Throne and Liberty 4.3.0 brings a new 12v12 battle and cheaper gear growth

Throne and Liberty Update 4.3.0 will enter maintenance at 10:30 p.m. PT (5:30 a.m. UTC) on July 15. The downtime is expected to last about three hours, with the patch adding a new Battlegrounds mode, more endgame activities, gear-growth changes, and a long list of fixes.

The official Steam announcement puts much of the spotlight on Seal Battle: Frostbite Fortress, a 12-versus-12 matchmade mode. Teams must carry relics to the opposing altar and seal them. The first side to complete two seals wins. Matches last 10 minutes, followed by five minutes of overtime if neither team has won.

Frostbite Fortress also introduces two Disruptors. Air Raid can appear when a relic is obtained, while Blitz appears near the center of the Battleground at set intervals after a round begins. New achievements tied to Frostbite Fortress are included as well.

Battlegrounds Season 2 changes the weekly rotation

Regular Season 1 will end with the update, and Regular Season 2 will begin. Conquest will run from Sunday through Tuesday on Giant’s City or Floating Elf Garden. Seal Battle will take over from Wednesday through Saturday on Frostbite Fortress. A rules guide has also been added to the Battlegrounds menu.

The update adds Frostbreath Cave to Dimensional Trials and unlocks four Guild Raids: Ascended Daigon, Ascended Leviathan, Ascended Pakilo Naru, and Ascended Manticus. These raids become available at Guild Level 30. Co-Op Dungeons and Raids will also provide extra rewards when completed with New/Returning characters, including an additional chest after defeating a boss.

Gear growth costs are coming down

Update 4.3.0 reduces the material and Sollant costs tied to Trait and Resonance growth. Trait Unlockstones will cost 100 materials instead of 200, while Heroic Trait Unlockstones will drop from 50 to 25. Trait Enchantment Stones and Trait Resonance Stones will each require three fragments instead of five.

Several Sollant fees are also being reduced. Trait Resonance Stone crafting falls from 100,000 to 20,000 Sollant. Resonance opening and conversion costs are cut in half for normal weapons, normal armor and accessories, and Archboss Weapons. Enhancement costs drop to 60,000 for weapons and 30,000 for armor and accessories.

Materials spent before the update will be refunded through in-game mail within 48 hours where stated in the notes. The patch also expands sources for Trait materials, adds Trait Unlockstone Fragments to Material Transmutation rewards, and allows Elite enemies in Abyss Dungeons to drop Trait Enchantment Stones and Refined Trait Enchantment Stone Chests.

Skill Core-based Archboss weapon crafting is being adjusted. Weapons made with Skill Cores will not receive Potential abilities, and Potential options on existing affected equipment will be removed and refunded. Skill Core acquisition is expanding through Nix Abyss, guild distribution, and new Resin Flower recipes. Rubrix Resin Flowers cost 1.5 times as much as existing Resin Flowers but offer a wider selection of weapon-specific Skill Cores. Marind Resin Flowers cost the same as existing flowers but provide a narrower selection. The resulting Skill Cores are untradeable.

Combat adjustments cover every weapon group

The patch changes skill mechanics tied to damage accumulation and shield stacking, adjusts Heavy Attack and Bonus Damage values, and adds the new Weaken: Shock effect to the Spear. Gauntlets’ Eclipse of Blood also gains extra Bonus Damage and Damage Reduction per skill level.

Greatsword receives a PvE-only restriction on Precision Dash’s charged damage increase. Suppressing Strike’s Heavy Attack Damage bonus at Heroic Level 5 falls from 28% to 14%. Sword and Shield gains changes to Roaring Shackles and Victory Strike, while Dagger adjustments remove stack consumption and Critical Damage increases from the additional uses of Inject Venom.

Crossbow gains a 30% monster damage amplification effect for several barrage skills. Longbow changes make selected damage-over-time effects ignore shields. Spear receives a new Shock-charge system that can stack up to five times and deal 340% + 150 damage at maximum stacks. Orb receives several healing and recovery improvements, and Gauntlets’ One-Inch Punch now deals 80% more damage against monsters at Heroic Level 5.

Quality-of-life changes and the Arkeum event

Material Transmutation gains a level filter and an option to exclude equipment with unlocked Traits. Guild Distribution receives a level threshold option. Character Info will show an equipment level based on the highest obtained levels across weapons, armor, and accessories, while item slots will display maximum levels for equipment with variable item levels.

Players can now open the Inheritance interface directly from an item’s context menu. Detailed Item View works as a toggle, three match-confirmation alert sounds are available in Settings, and new portals provide quick travel to Breezeline Station, Abundance Street, and Hammer Clang Street in Herba Village.

The update also starts Repel the Arkeum Legion Invasion!, a two-week event with preset times. From Monday through Friday, events run at 01:30, 12:30, and 17:30 UTC. Saturday and Sunday add a fourth event at 21:30 UTC. The Perpetual Pendulum package, 10 Perpetual Pendulum weapon skins, and the Event Pass: Sealed Trove will also become available for purchase.

Patch Notes: Update 4.3.0

Below are the main official changes included in the July 15 update. The full update also contains fixes for Adventure Codex chapters, Nix activities, field events, guild systems, fishing, housing, cosmetics, matchmaking, inventory, and other interface issues.

Update Content

• A new Battlegrounds mode, “Seal Battle: Frostbite Fortress,” has been added, and Battlegrounds Regular Season 2 begins.
• Frostbreath Cave has been added to Dimensional Trials, and 4 new Guild Raids have been unlocked.
• Additional rewards can be earned when playing Co-Op Dungeons and Raids with New/Returning characters.

Seal Battle

• A new 12 vs 12 matchmade Battlegrounds mode.
• The objective is to transport relics to the enemy team’s altar and seal them.
• The first team to seal relics 2 times wins.
• The base match time is 10 minutes; if no winner is determined, a 5-minute overtime period begins.
• 2 new Disruptors have been added: Air Raid and Blitz.
• New Achievements for Seal Battle: “Frostbite Fortress” have been added.

New Battlegrounds Season

• Sunday – Tuesday: Conquest (Giant’s City / Floating Elf Garden)
• Wednesday – Saturday: Seal Battle (Frostbite Fortress)
• A game rules guide has been added in the Battlegrounds menu so players can review the rules of each mode.

New Guild Raids

• Ascended Daigon
• Ascended Leviathan
• Ascended Pakilo Naru
• Ascended Manticus
• Available upon reaching Guild Level 30.

Equipment Trait and Resonance Growth

• Trait and Resonance growth difficulty has been eased, and gem crafting recipes and Skill Core-based Archboss weapon crafting recipes have been added.
• Archboss weapons crafted using Skill Cores will not receive Potential options, and existing crafted equipment Potential options will be removed and refunded.
• Trait Unlockstone: 200 -> 100
• Heroic Trait Unlockstone: 50 -> 25
• Trait Enchantment Stone: 5 -> 3
• Trait Resonance Stone: 5 -> 3
• Trait Resonance Stone Crafting Cost: 100,000 -> 20,000
• Resonance Open & Conversion Cost (Normal Weapon): 6,000,000 -> 3,000,000
• Resonance Open & Conversion Cost (Normal Armor/Accessory): 3,000,000 -> 1,500,000
• Resonance Open & Conversion Cost (Archboss Weapon): 12,000,000 -> 6,000,000
• Resonance Enhance Cost (Weapon): 300,000 -> 60,000
• Resonance Enhance Cost (Armor/Accessory): 150,000 -> 30,000

Balance Changes

• Skill mechanics have been adjusted to prevent excessive damage accumulation and shield stacking, and Heavy Attack and Bonus Damage values have been adjusted per weapon.
• A new “Weaken: Shock” effect has been added to the Spear, and Gauntlets’ Eclipse of Blood now gains additional Bonus Damage and Damage Reduction per skill level.
• Skill Core effects from previous Heroic armor and accessories have been incorporated into equipment options.

Quality-of-Life Adjustments

• Equipment with enhanced Traits can now be used for Material Transmutation.
• A level adjustment filter has been added for batch item insertion, allowing you to set a maximum level.
• An option to exclude items with unlocked Traits from the material selection list has been added.
• An option to include equipment above a specified level has been added to Guild Distribution.
• A UI element showing the current character’s equipment level has been added to the Character Info window.
• An Inheritance button has been added to the item context menu.
• Equipment with at least 1 unlocked Trait can no longer be sealed.
• The match confirmation alert sound can now be changed by the user in Settings.

Events

• Help stop the Arkeum Invasion! Running for 2 weeks, Arkeum Invasion events will run at preset times.
• Monday ~ Friday: 01:30, 12:30, and 17:30 UTC
• Saturday ~ Sunday: 01:30, 12:30, 17:30, and 21:30 UTC

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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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