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[Developer's Note] Preliminary Notice Regarding Max Level Expansion

5 months ago

Hello, this is the Vindictus Team.

This is a preliminary announcement regarding the changes to existing content and systems that will accompany the max level expansion update in August.

Max Level Expansion & Scheduled Changes Update: During the maintenance on Tuesday, August 12th, 2025.

Please note that some details may change based on development progress. Finalized changes will be detailed in the official patch notes on the day of the update.

1. Max Level Expansion

The maximum level will be expanded to 125.

2. Play Guide

A new "Level 115 Achievement" growth objective will be added to the Play Guide.
- The Level 115 Equipment Support Box, provided as a growth objective reward, will contain the following gear:
  - +12 Chaotic Spirited Orna Weapon
  - +12 Heartless Capture Orna Helm
  - +12 Infinite Barrier Orna Mail
  - +12 Heartless Capture Orna Greaves
  - +12 Weeping Soul Orna Gauntlets
  - +12 Weeping Soul Orna Boots
New Guide Missions will be added in accordance with the max level expansion.
- All existing Guide Missions will be reset during the maintenance on the day of the update.
- The status of all missions, whether in-progress or completed, will be reset. Please be sure to claim any unclaimed rewards beforehand.

3. Orna Weapon/Armor Stat Changes

The base stats and the range of tunable stats for Orna weapons and armor will be changed as follows. The maximum stats for each piece of gear when fully tuned will remain the same as before.

Orna Weapon	ATK/M. ATK	ATK SPD	CRIT	BAL
Previous (Max Tuning)	28644 (+2156)	7 (+2)	105 (+15)	52 (+7)
New (Max Tuning)	29722 (+1078)	8 (+1)	112 (+8)	55 (+4)

Orna Helm, Gauntlets, Boots	DEF	CRIT RES
Previous (Max Tuning)	3449 (+505)	23 (+6)
New (Max Tuning)	3701 (+253)	26 (+3)

Orna Mail	DEF	CRIT RES
Previous (Max Tuning)	3633 (+491)	29 (+10)
New (Max Tuning)	3878 (+246)	34 (+5)

Orna Greaves	DEF	CRIT RES
Previous (Max Tuning)	3442 (+467)	33 (+13)
New (Max Tuning)	3675 (+234)	39 (+7)

If you have already performed Equipment Tuning on your existing Orna gear, the tuned stats will be preserved and added to the new base stats.

However, if the total stat value exceeds the maximum, the excess amount will not be applied.

Please refer to the examples below:

Example 1
- [Previous] Orna Gear Base CRIT 105 + Tuned CRIT +5 → Total CRIT 110
- [New] Orna Gear Base CRIT 112 + Tuned CRIT +5 → Total CRIT 117
- Status: Can still tune CRIT for an additional +3.
Example 2
- [Previous] Orna Gear Base CRIT 105 + Tuned CRIT +8 → Total CRIT 113
- [New] Orna Gear Base CRIT 112 + Tuned CRIT +8 → Total CRIT 120
- Status: Maximum tuning value reached.
Example 3
- [Previous] Orna Gear Base CRIT 105 + Tuned CRIT +12 → Total CRIT 117
- [New] Orna Gear Base CRIT 112 + Tuned CRIT +12 → Total CRIT 124 → Adjusted to the max value of 120.
- Status: The excess tuned value of 4 is not applied.

Developer's Comment:

Previously, when gear's base stats were upgraded from minimum to medium, tuning effects were lost if the tuned value was below 50% of the max. With this improvement, the stats from Equipment Tuning that you've invested into your gear right up to the level expansion will be preserved and added to the new base stats. However, please understand that it is a system limitation that stats cannot exceed the maximum value.

4. Exchange Shop

1) Monthly Mission Completion Ticket Shop

Damascus Steel (Bound) and Jardin Steel (Bound) will be removed, and the following items will be added:

Item Name	Tickets Required	Trade Property
Mysterious Shard Grade 3	1	Bound to Character
Abyssal Shard Grade 3	1	Bound to Character

2) Ardri Seal Shop

The following items will be removed from the Ardri Seal Shop:

+13 Restorative Enhancement Rune (Lv. 110 or below Armor, Gift)
+14 Restorative Enhancement Rune (Lv. 110 or below Armor, Gift)
+15 Restorative Enhancement Rune (Lv. 110 or below Armor, Gift)
Reforge Exclusive Ardri's Essence
Reforge Exclusive Legacy Shard Destiny Box
Reforge Exclusive Enhancement Rune
Jardin Steel (Lv. 110) (Bound)

The following items will be added:

Item Name	Seals Required	Trade Property	Purchase Limit
+1 Critical Element Stone	20	Bound to Character	-
+1 Balance Element Stone	20	Bound to Character	-
Rank 5 Enchant Scroll Selection Box	40	Bound to Character	6 per Character
New Era Material Box	5	Bound to Character	50 per Character

(* The detailed contents of the Rank 5 Enchant Scroll Selection Box and New Era Material Box will be provided in the official patch notes.)

3) Orna Seal Shop

The seal requirement for the Superior Enhancement Elixir will be lowered to 1, and the exchange limit will be changed to 2.

4) Uaithne Seal Shop

The quantity of Superior Enhancement Elixirs exchangeable with 1 Uaithne Seal will be changed.

[Previous] 1 Superior Enhancement Elixir
[New] 4 Superior Enhancement Elixirs

The following items will be removed from the Uaithne Seal Shop:

Uaithne Fragment: The Sun's Wish
Uaithne Fragment: The Cursed Belt
Uaithne Fragment: Token of Silence
Uaithne Fragment: Token of Quiet
Uaithne Fragment: Auxiliary Equipment

5) Seal of Bravery Shop

The following items will be removed from the Seal of Bravery Shop:

+13 Restorative Enhancement Rune (Lv. 110 or below Armor, Gift)
Ardri's Essence: Weapon
Ardri's Armor Essence Destiny Box
Legacy Shard (Ardri) Destiny Box
Reforge Exclusive Ardri's Essence
Reforge Exclusive Legacy Shard Destiny Box

6) Guild Seal Shop

The following item will be removed from the Guild Seal Shop:

Guild Equipment Tuning and Power Infusion Material Pouch

5. System

The Deific Devotion system will be re-introduced.
- When completing a Lv. 110+ raid battle without receiving a Deific Devotion reward item, you will earn a certain number of points. When the points reach 100%, you will immediately receive the reward.
- The system will be changed so that Deific Devotion points are only earned when completing a battle with Core Boost active. Points cannot be earned if you have no Fatigue or your battle contribution is less than 3%.
Equipment Sharing costs will be adjusted.
- The sharing cost for equipment Lv. 120 and below will be uniformly decreased by 50%.
- Gear Transfer costs will remain the same.
The criteria for using weapon effects will be changed.
- The requirement will now be based on the character's "ATT Surplus" stat.
- This will allow players to continue using their existing weapon effects even after equipping some Level 125 gear.

6. Battle

The entry requirements for Red Moon's Energy battles will change, and the daily departure limit will be reduced from 2 to 1.
- For VVIP benefits, it will change from 3 to 2).
- The entry requirements for Red Moon's Energy will be changed to match the stat requirements for the "Wind of Lochlann" battle.
A higher difficulty mode for Red Moon's Energy will be added.
- This high-difficulty mode will share its departure count with the normal difficulty mode.
- In this battle, you will have a chance to obtain fully-crafted, Power-Infused New Era materials.
The entry requirements and item drop rates for Royal Army battles will change.
- The entry requirement will be changed to match the stat requirements for the "One who protects the altar" battle.
- The probability of obtaining Mysterious Shards and Abyssal Shards (Grade 1-3) upon battle completion will be increased, and you will now also have a chance to obtain "Uaithne Crystal."
The available Special Battles will no longer rotate weekly and will be fixed to a set of 2.
- Accordingly, you will now be able to depart for Special Battles via the "Battle Circuit Departure" menu.
- The list of Special Battles will be changed periodically through regular maintenance.
- With the changes to battle entry levels, monster stats, battle restrictions, and obtainable loot will also be partially adjusted.
A stat requirement will be applied to the Single Mode difficulty for raid battles.
- As Single Mode does not affect party-finding in the NA/EU service, and to prevent potential abuse by bot accounts due to increased rewards, a stat requirement is being applied.
- This requirement will be the same as the party entry requirement for each raid battle.
- Additionally, the base Evil Core rewards obtainable in Single Mode will be increased, and the use of the Guild Campfire will be enabled.
- Specific details will be provided in the update patch notes.

7. Mission Changes

Weekly Raid rewards will be changed.

The "Clear Lv. 110 Raid Battles 10 times" mission will be removed from the weekly raid missions.
The reward items for other missions will be changed as follows:

Achievement Condition	Previous Reward	New Reward
Clear Lv. 110 Raid 10 times	2x Jardin Steel (Bound)	<Mission Removed>
Clear Lv. 115 Raid 10 times	2x Superior Enhancement Elixir (Bound)	20x Superior Enhancement Elixir (Bound)
Clear One who protects the altar 7 times	1x Sreng's Essence	2x Sreng's Essence
Clear False Confession 7 times	1x Spinos's Essence	2x Spinos's Essence
Clear Glutton's Banquet 7 times	1x Gorbas's Essence	2x Gorbas's Essence
Clear A prophecy that cannot be followed 7 times	2x Morgant's Essence	3x Morgant's Essence

8. Reset Day Change

The reset day for weekly content, such as battles and exchange shops with weekly purchase limits, will be changed from Saturday to Tuesday. The reset time and affected content are as follows.

1) Battles

Battle	Previous	New
Space-Time Distortion	Saturday	Tuesday
Redeemers (incl. Hell Mode) + Weekly Bonus	Saturday	Tuesday
Special Battle	Saturday	Tuesday
Reverent Tower	Saturday	Tuesday
Guild Dungeon	Saturday	Tuesday
Alban Festival Progress	Saturday	Tuesday

<Note>

During the transition week, after the departure count resets on Saturday, August 9th, it will reset again on Tuesday, August 12th.
- Example:
  - After the reset on Saturday, August 9th, 07:00 UTC, you complete Space-Time Distortion 3 times by Monday, August 11th.
  - At Tuesday, August 12th, 07:00 UTC, the departure count for Space-Time Distortion resets.
  - You can depart 3 more times from Tuesday, August 12th, 07:00 UTC until Tuesday, August 19th, 06:59 UTC.
Thereafter, as announced, the departure count will reset every Tuesday.
Reverent Tower: After the departure count resets to 7 on Saturday, August 9th, it will reset to 7 again on Tuesday, August 12th. Thereafter, it will reset every Tuesday like other battles.

2) Systems

Content	Previous	New
Weekly Mission	Saturday	Tuesday
Weekly Raid Reward	Saturday	Tuesday
Special Battle Core Boost	Saturday	Tuesday
Monthly Mission Exchange Shop Weekly Limit	Saturday	Tuesday
Seal of Bravery Exchange Shop Weekly Limit	Saturday	Tuesday
Dress Room: Superior/Special Ampoule Crafting	Saturday	Tuesday
Rabi Whistle Shop Weekly Limit	Saturday	Tuesday

During the first week of the change, the period will run from Saturday, August 9th until the maintenance on Tuesday, August 12th. After the maintenance on August 12th, the reset will occur every Tuesday.

<Note>

Content not listed above will proceed as usual without being affected by this reset time change (e.g., ongoing weekly events).
If there are any changes, we will inform you through the respective event pages.

9. Enchant

This is an advance notice regarding upcoming changes to 'Rank 6 Enchant Scrolls' with the update on Tuesday, August 12^th.

<Scheduled Changes>

Failing a Rank 6 Enchant will no longer destroy the item. (The item destruction penalty will apply from Rank 5 and higher).
You will no longer receive Enchant Scroll Fragments upon failing a Rank 6 Enchant. (Fragments can be obtained from Rank 5 and higher).

After the August 12th update, you can still craft an Enchant Scroll with 4 Rank 6 Enchant Scroll Fragments that you already own or have acquired through the marketplace.

The icon color for Rank 6 Enchant Scrolls will be changed. (Orange → Purple)

Affected Enchant Scrolls

Enchant List

Chaotic

Heartless

Weeping

Infinite

Capture

Conviction

Barrier

Soul

Wish

Meaningful

Calm

Dash

Concerted

Outburst

Peaceful

As always, we will do our best to provide you with a great gaming experience.

Thank you!