Skill Book System Rework:

    Skills now only need to be unlocked once and are permanently available.

    Skills can be changed any time when not in combat through the “K” interface.

    Blue/Purple skill book drop rates increased 4x.

    Chest transmute success rates standardized to 33% for all rarities.

Battle Pass:

    Battle Pass progress and rewards are now account-wide.

    New Battle Pass rewards now include actually useful high-tier potions.

Character Management:

    Default character slots increased to 4.

    Character slots expandable to 7 (cost: 1,000 Divine Gems each).

    Character deletion period reduced from 7 days → 1 day.

    Enabled direct trading and mailing between all players, with the following limitations:

        Only items marked as "Tradable" can be traded or mailed between different players.

        Exception: Repair Tools, standard Healing Potions, and basic Food items can always be traded and mailed freely.

        Divine Gem Fee for Mailing or Trading Items to "combat bots and abusers" (1 item fee):

    0 Gems: Repair Tools, Healing Potions, Basic Food.

    1 Gem: All items below Epic (Purple) and Legendary (Orange) rarity.

    10 Gems: Epic (Purple) rarity items.

    100 Gems: Legendary (Orange) rarity items.

Anti-Bot Measures:

    New machine learning methods implemented to detect and combat bots more effectively.

    Modernized Purple Launcher CAPTCHA: You will no longer feel the existential dread of identifying blurry traffic lights and crosswalks. You might actually log in on the first try now.

Psyche Improvements:

    Psyches now have a chance to drop in Expert (Blue) dungeons:

        10% chance for random Moonwater Psyche as personal loot from the final boss.

        10% chance as party-shared loot from the final boss.

    Psyche crafting now requires ~20% fewer resources.

    You can now select individual stats to reroll instead of dual-stat rerolls.

Insignia Adjustments:

    Fusing (upgrading) costs reduced:

        10 Silver (x3 Normal)

        1 Gold (x3 Refined)

        10 Gold (x3 Superior)

    Fusing (random combination) costs reduced:

        3 Silver (x3 Random Normal)

        20 Silver (x3 Refined)

        1 Gold (x3 Superior)

    Tower Emblem weekly insignia purchase limit doubled.

    Insignia drop rates increased 2x-5x across dungeons.

Soul Badge and Mystic Badge Transmute:

    You can now transmute Soul Badge Selection Chests and Mystic Badge Selection Chests.

    The default random buyable option has been removed.

Soul Core Changes:

    Upgrading your weapon to Awakened now has a 50% chance to grant a Soul Core slot.

    Upgrading your weapon to True now guarantees a Soul Core slot.

    Unified transmute cost to 10 fragments for all rarities (down from 20).

    Soul Core drop rates increased 2x in relevant Purple dungeons.

    Tae Jangum’s Soul Core now grants the Poison Breath active skill.

Mantra Stones:

    Added a new rare item to unlock Mantra Stone slots (drops in purple dungeons).

    Fuse success rate increased from 50% → 75%.

Gear Upgrade Changes:

    Upgrading gear to Awakened or True no longer has a chance of failure.

Gear Level Requirement:

    Added level requirements for gear to prevent equipping high-tier items at very low levels (e.g., Siren weapon at level 1). Note: Requirements are not overly strict.

Card System:

    The drop chance for Cards has been increased by x4 across all content.

    Card fusion costs reduced by 75%.

Loot Distribution:

    Resources and healing potions dropped in dungeons are now randomly distributed among all party members by default.

    Added a party setting option to change common loot distribution (resources, potions) to "Free for All" (for parties who prefer not to have these items randomly assigned amongst friends).

    Default loot settings (Master Looter, etc.) can now only be changed through a successful party vote.

Dungeon Tuning:

    Blue Dungeon mob/boss HP reduced by 15%.

    Purple Dungeon boss HP reduced by 7.5% (This includes Mushin's Tower bosses).

    Dragon Pulses or Teleporting Mechanisms now spawn at the instance start after the first and second boss kills in relevant dungeons.

Mushin's Tower Updates:

    Mushin's Tower F4 & F6 Checkpoints: You can now choose to leave the Tower upon reaching Floor 4 or Floor 6 to receive a corresponding Checkpoint Ticket. This saves your progress, allowing you to resume later, and prevents losing a run if you lack gold, potions, or repairs to continue the climb. Tickets can be used to re-enter at your saved floor by talking to the Temptress NPC outside the Tower entrance.

    Soulshield Primer drop rates doubled from Mushin's Tower.

Dungeon Fire Trap Adjustment:

    Insta-kill fire traps in certain dungeons have been slightly repositioned to reduce accidental deaths for players standing near the edge of boss arenas.

Wooden Chest Changes:

    Special loot in Wooden Chests is no longer personal; players now roll for this loot. (Note: Valor Stones no longer drop from these chests). Because egocentric person that doing five dashes to always loot chests first should not get rewarded.

    Wooden Chests no longer require keys. Keys have been removed from the game.

Moonwater Plains Personal Treasure Chest:

    The transmutable Moonwater Plains Personal Treasure Chest has been removed from the Transmutation window. It was widely considered a scam.

Expert+ Dungeon Boss Drops:

    Expert+ dungeon bosses now have a 20% chance to drop a Valor Stone as personal loot.

Ritual Availability:

    Rituals are now available on all newly created channels, except when a ritual is imminent (within 20 seconds of boss spawn).

Ritual Quest Acceptance:

    The Ritual Quest can now be accepted directly from the Quest Letters interface ('J' key).

Daily Quest Improvements:

    Daily quests now offer an additional quest option to choose from, making it easier for players (especially those still gearing up) to complete their desired number of dailies for rewards.

Single-Time Quest Visibility:

    Single-time quests are no longer hidden behind daily quests. The first dialogue option with relevant NPCs will always be to accept available single-time quests.

Purple Dungeon Party Finder:

    You can now list and find parties for purple dungeons in the Party Finder (F8).

Quick Find for Dungeons:

    Added a "Quick Find" option to randomly matchmake with players in the world for dungeons (similar functionality to F8 cross-server).

    Completing an Expert+ dungeon with at least 2 players found via Quick Find or the standard F8 cross-server matchmaking rewards new fragments, exchangeable for special outfits or resources.

Faction Quest Party Finder:

    A new party finder is now available specifically for forming parties for faction quests.

Blackwyrm Faction Raid Boss:

    The Blackwyrm faction raid boss is now available, offering rewards such as Faction Insignias, Prestige Points, and other valuable faction-related items.

Faction Quest Improvements:

    Gathering Soulstones or interacting with Automatons in faction quests now takes 50% less time.

    Resource nodes (Soulstones, Automatons) respawn faster.

    "Unlawful Assemblage" (NPC Rescue Quest):

        Quest progress is now shared among party members.

        Rescue NPCs respawn 40% faster.

        Rescue NPCs can no longer turn hostile (go rogue).

Field Boss Adjustments:

    Field bosses can no longer be reset by pulling them too far. If they move out of their designated range, they will become untargetable and teleport back to their spawn point.

    Field bosses now require 20% less damage dealt to qualify for full Essence drops.

Faction Zone Mob Adjustments:

    Misty Woods & Skyhaven Bastion elite mobs: Evasion ratings reduced.

    Regular Skyhaven Bastion mobs now grant 2-3 Prestige per kill.

New Modes:

    Added equalized 1v1 Arena mode with PvP point rewards.

    Added equalized 3v3 Arena mode with PvP point rewards.

Rewards:

    Weekly 6v6 Battleground PvP reward limits doubled.

Dragon Express:

    Healing Tonics and Food items can now be purchased directly from the Dragon Express.

New Vendor Purchases:

    Hongmoon Blessing Potions are now purchasable for:

        500 Battle Points

        10 Mushin Tower Emblems

        7 Strange Crystals

    Weekly purchase cap: 4 potions per currency type (12 total per week).

Skill Interface:

    Skill Tree Access ('K'): You can now modify your skill specializations (change 'Skill Moves') directly within the improved Skill Quick View interface (the one showing all skills visually at once).

Marketplace:

    Market Search: You can now search/filter items without needing to select an item category first.

    Market Search Stat Filtering**:** You can now select multiple "preferred" stats (e.g., Piercing, Crit, Crit Damage, Accuracy). The market will then display any item that has stats matching your selected preferred stats list, effectively filtering for combinations you desire while ignoring items without those stats.

Information & Display:

    Added in-game explanations for various stats (e.g., critical hit chance calculation, piercing thresholds, general accuracy guidelines).

    Portrait/Card menu: Added functionality to filter bonds by card name.

    Added a personal DPS meter option to the UI.

    Soulshield Primer Naming: Removed numerical suffixes (e.g., '#8') from Soulshield Primer names for clarity (e.g., 'Moonwater Reflex Soul Shield Primer #8' is now just 'Moonwater Reflex Soul Shield Primer').

Item Management:

    Reduced amount of Sealing Charms required to seal items:

        Tier 1: 15 -> 10 Charms

        Tier 2: 11 -> 5 Charms

        Tier 3: 5 -> 3 Charms

Gameplay Flow:

    Wheel of Fate Cooldown Removed: The agonizing 3-second universal cooldown between spins is gone. No more awkward staring contests with 10 other people while you all have pockets full of essences.

    Character Creation: Added a confirmation prompt when pressing "Back" to warn that progress will be lost.

Audio:

    Audio: The "You don’t have permission to do that" system voice is now 69% less aggressive.

Party Tools:

    Added a "Ready Check" system for party coordination.

Chat & Community:

    Chat spam detection algorithms improved.

    Blocklist capacity increased to 200 entries.

Combat:

    Fixed a bug causing unintended stance changes (e.g., switching to Draw Stance without input) during combat.

    Fixed an issue where Junghado (Mushin's Tower F7) could continue casting "Whirl" attack while under crowd control effects.

    Fixed an issue where the visual model of grabbed or phantom-gripped enemies could desync from their actual server position, sometimes exacerbated when using CTRL+F (Hide Characters).

    Fixed the persistent "stuck in combat" bug that could occur in specific map locations or after certain actions.

System & Server:

    Fixed a server bug where disconnecting could sometimes prevent immediate login attempts due to a false "character already logged in" error.

    Fixed a bug where characters might not immediately display on the character selection screen upon login, requiring an interaction (like pressing Enter or clicking 'Create Character') to appear.

UI & Interface:

    Corrected inaccuracies in party member tracking on the minimap.

    Fixed an issue where the dungeon completion score window could incorrectly appear before the final boss of the instance was defeated.