Dear Loyal Dark Eden Legend Awaken Players:

We wanted to take a moment to address some important matters that have come to our attention. Your feedback is invaluable to us, and we're committed to making Dark Eden Legend a better experience for everyone. Here's a brief overview of the key points we'd like to discuss:

1. Monster Customization: In Awaken, our private server takes a unique approach to monsters. We've made substantial customizations, so you won't find them identical to the original game or as outlined in the DKL website guide. Please note that while some powerful monsters may have appeared, we've been working on addressing them after every patch.

2. Starting Gear for Slayers and Ousters: We've fixed the issue where Slayers and Ousters didn't have weapons in their inventories at character creation.

3. Monster Skins: You may have noticed that some monsters have skins that don't align with their roles, such as normal monsters having the same-colored skin as chiefs. In DKLegend, we've introduced different skins for monsters to create a more unique experience.

4. Monster Hunting Quests: Many of the older quests, including the low-level monster hunting quest from Knight 1F, are currently disabled. New quests will be introduced over time, available from Pumpkin NPCs or Quest dialogues.

5. Drops and Luck: The grade of drops is influenced by your luck during hunting. Lower luck can result in grade 1 drops. It's all about your luck in the hunt! Drops grade is related to the luck you have while hunting. low luck will result in grade 1 drops. Note: most players have Luck below zero because they wear items with low grade, which gives negative luck. We strongly advise players to also have a luck set combined with hps or something else (depend in what map they want to hunt). Also, we cannot talk about a maximum luck as this is not how luck works here, but as mentioned in the Helper NPC books, on items Luck can go up to +21, pet, bible, double luck hour, the Lilith Apple... you guys can make a simple math about how much luck you can use - should give a try to at least half of it.

6. Slayer Drop Table: We've addressed the issue of missing items in the Slayer drop table, ensuring a more balanced experience.

7. Item Sale Prices: The discrepancies in item sale prices, such as the "deadly bat skulls," are due to game client translation issues. We'll be resolving these translation glitches in future patches.

8. Caligo War Rewards: We acknowledge the concern that Caligo War on level 2 doesn't provide rewards, and this issue is currently under investigation.

9. Damage Modifier and Menegroth: Monsters should now be easier to defeat. Be cautious of traps, as they can be quite deadly.

10. 2x Stone Usage: The 2x Exp Stone functions as intended, but it's crucial to use it in the correct order to maximize its effect.

11. Strong Monsters on Maps: We've removed 90% of the out-of-place strong monsters to create a more balanced gaming experience.

12. Experience Gain for Slayers: Slayers at the non-JC phase don't receive 100% experience from monster kills; they gain experience from various sources. Consult our exp guide for detailed information : https://dklegend.com/index.php?p=book&page=progress_system

13. Vampire Experience Gain: Vampires gain 70% of their experience from blood drain at the non-JC phase, as detailed in our exp guide : https://dklegend.com/index.php?p=book&page=progress_system

14. Rare Skill Drops: Rare skill 2 drops are indeed rare, but they can be obtained by exchanging Honor Points at the Pumpkin NPC at Perona now.

15. Enchantment Success Rates: Success rates for enchantments are influenced by luck. Higher luck increases the chances of success.

16. Guild War and Monument: Guild War issues are being addressed in future updates, and server crashes related to killing Castle monuments are not common.

17. Menegroth Armor Balance: We've addressed the imbalance issue concerning Menegroth armor for melee classes.

18. Keeper Drops: Keeper drops, including v1 books and unique options, can be rare due to their nature.

19. Client Crash with Hide Skill: A fix for the client crash related to Vampire hide skill usage is in progress.

20. Freeze Ring 2 Usage: Certain skills like Freeze Ring 2 are not intended to work in all maps; their functionality varies based on the situation; they're blocked by the game in certain maps or versus certain monsters / bosses in a way to increase their difficulty.

21. Healer Skill Issues: Some skills may not work on specific monsters as a part of the game's design to increase difficulty.

22. Healer Skill Graphics: We're aware of the graphical issue with the Healer skill "Activation" and are actively working to resolve it.

23. Vampire Backpack Bug: Items disappearing from the Vampire's backpack when the game is closed with a full backpack are related to quest items and their intended behavior. If you put in backpack quest items like the clay dolls those are suppose to be deleted form the pack... so in result, the game ends up deleting your other items too, solution: please avoid putting those quests items in your sub-inventories.

24. Pet Food Rate: The pet food rate is already fixed but also changed the effect in last patches.

25. Clay Body Exchange: Exchanging completed clay bodies for armor is intended to remove the entire stack and provide one body.

26. Mr. Pumpkin Dialogue: The issue with two options to end the conversation with Mr. Pumpkin has been addressed.

27. Item Drops: Items with aa options, hps, mps, all resist, etc., are intentionally rare and hard to find.

28. High-Tier Non JC Weapons: High-tier Non JC weapons may require Luck to increase their drop rate. Please read the Book > Special map section to see where they drop.

29. Caligo Exp Stones: Experience Stones can be found relatively easily in Caligo.

30. Ice Lance AOE Skill: The AOE skill's HP steal mechanic is being reviewed for improvements.

31. Field Boss Difficulty: Some field bosses are meant to be challenging and may require a group effort.

32. Hide Ring Speed Boost: The Hide Ring provides invisibility and a walking speed boost.

33. Server Restarts: Official server restarts are announced in advance on our Official Discord Server. Please verify the source of any claims regarding server restarts. About this matter we have 3 points to answer: 

- No server restarts were dont in the last 2,3 days not by us not by anyone. Not even crashes. So guys, before spreading false rumors, at least  make sure that was indeed a server restart or was something form your end.

- When we restart the server we will always announce. If we change something we will always announce: on website and/or discord.

- This should be a rule for all players: when you want an official answer about how something works in game: skill, balance, maps, bugs, what should happen or not etc, please trust the answers from the game staff [A] - admins, [GM] -game masters.  Do not understand this rule wrong: players are welcome to teach each others diff information about the game, but what we notice is that some players compare Awaken with other servers they played, when they should understand that private servers are customized. If they played 2,3, 100 private servers and all are the same this is because they didnt customize nothing on them. DK Legend is a very different/changed/customized source code.

34. Critical Hit Mechanism: Critical hits are chance-based and don't directly increase damage. They ignore protection, providing an extra damage opportunity. 

How CRIT works: based on how much CRIT you have, you get a chance to do critical damage and/or push. Please note the "and/or": you can do crit with out the push (just the extra damage) or you can do crit with only the push (not the extra damage) this behavior depend on skills and monsters (some ignore the push). However, CRIT does not increase your damage. As you know, when you hit a target the final damage you make it is reduced by opponent protection (among others). Now, when CRIT occur, the protection-reduce is ignored -> therefor you do extra damage. But in terms of options, crit doesn`t ADD damage to your actual damage, nor increase it. CRIT will only ignore the "protection-damage-reduce" formula. And please keep in mind that CRIT works as a chance. More crit you have => more CHANCE you have to do the push and/or the bigger damage.

35. Note about HPS: HPS it is capped at 200 and works based on chance: more hps you have = you steal more health per hit but with less chance to trigger it VS less hps = you steal little hp per hit but with a very high success rate.

36. Bugs: We've been inundated with feedback regarding various in-game glitches, and we want to assure you that our development team is working diligently to resolve these issues as swiftly as possible.

37. Administration: There have been rumors circulating that our server is solely managed by one individual, namely "Badr." In reality, Badr plays a relatively minor role behind the scenes. The lion's share of the work is shouldered by our two dedicated Developers, Viva and Bruce. Despite their commitments to other projects, they allocate a significant portion of their time to enhance Dark Eden Legend. Our team consists of three administrators and three Game Masters in total.

38. PVP Balance: Dark Eden Legend Awaken is a recently launched server, and it's premature to delve into discussions about "PVP Balance" at this point. Let's give it time to evolve and settle.

39. Communication: We've received feedback about our team's communication, and we want to address this issue. All our social channels—Facebook, Discord, Instagram, and WhatsApp—are open for your interaction. However, it's important to note that the sheer volume of messages we receive every hour can sometimes give the appearance of limited communication. We are a team of humans with other responsibilities, and if we dedicate all our time to responding to messages, it would detract from other crucial tasks and personal lives. Your understanding is greatly appreciated as we strive to strike a balance between addressing your queries and maintaining our commitments.

We hope this clarifies these concerns and provides insight into our approach to customizing the Dark Eden Legend Awaken experience.

Best Wishes

Dark Eden Legend Team