Patch Notes - May 12, 2022

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[Content Updates]

● Added a supplier of Explorer's Flute/Lute.
○ You can now purchase Explorer's Flute/Lute from the weapon shop.
■ So far, you could only get an "Explorer's Flute/Lute" through hunting if you lost it after first receiving it during a quest or when you failed to get the option you wanted. However, you can now purchase this item from a Weapon Merchant.

● Changed how the "Crimson Rift" quests are accepted.
○ Combined the existing "Crimson Rift" quests into one.
■ It was inconvenient to accept the "Crimson Rift" quests, as they started at midnight and had to be accepted 4 times according to schedule.
■ The 4 quests can now be accepted at once just like the "Weakened Tower" quests, reducing the time taken to accept and join the quests.

● Changed the maximum stacks of all Enhancers.
○ Changed the maximum stacks of all Enhancers from 100 to 1,000.
■ Increased the maximum stacks of all Enhancers, including Exalted Hiram Infusion, to 1,000.
■ However, the maximum stacks of all Boss Infusions will remain unchanged, and we will keep making improvements on the insufficient Bag space issue due to consumables.

● Changed the Enhancer opening time and the Synthesis cast time.
○ Removed cooldown for opening Enhancers and decreased Synthesis cast time from 3 sec to 1.5 sec.
■ The cooldown for opening Enhancers had already been adjusted to 0.5 sec with the March 31st updates, but there was feedback that Synthesis was still slow. Hence we have removed the cooldown for opening Enhancers and halved the Synthesis cast time, from 3 sec to 1.5 sec.
■ Although it may be difficult to make immediate improvements on the overlapping Synthesis materials and Synthesis quantity issues, but we will try to come up with a mid to long term improvement plan.

● Increased the Faction Competition rewards.
○ Increased the Eastern/Western Hiram weekly quest rewards and eased the quest completion conditions.
■ Based on our survey results, initial improvements were made on the Diamond Shores - Reedwind - Sungold Fields - Exeloch weekly quests. However, as required weekly quests were increased due to reward increase, secondary improvements will be made to Eastern/Western Hiram quests.
■ The quest completion condition of defeating 200 monsters per quest was decreased to defeating 100 monsters to reduce your fatigue. The reward for "Mammoth" and "Treant" daily quests was increased from Brilliant Hiram Awakening Scroll x10 to x20, and a "Decrystallization Scroll" was added as a "Waterfall Stairs" weekly quest completion reward to reduce the pressure of awakening Glorious equipment.

● Adjusted the limitation in the number of participants allowed to enter the Garden per faction to 200.

● [Combat Balance - Skills]
○ Changed the Skillsets as below.

■ Witchcraft
○ Fiend's Knell
* Decreased the fiend's Health decrease to 3%.
* The target consumes additional Mana equal to 1–2% of the target's Max Mana when attacked by the fiend.
○ Dahuta's Breath
* Decreased the Attack Speed of the target hit by Dahuta's Breath to 80 and Move Speed by 10% for 4 sec. (Slow granted)
○ Dahuta's Breath: Mist
* Decreased the Attack Speed of the target hit by Dahuta's Breath to 80 and Move Speed by 10% for 4 sec. (Slow granted)
○ Dahuta's Breath: Quake
* Decreased the Attack Speed of the target hit by Dahuta's Breath to 80 and Move Speed by 10% for 4 sec. (Slow granted)

■ Archery
○ Endless Arrows
* Deals 4% additional damage to the target of the Silence combo effect. (Applies to guns and bows)
○ Endless Arrows: Flame
* Deals 4% additional damage to the target of the Silence combo effect. (Applies to guns and bows)
○ Endless Arrows: Stone
* Deals 4% additional damage to the target of the Silence combo effect. (Applies to guns and bows)
○ Deadeye
* Decreased Deadeye Stance to 5 stacks.
* Increased Deadeye Stance's Defense Penetration per stack to 600. (3,000 at max stacks/5 stacks)
* Slightly increased Defense Penetration for when Deadeye Stance is at a low level. (Max level remains unchanged)

■ Defense
○ Invincibility
* Increased Received Healing Decrease while Invincibility is active to 70%.
* Decreased the effect duration of Invincibility to 5 sec.

■ Occultism
○ Death's Vengeance
* Decreased the radius of Death's Vengeance to 7m.
* Decreased Stun duration to 3 sec.

■ Malediction
○ [Passive] Empowered Malice
* Applies 4% of Malediction Skill Damage while a Two-Handed Weapon is equipped, and 10% of Malediction Skill Damage while no Two-Handed Weapon is equipped.

● [Combat Balance - Equip Effect]
○ Changed the weapon equip effects as below.
■ Equipping Dual Weapons
○ Added 6% Melee/Ranged/Magic Critical Damage and Critical Heal Bonus.
○ Added 400 Focus.

[Bug Fixes]

● Fixed the issue where Labor was consumed when opening a "Heartfelt Chest."

● Fixed the issue regarding the "15-Day Mission of Daru: Fruit of Effort" quest reward.

● Fixed the issue where "Meow-paw Teleport Scroll" could not be used while near the Goddess Nui.

● Fixed the issue where you couldn't get out of the warehouse that you have to enter during the "Weakened Tower" quests.

[Events]

● Heart-Warming Family Month event has ended.

● Lost Treasure Chest of Golo event has started.

● God and King of Dance event has started.

● Double the Gain event has started.
○ Event Period: May 12 (after maintenance)–Jun. 2 (before maintenance)
○ Double XP, Loot Drop Rate, Quest Honor Points, and Vocation Badges.

● The growth gift event has started.
○ Event Period: May 12 (after maintenance)–May 26 at CEST 05:00 (PDT 03:00)
○ Can purchase a [Growth Gift] item once per account for free from the Marketplace.
■ Only Patrons of at least Lv55 can open the item.

● Equipment Synthesis Cost discount event has started.
○ Event Period: May 12 (after maintenance)–May 26 at CEST 05:00 (PDT 03:00)
○ Excited Jake will be installed at the entrance of Mirage Isle during the event period.
○ A buff to discount Synthesis cost will be granted when you are within 70m of Jake.

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