[01/11/2025] Act 8.3: The Abyss

Content Letter

Act 8.3 Update Overview

Adventurers, a new chapter begins in Act 8.3 with fresh challenges, progression updates, and powerful new rewards!

This update introduces two new maps featuring unique mechanics that require strategic Soul switching to break shields, manage status effects, and avoid deadly enemy buffs when mobs are grouped. To support targeted farming, players can now select two artifact sets per run, allowing more efficient progression and build specialization.

A new major challenge arrives: the Vampire Marie Raid, designed around role-based Soul mechanics, obelisk-healing phases, and advanced team coordination. Earn full rewards for up to 4 runs per day per account. You may continue participating after that, but completion rewards will be reduced like assistant rewards. Act 8.3 also expands the Artifact System with Artifact Blessing Amulets, allowing players to enhance specific sub-stats and better refine their builds. These can drop from the new maps or be selected from the Vampire Marie Raid raidbox. Progression limits have been raised, Perfection and Gear Levels now reach 70, and Ascension and Range Levels increase to 8, with updated upgrade costs that make advancement smoother, especially for 4-star gear. New reinforced items support these enhancements.

Multiple new Souls and balance adjustments arrive alongside quality-of-life improvements, expanding team compositions and strengthening late-game build variety.

New Feature: Abyss Mode

The Abyss is a game mode within the Soul Sync System made up of multiple challenges organized into floors. Each floor consists of two rooms.

To complete this challenge, the player must defeat all the monsters in each of the rooms that make up the floor. The player is rewarded upon completion. Additionally, if they finish within certain time limits, extra rewards can be claimed. Floors will change each time a new Banner appears in the Fortune Wheel. Each rotation will introduce 2 Normal levels and 2 Hell levels. In Normal levels, players can enter solo or in groups, but there will be no ranking. Hell levels, however, will have rankings and can only be played solo.

Rewards reset every week, allowing players to replay the Abyss and earn both the completion rewards and the extra rewards for finishing faster. Additionally, the two Hell levels will feature a high score system, and every 15 days the season will end, granting ranking rewards to players with the best times.

Warning:

In this first season, the system will be implemented in a test phase, so there will be no ranking rewards.

As for the completion rewards, they are also not final. A temporary Token reward has been included. When the first season ends, all players who tested the content will be able to exchange their temporary Tokens for special additional rewards as a token of appreciation for helping us test and fine-tune the content and its future rewards.

News

— The minibosses in the four Act 8.2 maps have been updated so that they can now be defeated once per week as a mini weekly quest to receive special rewards:

•  Permanent Soul Fortune Wheel Spin Coupon x2
•  Soul Crystal x10
• x2 Artifact Set from the boss’s area
• x10 Soul Gem from the boss’s element area

— Now, upon completing the Osdraconis Aetheron Raid, you will receive  Aethereon's Essence.

— You can now craft  Bone Dragon's Tooth or Abyss' Soul Piece (maximum 4 per each per week) using the following items:

•  Aethereon's Essence x20
•  Soul Crystal x5
•  Titan Bar of Gold x1

— New Artifact Blessing Amulet have been added, when used to upgrade an artifact, they increase the chance of enhancing the selected sub-stat.

• These amulets can only be used on 5-star artifacts.
• If the artifact already has that sub-stat and all possible sub-stats are filled, the amulet will only increase the probability of improving its value.
• These amulets will drop randomly in the new Act 8.3 maps, and you can also obtain them as a reward from the raid chest in the new Raid. In that case, you'll be able to choose an amulet with the sub-stat you want.
  • From the  Raid Box: Vampire Marie, you can obtain the  Artifact Blessing Amulet Scroll, which allows you to select the amulet you want.
  • From map drops, you can obtain the  Artifact Blessing Amulet Random Box, which gives you a random amulet.

— Two new maps have been added, featuring new mechanics and combinations.

• New mechanics:
  • Monsters now have shields that must be broken using either basic attacks or skills, respectively, before they can take damage. For maximum efficiency, switching between Souls will be essential to trigger healing synergies and extra effects that help you break enemy shields faster and remove negative status effects applied by enemies.
  • The monsters are organised into small camps and cannot be grouped together; if they are grouped together, they will receive a powerful boost, becoming almost immortal and capable of one-shotting your team.
• New maps and combinations:
  • First Map: Forest Power Station (Recommended for Skill and Elemental Souls)
    • Elemental reactions shine the most in this map.
    • Elemental Artifacts can be obtained here.
  • Second Map: Temple Outpost (Recommended for Basic Attack Souls)
    • Physical DPS shine the most in this map.
    • Physical, Tank, and Support Artifacts can be obtained here.

— Upon entering the new map farming instance, players may select two artifact sets to be eligible as enemy drops, allowing more targeted farming of desired artifacts.

— The main stats of artifacts outside the Soul System content apply at half of their value.

— Within the Soul System content, the flat energies of items have a maximum cap to balance elemental and non-elemental souls along with the combinations of the new elemental reactions.

— The new raid  Vampire Marie’s Raid has been added in Act 8.3:

• The Boss and the Minibosses have mechanics that require using different Souls to fulfill classic roles: Damage, Tank, and Support.
• Heal the obelisks as part of the boss mechanics to complete the raid.
• Rewards are limited to 5 runs per day per account. Additional runs are allowed, but only assistant rewards will be granted beyond the daily limit.

— The maximum Perfection and Gear Level have been increased from 60 to 70, and the maximum Range and Ascension Level have been increased from 7 to 8.

— The materials and gold to upgrade the different levels of Perfection, Gear, Ascension, and Range Level have been updated. Additionally, the system has been adjusted so that 4-star items require fewer resources than 5-star items.

— The following materials have been added:

•  Reinforced Abyss' Soul Piece - Upgrade Range Level from 7 to 8:
  •  x1 Abyss' Soul Piece
  •  x999 Equipment Essence
  •  x1 Titan Bar of Gold
  • x1 Marie's Bloody Stone
•  Reinforced Bone Dragon's Tooth - Upgrade Ascension Level from 7 to 8:
  • x1 Bone Dragon's Tooth
  • x999 Equipment Essence
  • x1 Titan Bar of Gold
  • x1 Marie's Bloody Stone
•  Marie's Bloody Stone
  • x6 Marie's Essence
  • x1 Titan Bar of Gold

— New souls have been added and modifications have been made to existing ones:

— Partner specialist Twisted Yertiran has been added.

Changes

— The layout of the highscore window sections has been modified to add the new Abyss categories.

— The Hellbound Archangel no longer removes role buffs.

— The debuff of the Shadow Tower 10 boss that reduced hit rate by 10% has been changed to a damage reduction instead.

— Now the 4-star partner equipment scrolls can be traded and sold.

— Now, the same partner equipment pieces cannot be equipped on different Souls.

— Now, if you have that 5-star partner equipment piece with Reforge Level 6 or specialist partners with Connection Level 6, you’ll be able to exchange their scrolls for:

• 4-Stars: 295 Soul Blessings
• 5-Stars: 2655 Soul Blessings
• Banner 5-stars: 3200 Soul Blessings

— Now healing and mana recovery stats will take into account the bonuses from the soul that activates the effect.

— Now, partner weapons and armor will have Shell Stats and Rare depending on their Reforge Level:

Warning: As a small compensation for the change in the Shell system for partner equipment, players have received the following items for each 5-star equipment:

•  x50 Sealed Heroic Amulet (Random Shell) (Limited)
•  x5 Weapon Banner Fortune Wheel Spin Coupon

— Now Raid Hell bosses will be able to see hidden players.

— The following changes have been made:

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All changes are subject to change. It’s very likely that during the first week, adjustments will be made to PvE content for better balancing, and record times may be reset.

We recommend that, during the first 7–10 days, you avoid attempting any record times in PvE content—both Hell and Tryhard—because timers are likely to be reset.

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Best regards,
 Eastmile Team