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| 5s | Hello, Heroes of Arkesia. |
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| 7s | Back with another episode of Patch Notes with Henry. |
| 9s | Today we're going to be covering the August "Calm Before the Storm" Release notes. |
| 14s | I'm on the road. |
| 15s | We're filming from our San Francisco office, but we still wanted to put together some video patch notes for you guys, so you can check out some of the cool changes coming in this month. |
| 25s | It's going to be a little bit of a lighter month, but we'll talk through some of the changes we're bringing in just to make everyday life in Arkesia a little bit better before we have the big tier four drop, with all those new raids, activities and everything dropping this fall. |
| 40s | All right, let's dive into it. |
| 42s | So the first piece of content arriving in this update is going to be Indigo Island. |
| 46s | It's located off the coast of the Kurzan Continent and has an incredibly beautiful underwater scenery and a cool underwater themed soundtrack for you to enjoy. |
| 56s | It's going to open up at Item level 1600 for you to explore, and it's going to include a quest that can be completed to access a single player sea cave dungeon, which contains three paths. |
| 68s | You can begin the Indigo Island quest after interacting with someone's voice, which is a new quest near the island entrance. |
| 77s | Successful completions are going to award the Luminous Coral Stone, which can be exchanged for progression materials, including potent elixirs, the ones that use silver instead of gold, and more. |
| 88s | So you're definitely going to want to check out the new island. |
| 91s | In the dungeon on Indigo Island, it splits when you reach a three pronged road. |
| 97s | At the beginning, you can only enter the leftmost road, but as you continue to repeatedly clear the dungeon, it's going to allow you to venture down those new paths and explore new opportunities and new experiences within that dungeon. |
| 111s | The dungeon can be completed once a day per roster, and the opportunity to enter will be exhausted when the boss is defeated and rewards have been granted. |
| 119s | Along with the dungeon, Indigo Island also includes five Mokoko Seeds, the Islands Soul, new achievements, and some new structures that can be earned from the Exchange on the island. |
| 129s | It has a new soundtrack and a bunch of other cool stuff for you to experience. |
| 135s | All right. |
| 135s | Up next, let's talk about the new bound gold system. |
| 139s | So bound gold is being added as a way to grant gold that can be used exclusively in progression systems. |
| 145s | We're going to update two current systems to provide bound gold instead of the tradable gold that they had before. |
| 151s | So the gold reward chest from Una's Tokens, along with solo mode raids, will now be giving out bound gold. |
| 159s | We're super excited about the opportunities introduced by Bound Gold, and are going to continue to evaluate the system and look for ways to reward players with gold and help progression without negatively impacting the in-game economy. |
| 171s | As you know, bound gold will be a lot harder for bots or other, you know, mischievous players to exploit. |
| 179s | So these are some of the places that bound gold can be used and you can use it to progress. |
| 184s | So let's talk through it. |
| 186s | Be used in honing, advanced honing, quality upgrades, Legion commander gear crafting, set effect upgrades, ability stone upgrades, elixir crafting and cutting, Stronghold research in the farm, knowledge transfer, bonus rewards, the Gold Exchange shop, Ancient Sound Stone purchases, transcendence, and yeah, that's about it for the, the full list. |
| 212s | And just to give you an update with the three types of gold, the order in which gold will be used in these systems is going to be use bound gold first, then any deposit gold that you might have from the Blue Crystal exchange. |
| 226s | And then finally, your normal tradable gold that you've earned through a variety of ways in the game. |
| 231s | So with the introduction of the bound gold system, we're going to be rebalancing the gold rewards provided by solo mode raids. |
| 239s | Solo modes are going to be swapped over to that new bound gold system, and we're going to give a ton more to better support player progression. |
| 247s | We have a table that's going to pop up on the screen in a second. |
| 249s | Feel free to pause, and it will show the values for all of the raids and how we've rebalanced those. |
| 255s | Let's check that out. |
| 261s | Up next, let's talk about some improvements we're making to daily activities. |
| 265s | The first off we're going to be updating and introducing the Chaos Dungeon purification system. |
| 271s | This new system is going to take place when you're playing through Chaos Dungeons with Aura of Resonance active. |
| 278s | You're going to be able to earn this new type of point called purification points. |
| 282s | These points will will accumulate as you play Chaos Dungeons and let you earn reward chests that are filled with silver and honor shards. |
| 291s | The silver and honor shards that you receive previously from Chaos Dungeons are going to be removed and put into this new system. |
| 299s | The way it works is you can fill up 50 points on the purification meter for each Chaos Dungeon run that you do, and max rewards are earned at 300 points, which is six Chaos Dungeons a week. |
| 310s | Rest bonus is not going to affect the purification points though, so it gives you a little bit more flexibility about when you want to do your Chaos Dungeons. |
| 319s | We hope that this helps limit some player fatigue. |
| 322s | And don't you don't feel like you have to be doing Chaos Dungeons every single day to get some of those most important progression materials, like shards and silver. |
| 332s | The system as a whole is going to function very similar to how Una's Tasks work in terms of that bar filling up and you getting rewards at various thresholds throughout that. |
| 342s | We're going to touch on it in a moment in the events section, but we're also going to, release a special event that accompanies the launch of this system. |
| 350s | We have one more change, though quickly to talk about when it comes to daily activity improvements. |
| 356s | We're making a small adjustment to Ebony cube that will hopefully speed up the playthrough for a lot of players. |
| 362s | We're going to update the scaling of enemy HP based on the number of players that are in the dungeon. |
| 368s | So hopefully that will speed up your playthrough. |
| 372s | All right. |
| 373s | Up next let's talk about events. |
| 374s | First off we have that new Chaos Dungeon purification event arriving. |
| 378s | It's going to be a special event that's going to accompany the launch of that new system. |
| 383s | And the event is going to run from August 14th until September 25th. |
| 388s | But as a reminder, the Chaos Dungeon purification system will continue after the end of the event. |
| 393s | That's a new permanent system in the game. |
| 396s | The event is built to give additional rewards as we head towards the launch of tier four. |
| 400s | To ensure that you're rewarded for playing with helpful progression materials during the event. |
| 405s | Bonus reward chests are going to be granted when reaching the point thresholds that you receive. |
| 411s | The chest set in that system, which are 100 points, 200 points, and 300 points. |
| 416s | The chests are going to include honing materials corresponding to the level of the cleared Chaos Dungeon, such as destruction or obliteration stones, guardian or protection stones, and some tier three leapstones, once again corresponding to the level of the dungeon you're clearing. |
| 431s | Each chest also has purification tokens, which can be spent at an event shop for additional rewards, including transcendence, restoration tickets, honing support chests, even fusion materials which we know players love and more. |
| 445s | A couple just general notes for events while we're covering this topic. |
| 450s | The Maharajah Festival is going to continue with the Set Sail Mokokos Pirate mini game, the exclusive event shop, and we'll have a new daily quest for you to complete. |
| 461s | On top of that, we have the standard stuff of a new monthly fever time events being added in, and the daily log and reward track being refreshed for the new month as well. |
| 471s | All right. |
| 472s | Next, let's talk about the new cosmetic collections that are arriving. |
| 476s | First up, we have a new Neria's Wardrobe, which we know you know you love. |
| 480s | Love the new life style skins. |
| 482s | Whether you're feeling a little edgy or preppy, Neria's Wardrobe is going to have something to fit your style. |
| 487s | Find the newest Neria's collection showcased here. |
| 490s | Let's take a look at the new skins. |
| 532s | On top of that, we're going to be adding the Runner skins as a new evergreen option to the store. |
| 538s | You can expand your athleisure collection in Lost Ark, but these are going to stay for the foreseeable future as an evergreen item. |
| 546s | Let's take a look at what those look like. |
| 579s | On top of those new collections arriving in game, we're also bringing back the Omen cosmetic collection. |
| 586s | It's going to be updated with some of the classes that launched after it initially released in the game, so there'll be some new weapons and new skins for the characters there. |
| 596s | So make sure to take a look at those in game when it drops. |
| 600s | All right, rounding out the update, we have a few just general updates. |
| 604s | We're going to be doing a character name reset. |
| 606s | Character names are going to be freed up from accounts who have not logged in the Lost Ark in over a year that are below combat level 50 and have not received trusted status. |
| 615s | On top of that, we're going to be adding some UI quality of life stuff to endgame content. |
| 620s | New window is going to pop up if you attempt to terminate the connection or change characters during endgame content, and we're adjusting the waiting times for the dungeon quit vote. |
| 630s | On top of that, we know there is a few changes in the roadmap that we didn't cover in this video. |
| 636s | We had to unfortunately delay the Stylebook releasing in the western version of Lost Ark. |
| 642s | We're still working on getting that system implemented. |
| 645s | There's just some final checks and things our team has to do. |
| 648s | We don't have a target release date for it yet, but we'll definitely keep you updated on when you can expect that to arrive in the western version of Arkesia. |
| 657s | On top of that, we also talked about some nerfs coming to the Echidna raid, just to, you know, make summer progression a little bit easier for players looking to progress through tier four or hop back in the game, get up to speed, get ready, that sort of thing. |
| 671s | Those nerfs are still coming in August. |
| 672s | They're just not going to be in the main update. |
| 674s | We're currently targeting the August 28th weekly maintenance to release those. |
| 679s | We'll definitely have an article coming out of what you can expect to see with those nerfs as we get a little bit closer to that update and lock that final list down. |
| 687s | So be on the lookout for those on playlostark.com or our social channels. |
| 693s | Thanks for joining me for another episode of Patch Notes with Henry covering the August update. |
| 698s | We know this one's a little bit lighter. |
| 700s | That's one of our goals, a little bit heading into the enormous update that is going to be tier four this fall. |
| 706s | There's a ton of content coming. |
| 708s | We still have all those progression events from July carrying over throughout the summer, the Maharajah Festival event as well. |
| 716s | We hope you just have time to progress, earn materials, do whatever you want. |
| 721s | You know, just have fun in the sun in Arkesia this summer and get ready for the huge update that is Tier Four, you know, on the near horizon. |
| 728s | But we will have a few more of these kind of smaller quality of life updates as we've, you know, almost caught up completely to Korea. |
| 734s | Obviously, Tier four is right on the horizon, and there's still a lot of exciting content to be added to the game. |
| 740s | But as we've caught up, there's going to be a few more of these lighter months. |
| 744s | And we think that's a good thing for players. |
| 746s | You'll have time to progress at your own pace, not feel like you're, you know, being rushed too much. |
| 752s | But our goal is still to support you with some of these fun events, throughout the summer and heading forward so that you, you know, feel supported by our teams and like, you're progressing it at a reasonable pace and at your pace. |
| 764s | So that's really our goal for this summer. |
| 766s | Have some summer fun. |
| 767s | And, we appreciate you for joining us for this episode. |
| 770s | As always, if you can like and subscribe, it helps us know that you enjoy this type of content, and it's stuff that we should continue to support heading forward. |
| 778s | We really appreciate it. |
| 780s | We usually end on a community question for this one. |
| 783s | We'd love to hear your thoughts on the new bound gold system. |
| 785s | Get some feedback from you all. |
| 788s | What are your thoughts about the both adjusted values for solo mode and on the system as a whole? |
| 794s | Let us know in the comments. |
| 795s | We appreciate it. |
| 796s | See you next time. |
| 797s | And in the meantime, se you in Arkesia. |