AION Patch Notes 071316
AION Patch Notes 071316
Characters
Archdaeva
A journey to retrieve your lost memories and discovering your true destiny is at its beginning. This
journey will reveal a shocking truth that will change the fate of Atreia. An invitation letter has been sent
to all Daevas of level 65 and above for this journey. Please check your nearest mailbox.
- Characters who do not complete the chain cannot reach level 66.
- Characters who complete the mission reach level 66 immediately, regardless of their EXP.
- The character profile image at the bottom of the screen changes after becoming an Archdaeva.
3. Archdaevas who are in a party or alliance will receive the same amount of EXP from monsters
regardless of level difference.
4. The Light of Repose has been added to bind points at Iluma and Norsvold, where a limited recharging
of Energy of Repose is possible.
5. Energy of Salvation cannot be applied to Archdaevas and will only apply from levels 15 to 65.
6. Added the Growth Aura and Growth Energy function.
- Growth Aura increases the EXP acquired by hunting, gathering or crafting by 50%.
- The amount of Growth Energy charged can be checked by mousing over the EXP bar.
- Only Archdaevas can acquire Growth Energy and can recharge it through the following methods:
Essence
7. Essence will be gained by Archdaevas in intervals as you level up.
- Acquired Essence points can be viewed in the Allocate Essence window (Shift + U).
8. Increasing the following base stats on the left will correspond to increases in the stats to the right.
- The higher the character level, the higher the effect on each.
- Through the Tranformation tab, you can use Essence to obtain and boost elemental transformations.
- The number of skills that can be boosted on this page increases with level, to a maximum of 9 skills.
- Color can now be set independently for the left and right eyes.
- Torso length.
- Arm/Forearm Thickness
- Hand Span
- Thigh/Calf Thickness
21. A new experience boost system, Berdin’s Favor, has been added.
- Charging Berdin’s Favor requires a Berdin’s Lucky Star item. Each star charges 4% of the bar.
- While Berdin’s Favor is active, experience from hunting, gathering and crafting is increased by 300%.
- If the Berdin’s Favor bar is charged to 50% or higher, you’ll gain an extra bonus of 20% EXP.
- The effect never expires as long as charge is left, but rather will end after gaining a certain amount of
bonus EXP from it.
- Bonus EXP gained from having it charged to 50% or higher (the extra 20%) does not get deducted from
the gauge.
- All players will receive a complimentary Berdin’s Lucky Star item via survey when the expansion
launches.
22. Fixed a problem where male characters were holding their weapons strangely in their left hand in
battle when they had The Dragon’s animation set active.
23. Fixed a bug where the temporary invulnerability would sometimes be removed when logging out
and in.
25. Skin tones now reflect more light and look less flat.
27. Adjusted the character location for Aethertechs that leave their Bastion while flying.
28. For a limited time, players will receive the following rewards via survey for reaching the
corresponding levels.
Level Reward
68 Enchantment Stone Powder x2000
72 Akhal's Armor Box
Choice of [Event] Plastic Surgery Ticket
75 or
[Event] Gender Switch Ticket
Environment
Iluma & Norsvold
The hallowed grounds around the twin bases of the Tower of Eternity have awakened from their long
slumber. Beasts not seen for a thousand years once again stir, and life in the days of the Cataclysm
resumes.
For the Asmodians, Norsvold is a bitter reminder of a more complacent time, and the destruction that
the Elyos invited by agreeing to peace with the Balaur. For the Elyos, Iluma represents the holiest of holy
grounds, defiled by the Asmodians' barbaric paranoia and insistence on bloodshed.
And yet, there is wonder yet to be found here, and ancient secrets long forgotten - for those daring
enough to venture forth.
1. The new regions can be reached by teleporting from Sanctum and Pandaemonium.
2. Iluma/Norsvold have windstreams and flight zones which will only be active at certain times.
3. Near Ariel’s Sanctuary in Iluma and Azphel’s Sanctuary in Norsvold, there are exploration areas where
battles for the flag are possible.
- There are 3 flags in each exploration area and if the opposing faction manages to activate all flags
successfully, enemies will spawn to attempt to retake the area.
- If the battle for the flag runs for a certain time, a stronger enemy with better rewards appears and if it
runs for the longest time possible, a boss with the best rewards appears.
4. In Iluma and Norsvold, infiltration events will occur randomly.
- How to participate varies depending on whether you are invading or defending as follows:
- The Legion Rift stays open for 30 minutes and can be used by up to 6 players of level 66 or higher.
- The Infiltration Rift stays open for 1 hour and can be used by up to 24 players of level 66 or higher.
5. Some monsters in Iluma and Norsvold will spawn special mobs when they die.
6. The entrance to the Tower of Eternity will appear randomly around Iluma/Norsvold at the top of each
hour, and can only be used by Archdaevas.
Region
Elyos Asmodians
Eternal Pool Sanctuary Courtyard
Othia Fragment Redoubt Northern Morninglight Fragment Excavation
Candellus Fragment Redoubt Southern Morninglight Fragment Excavation
Philos Redoubt Northern Tranquility Fragment Excavation
Anemos Fragment Redoubt Southern Tranquility Fragment Excavation
7. If a user logs out in hostile territory in Iluma/Norsvold, they will be transported back to the last
registered Obelisk after a certain time.
8. Fixed an issue with NPC information being incorrectly displayed on the information table in Sanctum
and Pandaemonium.
Instances
Archives of Eternity
1. The Archives of Eternity instance was added.
When the Archdaevas regained their lost memories, they learned about an artifact capable of destroying
the Tower of Eternity, presumably located at the tower’s center. Ariel and Azphel’s agents both deduced
that it would be disastrous if the other faction got their hands on it first, so they quickly dispatched
expeditions into the Tower of Eternity.
Once inside, the daevas found rifts that twist and warp reality with the tower’s weakened Aetheric Field.
While most remain closed, they did find one that allowed them access to the Archives of Eternity.
- The entrance to the Archives of Eternity is inside the Tower of Eternity map, whose entrance relocates
periodically in Iluma and Norsvold.
4. Fixed an issue where Idgel Dome was not available at 5:30 AM.
7. Fixed a problem with the final boss in Drakenspire Depths sometimes appearing as human Beritra
when being attacked.
8. Fixed a problem where incorrect messages would sometimes appear during Legion Territory Battles.
9. Added a portal through which players can leave when they finish a Legion Territory Battle.
10. In the Arena of Harmony, killing the 1st place team before the 3 rounds are over will now grant
double points, down from quadruple.
11. Fixed a problem where the battle with Lost Zadra would sometimes reset in Sealed Argent Manor.
12. The entrance NPCs to Lucky Danuar Reliquary have been removed.
UI
1. Consolidated several methods of modifying gear into a Gear Modification window.
- This window can be viewed when entering the Modify/Enchant menu from the start menu, when right-
clicking a material item and then clicking a piece of equipment, or through the ring menu accessed by
left-clicking items.
5. Changed the display function of the regular quest marker in the map and transparent map.
- The regular quest marker display function is used for regular quests up to level 65.
- The default setting under “System Preferences Interface” is for these quests to be hidden.
- If they are set to be hidden, they will not display in the quest list in NPC dialogues.
6. Added explanatory text for Legion enchant effects at the bottom of the Legion search window.
8. Added a flashing effect when looting items from Invasion mobs and guards in Cygnea and Enshar.
9. Added information about additional effects after becoming an Archdaeva in the Allocate Essence
window pop-up.
- Upon becoming an Archdaeva, a hand icon will appear above the XP bar to explain Growth Aura. It
remains there until clicked.
- Changed so that acquired quests are registered automatically to the Quest Tracker.
- The number of quests that can be simultaneously tracked has been increased.
11. Added a shadow effect to the rewards section of the Quests window.
Abyss
1. Fixed an issue where Artifact activation effects would linger on screen.
Items
Archdaeva Equipment
1. Added Archdaeva-only equipment.
- All Archdaeva equipment can be equipped regardless of the Archdaeva’s level. If the character is lower
than the recommended level, some stats will scale down according to the following chart.
2. The enchanting success rate with Archdaeva equipment is higher than with normal equipment at all
enchantment levels.
- When using an Omega Enchantment stone, the chances of critical success (+2 or +3) is higher and
Armor has a chance of +4.
- If the enchant fails, there is a chance that the player will receive their Manastones and Godstones back.
- If the enchant fails, the player will receive Enchantment Stone Dust and Archdaeva crafting materials.
4. Extracting Archdaeva equipment will give Enchantment Stone Dust and Archdaeva crafting materials.
5. Some Archdaeva equipment will give the character boosts to specific skills.
- The skill to be boosted and the amount it is boosted by is determined when the item is picked up, and
can be viewed in the item’s tooltip.
- If a skill is boosted by multiple equipped items, only the highest boost will be applied. For example,
equipping one gear with a +1 boost and one with +2 to the same skill will result in a +2 boost.
- This effect is cumulative with boosts reached through Essence allocation. For example, equipping gear
with a +2 boost and using Essence to boost the same skill by +3 will result in a +5 boosted skill.
6. Some Archdaeva equipment will give boosted combat stats against certain monster types.
- If the gear and the monster type match, you will get bonus damage.
- Some items focus on a single monster type while others can affect multiple types.
- There are four monster types in total: Warrior, Assassin, Mage, and Special.
6. If Archdaeva wings are equipped, the character can use Power Flight by double-tapping forward while
flying or gliding.
- In Power Flight mode, flight time is consumed faster.
- Enchanting past the max level with Omega Enchantment Stones functions the same way, with a
random skill bestowed upon reaching +20 enchantment.
Stats 1 - 15 16 - 20 21+
HP 40 40 80
Strike Resist 2 4 8
Attack 1 1 2
Magic Boost 4 4 8
Flight Time 10 10 20
Power flight
0.1 - -
speed
Spell Resist 1 2 4
- 1000 Enchantment Stone Dust can be combined to make a new Enchantment Stone. Multiple stones
can be assembled at once through the item assembly UI.
- All sources of Enchantment Stones have been switched to give Enchantment Stone Dust instead.
- Existing Enchantment Stones cannot be obtained anymore, but can still be used.
- These manastones can increase base stats of Power, HP, Agility, Precision, Knowledge, and Will and can
only be used on Archdaeva equipment.
10. New Morph Substances designs are available at special design merchants in Iluma for Elyos and
Norsvold for Asmodians.
Elyos Asmodians
Orpheus Nieldon
<Special Design Merchant> <Special Design Merchant>
- Archdaeva Danuar equipment will have an enchantment level of +5 when successfully crafted.
11. In the Archives of Eternity, materials will drop that can be exchanged for higher ranking equipment.
- The merchants for this equipment are in Iluma (Ariel’s Sanctuary) for Elyos and Norsvold (Azphel’s
Sanctuary) for Asmodians.
12. Enchantment Stone extraction now takes place exclusively via the Gear Modification window and
now costs Kinah instead of using Extraction Tools.
- Extraction Tools already in the game have been renamed to Broken Extraction Tools and can be resold
to merchants.
13. Purified Essence no longer requires an Essence Purifier and can instead be purchased directly from a
Daeva Essence Officer near the Purification NPC.
- Essence Purifiers already in player inventories can be resold to a merchant at the price for which they
were purchased.
- Unbinding Stones can be used on gear in the Gear Modification window to reset an item to the
unbound state, after which it can be traded.
- Unbinding Stones can be purchased from the following Ancient Coin merchants in Iluma and Norsvold
and are also available from the Black Cloud Marketplace.
Elyos Asmodians
Pinkerunerk Yogorunerk
<Ancient Coin Consumable Officer> <Ancient Coin Consumable Officer>
15. Added cloth gloves with attack speed that can be exchanged for Blood Medals.
17. Added movement speed stats to some shoe items given as mission rewards.
18. When the following equipment items drop, there is a chance they will come with enchantment levels
or manastones already in place:
- Some equipment obtained by killing boss monsters in Eltnen and Heiron (Elyos) and Morheim/Beluslan
(Asmodian).
19. Added functionality to assemble multiple items at once for some items.
20. Aetheric Field Fragments and Aetheric Field Pieces can now be stored in the private warehouse.
Quests
1. Added missions to become an Archdaeva.
- Level 65 characters automatically qualify for the missions, and after completing both will become an
Archdaeva
- The first mission can be obtained from the mission item in the mailbox.
Mission Name
Elyos Asmodians
Covert Communiques Lost Destiny
Memories of Eternity Recovered Destiny
- The missions have to be completed to reach level 66.
2. Added missions to the Archives of Eternity instance.
- After finishing the main quests, these missions are obtained automatically upon entering the instance.
- After completing the quest once, a daily quest with the same objectives can be obtained.
- To obtain most quests, the following preliminary quests must first be completed.
- The following quests can be obtained after completing Iluma Field Guide (Elyos) or A Norsvold Story
(Asmodians):
4. Added quests that can be carried out during the large-scale infiltration events in Iluma/Norsvold.
5. Added quests that can be carried out in the exploration areas in Iluma/Norsvold.
6. Added a quest to kill boss monsters that appear at certain times in Iluma/Norsvold.
7. Added quests that can be carried out in the Adma's Fall and Theobomos Test Chamber instances.
10. Changed the repeat attempts of the Asmodian quest ‘Sincere Request’ from 15 to 2.
11. Fixed the method how levels are displayed in the quest explanation window.
12. Added growth quests that can be carried out alone, just not repeated, of party instanced dungeon
quests within the growth region.
- To support this, some of the quest levels and objectives were changed in the Eltnen, Theobomos,
Inggison, Morheim, Brusthonin, and Gelkmaros regions.
13. Some quest-completion requirements for other quests have been removed.
14. Changed the coin reward for some quests to bundles that give coins.
15. Increased the types and acquisition/execution levels for some quests.
17. Fixed an issue where [Static] items were still being used as quest rewards or quest objectives for
some quests.
18. Fixed a longstanding bug that blocked the level 65 repeatable Daevanion Shoes quest for Elyos.
Skills
1. Changed the conditions for acquiring the skill “Glory: Empyrean Aegis” so it will be acquired when
equipping any 6 gears at +20 enchantment or above, rather than 1 weapon and 5 armors.
2. Fixed an issue with the casting animation of the Spiritmaster’s Vacuum Explosion not displaying
correctly.
3. Changed the Embark skill for Aethertech so it maintains the non-combat state if used out of combat.
Siege
1. Fixed a problem where sometimes the defense turrets inside the fortress could not be used during a
siege.
Sound
1. Added new sounds for flying and gliding.
NPC
1. Added new effects for when enemies disappear after being killed by Archdaevas.
3. Changed some GP rewards for killing Beritra’s Grand Invasion monsters in some zones.
Zone Change
Cygnea, Enshar Removed Glory Point rewards.
Levinshor, Kaldor, Abyss Increased the Glory Point rewards for some enemies.
Prestige Pack
1. The Prestige Case contents have been updated to the following:
- Berdin’s Lucky Star and Unbinding Stones have been added to certain months.
- Mythic Greater Felicitous Socketing rewards have been updated to the new Major Felicitous Socketing,
which works on items up to level 80.
- Non-Omega Enchantment Stones have been updated to the new Enchantment Stone.
- The categories (New, Event, etc.) that were at the top of the window are now located in the Promos
category.
- The Services category has been removed, and all its items relocated. Storage increases, appearance
items, and name changes have been moved to the Supply category. All other items were moved to
Housing.