Dev Note #90: 3.8 Update Preview #1: Servant Balance Adjustment
Dev Notes
Greetings Heirs, We are here to provide preview of 3.8 Update. ========================================================= New Special Potential Added ========================================================= As we announced in the Update Preview, the next servant will be Aria. 3.8 Update Preview: https://bit.ly/2pMgzpT
In current meta, results of many PvP battles are determined by rather or not ally AoE servant gets to kill enemy DPS servants because Tank servants are often too powerful and difficult to take down. We thought that it was necessary for not only Ignore DEF servants but also ATK Based servants and DEF Based servants to do meaningful amount of damage against Tank servants. This is why we asked for feedbacks about Tank servants in the previous Dev Note. 3.7 Update Preview #1: https://bit.ly/2miCd2Y
We tried to somewhat address this issue by releasing the new servant Aria. As it can be seen in the Update Preview, Aria is a servant that utilizes "Freeze" mechanics. With her Passive, DPS version of Aria attacks the enemy while its DEF has been reduced by n% upon using a Combo Skill on a frozen enemy. Utilizing this Passive, Aria is capable of doing more powerful damage against Tank servants by decreasing massive DEF that the Tank servants accumulated with DEF UP buffs, DEF Up Passive, and DEF Up Wave Effect. One thing we were very concerned about was creating a situation that Heirs are forced to abandon their ATK Based, DEF Based DPS servants that they worked on so hard upon adding Aria. To address this concern, we will be adding "Upon using a Combo Skill on a frozen enemy, attacks the enemy while its DEF has been reduced by n%" Potential to some ATK Based, DEF Based servants on Special Slot #4. The Special Slot #4 Potential will be added to ATK Based & DEF Based servants without any AoE attack. Following servants will be able to equip the new Potential:

========================================================= New Normal Potential Added ========================================================= Currently many Heirs equip Potential that increases Secondary Mark Combo Skill activation resist rate on their Tank servants to prevent enemy from using Combo Skill through Secondary Mark. However, there was no counterpart Potential to "Increase Secondary Mark Combo Skill activation rate" among the Normal Potentials, making it harder for Heirs to take down Tank servants. Therefore, we will be adding new Potential that "Increase Secondary Mark Combo Skill activation rate" to each class to increase the damage output. We expect that many Heirs would like to try changing their Potential once the 3.8 Update arrives. Therefore, we will be giving out 100 Potential Change Stones as an Update reward to assist Heirs changing their Potentials. To Heirs that are planning on changing their Potential, we advice them to put new Potential update into consideration. ========================================================= Relation Effect Change ========================================================= Since Relation Effect has huge impact on the game, we have posted prior notice about the Relation Effect change. Dev Note #89: https://bit.ly/2MI6gMD
To summarize the changes: 1. Servant element will be a factor when it comes to Relation Effect activation. For example, sniping Relation Effect of Fire / Water / Forest servants will activate only against Fire / Water / Forest servants. Relation Effect of Light / Dark servants will activate against all elements. (Fire / Water / Forest / Light / Dark) 2. As we make the adjustment above, we will be adjusting Relation Effect of some Light / Dark servants to become more significant. 3. After we announced the changes above, many Heirs were concerned that it will become impossible to defeat Light / Dark servants that they have been defeating using Relation Effect in PvE contents such as Abaddon or Explore. We received an excellent feedback from the community that this is a good opportunity to increase the use of Nat ★4 servants. Therefore, we will be also adjusting Relation Effect of some Nat ★4 servants so that they can snipe two of the most difficult servants: Light Lenore and Light Heide. Following changes will be made to Relation Effect with 3.8 Update:

We excluded sniping Dark Carmilla, Light Blavatsky, and Dark [Al Heylel from this Relation Effect change because we believe that Heirs can somewhat build against these servants using Potential. After observing how Heirs react to the change, we are planning on making additional changes on Light / Dark ★4 Healer / Support servants to increase their usage. ========================================================= Avatars ========================================================= To Heir of Light that is Dark Fantasy RPG, Halloween is as important as Summer Event or Christmas. Therefore, we will be releasing 4 new Avatars to celebrate this Halloween. Many Heirs have been asking if the Halloween Ankou or Halloween Heylel Avatars that we are giving out for Mysterious Jack-o'lantern Event includes Mark. To jump to the conclusion, the Avatars do include Mark. Also, we want to go over our current Avatar policy along with our future direction regarding Avatars. 1. Avatar can change Appearance, Combo Skill Animation, or Mark Setting depending on the servant that receives the Avatar. In most cases, Avatar will include new Appearance, Combo Skill Animation, and Mark. However, Avatars for servants that already have Avatar with additional Combo Skill animation will only change Appearance and Mark. 2. Once we release a new Avatar, we put the new Avatar on discount until we release the next Avatar. 3. Avatar price is divided into three categories listed below:

Since the new Ankou & Heylel Avatars that can be acquired through event can also be purchased from the shop, these two Avatars will include Mark. However, since these two servants already have Avatars with additional Combo Skill Animation (Multi-Hit change), the Combo Skill Animation (Multi-Hit change) will remain the same as default Avatar for Halloween Ankou & Heylel. Instead, we are selling the Avatars for cheaper price than default Avatar. 4. Since it is impossible to change the Multi-Hit unlike Mark that can be crafted, many Heirs have been asking for new Avatars for servants that have yet to receive new Combo Skill animation. (Multi-Hit change) We apologize about the delay creating new Avatars. There is certain amount of Avatars that we can work on, making it inevitable to delay Avatars for some servants. To address this issue, we are planning on adding Avatars with simple appearance change along with Multi-Hit change to the shop for a low price in 3.9 or 3.10 Update. 5. It was very difficult to tell if the Avatars were on discount or not because the shop didn't display Avatars' original price. Therefore, we are making changes to display both original & changed price to Avatars like below:

========================================================= AoE Servants Adjustment Notice ========================================================= We are constantly putting thoughts on AoE servant adjustment, which resulted in Ignis, [A] Sphinx, and Rem balance adjustment in the last patch. We will continue to make adjustments to other AoE servants. 3.7 Update Preview #1: https://bit.ly/2miCd2Y
We have notified Heirs about our plan of changing AoE servants in the previous Dev Note. We will continue our work on servants with AoE skills on their 1st & 2nd Skill until 3.9 Update. More specifically, we believe that ATK Based DPS servants with high damage ratio will be able to do even greater damage with the new Freeze Potential in 3.8 Update. We will continue to balance out servants with future updates. Today, we covered the servant balance adjustment portion of 3.8 Update. In the next Dev Note, we will be covering community feedback reflection & new content. If you have any question regarding 3.8 Update Preview, please feel free to leave any questions. We will go over the questions in the next Dev Note. Thank you. Flynn
Hello, there are some positive changes and addition you are implementing this update, however I would like to suggest an issue/suggestion regarding the mark/avatar, when heirs buy new avatars on favourite toons, shouldn’t heirs(buyers) be allowed us to choose a mark rather than be given one, this will allow us (buyers) to apply the new avatar to our selected teams. Hence wouldn’t this be better than the current system right now? Both commercially and for players perspective.
looking forward to hell mode. we'll see how the new relation effects play out, but as always...excited for the update
Very good update but :
Light and Dark are too hard to farm. To drop 1 we need to make 75000 fight, 500k valors. so to make it lvl 70 we need to make 450 000 fight...
225 000 with shard x2... 156 days in non stop fight h24 7d
No way
I can paid to get skins, x2 shard.But i m very frustrated about this point. Better to fuse, but farm 5* DL is totaly useless
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