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ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


Maintenance happened and we have a new raid.

Update 2.89 Notes

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Ver. 2.89 Update Note

Table of Contents
1. Season 4 Episode 5 Extra Raid
2. Character Friendship Content
3. Miscellaneous Changes
1. A new raid is here called "Cavern of Enmity" and it's in the same Dimension Rift area as Naberius. The boss is named Cessair and by all accounts she's actually irrelevant to the plot of Season 4. In addition to Ardri mats, she drops a ring essence and a new R5 scroll, "Madness." It's for offhand equipment like totems and it gives a little CRIT RTE. They also went and gave Milo a new scroll drop, "Enmity." It's for weapons and gives a lot of ATT, SPD, and CRIT RTE.

2. The rest of Letty's Friendship content has been added.

3. A few unimportant bug fixes. Nothing interesting here.

This raid event is for the dogs

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Follow the puppy's clues! Event

Event Period: 6/21 - 7/19 (4 weeks)

Exchange Shop 06/21 - 07/26 (5 Weeks)

Gift the [Bone at the End of the Pawprint Trail] to the puppy in Colhen to retrieve the manual.
It's a feed the image event. This time it's a puppy. Run raids from Claire to Cessair to receive bones, then give bones to the puppy to make it grow. The rewards are mostly boring. Grade I and II Shards, a couple of unstable runes, a Steel Destiny box. Also, a few "manuals." The manuals are coupons that can be exchanged for other goodies. Most of these goodies are better Mysterious/Abyssal Shards. There are also Resenlian's Battle Completion Scrolls and an "Animal Hat Destiny Box (Outfit)". A lot of what's in the shop is per-account while the event is per-character, so depending on how many alts you have, you'll have to think carefully to allocate your purchases.

Sprint—don't walk—to the new raid if you've got the stats for it

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Try your luck and go straight to the Cavern of Enmity!

Event Period: 6/21 - 7/05 (2 weeks)
Clear normal raids from Claire to Cessair. Every win gives you a stacking buff, up to five levels. Disappears at daily reset. The most notable benefit is +5 to LUK.

Another login event

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Last Chance Check-In! Event

Event Period: 6/21 - 7/12 (3 weeks)
Log in for 30 minutes each day to get a reward. You should already be logging in for an hour each day for the Gremlin Race event so this should be easy. Rewards include VVIP capsules, AP capsules, a Fine Pet Destiny Box, Damascus Steel, runes, a +14 Restorative Rune for level 105 equipment, a 100% Success Enchant Destiny Box, and a White Feather/White Butterfly outfit box. Alas, the outfit in the outfit box has been given away before. It was given away around the time Belle was released.

Mods knew (that the players want events)

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Friday Night GM Event

Event Period: 7/2(Sat.) 7/9(Sat.) 19:00 through 21:00 (CEST, PDT Time)

Event Details

During the event period, everyone is invited to enjoy the raid battles with the Vindictus GMs!
The short version is that GMs will randomly join people's raids. They'll signal the beginning of this period by throwing down a special bath soap. If you get a GM in your boat you're supposed to take a screenshot and post it in the Discord. If more than fifty screenshots get posted, a special coupon code will be released so everybody gets goodies.

This is the free gear event oh boy

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No Limit Rentals Event

Event Period: 06/21 - 09/20

We're renting out +13 Milletian Weapons and full sets of armor to all Lv. 105+ characters!
Get a complete set of fully enchanted and infused +13 Milletian gear for free on all your characters. Gear expires three months from now but that's three months of good times. The only downside is that using the armor will play havoc with any outfits you've set that involve appearance-fused gear. Not that much of a downside, really.

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ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


Maintenance happened and we have a new event.

Free dyes again

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Goddess's Gift Event

Event Period: 7/5 - 7/19 (2 weeks)

Exchange Shop 07/05 - 07/26 (3 Weeks)
Log in and receive a "Goddess's Gift Coupon" every 30 minutes, up to 5 coupons per day, for a maximum of 70 coupons. Coupons can be exchanged for goodies, most of which cost 5 coupons each. There's a Steel Destiny box (3 per account), Resenlian Battle Completion Scrolls (5 per account), and a shitload of dye ampoules both empty and prefilled with various colors. There's the usual gang of consumables that cost 1-2 coupons each (merc pots, graces, blessing stones). Finally, there are Superior Guild Campfire Kits (1 coupon each). Steels and camps make this good for a no-effort event.

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s7uKaAx0Qw

Maintenance happened and we got an update. It's a big one. Space Time Distortion is already here, somehow.

Version 2.9 patch notes

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Ver. 2.90 Update Note

Table of Contents
1. Space Time Distortion: Usurper's Fortress
2. Emblem Update
3. Character Balance Changes
4. Miscellaneous Changes
1. The first Space Time Distortion raid is here, and it's called Usurper's Fortress and the boss is named Spirit Usurper Taros. They said he'd be here next year and they lied, the fuckers. The stat requirements are stiff so chances are that if you're reading this, you can't run it at all. Most buffs don't apply so good luck getting the raw stats. The in-battle restrictions are also harsh. You can be revived exactly once, party feathers and guild feathers don't work, and you can only bring 25 Exquisite HP potions in. You know, the new ones you probably don't use because free merc pots and fruit juices are already good enough.

Speaking of raw stats, the new exclusive equipment reward is called the Rhod Compass. It gives ATT, CRIT RTE, and ATT Surplus. Not much, even discounting what stats you need just to get into the raid. They mostly exist as a base for exclusive enchants. Some reduce ATT but increases ATT SPD, BAL, and give SP or MP regeneration. Some enchants can boost ATT SPD every thirty seconds or so. Finally, you can put Calm and Dash on a compass and the kitty shop is giving away scrolls that let you extract these from other gear you might have. Then you get a 100% enchant scroll to use on the compass. In short, the compass isn't meant to be a stat stick; it's there to give players buffs that can't be obtained any other way.

I don't know if it matters but there's an event for beating Taros. Find the info here.

2. Emblems have been revamped. First, your emblem collection is still accessible from the Character window, but you now click on a little icon by your character's name. The emblem window is bigger but not entirely changed. You can now click on an emblem to see how it's obtained, set emblems as favorites, and earn titles by collecting all of the emblems in a set. Finally, there's a tab for "special emblems." There are four kinds, marked with letters. An emblem with an 'L' (for Large) goes above the title and is oversized. 'W' (Wing) emblems go on both sides of the title. 'B' (Background) emblems go behind your name and title. 'A' (Animated) emblems are, well, animated. They can go on the side or above the title, depending on size.

3. Character changes oh no. Or oh boy. Lann gets a 5% damage boost all around. Longsword Fiona gets a 6% boost to normal attacks and smashes. Eira gets a 4% boost across the board. Lethor gets a 3% (lol) boost on most attacks and active skills.

4. Redeemers HP Potions are poo poo now. You literally cannot use them. If you want to pot in Redeemers, use Exquisite HP Potions.

A couple of Character Growth Goals have been added. Now you get a 30-day Unlimited Inner Armor Pass and a 15-day Unlimited Makeup/Beard Pass.

Minimum Damage Contribution changes are here. To get full rewards you only need to do 3% damage in normal and Nifl raids; 3% in [S] Regina, and 1% in AA, Redeemers, [S] Colru, and Final Fortress.

Spread out over this part of the notes are mentions of bugfixes. Some are cosmetic. Some are significant but not especially noteworthy. The big news is an acknowledgement from the devs that RAR/FF recruitment is loving terrible. It keeps breaking and they don't truly know how to fix it. They're just patching whatever and hoping it sticks. So keep complaining if you dare because it helps.

A raid event for relatively normal people

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Descent of the Radiant Pillars Event

Event Period: 7/19 - 8/23 (5 weeks)

Event Info

* Per-character event (Must be able to join the Taratha Region raid)

1) Obtain 1 of the following items at varying probabilities from the Event Core by completing the Taratha Region raid.
Run S4 raids, get goodies possibly. Click through to see drop rates and see they're poo poo. Maybe get free sup camps, stat buff potions, Resenlian scrolls, and a "Glittering Box." Glittering Boxes contain enchants, grade 2 or 3 shards, or steel. Strangely, though the description says you need to be able to join Taratha raids, the list of applicable raids says these rewards can drop from any S4 raid.

I'm a Lann / And I'm torn between vengeance and passion

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Fiery Passion for You

Event Period: 7/19 - 8/23 (5 weeks)

Exchange Shop Period: 7/19 - 8/30 (6 weeks)

Event Info

* Character-Based Event (Lv. 60+)

[Story Event]

1) Log in with a Lv. 60+ character to proceed with the story [Event: Fiery Passion for You].

2) Talk to the Strange Traveler and complete the story. You may only participate in it once per character.

3) Complete the event's designated battles to obtain [Proof of Passion], and then take [Proof of Passion] to the Strange Traveler to receive a [Passion Box].
Talk to the Strange Traveler to progress an event quest, then run a battle to get a Proof of Passion coupon, or perhaps thirty coupons each week. The coupons can be exchanged for goodies. You can get the Special Flamenco Set for ladies (50 coupons, 1 per account), the Special Matador Set for dudes (same), +13 Enhance Runes for 105 armor (25 coupons, 1 per account), Milletian Reforge Boxes (25 coupons each, 2 per char). You can also get Grade 2 shards, steel boxes, Intermediate Stones, and some consumables. Not Exquisite HP Potions, though, which is a shame. They should make them a common spillover reward if we're going to use them in Redeemers.

These Emblems are Fire

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An Emblem a Day... Event

Event Period: 7/19 - 8/09 (3 weeks)

Exchange Shop Period: 7/19 - 8/16 (4 weeks)

* Per-character event

1) Acquire 3 [Traveler's Special Coupons] by completing daily missions during the event period.

2) Collect [Traveler's Special Coupons] and exchange them for various items at the Exchange Shop.
Complete your daily missions to get coupons. Exchange the coupons for emblems. Emblems are per-character, so this will be a tough one to grind. Three coupons per day, fifteen coupons per emblem, times three emblems is... fifteen days to get all three on a character. And we have twenty-one days. Have fun with that one. Might want to prioritize if you're like me and busy playing other games uh I mean working a real job.

Spin to Win / Rotate to Rout / Orbit Through Space to Get First Place

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Log In and Spin! Prize Wheel Event

Event Period: 7/19 - 8/23 (5 weeks)
The wheel of misfortune is back. Log in and get a spin ticket every 30 minutes, up to four tickets per day and twenty tickets per week. Prizes includes grade 1 shards, resenlian scrolls, New Era boxes, AP capsules, and consumables. Interestingly, there's a note from the developers saying that the rewards have equal probability of being obtained. What an odd thing to say. Well, I believe them since the rewards are all lousy. Grade 1 shards? Come on.

Your heart has stopped I can believe, but your brain being cold? Ain't nothing cold in this weather

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Vindictus Summer Vacation Event

Event Period: 7/19 (Tue.) - 8/23 (Tue.)

What kind of summer getaway are you planning?

The heroes of Vindictus need vacations too. Sure, constantly fighting to the death against unspeakable horrors with powers behind comprehension seems like a relaxing job, but even that can wear you out. Take a screenshot of your characters kicking back during the summer vacation to capture the memories of 2022's blazing hot summer!
Take screenshots of your character that capture the essence of summer and post them on the discord to get GM Coins. Lots of people taking pictures of the beach. I think I might take a different approach and take pictures of things that are on fire.

ArchWizard fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Jul 20, 2022

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG4MDm_zQ

Next character is coming August 23rd.

Bakalakadaka
Sep 18, 2004

Big fat content drop that most people can't do and yet still no blackwater outlaw outfit rerun

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR-nm1HcyHg

Dev Talk 3 is here. No content discussion because they don't have a lot of new content in the pipeline. This talk is about adding QoL stuff. Unifying the avatar shop, dye shop, and wardrobe into one system. Making alting less painful through equipment and marketplace sharing now that they've realized the game's design encourages alting. (Hey, maybe someday they'll make friend lists account-wide.) Adding more equipment presets. Letting you match your eyebrow color to your hair color, for what that's worth.

One lingering question: Why does the dev team leader have separate equipment loadouts for Romel and Cessair?

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


We're finally getting a Latiya event.

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Latiya's Celebratory Package Event

Event Period: 8/16 (Tue.) - 09/20 (Tue.)

Event Detail

[Latiya's Gallant Gift] is given via mail to the character you first log in with during the event period. (Once per account)
Latiya's going to be here in a week. Log in some time in the next month to get an account-shareable gift box containing an outfit destiny box, a title, a 30-day unlimited inner armor pass, and a permanent storage ticket. You can open the outfit box to get a mystic lady set (the weird one that makes you look like a harlequin) or a sunflower set (the one with a sundress and straw hat).

The gift box can only be opened by a Latiya. All contents bind on acquire so the outfit box is also only for Latiya. No passing it to another character.

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47y5bo8wtqM

Let's start with the patch notes

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Ver. 2.91 Update Note

Table of Contents
1. 21St New Hero: Latiya
2. Seal of Bravery Shop Revamp
3. Miscellaneous Changes
1. Latiya's here. The usual changes made for new characters have been made. You can craft her gear, see her in the lounge, use her in the partholon vanguard. In the lounge, her favorite gifts are First Aid Kits and Grilled Fish. Her friendship skill is supposed to be with Letty because they both have a habit of charging into danger and then wrecking everything.

2. Bravery Shop changes. Reforge stuff like runes and essences have been added for 105 gear. Good for me because I stopped upgrading Astera a long time ago so I got the seals stashed away. Meanwhile, you can still reforge your free Astera gear and the mats are much cheaper. You can also make level 100 accessories, even though you should have a set of freebies. Don't really get that one. Steels are also a bit cheaper.

3. Bug fixes, mostly. Graphical bugs, mostly. Equipment Durability Potions are effectively better because they now apply to foci, bracelets, and necklaces.

An overhaul of the free steel events. They used to give out big stacks of steel that expire. That's a problem because not everybody can use it all up and the remainder is simply waste. Now they're giving away tickets that go into your "wallet" like seals. They can be used to purchase steel, fatigue potions, fine armor repair kits, or exquisite HP potions. A definite improvement, even if the consolation rewards aren't great.

Latiya intro

Latiya is from a place called the Jungle of Death, which everybody on the outside believes is uninhabitable to humans. Her people live there and are powerful wizards who love panthers and carved out what I assume is an insanely kickass civilization. The game explicitly says the panther wizard people keep to themselves because they know outsiders are assholes and are worse than whatever is hanging with them in the jungle. And while that's generally true, one day Latiya snuck out of the jungle alone, found a village under attack by Fomors, and watched as a bunch of knights on horseback tore poo poo up and then gave the obligatory speech about how helping people is what knights do. This really impressed Latiya and made her want to be a knight. That was her second mistake.

Latiya grows up to be a really good hunter and wizard but is obsessed with becoming a knight and helping people, which is further evidence for my belief that Latiya's people must have a great thing going on. Otherwise she could have helped people by staying home. But no, she leaves and tries to become a knight but gets into all sorts of trouble because she's actually too dangerous to help people without causing lots of collateral damage. This leads to a lot of heartbreak and lost friends. Meanwhile, her family's at home shaking their heads saying, "we warned her that things were worse on the outside. Animals can eat your flesh but only people hurt your soul" or something profound like that.

Anyway, Latiya fights with a lance even though she's on foot, but she also pairs it with a magical grappling hook thing that her people use. It's a surprisingly workable combo. A strong fighter all around, if hard to grasp at first.

The obligatory leveling event

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Take It To The Max, Mercs! Event

Event Period: 08/23 ~ 09/20 (4weeks)

Magnificent benefits for your character!

If you are with the new hero Latiya, then more items are available.
Log in with a character level 30 or below to get a nesting box. The boxes contain AP capsules, merc pots, graces, fatigue potions, a permanent storage expansion ticket, unlimited inner/hair passes, midlevel equipment sets, TP potions, Premium Armor Fusion Runes (!), steels, an outfit destiny box (!!!), a +14 level 105 rune (!!!!!), and a new title.

Golden Time time

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Summer 2022 Golden Time Event

Event Period: 8/23 - 10/18 (8 weeks)

Exchange Shop Period: 8/23 - 10/25 (9 weeks)

Event Details

1) When you log in during the event (8/23 - 10/18), you will receive the Summer 2022's Golden Time Guide via your Account Mail.

2) Complete each mission to obtain [Summer 2022 Golden Time Coupon], appropriate to the mission.
Run just about anything to get golden time coupons, up to 150 per week per account. Exchange coupons for goodies. Each reward costs four tens' worth of coupons, which isn't terrible at all. There are a ton of goodies that you can buy with coupons, and each goodie also give a bonus coin you can use to buy more goodies. Just click through and look at the lists. They're big. Some important rewards to note are a 15-day VVIP capsule, an outfit box, and the inclusion of Ardri mats. I think this is the first time an event has given away level 110 stuff.

A dice event for Latiya and others

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Die! Die! Die! AP Dice Game Event (2022)

Event Period: 08/23 ~ 09/20 (4 weeks)

Dice Available for Usage: 08/23 ~ 09/27 (5 weeks)
Log in and stay logged in to get dice, up to four per day. Roll the dice to move around the game board. Most spots give Account-Shareable AP capsules. A few spots give Exquisite HP Potions. A few other spots give a new package that gives New Era mats or Sealed Power Fragments (the stuff you need to perform Material Synthesis and Accessory Enhancement). The ultimate reward is a box containing a Mysterious/Abyssal Grade 2 Shard. Pretty good event overall.

More info on the steel giveaway event

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Damascus Seal Supply Event

Event Period: 08/23 - 01/10

Event Info

1) Log in for 15 minutes during the event, to earn one [Damascus Seal] per account.

2) [Damascus Seal] earned can be viewed in the Seal Shop, and it can be exchanged for an item you need.

- TIP: You can connect to the Seal Shop by clicking the item within the on time event's UI as well.
I explained above how the steel event has changed. If you want more details, you can check this page.

The obligatory Gathering Dungeon event

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Welcome, Latiya! Gathering Dungeon Event

Event Period: 08/23 - 09/20

Event Detail

* Character-Based Event (Lv. 70+)

1) When you log in with a Lv. 70+ character during the event, you can start [Shayla's Gathering Dungeon] through the NPC Shayla.

* You can participate in the event right away if you already proceeded the story in the previous Gathering event.
Get a dungeon entry ticket by logging in on a level 70+ character. Enter the dungeon to harvest from luminaries and fight Vengeful Langro. If you're taking in a new character, please remember to go and learn Gathering from Old Meb before you enter the dungeon or you'll waste the ticket. As for new rewards, the page say the Whimsical Shark Hairpin that was given away around the time Tessa was released is now in the shop.

Survey says

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Vindictus Survey

* Survey Period: 8/23 - 8/30 (1 week)

We will be happy to hear your opinions on characters and outfits through this survey.

Your input will be used to improve Vindictus, so we hope all of you participate in the survey.
The survey is here. Tell them what kinds of outfits you like and receive a package containing a 30-day unlimited hair pass, a 30-day unlimited makeup/beard pass, and an event headgear outfit destiny box. Nothing special in the box; you can buy anything in there at the gathering essence shop. I wouldn't be shocked to find they bin your responses entirely if you tell them you don't spend money on outfits.

They still want people to join the Discord

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Join the Discord Event

Event Period: 08/23 ~ 09/20 before maintenance

Join our official discord community!

Good place to hang around. Events and rewards are there.
As people join the official Discord server, more and more coupon codes will be released. The codes can be used to get 30 GM coins. That's pretty good, enough for a permanent inner or hair coupon.

ArchWizard fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Aug 28, 2022

Bakalakadaka
Sep 18, 2004

Latiya is pretty cool and the Laura outfit somehow has even more tiddy than previous AC outfits.

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.



The event emblems are very good.

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c18WZZa4KIA

Another update is here but it's small

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Ver. 2.92 Update Note

■ Friendship

- Issue not being able to complete the Letty friendship story after rank [Confidant] with Latiya shall be fixed.

■ Story

- Awkward highlight button on the seal button during the About Seals tutorial shall be fixed.

■ Battle

- Abnormal activation of Arisha’s Mana Tracer and Diffusion Warp during specific situations on Space Time Distortion battle shall be fixed.
- Abnormal moving speed after the mini-game of Space Time Distortion shall be fixed.

■ Home Screen

- 3 new screen image has been added concept based on the Usurper's Fortress.

■ Graphics

- Unnatural graphical issue related to the cape of the Special Romel Set has been fixed.

- Graphical issue when Hurk equips Special Romel Set has been fixed. Issues such as back or epaulet part of the Special Romel Chestplate dose not show properly in certain posture.

■ ETC

- <Thank You for Your Response! Package> for August Vindictus Survey shall be sent to your mailbox during the maintenance. Please check your mailbox for the package after V2.92 maintenance.

Thank You.

Vindictus Team
Some bugfixes, new title screens, and if you submitted answers for that outfit survey then you should finally get your reward.

Obligatory attendance event

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Autumn's Advent Attendance Check Event

Event Period: 09/20 - 10/11
Log in for an hour to get a reward. Lots of AP Capsules, potions, and Resenlian Battle Completion Scrolls on the list. Also, "Summer 2022 Golden Time Bonus Coins," which synergizes well with the Golden Time coupon event which is still ongoing. There are a couple of "Friendship Help Boxes" which contain both a friendship destiny gift box and Suspicious Potions. The ultimate reward is an outfit dye ampoule destiny box.

Obligatory raid event

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Nifty Raid Supply Cache Event

Event Period: 09/20 - 10/18

Exchange Shop Period: 09/20 - 10/25
Run normal raids from Claire to Cessair to get a box, limit 25 per character per week. The box contains a "Nifty Raid Exchange Shop Coupon" and a small goodie. Small goodies include merc pots, graces, Exquisite HP Potions, and Sealed Power Fragments. Coupons can be exchanged for big goodies. You can get Clone Outfit Crafting Boxes, a +14 level 105 enhance rune, Grade 2 Mysterious/Abyssal Shards, Steel boxes, Milletian Reforge mat boxes, power infusion stones, and Exquisite HP Potions. Not bad, also synergizes well with the golden time coupon event.

Redeemers and Ein Lacher support event, for when you don't feel like relaxing

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Redeemers & Ein Lacher Support for New Mercs Event

Event Period: 09/20 - 10/18
Rookie Redeemers is extended from five wins max to ten wins max. Does not apply to Laura, which doesn't have Rookie Redeemers. Characters who don't have 100% completion in a Redeemers raid will also get a big fat stat buff when running those raids. This doesn't apply to Laura either, for some reason. And finally, the requirement for getting a gold medal in Ein Lacher has been temporarily eased from "take three hits or less" to "take four hits or less." Nice event for Latiya, who can have a hard time avoiding hits when fighting fast bosses.

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3c10YRSEVo

Update today. Gremlin race is back.

This race is a real riot
It's the usual gremlin race. Lots of goodies like a tail box, an object box, and an outfit box. This outfit box has a Selren outfit and an Apocryphal outfit. You may have noticed or heard that Apocryphal and Everlasting armor aren't obtainable any more and people have been asking for years for Nexon to bring them back. So, this event and the previous gremlin race event allowed you to get them in outfit form. I guess I should have said that earlier? Oh well.

Event for those interested in Zones and their Purification

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Full House Cleaning for Fall Event

Event Period: 10/04 - 10/18

Exchange Shop Period: 10/04 - 10/25
Complete your daily missions to get a "Full House Cleaning Coupon." Exchange coupons for goodies, including a box containing a single outfit item (6 coupons), a title (5 coupons), dye ampoules, graces, and AP capsules. Personally not a fan of what's in the box. I guess they're okay. Wouldn't bust my rear end for any of them.

One love one number

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Upcoming NX Prepaid and NX Credit Merge

Additional notice in relation with NX Prepaid and Credit Merge

Please be aware that after October 4th maintenance and until additional maintenance which shall be held on October 5th, NX Prepaid text shall temporarily displayed as My NX.

Thank you.

Vindictus Team



Along with the other titles serviced by NEXON, Vindictus will be merging NX Prepaid and Credit on October 5th.

* Additional Maintenance Schedule: 10/5 13:00 ~ 17:00 UTC

You will no longer have to have inconvenience with two different payment method.

NX Prepaid and Credit possessed before October 5th maintenance shall be merged to NX.

After the merge, the restriction for specific items not being able to purchase with Credit shall no longer be applied.

However, the current Terms of Use related to the refund policy shall be applied to the merged currency.
This was posted a week ago but is just about to happen tomorrow. NX Prepaid and NX Credit balances will be merged into one number. There is a possibility that some of you will be able to afford something from the supply depot that you couldn't afford before. Check it out! Enjoy your one hundred fishing rods or whatever.

ArchWizard fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Oct 5, 2022

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


https://twitter.com/Vindictus/status/1580071026557607936

They're promising to have the next story raid, Enok, by the end of the month. If you want an idea of how the battle works you can watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBprZOuMb88

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1cM9INuCag

Maintenance happened. Update happened. The new raid is here.

Update 2.93

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Ver. 2.93 Update Note

Table of Contents

1. Season 4 Episode 6 "Great Ministry"

2. Friendship System

3. Miscellaneous Changes
1. It's Enok. We're finally gonna kick his rear end. He drops Ardri mats and an essence for a new ring.

2. You can go higher with your friendship with Latiya. They also fixed a minor bug with the sheep-rescuing mission. I never do that mission. I always do Infiltration because it's quick and virtually impossible to fail.

3. Bugfixes, mostly, but a few big features:

- In-battle consumables have been redone for the sake of convenience. Similar but not identical potions in your quickslots will fill in if you consume a stack. The game automatically puts time-limited items first, then untradeables, then account-shareables, and then normals. This is great because it means you don't need to manually slot in bound potions or feathers to ensure they're used up first. It also means you don't have to stop mid-battle to equip tradeable potions because you finished up a stack of bound potions. To further simplify matters, Fortified Fruit Juice has been deprecated. You can trade them 1:1 for Exquisite HP Potions (bound) by right-clicking on the juice to bring up the Quick Craft interface. Anything that used to reward Fortified Fruit Juice (namely, the daily mission) will give Exquisite HP Potions instead.

- They rewrote the dialogue a little for the story "Awakened Demon." I don't remember which part of the story that is.

- You know those cool ornaments people get by farming Mag Mell? There's an option to turn off other players' ornaments during battle. Good.

- They're trying to make it so you can't spinkick a boss so hard it flies off into space. Bullshit is what it is. Apparently you're only allowed to have fun by looking at huge breasts and asses now.

- A new set of emoticons has been added. Ten emotes based on the red gnoll chieftain.

- They've added more weird restrictions on trading gold between accounts. It applies if the recipient of a mail has no characters on the account above level 90. It's supposed to be an "anti-bot and other illegal activities" measure, according to the dev note, but new players might run into it. Their advice is "just level bro we made it easier than ever." Which is true but that just means bots and gold sellers can level up easily, too.

Great Ministry: Enok

quote:

Great Ministry: Enok

Hello, this is the Vindictus team.

The newest raid is called the 'Great Ministry'.

The desperate, gruesome battle in the Taratha Royal Castle's Audience Chamber has ended with the hero's victory, terminating Milo and Goddess Macha's contract.

So, Macha's servant, Enok, comes up with a new plan to remedy the dire situation. Then, he injects himself with the power gained from his past experiments.

Armed with curse magic and deadly venom, Enok has resurfaced as a terrifying figure to face the hero's party heading to the Cathedral.
Things are going to poo poo for Macha and Enok's plans, so Enok prepares his final trick: He's gonna turn into a giant freaking scorpion. Holy poo poo. His most notable gimmick is that some time around the midpoint of the battle, he'll charge up a powerful curse on the entire party. You have to grab bottles of holy water and throw them at pillars with symbols on them. Do that and you're fine. Don't do that and you die. Oh, and Enok will be trying to kick your rear end in the meantime. What fun.

Complementary event for the new raid

quote:

Try your luck and go straight to the Great Ministry!

Event Period: 10/18 - 11/08

Event Details

*per-character event (Lv. 100+)

1) You will receive the [Lucky Sprint], after you clear the raids from [Surprise Attack] to [Great Ministry].

- The Sprint boon has a total of 5 stages. 1 stack is added per each relevant raid completion.

- Sprint boon is provided to all characters at Lv. 100-110.

- Once the event starts, the Sprint boon will reset every day at 7AM UTC.

2) 1 Additional Departure will be added to the Great Ministry Raid during the event.
It's a sprint event and an extra raid departure event. Run raids to get a stacking buff. The buff still increases stats you almost certainly don't need to run the new raid, in quantities that are largely insignificant. The LUK boost is nice, though.

The Halloween event is here

quote:

Sweet and Savory Halloween Pumpkin Festival! Event

Event Period: 10/18 - 11/08

Exchange Shop Period: 10/18 - 11/15
It's a "feed the gif" event. This time it's a pumpkin. Run level 60+ normal battles, Red Moon, or Niflheim to get Pumpkin Growth Hormone, limit 20 per character per week. There are seven stages and each stage gives a coupon as a reward, among other things. The notable rewards are a title (third stage reward), an emblem destiny box (1 coupon, limit 4 per character), and a wings destiny box (2 coupons, limit 3 per account).

Night of the Vendedores

quote:

2022 Autumn Vending Machine Event

Event Period: 10/18 - 11/15

Exchange Shop: 10/18 - 11/22

Event Detail

* Per-character event

1) You can earn 15 [Autumn Vending Machine Tokens] per week. (Token distribution day will be reset every Tuesday)

2) Use tokens to select and complete missions from the Vending Machine to earn each reward.

3) Autumn Vending Machine Coupons earned as mission rewards can be spent in the Exchange Shop.
Vending machine event is back. They're leaning even more on simple weekly missions, making it easier to earn coupons. Coupons can be exchanged for goodies like a Clone Outfit Crafting Box, an Enchant Rune, a Milletian material boxes, a 100% Success Enchant box, Mysterious/Abyssal Grade 2 Shards, Rune Rune! Boxes, Resenlian scrolls, Steel boxes, and New Era mat boxes. Not bad, not bad.


One last thing: I don't think it's mentioned anywhere but Colhen and Rocheste are decorated for Halloween and you can get Halloween greetings from the Friendship Seal shop. Kind of wish I hadn't already spent the Friendship Seals on a bunch of my characters. Ah well.

ArchWizard fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Oct 19, 2022

Bakalakadaka
Sep 18, 2004

ArchWizard posted:

- You know those cool ornaments people get by farming Mag Mell? There's an option to turn off other players' ornaments during battle. Good.

thank fuckin god those things hurt my eyes

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GrVJpZVo4A

Maintenance happened and we have a couple of new events. It's the 12th Anniversary of Vindictus so it's time to get unique commemorative goodies, along with some goodies that are actually useful.

First up is the attendance event

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Twelve Years Old! Check-In Event

Event Period: 10/25 - 11/15
Log in for twelve minutes each day to get a reward. Rewards include Steel Destiny Boxes, Resenlian Scrolls, Abyssal/Mysterious Grade 2 Shards, an emblem box, a new object, and a equipment outfit destiny box. Not bad, not bad.

For twelve years we have been asking you to join the Discord server

quote:

12th Anniversary Community Event

Event Period: 10/25 - 11/8

Event Details

Part 1. Time to show off your all-time favorite Vindictus characters

You have met the 21 heroes over the past 12 years of Vindictus. Choose "one" character as your "all-time favorite", and show other players why that character is your favorite!

Part 2. Who is the boss that you both love and hate the most from the past 12 years of Vindictus?

You’ve faced countless bosses in Vindictus. Please choose the one who was the most memorable or the most difficult to deal with. Who is it?

Please upload one of your best screenshots facing the boss playing as your favorite character from Part 1.

In order to participate please join our Discord community (URL).
Go on the Discord and tell them who's your favorite playable character and who's your favorite boss. If a hundred people do this, everybody gets a coupon code for a box. If one hundred fifty people do this, everybody gets a code for a second, different box. The boxes don't impress me much. Only notable rewards are a 7-day VVIP capsule in the first one and a 12th Anniversary t-shirt in the second.

ArchWizard fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Nov 3, 2022

Bakalakadaka
Sep 18, 2004

36 jardins from the attendance is pretty dang good if you have any ardri gear to enhance.

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbM9UTD2Xtc

Maintenance happened and we have an update.

Update 2.94

quote:

Ver. 2.94 Update Note

Table of Contents

1. Avatar (UI) Merge Update
2. VIP/VVIP Service Benefit Improvements
3. Changes per category
1. The Avatar Shop, Dye Shop, and Outfitter Shop are all merged with the wardrobe system. No more going from avatar shop or dye shop to town to wardrobe and back when trying out new looks. In fact, they seem to have gone out of their way to make sure you don't get sent back to town when you're just trying to get something done. They've also added new wardrobe skills, emotes and emblems. If you're reading this you probably don't have enough Wardrobe Points to afford them.

2. VVIP changes. Sounds like the free merc+ pots have been replaced with normal merc pots. Sucks, man. I love being able to instantly recover all of my stamina whenever I want. Gotta be the second-best thing about having VVIP. I don't think they intended for me to fixate on that change so I'll tell you about "Equip Tabs." They finally added more equipment loadout preset slots and they're locked behind VVIP. You can also name your loadouts, including the first three which remain free to use.

3. Other changes:
  • Battle changes - Mostly bugfixes
  • Characters - Two bugfixes, neither being consequential
  • Story - One bugfix for the Departure tutorial
  • Items - Informative text has been added or clarified in a few places; dye ampoules that have been extracted will return to the empty ampoule stack they came from
  • Marketplace - Bugfixes for the "Interest Keyword" tab, which I never use because I can't afford to buy things
  • Graphics - Fixed a few glitches
  • Misc - Channel message bugfixes, other minor glitch fixes. People complained that Latiyas couldn't use the Permanent Inner Armor and Hair Coupons from this instance of the Gremlin Race so they changed it.

Thanks but no thanks

quote:

Thanksgiving Feast Prep! Event

Event Period: 11/15 - 11/29

Exchange Shop: 11/15 - 12/06
Complete all of your daily missions to get an "Ingredient Pouch", 14 possible. Exchange pouches for goodies. 6 coupons for an "Autumn Colors" dye ampoule destiny box (limit 1 per character), 2 coupons for a title, 1 coupon for a pie or a turkey. Pie is a suspicious potion and turkey is a dock food that increases ATT, DFF, SPD, BAL, and CRIT RTE for an hour. It's not a great event, really. The title's nice and easy to get but a singular dye ampoule is of questionable value. The pie and turkey are useful. I wouldn't bust my rear end to hoard them but they'd be nice to have as a bonus.

The hero pass is back

quote:

Sound of A Hero Pass Event

Event Period: 11/15 - 12/13
Do things to gain pass exp. Earn enough exp and you'll get rewards. As usual, you can spend real money to get more rewards but I don't believe they're worth the cost. The highlight is supposed to be a "pastel butterfly wings box" but I think it's more interesting that they're giving away voiced emotes. Two character-specific voice emotes, one for Fall and one for Winter. They're on the free track and you can earn two of each. Very nice and easy to get, if you don't mind running RAR or a merc mission exactly once per day.

ArchWizard fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Nov 15, 2022

Bakalakadaka
Sep 18, 2004

The wardrobe update is pretty rad

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


Maintenance happened and we have a new event.

A raid event, because we didn't get one last week

quote:

Raid Supply Event

Event Period: 11/22 - 12/13

Exchange Shop: 11/22 - 12/20

Event Details

* per Character Event (Raid Participation Target)                

1) Complete the Surprise Attack - Great Ministry raids to get 1 Raid Supply Box.                   

You can earn up to 25 Raid Supply Boxes per week. (Earn up to 75 during the entire event period.)      

- Raid Supply Box is valid until 12/10 7AM UTC.
Run normal raids (Claire to Enok) to get a Raid Supply Box, limit 25 per character per week. Open the Raid Supply Box to get a Raid Supply Coupon and one of the following at random: Exquisite HP Potions, fatigue potions, or a few New Era materials. Coupons can be exchanged for a +14 level 105 enhance rune (20 coupons, 1 per account), Mysterious/Abyssal Grade 2 Shards (15 coupons each), Milletian Reforge boxes (7 coupons each, 2 per character), and sundry sundries. Nothing new but there's good stuff here.

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zafnw8HnX5Y

New devtalk here.
  • The Equipment Simulator idea has been shitcanned. The explanation, which was itself perfunctory, can be further summarized as, "wehh coding is hard."
  • New character coming in December, for KR. Teaser should be out soon for everybody to see. She's a wizard and she fights using a magic orb. Whether she is capable of pondering said orb is not stated. Expect lots of spellslinging and other cool poo poo. And since she's a ranged character, they're taking the opportunity to experiment with a new way to aim her attacks. Not laser pointers and not reticles, but a secret third thing.
  • Circuits, a.k.a. the raid train system. They still don't have it working because they have to deal with structural poo poo. Vindictus wasn't built for raid trains. The devs did not realize that screwing around in a series of hallways for several minutes isn't fun. So, they've been redoing a lot internally to make sure the Circuit system won't break when used.They expect to have Circuits in KR by February or March, at the same time as the next level cap increase.
  • They're making a new system to go with the level cap increase. It's called the "Guaranteed Reward System." The plan isn't quite set but the idea is to implement a mercy system so you can't get screwed by drop rates forever. Unfortunately, even after the level cap increase they're not going to implement the system for anything better than Milletian. Sucks, man.
  • The "Equipment Share System" has been delayed but they expect to have it in KR by January. They've made it pretty underwhelming, as a way for a strong character to lend gear to exactly one weaker character. Characters bound together like this share departure counts. The idea is that the system helps players experiment with different characters. This is in explicit opposition to what most players want, which is a way make all of their alts as strong as their main for the sake of better farming.
  • Related is something called the "Equipment Transfer System." This is for permanently moving gear to a new main. The logic they developed to let characters share weapons and accessories with dissimilar characters made it easy to implement this system, so they did.
  • They're trying to make Clone Outfit Crafting Boxes easier to get because everybody loves them
  • They figured out Gremlin Races tend to be too damned long. They're going to make the rewards better in those cases when they feel like they're really pushing people's patience.
  • NA/EU players can use the THANKSTOHERO code to get a reward for being loyal to this dumb game. It contains 15 days of VVIP, a special dye destiny box, and 10 Resenlian's Battle Completion Scrolls.

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


Maintenance happened. We have new events and a teaser for the next character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Jlk7YNPcI

Trailer says her name is Charon but the teaser page URL says czern_teaser, so who's to say?

Anyway, update.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-aeMK28_OU

Update 2.95

quote:

Ver. 2.95 Update Note

Table of Contents

Friendship System
Content Reset Point Changes
Three New Enchant Items
Miscellaneous Changes
1. More Latiya content. Also, Christmas is here and mercs get Christmas voice lines, both in the lounge and when you're waiting in boats. You can buy voice emotes in the friendship seal shop, too.

2. The notes here are absurdly vague, but a better explanation can be found here. Basically, lots of weekly timers for things now reset on Friday night/Saturday morning america time.

3. They've added three new R5 enchant scrolls. One drops from Enok, one drops from Cessair, one drops from Milo.

4. Bugfixes. More bugfixes. The update caused so many new problems that they had to run an unscheduled maintenance. They've also added more restrictions to fight NX resellers.

Lucky Santa

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Lucky Santa Event

Event Period: 12/13 - 12/27

Exchange Shop: 12/13 - 01/03

Event Details

* Per-Character Event     

1) The event story [Event: Lucky Santa] triggers when a Lv. 30+ character logs in.       

Talk to the NPC Strange Traveler to begin the story.

2) Complete the story to obtain the Lucky Santa Box.
Log in to a character, talk to the Strange Traveler to get a box. The box contains two cookies that act like suspicious potions. It also contains a box that gives you a holiday outfit head piece that lasts until the end of January 2nd. If you do all of your daily missions, you'll get more boxes. Each box has two more cookies and three "Holiday Gift Coupons." Coupons can be exchanged for dye ampoule destiny boxes (12 coupons each, 2 per account), Winter Emblems (6 coupons each, 3 per character), a title (6 coupons), and AP capsules. By my reckoning, that's two days of work to get the title and six days of work to get all of the emblems. And there are fourteen days in which to do it. Unpleasant but not exceptionally difficult.

Vending machine event is back

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Jolly Vending Machine Event

Event Period: 12/13 - 01/03

Exchange Shop: 12/13 - 01/10

Event Details

* Per-Character Event                

1) You can earn 15 Jolly Vending Machine Tokens per week. (Token distribution day will be reset every Tuesday.) 

2) Use tokens to select and complete missions from the Vending Machine. Each mission gives rewards!

3) Earn coupons from rewards, and exchange them for reward items in the Exchange Shop.
Vending machine event is back. Get tokens in the mail and spend them on missions to complete. They've culled a few, but you can get rewards for doing Red Moon again. The rewards are good. Clone Outfit Crafting Boxes; a 100% R6/7 enchant box; a santa outfit box; milletian mats, including a max stat milletian material destiny box; and various other things.

ArchWizard fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Dec 13, 2022

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


It's Christmas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhL0N_4csCY

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5uNG1D30yI

Maintenance happened and we have a couple of new events.

It's the year of the rabbit

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Black Bunny's Greeting Event

Event Period: 12/27 - 1/3

Exchange Shop: 12/27 - 1/10

Event Details

Happy 2023! Log in everyday to receive Black Bunny's presents.                 

Claim your Energizing Carrot and Cute Bunny Ear Headband to start off the new year!
Log in to get a Black Bunny's Greeting Box once per day. The box contains a carrot (gives a random 1-hour buff) and a Bunny's Greeting Coupon. Coupons can be exchanged for a bunny ear headband, a title, or a dye destiny box. All of these cost 2 coupons and are limit 1 per account. The spillover reward is a bundle of merc pots. There isn't much to get, but at least you don't need to work hard to get it all.

It's the thrill of the fish

quote:

New Year's Fishes Event

Event Period: 12/27 - 01/17

Exchange Shop: 12/27 - 01/24
It's a fairly typical fishing event. Each of your characters can go on a fishing boat and buy 200 rods once per week. Fish to get a coupon and a random goodie. You can also get an event fish, and if you get twenty fish you can use Cooking to turn them into a buff food that boosts BAL, ATT SPD, and LUK. Coupons can be exchanged for even better goodies, like Premium Armor Enhancement Runes, Goib Stones, a title, Resenlian Scrolls, and Seal boxes. Not bad, but it's a time-consuming event that's in conflict with the vending machine event that's still going on. But hey, there's something to do when you're not actively playing, I guess?

ArchWizard fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Dec 27, 2022

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


Maintenance just finished and we have new events.

Raid event

quote:

Taratha Treasure Chest Festival

Event Period: 01/03 - 01/17

Event Details

* Per-Character Event (Lv. 100+ characters can participate)              
Run raids to get goodies. You can get buff potions (two of which are good), blessing stones, superior campfire kits, Exquisite HP Potions, or a "Taratha Treasure Chest." These chests are very nice. They can contain an enchant scroll, a Grade 2/3 Shard, or a Jardin Steel Destiny Box. Note that despite the name of the event, any normal raid will give rewards.

Equipment rentals are back

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Raid begins with rentals!

Event Period: 1/03 - 02/14

Happy New Year 2023, players! The equipment rental event is back!

We're renting out +13 Milletian Weapons and full sets of armor to all Lv. 105+ characters!
Same event as last time: Open up a window and opt to receive a full set of Milletian armor and weapons that are +13, have max stats, and are fully enchanted and power infused. And it's free! Wow! The downsides are as before: No accessories, no books, and if any of your wardrobe loadouts requires a piece of appearance-fused gear, you'll have to make some tough decisions.

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


Maintenance is happening and they've announced Charon is coming in a week.

The obligatory free outfit giveaway event

quote:

Charon's Celebratory Package Event

Event Period: 01/10 – 02/14

Welcome Charon! 

And it seems like her birthday on Vindictus would be January 17th this year!

Let's celebrate Charon's arrival with outfits we've prepared!
Log in some time in the next month to get an account-shareable box containing an outfit destiny box, a title, a 30-day inner armor pass, and a permanent storage unlock coupon. Note that the box can only be opened by a Charon. The outfit destiny box gives you the choice of the mini wedding dress that gets given out every time a new character gets added (meh) or the frost princess outfit that was given away a couple years ago (meh).

It's an okay event, I guess. Not like you gotta do any work for it.

Enough of your stories, old man

quote:

[Changes] Removal of ingame background stories

Greeting Mercenaries, 

The following changes will be made during today's maintenance. 

■ Characters 

- Removed the background stories shown following character creation. 

- You can find each character's background story in the official webpage's <The Heroes> tab.
Trying to make a new character will no longer subject you to a boring cutscene that tries to explain your motivations to you. Nobody liked it, nobody benefited from it. Now, if you want to learn about the characters' backstories you have to either talk to them in the lounge or read about them on an official website.

Speaking of boring cutscenes: they just released this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NW2V1gm5Bk

It's four and a half minutes. I thought they're dragging these things out more and more, but I checked and Lethor's backstory vid is even longer. And then I found out someone narrated a two hour audiobook about Latiya's backstory. What the gently caress.

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsJeV-OgeE

Charon (pronounced like "Sharon") is here. An update and several events are here, too.

Update 2.96

quote:

Ver. 2.96 Update Note

Table of Contents

1. New Character Charon

2. Character/Battle Update

3. Wardrobe Update

4. Avatar System Related Update

5. Convenience Improvements

6. Miscellaneous Changes
1. It's the new character, yes. Her weapon is called the Orbis and goldsmiths can craft them. Both of her unique equipment sets require Tailoring to make. She can be used in Partholon Vanguard, found in the merc lounge, etc. Her favorite gifts are the Advanced Fundamentals of Magic and Moonstone Rings.

2. Character rebalancing, again.

Characters who do more damage:
  • Spear Lann
  • Scythe Evie
  • Sylas
  • Grimden
  • Eira
Characters who do less damage:
  • Pillar Karok
  • Hurk (both weapons)
  • Whip Arisha
  • Delia
  • Miri

They fixed some substantial bugs. They're also going to give mercs in the lounge Valentine's Day greetings... eventually. After later maintenances. The voice emotes will be purchasable in the seal shop. Why they're announcing it now is unknown.

RAR and Final Fortress have been tweaked so you only need eight people to start. Enemies have had their HP reduced to compensate.

3. They added a wardrobe function that lets you save something or other to all of your presets at once.

4. Outfit items will now give DEF and not just ATT and town movement speed. Which is good, because a few of my characters are locked out of certain raids because they don't have enough DEF. Seriously, my Miri couldn't run a raid on QB because she was missing seventeen DEF. gently caress this game sometimes.

5. All characters can learn all expertises at once. gently caress, now I gotta update the OP.

6. Lots of bugfixes. The best change is that comrades no longer generate speech bubbles. Devs removed them because they're annoying. They've also added twenty-one titles to the Ancient Title Destiny Box. Oh boy. I'll finally get the title for breaking all of Arcana's clothes.

A leveling event to help rookies get it together

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Level Climbing with Rookies Event

Event Period: 01/17 – 02/21
Log in with a character who's level 30 or lower to get a nesting box. Lots of AP and TP, a storage expansion ticket, 30-day inner and hair coupons, a "+12 Milletian Equipment Box"(?)(!), and an outfit box. And for Charons: free equipment sets and a title.

It's golden time

quote:

Winter Golden Time

Event Period: 01/17 – 03/21

Exchange Shop: 01/17 – 03/28

Event Details

When you log in during the event, you will receive the Winter Golden Time Guide in your Account Mail.
Complete missions to get various amounts Winter Golden Time Coupons.
It's the good poo poo. Do stuff, get coupons. Exchange coupons for goodies and coins, exchange coins for more goodies. Once again, you can get Ardri mats for crafting. This is also a good time to pick up permanent inner, hair coupons, and makeup coupons. Alas, they're not giving away any outfits this time, though I guess the outfit clone crafting box kind of counts.

Spring again and we can enter

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Winter is Past, Spring at Last

Event Period: 1/17 – 2/28 
The battle pass is back. The rewards are useful, but there's nothing interesting in there besides the "pointy-ear headgear" box for free players and a pastel tail box for people who spend money. They aren't even giving away winter voice emotes.

Gathering dungeon's back

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Welcome, Charon! Gathering Dungeon Event

Event Period: 01/17 – 02/14 
Literally works the same as it always has: Log in, get an entry ticket, use entry ticket, collect from luminaries, bring essences to Shayla to buy cosmetic equipment and outfits. Don't forget to learn Gathering from Old Neb before you enter the dungeon the first time or you'll waste the ticket.

If you want reforge mats, you'll have to "steel" them

quote:

Damascus Seal Supply Event 2023

Event Period: 01/17 – 04/18 

Exchange Shop Period: 01/17 – 04/25 

Event Details

1) Log in for 15 minutes during the event to earn one Damascus Seal per account.

You can obtain up to 4 a day (up to a total of 280 during the event).
They're reprising this event again. Fresh tickets to buy Damascus Steel. I'm annoyed because they didn't really warn us that the last batch of tickets was about to expire, so I didn't buy any consolation rewards. Oh well. Also, it kind of sucks to be in that brief period of time when you can't buy steel using the old tickets and you don't have enough new tickets to buy steel. You know? I guess I'm saying don't reforge anything for a while.

In closing:

ArchWizard fucked around with this message at 09:49 on Jan 18, 2023

Hy_C
Apr 1, 2010



Did they give up on making new male characters lol?

Bakalakadaka
Sep 18, 2004

ArchWizard posted:

In closing:


same

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5oB-Dri-ec

Maintenance happened and we have exactly one new event.

In a game with terrible odds

quote:

2023 Full Heart Valentine Roulette Event

Event Period: 01/31 – 02/21

Exchange Shop Period: 01/31 – 02/28

Event Info

* Per-Account Event (Lv. 10+ can participate)

1) During the event, you obtain 1 roulette ticket per 15 minutes of login time.

You can obtain up to 4 roulette tickets a day and up to 20 a week.

2) Use a ticket to spin the roulette wheel and receive one of the following item boxes. All boxes contain 1 Heart to Heart Coupon.
Log in and stay logged in to receive "roulette" tickets. Max four tickets per day, twenty tickets per week. Use the tickets to spin the "roulette" wheel and get goodies. Goodies include AP capsules, Exquisite HP Potions, Steels, and graces. Every reward also comes with a "Heart to Heart Coupon" that can be exchanged for further goodies. There's an emblem, a title, and a heart halo hat (20 coupons each, 1 each per character), Resenlian Battle Scrolls (3 per account), and merc pots as a spillover reward.

This event bugs me, as a collector, because you can get emblems and titles on more than one character but you only receive enough coupons to buy the emblem, title, and halo on exactly one character. But hey, it takes no work to get the rewards, you know?

Hy_C posted:

Did they give up on making new male characters lol?
They finally realized they were never going to do better than Karok so why bother?

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6rv1UZFGfs

Maintenance happened and we have a small update and some new events.

Update 2.97

quote:

Ver. 2.97 Update Note

Table of Contents

New Friendship Skill
Friendship Content Updates
Lethor & Dan-Ah got their friendship skill. You can now max friendship with Latiya and get her dance. That's it.

For those who desire the power

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Power Seekers Event

Event Period: 2/14 - 3/21
It's the Redeemers buff event again. Get rookie redeemers for longer. Get big stat boosts when running redeemers with rookie redeemers on. There's a new addition to this event: The "Powerful Redeemers Box." The box contains very good rewards, such as unstable runes, grade 2 and grade 3 shards, and jardin steel. You get one from each battle per week, maximum of four per week, maximum of 20 for the event period.

This is also an Ein Lacher event. Get a gold medal if you win without getting hit more than four times. Pretty useful for Charon, whose dodge is kind of iffy and whose best attacks root her in place for seconds at a time. If someone asked me to pick one character to try and solo all Ein Lacher bosses, I wouldn't Chu-Chuse her.

Small two of heart pieces

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Full Heart on Valentine's Day

Event Period: 2/14 – 2/28

Exchange Shop: 2/14 – 3/7
Talk to the Strange Traveler and get three Heart Chocolates. They can be used like Suspicious Potions at the merc lounge. Also, every day you can buy another Heart Chocolate from Captain Crimson for 500 gold. If you don't like merc lounge stuff but do like dye ampoules, there's an incentive for gifting these hearts: Joyous Hearts. Give a chocolate heart, get a joyous heart, exchange joyous hearts for goodies. Goodies include avatar dye ampoules, friendship seals, and merc pots. Not too shabby.

More free emblems

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Emblem Fest Event

Event Period: 2/14 - 3/14

Exchange Shop: 2/14 – 3/21
Log in and stay logged in to get Emblem Coins. Three per day, a total of 84 coins for the duration of the event. 9 coins gets you an emblem box, 8 coins gets you a title (1 per account). You can also use coins to buy 500 AP caps (lol?) or 1 coin to buy a merc pot (sad lol). There are seventeen emblems available and you can afford nine, or eight emblems plus the title. drat, they're really testing me here. Guess I can't complain because it's the second event that requires no work.

UPDATE: They have revised the event so that you can receive a maximum of 87 coins. This does not change how many emblems you can afford. Just one more coin would give us another emblem. Just one. Come on.

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ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


Maintenance happened and we have a new event.

Another raid event

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Unforgettable Raid Supply Box Event

Event Period: 2/28 - 3/21

Exchange Shop: 2/28 – 3/28
Run normal raids from Claire to Enok to earn Unforgettable Raid Supply Coupons, limit 25 per character per week. Coupons can be exchanged for goodies. The best goodies are the Silver Bracelet Destiny Box (25 coupons, 1 per account) and the +14 Lv. 105 Restorative Enhancement Rune (20 coupons, 1 per account). You can also buy Grade 2 Shards, Milletian Reforge Mat Boxes, Jardin Steel Destiny Boxes, Intermediate Element Stones, and Exquisite HP Potions. Not bad. The silver bracelets are a rare reward, hard to get. The rune is also very good and very rare. Takes some effort to earn rewards but you're playing at all then you're probably already raiding for the golden ticket event. Just be careful to do all of your raiding on one character because the coupons aren't even slightly tradable.

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


Another maintenance, another event.

An event for hoarders, which is the opposite of housekeeping

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Heroic Housekeeping Event

Event Period: 3/14 - 4/25
Log in for thirty minutes to get a reward. The rewards are pretty good. 7 days of VVIP, lots of steel, lots of shards, some runes, a perpetual enchant coupon. The best rewards are the object box and the maid/butler outfit box. The contents of both boxes are permanent. It's good; I was just thinking it's been a while since they gave away a free outfit.

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdq4T3iRV80

Maintenance happened and we have an update.

Update 2.98 Part 1 Part 2

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Ver. 2.98 Update Note

Table of Contents

1. Equipment Share and Transfer System
2. Circuit System
3. Friendship System
4. Convenience Updates
5. Other Updates
1. We can now share our best equipment with our alts. Sort of. The simple version is that a character who's level 110 or higher can send their equipment to an alt that's the same level or higher than the sending character. "Share" lets the other character use a copy of the equipment for thirty days, and "Transfer" permanently moves equipment. The devs generally did a good job of making sure equipment types and stats would transfer correctly, but there are still a bunch of problems and caveats. If you're even slightly interested in this feature, go and read the whole thing so you know what you're getting into. There's also a relevant mini-event: Sharing is Caring. The gold cost for sharing or transferring gear is reduced somewhat, for a while. Oh, I guess I should have said that it costs gold to use the feature. It's not exactly a trivial amount of gold, either. Kind of sucks.

2. Raid trains have been codified, oh boy. No more finishing a raid and watching the QB window for your host to show up again, and hopefully no more joining a QB only to be told someone else has dibs on your space. There are several presets for what raids you want your train to cover: Claire to Aodhan, Cesar to Tarathan or Enok, Romel to Enok, Niflheim, or Redeemers. Related is a mini-event, Dependable Departures, which increases departure limits by 1.

3. Merc Lounge titles are now per-character. That is, you can go into the merc lounge on your alts, open the "Allies" window, and mash the "Claim Completion Rewards" button to get an absurd number of titles. Assuming you've been keeping up with the merc lounge stuff. Also, you can now get Charon to level 2 friendship.

4. Cadet Badges are merged somehow. I don't understand the explanation. More research may be needed.

5. They fixed a bunch of bugs. Some major, some minor.

Spring Has Flung

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Spring Fling Vending Machine Event

Event Period: 3/21 - 4/25

Exchange Shop: 3/21 - 5/2
Vending Machine event is back again. Same as before: Every character gets tokens in the mail each week and can spend them on missions to complete. Complete the missions to get coupons, which can be exchanged for a Clone Outfit Crafting Box (1 per account), an enchant rune (1 per character), a 100% Success enchant scroll box (1 per account), Grade 2 Shards (3 each per account), and the other usual things that the vending machine event gives.

GM Coins are back for round 2

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GM Coin Collection Event Season 2

Event Period: 3/21 - 8/22

Exchange Shop Period: 3/21 - 8/29
Get GM Coins when people participate in events on the official vindi discord. GM Coins can be exchanged for outfit boxes, permanent cosmetic stuff, a title, Steel, dye ampoules, and various consumables. The first GM event is called Picnic With Friends. This one sucks because not only do you have to play dress-up, you have to coordinate with someone else who is also capable of playing dress-up.

Another Discord event

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VINDItective Event

Event Period: 03/21 -
Something Awful isn't the only place that's renaming their feedback subforum in a desperate attempt to break with its dismal past. Now, the Vindi discord has replaced their #bug-reporting channel with a new #bug-report ticket system. There's a new permanent event to submit bugs to #bug-report. The three people who submit the most bugs each month will get a prestigious Discord server role.

ArchWizard fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Apr 4, 2023

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i72cbo_qdg

Maintenance happened and we have new events.

A good event for April Fools' and that's no joke

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Event 1. Believe It or Not Event

Event Period: 03/28 - 04/11

Exchange Shop: 03/28 - 04/11
Complete all of your daily missions to get three "Believe It or Not Coupons," for a total of 42 over the course of the event. Coupons can be exchanged for a Reilly's Toy Weapon Box (14 coupons, 1 per character), outfit destiny boxes (14 coupons, 3 per account), a title (6 coupons, 1 per character), and miscellaneous consumables. The toy box has weapons for all of the characters, even Latiya and Charon. The outfit box contains three outfits per gender. They're not especially nice outfits, just gag outfits like the one that makes you look like a car, but you might like that. Also, the outfits are permanent, which is nice.

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Event 2. April Fools' Day Friendship / Voice Update

Event Period: 3/28 - 4/11

Event Shop Open: 3/28 - 5/9

During the April Fools' Day event, you can experience exclusive voiced lines and Friendship content from your allies.

3. April Fools' Day Voice Shop

Voice lines for the April Fools' Day season will be on sale in the Friendship Seal Shop, and emotes will be available for purchase during the event.
You can buy April Fools' lines from the seal shop using friendship seals. Same lines as last year so if you missed out, this is your chance.

Colors AND Candies? In THIS economy?

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Colors and Candies Event

Event Period: 3/28 - 4/25

Colorful Stone Dyewood will appear in Lv. 60+ battles during the event.
Defeat Dyewood to obtain the event item, 1 Prismatic Pebble.
Use the event item at the food stall to craft Dye Ampoules, and EXP Capsules.
The dyewood event is back and they've almost got it fixed. Colorful Stone Dyewood can appear in level 60+ normal battles, Red Moon battles, or in normal raids. Defeat Dyewood to get a Prismatic Pebble (limit 60 per character per week) and either an Exquisite HP Potion or a rock candy. Rock candy is a town buff item that grants a good but random bonus for thirty minutes. Prismatic Pebbles, of course, can be used to craft dye ampoules. But they still cost a shitload of gold, too. You can craft EXP capsules too but they also cost gold. It's better to just, you know, run battles? And get gold instead of spending it? Here's hoping they fix this in the next iteration of the event.

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


Maintenance happened last night. No new events but some important news is here.

They're doing a Lowtax on the official forums

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Vindictus Forum Closing Announcement
On April 25 they're going to set the official Vindi forums to read-only since most players seem to be fine with using the Discord. Hopefully they'll port the cosplay thread, a.k.a. the one good thread on the forums, over to the Discord for archiving and easy reading.

Guide Missions get reset

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Guide Mission Change Announcement (in Preparation for the Level Cap Expansion)

Greetings Mercenaries,

In preparation for the Level Cap Expansion, the Guide Mission found in the Play Guide is being renovated to fit with the new level cap.
On April 25 they're going to redo and reset Guide Missions in anticipation of the level cap increase. Kind of important because a few missions give very level-specific rewards. I'm thinking of the +14 level 100 enhance rune and the +12 Milletian armor box. These won't be good rewards soon since they're going to give away full +12 sets of Milletian gear like they currently do with Astera. Unrelated to that: I hope they remove the mission to play Mag Mell. I don't want to play Mag Mell. It's the only mission I haven't completed on any of my characters.

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


Ever since the latest maintenance they've been releasing previews of what's coming on April 25. It's going to be a substantial update.

Version 2.99

The level cap's going up to 115. The new equipment set will be called Orna and it's meant to look like normal armor. It's pretty cool, kind of gives a Souls vibe.

A new raid is coming with 2.99

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Z3b2ZShlA

The next raid boss is named Írusán. She's a kitty. They're not ready to make more sexy dudes so they're experimenting with pandering to furries.

If you care about lore and plot: She's a Cassian, like Jornin and Dianann. Cassians are a race of humanoid cats who are affiliated with the Fomors but haven't been participating in the war. Until now, that is, when a priest told Irusan that Cichol wants her to lead the Fomorian armies and help us out in the war on Balor. We have to fight her because she's under the control of Fomor Domination magic, which Enok cast over a large area to disable the Fomorian army.

The new mercy drop system is coming

Run raids, earn Deific Devotion points. Accrue enough points and you get guaranteed drops after the next raid you run. The catch is that the reward list has artifacts in it. That's not to say that artifacts are bad, it's just that there are better ways to get artifacts and once you have one or two, you don't really need more. It seems like a really bad idea? Maybe I should just be glad they extended the idea to include 110 raids. The Dev Talk where they discussed the system said it was only going to be for 105 raids.

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


Maintenance happened. No updates or new events. However, the first GM Coin event has concluded and the coupon code is available: GMPICNIC2023. It gives 10 GM Coins, enough to buy the event title.

ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKnIgJ7sXt4

Maintenance happened and the new raid is here.

Version 2.99, part 1 Update 2.99, part 2

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Ver. 2.99 Update Note: Part 1

Table of Contents

1. Level Cap Expansion
2. New Season 4 Episode 7 "Foretold Solidarity" Update
3. "Deific Devotion" System Update
4. New "Orna" Equipment / Item Update
5. Equipment and Item Changes
6. Battle System Changes
7. Misc. Changes
1. The level cap is 115 now. Yay. Various stat caps have increased accordingly. Also, for some reason they're announcing here that the new [S] raids are Aes Sidhe, Arcana, and Ulchas. They're also bringing back dragon RAR. Hell yes.

2. The new raid with Irusan is called "The Winds of Lochlann." The most notable thing about it is in the drop list: "Superior Enhancement Elixir". You need this to enhance level 115 gear.

3. The new mercy drop system is in. Run normal raids, from Cesar to Irusan, to earn Deific Devotion Points. 4% for every raid you complete without receiving an orange drop or scroll, and when you hit 100% you get a reward. It'll show up as a blue pillar of light when you get it. Two really good things to note: First, you can also receive points and rewards by using Resenlian Battle Completion Scrolls. Second: If you get an orange drop you won't receive points, but you also won't lose the points you've accumulated so far.

One last matter: The preview image that showed artifacts in the Deific Devotion rewards list is misleading. Only 110 raids can give artifacts. 105 raids don't and Irusan doesn't. But why would 110 raids give artifacts? I haven't found an explanation.

4. The new level 115 equipment set is called Orma. Comes with a new shield, book, and focus. Dropped mats come at min stats, so don't try too hard to make actual gear. Just sell the mats and use the money to upgrade your Milletian or Ardri gear.

There's a new necklace in the welcome shop run by the Strange Traveler. The stats are surprisingly good, coming with +2 CRIT and BAL.

Ardri gear has been made cheaper to reforge.

5. Continuing on, Ardri mats now drop at mid-range, making them slightly less horribly expensive to upgrade. Milletian mats will also now drop at max stats, for what it's worth. Incidentally, that means any Milletian gear you've already got can be Mat Synthed to max stats for free.

Level 105 accessories now have a 100% enhance success rate when going up to +18.

The Warm Welcome Shop has had its boxes rotated again to take the new gear into account, such as the new kitty necklace. Remember that you can turn the red kitty tickets into the new green kitty tickets using quick craft.

The weekly mission to running Astera and Rocheste Outskirts raids has been updated because those battles are no longer raids. Now the mission is for level 105 raids.

The bravery seal shop has been updated so that the cheapo boxes with Astera mats now give Milletian mats.

Reforging level 105 and 110 gear now costs less AP.

Several raid titles have been added to the Ancient Title Destiny Box because they can no longer be obtained legitimately.

6. Again, the new [S] dungeons. The level requirement is 115, which means the stat requirements are now higher as well. Also, the "new" dragon RAR battles give new titles. You can't earn the old titles by running them.

A bunch of raids got de-raided, as expected. Claire to Aodhan are now normal battles. Just about all of the bosses have been made easier so they're less of a pain to solo.

Redeemers changes. You only need to beat Brigit four times to get 100% completion. Rookie Redeemers for same now revives eight times instead of three. Laura also now has Rookie Redeemers.

They've added a fourth Red Moon battle, in Hilder Forest. You remember that place, right? With the forest trolls?

Battle Circuit has been updated. The Claire to Aodhan circuit preset is gone. Two presets now have Irusan in them.

7. New Play Guide missions are out. You can get your free Milletian gear through it, as well as a 30-day outfit box. As a "gently caress you" to non-whales, the final page of missions requires you to win a Space Time Distortion raid.

The new raid
Read about the new raid here, if you want. There's a screenshot contest involving this raid. There's also an additional departure event.

Get on the next level

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Level-Headed Legends Event

Event Period: 4/25 - 5/23

[Event Details]

You can get a Lv. 111 Boxtryoshka via the Strange Traveler's Account Share story.

Only one character per account can claim the box, but you can share it within your account.

The box can be opened upon reaching Lv. 111.
Get a box-in-a-box from the Strange Traveler, one box per account. You can open it at every level starting at 111. Get steels, Superior Enhancement Elixirs, and Grade 3 Shards. Also, a new title.

Obligatory general raid event

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Spring Breeze Raid Event

Event Period: 4/25 - 5/23 (4 weeks)

Exchange Shop Period: 4/25 - 5/30 (5 weeks)
Run raids from Cesar to Irusan to get Spring Petals, limit 30 per character per week. Petals can be exchanged for goodies. Runes (especially the +14 Restorative rune), Grade 2 & 3 Shards, 105 mats, Steels. Not bad.

Spring so hot you'll think it's summer

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Daily Hot Time Event

Event Period: 4/25 - 5/9

[Event Detail]

Hot Time Benefits available every day, all day long!

1.5x Battle Quest Completion EXP
2x Battle Quest Completion AP
2x Expertise Proficiency & Speed
Weekend Exclusive: Boss Evil Core +1
Got the big package of bonuses this time around. Extra EXP and AP, along with bonus drops on the weekend.

More free steels
The previous free steel event ended yesterday. I remembered to buy a shitload of free fatigue potions this time. Hell yeah for me. Now they're giving away more coupons. You can buy Damascus or Jardin steel this time around. Very nice.

GM Coin event 2

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GM Coin Collection Event S2: Mercenaries Assemble!

Event Period: 4/25 (Tue.) after weekly maintenance - 5/16 (Tue.) before weekly maintenance
Run RAR or [S] raids and take screenshots of yourself and your friends. Post it on the Discord and get GM Coins maybe.

Finally, the Gremlin Race is back. You can find the page for it here. It's 119 days long. It's all the rewards you'd expect to get from a Gremlin Race: shards, runes, consumables, VVIP, permanent cosmetic coupons, an object, a tail box, a wing box, an outfit box.

ArchWizard fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Apr 26, 2023

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ArchWizard
Mar 27, 2009

There's the Roy I know and love.


Maintenance happened. We have a new event.

Another wheel of misfortune event

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Spiral Spin Roulette Event

Event Period: 5/9 - 5/30

Exchange Shop: 5/9 – 6/6

[Event Info]

1. You can earn Spiral Spin Ticket x3 by completing daily missions.

2. You can use Spiral Spin Tickets to spin the Prize Wheel.

This event can be joined on a per-character basis, and there is no level restriction to participate.
You can access the Spin Event by clicking on the Event > Prize Wheel menu button in the right bottom corner of the game screen.
All items on the Prize Wheel have an equal chance to be won.
Do your daily missions to get three Spiral Spin Tickets. Use the tickets to spin the wheel and get prizes. Some of the prizes are good and some are meh. Best prize is a 3-day VVIP capsule. Then there's AP, Departure Licenses, and Goddess Graces. Every prize also comes with a Spiral Gift Coupon, and these can be exchanged for more prizes. You can get more of the emblems from the last emblem event (9 coupons, 5 per account), Resenlian Battle Completion Scrolls (6 coupons, 3 per character), Jardin Steel (same), and merc pots. Pretty good rewards overall.

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