DFOArchive: [Korea] Season 7 Act 13: Knight 3A, Cursed Ruby and Arad Adventure Expansion

Test server note was released on January 27, 2021.
Live server note was released on February 2, 2021.
It adds knight's 3rd awakening along with 10 floors expansion to Cursed Ruby dungeon and new area for Arad Adventure system.

Table of Contents

Knight 3rd Awakening

Cursed Ruby Expansion

Arad Adventure Subjugation

New Subjugation Reward

References

Knight 3rd Awakening

Elven Knight

Straight Damage Increases

+23%, +22.6%, +20.8%, +23%, +23.3, +20.1%, +23.7%, +23.1%

Other Skill Changes

Overwhelm: Attack +22%. The shock wave range is increased. Changed to be usable in the air.
Overwhelm Upgrade: Level 1 only needs 2 TP instead of 3. No longer increase damage once casted in the air. The aerial use function is deleted and transferred to the basic skill function.
Nature’s Protection: Casting speed increases. Super armor added to the cast motion
Chain Rush: Unlimited buff duration. The initial cast cool time is changed to 5 seconds.
Elvish Jump: Attack +5%. No longer increase damage while charging. No longer slide forward while casting. No longer usable in air.
Elvish Jump Upgrade: Level 1 only needs 2 TP instead of 3. No longer increase damage once casted in the air. The aerial use function is deleted and transferred to the basic skill function.
Vanguard Strash: Attack +19.2%. Sun delay is reduced. Z-axis range increased.
Natural Restraint: Attack +11.7%. Y-axis range of vine attack increased.
Lunge Evolution: Attack +17.5%. Y-axis range of rotation attack increased.
Faithful Breakthrough: Attack +20.1%. Y-axis range shield strike increased. Shield destruction attacks increased.
Chain Strike: Attack +20.9%, X-axis range increased.
Nature's Fury: Attack +20.3%. Vine attacks faster after hitting the shield.

New Level 95 Passive: Grace of Life

Changes Chain Rush gauge visuals, duration of holding chain rush increased (3 to ~5s).
Chain Rush:

Cooldown reduced from 30s to 5s.
Automatically applies when entering dungeon and no longer needs to rebuff.
Success area is increased, amount of area shrinking per success is also decreased.
Chain Rush Y-axis increased, has a small pull to put enemy slightly towards EK's frontside.

Elvish Jump:

Now jumps a static distance and lands with a shockwave.
Succeeding with a cast after canceling an animation with it, will have EK auto home on the target (within a certain area).
Charging will turn off auto home.

New Level 95 Skill - Eudia's Citadel

Puts EK immediately at 6 stacks, AoE room wipe as well.

3rd Awakening: Fantasy of Nature

Major changes to Test Server

Unswayable Conviction: Now also reduces skill MP consumption when using Zanbabo.
Blessing of Mother Nature: Now also increase damage for Fantasy of Nature .
Grace of Life: Elvish Jump downward attack will only activate if tracking effect is activated.
Fantasy of Nature: Raw attack damage adjusted due to additional increase from .
Bug Fix

Blessing of Mother Nature: Fixed buff not applied when resurrected by item's effects.
Pegasus Assault: Fixed crashing party members.

Chaos

Straight Damage Increases

+10.1%, +10.2%, +10.1%, +10.2%, +8.9%, +10.1%, +10.5%, +5%, +10.3%, +6.4%, +10.5%, +10.5%, +13.9%, +10.5%, +14.1%, +12%

Other Skill Changes

Fancy Twist Upgrade: 10% increase in the speed of sucking enemies per level.
Evil God Mayhem: Attack +14%. Hit range increased.
Midnight Carnival: Attack +14.7%. Skill casting voice changed.
Massive Fire: Attack +13.8%. Skill casting voice changed.
Smash Brawl: Attack +13.9%. Casting speed is changed to be affected by character attack speed.

New Level 95 Passive: Black Sun

Increases attack of basic attacks and former skills, excluding .
Sacrificial Bomb:

Immediate explosion, doesn't stun minion.

Fancy Twist:

Has a new finisher attack that pushes the enemy right in front of Chaos.
Pressing Z skips immediately to the finishing attack.

New Level 95 Skill: Grand Finale

3rd Awakening: Festival of Evil

Major changes to Test Server

Black Impact: Skill startup affected by Attack Speed.
Grand Finale: Flame duration has been changed. (10 seconds → 20 seconds).
Bug fix:

Fancy Twist: Fixed abnormal suction range

Paladin

Straight Damage Increases

+13.4%, +13.4%, +13.4%, +13.4%, +10.8%, +13.4%, 13.4%, +13.4%, +13.4%, +13.4%, +9%, +13.2%, +13.4%

Other Skill Changes

Basic Attack: Attack +13.5% excluding jump and dash attacks. After the second attack, the delay increases and the next attack is changed to make it easier.

Disruption: Attack +5%. Range of the downward slash increased.
Retribution: Attack +13.4%. Basic skill command changed.
Forgiveness: Attack +13.4%. Holding back stops you from moving forward on final attack.

New Level 95 Passive: Wing of Metatron

Seraphic Feather:

Extra 2 feathers.
Now provides damage reduction. Doesn't stack with and .

Wrath:

X-string reworked to 3-hit x-string.
On third attack will hit a mini-wrath, does 10% of Wrath's damage. After 2nd attack, delay is slightly longer.

New Level 95 Skill: Transcendence Light

3rd Awakening: The Last Revelation

Major changes to Test Server

Wing of Metatron: Starts with additional 2 wings when entering dungeons.

Dragon Knight

Straight Damage Increases

+5%, +11.6%, +10.1%, +12%, +10.5%, +10.1%, +12%, +12%, +11.3%, +12.2%, +12%, +11.3%, +12%, +11.4%, +16.1%

Other Skill Changes

Dragon Warrior Princess: Attack +5%. Cooldown changed (25 seconds → 20 seconds).

New Level 95 Passive: Pledge of Dragon Blood

Dragon Wing: Can cast while downed or getting juggled in the air (Cooldown 7 seconds)

Knuckle Blaster:

Ground Y-axis increase, enemies get dragged to center of Y-axis.
Aerial no longer tracks an enemy, knuckle + shockwave damage changed to just an AoE shockwave.

New Level 95 Skill: Thunder Dragon Kill: Roar

3rd Awakening: Infinity Nova

Major changes to Test Server

Meteor Buster: Changed Super Armor to Invicibility when starting multi-hit attack during Joint Attack
Bug fix: Thunder Dragon Kill: Roar

Fixed abnormal timing the skill can be used when riding and .
Fixed solo downward slash attack being able to be canceled into

Idle Animation

Official Trailers & Artworks

Elvin Knight

Chaos

Paladin

Dragon Knight

Cursed Ruby Expansion

Added 10 extra floors. You can now get chest on 55th and 60th floors.
Cursed Ruby title changed so that it can be obtained from the 46th floor to the 55th floor.
When defeating monsters on the 56th floor or higher, there is a probability that a newly added high-ranking honor reward box.
HP of all monsters appearing in Curse of Ruby is rebalanced.

HP of normal monsters has been lowered.
HP of named and boss monsters has been increased.

As the curse of ruby is expanded to the 60th floor, the hit rate reduction penalty is rebalanced.

Floors 51 ~ 60 are subject to the same hit rate penalty as on floors 46 ~ 50.
The hit rate penalty for floors 21 ~ 50 has been lowered.

New explorer club achievement also added to this new expansion.

Cursed Ruby Hidden Dungeon

When clearing the dungeon on the 6th floor or higher, this area can be found at random.

The higher the number of floors you are playing, the higher your chances of appearing.
When clearing the dungeon, the more times it is not found, the higher the probability of appearing in the next dungeon,
The odds are shared within the account.
It does not appear in the final dungeon on the 60th floor.

When clearing the false haven, you will get the following rewards:

1~2 Ruby Curse Reward Box.
The higher the number of floors to find a false haven, the higher the rank of the chest to be obtained.
Provides one chance to synthesize the curse reward box of ruby

New Cursed Ruby Chest

Called "Shiny Ancient God's Box" that acquired on the 55th and 60th floors.
Beside the usual , you can now get legendary cards/beads.
New accessory cards/beads include:

Fire & Light elemental damage +30
Water & Shadow elemental damage +30
All elemental damage +28

Arad Adventure Subjugation

New area "Mountain of Exiles" added with total 7 dungeons. Its BGM here.
The number of times you can participate in this Subjugation Battle and obtain rewards is applied on a per dungeon/weekly basis.

If you successfully clear the dungeon and get a reward, the "number of rewards available" will be deducted.
If you fail to clear and do not get the reward, the "number of rewards available" will not be deducted.
As long as the number of times remains, you can re-enter the dungeon that has already been cleared to obtain rewards.

For the first 6 dungeons you can run 2 dungeons at once with 2 teams of 4.
At the final dungeon, you needs to enter as 1 party of 8.
NOTE: The first 6 dungeons will have the usual 3 attributes, whereas the final dungeon will have 5 attributes.

In subjugation, the battle continues even if the you get disconnected.
The duration of the subjugation battle is calculated for each dungeon, and the battle is in progress for a specified time, but if the client is connected, the battle proceeds at twice the speed of the specified time.
Various objects that respond to clicks are hidden in the dungeon.

New Subjugation Reward

Basic rewards, these are account bound and reset monthly. All 4 types once open you can get . However will weight more toward talisman box.

Reward for clearing the 1st area (top row).
Reward for clearing the 2nd area (next row).
Reward for clearing Citadel & Outcasted Mountain.
Reward for clearing final boss.

Random rewards, the rewards increase as you get closer to the final dungeon. The higher the clear rank, the more rewards you can get. These are also account bound and reset monthly.

Mysterious Material Pouch: Contains .
Adventure Ruby: Used to recruit adventure mercenaries.
Same type of boxes you get from Adventure Gabriel shop.
Random Talisman and Rune boxes.
Mountain of Exiles cards. Their stats can be found in this Mountain of Exile guide.