June Update Release Notes

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Heroes of Arkesia,

The June update will arrive June 25th. Downtime will begin at 2:00 a.m. PT / 9:00 a.m. UTC, with an expected downtime of 7 hours. This update introduces Yornujan Island, the new Stylebook and Screenshot Storage systems, and adds Stronghold Frames for displaying screenshots. Major tuning hits Epic and Kazeros Raids, including nerfs and the new Individual Resurrection System. Also, don’t miss the exclusive Mythic Desert Collection—featuring skins, mounts, pets, and more!

New Content & Features

Kazeros Raid: Act 3 After Story – Beyond the Dark Fog

Dive deeper into the unfolding epic of Lost Ark with the new after story quest, Beyond the Dark Fog. This narrative continues the saga following Kazeros Raid: Act 3, shedding light on the consequences of Kadan and Guardian Luen’s choices. Witness the first signs of the looming final confrontation with Kazeros as the world teeters on the edge of darkness.

• Quest Start Location:

  • Speak with Shandi’s Illusory Bird in Seuht Valley.

• Requirements:

  • Complete the Rimeria World Quest: The Mission Continues

  • Complete the Kazeros Raid: Act 3 Prelude Quest: As One Again

  • Achieve Achievement Level 1 by defeating Mordum on any difficulty

Yornujan Island

Yornujan Island has surfaced—set sail now! This mysterious new island off the coast of Rimeria is home to young Yoz honing their illusion skills, and they need your help. Dive into a captivating story, take on a new daily quest, and earn valuable rewards—including the coveted Island Soul.

• Quest Progression

  • Begin the Main Quest by interacting with the “Poorly Made Illusory Horse” near the island’s beach. The recommended Item Level is 1640 or above.

  • Unlock the Adventure Quest: In Search of the Legendary Illusion.

  • After completing Instructor and Trainee, start the General Quest: Path of an Instructor Chapter 1: Advice and Encouragement.

  • The island’s Daily Quest becomes available after completing Path of an Instructor Chapter 3: Adaptive Explanation.

• Daily Quest Rewards

  • Earn Rainbow Corn from the Daily Quest, which can be exchanged for various roster-bound items via the Rainbow Corn Exchange.

  • Players can also earn:

    • Honing materials

    • Transcendence Restoration tickets

    • Rare/Uncommon card selection pack

    • High seas coin and Structure

• Additional Content

  • 5 new Mokoko Seeds

  • The Yornujan Island Soul

  • 3 new Achievements and 1 Title

  • A new Music Sheet

Stylebook

The new Stylebook system is giving players access to shared styles, screenshots, and appearance presets. With improved integration into character creation, reskin, and Selfie Mode, customizing your character has never been more expressive—or more shareable. Whether you want to showcase your look or save your favorite fashion inspirations, this system makes styling easier and more social than ever.

• Added the Stylebook System and its related selfie mode features

• Styles are registered on an account basis (max 40 styles)

• The Stylebook UI can be opened while in character creation and Reskin

• Styles can be clicked to find out more in-depth details about that style

• A style set to "Allow Saving Appearance" can be saved to the customization preset

• A style set to "Set Skin Info to Public" displays the relevant skin information

• Styles will now be features on the Style Home tab:

  • Hot Style: The styles that adventurers are paying attention to recently

  • How about this style: 8 styles registered in the style book that are randomly selected

• Players' favorite style can now be liked by using the 'recommendation' button once and cannot be canceled

• Styles registered as favorites can checked through the 'View Favorite Only' option (Max 40 Favorites)

• Styles registered by other players can be viewed in the Full View tab

• Players can view, modify, or delete registered style information in the My Style tab

• Styles can now be registered by selecting 'Register Style' at the bottom right of the Stylebook

  • Players can apply screenshots from the screenshot storage by clicking the apply button in

    the Registration Style window

  • Players will need to add at least one screenshot (max 3)

    • The appearance information is saved when players activate the "Save Character's Appearance Information When Taking Photo" option in Selfie Mode

    • Temporary screenshots are not eligible for style registration

  • The first screenshot must register the screenshot with the appearance information

• Shared customization information can be saved by other players in their presets

• The 'Set Skin Info to Public' option allows the skin information, when the screenshot was taken, to be shared with the style

Screenshot Storage

The new Screenshot Storage system helps players manage their in-game photography by separating temporary and saved screenshots. With support for up to 80 temporary and 40 permanent images, along with new expiration and recovery options, managing your memories is easier and more flexible than ever.

• Screenshots and selfies taken while playing are saved as 'temporary screenshots'

  • Up to 80 temporary screenshots can be saved

  • Temporary screenshots will be removed at the end of the session. Players must move screenshots to the screenshot storage to save them permanently (max 40)

• Screenshots in the storage box are saved for up to 90 days

  • If the “Fix It” button is selected the screenshot will be saved past the 90 days

Stronghold Frame Structure

Show off your best moments with the new Frame feature in your Stronghold. Players can place and display their favorite screenshots, adjust brightness, and create curated visual spaces that reflect their adventures across Arkesia.

• Added "Frame" feature where players can exhibit their screenshots

• Interacting with the placed Frame causes the Screenshot Apply UI to be opened

• If players retrieve a Frame with a screenshot, the information applied to the frame will not be saved

  • The information is maintained when storing the batch preset in the Stronghold

• Players can adjust brightness between 1 - 5 stages

• Setting the 'Maintain Default Brightness Without Being Affected by Ambient Light and Shadows' option will cause the screenshot to not be affected by lighting changes in the stronghold

Raid Adjustments

Frontier Title Reward Update

• Players who clear Explorer or Pathfinder difficulty in Kazeros Raid: Act 2 and Act 3 will now receive the corresponding lower-tier Frontier titles along with higher-tier ones.

• This change ensures players automatically earn all relevant titles when completing higher difficulties.

• Based on the player poll we released, we’ve also updated the “Thunderbolt Master” title name to “Lord of Thunder.”

Kazeros Raid Resurrection System

Kazeros Raids now feature an Individual Resurrection System. This replaces instant death with a tactical revival window, allowing players a chance to return using a Phoenix Plume. It can be used once per gate, but won’t save you from certain mechanics or prevent a full wipe. MVP and achievement conditions have also been adjusted to reflect this change.

• Added the Individual Resurrection System to Kazeros Raids (Normal and Hard difficulties)

• Replaced instant death with a death delay state during boss fights

• Enabled players to manually resurrect during death delay using the “Resurrect Now” button

  • Limited resurrection use to once per character per gate.

• Blocked additional resurrection if the player dies again after using their one resurrection

• Resurrection eligibility resets when restarting a gate.

• A Phoenix Plume is now required to use “Resurrect Now”

  • Made Phoenix Plumes exchangeable for Adventurer’s Seals or Jelly Cookies at the Stronghold

  • Added Phoenix Plumes to reward pools for newly introduced weekly Una’s Tasks

• Players will have a forced death if a they do not choose to resurrect before the delay timer ends

  • Excluded certain boss mechanics from the death delay, causing instant death instead

  • Restricted resurrection to cases where at least one party member is still alive

  • Raid failure is now triggered if all members are either dead or in death delay

• Full HP and temporary invincibility are granted when resurrecting from the death delay state

• All skill cooldowns are maintained as they were before death

• Character-specific gauges (e.g., temperature, electricity) are preserved during death delay

• Players will respawn at their point of death, unless in invalid terrain (in which case they are moved to a valid location)

• Disabled Allied Forces Skills while the raid leader is in the death delay state

• Prevented raids from earning the “Untouchable Raid” achievement if any member enters death delay

• Removed eligibility for the “Last One Standing” MVP if any member is in death delay when the raid is cleared

• Disallowed spectating of characters who are in death delay

• Enabled Phoenix Plume use directly from Currency Storage while dead or in death delay

Raid Nerf: Epic Raid and Kazeros Raid Act 0 - 2

Major tuning has been applied across multiple Gates in the Epic and Kazeros Raids, including reduced boss HP, toned-down patterns, and cleaner gameplay moments for both Normal and Hard difficulties. These changes aim to smooth out difficulty spikes while preserving each encounter’s intended challenge and mechanics.

• Epic Raid

  • Gate 1

    • Reduced damage and debuff effects of certain patterns used by Behemoth

    • Reduced the damage of certain patterns used by the Guardian of Chaos

    • Slightly decreased the hitbox size of whirlwinds fired around Behemoth during a specific pattern

  • Gate 2

    • Reduced the damage of certain patterns used by Behemoth

    • During the pattern where Behemoth summons two whirlwinds that deal AoE damage, the number of damaging whirlwinds has been reduced

• Kazeros Raid: Act 0

  • Gate 1

    • Removed some Status Ailment Resistance from non-boss monsters and reduced their damage

  • Gate 2

    • Reduced the damage of flower attacks launched by Echidna

    • Slightly decreased the movement speed of the snakes that approach Echidna during the penalty gauge phase at the underground

• Kazeros Raid: Act 1

  • Normal and Hard Difficulty

    • Gate 1

      • During the pattern where Akkan, King of Death opens a path to the land of the dead with his scythe, players will no longer take damage when hit by the scythe

  • Normal Difficulty

    • Gate 1

      • Reduced damage and Push immunity effects from certain patterns during the battle

    • Gate 2

      • Reduced damage and Push immunity effects from certain patterns during the battle

      • Reduced the HP of the Barrier of Subjugation in the Abyssal Space

• Kazeros Raid: Act 2

  • Normal and Hard Difficulty

    • Gate 2

      • Reduced the damage of illusion orbs summoned by Brelshaza, Phantom Manifester

  • Normal Difficulty

    • Gate 1

      • Reduced the damage of certain patterns used by Narok the Butcher

      • Slightly increased the temperature recovery amount when using the exclusive battle item Flame Magic Scroll

    • Gate 2

      • Reduced the damage of certain patterns used by Brelshaza, Phantom Manifester

      • Slightly reduced the number of hits required to release a character trapped in Dream Prison

      • Increased the duration of the bar movement in the mini-game where players press the spacebar to stop it within the designated area

      • Being hit by the Dream Reaper no longer applies the Magick Afterimage debuff

      • Reduced the HP of the Nightmare Pentacle

  • Hard Difficulty

    • Gate 1 and 2

      • Reduced the Boss HP and reduced the damage of Alliance Skills to match the lowered boss HP

Mythic Desert Collection (Western Exclusive)

Unearth the power of the sands with the Mythic Desert Collection—a luxurious, ancient-inspired lineup that radiates mystique, majesty, and menace.

• Mythic Desert Skin Set A – Onyx Mythic Desert

  • Drape yourself in flowing silks, ornate embroidery, and golden accents fit for a desert monarch. Set A evokes the nobility of ancient empires, blending elegance with ceremonial power.

• Mythic Desert Skin Set B – Quartz Mythic Desert

  • Wield the fury of the sun with this armor-clad design. Set B features battle-scarred textures, dark metallic tones, and warrior silhouettes forged for heat-hardened champions of the wasteland.

• Mythic Desert Weapon Skins – Twin Styles

  • Channel sand and sun through weapons that match each set—ornate and gilded for the Dunewalkers, brutal and sun-bleached for the Warborn.

• Mythic Desert Pets – Mystic Chameleons

  • These bright-eyed, color-shifting companions are small in size but big on charm—each one a desert jewel in motion.

• Mythic Desert Mounts – Kingstrider

  • Soar across the dunes on majestic gryphons adorned in vibrant desert plumage. Each variant embodies the spirit of shifting sands, starlit skies, or sun-scorched cliffs.

• Mythic Desert Wallpaper – Chrome Sanctuary

  • Transform your Character Selection Screen into a temple of timeworn glory. Golden light filters through massive pillars as the silhouette of a distant pyramid beckons.

GUARDIAN’S CALL EVENT

Earn valuable bonus materials from select Guardian Raids from June 25 to July 23. With random drops of Concentrated/Circulated Leapstones and Bound gold. Whether you’re preparing for the next tier or looking to boost your roster, this limited-time event adds extra incentive to your daily runs. How to Participate:

• Complete Guardian Raids during the event to receive additional rewards. Eligible Guardian Raids:

  • Sonavel - Level: 1580 (T3)

  • Gargadeth - Level: 1600 (T3)

  • Veskal - Level: 1610 (T3)

  • Argeos - Level: 1640 (T4)

  • Skolakia - Level: 1680 (T4)

  • Drextalas - Level: 1700 (T4)

• Earn ‘Concentrated’ and ‘Circulated Leapstones’ as guaranteed drops based on Guardian tier, but the amounts of each will vary.

• If you’re lucky, you’ll also receive bonus Bound Gold drops, ranging from 5,000 to 20,000! You can receive up to 6 bound gold drops per roster per day.

Content Ending

• Proving Ground Competitive Match Season 6 will end on July 23.

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