Whew! The wait is over. The Melodia Festival gates are finally open! We know you’ve been counting the days, and we’re thrilled to welcome you back to the festivities. Alongside the event, we’ve packed in our usual monthly updates, so grab your broomstick, gather your housemates, and dive right in!

Monthly Updates

• Our new TamTam’s Odyssey region is: Glast Heim
  • Excludes Prison and Churchyard.
• GMC Box Rotation:
  • Snack Party Costume [21237]
  • Robotic Eye Swarm Costume [21772]
• Wave Challenge Box Rotation:
  • Fancy Blue Hair Costume [21489]
  • Stole Of Angel Costume [20847]
• Sorry. No graphic yet! It’s a work in progress! Feel free to check the Dressing Coach in-game. The November Monthly Box has arrived and is full of brand new goodies as well as some classics. Like last months, we have grouped certain similar costumes together in one box rather than spreading them out over several months. The contents are as follows:
  • Decorated Magic Coat Costume [Garment][33043]
  • Morroc Kid Servant Costume [Middle][21022]
  • Midnight Candle Costume [Middle][30093]
  • Traveler Backpack Costume [Garment][30051]
  • Violet Starlight Costume [Lower][33032]
  • Flying Katashiro Costume [Lower][21588]
  • Tris Sword Costume [Garment][33041]
  • Halloween Hair Costume [Lower][33020]
  • Halloween Candy Hair Costume [Lower][33021]
  • White Fox Hood Hair Costume [Lower][30743]
  • White Fox Hair Costume [Lower][30744]
  • Loli Ruri Moon Costume [Garment][21282]
  • Disguise Mantle Costume [Lower][21279]
  • Astrologer Hood Costume [Upper][21778]
  • White Cat On Shoulder Costume [Middle][21858]
  • Piamette Bonnet Costume [Upper][33030]
  • Blue Rose Ribbon Ornament Costume [Middle][21987]
  • Altair Hat Costume [Upper][30365]
  • Deviruchi Headphones Costume [Upper][20681]
  • Assassin Skull Mask Costume [Middle, Lower][21129]
  • Hahoe Mask Costume [Middle][33045]

Limited Edition Costume

For a duration of one week, you can now purchase these [Visual] Niflheim Night Sky Costume and [Visual] Nightmare Chain Costume at the Talon Shop for 6000 Talon Cash! These are Garment slot costumes.

Disclaimer: even though it’s sold for a limited time, it may or may not return in the future to cater towards players from different timezones. Additionally, keep in mind that these visual effects only show up when effects in-game are enabled.

General Updates

• No more cooldown on Inns.
• Added Magic Heir Costume to the Costume Swap Fairy NPC.
• Added Shackles [1]. They can be obtained through the Slotting NPC as an A Rank item costing 1 Elunium and 500,000 Zeny.

Melodia Festival

The town of Melodia is once again opening its doors and welcomes you to the annual Melodia Festival! Despite the delay, many updates have been made that we are sure will elevate the event to new levels! We hope you all enjoy~

While this post is quite concise, you will find a lot of additional details in the Year 2024 and Year 2023 posts as well, so be sure to check that out!

The festival will run for about 2.5 weeks until November 23rd!

2025 Updates

• Participation check for the final house prize (in case your house wins!) is now determined by rewards purchased rather than competition points. This way players who did not gain competition points (like last year) but still participated will be able to claim the house prize.
• Monny now always sorts you into a random house, no matter what. While previous years it was already practically impossible to cheese the sorting system, we want to take away any indication that the sorting process might be biased in any way.
  • To further limit indications that one house is doing much better than another, a lot of competition announcements have been anonymized!
• Added Melodia Broomstick item to quickly warp around event locations. You will be given one by Monny when enrolling into a house as well as by the Ferryman in Prontera in case you lost yours or want to get one on a different character. This item has a 60-second cooldown.
• Brand new Storyline Quest implemented with exciting new rewards.
  • Added a special reward for the first player who finished the quest.
• Brand new Error Quest implemented with several new rewards added.
• Labyrinth Updates
  • Now enabled from the start of the event!
  • Completed the annual minigame shuffling.
  • Now gives a small amount of House Points when finishing.
  • Added a 3-minute cooldown after a run ends prematurely.
  • Added more precautions to ensure the labyrinth resets properly when a party leaves mid-run.
  • Color Memorization / Coffin updates:
    • Fixed the timer not resetting properly between attempts.
    • Lowered amount of colors required per sequence by 1.
• Deviruchiling Quest Updates
  • Moved Deviruchiling NPCs slightly away from the quest NPC.
  • Lowered the Halloween Ticket rewards given out by Deviruchiling quest slightly.
  • Cooldown is now account-bound.
  • Added new (rare) rewards.
  • Slightly lowered the items required for cooked food and boosted the droprates of the cooked food option.
• Walk of Life Updates
  • Added a 2-minute cooldown after a round ends.
  • Slightly lowered tickets and house points given out to first place winners.
  • Added more checkpoints for consolation prizes. You can now win 2, 3 or 4 tickets if you did not win, based on how far you made it.
• Amazing Ragna Race Updates
  • Added a 2-minute cooldown after a round ends.
  • Slightly lowered tickets and house points given out to first place winners.
• Shadow Tag Updates
  • Shadow Tag Doom Troops can now only be offensively attacked by their respective House Members. You can, however, still use non-damaging skills on any Doom Troop.
• Town Games Updates
  • When joining Town Games, you now have to sign up with Belle in order to participate. You can play with one game account per round. Furthermore, the Champions will not be visible to you if you have not registered.
  • Hiding, Cloaking or Chase Walk no longer work in Melodia town.
  • Porionette game now gives 10 Halloween Tickets instead of 8.
  • Simon Says/Sequence now gives 12 Halloween Tickets instead of 8.
• Halloween Challenge Updates
  • Endure no-flinch effect no longer works in this map.
• Racas Forest Preserve Updates
  • Kavesh can now assign and reward quests outside of Racas Forest Preserve (at his location near the tracks).
  • Added idle checks when farming Racas. Auto followers will no longer get any rewards.
  • Several small updates to Racas Monsters & MVPs stats and skills.
  • Added a stronger version of Stabin Yu for the hard map.
  • Slightly lowered the Daily Ticket Cap (does not apply to the kill quest) from 100 to 75 on the easy map and 150 to 125 on the harder map.
• Introducing the Melodia Eating Contest! Riella, Sri Tael and Zeno visit from Cirque du Fluff and are readying their stomachs for some bewitching Melodia treats! Wager your Halloween Tickets at the start of Casino hour and see if you multiply your bet!
  • Introduces 6 new Achievements.
• Get ready for the latest iteration of the Melodia Tournament Instance! Not only is it harder this year, but you can also expect new tricks up familiar opponent’s sleeves and “some” game mechanic upgrades. Additionally, this instance will debut the first version of a difficulty scaling system which promises to make the instance harder and reward greater! Please check out the full patch notes on this below.
• You will now get updates on Discord on what activities are open, similar to the Status Boards around the event. They will be posted on the #server-messages channel.
• You will now get a notification if you become the Top Scorer of your house. Status Boards will now also show you who the Top Scorer of your house is. The Top Scorer of every house will also receive an exclusive Achievement and Title at the end of the event!
• Lowered Bloody Branch price from 90 to 75 Halloween Tickets.
• Added Silvervine Fruit as an item to be purchased for 12 Halloween Tickets.
• Added Wicked Collar recoloring to the Coloring Machine. Given that these are Account Bound items, they will be available in the Lutie Vending Machine.
• Monny now gives you a choice to disable/enable jumpscares after being sorted into a house as well as any time after.
• Halloweenies and Melodia Matchan now have a 4th option for custom amounts.
• Various updates to Melodia Town to reduce stuttering.
• Added proximity checks for warping NPCs and event spawns for town games and trick or treaters so that they don’t get stuck in places you cannot walk.
• Added extensive logging server-side so we will be able to show proper performance graphs after the event!
• Added two new costumes to Costume Raffle.
• Added a new costume to the Drinking Game, but limited the Trick or Treater buff to 15 minutes.
• Variety of House Points rebalancing across the board.

Enrolling into a House

The Halloween festival at Melodia has been and will always be a competition among the houses of Melodia Academy. As such, participating in the competition requires you to be assigned into one of the four noble houses.  The competitive activities offered by Melodia pits all four houses against each other through a huge variety of mini games, designed to test your skills, proficiency and perhaps luck as well. Be certain to try out all of them to experience everything Melodia has to offer you, and also earn points for your house and tickets for yourself.

House Windsor Led by Remy

House Guile Led by Faa

House Sorin Led by Sola

House Emure Led by Sydo

Begin the enrollment process by speaking to Monny (The Grand Monemus) in Melodia Academy.

• You can find Monny in the left wing of the academy building, which is where you are first teleported by the Ferryman.

This year, Monny is fully responsible for sorting you into a fitting house, and will pick for you based on what it believes your capabilities can offer.

• Note that your house assignment will apply to all characters within your master account. We highly recommend consolidating your individual participation to one character – so you can maximize your earned points and prizes more effectively!

The Ferryman will then offer to send you to the town of Melodia, the academy or the Melodia manor at your request! You will receive an achievement and a title upon joining a house! To equip the title once you earn the achievement for joining your house, do the following:

• If your status menu (aka icons) is not already open, do so by clicking the tiny down arrow right under the Status UI.
• Go to the bottom left and select the Achievement Challenges Trophy Icon.
• While in the Achievements UI, select the Adventure tab.
• Navigate to the Achievement you just earned, go to the bottom right, and click the Collect button.
• If not already opened, access your Equipment Window by pressing [ALT + Q], and make your way to the right most tab at the top, “Title”.
• You’ll see the name of the house you just got sorted to here (Windsor, Guile, Sorin, Emure). Equip it by double clicking it, and that’s that!

House Competition

House Points will determine which of the four houses will emerge as victorious this year. House points can be earned by anyone for their team through participating in the Halloween mini games. The Melodia Academy registrar will be keeping a record of the scores hidden until the end of the Halloween festival, when the winning house and runner-up house will be announced!

A special prize will also go to all adventurers who are affiliated with the winning houses! You are expected to have participated at least somewhat in the event in order to claim your house prize. This is based on purchases made through Halloween Tickets.

The house that places first will win one of these at its member’s own choice:

• Blessing of Angels Costume
• Big Magic Book Costume
• Adventurer Pope Egg
• Big Lollipop Costume
• Bloody Murderer Knife Costume
• Atroce Egg
• Time Holder Egg (NEW)
  • INT + 2, AGI + 2
  • Increases Physical Damage to DemiHuman monsters by 2%.
  • Decreases Physical Damage from DemiHuman monsters by 1%.
  • Increases duration of Blessing and Increase Agility cast on you by 20 seconds.
• Giant Mad Bunny Costume (NEW)

The house that places second will win one of the following:

• Blessing of Angels Costume
• Garling Egg
• Papare Egg
• Wooden Fairy Egg
• Adventurer Pope Egg

Furthermore, the Top Scorers of each house will receive a special achievement and title!

Player Competitions

Special Honorary Degrees will be awarded to the thirteen (13) most intrepid adventurers who have helped to settle this year’s tie. Individual prizes will be handed out to winners of various mini games who have demonstrated that their skills are on par with the best-in-class students of each house! Those individuals with the most points at the end of the entire Halloween festival will be announced and receive a special, exclusive prize!

• Note that top-performance is master account driven – so to compete in this area, so you no longer have to specifically participate with a particular character.
• Overall, thirteen (13) players will win for top performance in each of the following categories:
  • The top-three (3) Minigame winners by accumulated points.
    • Performance will be based on the number of points accumulated for all minigames. Points accumulated through Blackjack will NOT count toward this individual performance total.
  • The top-three (3) Racas Forest Monster Hunters by accumulated points:
    • Performance is based on the number of monsters killed in The Racas Forest Preserve and Forbidden Section. Points only accumulate during Happy Hour.
  • The top-three (3) overall players.
    • This includes but is not limited to town games, minigames, Racas Forest kills and many more activities! Let the best players win~
  • The single fastest party of four (4) in the Labyrinth when this mini game is made available.
    • Be on the lookout for the Labyrinth mini game during the Haunted Festival. You’ll be able to form parties of four (4) players for this mini game.
• In recognition of outstanding efforts, each of this year’s thirteen Degree recipients, as well as the new competition winners, will receive:
  • A unique, account-bound Wooden Fairy II Egg.
  • Your choice of MVP Card!
    • Cards eligible for this prize are those currently available from the Talon Shop.
    • Maya Purple is furthermore excluded from this list.

Instance Patch Notes

• Added new rewards to Treasure Chest.
• Added a new side cutscene somewhere outside of the instance when completing the instance at least once.
  • No, it doesn’t give you any additional rewards.
• Removed Practice Rounds.
• Rewards for clearing the instance fastest and first have been removed.
• Enemy HP no longer scales with party size.
• Lives are now restored between rounds again, and lives/returns are now increased and restored to 50 and 10 respectively by Zarevok again.
• Added a new scaling difficulty scaling system that goes all the way to 25. Starting at Level 0 (base instance). Every time you clear the instance, you will unlock a higher level difficulty. Each level adds MaxHP + 25% and ATK/MATK + 15% to your opponents.New rewards inside Zarevok’s Treasure Chest will start to appear and will exponentially improve with higher difficulty.
  • Improved Zarevok Treasure Chest rewards include but aren’t limited to Level 10 Stat Foods, Raw Gems, and higher MvP Card Rates.
  • You will not earn a higher level difficulty if your max level difficulty is lower or higher than the difficulty level the instance was created with (example: your max is 2, but the instance was created with a party leader that opened it with level 3).
• The leaderboard now sorts by difficulty first and then by time.
• Significant AI and Monster Behavior Updates to all opponents. For discovery reasons and to keep the element of surprise there, we will only reveal information about behaviors already known from previous years and critical information.
• Instance Ruleset Changes
  • Updated Instance Element Table to the following. Furthermore, elements that now provide an elemental advantage (such as Fire against Earth) now get doubled if the damage is magic (30% -> 60%, 15% -> 30%). This buff does not apply for Bolt Skills;

• MvP HP Bars are now visible during the Instance Ruleset.
• DEF Piercing Skills such as Spiral Pierce, Acid Terror, and Piercing Shot are now allowed to ignore DEF but only at a 50% Rate instead of 100%.
• Critical Attacks now ignore only 50% of DEF instead of 100%.
• Enchant Deadly Poison now boosts Sonic Blow by only 25% in the Instance Ruleset. Furthermore, its general ATK% Scaling is changed to 20 x Skill Level% (200% Max at level 5).
• Spellbreaker’s Cooldown now only applies on success.
• Spellbreaker Success now scales against bosses in the following way: 20 x Used Skill Level%.
• Only the following skills have Cooldown Restrictions now at the following amounts: Dispel (10 Seconds), Land Protector (10 Seconds), Tarot Card (10 Seconds), Spellbreaker (6 – Used Level Minutes).
• Gospel DEF/ATK Penalties have been reduced from 100% to 25%, but they now also affect MATK and MDEF respectively.

• General Mechanics
  • Mobs are now capable of executing defined scripts when they use their normal skills.
  • Conditional skill entries such as those that only trigger after a certain skill was used on them now ignore can act delays, which allows mobs to more fluently combo/utilize their skills without as much dead time in between.
  • Around target skill entries can now be assigned AoEs as high as 25×25 as opposed to just up to 9×9 from before.
  • Added a damage reduction over time mechanic. When present, damage gets resisted over time according to -(MaxHP – HP) / (MaxHP / 75)%. It can be applied in many varieties including Short Range Physical, Long Range Physical, Magical, MISC, or All Damage.
  • New Target Type “Auto Attack”. Skills with this target type will now auto-cast the assigned skill as if they were using Sage’s Autospell.
  • New Mode “Sniper”. Mobs with this mode assume level 10 Vulture’s Eye and level 10 Snake Eyes when using skills that support them. This has no effect on normal attacks.
  • New Mode “Pursuit”. Mobs with this mode will attempt to chase players for a while after initiating a cast time before going still similar to Sage’s Free Cast.
  • New Mode “MvP Resist”. Applies the previously mentioned damage resist over time mechanic for all damage.
  • New Skill Condition “Out of Attack Range”. Triggers when this monster is attacked outside of both its attacking range and casting range regardless of current state and sight range.
• Professor RK-9
  • Adjusted DEF and MDEF.
  • Adjusted ASPD.
  • Now resists Short Range Physical damage over time.
  • RK9’s Gear Shift mechanic can no longer be Dispelled.
  • During Gear Shift’s effect, Fixed Damage and Damage applied after the Element Immunity check no longer slips through the cracks and is now properly ignored (such as Soul Breaker’s MATK portion of damage).
  • RK9 Laser’s rotation is now faster than before.
• The Doom Troops
  • All: Adjusted Movement Speed, DEF, and MDEF.
  • Windsor: Adjusted Min and Max ATK.
  • Guile: Adjusted INT.
  • Now resists Magic and MISC damage over time.
  • Back Stab mechanic renamed to Infiltrator. Infiltrator now inflicts 50% MaxHP base damage, increasing by another 1% for every target Hard DEF, and inflicts a 3×3 splash AoE around where the target is chosen.
  • Extreme Potion Pitch now heals more often and has a more consistent rate of healing that improves with other troops dead.
• Nightriff
  • Attack Range increased.
  • Adjusted DEF and MDEF.
  • Adjusted Min and Max ATK.
  • The Equivalent Exchange Field effect changed completely. Walk Speed is still fixed, however, all Holy Magic now ignores MDEF and short range attacks are no longer resisted, but long range damage now gets resisted over time.
  • The teleporting Dark Grand Cross mechanic has been replaced with a new skill.
• Arthur the Berserker
  • Adjusted DEF and MDEF.
  • Adjusted Min and Max ATK.
  • Stance Change slightly updated.
    • Champion’s Stance: Immunity to Long and MISC Damage, resists Short Range Attacks over time.
    • Spellblade Stance: Immunity to Magic Damage, resists Long Range Attacks over time.
  • Judgement Day Magnus Exorcismus units now get removed any time he uses another Signature Attack such as Excalibur Smite to make it easier to see what’s going on without too much overlap.
• Zarevok
  • Attack Range increased.
  • Adjusted DEF and MDEF.
  • Adjusted Min and Max ATK.
  • Adjusted VIT.
  • Adjusted ASPD.
  • Now resists All Damage over time.
  • Reduced Tempest MDEF / Magic Resist% Ignore from 40% to 33%.
  • Zarevok’s Element Shift Mechanic will boost his elemental damage by 25% if the used skill matches the current rotated element.
  • Zarevok’s Element Shift Mechanic now results in elements that aren’t favorable against his current element being reduced by 25%.
  • Now has Holy, Shadow, and Ghost Element states in addition to Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth.
  • All Signature Attacks are now slightly faster on average and do a lot more damage or instant kill.
  • All currently known Signature Attacks now have a random certain number of times they can be used in a row except for Titanic Plate which always gets used 3 times in a row.
  • Flamethrower now causes Zarevok to teleport to certain fixed locations in the map prior to using the skill.
  • Chain Reaction now has 2 units when 2 or more players are present in the arena rather than 1.
  • Titanic Plate can now be used in the center in addition to the left and right sides.
  • Inferno Barricade now gets temporarily disabled during the usage of a Signature Attack. It will then be re-enabled following a cast time shortly after the Signature Attack ends.