The eight-hour maintenance on October 5 ended Advanced Access and opened the commercial launch on the Global servers. The maintenance notice lists the quality-of-life changes and fixes below, and a separate notice the same day took the Ludra raid out of the launch build.
Sanctuary Raid: Ludra leaves until it returns reworked
Abyssal Forge: Ludra, the ten-player
Sanctuary raid against
Eternal Ludra, is not in the launch build. Advanced Access players beat it at an earlier stage of progression than the developers planned, so the raid comes back later with new and adjusted mechanics and attack patterns. Its return opens a new First Clear event with its own reward, and the in-game Hall of Fame starts again from zero.
The weapons Abyssal Forge: Ludra drops, removed from Advanced Access characters until the raid returns.
The Ludra gear earned during Advanced Access, such as
Ludra's Blade of Extinction or
Ludra's Heart, is removed from those characters for now. It is given back when the raid returns, and the materials spent enhancing it are refunded. Every player who cleared Ludra in the Europe region during Advanced Access also receives a title of its own. The publisher gives the new release date by October 16.
Characters and interface
| Setting | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Waiting time to delete a character | 168 hours | 24 hours |
| Lowest level at which a character can be deleted | 10 | 1 |
| Idle time before the game returns to server selection | 30 minutes | 3 hours |
| Time an in-game announcement stays on screen | 3 seconds | 10 seconds |
Quests and bosses
- Objects that quests need are easier to interact with. Some no longer disappear, and others respawn sooner.
- Some bosses were too weak for the five-player party they are built for; their stats go up.
- During the Poeta and Ishalgen hero quests, the Quest Tracker gets a button that teleports you to Verteron or Altgard, even when the quest has not yet sent you there.
Fixes
- Auto Move during a quest no longer pulls your character back to an earlier position when it comes close to other players.
- Closing the game in the middle of a quest no longer blocks the quests that follow.
- The Journal error around the
Duty Quest is fixed. Until the fix was in, a character that opened the Duty tab before level 45 could only use Duty from the day after reaching 45; one that had not opened it could use Duty at once. - The Content entry no longer appears several times in the Menu list of the key settings.
- In the English version of the game, the Vanguard of Atreia title no longer shows under another title's name in the title menu.
What this means for you
- Deleting a character for a class reroll now costs one day instead of a week, from level 1.
- If you cleared Ludra during Advanced Access, its weapons are missing from your character until the raid returns; nothing is lost for good.
- A Ludra first clear on the Global servers is open again to every party once the raid is back.
