NEXT: Arcana - Patch Notes - December 15

Check out all of the details of this month's Patch Notes, featuring the NEXT: Arcana Update!
The following Events, Sales, and Promotions are running:
- Crom Bás Fever Time: Thursday, December 9th 2021, After Maintenance - January 19th, 2023, Before Maintenance
- Dark Moon Box: Thursday, December 1st, After Maintenance - Thursday, December 29th, Before Maintenance
- Snow Cloud for Sale!: Thursday, December 8th, After Maintenance - Thursday, December 29th, Before Maintenance
- Snowflower Tree Festival Event Returns!: Thursday, December 15th, After Maintenance - Thursday, January 12th, Before Maintenance
- NEXT Update Celebration Events: Thursday, November 17th, After Maintenance - Thursday, January 19th, Before Maintenance
- NEXT: Arcana Update: Permanent
- The NEXT: Arcana Update is here. See the dedicated microsite and the update post for more information!
- New Arcana Talents, Elemental Knight and Harmonic Saint have been added.
- You must be over cumulative level 10,000 in order to start prerequisite quests.
- New Skills are added for both Arcana Talents.
- New titles have been added for the new Arcana Talents.
- The existing Grandmaster Guide quests have been removed and replaced.
- New UIs have been added for Managing Arcana and Arcana Links.
- Information related to Arcana has been added to the Basic Info tab of the Character Info menu.
- The Arcana tab has been added to the Talent menu.
- An active Arcana Talent tab is added to the Skill menu.
- New NPCs Laoire, Cowenna, and Eochaid have been added.
- A new area, the Arcana Association Room, has been added.
- And more!
- New Arcana Talents, Elemental Knight and Harmonic Saint have been added.
- Fixed an issue where certain Moon-Gates and Mana-Tunnels when used on the World Map would lead to incorrect destinations.
- Fixed an issue where during the Memoir Quest "Nele's Music Basics", some objectives were displayed incorrectly.
- Fixed an issue where Beach Vacation Pedicure was invisible on Giant characters wearing Morrighan's Regalia (F).
- There is an issue where you cannot Friend Summon using Fynn Pets. It will show the error, "Unavailable because the owner has opened a Personal Shop".
- During the Kraken Rex boss fight, Kraken Rex will use an attack that will cause players to lose protection, semi-permanently, until they change channels or relog.
- There is an issue where the Today Visitor Count does not reset to 0. When a visiting character visits the Homestead, the Today and Total Count accumulates normally.
- The available upgrades in the Item Upgrade may overlap in the UI if the window is increased.
- Homestead Anvils and Furnaces have settings to allow visitors to use them, but do not actually restrict the use of the items.
- There is a slight graphical error where part of the hose is missing when a William or Butler Partner uses the Water Hose gesture.
- Some Partner gestures that have them holding a weapon will appear as though the weapon is disconnected and floating.
- There are Partner gestures that do not activate when a Partner has something equipped in their left hand.
- There is an issue after using the Thunder skill, the character can't charge Thunder again until after the Thunder bolt hits/damages enemies.
- If you try to change your style to an appearance already saved in a Beauty Slot, it will say it failed.
- There is a minor visual issue with the Beauty Slot text if you scroll up and down after expanding the Beauty Slot.
- The outline color when clicking on an empty Beauty Slot is incorrect.
- There is text cut-off in the Buy Item UI when buying the Royal Society Appreciation Box from Melwyn.
- The inventory image for the Mace of Mercy is incorrect.
- Feeding a Pet Instructor Stick to a Level 100 Spirit weapon will cause the character to freeze.
- If you had a unicode heart on your wedding ring, the heart appears as a question mark.
- The Shaggy Perm hairstyle can be saved in a Beauty Slot.
- Cobweb Mummy enemies do not appear in the Alby Advanced Dungeon.
- Guilds are not appearing in the Guild List.
- When you first open the Master Plan Inventory, it will incorrectly show as locked. Closing and reopening the inventory will fix the issue.
- There is a minor graphical issue with the Special Shining Stage Concert Costume (M) when the character equipped with the outfit is running.
- Scathach's hands do not match her skin color.
- The Tail Chasers mini-game in Festia is currently inaccessible.
- Guild stones can be placed very close to each other.
- Some players have encountered an issue when using Fynn Sync for Corgi pets.
- A further uncommon issue can occur where placing items into the pet's inventory will disappear.
- Minimizing the game client for an extended period of time while at an active Field Raid may cause the window to stop responding.
- A rare issue has been reported where raids do not spawn correctly on certain channels.
- A textural error in Port Ceann has been reported.
- Nascent Divinity causes players with Almond skintones to become teal.
- There is an issue where one-time/limited item cannot be purchased from the ingame shop, but can be on the web-shop.
- The Intricate Braid Hair (F) does not animate properly in some cases.
- After completing G24, the first quest of G25 does not arrive, and cannot be started in Storyline UI.
- There is a text error with the rank up requirements for the skill "Hydra Transmutation".
- The talents that are used for Arcana Talents have text cut off on the Rebirth screen.
- In the Storyline menu, Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 will inaccurately allow players to start a replay, though this will only consume resources.
- Certain Moon Gates and Mana Tunnels are leading to wrong locations when teleporting with the Traveler's Guide.