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Update 2.18.0

[p][/p][p]THRONE AND LIBERTY Update 2.18.0 downtime will begin at 10:30 p.m. PT (5:30 a.m. UTC) on July 9 and last approximately 4.5 hours. It includes the new 4-Star Dimensional Trial: Crypt of Augmentation. Find the full list of changes, including bug fixes, below.[/p][p][/p][h3]New 4-Star Dimensional Trial[/h3][p][/p][p][/p][p]Challenge Velentra in the latest addition to Dimensional Trials, the new 4-Star Dimensional Trial: Crypt of Augmentation.[/p]
  • [p]This update marks the end of Dimensional Trial Season 2. Strive for new personal bests alongside new seasonal score rewards, including a new Morph, Title, and Epic Chaos Runes when Season 3 starts after maintenance.[/p]
[p][/p][h3]New Arkeum Invasion Field Event[/h3][p]Fight back invaders from the Arkeum Legion for unique rewards, like an event gesture, Amitoi, and Morph after maintenance through July 23. Remember to exchange your event currency with special NPCs in town to reap your hard-earned spoils of war.[/p]
  • [p]The Arkeum Invasion field event will spawn 3x per day on weekdays and 4x per day on weekends, across multiple zones.[/p]
    • [p]Weekdays (UTC): 01:30, 05:30, 12:30.[/p]
    • [p]Weekends (UTC): 01:30, 05:30, 12:30, 21:30.[/p]
[p][/p][h3]Field Boss Guild Portals[/h3][p][/p][p][/p][p]Guild Portals for Field Bosses will now occur only twice per day at 20:30 and 23:30 local server time. The half-hour time offset is to allow players to participate in Peace/Dominion Field Bosses separately from guild portals.[/p]
  • [p]New Rune Box reward: Guild Field Bosses now offer a Rune box that guarantees a rune, plus the occasional Rare or Epic Chaos Rune. Both guilds will receive 1 million Weapon Mastery Experience per participant upon victory.[/p]
[p][/p][h3]Obsidian Fragment Adjustments[/h3]
  • [p]Obsidian Fragments have been added to the Arena reward shop for purchase.[/p]
  • [p]Obsidian Fragments now have a chance of dropping from mining nodes on Gigantrite.[/p]
[p][/p][h3]Raid: Altar of Calanthia[/h3][p][/p][p][/p]
  • [p]Items: Added two new earring drops to the second encounter in Altar of Calanthia.[/p]
  • [p]Items: Polished Crystals dropped during the Altar of Calanthia raid will now go directly to personal inventories and not into guild loot distribution.[/p]
  • [p]Calanthia: Fixed an issue where the Fury attack indicator for Chain Lightning appeared for the wrong players.[/p]
  • [p]Codex: Altar of Calanthia: Fixed an issue where the third stage of the Exploration Codex for the Altar of Calanthia raid didn't recognize completion.[/p]
[p][/p][h3]General[/h3]
  • [p]The Forbidden Ritual milestone end date has been extended by two weeks to August 21. This milestone will unlock the new Altar of Calanthia Nightmare difficulty.[/p]
  • [p]New Accessories have been added, including set bonus effects for four different sets.[/p]
    • [p]These accessories provide additional defensive stats that pair well with the increased offensive power gained through upgrading Heroic raid weapons.[/p]
    • [p]12 new Accessories can be acquired from each of the following sources:[/p]
      • [p]4-Star Dungeons and Dimensional Trials[/p]
      • [p]All Things Workshop[/p]
      • [p]Material Transmutation[/p]
      • [p]Nightmare difficulty Hall of Illusion[/p]
  • [p]14 new Accessories can be crafted from Crandace the Special Equipment Crafter, requiring a Lv. 12 version of their existing counterparts as material.[/p]
  • [p]Expanded the level cap for Runes to level 90.[/p]
  • [p]Rare quality Chaos Runes can now be obtained from a variety of gameplay sources.[/p]
  • [p]Nebula Island: Added a Nebula Accessory Chest purchasable at the Nebula Stone merchant for 350 Nebula Stones.[/p]
  • [p]Weekly Missions: For the following two weeks, Chaos Prisms can be obtained through Weekly Mission rewards. These replace the previously available Entropy Shards.[/p]
  • [p]Inter-Server Siege: The team with the most attempted throne captures will now properly determine results in the case of a tie between teams.[/p]
  • [p]Inter-Server Siege: Fixed an issue causing all participation rewards for Inter-Server Sieges to get sent to a single guild.[/p]
  • [p]Inter-Server Siege: Reduced the duration of the preparation time from 10 minutes to 4 minutes to reduce the overall wait time before matches.[/p]
  • [p]Field Boss events: Reduced the duration of the preparation time from 5 minutes to 3 minutes.[/p]
  • [p]Raid matchmaking: Your currently active raid progression is now selected by default when opening the Raid matchmaking or party board UI.[/p]
  • [p]Battle Pass: The "Use Recovery Crystals" Battle Pass mission will now progress when using Precious Recovery Crystals.[/p]
  • [p]Spectator Mode: Fixed players incorrectly entering a dungeon or raid as a spectator if they were invited to join the group after previously observing them as a spectator.[/p]
  • [p]Movement: Fixed abnormal rubberbanding at the top of waterfalls.[/p]
  • [p]Movement: The camera will no longer rotate on its own when teleporting while moving the camera.[/p]
  • [p]Settings: Fixed a variety of UI issues that occurred if a non-default Contrast setting was used.[/p]
  • [p]UI: Fixed an issue causing a placeholder string to be shown in the Matchmaking Success popup.[/p]
  • [p]UI: The search bar in the Party/Raid Board is no longer case-sensitive.[/p]
  • [p]Console: The Chatbox Settings menu is no longer empty.[/p]
[p][/p][h3]Combat[/h3]
  • [p]Wand: Vampiric Contract: Fixed an issue where the range for the passive effect was being determined by equipped weapon melee range.[/p]
  • [p]Wand: Calanthia's Doctrine of Chaos now animates appropriately.[/p]
  • [p]Longbow: Blitz can once again reset the cooldown of Swift Healing, Frenzied Sword Dance, and Valiant Brawl.[/p]
  • [p]Longbow: Flash Wave's visual indicator now properly matches the ability's range.[/p]
  • [p]Spear: Culling Arc will now automatically re-trigger when the respective Ability key is held down.[/p]
  • [p]Sword and Shield: The Mastery effect Roar Amplifier now only activates on melee damage.[/p]
[p][/p][h3]Items[/h3]
  • [p]Cordy's Warblade of Creeping Doom: Giant Cordy's Spore Poison effect now follows the victim of Death Blow.[/p]
  • [p]Deluzhnoa's Serrated Shard: Increased Rising Slash damage by 60% for the Deluzhnoa's Waves effect.[/p]
  • [p]Deluzhnoa's Arc of Frozen Death: Fixed an issue where Deluzhnoa's Cold effect would trigger even when blocking Arrow Vortex.[/p]
  • [p]Deluzhnoa's Arc of Frozen Death: Deluzhnoa's Cold effect has been changed to deal damage to the first enemy hit by Arrow Vortex, then deal damage and collision effects to targets within a 3m radius.[/p]
  • [p]Deluzhnoa's Edge of Eternal Frost: Replaced the Deluzhnoa's Annihilation effect with a new skill, Deluzhnoa's Touch.[/p]
  • [p]Deluzhnoa's Touch: Controlling Rake's hit area width increased to 4m and reduces movement speed of all enemies in the area by 60%. On hit, increases damage reduction by 3 for 5 seconds, stacks up to 10 times.[/p]
[p][/p][h3]Crypt of Augmentation[/h3]
  • [p]Velentra: Defense is reduced even further if Velentra is stunned.[/p]
  • [p]Velentra: Reduced the hit radius of Velentra's Phantom Bullet.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed icons and tooltips that appear when Velentra becomes charmed by players with the 'Echoes of Seduction' status.[/p]
  • [p]Fixed an issue where Velentra's charm status would occasionally not be removed after being charmed by players with the 'Echoes of Seduction' status.[/p]
[p][/p][p]Thanks for your support! We’ll see you in Solisium.[/p]
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