppression and automatic gain, and the volume of voices and of announcements (up to 200%). Select any player to set their volume or mute them for you alone. Your settings are remembered.

4. Leaders Speak to Everyone. Clan leaders get a Clan announce key and alliance leaders an Alliance announce key: hold it and every member in voice hears you, wherever they sit ("the leader is speaking"). The command channel leader talks to every party of the channel from the channel's room, or from anywhere with the Commander key, and with the Officers key only the party leaders of the channel hear them.

5. Visits and Invites. The command channel leader can visit any party room of the channel and the alliance leader any clan room of the alliance. A party leader can invite a player to the party's voice room: the guest gets a message, finds the room at the top of My rooms and clicks Visit. An unused invite expires after 10 minutes, and Return takes you home.

6. Pokes. Need your leader's attention? Poke a party member or one of your leaders, with an optional message of up to 60 characters. They get a message on screen, a chime, and a flashing game window on the taskbar if they are tabbed out. Annoyed? Mute pokes from that player.

7. Room Moderation. The party leader in the party room, the clan leader in the clan room and the command channel leader in every party room of the channel can Mute in room (that player cannot speak there, but still hears) or Remove from room (out for 10 minutes), and Let back in at any time. Clan, alliance and command channel leaders can never be muted.

   Eva's Rise

8. Class Balance Update: PvP. A second balance pass for Eva's Rise (Eva's Grace is unchanged). PvP damage: Mystic Muse +22% (was +12%), Archmage +20% (was +10%), Soultaker +21% (was +10%), Storm Screamer +15% (was +8%), Elemental Master +9% (was no bonus), Blood Rose -5% (was -10%), Grand Khavatari +28% (was +20%), Titan +23% (was +12%). Phoenix Knight, Hell Knight, Eva's Templar, Shillien Templar and Divine Templar lose their PvP damage bonus (it was +20% to +50%).

9. Class Balance Update: PvE. On Eva's Rise, damage against monsters: Elemental Master -22% (was -40%), Blood Rose -18% (was -35%), Grand Khavatari +17% (was +8%), Titan +26% (was +15%). Mystic Muse, Archmage, Storm Screamer and Soultaker now take 5% less damage from monsters.

Classes & Skills

1. Skills That Could Never Crit Now Can. These skills had no critical chance at all and can now land critical hits: Song of Silence, Dance of Medusa, Mortal Blow, Iron Fist, Quick Spear, Shield Charge, Flying Dagger, Rapier Slash, Transcendent Freezing Wound, Giant's Stomp (+1 and up), Effective Disarm, Assassination, Leopold, Leopold: Master, Light Reflection, Dark Panther's Attack and Frantic Pace's extra hit.

Honor Grounds

1. Orc Healers Count as Healers. When a team match splits players into two teams, Dominators and Doomcryers now go into the healer group, so they are spread across both teams like every other healer instead of piling up on one side.

Zones

1. Tower of Insolence Floors 7-12 Pay Less. The EXP jumps between the upper floors were too big. Floors 7-12 now pay less EXP and SP, and each floor still pays more than the one below: a floor 7 monster now gives 22,288 EXP (was 28,023), a floor 9 monster 34,625 (was 49,389) and a floor 12 monster 76,879 (was 125,571). Floors 1-6 and the Keepers are unchanged.

   Items & Economy

2. Compound Pity Shared With Packages. Where the Compound window takes both an item and its Package or Jewelry Box (Einhasad's Pendant and its Package, jewels and their Jewelry Boxes, and more), each one filled its own pity gauge. They now share one gauge, and the progress you already built on the separate gauges is added together at your next login.

3. Dye Window Matches the Compound Window. Upgrading an equipped Pattern Dye in the Dye window used different success chances and Adena fees than the Compound window. Both now use the same chance and fee for every Pattern Dye and Dye Booster: a Lv. 5 DEX Pattern Dye with a Dye Booster shows and rolls 8% for 400,000 Adena in either window.

4. Package: Sealed Collection Book Opens. Package: Sealed Collection Book now gives 1 Sealed Collection Book and 5 Scroll: Enchant Sealed Collection Book. Packages you already hold open too.

5. Core's Plasmic Bow Attack Speed Fixed. Core's Plasmic Bow attacked at 227 Atk. Spd. instead of the 293 its tooltip shows. It now attacks at 293.

Bug Fixes

1. Clan War Kills in the Eva's Bounty Kill Feed. Kills between clans at war inside an Eva's Bounty zone never appeared in the Bounty kill feed. They now show like every other Bounty kill.

2. Qipao Fixed on Male Orcs. The Qipao no longer breaks the arms and hands of male Orc fighters.

3. Clan Circlet Enchant Effect Panel. On Eva's Rise, the Clan Circlet's Enchant effect panel showed Eva's Grace's Skill Critical Damage numbers, which are higher than Rise's. The panel now names the effect, Skill Critical Damage increased, and no longer lists a number that was only true on one server.