Shield Update Guide: New Island, Rank System September 13, 2025 Full Guide

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Mar 19, 2026
Shield Update Guide: New Island, Rank System September 13, 2025 Full Guide

🏝️ Discover All New Content and Features

  • 🌍 Explore the brand new island added to the world, filled with fresh challenges and discoveries.
  • 👥 Encounter and collect 5 powerful new Shadows to enhance your team composition.
  • 🔑 Unlock and conquer the newly added Key Dungeon for exclusive rewards and loot.
  • ⚔️ Discover and master 7 new unique weapons, each with its own strengths and abilities.
  • 🪙 Find and equip the 1 new Relic to gain a powerful passive advantage.
  • 🏰 Battle through the entirely new Dungeon Map with unique layouts and enemy placements.
  • 🐉 Acquire the new AFK Mount, allowing you to progress even while you're away.
  • 🗡️ Customize your look with the brand new AFK Weapon Skin for a unique idle appearance.
  • 🐾 Obtain the new Spin Mount from the gacha for a stylish way to travel the world.

📈 Progression Updates and Character Advancement

Weapons can now be upgraded to the prestigious Grand Master (GM) Rank. This major progression update, combined with new Talents, brings sword-based combat firmly back into the meta.

🏅 Achieve 2 New Powerful Player Ranks:

  • R (Ruler): Reaching this rank unlocks the ability to craft formidable UGM+ Shadows.
  • R+ (Ruler Plus): At this ultimate rank, your base Arise becomes GM, meaning that the Double Rank Pity system will guarantee you receive UGM Shadows.

💰 Additional Progression Enhancements

  • The crafting prices for Shadows have been adjusted for better game balance.
  • 💎 Introducing Weapon Gems, a new way to customize your gear.
    • You can equip Weapon Gems through the Weapon Stats menu.
    • Each weapon can be socketed with up to 5 Gems for maximum customization.
    • Gems are craftable within the Guild Craft Hub, encouraging collaborative play.
    • These gems provide crucial buffs to stats like Shadow Damage, Weapon Damage, Player Speed, and more.
  • 📊 The maximum player level has been increased to 550.
  • 🧩 The maximum points you can allocate to stats is now 360.

👹 World & Enemy Balance Changes

  • Enemy levels across World 2 have been adjusted for a smoother progression curve.
  • ⚔️ A huge HP increase has been applied to specific enemies to create a greater challenge:
    • Enemies within the Wall Kingdom.
    • Enemies found in the Mage Kingdom.
  • This change is intended to make M+ Dungeons in new worlds impossible to complete without engaging in proper strategy and teamwork.
  • 🧝 The Elf, who serves as the Mage Kingdom World Boss, has been significantly buffed to be a more formidable opponent.

🧠 Unlock Powerful New Talents

  • Blade Tempest: This talent enhances your weapon attacks, giving them a much greater range, equivalent to half of your Shadow Range.
  • Umbral Step: A strategic talent for players with 200 or more Shadow Speed, causing your Shadows to instantly teleport to the nearest enemy.
  • Dungeon Collector: A quality-of-life talent perfect for farming, granting you an additional 3 item slots while inside dungeons.

⚡ Quality of Life (QoL) Settings and Improvements

  • 📢 Added new Storm Breaker Announce Settings to customize in-game notifications.
  • 📏 Added a "Show Range" setting to help visualize your attack distances:
    • A yellow indicator displays your current weapon range.
    • A blue indicator shows your current shadow range.
  • ⏱️ The cooldown on the Auto Roll feature for Gachas has been reduced for faster summons.

🏰 Expanded Guild Updates and Upgrades

  • 🎨 Express your guild's identity with 10 new Guild Colors to choose from.
  • 📈 Guild Upgrades have been expanded, allowing for even greater bonuses:
    • Shadow Boost can now be upgraded for an additional 30 levels.
    • Weapon Boost can be upgraded for an additional 30 levels.
    • More Slots can be upgraded by an additional level.
    • Extra Relic can be upgraded by an additional level.
    • More Coins can now be upgraded for an additional 25 levels.
    • More Gems can now be upgraded for an additional 25 levels.

🎲 Gacha System Updates and Additions

  • ⚔️ A Double Bonus feature has been added, starting on the Legendary rarity tier for the Hero Ranks and Mage Parties gachas.
  • 🌙 The new Demon Moons Gacha is now available in the Slayer Village.
    • This gacha grants powerful Drop Chance Buffs.
    • Obtain Demon Tokens from the Slayer Village Dungeon or its corresponding Key Dungeon.
  • 🛡️ The new Hero Armaments Gacha can be found in the Shield Kingdom.
    • This gacha grants essential Weapon Damage Buffs, with higher rarities also boosting Shadow Damage.
    • Obtain Hero Tokens from the Shield Kingdom Dungeon or its corresponding Key Dungeon.
  • 🏛️ A centralized Gacha Hub has been added to the Guild Hall.
    • Unlock various gachas using Tickets and Gacha Tokens in one convenient location.
    • This quality-of-life feature means you no longer need to travel across different worlds to access gachas.
    • The unlock costs have been balanced to prevent lower-rank players from accessing high-tier gachas too early.

🏯 Castle & Dungeon System Changes

  • 🔁 You can now teleport directly to special bosses in the Infernal Castle, specifically on floors F25, F75, F125, and F175.
  • 📦 The maximum number of dungeon item slots is now capped at 6, a limit that scales with your Dungeon Rank.
  • 🗂️ The new Old Items Button automatically loads your last used Rune setup inside Dungeons, saving you time.
  • 🧩 Discover and use new Runes, which are buyable in the Rune Shop with Tickets:
    • Exp Rune: Provides a +10% EXP boost in Dungeons and is stackable.
    • Core Rune: Replaces Dust drops with Core drops, but this effect is not stackable.
    • Token Rune: Increases the quantity of Token drops in dungeons and is stackable for greater rewards (e.g., changing drops from 1–3 to 1–4).

✨ Dungeon Balance & Critical Fixes Update

This is a big step toward making progression challenging but rewarding!

🔑 Key Dungeon Adjustments

  • Fixed an issue with the Shield Key Dungeon Quest not working correctly.
  • Significantly increased Token Drops in all Key Dungeons for better rewards:
    • Hero Token (XZ Key): Now drops 15–30 tokens, increased from just 1.
    • Demon Token (Slayer Key): Now drops 15–30 tokens, increased from just 1.
    • Shield Token (Shield Key): Now drops 15–30 tokens, increased from just 1.

💀 Enemy and Boss Balance Changes

  • Nerfed the health of several key bosses to improve fight pacing:
    • Shield Boss in the Shield Key Dungeon.
    • Fox Boss in Shield Kingdom Dungeons.
    • Pesadi Boss in Wall Kingdom Dungeons.
    • Feno Boss in Mage Kingdom Dungeons.
  • Reduced overall enemy levels across all Dungeons to make them slightly easier and more accessible after being extremely difficult. ⚖️

🛠️ Important Guild Fix

  • Fixed a critical bug that prevented players from improving their Shadow & Weapon Damage guild upgrades after reaching Level 120.

⚠️ Important Notice: This update is currently only live on dedicated Dungeon Servers and on any newly created servers.

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