With Open Alpha on October 23 on the way, the team keeps updating the game. Here is what players will run into.

Quests and story

  • A 4-tab quest window: Story, Side, Bounty, Today. The "Go there" button walks you to the goal
  • 3 bounty contracts a day, matched to your level, with the reward paid out instantly. Kills in your job's favorite style count as 2
  • Side stories: story lines from 5 NPCs, 12 episodes in all (Tobin, Ferra, Ysolde, Nadia, Kasim)
  • ❗/❓ markers over NPC heads and on the minimap: gold = story, green = side story
  • A 2-chapter story with 19 quests, full-screen chapter cards, and scene art when you accept or turn in a quest

Read it all in Quests, Bounties and Side Stories.

Bosses with signature moves

All 8 bosses have their own moves: warning circles that blast, damage-split marks that need everyone to crowd in, minions, and leaps, each with its own effects and sound. Shadefang, the boss that ends chapter 2, is now a model of our own. Learn how to handle them in Fighting Bosses.

Reworked jobs

  • Shadowblade now wields a full set of dark twin daggers: Shadow Bind, Nightfall Vortex, Shadow Twin and Shadow Burst, which detonates every Shade Mark at once
  • Skyhunter gets a hawk companion you can command: mark prey, circle to guard, and swarm
  • Oracle and Cleric have a new light line: Sacred Blades spinning around you, Sunwell, a pool of light that heals the team, and Seraph Spear
  • Spellcaster has Attunement with a subtle element aura, plus Blink and Crystal Bloom for getting out of trouble
  • Trader gets a new luck line: Lucky Strike, Wheel of Fortune and Golden Fever
  • Vanguard is now a true tank: Iron Will, Riposte (a counterattack that drains life) and Steadfast
  • Scout has Phantom Step to blink behind enemies and Keen Edge, a double strike that restores SP

See them all in the Class Overview.

Sigils, crafting and weapons

  • The Sigil system: monsters drop shards, 10 shards combine into a Sigil, and socketing one adds stats across 7 lines. See Sigils
  • The craftsman Tobin and the Prize Booth Poppy: trade Golden Tokens for cosmetics. See Crafting and the Prize Booth
  • A full Lv 45 set and Rank B, A and S weapons for every line, with 84 weapons and no shared models. See the Weapon Path
  • Gold income around Lv 45 was tuned so it no longer jumps

Community and market

  • The Bell Listening Ceremony every hour on the hour at the Sandport fountain plaza: sit together, earn an EXP buff, and chase rare items. See the ceremony guide
  • One-on-one trading, the market board, and consignment for every job. See Trading
  • A quantity picker when depositing or withdrawing from storage
  • Mei the stylist changes hairstyle, hair color and outfit dye. See the stylist

Mobile

  • Landscape only, with the screen rearranged into corner zones that never overlap and respect the camera notch
  • Android goes full screen and locks landscape for you, and iPhone has a 4-step illustrated guide to add the game to the Home Screen. See Install on your phone
  • Report problems from the in-game menu, with device info and a screenshot attached
  • On PC, click the minimap to open the full-screen map
  • The game is available in English

What is next

There are still several weeks until launch, and the team will keep fixing bugs and polishing. Follow this page for news, and see the Open Alpha announcement for launch details.