Update 4.12.0

Throne and Liberty update 4.12.0 downtime will begin at 10:30 p.m. PT (5:30 a.m. UTC) on September 16 and last approximately 4.5 hours.

Update Content

• Added 2 new Field Bosses to Nix, Grimturg and Exodus.
• Added 3 new armor sets and 20 new Accessories.
• Increased the maximum equipment Item Level to 90.

Nix Field Bosses

• Added 2 new Level 60 Field Bosses to Tumgir Hollow in Nix, Grimturg and Exodus.
• Grimturg and Exodus appear on the same battlefield at different times and are available as Peace, War, and Guild encounters.
• Added Grimturg and Exodus Guild Contracts.

Item Level Expansion and New Equipment

• Added 15 new Armor pieces and 20 new Accessories.

• Verdigris Covenant Set 1: 2-piece effect: Block Chance +12%, Skill Damage Resistance +80.
• Verdigris Covenant Set 2: 2-piece effect: Heavy Attack Damage +2.5% per 10 Strength, Melee Heavy Attack Chance +200.
• Ancient Resolve Set 1: 2-piece effect: Critical Damage +2% per 10 Dexterity, Ranged Critical Hit +200.
• Ancient Resolve Set 2: 2-piece effect: Critical Hit Chance +175, on Critical Hit restores 3% of damage dealt as Health.
• Azure Sanctuary Set 1: 2-piece effect: Heavy Attack Damage +0.8% per 1,000 Max Mana up to 30,000, Heavy Attack Damage +10%.
• Azure Sanctuary Set 2: 2-piece effect: If Mana is at 30% or below, boosts Mana Regen by 100% until it reaches 70%. If Mana is above 30%, Skill Damage Boost +160 and total Mana Cost Efficiency -30. Cannot be activated during Mana Regen increase effects.

Increased the maximum equipment Item Level from 80 to 90.

• Equipment that previously had a maximum Item Level of 80, including the newly added equipment, can now be upgraded to Item Level 90.
• Equipment obtained from reward chests acquired before the release of Version 4.12.0 will remain at Item Level 80.
• Equipment obtained by purifying Redfrost Items owned before the update will also remain at Item Level 80.

Increased the Fixed Item Level of Nix and Snowsoul Archboss Weapons to 93.

Significantly increased equipment growth rates from Item Levels 51 to 80 and reduced Inheritance costs.

Updated rewards for Nix Contracts, Purification, Ascended Talandre and Nix Archbosses, Ascended Talandre and Nix Field Bosses, Co-op Dungeons, Hall of Illusion, Dimensional Trial Golden Chests, Battlegrounds, Raids, Crafting, and Material Transmutation.

• Existing Nix Contract reward chests and Contracts accepted before the update will retain their current rewards.

New Crafting Recipes

• Added recipes for Verdigris Covenant, Ancient Resolve, and Azure Sanctuary equipment sets.

• These recipes require Adventure Coin: Fortitude, Shemir's Armor Cinder, Precious Magic Powder, and Noble Polishing Crystals.

• Added 10 crafting recipes that use the corresponding Enraged Skill Core to create its Ruthless Skill Core variant.

Lithograph Book

• Added 22 Lithograph Book entries using 15 new Armor pieces and 14 new Accessories.
• Completing these entries rewards Trait Unlockstone Fragments, Trait Enchantment Stone Fragments, and various Precious Ores.

Guild Donations

• Donating resources designated as recommended by your Guild now grants bonus rewards alongside the standard donation rewards.

Helping Hand

• During Raids, if a Helping Hand-eligible player belongs to another party within the same raid group, Helping Hand rewards are now granted to the entire raid group.

Progression and Content Improvements

• Increased the availability of Trait Unlockstone Fragments and Relic Analysis Crystals.
• Improved Purification rewards by removing equipment with a maximum Item Level of 50 and adding equipment that can reach Item Level 90.
• Increased equipment growth rates from Item Levels 51 to 80 and reduced Inheritance costs.
• Increased Dimensional Trial point rewards and Golden Chest appearance rates.
• Increased rewards from Dynamic Events and adjusted their schedule.

Trait Unlockstone Supply

• Added Trait Unlockstone Fragments and Relic Analysis Crystals to Dynamic Event rewards.

• Trait Unlockstone Fragments are granted as participation rewards.
• Relic Analysis Crystals are granted as ranking rewards from Guild-type Dynamic Events.

Players with Regional Contribution Certificates can earn up to 250 additional Trait Unlockstone Fragments, depending on the Event type.

Heroic Trait Enchantment Stones

• Increased the chance of obtaining Heroic Trait Enchantment Stones from Heroic Trait Enchantment Stone Chests.

• Chests obtained before the update will retain their current acquisition rates.

Consolidated Heroic Trait Enchantment Stones for Armor and Accessories.

• Armor and Accessory stones are no longer separated by individual equipment type.
• Each stat now has one Heroic Trait Enchantment Stone for Armor and one for Accessories.
• Heroic Trait Enchantment Stones obtained through Login Events will be automatically converted into the consolidated stones after the update.
• Stones obtained through other content can be dissolved to receive the corresponding consolidated stones.

Item Level Growth

• Significantly increased equipment growth rates from Item Levels 51 to 80.
• Reduced equipment Inheritance costs.

Purification

• Added new equipment to Purification results and adjusted acquisition rates.
• Equipment with a maximum Item Level of 50 can no longer be obtained when purifying Weapon, Armor, or Accessory Redfrost Items, significantly increasing the chance of obtaining equipment that can reach Item Level 90.
• Removed Uncommon Redfrost equipment from drops and rewards.
• Adjusted the equipment available from Rare and Epic Redfrost Items:

• Rare Redfrost Items grant equipment between Item Levels 51 and 80.
• Epic Redfrost Items grant equipment between Item Levels 51 and 90.

Added level indicators to Redfrost Items to show the maximum Item Level of the equipment they can provide.

Nix Contract Scrolls

• Reduced the weekly purchase limit for Resistance Contract Scroll: Nix to 1 and doubled its rewards.

• Scrolls obtained before the update and Contracts already in progress will retain their current rewards.

Flames of Purification

• Significantly increased Flames of Purification Points granted by NPCs and gathering objects in Remnants of Nix.

Dimensional Trials

• Increased the Accumulated Points earned per clear to 6,000.
• Increased the base appearance rate of Golden Chests at Stage 6 and above from 20% to 40%.
• Increased the additional Golden Chest appearance rate granted by each debuff selected in the Additional Effects menu from 5% to 10%.

Dynamic Events

• Dynamic Events are now held at 00:00, 12:00, 18:00, and 21:00 local server time daily.
• Dominion and Guild Dynamic Events now alternate between time slots based on the day of the week and the week.
• Reduced the number of Region Contribution Certificates granted each week from 7 to 3.
• Increased Dynamic Event rewards.

Field Events

• The Primal Trial: Reduced monster damage and the number of enemies required to complete the objective.
• The Candle That Melts Eternity: Reduced the boss monster's Movement Speed.

Weapon Skill Balance and Fixes

• Updated Skill and Skill Core descriptions to reflect recent balance changes and clarify effects.
• Adjusted equipment effects and fixed various issues.
• Reduced the difference between the maximum and minimum Hit Chance and Evasion limits in Battlegrounds and Arena.

Greatsword

• Guillotine Blade: Fixed an issue where the tooltip incorrectly stated that damage increased against Prone or Shocked targets. The effect applies against targets affected by Collision or Shock.
• Defense Skill \[Iron Point Parry]: Reflected damage is now affected by Hit Chance and Evasion.

• The Stun applied when defending against a Fury Attack within 0.5 seconds is now resolved separately from reflected damage.

Skill Core: Rear Strike: Expanded the activation condition to include both Greatsword Mobility Skills and Greatsword Skills that move the caster.

Skill Core: Wave: Updated the description to clarify that Wave changes Slash Wave into a single-strike attack.

Daggers

• Ankle Strike: Added the missing duration of Collision: Prone to the Skill description.
• Camouflage Cloak Specialization 1 \[Crowd Control Immunity]: Fixed an issue where the Specialization did not grant immunity to Fear applied by Winter Storm Wand \[Dragon's Intimidation].
• Frenzied Sword Dance / Frenzied Sword Dance Specialization 1 \[Mad Sword Dance]: Fixed an issue preventing these Skills from being used against targets made Airborne by Deluzhnoa's Torrent or Deluzhnoa's Cold.

Longbow

• Skill Core: Triple Snipe: Increased the speed of the leap and attack animations.

• The player is now immune to Stun, Collision, Bind, Sleep, and Fear while leaping.
• Increased the distance traveled by the third leap.
• Reusing the Skill before firing now immediately performs the next leap.
• Updated the Skill Core and Skill descriptions to reflect these changes.

Staff

• Elemental Awakening: Combined Fire, Ice, and Lightning Elements into a single Elemental Energy resource.

• The effect now activates upon reaching 7 Elemental Energy instead of requiring separate Fire, Ice, and Lightning values.
• Reduced the period during which Elemental Energy cannot be gained after activation from 10 seconds to 5 seconds.
• Increased the duration of the Species Damage Boost effect from 4 seconds to 6 seconds.
• Reduced the remaining cooldown reduction applied to elemental Staff Skills at all growth levels.

• At Heroic Lv. 5, the remaining cooldown reduction has been reduced from 15% to 12.6%.

Skill Core: Thunder's Shadow: Renamed the Crowd Control effect applied to enemies from Thunder's Blessing to Thunder's Shadow.

• Thunder's Shadow's cooldown now begins when the effect is applied to an enemy instead of when the Skill is used.
• Fixed an issue where the Mana Regen Increase buff icon did not appear while Inner Peace Specialization 3 \[Duration Increase] was active.

Skill Core: Thunderclouds Explosion: Removed the effect that reduced falling lightning to 2 strikes per second. Lightning now strikes 5 times per second.

• The area effect continues to deal 60% increased damage to up to 3 targets within 1m.
• When 2 of Thunder's Shadow, Lightning Condensation, and Thunderclouds Explosion are active simultaneously, only the highest Damage Amplification effect is applied.
• Updated the Skill Core and Skill descriptions to reflect these changes.

Skill Core: Absolute Zero: Significantly reduced the casting time to improve synergy with Icebound Explosion and Ice Mist.

• The designated area retains its 6m radius.
• Enemies within the area receive 1 stack of Weaken: Frostbite every 0.5 seconds for 3 seconds.
• Each Frostbite stack reduces Movement Speed by 20%. Reaching 5 stacks applies Bind: Icebound for 3 seconds.
• Updated the Skill Core and Skill descriptions to reflect these changes.

Skill Core: Ice Mist: The caster can now enter Stealth again while remaining within the area after the 5-second Stealth reactivation restriction expires.

• Updated the description to clarify that Stealth cannot be applied again for 5 seconds after it is granted.

Potential Ability \[Flame Condensation Enchant]: Fixed an issue where Burning damage was not applied correctly.

Wand

• Karmic Haze: Sleep: Nightmare Melody and Drowsiness can now be spread to other targets.
• Skill Core: Nightmare Melody: Fixed an issue where Drowsiness did not apply to players with Sleep Immunity.

• Fixed an issue where using Nightmare Melody removed Drowsiness from targets with Sleep Immunity.
• When used with Skill Core: Nightmare Conductor, Weaken: Nightmare Fear now applies to targets with Sleep Immunity.
• Updated the Skill Core description to clarify that Drowsiness applies to targets with Sleep Immunity.

Skill Core: Nightmare Conductor: Added a vision-reduction effect to Weaken: Nightmare Fear and updated the Skill Core description accordingly.

• When used with Skill Core: Nightmare Melody, the vision restriction is strengthened so affected targets can see only within 5m.

Skill Core: Nightmare Concerto: Attacking a Drowsy target now removes Drowsiness and deals 600% of Base Damage + 200.

• Remaining cooldown is reduced by 30% against targets affected by Nightmare Melody or Drowsiness.

Spear

• Defense Skill \[Patient Block]: Removed the limit on the number of counterattacks activated after successfully defending against a Fury Attack.

• Fixed an issue where damage dealt after successfully defending against a Fury Attack was applied as fixed damage.

Rising Slash Specialization 2 \[Distant Slash]: Reduced the range increase from 40% to 15%.

Tempest Strike: Stun is no longer applied if a target hit by Tempest Strike does not collide with a wall.

Skill Core: Divine Retribution: Removed the restriction that limited Ascending Cleave's CC effects to NPCs.

• Ascending Cleave's remaining cooldown is now reduced by 2.5 seconds when it damages a target with 5 Burst stacks.
• Ascending Cleave now deals 20% increased damage to monsters while Skill Core: Divine Retribution is equipped.
• Updated the Skill Core description to reflect these changes.

Skill Core: Wave of Punishment: Ascending Cleave's Collision: Prone, Push, and Stun effects now apply only to monsters.

• Removed the effect that increased Ascending Cleave's damage against monsters by 500%.
• When Ascending Cleave applies Shock or damages a Shocked target, it now creates 6 waves.
• Each wave deals 750% of Base Damage to enemies within a 2.5m radius.
• Each wave that deals damage reduces Ascending Cleave's remaining cooldown by 8%, up to 6 times.
• Ascending Cleave continues to deal 90% less damage to players.
• Updated the Skill Core description to reflect these changes.

Orb

• Epic Tactics \[Dark Erosion]: Fixed an issue where Dark Erosion did not activate when Arctic Roar Resonating Orb \[Tectonic Shift] applied Collision: Pull.
• Skill Core: Purifying Star: Updated the description to clarify that only Gravity Star Destroyer is excluded from Specialization effects.

• Specialization 2 \[Range and Duration Increase] and Specialization 4 \[Additional Effect] now apply to Purifying Star.
• These Specializations grant the same effects as they do for Healing Star.
• Fixed an issue where Purifying Star could not remove Shield Health Reduction.
• Added Shield Health Reduction to the status-effect removal order shown in the description.
• Reduced Purifying Star's Mana Cost at all growth levels.

• At Heroic Lv. 5, Mana Cost has been reduced from 770 to 250.

Gauntlets

• Momentum: One-Inch Punch chain Skills now gain 100% Damage Amplification when they hit.

Crossbows

• Skill Core: Support Fire: Fixed an issue where Skill Core: Akman's Fragment did not activate when Quick Fire was fired from the Arbalest.

Weapons

• Last Dragon's Thunder Greatsword \[Dragon's Counterattack]: Provoke applied by Valiant Brawl and Guillotine Blade is no longer considered a Weaken effect.

• Fixed an issue where counterattack damage did not activate against targets Provoked by Sword and Shield Skill Core: Roar of Rage.
• Adjusted Base Damage from 256~370 to 219~407.

Hymn of Justice Greatsword \[Devotion Barrier]: Fixed an issue where Devotion Barrier did not remove the Shield Health Reduction effect applied by Sword and Shield Skill Core: Barrier Crusher.

Burning Purgatory's Bloodlust Greatsword \[Burning Purgatory's Vigor]: Fixed an issue where the DaVinci's Courage \[Duration Increased] Specialization was not applied to the effect.

Frigid Crimson Sword / Frigid Teal Sword \[Immortal Bond]: Immortal Bond no longer applies to Golems during Tax Delivery and Siege events.

Deluzhnoa's Sword of Burning Ice \[Enraged Deluzhnoa's Touch]: Added an 80% chance to apply a Weaken effect that reduces All Defense by 500 for 6 seconds against monsters immune to Collision.

Deluzhnoa's Snowsoul Sword \[Ruthless Deluzhnoa's Touch]: Added an 80% chance to apply a Weaken effect that reduces All Defense by 750 for 6 seconds against monsters immune to Collision.

Scale Lord's Massacre Sword: Reduced Damage Reduction from 115 to 90.

• Increased Block Chance from 31.5% to 41.5%.
• Changed the additional stat provided from Wisdom to Strength.

Deluzhnoa's Snowsoul Daggers \[Phantom Smokescreen]: Changed the stat granted while inside the smokescreen from Hit Chance +250 to PvP Critical Hit Chance +350.

Reverse Scale Tracker's Judgment Crossbows \[Atirat's Flame]: Improved the Skill's visual effects.

Reverse Scale Destroyer's Execution Bow \[Ice Dragon Strike]: Frost now allows Lightning Skills to transfer to other targets.

• Adjusted Base Damage from 149~327 to 95~381.

Frozen Inferno Longbow / Frost Comet Longbow \[Purifying Cry]: Purifying Cry can now remove CC effects from the caster.