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Greetings, Adventurers!

New World Update 1.9.3 downtime will begin at 11:00PM PT (6:00AM UTC) on May 9 and includes fixes to Gear Set Slots, Springtide Bloom, and more. Downtime is slated to last approximately 1 hour.

World Experience

Springtide Bloom

• The Beekeeper and Springtime Ruffles apparel sets have been broken into individual purchases inside of the Springtide event shop.

• Added a Heartrune charge to the Wispy Wasp swarm.

• The Springtide Premium Token recipe (the one where you exchange Wispy Wasp Goo) is now listed as "Premium Token" in the crafting menu.

• Players can now get 4 Springtide Jingle coin bags a day, up from 3.

Quests

• Periville Guards now drop the Intact Spear Haft quest item in the ‘Book Three: Parodos in the A Spear to Pierce the Heavens’ questline.

• Returning players who have only completed part of the original MSQ can now speak to Yonas to resume it in Brightwood.

• Removed 3 deprecated lore notes from Elafry Pyrgo which caused the game to soft-lock on interaction.

• Invisible collision has once again been removed from the entrance of the Crystal Cavern.

Game Modes

Outpost Rush

• Fixed an issue that caused players to unintentionally bring game-mode specific items like powder kegs into the open world.

Empyrean Forge Expedition

• Commander Marius's magma ball hazard will now display a secondary ring to denote the area in which the impact shockwave will cause minor damage and stagger the player.

Economy, Progression, & Gear

Gear/Items

• Fixed an issue that caused items in purchased Gear Set Slots to return to player inventories on login.

Economy

• Open world Elite chests in Level 55+ Varangian POIs now have a 75% chance to drop a Flame Core, down from 100%.

• Open world Regular chests in Level 55+ Varangian POIs now have a 10% chance to drop a Flame Core, down from 20%.

• Unstable Casts now costs 3 Flame Cores to craft, down from 10.

• Players can now craft 6 Unstable Casts daily, up from 3.

• Improved quality of items generated by Unstable Cast from the Flame Core Forge. This was done by removing PvP perks and Resistance perks.

Season Pass

Update: We will disable 5 Season Activities that proved more challenging and costly to complete than intended. We anticipate this change will make your Activity Card progression easier.

• The 5 impacted activities are:

  • Craft 10 items using Poultry Thights.

  • Craft 10 items using Sumptuous Rabbit.

  • Craft 10 items using Prime Armadillo meat.

  • Consume 10 Tier 5 Trade Skill Consumables.

  • Consume 10 Tier 5 Resistance Consumables.

• Fixed an issue where level 60 players sometimes would not receive the "Just Getting Started" task in Chapter 1.

• Added several new Season Pass activities:

  • Kill 10 enemies in Mykrguard.

  • Kill 10 enemies in Imperial Palace.

  • Kill 10 enemies in Malevolence.

  • Kill 10 enemies in Eternal Pools.

  • Kill 10 enemies in Beds of Ta-BitJet.

  • Kill 2 named enemies.

  • Kill 20 elite enemies.

• Adjusted the following PVP Season Pass activities:

  • Earn Flawless victory in PVP arena was changed to Earn 1 victory in PvP arena.

  • Earn 1000 pvp experience from valid player kills was changed to earn 100 pvp experience from valid player kills.

  • Participate in 3 arenas was changed to participate in 1 arena.

  • Deal 100000 damage or healing in arena was changed to deal 50000 damage or healing in arena.

  • Earn 5000 azoth salt was changed to earn 1000 azoth salt.

  • Complete 2 PvP faction missions was changed to complete 1 PvP Faction mission

• Adjusted the following crafting Season Pass activities:

  • Craft 5 Tier 5 weapons or apparel was changed to craft 3 Tier 5 weapons or apparel

  • Consume 10 Tier 5 coatings was reduced to consume 2 Tier 5 coatings

• Adjusted the following Season Journey tasks:

  • Rush of Victory II

    • Reduced required Outpost Rush wins from 10 to 5

  • Holding the Fort

    • Reduced required Invasion completions from 2 to 1

  • Worldwide Warrior

    • Reduced required Open World player kills from 50 to 15

• Adjusted requirements for multiple Season Journey challenges:

  • Outpost Rush Domination

    • Reduced required Outpost Rush wins from 100 to 30

  • Serial Killer

    • Reduced required kills from 500 to 100

  • Contesting the Control Points

    • Reduced required Faction Control Point captures from 50 to 30

  • Legendary Craft

    • Reduced required craft amount from 125 to 100

  • Give Me Gold or Give Me Death

    • Renamed to Mutation Master

    • Changed required Expedition rating from Gold to Silver

UX/UI

QoL

• Removed the Gear Set Storage tooltip commands when your character is under level 25. These previously showed if you had purchased an additional Gear Set Slot with another character.

• Added translations for the Fire Storm Heartrune tooltip.

• Added additional translations to the Territory Planning Board UI.

• The Main Menu has returned to its standard music soundtrack.

• Fixed an issue with Leaderboards where the rewards countdown message displayed earlier than intended, stating that the current season had ended even though it was still in progress.

Social

General

• Fixed a rare issue that prevented players from turning off their PvP flag.

Audio

• Lowered the amount of echo when an NPC spoke within a small interior space.

Thanks for your support! We’ll see you in Aeternum.