Nightfall Sanctuary

The Enrage timer for the following Nightfall Sanctuary bosses has been reduced.

• The Peacekeeper

• The Shield Bearer

Gangshi/Tongshi

• Keeper's Protection Beam will no longer cause instant death but will inflict damage instead.

The Peacekeeper

• Removed Tank range check.

• Disturb Composure will no longer cause instant death but will inflict damage and a debuff instead.

• Split Soul has been removed and is no longer needed to transfer Doom Mode.

• Binding Barriers spawns will no longer increase when HP is below 50%.

• Failing the Doom mechanic will no longer cause instant death but will inflict damage to the targeted player instead.

The Scorptamaton

• Some of the skills’ damage have been reduced.

• The 35% phase has been adjusted to be the same as the 65% phase.

• Heatwave’s duration has been increased from 10 seconds to 15 seconds.

• Heatwave and Flame will no longer cause instant death upon expiration but will inflict damage and a debuff instead.

• Being absorbed by Scorptamaton without Heatwave will no longer cause instant death but will inflict damage instead.

  • Scorptamaton’s HP regeneration and Threat will also be reduced.

• Flame Wedge’s knockback effect and damage can now be resisted.

Grand Celestial Emperor

• Most instant death effects have been changed to inflict damage instead.

• Overlapping Blinding Storms and Fallen Soul Storms no longer enrages the boss.

• Submission will no longer cause Daze but inflict an immobilize effect instead.

• Blinding Power Trace and Fallen Soul Trace will no longer be given to designated targets. Instead, the effect will be given to the target who first steps on each Flamewave Region.

• Reduced the Flamewave Region gauge recharge.

The Peacekeeper

• Reduced Barrier Cube explosion range to 8m.

• Removed Knockback after Knockdown.

• Changed continuous Knockback skills to only Knockback once.

• Trapped player can now be saved with Stun, Daze, or Knockback abilities.

The Shield Bearer

• Strike can now be blocked.

The Scorptamaton

• Changed Heatwave explosion to only kill the bomb holder.

• Reduce shared damage from Embers.

• Removed damage from Flame buff chain.

• Missile enraged conditions changed from 3 to 5.

Grand Celestial Emperor

• Target with Superior Status debuff will now increase threat.

• Gauges no longer fill up from damage taken by players.

• Flamewave Continuous Damage will only stack once when the battle starts. When Boss changes attributes, Flamewave Continuous Damage no longer increases.

• Reduced Grand Celestial Emperor Amplification gauge recharge.

• Reduced Flamewave Ring charging amount.

• Flamewave Sword Fall’s Daze effect can now be removed with Escape skills.

• Flamewave Pillar no longer causes knockback.

• Repeated hits by Flamewave Chain no longer cause instant death.

Scorptamaton now casts Supernova when missiles reach the wall 3 times, up from 2.

If Scorptamaton absorbs a player not affected by Scorch it will now recover 10% HP instead of enraging.

Adjusted mechanics and reduced the difficulty of the Grand Celestial Emperor encounter.

All NPCs have had their HP reduced.

The Peacekeeper

• Reduced the range of the knockback when changing stances.

• Soul Shackle is now increased at 50% instead of at 60% and 30%.

The Shield Bearer

• The outer area now takes 1 second to cause instant death if conditions are not met, up from 0.5 seconds (also applies to Hall of the Templar)

• The Shield Bearer no longer enrages if 5 stacks of Resonance are not cleared.

• The damage dealt when clearing stacks of Resonance has been adjusted for up to 8 characters.

• The Shield Bearer will no longer enrage when reaching 35 stacks but will still recover HP.

Scorptamaton

• Bombard can now be resisted.

• Scorptamaton will no longer enrage from breaking too many links when transferring Flame.

Grand Celestial Emperor

• Adjusted mechanics for Distortion

• Fixed an issue where Distortion would not display correctly on certain graphics options.

• Receiving two stacks of Reverse Reflux no longer causes instant death.

Flamewave Tablet no longer applies a slow effect during the Grand Celestial Emperor encounter.

The red pillar now deals damage instead of causing instant death during the Grand Celestial Emperor encounter.

Only the targeted player is now killed when failing the Doom mechanic in the Peacekeeper encounter

The player with the highest Threat can no longer be targeted for Soul Burst in the Peacekeeper encounter.

Fixed an issue where the Emperor's Glyph mechanic was not functioning properly during the Shield Bearer encounter.