◆  New Nest Openings: Sea Dragon Nest Outer Area, Sea Dragon Nest Core

■  Sea Dragon Nest Outer Area

• Entry Level: 40

• Difficulty: Normal

• Party Size: 5–8 players

• Entry Items: "Water Dragon Scale" or "Normal Sea Dragon Nest Entry Ticket"

• Clear Limits: Once per week

• Location: Saint Haven → Hermalte Port → Sea Dragon Nest

• Personal Rewards: Epic Code, Water Dragon Fang, Sea Dragon Investigation Record, Intermediate Diamond, Life Essence

• Party Rewards: Intermediate Diamond, Life Essence, Special Skill Crests (chance), Gold

■ Sea Dragon Nest Core Area

• Entry Level: Lv. 40

• Difficulty: Normal

• Party Size: 5–8 players

• Entry Items: "Water Dragon Fang" or "Normal Sea Dragon Nest Entry Ticket"

• Clear Limits: Once per week

• Location: Saint Haven → Hermalte Port → Sea Dragon Nest

• Personal Rewards: Epic Code, Sea Dragon Investigation Record, Life Essence

• Party Rewards: Sea Dragon Equipment (chance), Sea Dragon Accessories (chance), Epic Code, Life Essence, Special Skill Crests (chance), Gold

※ Additional Note: In an 8-player party, 4 different class weapons/armors are guaranteed to drop.
※ "Sea Dragon Investigation Record" can be exchanged for Sea Dragon Equipment via Beggar Roffy in Saint Haven. Exchanged equipment cannot be sealed.
※ Practice Modes are available for both Outer Area and Core Area.
※ Personal rewards are automatically picked up; party rewards require rolling.

■ Sea Dragon Nest (Classic Mode) Update Notice

• Sea Dragon Nest (Classic Mode) will be added through the May 28 update.

In this dungeon, you can obtain materials required to upgrade Unique-grade equipment.

When the equipment is successfully upgraded, the enhancement will provide greater attack power than before.

◆ Expert Skill System

■  Surplus EXP

• After reaching the max level, further EXP gained will be converted into Surplus EXP.

• Carrying a Surplus EXP Booster Book increases the conversion rate by +500%.

The booster item can be purchased from the Cash Shop.

■  Expert Level

• Surplus EXP can be used to increase your character’s Expert Level.

■  Two conversion methods

• Direct Conversion

10 million Surplus EXP → 1,000 Expert EXP

No Gold required; no daily usage limit.

• Item Conversion

1 "Class Essence" + 500,000 Surplus EXP → 1,000 Expert EXP

Additional Gold required; limited to 20 uses per day. (Gold cost increases with each use.)

■  Expert Skills

• Every 10 levels of Expert Level grants 1 Expert Skill Point.

• Skill points can be used to activate Expert Skills.

• Activated Expert Skills increase the level of corresponding skills for the current class by +1.

• Expert Levels are shared across characters of the same class within the account.

• Expert Skill settings are saved separately for each character.

■  Combined Skills

• Each increase of 1 Expert Level grants 5 Combined Skill Points.

• The total Combined Skill Points are the sum of points provided by all four classes.

• Combined Skill effects apply account-wide, including newly created characters.

• Combined Skill settings are saved separately for each character.

■  Class Essence

• Players can craft "Class Essence" at the Blacksmith by consuming Gemstones.

◆  Class Skill Adjustments

■  Force User

Developer's Note:
In previous versions, we had increased the dark attribute attack values. This time, we focused on improving Force User’s mobility and effectiveness against large monsters.

• Energy Reflect: After summoning the mirror, you can immediately Blink to cancel the delay or move early during the action. Mirror's effective range increased by 40%.

• Charged Laser: After dealing full damage, Blink can immediately cancel the skill.

• Nine-Tailed Laser: Blink can be used 1 second after casting.

• Gravity Ball: Blink can be used immediately after release.

• Black Hole Summon: Blink can be used immediately after creation.

• Casting times of Black Hole Summon, Comet Summon, Rising Gravity, and Rain of Light slightly reduced.

• Force Shield (PvE adjustment):

Damage reduction (Physical/Magic): 3%/6%/9%/12% → 8%/10%/12%/14%

Magic Attack Increase: 5%/10%/15%/20% → 12%/14%/16%/20%

■  Swordmaster

Developer's Note:
We focused on improving the magic-based skills for Swordmaster.

• Moonlight Splinter, Cyclone Slash, and Half Moon Slash:

PvE scaling increased to 1.08x Magic Attack.

Fixed damage for Whirlwind Slash and Half Moon Slash increased by 20%.

• Moonlight Splinter: Damage area increased by 80%.

• Crescent Cleave: At Level 5, releases 5 sword waves.

• Parrying (PvE adjustment):

Effectiveness increased from 3%/6%/9%/12% → 9%/11%/13%/15%.

• Parrying Stance (PvE adjustment):

Duration increased from 9s/12s/15s → 12s/14s/16s.

◆ Diamond Pandora Season 2 Update

■  Season 2 Effect Item released

• Season 2 Exclusive Effect Weapons and Wing/Tail/Decal have been released.

New items can be obtained from NPC Pania > Special Shop > [Season 2] tab

※Season 2 Exclusive items can be previewed from the shop

• Key Item Changes

Exchage Key Item has been changed from Pandora's Exclusive Exchange Coupon (S1) to Pandora's Exclusive Exchange Coupon (S2)

Pandora's Exclusive Exchange Coupon (S1) can be purchased from Pandora Point Shop

• Season 1 Effect Weapons and Wing/Tail/Decal can still be purchased 

Season 1 items can be purchased from NPC Pania > Special Shop > [Forerunner] tab

◆ Items added to Costume Exchange Shop

■  Costume Exchange Shop item added

• New costume items can be purchased from NPC Pania > Costume Exchange Shop

• Additional Items for each Exchange Coupon

[Activeness Costume] Exchange Coupon : Epic Grade Costume will be available for exchagne

[Gachapon Costume] Exchange Coupon : Unique Costume will be available for exchagne

※New costume items can be previewed from the shop

◆ Addition of Precious Shop

■  Precious Shop Information

• Precious Shop has been added to Merchant Pero.

• Players can purchase these items with Gold from the shop

Essence of Life, Class Essence

• Precious Shop is a server-wide shop, that shares the purchase limit and the price for all characters in the server.

All characters can purchase the items at the same price, and share the purchase limit for the items.

• Supply-Demand reactionalry Price Changes

Item price changes according to the purchase behavior of the players real-time

System will prevent  a sharp increase/decrease of the item price by gradually changing the limit on maximum/minimum price

• Purchase Limit reset at set intervals

Purchase limit of the items are reset at certain intervals

※All items purchased from the Precious Shop are bound to the character.

※Golden Goose Guild Benefit (member discount and such) will not be applied.

◆ Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where spectators joining midway in Arena caused disconnection.

• Fixed an issue where items placed on the hotkey bar would disappear abnormally.

• Fixed incorrect exchange quantities for Topaz Gale Dragon through Trainer Lindsay.

• Fixed an issue where gemstone bags were incorrectly categorized under Mounts/Pets.

• Fixed an issue where Saint's "Holy Hammer" sometimes missed targets.

• Fixed an issue where Priest’s "Healing Hand" had abnormal PvP values.

◆ Other Contents/Updates

• Added side quests, achievements, and titles related to Sea Dragon Nest.

• Added "Normal Sea Dragon Nest Entry Ticket" — allows access to Outer/Core areas without consuming weekly limit.

Available via Monthly Card Points Shop, costs 5 points each, 1 purchase per week.)

• Lowered difficulty (HP, Attack, Light Resistance) of Manticore (Hell) and Apocalypse (Hell) Nests.

• Adjusted Gold rewards for Main/Side/Commission Board quests (Levels 32–40).

• Added a feature to view the opponent's equipment in face-to-face trading.

• Quick slots are preserved after switching skill builds.

• After the update, players will no longer be able to use the reconnect system to re-enter a dungeon after completing it.

• Fixed an issue where, under specific conditions, players could achieve certain dungeon achievements after reconnecting.

• Fixed an issue where, under certain conditions, Sea Dragon Serpentra might fail to summon minions.

• Adjusted item drops for Master and lower difficulty stages:

Dimension Box Keys will no longer drop.

Reduced Gold drop rates.

• Lowered the sell price of lower-tier gift items and low-grade Code items.

◆ Newly Added Item Information

■  Exceeding EXP Booster (500%)

• Bind on obtain, indestructible, cash item

• Not purchasable with DNP, cannot be gifted or traded

• Item Grade: Magic

• Duration: 1 Day / 7 Days

• Price: 800 Cash (1 Day), 3,900 Cash (7 Days)

• Effect Description

Grants +500% Exceeding EXP to max level characters.

• Conditions and Limitations:

Only max level characters can earn Exceeding EXP.

Exceeding EXP Boosters do not stack.

If multiple boosters exist, only the one with the highest effect will apply.

※This item becomes available for purchase after May 14th 00:00 upon relaunching the client.