THRONE AND LIBERTY News

• New Cooking contracts can be obtained through Contract Managers.
  
• The number of unique cooked food items has been reduced by the consolidation of food quality levels.
  
• General dishes are now crafted as Uncommon grade, Banquet and dungeon ingredient food as Rare grade, and elixirs come in Rare or Uncommon grade depending on the materials used.
  
• The quality of materials used when cooking now determines the quantity of meals received.
  
• Rare materials consume 1 ingredient and produce 3 completed meals.
  
• Uncommon materials consume 3 ingredients and produce 2 completed meals.
  
• Common materials consume 5 ingredients and produce 1 completed meal.
  
• Ingredients for Banquets have been adjusted to account for the new grade consolidation and numbers of meals produced through Cooking.
  
• Ingredient gathering and drop rates have been adjusted due to the change in quantities consumed and number of meals produced through Cooking.
  
• Previously obtained high-tier ingredients intended for use in Banquets can be exchanged for updated rare ingredients through the Dissolve system.
  
• All recipes may now be crafted at both Cooking Ovens and Campfires.

• A cooldown time is now applied for characters who cancel dungeon matchmaking after a party is matched or after entering a dungeon through matchmaking.
  
• This cooldown prevents you from queueing for another dungeon immediately. The timer starts at 10 minutes and will increase with subsequent additional cancellations.
  
• Re-entering an already completed dungeon using Party Matchmaking while the previous instance is still available results in a matchmaking penalty being applied upon leaving the instance. If re-entering the same dungeon using Party Matchmaking, make sure the previous instance has been cleared before doing so.

• Field and Arch Bosses: Increased the drop rates of Rare and Epic gear from these encounters.
  
• PvP: Reduced the duration of respawn protection granted after entering Conflict areas via resurrecting at a Guild Resurrection Stone or arriving through a Guild Summoning Circle.
  
• Automatic logout time for AFK characters has been increased to 3 hours.
  
• Arena: Weekly reset for the Arena has been adjusted to match the weekly maintenance time, similar to other weekly reset content.
  
• Arena: Upgraded Purification Stones are now usable while in Arenas.
  
• Arena: Added runes to the Arena Vendor that can be purchased with Arena Coins.
  
• Weekly Missions: Adjusted the amount of Dimensional Trials needed to complete the weekly mission.
  
• Gigantrite: Adjusted the route Gigantrite takes between Stonegard and Saurodoma Island.
  
• Fishing: New Fishing Hotspots may appear in bodies of water around the world, indicated by a circling fish effect. The wise fisher knows to cast their line into these areas whenever they’re spotted!
  
• Fishing: Expanded the Fishing Codex to include new fish and a new reward tier.
  
• War Games: Added team chat channel for use during matches.
  
• War Games: Player icons will now display on the minimap.
  
• War Games: Fixed an issue causing the team outfit to remain visible after exiting a match.
  
• War Games: Fixed an issue preventing the Stats button from bringing up game results after ending a match.
  
• Options: Added option to automatically reject party invitations that come from all players not on your Friends list.
  
• Party Matchmaking: Completing dungeons by queuing for random matchmaking now awards 4 Soul Shard Selection Boxes instead of Soul Shards specific to the matched dungeon.

• Stats: Fortitude: Fixed an issue that could cause stat effects to not increase when improving your Fortitude stat value.
  
• Skill: Shadow Strike: The teleportation effect of Shadow Strike now works while the player is jumping.
  
• Skill: Mana Exchange: Remove CC Specialization: Fixed an issue causing this skill specialization to not take effect.
  
• Butcher's Canyon, Valley of Slaughter: The coordinated crowd control across multiple targets required to complete this dungeon has been adjusted. Now crowd control effects can be applied to the target enemies individually, and once it has been affected, the targeted enemy will not go back to an invulnerable state.

• Auction House: Removed the confirmation button when the total amount of Lucent earned from sales is below 10 Lucent.
  
• Ping Display: The option to display your current ping on the HUD should now actually be available in the Settings menu.
  
• Amitoi Expedition: Zone levels now display on unlocked expedition zones.
  
• Amitoi Expedition: Expedition menu now saves selected Amitoi lineup and expedition duration, even when cancelling or exiting the UI.
  
• Party Frames: Improved targeted player visuals on the party frame as well as providing an indicator on the frame when hovering over the target with your cursor.
  
• Skill Menu: Now shows left and right arrows to cycle through presets.
  
• Skill Menu: When filling out empty skill presets, double clicking skills from the top of the screen will fill in the empty loadout slots in order from left to right.
  
• Inventory: Fixed container items not showing their content preview when in the full screen Inventory menu.
  
• Schedule: Fixed an issue where the timetable could display different schedule results when switching between Daily and Weekly view repeatedly.
  
• Schedule: Corrected unlocalized strings appearing in the events schedule.
  
• Fixed several UI overlap and cutoff issues.
  
• Applied latest localization text updates.

• Play one game
  
• Reward: Startree Orb Decoration x4
  
• Win 5 games
  
• Reward: Startree Orb Decoration x10
  
• Play ten games
  
• Reward: Startree Wreath x20
  

• Startree Wreath
  
• Giant Startree Cake
  
• Temporarily increases: Mastery Bonus, Abyss Consumption Efficiency
  
• Smile Cookie
  
• Temporarily increases: Hit Chance, Critical Hit Chance, Weaken Resistance, Boss Damage, and Boss Hit Chance
  
• Giant Startree Stollen
  
• Temporarily increases: Movement Speed, Attack Speed
  
• Holiday Profile Border Frame: Festival of Harmony and Peace
  

• Amitoi have an icon on their head to indicate where they’ll receive a boost. This boost increases a chance to obtain special rewards from Amitoi Expedition.
  
• Event-only bonus: Startree Solstice-themed Amitoi (Giant Startree Grover, Red-Nosed Shaccoon, Winter Festival Percy, Snowkid Izzy, Icy Talem, and Quiet Izzy) will receive an increased chance of obtaining special rewards enabled regardless of their Expedition.
  

• Gold Paste Bait: This special bait has a 20% chance of reeling in a Golden Fish. Successfully catch the fish and you’ll receive up to 10,000,000 Sollant. Try it once and you’ll be hooked for the holidays.
  
• Headpiece: Winter Wondercap
  
• Headpiece: Reindeer Hood
  
• Giant Startree Grover
  
• Player Title: Stay Frosty
  
• Frame: Radiant Winter
  
• Various materials and supplies, including Precious Active Skill Books, Precious Passive Skill Books, and Precious Omnipotent Skill Books
  

After players encountered plenty of issues with the first few Throne and Liberty Arch Bosses, Amazon is finally making up for it. For a limited time, you'll be able to encounter even more Arch Bosses and be in with more of a chance of grabbing their loot. Since launch both the Arch Bosses have been spoiled by server disconnects, broken loot drops, and a plethora of problems. That's why Amazon is increasing how often you can fight the Arch Bosses for a limited time. But don't worry, they won't be leaving for a short while yet.

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• Stability: Addressed some performance issues introduced in 1.10 that occur when large groups of players are gathered together.
  
• Stability: Resolved a cause of client crash after large combat events, such as Arch Bosses.
  
• Skills: Fixed an issue that could cause skill presets to reset when leaving dungeons.
  
• Mystic Globes: Corrected the missing display of Mystic Globe and Mystic Portal icons on the map, as well as Mystic Portal opening announcements.
  
• Morphs: Removed some unreleased Morphs from the list.
  
• Fishing: Corrected the unlocalized strings in the Fishing menu.
  

• 200 Ornate Coins (1 total hour watched)
  
• 300 Ornate Coins (2 total hours watched)
  
• Title: Point Made (5 total hours watched)
  
• 900 Dimensional Contract Tokens II (8 total hours watched)
  
• 300 Battle Pass Star Crystals (12 total hours watched)
  

• 250 Ornate Coins
  
• 10 Resistance Contracts
  
• 5,000 Abyssal Contract Tokens
  

• Precious Blessing Pouch grants you 2 Resistance Contracts and 1 Rare or Epic piece of gear you may not have in your inventory. After purchasing the pouch, you can check out the list of possible items. Your most sought-after weapon or armor might be waiting for you.
  
• Precious Active Skill Growth Books can be purchased in case you’re having trouble crafting or finding more of them throughout your adventures. Skill Books are valuable resources to grow your abilities’ power.
  
• Looking to increase your gear’s potency? Precious Weapon Growthstones, Precious Armor Growthstones, and Precious Accessory Growthstones are all available in exchange for Ornate Coins.
  
• If your hero’s gear and skills are already at their highest potential, you can spend your Ornate Coins on unique Amitoi. These are especially helpful for Amitoi Expeditions or if you aim to collect them all.
  
• More interested in appearances? Look into the selection of extra titles like "Kind of a Big Deal" or "Trendsetter" to better match your character’s look and feel.