10/23 Patch Notes - New Secret Dungeon

Developer Notes

We received valuable feedback from adventurers expressing regret after the balance patch was announced last week.
The patch is meant to improve endgame content by updating characters beyond numerical adjustments while minimizing nerfs.
We have been working hard to provide a more meaningful form of balancing by introducing improvements that our adventurers can experience directly, such as skill renewals.

However, skill renewals require more consideration and development time than simple numerical changes.
Characters with relatively good performance were not addressed in this balance patch due to this reason.
We apologize for not being able to include more characters in the patch.

Moving forward, the value of party utility and synergy with other characters gains value, while personal performance of characters matters lesser.
This reveals a fundamental limitation in our balancing strategy. Changes are being considered for the future.
We believe it's necessary to provide long-term balance patches, increasing player satisfaction.
Before changing the strategy of our balance patches, another balance patch will conduct in December.

Next year, balance patches will follow a brand new formula.
We are currently planning to minimize the significance of physical and magical attack when forming raid parties, as well as reduce the dependence on specific characters' party utility.
The goal is to set a foundation that allows you to job change more freely.

To do that, decreasing party utility of some characters while increasing their personal performance is being considered.
Since there will be major changes, we are planning to run a temporary test server in order to gather sufficient feedback from our adventurers.
We will provide detailed information about the test server in a future notice.

Ariel's Special Attendance Gift

Purchase 'Ariel's Special Attendance' from the Cash Shop to activate a 30-day attendance event. Item rewards will help you in progression and double daily special dungeon rewards once.

Through this event, 'Ariel's Special Gift Mark' can be activated.

1. How to use Ariel's Special Attendance Gift

   • You can enter by clicking a button in the event UI.

   • During the period (30 days), check in to receive rewards. You can check in for a maximum of 15 times.

   • Can be repurchased after the period ends.

   • Ariel's Special Gift Mark unlocks while the service lasts.

     Mark	Effects
     Ariel's Special Gift Mark	Hyper Adaptation +3% (Not affected by Adaptation stat limits) EXP +20% (Dungeon)

2. Related Cash Shop items

   • Ariel's Special Attendance Gift that activates this event.

   • [Cobo] Ariel's Special Attendance Gift Supply Ticket that lets you redeem rewards from a missed day.

New Secret Dungeon

Secret Dungeon Reward Ticket Improvement

1. 'Secret Dungeon Weekly Clear Attempt Ticket' will be changed to 'Secret Dungeon Reward Ticket'.

2. If you have a 'Secret Dungeon Reward Ticket' in your inventory and the amount of weekly reward attempts is 0, this item will be used automatically when you clear a Secret Dungeon.

3. When using 'Secret Dungeon Clear Ticket' while also having 'Secret Dungeon Reward Ticket', both tickets will be consumed if your weekly amount of reward attempts is 0.

• Secret Dungeon Clear Ticket: immediately clears the Secret Dungeon and redeems the reward.

• Secret Dungeon Reward Ticket: if your weekly attempt amount is 0, this ticket will be used to redeem rewards next time a Secret Dungeon is cleared.

Character Balance Patch

The previously announced balance patch will be implemented.

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Other Improvements

• Breath of Magma experience booster item changed to be consumed only after the dungeon is cleared. [Dungeon Interaction Button] will now only be used to register the run, and the item will not be consumed if you leave the dungeon.

• Updated the Breath of Magma experience booster before/after UI.

Events

1. Halloween Magmelia Candy Shop (Oct 23 ~ Nov 6)
   Open through the event UI and enable 'Receive Halloween Special Buff' toggle to activate a special buff. Complete quests to fill up each display stand with candies. When full, you can obtain [Luriel] items such as Giant Stone Apples, Synergy Ticket (7 Days), Halloween Costume Accessory - Spooky Rabbit.

   Buff Name	How to obtain	Effects
   Halloween Special Buff	Enable the toggle in Halloween Magmelia Candy Shop	Physical/Magical Attack +3% Adaptation +3%

2. Job Change Opportunity (Oct 23 ~ Oct 30, Oct 30 ~ Nov 6)
   Obtain Job Change ticket, Physical/Magical Weapon Swap Ticket and Armor Type Change Ticket Selection Cube after staying online for 20/40/60 minutes. You can obtain a total of two sets of items across two periods.

Cash Shop

Avatar: Pure Soul Ruler

• The bonus package contains Pure Soul Ruler Hat.

Lithia Custom Sit Motion: Early Winter Busking Piano, Guitar & Drums

Hair Color Palette (Reflected Sunlight)

With Elrios Pass end of sales, this color palette will be sold permanently.

Fixes & Improvements

1. Fatal Phantom - fixed awkward position after casting Dual Buster in specific locations.

2. Innocent - fixed Shadow's Killing Blow (1) not applying.

3. In some dungeon patterns where character size changes, all character size effects are disabled.

4. The amount of Combat Power increased by the Dogma title will be changed.

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