Official Fairy Tail RP Patches

• The benefits of Caster and Ancient Magic have been reworked. Caster Magic is now the only possible way to obtain Cost Reduction buffs, while Ancient Magic is the only way to obtain buffs to Damage Resistance. Melee Damage Resistance and Magic Damage Resistance have been removed and combined into the aforementioned new stat simply called Damage Resistance.
  
• The benefits for Lost Magic were buffed by removing the extra MP cost.
  
• Faith Magic has been added as a new magic type.
  
• Blood Magic has been added as a new magic type.
  
• Curse Magic has been added as a new magic type.
  
• Mystic Eyes Magic has been added as a new magic type.
  
• Combat Arts have been added. Combat Arts utilize a new type of spell called "Technique", which use different base values when compared to regular spells. See the Tables and FAQ for details. Techniques allow users to deal Melee Damage via their spell slots, meaning that the use of Melee Damage in Spells has been removed from the Magic Rules, making Combat Arts and Techniques the only way to utilize Melee Damage in Spell Slots.
  
• Wording of the Magic Rules has been updated to reflect the addition of the new magic types. Fusion Spells and Unison Raids were adjusted to take the addition of new kinds of spells into account. Some effects were adjusted to take the addition of new kinds of spells into account.
  
• The buff rules were updated to account for the aforementioned changes. Stamina Points, Technique Durability, Technique Healing, Technique Range, and Technique Speed were added as new stats. Use of Cost Reduction and Damage Resistance buffs / debuffs is now restricted.
  
• The Tables were updated with new information in regards to newly added kinds of Spells, namely Blood Spells and Techniques.
  
• The Magic and Spell Templates have been updated accordingly. Blood Spells, Techniques, and Unbound Eye Spells were added to the templates.
  
• Statless templates were added for all old and new spells.
  
• Burst type Speeds have been increased to facilitate the difference between AoEs and Bursts, with the former being geared towards wider ranges while the latter is specialized in speed.
  
• The New User Guide has been reworked completely. This doesn't have much of an effect on most people on the site, but it's worth mentioning regardless.
  

• The Custom Lineage Guidelines have been updated to the current way Custom Lineages work, reflecting not only the updated way Lineage Effects apply, but also the Admin team's view on their grading. This was long overdue and I personally apologize for any delay.
  
  
• A small change that makes some people's lives easier has been made to Passives and Prestige Ranks. Advanced Spells that are obtained via the benefit of prestige ranks may now freely be turned into passive abilities without adherence to the traditional "1/4th" rule or the clause that prevents Advanced Spells from being turned into passives. The change can be found in the Spell Types section of the Magic and Spell Rules.
  

• A change to the limit of characters that may be Guildless. Players may now possess up to 3 Guildless characters simultaneously in order to accommodate the new Faction System. This change is reflected in the Character Rules
  
  
• The Roleplay portion of exams is now entirely made optional. While adding your EXP and delivering proof of rank up is still a requirement, writing 1,000, 2,000, or 3,000 words to rank up is no longer strictly required to progress through ranks. If you so desire, the option is still available following the normal procedure. The change can be found in this section of the Character Rules.
  
  
• Made a small change to Unique Abilities. UAs are now the only context in which up to two user-rank buffs may be used in the same ability in a given magic, meaning that UAs can, for example, contain, at B rank, two separate 50% passive buffs. The change made is reflect in the Magic and Spell Rules
  
  
• Guild slots have been done away with, meaning that the system we used previously, i.e. a max of 3 Legal Guilds, 3 Neutral Guilds, and 3 Dark Guilds, has been done away with. Now there are only 9 guild slots that are independent of alignments, meaning that only interest dictates how many Legal, Neutral, and Dark Guilds exist. A single guild of any given alignment, Legal, Neutral, and Dark, must always exist, however, meaning that when the last guild of a given alignment is disbanded, new guild proposals must share an alignment with that guild to ensure that there is always at least 1 guild of any given alignment.
  
  
• The guild section has been moved from the bottom of the site towards the top following the "Quests" section to make it more visible.
  

• "Guilds" Forum Section renamed to "Guilds & Factions".
  
  
• A section for "Faction" and "Faction Chapter" has been added to the Character Template. To join an applicable Faction and a Faction's Chapter, resubmit your character app for approval with a filled out "Faction" and "Faction Chapter" field.
  
  
• "The Ironheart Pact" here and "The Luminous Covenant" here have been created as joinable Factions. The Rune Knights are transformed from a Guild into a Faction, freeing up a Guild Slot. All members of the RK have been moved back to WIP and need to re-register their character as "Guildless" and enter "The Rune Knights" in the newly created Faction section of their character template (As per the wishes of the Rune Knight Faction Leaders, all characters that wish to join the RK faction must be and remain Guildless).
  
  
• The Rules for Factions have been added to the Guild and Faction Rules. You can find the relevant section here.
  
  
• Now that a guild slot is free, that means that suggestions for a new guild may be put up. To make this a little more equal than the rush we experienced last time, guild submissions may NOT be handed in to administration for review before Friday the 11th of March 2022, 3am EST. Once this period is over, members will have a full week before the first guild suggestions may be posted to the Suggestions subforum. In the period between the 11th of March and the 18th of March, edits will be made to the guild suggestions handed into administration should it be necessary. If not all guild suggestion are cleared for posting by the 18th, this period will be extended until all guild suggestions handed to administration for review have been cleared for posting. Failure to adhere to this will result in warnings. We will NOT tolerate the same kind of moaning and drama as that which happened last time guild slots became available.
  
  
• "Faction" has been added as a new profile field, which will be filled in with a player's Faction by a member of staff upon a player joining said faction
  
  
• Faction Colors have been added. Message an admin if you would prefer for your account to display your faction colors over your guild colors. Rune Knights by default utilize the Rune Knight color despite being guildless.
  

• Dual-Category spells have been nerfed, making it so that their base values will always be halved when used (i.e. if e.g. an offensive and defensive type spell are paired, the damage will be reduced to 50% of the damage value for its rank and type, and the defense value is lowered to 1x rank values, halved again if an anti-piercing effect applies). See the change here
  
• Third Gen Force and Hybrid Force have been buffed, as the base increase these types of force provide has been increased from 50% to 100% (as, essentially, 2 instances of force apply). Find the change here
  
• Combat Arts have been buffed. Where they previously had separate values for Range, Speed, and Durability, the old (and lower) values for Technique Range, Technique Speed, and Technique Durability have been deleted. They now utilize the same base values as spells of the same kind. Technique Healing remains lowered and Technique Cost higher in exchange for the increased damage techniques deal. Find the change here as well as in the Tables and FAQ section.
  

• Slayer Magic has been buffed by turning Slayer Damage Resistance into, frankly, not a meme. Slayer Damage Resistance is now a flat 50% Damage Resistance against any element a Slayer can control (Not consume!) via their slayer magic. Find the change here.
  
  
• Ultimately necessary changes to Summoning Magic have been made. Summons themselves now cost a minor amount of MP or the equivalent resource to summon. The Summon template has been adjusted to include Summon Movement Speed, Summoning Range, Summon Attack Range & Summon Attack Speed. The last change is that, should a summon be reduced to 0 HP, it is de-summoned and enters a cooldown period equivalent to the remainder of its duration in posts when it was destroyed, as before there was just no consequence for a summon being destroyed and it could simply be brought back instantly. The Summon rules and the Summon spell template have been adjusted accordingly. If there's anything that immediately requires adjustment, such as old IotM / Oddities, let me know via the usual channels. As always, unless you are actively involved in PvP or some such equivalent Event, do not feel pressured to update your magics sooner rather than later. You can follow this change in the Magic Rules as well as the Magic and Spell Templates.
  
  
• Rejoice, oh ye of little faith. A new rank has been added for those with nothing to do after capping out again in an honestly astonishingly trivial amount of time. Yes, you! You know who you are >:(. This new rank, officially known as O-rank, can be reached once 50 million (yes, 50,000,000 EXP) have been accumulated on a then previously Z+ rank character. No EXP resets this time. Upon hitting this rank, a new ability referred to as a "Divine Ability" is unlocked. Find the exact change here.
  
  
• Site Lore has been added to the New User Guide. This has no effect on most people on the forum, but it is a noteworthy change nonetheless.
  

Acquisition: Apart from creating passive abilities on things such as items, Take-Overs, Summons, etc., a mage can freely turn their spell slots and technique slots within their applications into passive abilities. Every spell or Technique slot used to create a passive ability subtracts 1% from the user's base MP and/or base SP (Or both when applicable. If the user has designated, for example, 20 spells across their applications as passive abilities, their base MP and/or SP would be reduced by 20%). Spell / Technique Slots in Custom Equipment may freely be turned into passive abilities in adherence to the Equipment Rules. Advanced Spells / Techniques as well as Signature Spells / Techniques may also be freely turned into passive abilities without adherence to the base MP sacrifice as specified above and the user will not lose base MP or base SP for turning Advanced Spell / Technique slots or Signature Spell / Technique Slots into passive abilities. Unique Abilities are not included in the base MP / SP reduction.

• The minimum number of members a guild must maintain to stay active has been reduced from 5 to 3. This also applies for new guilds proposals.
  
• Members may now have a maximum of 2 characters per guild. The maximum number of guildless characters a member may have is still 3. A character can still only be a member of 1 guild at a time, but you can now have 2 characters in 1 guild.
  
• We have officially removed the need for sign up sheets for jobs, and the job sign up sheet has been archived. We determined there was too much redundancy between the sign ups and the turn ins which was just needless extra work for everyone, so from now on the sign ups are no longer necessary. *Please note that this is for standard job completions only. Sign ups may still be required for certain things, including but not limited to events and guild scale jobs.*
  
• Due to inactivity, the members of Errings Rising have collectively chosen to disband the guild. The members' character apps have been moved to the WIP Characters forum to be updated and re-approved at their discretion. All of ER's assets will be turned into jewels and distributed among the other guilds. This opens up an additional guild slot, making the total number of open guild slots 4.
  
• As of now, the Rune Knight faction is officially accepting characters that are members of a guild. Previously, you could only join the RK faction as a guildless character. Moving forward, guildless members of the RK are ICly considered fully enlisted officers of the military. Characters that are members of a guild would be treated as civilian contractors IC, so they would be considered members of the faction but would not have military rank.