Sirens of War Content Update

SIRENS OF WAR CONTENT UPDATE

Dawn of Spring Content Update


Originally released as "Hegemony" for PWCN on Jaunuary 16th, we have finally got this content update.

Dawn of Spring was released on March 20th, 2013.

Read the news post here

Patch Notes here

Undocumented changes here

Highlights

New transformations for Veno and Barb

PWCN only/Not implemented yet:
New pets for Veno
GT Voice Button
Penguin Park

Reference Links

I'm not going to cite in every part of the thread where I exactly found the information, I'll list the links here in one spot.

PWBR Channel
1, 2

PWCN Patch notes

PWI Threads

PWCN threads
1, 2

GT Voice Chat
1, 2

Wanmei NewsPosts:
1, 2


New Transformations

New Barb and Veno Form

At level 100, Barbarians and Venos can get a new transformation. Venos have a new fox form, barbarians have a panda form.

The new forms are gotten at level 100.
They are new as in new transformations, not replacements to current transform skills.
You can get them in two ways: quest chain or item from the cash shop.
There are sage and demon versions.
There are skills that accompany the new forms and can only be used in the new form.
You can use your regular transform skills (aka can use tiger/fox form skills), but you can't have two transformations active at once (duh).
The task is gotten from the 1k elder?
There is also a line about old transform skills being buffed, but I can't tell if it's the actual form or the form skills.

Veno form:

New Veno Form Concept

New Veno Form 1

New Veno Form 2

Demon Butterfly Plume Form:
in this status,
allows Butterfly Plume Form skill to be used
increases physical defense equal to 120% of equipment value
accuracy increased by 200%
Shared cool down with Fox Form
Demon version gives movement speed increase of 60% and chance of getting killing blow is decreased by 5% for 6 seconds after cast

Sage Butterfly Plume Form:
in this status,
allows Butterfly Plume Form skill to be used
increases physical defense equal to 150% of equipment value
accuracy increases by 250%
Shared cool down with Fox Form
Sage version gains 35 chi every cast

New Skills that require new transform to use:

Demon linghuan Fox (veno skill, not demon skill):
consumes one spark
after transformed evasion increased by 400%
immune to any movement debuff
recover 10% max hp every second
last for 15 seconds
can not be purged
requires Butterfly Plume Form to use, does not shared cool down

Demon New Veno Fox Form

Sage New Veno Fox Form

Barb form:

Barb Form Concept

Barb Form 1

Barb Form 2

Barb Form 3

Demon Panda Form
Transformed into a Panda, increases Max HP by 30% and movement speed by 80%.
shares cooldown with tiger form
demon version increases critical hit by 5% for 6 seconds.

Sage Panda Form
Transformed into a Panda, increases Max HP by 40% and movement speed by 90%.
shares cooldown with tiger form
earn 20 Chi Sage version.

Demon Panda Form

Sage Panda Form

Feast of the Demons [again not a demon skill, just barb form skill]
Consume 1 Spark.
Accuracy increases by 300%, Defense Level by 40 for 60 seconds.
Can not be removed.
Requires Panda form to use.
Cooldown is not shared.

New Veno Pets

Three New Legendaries

The first pet is the Kirin. It will be a land and water pet (kind of like the mystic summons)
The second pet is the Harpy. It will be a stronger version of the nix.
The third pet is the Monkey King. It will be a stronger version of the herc.
The new pets can be obtained with supply tokens.

The pet system has changed so that pets are affected by veno stats, kind of like with mystic summons.
Number of skill slots will be increased to 6.
I do not know if this affects all pets or just legendary pets (including nix and herc).
Whatever the change is, nix and herc are apparently getting changed as well.
Existing pets will not be bumped up in level, they still have to be leveled normally.

Venos might get two new pet skills.
Soul force may play a role in this new system.

Penguin Park & New Years

Penguin Park

PP 1

PP 2

Required Level: 30
12/19/12 - 12/25/12 (19:00 - 20:00)

Penguin Bowling
Players can obtain an item that when clicked will use a penguin as a bowling alley.
There are various rewards for doing this.
Insignias and Reflection Shards are possible rewards?

Monster Siege
At 20:00, several monsters will appear around the park.
A public quest will activate, goal is to kill 500 monsters in 30 minutes.
Upon completion, you should talk to the Christmas Elves to receive tickets as a reward.

Shopping Queen
Santa Claus will deliver 4 different tasks, in which players must choose one.
The task given is to buy certain items from the Merchants Park Penguins. Maximum duration of 30 minutes.

New Years

New Years NPC 1

New Years NPC 2

New Years NPC 3

01/01/13 - 01/02/13

Players must complete all the missions given by the Elders of the major cities and deliver them to the Winter NPC Messengers.

GT Voice Chat

GT, short for Game Talk.

PWCN is making a big deal out of it, might as well mention it.

It's either going to be one of two things: it'll be an integrated voice chat system or an external program like vent/ts3/mumble.
If it's the latter, it'll be as useful as the radio button.
If it's the former, it'll be as guaranteed as everything else PWI was supposed to get from China (probably won't happen for whatever bs reason).

It mentions that if you don't log into the game, you can still text or voice chat to your friends through squad and guild chats.
No mention is made of pms or the chat room function.

The GT button will show up in a couple spots.

One spot will be right in the squad list header.

The next spot is on the guild window.

This will appear right by your character's head so you can open up the GT interface (pictures not included?).
The button is there to remind you that pwi has sounds and you should turn it on to listen to the sounds of the yawns, keyboard types, and sniffles of your fellow comrades.

When you click on that button, you'll receive a super duper buff that gives you 3 attack and defense levels (yay?).
I don't think Wanmei really thought this out, otherwise they would've bumped that up to at least 20 so players wouldn't go insane with hear constant breathing and sniffing sounds over the mic.

I'd like to think that the GT thing would work like TS3 or Mumble, but knowing Wanmei it'll probably be Vent Harassment: The MMO.
Here is a fine example of what will probably happen
And another
And another
And another

Brb updating my pwcn client...

Other Updates

More Tweaks to Player Skills

not happening. Thread originally linked was a suggestions thread.

Cash Shop Additions

New Aerogear + Camel Mountl

Fash
1, 2

Actual Cross Server Fights?
It appears as though Wanmei didn't actually add it in the expansion (like with the veno pets) and instead left it for this content update.
I... don't know what to say to this. Don't get your hopes up for it being in the PWI version.

Changelog

12/23 -
Thread Created
12/27 -
removed wanmei supposed skill changes, it was only a suggestions thread