Patch Notes 102: The Catalepticon

Start the new year right in TERA with patch 102—the first update of the year with two brand-new instances, new gear, and dungeon improvements!

New Instances

A total of four new instances are being added: two brand-new ones, and two you haven’t seen in TERA for a long, long time!

The Catalepticon (Hard)

Instance Info:

• Designed for 5-player groups from item level 501
• No entry limits
• Accessible from level 70
• Can be entered via group matching
• Entry costs 350 Adventure Coins
• 50%/100% more loot when 4/5 players are in the group
• Added dungeon to the dungeon rankings

Possible Loot Includes:

• Ishara’s Halidom II, Amarun’s Relic II
• Magic Ingot
• Lumikan’s Horn Piece
• Soul Greedhead’s Option Change Scroll [Weapon]
• Soul Greedhead’s Option Change Scroll [Armor]
• Etching IV (Brooch)

Daily Quest Rewards (per completion, for the first 16 daily quests):

• 6,000 Gold
• 100x Vanguard Initiative Credits
• EP XP++
• 1x Dragonwing Scale
• 100x Noctenium Infusion

The Catalepticon

Instance Info:

• Designed for 5-player groups from item level 498
• No entry limits
• Accessible from level 70
• Can be entered via group matching
• Entry costs 280 Adventure Coins
• 50%/100% more loot when 4/5 players are in the group

Possible Loot Includes:

• Ishara’s Halidom I, Amarun’s Relic I
• Magic Alloy
• Lumikan’s Wing Fragment
• Soul Greedhead’s Option Change Scroll [Weapon]
• Soul Greedhead’s Option Change Scroll [Armor]
• Azart Force War Trophy Chest

Daily Quest Rewards (per completion, for the first 16 daily quests):

• 4,500 Gold
• 75x Vanguard Initiative Credits
• EP XP++
• 1x Dragonwing Scale
• 75x Noctenium Infusion

Ruinous Manor (Hard)

Instance Info:

• Designed for 5-player groups from item level 501
• No entry limits
• Accessible from level 70
• Can be entered via group matching
• Entry costs 350 Adventure Coins
• 50%/100% more loot when 4/5 players are in the group

Possible Loot Includes:

• Ishara’s Halidom II, Amarun’s Relic II
• Magic Ingot
• Soul Greedhead’s Option Change Scroll [Weapon]
• Soul Greedhead’s Option Change Scroll [Armor]
• Etching IV (Brooch)

Daily Quest Rewards (per completion, for the first 16 daily quests):

• 6,000 Gold
• 100x Vanguard Initiative Credits
• EP XP++
• 1x Dragonwing Scale
• 100x Noctenium Infusion

Ruinous Manor (Easy)

Instance Info:

• Designed for 5-player groups from item level 479
• No entry limits
• Accessible from level 70
• Can be entered via group matching
• Entry costs 200 Adventure Coins
• 50%/100% more loot when 4/5 players are in the group

Possible Loot Includes:

• Kaia’s Gear Box
• Improved Dark Shard Weapon Feedstock
• Improved Dark Shard Armor Feedstock
• Rare Relic or Halidom II
• Etching II (Earring, Necklace)
• Azart Force Loot Chest
• Azart Force War Trophy Chest
• Unstable Soul Option Change Scroll [Weapon]
• Unstable Soul Option Change Scroll [Armor]
• Blightoath Medallion

Daily Quest Rewards (per completion, for the first 16 daily quests):

• 3,500 Gold
• 40x Vanguard Initiative Credits
• EP XP++
• 1x Dragonwing Scale
• 30x Noctenium Infusion
• 40x Skill Advancement Scroll II
• 25x Skill Advancement Scroll III
• 20x Skill Optimization Scroll II

Gossamer Vault (Easy)

Instance Info:

• Designed for 5-player groups from item level 464
• No entry limits
• Accessible from level 66
• Can be entered via group matching
• Entry costs 180 Adventure Coins
• 50%/100% more loot when 4/5 players are in the group

Possible Loot Includes:

• Kaia’s Gear Box
• Improved Dark Shard Weapon Feedstock
• Improved Dark Shard Armor Feedstock
• Rare Relic or Halidom I
• Equipment Etching IV
• Azart Force Loot Chest
• Azart Force War Trophy Chest
• Unstable Soul Option Change Scroll [Weapon]
• Unstable Soul Option Change Scroll [Armor]

Daily Quest Rewards (per completion, for the first 16 daily quests):

• 3,000 Gold
• 40x Vanguard Initiative Credits
• EP XP++
• 1x Dragonwing Scale
• 30x Noctenium Infusion
• 40x Skill Advancement Scroll I
• 25x Skill Advancement Scroll II
• 20x Skill Optimization Scroll I

Changes to Existing Instances

Breakdown

The breakdown of instances from level 66 is now as follows:

Instance Name	Level	Adventure Coins	Entries	Item Level
Gossamer Vault (Easy)	66	180	No limit	464
Akalath Quarantine	70	200	No limit	479
Ruinous Manor (Easy)	70	200	No limit	479
The Catalepticon	70	280	No limit	498
Forbidden Arena [Undying Warlord]	70	280	No limit	498
Corrupted Skynest	70	280	No limit	498
Draakon Arena	70	280	No limit	498
Corrupted Skynest (Hard)	70	350	No limit	501
Bahaar’s Sanctum	70	350	No limit	501
The Catalepticon (Hard)	70	350	No limit	501
Ruinous Manor (Hard)	70	350	No limit	501
Sea of Honor	69	0	1/2 (per day)	446–475
Commander’s Residence	70	300	1/2 (per week)	479

The rewards and the strength of the opponents have been adjusted accordingly. The solo dungeons have also been reworked to focus on skill advancement scrolls and old enchanting materials.

Removed Instances

The following dungeons are closing their doors:

• Sky Cruiser (Hard)
• Forbidden Arena [Nightmare Undying Warlord]
• Draakon Arena (Hard)
• Grotto of Lost Souls (Hard)
• Forbidden Arena [Hagufna]
• Gossamer Vault (Hard)
• Antaroth’s Abyss (Hard)
• RK-9 Kennel
• Red Refuge
• Thaumetal Refinery
• Macellarius Catacombs
• Velik’s Hold
• Velik’s Sanctuary

Training grounds belonging to the listed dungeons will be removed from the game accordingly. Dungeon Gauntlets will also be removed with this update for the time being.

New Gear

There’s also new gear to be had in patch 102: Kaia’s Soul Gear! To kick things off a weapon and armor will be available in January, with hand and foot armor following in patch 103. New items (accessories) are currently not planned for this set.

How to get the new gear:

The Kaia’s Soul set is an upgrade to Kaia’s Wisdom/Fury Gear and works as follows:

• You Kaia’s Wisdom/Fury armor or weapon must be at +15.
• The item must be soulbound to you.
• You need 10x Lumikan’s Wing Fragment and 5,000 Gold.

If you fulfill these requirements, you can upgrade your gear with a single click (100% chance of success). The new item will be immediately bound to you, but it can be liberated five times (used number is reset).

The upgrade transforms your item into a Kaia’s Soul item with 0 of 3 possible random options, regardless of whether the original item had 0 or 3 options.

Etchings and fusion options are also lost when upgrading. However, new options and etchings can be added using the existing systems.

How to enchant your items:

Kaia’s Soul Gear can be enchanted up to +9 and will never lose an enchantment level that has already been reached. So if you have reached +8, you will be able to reach an even higher level but you will never fall back to +7!

Other than this one alteration, the system remains unchanged. Only the materials and their sources are new:

Item	Function	Source
Lumikan’s Wing Fragment	Upgrading, enchanting (0-9)	Catalepticon, Azart Force Loot Chest, Triumph Token Collector
Lumikan’s Horn Piece	Enchanting (6-9)	Catalepticon (Hard), Azart Force War Trophy Chest, Triumph Token Collector
Magic Alloy	Enchanting (0-6), repairing (0-6)	Draakon Arena, Catalepticon, Corrupted Skynest, Forbidden Arena [Undying Warlord], Development Merchant, Triumph Token Collector
Magic Ingot	Enchanting (6-9), repairing (6-9)	Bahaar’s Sanctum, Catalepticon (Hard), Ruinous Manor (Hard), Corrupted Skynest (Hard), Development Merchant, Triumph Token Collector

The chances of success when enchanting are shown in game, and a familiar feature is making a return: enchantment correction. Each unsuccessful enchantment attempt slightly increases your chances of success the next time you try!

How to get more options:

The system is identical to the current one. However, there will be new scrolls that allow options on gear to be redone.

The functions and sources of the scrolls are as follows:

Item	Function	Source
Kaia’s Soul Cryolite	Keep Kaia’s Soul Gear option	Extraction from Kaia’s Soul Gear +6 and higher, Triumph Token Collector
Soul Option Change Scroll [Weapon, Armor]	Change all options at random (number remains unchanged)	Draakon Arena, Catalepticon, Corrupted Skynest, Forbidden Arena [Undying Warlord], Triumph Token Collector
Soul Greedhead’s Option Change Scroll [Weapon, Armor]	Change all options, desired options can be retained	Bahaar’s Sanctum, Catalepticon (Hard), Ruinous Manor (Hard), Corrupted Skynest (Hard), Triumph Token Collector
Unstable Soul Option Change Scroll [Weapon, Armor]	Change all options and number of options at random	Commander’s Residence, Gossamer Vault (Easy), Akalath Quarantine, Ruinous Manor (Hard), Triumph Token Collector

The effects are as follows:

While you can no longer drop to a lower level from enchantment levels +7, +8, and +9, they are time-consuming to reach—and for good reason: reaching these levels activates additional powerful effects that grant you an advantage in instances.

Item Type	Enchantment	Effect
All	7	1% increased attack speed
All – tank and physical damage	8	Increased physical amplification (number varies depending on the item)
All – healer and magic damage	8	Increased magic amplification (number varies depending on the item)
Weapon – tank and physical damage	9	Critical hits increase your “ignore physical resistance” by 18,000 for 15 seconds (60-second cooldown)
Weapon – healer	9	Critical hits increase your magic resistance by 20,000 for 15 seconds (60-second cooldown)
Weapon – magic damage	9	Critical hits increase your “ignore magic resistance” by 18,000 for 15 seconds (60-second cooldown)
Armor	9	You are invincible for 3 seconds after being resurrected
Hand Armor	9	30% chance of critical hits increasing your attack speed by 20 for 15 seconds (60-second cooldown, cannot overlap with Lein’s Dark Root Beer)
Foot Armor	9	If your HP falls below 40%, you receive a protective shield that absorbs up to 50,000 damage for 2 seconds (300-second cooldown)

Old Gear

To make the road to new gear a little easier for all players—both newcomers and veterans—the following changes have been made:

• Enchant rate greatly increased, and each failure now adds a 1% correction rate.
• Significantly reduced required number of enchanting materials.
• Reduced Gold price and cost of repair items by one third.
• Greatly reduced probability of damaging an item and falling a level.
• Reduced costs of Serghetto’s Safeguard and Gear Protector.
• Lowered level required for Kaia’s Wisdom/Rage Gear to 65.

Many other elements relating to the old armor set have also been adapted, including:

• The items received during extraction.
• Removed glow effect of old equipment that was available as loot from monsters.
• Reduced cost of upgrading to Kaia’s Wisdom/Rage Gear.

Items

There have also been lots of changes to existing items:

• Serghetto’s Gear Protector
• Identical items can be used for the new gear.
• Serghetto’s Safeguard
• Can be transformed into Serghetto’s Gear Protectors at a ratio of 1-to-3, as the new gear can no longer drop a level.
• Golden Cryolites
• Greatly reduced crafting costs.
• Various Duranium Items
• Can now be stored in the guild bank.
• Various Etchings IV
• Can no longer be extracted.
• Various Etchings
• Can now be applied from level 65.
• Some items can now be sold to merchants—some for less Gold than previously.
• Adjusted crafting of various items (Duranium and * materials for crafting etchings).
• Changed contents of boxes for new players (levels 3 to 70).
• Reduced difficulty of leveling up Halidoms and Relics as well as the cost of doing so.

Merchants

• Serghetto’s Mystery Market
• Can now contain new enchanting materials
• Can now even contain Amarun’s Relic or Ishara’s Halidom III
• Free Exodor Reputation Shop
• Added Improved Dark Shard Armor Feedstock
• Removed more common feedstock
• Exodor Justicar Reputation Shop
• Added Improved Dark Shard Weapon Feedstock
• Removed more common feedstock
• Renamed Magic Merchant to Development Merchant
• Adjustment of contents
• Bellicarium Shop
• Removed old enchanting materials

Card Fragments

Two new cards have been added—each in all three rarities. These can only be obtained in the corresponding instances.

• Lumikan
• Catalepticon

Additionally, the value of cards sold to merchants has been reduced.

Battleground Changes

Choice of Battlegrounds

In addition to the reworked battleground rewards, the choice of available battlegrounds has also been adjusted. The following battlegrounds will be available with patch 102:

• Corsairs’ Stronghold
• Shore Hold
• Underground Battlepit
• Champions’ Skyring (Solo)

Vanguard Initiative Rewards

Corsairs’ Stronghold

Item	Number
Gold	3,000
Credits	45
Veteran’s Fragment Box	2
Veteran’s Cube Token	1
Noctenium Infusion	85
EP XP++	1,518
(Random) Skill Advancement XP Tome Box	1
Experience points	91,054,080
Triumph Token	25

Shore Hold

Item	Number
Gold	2,500
Credits	55
Veteran’s Plate Box	2
Veteran’s Cube Token	1
Noctenium Infusion	85
EP XP++	1,518
(Random) Skill Advancement XP Tome Box	1
Experience points	84,474,000
Triumph Token	25

Underground Battlepit

Item	Number
Gold	1,500
Credits	15
Veteran’s Fragment Box	2
Veteran’s Cube Token	1
Noctenium Infusion	60
(Random) Skill Advancement XP Tome Box	1
EP XP++	1,518
Experience points	52,531,200
Triumph Token	15

Champions’ Skyring (Solo)

Item	Number
Gold	500
Credits	25
Veteran’s Talent Box	2
Noctenium Infusion	35
(Random) Skill Advancement XP Tome Box	1
EP XP++	1,518
Triumph Token	10
Experience points	52,531,200
Triumph Token	15

Triumph Tokens

Existing Triumph Tokens will be renamed “Triumph Token (Old)” and will no longer be available. However, you can still right-click any you have left over and exchange them for a selection of items:

• (Random) Luminous Superior Relic/Halidom Box
• (Random) Luminous Rare Relic/Halidom Box
• Battered Oath Exchange Token
• (Random) Legacy Essence Box
• (Random) Warlord’s Bracing Accessory Box
• (Random) Warlord’s Fearsome Accessory Box
• (Random) Accessory Resizing Stone Box
• Weapons of Victory Enchantment Scroll (Legendary)
• Armor of Victory Enchantment Scroll (Legendary)

The new tokens can be taken to the corresponding merchant in Highwatch and exchanged for various different items, including:

• PvP Resizing Stones (Outer Core District has been removed)
• Option Change Scroll and various accessories
• Enchanting material for Kaia’s Soul Gear
  The new tokens can no longer be purchased for Gold, and the corresponding merchant has been removed.

Other PvP Changes

• TERA Battle Arena has been removed.
• The Outer Core District has been removed.
• The Shore Hold now uses unified gear.
• The prices of potions on the battleground have been massively reduced.

Quests

• The XP required between levels 65 and 70 has been reduced.
• A new quest for the Catalepticon has been added that all characters automatically receive at level 70.
• The rewards of various important quests have been adjusted, with unused items being removed.
• The conditions for unlocking Kaia’s Wisdom/Rage Gear have been simplified.
• Various Exodor quests have been adjusted so that they can now be received earlier (level 65/66).
• Players level 65 and up can obtain matching Kaia’s Wisdom/Rage Gear, including matching jewelry, in Highwatch via the [Important] Skills and Glyphs quest.

Partner Adventures

The following new adventures have been added:

• Exodor [Gathering]
• Gossamer Vault (Easy) [Adventure]
  The following old adventures have been removed:
• Island of Dawn [Gathering]
• Velik’s Sanctuary [Adventure]
• Red Refuge [Adventure]
• Rift’s Edge [Adventure]
• Arborea [Adventure]

Miscellaneous

• It is now possible to set keyboard shortcuts for dungeon and battleground matching.
• After server selection you are now taken to character selection without having to make an additional selection.
• Character selection has been adapted to match the season.
• The cost of purchasing additional EP pages has been reduced to 500.
• The manufacturer emblem is displayed whether or not the title is shown.
• Monsters in the open world on Exodor now no longer drop a number of items as loot—including many items from the old gear. The Gold received here has also been reduced.
• The items for returning players have been adjusted.

Regional

TERA Battle Arena

TERA Battle Arena will no longer be available from patch 102. Players who have used Tikat to purchase heroes or costumes will receive a refund. You’ll receive more details in a separate announcement.

Event Dungeon

General

• Timescape (Normal and Hard) have been removed again in patch 102. The merchants will remain in Highwatch for the duration of patch 102.
• Harrowhold will remain in the game until the next patch as there was initially some balancing difficulties. However, there will be no changes to the loot.

Harrowhold

• The HP of the skeletons in Phase 4 has been reduced.
• The HP of the four treasure chest has been greatly increased to avoid unintentional opening.
• The damage of the “Aggro Wipe” mechanic has been greatly increased.
• The inner ring of Vergos’ jump mechanic in Phase 4 now also kills the skeletons.

Elleon’s Mark of Valor

• The maximum number of marks in the inventory has been increased to 2,000.
• Many existing items that have been useless for some time have been removed.
• Various consumables have been replaced by better versions.
• Supply boxes have been replaced by new versions to match the new gear.

Miscellaneous

A number of old boxes and items have been removed, such as old Battle Pass seasons and items from finished events. More details can be found in the server maintenance announcement.

Item Deletion

All items from the following old events will be deleted with this maintenance:

• Easter Eggs 2020

• Summer Seashells 2020

• Elemental Fusion 2020

• Fire Demon's Tome 2020*

*The Reward boxes ([Event] Fire Demon's Chest) and Tokens gotten through them will stay available until Patch 103 in February. Please make sure to exchange your rewards by then.

Item Exchange

The following non-tradable items will be exchanged for tradable versions. This is a one-time change. If you open the "Trade Chest", you'll receive the non-tradable skill book accordingly.

• Skill: Darkan's Green Wings

• Skill: Darkan's Black Wings

• Skill: Darkan's Pink Wings