Maintenance

• Date: Thursday, July 17, 2025

• Duration: 5:30 AM ~ 11:00 AM KST (5h30)

Character Balance Patch

[LINK]

Exascale Armor Effect Improvements

1. Skill damage effects unified into one effect. All effects will be changed, regardless of their location. These options will no longer appear when appraising new circuits.

   • Before) Active Skill Damage Increase, Tenacity Skill Damage Increase, Strength Skill Damage Increase, Bravery Skill Damage Increase, Buff - Nearby Party's All Skill Damage Increase

   • After) Active, Tenacity, Strength, Bravery Skill Damage Increase

2. Exascale's Restore Set Effect changed: a new effect is added.

   • Added) Buff - Nearby Party's All Skill Damage Increase by [0.8 * sum of Skill Damage circuits]% (Cannot be overlapped)

3. Exascale Character Change Ticket added to the Cash Shop. This function is available through NPC Vasili (Magmelia) or Haivan (Camp: Steel Wall). After transfer, all properties of the piece are preserved.

Maestro Halo Improvement

Adjustment to switch items that grant buffs

1. When unequipping an Ice Burner Avatar, Ice Burner Accessory, Content Accessory, or certain Titles, the buff granted is immediately removed. Affected items:

   • Versatility

   • Transcendent Key Code

   • Baryon's Fur Ornament

   • All Ice Burners

Check details [here] (Korean).

Giant Boss Difficulty Improvement

Note: Giant Boss refers to Titan's Grotto, Plegas's Labyrinth and The Great Steel Wall, or just the latter two due to timed entry.

1. Giant Boss can now be entered by 1~6 players.

2. Giant Boss can be entered at any time.

3. The number of daily free entries is changed to 5 due to the removal of timed entry.

4. In-game Giant Boss timers removed.

5. Some Giant Boss difficulty adjusted.

   • Plegas's Labyrinth

     • Phase 1)

       • Plegas's Heart's HP decreased and damage received increased.

       • Increased the time it takes for Plegas's Heart to settle down.

     • Phase 2)

       • Regenerating Plegas's HP decreased.

       • The amount of Overload Gauge gained by Regenerating Plegas increased.

       • Groggy duration increased.

     • Phase 3)

       • Colossus Plegas's HP decreased.

       • Applies the Jump Speed buff as soon as the phase starts.

       • The central platform will now be always active.

       • Time to kill the core after killing the head is increased.

       • Will no longer cast its ultimate move due to decreased HP if it has already been cast at least once.

   • The Great Steel Wall

     • Phase 1)

       • Type-B Vargr's HP decreased and damage received increased.

       • Players will have more time to defeat the boss's legs.

     • Phase 2)

       • D Drake's HP decreased.

       • Combat and Flying Drones' HP decreased.

       • Increased the amount of overload gauge from the Turrets.

       • D Drake's groggy duration increased.

     • Phase 3)

       • Type-L Lampery GT's, Type-L Lampery GT Hand - L/R's HP decreased.

       • Combat and Flying Drones' HP decreased.

       • Turret's HP decreased.

       • When only one of Type-L Lampery GT Hand - L/R is defeated, the other hand's respawn time is increased.

       • Each time Type-L Lampery GT Hand - L/R is reactivated, it will have less HP.

       • When hands are defeated, Type-L Lampery GT's groggy duration is increased.

       • Charging Rod pattern cooldown increased.

Shadow Earl's Castle Difficulty Improvements

1. Platforms will always be active, regardless of the state of the gargoyles.

2. The light on the gargoyle that must be hit to proceed to the next stage is now always activated.

3. Ran's attack power is reduced.

4. Damage from Ran's Slash and Charge attacks is reduced.

5. Damage from Torn Shadow Aren's Slash, Charge, and Sword Energy attacks is reduced.

6. Ran and Aren will now cancel their ultimate attack if they take a certain amount of damage.

Master Class Portrait Customization added

1. When you advance to Master Class, a Master Class portrait customization that matches your current path appears in the Customization UI.

2. This portrait will be automatically applied when advancing.

3. Master Class portrait settings only apply to what you see - others will still see regular 3rd job icons.

Bank UI Improvements

1. Personal Bank UI is updated.

   

   • When hovering over the membership tier, a tooltip showing bank usage tier info will appear.

   • Clicking the character selection button will display the list of currently owned characters,
     allowing for quick and easy selection by clicking or searching for a nickname.

     

2. Shared Bank UI is updated.

   

   • When hovering over the membership tier, a tooltip showing bank usage tier info will appear.

   • Scrolling the mouse wheel now changes the page in the [Shared] tab.

   • When depositing or withdrawing ED, you can now adjust the amount using 100M, 1B, Max, and Reset buttons.

     

Other Improvements

1. System messages in chat will no longer appear when leveling up to lv. 99.

Events

Reach Master Class in Just 5 Steps! Quick Start Event Improvements

To make the Quick Start event more convenient for adventurers, quest rewards and guidance have been improved as follows:

• If you cannot enter content due to low Combat Power during the event, the inventory window will open automatically,
  along with a guide to help equip the [Adventurer's Growth Full Equipment Set Cube] from the Quick Start 1/5 quest.

• Upon completing Quick Start 4/5, a guide will be provided to help smoothly progress to the next quest.
  This includes how to use the Cobo area transfer service, how to move to Elrianode Village, and how to check and proceed with Epic/Event quests.

• Upon completing Quick Start 4/5, guidance will also be provided to immediately participate in the Combat Power Boost Event and the +11 Abyss Weapon Giveaway Event.

• Starting from the 2nd round of the event (after the July 31 maintenance), completing Quick Start 1/5 will also grant an additional reward:
  [Ariel] Potion Package (5 types), to address common potion shortages in early content.
  A guide for using the rewarded items from the inventory will also be included.

Senpai! Carry the Dungeon (Jul 17~Aug 28)

• High CP (20M+) players can team up with lower CP players to earn "Senpai Points ♥" and rewards. Top 300 helpers every 2 weeks get bonus items.

• A separate 10-clear quest gives a reward cube, available to any Lv. 99+ character. Can be received up to 6 times throughout the event.

Job Change Opportunity Event (Jul 17~Jul 31)

Two rounds of login time-based rewards (20/40/60 min) grant job change-related item cubes.

Cash Shop Update

Ice Burner - Crest Drain

Available accessories: Arm, Face (Middle), Bottom Piece, Necklace

Hair Color Palette Rerun (Violet Mood, Sugar Rush, Nocturne Aurora)

Fixes & Improvements

Common

1. Ignition Caligo hair can now be dyed.

2. Sweet Dream Hair and Hoodie can now be dyed.

3. Fixed an issue where summons did not recover MP or awakening charge when you are not the party's leader.

Character Gameplay

1. Rune Master: fixed Phoenix Power not applying properly when equipping Will Save You.

2. Daybreaker: fixed Vibration Shooting not applying the MP Recovery Increase effect properly.

3. Catastrophe:

   • Fixed Shackling Chain debuff icon.

   • Fixed 5 stacks of Terror Absorption not applying properly to Apollyon.

   • The Summon Darkness effect of Darkness Cutter will now activate correctly when using the skill.

4. Bluhen:

   • Improved Blatt Blume's Fire of Brave and Alchimie Eid's Eid: Mut buff icons to make them easier to distinguish.

   • Fixed an issue where Power Gauge is not consumed and the effect is not activated when using [Mod] Requiem: Mut in Creation Mode.

5. Nisha Labyrinth: fixed Awakening Charge Speed Increase from the passive Like This? not applying properly.

6. Liberator: fixed Awakening Charge Speed Increase from the passive Ocean Fog not applying properly.

Other UI Updates

1. The popup that appears when claiming Hot Springs or Camp buff will be improved to match the new UI design.