Season 2.3 - Abyssal Scavenge Run

Greetings, Driftmasters, and a very Merry Christmas to you all! Having you fight alongside us on this battlefield is the best Christmas gift we could have asked for this year! After announcing the upcoming Abyssal Scavenge Run update, we received a great deal of questions and suggestions from our Driftmasters. In this developer log, we will address them collectively and provide the full announcement for the S2.3 version update.

2025-12-26

New Features & Content

Features

Abyssal Scavenge Run

Overview

In the Abyss, there are no large-scale alliances—only independent scavenging squads. Everyone shares one ultimate objective: to collect as much treasure and loot as possible.
Every player can freely choose their scavenging strategy, leading to vastly different gameplay experiences:
You can equip expensive, high-tier gear to dominate key areas, clear other squads, and claim their loot as your own.
You can also bring low-cost, low-tier gear to carefully scavenge along the map's edges, avoiding all possible combat.
Or perhaps, through clever strategies and tactical designs, you can use low-tier gear to outplay stronger opponents and hit the jackpot in a single run!

Delving Deeper

The Abyss is divided into three layers. You can access deeper layers through downward portals or choose to deploy directly into them from the start.
The containers in deeper layers offer much richer rewards.

Energie-Zelle

Submit Energie-Zelle to receive random Abyssal Collections (this functions similarly to the Energy Orb mechanic on the surface).

Supply Crate

High-value rewards will be dropped periodically at various locations on the map during a match. Be on the lookout for them!

High-Value Point

The third layer of the Abyss contains a High-Value Point with no direct entry path. It can only be accessed via three internal portals within the match.
This zone holds precious treasures. Fight for control of the portals to hunt for the most valuable loot!

Extraction Point

Each layer of the map has Extraction Points that allow you to bring out all your equipped gear and the items in your backpack.
An Extraction Point must be activated through interaction. After a 2-minute activation period, it will extract all players within its range.

New Warband Positions

New Warband Positions: Assaulter and Combatant

Repair Station Enhancement

New Repair Station function: restore Drifter Endurance

Safe Inventory

New Driftmark Technology: Safe Inventory. Items stored in the Safe Inventory will not drop upon death.

Storage Expansion

New Driftmark Technology: Storage Expansion, unlocks more Storage tabs
New Driftmark Technology: Storage Tab, unlocks additional storage pages

Display Cabinet

New Driftmark facility: [Display Cabinet], where you can view and submit collectibles and claim collection rewards.

Inventory Technology

New Driftmark Technology: more levels of Inventory Technology

Psyche System

New Psyche System: Used to power [Psyche Relics] and [Psyche Armor]. The Psyche Cap can be increased at the Soul Monument in the Underground Bazaar.

Psyche Relic

New Consumable [Psyche Relic]: requires Psyche to use (can be produced at the Supply Depot)

Psyche Armor

New Defense Equipment [Psyche Armor]: Once equipped and energized, it can consume Psyche Energy to absorb a large amount of Damage (Can be produced at the Fabricator)

Tournament Titles and Rewards

New Titles, Occupation Point Rewards in [Tournament] Mode

Hypercharge Collector Experience

Added Hypercharge-related Collector Experience gain: When an item is upgraded to Gold quality, it grants 3 Collector Experience

Basic Attack Auto-Target Setting

New setting: Basic Attack will automatically target the nearest enemy

New Drifters

Nightmare

Night Avatar

When in Night Status, gains 30% Max HP Enhancement, Attack Speed by 30%, Movement Speed by 30%, and Casting Speed by 30%

Dark Domain

Creates a Dark Domain over the target, lasting 6 seconds, enveloping up to 5 nearby enemies in darkness. Enemies within take 254[Damage Rate: 100%] Magic Damage every second, and have their Vision reduced, Damage Boost reduced by 30%, Max HP reduced by 30%, and Healing Received reduced by 30%. When the user is inside their own Dark Domain, they are considered to be in Night Status.

System Updates

Economy

Equipment Acquisition Adjustment

Adjust the acquisition method for T8 and above equipment:
The Trading House only sells up to T7 Equipment.
You can upgrade T7 Equipment to a higher Tier at the Driftmark's [Fabricator]

Rift Shop Adjustment

Adjusted Starfall Token rewards in the Rift Shop: 10 purchases available weekly (purchase limit accumulates weekly).

Shop Inventory Adjustment

[Umbra Quartermaster]

Remove all rune shard selling
Remove Rune Essence ×50 from sale
Dark Vein Supply Crate Daily Purchase Limit: 5 → 3

World Reward Adjustment

Store Update

[Faction Store]

Adjust Equipment Experience Book price 800→400, Advanced Equipment XP Imprints price 2000→1000
The purchasable quantity of Equipment Experience Books has been adjusted: the weekly limit at Level 22 will increase from 20 to 40, while Levels 32 and 38 remain unchanged.
New Daily Purchasable Supplies:
Dark Vein Supply Crate 3
Rune Essence ×50 2
Refined Blade 12 units
Refined Armor Plate 36
Rivet Unrestricted Quantity
New Weekly Supplies:
Equipment Mark ×10 of your choice (Choose 1 from 3 types of T10 Equipment Upgrade Materials)
Level 2 Voucher x1
1 of each of the 4 types of Rune Shards

[Exotic Shop]

New Weekly Supplies:
Optional Rune Shards x5

[PvP Shop]

Repair Tickets: 20 Weekly → 5 Daily

[Warband Store]

Adjusted Equipment Experience Book price 48→24, Advanced Equipment XP Imprints price 120→60

Combat

Equipment Power and Mastery Power Adjustment

Massively increase the Basic Power of all T-tier equipment
The Mastery Power Bonus rules have been adjusted: The bonus per level was changed from +2 to +1.

Skill Mechanics Adjustment

All weapons' single-target Basic Attacks and Common Skills are defined as Basic Attacks and Basic Skills.
Now, other healing sources, besides Bloom Staves and Radiant Fluxes Weapons, will also trigger the Overhealing Buff.

Combat Issue Repair

The Overhealing Buff rules have been adjusted, and the effect now scales with the player's Max HP percentage.
Fixed the issue where [Freshness] and [Holy Baptism] Skills would infinitely resist Control.
Fixed an issue where multiple instances of damage from the same skill would trigger the Shield-Breaking Hood multiple times.
The overhealing mechanism was adjusted: the overhealing effect is now an innate character BUFF.
Fixed an issue where [Starfall Vanguard]'s "Overhealing Buff" skill was not triggering.

Systems

War Time Adjustment

War Time frequency has been adjusted: It will be available daily on the 2nd and 3rd day after server launch, then every other day. The specific times and number of occurrences will be determined by voting.

Open World Activity Adjustment

The [Rise to Power] event in the Launch Events was canceled.
Canceled the [Scrap-post Bonus] and [Harvester Vault Bonus] events in daily event gameplay

Season Merit Acquisition Method Adjustment

The total merit obtainable from Total Faction Contribution has been increased from 300 to 800.
The total amount of merit obtainable from Total PvP Contribution has been increased from 300 to 400.
Remove the method of earning Season Merit by accumulating Myconid Cores.

Downed/Death Rules Adjustment

When killed by summons and vehicles, they will no longer be downed, but will die instead.
In Abyssal Treasure Hunt, being killed by a monster results in immediate death.
When selecting a template for revival after death, the selection time is adjusted to 60s, and the revival channeling time is adjusted to 60s. After revival, a 15s Invulnerable, Silence, Acceleration BUFF is granted.

Loadout Template Rule Adjustments

When outside a Safe Zone, you cannot switch to equipment that is not part of your current loadout. In a Safe Zone, you can make any adjustments.

Drop Rules Adjustment

Surface and Underground Worlds: On death, no Equipment or Inventory items are dropped, and only Durability is lost.
Abyssal Treasure Hunt: On death, drop 1 piece of equipment, other equipment loses durability, and all inventory items are lost (excluding the safe box).

Faction Contribution Rules Adjustment

Daily Legion Rank has been adjusted to Daily Contribution Rank.
New Abyssal Treasure Hunt quests have been added to Daily Faction Missions.
When earning PvP Contribution, Faction Contribution is 40% of the original.
Submitting Guild Resources earns Faction Contribution at 40% of the original amount.

Faction Switch Adjustment

The [Faction switch] function is unavailable during the season, but faction change items can still be used.

Other Adjustments & Optimizations

Fixed some UI Display anomalies.
Fixed some abnormal sound effect issues.
Fixed an issue where picking up certain drops in the Underworld would occasionally cause two loot screens to conflict.
Fixed Shadowseer's ultimate ability playing incorrect animations during channeling.
Fixed the tiger mount's distorted riding animation after being attacked.
Fixed an issue where dismounting while the mount was moving and then remounting would cause the mount to play movement animations.
Heartbeat Detector adjusted to Purple quality, materials required for production increased.
Adjusted the display position of the Shield when using the [Judgment Core] appearance.
Fixed an issue where, in some cases, [Swarm Weaver]'s Bursting Eggs would not fade out after switching Drifters.
Fixed an issue where the exclusive skill's CD would not reset after switching Drifters.
Fixed an issue where the Power display in the Support Station was incorrect in some cases.
Optimized Prism Cloak bullet effect
Fixed an issue where the displayed relocation route did not match the actual route.
Fixed an issue where the Stronghold was incorrectly identified as a map when firing the Railgun.
Fixed an issue where the Scrap-post BOSS would revert to its initial state if all players disengaged from combat while it was casting a Summon Skill.
Fixed an issue where other nearby Warband members were unable to receive rewards when submitting Exergy using a Heavy Exergy IronHaul.
Fixed an issue where other players' guilds were visible in Veinhold Extraction.
Adjusted the loot pickup method: from auto-pickup to manual pickup
Removed territory restrictions on deploying Driftmarks and placing personal buildings.
Reduced the Gather Technology level required for all myconid resources.
Adjusted the global cooldown for switching equipment, items, and skills: 10s → 1.5s
Fixed an issue where the team list was not displayed after switching devices, even though team chat was available.
Fixed an issue where bushes purchased from the underground shop, when placed on a Verge Zone "Giant Fire-Eater Trap", would have their models hidden and not fade out, preventing all players from viewing them;
Fixed the display anomaly of World Map connection routes.
Fixed an issue where invisible walls at some mining spots on the map made them impassable.
Fixed an issue where characters could sometimes abnormally Teleport to the center of the next Map when moving past the edge of a Map.
Mail attachment claiming rules have been adjusted: you must now be in a Safe Zone to claim mail attachments.
Fixed the shop's weekly refresh time
The season inheritance mechanism has been optimized: After season inheritance, characters can unlock their corresponding Legion Ranks without needing to log in again.

Drifter

Drifter Support Station Effects Adjustment

Tayana

Damage Resistance Bonus increased: 3%→1.5%
Damage Dealt Bonus Reduced: -1%→-0.5%

Detailed Changes

Drifters

Aegis

Shield of Conviction

Explosion Damage Rate: 300%→400%
Initial Shield Value: from 30% Max HP to 45% Max HP
Damage converted to Shield Cap: 15% of Max HP → 30% of Max HP
Effect now cannot be dispelled
Cooldown Time: 40s→35s

Izzy

Base / Scaling

Basic Movement Speed: 5→5.2
Strength Growth: 3.1→3.3

Corrosion Barrier

Damage Taken Trigger Interval: 0.5s → 0.3s
Reduces Damage Boost: 25%→20%
Removes Movement Speed reduced effect
Increases Reduced Armor effect by 10%

Acid Blast

Acid Blast increases the Reduced Armor effect by 15%
Damage dealt no longer scales with stacks
Damage per Second: 20%→60%
Cooldown Time: 40s→35s

Swarm Weaver

Bursting Egg

Now the trigger effect of Bursting Eggs can be seen by all players.

Maces

Common Skill

Swing

PvE Damage Dealt: 480%→360%

Greatswords

Sanguine Shardblade

Frothing Rampage

Sanguine Shardblade Sword Energy Flight Speed: 18m/s → 30m/s
While active, increases Attack Speed by 15%.

Firearms

Prism Cloak

Photon Activation

The casting method has been changed from non-Lock-on casting to target Lock-on casting.

Axes

Passive

Bloodthirst

Bloodthirst Marker Range: 15m frontal cone → 12m radius around self
Bloodthirst Mark Interval: 12s→10s
Bloodthirst Mark Duration: 12s → 10s
Now, Basic Attacks and Weapon Skills can both trigger Bloodthirst Mark.
Restores lost HP: 6% → 5%
The buff gained after triggering the Bloodthirst Marker no longer stacks.
Damage increase per stack: 5% (Max stacks 15%) → 12%
Per stack Movement Speed increase: 8% (Stacks up to 24%) → 15%
Attack Speed per stack: 10% (Max stack bonus: 30%) → 20%
Buff Duration: 4s→8s

Common Skill

Tempest Strike

Flurry of Slashes PvP Damage: 90% → 40%
Damage dealt to monsters by Flurry of Slashes: 135% → 60%
Final Hit Damage: 200% → 180%
Can move during skill casting

Common Skill

Rock Smash

Swing Damage Rate: 150% → 200%
Rockfall Damage: 150% → 200%
Removes the damage effect of stones hitting enemies along their flight path.
Upon hitting the first enemy, the stone immediately deals damage and Slows enemies in the area.
Bullet Speed: 23m/s → 32m/s
Increases Skill Casting Speed

Common Skill

Primal Rush

Lunge Damage: 30% → 40%

Emerald Edge

Runic Rebound

Thrown Axe Flight Speed: 25m/s → 32m/s
Returning Axe Flight Speed: 30m/s → 36m/s

Spears

Storm Spear

Aegis Arc

Sweeping Tempest Damage: 300% → 150%
Knocks back targets by 8m → Knocks back targets to 10m from the caster
Disruption Field Duration: 8s → 6s
Reduces Damage Boost: 20% → 30%
The caster's Damage Resistance Increase: 50% → 35%
Adds a second stage effect: Can be cast again within 6s to thrust forward, dealing [Damage Rate:100%] Physical Damage, then pulling enemies back in front of self, dealing [Damage Rate:100%] Physical Damage.

Bow

Common Skill

Piercing Arrow

Cooldown Time: 1s→1.2s

Common Skill

Binding Arrow

Remove additional damage against monsters
Damage Rate: 100%→150%
Damage from additional arrows hitting the same unit is reduced to 50%.

Common Skill

Blast Arrow

Difference in PvE and PvP Damage Increase: Damage Rate: 40% → Damage Rate against Players: 40% / Damage Rate against Monsters: 25%

Ice Foci

Common Skill

Weapon Basic Attack

Casting Time: 0.8s → 0.6s

Common Skill

Frost Beam

PvP Damage Rate: 60%→65%
PvE Damage Rate: 120%→98%

Common Skill

Crystal Frost

Bullet Flight Speed: 12m/s→18m/s
Max Flight Distance: 16m→15m
Cooldown Time: 20s→18s
Immobilized Duration: 2s→3s

Common Skill

Frost Wall

Frozen Time: 1.5s→2s
Cooldown Time: 20s→18s

Common Skill

Frost Roar

Damage Rate: 150%→180%
Movement Speed reduced: 30%→40%
Reduces Attack Speed: 30%→40%
Cooldown Time: 20s→18s

Cryoshard Mask

Frostbound Echo

Bullet Flight Speed: 14m/s→20m/s

Shard of Fractured Ice

Ice Shards

Internal Cooldown: 0.6s→0.5s

Iceshard Comet

Frost Nova

Damage Rate: 250%→300%
Reduces Healing Received: 15%→25%
MP Cost: 20→10
Charge Time: 15s→13s

Frost Matrix

Frostbite

Cooldown Time: 25s→20s

Frozen Conduit

Frozen Phase

Cooldown Time: 30s→20s

Frost's Caller

Frost Slash

Frost Slash Cooldown Time: 1s→1.2s
Frost Slash: Ultimate Cooldown Time: 1s→1.2s

Fire Conduits

Passive

Burst

Difference in PvE and PvP Damage Increase: Damage Rate: 80% → Damage Rate (PvP): 80% / Damage Rate (PvE): 60%

Common Skill

Magma Burst

Damage Rate: 120% → 100%
Casting time: 1s → 0.8s

Common Skill

Inferno Blast

Cooldown Time: 6s → 8s
MP Cost: 12→14

Common Skill

Molten Orb

Burn stacks applied each time: 1 → 2
Casting Range: 18m→16m
The casting method has been changed from non-Lock-on casting to target Lock-on casting.

Common Skill

Oil Zone

Oiled Duration: 4s → 6s
Volatile Burn Duration: 1.5s→2s
Volatile Burn Damage Rate: 56% → 70%
Cooldown Time: 20s→18s

Flame Maw

Molten Blast

Effect Redesigned: Launches a Molten Blast at the target, deals [Damage Ratio: 330%] Magic Damage and applies 2 stacks of [Burn]. Knocks back enemies in front of the caster by 12m. Casting interrupted if target is beyond 25 meters. Casting Time: 2s. Casting range: 18m. Cooldown: 5s. MP Cost: 10

Inferno Core

Core Flare

MP Cost: 20→10
Charge Time: 15s→13s

Radiant Flux

Common Skill

Holy Smite

PvP Damage Rate: 80% → 100%
PvE Damage Rate: 160% → 150%

Divine Resonator

Sanctified Domain

The single instance of Damage and Knockback is replaced with Damage and Knockback dealt to enemies in range every second.
Interval for Damage, Knockback, Heal, and Damage Resistance application: 0.5s→1s
Damage Rate: 300%→200%
Healing Rate: 60%→120%
Damage Resistance Buff no longer stacks
Damage Resistance Bonus enhancement: from 10% (max stack 30%) to 30%
Grants an effect that prevents the skill from being interrupted during casting.

Guardian's Embrace

Divine Vault

Grants an effect that prevents the skill from being interrupted during casting.

Radiant Nova

Sacred Flare

Basic Attack Miss Rate: 60%→50%
Debuff Duration: 6s → 5s

Sol Protector

Sanctuary

Casting Range: 15m→18m
Purify Slow and Immobilize effects changed to Purify Hard Control and Silence effects.
Immune to Slow and Immobilize effects changed to Immune to Hard Control effects and Silence
Can be used while skills are disabled, and upon casting, removes Hard Control and Silence effects from self.

Voidcaller

Passive

Plague Outbreak

Difference in PvE and PvP Damage Increase: Damage Rate: 180%→Damage Rate (PvP): 180%/Damage Rate (PvE): 135%

Common Skill

Toxic Matter

Max hits per target: 2→3
Ricochet Radius: 7m→9m

Infestor's Staff

Parasitic Swarm

Trigger Interval: 0.8s → 0.5s
Adds an effect that reduces 30 Magic Resistance during parasitism (Effect increases with Power)
Cooldown Time: 24s→18s
MP Cost: 25→20