Since the Transcendent Class update, Archer has excelled at disrupting enemies in close quarters by combining a wide range of instant activation and movement skills.

With a Radiant Skill Sigil (Increase Max Charges) applied to Bolt Storm, he could use each of his instant activation skills, Bolt Storm, Light Beam, and Fend Off, twice, all with cooldowns of less than 10 sec. Combined with the Damage Reduction and Grab Immunity effects of these skills, this allowed him to perform too consistently in close-range engagements.

He also has numerous mobility options, including Snapshot, Lambent Smash, and the Rabam Skills Winged Strike and Zephyr Leap. His primary close-range skills, Scatter Shot, Luminous Barrage, and Circle of Thorns, also have short cooldowns. Before these changes, this allowed him to build an effective skill rotation with only a small number of offensive skills while incorporating numerous movement skills. Scatter Shot, in particular, has a 4-sec cooldown and up to 2 charges, making it highly effective when paired with Guardian and Defined Skill Sigils.

More importantly, the Crossbow's close-range bonus damage was front-loaded onto the first hit, dealing additional damage equal to 15% of the skill's total damage at once. This allowed him to deal excessive damage with a single hit, so we determined that adjustments to his close-range performance were necessary.

In this update, we removed Instant Activation from Bolt Storm and reduced the Max Charges of Lambent Smash by 1. We also changed the Crossbow's additional close-range damage to be calculated and applied separately for each hit, rather than applying the full amount to the first hit. These changes are intended to reduce his excessive close-range mobility and front-loaded damage.

We also increased the PvE damage of Circle of Thorns and Luminous Barrage to help him remain effective in Open World regions. Additionally, we strengthened Bullseye and Jackpot to broaden his ranged options beyond Sylvia's Vengeance and Righteous Smite.

While Flow: Arrows of Vengeance for Sylvia's Vengeance and Zephyr Leap are somewhat strong, our review of performance data across all content indicates that they do not require adjustment at this time. We will continue to monitor their performance.

We will continue to evaluate class balance and performance across all content and make further adjustments as needed.

Maehwa excels at swiftly traversing large battlefields with her exceptional mobility.
However, we have received considerable feedback from Adventurers that her numerous attack skills with Grab Immunity make her difficult to counter.

In this update, we reduced her access to Grab Immunity by removing the effect from the Rabam Skill Razorblade Corolla. At the same time, to help her maintain solid combat performance, we enhanced Petal Ward with an additional hit based on a former skill, Flow: Overpower, as well as Stun and Knockback effects.

Following this update, we will continue to review Adventurer feedback and conduct internal testing as we work toward achieving a healthy balance.

With the Transcendent Class Update, the number of skill uses required to activate Ynix's Flame was increased from 3 to 4.
This adjustment was part of our broader effort to reduce the overall prevalence of Forward Guard and Rear Super Armor effects.

However, because Guardian's defensive capabilities rely heavily on Forward Guard of Ynix's Flame, she previously had access to fewer Damage Reduction and Grab Immunity effects than other classes.

To compensate for this, we added Grab Immunity to Descent of the Flame and changed the Defined Skill Sigil slot for Frigid Talons to a Guardian Skill Sigil slot.

We also carefully considered Adventurer suggestions to make a Radiant Skill Sigil available for Descent of the Flame. However, internal testing showed that allowing the skill to have up to 2 charges would give her overwhelmingly greater mobility than other classes. We therefore chose to strengthen her in a different way.

We hope these changes will help Guardian feel even more imposing and resilient on the battlefield.

Corsair is a hybrid class who wields the Serenaca at close range and the Patraca at mid to long range. While her PvE performance and the usage rates of both weapons are currently stable, we found that resource management constraints made it difficult to summon the Slippery Scallywags, one of Patraca's core mechanics.

In particular, she had fewer ways to recover the MP required for summoning than Buccaneer did before the Transcendent Class Update, making it difficult to call the Slippery Scallywags as often as intended. To improve her resource management, we added MP recovery to a certain skill so she can activate the summon effect more consistently.

We also increased the attack range of Cap'n's Orders: Fire Away! to make it more useful and added combos between key Serenaca and Patraca skills to create smoother transitions between attacks. We will continue to monitor Corsair closely to preserve what makes her unique and enjoyable while maintaining her overall performance.

As part of our ongoing efforts to maintain class balance, we analyzed performance data from Open World regions such as Mountain of Eternal Winter and Land of the Sherekhan. The data showed that Sage was defeating fewer monsters than other classes. To improve his PvE performance, we increased the damage of Void Beam and Lightning Sentinel by 10%.

The placement of his Radiant Skill Sigil slot was also reviewed. It is currently assigned to Thunderclap, an instant-activation movement skill, which may limit its offensive utility.

One option considered was moving the Sigil slot to a core offensive skill such as Judgment of Ator or Spatial Shatter. However, these skills already possess strong offensive capabilities due to their enhanced attacks granted by the class passive. Removing the Radiant Skill Sigil slot from Thunderclap could also weaken the class's unconventional playstyle. We therefore determined that keeping it on Thunderclap would best preserve his identity while maintaining overall balance.

Following these damage adjustments, we will continue to closely monitor the his performance and the effectiveness of the Skill Sigils.

The Family-wide Chest of Sigil update, first announced at the Heidel Ball, is now live.

By making the Chest of Sigil shared across your Family, we aimed to make managing your Skill Sigils more convenient. Skill Sigils with identical effects can now be stacked in both the Inventory and the Chest of Sigil, making it easier to find the ones you need. We have also streamlined the process of storing Skill Sigils in the Chest of Sigil. When you use an Unidentified Skill Sigil, it will now be stored directly in the Chest of Sigil instead of being placed in your Inventory first.

You will still be able to move Skill Sigils from the Chest of Sigil to your Inventory, allowing you to have the Black Spirit absorb any unused Sigils for Skill Sigil Fragments as before.

We hope these changes make it easier to view and manage all the Skill Sigils owned across your Family in one place.

We will continue to explore ways to make skill customization features more convenient and intuitive for a smoother gameplay experience.

Following the Transcendent Class update, we introduced a feature that allows Adventurers to import presets from other Adventurers, helping those who may find it difficult to configure their skills, Skill Sigils, Flows, and Branches. With this update, we are taking this a step further by adding a feature that automatically recommends presets suited to different types of content, including Boss, Field Monster Zone, and Open World Area.

After establishing a basic setup with a Recommended Preset, you can fine-tune individual elements to create a preset of your own. If you are not satisfied with your hunting efficiency in a particular Monster Zone or your World Boss ranking, using this feature to adjust your Skill setup may help improve your performance.

Giant has a hybrid combat style that allows him to pressure enemies at close range with powerful crowd control and defensive capabilities while bombarding them from mid-range with his Iron Buster. However, following the Transcendent Class update, we found that his limited mobility while wielding the Iron Buster made it difficult for him to establish and maintain an effective combat range. In particular, Lava Piercer and Beastly Wind Slash saw less use than intended, significantly limiting his overall mobility.

To address this, we added Flow: Riding the Wind to Beastly Wind Slash. This Flow allows him to move immediately without performing the initial attack, while the skill's maximum number of uses has been increased to 2 to provide greater flexibility in positioning. We have also changed how his shooting skills interact with Beastly Wind Slash and Lava Piercer. Using a shooting skill will now reduce their cooldowns, allowing him to remain mobile throughout an engagement.

We also made modest damage increases to his core skills, including Raging Thunder, Flame Buster, and Funeral Blast, without making any offsetting reductions. Additionally, we increased the damage of Slugfest, which had seen less use following changes to certain effects, as well as Tectonic Rift with its Guardian Skill Sigil slot. These changes are intended to make both skills more viable offensive options in combat.

Seraph was designed to deliver both swift combos and weighty, impactful strikes through Sacramentum and Purgatum. However, after reviewing her overall skill performance following the Transcendent Class update, we found that Skill Sigils were seeing less use than intended, preventing her from achieving sufficient stability in combat.

Guardian Skill Sigil slots, in particular, were previously available on mid- and long-range pressure skills such as Poena Divina and Severing Slash. However, because Seraph primarily engages enemies at close range, these slots saw limited use and provided little practical benefit on those skills. To improve her survivability during close-range engagements, we added a Guardian Skill Sigil slot to each of her more frequently used close-range skills, Horizon Slash and Oblique Slash. Heavensunder will also now grant Damage Reduction while jumping, giving her greater protection until the attack is executed.

Additionally, to maintain consistency in Skill Sigil configurations across classes, we reorganized the Skill Sigil slots for Poena Divina and Heavensunder to match those on other classes' Rabam Skills. This gives her a broader range of Skill Sigil options for different combat situations and greater flexibility in how she uses her skills.

Before the Transcendent Class Update, Void Knight could activate Enchanting Frenzy through Dark Mist and use Fury of Kamasylvia, Obsidian Ashes, Rabam Skills, and other skills to quickly engage and disengage. Dark Knight, however, was designed to combine two distinct combat styles following the update: swift, streamlined assassination with the Kriegsmesser and ranged attacks with the Vediant while maintaining distance from her enemies.

As a result, we received feedback from Dark Knight Adventurers that it had become difficult to play her in the same way as Void Knight. Simply adding Dark Mist to Dark Knight and removing Phantom Dash could compromise her ability to maintain distance while attacking with the Vediant. We therefore focused on striking a better balance between her two weapons.

With this update, we halved both the Magic cost and the 20% Skill Damage Increase of her existing Kriegsmesser passive. We also added an effect that consumes an additional 20 Magic when using Fury of Kamasylvia, Blooming Black Rose, or Slanted Balance to increase the skill's damage by 50%. Obsidian Ashes and Legacy of the Vedir will likewise consume an additional 20 Magic to immediately apply Ashes to the target.

Using a skill that consumes an additional 20 Magic will also reduce the remaining cooldown of Phantom Dash by 0.5 sec, allowing it to be used more frequently. We also added Damage Reduction during skill use, an effect that was previously available on Dark Mist but not Phantom Dash. As a result, even without Enchanting Frenzy, she can use Nightpierce and Phantom Dash to close the distance, unleash powerful attacks and apply Ashes, then quickly disengage as long as she has enough Magic.

We will continue to monitor Kriegsmesser gameplay patterns and balance following this update and make further improvements where needed.

Following the recent improvements to Striker, we reviewed feedback from Adventurers who returned to playing the class.

With this update, we focused on making his skill combos flow more smoothly and bringing out the responsive, hands-on gameplay that defines him.

Scholar's greatest appeal lies in her ability to move freely through distorted space and strike from unexpected directions. However, the stationary attacks added for her two-handed Gravity Hammer in the Transcendent Update reduced some of the unpredictable mobility that defined her original playstyle. This update focuses on bringing that identity back while creating smoother skill combos and a faster pace of combat.

First, Helmet Smash has been revamped from a stationary attack into a long-range attack. Holding the skill button now teleports her behind the enemy, allowing her to continue the attack. Core Fusion has also received a new Flow that allows her to attack after teleporting, as well as several new combo options.

Infinite Power has been improved so that, when used in a combo, it immediately deals its fully charged damage without requiring any charging. Hammerfall has also been improved so that, when used in a combo, the damage of its original two hits is condensed into a single hit. This allows her to deal significant damage even during brief openings.

As part of these combo improvements, we also took another look at the role of Partial Black Hole. Its wide attack range and Core Overload effect have made it a key part of her combos. However, its long casting time made it difficult to land every hit, so players would often cancel the skill partway through its animation. We originally made it a Rabam Skill and increased its damage so that landing even a few hits would deal a meaningful amount of damage, allowing it to serve as one of her primary damage skills.

However, we understand that making it a Rabam Skill limited the combos that previously involved Gravity Anchor and Overload.

We considered several ways to address this issue. Rather than simply reverting Partial Black Hole to a normal skill, however, we felt that improving the skills added in the Transcendent Update would create a more engaging combat experience for her. Although these skills already had solid attack ranges, the lack of smooth transitions between them made it difficult to use them to their full potential.

We therefore decided to keep Partial Black Hole as a Rabam Skill, change the grab skill Gravity's Grip to a normal skill, and make Infinite Power a Rabam Skill. These changes allow for a wider variety of combo setups. By making the grab more readily available and adding new skill combos, we hope to give Adventurers more freedom to create powerful, unpredictable combos.

The Skill Sigil slots have also been reassigned to better complement these changes to her combat style. Hammer Smash is useful in PvE thanks to its wide attack range and Forward Guard. However, its relatively slow casting speed and stationary nature made it difficult to take full advantage of a Radiant Skill Sigil in PvP. We have therefore assigned a Defined Skill Sigil slot to Hammer Smash and a Radiant Skill Sigil slot to Core Fusion. With Core Fusion now offering greater versatility, its new Radiant Skill Sigil slot will further reinforce her unpredictable combat style.

We will continue to closely monitor how Adventurers play Scholar after the update and look for ways to make her distinctive, dynamic combat style shine even brighter.

Ninja was designed around a fast and agile combat style, using his exceptional mobility to quickly engage and disengage from battle. However, we found that his overall damage output was relatively low and that Shortsword was seeing limited use. To address this, we have further differentiated the strengths of each weapon, giving players more meaningful tactical options based on their preferred playstyle.

We have improved the effects of Shortsword to better support a combat style centered around exploiting enemy openings, quickly closing the distance, and unleashing concentrated bursts of damage.

We have added the new Underhanded Assault effect, which increases damage and deals additional fixed damage after using a gap-closing skill. We have also added a combo from Boss Slaughter into Ground Thrust, allowing him to deliver a quick burst of damage, and increased the damage of Fatal Blow, one of his core skills.

We have refined the mechanics of Katanas to make them more effective during prolonged engagements. Wheel of Advance has been added, allowing him to reactivate Sixth Shadow more quickly by continuing to fight after its initial activation and improving his sustained damage output. Twin Dragon, an instant activation skill, can now equip a Guardian Skill Sigil, allowing him to fend off enemy counterattacks at point-blank range while overwhelming his opponent with a flurry of slashes.

This update focuses on giving each of his weapons a more distinct identity. We will continue to monitor combat data and gameplay metrics after the update and make further adjustments as needed.

Sorceress was designed to disrupt her enemies' combat resource recovery while using her mobility to swiftly move in and out of combat. However, our combat data showed that too much of her damage and utility had become concentrated in a small number of skills, creating a significant imbalance in skill usage. Her playstyle had become overly reliant on Wrath of Chaos, which could combo into Soul Reaver to trigger maximum damage and also benefited from its Succession effect, as well as on Nightmare for mobility.

To address this, we have redistributed her damage output and narrowed the overall performance gap between her skills. We reduced the damage of Soul Reaver and Wrath of Chaos, which were outperforming her other skills, while increasing the damage of underused core skills such as Doom Vortex and Soul Spike. We have also increased Nightmare's cooldown by 2 sec to reduce how safely and frequently she can engage and disengage from combat.

These changes are intended to give her more flexibility in how she uses her skills and encourage the use of a wider range of options depending on the situation. We will continue to monitor combat data and gameplay metrics after the update and make further adjustments as needed.

We have received a great deal of feedback from Adventurers regarding Valkyrie's performance and are currently conducting a comprehensive review of her overall combat performance and playstyle.
During this review, we found that she was defeating fewer monsters than other classes in open-world regions such as the Mountain of Eternal Winter and Land of the Sherekhan.

To improve her PvE performance, we have added a 10% PvE damage increase to the weapon passive for both Longsword and Lancia.

We are also taking a close look at her PvP performance through gameplay data and ongoing monitoring.

If we determine that further balance adjustments are needed, we will carefully evaluate the best approach before moving forward.

Since the Transcendent Update, we have been regularly reviewing the PvE performance of every class.

As part of this review, we found that Melting Moon, one of Kunoichi's core PvE skills, was underperforming across a variety of monster zones because its Chakram Field was always created at a fixed distance.

To improve its performance, Melting Moon can now create the Chakram Field at close range when used during Auto-Combat.

Following this change, our internal testing showed an improvement in her PvE efficiency, with her monster kills over the same period now comparable to those of other Transcendent Classes.

We will continue to monitor all Transcendent Classes and make further adjustments to maintain PvE balance.