Patch Notes - ags - 3.0.0 - Solisium's Awakening

3.0.0 [] Solisium's Awakening It includes the Housing System, new Orb Weapon, Battlegrounds, revamped Dimensional Trials, Hyperboost Servers, Tier 3 gear and more.

Hyperboost Enabled

Hyperboost is an increased pace of progression for new players or existing players who want a fresh leveling experience.

Players will progress to max level normally by completing the Adventure Codex. However, the Adventure Codex will now grant stronger rewards, providing higher level gear. Coupled with our new Feature, Path of Ascension, which will provide accelerated rewards for Weapon Mastery, Runes, Skill Growth, Artifacts, and more, you can quickly grow to over 6,000 combat power and step into current content.

Hyperboost is available on all servers after the Solisium's Awakening update.

Additionally, brand new servers will be opening at the time of the update, also with Hyperboost enabled. These servers offer a great opportunity for new or returning players to experience a fresh server environment without established character or guild progression in place.

These new servers will use separate matchmaking groups for interserver content for at least 2-3 months following their release.

Players cannot transfer existing characters to a new server for at least 2 months after release. Characters created on new servers will not be able to transfer to legacy servers for at least one month. These newly added servers will use their own self-contained Auction House group for at least two months.

For a more in-depth explanation of the benefits and purpose of Hyperboost, check out the article!

​New Weapon Type: Orb

The Orb is a strategic weapon that summons up to 3 spheres to protect allies or hinder enemy advancement.

Skill effects vary depending on the placement and utilization of the spheres, enabling various combat scenarios from providing ally shields to suppressing enemies.

Specialized in skill shots and area control, it will provide a different combat experience from existing weapons.

  • Arena: Orb has been added to matchmaking restrictions. Only 1 Orb user can be present per team.

  • Raid: Orb has been added to the weapon types that can use Starlight: Light of Life.

  • Items: New Orb weapons have been added throughout various types of content.

​New Feature: Player Housing

The Housing system, a lifestyle content feature, has been added - allowing you to acquire and manage your own personal space in the world. Gather materials needed for furniture crafting and fill your space with hard-earned decor. Increase your House Rating to unlock additional housing locales and achievement rewards.

  • Unlock Requirements: Complete the Extra Codex quest 'Home Sweet Home' to acquire your first personal housing space.

  • Locations: There are 24 total housing locations available across two villages: Kastleton and Vienta Village. Available houses can be identified on the map with new housing icons or by door nameplates out in the world.

  • Housing Types: There are four categories of housing size: Basement, Small, Medium, and Large. Larger sizes are unlocked by increasing your House Rating through crafting more and better furniture.

  • Ownership Limits: Characters can own up to 4 house locations. You can view your owned properties through the 'My House Management' menu when in a housing space.

  • Housing Assets: Decorating your home increases your 'House Rating' score. Raise this score to earn achievement rewards, increase the number of houses you can own, and gain permission to purchase larger houses.

  • Visiting Others: View other players' houses through a new button added to their Character Profile.

For more commentary from the developers on their approach to player housing in Throne and Liberty, check out the interview article.

Housing: Furniture System

Furniture items in your inventory can be placed in housing spaces after moving them to the 'Furniture Storage Chest' through the furniture placement menu.

  • Furniture moved to Housing Storage cannot be returned to your inventory.

  • Moving furniture from one house's housing storage to another house's storage requires a Furniture Ticket.

Each furniture item has an individual House Rating value, and when moved into housing storage, your House Rating score will increase.

  • Only one item of each type will count toward increasing your House Rating score; duplicate items will not add to the total.

  • Your House Rating score is calculated by adding up all the highest-valued furniture stored in your housing storage.

Furniture can be crafted through the Furniture Crafting Table in Kastleton or Vienta Village, or purchased from the Furniture Workshop Merchant.

Housing: Furniture Crafting

Craft furniture for your homes at the new Furniture Crafting Table in Kastleton and Vienta Village.

  • A new furniture crafting skill has been added: Furniture Crafting

  • Gain Furniture Crafting experience by crafting furniture and decor items to level up your skill.

    • View your current skill level in the Life Skills section of the Character Info window.

    • Higher Furniture Crafting levels allow you to craft a broader range of more valuable furniture and decor items.

Housing: Furniture Materials

Obtain materials for furniture crafting through the Material Processing system, accessed at the Furniture Crafting Table.

  • Four types of processing skill have been added: Woodworking, Forging, Weaving, and Handcrafting.

  • Collect materials throughout the world of Solisium through gathering to use in furniture material processing.

  • Gain experience in each skill by processing materials.

    • View your current skill level in the Life Skills section of the Character Info window.

    • Higher skill levels allow processing of higher-grade materials.

  • The time it takes to refine materials will vary by material grade. The processing queue works in order of first-added material.

Gathering System Overhaul

With the addition of housing, furniture, and new crafting materials, the gathering system has received an update.

  • New gathering skills have been added: Logging, Mining, Fur Gathering, and Foraging.

  • Gather materials from the corresponding categories and gain experience to level up the new skills.

    • View your current skill level in the Life Skills section of the Character Info window.

    • Increasing your skill level grants access to additional gathering nodes and larger quantities of materials received.

  • Gathering nodes have skill level restrictions, identified by the color of the node. You cannot gather from a node if your skill level does not meet or exceed the required level.

  • Gathering nodes are distributed throughout the world, but areas with high concentrations of specific node types can be identified through material icons on the world map and minimap.

New Contract Type: Life Skill Contracts

A new type of contract has been added, making use of your new gathering and crafting life skills.

  • Pick up village-specific Life Contract Chests from Furniture Workshop Merchants in Kastleton and Vienta Village.

  • These chests contain gathering, processing, and furniture crafting contracts. Complete them by delivering the required items to the delivery box next to the Furniture Workshop Merchant in each village.

  • Earn Life Coins in return, used to purchase housing permits, furniture move tickets, and rare furniture crafting materials. Some decorative furniture can also be purchased with Life Coins.

​New Feature: Path of Ascension

Path of Ascension consists of character progression missions that can be completed sequentially to earn rewards.

By completing the Adventure Codex, Leveling Log, and Ascension missions, characters can reach 6,000 Combat Power efficiently.

  • Stage completion rewards can be obtained when all missions in each stage are completed.

  • Different rewards are provided based on the character's highest Combat Power upon first login after the 3.0.0 update.

​New Feature: Path of the Stars

Path of the Stars is a beginner's guide system that recommends helpful ways to build your character.

Through this guide, you can check out recommended weapon combinations and skill usage as you level.

  • New characters will see the weapon recommendation guide during the Weapon selection step of the tutorial.

  • Upon leveling up your character, multiple recommendation cards will be shown, and players can select one matching their playstyle.

  • Recommendations are based on the current weapon combination equipped. Recommendations include:

    • Stat distribution, Active Skills, Passive Skills, Skill Specializations, Weapon Mastery modes, and Guardian choice.

  • Recommendation cards will not be shown during combat to avoid interrupting your play experience. Unselected cards can be reviewed through the function in the Main Menu or on the left side of the minimap.

  • If you want to change weapons or reset previous selections, you can use the reselection menu through the Growth Cards button on the character window.

  • Recommendation application rules:

    • Stat increases are not automatically applied when stat point requirements reach +2.

    • If active skill slots are full, auto-equipping is not applied.

    • Passive skills will have existing equipped skill settings changed to match card recommendations.

    • If points are insufficient for skill specialization or weapon mastery, recommendations are not immediately applied.

    • If the recommended Guardian has not been acquired yet, the Guardian will not be registered.

Leveling Log Update

  • A new Solisium Leveling Pass is available, replacing the two previous leveling passes. This new Leveling Pass has refreshed rewards and can be bought by any account or character, even if you purchased the old leveling pass.

    • Growth Missions have been simplified, focusing on level achievement, zone and dungeon exploration, and event participation.

    • Also available are Dimensional Trial, Taedal's Tower contracts, and Abyssal or Dimensional Contract Token consumption missions.

  • If you have unclaimed rewards (including rewards not yet earned) from previous Leveling Log missions, these will be sent to your mail after the maintenance.

  • Any updated missions that are identical to previous Leveling Log missions already completed will be marked as complete automatically after the update.

  • Missions up to your current character level will be automatically completed to allow for immediate reward collection.

New Player Benefits

  • Accounts playing THRONE AND LIBERTY for the first time will receive a temporary New User Benefits buff. This bonus will last for 50 days.

  • New User buff provides: +100% Sollant gain, +100% experience bonus on NPC kills, +50 Boss Critical Hit Chance, +50 Boss Heavy Attack, +15 Boss Bonus Damage, +15 Boss Damage Reduction, and +400% Guild Treasure Score Gain.

​Tier 3 Equipment Now Available

Tier 3 equipment - Weapons, Armor, and Accessories - arrives in Solisium across a wide range of content.

  • Obtain new Tier 3 gear from Dungeons, Dimensional Trials, Bosses, PvP activities, Contract Coin merchants, and more.

  • Tier 3 equipment uses the same progression system as existing gear - level it from +0 to +12 with Growthstones, then use traits sourced from other items to increase the trait values.

    • A new tier of Growthstone, Noble Growthstone, is used to level Tier 3 gear.

    • The amount of Growthstones required to +12 a piece of Tier 3 gear has been reduced by half compared to leveling Tier 2 gear.

    • Fully trait-leveled items will unlock a Trait Resonance slot using Noble Resonance Stones.

  • Existing Trait Unlockstones and Trait Conversion Stones can be used with Tier 3 equipment.

Trait System Adjustments

  • Epic Tier 3 equipment can now use Epic Tier 2 or Epic Tier 3 equipment and extracts as trait materials.

  • Heroic equipment trait enhancement materials have been changed from Rare Tier 2/Epic Tier 1/Epic Tier 2/Heroic grades to Epic Tier 1/Epic Tier 2/Epic Tier 3/Heroic grades.

  • Blessing Point acquisition and the amount required for 1% enhancement on Heroic equipment have been adjusted. Existing Blessing Points on Heroic equipment will be converted at the same ratio.

  • The material used for Trait Resonance is changing from 'Trait Resonance Stone' to 'Noble Resonance Stone'.

  • The quantity of Resonance Stones required for resonance and rewards from Material Transmutation remain the same.

  • Existing Trait Resonance Stones and Trait Resonance Stone Fragments can be exchanged for other items through new crafting recipes or sold at shops until they expire in a future update.

​Rune System Updates

  • The level cap for Runes will be expanded from level 90 to level 120.

  • Existing Common through Epic runes can now be upgraded to level 120.

  • Noble Runes have been added for Weapons and Accessories, which have a higher upgrade success chance compared to Epic runes.

  • New rune enhancements can be obtained on support runes via random chance when enhancing them. They do not appear as base rune effects:

    • Increased Heal-over-Time

    • Increased Received Heal-over-Time

    • Increased Shield Value from Recovery Skills

    • Increased Received Shield Value from Recovery Skills

  • Rune Fragments: Previously when acquiring duplicates of max-level runes, nothing was received. Now players will receive a new type of Rune Fragments when receiving duplicate level 120 runes.

  • Level 120 Rune Fragments are used in crafting Quality Stellarite, Precious Polished Crystals, and Rare, Precious, and Noble Rune Selection chests.

  • Previously acquired Rune Fragments below level 120 will expire in a future maintenance, and their related lower-tier crafting recipes removed. Please use up your existing Level 90 Rune Fragments before this time!

  • Laslan Field Boss participation rewards now include a Quality Rune Chance Bundle. 1st Place Guild Field Boss rewards now include a Precious Chaos Rune Chance Chest.

  • Content that currently drops Rune Chance Bundles will have their bundles upgraded by 1 tier. In general, Laslan and Stonegard area content will receive Precious Runes, and Talandre area will receive Noble Runes.

    • This applies to Rune Chance Bundles obtained through: Abyssal Dungeons, Dynamic Events, Field Bosses (non Frenzied version), Guild Raids, Weekly Missions, Hall of Illusion, and the Calanthia raid.

  • Interserver Siege Rewards have been updated:

    • Victory: Now grants 3x Noble Chaos Rune Selection Chests and 7x Precious Chaos Rune Selection Chests.

    • Defeat: Now grants 1x Noble Chaos Rune Selection Chest and 2x Precious Chaos Rune Selection Chests.

    • Matchmaking Unavailable: Now grants 2x Noble Chaos Rune Selection Chests and 4x Precious Chaos Rune Selection Chests.

​New Ascended Field Bosses

  • A new tier of Field Bosses comes to Laslan and Stonegard in the form of Ascended Field Bosses.

  • Ascended Field Boss events provide an increased challenge with higher health and damage output.

  • Participation rewards for these Ascended Field Bosses include new Epic Tier 3 equipment items.

  • Guild Raid versions of these bosses will also be added to weekly Guild Raid options.

  • Existing Field Boss events will continue to take place for players still working toward higher progression tiers!

Dimensional Circle Tier Adjustments

  • The Star-based difficulty indicators have been changed. New difficulty tiers: Beginner, Standard, Elite, and Heroic. Beginner, Standard and Elite tiers consume Dimensional Contract Token I. Heroic tier consumes Dimensional Contract Token II.

    • Beginner: Includes dungeons below level 50 and previous 1-Star difficulty dungeons.

    • Standard: Includes former 2-Star difficulty dungeons.

    • Elite: Includes former 3-Star difficulty dungeons.

    • Heroic: Includes the most recently added, highest difficulty dungeons.

    • Categories will be adjusted as new dungeons are added.

  • Standard, Elite, and Heroic categories support random matchmaking.

  • Beginner category supports dungeon-specific matchmaking only.

  • The following Beginner dungeons have been rebalanced from 6-player to 2-player experiences, and their rewards have been adjusted:

    • Specter's Abyss, Roaring Temple, Cave of Desperation

    • These dungeons now consume 100 Dimensional Contract Tokens I to claim rewards.

​Dimensional Trial Revamp

  • Dimensional Trials now have weekly ranking rewards, with players able to challenge one Trial per week.

    • Dimensional Trial rewards have been adjusted to include the latest progression tier of rewards.

  • Take on 10 tiers of increasing difficulty and choose from various bonus difficulty effects (affixes) that will affect your overall challenge and resulting score.

    • Party leaders can select affixes starting from Tier 6, which increase or decrease the Dimensional Trial's difficulty.

  • Weekly leaderboards use the highest score you attained that week. Scores are affected by the specifics of the Dimensional Trial run, such as the highest tier reached, affixes used, time to completion, player deaths, etc.

  • Your highest score and your "total weekly score" are tracked separately. Each successful completion of a Dimensional Trial during the week adds to your total score for that week.

    • Rewards are obtained both for high score ranking as well as for your total score achieved.

  • Bonus random box rewards may also appear when completing Dimensional Trial tiers above Tier 6, up to 5 times per week.

New Dimensional Trials

  • Two new Dimensional Trials have been added: Colossal Coliseum and Fate's Abyss:

  • Fate's Abyss

    • Heroic difficulty, 6,000 minimum required Combat Power.

  • Colossal Coliseum

    • Heroic difficulty, 6,000 minimum required Combat Power.

Hall of Illusion Reward Changes

  • Rewards provided by the Hall of Illusion have been updated:

    • Epic Tier 2 equipment rewards have been replaced with Epic Tier 3 equipment, including Orbs.

    • Precious Rune Chance Chest replaced with Noble Rune Chance Chest.

    • Adventure Coin: Loyalty replaced with Adventure Coin: Fortitude.

​New Feature: Battlegrounds (24 vs 24 PvP)

Battlegrounds are matchmade instances where you form 24-player teams to face off against each other in new PvP modes.

For more details on Battleground and other PvP content updates, see the article.

  • Battlegrounds are available at any time by accessing the Battleground section of the Main Menu.

  • Choose Normal Match or Ranked Match when applying for Battleground matchmaking.

    • Normal Match can be applied for individually or in parties of 1-6 players, but Ranked Match can only be applied for in parties of 6.

    • This is a preseason, so only Normal Match is available. Ranked Match will be available after the preseason ends.

    • Both Normal Match and Ranked Match have Combat Power requirements for application.

  • When registering for matching, you must select the role you will play.

    • Each role has designated weapons that can and cannot be used. After registering for matching, you cannot change to weapons that don't match your role until completing the Battleground content.

    • Example: A character who selected the Tank role cannot change Sword category weapons to weapons of other categories during a match.

  • When registering as a party, only the party leader can register for matching, and party members must select their roles within the time limit.

    • Each party has a maximum number of players per role. If party members don't select roles within the time limit, matching registration is cancelled.

  • Once matching registration is complete, matchmaking begins by seeking users of similar skill levels to compete against each other.

    • If matching isn't successful within a certain time, matching is attempted with higher or lower rated players.

  • When matching succeeds, an entry accept button appears for all players. After all players accept entry, they will be teleported to the Battleground.

    • If any matched user doesn't press accept, the match is cancelled and matching is retried.

    • Characters who don't press accept after successful matching receive a matching penalty. Penalty count resets weekly.

  • Obtain Battle Coins and victory rewards based on match results! There are weekly limits on the amount of rewards that can be obtained each week. Rewards are limited regardless of Normal or Ranked match type.

Battleground Rewards

  • Victory: 80 Combat Coins, 5 Weekly Noble Rune Chance Chests, 1 Noble Equipment Chance Chest

  • Defeat: 40 Combat Coins

  • Draw: 60 Combat Coins

  • Contribution Rewards grant up to 20 coins per match.

  • Weekly limit: 800 Combat Coins (overflow from the last match will be kept if it exceeds 800).

    • Ex: If you have 790 coins and earn 50 in the next match, you can reach 840 total coins.

  • Victory item rewards are limited to earning 10 times per week.

New Conquest Battleground: Giant's Cityscape

  • A new Battleground mode, Conquest, has been added.

  • Conquest is a mode where the team that first achieves the target score within the time limit or has the higher score when time runs out wins.

  • Giant's Cityscape is a Conquest battleground where two teams fight over 5 control points.

    • Score-earning actions include player kills, player kill assists, control point capture, control point holding, using conquest morphs, acquiring conquest buffs, and destroying specific conquest match objects.

​Stonegard Castle Siege Improvements

For more details on the Castle Siege map improvements as well as other PvP content updates, see the article.

Map Location Changes

  • Each resurrection point has been modified to not overlap with each other.

  • Residential Area: A new residential area resurrection point has been added. The location of the residential area plunder point has been changed.

  • Inner Castle Sewers: The sewer entrance and interior space has been widened. A new sewer resurrection point has been added. Destructible walls have been added.

  • Inner Castle: The location of the resurrection point has been changed. A new passage has been created from the relocated resurrection point to the inner fortress. The side gate has been moved, and the inner castle resurrection space widened. An inner castle side gate has been added that allows entry to the inner fortress from the resurrection point.

  • Inner Fortress: The interior space has been widened. The position of inner fortress entrances have been adjusted due to the expanded space. The length of the central entry to the inner fortress has been shortened.

Usurper Updates

  • New ability: When acting as a Usurper, a new ability to block inner fortress entrances has been added.

    • Block entrances by using a control orb installed at each inner fortress entrance.

    • This ability can only be used once during the Usurper transformation and blocks the entrance for 1 minute.

Conquest Battle: Abysstone

A new conquest battle for Abyssal Dungeon Abysstones has been added.

  • Abysstones can be challenged for occupation 24 hours a day without a declaration process.

  • Abysstones are located in the Abyssal Dungeons of each region, and when occupied, provide teleportation to their location, resources generated by holding the Abysstone over time, and occupation buffs.

  • Occupying guilds can set a protection buff on owned Abysstones to temporarily protect it from challenge by other guilds.

  • If you abandon an occupied Abysstone, you will be temporarily unable to occupy it again until some time has passed.

Arena Reward Changes

  • Arena Coin: Flames has been replaced with the new Combat Coin as reward currency.

    • Existing Adventure Coin: Flames will expire in a future maintenance, so be sure to use any leftovers soon!

  • The Arena Shop will be removed in a future maintenance and will no longer be available.

  • Equipment from the Arena Shop will be moved to the crafting system or be purchased from Equipment vendors with Sollant.

  • Arena Victory chests will be updated: Rune grades increased by one tier, and Arena Coin: Flames replaced with Combat Coins.

  • Arena Season 4 rewards will now include new Combat Coins instead of Arena Coins. They will also be updated with Epic Tier 3 Nebula accessories.

Nebula Island Reward Changes

  • Nebula Conquest Chest and Precious Blessing Pouch: Nebula dropped from elite monsters, bosses, and treasure chests will be changed to 'Greater Nebula Conquest Chest' and 'Noble Blessing Pouch: Nebula' respectively, with Epic Tier 3 equipment added.

    • Precious Blessing Pouch: Nebula dropped by regular monsters remains unchanged.

  • Epic Tier 3 equipment drops added to Nebula Island bosses.

Combat Coin Acquisition

  • Combat Coins are available through a variety of content, including:

    • Arena

    • Interserver Boonstone battles

    • Riftstone and Interserver Riftstone battles

    • Faction and Guild Field Bosses

    • Faction and Guild Archbosses

    • Interserver Castle Siege

​New Feature: Achievement System

A new Achievement system has been added.

  • Complete various Achievement objectives during hunting, exploration, and character advancement.

  • Upon completing Achievements, you can earn Achievement points and rewards.

  • Display your Achievement score on your character profile for others to see!

Weekly Mission Reward Changes

  • Weekly mission requirements have been adjusted across a variety of missions, in most cases increasing individual mission score contribution.

  • Two new weekly mission types have been added: Guild Raid Boss and Battleground Participation.

  • Weekly Mission rewards have been adjusted to include higher tier reward options and updated score requirements in some cases.

Guild System Update

  • Guild Treasure Chests have been changed. These rewards are now granted immediately when collected, with rewards updated to include:

    • Quality Stellarite, Extraction Stones, Unlockstones, Noble Polished Crystals, Chaos Prisms, Entropy Shards, Obsidian Pieces, Noble Runes, Nebula Blessing Pouches, and Greater Nebula Chests.

  • Guild Level benefits have been adjusted, with the following content unlocked at Level 4:

    • Riftstone Occupation

    • Boonstone Occupation

    • (New) Abysstone Occupation

  • Two new Guild Skills have been added at Level 4.

Crafting Materials

  • Obsolete material items can no longer be obtained, including all grades of:

    • Magithread, Rune Leather, Manasteel, Mystwood, Pure Gold.

  • Existing obsolete material items may be sold to merchants for Sollant.

  • Selection and Chance chests containing obsolete material items now grant Sollant when opened.

  • Guild Resource missions have been updated to use new material items.

  • Amitoi Expeditions have been updated to grant the new material items.

Gigantrite Materials Adjustment

  • Increased the spawn rate of crystals on Gigantrite during the flight route.

  • Gathering rewards updated:

    • Now includes Precious tier ores, increased Obsidian and Vitalstone drops, as well as adding Unlockstones, Trait Conversion stones, Chaos Prisms, and Polished Crystals to potential gathering drops.

New Lithograph Book Sections

  • Added 7 new Lithograph Book collections using Orbs.

  • Added 55 equipment, Lithograph Book collections using new Epic Tier 3 equipment.

  • Added 3 weapon Lithograph Book collections using new tutorial training weapons.

    • These weapons can also be purchased at equipment shops after the tutorial.

​Mirror Boutique: New Premium Character Customization Options

New character customization items can now be purchased and applied to your character through the Mirror Boutique.

  • Head to the Mirror Boutique: Change Appearance menu to view new purchasable customizations!

  • Additional customization can be used after unlocking with a onetime payment.

    • A Character Appearance Change Ticket is required to change your character's appearance after creation.

  • Additional customization items can be identified by purple borders and lock indicators.

  • Once unlocked, customizations are permanently available and shared across all characters on the account.

  • Additional customizations can only be viewed in Mirror Boutique and are not separately shown or purchased through the Special Shop.

​General

  • Adventure Codex Revamp: In order to improve the onboarding experience and narrative for new players, the Adventure Codex has been reworked to lead players through new Menu functionality in a more natural and seamless way.

    • This has led to a significant number of Adventure Codex sections and Appendix sections being moved across all chapters.

  • Extra Codex: Four new Side-Story Extra Codex entries have been added.

    • Home Sweet Home - after Adventure: Chapter 6 is completed.

    • What Sleeps Beneath the Wasteland - after Adventure: Chapter 10 is completed.

    • History Shrouded in Darkness - after Side-Story: The Giant who Embraced Eternity is completed.

    • Sylvaeth's Two Wings (Epilogue) - after Side-Story: Sylvaeth's Two Wings (Part 2) is completed.

  • Illusion Workshop: New extractable weapon and equipment appearances have been added, primarily through new Orb weapons and new Epic Tier 3 weapons and armor.

  • Ownership of Riftstone, Boonstone, and new Abysstones can no longer be abandoned while participating in Interserver content.

  • Abyssal Dungeons: Removed environmental entry conditions for Syleus' Abyss and Sanctum of Desire to allow entry at all times.

  • Characters: Level 1 characters may now be deleted immediately without a cooldown time.

  • Returning to Character Selection or Exit Game during the tutorial island now exit immediately without a wait time.

  • Calanthia Raid: Nightmare Difficulty: Modified so that phantom Dragaryle and lightning summoning devices disappear when the statue color matching pattern is successful.

  • Windhill Shores: Additional Large Stone Crabs now appear in the waters near Spiral Cliff.

  • Windhill Shores: Kaelum's location has been adjusted to be closer to the teleport stone.

  • Moonlight Desert: Armadillos are now non-aggressive.

  • Crafting: The Earrings tab is now populated at the Accessories crafter.

  • Cosmetics: Weapon skins will no longer lose their details when zooming out the camera.

Combat

  • Weapon-specific combat balance has been adjusted and specialization effects have been modified.

    • In many cases for healing abilities, the amount of percentage-based versus flat bonus healing has been adjusted to reduce the ratio of percentage-based healing to better balance with other sources of healing bonus.

  • New Skill Specializations have been added, see details below under specific Weapon sections.

  • Two new Guardians have been added.

  • A material effect system has been implemented where equipped armor materials provide additional effects based on the equipped weapon.

  • Weapon Specialization UX has been improved.

  • Fixed an issue causing characters to automatically face East when using a defense skill while stationary.

New Weapon Mastery: Overall Mastery Skills

  • New 'Overall Mastery' skills have been added, using your overall total Weapon Mastery level to unlock.

  • You can activate up to 4 different Overall Masteries based on your overall mastery level.

  • These Overall Mastery skills provide a range of broadly useful combat effects that apply regardless of weapon equipped.

New Equipment Bonus: Material Effects

  • A system has been added which grants additional effects based on the materials of your equipped armor and weapons. These effects can be viewed in the Skills menu.

  • Effects vary based on the material type - Cloth, Leather, Plate, or Mythril.

    • Heroic equipment uses to Mythril material type.

    • Each equipped weapon provides its own material effect.

  • Cloaks do not have a material type or count toward material effects.

Dagger

  • Vampiric Strike: New Specialization Added: Shield Health Reduction

    • Requires 3 skill points.

    • Reduces incoming Shield Health stat by 80% for 6 seconds.

Greatsword

  • Blood Devotion: Fixed an issue causing the Damage Increased Specialization to not apply while the Fortified Unity Mastery effect was active.

Longbow

  • Decisive Sniping: Added effect: Damage increased by 40% against targets with shields applied.

  • Deadly Marker: Added effect: Reduces incoming Shield Health by 80%.

  • Healing Touch: Changed to not be affected by Healing/Healing Received stats. Healing over time values adjusted.

  • Flash Arrow: Specialization: Flash Wave: Changed to not be affected by Healing/Healing Received stats. Healing over time values adjusted.

  • Nature's Blessing Specialization 1: Vigorous: Healing over time adjusted.

  • Blitz Specialization 1: Limit Break: Additional Healing when using Healing Touch increased.

  • Mastery: Tactical Effect: Movement Speed Focus: 'Healing Received' changed to 'Healing Over Time Received' (values remain the same).

  • Mastery: Support Effect: Skill Recovery Focus: 'Healing' changed to 'Healing Over Time'. Increase value changed from 4.8% to 6% (at level 10).

Crossbow

  • Weak Point Shot: New Specialization Added: Shield Weakening

    • Requires 3 skill points

    • Reduces incoming Shield Health stat by 80% for 6 seconds

Sword and Shield

  • Shield Survival Technique: Description no longer mentions granting Damage Reduction which was removed in 2.22.0.

Wand and Tome

  • Time for Punishment: Specialization: Enchanting Time, Invincible Wall: Fixed so that Heavy Attacks do not apply to shields.

  • Swift Healing: Health recovery values adjusted.

  • Clay's Salvation: Health recovery values adjusted.

  • Fountain of Life: Health recovery values adjusted.

  • Healing Spell: Health recovery values adjusted.

  • Invincible Wall: Shield value has been adjusted.

  • Blessed Barrier: Targets that have received the effect cannot receive it again for 20 seconds. Defense increase effect has been changed from a fixed value to a percentage value.

  • Mastery: Support Effect: Skill Healing Focus: Skill Healing amount increased from 4.8% to 6% (at Level 10).

  • Mastery: Support Effect: Skill Healing Increase: Skill Healing amount increased from 4% to 5% (at Level 10).

  • Mastery: Support Effect: Sage of Wisdom's Recovery: Skill Healing amount increased from 7.2% to 9% (at Level 10).

  • Mastery: Support/Defense Effect: Debuff Duration Defense: Skill Healing amount increased from 2.4% to 3% (at Level 10).

  • Mastery: Support Effect: Divine Choice: Healing skill recovery amount increase changed from 12% to 14% (at Level 10), Curse duration skill damage reduction changed from 12% to 14% (at Level 10).

Main Menu Enhancements

Significantly revamped the Main Menu to allow a more customizable display of Menu options.

  • Menu sections can now be customized to display specific menu links through the Edit button in the bottom left of the Main Menu.

  • An individual menu section can hold up to 12 chosen menu links and the entire section may be collapsed or expanded.

  • While editing, select an existing menu item or empty slot (+), then select another menu item or slot to swap it with.

  • The Auto-Exit Main Menu option (selectable while editing the Main Menu) will change Main Menu behavior when choosing a menu item - either leaving Main Menu open or closing it automatically on selection.

  • Codex: The Codex UI previously available through the Main Menu has been changed to be accessed through Milestone Steles available in each town.

  • Taxes: The Tax status UI previously available through the Main Menu has been changed to be accessed through the Map.

UI

  • Guild skills can now be registered to quick slots.

    • Guild Leaders and Officers can register Guild Skills to quick slots through the Guild UI.

    • Guild Skills cannot be used during raids.

  • Traits: The Trait UI has been separated from the existing equipment enhancement window into a dedicated Trait window. Access the Trait UI through the Main Menu or the context menu on individual items.

  • Gate of Infinity: When rewards are available at the end of a cycle, they are now displayed when opening the Gate of Infinity window.

  • Item Context Menu: Dissolve and Destroy buttons have been removed from Item context menus. These can still be accessed through buttons at the bottom of the Inventory UI.

  • Chat: The Chat title bar has been removed, and the chat menu items previously located in the title bar are consolidated into a single button.

  • Chat: Chat UI Edit Mode has been added. Changing the Chat UI size and input bar position are now available through this mode.

  • Chat: Overall chat UI transparency has been improved.

  • Auction House: Orb has been added to the Weapons tab. Orb Lithographs have been added to the Weapon Lithographs tab.

  • Auction House: Earring Lithographs have been added to the Accessory Lithographs tab.

  • Skill Quick Slots: Fixed an issue where duration was not being displayed on assigned skill icons.

  • Cooking Items: Fixed an issue where item slot cooldown in the inventory appeared different than the actual cooldown when using meals in some situations.

  • Lithograph Book: A Heroic rarity filter has been added.

Character Movement Changes

  • Improved responsiveness by ensuring visual effects and sounds play immediately when landing on the ground.

  • Boss skills now have a slightly looser area-of-effect (AOE) judgement, which considers network latency to make boss battles more intuitive for players with high ping.

  • Mitigated a desync issue where players were forcibly dragged back if stunned while moving under network latency.

  • Improved Glide Morph responsiveness so that now the players will morph into the glide morph immediately after the user action.

  • Mitigated an issue where gliding players could fall to the ground when abruptly rotating camera, especially under high network latency.

  • Reduced an issue where a player's landing motion would be played twice especially under high network latency.

Fall Damage Prevention

  • Characters no longer die when falling to the ground in a non-gliding state, which should help with unexpected gravity attacks.

  • Health will not drop below 10% of Max Health when taking falling damage.

  • This protection applies in safe areas, such as Towns and peace regions.

  • Characters may still die when falling from extremely high places.

  • Fall damage death is still enabled in PvP areas and in instances as before.

Stuck Character Prevention

  • Additional mitigation for random occurrences of getting stuck between NPCs and structures in town.

  • Reduced instances of being repeatedly teleported back (rubberbanding) when attempting to move on certain types of terrain.

Technical Optimizations

  • Optimized PlayStation 5 memory allocation for some render targets. PlayStation 5 memory usage will now be more stable after playing for several hours.

  • Optimized loading hitches when moving quickly after teleporting to a village.

Skill Effect Optimization

  • Adjusted skill effect display code, resulting in better framerates when there are many skill effects being cast by other characters.

  • Staff skills should be particularly improved by this change.

Abyssal Dungeon Frame Rate Improvement

  • Improved the frame rate performance when playing in multi-floor Abyssal Dungeons such as Crimson Manor, Temple of Truth, and Syleus' Abyss.

  • Additionally, fixed a consistent cause of lag when entering the 5th floor of Syleus' Abyss.

UI Lag Improvement

  • Improved performance when opening the Auction House.

  • Improved performance when opening chance reward chests.

  • Improved performance when opening the "How to Acquire" menu on items.

Connection

  • Optimized some network procedures to reduce cases where some players get stuck on loading screens.

  • When starting the game or moving between worlds, the current connection steps will be displayed in the upper right corner to aid in troubleshooting.