THRONE AND LIBERTY Update 1.8.0 downtime will begin at 10:30 p.m. PT (6:30 a.m. UTC) on November 20 and last approximately 6.5 hours. Whether you’re in pursuit of better loot or searching for more difficult content, courageous adventurers will be able to challenge 2 Star Dungeons. This update also includes additional new features like Solisium Sprouts and Sages, plus Interserver Conquest Battles.
Join godspeed for a preview of 2 Star Dungeons, Dimensional Trials, and more in the latest episode of Eye on Solisium and then read on for the full release notes below.
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2 Star Dungeons
A new tier of challenge beckons — 2 Star Dungeons.
2 Star Dungeons are reimagined versions of existing dungeons featuring more challenging versions of bosses to conquer as well as some entirely new boss encounters.
Rewards for 2 Star Dungeons include all existing 2- and 4-piece set bonus equipment as well as new Accessory items.
Characters must have a Combat Power of at least 2,500 to challenge 2 Star Dungeons.
2 Star Dungeons added in this update:
Carmine Rage Island
Voidwastes
Island of Terror
Valley of Slaughter
Check out our official announcement for more information on what to expect from each 2 Star Dungeon.
Solisium Sprouts and Sages
The new Solisium Sages program allows for more experienced players to assist newcomers to Solisium with learning and progressing in THRONE AND LIBERTY.
Characters will become eligible to obtain Sage status when they:
Reach level 50
Complete Act 10 of the Adventure Codex
Acquire 1 Star Dungeon completion rewards 3 times for each of the 6 dungeons
Acquire 20 Dynamic Event Participation Rewards
Use 40,000 Abyssal Contract Tokens
Defeat 20 Field Bosses
Complete 20 Region Exploration Progress subsections of the Exploration Codex.
Complete 100 Resistance Contracts
A new button and icon appear at the top left of the Character sheet, allowing eligible characters to enable or disable Sage status.
Characters will lose Sprout eligibility when they:
Reach level 50
Complete Act 10 of the Adventure Codex
Complete 15 1 Star Dungeons or higher
Obtain 10 Dynamic Event Participation Rewards
Use 10,000 Abyssal Contract Tokens
Defeat 10 Field Bosses
Obtain 1 Weekly reward
A new button and icon appear at the top left of the Character sheet, allowing eligible characters to enable or disable Sprout status.
Sages and Sprouts both receive a title and profile border to display their status to others.
New map markers allow Sages to see the location of nearby Sprouts on the minimap. Sages cannot see icons for other Sages. These icons will not appear in conflict areas, or if the user's map icon settings have disabled Sprout icons, or the user is blocked.
A new Sprout chat channel has been added for Sages and Sprouts to communicate from anywhere in game.
Sprouts can leave a 'Like' commendation on the character cards of Sages to indicate helpfulness. An individual Sprout can only leave 1 Like for a given Sage.
Weapon Skill and Balance Changes
Weapon balance in combat has been adjusted, and several skill errors have been fixed; see below for details.
Added new specializations to some weapon skills, and changed values applied to existing specializations.
Sword and Shield
Stalwart Bastion: Added the new specialization: Cooldown Reduction. Decreases Stalwart Bastion cooldown by 15 seconds when applied. Costs 5 Specialization Points.
Greatsword
Blood Devotion: Added the new specialization: Cooldown Reduction. Decreases Blood Devotion cooldown by 15 seconds when applied. Costs 5 Specialization Points.
Devoted Shield: Now shows skill range when the Devotion Sanctuary specialization is applied.
Precision Dash: Updated to count as a Fury Attack when the Bind specialization is applied.
Vital Force: Added tooltip notation for the maximum Health limit.
Dagger
Vampiric Strike: Increased base damage and skill heal. Increased the damage for the specialization: Additional Hit. Increased the value of Vampirism from the specialization: Boost Effects.
Frenzied Sword Dance: Added the new specialization: Area Damage. Increases damage to all enemies within 3m of your arrival point by 60% of Base Damage when applied. Costs 3 Specialization Points.
Knife Throwing: Increased the debuff applied that reduces incoming recovery effects.
Crossbow
Selfless Diffusion: Removed the specialization: Remove CC.
Mana Exchange: Added the specialization: Remove CC. Costs 7 Specialization Points.
Explosive Trap: Increased base duration. Improved duration bonuses provided by the specialization: Increase Duration.
Multi-Shot: Decreases Nimble Leap cooldown by 15 seconds when used.
Longbow
Healing Touch: Now shares cooldown with the Wand skill Swift Healing. Now stacks with other players' Healing Touch skill when used on friendly targets.
Purifying Touch: Increased the maximum effect stacks that can be removed when cleansing Weaken CC effects.
Devoted Shield: Effect changed. Now creates a 3 second shield when target is hit at or below 30% health. 60 second cooldown.
Staff
Serial Fire Bombs: The specialization: Focused Fire Bombs now has an 80% chance to reduce the effect of received healing by 80% for 6 seconds.
Inferno Wave: Adjusted the specialization: Frenzied Lightning Wave to have 1 base activation and 1 additional activation for Wet and Frost.
Chain Lightning: Fixed the specialization: Chain Thunder so that it no longer activates the Crossbow's Mother Nature's Bowstring effect.
Ice Spear: Fixed an issue where the Frost effect was applied for a shorter duration than intended. Fixed an issue where the specialization: Bind would always ignore Defense and Resistance to apply.
Judgment Lightning: The specialization: Consecutive Use now has an additional 80% chance to debuff Shield Block Chance by 30% for 4 seconds.
Infernal Meteor: Increased damage. Increased damage of the specialization: Hellfire Rain and adjusted the falling meteor to be more centered. Increased the specialization: Heal Reduction debuff effect.
Frost Master: Now when landing a basic attack, inflicts the Frost effect on targets within 3 meters for 3 seconds. Does not stack.
Wand
Clay's Salvation: The specialization: Weaken Removal now removes all stacks of 1 type of effect, instead of 1 stack.
Time for Punishment: The specialization: Burning Time now also adds a debuff to Shield Block Chance.
Karmic Haze: Fixed an issue where it would ignore spread chance in some cases. Adjusted to ignore Shield Block when spreading.
Ray of Disaster: Now if a target dies during the effect, transfers to an additional target within 10 meters. The specialization: Expand Targets now provides 10m of bonus range, increased from 5m. The specialization: Move Speed Reduction now debuffs by 30%, increased from 15%.
Swift Healing: Now shares a cooldown with the Longbow skill Healing Touch.
Interserver Conquest Battles
Guilds who control a Riftstone or Boonstone can participate in a bi-weekly cross-server competition for additional rewards.
Riftstones: Join an inter-server Conflict mode boss fight for the boss corresponding with your Riftstone for loot drops and Lucent generated by Auction House taxes.
Boonstones: Join an inter-server dynamic event for the zone corresponding with your Boonstone. The winning guild will receive an amount of Lucent generated by Auction House taxes.
General
Random Matchmaking: Parties of 4 may now queue for random dungeon matchmaking, increased from the prior limit of 2 characters.
Chat: Added a new type of chat channel for Alliances (friendly guilds), using the shortcut '/al'.
Chat: Adjusted the colors of Party chat and Party Recruitment notices to make these easier to distinguish from each other.
Chat: The Chat UI can now be moved, as well as separated from the chat entry field.
Various minor UI adjustment and spacing improvements.
Peace-Mode Boss Portals: Adjusted the positioning of the portal for peace-mode Junobote events to move it outside of the PvP enabled area.
Blackhowl Plains: Fixed an issue that occasionally prevented the Blackhowl Plains Boonstone from being claimable.
Contracts: Fixed an issue where the fifth contract would not be pinned to the Content Notifications UI after being accepted.
Codex: The Happiest Day Ever: Fixed an issue causing a collection page to be inaccessible.
Tooltips: Fixed an issue causing item tooltips opened from chat to be partially cut off.
Battle Pass UI: Fixed an issue causing the red notification dot to occasionally not disappear after using the Claim All Points button.
Thanks for your support and we'll see you in Solisium!
