Release Notes: The Spear of Salvation

November 12, 2020

The Spear of Salvation update launches on November 19 at 10:00 AM PST (1:00 PM EST, 18:00 UTC)! Players can expect a download of about 6 gb for this update, which will be available once maintenance begins! The full release notes for this update can be found below:

NEW CONTENT

  • Added new Ivory Dunes region
    • 40 Campaign Quests
    • 24 Sidequests
    • 10 Regional Quests
    • 1 Invasion Quest
    • Added 2 tameables - Stray Camel and Oasis Axe Beak
  • Added new Fishing system
    • Fishing areas in South and North Sperios
    • New recipes and items
    • Fishing Tool Merchant in 10 regions
  • New Deathtail Sovereign field elite
  • Added Madaan Reputation Merchant
  • Added Mastery Crafting
  • Added Crafting Promotion quests
  • Added SP Shop system
  • Added new mounts
  • Added new quests
  • Added new estate decorations
  • New attendance system
  • Added Elemental Damage
    • Elemental damage is not affected by the target’s defense
    • Some NPCs will deal elemental damage
    • Some NPCs are weak against specific elements and will take additional damage

 

INVASIONS

  • The goal of defeating elite monsters for most Invasions have been separated into an individual phase

 

DUNGEONS

  • New 5 Player Lair
    • Forgotten Sewers
  • New 5 Player Dungeon
    • The Nightspire - Entropic Descent
  • New 2 Player Arena
    • The Dune Tyrant

 

CLASSES

 

Berserker

  • Decreased the Fury gained from combo attacks from 4 > 3, and decreased Fury gained from Skill attacks from 5 > 4
  • The duration of Bloodleech has been decreased from 15 seconds > 10 Seconds. And extended time from upgrading has been changed to 5 seconds > 3 seconds

 

Ranger

  • Changed the effect of Peregrine Strike to knock back
  • Changed the daze effect of Unrelenting Will(Peregrine Strike's Passive) to when a successful final attack has been landed, the target will have their movement speed reduced by 25% for 4 seconds.

 

Mage

  • Firebomb: Increased the cooldown time from 8 seconds to 15 seconds
  • Arcane Flash: When flash has been used repeatedly, the cooldown time for the skill will increase by 5 seconds
  • The Daze effect of attacking after using the Amplify skill has been changed to decreasing the target's movement speed.
  • The Blind Executioner: Changed the stage 3 of the Meteor Skill (Immunity to most disruptions skills). For 3 seconds, a Protective Shield will be granted which any next attack will be nullified. The protective shield can be applied every 24 seconds.

 

Priest

  • Smiting Fist's knockback effect has been changed to upperdown.

 

Added Class Levels System

  • Class Level can be unlocked by completing the New Power quest
  • Stats improve as Class Level increases
  • Class Level determines your maximum amount of Class Points
  • Once Class Level is activated, players can upgrade passive skills with Class Points
  • Players can purchase CP Tickets and CP Reset cards from the SP Merchant
  • Within "Class Passive Effect" under Main Menu > Skills > Class Skill, players can invest their Class Points to improve the passive they want
    • CP Tickets can be used to obtain Class Points
    • The Class Points invested in a passive can be reset by using CP Reset Cards
    • The number of CP Reset Cards required increases the more you reset

 

UNIONS

  • Artful Disguise (Artisans Skill)
    • Cooldown time: Changed from 10 minutes to 5 mins
    • Upon using the skill, 30% of the HP is instantly restored and based on the transformation, the effect can last additional 5 minutes.
  • Training Dummy
    • Gathering Speed is increased by 10%
    • XP obtained from gathering increased by 50%
  • Fake Chest
    • Gathering speed is increased by 10%
    • Additional 5% XP earned from Crafting
  • Tree
    • Gathering speed increased by 10%
    • 10% increase in HP recovery from Gathering
  • Bush
    • Gathering speed increased by 30%

 

UI

  • Improved UI that displays the Union reward in the Arena/Battlefield results window
  • Improved the graphic displayed for marketplace items based on enhancement and rarity grade

 

QUESTS

  • The difficulty of Estate Taming Quest has been greatly reduced
  • Decreased number of objectives and increased number of totems in Gnoll Wastes's quest, "Totem Suppression”
  • Expanded quest area for the Navarra regional quests “The Harpy Queen's Brood” and “Flowers of Navarra”
  • Adjusted design of Crusade quest icon to differentiate from the Invasion quest icon
  • Added quest after Bag Expansion quest has maxed out that allows any left over Bag Pieces to be exchanged for Skill Points

 

NPCs

  • Merged the inventories for Grocer and General Goods Merchant
  • Removed a General Goods Merchant from the Gnoll Wastes - Azos Patrol Camp, Tristezza - Rift Survey Camp and Border Checkpoint, Beoran - Arduun Forest Faceless Subjugation Camp, Eidolon Forest - Oscarta Digsite and Rabin Village

 

MONSTERS

  • Changed the appearance of the Jungle Warrior
  • Changed the Ribus Turtle monster from Aggressive to Non-Aggressive
  • Monsters below level 3 in the early regions will no longer scale level

 

EQUIPMENT

  • Added new equipment with elemental damage and elemental defense

 

GUILDS

  • Guild XP can be obtained from Matchmaking by organizing a party amongst same guild members
  • Changed standard offline time for the transfer of Guild Master from 7 Days to 15 Days

 

ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Deactivated the “Master of Evasion” and “Master of Simon Says” achievements in the Temples of Lies dungeon

 

ATTENDANCE

  • Changed accumulated player time for Attendance.
  • Daily - 1/2/3/4/5 Hours > 10/30/60/90/120 Mins
  • Weekly - 10/15/20/25 Hours > 150/300/450/600 Mins
  • Changed the forced update of Attendance for inactive users from 90 Days to 30 Days

 

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Increased the amount of paid bag slots from 100 to 150
  • Beginning from round 3, a vote to surrender option is available by opening the World Menu

 

BUG FIXES

  • Added the option to remove the Third Eye Believer's Robes effect obtained during the Tristezza Campaign quest "The Great Ritual"
  • Fixed a bug where subtitles were not appearing on the Kannus Mountains cinematic
  • Fixed a bug where the Bag Merchant in the Kannus Valley Skaa Refugee Camp was displayed as a General Goods Merchant on the map
  • Fixed a bug where the combat time is incorrectly displayed after one defeats the 2nd boss Reebi in the Dreamscale Ruins - Sundered Sanctuary
  • Fixed the issue of some dungeons where the UI displayed upon immediately killing the boss and the Exit UI would simultaneously overlap and display together.
  • Adjusted the returning distance for Varr the Violent
  • Fixed the issue where during the Brotherhood quest, the Federation monster that changes factions was not able to be locked-on.
  • Changed the Ranger's Gift of Valor Blessing, Parting Shot, to push the target instead of knocking them down
  • Fixed the issue where the UI that appears after completing a dungeon and the end layout were not being displayed properly.
  • Fixed the issue of certain Ancient Treasure Chests being spawned in the incorrect area in Tristezza
  • Fixed a bug where the NPC located in the second slot of the estate's level 5 Animal Pen is buried in the ground
  • Fixed bugs regarding Manastone Roisa's combat area in Rutus Mines - Depths of Corruption
  • Fixed a bug where a player can continue to inflict and take damage from the boss even while outside of the combat area by using specific methods
    • Fixed a bug where the boss does not reset due to the above situation
  • Removed the bursting effect that occurs after stepping on 3 blood pools in Savantis Mausoleum - Altar of Blood
  • Fixed a bug where the defeat times for the ruin managers (Reebi, Grogula, Badawi) in Dreamscale Ruins - Sundered Sanctuary are shown differently right after they are defeated, and in the completion layout
  • Daze Effect
    • Added explanation to the Crusader and Berserker's combo attack
    • Added explanation in the tooltip for the ranger's unique skill Peregrine Strike
  • Fixed a bug in the Arena: The Cursed Knight where the effects show the boss to be coming up from being buried in the ground
  • Fixed a bug where the reward chest for clearing the Savantis Mausoleum - Lich's Respite dungeon spawned in unreachable places by moving the chest close to the Soul Pyre
  • Fixed a bug where the priest continues to attack even if they were hit by the Bone Dragon's beryl breath skill and turned into the beryl state while using the Retribution skill
  • Modified the spawn location of an Ancient Treasure Chest that was located in an unreachable location near a river in Beoran
  • Fixed so that the Mailbox can be interacted with before the visual loading is complete
  • Fixed a bug where the effect is not applied if one uses an item that displays a motion (lunchboxes) while in an area where lots of delay occurs
  • When an emote is used while another is in progress, the emote in progress ends.
  • Fixed a bug where the zone volume of the Dimensional Rift, and Rift Survey Camp in Tristezza was overlapping
  • Red Basin exclusive elixir effects are removed upon exit.
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