KTERA Patch Note 1/12

By Loriri (Idi0ticGenius)

Helpers: Sam, Floss

Table of Contents:

Class

Lunar Dancer

Sorcerer

Archer

Berserker

Brawler

Priest [AFFECTS KTERA ONLY]

Mystic

Slayer

Dungeons

NEW Dungeon:

Low Tier Dungeons:

Mid Tier Dungeons:

High Tier Dungeons:

Removed Dungeons:

Solo Dungeons:

Battleground

System and UI

Items

New Gears

Changes

Others

Achievements

If you don’t see images, you should be able to click on them for link to it.


Class

Lunar Dancer (names subject to change when NA gets them)

Umbra
Slash

Fixed issue with damage being applied through block.

Piercing Moonlight

Fixed issue causing camera shake on other player's screen.

Moonlight
Burst

Fixed issue causing camera shake on other player's screen

Blood
Moon

Removed wrong information from tooltip: 50 crit factor.

**No nerfs? STILL BROKEN CLASS PogChamp

Sorcerer

Meteor Strike

Decreased Mana Cost from 1200 to 800.

Hail
Storm

Decreased Mana Cost from 1000 to 900.

Nova

Decreased Mana Cost from 700 to 600.

Teleport Jaunt

Decreased Cooldown from 15 seconds to 12 seconds

Warp Barrier

Increased Cooldown to 18 seconds from 10 seconds

Archer

Chase

Reduced Cooldown by 25 seconds to 20 seconds

Glyph of Energetic (Common) is added

Decrease Cooldown by 20% (4 points)

Rain of
Arrows

Damage will no longer be reduced on multiple targets.

Berserker

Fiery Rage

Fixed awkward animation when casted while moving.

Brawler

Growing Fury

No longer has Cooldown

Glyph of Energy (Common) has been replaced by Glyph of Threat (Common)

Glyph of Threat - 20% additional Aggro (4 points)

** At least it’s a partial buff… i guess

Priest [AFFECTS KTERA ONLY]

Talent:
Triple Nemesis - Branding

Increased Effect duration of Crit Resist Reduction from 5 seconds to 18 seconds.

        **This is pretty broken tbh. Won’t be surprised to see nerf on it.


Mystic

Titanic Fury II (from Aura of Merciless IV)

Increases Crit Factor by 2.2x instead of 2.1x

Curse of Confusion

Effect from this skill can no longer be applied on same target repeatedly.

Sonorous
Dreams

Effect from this skill can no longer be applied on same target repeatedly.

Shara's Lash

Effect from this skill can no longer be applied on same target repeatedly.

Slayer

Distant
Blade

Fixed issue with 3rd cast not lining up with the animation.

**SLAYER CHANGE DOES NOTHING AS ALWAYS


Dungeons

NEW Dungeon:

Velika Undergrounds Normal Mode

        Mid Tier Dungeon

Item Level 417

7-Man Raid. ----------------------------------------------------------

Veldeg Gear, Tier 11 Feedstock, Spellbind, Master Enigmatic Scroll, VM9: Cold-blood materials, etc


Dungeon Location

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Low Tier Dungeons:

Item Level 410

Reward: Guile Gear, Demense Accessories, Tier 10 Enchantment Materials ( Feedstock, Spellbind, Master Enigmatic Scroll, Personal Extensive Alkahest, Personal Premium Alkahest), etc

        Kalivan’s Challenge

        Channelworks

        The Abscess Normal Mode


Mid Tier Dungeons:

Item Level 417

Reward: Veldeg Gear, Lakan Accessories, Accessory Retool Kit, Balbatos Circlet,  Tier 11 Feedstock, Spellbind, Master Enigmatic Scroll, VM9: Cold-blood materials, etc

        Velika Undergrounds Normal Mode (last boss seems reskin of Gorilla BAM)

        Demokron Factory Normal Mode

        Bathysmal Rise Normal Mode

        Kalivan’s Dreadnaught Normal Mode        

High Tier Dungeons:

Item Level 423

Reward: Avaricious Lakan’s Accessories (T2), Tier 11 Feedstock, Spellbind, Master Enigmatic Scroll, VM9: Cold-blood materials, etc        

Demokron Factory Hard Mode

Timescape Normal Mode (Insanely tanky. More than 1 Billion HP each boss)

Every season, the weapon’s stats have been continuously enhanced, but only monster’s HP were adjusted. Because of this, the damage values have been excessively high every season, so to alleviate this phenomenon, we plan to also increase the defense of the monsters to reduce the discrepancy among classes.


Removed Dungeons:

Harrowhold

Lilith’s Keep Normal Mode

Lilith’s Keep Hard Mode

Ruinous Manor Normal Mode

Ruinous Manor Hard Mode

Sky Cruiser Endeavor Hard Mode

Shadow Sanguinary Normal Mode

Shadow Sanguinary Hard Mode

Broken Prison

Vault of Kaprima

We are aware that playing same dungeon during the same season for long time can be tiresome, so we plan to re-open and replace dungeons for High Tiers and Top Tiers.

Solo Dungeons:

        Increased difficulty of Ace Dungeon

        Increased difficulty of Celestial Arena



Battleground

Battlegrounds no longer reward Bellicarium and Killing Spree Credits.

        Credits are still usable if you have any remaining

        Prices on the Battleground Credit store are 10~20% cheaper

Battlegrounds will reward the following instead:

Victory: Victory Box Corresponding to the Dungeon (Non-Tradeable)

Defeat:  Document of Encouragement ( 5 of these convert to Voctory Box)

        

Battleground

Obtainable Items

Kumas Royale (64 and below)

Bravery Potion

100% XP boost

Other Combat Supplies

Kumas Royale (65)

Veldeg Gear

Master Enigmatic Scroll

Other Combat Supplies

Corsairs Stronghold

Overwhelming Champion Accessory Materials and Design

VM9: Cold-blood Materials

Other Combat Supplies

Fraywind Canyon

Overwhelming Champion Accessory Materials and Design

VM9: Cold-blood Materials

Goddess Tears

Dyad Niveot Structure

Superior Etching Box

Other Combat Supplies

Champion’s Skyring (solo)

Overwhelming Champion Accessory Materials and Design

VM9: Cold-blood Materials

Other Combat Supplies

Champion’s Skyring (3 man)

Overwhelming Champion Accessory Materials and Design

VM9: Cold-blood Materials

Other Combat Supplies


System and UI

Vanguard UI design has been revamped.

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Story Quests are now part of Vanguard Quest list.

Dungeon, Battleground, Solo Vanguard Quest details are provided (see next image below)

Vanguard Quest Filtering have been reworked.

Daily Bonuses have been added (can be completed Twice per day)

Number of completion for Vanguard quests are all same for all level for each type

8 Dungeon, 8 Battlegrounds, 8 Solo, 8 Story

Dungeon Details also provide “Teleport to the dungeon entrance” button.


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Solo Vanguard Quest details page also provide “check teleport location”

Vanguard Menu provides “Move to Vanguard Credit Shop”

Other menus that weren’t related to Vanguard are moved under System Menu. (Events, Patch Note, Recommended Gearing, Help.)


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Items

New Gears

VM9: Cold-Blood

        Requires following materials obtained from Dungeons and Battleground.

                Designs

                Lakan’s Authority

                Mark of Evil God

                Proof of Loyal Servant

                Follower’s Flag

                Purified Ore Powder

Mid Tier Gear: Veldeg (Guild 2.0)

        Obtained from Mid Tier content (Dungeon, Solo, Battleground).

PvE Accessories (T1): Lakan          

Obtained from Mid Tier content (Dungeon, Solo).

PvE Accessories (T2): Avaricious Lakan

Obtained from High Tier content (Dungeon).

PvP Accessories: Overwhelming Champion
        Requires following materials obtained from Battleground

Designs

Overwhelming Champion’s Mark of Veteran

Overwhelming Champion’s Mark of Improvement         

Avaricious Lakan (T2) Accessories

Changes

Hurricane no longer stacks with Enfeebling Triple Nemesis and Enfeebling Volley of Curses.

All variants of Goddess Blessings will share cooldown

Stout Zyrk
        Reduced Crit damage reduction to 0.7%. (it was 5% before)

"Reduce damage against monster with Highest Aggro" is now yellow stat (for non-tanks) and will contribute to increasing item level for players who play solo content.

        

Changes to solo content token (IoD token):

        Tokens will now remain for 2 season updates before they become unusable.

Undercede, Intercede, Supercede tokens will be renamed to "old" (KTERA only)

Undershade, Shadetop. Shadecore tokens will be unusable

Token Naming in KTERA

NA Naming

New Season

(Low/Mid/High)-Tier Arborean Essence

???

1 Season Old

(Low/Mid/High)-Tier Arborean Essence (Old)

Supercede, Intercede, Undercede

2 Seasons Old

Corroded Arborean Essence

iForgot Kappa
(Shadecore, Shadetop, Undershade,
Dawnstorm, Dawnfall, Underdawn)

Rewards from the Level 65 Guide Quest have been Adjusted (Solo content and dungeons)

        Guide Quest will no longer renew every season patch. (such as Castle Aranea Quest)

         New Item “Masterwork Alkahest for Growing Guardians” is added.

        Additional Enchantment Materials will replace Gems from rewards.


Others

Achievements

        Season 5 has ended and is now Season 6

        There may have been changes to Laurels due to Achievement changes.

Achievements from New and Re-Opened dungeons are moved from Legacy to Dungeons and Battlegrounds

Closing Dungeon Achievements will be moved to Legacy (and will deduct points for Achievement calculation for Laurel)