THRONE AND LIBERTY Update 2.24.0 downtime will begin at 10:30 p.m. PT (5:30 a.m. UTC) on August 20 and last approximately 4 hours. Prepare for your fiercest adversary yet in Altar of Calanthia Nightmare Difficulty, plus the introduction of customizable Headstones. How will you be remembered? Special rewards will also be available through the Solisium Grand Morph Festival, Mystic Portal: Lucky Pouch, and Call to Arms Archboss Guild Raid events. Here are the full list of changes.
Altar of Calanthia: Nightmare Difficulty Unlocked
The increased difficulty "Nightmare" mode for the Altar of Calanthia raid is now available.
Featuring increased boss stats and new mechanics, Nightmare mode also offers new and unique rewards for overcoming its challenge.
Players must have 7,000 combat power or higher to enter Nightmare mode.
Defeating Nightmare mode Calanthia guarantees a Heroic accessory drop and a chance to acquire a Nightmare-specific Morph.
Players who defeat Calanthia in Nightmare mode will receive a specially-colored title, 'Calanthia's Nightmare'.
For raid groups who defeat all three phases of the raid with no single player death, they will also receive a specially-colored title, "Total Nightmare".
Five new Heroic grade accessories have been added to the Raid currency shop.
Altar of Calanthia: Difficult Mode Adjustments
Resolve of the Star Fragment: When a team is fully defeated on any boss in Difficult Mode, all players will receive a damage and HP buffs for additional attempts. This buff stacks up to 5 times and can only be applied once every 3 minutes.
Dragar'yle: In phase 2, the number of lightning summoning devices required to be placed on the statue has been changed from 2 to 1.
Dragar'yle: Added an effect that pulls the lightning summoner during the Dragaryle pattern (allowing the use of summoners attached to walls).
Solisium Grand Morph Festival
From August 21 through September 18, the Solisium Grand Morph Festival comes to town!
Take part in Morph Races throughout the event to collect Festival Commemorative Medals. Trade in your Medals for event-specific rewards including an updated Morph, Gesture, Profile Frame, and Title.
Collect special meal ingredients through daily check-ins, Amitoi Expeditions and Fishing to craft a limited-time event meal that provides bonus Sollant and weapon specialization gain as well as increased Abyssal coin efficiency.
Call to Arms: Archboss Guild Raid Event - Queen Bellandir
Between August 21 and September 3, guilds will have access to a special version of the Arch Boss Queen Bellandir fight as a Guild Raid.
The Guild Raid version of Queen Bellandir has adjusted mechanics and is balanced for a smaller group of players to tackle.
Guilds may enter the Queen Bellandir guild raid up to twice per week while the event is active!
Defeating the Guild Raid version of Queen Bellandir will always drop a Tier 2 armor, a Tier 2 accessory, a non-boss Nebula Island accessory, and may drop Arch Boss Weapons or Accessories.
In this run of the Call to Arms event, Guild Raid Queen Bellandir will also drop the new material used in upgrading Bellandir weapons.
Punishment Stones purchased for the Tevent Guild Raid event will be removed during maintenance, and cannot be used for the Queen Bellandir event.
Mystic Portal: Lucky Pouch Event
From August 21 through September 3, receive a Plentiful Lucky Pouch when opening Mystic Portals and Mystic Globes. Lucky Pouches contain varying amounts of Sollant, including a chance at a 100,000,000 Sollant prize.
Custom Headstones
Customized Headstones are all the rage in Solisium! Decease in a style that suits your personality. Pull fast, die often, and leave a pretty grave.
Dying in PvE encounters will leave behind the headstone you've selected through customization.
Dying in PvP will display the customized headstone choice of your killer.
Custom Headstones are set in the new section of the Mirror Boutique, under 'Appearance Effect'.
General
Dimensional Trial Season End Date: Corrected the display of the current Dimensional Trial Season ending date in the UI.
Rewards will be sent automatically at the completion of the current Dimensional Trial season.
Sword and Shield: Fixed an issue allowing Counter Barrier to block some skills every 0.1 seconds instead of 0.5 seconds.
Wand: Ray of Disaster now damages multiple targets when the Targets Expanded Specialization is applied.
Spear: Fixed an issue causing Rising Slash to not go on cooldown when blocking at the same time it was used while Deluzhnoa's Serrated Shard was equipped.
Archboss: Fixed an issue allowing Tevent to be attacked from a Safe zone in PvP events.
Combat Settings: Fixed an issue preventing some options from being changed within the 'Current' Comat Settings tab.
Chat: Arrow keys can once again be used to navigate the list of chat commands.
Runes: Chaos Rune favorites are now saved when relaunching.
Controller: Controller users can now use the "Follow" option (foot icon) from the Party HUD to quickly move to another player's instance.
Performance: Fixed an issue causing the client to hitch when changing body types in the Change Appearance menu.
Shop: Fixed an issue causing all Shop offers to be displayed in English when launching the game after previously selecting a non-English language.
Localization: Fixed an issue causing Korean text to be displayed in the Sync menu if opened before reaching level 50.
Thanks for your support! We'll see you in Solisium.