Ver. 3.38 Update Note

Hello, this is the Vindictus team.

Below are the list of changes available after the version update of July 21st, 2026.

Table of Contents

■ Vindictus: Season 4 Episode 15, "Mortal Thorn"

New Raid Battle, "Golden Tree Hill"

• Added a new raid battle, Golden Tree Hill.

  • Up to 4 players at Lv. 125+ can participate in the battle, located in the Forgotten Land region under Toward Taratha.

  • This battle does not have an Additional Damage cap applied.

  • This battle includes a new boss, Esras.

  • This battle can be successfully completed once per day.

  • It will consume 16% Fatigue Points when you depart.

• The minimum entry stats for Quick Battle are as follows.

• The following items are now included among possible drops. Probability rates differ with each item.

• New titles have been added.

  • You can obtain the new titles "Defeated Esras," "Defeated Esras 50 times," "Voice in the Wind" and "Hahahaha, Fell For It Again!"

  • You can obtain the new title, "The Attack Pattern's Tempo!," in Hero+ mode.

• The uses of the newly added main loot are as follows:

• Golden Tree Hill has been added to the Deific Devotion battle list and the rewards section of the Battle Info UI.

• Added a new raid battle, Golden Tree Hill, to the Battle Circuit list.

  • You must be Lv. 125 to depart for Golden Tree Hill. Characters below Lv. 125 cannot use this Battle Circuit list.

• Added the new episode story: Season 4 Episode 15, Mortal Thorn.

New Items

• 2 new \[Prefix Rank 3] Enchant Scrolls have been added.

  • The new loot can be obtained by defeating Esras in the Golden Tree Hill raid battle. Probability rates differ with each item.

New Equipment

• Added three new equipment: Rare Eriu Weapons, Eriu Gauntlets, and Yoke of Mortality.

• Rare Eriu Weapons have the following stats:

  • Ranks Legendary and above will be updated at a later date.

• You can advance Eriu equipment by right-clicking the item. Advancement has a 100% chance of success.

• When advancing Eriu equipment, if that piece of equipment is shared, the advanced piece will remain shared.

• Eriu Weapon advancement materials are as follows:

• Eriu Gauntlets have the following stats:

• Eriu Gauntlets receive the following stats upon tuning:

  • Increased stats cannot exceed the max tuning stats.

  • Destruction II will be available after reaching the max tuning stats for DEF, CRIT RST, and Destruction I.

• The required materials for Tuning are as follows:

• You can advance Eriu equipment by right-clicking the item. Advancement has a 100% chance of success.

• When advancing Eriu equipment, if that piece of equipment is shared, the advanced piece will remain shared.

• Eriu Gauntlets advancement materials are as follows:

• Added a new ring, Yoke of Mortality.

• Yoke of Mortality has the following stats:

  • The set effect grants CRIT RTE +4 when Yoke of Mortality is worn together with a new ring to be released at a later date.

• Yoke of Mortality can be crafted after acquiring the Artisan level of Goldsmithing Expertise, or it can be obtained through a crafting request.

• The required materials are as follows.

• The success rate for each enhancement level of the Yoke of Mortality, increased stats, and materials required for enhancement are as follows:

• Bonus probabilities based on consecutive failure of enhancements are as follows:

New Item Crafting Recipe

• Added recipe for the Lv. 125 equipment Eriu Hand Armor.

  • You can craft Eriu Hand Armor through Armorsmithing and Tailoring.

  • Every recipe can be obtained (based on probabilities) after clearing Golden Tree Hill while using a Core Boost, or you can also purchase the recipe you want by paying Esras' Essence x2 at the Warm Welcome Shop.

  • Legendary Uaithne Gauntlets are used as material when crafting Eriu Hand Armor. The Tuning stats on the Uaithne equipment used as material will be moved over to Eriu equipment (disregarding Tuning Status).

  • When using Extraction Runes as selected materials, the Enchants from the Uaithne equipment used as materials can be transferred directly to the crafted Eriu equipment.

• Added Eriu Advancement Stone: Hand Armor recipe.

  • Eriu Advancement Stones materials required for Hand Armor advancement, and you can craft them with Artisan Expertise or through a crafting request.

  • Advancement Stones only crafted with tradable materials can be traded through the Marketplace.

• Added recipe for the new Lv. 125 ring, Yoke of Mortality.

  • Can be obtained (based on probabilities) after clearing Golden Tree Hill while using a Core Boost.

Expertise Dismantling

• After you have acquired Expertise Dismantling, you can dismantle the following items:

Eriu Seal Shop

• Added the items below to the Eriu Seal Shop. All items will be bound to your character upon receipt.

Misc.

• Added the "Complete Golden Tree Hill 7 times" category to the Weekly Raid Rewards.

  • Upon completing the mission, you will receive an Esras' Essence Box \[AS]

  • Opening it grants one Esras' Essence, and the contents are bound to the character.

• Added Golden Tree Hill to the "Complete Eriu Raid Battle" mission requirements.

• Added Golden Tree Hill to the Lv. 110+ Region Raid completion requirements for the Mood Mission "Royal Army Request."

■ Special Dungeon

• 2 new Special Dungeons will be added.

  • The boss stats, rewards, and minimum entry stats for Special Dungeons are the same as they were for existing Special Dungeons.

  • Due to changes in the Special Dungeon list, the Battle Circuit list for Special Dungeons will also be updated accordingly. The list will be revised whenever new raid battles are added in future updates.

• Added new crafting recipes for turning the appearances of existing regular equipment into outfits.

  • Can be obtained by completing Special Dungeon battles using Core Boost. Due to the changes in obtainable recipes, previously obtainable outfit-crafting recipes are no longer available from Special Dungeons.

■ Character Utility Improvements

Lann - Common

• Added an evasive frame to Lightning Fury from the start of the skill until it ends.

• Separated the cooldowns for Absolute Fury and Swift Fury.

  • Absolute Fury cooldown: 15 sec / Swift Fury cooldown: 10 sec

• Adjusted the following skills so that they can be chained together more quickly, even before the attack animation ends.

  • Active: Berserker Spirit / Active: Slashing High / Active: Fury No. 7

• Increased the attack hitbox range of the following skills by 36%.

  • Gliding Fury / Absolute Fury / Lightning Fury / Swift Fury / Active: Fury No. 7

• When successfully dodging with Gliding Fury, reduces the cooldown of Swift Fury by 1 second.

• Characters can now use Active: Slashing High and Active: Berserker Spirit even while moving.

Lann - Twin Swords

• Hitting an enemy with Lightning Fury reduces the cooldown of Active: Radical Fever by 2 seconds.

• Hitting an enemy with Active: Radical Fever reduces the cooldown of Swift Fury by up to 2 seconds.

  • The maximum 2-second reduction applies only when all attacks, including the additional attack from Active: Radical Fever, land.

• The damage dealt by Active: Radical Fever, chained after Gust Sting is fully charged, has been reduced by 20%.

• Using Risky Wind restores 10 SP.

• When Double Crescent hits an enemy, the SP restored is set to 30.

• When using Double Crescent, the character now travels approximately twice as far.

• After using Double Crescent, the frames leading into the following skills are adjusted to start after 37 frames.

  • Gliding Fury / Slip Dash / Active: Radical Fever / Normal Attack

• Increased the damage of the following skills by 5%.

  • Double Crescent / Gliding Fury / Lightning Fury / Gust Sting / Active: Radical Fever

Delia

• You can now chain into a normal attack after using Rising Comet and Falling Comet.

• Removed the Smash attack that was used before the Rising Comet and Falling Comet skills, so that it can be used immediately after the normal attack.

  • The motion for the third normal attack is replaced with the Orbital Flurry motion, while the damage and controls remain the same.

• Removed Rings of Saturn and Orbital Flurry skills.

• Starting from the 10th frame after using Active: Zenith, the skill can be canceled with a Guard, Dodge, or normal attack.

• Added an evasive frame to Active: Cosmic Blitz from the start of the skill until it ends.

• Adjusted the frames that chain from Active: Cosmic Blitz into a normal attack. They now chain after 80 frames.

• Adjusted the frames that chain from Active: Full Moon into a Guard. They now chain after 40 frames.

• The status effect Rose's Revenge is removed when its duration ends or when an attack hits.

• Increased the damage of the following skills by 7%.

  • Rising Comet / Falling Comet

Arisha - Spellwhip

• After blocking an enemy attack with A Battuta, if you chain Active: Inspiration and Active: Motivation, 100 SP will be deducted without counting toward your success count.

• The stamina restoration for Active: Inspiration has been adjusted to 10 per second at the maximum rank.

• Adjusted the guard window frame so that it applies up to 25 frames at the maximum rank.

• The number of frames after a failed Guard that allow for a chaining into another Guard has been adjusted to after 28 frames.

Lynn - Glaive

• Increased the damage of the following skills by 10%.

  • Swift Assassin (Including Five Finger Death chaining from Swift Assassin/Zhen Swift Assassin state) / Fishtail Pole / Drunk Mantis / Active: Long Armed Devil

Evie - Staff

• Decreased the damage of the following skills by 3%.

  • Active: Guided Lightning / Active: Ice Blow / Active: Fire Shock

Sanyaa

• Fixed an issue where the Allegro status effect was occasionally not generated.

• Fixed an issue where the Stiletto Shank skill was triggering even when it hadn't been learned.

■ Aggro System Improvements

• The Aggro system has been improves as follows.

  • The weighting for target selection based on close-range proximity, which previously varied by boss, will now be standardized at 30%.

  • Long-range actions are adjusted to generate less aggro than close-range actions, and this criterion is applied on a per-action basis.

  • Adjusted the aggro contribution of combat support actions, such as using potions and armor repairing, to better reflect the actual contribution to the party.

  • Increased the aggro contribution of reviving allies.

  • The aggro calculation of all actions, including attack, defense, and support, will all contribute to aggro. The calculation criteria may change in future updates for further improvement.

■ Shadow's Castle

• Adjusted the bosses that appear in the Shadow's Castle.

  • Black Hammer's Shadow will now appear instead of Pantheum.

• When you open a Basic Eriu Armor Destiny Box \[AS] obtained from the Shadow's Castle, you can receive an Eriu Helm, Eriu Greaves, Eriu Mail, or Eriu Gauntlets, based on their respective probabilities.

• The following enchantment scrolls will be added to the items that can be obtained from the Shadow's Castle B, A, and S Achievement Boxes and the Secret Boxes, based on their respective probabilities.

■ Hero's Leap

• Added Hero's Leap, mission-based content designed to support growth.

  • Hero's Leap is an event-based content designed to support your progression from reaching Lv. 115 through the False Confession battle.

  • You can participate by selecting one character, per account, of Lv. 115 or higher. When new characters are released, the available character slot will increase by one.

  • Characters who have received equipment sharing cannot initiate Hero's Leap, and characters currently undergoing Hero's Leap cannot receive equipment sharing.

• Hero's Leap missions are categorized into Growth, Deployment, and Town Missions. Completing each mission grants rewards that are bound to the character.

  • Characters who have completed all growth and deployment missions can attempt challenges.

  • If you have already completed the mission requirements (including challenges) at the start, you can receive the rewards immediately.

  • Please refer to the event notice for detailed missions and rewards by category.

■ Story

• The quest progression arrows have been modified to no longer appear in some story quests.

• Made improvements so that the story quests listed below can be completed without having to visit an NPC.

■ Items

• Made improvements so that you can use up to 100 of the items listed below at once.

  • The included items have been improved with a focus on frequently used items, and more may be added in the future.

■ Misc.

• Fixed an issue where the area of effect attack used by Semias in the Forest of Abundance normal difficulty battle, when his remaining HP falls below 40%, would not hit targets in certain locations.

• Fixed an issue where the area of effect attack used by Semias in the Forest of Abundance Hero+ difficulty battle, when his remaining HP falls below 50%, would not hit targets in certain locations.

• Fixed an issue where certain sound effects would play repeatedly when passing through specific sections of the Sidhe Palace battle region multiple times.

• Fixed typos in \[Special] Uaithne Equipment Box's tooltip description.

• Fixed Max Durability Increase Potion's item description tooltip to sound more natural.

• Fixed an issue where the strap and buckle on the left shoulder were not visible when wearing the Special Onyx Drape Top with certain body types.

• Fixed an issue where the character's waist would look distorted when wearing the Special Onyx Drape Pants alone with certain body types.

• Fixed an issue where the character's feet would look distorted when wearing the Special Onyx Drape Shoes alone with certain body types.

• Fixed an issue where the character's wrist would look distorted when wearing the Special Onyx Drape Top and Gloves together with certain body types.

• Fixed an issue where the character's hand would look distorted when assuming certain poses, while wearing the Special Onyx Drape Gloves, on certain characters.

• Fixed an issue where the color displayed on the outfit icon was incorrect when selecting a color for Color Part 2 of the Onyx Drape Shoes in the Wardrobe.

• Fixed an issue where the buttons on the shoulder did not appear when wearing the Special Shadow Panther Jacket Top alone as a female character.

• Fixed an issue where the character's arm would look distorted when wearing the All Curves Graceful Swan Top/Bottom as a female character.

• Fixed an issue where the character's waist would look distorted when wearing the Special Varsity Streetwear Set and Special Master Mechanic Shirt together as a male character.

• Fixed an issue where curvy inner armor was applied when wearing the Special Midnight Magic Top/Bottom with certain body types.

• Fixed an issue where the character's waist would look distorted, when moving, while wearing the Special All Curves/Regular Lovely Honey Set with certain body types.

• Fixed an issue where mail could be unintentionally sent as a C.O.D., when specific characters were entered in the mail subject line before sending.

• Fixed the description of the contents on returned mail to make it sound more natural.

• Fixed an issue where mail sent to another character, using Wardrobe Skill in the Wardrobe, would not appear pinned at the top of the mailbox.

• When you use the Buy For feature, using Wardrobe Skills in the Wardrobe, to purchase items for another character in the same account, the items will be delivered to the target character's mailbox, and the corresponding mail will be pinned to the top of the mail list.

• Fixed an issue where a blue notification appears in the Play Guide UI under certain circumstances, even though there are no rewards available to be claimed.

• Removed the Help content for the battle regions listed below.

  • Battle Region - Taratha Royal Castle, Dimensional Rift regions / Battle Region - Lochlann Camp, Sen Mag Forest regions

• Fixed typos in a certain status effect tooltip, which appears when using an artifact with Indomitable Enchant applied.

• Made improvements so that Whispers and Megaphone chats sent by blocked Cairde and characters, while the game is loading after character selection, will no longer be displayed.

• Fixed an issue where in-game sound was not playing when creating a character with a new account.

• Made improvements so that a warning pop-up regarding magic will appear if you attempt to register an Exquisite Enchant Rune while the magic is full in the Enchant UI.

• In the Redeemers guide that appears when progressing the Hero's Sword story, the number of party members, incorrectly listed as 8, has been corrected to 4.

• Fixed an issue where the system message displayed upon receiving C.O.D. mail showed the amount before the fee deduction.

We will always strive to do our best and provide you with the best Vindictus experience that we can.

Thank you!