The City of Dark Beasts is a contest between two rooms: whoever kills more dark beasts trades their loot at the better rate. Over the summer the event received its own schedule, an interactive real time map and a rebalance of the bosses, half of which used to simply ignore physical damage.
44bosses reworked
40minutes of the event
3days a week
Schedule and entry
- Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 19:00 server time, running for 40 minutes (18 July).
- Entry from the available trials window at any moment, no need to run to an NPC (18 July).
- Entry level: 50 (20 July).
- You may leave and return, and you will be placed back into the same room. If you log out inside the event, the character returns to the starting zone (20 July).
Equal footing
- Balancing scrolls are handed out automatically on every entry and disappear on exit. The lower your level, the larger the bonus: at level 50 it is plus 90 percent health, and by levels 90 to 99 it is down to plus 15 (20 July).
- Remote services. The bank, the mail and other services can be called right inside the event (20 July).
The live map
- An interactive map of the zone shows in real time you and your allies, monsters, resources, bosses and their drop, the trading NPCs and the quest routes. This is the first such system, and similar maps will appear elsewhere (11 August).
Boss rebalance
- 44 bosses stopped being invulnerable. Forty of them no longer ignore physical damage, and four Demon Messengers «Cruel Sword» lost their immunity to all five elements at once. Single resistances remain (15 August).
- Stronger but more generous. The same 44 bosses received 25 percent more health, physical and magic attack, accuracy and evasion. In exchange they drop 25 percent more of the «8 Stars of Dan Spirit» resource: Phantom Knights give 12 instead of 9, Demon Generals 27 instead of 21, Messengers and tyrants 30 instead of 24 (15 August).
Rewards and trading
- The exchanges of all four rooms moved to the Lord of Trials: four tabs by room and a fifth with common rewards (20 August).
- What you can take: the Officer Patch for 25 reputation, Pills of Revelation and Wisdom, Polymaterial and the Immortal Stone. The rate depends on whether your room won (9 August).
- The Swamp Medallion of the Graveyard costs 300 «8 Stars of Dan Spirit» for the winning room and 400 for the losing one (15 August).
- Rewards are not lost. Stars of Dan Spirit and Impish Pills stay in the inventory on exit, and the quests «Reward of the Dark City», «Impish Pills», «Crystal of Greed» and «Demons of the Underworld» no longer fail or cancel (18 July, 1 August, 9 August, 15 August).
- Titles. Trading 250 stars in the winning room exchange gives «Defender of Beasts», and 500 stars give «Hero of the Dark City» (22 August).
A detailed text guide for the event is on the forum, in the Knowledge Base section.
The dates in brackets are the updates the change shipped in. These news posts come out later than the changes themselves: there was simply no time to write them.