Game Systems

Systems Overview

This page introduces the core systems used across OceaniaRO. It is intended as a starting point before each system gets its own dedicated guide.

Why This Page Exists

Private servers often include custom progression, quality-of-life tools, and convenience systems that differ from a default setup. This overview gives players one place to understand the big picture.

What To Expect From This Book

Typical Areas To Document

How Players Should Use This Section

Next Step

As more systems are confirmed for OceaniaRO, this book should branch into focused guides for each major feature.

Drowned Aequoria

Drowned Aequoria

Drowned Aequoria is OceaniaRO's ocean-themed starter instance, set in the flooded halls of the lost kingdom of Aequoria. It now has two routes: a solo-friendly breach for new players and small starters, plus the stronger party expedition.

Solo Breach

The solo breach is designed for players who want to learn the instance without needing a full team. It uses a lighter wave setup and a weakened Tide Wraith finale.

Solo Attunement

Before entering the solo breach, complete the attunement once per account. After this is finished, the account can enter the solo route directly in future.

Completing the attunement gives a Coral Sigil as proof. The unlock is saved to the account, so losing the sigil does not remove access.

Solo Flow

  1. Clear the reef wave: Aqua Rings and Marins.
  2. Clear the drowned sentry wave.
  3. Defeat the weakened Tide Wraith and its echoes.
  4. Receive the reward, then the current returns you to Izlude after a short delay.

Solo Reward

The solo route has a 4-hour cooldown after a successful clear. The cooldown starts only when the reward is given, so leaving or crashing before the clear should not lock you out.

Party Expedition

The party expedition is the stronger version of Drowned Aequoria. It keeps the full Tide Wraith fight and is better for groups or stronger characters.

Party Flow

  1. Clear the first wave of reef creatures: Aqua Rings, Marins, and Obeaunes.
  2. Defeat the drowned Aequorian sentries.
  3. Defeat the full Tide Wraith.
  4. Each party member still inside receives the clear reward.

Party Reward

Tips

Supporter System

OceaniaRO's supporter system is built around a simple promise: everything important should be playable, and points should mostly save time, smooth out setup, or unlock cosmetics.

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Design Direction

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Support is rewarded with looks, convenience, and time saved, not raw power. The cash shop is intentionally focused on travel, manuals, support scrolls, storage helpers, and other quality-of-life items.

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How To Earn Cash Points

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Cash Shop Focus

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The in-game cash shop is for convenience. It is not intended to replace hunting, crafting, bossing, or trading with other players.

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Recommended First Buys

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Popular Convenience Items

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Tide Concierge

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The Tide Concierge remains the main supporter NPC for daily claims, resets, and special supporter options.

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World Tour Tickets

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World Tour Tickets are a light utility currency used by event and support systems.

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Fairness Rule

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Last updated July 2026 for the expanded cash shop and vote/playtime reward systems.

Sep 2026: Zeny/ticket cosmetic shops (Boutique / Emporium / Curio) now sell look-only costume-slot pieces — no AllStats/HP/ATK power. Cash/QoL still does not buy combat power.

Tidemark Company Mercenaries

The Tidemark Company is a seafaring mercenary order that contracts custom companions to worthy players. Three branches, three roles, and token-based contracts.

The Mercenaries

Broker Location

Tidemark Broker, Izlude harbor at 140,164, near Maren the Tidewright.

What Are The Poring King Sigils?

The Coral Sigil, Storm Feather, and Abyss Pearl are Tidemark Company faction tokens. If a player gets one from the Poring King, they can save it and use it to forge a temporary mercenary contract.

Contracts

Contracts are token-only. There is no zeny purchase path, but the broker can exchange Bronze Coins for faction tokens at 1 Bronze Coin each.

How To Get Tokens

Cooldown and Notes

Attendance Rewards

OceaniaRO includes a 20-day attendance ladder designed to reward regular logins with a mix of convenience items, support currency, and special prizes.

How It Works

A calendar window appears when you log in. You can collect one reward per day and climb the reward ladder over twenty days.

Reward Structure

Why It Exists

The attendance ladder gives players a friendly early push without locking power behind payment. It works as a one-time head start and feeds into other custom systems such as mercenaries and the supporter economy.

Important Note

This is intended to be a free progression support system, not a pay-to-win mechanic.

Vote for Points

OceaniaRO includes a Vote for Points system that rewards players for supporting the server on external listing sites.

How It Works

In-Game Connection

The system is represented in-game by the Vote Herald NPC, which ties voting into the supporter and utility ecosystem.

Why It Matters

This gives players a non-donation way to contribute to server visibility while still receiving useful rewards in return.

Current Status

The core vote and callback flow exists, but full public launch depends on completing the external vote-site registrations.

Lore Story Quests

OceaniaRO has a five-part chain of story quests that send you around the world uncovering the server's custom lore: the drowned kingdom of Aequoria, the Sundering of the ember realm, and the founding of the Tidemark Company. They are story-focused and open to any level - no hard fights, just travel, dialogue, and light gathering from easy monsters.

Each quest stands alone and can be done in any order. Complete all five and return to Scholar Liora to be named Lorekeeper - a title with consequences beyond bragging rights.

The Five Quests

Whispers of the Drowned

Embers of the Sundering

The Tidemark Ledger

The Night of Broken Scales

A Crown for the Poring King

Rewards

Each quest pays zeny, Base/Job EXP, and Bronze Coins. Finishing all five earns the Lorekeeper recognition from Scholar Liora, a 10 Bronze Coin bonus - and unlocks something more. Lorekeepers should speak to Liora again.

Tidemark Bounty Board

Tidemark Bounty Board

The Tidemark Bounty Board stands at the Izlude Company quay (141,168). The Tidemark Broker keeps the Company annex just north of the desk row. It posts daily rotating hunt contracts — the same three contracts for the whole server, changing at midnight.

How It Works

The Tiers

Dockhand

Easy harbor aquatics (Marins, Vadons, Aqua Rings and the like). Pays zeny, EXP, and 2 Bronze Coins (+ Harbor standing bonus). Doable by fresh characters.

Marine

Mid-tier shipping-lane work (Obeaune, Marse, Swordfish...). Pays zeny, EXP, and 4 Bronze Coins (+ standing bonus).

Wraithwatch

Deep-water hunts near wraith territory (Merman, Strouf, Deviace, Penomena). Pays zeny, EXP, 6 Bronze Coins, one random Tidemark faction token, and the largest standing gain.

Harbor bonuses

Higher Company ranks add extra Bronze on payout (see Harbor Reputation). Tidebound+ also forges Elite mercs cheaper at the Broker.

Why Bother

Steady Bronze Coins and faction tokens outside Poring King hunting, plus tide + standing progress. Clear all three tiers daily for the full payout.

Relieve the Tideward

Relieve the Tideward is the capstone of the lore quest arc - available only to players who have completed all five Lore Story Quests and earned the Lorekeeper title.

It builds on what Lorekeepers learned in Byalan: the Tide Wraith of Drowned Aequoria is not a monster. It is the kingdom's last soldier, still standing a two-thousand-year watch, because the order relieving him of his post was never sung.

How To Start

Once you are a Lorekeeper, speak to Scholar Liora in Izlude again. She has an idea that will take you back to the Drowned Echo - and then to someone with the authority to end the longest watch in history.

What You Get

Without spoiling the journey: Lorekeepers who complete it permanently learn the Unfinished Verse. A Choir Stone now stands in Izlude beside the Tidal Breach. A verse-knower who sings there before descending changes the Tide Wraith encounter for their entire run (the song holds until logout) - solo or party:

Notes

The Choir Roster

The Choir Roster

A stone at Izlude Scholar's Plaza (south of Kafra, 139,140): the Choir Memorial. Its inscription claims that the Night of Broken Scales left echoes in every corner of the world — six faded voices, still waiting to be heard.

There are no quest markers and no directions. The echoes must be found. This page will only tell you what the Memorial itself tells you.

The Six Voices

Each echo remembers the Night of Broken Scales as it was felt in that place. Speak to them — that is all they ask.

Choir pressure

Hearing (or not hearing) the voices changes how some places feel:

The Saltwalker still sells soft region hints for a Bronze Coin.

Completion

The Choir Memorial tracks how many voices you have heard. Hear all six and return for zeny, EXP, Bronze Coins — and a server-wide announcement.

Community note: found one? Decide as a server whether to share locations or keep the hunt alive. The wiki stays spoiler-free.

Signs on the Tide

Signs on the Tide

Since the Choir Memorial appeared, other strange things have been reported along Oceania's shores. Some are understood. Some are not. This page records what is known.

The Tidegauge (Tide Engine)

A coral pillar at the Izlude Company quay (153,165) showing a number out of 100: the world tide. It rises with the whole server's activity — Aequoria clears, kept bounty contracts, lore beats, King kills, and more — and ebbs slowly on its own.

When it reaches 100, the Spring Tide breaks for 30 minutes:

Tide Affinity: at the Tidegauge, draw a 20-minute blessing that scales with the current mark (1 hour cooldown). Higher tide = stronger Affinity. Lorekeepers get a small extra seal.

The gauge also shows your Tidemark standing and, if chosen, your Aetherion path.

Harbor Ledger

Beside the Tidemark Broker — personal Harbor Reputation with the Company. See the Harbor Reputation page. @ororep

The Driftline

Bottle-posts at four shores: Izlude, Alberta, Comodo, and Malangdo. Write a short message (one per day), cast it to sea, and the current delivers it to a random other player at another shore — with a small gift attached. Every message is delivered exactly once. Be kind; the harbor watch reads over the sea's shoulder.

The Saltwalker

A salt-crusted merchant who is only ever in one town at a time and moves every real hour. He is never announced. Reported sightings: Izlude, Morroc, Payon, Comodo, Juno, Malangdo — in some order. He sells salvage for Bronze Coins, one rotating daily rare, and — for a single coin — hints toward Faded Echoes you have not yet found.

Higher Harbor ranks get Bronze discounts.

The Sea-Post

Divers speak of a brass cylinder at Izlude Scholar's Plaza (142,140, south of Kafra), near the Tidal Breach, that contains dry paper underwater. Those who have written into it say something writes back — a day later, in real time, signed only "D."

Nothing more will be recorded here. Some correspondence is private.

The Sundered Forge

The Sundered Forge is the fire mirror of Drowned Aequoria: a solo instance set inside a burning shard of the shattered ember realm.

Entry

Flow

  1. Clear the cinder wave - Cinder Wisps and Ash Kahos.
  2. Face The Ember Tideward: the Sundering's own unrelieved sentinel, armored in cooled slag.

Reward

Red Blood, Burning Hearts, Bronze Coins, 50,000 zeny and EXP - the fire-material counterpart to the Breach's Coral Reef, feeding the Sunfire Shadow path.

A Warning

Players who have relieved the sea's Tideward report something disturbing here. The Ember Tideward recognizes the Unfinished Verse... and it does not work. "The fire's verse died with the fire's choir."

The sea's soldier could be relieved. The fire's soldier, it seems, cannot. Not yet. Someone should tell the scholars.

Sundered Aether Shard

Item 55040 — a splinter of Aetherion glass torn free when something large enough to matter breaks. Used as the Tideforged / Tideborn catalyst. Sources include MVP drops and the Tideborn Arsenal kill ledger (flavour/wiki pass — no rate change).

Oceania Archive Cosmetics

Fairness note (Sep 2026)

Boutique, Traveler's Emporium, and Curio Crafter 540xx pieces are look-only costumes (costume slots, no combat bonuses). The clean 522xx costume lane is unchanged. Previously parked 551xx archive costumes that lacked equip slots are now wearable costume armor.

Oceania Archive Cosmetics

The Oceania Archive is a curated set of cosmetic items being tested and released in batches. The items listed here are the currently active archive cosmetics with confirmed wearable visuals.

Note: Archive 551xx costumes that were parked as unequippable Etc items are now costume-slot armor. Some worn sprites may still look incomplete — report the ID if so. If an item is not listed here, it is not part of the active cosmetic rotation yet.

How To Use This Page

Poring Haven Packs

Item ID Name Slot Theme
55100 Costume Tide Poring Pack Low Poring Haven Packs
55102 Costume Leaf Poring Pack Low Poring Haven Packs
55103 Costume Mist Poring Pack Low Poring Haven Packs
55109 Costume Panda Island Pack Low Poring Haven Packs
55110 Costume Ember Explorer Pack Low Poring Haven Packs
55111 Costume Golden Poring Pack Low Poring Haven Packs

Festival Balloons

Item ID Name Slot Theme
55112 Costume Island Angel Balloon Low Festival Balloons
55113 Costume Moon Rabbit Balloon Low Festival Balloons
55114 Costume Honey Bear Balloon Low Festival Balloons
55115 Costume Coral Fox Balloon Low Festival Balloons
55116 Costume Drift Ghost Balloon Low Festival Balloons
55117 Costume Market Pig Balloon Low Festival Balloons
55118 Costume Ocean Heart Balloon Low Festival Balloons
55119 Costume Pearl Heart Balloon Low Festival Balloons
55120 Costume Twilight Heart Balloon Low Festival Balloons
55121 Costume Blue Celebration Balloon Low Festival Balloons

Aether Wings

Item ID Name Slot Theme
55122 Costume Sunwake Phoenix Wings Low Aether Wings
55123 Costume Embercurrent Wings Low Aether Wings
55125 Costume Blood Tide Wings Low Aether Wings
55126 Costume Glacier Tide Wings Low Aether Wings
55127 Costume Icewake Wings Low Aether Wings
55128 Costume Nightreef Fairy Wings Low Aether Wings
55129 Costume Pearl Fairy Wings Low Aether Wings
55131 Costume Balance of the Tides Low Aether Wings
55132 Costume Avalon Shore Wings Low Aether Wings
55134 Costume Aetherion Wings Low Aether Wings

Aether Auras

Item ID Name Slot Theme
55135 Costume Sunburst Battle Aura Mid Aether Auras

Southern Relics

Item ID Name Slot Theme
55136 Costume Umbral Valkyrie Helm Top Southern Relics
55139 Costume Azure Valkyrie Helm Top Southern Relics
55140 Costume Verdant Valkyrie Helm Top Southern Relics
55141 Costume Rosetide Valkyrie Helm Top Southern Relics

Aetherion Relic Set

Item ID Name Slot Theme
55152 Costume Aetherion Ring Mid Aetherion Relic Set
55153 Costume Aetherion Ornament Mid Aetherion Relic Set

Active Working IDs

Quick copy list for testing:

55100, 55102, 55103, 55109, 55110, 55111, 55112, 55113, 55114, 55115, 55116, 55117, 55118, 55119, 55120, 55121, 55122, 55123, 55125, 55126, 55127, 55128, 55129, 55131, 55132, 55134, 55135, 55136, 55139, 55140, 55141, 55152, 55153

Reporting Issues

If you find a visual issue, please include the item ID, your class, your character gender, and a screenshot. This helps us tell the difference between a missing sprite, a slot conflict, and a client patch issue.

The Tide Engine

The Tide Engine

The Rising Tide is no longer only a number on a pillar. OceaniaRO's Tide Engine makes the world mark matter in combat and on the coasts.

World tide

Spring Tide (30 minutes)

While active:

Tide Affinity

At the Tidegauge → Draw Tide Affinity:

Commands

Harbor Reputation

Harbor Reputation

The Tidemark Company keeps a personal ledger — separate from the world tide, Haven Favor, and the tokens in your bag.

Where

Harbor Ledger on the Izlude Company annex (141,174), beside the Tidemark Broker (138,174) — north of the quay desk row.

Standing

Rank Standing Perks
Dockhand 0–49
Marine 50–149 +1 Bronze on bounty payouts
Wraithwatch 150–399 Saltwalker Bronze −1; Spring Haven courier bonus
Tidebound 400–799 Elite mercs cost 2 tokens; +2 Bronze on bounties
Company Seal 800+ Saltwalker −2; Tidal Herald bonus pay

How standing rises

Examples (not a full list):

Rank gifts

Claim at the Harbor Ledger when you reach a new rank (coins, tokens, coral, etc.).

Tideforged Weapon Memory

Tideforged Weapon Memory

Ossian rebuilds a weapon's shape. The Tideforged Mentor in Eden listens for whether this blade has started to remember you back.

How it works

  1. Wield a supported Tideborn base weapon (or its Tideforged form).
  2. Kill monsters with it equipped — each kill adds resonance to that exact item (unique id), not every copy of the name.
  3. At 300 resonance, awaken the equipped base weapon into its Tideforged form (materials + zeny).
  4. Refine level and cards are preserved.

Supported weapons

Black Halberd, Highness Staff, Oriental Black Sword, Soaring Bird, Strike Eagle, Cat Pow, Dorcus, Negi, Kundun Staff, White Rabbit (and their Tideforged forms for continued memory).

Tips

Aetherion Choice

Aetherion Choice

When you have forged full Ocean Gear and Sunfire, Maren the Tidewright at Izlude Scholar's Plaza (142,143, south of Kafra) will speak of the Aetherion — the shattered balance of the Night of Broken Scales.

You choose once:

Remake

Bind what tide and fire can still hold together.

Leave broken

Refuse to rebuild a cage. Hard kindness.

Where it shows

Card Hunt Announces

Card Hunt Announces

When a monster card drops, OceaniaRO announces it globally with your personal kill count on that mob:

[Card] Player obtained Poring Card after 1284 Poring kills!

Tracking

Commands

@orokills Poring
@orokills 1002

Shows your recorded kills and reminds you that cards from that mob announce with that count.

Tips

Harbor Pets

Harbor Pets

The Tidemark Company licenses soft coastal familiars from Poring Haven. They follow you, eat Tide Jelly, and give tiny loyal bonuses — they do not fight. For combat companions, use Tidemark mercenary contracts.

Where

Harbor Pet Broker on the Izlude Company annex (144,174), beside the Harbor Ledger / Tidemark Broker — north of the quay desk row.

How to get one

  1. Buy a tame at the Broker (or find a rare egg drop in the Haven).
  2. In Poring Haven, stand by the matching monster and use the tame.
  3. Hatch the egg at a pet breeder NPC.
  4. Keep them fed with Tide Jelly.

Capture can fail — keep a spare candy.

The five familiars

Pet Tame (Broker price) Cordial Loyal
Aqua Ring Coral Candy — 8,000z Max SP +25 Max SP +50
Cream Ring Cream Taffy — 8,000z Max HP +50 Max HP +100
Green Apple Poring Haven Green Apple — 8,000z VIT +1 VIT +2, HP recovery +5%
Love Poring Love Lollipop — 18,000z LUK +1 LUK +2, Critical +1
White Poring Pearl Sugar — 22,000z FLEE +3 FLEE +5

All five eat Tide Jelly, 500z at the Broker.

Company starter egg

Marine Harbor rank or higher can claim one free starter egg at the Broker (Aqua Ring or Cream Ring). Check standing with @ororep / the Harbor Ledger.

Tips

Harbor Contracts

Harbor Contracts

The Tidemark Ledger keeps the long counts at the Izlude Company quay — paperwork for the kills that fill a day, not just a dock turn. Short work still posts at the Tidemark Bounty Board beside Quartermaster Brine; he handles the rest.

Where

Quartermaster Brine on Izlude (150,169), Company desk row beside the Tidemark Bounty Board (141,168) and Tidegauge (153,165). Hold Clerk and Ember Clerk share the same quay desks.

How It Works

Tiers

Tier Level band Kill count Standing Bronze Materials
Dock Ledger 20–49 100 +3 2 Sticky Mucus ×8
Lane Clearance 50–79 100 or 200 +6 3 / 4 Shell ×5 / Coral Reef ×2
Deep Cut 80–99 200 +10 5 Crystal Blue ×3
Company Seal Work 100+ 200 or 400 +15 6 / 8 Red Blood ×3 / Mystic Frozen ×2

Base/Job EXP and Zeny scale with the tier and count you take.

Why Bother

Steady standing and Bronze between Tidemark dailies — the long counts that keep the Company ledger honest.

Saltlock Holds

Saltlock Holds

A flooded warehouse drill for mid-level parties: clear the aisle vermin, crack the reef-stock crates, and put down the Foreman Crab. The Hold Clerk stamps the writ at the Izlude Company quay — salt air, dense packs, and a clean payout when the holds go quiet.

Entry

Flow

  1. Aisle vermin — Kukre, Vadon, Crab, and Plankton in dense packs.
  2. Reef-stock crates — Cornutus, Marse, Marina, Shellfish, and Phen.
  3. Foreman Crab — a named Crab with Hydra and Kukre escorts.

Clear the waves in order; the map calls each advance. After the payout you are returned to the Izlude Company quay shortly.

Clear Reward

Per party member still on the instance map:

No combat gear, Valkyrie helms, or faction power pieces — mats and standing-adjacent Bronze for the mid grind.

Why Bother

A short party (or solo-party) loop between Tidemark hunts and later forge work — EXP, Bronze, and coastal materials without a story gate.

Ember Lane Drill

Ember Lane Drill

A fire-lane practice writ for higher levels: cooled slag vermin, vent packs, and a Drill Sergeant who still answers to Cael's forge voice. The Ember Clerk keeps the ledger at the Izlude Company quay next to the Hold desk — drill, not relief; heat without the story clear.

Entry

Flow

  1. Cooled slag vermin — Horong, Jakk, Metaller, and Grizzly in dense packs.
  2. Vent packs — Explosion, Blazer, Gig, Diabolic, and Kaho.
  3. Ember Drill Sergeant — a named Kaho with Deleter and Horong escorts.

Clear the waves in order; the map calls each advance. After the payout you are returned to the Izlude Company quay shortly.

Clear Reward

Per party member still on the instance map:

No combat gear, Fire Valkyrie helms, or Forge exclusives — fire mats and Bronze for the high grind. Harbor Reputation stays with Tidemark and Contracts; this writ is the drill lane.

Why Bother

A denser fire grind beside the Izlude Company desks when you outgrow the holds — EXP and ember materials without waiting on the Sundered Forge story cooldown.

Storm & Earth Keepers

Storm & Earth Keepers

After the Aetherion Choice, two keepers begin to stir — not to forge yet, but to listen. Dialogue-first coastal beats; no Storm/Earth gear path yet.

Storm (Comodo)

Step Where What
Meet Wind-Scarred Keeper — Comodo 188,158 First talk after Aetherion; small first token
Wake Same keeper (return) "The sky bruised overnight" — points south to the beach stake
Listen Wind-Bruised Stake — Comodo 172,122 Remake: bind wind without owning it · Refuse: let the gale keep its name
Token Return to the Keeper Blue Potions + Bronze Coins — still no forge

Earth (Payon)

Step Where What
Meet Rootwarden — Payon 163,67 First talk after Aetherion; small first token
Tremor Same keeper (return) Wells trembled — points to temple-root soil
Listen Temple-Root Wellmark — Payon 152,58 Remake: scar you can walk on · Refuse: mountains that learned to stay
Token Return to the Rootwarden Blue Potions + Bronze Coins — still no forge

Notes

Tide Patrol

Tide Patrol

Company dockhand writ for early and mid grind: chart one whitelist map, name one ordinary monster, and your character wanders a short leash while basic-attacking only that stock. No skills, potions, MVP ink, or rate bonuses.

Entry

Field Value
NPC Patrol Clerk
Map izlude
Coords 156,169 (east of Harbor Dawn Bell on the Company quay)
Level Base 1–99 (hard stop at 100)
Settings Status + Stop only (Malangdo / Eden Settings Assistant)

Haven Assist is folded in: the Poring Haven Guide can stamp Haven routes; full charts stay at the Patrol Clerk.

How it works

  1. Talk to the Patrol Clerk → Start → pick map → pick mob → stamp.
  2. Walk yourself onto the charted map (no free warp).
  3. The character searches nearby for that mob class only, walks in, and sticks with basic attacks.
  4. Empty area → short wander within a leash of where you armed on the map.
  5. Leave the map → writ stays armed but idle until you return.
  6. Soft stop at 90% weight. Hard clear at Base Level 100. One active writ per account.

Logout keeps the writ armed; login re-arms the timer if you are still ≤99.

Charted maps (v1)

Map Notes
new_1-1 Poring Haven (former Assist list)
prt_fild08 Prontera Field 08
pay_fild01 Payon Field 01
gef_fild00 Geffen Field 00
prt_fild02 Prontera Field 02 (no Eclipse)
moc_fild01 Morocc Field 01
pay_fild08 Payon Field 08

MVP / miniboss stock is refused. Rates match manual play.