What do you need to know bro?

latest upgrades are based on glacial that can reach 7x and 8x DD. No single weapon can reach 98%, but if you have a human you can equip both an axe with 8x DD plus a dagger that has 7x dd and reach >100% (it gets capped at 100%). It drives the templars crazy but does not make you unkillable. 3 things can kill you:

1. Elemental and Invenom (esp invenom since dhans are critting >60k with invenom hitting almost 20k - you don't feel the crit but that invenom can hurt.)
2. FFS/WFFS/DFFS ignores DD and sill directly affect you. There is nothing stopping crit DFFS+FFS combos from hitting you 230k damage.
3. Dhan suicide. If it works, nothing stops it,. You can even kill GMs with it (and of course pay the price ).

It isn't uncommon to see weapons enhanced up to +18.
Also if you are wondering how in the fk temps can be hitting 50k regulars, dhans can crit 60k and dks can combo 230k crits, look at the various accessories available. Boss drops can be enhanced now. You will find people running around with +12 feathers, +12 beze eyes and +12 rulers. Occasionally PWI has events wh4ere they sell you craft rings and dare you to get them to +12. At the end of the event they boost them to +18. It will cost you about $200+ got get them to +12, but hey, that is what PWI is all about.

There are also things called talismans and walter medals you can keep in your inventory (you don't have to equip them) those are like permanent improved general talismans with the exception that they can be enhanced up to +7 too.

They have done away with the IM costumes in favor of permanent costumes. You then buy 30-day 'patterns' to add attributes to your costume to tailor it to your liking. The only time you see the 'normal 30-day costumes is in events and in the packages.

There are two main grades of armor (that I know of) beyond Glacial now:

Hero Combine Armor. - sought after for its Skill Defense properties. The chest, tasset and shield will provide over 4x SD which takes a lot of the bite out of the dekan FFS and Dhan's Invenom.

Oxyx Armor - High Pdef/HP armor that has added HP and stat specific benefits if you gather all the pieces in a set (Dex, Str, or Int).

That is the quick 2 cent tour. There is a whole lot of other changes while you were out - like trinity (A whole other topic on its own). I will leave it to you to discover those (if you are interested in doing that)