Major update featuring Starbloom Festival event, region merges, and combat balance changes with shield mechanics adjustments.

Events

Starbloom Festival (new)

  • Festival event runs until April 1 maintenance
  • Includes Morph Races, Oremong Hide and Seek, Star Bloom Gift Chests
  • Daily login rewards containing Starbloom Coins and Event Meals
  • Earn additional Starbloom Coins by participating in Morph Races, up to 10 times weekly
  • Starbloom Gift Chests spawn in Kastleton, Canina Village, and Herba Village at specific times

Morph Madness (new)

  • Elimination bracket where morphs compete for supremacy
  • Round One: Castle Gate (March 9 - March 16)
  • Round Two: Castle Courtyard (March 16 - 23)
  • Final Round: The Throne Room (March 23 - 30)
  • Winner announced March 31

Server Changes

Region Merges (changed)

  • Eastern Americas, Western Americas, and South America regions merged into single Americas region
  • Europe and Japan servers undergo server merges

Combat Balance

Shield Health Reduction and Healing Reduction (buffed)

  • Increased duration from 6s to 9s for Greatsword: Guillotine Blade, Dagger: Knife Throwing, Dagger: Vampiric Strike with Shield Health Decreased Specialization, Longbow: Deadly Marker, Crossbow: Weak Point Shot with Weaken Shield Specialization, Staff: Focused Fire Bombs, Staff: Infernal Meteor/Hellfire Rain with Health Recovery Slowed Specialization

Weapons

Dagger - Primal Strike Mastery (buffed)

  • Now grants an additional 100% increased damage against shielded targets

Greatsword - Valiant Brawl (new)

  • Added new Specialization requiring 3 points
  • Applies debuff decreasing Shield Health by 80%
  • Effect lasts for 9s and stacks with other Shield Health debuff effects, except Spear’s Cyclonic Fury Specialization

Longbow - Ensnaring Arrow (new)

  • Added new Specialization that removes most recently applied shield from target upon Bind hit

Longbow - Purifying Touch (changed)

  • Adjusted skill description to include Decreased Recovery effects as 4th debuff removal priority

Wand - Blessed Barrier (nerfed)

  • Adjusted cooldown effect so targets cannot receive Blessed Barrier from another caster for 20 seconds while Targets Expanded Specialization is active
  • Decreased duration from 6s to 4s

Orb - Distortion Veil (nerfed)

  • Reduced base Shield duration from 6s to 3s

Orb - Summon Guardian Satellite (changed)

  • Targets receiving Distortion Veil effect cannot receive it from another caster’s Summon Guardian Satellite for 20 seconds
  • When receiving Distortion Veil effect via Summon Guardian Satellite or Guardian Satellite Copy, Guardian Satellite effect is now removed

Spear - Cyclonic Fury (new)

  • Added new Specialization requiring 3 points
  • Applies debuff decreasing Shield Health by 80%
  • Effect lasts for 9s and stacks with other Shield Health debuff effects, except Greatsword’s Valiant Brawl Specialization

Crossbow - Multi-Shot (new)

  • Added new Specialization that removes most recently applied shield from target upon Collision hit and increases skill cooldown by 12s

General

Battle Pass (new)

  • Added new Battle Pass: Vernal Vibrance

Guild Recovery Crystals (changed)

  • Can no longer be used while in a Golem Morph

Housing Workshop (new)

  • Added new tab displaying all available Walls and Fences

Archboss Materials (changed)

  • Increased quantity of T1 Archboss Materials dropped from Tevent and Queen Bellandir Peace events
  • Decreased quantity of T2 Archboss Materials dropped from all Ascended Archboss Peace events

Morph Auto-Move (changed)

  • Hold Left/Right Mouse Buttons Together to Auto-Move setting now activates Speed Up function while in Glide Morph form

Bug Fixes

Dagger

  • Fixed an issue causing Venomous Edge’s effect to work while Inject Venom was inactive
  • Fixed an issue causing damage to not be applied while Daggers were equipped in an off-hand slot

Wand

  • Fixed an issue causing damage and duration values to be swapped in the Touch of Despair skill description
  • Fixed an issue causing Battle Spirit to not apply its effect properly
  • Corrupted Obliteration and Obliterating Swamp are now considered as curses
  • Corrupted Obliteration, Obliterating Swamp, and Slothful Cage are now considered as curses

Orb

  • Fixed an issue where Attack Speed percentage and Duration values were swapped in the Galactic Acceleration Mastery description
  • Fixed an issue causing some Cooldown Reduction effects to also reduce the Restoration buff duration

Spear

  • Fixed an issue forcing players out of a defensive stance when hit by Rising Slash and changed the effect to be considered as a Fury attack

Crossbow

  • Fixed an issue where the Weaken Shield debuff from the respective Specialization was not affected by the target’s Debuff Duration stat
  • Fixed an issue causing damage dealt to be higher than the Weapon Skill description states and added a Weaken Resistance check when the effect is applied

Guild

  • Fixed an issue causing the Wave of Corruption Guild Skill to incorrectly spread to resurrected Guild Members

Controller

  • Amitoi and Morph item tooltips now display when hovering over items in the Shop
  • Fixed an issue where some button shortcuts lost functionality after leaving a Battlegrounds match
  • Fixed an issue causing Skill Bars to occasionally not activate when L2/LT or R2/RT was set as the Active Skill Presets button

Equipment

  • Fixed an issue where Veiled Concord’s 2-piece set effect bonus displayed as 14% increased Critical Damage instead of the correct 12%
  • Fixed an issue where the Errant Scion Boot Extract item icon did not match the actual equipment item icon

Mastery

  • The Indomitable Stance and Windy Veil Overall Mastery Effects now properly have a shared cooldown

UI

  • Fixed an issue where headgear was misplaced on the character when changing body types in the Mirror Boutique
  • Fixed an issue causing the Combat Power tooltip to display an incorrect maximum achievable value for Accessories

PlayStation 5

  • Fixed an issue where players were occasionally kicked automatically upon joining a party

Source: Steam News