Dear friends! New Year and Christmas are just around the corner, and it’s time to present the changes we’ve prepared. The update will be available on December 20 after maintenance!

Maintenance will take a significant amount of time — we will announce the exact time tomorrow, as a full network infrastructure replacement will be carried out.

📌 Update Overview

• Christmas gift for all players
• 26% promotion
• Holiday rates schedule
• Winter atmosphere
• “King of the Hill” — new dungeon
• New daily quests
• Changes to Dark Swamp
• Completely new monster respawns
• And much more

🎁 Gifts for Everyone! What’s in the pack?

• Ancil equipment level 55 (Tier I) — armor and weapon with +3 forge. The equipment is permanent and will stay with you forever! After upgrading to Tier III, you will be able to forge gemstones;
• Fairy with 1 gene, level 10, matching your profession;
• Backpacks with 28 and 32 slots;
• Experience boosters;
• Cooking buffs for HP and Attack.

This pack is granted to every new player who joins the game from December 19 to January 9!
If you are already an active player — visit Santa (1481, 730) and he will give you your gift!

💎 Promotion: 10% + 16% = 26%

To celebrate the release of this major update, we’re launching a special promotion — the final one this year!

From December 19 to December 21 (23:59) you will receive 10% bonus on any top-up amount.
Also, the bonus calculation has been increased: if it used to be 10%, then until December 21 (23:59) it will be 20%. You can see the full calculation when topping up your account:
https://ascaron.online/?act=payment

From December 19 to December 21 (23:59) there is also a promotion on most items in the online shop where the price of one item exceeds 5 crystals: 16% discount.

📈 Rates Schedule

We understand how important it is to plan your time! That’s why we’re publishing the rates schedule in advance — what the rates will be and when:

From December 19, 18:00 to December 21, 23:59
• EXP ×6
• Fairy ×5

From December 26, 18:00 to December 28, 23:59
• EXP ×7
• Fairy ×7

On December 28 (additional), 12:00 to 23:59
• Drop ×3

From January 2, 18:00 to January 9, 23:59
• EXP ×6
• Fairy ×5

Additional rates during this period:
• Drop ×3
o January 3, 12:00 to 23:59
o January 7, 12:00 to 23:59

❄ Winter Atmosphere

All of Ascaron, Argent, and the Archipelagos have been completely transformed! You will experience an incredible winter dark-night theme, updated monsters, and new music.

This is not just snowfall — the entire continent has been rebuilt: every tree has been repositioned, and the city of Argent has become completely new!

A lot of effort was put into capturing the spirit of Christmas. We hope everyone who joins will be able to feel the atmosphere we wanted to create!

❄ PvP Event “King of the Hill”

What’s a holiday without an event? We’re launching a new PvP event “King of the Hill” — a special dungeon where teamwork, intuition, and endurance matter most.
In this mode, all players are on equal footing, which means victory is decided by coordination and tactics — not gear!

📅 Event period: December 20 to January 9
🧪 Test run: December 19 at 21:00 (under a load of 20–30 players). To participate, we will invite players to Discord, provide a patch, and run the test.

📍 Entry & Schedule

Entrance and lobby: near Mrs Claus (1425, 772)

Portal opening times:
• 17:00
• 21:00
• 01:00

⏱ You have 5 minutes to enter. After that, the lobby portal closes and all participants are moved to the map. If you didn’t make it into the lobby — you won’t be able to join the current session.

Battle duration (until):
• 17:30
• 21:30
• 01:30

🔹 If your game client closes, you can return via Mrs Claus within 3 minutes.

🔵 Team Distribution

At the start of the battle, all participants are automatically divided into two teams:
• 🔵 Blue
• 🔴 Red

PvP mode conditions:
• Player names are hidden
• All players from both teams look the same
• Enemies are marked with a red circle, allies with green

☑ Respawn

• Automatic respawn after 5 seconds (the “Revive in Town” button is disabled)
• Full HP / MP
• 1 second stun on revival
• 7 seconds of invulnerability after respawn
• Buffs are applied automatically

⚔ Scoring System

• Killing an enemy grants the team 1 point
• Goal: score more points than the opponent within 25 minutes
• Current score is displayed via system report every 20 seconds

📌 Balance

• All characters are equalized: stats are set automatically (the only differences are character level and skill progression)
• After respawn, preset class builds are applied:
• Sorceress (Seal Master) — SPR or CON
• Champion (Champion) — CON/STR or STR/AGI
• Voyager (Voyager) — SPR or CON
• Possession and Magic Enhancement are disabled
• Cook and Manufacture are disabled
• New Ice Light Grenades are available in the dungeon. You can obtain them by completing two new daily quests or exchange them with Santa for items dropped by the holiday monsters near the city.

👹 PvE Part: Monster Waves

🦃 Turkeys
• Spawn every minute
• Required for the “King of the Hill” dungeon quest
• Grant cooking effects of level 5+ and a slipping potion (effects depend on class; repeats are possible)
• You can obtain a Refing Gem

⭐ Central Gift

🎁 Appears from the very start and has 10,000,000 HP.

Possible drops:
• Ter Rune
• Kel Rune
• Jewelry Upgrade Stone
• Gem Fragment Chest +5
• Refing Gem

Santa Waves

At the 10-minute mark, the first wave begins: 2 Evil Santas (on the right and left sides of the map). By defeating them, you can obtain:
• Ter Rune / Kel Rune
• Jewelry Upgrade Stone
• Gem Fragment Chest +5
• Refing Gem

After both are defeated, Santas vulnerable only to magic damage appear. By defeating them, you can obtain:
• Ter Rune / Kel Rune
• Jewelry Upgrade Stone
• Gem Fragment Chest +5
• Refing Gem

If 2 waves are successfully cleared (4 Santas total), Dead Santa appears in the center. Possible drops:
• Dragon Fragment Chest
• Kel Rune
• Jewelry Upgrade Stone
• Gem Fragment Chest +5
• Refing Gem

🏆 Rewards

🥇 Winning team
Receives a New Year Chest, which may contain:
• Soul / Rage / Colossus / Strike / Wind gem fragments
• Cracked gem fragments (Wind, Strike, Colossus, Rage, Soul)
• Voucher for a Refing Gem
• Light Bomb Lv. 1 (not tradable)
• Blessing Potion (not tradable)
• Dragon parts: Soul, Heart, Eye, Breath

🎁 Losing team
Receives a Coal Pouch, which may contain:
• Large Luck Booster (not tradable)
• Sturgeon with Bamboo, Bun, Vesnograd Scroll, Shrimp Puff
• Cracked gem fragments (Soul, Rage, Colossus, Strike, Wind)
• Voucher for a Refing Gem
• Light Bomb Lv. 1 (not tradable)
• Prehistoric Blessing Potion (not tradable)

⏹ Map Closure

• The map closes automatically after 30 minutes
• PvP continues until the very end
• Final countdown and reward distribution takes place

📌 Daily Quests

3 new daily quests have been added:

1. “Christmas Stocking” (from Santa Claus)
   Reward for completion:
   • 2 × Prehistoric Blessing
   • 10 × ID Ice Light Bomb (used only in the “King of the Hill” dungeon)
   • +200 reputation
   • +300 gacha coins

2. “King of the Hill” (from Mrs Claus)
   Reward for completion:
   • 1 × Prehistoric Blessing
   • 15 × ID Ice Light Bomb (used only in the “King of the Hill” dungeon)
   • +500 reputation
   • +500 gacha coins

3. “Strange Chest” (from Merry Read)
   Reward for completion:
   • 1 × Prehistoric Blessing
   • 3 × Light Bomb
   • +200 reputation

🌿 Dark Swamp

A new quest has been added! It is connected to the secret chest in the first zone that no one has managed to find!
• Personal Refing Gems have been added to monsters in the first zone
• The personal Refing Gem has been removed from the Zone 1 boss — now even more tokens drop from it
• Damage of Lightning, Coral Beam, Phantom Strike, and Magic Source against Dark Swamp monsters has been increased by 2.5 times
• Monsters have been adjusted:
o Boss damage in zones 1–2–3 increased
o Mini-boss attack speed in zone 2 increased; chance to apply stun ability reduced

🐾 Monster Respawns

Almost every time after a server restart, monsters could shift from their positions. We decided to fix this and improved respawns for all monsters in the key farming areas.

• Autumn Forest — respawns fully changed: monsters are denser and there are more of them; original HP values restored; drop chance reduced
• Sacred Forest — respawns fully changed: more monsters, empty spots filled; item drop chance slightly reduced
• Ice Mountain — respawns fully changed: more monsters; circles are more logical; item drop chance slightly reduced
• Fortune Island — increased number of monsters
• Frost Island — increased number of monsters

⚙ Other Important Changes

Gameplay

1. Potions +5 to stats exchanged for Behemoth tokens now last 10 minutes and do not disappear on death.
2. Items level 15–35 that no longer have value have been removed from the level 15–35 equipment summon scrolls.
3. The HP regeneration of the main boss in the Ancient City has been significantly reduced.
4. Pet Tamer now sells a Pet Level-Up Fruit. The fruit works successfully with a 30% chance.
5. Spirit damage coefficient for the CON build of Voyager in PvE has been changed: 0.25 → 0.65.
6. Magic Source and Phantom Strike now deal ×2 damage to Dragon Island monsters instead of ×1.5.
7. Ranger damage to Sacred Forest monsters and to ice dragonlings has been reduced by 2 times.
8. Grandma Nila exchanges ×20 Fel Runes for ×1 Kel Rune.
9. Entering Behemoth’s Lair no longer requires the quest. You can enter from character level 60.
10. Trees have been replanted farther away from aggressive monsters.
11. Story quests “Lost City” and “Crabs” have been changed. If you have an error on them, please abandon the quest and take it again. For “Lost City” you no longer need to enter the city itself.

Fixes

1. State saving after death or teleport has been fixed.
2. A potential issue that could cause inheriting someone else’s states has been fixed.
3. A potential cause of “migration” of arcane data to characters who don’t have it has been fixed.
4. A bug with UI display on max-level characters has been fixed.