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Routine maintenance and update are scheduled for August 30th (UTC).
Please refer to the details below.
■ Maintenance Schedule: August 30th, 2023 7:50 pm – To be announced
■ Effect: Game access unavailable
* The calculation of the compensation due to the pickup system reorganization is ongoing.
* We will announce the end time of the maintenance through a separate notice on August 30th (UTC)
■ Details:
**1. Story Pack 9 'Iron Mask' Update**
- Story Pack 9 can be progressed by clearing Story Pack 8 'Blood Rhapsody'.
- You can enjoy a new scenario that takes place one year after Story Pack 8.
[Watch Story Pack 9 PV](https://youtu.be/Yx2Bwx7UHTA)
**2. Compensation due to the addition of the Draw Guarantee System**
Compensation due to the addition of the Draw Guarantee System (informed in the August 17th notice) will be sent to players’ Mailbox.
For detailed compensation standards, please refer to the table below.
※ Costumes given as a random ticket include updated costumes from June 21st – until before August 2nd maintenance (8:00 PM) (UTC).
- If you have a random ticket, you can proceed with a guaranteed draw from the draw menu.
- If you do not have a random ticket, the guaranteed draw UI will not be exposed.
**3. Talent Skill Pin Function**
- The ability to pin 5 frequently used talent skills will be added.
**4. Bag Organization/Sorting Function**
- Ability to sort by Gear / Consumables / Costume category in bag menu will be added.
The items in your bag are automatically sorted according to the rules of the selected sort option.
- Please refer to the table below for the available sorting options.
**5. Gear Batch Dismantle Selection update**
- When dismantling gears in bulk, conditions for selecting specific gears have been added to make it easier to dismantle only the gears you want.
- Please refer to the table below for selectable conditions.
* Only certain ranks can be dismantled through rank-specific dismantle.
**6. Talent Skill Animation Skip Function**
- The ability to skip talent skill animation for Cooking / gear crafting / alchemy will be added.
- If you touch the skip button at the top right of the screen while the corresponding talent skill animation is playing, the animation will be skipped.
**7. Improvements of UI font Sizes**
- For readability, the size of the font used in some UIs is adjusted to a larger size.
**Adjusted text**
Costume text in character profile menu
Gear status text in the character profile menu
Costume upgrade related text
Gear Status Popup Text
**8. Mirror War official season and changes**
**A. Season Reward Change**
- Mirror War season rewards are changed.
- The ancient crystals that were previously given as rewards for the Mirror War season will be changed to be obtainable from the Evil Castle.
You can get Free Dia as a Mirror War official season reward.
- Please refer to the table below for the detailed amount of compensation for each rank.
**B. Mirror War Shop Change**
The number of Mirror War Shop item purchases is changed from daily initialization to 4-week initialization.
This will change the composition and number of products available for purchase in the Mirror War Shop.
* Costumes sold at the Mirror War Shop will change every 4 weeks.
**C. Medal of the Fighting Spirit Acquisition Change**
The amount of Medal of the Fighting Spirit acquired is changed according to the Mirror War battle victory or defeat.
**D. UI Improvements**
- At the bottom of the battle deck formation screen, a guide text explaining how many SPs each attack/defense formation receives at the start will be added.
- On the Victory/Loss Compensation screen, you can see the Victory Points earned and the Victory Points deducted for each tier.
- A scroll bar and a button to increase/decrease the number of repetitions will be added to make it easier to set the number of repeat battles.
- In the ranking, each user's tier icon is displayed.
- When you enter the season reward screen, it will automatically scroll your screen to the tier you are currently in.
- On the Season Rewards screen, the icon of the tier you are in is displayed with an arrow.
**9. Evil Castle Official Season Opens**
**A. Season Reward Change**
- Seasonal rewards for the Evil Castle are changed from the previous floor ranking rewards to the combined ranking rewards.
As a result, the overall reward system will change.
- Please refer to the table below for detailed compensation amounts for season ranking.
**B. Changes in rewards for each floor**
- The rewards given for clearing each floor of the Evil Castle will be changed.
- Ancient Crystals, which were previously given as rewards for the Mirror Wars season, can be obtained as rewards for clearing each floor of the Evil Castle.
**C. Change of score and reward reset cycle per floor**
- Floor score and overall ranking information are reset every 4 weeks, but floor reward acquisition information will be reset every 2 weeks.
- Therefore, the rewards for the floor cleared in the previous season can be obtained without clearing the floor again in the next season.
- When the floor score and overall ranking information are reset, the record of the floor cleared is also reset.
**D. Evil Castle shop change**
- As the Evil Castle reset cycle is changed to 4 weeks, the number of items sold in the Evil Castle shop is also changed to 4 weeks.
As a result, the number of items sold will be adjusted.
**E. UI improvement**
- When you tap the ‘Battle Info’ icon before entering the Evil Castle battle, you can check the Evil Castle Challenge/Enemy Deployment/Enemy Information in advance.
- Added a function to automatically proceed when you touch the quest progress icon on the right side of the screen in the Evil Castle.
* The battle end screen is not automatically skipped.
- Upon retrying the Evil Castle, the character who died will be resurrected and all characters' HP will be initialized. Also, all dead enemies are resurrected and their HP status is initialized.
**10. Season Pass Mission Adjustments**
- Some missions that were difficult to achieve in the season pass will be deleted, and easy-to-achieve missions will be added.
As a result, the contents of rewards and the amount of mission EXP for clearing some missions have been changed.
**11. Other Changes**
- You will be able to check the details of the announcement in the game.
- Lines of each voice will be exposed in the voice menu for each costume.
- Typos in some lines in the story will be fixed.
**12. New event update**
**A. Gold Boosting Missions will be added.**
A Gold Boosting Mission will be held to return 50% of the gold used during the event as a reward.
Event Period: After August 30th maintenance – Until before September 13th maintenance (UTC)
**B. World buff change**
- The new world buff 'Season of Fire' will be applied.
- In battle while the Season of Fire is in effect, elemental damage of Fire-type allies increases.
Event period: After August 30th maintenance - Until before September 25th maintenance (UTC)
**C. Anastasia Login Event will be held.**
Event Period: After August 30th maintenance – Until before September 6th maintenance (UTC)
**D. New Season Pass Update**
- Summer Knight season pass ends and Iron Mask season pass opens.
* Please check the event notice for details.
**E. New pickup**
- Fire Graffiti Anastasia / Gentle Maid Anastasia costume and Anastasia’s Exclusive Gear, ‘M.A.I.D C’ will appear in the Pickup banner.
■ Fire Graffiti Anastasia / Gentle Maid Anastasia Pickup Event period:
After August 30th maintenance – Until before September 13th maintenance (UTC)
■ Anastasia’s Exclusive Gear ‘M.A.I.D C’ Pickup Event period:
After August 30th maintenance – Until before September 13th maintenance (UTC)
- The Empress of the Ocean Rubia costume and Rubia's Exclusive Gear, ‘Carneliana’ will appear in the Pickup banner.
■ The Empress of the Ocean Rubia Pickup Event period:
After September 6th maintenance – Until before September 20th maintenance (UTC)
■ Rubia's Exclusive Gear, ‘Carneliana’ Pickup Event period:
After September 6th maintenance – Until before September 20th maintenance (UTC)
*Please check the separate notice for details.
**13. New package update**
**A. 4 limited-time packages of ‘Season of Fire’ will be added.**
■ Sales period: After August 30th maintenance – Until before September 20th maintenance (UTC).
■ Details: Items consisting of Draw tickets, Gold, Ability Pill, and Refining Powder are sold.
* These products can be bought from the [Package] button on the upper left corner of [Home].
* It can be purchased 1 time a week per account
* The purchase count is initialized every 5 AM Monday (KST)
*Please check the notice for details.
**B. Powder of Hope shop item change**
- The Powder of Hope shop items will be changed.
- The sales of the Pool Party Lathel, Pool Party Gray, Desert Flower Sylvia, and Demon's Daughter Seir costumes will end.
- [Limited] Pool Party Justia, [Limited] Pool Party Scheherazade, and Pool Party Angelica are newly available.
■ Sales period: After the August 30th maintenance - until before September 13th maintenance (UTC)
* After the sales period, time-limited costume [Pool Party Justia] and [Pool Party Scheherazade] do not appear from the Draw banners.
*Please check the separate notice for details.
**14. Issue fixations**
- An issue in which the remaining count of Energy Guard is deducted before Admiral Sylvia is hit will be fixed.
- An issue where a Golden Thread instead of a Design was acquired when obtaining duplicate costumes with +4 enhancements in some accounts will be fixed.
- An issue where the ★3 Rank-up Star acquisition site was displayed incorrectly will be fixed.
- An issue where the UP tag is exposed even when the pickup target is obtained from another pickup draw banner will be fixed.
- The quest to clear the rubble at the beginning of Story Pack 7 has been changed so that it’s easier to clear the quest.
- An issue where after upgrading Pool Party Angelica, it was temporarily displayed as +5 upgrade status, will be fixed.
- Fixed an issue where the connection would be terminated when using a Common Cooking Ingredient Chest
- An issue where the ‘Dragon Scale's Protection’ Gear name is displayed as ‘Undefeated Glory’ in the Gear crafting screen will be fixed.
- An explanation is added to the guidebook that you must attack at least once in the Mirror Wars during the season in order to receive the Mirror War season rewards.
- An issue where Twing Glutti would intermittently move to an unreachable spot will be fixed.
- An explanation is added to the guidebook that you can move to other areas such as inns when you reach legendary level of the Magic Circle creation talent skill.
- An issue where the skip button was not exposed in certain sections during the 1-time Draw will be fixed.
- An issue where the N mark of the Collection 'Blacksmith's Journal' is displayed again will be fixed.
- An issue where the focused area was displayed incorrectly in certain situations during the hunting request tutorial will be fixed.
- An issue where the NEW tag is displayed when previously acquired gear is not in the inventory while Gear Draw is in progress will be fixed.
- An issue where, when catching two Twing Glutties at the same time, the count of the ‘Catch Twing Glutti’ mission only goes up by 1, will be fixed.
- The symbol encounter that was appearing incorrectly in the lower right passage of the Story Pack 3 Brwynn Sewer will be deleted.
- An issue where the effects were displayed incorrectly in certain scenarios of Story Pack 4 will be fixed.
- An issue where the logo output screen is displayed abnormally when running the app with the device held vertically in the iOS environment will be fixed.
- An issue where, under certain circumstances, the user character remains on the map after talking to the NPC that gave the Today Quest will be fixed.
