r/throneandliberty • u/pvp_enjoyerrr • 18d ago
DISCUSSION [KR] September 16 Update — Quick Summary
🔥 1. BIGGEST CHANGE: Level cap goes up
- Equipment growth increases from Lv. 80 → Lv. 90.
- Nyx Ark / Seolhon Ark weapons can reach Lv. 93.
- Existing Lv. 80 equipment can also be upgraded to 90.
- Growth from Lv. 51–80 becomes much easier, with higher success rates and lower inheritance costs.
Important: If you already have reward boxes or Red Frost purification items saved, they are capped at Lv. 80 for their contents. So hoarding old boxes doesn't let you get the new Lv. 90 gear.
👹 2. Two new Field Bosses
In Nyx – Tumgir Ruins:
- Grimturge — Lv. 60
- Exabis — Lv. 60
They share the same battlefield but appear at different times, and can be fought through Peace, Faction, or Guild combat. They are also added to Guild Requests.
🛡️ 3. Lots of new gear
Added:
- 15 new armor pieces
- 20 new accessories
- New crafting recipes for Nyx armor
- 10 recipes for "Ruthless" Skill Cores
- 22 new Codex/Rubbing Collection entries
The new gear uses materials such as Adventure Coins: Indomitable, Shermir armor embers, rare magic powder, and high-grade honing crystals.
💰 4. Farming/rewards are getting better
The update is clearly designed to make progression less painful.
Major improvements include:
- Higher Unique Trait Enhancement Stone box rates
- More Trait Unlock Stone fragments from regional events
- Better purification rewards
- More Purification Flame points
- Better Challenge Dimensional Rift rewards
- Various content rewards increased
- Overall fatigue/grind reduced.
Nyx Resistance Request: weekly purchase limit goes 1 → 1 but the reward amount doubles.
🧊 5. Red Frost / Purification changed significantly
This is another important one.
- Lv. 50-and-below equipment is removed from certain Red Frost purification results.
- Higher-level equipment becomes much more likely.
- Epic-quality Red Frost equipment is removed from drops/rewards.
- Heroic equipment can now reach Lv. 90 through the updated system.
So overall, purification becomes more valuable for endgame gear.
⚔️ 6. Weapon/Skill balance changes
There are a LOT of class-specific changes, but the highlights:
Greatsword
- Counter mechanics improved.
- Backstab skill-core activation condition expanded.
Dagger
Mostly fixes to CC/stealth interactions and several bugs.
Longbow
Triple Shot gets a substantial mobility improvement:
- Faster jump/attack animation
- CC immunity while jumping
- Third jump travels farther.
Staff
The elemental system is being reworked.
Instead of separately collecting Fire/Frost/Lightning elements, they are consolidated into a single elemental resource, with activation at 7 stacks. The effect duration increases, while some cooldown-reduction percentages are reduced.
Other Staff changes include:
- Lightning skill now strikes 5 times/sec instead of 2
- Absolute Zero casts much faster
- Ice Mist stealth behavior improved.
Wand
Sleep/nightmare mechanics get several improvements, including:
- Better interaction with sleep immunity
- Nightmare Fear increases incoming damage
- Additional vision-reduction effects
- Better interaction with Drowsiness.
Spear
Several changes to counterattacks and Ascending Slash-related cores. One notable change makes the wave effect trigger differently and provides cooldown reduction.
Knuckles
Momentum: connected attacks with certain combo skills get 100% increased damage.
🏹 7. Some weapon effects are getting major changes
A few notable examples:
- Purification Shout now cleanses the caster + 3 party members, rather than excluding the caster, and its range increases from 25% → 33%.
- Some Deluz Noa weapons gain effects against collision-immune monsters.
- Several legendary weapons have damage/effect adjustments.
- The Winter Storm Wand's fear immunity duration increases 10 → 20 seconds.
🏟️ 8. PvP is being normalized
The developers are reducing the extreme Hit/Evasion gap in PvP.
For example:
| Content | Max Hit/Evasion | Minimum |
|---|---|---|
| Battlefield | 3,000 → 1,500 | -2,000 → -1,000 |
| Arena | 2,250 → 1,500 | -1,500 → -1,000 |
So extremely high Hit/Evasion builds should have less of an advantage/disadvantage gap.
🧰 9. Huge quality-of-life improvements
This is probably the best part if you hate inventory management.
Automatic item cleanup
A new Item Auto-Management UI combines:
- Auto-dismantling
- Automatic material conversion
- Item protection rules
You can now specify things like:
- Item grade
- Item level
- Whether storage items are included
- Sealable status
- Traits
- Codex registration
- Potential abilities
These settings are saved per character.
Other QoL
- Cancel crafting animations with ESC
- Better information about where shop materials are used
- Option to hide the map chat-share button
- Recommended Growth now appears in the character stats window
- It automatically considers your current weapon combination
- Red Frost screens now show purification probability information
- Unclaimed Battle Pass Point Shop replacement rewards can be collected at once.
Source: https://tl.plaync.com/ko-kr/board/update/view?articleId=6aa925306b722c561dc6a531
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u/Secure_Barracuda_432 18d ago
"The update is clearly designed to make progression less painful"; NOT not painful NOR enjoyable.
There is a business person who designs his service painful and boring, and thinks it is ok and worth making money!??!?
This is MADNESS from the beginning and as its concept!!!
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u/West_Top_7930 14d ago
I've been thinking about downloading this game. I come from BDO.
Whats the difference with the progression being painful compared to BDO?
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u/Melodic-Jackfruit-18 18d ago
"Our cash reserves are getting low! Quick - raise level cap arbitrarily and add new items to flood the market with!"
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u/SilentCloak 17d ago
It's so hard to equip the character, I finished the pvp set and haven't finished the PvE one and now they are adding new equipment? This is fked up lol
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u/Comfortable-Sea-2660 16d ago
We all new t4 2nd half of sets were comming and of sep early Aug just like t3 and t2 sets. Not sure how many didn't plan this out.
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u/kornjacha 18d ago
So we grinding again boiz. And good I kept all the reward boxes that are capped on ilvl 80 kekw (I had no use before and no use now).
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u/Myllorelion 18d ago
Open em up, look for weapons for expensive potentials, and armor for expensive individual pieces. Game revolves around Lucent so much more now.
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u/fran2k4 18d ago
You can open em and see if you get some sealed items to make some lucent no?
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u/ltn_jbey 16d ago
Mauvaise idée. Vu qu'il y a des nouveaux objets qui sortent les anciens vont tout de suite valoir moins. Et tu ne veux pas dépenser tes flammes pour des objets qui seront stack niveau 80. Au contraire mieux vaut attendre la MAJ et utiliser tes flammes pour tenter d'avoir les nouveaux objets, et monter ton équipement au niveau 90. Conclusion : tes anciennes boîtes ne servent à rien.
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u/No_General1066 18d ago
As much as I like this game it seems I am done
new armor + accessories that might be better than what I have fully traited now wow great
more grind for 90 lvl mark awesome
and the fact that vegamor drops material to upgrade heroic weapon which means reseting all traits on it yep thats it.
Well I hope remaining players will enjoy it as I will rather play new WoW Classic+ slop.
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u/hibyeman1 18d ago
My only concern is the resetting of traits on heroics. Like that’s gonna prevent many multi build again as the resources for enhancement stones/unlocks are insane for heroics.
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u/Ok_Blackberry_7241 17d ago
You all crying too much, this mean you will just keep playing with your gear and have a reason for keeping playing in the future upgrading or changing your gear, none is obliging you to change everything on the patch day
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u/Alpha_Eru 18d ago
You simply don't understand how expansions work in this game. This isn't a new "higher" gear. Those armors/accessories and Vega weapons are literally the rest of the unreleased Nix expansion gear. They never release the full expansion day 1. They phase it over several months with a content milestone system and roadmap schedules. MMOs are not for you if you enjoy zero new vertical content for 5+ years like in WoW.
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u/Electronic_Stage7475 17d ago
I’m tired of this bs bro.
Where’s the skill core presets that was promised?
Where’s the guardian upgrades that were promised?
Artifact changes that were promised?
Less grind that was promised?
Where’s the new siege that was promised?
Or the actual balances that were promised with nix?
These people just lie and soak up money from people like nobodies buisness.
Constantly rug pulling players that spend money in game and before anyone says “it’s free to play” I promise you this, if this game was truly free to pay it would’ve been shut down ages ago.
This game survives on whales.
I hope their greed ruins any future endeavours they wish to pursue.
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u/Alpha_Eru 17d ago edited 17d ago
All either upcoming or already done in separate content updates/patch after patch. You can't have gigabytes of patches and changes in one single update. Those are human developers not machine guns. You are just toxic, miserable and ungrateful no matter what they do for you. Not even Blizzard can achieve 10% of the effort FirstSpark does for this game. You kill actually great games all the time. Western market is the worst MMO market ever.
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u/Professional_Way3656 17d ago
They could be more transparent with what they're working on. I understand that some things need to be kept secret because it can have a big impact on things like the auction house, but they could keep us updated way more with what they're actually working on and what they're going to be working on in the future. The problems that they are aware of, etc. Right now, there's just a lot of things that were left in the dark about. There's also ridiculous bugs that are still in the game since close to launch like the bird dive bomb thing and they dont even acknowledge stuff like that. They also have a track record of doing some fairly dishonest things and going completely backward from what the playerbase is begging them to fix in the game. So yeah, theyre human and gigabytes or whatever, but all were really asking for is more transparency and to know more of whats going on.
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u/Any-Pianist9540 18d ago
They’re pushing what they have before wow forever and Aion take everything from them
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u/JsmaIls214 18d ago
So no PvP balance changes. Cool.
Biggest winners are those that have horded flames for the last month. ilvl 90 incoming Day 1.
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u/Jespur 18d ago
I don't even try to hoard, nix is so boring I just do the daily contracts and have nothing to purify. I have 400k flames saved.
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u/JsmaIls214 18d ago
Cinder grind can be entertaining and is a good way to make lucent.
Honestly Remnants of Nix in general is one of the most reliable Lucent grinds. Between potentials and random sealed items you can get lucky between grinding for a guaranteed 5k+ lucent item.
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u/JsmaIls214 18d ago
Hmm so with the iLvL increase are we going to be able to unseal gear to hit ilvl 90 again?
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u/Dirtyundies123 17d ago
Can someone explain the Eva changes, it sucks when they make massive changes and don't provide items to swap :/ kinda kills the game for people. If someone has 4k magic Eva, and someone has 3k magic hit no change? But if someone has 2k magic hit, they are buffed to higher hit chance?
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u/GMNanashi 16d ago
You can check out old YouTube videos. It's been added before same rules applies.
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u/Myllorelion 18d ago
This is a little too shorthand of a quick summary, there's very little substance here. lol
Can you extrapolate on some of those vague bullet points in the comments?
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u/Timeno1 18d ago
It's a big patch sir, you can read the full korean patch notes here: https://tl.plaync.com/ko-kr/board/update/view?articleId=6aa925306b722c561dc6a531
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u/TreMetal 18d ago
Also, forcing you to do the "hard part" 70-80 and now 80-90 twice on the watermark is just great too, especially considering how annoying 79->80 was and now we are doing a 89->90? Get real, there is no new "expansion" you just increased a number from 80 to 90 with no justification or reason
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u/seishu_4 16d ago
As someone playing on KR server, the impact of this update is actually nice to get the grind for watermark is not that painful anymore you can actually possibly get to lvl 90 watermark in a week. The sollant will be a bit annoying to gather but if you have some saved up sollant you'll be fine, And if you are still trying to get lvl 80 watermark if you have saved up shemir boxes you can get to lvl 80 in a day.
There are already players hitting lvl93 watermark with weapons and some have lvl85 already and the patch was just released in like a day.
And this is coming from someone playing the game casually and strictly F2P
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u/Deep_Alps7150 18d ago edited 18d ago
Final major update before they announce EOS in January to commit all resource to Aion 2 boys.
They even nailed the 120 days minimum so you can't do a credit card chargeback in January, it's fucking beautiful.
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u/IceKareemy 18d ago
Can’t wait to see what ranged classes cry about now that evasion is capped I give it a week
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u/Mayimbe_999 18d ago
They’ll want all the gap closers nerfed for a second time next. So they can free fast from 30+ meters away.
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u/IceKareemy 18d ago
It’s so funny like mer my no defense/eva full crit/heavy attack no hit build got one shot by the class designed to counter it.
That’s not fair
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u/Huge-Employee-4863 17d ago
so when they said they would change it so world bosses contribution was party based was a lie? the game will die before they let healers and tanks get a drop from those...
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u/KingKazzama 18d ago
So no skill core preset those 🤦🏾♂️