News & Patch Notes

Update 4.5.0

Throne and Liberty update 4.5.0 downtime will begin at 10:30 p.m. PT (5:30 a.m. UTC) on July 29 and last approximately 3.5 hours.

Pre-Announcement

※ The following changes will not be applied during the July 29 maintenance. Instead, they will be applied on August 26th with the release of 4.9.0.

A crafting recipe will be added to upgrade Talandre Ascended Archboss weapons into Snowsoul weapons.

Talandre Snowsoul Weapon Crafting Recipes Added

As previously announced, crafting recipes will be added that use new materials to upgrade Ascended Deluzhnoa and Ascended Giant Cordy weapons into Snowsoul weapons.

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New Content

The new Archboss Ramux is now available.
New Dimensional Trials and Guild Raids have been added.

Archboss

Peace and Guild-type events for the Ramux Archboss have been added, and the Archboss schedule has been changed.
Archboss schedules have been added on Tuesdays and Fridays at 7:00 PM and 10:00 PM.

Ramux Rewards

Weapons — The item level of each new Archboss weapon is fixed at 85.

Last Dragon's Thunder Greatsword: Strength 17, Dexterity 13, Heavy Attack Damage +11.5%, Melee Heavy Attack Chance 210
Weapon Skill – Dragon's Counterattack: On Valiant Brawl or Slash Wave hit, has an 80% chance to apply Weaken: Provoke to the target for 4s and grants the attacker an effect that has a 70% chance to deal counter damage equal to 75% of Base Damage when hit by a taunted target within 15m. Boosts Valiant Brawl, Cruel Smite, and Slash Wave damage by 35% and increases their cooldown by 3s.
Scale Lord's Massacre Sword: Fortitude 17, Wisdom 12, Damage Reduction 69, Hit Chance 230
Weapon Skill – Wall of Bitter Cold: Changes Stalwart Bastion to [Wall of Bitter Cold] and decreases its cooldown by 30%. While the effect lasts, deals damage equal to 150% of Base Damage when attacked from within 1.3x Attack Range (4.3x for Ranged and Magic) and has a 30% chance to apply Weaken: Frost that decreases Movement Speed by 35% for 3s. Affected targets cannot receive Stalwart Bastion from another caster for 45s.
Last Dragon's Thunder Daggers: Dexterity 17, Perception 12, Critical Damage +9.2%, Melee Critical Hit Chance 230
Weapon Skill – Atirat's Claw: Changes the range of Mad Sword Dance to 10m. Deactivates all targets to self upon skill activation. Boosts Off-hand Weapon Attack Chance by 70% and makes all attacks back attacks for 2s. Ignores PvP target's Shield Health. With every damage dealt on PvP targets with Health at 50% or lower, ignores Defense by 2.5% of the target's Max Health. Boosts damage against monsters by up to 50% proportional to Frenzied Sword Dance's growth tier.
Reverse Scale Tracker's Judgment Crossbows: Dexterity 17, Perception 12, Bonus Damage 69, Critical Damage +9.2%
Weapon Skill – Atirat's Flame: Changes Wild Barrage to an instant cast skill and changes the Attack Range to a 60-degree cone. On hit, has an 80% chance to apply a Weaken effect to the target for 9s that deals Defense-ignoring damage equal to 30% of Base Damage + 6 damage per second and decreases all CC Resistances by 20. Stacks up to 25 times.
Reverse Scale Destroyer's Execution Bow: Perception 17, Dexterity 12, Critical Damage +9.2%, Ranged Critical Hit Chance 230
Weapon Skill – Ice Dragon Strike: Changes Flash Wave to Ice Dragon Strike. Depending on charging time, deals Frost Damage equal to Flash Wave boosted by 50% and applies the Frost effect. Frost effect has a 70% chance to apply Bind: Icebound for 3s. Deals bonus damage to Bound or Oppressed targets. When Specialization 3 [Effect Time Increase] is applied, increases Bind: Icebound duration by 1s.
Endless Winter's Lightning Staff: Wisdom 17, Perception 12, Heavy Attack Damage +11.5%, Cooldown Speed +11.5%
Weapon Skill – Elemental Infusion: Changes the Elemental Awakening Passive Skill to [Elemental Infusion] and activates Special Skills when conditions for 2 element types are met. When 5 Fire Elements and 2 Ice Elements are stacked, Frost Smokescreen and Burning Smokescreen Skills change to [Lava Dust] (Fury Attack). Deals 250% of Base Damage per second to foes within range and applies Weaken: Lava Dust for 6s. When Weaken: Lava Dust reaches 4 stacks, applies Petrify for 4s. When 2 Ice Elements and 7 Lightning Elements are stacked, Ice Spear Bombardment and Detonator Bombardment Skills change to [Magnetic Field]. Deals Lightning Damage equal to 1,100% of Base Damage to hit enemies and applies Weaken: Magnetic Field which decreases Movement Speed by 60% for 2.5s. Magnetic Field transfers to foes within 5m up to 2 times, with 1 additional transfer if the target is Wet or affected by your own Frost effect. When 7 Lightning Elements and 5 Fire Elements are stacked, Inferno Wave and Frenzied Lightning Wave skills change to [Firestorm]. Firestorm follows the target for 4s and deals damage equal to 300% of Base Damage and applies Weaken: Burning.
Winter Storm Wand: Wisdom 17, Fortitude 12, Healing +24%, Cooldown Speed +11%
Weapon Skill – Dragon's Blessing: Fountain of Life follows the target and has a 60% chance to apply Fear to enemies within range for 3s.
Storm Lord's Judgment Spear: Strength 17, Perception 12, Attack Speed +15.3%, Range +23%
Weapon Skill – Ramux's Judgment: Constricting Tempest always hits and additionally triggers on 2 enemies within a 5m radius of the target. When the chain ends, has a 100% chance to apply Collision: Pull and decreases Heavy Attack Damage Resistance of pulled targets by 15% for 6s. Upon successfully pulling a target, your PvP damage taken decreases by 30% for 6s.
Lightning Orb of Vengeance: Wisdom 17, Perception 12, Cooldown Speed +12.5%, Attack Speed +13.9%
Weapon Skill – Stellar Star Destroyer: Boosts Star Destroyer damage by 30% and the Star Destroyer skill changes to [Stellar Star Destroyer]. Summons 6 Stellar Star Destroyers on the target, each dealing 275% of Base Damage + 225. Damage increases up to 2x proportional to charge time.
Snowfield Destroyer Lightning Gauntlets: Dexterity 17, Strength 12, Cooldown Speed +12%, Melee Heavy Attack Chance 220
Weapon Skill – Last Dragon's Blessing: Increases Threat Boost's Block Chance Boost effect duration by 0.5s and increases Base Damage by 1 for 6s every time Weaken: Bleed is applied. Stacks up to 100 times.

Equipment — Values shown are granted at Item Levels 51 and 80 respectively.

Heavenly Lightning Cloak of Flying: Critical Damage +3.2%~+6.1%, Heavy Attack Damage +4%~+7.6%, Range +8%~+15.2%, Cooldown Speed +4%~+7.6%, Max Health 500~1,040

Dimensional Trial

Stone Grave Cradle has been added to Dimensional Trials.

New Guild Raids

Two new Guild Raids have been added, available at Guild Level 30.
Thuban
Porfos

New Achievements

A new Life > Furniture achievement category has been added.

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New Archboss Weapon Crafting Recipes Added

Ten Ramux Archboss weapon crafting recipes requiring Thundercloud Scales as the main material have been added.
Ten Ramux Archboss weapon crafting recipes requiring Skill Cores as materials have been added.
Various other crafting recipes have also been added.

Ramux Archboss Weapons

Each new Archboss Weapon shares the same material and Sollant costs:

Thundercloud Scale x90
Precious Rubrix / Precious Rubrix Ore x260
Precious Magic Powder x1,000
Noble Polishing Crystal x576
Fee: 17,387,846 Sollant

Ramux Archboss Weapons Using Skill Cores

Crafting the new Archboss Weapons using their respective Skill Cores has the following costs:
Thundercloud Scale x20
5,163,600 Sollant
Note that Archboss Weapons crafted using Skill Cores do not have a chance to receive Potential Abilities.

Other Recipes

Snow Flower: Giant Cordy's Branch x2 — Fee: 10,000 Sollant
Giant Cordy's Branch: Snow Flower x2 — Fee: 10,000 Sollant
Scorched Frostbloom: Scorched Giant Tree Branch x2 — Fee: 20,000 Sollant
Scorched Giant Tree Branch: Scorched Frostbloom x2 — Fee: 20,000 Sollant
Unlockstone Bundle: Fortitude: Grants 5 Unlockstones when opened — Adventure Coin: Fortitude x10 — Fee: 10,000 Sollant

Talandre Ascended Archboss Weapon Level Change

Talandre Ascended Archboss Weapon levels have been increased from 70 to 80.
The level of weapons already owned will also be adjusted.

Talandre Ascended Archboss Material Drop Increase

Crafting recipes and crafting materials used to upgrade Ascended Talandre Archboss weapons will be added on August 26.
Accordingly, the number of scorched materials provided from Deluzhnoa and Giant Cordy part destruction and drop rewards has been increased.

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Weapon and Equipment Skill Fixes and Balance Adjustments

Daggers

Inject Venom: Additional-use skill effect changed.
Previous: When an attack succeeds against a target with 20 Poison stacks, consumes 10 Poison stacks and increases Heavy Attack Damage by 20% for 6 seconds.
Updated: When an attack hits a target with 20 Poison stacks, increases Heavy Attack Damage by 20% for 6 seconds.
Inject Venom Specialization 1 [Lightning Infusion]: Additional-use skill effect changed.
Previous: When an attack succeeds against a target with 20 Thundercloud stacks, consumes 10 Thundercloud stacks and increases Critical Damage by 15% for 6 seconds.
Updated: When an attack succeeds against a target with 20 Thundercloud stacks, increases Critical Damage by 15% for 6 sec.
Weapon Mastery [Venomous Edge]: Fixed an issue where attack power increase effects equivalent to base damage were not applied to Venomous Edge skill damage.

Crossbows

Skill Core: Support Fire: The 30% PvP damage reduction effect has been removed from Quick Fire, Recoil Shot, Wave Shot, and Explosive Arrow.

Gauntlets

Chain Strike - [Smash Down]: Hit range increased from 4m to 5m. An effect has been added so Chain Strike – Smash Down can be used while using the Earthquake skill.
Mobility Strike Specialization 2 [Mobility Enchant]: Specialization name changed to [Range Increase]. Required points reduced from 5 to 3. The effect of the Specialization has been adjusted:
Previous: Mobility Strike - Can now charge while moving. Afterimage - Attack range increases by 20%.
Updated: Afterimage - Attack range increases by 20%. Mobility Strike can now be charged while moving by default, without the need for a specific Specialization.
Sweep Specialization 3 [Movement Speed and Range Increase]: Movement Speed bonus has increased from 25% to 50%.
Explosive Flurry: New specialization [Cooldown Reduction] has been added. Requires 5 points. Reduces Explosive Barrage skill cooldown by 15%, and each Explosive Flurry hit reduces One-Inch Punch's remaining cooldown by 5%.
Explosive Flurry Specialization 2 [Range Increase]: Required points reduced from 5 to 3.
Consecutive Claws: Improved so the skill can be used while jumping.
Skill Core: Fear Erosion: Fixed an issue where the movement speed and defense reduction values were applied incorrectly when Fear Erosion was active, and the values in the effect tooltip were incorrect.

Longbow

Flash Arrow Specialization 1 [Flash Wave]: Fixed an issue where the effect was occasionally not applied to the caster when moving backwards or used from an elevated location.
Skill Core: Torrent, Eye of Ventius: Monster Damage Amplification value now grows with the respective Skill level. Fixed an issue where the stated damage increase against Monsters was displayed as a sum which included the original skill's monster damage amplification.
Torrent: The damage increase value displayed has been reduced from 185% to 50%.
Eye of Ventius: The damage increase value displayed has been reduced from 260% to 50%.
Skill Core: Gale Arrow: Fixed an issue causing Gale Arrow to share a cooldown with Flash Arrow.
Blitz Specialization 1 [Limit Break]: Fixed an issue causing the DoT effect from Decisive Sniping to ignore Defense and Evasion when enhanced with Limit Break.

Staff

Inner Peace: Fixed an issue where the description for Specialization 1 [Thunder's Blessing] was incorrectly applied to [Inner Peace].
Skill Core: Thunder's Shadow: Damage increased from 60% to 120%.
Skill Core: Lightning Condensation: Damage increased from 90% to 180%. Growth values per skill level have been adjusted to match [Inner Peace].
Skill Core: Thunderclouds Explosion: Damage increased from 60% to 120%. Fixed an issue where the stated PvP damage reduction effect was not applied. Monster Damage Amplification display changed from 50% to 150%. Growth values per skill level have been adjusted to match [Inner Peace].
Skill Core: Absolute Zero: Frost Smokescreen's cooldown is now properly reduced based on the skill's level while the Absolute Zero Skill Core is equipped.

Wand

Mastery [Nightmare]: Description has been updated to include Nightmare Melody in the list of skills that trigger the effect.
Skill Core: Magic Circle Expansion: Fixed an issue where the cooldown reduction value was displayed as seconds instead of a percentage.
Skill Core: Nightmare Melody: Added sleep duration increase effect when leveling the respective skill.

Spear

Rising Slash / Cross Cut Specialization 4 [Slaughtering Slash]: Fixed an issue where, when the final attack of [Rising Slash] or an attack from [Slaughtering Slash] hit a target with Weaken: Brand, the skill cooldown was reduced by up to 15 sec based on stacks of Weaken: Burst, Ignite, and Shock.

Items

Crimson Snow Annihilation Greatsword, Azure Snow Dragon Greatsword - [Judgment]: Damage amplification of Guillotine Blade against monsters at 50% Health or lower increased from 50% to 80%.
Stone Grave Executioner's Greatsword - [Battlefield Momentum]: Fixed an issue where entering and leaving water reset the cooldown of Precision Dash.
Flash of Justice Crossbows - [Disruption Shot]: Fixed an issue where the Weaken effect duration shown in the tooltip differed from the actual duration.
Crimson Snow Tracking Crossbows, Azure Snow Crystal Crossbows - [Double Trap]: Fixed an issue where entering and leaving water reset the cooldown of the Explosive Trap skill.
Frozen Inferno Longbow, Frozen Comet Longbow - [Purifying Cry]: Skill effect has been adjusted.
Previous: Area of effect: 3m radius, number of targets: 6.
Updated: Area of effect: Radius equal to 25% of the player's Range, number of targets: 3.
Fixed an issue causing the effect to be applied to allies, instead of just party members.
Updated the skill description to clarify that the effect applies to 3 party members, excluding the caster.
Coldblooded Commander Magic Staff - [Icebound Spike]: Fixed an issue where the Icebound Spike effect was not properly applied. Adjusted so the charge gauge is displayed when using the skill.
Coldblooded Wand - [Prismatic Beam]: Fixed an issue where Prismatic Beam could be summoned without limit.
Frigid Melody 4-set effect: Health recovery value when applying a shield changed from 160% of base damage + 600 to a flat value of 750.

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Equipment Growth Cost Adjustments

Equipment growth costs have been reduced, and Resonance enhancement rates have been changed.

Resonance Enhancement

Probabilities have been adjusted so attempting Resonance Enhancement will no longer result in a lower number than before.

Inheritance Cost Reduction

The number of gems required for Inheritance has been reduced to 50% of the previous amount.
The difference in Gems already spent for previous Inheritance will be refunded via Mail within 48 hours of the update.

Unlockstone Crafting via Adventure Coins

The existing recipes that used Adventure Coin: Fortitude to craft previous Unlockstones have been removed, and new recipes that craft the new variant of Unlockstones have been added.
The number of Adventure Coin: Fortitude required for the new recipes was set based on the conversion ratio from previous Unlockstones to new Unlockstones.

Heroic Gear Potential Abilities

Heroic Equipment can now have Potential Abilities.
Upon being obtained, Heroic Equipment may have a Potential Ability available:
Weapons have an 8.3% chance to receive a Potential Ability.
Armor and Accessories have a 5% chance to receive a Potential Ability.
Potential Abilities can now be transferred onto and off of Heroic Equipment.

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Additional Revisions

Calanthia Raid

Removed the shield pattern used by Dragaryle when reaching 50% HP on Normal difficulty.
On Difficult/Nightmare difficulty, Dragaryle will no longer interrupt special patterns upon reaching 50% HP.

Battlegrounds Seal Battle: Frostbite Fortress

Fixed an issue where some floors and staircases were invisible while using low graphics settings.
Movement skills can no longer be used while carrying a relic.
Exception: Players morphed into Air Raid or Blitz (Disruptor) can still use movement skills regardless of relic possession.

Dimensional Circle: Frostbreath Cave

Fixed an issue where the "Defeat Vulcanus without taking damage from Fury or Wrath attacks" Exploration quest was not achievable.

Dimensional Circle: Stone Grave Cradle

Fixed an issue where pillars would not collapse when a power source spawned at certain locations during the boss fight.

Gate of Infinity

Nightmare Conductor's attack power has been reduced.

Field Bosses

The minimum number of participants required for Guild Portals has been adjusted from 36 to 24.
Porfos: Fixed an issue where the Ice Prison was instantly destroyed by player attacks, preventing players from responding to the follow-up attack. Fixed an issue where, if the Ice Prison was destroyed quickly, distant players were hit by the follow-up attack projectile. Some regional background elements have been adjusted.
Thuban: Fixed an issue where Thuban did not attack players when they were positioned against outer structures.
Ascended Ahzreil: Fixed an issue causing Ahzreil's Flying Strike Gauntlets to not appear in the Ahzreil Equipment Selection Chest.

Guild Raid

Fixed an issue where the region name was displayed abnormally when entering Pakilo Naru's Guild Raid instance.

Elite Enemies

The display range for system messages when monsters appear has been changed.
When an event occurs in Laslan, Stonegard, or Talandre, a notification message will be displayed across the entire region.
When an event occurs in Nix, a notification message will be displayed while inside Nix.

Field Events

Fixed an issue in Scarlet Dream where the boss soul did not use skills.
Fixed an issue in Scarlet Dream where the boss could continue to be summoned even after the boss soul owner died.
Fixed an issue causing reward availability cooldowns to be shared across characters on an account.

Nix

Pitons have been added in Stillreach and an entry pathway leading to Ramux has been opened.
Removed a floating Piton in Tumgir Hollow.
Fixed an issue causing some players to be stuck with no contracts being displayed at the Nix Contract Manager.

Milestones

Fixed an issue in [Eternal Tundra] - [Guild Proclamation: Sinking] where the field boss event activation text for Porfos and Thuban was not displayed.

Console

Fixed an issue preventing Remnants of Nix from being accessed on Enforcer, the PS5-only server.

Guild Distribution

Fixed an issue causing some Guild Distribution settings to appear editable by players that did not have the respective permissions.
Fixed an issue where, when using Guild Distribution, the guild member list did not refresh properly according to the sale method settings.
Gems dropped by bosses can no longer be distributed through Guild Distribution.

Appearance Effects

Fixed an issue where the red dot did not appear or did not disappear in Mirror Boutique when acquiring some items.

Equipment Appearance

Fixed an issue where some equipment appearance names were applied incorrectly.
Appearance: Northern Wind's Roaring Staff has been changed to Appearance: Coldblooded Commander Magic Staff.
Appearance: Endless Winter's Lightning Staff has been changed to Appearance: Endless Winter's Lightning Staff.

Costume

Fixed an issue where, when a female character equipped the Sunswell Drifter Headpiece together with certain outfits, the Sunswell Drifter Headpiece changed to a different appearance.

Skill Cores

Weapon icons related to a Skill Core's respective ability have been added to the Skill Core title.

Item Links

Fixed an issue where item level, stats, and Trait Resonance values were not reflected correctly when linking items in chat.
Changed so the tooltip explaining acquisition rates is no longer displayed when linking an item with no Potential Ability assigned in chat.

Stats

Fixed damage that ignores Defense stats granted by monsters can no longer be reduced by the Species Damage Resistance stat.

Fishing Rewards

Unlockstones have been removed from Fishing Sacks, and the remaining rewards have had their drop rate adjusted respectively.
Existing Fishing Sacks will no longer drop Unlockstones.

Expedition Rewards

Unlockstones have been removed from Expedition Pouches, and the remaining rewards have had their drop rate adjusted respectively.
Existing Expedition Pouches will no longer drop Unlockstones.