Arabia

A fast update. Arabia will be located here:



The city will have 4 gates. Not more info is known, but I expect the new zone covers all the missing way until the West closed path from Roc Mountain.

Devil's Spirit upgrade & Angel Spirit in iSRO

Blah, first of all: happy new year to everyone because this is the first post of this year :D I know I have been a bit lazy, but there was not enough interesting stuff to write about. Well, news for today are that Devil's Spirit pimping will now finally be added to iSRO. There is also an event for the Devil's Spirit reinforcement.

2012 New Year's Event!
Greetings. This is So-Ok.

We have prepared a variety of events from January 17 to January 31 to celebrate the update of Silkroad for 2012.

1. Reinforce Devil's Spirit by +3!! You get an Angel's Spirit as a gift!!
2. If you purchase an Angel's Spirit you get an Extension Gear item as a gift!!
3. If you upload a New Year's card, you get a Korean traditional dress "Hanbok" Avatar.

Please refer to the website for more information on events.

The reinforcement elixirs for the Devil's Spirit will most likely cost a good amount of silk though, and the item called Angel's Spirit has just the same effects as a Devil's Spirit, it only has a different look. There are no details on that "New Year's card" event yet.

Unfortunally no other information about the arabian region etc. have been added to the textfiles recently, so I guess it will still take a while until Joymax decides to release these updates.

13th Degree

kSRO updated this Wednesday their servers with the D13 update.
This is just like the D12 first update, the cap level is still 120 and also the skills. The only way for obtain the D13 items right now is upgrading your D12+6 items (I'm not sure about the plus since the image is in Korean).

For everyone who want to see the new items, here is a vid with them all:

Pet Update comes to iSRO

Today, Joymax released a manual patch file for iSRO which can be installed at next week's update. It contains the new pet system which is already implemented in kSRO.
Here is a list of the new pets:

Yellow Sparkle Ostrich

Blood Armor Dino

Lava Roar Hound

Rubino Phoenix

Ancient Tribal Bear

Half Moon Jaguar

I will also make a post about "Silkroad R" and more information about the arabian update soon! ^-^

Arabian regions / New battle arenas

With today's kSRO update, Joymax released information about the arabian regions:
- Desert field Lv. 121-123
- Dreamlike desert Lv. 123-125
- "Cagliari's lair" (some Boss area)
- Baghdad City

About the previously mentioned "Muhan" dungeon: This is a dungeon like the battle arena. It exists for levels 71-80, 81-90, 91-100 and 101-110 in solo and party versions. The description says:

Protect the Guardian Stone in the middle of the battlefield to receive your reward. You can use the Morph Stone to fight as a monster.

A new pvp battle arena will be added, it is called "Styria Clash".

Score points by securing treasure chests or by slaying opponents. The team that has scored the highest points within the time limit wins.
(Treasure Chest = 200 pts. each, PK = 20 pts. each)
An event monster will appear for the losing team from time to time. Slay this monster to obtain useful buffs for the entire team, and click the pot for a chance to obtain a rare artifact that provides Job EXP

By the way: Silkroad secrets has reached 1,000,000 page views in total since its creation in 2009! Thank you all very much! ^__^

Arabian region: Monster list

Joymax has released the new mob names of the arabian region update in a kSRO update.
I roughly translated them to English:

Agile Wolf
Adonis Wolf
Outrageous Wolf
Outrageous adonis Wolf
Greedy Patjaitun (looks like a Mangyang)
Greedy Yaktalkkun (looks like a Mangyang)
Patjaitun Maniac (looks like a Mangyang)
Yaktalkkun Maniac (looks like a Mangyang)
Wild Uneg
Wild Weneg
Kuld Mujigi
Mad Bastet
Mad Bastet Thief
Mad Bandit Archer
Desert Bandit Archer
Elite Bandit Archer
Mad Bandit
Desert Bandit
Elite Bandit
Evil Dark Khepri
Hungry Dark Khepri
Violent Dark Khepri
Violent Hyena
Wounded Hyena
Agile Hyena
Wounded Agile Hyena
Desert Snake
Woran (Snake Demon)
Sabra Cactus
Karmos Cactus
Bandit Boss
Mad General
Mad Guard Officer
Giant Demon


Also, the 13th, 14th and 15th item degrees have been announced for future updates.

New Pet system

So, Joymax announced today on the korean version a new system for the pets. Basically you can buy different stuff for your pets, tattoos, skills, armors, and that stuff, everything from item mall ofc. Also you will be able to ride some growth pets like they were ponys! Finally something interesting. Together with the info they released some pictures of them.

Digimon-like pet:



Bad-ass bear:



Gay chicken:


As I understood, those pets can both attack and be riden, but they cannot do both at the same time, which means you can't attack while you are riding it.

After this update should come the Arabian update, new race! yey!