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PATCH NOTESUPDATE 1.5.4

AFK Journey 1.5.4 Patch Notes

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PATCH NOTES
JAN 7, 20263 MIN READ

New Heroes

  • Added Alna, the Frozen Mother, who will be released after the version update. Players can acquire her through Stargaze Station and Guild Store.
  • Added Tilaya, the Wild Blade. Players can acquire her through Rate Up Recruitment.
  • Added Kordan, the Ironblood Chieftain. Players can acquire him through Rate Up Recruitment.

Major Updates

  • Added new Epilogue Quest - Crimson Dreams.
  • Added Level 2 Enhance Force for Florabelle and Temesia.
  • Added Zanie's and Ravion's Soul Sigils to the Season Store.

Experience Optimizations

  • A new round of Crystal Clash event will begin on January 12 at 00:00 UTC, featuring the following gameplay adjustments:
Magisters can now deploy 2 heroes from the same faction to activate a Phantimal.
The titles earned in Crystal Clash will last longer.
Streamlining the tutorial to help players get familiar with the event faster.
  • Optimized how Formation IDs work:
Formation IDs now include game version information.
Formation IDs can now be shared and used across different regions.
  • Optimized how Power is shown in Rivalry Modes. Power boosts from Rivalry Stats are now included in the calculation, so the displayed Power better reflects the true strength of all participants. This change only affects the displayed Power value—actual battle performance remained the same.
  • Fixed issues with untranslated text and improved the phrasing of some in-game descriptions. The related game mechanics remained unchanged.
  • Increased the Season Points gained from Season Magic Charms VI or better during season settlement. But the point cap for Season Magic Charms remained unchanged.

Homestead

  • Added a new feature, Arcane Designs, which lets players save the layout of a 40×40 tile area in their Homestead. Magisters can also generate share codes to share their designs with others. When applying official layout templates or designs shared by other players, the Craft All option is now available to help players quickly craft all required decorations.
  • Added new interactive environmental visual effects to the Homestead.
  • Optimized visual performance in certain Homestead scenes.
  • Optimized help requests during Darkswarm Invasions: When an invasion occurs in the Homestead, a help request will now be sent automatically.
  • Raised the crafting limit for certain decorations.

Combat Mechanics

  • Graveborn Phantimal - Grim Executioner
Fixed a rare issue where Grim Executioner could receive incorrect healing from Spirit Mark - Lifebane.
  • Shadewing - Undying Vow
Fixed an issue where Withering Curse could fail to activate under certain conditions when multiple Shadewings are on the battlefield.
Fixed a rare issue where Season Artifact - Swordward Spell could launch flying swords at untargetable enemies.

Honor Duel

  • Hero List Updates
Added the following heroes: Galahad, Shadewing
Removed the following heroes: Gerda, Daimon
  • Balance adjustments for heroes:
Gala: No modifier → Damage dealt reduced by 15%.
Sonja: No modifier → Damage dealt increased by 10%, damage taken reduced by 10%
Thador: Damage dealt reduced by 20% → Damage dealt reduced by 20%, damage taken increased by 10%
  • Balance adjustments for Artifacts:
Nightfall Sword: The damage bonus is increased from 20% to 35%.
Witchfire Bone: Witchfire damage is reduced from 30% to 20% of ATK; Energy restored per hit is reduced from 10 to 8; the Haste reduction inflicted per Witchfire stack is reduced from 8 to 5.
Dead Tide Sail: Life Drain per second is reduced from 40% to 30% of ATK; the waterspout damage per second is reduced from 80% to 60% of total ATK; the cooldown is increased from 8s to 10s.
Essail Tome: The basic stat bonus is reduced from 15% to 5%; the dragon summon interval is increased from 12s to 15s; dragons' damage is reduced from 80% to 60% of total ATK.

Hotfix Notes

Jan 16th

  • Fixed an issue in the Ravaged Realm - Immortal Squad challenge where upgrading certain hero skills could cause their final damage to change abnormally.

Jan 20th

  • Adjusted excessive combat randomness for certain factions in Ravaged Realm. Please refer to the actual combat results in Ravaged Realm for details.