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4s Hello, Heroes of Arkesia.
5s Welcome back to another episode of Patch Notes with Henry.
9s Today we're going to cover the "Break through to Thaemine" Update, which is our major March update.
17s And go through a ton of the content arriving this month.
21s This is a month with a hefty batch of release notes, so we're going to cover the spotlight content, a bunch of the events that are arriving.
30s And then we're going to go through some of the key quality of life, and other changes coming in.
37s But once again, hefty update.
39s This is going to be the express version.
40s For the full details, you're going to need to read through the entire release notes, which should be linked in the YouTube description.
48s With that, let's dive right into it.
50s So one of the biggest things arriving in this update is going to be a new advanced class.
56s That is the Breaker.
58s The Breaker is a male version of the Scrapper and is an absolute force to be reckoned with.
63s Using his heavy gantlets mobility and combos to deal massive damage, it's going to be a really cool new class arriving.
72s I'm super excited for it.
73s I am going to make one.
74s I decided, took me a while, but I did land on that as my new character, so I'm super pumped.
81s If you need some tips and tricks, also, we released an article featuring Saintone last week that kind of gives a breakdown in some of the play styles and fun things.
90s That is linked in the release notes, so make sure to go check that out if you're interested in making a Breaker.
96s We're also going to talk about it a little bit more later on in the events section.
99s But to help interested adventurers prepare to master this new martial artists arsenal, you know, and just relentlessly bash the biggest and baddest enemies in Arkesia.
109s We have a ton of events planned for players to quickly level up, so the Breaker is going to come with all the classics, you know, new class, new class Engravings.
119s Along with that, there's going to be a few more Breaker specific systems.
123s There's a new title, ten New achievements.
126s There's going to be some quests and skills unlocks for that class, training room guide and a new trophy for the class as well.
134s One thing to note, if you have been following the balance and specifics of the class in Korea, the Breaker's actually going to release with the recent balance changes that were made in Korea just a month or two ago.
147s So once again, go check out that Breaker overview.
150s And then when we get to the store section a little bit later in this video, you're going to be able to check out some of the cosmetics that are going to launch alongside the Breaker.
159s Next spotlight section is going to be the Light of Destiny Story Update.
163s The focus of this story is going to be that The Lost Ark's location is getting closer to being revealed.
171s Sacria is beginning to investigate some of the events that occurred in Pleccia, and as the situation becomes more unpredictable, it will be up to you to face the chaos as you follow the path of the Light of Destiny.
185s This update is going to reveal the location of the Lost Ark, which will bring us closer to the end of Story Chapter one.
192s It's going to be a story that answers some of the most important questions of the journey to find the Lost Ark after what happened in Voldis, and bring you to a new location, which is going to be the island of Praeteria.
203s So, along with the Light of Destiny story update, there's going to be a few new things arriving.
207s So, like I just mentioned, the new island of Praeteria is going to be added.
211s That's going to come with its own island soul.
213s A new Una's task that's only available after finishing the story.
220s There's going to be new titles and achievements as well.
223s And just so you're aware, the Light of Destiny story is going to require Item Level 1520.
229s There's going to be some new relevant quests added, of course, and the starting quest is called the Lost Key.
235s This quest can be accepted in either Voldis, North Vern, or Elgacia.
240s And of course, there's some prerequisite quests that you're going to need to complete, such as Adento's Legacy, the Voldis' world quest, [Awakening] The Sunset, Promise Isle's Adventure Quest.
253s And once you complete those, you're going to be able to check out this new storyline.
258s It's also important to note that in two weeks after this update, after this Light of Destiny Story Update, we're going to be releasing the Thaemine Prelude Story Event as well.
268s So make sure to play this over the next two weeks, and we'll have some more release notes and details on the Thaemine Prelude once we get closer to that update.
277s The final of the big spotlight features is the new Arkesia Tour.
283s Arkesia Tour is a horizontal catch up mechanic that has four tiers of missions.
288s It's built to help players catch up on islands, their Adventure Tome, skill points, and a ton more.
295s This event is supposed to make it easier for new and returning players to play with their friends and enjoy the end game, or just help current players fill in any gaps in their collection of horizontal content rewards.
306s Each tier requires you to complete a task, and once you've completed all three sub-missions, you'll be able to claim rewards that horizontally progress your character.
315s Completing all of the missions is going to give you hundreds of awards, including Skill Runes up to legendary, Skill Potions, Stat Potions, Emotes, Song Unlocks, Cards, Pheons, Silver, Providence Stones, Masterpieces, Omnium Stars, Giant's Hearts, Island Souls, Rapport items, Mounts, all sorts of stuff from collecting and venturing around the world.
342s Hopefully that gives you know the point of what this is for.
346s To check it out, the Arkesia Tour can be viewed through the icon located at the top left of the minimap.
355s If certain continents are related to the Arkesia Tour, that continent will have an icon in the Adventure's Tome as well, upper left hand corner.
364s And once you hover over it with your mouse, a pop up will appear with a system guide.
367s For the Tour, all rewards per mission can be claimed by clicking the completion reward buttons.
376s Some of the rewards that require players to go through the content will not be included there.
382s And one thing to know is there will be some additional rewards if you just do the...
388s if you were to do the normal storyline all the way through, for example.
392s So it's kind of up to player discretion to figure out if you want to play through the content as it was originally, or use the Arkesia Tour to kind of progress through it in that express way.
403s If the rewards have already been obtained by the players, they won't be granted again either, which is important to know there.
411s Arkesia Tour will help with horizontal content all the way to Punika and its related content.
418s With players, you know, wanting to catch up to Thaemine and maybe fill in those Skill Runes or Skill Points to make their character feel as impactful, or for new players just wanting to catch up and get in the Lost Ark's end game.
431s This is a great opportunity to get through a lot of those kind of grindier systems in an express way while still experiencing it to some degree.
440s So we're super excited to add this to the game for players.
444s All right.
444s Let's talk about Events.
446s There are an absolute ton of events arriving in this update.
451s Like I mentioned before, we really want players to reach the end game, make sure that they are receiving the support that they need to get to Thaemine or, you know, level up their new characters.
463s So as players strive to reach the Item Levels required for existing and upcoming in-game content on either their main character or an alt, we've planned a suite of events to support players.
474s While the number of events we're going to talk through might be a little bit overwhelming to go through all at once, our goal here was to kind of separate the rewards into various events, so that players were able to mix and match or focus all the events onto a single character.
490s You know, this just provides the best options for support.
493s Since everyone's journey in Lost Ark is a little bit different.
497s You know, a new player might need to focus all the events to reach endgame faster, whereas if you have a roster with a bunch of characters, you can kind of pick and choose where to place these events strategically to maximize the rewards and build the roster that you want.
511s You know, as Lost Ark's endgame matures and we get access to some of these new Raids.
516s So with that, let's dive in.
518s There's a ton, but we're going to go through every single one of them.
521s So the first event is going to be an Elgacia Event Powerpass.
526s This is going to drop players off in Elgacia at Item Level 1460 and can be claimed and used until July 17th, at which point it expires if you haven't used it.
536s There's not going to be any restrictions for players to use this Powerpass, apart from not being able to use it on a character that's already above that target Item Level.
546s But for players that don't have a character at 1490 yet and are just using this to jump right into the end game, trading on the Auction House is going to be blocked for three days.
558s That is to prevent bot abuse, to make sure that new bot accounts aren't able to progress to end game levels right away and interact with the Auction House.
566s But hopefully in those first few days, for new players, there will be a ton of content to experience before they need to engage with some of those systems.
574s The next event is going to be a Super Mokoko Express, and this is built to pair really well with the Elgacia Powerpass.
582s Players are going to be able to designate one character between Item Level 1460, where the Powerpass drops you off at, all the way to 1580 on their roster to participate in this super Mokoko Express Event.
595s In the event, you're going to have discounted Honing rates, discounted Gold requirements, and you're going to earn Honing Materials to quickly level up to Item Level 1580 through reward chests that includes Silver Honing Materials, higher level gems, sevens and eights, Engravings, and a ton more.
613s So here's some of the specific benefits that are, I think, super great as you're trying to level up.
618s The first is going to be a Honing Honing percentage increase.
621s From 1460 to 1475, you're going to get a flat 20% Honing chance increase.
628s From 1475 to 1490, 15%.
630s From 1510 to 1520, you're going to get a 20% increase.
638s And then from 1520 all the way up to 1580, you're going to get a flat 10% Honing increase.
645s So on top of that, there's actually going to be a Honing Materials discount as well.
648s From 1460 to 1490, you're gonna have a 70% material discount.
653s From 1490 to 1580, it's going to be a 60% discount.
660s There's going to be a specific Leapstone discount as well.
663s 1460 to 1490 is going to be a 40% discount.
667s And then from 1510 to 1580, accounting for the jump from, you know, relic to Ancient Gear, which increases your gear a little bit, you're going to get 60% all the way to 1580 from that point.
679s So 60% Leapstones.
681s Absolutely huge.
683s And once again, the final one, Gold discount.
686s From 1460 to 1490, no Gold is currently required to hone in to 1490, that will continue.
692s No Gold required at all.
694s And then from 1490 all the way to 1580 is going to be a 65% Gold cost reduction.
701s So absolutely huge.
702s You know, our goal with this is to make sure that players get to 1580 right away and get to start experiencing the end game of Lost Ark.
711s Of course, for new players, it's still important that they participate in some of those Raids.
715s You know, play Brelshaza, play some of those other Raids to build that foundation of knowledge.
721s So we hope that this helps them get to where maybe the where their friends are at, Raiding in the end game, while still getting to play the game and learn some of the basics.
730s On top of all the Honing changes with the Super Mokoko Express.
734s There are also combat style settings, support options for players to easily set skills and Engravings through presets, and get item support for accessories with relevant stats and ability stones as well.
747s The Super Mokoko Express event also includes Engraving Support system that gives you a free five by three setup.
754s If you're new to the game, that means that you get five Engravings at level three during the event, and you're going to be able to use all of that through the Super Mokoko Express UI in the game.
767s The Super Mokoko Express Event is going to last until July 17th, just like the Powerpass.
773s It's really important to know that the character cannot change once the event target character has received a Honing buff.
779s So make sure that you're being really intentional about which character you're activating these events on.
785s Next event is going to be called Descend into Darkness.
788s Brace yourself for the upcoming onslaught of the Darkness Legion and its leader, the most powerful Legion Demon Commander Thaemine.
796s The Road to Thaemine has been renamed to Descend into Darkness as players prepare for the Darkness Legion Commander's arrival in April.
805s The rewards are going to differ a little bit from previous iterations of the event.
811s Players that are familiar saw this event release in Korea, and then also our spin on it a few months ago with the Path of the Souleater event.
821s This event is going to be similar, have a similar UI, similar feel.
824s But like I mentioned earlier, we broke out some of the benefits of this event into other events that we're going to talk about after this one, just so players had a lot of custom ability on how to use these events.
839s So I don't want you, as I'm reading through this to get worried that the event is much worse.
844s The event is just different, and there are also more events accompanying it.
848s So with that, let's dive into some of the details.
852s Descend into Darkness is built to help progress a single character quickly from 1580 to 1600.
859s So picking up where the Super MOkoko left off, if that's the character that you want to take from 1580 to 1600, and then, on top of trying to get to 1600 quickly, it's going to provide additional support as players approach Thaemine Normal at Item Level 1610.
877s So let's dive into what exactly this event is going to provide.
881s So a Gear Honing Support Effect is going to be applied when Honing Akkan Ancient Gear from 1580.
889s That's going to decrease the amount of Gold and materials needed to hone it, along with granting double Artisan's energy.
896s So you're going to receive double Artisan's energy when honing Akkan gear from 1580 to 1600.
901s You're also going to get caches of rewards every five Item Levels from 1580 to 1610, with a particularly valuable reward at 1600.
911s Rewards are going to include things like Silver, Gold, Honing Materials, Honing books, card packs, and a ton more valuable items.
920s All the way up to legendary elixirs at the highest level.
924s On top of that, you're going to get 25% Honing Materials discount, and a 25% Gold discount.
931s On top of all that, there's going to be special missions to earn additional Raid and Abyssal Dungeon materials, including bonuses of Empyrean of Contemplation from the Kayangel Abyssal Dungeon, Eye of Decay from the Akkan Legion Raid, and additional Honing Material chests from completing Chaos Dungeons.
952s So those are all the rewards and all the things it gives you.
956s It can be used on a single character which cannot be changed or transferred, and you can use it on a character between Item Level 1580 until 1600.
966s And like the other events, it's going to stick around all the way until July 17th.
971s So the next event is going to be called the Extra Endgame Content Clear Rewards.
977s It's a new event built around rewarding players for clearing current endgame content and helping players get ready for the upcoming Raids arriving in April and beyond.
986s The extra awards will include Protection and Obliteration stones, Leapstones and Honor Shards and correspond to the Item Level of the activity.
995s Extra rewards will be granted when clearing either the Normal or Hard modes of the following activities.
1002s Brelshaza Legion Raid Gate three, Kayangel Abyssal dungeon Gate three, Akkan Legion Raid Gate three and Ivory Tower Abyssal Dungeon Gate four.
1011s The extra rewards will be available to all characters on a player's roster.
1015s No need to designate a character in this event, and these are also going to stick around until July 17th.
1022s I think this one's a lot of fun, because you just get a bunch of extra bonus mats from clearing the Raids that you're already kind of participating in.
1029s It's just, you know, a boost that we're trying to reward players with as they continue to push their characters.
1035s So make sure you get in and do all of your weekly, at least your weekly goal earning Raids, maybe a few extras as well.
1042s All right.
1043s Another event, the Honing Event Mission.
1047s This event is designed to help players as they hone their Akkan Ancient Gear, and work to progress toward higher Item Levels.
1055s The effective target for this is a character between Item Level 1580 and 1619.
1062s Once again, please note that you cannot change the target character once an event target is selected.
1069s And in this event, when players hone upper Ancient Gear Akkan gear on their designated character, they're going to be given Honing Materials, such as metallurgy and mending books and Gold just to help keep them honing and just make that progression all the way up to 1620 go a little bit easier.
1090s So to kind of dive into this, the way it's going to work is after the first weapon hone that player's attempt, players are going to receive two metallurgy selection chests.
1100s Then on top of that, players are going to receive two metallurgy selection chests and 2500 Gold.
1107s After their 4th, 8th, 12th and 16th weapon hone attempts.
1114s Similarly, after the first armor hone attempt, players are going to receive 12 Mending Selection chests.
1119s Players will then receive 12 Mending Selection chests and 2500 Gold.
1126s After their 20th, 40th, 60th, and 80th armor Honing attempts.
1132s So this pairs really well with some of the other events.
1135s If you know you're trying to hone, just get some Gold, get some books to help with that Honing session.
1141s Or, you know, this one does go all the way up to 1619.
1144s So if it's a character that you're really trying to keep pushing either to Voldis hard mode or past to all the way up to Thaemine hard, perhaps this event is just built to make that Honing feel a little bit easier and give you some bonus rewards as well.
1160s So with this update, the Anniversary events are going to end of course.
1164s So we're going to have a new event with its own event shop.
1169s As players have come to expect kind of on a monthly basis.
1172s So this month, the Arkesia Grand Prix is going to return.
1175s The fan favorite Naruni Racing is going to come back.
1179s And in this mode, two teams of seven players will compete against each other, racing around a course while transformed and trying to prevent the other team from progressing.
1190s You can earn event coins that can be exchanged for a variety of impactful rewards.
1195s Make sure to check out the special tab in the store as well.
1199s An NPC named The Arkesia Grand Prix Manager will arrive in every major city to help you enter the event.
1207s Players must be level 50 to enter the event, and the Grand Prix is going to last until May 22nd.
1215s Next thing is the Golden Frog Event Shop.
1218s The Golden Frog is actually going to stick around for an additional month lasting until April 17th.
1224s For players that haven't seen it currently in game, it's a shop where players can exchange Gold for valuable rewards such as Honing Materials, legendary Engravings, card packs and a ton more.
1237s There's also a special tab where you can earn Toad Tokens, which can then be redeemed for additional really powerful items such as like legendary selectors and a bunch of really cool stuff.
1250s We're excited to keep this in game for an additional month.
1254s We know some players really liked the current iteration of the event, where you can kind of focus it all on one character, and some players wish that they could still purchase it on all their characters, so by leaving it in an additional month, we hope that every player is super happy, with the offerings and the things that they're going to be able to get from the frog, get all the card XP, all the Honing Materials, and everything else they need to keep progressing.
1282s So to round out the event section, we just have a couple general event updates.
1287s Daily playtime rewards will continue, but be refreshed with the new event tokens.
1292s Otherwise the rewards will remain the same.
1295s We also added a new daily log in reward track and new Fever Time events have been added for this month.
1302s All right, let's cover the store updates.
1305s So the big update this month is going to be a new Ark Pass, which is the Immortal Phantasmic Beasts Ark Pass.
1314s I'm not going to cover everything about how an Ark Pass works in this video.
1318s If you want to learn about what an Ark pass is, there's some details for that.
1322s In the source section of the release notes.
1325s Make sure to check that out.
1326s But the Tldr is there's a free section that everyone will have access to that gives you 30 levels of awesome rewards.
1333s Then there's a premium section which you can purchase and a super premium purchase section as well that gives cosmetics.
1343s So let's take a quick look at what those cosmetics are for this Ark pass, since that's usually what players are most excited about.
1349s And then once again, if you want to learn more about what an Ark Pass is, make sure to check it out in the full release notes.
1356s Let's see what's in store for this Ark Pass.
1401s So on top of the new Ark Pass coming, we of course have some cosmetics for the new Breaker class.
1408s So there's going to be three cosmetics sets accompanying the Breakers launch.
1412s First off, we have the Breaker launch skin.
1415s We also have the Breaker Unity and Providence skins, which were in the store for all the other classes last month.
1422s And then on top of that, we're adding the Breaker Yoz skin for the Leap collection.
1427s As Breaker was released after Yoz's Leap season was created, Breaker is going to have the same legendary skin appearance as the Striker, but it will be in-game for players that want to have that legendary skin for it.
1441s And then just a few general store updates.
1444s There's going to be a Voldis Powerpass that will now be available from the Powerpass UI in the character selection screen, and then we also change the color of a buy button within the store.
1456s All right.
1457s So we made it through the events.
1458s We made it through the spotlight.
1460s What's left is going to be about 5000 words in the full release notes article that I'm going to try and sum up.
1468s I'm going to cover some highlights that I know players are expecting, but I'm not going to be able to read through every single update because that would make this video like an hour long.
1477s So if you want that level of granular detail, make sure to read through the full release notes.
1483s But if you're fine with just hearing the highlight reel, stay tuned to the rest of this video and we'll talk through some of those highlights.
1490s So a ton of stronghold improvements, UI improvements, combat changes, Raid updates all came in.
1498s So that's some of what we're going to go through.
1500s And then a few more general things as well.
1503s Let's just rapid fire our way through this.
1506s All right.
1507s Kick things off.
1508s We added two new male and two new female hairstyles.
1513s Wandering merchants have seen some changes.
1515s We boosted the chance of legendary cards appearing in each continent, and then also added some legendary cards that can now appear.
1523s So Kharmine has been added to the inventory of Rethramis Wandering Merchant NPC "Ben" and Azena and Inanna was added to the inventory of the Rohendel Wandering Merchant "Aricer".
1535s So for players that enjoy siege content, three new Raid matches have been added.
1541s There's Thunderwings S rank at Item Level 1610.
1546s Don't know how to pronounce this because I haven't really said it out loud before, but Ancheladus is S rank at Item Level 1500 and Moake is S rank at 1580.
1557s We also improved Siege PvP for several of the PvP islands, such as Medeia, Slime and a bunch of those other super important GVG and and PvP activities.
1570s So make sure if you are a PvPer who enjoys those siege events to go check out the full section there.
1576s There were a ton of island updates across the board, but one of the most important is that the entrance method was improved for Adventure and Dynamic islands.
1586s This now allows for matchmaking with all players within all servers in a region, so you're not just playing with the people in your server.
1595s So if you're trying to complete some of that horizontal content on those niche islands that not a ton of people go to, you'll now have a much bigger pool of players to try those islands with.
1605s Some combat changes: We change the motions of Glaivier, Deadeye, and Gunslinger, so that stance swapping in combat looks more natural.
1616s Switching over to the Raid stuff, players are now going to be able to check the status of content that resets every two weeks, like BrelshazaGatefour in the Task Tracker UI, and Party Finder before entering certain activities.
1631s There are also some balance changes to Kakul-Saydon Normal and Rehearsal Gate three.
1637s Making it a little bit easier for players.
1640s In both normal and rehearsal mode, players touching the cogwheel no longer die.
1645s Instead, they'll be inflicted with massive damage.
1649s We lowered the stagger points required to clear the "Offer the Sacrifice" pattern, and lowered the damage for the Circus Balls and Missiles appearing in the side scrolling "Mario" mini game pattern.
1662s If a player fails to remove the "Doll's Curse" placed upon another player in the side scrolling mini game pattern, the player with the curse gets a debuff instead of dying instantly.
1674s Also, brand debuff obtained from entering the side scrolling mini game pattern will be removed when using the Sidereal skill of Inanna, and then this applies to normal mode, but not rehearsal mode.
1688s The puzzling curse pattern has been removed.
1690s The stagger amplification effect was buffed when pulling on the lever in the fourth "Offer the Sacrifice" pattern.
1697s We also had some Honing QOL changes come in which, you know, players have been looking forward to.
1702s Makes it just the whole Honing experience feel a little bit more natural and also allows you to use additional materials easier and set it up so that it uses them every time rather than having to manually enter in how many additional materials you want to use for every single home.
1718s This next one's a really important one.
1720s It is the progression boost.
1723s We expanded the Arcturus' Touch boundaries to now include Plague Legion Commander Akkan normal mode and hard mode Gates 1 to 3, the Abyssal Dungeon" Kayangel Eternal Cradel of Light" normal mode Gate two and three, and hard mode gates 1 to 3.
1741s And then for new and returning adventure buffs, benefits will now be applied to the highest Item Level character in the roster up to Item Level 1540.
1751s We also expanded the boundaries of Procyon's Protection to the Legion Raid for Phantom Legion Commander Brelshaza, Hardmode gates three and four, and then Plague Legion Commander Akkan normal modes gates one and three, and Abyssal Dungeon Kayangel hard mode gates 1 to 3 as well.
1774s We also added some changes to improve progression materials, so Ability Stone upgrade material "Light Spear" is no longer even obtainable from Hard mode.
1785s That's the first one.
1786s So instead you'll just be getting the levels two, three, and four instead.
1790s And then finally, I know at the top of the video, we announced that Breaker would be releasing with its balance updates.
1798s That balance update in Korea also had some Deathblade changes so those are going to be coming over as well.
1804s For Deathblades, the PvE damage of Surge was reduced by 2.3%, and the damage effects within the Surge Engraving has been reduced from 45/60/85% increase based on your level of Engraving to 40/ 55 or 80%.
1826s And that covers the highlights.
1828s Thanks for joining me for another episode of Patch Notes with Henry.
1832s Not to sound like a broken record, there's a ton more detail, ton more changes all in the full release notes.
1838s We just wanted to make sure that this video isn't too long and is digestible for everyone watching.
1843s Make sure to like and subscribe if this type of video is helpful and we want to leave you with a community question, what character are you going to use these events on and why are you using them on that character?
1855s What makes that one so special, and what's the secret?
1858s And why should everyone else be doing what you're doing?
1861s Thanks a ton for joining us once again.
1863s Really appreciate it.
1865s And we'll see you in Arkesia.