Patch Notes - January 26, 2022

26 Jan 2022Developer post

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Event

[Happy Lunar New Year!]

Event Period

January 26 (after maintenance) - February 2 (before maintenance)

Event Details

It’s time to celebrate the Lunar New Year!

The quest can be started from NPCs located in Footholds.
Fulfill the event conditions by completing 5 Repeat quests.
Upon completion, you will receive a Celebratory Rune Powder Pouch, which you can use to obtain Rune Powder x500!
You can only complete this quest once.

[My new main - Archer]

Event has ended.

[Beginner’s Joy]

Event has ended.

[Balanced Attunement]

Event has ended. Remaining coins can no longer be exchanged.

General

Elyon Pass has been added.
- The Elyon Pass is a new system that provides you with rewards by completing various in-game activities.
- There are two reward tracks - Free and Premium. Items in the Free track are available to all players, while the ones in the Premium track can be unlocked by purchasing an Elyon Pass Premium Ticket from the Ruby Shop.
- The reward cycle is always based on the current month, from the first until the last day.
- Elyon Pass Premium Tickets are only valid for the month indicated in their name.
- You can find the full list of rewards for February 2022 in the Ruby Shop Update - January 26, 2022 post.
- For February 2022, the highlight of Premium Elyon Pass is a new type of Luminus: Andromeda Constellation (Grade 1)!

Andromeda Constellation
Andromeda’s Wisdom (Grade 1)	Luminus Battle EXP Gain +25/+25/+25/+25/+75%
Radiant Riches (Grade 2)	Luminus Battle Item Drop Rate +25/+25/+25/+75%
Andromeda’s Sapience (Grade 3)	Luminus Battle EXP Gain +50/+75/+125%
Unlimited Riches (Grade 4)	Luminus Battle Item Drop Rate +75/+125%
Aureate Milky Way (Grade 5)	Luminus Battle Gold Acquisition +200%

Two new benefits have been added to Star’s Blessing.

Marketplace Tax -5% Reduction (flat)
Luminus Battle Support Box x2 daily

A new Belt has been added.
- You can now obtain Worn Belt Piece when hunting at the Sacredwood Temple or Chaos Fortress. Gather 30 Worn Belt Pieces and fuse them to obtain a Sealed Belt.
- Use the Sealed Belt to obtain an Uncommon, Rare, or Epic grade Dimensional Belt.
- You can refine Dimensional Belts into other ones, and the refinement rate will be decided based on the item level of the Dimensional Belt used as material.
- The refinement rate of Dimensional Belts is the same as that of other accessory items.
- The following effects are enhanced upon refining a Dimensional Belt.

Grade	Uncommon	Rare	Epic
Default Stats	Physical DEF 13 Magic DEF 12	Physical DEF 25 Magic DEF 25	Physical DEF 35 Magic DEF 35
Refining Performance 1	5% chance to reduce DMG Taken by 5/5.25/5.75/6.5/7.5% Cooldown: 60 sec	5% chance to reduce DMG Taken by 6.25/6.5/7/7.75/8.75% Cooldown: 50 sec	5% chance to reduce DMG Taken by 7.5/7.75/8.25/9/10% Cooldown: 40 sec
Refining Performance 2	Increases Critical Hit Dodge by 14/16/18/22/28	Increases Critical Hit Dodge by 20/22/25/30/40	Increases Critical Hit Dodge by 28/30/35/44/56
Random Effect	Decreases Physical DMG Taken by 1% Decreases Magic DMG Taken by 1% Decreases Critical Hit DMG Taken by 1.5% Decreases DMG Taken by 1%	Decreases Physical DMG Taken by 1.5% Decreases Magic DMG Taken by 1.5% Decreases Critical Hit DMG Taken by 2.5% Decreases DMG Taken by 1.5%	Decreases Physical DMG Taken by 2.5% Decreases Magic DMG Taken by 2.5% Decreases Critical Hit DMG Taken by 3.5% Decreases DMG Taken by 2%

The Brawler's Arena, which used to be divided for each Realm, has been merged into one single area.
- You can now encounter the opposite Realm.
- The Arena Manager NPCs previously used to enter and exit the arena have been removed. To exit, you can now press the Exit button below your Minimap.
Slightly increased the drop rate of Mineral Vein Sealing Stone. You can now also obtain this item at Swift Fairwind and Sturdy Steel.
Added a guide NPC for the Training Field's scarecrow, near the starting areas and Footholds’ scarecrows.
Changed the name of the Life-Binding Elixirs to Protection Elixirs.
You can now press ESC to skip the transition animation when moving from the server selection window to the character selection window.
Added a new feature that saves the most recently connected server and allows you to skip the server selection process when logging back in.
You can now see the server you are currently logged in from the character selection window.

Class Balance

[Warlord]

Increased PvE DMG by 10%.
Changed the "Will of Protection" effect of some skills from creating a barrier while using the skill to creating a barrier for 3 sec when the skill is used.
Reduced Capture cooldown from 20 sec to 16 sec.
Increased Warspirit duration from 6 sec to 7 sec, and the skill will now grant Immunity from Energy reduction effects while active.
Shield Bash's "Stiffen" effect will now be applied to both players and monsters.
Reduced Strike cooldown from 28 sec to 21 sec.
Fixed an issue so that Energy is recovered by 50% when Breakthrough's "Supportive Breakthrough" skill attribute is used.
Adjusted Shield Block's "Altered Shield Block" skill attribute as follows:
- It was changed into a channeling skill, applying "Flame Shield" effect for 5 sec upon use.
- "Flame Shield" effect is applied to a max of 3 party members within a 10m range for 3 sec.
- "Flame Shield" effect deals 100 Power as Fire DMG to a max of 7 enemies within a 3m radius every sec.
- Changed its cooldown to 30 sec, and you can no longer use "Shield Retaliation" in combo.

[Mystic]

Increased the Dodge increase of Summon Spirit: Tree Spirit's "Unrelenting Tree Spirit" skill attribute from 300 to 600.
Reduced Leaf cooldown from 30 sec to 24 sec.
Adjusted Tidal Wave as follows:
- Reduced the first delay from 0.75 sec to 0.35 sec.
- Added the "Recovery Waves" effect, which recovers HP by 15 every 2 sec for a max of 10 sec.
- "Agile Tidal Wave" skill attribute's Invincibility effect will now last for 2 sec (instead of once), and DMG is increased by 15% while the "Recovery Waves" effect is active.
Removed the 30% Power decrease effect of Toxic Swarm's "Focused Toxic Swarm" skill attribute.
Adjusted Rootabyss as follows:
- The "Magic Tolerance" effect, which decreases Magic DMG Taken by 20%, will now be applied to allies.
- The "Energy Recovery" effect will now be applied to allies when "Agile Rootabyss" skill attribute is used.
Fixed an issue so that Mysterious Mushroom's "Overheat" effect, which increases Energy consumption by 50%, is applied normally.
Added information on Energy consumption increase effect removal to Mysterious Mushroom's "Pervasive Mushroom" and "Boosting Mushroom" skill attribute descriptions.

[Elementalist]

Fixed an issue where the "Electric Element" effect, which is applied when Electric Discharge's "Altered Electric Discharge" is used, was not applied when using the following skill attributes.
- Lightning Torrent's "Shocking Lightning Torrent," "Opportune Lightning Torrent," and "Unrelenting Lightning Torrent" skill attributes
The following skills will no longer apply the "Roll of Fate" effect of the Fate Rune attributes.
- Firebloom's "Combined Firebloom" skill attribute
- Frostfall's "Displacing Frostfall," "Unrelenting Frostfall," "Shocking Frostfall," skill attributes
Lightning Torrent's "Stiffen" effect will now be applied to both PC and NPC.
Elemental Explosion's "Inferno" decreases Fire Resistance by 50% for 5 sec when landing an Electric skill on a target with 5 stacks of Scorching Heat.
Changed the Energy consumed when Firehawk's "Accelerated Firehawk" skill attribute is used from 50/100/200 to 50/65/85.
Increased the chance of applying Freeze upon using Frost Bash's "Hurled Frost Bash" skill attribute from 10% to 15%.
Increased the Power increase of Frost Blast's "Amplified Frost Blast" skill attribute from 20% to 50%.

[Assassin]

Decreased the cooldown of Double Slash from 24 sec to 12 sec.
Decreased the cooldown of Talonhook from 20 sec to 12 sec.

[Gunner]

Fixed an issue where Rune Attributes related to "Finishing Smite" effect were not being applied when using Honing Shell's "Displacing Honing Shell" skill attribute.

[Slayer]

Changed the max stacks for Imprint Release's "Dark Scar" effect from 8 to 6 stacks.
Blood Drain:
- Increased the HP Recovery coming from the "Drain" effect's DMG from 50% to 100%.
- Increased the barrier created by the "Vigor Protection" effect from being 10% to 50% of your max Vitality.

[Archer]

Fixed an issue where "Knockback" was being applied as a transcendent property when using Cyclone Windforce Arrow's "Measured Cyclone Windforce Arrow" skill attribute.
Changed the Dodge effect applied upon using Gale Dash's "Agile Gale Dash" skill attribute into a 350 Dodge increase effect.
Fixed an issue where Archer's Energy decreased when Windforce Arrow hit.
Changed Multishot's "Measured Multishot" skill attribute description to state that either a "Windforce Arrow" or a "Windforce Arrow: Enhancement" is consumed.
Fixed so that the Gale effect is stacked normally when Tornado's "Support Tornado" skill attribute is used.
Polished Marksman's skill description, and changed so that the sound is played when using the skill.

RvR: Flying Dragon Pirate Fleet

The Flying Dragon Pirate Fleet will now appear in the skies between Red Lion Plains and Azure Wolf Plains at the following time windows:
- 02:30 - 3:30 UTC
- 06:30 - 7:30 UTC
- 16:30 - 17:30 UTC
The Flying Dragon Pirate Fleet consists of convoys and vessels. Convoy monsters will be aggroed preemptively, while the vessel monsters will not.
A total of 11 airships will appear, 6 convoys and 5 vessels. A treasure chest will be present on each airship that can be attacked by any player.
The Realm that deals the last hit will be able to obtain items from destroyed treasure chests.
Once an airship’s treasure chest is destroyed, the airship will also be destroyed shortly after. Move on quickly after obtaining your reward!
New Collection Book entries have been added related to Flying Dragon Pirate Fleet items.

Demon System

Defeat a player of the opposite Realm or a player in Demon state in Harth to obtain a Bottled Soul. You can obtain up to 10 Bottled Souls per day.
You cannot obtain Bottled Soul while in Demon state.
If you defeat a player whose level is lower than yours by 4 or more, you will not obtain a Bottled Soul and the daily 10/10 cap will still decrease.
Obtain 5 Bottled Souls and fuse them to obtain a Demon Possessed Crown.
Upon using the crown, you will enter a Demon state for 30 minutes.
- Your name and Realm details on your nameplate will become invisible.
- You will become prone to attacks from either Realm.
- Your Demon state will be lost upon death.
- You will be unable to remove this state by yourself. Its duration will be saved even when you log out.
- Nonetheless, the Demon state will be removed when entering a Dungeon or Battlefield.
- You will be unable to join parties while in Demon state. If you enter this state while in a party, you will automatically leave it.
While in Demon state, you can use the Crow Village that appears in Conflict Zones between 23:15 - 19:15 (next day) UTC.
- Available in one of the following locations: Colossus Plains, Red Lion Plains, Azure Wolf Plain, Ancient Spring, Machine Cradle.
The village will remain present for one hour after it’s appearance.
In the Crow Village, you can accept daily quests that are only available while you are in Demon state. If Demon state is removed during a quest, you will fail it.
You can exchange Bottled Soul for other items at the Crow Village.

Item	Price	Weekly Limit
Attack Bio-Enchantment Selection Box	1	3
Defense Bio-Enchantment Selection Box	1	3
[Account] Unstable Weapon Enhance Stone	3	2
[Account] Unstable Armor Enhance Stone	3	2
180 Honor Points	5	1
100 Honor Tokens, 50 Points	5	1
Unstable Catalyst	10	1
Legendary Moment of the Steal Equipment Selection Box	25	1

Dimensional Portal

Wraith Monastery has been updated.
- The key that transports you to the Forgotten Sanctuary will now disappear 3 minutes after its appearance. Also, the number of monsters that appear in the Forgotten Sanctuary has been increased by 120%.
- The key that transports you to the Wailing Corridor will now disappear 4 min after its appearance. Also, the number of monsters that appear in the Wailing Corridor has been increased by 10%.
- The number of monsters that appear in the Heretic Hunting Grounds was increased by 70%.
- Removed the information about the merchant from the "Monastery Demon" effect description.

Ignous the Pyro

You can now obtain Radiant Pyro Necklace for Archer from the Normal Stage 2 and Advanced Ignous the Pyro.
You can now use the Radiant Pyro Archer Necklace Exchange Certificate that could be obtained from the [Raid] Ignous MVP Box to obtain Radiant Pyro Archer Necklace.
- The item inside the box has been changed to Radiant Pyro Archer Necklace.

Item Effects

Additions were made so that the following effects are applied depending on enhancement level.

Enhancement	Normal - Epic Grade	Normal - Legendary Grade
+12	Increases Accuracy by 2	Increases Accuracy by 3
+14	Increases HP by 1.0%	Increases HP by 2.0%
+16	Has a 3.0% chance to recover HP by 1,000 upon hit (Activated when HP is below 100%) (Cooldown: 15 sec)	Has a 4.0% chance to recover HP by 1,000 upon hit (Activated when HP is below 100%) (Cooldown: 12 sec)

Enhancement	Breakthrough - Epic Grade	Breakthrough - Legendary Grade
+8	-	Increases PvP DMG by 1.50% Decreases PvP DMG Taken by 2.00%
+10	Increases PvP DMG by 1.50% Decreases PvP DMG Taken by 2.00%	Adds 12 Rune Attribute Points (Increases 2 points per attribute)
+12	Adds 12 Rune Attribute Points (Increases 2 points per attribute)	Increases Accuracy by 10 Increases HP by 3.00%
+14	Increases Accuracy by 10 Increases HP by 3.00%	Has a 5.0% chance to recover HP by 1,000 upon hit (Cooldown: 5 sec)
+16	Has a 5.0% chance to recover HP by 1,000 upon hit (Cooldown: 5 sec)	Recovers HP by 1,200 and Energy by 25 when using SHIFT Evade (Cooldown: 5 sec)

House

Golden Tree Saplings that produce Gold boxes have been added.
- You can purchase as many Golden Tree Saplings as you want from the Seed Shop.
- While the gold yield efficiency is negative by default, there is a low Jackpot chance to obtain a large amount of Gold boxes upon harvesting.
- The Golden Tree's growth time is 1 minute.
- Growth effects higher than 100%, Jackpot Chance Blessing Crystal effects, and Abundant Blessing Crystal effects are not applied upon harvesting the tree.

Fixed Issues

Fixed an issue where the collected item and the collection category name from the Collection Book did not match.
Fixed an issue where the Radiant Honor Weapon II and Radiant Honor Armor II challenges could not be completed.
Fixed an issue where certain Challenges related to Blessed Laurel Wreath were still visible.
Fixed a UI issue where a Level 44 character could tick the lock checkbox for Legendary Random Equipment Effects.
Fixed an issue where the client would sometimes crash when equipping a Soul Stone.
Fixed an issue where the remove button did not appear for Soul Stone slots.