Windstrike has now been converted to a daily non-god raid as an initial trial to ensure the conversion process works as intended before converting the remainder of the Captcha Gods. Drop rates for Windstrike and future converted gods will be balanced according to their previous respawn rate.

We have now completed previously mentioned rebalancing of Amulet rewards for god raids in preparation for upcoming changes to Captcha Gods, including the addition of the 100 Amulet Chest. Amulet of Achievement rewards have been removed from all Captcha Gods and have been added to Prime Gods and rebalanced resulting in a slight overall increase to the average Amulets awarded from god raids over time. A table with this information and more has been pinned in the help-questions channel of our discord server.



Due to the overall updates with Prime Gods in general, we will not be removing points from older god raids to balance for new expansion gods as we have done in the past when the final god of an expansion is released, therefore if these usual balance changes happen in the future they won't happen until the end of the next expansion at the earliest. This change results in an average increase of 15% to overall point rewards from god raids over time.

The following gods have now been converted to Prime Gods with an increase in strength:

- Akkel the Enflamed Warrior
- Nayark the Mummified Sorcerer
- Amalgamated Apparition
- Archdevil Yirkon
- Keeper of Nature
- Zikkir the Dark Archer
- Sarcrina the Astral Priestess
- Ancient Magus Tarkin
- Volgan the Living Ironbark
- Jorun the Blazing Swordsman

In addition to this update we have rearranged drop sources for the Nexus of Conform and Nexus of Fortitude. The Nexus of Conform now drops from the 5 Phoenix gods, Q-SEC Commander, Kretok, Felroc and Karvaz. The Nexus of Fortitude now drops from the 5 Elemental Masters and the 10 above mentioned Astral Rift gods.

We would like to share an early update on some previously mentioned event changes planned for Cycle 4. Tier Trainer mobs in the Farmers Market have now been updated to Cycle 4 strength. In addition to this, the following collecting shard / insignia quest requirements will change as follows:

250 > 300
350 > 400
500 > 550
750 > 800
1250 > 1350
2000 > 2100

Over the coming days we will begin the captcha god conversion process by converting the 10 remaining Astral Rift gods to Prime Gods. We will then begin weekly releases of new challenge gear at the end of the month, along with price reductions to old gear challenges.

We have lowered the rarity of some King, Brutal and Godly quality items. Some of these changes include:

- Blazing, Voidmaker and Shadehunter have been reduced to Brutal rarity.
- Valorous, Cosmic and Exalted Perfection have been reduced to Godly rarity.
- Profound, 8-Bit, Platinum, Blackhand and Brawler have been reduced to Elite rarity.

The Trial of Power has concluded. Arkron, God of Trials is now ready to test your strength. Defeat him to prove yourself worthy of his rewards!

Congratulations to the Trial Insignia Contest winners, please submit a support ticket to claim your prizes.

The Trial Merchant and Tier Traders will remain in Rallis with all quests for 1 week, at which point ToP quest items will also be removed.

We would like to share an update on our current plans with the remaining Captcha God raids. We now have a multiple step plan created involving converting some Captcha Gods to Prime Gods, while most remaining Captcha Gods will be converted to timed spawn non-god raids. We plan to begin this process in the weeks following the Trial of Power once we have completed the Cycle 4 rarity updates.

Step 1 will involve converting the 10 remaining Astral Rift gods to Prime Gods and increasing their power to be slightly weaker than Elemental Masters. These will be the final Captcha Gods converted to the Prime God system.

Step 2 will be a rebalance of amulet rewards, rage requirements and adjustments to some quest rewards and god loot rewards. We plan to move all Amulet of Achievement rewards to Prime God raids and balance accordingly, along with creating a new 100 Amulet Chest to help with crew vault space. Rage requirements for all gods will be rebalanced (in most cases increased) partly due to the current rage costs of Prime Gods being the same value as their pre-conversion cost which was not designed for the Prime God system. As previously mentioned one of our goals is to avoid creating any circumstances of mass abusable content when making the step 3 changes, therefore step 2 will involve some preparation changes to quest rewards and god loot to prevent any mass abuse scenarios.

Step 3 is converting all remaining Captcha Gods to daily spawn non-god raids (similar to ethereal raids etc) and adjusting loot rates as required. This step may be done in multiple waves.