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[December 14, 2023] Winter Update Intro

Nov 30. 2023 Updates

 

Greetings everyone, this is the ArcheAge dev team.

We hope that everyone had an amazing 2023 filled with great memories!

For the final update preview of 2023, we want to share some news about updates in December.

 

* Below contents are currently in development and can be subject to change upon actual release.

 

About the max damage cap and an era of Erenor Equipment

Our main goal for the December update is to boost your growth.

We're hoping you'll feel more powerful as we increase the max damage cap. At the same time, we focused on lowering the difficulty of obtaining advanced gear.

1. Increasing the max damage cap

Max damage will be increased from 150,000 to 250,000.

Though it was possible to exceed 150,000 damage based on stats you accumulated over a long period of time, damage beyond this threshold was not really applied due to a max damage cap.

We were aware of the need to increase the max damage cap, but this meant that we would have to make adjustments to parts of the game which are essentially the foundation of ArcheAge. It was a risky task, so we hope you understand it took us a very long time to make the decision to implement the change.

Within these limitations, we tried many different ways to try to provide a sense of growth, but as the service period continued on, we imagine that the amount of growth you felt became increasingly unnoticeable and that it must have been hard to really enjoy the game without having any goals for growth.

Starting from last year, we began thinking about how we could resolve this issue. Our goal was to break these limitations at all costs within 2023. Finally, we are able to announce that you'll experience an increased max damage cap this year.

You might not feel a drastic change for this update, but we believe we will be providing a foundation showing the possibilities of growth in the future.

We will continue to strive to make growth feel more noticeable in your journey.

 

2. Changes in difficulty of obtaining Erenor Equipment

We came to the conclusion that the cost of acquiring Erenor Equipment is too high compared to the cost of upgrading Hiram Guardian Equipment. Therefore we will be making improvements to the difficulty level of acquiring Erenor Equipment so that acquiring the equipment could become a goal for more adventurers.

Since the details of these improvements could affect the market value of items, we will reveal the details during the update.

 

3. Unstable Erenor Infusions

Unstable Erenor Infusions are tradeable Eternal-grade synthesis materials you can get by defeating certain raid monsters.

They can be used for synthesis of all Erenor equipment, and can also be used to craft certain items through Blue Salt Brotherhood merchants.
 

Expanding Max Tempering Stage

The max tempering stage for certain equipment will be expanded from +30 to +35.

We're hoping you can experience stronger equipment performance through this update.

1. Equipment Applied

The tempering stage expansion will apply to the following equipment.

  • Erenor Equipment: Erenor/Awakened Erenor/Brilliant Erenor/Refined Erenor
  • Raid Equipment
    • Charybdis: Termisia's and Termisia's Merciless
    • Anthalon: Corrupted God of Destruction
    • Anthalon: Dread Necromancer/Nefarious Dread Necromancer
    • Leviathan: Vigilant Hermit/Resolute Hermit
    • Black Dragon: Wrathful Black Dragon/Ferocious Black Dragon
    • Nehliya: Soulslake/Eminent Soulslake

2. Tempering Grade and Enhanced Stats

Tempering performance will increase by 1% for stages +1 through +20, and 0.5% for +21 through +30.

Performance will increase as seen below for the stages that are added. An increase of 35% will be applied at +35.

Tempering Grade

Increase %

Final Performance %

+31

1.00%

26.00%

+32

1.50%

27.50%

+33

2.00%

29.50%

+34

2.50%

32.00%

+35

3.00%

35.00%

(Table) Performance increase % based on increasing the max tempering stage

 

World Boss and Shadow Invasion Renewal

The way World Bosses appear in conflict zones will change, and a new field monster called "Roaring Astor" will appear when you beat the Shadow Invasion.

1. World Boss Changes

The way "World Bosses" appear in conflict zones of Nuia and Haranya will change.

  • Schedule
    • EU: Daily at CET 09 AM, 09 PM (twice per day)
    • NA: Daily at PST 07 AM, 07 PM (twice per day)
  • Process
    • A World Boss will randomly appear in 1 of 8 areas.
  • Spawn Regions (will appear in one of the below areas)
    • Haranya
      • Rookborne Basin: Blightshade
      • Perinoor Ruins: Yaksa Leader
      • Hasla: Hanure
      • Windscour Savannah: Goretusk the Leveler
    • Nuia
      • Halcyona: Daruda the Watcher
      • Hellswamp: The Croakfiend
      • Sanddeep: Zaldrane the Enchantress
      • Karkasse Ridgelands: Tanis the Despoiler

2. Roaring Astor

After you defeat the summoned World Boss and the rebel forces that follow, there will be a certain chance for a new raid boss to appear.

It will use various skills to try to bring you down.

  • Basic Info
    • Name: Roaring Astor
    • Level: Ancestral Lv5
    • Grade: Mythic
    • HP: 7,303,931

(Image) Roaring Astor

  • Characteristics
    • Berserk: After battle begins, its Defense and Attack increases every 150 seconds (stacks up to 10 times).
  • Main Skills
    • Thunder Breath: Jumps up and strikes down an attack that deals damage in three directions in front of it. Thunder Breath leaves a path that deals DoT.
    • Shelling: Fires multiple balls of flame from its mouth in random directions. Flames on the ground will form fire pits, which deal DoT.
    • Summon Lightning Orb: Summons lightning orb onto random spots. Summoned lightning orbs form spinning lightning, dealing heavy damage.
    • Summon Flame Cannon: Summons 2 flame cannons that spit flames. The summoned flame cannons deal DoT in a fan-shaped area.
    • Fire Pillar: Summons pillars of flame in random areas. The flame pillars deal heavy damage and launch targets into the air.
  • Main Rewards
    • Locked Gold Crate
    • Lucid World Boss Infusion
    • Unstable Erenor Infusions

 

Reopening of Battle of Mistmerrow

The highly requested Battle of Mistmerrow will make a return in the upcoming update.

The process will be the same as the previous Battle of Mistmerrow you are familiar with: Nuia and Haranya factions must destroy the Bloodspires, and the Pirate faction must try to defend and rebuild them.

(Image) Battle of Mistmerrow

1. Basics

  • Entry: Instance > Faction War > Battle of Mistmerrow
  • Requirement: Lv30+, Equipment Points 6,000+
  • Entry Time
    • Every Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun at CET 13:00 ~ 13:45 (PST 11:00 ~ 11:45)
    • Every Tues, Thurs, Sat at CET 19:00 ~ 19:45 (PST 17:00 ~ 17:45)
    • Every Mon, Wed, Fri at CET 23:00 ~ 23:45 (PST 21:00 ~ 21:45)
  • Allowed Players
    • Nuia faction: Min. 30–Max. 100
    • Haranya faction: Min. 30–Max. 100
    • Pirate faction: Min. 0–Max. 30

2. Winning Conditions

  • The faction with the highest score at the end of the war wins.
    • It will end in a draw if all the factions have the same score.
  • Points
    • All: Obtain 3 points when killing enemy faction player
    • Nuia and Haranya factions: Obtain 150 points when destroying a Bloodspire
    • Pirate faction: Obtain 80 points when summoning a Bloodspire from Anthalon's Energy

3. Rewards

  • 1st place: 4,000 Honor Points, Improved Infusion Supply Kit x20, Mistmerrow Warrior Token
  •  2nd place: 2,500 Honor Points, Improved Infusion Supply Kit x16, Mistmerrow Warrior Token
  • 3rd place: 2,000 Honor Points, Improved Infusion Supply Kit x12, Mistmerrow Warrior Token

 

Other

1. Additional way to obtain "Abyssal Lunashard"

To make improvements to obtaining the "Abyssal Lunafrost," we will add another way you can obtain the "Abyssal Lunashard."

Details will become available upon the update. We'll also be adding a box from which you can choose to obtain the Abyssal Lunafrost, so we hope you look forward to the update.

2. Easing the pressure for Heroes building territories and adjusting contributions required for Community Centers

We will be making some adjustments to ease the pressure the heroes felt for constructing territories.

  • Adding methods for obtaining territory designs
    • Only heroes are able to purchase the walls and towers that need to be installed, and a lot of bonds were required. To make it easier for heroes to purchase the designs, we will be adding more ways to obtain the Territory Wall Design and Territory Defense Tower Design.
    • By submitting Faction Commendation to a Commendation Collector 200 times, a faction hero can get 20 Commendable Faction Territory Design Crates (only once).
      • Can choose either a Territory Wall Design or a Territory Defense Tower Design.
  • Auroria Community Center contribution adjustments
    • We'll also reduce the number of times contributions need to be made. This should make it easier to reach rank 3 for the Community Center.

Region

Rank

Contributions

Changed # of Contributions

Golden Ruins

1

50

50

2

100

80

3

200

150

Exeloch

1

100

80

2

150

120

3

250

200

Sungold Fields

1

100

80

2

150

120

3

250

200

Aegis Island

1

50

50

2

100

80

3

200

150

Whalesong Harbor

1

100

80

2

150

120

3

250

200

(Chart) Community Center contribution adjustments

 

3. Max Stacks Increased

To partially solve the issue of lack of inventory, the max stacks of the below types of items will change from 100 to 1,000.

  • Adjusted Items (1,155 in total)
    • Lunastones, Lunagems, Mornstones, Luna Charms
    • Crates, Stolen Bags, Scratched Safes, Research Bundles, Shipwright's Design Bags
    • Enchant/Synthesis/Awakening materials
      • Regrade Scrolls
      • Regrade Charms, Anchoring materials
      • Serendipity Stones, Serendipity Stone Shards
      • Synthesis materials
      • Vivid Archeum Orb
      • Glorious Runescribe Quill, Noble Runescribe Quill
      • Great Prairie Essence, Great Prairie Crystal
      • Tempering Charm
      • Decrystallization Scroll
    • Random Migration Talisman/Pendant, Erenor crafting materials (Runes, Gedlon's Strength, Herstan's Resilience, Yordan's Wisdom)
    • Unidentified Hiram Guardian Weapon/Armor, Unidentified Auroran Cloak
    • Experience Tonic, Glittering Experience Tonic
    • Materials
      • Combined Armor, Acidic Poison Pouch, Red Dragon Pouch
    • Golden Die, Judge's Longing, Enhanced Judge's Longing
    • Radiant World Boss Chest, Kadum's Crate
    • Sharpwind Mining Drill, Rainbow Sprinkler
    • Pet Leash
    • Loyalty Token

4. Fixed HP Regen of Healing Potions & Food

There was an issue where the amount of HP recovered from using an item varied depending on one's Received Healing, making the HP regen of a certain class high.

With this update, the HP regen will become fixed regardless of one's Received Healing for Healing Potions and food.

We ask for your understanding as this is an improvement we are making for fairness in classes.

  • Adjusted Items
    • Potions: Healing Potion, Minor Healing Potion, Heart's Beat, Titan's Healing Potion
    • Food: Bread
    • Others: Guild Courage, Wild Ginseng

 

Lastly

The developers are doing their best to find a way to motivate you to grow your character and make the game more fun.

Also, there will be additional improvements other than what was shared in our update preview. We hope you continue to enjoy your ArcheAge life.

Thank you all for your love and support for ArcheAge. We will be back with the December 14 (Thurs) update soon.

Thank you.

 

 

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