RAN MOBILE V2: EXPANSION I — OFFICIAL PATCH NOTES

The next generation of Ran Mobile: The Masterclass has arrived! Expansion I introduces a massive array of fresh end-game progressions, featuring a raised maximum level ceiling, the unveiling of the hostile Root Hole map layer, high-tier armor sets, and the long-awaited Level 147 Skill System. Alongside these features, we have heavily reworked INT-class combat formulas, added critical security Item Locking mechanics, and revamped character customization menus. Read below for the full system documentation.

🌟 Core Progression & New World Parameters

📈 Extended Level Cap: Break through your old boundaries! The maximum character leveling threshold has been raised to a strict Level 195 cap.
🗺️ New Map: Root Hole: Access a brand-new high-level grinding sector. Entry requires your character to be at least Level 170 minimum.
☠️ World Raid Boss: Astral Swordsman: A hyper-lethal boss entity has breached the server. Assemble full raid squads before attempting to track its coordinates.
🛡️ New Armor: Rock Set (Lvl 170): Premium high-defense protective gear is now drop-huntable from elite monsters within the new map zone.

📖 The Level 147 Skill Archetypes Matrix

Fourteen brand-new combat skills have been integrated into the server skill trees. Refer to the directory below to map out your builds:

Character Class	POW Path	DEX Path	INT Path
🏹 Archer (AR)	Anger Shot	Guardian Shot	Dimension Illusion
👊 Brawler (BR)	Rays Cyclone	Tai Chi	Dragon Rising
⚔️ Swordsman (SW)	Bloody Divide	Soul Sword	Sword Rings
🌿 Shaman (FS)	C.M.R.W.	—	Support (Paralysis) / Attack (Gravity)

🔒 New Economy Guardrail: Item Locking System

To secure player assets against unauthorized account access and stabilize immediate trading market speculation, a protective time-lock constraint has been deployed:

⚙️ How the Item Locking System Operates:

Baseline Lock Duration: Affected items carry a mandatory 24-hour lock period (86,400 seconds) upon acquisition.
Online Processing Rule: The lock timer only counts down while your character is actively online. Logging off freezes the countdown.
Allowed Actions: You can still fully use locked items normally (equip them, use refinement stones, apply stat scrolls, etc.).
Restricted Actions: Locked items cannot be traded to other players or loaded into custom Vending Shops.
PK Risk Warning: Be careful! Equipped locked items can still safely drop if your character is slain during open-world Player Killing (PK) encounters.
Impacted Sources: Applies to items obtained from specific high-tier loot drops, along with select items processed via crafting, trading, or vending channels.

⚡ Combat Balance Shift: INT Skill Rework

💥 Crucial Meta Notice: Int-based tracking attacks have been completely overhauled! INT skills will no longer miss targets as long as the target is within the skill's physical execution range.

Note: INT skills are still processed by the damage engine as physical calculation damage for now. This will remain until the upcoming Magic Defense system matrix is fully introduced in a future update. This layout modification will heavily impact the global PvP meta—adjust your stats accordingly.

🎒 Advanced Inventory & Lifestyle Customization Systems

🎨 Hair Style & Color System: Supporters can now completely redesign their avatars using specialized Hairstyle Cards and Hair Color Cards to apply custom aesthetics.
🙈 Hide Costume System: Want to showcase your baseline class armor silhouettes without losing your cosmetic bonuses? Drag a Hide Costume Card onto any equipped outfit to turn its visual layers invisible. To reverse this, simply apply a Remove Hide Costume Card.
📦 Durational Item Stacking System: Clean up your inventory banks! You can now manually combine duplicate durational items (cards, outfits, temporary backpacks) to cleanly merge and extend their remaining expiration timers. Simply drag one card directly onto another matching asset.

🔄 Global Item & Inventory Adjustments

📜 Level 147 Skill Scrolls: These new skill items are fully drop-huntable from monsters, but will carry a mandatory 3-month character-bound lock upon acquisition (completely non-tradable during this phase).
🔮 Oblivion E Card Update: The skill reset values have been upgraded to provide full support parameters for **Sphere 15 trees** (fully covering the new Level 147 skill branches).
💎 Refinement Stacking Limit: To reduce memory overhead within inventory database slots, maximum stack sizes for refinement stones have been lowered from **1,000 down to 50 items per slot**.
⚔️ Huntable End-Game Loot: Both the Steel Set armor pieces and high-performance Last Weapon variants have been integrated into open-world drops and are now fully huntable from elite monsters.

🛠️ Quality of Life (QoL) General Improvements

📧 Mail Box Sorting Filters: Added native interface sorting tags to the Mail System window, allowing you to instantly filter letters by Read, Unread, or Claimed item states.
🏥 Trading Hall Safezone Extension: Implemented a secure, non-combat Safezone barrier directly encompassing the central Trading Hall Nurse spawn coordinates.
📛 Character Renaming Interface Fix: Resolved a legacy layout error within the Name Change popup menu that incorrectly locked keyboard configurations onto an input numpad array.
🗺️ Club War Graphics Fix: Adjusted opacity values across the Club War Map grid. Safezone perimeters are no longer masked in solid, pure black fields.
🚧 Resource Lock: Added a temporary lock onto the usage parameters for Luxury Red Essence and Luxury White Essence; these assets currently have no functional in-game usage.

🧹 Seasonal Cleaning: Retired NPCs & Mechanics

To make room for the Expansion content database structures, all legacy holiday zones, crafting blueprints, and special shops have been officially purged:

🔨 Blacksmith Hub:	REMOVED — Crafting blueprints for Last Weapons have been permanently erased from his node.
🎰 System Gacha Matrix:	REMOVED — The entire luck-draw Gacha interface window and menu shortcuts have been stripped.
🏪 Market Vendor Shifts:	REMOVED — Token Exchanger NPC and the Market Pet Vendor have been retired. Pets are now bought directly at the D-Mall.
🎄 Winter Event Purge:	REMOVED — Winter NPC, Kapre NPC, roaming Snow Monsters, and the Marketplace Christmas Tree/seasonal sound profiles have been cleared.
💎 D-Mall Vault Updates:	REMOVED — Golden Tokens and Pet Adoption Papers have been completely removed from the D-Mall cash shop inventory.

⚖️ Extended Character Skill Balancing Adjustments

Our balancing team has rolled out numerical modifications across active skill frames to align with the new level 195 combat bounds:

Class Line	Target Combat Skill	Detailed Balancing Modification Deployed
Swordsman	Blood Rain	BUFF: Increased horizontal skill attack range and overall Area of Effect (AoE) circumference.
Swordsman	Lightning Strike	BUFF: Increased maximum skill engagement distance range.
Swordsman	Sunken Strike	BUFF: Increased physical strike path and skill range.
Swordsman	Metal Body	BUFF: Slight buff duration increase applied to defensive up-time.
Archer	Hunter Snare	NERF: Reduced the total lock down crowd control stun duration parameter.
Archer	Dance of Death	NERF: Reduced total effective skill engagement range boundaries.
Brawler	Upper Jab	BUFF: Increased physical engagement range parameters.
Brawler	Tornado Kick	BUFF: Increased raw skill scaling multiplier damage values.
Brawler	Dance of Warrior	BUFF: Increased skill strike area range parameters.
Brawler	Dynamite Punch	BUFF: Increased forward projection skill range.
Shaman	Massive Haste	NERF: Slight utility buff speed modifier reduction.
Shaman	Heaven’s Treatment	NERF: Slight optimization reduction applied to overall healing output values.

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