weekly update 12 Mar 07

the SE hit with the latest version update and the RMT took a serious hit as a result. the bots that were in qufim island are gone. The fishing for shall shells, nebonites, and moat carps still remain but at a much smaller scale than the mythril sword exploit. Almost all the mythril sword botters have not logged in since the update, increasing a possibility that the STFU did a banstick during the time. The ones that have moved back to Windurst or Buburimu.

The NM bots took the largest hit, however. Certain Ground HNM drops are now available in certain BCNM battles, and it has been confirmed that Serket Ring drops from Operation Desert Swarm with approximately 25% drop rate. In addition, Ulli, Sozu, and Pallas are now forced pop NMs where spawn items are farmed from the nearby mobs of the same type. In addition, the siren's hair is no longer a drop most of the sahagin NMs, putting the SSG botters out of business there.

The ground and sky NM botters have primarily focused their attentions farming the new NM pop items since the update, but with the prices of Thief's Knife and Pallas's Bracelets dropping, expect them to change their plans soon. Thief's Knife has fallen below 1M in price on several servers, and the price of Serket's Ring has fallen by 50% on some servers.

The only true negative from the update is that it did not affect the botters that do BCNM to make their money - it gave them more reasons to do them now.