Throne and Liberty’s 3.28.0 update brings a new Battlegrounds map, Brooches, and more

Throne and Liberty update 3.28.0 was scheduled to go live with downtime beginning at 10:30 p.m. PT on April 8, or 5:30 a.m. UTC on April 9, and it brings a hefty slate of additions across PvP, dungeons, gear, housing, and quality-of-life systems.

The new changes are a new Battlegrounds map called Floating Elf Garden, the new Brooch equipment slot, two fresh Epic Co-Op Dungeons, and a set of PvP stat caps meant to narrow the gap between builds. The patch also adds new Battle Pass and Artisan Pass rewards, updates several weapon skills, and folds in a long list of general tweaks.

Patch Notes for Update 3.28.0

The biggest changes in this update focus on Battlegrounds, dungeon progression, and character progression. Archboss spawns are temporarily increased, Battlegrounds now run on a single seasonal map, and the Brooch slot opens up another layer of gear optimization. Several systems also received balance passes and usability changes.

Double Archboss Spawns

• During each Archboss event, 4x Archbosses will spawn instead of 2x.
• 1x Archboss will be a Guild event and the other 3 will be Portal events.

Battlegrounds

• The Battlegrounds map is set to Floating Elf Garden for the remainder of the season.
• Matchmaking is now restricted to parties of up to 3 players.
• Loosened matchmaking requirements to improve queue times.
• Debuffs are now applied limiting healing and shield health depending on role type:
  • Tank: -95% healing, -95% healing over time
  • DPS: -95% healing, -95% healing over time, -95% shield health
• Added more Achievement missions for Battlegrounds.

Co-Op Dungeons

• Dimensional Circle
  • Two new Co-Op Dungeons have been added to the Epic tier: Hellfire Crucible and Deathless Queen’s Lair. These dungeons require a minimum of 5500 Combat Power to enter.
  • Co-Op Dungeon difficulty has been reclassified into 3 tiers: Epic, Elite, and Normal.
    • As a result, Fighting Spirit and Loyalty Adventure Coins can no longer be obtained from lower-tiered dungeons and will be replaced with Fortitude Coins.
    • All content previously granting Fighting Spirit or Loyalty Coins will now grant Fortitude instead.
• Dimensional Trials
  • Doomrot Grove and Chapel of Madness have been added to Dimensional Trials.
  • New affixes added to customize challenge levels.
  • All tiers now grant 3000 points upon completion.
  • Reward chests will no longer spawn in Dimensional Trials.
  • Increased the Golden Chest spawn rate in tiers 9 and 10.

Brooch – New Equipment Slot

• The Brooch slot is available automatically to all characters after the 3.28.0 update.
• Brooches can be acquired through various content such as Nebula Island, Co-Op and Solo Dungeons, and Archbosses.
• Brooches support Gear Sync but cannot have runes attached.
• New Achievement missions added related to Brooches.

Balance Changes

• The maximum effective range of certain stats has been capped in PvP to reduce stat disparity between players. The caps vary by content type to account for the different scales of each mode.
• General PvP
  • Hit Chance / Evasion: 4500 ~ -3000
  • Critical Hit Chance / Endurance: 4500 ~ -3000
  • Heavy Attack Chance / Heavy Attack Evasion: 4500 ~ -3000
  • CC Chance / CC Resistance: 1800 ~ -1200
• Battlegrounds
  • Hit Chance / Evasion: 3000 ~ -2000
  • Critical Hit Chance / Endurance: 3000 ~ -2000
  • Heavy Attack Chance / Heavy Attack Evasion: 3000 ~ -2000
  • CC Chance / CC Resistance: 1200 ~ -800
• Arena
  • Hit Chance / Evasion: 2250 ~ -1500
  • Critical Hit Chance / Endurance: 2250 ~ -1500
  • Heavy Attack Chance / Heavy Attack Evasion: 2250 ~ -1500
  • CC Chance / CC Resistance: 900 ~ -600

Greatsword

• Duke Magna’s Provoking Warblade: Fixed an issue where Valiant Brawl’s Shield Weakening Specialization was not applied.

Daggers

• Phantom Smokescreen: Duration is no longer affected by Buff Duration bonuses.
• Deluzhnoa’s Barrier: Fixed an issue where Freeze was applied while Fonsine’s Blessing was active.

Crossbows

• Multi-Shot: Adjusted the chance percentage of the Shield Removal Specialization.

Longbow

• Ensnaring Arrow: Fixed an issue where the Shield Removal effect occasionally did not work.

Staff

• Icebound Tomb: Targets in Icebound Armor can no longer be selected as Friendly Targets and cannot be healed.

Spear

• Bloodleech Aura: Purifying Touch’s Vitality Specialization buff is no longer removed.

Wand

• Tevent’s Grasp of Withering / Tevent’s Grasp of Cremation: Modified so that Tevent’s Hunger effect activates when Weaken: Apostle’s Curse and Weaken: Apostle’s Grudge Curse are applied.

Orb

• Summon Satellite: Fixed an issue where, in certain situations, being affected by another caster’s Distortion Veil effect while under the cooldown debuff from Protective Satellite’s Distortion Veil effect would cause the cooldown debuff to refresh.

General

• Added a new Battle Pass: Cinder Crafted.
• Added a new Artisan Pass: Aureate Solarium.
• Abyssal Stone: Fixed an issue where the Abyssal Stone capture area located on the 1st and 2nd floor of Syleus’s Abyss did not include the ceiling portion.
• Reduced the cooldown for Fonsine’s Blessing.
• Housing
  • New Archboss Furniture: Queen Bellandir and Tevent cabinets, mirrors, and frames are now available to craft.
  • Guestbooks can be purchased from Workshop Merchants and placed in your house for visitors to leave messages.
  • Furniture Paint Diluents are now available for additional customization of color intensity on furniture pieces.
• Mirror Boutique
  • Added an option to favorite colors when dyeing equipment.
  • Improved hair rendering quality. The Hair Strands setting has been removed.
  • Added more colors that can be applied to hair and skin.
  • Added 4 new patterns for outfits.
• Guild
  • Guild rejoin timer is now shown at the bottom of the guild list.
  • Posting an item for sale will now retain the last settings used.
  • Added a sum of pending currency to be distributed at the bottom of the Profit Distribution window.
• Ranking Menu: Improved the layout of the Ranking Menu.
• Shop: Added a preview option for emotes, Amitoi, outfits, and morphs at NPC merchants.
• Raids: Players can no longer be kicked after defeating a boss and before entering the next gate.
• Storage: Skill Cores, Nebula Charging Stones, and Furniture Time Reduction Tickets can now be used directly from Storage.
• Controls: UI windows now close when pressing the ESC key instead of on key release.
• Controller: Character cards can now be viewed from the Relationships menu.
• Intel XeSS: Upgraded Intel XeSS to version 2.0.
• Reduced the visual size of dropped equipment on the ground.

Throne and Liberty’s 3.28.0 update covers a lot of ground, and the Brooch slot plus the new Battlegrounds map are likely to draw the most attention once maintenance ends. Tell us what you think about the patch in the comments, and follow us on X, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram.

Throne and Liberty

Developed by NCSOFT

Throne and Liberty is a free-to-play MMORPG that takes place in the vast open world of Solisium. Explore a land full of depth and opportunity, scale expansive mountain ranges for new vantage points, scan the open skies, and traverse sprawling plains. Adapt your fight to survive and thrive through strategic decisions in PvP, PvE or both as you encounter evolving battlefields impacted by weather, time of day, and other players. There is no single path to victory as you seek to defeat Kazar and claim the throne while keeping rival guilds at bay.

• Genre: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
• Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
• Modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
• Release: 2023-12-07
• Publisher: Amazon Games
• Age Rating: PEGI 16 / CLASS_IND 14 / GRAC 19+ / ESRB T / ACB MA 15+ / CERO C / USK 16
• IGDB Rating: 75.0/100

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