PATCH 8P : SHARKFEST

您好, 巨龍!

Salutations, Dragons!

Apologies for the bare-bones patch notes. Today's update involved a lot of last-minute QA, and we had to prioritize. Basic stats for most event rewards are included, and we will add a more detailed writeup on how the event functions within the next day or so.

Sharkfest

Sharkfest is a four-week celebration, honouring the ocean's deadliest predator and straight-to-video cinema's biggest cash cow.

Sharkfest consists of two parts. Your first task is an event-exclusive quest line, which starts with Maegumrae, a hapless lifeguard who's trying to enjoy his vacation on the sandy shores of Liaodong. He'll assign you a short quest, which will reward you with the permanent Shark Slayer epithet. More steps, and more rewards, are planned for this quest as the event progresses, so keep an eye on our news page.

This is not the time or the place to perform some kind of a half-assed autopsy on a fish.

You can also check in with Seo Hwarang every day in Hefei to receive your choice of four Sharkfest Certifications. Each certification lets you access one of four short quests, each of which rewards a numbered Sharkfest Participation Award. You'll need at least one of each award for Create attempts by Seo Hwarang and Festival Student Bag Hwar, which is how you'll obtain the best event rewards.

You can repeat the Certification quests each time you obtain a new certificate. The quests are:

The Waterboy: Uncover the secret to keeping cool - starting in Hangzhou, and taking you far and wide, in search of the coolest, most refreshing water in the Land. You night decide that the water in Hangzhou is cool enough, in which case you can claim your reward and end the quest. But if you're willing to do some legwork, you can upgrade to your choice of hydrating buff.

Sunbathing: Check with Maegumrae in Liaodong again, who will allow you access to the Lying Down technique. Possibly the easiest quest ever. NOTE: To obtain this certificate, answer Seo Hwarang's initial question with "I've taken care of the sharks already."

Lifeguard Qualification/Duty: Both qualifying to take the lifeguard test, and your regular duty, involve the same steps - starting from Maegumrae in Liaodong, perform your patrol by running from one Shark Warning Sign to the next, as they appear on your minimap.

Cleanup: find the River Hermit near Kunlun's ferry, who beseeches you to help purify the area by slaying one of the for monsters (HINT: the latter two are orders of magnitude easier than hunting the Black Witch Goku or Nine-Tailed Fox. Alternatively, you can just donate a sum of cash, and complete the quest that way.

Chumming:Kurt Angler has a secret fishing spot in Liaodong, not too far from Maegumrae. He's fishing for sharks, but needs special bait to catch them. A nearby bait merchant knows the secret recipe, which is found in the Resource screen, and requires meat from some common domestic animals.

Blood In The Water

For a taste of things to come, all players will enjoy three hours of Blood In The Water upon logging in to the Land, for some enhanced damage and survivability.

If anyone asks… tell ‘em you’re going fishing.

Death Lives… With Interest

Hopefully luck has been on your side, if you’ve been going after the Blazing Fire & Frozen Ice Flower Marbles. If you find yourself with an abundance of Ming Qian from the event dungeon, you may want to see Jyuck Sam in Hefei. He can turn 5 of them into them into a 9Dragons Silver Repay, and he has a 50% success rate at turning 10 into a [Hell] Vault of Death Pass Box, which contains 3 [Hell] Vault of Death Passes.

Papaya Play Marketplace

The Sweet Summer Deals Box lets you collect extra Sharkfest Certifications, between the complementary free daily one. The Seafood Take-Out Bag will either buff you out, or trigger anaphylaxis. The Swimsuit Exchange Coupon can be exchanged with Seo Hwarang for one of two new premium decos - the Vacancy and Lifeguard Swimsuits.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

Six new costumes are available, and you can add them to your wardrobe via purchasing temporary versions, or with the coupons in the Fancy Disguise Box, both available in the Papaya Marketplace. Trade the coupons to New Costume Exchange Mae Hwang in Hefei for temporary or permanent costumes, or trade up basic coupons for better ones.

The stats for basic and premium costumes haven’t changed, but there are six new appearances to collect, if you want to have a deco for every mood.

Regular costumes :

Top left to right: Blue Bamboo/Plum Flowers, Battle/Small Dragon

Bottom left to right: North Sea, Red Bird

Black Dragon costumes :

Why do I need more armour? Nobody ever goes for the chest. Or the legs. Or the face.

Swimsuit :

When your boss shares his kids' vacation photos on social media, while you're on your eleventh hour of overtime.

If you have any Classy Masquerade Coupons left, they can still be traded for last month’s costumes from Old Costume Exchange Sua. He now offers Ginseng Root and Ethereal Mushroom Stalks in exchange for them, too.

Vault of Death Materials Fix

Curious players might have noticed something a little off with the materials from the revamped Death Valley and Valley of Hell. It turns out that the Death Valley Soul and Valley of Hell Stone had been swapped around, not only using the wrong appearances, but being swapped around in the recipe list.

The drop rates and locations for these items have not changed, but the icons are now swapped, and Resource/Create recipes which required one, now require the other. This means that items are now created entirely with materials from either dungeon, instead of needing something from both.

Notes & Bug Fixes

Players and non-boss monsters once again display their HP percentages on their health bars.

Combat Records and the Infinite Dungeon leaderboards have been reset. We will continue to perform resets every four weeks until we align with the beginning of the calendar month, at which point resets will continue to take place at the beginning of the new month from then on.

有空再會!

Thanks, and see you in the Land!

Team Papaya