✅09.07 Balance & Client Patch

Capital Bulletin

Maintenance & Distribution

Maintenance

5 minutes

September 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM KST

Client

Update required

Download the latest client after maintenance.

Reload distribution

Aug–Sep players

Time-limited Reload items will be distributed after the patch using the same method as before.

Balance desk

25 skills

13 buffs and 12 nerfs.

📢 Important: A new client update is required. Please download the latest client after maintenance.

🎁 Reload distribution: After the patch, time-limited Reload items will be distributed—using the same method as before—to players who logged in during August or September 2026.

Expedition Desk

Early-Game Content

Gilgamesh’s Lost Epic — Map 3

Map 3 will be added.
NPC quests will be added through Map 3.
The rewards and difficulty of the added quests may receive a second revision alongside achievement content and growth-line adjustments.
Early-game progression, overall balance, and content are all still being revised, so reward details may change again in a later pass.

Green Field Progression Test

The revised growth balance will be applied to Green Field for testing.

New NPC quests along the early-game route — New NPC quests are added along the early-game route, now continuing through Map 3.

Elena

Map 3 is on the syllabus now, and the NPC quests run all the way there. …Wait. If the rewards can still change, then the syllabus isn’t final either?

Iskandar

It is an expedition, not an exam. The early route is still being reshaped, so rewards and difficulty may be revised again alongside achievements and the growth line. Learn the road. The road is the part that stays.

City Desk

Localization · Terrain · Server

Multilingual Review

Multilingual translation review continues from the previous patch.

Terrain & Movement

Terrain and movement behavior are improved overall.
Movement around collision areas should feel smoother.

Crowded Battles

Server complexity has been improved.
Situations where many skills and monsters gather in one area are somewhat better optimized than before.

SYSTEM

Terrain movement and crowded combat processing have been adjusted. Improvement detected around collision areas and high-complexity situations.

Tiamat

Good! Walls and monster crowds had been conspiring against the troops for far too long.

The Asterica Market Column

Random Box · Boutique · Market Orders

Random Box Preview

Random Boxes will now show the list of items that can be obtained.

Boutique Reorganization

Skin, pet, and mount products will move from the regular Shop to the Boutique.
Skins, pets, and mounts can be tried on before purchase.
Limited skins and limited mounts you already own can be traded with other players for Gold.

Market Orders

A buy / sell function is added to the item sale tab.
The Market previously supported purchases only. It now works as an exchange where standing sell orders and buy orders can both be placed.
The buy / sell order status of each listing can be checked through My Orders › Search.
Price movement over time can now be tracked for each item.

Boutique tab showing skins, pets, and mounts — Skins, pets, and mounts move to the Boutique, and can be tried on before purchase.

Selling a limited mount for Gold in the Boutique — Limited skins and limited mounts you own can be traded with other players for Gold.

Buy and sell tabs added to the Market — A buy / sell function is added to the item sale tab. Standing orders can be placed on both sides.

Price movement graph on a Market listing — Each listing now shows how its price has moved over time.

Aristo

A Random Box that lists its own contents, and a Market that remembers its own prices. Probability has acquired a table of contents, and Gold has acquired a memory. Excellent.

Ishtar

You can try a mount on before buying it. Tammuz, I intend to wear every single one—

Tammuz

Check My Orders first. Standing buy orders exist now, which means someone is already waiting to sell you one at a worse price.

Corrections Desk

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where the durability warning appeared before the automatic recovery point.
Fixed an issue where crafting quantities did not refresh until the equipment inventory was opened.

Tiamat

Correction notice, troops! The durability warning was too eager, and crafting quantities should never have waited for the equipment inventory to open.

Out in the Field

July–September · 4 Snapshots

The trend uses four telemetry snapshots dated July 9, July 15, August 12, and September 2. Latest usage and equip figures are from September 2.

Latest PK usage

797

Skill casts in the September 2 report.

Latest equips

80

Account / build equip count.

Latest kill-share leader

Poisonous weed

8.93% of recorded PK kills.

Most-picked weapon skill

Devil’s Call

28.6%, up from 17.9% in the previous report.

Biggest climbers

Sword master · High tide

Both rose by roughly five times from the previous snapshot.

Most conspicuously quiet

Salt Flower

Rarely selected and responsible for almost no kills.

The most common deck

HeroClay of Enkidu21.4%

HeroFriend of Enkidu21.4%

SuccessionBlood Wheel8.9%

WeaponDevil’s Call28.6%

What We Caught — and What Changes

Observation ↔ Patch

What we caughtSummons occupied more than half of recorded weapon slots.

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What changesSummon attack efficiency comes down while direct weapon skills rise. Summon duration stays at 150 seconds.

What we caughtIshtar Gate offered a large EVA spike with too little time to answer the next crossing.

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What changesEVA values are lowered; Reload Time and World Cooldown increase. Both charges remain.

What we caughtSalt Flower did not remain active long enough to land enough ticks.

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What changesHit Interval is shortened to 0.2s, with per-hit Base ATK adjusted to 200.

What we caughtLullaby and Suhyangmi stayed near the bottom across all four snapshots.

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What changesTheir Base ATK increases directly from 280 to 310.

What we caughtWall-bounce and extra-damage efficiency remained high on key succession skills.

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What changesBlood Wheel, Coin of Prosperity, and Blessed Ground receive targeted reductions.

Balance Patch Details

13 Buffs · 12 Nerfs

🔻 Hero Nerf

Ishtar Gate

Skill	Change	Before	After
Ishtar Gate	EVA Base Value	12%	10%
	EVA per-level scaling	1%	0.8%
	Reload Time	30s	32s
	World Cooldown	5s	10s

Why: The two charges remain. The change widens the time available to answer the next gate and narrows the immediate evasion spike.

🔺 Hero Buffs

Salt Flower · Lullaby · Suhyangmi

Skill	Change	Before	After
Salt Flower	Hit Interval	0.3s	0.2s
Salt Flower	Base ATK per hit	212	200
Lullaby	Base ATK	280	310
Suhyangmi	Base ATK	280	310

Salt Flower: Overall direction is a buff. It hits more often, while its per-hit ATK is reduced. Lullaby & Suhyangmi: Their earlier reload adjustment did not materially change results, so Base ATK is increased directly.

🔻 Succession Nerfs

Targeted efficiency reductions

Skill	Change	Before	After
Blessed Ground	Reload Time	12s	13s
Blessed Ground	Base ATK	86	76
Blood Wheel	EBD	10%	7%
Blood Wheel	Damage increase per wall bounce	20%	16%
Coin of Prosperity	EBD	15%	10%

Why: Blessed Ground continued to rise after the previous buff. Blood Wheel stacks bounce damage particularly well in tight spaces, while Coin of Prosperity receives only the extra-damage reduction because it stacks fewer bounces.

🔻 Summon Nerfs

All summon skills

Shared summon adjustment: Summon attack power is rebalanced toward roughly one quarter of standard skill attack output. Summon Hit Interval changes from 1.3s → 1.4s. All summon durations remain 150 seconds.

Skill	Change	Before	After
Clay of Enkidu · Metaphysics	Multi-hit Ratio	63%	60%
	Base ATK	150	110
	EBD	15%	5%
Friend of Enkidu	Base ATK	115	80
Devil's Call	Multi-hit Ratio	28%	22%
Devil's Call	Base ATK	200	140
Ghost	Multi-hit Ratio	28%	21%
Ghost	Base ATK	150	110
Spirit's Call	Multi-hit Ratio	28%	23%
Spirit's Call	Base ATK	170	110
Sheep Sheep Sheep	Multi-hit Ratio	23%	21%
	Base ATK	150	100
	EBD	15%	5%
Three little pigs	Multi-hit Ratio	23%	21%
Three little pigs	Base ATK	140	95

Why: One summon cast provides 150 seconds of autonomous damage. Reducing duration would create longer periods without a summon, so this patch adjusts attack power, multi-hit efficiency, and attack interval instead.

🔺 Weapon Buffs

Direct damage and usability

Skill	Change	Before	After
Point attack	Base ATK	110	200
Needle shot	Base ATK	110	180
Mana blade	Base ATK	220	240
Half moon	Base ATK	270	320
Star shot	Base ATK	300	320
Burst shot	Base ATK	300	340
Guardian of light	Base ATK	250	265
Blizzard · Meteor	Impact Start Delay	0.7s	0.5s
EXTOCIUM	Reload Time	14s	13s

Why: Summon efficiency is not being lowered in isolation. Direct weapon skills also receive stronger value, while Blizzard, Meteor, and EXTOCIUM are adjusted for feel rather than raw damage.

This Issue’s Spotlight

Summons · Weapons · Evasion

Closing the weapon-slot gap from both sides

More than half of the recorded weapon slots used a summon. This patch lowers summon efficiency without extending summon downtime, then raises the value of direct weapon choices so the slot does not simply become weaker or emptier.

Summon duration remains 150 seconds.
Summon attack interval and individual attack values are adjusted.
Seven direct weapon skills gain Base ATK.
Blizzard, Meteor, and EXTOCIUM receive usability improvements.

Ishtar Gate and the answer window

Ishtar Gate remains the only skill in the current analysis that raises the caster’s own EVA. At level 55, the source analysis places the EVA bonus at approximately 66% before the patch and 53% after it.

Both charges remain.
World Cooldown becomes 10 seconds, matching the EVA effect window.
Eight skills can pierce EVA, and three skills can reduce it.
Deeper melee combos also gain EVA penetration.

Still on the Editor’s Desk

No Change This Patch

Kill-share trend order: July 9 → July 15 → August 12 → September 2.

Full moon

3.36% → 5.53% → 3.54% → 3.23%

Its kill share is already moving down without another intervention, so no additional nerf is applied.

Red Bombardment

1.56% → 1.35% → 0.86% → 1.26%

It has begun to recover after the previous decline, so it remains under observation.

Babylon’s Cry

2.97% → 1.11% → 1.37% → 0.55%

It continues to fall together with buff-heavy decks. This is being treated as a broader playstyle question for a later review.

Sword master

0.44% → 0.63% → 0.41% → 2.19%

Kill share rose by roughly five times from the previous snapshot, but raw damage remains within the current acceptable range.

Unchanged: Every summon skill keeps its 150-second summon duration. This patch changes summon attack power, multi-hit efficiency, and attack interval—not duration.

Open the full July–September skill statistics (76 tracked rows)

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#		Type	Patch						Kill-share trend
1	Clay of Enkidu	Hero	🔻 Nerf	150	8	18.8	1.75%	280	1.90% → 1.25% → 2.73% → 1.75%
2	Friend of Enkidu	Hero	🔻 Nerf	83	5	16.6	1.21%	280	1.07% → 2.31% → 1.92% → 1.21%
3	Spirit's Call	Weapon	🔻 Nerf	78	4	19.5	3.01%	326	3.31% → 2.60% → 3.70% → 3.01%
4	Ghost	Weapon	🔻 Nerf	46	4	11.5	1.42%	79	2.34% → 1.11% → 1.77% → 1.42%
5	Dracula	Weapon	—	40	2	20.0	3.45%	79	1.65% → 2.74% → 3.85% → 3.45%
6	Awakening Despair	Hero	—	37	2	18.5	0.33%	—	0.49% → 0.14% → 0.35% → 0.33%
7	Absolute Fear	Hero	—	31	1	31.0	0.82%	—	0.49% → 0.34% → 0.51% → 0.82%
8	Metaphysics	Hero	🔻 Nerf	29	3	9.7	0.71%	48	0.24% → 1.01% → 1.01% → 0.71%
9	Three little pigs	Weapon	🔻 Nerf	29	3	9.7	0.44%	54	0.44% → 0.34% → 0.56% → 0.44%
10	Throwing bombs	Hero	—	23	1	23.0	1.92%	116	1.31% → 1.97% → 1.37% → 1.92%
11	Meditation	Hero	—	23	1	23.0	—	229	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
12	War of words	Hero	—	21	2	10.5	5.21%	120	4.14% → 2.84% → 3.85% → 5.21%
13	Point attack	Weapon	🔺 Buff	19	1	19.0	0.55%	23	0.92% → 0.05% → 0.86% → 0.55%
14	Waves	Hero	—	19	4	4.8	—	187	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
15	Blood Wheel	Succession	🔻 Nerf	18	4	4.5	8.05%	136	6.72% → 8.90% → 6.58% → 8.05%
16	Guardian of light	Weapon	🔺 Buff	18	3	6.0	5.59%	101	4.57% → 4.28% → 5.06% → 5.59%
17	Water Storm	Hero	—	15	3	5.0	0.99%	39	1.61% → 0.87% → 1.37% → 0.99%
18	Full moon	Succession	—	14	3	4.7	3.23%	47	3.36% → 5.53% → 3.54% → 3.23%
19	Devil's Call	Weapon	🔻 Nerf	11	4	2.8	8.05%	415	11.58% → 8.95% → 7.39% → 8.05%
20	4Elements of earth	Hero	—	11	2	5.5	—	68	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
21	End of the world	Hero	—	10	1	10.0	0.05%	—	0.05% → 0.19% → 0.00% → 0.05%
22	Wandering	Hero	—	10	1	10.0	0.05%	—	0.05% → 0.29% → 0.00% → 0.05%
23	Teachings of the earth	Hero	—	9	1	9.0	0.55%	9	0.29% → 0.00% → 0.30% → 0.55%
24	Fighting Spirit	Hero	—	8	2	4.0	—	134	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
25	Healing power of water	Hero	—	8	2	4.0	—	57	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
26	Canon rush	Weapon	—	6	2	3.0	0.27%	28	0.10% → 0.10% → 0.00% → 0.27%
27	Wrath of fire	Hero	—	6	1	6.0	—	112	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
28	Burst shot	Weapon	🔺 Buff	5	1	5.0	0.55%	68	1.46% → 1.25% → 0.71% → 0.55%
29	Poisonous weed	Hero	—	4	1	4.0	8.93%	149	3.02% → 5.39% → 11.65% → 8.93%
30	Rain of destruction	Hero	—	4	1	4.0	0.88%	53	0.78% → 0.34% → 0.71% → 0.88%
31	Life is a Thorny road	Hero	—	4	1	4.0	0.77%	61	1.51% → 1.88% → 2.03% → 0.77%
32	Red Bombardment	Hero	—	3	2	1.5	1.26%	25	1.56% → 1.35% → 0.86% → 1.26%
33	Mana blade	Weapon	🔺 Buff	2	1	2.0	—	14	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.35% → 0.00%
34	Will Destroy	Hero	—	1	1	1.0	4.99%	69	4.62% → 5.29% → 3.34% → 4.99%
35	Half moon	Weapon	🔺 Buff	1	1	1.0	—	5	0.05% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
36	Goddess of all	Hero	—	1	1	1.0	—	—	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
37	Blessed Ground	Succession	🔻 Nerf	0	0	—	7.51%	154	7.25% → 4.33% → 5.47% → 7.51%
38	Coin of Prosperity	Succession	🔻 Nerf	0	0	—	2.68%	51	4.14% → 2.02% → 4.61% → 2.68%
39	Sword master	Weapon	—	0	0	—	2.19%	98	0.44% → 0.63% → 0.41% → 2.19%
40	High tide	Succession	—	0	0	—	1.75%	63	0.24% → 0.43% → 0.35% → 1.75%
41	Sinking	Hero	—	0	0	—	1.37%	89	0.68% → 0.53% → 0.51% → 1.37%
42	Mana error	Hero	—	0	0	—	1.04%	44	0.10% → 0.34% → 0.00% → 1.04%
43	Red lightning	Succession	—	0	0	—	0.88%	42	0.15% → 0.14% → 0.30% → 0.88%
44	Annihilation	Hero	—	0	0	—	0.82%	17	2.97% → 2.79% → 1.22% → 0.82%
45	Vajra fires	Succession	—	0	0	—	0.55%	102	0.00% → 1.44% → 1.62% → 0.55%
46	Water ball	Hero	—	0	0	—	0.55%	51	0.54% → 0.87% → 0.96% → 0.55%
47	Babylon's Cry	Hero	—	0	0	—	0.55%	45	2.97% → 1.11% → 1.37% → 0.55%
48	Rage	Hero	—	0	0	—	0.55%	13	0.68% → 0.96% → 0.30% → 0.55%
49	New moon	Succession	—	0	0	—	0.49%	21	0.24% → 0.43% → 0.71% → 0.49%
50	Blizzard	Weapon	🔺 Buff	0	0	—	0.49%	—	3.45% → 6.06% → 0.15% → 0.49%
51	Mysterious revelation	Hero	—	0	0	—	0.38%	69	1.51% → 0.91% → 0.10% → 0.38%
52	Asura Barrage	Succession	—	0	0	—	0.38%	50	0.29% → 0.38% → 0.51% → 0.38%
53	Piercing a thorn	Hero	—	0	0	—	0.33%	8	0.15% → 0.10% → 0.05% → 0.33%
54	Golden Lotus	Succession	—	0	0	—	0.27%	24	0.00% → 0.05% → 0.10% → 0.27%
55	Moon storm	Succession	—	0	0	—	0.27%	21	0.19% → 1.01% → 0.20% → 0.27%
56	Jump Attack	Weapon	—	0	0	—	0.27%	2	0.44% → 0.34% → 0.46% → 0.27%
57	Sheep Sheep Sheep	Hero	🔻 Nerf	0	0	—	0.22%	23	0.78% → 0.67% → 0.00% → 0.22%
58	Let's study	Hero	—	0	0	—	0.16%	57	0.78% → 0.67% → 0.30% → 0.16%
59	Suhyangmi	Hero	🔺 Buff	0	0	—	0.05%	66	0.78% → 0.53% → 1.77% → 0.05%
60	Star shot	Weapon	🔺 Buff	0	0	—	0.05%	31	0.44% → 0.34% → 0.35% → 0.05%
61	Salt Flower	Hero	🔺 Buff	0	0	—	0.05%	—	0.15% → 0.19% → 0.20% → 0.05%
62	Great Conqueror	Hero	—	0	0	—	—	82	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
63	Flower of blessing	Hero	—	0	0	—	—	63	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
64	Ishtar Gate	Hero	🔻 Nerf	0	0	—	—	57	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
65	Indradhanus	Succession	—	0	0	—	—	52	0.19% → 0.38% → 0.10% → 0.00%
66	Berserker	Weapon	—	0	0	—	—	51	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
67	Immortal	Weapon	—	0	0	—	—	51	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
68	Asura Battlefield	Succession	—	0	0	—	—	45	0.63% → 1.88% → 0.56% → 0.00%
69	Tammuz's blessing	Hero	—	0	0	—	—	44	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
70	Beautiful Star	Hero	—	0	0	—	—	42	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
71	Shadow of the War God	Succession	—	0	0	—	—	40	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
72	Lullaby	Hero	🔺 Buff	0	0	—	—	24	0.29% → 0.10% → 0.10% → 0.00%
73	Poetry of Rock	Hero	—	0	0	—	—	20	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
74	Needle shot	Weapon	🔺 Buff	0	0	—	—	—	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
75	EXTOCIUM	Weapon	🔺 Buff	0	0	—	—	—	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%
76	Meteor	Weapon	🔺 Buff	0	0	—	—	—	0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00% → 0.00%

Usage and equips use the September 2 snapshot. Per equip = usage ÷ equips. Kill-share trends use the July 9, July 15, August 12, and September 2 PK reports in that order. Summon NPC attack records are attributed to their parent summon skills. Arena score uses the rank-reward weighting from the September balance-letter dataset.

✅09.07 Balance & Client Patch

Capital Bulletin

Expedition Desk

Gilgamesh’s Lost Epic — Map 3

Green Field Progression Test

City Desk

Multilingual Review

Terrain & Movement

Crowded Battles

The Asterica Market Column

Random Box Preview

Boutique Reorganization

Market Orders

Corrections Desk

Out in the Field

The most common deck

What We Caught — and What Changes

Balance Patch Details

Ishtar Gate

Salt Flower · Lullaby · Suhyangmi

Targeted efficiency reductions

All summon skills

Direct damage and usability

This Issue’s Spotlight

Closing the weapon-slot gap from both sides

Ishtar Gate and the answer window

Still on the Editor’s Desk

Full moon

Red Bombardment

Babylon’s Cry

Sword master

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