Grand Launch 21 October 2026 · in 13 days
An announcement isn’t in the game files, so each entry is somebody reading Nexon’s post and noting what it said. The link beside it is the post itself.
China (Shengqu) and Taiwan (Gamania) announce their own. Four rows with the same picture are Nexon reusing one maintenance banner.
A home of your own. Henesys and Kerning City each get a house behind a gold door, and the client carries 61 pieces to put in one: furniture to sit on, lie on and switch on, storage chests, a crafting station for each of the 6 disciplines and a training dummy. Nothing like it was in the original game.
The Closed Online Test 2 wrap-up sets Founder’s Access for 6 October and Grand Launch for 21 October, skips a third closed test, and holds Ossyria and 3rd Job Advancement back for a rework.
The 11 August maintenance rewrote the new mobility skills: Rush, Wind Step, Evasion Step and Flash Jump drop to a 1-second cooldown or none at all, and pay for it in MP. Arrow Rain and Arrow Eruption lose their cooldowns outright, and Assaulter becomes usable mid-jump.
Two hours of emergency downtime on 10 August fixed an item duplication bug and a case where EXP was not lost on death.
The stat-loss bug that had shut Hired Merchants off was fixed on 7 August and affected items were restored, except where a scroll had been used on them or they had changed hands. Seven other fixes shipped with it, including Safety Charms burning on town deaths and ranged hits knocking monsters the wrong way.
Equipment collected from the mailbox after a Hired Merchant shop closed was losing stats, so Nexon said it was switching Hired Merchants off for the rest of the test. It lasted a day. Five other issues were listed with it: Rush failing to push, Cash Shop misdraws, backwards knockback, Safety Charms consumed in towns, and gaming keyboards read as controllers.
The test ran 4 to 12 August, closing at midnight UTC on the 13th, on Windows and macOS with English and Spanish, three characters per account and four job paths. The Ellinia airship opened Orbis, El Nath and Dead Mine on 8 August for level 10 and up; 3rd Job Advancement sat at level 70, with a level-100 test jump from El Nath on 11 August; Citizenship opened at level 12 and the Kerning City party quest at 21.
The Closed Online Test 1 equivalent of the Ossyria report: what players did on Maple and Victoria Islands, and Inkwell’s first letter about where Classic World was heading.
Accounts that reached the first closed test without being selected for it were identified and actioned.
Extra content was added partway through Closed Online Test 1 rather than waiting for the next build.
A two-hour unscheduled maintenance on 17 April, pulled forward from the 21st: Kerning City Party Quest and 2nd job advancement monsters were made easier to hit for some jobs, Iron Hog spawns on Pig Beach changed, Arcforge gem processing was repriced, and relisting in a Personal Store no longer disconnected the client.
The first test’s own notes: Maple Island and Victoria Island, the four first-job paths, and the systems Nexon wanted feedback on.
Sign-ups for Closed Online Test 1 shut on 7 April, with selection mail to follow before the 16th.
The first public Classic World sign-up, for a test starting 16 April 2026.
