THRONE AND LIBERTY Update 2.20.0 downtime will begin at 10:30 p.m. PT (5:30 a.m. UTC) on July 23 and last approximately 6.5 hours. Find the full list of changes below.
Summer Splash Event
Hunt down Tidebully Goblins, join the Splash Bash arena for refreshing fun, and receive a Blessing of Summer Buff from Beach Party Gigantrite. The Summer Splash event will send waves across Solisium from July 24 through August 13.
Beyond the sandcastles, colorful parasols, and tropical decorations will be event exclusive fish, cooking recipes, and login rewards. Earn Splash Coins through different festivities for event-specific rewards like the Llama Playful Morph or check out the Store for new summer swimsuits.
For more details on the festivities, see the event article [[url="https://www.playthroneandliberty.com/en-gb/news/articles/summer-splash"]HERE[/url]].
Performance Improvements
Optimized some large-scale combat FPS performance for content like Arch Bosses, Field Bosses, and War Games. Significant FPS improvements should be noticeable depending on your hardware setup.
Improved performance when casting multi-target skills against large groups, and reduced motion blur and camera shake effects triggered by critical hits on multiple targets.
Improved positional desync when jumping onto or off of lifts or breezelines.
Improved movement desync when landing on a sloped surface when gliding.
Fixed a client hitch encountered when entering the underground section of Doomrot Grove.
New Miscellaneous Inventory
A Miscellaneous inventory has been added to store Fish and Cooking Ingredient type items.
The default storage size is 100 slots, expandable up to 300 slots.
Currently stored Fish and Cooking Ingredients will be placed in your warehouse, and once moved into the Lifestyle inventory, cannot be stored in the warehouse again.
Artifact UI Improvements
The layout of the Artifact UI has been adjusted to make it easier to see the bonuses of individual artifacts in your inventory.
Added search functionality so you can search Artifacts by set, primary, and secondary stats.
You can also save search filters for easy re-use.
Added the ability to compare a selected artifact against a currently equipped artifact's stats.
Added recommended artifact equipping based on saved search filters.
Added bulk lock and unlock functionaliy for artifacts.
General
Combat: Fixed an issue preventing some heal over time effects from applying.
Precious Health Regen Crystal
Overture of Eternal Salvation Wand
Greatsword: Davinci's Courage
Arch Boss Weapons: Skill Cores extracted from Tier 1 Arch Boss Weapons can now be crafted into the upgraded Tier 2 version Arch Boss Skill Core.
Davinci's Favor: Weekly Resistance Contract missions now count the additional completion bonus from Davinci's Favor.
Davinci's Favor: Gaining Abyssal Contract Tokens while having an amount above max quantity will no longer reset your total to the max quantity.
Nebula Island: You can now purchase Advanced Nebula Stones for 15 Nebula Stones at the Nebula Stone Merchant.
These items no longer need to be crafted using Nebula Essence, and Nebula Essence is no longer available. Dissolve any leftover Nebula Essence to receive 5 Nebula Stones.
Nebula Island: Reduced the Map Icon clutter at the entry point for Nebula Island.
Nebula Island: Exodus and Grimturg now appear at the same time on the Sunday Nebula Island schedule. We'll keep an eye on feedback and participation after this schedule adjustment and may adjust it again in the future.
Arena: Completing the Weekly arena mission will now automatically grant mission rewards and display them as a system message in the chat window instead of requiring an additional UI confirmation.
Boss Instances: Slightly increased the amount of time between the boss' death and the instance closure to allow players who resurrect late in the fight additional time to pick up loot.
Field Boss: Increased the common rune rewards from Field Boss rune boxes.
Arch Boss: Fixed the Peace and Dominion gates for Giant Cordy despawning after 3 minutes instead of 5 minutes.
Arch Boss: Deluzhnoa: The terrain below Deluzhnoa no longer rotates to increase combat stability and performance. Some of Deluzhnoa's skills have been adjusted to account for the change in ground movement to keep a more dynamic fight experience.
Dagger: Specialization: Thundering Bomb: Fixed an issue preventing Thundering Bomb from consuming Thundercloud stacks.
Crossbows: Concentration Stance: Fixed this ability causing the player to run to the targeted ally when having auto move settings enabled.
Item: Talus' Crystalline Staff: Fixed an issue where being stunned did not trigger the weapon skill.
War Games: Fixed a case where War Games chat was not displaying.
Adventure Codex: Chapter 14: Fixed an issue where the name and codex marker for the NPC Felix were not displayed during Appendix: New Life.
Lithograph Book: Added 9 new collections using Heroic equipment items to the Lithograph Book.
Cooking: Adjusted the names of Cooking recipes to make searching for recipes easier by removing the quality marker from the name.
Crafting: Fixed an issue preventing fishing rods from being crafted at Sundries Crafter NPCs.
Fixed an issue where health would be restored when equipping and unequipping certain armors.
Guild Contracts: Increased the amount of Guild Contract refresh attempts from 10 to 99.
Map Pins: The default interaction for map pins has changed from Left/Right mouse click to CTRL+Left/Right Mouse Click.
Cosmetics: Fixed an unintended change where dyed metallic materials on costumes and illusions was not properly displaying the mettalic effect.
Cosmetics: Fixed an unintended change to the display of dye color D8BE68.
Morph: Shapeshift: Wraith Hound has learned how to climb stairs.
Graphics: Fixed a case where the Resolution Scale option wouldn't take effect if you had DLSS/FSR/XESS active.
Raid: Altar of Calanthia
Removed some persistent raid buff icons from displaying in the party UI and blocking visibility of other effects.
Calanthia: Fixed the aggro radius of the boss arena to prevent attacks on players in the resurrection area.
Arkeum Shadowmancer's fury attack indicator now matches the actual attack range.
Controller: Fixed an issue where players could not target themselves after certain mechanics in the Altar of Calanthia raid.
Raid Board: Fixed recruitment posts remaining on the raid board after leaders disband the party.
Spectator Mode
Added the ability to hide the Spectator Mode control UI while in Spectator Mode.
You can now set a focused team while spectating PvP content to highlight that team's used skills for better visibility.
Increased the number of lines displayed on the kill feed.
Interface Improvements
Buffs: Remaining buff timers now display in buff tooltips on the main HUD.
Warehouse: Added options to adjust the displayed item icon size as well as hiding equipped items from the list.
Vanguards: Added Vanguard UI to the available HUD editing functions.
World Map: Adjusted the size of the content settings window when viewing the Schedule → Content Settings UI.
War Games: Fixed a case where the Kill and Assist counts in the Guide UI could be reset.
Guild UI: Fixed an issue that could cause duplicate entries for individual Guild Raids in the raid history UI.
Party Matching: Added status messaging to the standby UI when waiting for Party Matching.
Party Matching: Fixed an issue where the Raid tab would not be visible when opening the Party Matching UI through a shortcut key.
Character: A red notification dot now appears on presets that have unspent stat points.
Waypoints: Using Waypoints from the Schedule UI now works without showing the local map.
Material Transmutation UI Improvements
Tradable equipment in your inventory is now shown in the Material Transmutation item list to help display that you have it, but it is unable to be selected or used as a material.
Adjusted the sort and filter display on the Material Transmutation UI.
A notification dot now appears on the Material Conversion icon in the main menu when automatic material conversion is complete.
Controller
Fixed an issue where the Weapon Mastery Battle Pass bonus reward button could not be selected.
Fixed an issue preventing the Vanguard Party controls from opening when using a controller.
Mirror Boutique: Fixed an issue leading to unintended results when confirming changes while hovering over hairstyles.
Localized Spanish Support Update
To better focus our resources on future updates, all web and in-game content moving forward will no longer receive localized support for Spanish. This content will instead be localized into LATAM Spanish.
Thanks for your support! We’ll see you in Solisium.