EP 5.0? · Juno and alternate second jobs

Thai Conditional schedule Research only

Dates and Episode evidence

Main date: 2004-01-26 — reported / scheduled
Qualification: conditional production schedule in mirror
Sakray schedule: 2004-01-12
Episode / era: 5.0 — Retrospective numbering lead

Status: research record; both guides are drafts for a future local release.

Player guide · Developer guide · Evidence

Full patch record and local plan

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Status: research chapter; both guides are drafts for a future local release.

Field	Evidence / plan
Historical track	Thai
Episode / era	5.0
Main date evidence	2004-01-26 — reported / scheduled
Date qualification	conditional production schedule in mirror
Sakray schedule	2004-01-12
Local target date	Unscheduled
Local release group	th-juno

Episode evidence: retrospective numbering lead. Juno chapter label. thai_episode_book_toc

Historical schedules, archive capture dates and local rollout dates are distinct. Chapter order is a reference order where exact Thai dates remain unknown.

Historical patch notes

• Alternate second jobs; recovery, monster EXP/placement, item weights and loot ownership need dated Thai deltas. Later guides describe a new recovery system but do not establish Thai switch day. Evidence: cross region reference. iro_juno, knight2004, hunter2004

Player guide

Juno opens alternate second-job progression. Recovery and monster/economy changes associated with this era still need exact Thai effective dates.

What to explore in this stage

• Review the newly qualified alternate-job routes before choosing a branch.
• Reassess hunting and carrying habits when the release confirms changed rewards or item weights.

Before the local update

• A later guide’s Juno label alone does not establish which recovery formula changes on the Thai patch day.

These activities describe the intended stage. Exact local requirements and availability must be confirmed in the released build before this draft becomes a player announcement.

Developer guide

Implementation work

• Recover the alternate-job trees, quests and equipment eligibility.
• Version natural recovery, passive recovery, consumable weights, card effects and monster EXP independently.
• Resolve loot ownership and monster-placement changes.

Character and world migration

• Recalculate weight, derived stats and equipment effects for existing characters; preserve learned skills under an explicit policy.

Acceptance checks

• Only the intended alternate-job routes are enabled.
• Recovery checks vary MaxHP/MaxSP independently from VIT/INT.
• Changed weights, card effects and loot ownership survive relogging consistently.

Affected areas: jobs, recovery, monsters, items, experience.

Use the mechanics history for candidate rules and developer reference for pinned comparison files. The release checklist defines the future evidence, migration and runtime gates.

Unresolved before qualification

• Recovery switch effective date.
• Mob exp rebalance.
• Card effects.
• Loot ownership.
• Jobs 2 2.

Sources and official records

Original operator documents, republications, reporting and foreign comparisons are labelled separately. A source listed here is not proof that every rule in it applies to this stage.

Source details and limitations

• Later mirror of early Thai operator announcements — operator material republication; attributed operator material republication. thai_mirror Access: later mirror html inspected; original provenance incomplete. Later mirror; provenance chain incomplete. Scheduled dates may not be deployment dates. Regional monster headings appear mixed; nearby no-reset and level-reduction claims need separation. Copied mirrors are not independent corroboration.
• iRO Juno update description — foreign operator original; patch description or patch note. iro_juno Access: recorded in existing research no new fetch.
• Knight guide describing Juno recovery — community research; player guide. knight2004 Access: recorded in existing research no new fetch. Guide formula for HP omits minimum/base details present in current emulator code.
• Hunter guide describing recovery changes — community research; player guide. hunter2004 Access: recorded in existing research no new fetch. Qualitative and cross-region; no exact Thai effective date or old formula.
• May 2003 discussion of Korean SP-recovery changes — community research; player discussion. jp_recovery_kro_change_20030513 Document date: 2003-05-13. Access: live html recovered and inspected. Primary evidence for what these participants wrote at the shown date; not official operator documentation or proof of Thai implementation. The thread title uses 公式 in the sense of formulas; it does not make this an official thread.
• Indexed contents of a retrospective Thai RO book — retrospective reference; news or update index. thai_episode_book_toc Access: search excerpt only; direct PDF 404; historical chapters unread. Only search-indexed contents inspected; direct PDF currently returns 404. Full historical chapters not read. Secondary numbering lead, not evidence for patch dates or numerical mechanics. Ayothaya labelled 8.0; early labels differ from operator-notice mirror.

Record: th-juno in timeline.json. Guides: handbook-guides.json. Local plan: release-plan.json.

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