Class Balance Update — October 21, 2026

Essence Class Balance Update — October 21, 2026

Introducing class and skill changes: reworked poison and bleeding effects, charge adjustments, improvements to certain attack skills, and updated support abilities.

Numerical values are shown for the maximum skill level.

Dagger Classes

All Dagger Classes

Skill	Changes
Barrage of Nails	Skill casting animation sped up.

Wind Rider and Ghost Hunter

Focus Poison

The effects applied while this skill is active have been reworked:

Triggering Skills	Applied Effect	Effect Details
Deadly Blow,  Lethal Blow,  Throwing Dagger	Noxious Poison	Reduces healing received by 50% for 5 sec. The damage-over-time component has been removed.
Backstab	Deadly Poison	Deals damage equal to 160% of P. Atk. every second for 5 sec.

Noxious Poison is no longer applied by regular attacks or other skills.

Adventurer and Fortune Seeker

Focus Bleed

Bleeding has been split into two effects:

Triggering Skills	Applied Effect	Effect Details
Deadly Blow,  Lethal Blow,  Throwing Dagger	Bleeding	Reduces Speed and Max Speed by 50% for 5 sec. The damage-over-time component has been removed.
Backstab	Heavy Bleeding	Deals damage equal to 160% of P. Atk. every second for 5 sec.

The effect level is now determined by the level of Focus Bleed. Repeated applications no longer increase the level of Bleeding.

Simultaneous Damage-over-Time Effects

Deadly Poison and Heavy Bleeding applied by different characters no longer replace each other. They now remain active on the same target simultaneously and deal damage independently.

Fortune Seeker

Skill	Changes
Coin Flip	Received Critical Chance reduction increased: 50% → 77%.

Assassin

Skill	Changes
Clone Dance	Attack radius reduced: 250 → 200.
Shadow Attack	Attack radius reduced: 250 → 200.
Silver Wolf	Assassins now automatically receive Silver Wolf at Lv. 85 instead of Ride Shining Lady.

Warriors

Duelist, Dreadnought, Titan, Grand Khavatari, Maestro and Doombringer

Skill	Changes
Jump Attack	Cooldown reduced: 20 → 10 sec.

Charge Consumption Changes

Class	Skill	Required Charges
Duelist	Triple Sonic Slash	4 → 3
Dreadnought	Shock Blast	5 → 3
Titan	Titan’s Strike	4 → 3
Grand Khavatari	Punch of Doom	4 → 3
Doombringer	Rush Impact	5 → 3
Maestro	Master’s Touch	4 → 3

Doombringer

Skill	Changes
Rush Impact	The minimum distance restriction has been completely removed. The skill can now be used against nearby enemies.

Maestro

Skill	Changes
Power Hammer Crush	Now grants 1 Force Energy charge when used.
Spike	P. Atk. and P. Skill Critical Rate bonuses increased: 30% → 40%.

General Changes to Charge-Consuming Skills

Each consumed charge increases the power of the skill consuming it by 10%. Consuming 3 charges grants a 30% bonus. Previously, this bonus did not work correctly.

The bonus applies only to the skill that consumes the charges.

Mages

Class	Skill	Changes
Mystic Muse	Ice Dagger	Damage-over-time power increased: 32 → 50. Effects applied by different characters now remain active on the same target simultaneously and deal damage independently.
Archmage	Ignite	Damage-over-time power increased: 50 → 60. Effects applied by different characters no longer replace each other and remain active simultaneously. Repeated use of Prominence increases only the level of the caster’s own Ignite effect.
Archmage, Mystic Muse and Storm Screamer	Arcane Shield	Fixed interaction with damage over time: damage from poison, bleeding, burning and similar effects is now correctly reduced by the shield and consumes MP.

Summoners

Class	Skill	Changes
Arcana Lord	Nature Call	Power increased: 166 → 232. Attack radius increased: 200 → 250.
Elemental Master	Freezing Invoke	Power increased: 166 → 232. Attack radius increased: 200 → 250.
Spectral Master	Curse Call	Power increased: 166 → 232. Attack radius increased: 200 → 250.

Support Classes and Healers

Brilliant Purge

New Skill — Poem of Recovery

Added for Hierophant, Sword Muse, Spectral Dancer, Dominator and Doomcryer.

General Fixes