Throne and Liberty Update 35.103.414 Out for Patch 2.16.0 Includes 12-player Raid Mode

Key Takeaways

The Altar of Calanthia raid features new materials (Entropy Shards and Chaos Prisms) and Heroic gear, which can be enhanced using Heroic Growthstones.
Ascended Arch Bosses (Tevent and Queen Bellandir) have been added on a weekly schedule, dropping materials to upgrade existing Arch Boss weapons to Tier 2.
Arena Season 2 will end, followed by a month-long 6v6 Arena event season; Siege events are adjusted to a biweekly schedule with Interserver Siege battles.

Today sees the release of patch version 2.16.0 for the Throne and Liberty update, numbered 35.103.414. Among its features is a new 12-player game mode titled ‘The Altar of Calanthia’.

In addition to other modifications, various adjustments to equilibrium have been incorporated within this latest update. Scroll down for an extensive rundown of the alterations that have been implemented.

Throne and Liberty Update 35.103.414 Adds a 12-Player Raid

Altar of Calanthia: 12-Player Raid

Overthrow Calanthia before her vision turns into a dread for everyone in Solisium. Powerful adversaries will challenge you along your path towards the altar. Once you reach there, you’ll encounter the Supreme Commander General of the Arkeum Legion.

Defeat Calanthia before her ideal transforms into a terror for all of Solisium. Formidable foes will try to thwart you on your journey towards the altar. Upon reaching, you’ll battle the Top Commander General of the Arkeum Legion.

To gain entry to Altar of Calanthia, you need to finish both Part I and Part II of the Two Wings of Sylvaeth Codex. The access points and necessary crafting NPCs are located at the northern end of Herba Village.
You can find listings for parties participating in the Altar of Calanthia raids via the Raid User Interface located at the entrance. Regular party matchmaking doesn’t display these raids, but you can utilize it to join normal difficulty ones.
In the Raid game, the matching system organizes teams into groups of seven players, with one player filling the tank role, another as the healer, and the remaining four taking damage-per-second (DPS) roles. However, pre-formed Vanguard teams can freely combine any roles when forming their parties. Essentially, teams have the flexibility to shape their Raid group according to their preferred setup.
Normal mode requires players to be at least 5,000 Combat Power.
In the challenging mode, players need a minimum Combat Power of 6,000. This level ups the boss’s statistics, adds complex mechanics, and introduces multiple phases for a tougher gaming experience.
Players can complete and receive rewards from both Normal and Difficult mode each week.
In Altar of Calanthia, defeating a boss serves as a save point. Teams can re-enter at these points throughout the following week. It’s important to note that players aren’t tied to any single group’s progress; they can join multiple groups within a week. However, fighting and defeating previously encountered bosses won’t yield extra rewards until the weekly reset occurs.
If a team suffers complete defeat against any boss in Normal Mode, each player will get boosts to their damage output and health points for subsequent tries. These boosts can accumulate up to 10 times, with a maximum of one application every 3 minutes.
Weekly Incentives: Slaying Calanthia, regardless of difficulty level, ensures a Heroic Armor or Weapon as your reward. Choosing the challenging mode increases the likelihood of obtaining Weapons or Selection Chests, rather than random items. Future updates will introduce Heroic Accessories and an even tougher version of the Raid, offering these items alongside them.
In the sanctum of Calanthia, two novel components have been presented – Entropy Fragments and Chaos Crystals. These elements play a crucial role in crafting advanced Heroic augmentation materials, as well as tools for managing Heroic abilities, and ultimately, Heroic equipment.

Solisium Style Pack

Get ready to refresh your in-game appearance like never before with our grandest fashion overhaul arriving at the store on June 26th – the Solisium Style Pack! Dive into a world of fresh hairstyles, hats, helmets, and more. Unleash your creativity by incorporating new Dye and Sewing Thread options to tailor your cherished outfits to perfection. I can’t wait to see how you’ll make this update your own!

The Solisium Style Pack includes:

30x Illusion Scroll
100x Dye
40x Sewing Thread
Hairstyles: Polished, Free Spirit
Hats: Leather Bush Hat, Admiral’s Bicorne
Helmets: Crested Centurion, Basic Bruiser

Heroic Gear

The Altar of Calanthia raid introduces a new grade of equipment drops: Heroic grade.
Characters may only equip one Weapon and one Armor of Heroic grade at a time.
A Heroic-tier item surpasses the current Epic gear, with a baseline Heroic item having an equivalent strength to a fully upgraded Tier 2 Epic piece.
Distinctive heroic artifacts come equipped with key attributes and auxiliary features, much like other levels of equipment. Moreover, they boast an additional Heroic Quality, which amplifies one of the fundamental characteristics among the five basic ones.
In simpler terms, Heroic weapons don’t automatically have passive abilities. However, you can detach the passive ability (known as a Skill Core) from any Tier 1 Arch boss weapon or Epic Tier 2 weapon and then attach it to your Heroic weapon.
Craft Skill Core items at the Skill Core NPC near the Altar of Calanthia Raid portal.
Heroic gear is leveled using the new craftable Heroic Growthstones as materials.

Ascended Arch Bosses: Queen Bellandir and Tevent

Each week, you’ll find tougher variations of old arch bosses, Tevent and Queen Bellandir, have been added to our rotation.

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Weekly challenges now include harder forms of bosses Tevent and Queen Bellandir from the archives.

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The weekly lineup now features enhanced versions of past bosses, Tevent and Queen Bellandir, with increased difficulty.
- On Tuesdays and Saturdays at 4:00 PM in the server’s local time, we encounter the Ascended Arch Bosses. Previously, Queen Bellandir was scheduled for Saturdays, but from now on, she will appear on Fridays instead.
- These new Arch Boss versions drop materials used to upgrade your existing Arch Boss weapons.
- Now, you can manufacture the second-tier variants of the Tevent and Bellandir Arch Boss Weapons at any weapon-crafting station available.
- As an enthusiast, I’ve come to understand that creating a Tier 2 Arch Boss weapon is a fascinating process, where a Tier 1 Arch Boss weapon of the same type serves as the primary crafting material.
- When you use up your Tier 1 Arch Boss weapon, its characteristics will be wiped clean and won’t transfer to a Tier 2 weapon.
- Tier 2 Arch Boss weapons have an enhanced weapon skill compared to their Tier 1 counterparts.

Arena Season 2

Arena Season 2 will end at the start of maintenance.
A month-long 6v6 Arena event season will begin after maintenance completes.

General

In the game, you can now set ground markers in the world to highlight strategic spots for your team.
- By standard settings, the Party Leader can put down ground markers; however, these privileges can be adjusted via the Party User Interface (UI).
As a gamer, I can now activate theObserver Mode on Player-versus-Environment (PvE) content like Raids, Guild Raids, Dimensional Trials, and beyond. Adjusting theObserver Mode settings is a breeze with the help of the Party Management User Interface (UI).
UI: Item Quickslots have been expanded from 4 slots to 8 slots.
Improved Weapon Skills: The tooltips for Weapon Mastery nodes now display the current advantage provided by the node, the benefit you’ll receive upon leveling up, and the maximum advantage you can achieve when the node is fully upgraded.
Instead of occurring two weeks apart, the tax delivery and castle siege events will happen one after the other on the same day. The previously empty days have been filled with interserver siege battles. This new scheduling means that these two events will take turns occurring every two weeks in a continuous cycle.
During Sieges, the duration of Fonsine’s Blessing’s protective effect when it spawns has been extended.
In simpler terms, we’ve included a range of ready-made chat responses that can be easily selected from the menu for swift interaction.
In simpler terms, you can now set up messages that automatically get sent when specific actions occur, such as logging in or joining a group.
Enhancing Riftstones and Boonstones: Boosted the stat advantages bestowed by auras associated with Riftstone and Boonstone possession.
Simplified Preparation Time: The initial battle wait time for both Riftstones and Boonstones has been shortened from 5 minutes to just 2 minutes.
On Nebula Island, we’ve moved the position of the boss portal in the Seal Sanctuary a bit more towards the southern region.
Nebula Island: Grimturg: Adjusted some cases where Grimturg unexpectedly moved during mechanics.
Urstella Fields: Adjusted mob density in some areas.
Dungeons: 3 and 4-Star Dungeon reward chests may now be opened two times per run.
Nebula Island: The corruption debuff from Exodus will now be removed upon moving to a safe zone.
In the game, contracts: The problem with interactive bottles in Talandre for ‘Gather Letters in a Bottle’ missions has been rectified. Previously, these bottles could only be seen when the player was within 5 meters of them. Now, they should be visible at all times, enhancing the gaming experience.
Food: The buff granted by Enticing Cream Pudding now matches its description.
War Games: Players on different teams can no longer form a party together.
During crafting, resolved an issue that made the ‘quantity’ button unresponsive while adding materials from a storage chest for crafting purposes.
Adventure Codex: Chapter 4 Improvement: Rectified an issue where the Rescue Mission manual might occasionally prevent further advancement.
In the game Siege, we resolved an issue where players were able to exchange weapon types without undergoing the intended cool-down period for their abilities.

Longbow

Boosted Range: Expands the impact zone of Arrow by an additional 2 meters. Now consistently tries to strike, but the effect can be dodged or resisted by the target. When successful, it inflicts a ranged escape penalty on the target. The cooldown time is decreased from 1 minute to 1 minute less, and the damage output is amplified from 150% to 250%.
Brutal Arrow: Now increases damage by 40% against stunned or bound targets.
Skill Sequence Bonus: Weapon Proficiency – Rapid Fire: For 3 seconds after using various abilities consecutively, the base damage of your weapons temporarily boosts by an amount between 3 and 12. This bonus can stack up to a maximum of 5 times.
Enhanced Healing Touch: Introduced a new specialization feature that transforms Healing Touch into a personal boost, grants an increased attack power when wielding longbows, yet simultaneously decreases your movement speed for 4 seconds during its activation.

Spear

Phoenix Barrage: Decreased base damage. At Epic Level 5, the damage decreases from 91% of Base Damage + 23 to 73% of Base Damage + 19. Enhanced damage against monsters increases from 125% to 180%.

The Phoenix Barrage deals less base damage at Epic Level 5 (from 91% + 23% to 73% + 19% of the base damage). However, the boost in damage against monsters increases significantly (from 125% to 180%).
The base damage for this ability is reduced at Epic Lv 5 (from 360% +100 to 288% +80), but the effectiveness against monsters is significantly increased (from 40% to 75%).

Dagger

Revised Thunderbolt Strike: Decreased initial damage dealt. Lowered bonus damage when attacking from behind or when the enemy is weakened. Enhanced damage versus monsters raised from 15% to 40%.
Improved Shadowy Escape: Resolved a problem that occasionally prevented players from returning to their initial position after using the Shadowy Escape ability.

Greatsword

Rectified a problem that led to the cancellation of Death Blow and Guillotine Blade when used for a second time, if they were being charged at the moment.

Staff

Implemented a brief delay between uses to avoid accidental double casting of the Burning Smokescreen ability, ensuring its proper usage.

UI

In simpler terms, when you see the Amitoi or Morph symbols, the tooltips will inform you whether you already possess that specific Amitoi or Morph.
Controller: Enhanced functionality by allowing assignment of shortcut keys to primary menus, including Inventory menu.
In matchmaking, when switching zones or closing a menu, the ‘Matchmaking Successful’ pop-up will not close as intended, leading it to be rejected instead.
Trials: Fixed an issue causing Trial-specific Dungeon UI elements to rarely not be displayed.
In simpler terms, the problem that was encountered made it so the camera would sometimes freeze when trying to move to the Amitoi house during a movie-like scene transition. This issue has now been resolved.
PlayStation 5: The sun now appears without a black object in front of it.

esXX will update its readers when a newer patch for Throne and Liberty arrives very soon.

2025-06-26 11:05