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.

New Content

• The new Archboss Ramux is now available.

• New Dimensional Trials and Guild Raids have been added.

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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

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• 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.

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.

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.

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

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• 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

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• 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.

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.

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.

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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.

Dissolving

• The quantity of Magic Powder obtained when dissolving gear with Traits has been changed.

Extraction Stones

• Extraction Stones can now be sold to shops as they are no longer used.

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Lithograph Book

• The operating period for some Equipment Lithograph Books that ended early has been extended to 10:00 on August 4.

• Lithograph Book registration status will be restored to the previous Lithograph Book registration status.

Redfrost Items

• Changed so the auto-acquisition grade filter option for Redfrost items can be selected from All, Rare or Higher, and Epic or Higher.

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Events

Ascended Archboss Grand Assault!

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• Available for 2 weeks, 4x Ascended Archbosses will spawn during each event instead of just 2.

Promotions

Battle Pass: Scarlet Drift

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• Battle Pass: Scarlet Drift is now on sale.