Dude search for your GOD server download the patch of the server that you looked for and replace it in the specific folder.
The thing with the updater it's just the process of it.
It didn't changed anything. You know anything new can't be the same as the previous ones.
Well, at GOD there are a lot of features all the towns upgraded "Design of them".
All the classes more skills at some specific levels.
Play GOD Server x5000 rates and you will see a lot of new skills and etc. It's the last client of NCSoft do you think that is something simple?
Symbols? You mean dyes. Dyes are used for your own simplicity I mean they help you with many ways there are dyes for Atk.Speed, P.atk, M.Atk, C.speed, HP and etc you will see 3 digit codes as for pretention of them like :
(DEX,STR,MEN,).