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Dear Lightbearers,
To provide a better experience, we will perform update maintenance on 11/20/2025 at 03:00:00 AM (UTC-8), during which the Destiny: Rising servers will be down and Lightbearers will be unable to log in to the game. Please schedule your game time accordingly.
 
Maintenance Duration & Compensation:
Duration: Starts on 11/20/2025 at 03:00:00 AM (UTC-8) and is estimated to take 3 hours.
Compensation: 200 Lumia Leaves
Eligibility: Lightbearers who created an account before maintenance began and who have logged in within the past week.
The compensation will be issued to Lightbearers via mail, so be sure to check and claim it.

Update Content:
I. New Events
1. Morgran's Hunt Event Starts
● Duration: 11/21 04:00:00–11/29 04:00:00
● Event Intro:
The more challenging version of Morgran's Prey—Morgran's Hunt—returns! In these stages, Morgran will give Lightbearers a score goal to meet each round. Accumulate enough points to meet the ever-growing goal and claim rewards from Morgran's hoard for successful clears.
● Rewards:
① High-value Reward System: Five high-value attempts will be issued daily during the first 4 days of the event. Complete the activity to use your attempts and open chests, which also have a chance to reward Lost Legend Exotic weapons.
② Complete event challenges to earn even more great rewards including "Bon Voyage" Charms and Möbius Clusters.
③ Ranking Rewards: Lightbearers who rank in the top 30% can claim the limited-time chat frame "Morgran's Hunt - 14d." Lightbearers who attain scores of over 30,000 in a single match will earn base rewards, which will be issued when event results are settled.
※ Lightbearers must be Team Lv.71 or higher to participate.
※ Match scores must be higher than 30,000 points to qualify for the leaderboard.

2. Reunion Day - Special Catches Event Starts
● Duration: 11/20 04:00:00–12/04 04:00:00
● Details: During the event, use the event-exclusive Skyward Prayer Bait and Condor Messenger Bait to catch fish with the event icon. Doing so will also unlock the corresponding hand-sewn fish in your collection. Reach collection milestones to claim rewards, including a large quantity of Origami Condors. The event-exclusive Skyward Prayer Bait and Condor Messenger Bait can be redeemed in limited quantities from the Reunion Day Exchange Shop.
● Rewards: Origami Condors and Exotic Weapon Infusion Cores.

II. Optimizations & Adjustments
1. Combat & Balancing Adjustments
● [Characters] Improved the mechanics of Jolder's Barrier of Starlight: Casting Barrier of Starlight will instantly fill the magazine of Jolder's Submachine Gun; the number of Starlight stacks gained when Shield of Starlight passes through the barrier has been increased from 5 to 10.
● [Characters] Added first-person perspective support for Maru's Signature Ability: Abyss Engulf. Lightbearers can now edit this ability's casting perspective from the ability upgrade screen, choosing between either "Always Third Person" and "Follow Current Perspective."
● [Characters] Improved the feel of exiting Gwynn's Soul Harvest state.
● [Weapons] Reworked Exotic Sword: Partridge Sky's perk and catalyst effects.
Original: When charged heavy attacks deal damage, this weapon gains +20% swing speed and light-attack damage bonus for 4s.
New: When charged heavy attacks deal damage, this weapon gains +25% swing speed and light-attack damage bonus for 4s. If the charged heavy attack results in a final blow, then light attacks deal +50% damage.
● [Weapons] Changed Exotic Sword: Partridge Sky's Catalyst Band 02 effect.
Original: Upgrades Battle Cry to its enhanced form.
New: This weapon's charged heavy attacks deal more damage to targets at lower health, increasing by up to 120%.

2. Activity Additions & Optimizations
● [Gauntlet: Blitz] 
① Limited-time direct access for Assembly Plant, Overflow, and The Walls Have Eyes will be closing soon, after which Lightbearers can challenge them through Random - Heroic difficulty matchmaking.
② The following new drops have been added to the Mythic rewards pool for Random - Heroic difficulty Reward Level 7 and above: Mythic Weapon Choice Engram - Gauntlet III, Hand Cannon: Parole, Rocket Launcher: Four-horned Ram, and Auto Rifle: Wrongful Ingress.
● [Shifting Gates]
 Limited-time exchange for Grenade Launcher: Tsurinobuse, Hand Cannon: Empty Fort Strategy, and Shotgun: Thermoplyae-80 in Donovan's Exchange is ending, after which 1 of each weapon will be available for exchange each week at a cost of 20 Translation Credits.

3. New Features & System Improvements
● [Synthesis] Added a synthesis recipe for Mythic Weapon Random Engram - Gauntlet III. Decrypt this engram to acquire one of the following Mythic weapons at random: Rocket Launcher: Four-horned Ram, Hand Cannon: Parole, Grenade Launcher: Tsurinobuse, Auto Rifle: Wrongful Ingress, Shotgun: Thermoplyae-80, and Hand Cannon: Empty Fort Strategy.
● [Artifact Dismantling] Added an auto-dismantle feature for artifacts. Select which qualities of artifacts you do not need from Artifacts - Dismantle - Auto-Dismantle Settings, then any artifacts of that quality will be auto-dismantled once acquired.
● [Weapon Dismantling] Added an auto-dismantle feature for weapons. Select which qualities of weapons you do not need from Weapons - Dismantle - Auto-Dismantle Settings, then any weapons of that quality will be auto-dismantled once acquired.
● [Scenes] Added an out-of-freeze feature. If the system detects you may be frozen, a confirmation window will pop up to aid you.
● [Feedback] Added a Feedback Submission feature. This can be accessed from the login screen or the Settings menu. We welcome you to submit any issues you encounter in-game or your ideas to improve the experience here.
● [Characters] Improved Wolf's expressions on the Characters screen.
● [Den] Improved the furniture placement experience.
● [Interface Prompts] Improved the prompt shown when acquiring a duplicate weapon catalyst.
● [Items] Changed the name of the Mythic Weapon Random Engram - Casual to Mythic Weapon Random Engram - Gauntlet II.

III. Fixed Issues
● [Events] Increased the quantities of Vortical Yeast, Coronal Oil Residue, Isoelectric Oats, and Decayed Chitin that can be obtained daily during the Reunion Day event, and increased the number of refreshes available for Reunion Bakery orders.
● [Events] Added an expiration date to the Festival of the Lost event's Festival Candy. Be sure to use your candies to craft Candy Buckets before the candy expires on 12/11/2025 at 04:00:00.
● [Network] Fixed severe latency issues present in certain regions post-server linking. 
● [Destinations] Improved the display of destination Front Line events in the Activities screen.
● [Triumphs] Fixed some calculation issues for the Season of the Moor seal triumphs.
● [Characters] Fixed an issue in which Maru's helmet would be inconsistently equipped before and after dialogue.
 
That's all for the update details. Thanks for your patience! We will be continuing to collect your feedback and suggestions to keep improving the Destiny: Rising experience. May the Light be with you!

The Destiny: Rising Team