#eu patch notes

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Brief summary:

Dungeons

Velik's Sanctuary (Hard)

You will find our preview of the Velik's Sanctuary (Hard) dungeon here.

Group size: for 5 players

Difficulty: 5 stars

Recommended item level: 429

1 daily entry, 2 for club members

You can unlock 9 achievements in Velik's Sanctuary (Hard), two of which grant you titles, such as ‘Godslayer’.

Event dungeon: Pit of Petrax

The Archdevans are breeding a terrible monster in a secret location. Have Karmok in Highwatch teleport you to the Vault and defeat the hellish beast!

Group size: for 1 player

3 daily entries, 4 for club members

You can get special rewards several times a day.

Class Changes

Sorcerer

Attack speed no longer falls when using Warp Barrier after Mana Boost has been used

Archer

The effect Concentration and the effects of the following glyph now stack correctly:

Arrow Volley - Glyph of Blaze [Penetrating Arrow]

Poison Arrow - Glyph of Blaze [Radiant Arrow]

Stunning Trap - Glyph of Blaze [Penetrating Arrow]

Adjustments when playing with a controller

Adjusted the behavior of some skills so they are easier to perform, especially with regard to directional aiming and dodging.

Current status of all skills of every class listed in this PDF.

Other Changes

Goldfinger Tokens can now be stored in the bank

Adjusted position when entering Bathysmal Rise

Increased chance to get Lakan's Sovereign Stone in Kalivan's Dreadnaught

Battle for Velika

Adjusted reward chests depending BAM and ranking:

Removed: Ambush Weapon Box, Ambush Armor Box (Body), Ambush Armor Box (Hand), Ambush Armor Box (Foot)

Added: Deathwrack Weapon Crate, Deathwrack Armor Crate, Deathwrack Handwear Crate, Deathwrack Footwear Crate

Regional

TERADEMY 2016 – The Flying Bunny!

In the TERADEMY competition in May and June 2016, you had the chance to submit your suggestions for a new mount or pet. Gameforge in cooperation with Bluehole declared "Bunny in the Moon" by Miineko the winning design.

Now, one year later with Patch 56, this new flying mythical creature is available on our servers! As already announced, you can get your hands on both versions, Flying Skill: Moonhopper and Flying Skill: Dreamhopper, as part of the Oneiric Crystals event using the Dreamer's Token. 

Notes

Patch 56 contains the Korean updates from 9th February to 23rd February

Patch 57, in which the Vergos dungeon adjusted for 20 players will be reintroduced, is planned for July (Korean patches from 2nd March to 23rd March).

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New dungeons, stronger gear and better daily quests – that and more from Tuesday, 2nd May, in TERA! Brief summary:

New Contents

Velik's Hold (Normal/Hard)

Velik's Sanctuary (Normal)

New tier 12 gear

Changes to battleground rewards

Dungeon Changes

New instances

Velik's Hold (3 Stars)

Velik's Hold (Hard, 4 Stars)

Velik's Sanctuary (4 Stars)

These Instances Are Returning

The Abscess (3 Stars)

Bathysmal Rise (3 Stars)

Timescape (4 Stars)

Kalivan's Challenge (3 Stars)

These Instances Are Closing Their Doors

Sky Cruiser Endeavor (Hard)

Vault of Kaprima

Shadow Sanguinary (Normal/Hard)

Lilith's Keep (Normal/Hard)

Ruinous Manor (Normal/Hard)

Harrowhold

Twisted Lakan's Prison

Class Skill Changes

for Mystic, Sorcerer, Archer, Brawler, Valkyrie, Berserker, Slayer (more info in the link)

Items and Gear

New jewelry

As loot and for crafting: Tier 11 gear (Veldeg's set)

For crafting: Tier 12 gear VM9 (Deathwrack set)

New tokens from Island of Dawn

New loot boxes from Battlegrounds

Battlegrounds

From Patch 55 onwards, reputation can no longer be earned as a reward on battlefields. There are now victory chests instead that can be opened for rewards, or receipts that can be exchanged for victory chests at a rate of 5 to 1.

Contents of Victory Chests

The exact contents of the chests can be viewed here: (PDF).

Reputation Shop

As reputation can no longer be obtained, the prices of existing items have been reduced.

Corsairs' Stronghold

Gates increased to level 65

Strength of the gates increased 1.5-fold

Systems and UI

New Interface for the Vanguard Initiative

Regional Changes

Dungeon Loot

The additional dungeon loot has been adjusted with patch 55 as several new dungeons make their appearance, while other older instances have been removed. The loot is based on the difficulty shown in the instance matching. Loot includes fashion coupons, Masterwork Alkahest, Goldfinger Token, Elleon's Mark of Valor, Noctenium and a chance for a Dyad Niveot Structure.

Ghillieglade Changes 

Removed crafting materials for VM7 and VM8

Added crafting matierals and designs for VM9

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Brief summary:

Embrace the power of Ragnarok! Following the update to version 54, you can explore the world of TERA with the new class.

Dungeon Changes

12 dungeons between levels 20 and 64

Bastion of Lok

Sinestral Manor

Ascent of Saravash

Cultists' Refuge

Necromancer Tomb

Golden Labyrinth

Akasha's Hideout

Saleron's Sky Garden

Labyrinth of Terror

Ebon Tower

Sabex Armory

Macellarius Catacombs

These dungeons have been changed as follows:

Mounts can be used

Difficulty level increased

Bosses given immunity to stun and knockdown effects

Neophyte Resuscitation: available 10 times, costs do not increase

Labyrinth of Terror

Dungeon level changed to 56. Opponent stats adjusted accordingly

Celestial Arena

Added passive effect for the new class

Difficulty level of the following dungeons changed:

Channelworks

Kalivan's Challenge

Demokron Factory

The Abscess

Class Changes

for Warrior, Archer, Reaper, Berserker, Slayer (click the link for more info)

Quest Changes

Daily quest rewards have been adjusted so that a chest or token is awarded instead of various crystals to allow for a more appropriate selection of crystals.

Item Changes

Shop for Behemoth Essence: New items (Potions, Semi-Enigmatic Scroll) added

Level 12 Avatar weapons weakened by approx. 10%

Adjusted contents of various token shops for level 22-55 gear

Adjusted contents of various token shops for level 58-63 gear

Adjusted level at which various crystals can be used

Dragonwing Scale

The system through which flying dragons can be received has been adjusted.

New Items:

Dragon Scrolls can be used to obtain a Piece of Dragon Scroll. Additionally, there's also a small chance to get a flying dragon.

Pieces of Dragon Scroll can be transformed into a flying dragon without fail at a ratio of 40 to 1.

Changes to Existing Items:

Dragonwing Scales can be transformed into a Dragon Scroll at a ratio of 10 to 1.

Dragonwing Talons can be transformed into 5 Pieces of Dragon Scroll.

Petrified Dragon Eggs can be transformed into 5 Pieces of Dragon Scroll.

Mysterious Dragon Eggs can be transformed into a flying dragon without fail.

Fashion Coupons

New weapons and armor added for the Valkyrie

Monster Changes

Adjusted many opponents in all areas of Arborea to make them more difficult and less frustrating. Amongst other things, the changes include the following:

HP and experience points increase more depending on the level of the opponent

Adjusted various stats (Blocking, Attack, Resistances) as well as the dropping of HP and MP projectiles

Reduced the frequency of dragon BAMs flying up high and striking from above

Reduced the frequency of worm BAMs burrowing and striking from below

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Patch 53 is going live on our servers on March 7, 2017, and in addition to adjustments to various classes, it is also bringing back the League of Levelers!

Class Changes

for Slayer, Berserker, Reaper, Gunner, Lancer, and Mystic - see Class Changes #13 by Yosha for an accurate list

Other Changes

The following message is displaying during battleground matching:

To ensure a fair contest, on entering the battleground, all positive effects from items (e.g. Refined Noctenium Infusion, meals, Nostrum, Bravery Potion, Blessing of Arun) and skills will be removed.

- Also Changed various quest texts.

Regional Changes

Adventurer's Equipment Box

Contents of the boxes adapted to the current equipment:

Imperator Gear 

Lachelith's Jewelry Set 

Enchantment Scrolls for tier 10 equipment. 

You will find more details on this box and the League of Levelers in a separate event announcement.

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Sorcerer revamp, new dungeons, stamina removal

The next big patch to arrive on our servers will go live on 20th October. The main features of this latest update include some brand-new instances, an extra battleground, plus a revamp for the Sorcerer class.

EDIT: Updated battleground changes.

New Contents:

- Added 4 dungeons:

Lilith’s Keep (Normal/Hard) 

Ruinous Manor (Normal/Hard)

Sky Cruiser Endeavor (Hard)

Vault of Kaprima 

- Iron Battleground added

- Sorcerer class revamp

- Removed stamina system

Dungeon Changes:

- Removed the following dungeons:

Manglemire 

The Abscess (Normal/Hard) 

Wonderholme 

Forsaken Island 

Kalivan's Dreadnaught (Hard) 

Timescape

- Channelworks and Demokron Factory require all party members to use one of the new battle solutions to advance further into the dungeon.

- Solo dungeons below level 60 will be removed.

- Celestial Arena changes:

Number of rounds reduced from 12 to 7 

Available time reduced to 10 minutes 

Enemy stats adjusted to match new gear 

Melons no longer talk

- Challenge Dungeon:

Enemy stats adjusted to match new gear

System Changes:

- The stamina system will be completely removed, including all necessary adjustments to features linked to it. 

- The display for player buffs will be overhauled with new display options.

Interface Changes:

Various interface elements will be arranged differently in future and can be put back to their defaults with the ‘Reset UI position’ setting in the options. 

By default the player’s health is displayed at the bottom of the screen in the middle. 

The main menu displayed at the top of the screen is scaled down to 80%.

Crits will now be orange.

New effect added to show dungeon mechanics:

Blue area: Safety zone, player character does not get damaged within this circle.

Orange area: Inflicts damage within the marked area, which can be avoided/ blocked using class skills.

Red Area: Inflicts damage within the marked area, which cannot be avoided/blocked using class skills.

Class Changes:

- Sorcercer revamp

- Changes to Priest, Mystic and Berserker (more info in the link above).

Item Changes:

Tokens earned for solo-player contents will be exchanged. Old tokens can no longer be received, and quests and dungeons will only provide the new versions. 

New Tokens:

Undercede Token

Intercede Token

Supercede Token

Lakan's Charm

- VM8 materials added to token shops and dungeons, with battleground merchants being updated on Wednesday 19th.

- Additional effect to boost healing will be added for new jewellery.

Achievement Changes:

- Achievements from retired dungeons moved to Legacy Achievements 

- Previous glowing title no longer glows 

- Achievements which required players to hunt rare enemies in the open world have been changed to require only one respective enemy to be killed. The time until they reappear has been changed to 3 hours

Battleground Changes:

- Gridiron now with equalised gear for all (previously only equalised for players with an item level under 404)

- Fraywind Canyon now with equalised gear for all (previously only equalised for players with an item level under 404)

- Champions' Skyring now with equalised gear (Reported to be false)

- Changes to the Bellicarium and Killing Spree credit rewards for all battlegrounds.

Other Changes:

- BAM stats on the Island of Dawn adjusted to match new gear

- Materials for Flying Mounts readjusted to drop from new dungeons

Ghillieglade Changes:

- Added materials and designs for crafting VM8 gear: Manor Dust, Bloodmetal Ore, Manor Collection, Bloodsteel Ingot

- Added Tier 10 and 11 Feedstock

- Removed old drops relating to VM6 and VM7 gear, Talismans, Campfires, Design: Heaven's Elixir, Recipe: Onslaught Scroll: Crit Factor VII, Recipe: Onslaught Scroll: Crit Power VII.

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Is your guild ready for battle? This question lies at the heart of Patch 47, with new challenges and features revolving around your group of warriors. Upgrade your guild skills, complete guild quests, then dive into the fray in exciting battles against other guilds to claim ultimate victory!

The patch will be applied on our server on Tuesday, September 20th 2016!

Overview

Reworked and expanded guild menu

New guild wars

Removed alliance and crusade elements

Dreadspire closes its doors

Guilds

Complementing the information provided in the preview:

After leaving a guild, you can only join a new guild after 24 hours.

Guilds cannot complete the same guild quest more than once per day.

Whenever a member leaves a guild, their contribution to the ongoing quest is deleted, assuming the quest hasn’t been completed yet.

Guild War

Complementing the information provided in the preview:

Upon entering the guild war region, all characters suffer from the Time Travel Side Effect debuff. The cooldown of Summon Party skills (priests and mystics) is increased six-fold.

Only one outpost can be placed within 80 metres.

Goddess’ Blessing cannot be used.

After death, players can choose to resurrect either at their own outpost (if available), or at the dock.

Respawn times are halved as long as your outpost is still standing.

Summoned bosses ignore crystals which modify damage based on enemy size (i.e. crystals with +% damage to BAMs have no effect).

Miscellaneous

Fixed errors in Manglemire’s debuff description

Adjusted sales prices for loot collected in the open world (e.g. materials)

Removed guild skills and castles from top crusade ranks

Removed NPCs related to alliance (inc. Strategic Commands)

Removed alliance-specific skills

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Europe gets the ninja patch with some changes.

The Ninja update will be released on Tuesday, 24th May 2016 for Europe and will give players a free additional character slot item. The pre-load of the patch is available now.

Region-specific Differences:

- Removed Fashion Coupons rewarded via the instance matching system for successfully completing an instance, and added them as loot from the final boss

- Reset additional rewards for completing the necessary number of weekly quests to the default

- Removed additional rewards from the Dawnfall/Dawnstorm Token shops

- Reset cooldowns of various level 57 to 60 instances to the default

- Removed limited entrance times to battlegrounds (now all battlegrounds can be accessed at any time) and reset specific combinations of gear and jackpots/rewards (removed event changes)

- Removed contents of Halloween Candy and Wintera Token shops until respective seasons

- Reduced contents of store for the [Event] Ruby

Elleon's Mark of Valor

Added Arun's Little and Large Boxes of Transformation

Added Shape Change: Big Head (7 Days)

Exchanged Semi-Enigmatic Scroll for Veteran Semi-Enigmatic Scroll, reduced cost

Adjusted loot in Ghillieglade (still 3 daily entries)

Removed previous tokens and materials

Exchanged Tier 8 Feedstock with Tier 9 Feedstock

Added tokens and materials for new gear

Added Design: Heaven's Elixir

Bellicarium Credit Merchants

Added Dread Ingot and Ghostly Seal materials

Added 1st Federation Rewards Box containing 16x Veteran Masterwork Alkahest and either more Veteran Masterwork Alkahest, Tier 9 Feedstock or a Minuscule Wing Fragment at random

Killing Spree Credits Merchants

Reduced cost of designs for new jewelry

Added Dreadnaught Spar, Sea Ash and Desolarus Heartbeat materials

Added 2nd Federation Rewards Box containing a Veteran Semi-Enigmatic Scroll and either another Veteran Semi-Enigmatic Scroll, Spellbind IX, Noctenium Infusions, Goldfinger Tokens or a Minuscule Wing Fragment

Added 3rd Federation Rewards Box containing 12x Spellbind IX and either more Spellbind IXs, Veteran Semi-Enigmatic Scrolls, Noctenium Infusions, Goldfinger Tokens or a Minuscule Wing Fragment

Added Dyad Niveot Structure

Shadecore Token

Added Masterwork Alkahest Loot Box

Shadetop Token

Added Masterwork Alkahest Loot Box

Fashion Coupons

Added costumes and weapons for Ninjas

Vanguard Initiative Merchants

Adjusted contents in line with number of quests and reputation

New Dungeons

Added extra loot like MWA boxes, Elleon's mark of valor, goldfinger tokens, Noctenium infusion chests and fashion coupons.

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The Brawler class comes to EU TERA on Tuesday December 15th.

Brief summary of this patch note:

- New class added: The Brawler.

- Added new dungeons

Forsaken Island

Kalivan's Challenge/Kalivan's Dreadnaught (Normal/Hard)

- Removed dungeons:

Shattered Fleet

Ravenous Gorge

Sky Cruiser Endeavor (Normal)

Vault of Kaprima

Akeron's Inferno (Normal/Hard)

- Item level doubled

- BRNM has been changed back to allowing 5 players only.

- Increased boss HP in SCHM.

- Increased EXP gain from pre-60 dungeons.

- Added etching materials and crafting materials for the latest generation of equipment in Ghilleglade.

- Added ‘Neophyte Resuscitation’ to dungeons which allows you to self-revive yourself after paying a gold amount.

- Added Desolarus Tokens (aka the new Cosmoshard).

- Added Couage Tokens to Bellicarium Merchants which you can exchange for Dreadnaught gear.

- Schisma gear is now easier to masterwork/enchant.

- Class changes.