Summoners War: Chronicles

Greetings from <Summoners War: Chronicles>.

We would like to inform you about the Oct. 6th update notes.

Please read below for more details.

■ Key Updates

▶ World Boss
- World Boss content will be added, new content where you can fight alongside 15 Monsters. (16 including the Summoner)
- You can enter via [Main Menu] - [Dungeon] - [World Boss].
 

- World Boss will be held as weekly seasons.
- World Boss schedule and season info are as follows.
* Season duration: Thursday 00:00 - Thursday 02:00 of the next week
* Tallying period: 00:00 - 02:00

 · The following rewards can be obtained at the end of the season.
 · You can enter without a limit throughout the season, and the reward will be given based on the best score.

[Rank Reward]

[Best Score Reward]

- You can form 4 teams and grant a buff to each team.
 · Team 1: Summoner + 3 Monsters / Team 2, 3, 4: 4 Monsters
 * The user can only control the team that includes the Summoner. The other teams will proceed with the battle automatically.

[Buff & Effect] 

1) DEF UP when attacked: Applies DEF UP to itself when attacked by an enemy.

2) DMG Dealt UP when attacked: Grants DMG Dealt UP to itself with a certain chance when a team member excluding itself is attacked.

3) DMG UP based on the ally’s beneficial effect: Increases the damage dealt to the enemy based on the number of beneficial effects on itself.

4) Bonus DMG with a certain chance when removing an enemy’s beneficial effect: Deals bonus damage to the enemy with a high chance when removing a beneficial effect on an enemy.

- World Boss Coin Exchange Shop has been added.

▶ Dungeon
- [Dungeon] - [Seal] - [Ruined Temple] has been moved to the Raid tab.
- Single-player Raid will be available, and a party bonus can be earned when playing as a party.
 * Combined Rankings - Ruined Templed rankings have been reset as Seal has been moved to the Raid tab.
- Seal bonus entry will be changed from 2 times to 99 times.

▶ Trial of Ascension
- Trial of Ascension difficulties have been changed as follows.

- Order will be applied to Hard difficulty.
* Order will change every season, and team formation order and effect order will be applied.
 - Rank reward can be obtained based on the Hard difficulty clear time.
 * A limited-time title and permanent hair accessory will be given to the fastest clearer of the hard difficulty.
 * Title can be obtained at the start of the next season.
- Trial of Ascension Special Room has been changed as follows.

* 8 times more rewards will be granted.
- Hidden Room will no longer appear from hard difficulty.
- Treasure Room will appear 3 times in Normal difficulty.
- Goose Room will appear 2 times in Normal difficulty.
- A button to move to the Hidden Room’s location has been added.

- Missions have been removed from the Trial of Ascension and Spires of Ascension.
- Trial of Ascension (Normal) has been removed from the rankings.
- Comment feature has been removed.

- The Trial of Ascension season has been changed due to the NA region integration.

▶ Symbol
- Summoner Symbol system has been improved.
 · Symbol of Ancientry recipe has been added to [Profession] - [Alchemy].
- New Rare/Hero/Legend Symbol grades have been added.
- Symbol combination feature has been improved as follows.
  → Before: Obtain Symbol of Ancientry by combining Symbols (no Great Success)
  → After: Obtain 1 Symbol of the same grade as the material upon successful combination. Great Success earns you a Symbol of a grade higher. (Symbol of Ancientry can be obtained with a lower chance than other Symbols.)
 · 1 sub-property is added per grade increase.

▶ Arena
- Added an alert about new Monsters not being selectable when selecting the pre-ban Monster in the [Brawl Arena].
- Added Pre-ban - Brawl Arena to the Brawl Arena Friend Battle detailed rules to [Arena] - [Friend Battle].
- Added [Practice Battle] to the Brawl Arena.
- You can battle against any opponent on the list of AIs organized based on the rank.
- Practice Battle does not affect the Challenge Arena win rate, and will not award Victory Points.
- Participation count is taken into account, such as achievements, events, and the Arena Pass.
- (Free) Crystals and Battle Points upon winning a Practice Battle.
 * You can obtain more rewards by defeating a higher-rank AI.
- You can attempt up to 50 Practice Battles per day.
- You can instantly retry against defeated targets.
- The color of the button will change for opponents eligible for Quick Battle on the Challenge Arena opponent list.

- Added an option to display the damage dealt by an ally to the enemy’s portrait to [Main Menu] - [Settings] - [Game] - [Damage Font].
- Improved the IFF intuitiveness by adding background colors to the ally and enemy list in the Arena battle statistics.
- Added a shortcut key for targeting the enemy Summoner and Monster in the Brawl Arena.
* Shortcut keys can be changed in the [Main Menu] - [Settings] - [Controls].

- The revival penalty in the Arena and Siege Battle will not be applied to the Soul Protection buff.

- The Soul Protection buff will now activate before self-reviving passive skills.

▶ Monster Story
- 5★ Beast Rider (Water) Monster Story Part 1 has been added.
· 5★ Beast Rider (Water) Monster Story will be available in 2 parts.
· You can only proceed to Part 2 of the Monster Story after acquiring the 5★ Beast Rider (Water).
 * Monster Story Part 2 will be added along with the release of 5★ Beast Rider in the next update.

 

▶ Guild
[Guild Siege Battle] 

- You can now check the attack and defense deck in your attack/defense history in the Guild Siege Battle status.
* You can check the history after the update. Records before the update will be left empty. 
- Reset rank points at the end of the Guild Siege Battle season have been changed.

- Improved the visibility of defeated defense camps of your base in Guild Siege Battle.
- Your defense placement info in Guild Siege Battle will be removed when you leave the guild.
- A one-time notification will appear at the start of the 1st and 2nd half of the Guild Siege Battle. A notification will be shown if a loot box reward can be claimed.
- Any changes to the Guild Siege Battle attack deck will be saved without showing a pop-up.
- Added a guide for the most recently captured base when entering the Guild Siege Battle.
- The notification shown when a Guild Siege Battle application is canceled has been improved as follows.
 → Before: Siege Battle application has been canceled.
 → After: Siege Battle application has been canceled as the number of participating members and requirements have not been met.

[Guild Raid]
- A notification will be shown when a reward is obtained from Guild Raid.

[Guild Infinite Raid]
- A UI where you can check the best score during battle has been added to Guild Infinite Raid.
* However, it may take some time for the best score to be updated.

[Guild Town]
- Neutral Attribute Training Dummy has been placed in the Guild Town.

- A message will appear in the guild chat when another guild member constructs in the Guild Town.
- Normal Profession crafting will be made available when the Guild Crafting Table is built in the Guild Town.

 

▶ Quest
- A Complete All feature for sub quests has been added.
 · Clearing all sub quests within a category will enable the Complete All feature for other Summoners on your account.
 · Casslan Area Exploration is divided into multiple categories.

▶ Gathering/Mining
- A feature to set the auto gathering/mining quantity has been added.

- Daily gathering/mining quantities will be recharged when a user without a Summoner Pass watches an ad.

- You can watch an ad if you attempt to gather/mine past the daily limit. You can watch ads in the gathering/mining effect in Account Info.

* You can watch up to 5 ads per day. Watching once will recharge the gathering/mining quantity by 200.

▶ Rune
- The Rune bag has been changed to [Equipped] and [Unequipped] Runes.
- The existing Rune bag has been renamed to Unequipped Runes, and Runes equipped by Monsters will be automatically moved to [Equipped].
- Up to 1,000 Runes can be equipped. This cannot be expanded. 

▶ Illusion Garden

- Illusion Garden has been changed to 4★ Cow Girl (Light).

Duration: 

▶ System
- You can now recharge Energy multiple times at once.

- The effect of link and counterattack skills will now be shown on the skill tag.
- Fixed the auto-quest of the Hero Area progressing based on each objective.
- Improved the method of changing the Summoner in-game.
* Before: In-game > Move to the Summoner selection screen > View most recently selected Summoner > Back > View all Summoners

* After: In-game > Move to the Summoner selection screen > View all Summoners

▶ Transmogrification

- New transmogrifications which can transform the Monster’s appearance have been updated: Cheerleader Sky Dancer, Cheerleader Paladin, and Celestial Blade Magic Knight.

* Cheerleader Sky Dancer and Cheerleader Paladin can be purchased on the [Package Shop] - [Transmogrification] tab.

* Celestial Blade Magic Knight can be purchased from the Arena Shop.

* You can change the Monster’s appearance in [Monster] - [Info] - [Transmogrification].

* Only awakened Monsters can be transmogrified.

 · 5★ Sky Dancer (All attributes) - Cheerleader Sky Dancer

 · 5★ Paladin (All attributes) - Cheerleader Paladin

 · 5★ Magic Knight (All attributes) - Celestial Blade Magic Knight

■ New Event

▶ Challenge! Trial of Ascension Event
- Event Duration

- Event Details: Climb the Trial of Ascension and earn various development rewards including the Knight’s Shield!

■ New/Improvement/Changes

▶ Battle
- Equipment registration and management in the Guild Siege Battle and Arena will now be available as presets, instead of by content.

* Please register the defense and preset again as the Guild Siege Battle defense deck and preset info have been connected after the update. The latest info will not be reflected if they are not registered.

You can update the preset info of your defense deck by accessing the guild page after the update.

- Registering a deck will save the equipment preset info, updating any future changes.
* You can enter a preset name, and the icon of the content the preset is being used in will be displayed.

* Checking the Arena/Guild Siege Battle deck will enable you to check the registered preset, and you can check the linked preset info of equipment.
- Added an option to set the auto-battle radius on the field in [Main Menu] - [Settings] - [Game] - [Battle].

▶ Field Monster Preset
- A Monster preset that enables you to switch Monsters more easily has been added to the Monster switch screen.
· Monster preset can be used in the Brawl Arena.

▶ Dungeon

- Added a save point to Sunken Ruins and Path of Oblivion.

- Added the Hero Raid: Farakel achievement.

- You can no longer stay on the Retry screen for more than 1 minute after being defeated in the Raid during party play.

- Level dungeons such as Cairos, Path of Growth, and Expedition now share the unlocked levels across all Summoners on the account.

▶ Party
- Lobby creation prompt will no longer appear when accepting a match as a party.
- If a match is confirmed excluding some party members, the details of the excluded party members will be shown.
- A message will be shown when waiting for other party members to accept after accepting a party matchmaking.
- Fixed an issue where the party leader could not recharge entries due to the entry recharge UI being blocked when all party members were ready in the party dungeon lobby.

▶ Battlefield

- Removed Battlefield: Sunset Island.

* A new Battlefield will be introduced in the future.

▶ Guild

- You can now change the guild name.

- You can use Crystals to change the name once a month. The first name change will be available at no additional cost.

* Only the Guild Master can change the guild name.

* However, it may take some time for the new name to be reflected in the rankings and records.

▶ Equipment Gem & Succession
- The equipment menu will be divided into 3 categories: Manage/Handwork/Disassembly.
* Manage: Equipment enhancement, Equip Gem, Apply Effect Stone
* Handwork: Equipment refinement, combination, and succession
* Equipment disassembly
- Improved the intuitiveness and visibility of the Equipment and Rune Succession pages.
- Added a Remove Gem button for when a Gem is selected in [Equipment] - [Manage] - [Equip Gem].
- Added an extra step to remove the equipped Gem during equipment succession.
- Improved to make the equipment list in the Inventory and equipment page have the same sorting order.

▶ Artifact
- Added the equipped Artifact info to the Monster info pop-up.

- Added the class info to the Artifact combination Great Success result screen.

- The confirmation screen will no longer appear when combining and disassembling Normal and Magic grades.

- Reduced the Artifact combination animation time. 

▶ Book
- Info regarding the Monster using the wisdom will now be shown when resetting an attribute wisdom in the Monster Book.

▶ Summon Altar
- Added a repeat summon feature for consecutive unknown summons.
· Use the [Repeat Summon] button to summon consecutively without showing the summon animation.

▶ Event
- Improved so that moving to an expired event informs you of expired events instead of showing a blank page.

 

▶ Other
- Added a button to remove the Summoner and Monster’s skill cooldown and mana limit in [Summoner] - [Training Area].

* Activating the button will reset all skill cooldowns and fully recover the mana.

* Afterward, skill cooldown and mana recovery will be sped up, allowing you to use skills more quickly.

- Monster’s default star grade filter has been added to the Monster filter.
- Added a battle guide button to the Monster info page.
- The current location of guild members and friends will be shown.

- A tutorial has been added that can check the buff on the upper UI of the Magic Tomb.
- The upper-left UI will now be saved on maps excluding the field, villages, small dungeons, large dungeons, and Hero Area.
- Some Expedition loading tips have been modified.
- Account log out pop-up has been added.

- Updated the battle guide description.

- Chat megaphone unavailability message has been added on Mac (Steam).

■ Issue Fixes

- Fixed the owned quantity not being updated after moving to the enhancement material source from the Artifact enhancement page to craft the material and returning.

- Fixed the Book reward appearing claimable when the MAX item quantity is owned.

- Fixed the field map not showing properly intermittently.

- Fixed the bow animation remaining when Soleta uses a Transformation Potion during Consecutive Fire/Enhanced Fire.

- Fixed the notification not appearing on the Whisper tab when logging out and reconnecting while on the Whisper tab.

- Fixed the damage meter UI not appearing during the Arena preparation period.

- Fixed the background image on the main page of the dungeon not appearing when set to the lowest graphic setting on a mobile device.

- Fixed the keyboard not working intermittently in Friend Battle.

- Fixed the dungeon name appearing as Mirror Lake when moving on the map via the Magic Tomb quest from a different area.

- Fixed the transmog effect appearing away from the Monster.

- Fixed the color of the skill thumbnail being maintained when a skill is on cooldown.

- Fixed the Summoner’s skill level-up and reset not working when a Transformation Potion is in use.

- Fixed the Challenge Arena defense deck not being registerable when a Transformation Potion is in use.

- Fixed the Siege Battle defense placement and replacement not working when a Transformation Potion is in use.

- Fixed the tutorial not appearing normally when entering the Rupture immediately after unlocking Lv. 1.

- Fixed the emotion shortcut key appearing in Korean when a controller is connected.

- Fixed the omission of Kontana from the source of the “Defeat creatures on any continent” guild request.

- Fixed the result screen not appearing normally after a Vortex of Destiny summon.

- Fixed the ESC and Back buttons not closing the Effect Stone and Spell Book pop-ups.

- Fixed notifications being maintained on the 1-Year Rune Exchange event page.

- Fixed the buff text not appearing when a buff is applied to the boss.

- Fixed the Monster Rune info not updating immediately when using the Rune preset feature.

- Improved the 5★ Archangel (Fire)’s Sanctuary skill cooldown description.

- Fixed the dungeon auto re-matchmaking not working intermittently when a dungeon lobby is created and disbanded repeatedly.

- Fixed certain members of the party automatically declining matchmaking during multiple Battlefield runs as a party of 3.

- Fixed the notification message not appearing when attempting discount crafting without the Profession Research Tower installed.

- Fixed Wind Farakel using Divine Punishment on Monsters.

- Fixed the Guild Siege Battle defense deck PWR varying for each Monster.

- Fixed the Guild Siege Battle base icon appearing white intermittently.

- Fixed the products not being updated when on the Piece Shop page at the shop reset time.

- Fixed the thumbnail not being updated immediately when placing the Guild Siege Battle base after applying a Monster transmogrification.

- Fixed the tutorial not working upon clearing a certain Area Dungeon for the first time.

- Fixed the Soul Protection buff activating without a penalty in the Arena.

* A separate activation cooldown will be applied to the Soul Protection buff in the Arena and Siege Battle.

(Cooldown-related details will be added to the Soul Protection effect’s description in the Book.)

- Fixed the tutorial not working upon clearing a certain Area Dungeon for the first time.
- Fixed the Soul Protection buff activating without a penalty in the Arena.
- Fixed the rank displaying outside the UI in Guild Raid in some languages.
- Fixed the penalty not being applied when canceling a confirmed Battlefield matchmaking.
- Fixed the weapon overlay not being changed when changing the Challenge Arena defense deck attribute.
- Fixed the new shortcut keys not working in the tutorial after remapping the controller.
- Fixed the model not appearing properly on the Hall of Fame registration pop-up in Sleep Mode.
- Fixed 5★ Phoenix (Wind) and (Light)'s passive not working when under Oblivion.
- Fixed the Monster's motion being slowed in Cairos and Path of Growth.
- Fixed the description of unopened Artifacts not appearing properly in some languages.
- Fixed an awkward aspect ratio being applied to the Galagos Ruins level selection page in certain resolutions.

That’s all for the Oct. 6th update notes.

 

Thank you.