Patch notes — August 25

The Radiant Toland Arch weapon stops being the ceiling. Above it comes the Snowsoul (설혼) grade, crafted from the Arch weapon you already own plus new materials.

The materials drop from the Radiant Toland Arch Boss — and the two of them convert into each other, so no weapon type gets stuck waiting for the right drop.

A rung was inserted between Elite and Boss. Champions carry boss-related stats, which means boss damage modifiers and boss-specific gear lines start working on them.

Some elite monsters that show up as hunting-ground events inside territories were promoted into the new grade.

A fresh achievement block landed in Nix, and it is built almost entirely around the sudden events — including the ones this same patch made easier.

Five old achievements became impossible to complete after the sudden-event rework, so they were pulled.

The extraction mode stopped being uniform. Each session now rolls which zones are dangerous, and the way out opens in waves instead of standing there the whole run.

The most consequential line is the smallest one: you can no longer press the exit button mid-fight.

The two spawn timers that decide a session both moved. Party Champions show up in a ten-minute window instead of a fixed beat, and Masarax became a coin flip that only pays off after fifteen minutes.

Shermir's Sphere is no longer free transport — you have to earn the wedge first.

Tumgir got the treatment a farming floor needs: monsters chase further, corridors opened up, and every animation that stood between you and the loot got shorter.

The chest camera zoom is gone entirely — that one alone changes the rhythm of a full clear.

Every floor lost at least one crowd-control effect. Read the list as a single decision: Tumgir was not supposed to be a stunlock simulator.

The event that gated Shermir's Spheres is gone, and the spheres became permanently available. That single change removes a chore from every hunting ground in Nix.

The three Tumgir Ruins events were then trimmed: fewer materials, fewer waves, clearer objectives.

Two pirate errands were deleted outright. Everything else in the Snowfield got its bugs closed — including the one where dying stripped your reward.

The Rite of Cold is the standout: the material requirement fell from 29 to 9.

Eight more events, one pattern: fewer steps, fewer people, less waiting. Two of them dropped the participant cap from six to three, and both lost an extra stage on top of that.

Trial of the Beastmen got the biggest single change in the block — your own skills work there now.

Every portal-entry event was rebuilt around a three-player party. You start them yourself by operating the Starting Cogwheel, and if you die inside three of them, your run is over.

The payoff is new: hitting the objective now drops a Hero-grade chest.

One real buff to the charge window, two tooltip corrections — and a rewrite of Indomitable Armor Enhancement that trades raw amplification for uptime.

Three potentials touched, two of them cut. Venom Injection loses the chain-wide amplification and keeps it only on the final hit — that is a much bigger nerf than 200 → 150 looks.

Overflowing Bloodlust finally gets real numbers in the tooltip instead of vague wording.

Two lines. One is the fear-cleanse bug that shows up across five different weapons in this patch — Winter Storm's Dragon's Dominance was simply not cleansable.

A single line, and it is a real one: the extra projectile that was never firing.

The line that matters is the block-ignoring bug: Ice Spear Bombardment and Ignition Blast were bypassing block chance from the front and the side. That is gone.

Spring of Vitality more than doubles its vertical reach — from a 4-metre band to a 7-metre one. On terrain with any elevation, that is the difference between healing your party and healing the floor.

The unlimited counter against Rage attacks is over — capped at five. Read that next to the Cross Slash nerf and the message is clear: Spear's ceiling in extended fights was too high.

In exchange, Ascending Cleave gets a genuinely bigger aerial cone.

This is the heaviest weapon nerf in the patch, and it is not close. Starlight Rush loses 40 percentage points at the top of its scale and Milky Way loses 25 — both against monsters, across every single rank.

Both full tables are written out below, level by level.

Two fixes. One of them had been quietly giving Gauntlet a stun it was not supposed to have at three stacks.

Fifteen weapons touched. Two of them are real number changes worth planning around: Iron Tomb's Severing Blade nearly doubles its thundercloud payout against monsters, while Ascetic Knight's Annihilation Blade loses two thirds of its chain targets.

The rest is the fear-cleanse cluster and a batch of tooltip corrections.

Soundless Taliesia stops promising more than it delivers. The tooltip said it cleared all status effects; it clears five, and now it says so — plus it actually removes fear again.

The crafting window stops choosing for you. Until now, when a recipe consumed a piece of gear as material, the game silently grabbed the first one in your inventory — and you could lose a rolled item without ever seeing a prompt.

Now the selection window always opens, and you decide whether the material's potential carries over.

Two loot tables were rebuilt by removing an item and redistributing its odds. Boss Expedition drops the Trait Unlock Stone; the Mystic Key box drops the Extraction Stone and pushes that probability into Rare Parchment.

In both cases, boxes already sitting in your inventory keep the old table.

One line here is not a fix at all — it is a difficulty increase hiding in the fix list. Star Fragment's Resolve stops working in Extreme raid difficulty, which removes a safety net from the hardest content in the game.

The rest is genuine repair work, from Aetherion merchant positions to animated emoji.

Every one of these is an Artirat or targeting bug — the two things that decide whether a Ramux pull is a fight or a stall. Four of the seven were making damage simply not register.

A three-week double-up on Vestiges of Time and Space rewards, and a 35-day attendance calendar for Nix. Both stack with the Nix difficulty relief that just landed — this is the cheapest window to catch up in months.