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Dear Lightbearers,
To provide a better experience, we will perform update maintenance on 12/18/2025 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 12/18/2025 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.

I. NEW EVENTS

1. The Limited-Time Dawning Event Starts
New and exciting Dawning festivities are kicking off!
① Dashing Through the Snow
Sparrow Racing's a little different this time. Get ready!
● Duration: 12/18/2025 04:00:00 – 1/1/2026 04:00:00
● Details: Participate in the Speedway Skirmish activity and complete challenges to earn Sparrow Charge Cannisters and fill the Reward Progress bar, and try out the snowballs that have been added to the racetrack. Lightbearers, start your engines!
● Rewards: Mythic Sparrow Cosmetic "Lightflow Sled"

② Den New Year Celebration
Come together at the Den for a festive carnival celebration!
● Duration:
This activity will roll out in 2 stages:
1. 12/24/2025 20:00:00 – 12/25/2025 01:00:00
2. 12/31/2025 20:00:00 – 1/1/2026 01:00:00
● Details: During the celebration, the Den will feature fun activities like Bonfire Party, Masquerade, Shadowshaper Duels, Soccer Matches, and more. Join in to earn Snowy Spirit!
● Rewards: Loads of Snowy Spirit, which can be exchanged for valuable rewards in the Dawning Exchange Shop.

③ New Rewards Added to the Dawning Exchange Shop
● Exchange Time: 12/18/2025 04:00:00 – 01/15/2026 04:00:00
● New Additions: Pinnacle Energy, Dawning Snowman Decals.

2. Mysterious Devices of the Nine
● Duration: 12/19/2025 04:00:00 – 01/15/2026 04:00:00
● Rumor has it that mysterious devices connected to the Nine will soon appear in Haven... Uncover their secrets and interact with them for rewards!

3. Morgran's Hunt Starts
● Duration: 12/19 04:00:00-12/27 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.
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.

II. Special Cosmetics
First "The Last Word" Exotic Ornaments "Final Send-Off" & "Burial Rites" Available
● Ornament Intro: 
Final Send-Off—O souls of impurity, may thou find thy way through gunsmoke and death, that thou might return to thine origin's embrace
Burial Rites—O acolytes of sin, pray follow these gunshots' guidance, that thou might crawl to the gates of thy terminus and repent.
Acquiring both "Final Send-Off" and "Burial Rites" unlocks dual-wield application for Jaren, with both ornaments being applicable to his Relic, "Vows."
● Availability: After the maintenance on 12/18/2025 – 02/12/2026 at 04:00:00, the ornaments can be acquired via the limited-time draw event, "Final Prayer."

III. New Shop Additions
Dawning Special Offers
1. Bundles:
● Special Offer Duration: After the maintenance on 12/18/2025 – 12/30/2025 at 04:00:00
● Special Offer: 20% Off Bundle "Weightless Party Bundle" & "Dawning Sparrow & Ghost Bundle"
2. Limited-Time Offers:
● Special Offers Time: After the maintenance on 12/18/2025 – 01/29/2026 at 04:00:00
● Special Offers:
① Umeko's Dawning-exclusive ornaments "Weightless Party" & "Snowy Rider," and Mythic Relic ornaments "Illusionary Lightflow" & "Speed of Sound"
② Dawning-exclusive Sparrow "Frost-Laden Flower" & Exotic Ghost shell "Frosty Elegance"
③ Jaren's Dawning-exclusive Ornament "Lone Ranger"

IV. Optimizations & Adjustments
1. Combat & Balancing Adjustments
● [Characters] Optimized Jaren's passive skills to significantly reduce the difficulty of accumulating Stag Totem.
Old: Dealing precision damage with weapons grants 1 stack of Stag Totem;
New: Landing shots with weapons grants 1 stack of Stag Totem.
2. Activity Additions & Optimizations
● [Challenge Mode] Removed character restrictions during matchmaking.
● [Singularity: Chaos] Improved Wishlist selection logic. Lightbearers now can quickly view characters' recommended artifacts directly in the Wishlist interface.
● [Snowball Showdown] Improved target scores and fixed balancing issues with respawn locations.
● [Shifting Gates] Optimized matchmaking rules, reducing wait times and increasing matchmaking efficiency while also ensuring match quality.

3. New Features & System Improvements
● [Pack] Adjusted the exchange rates for Pack resource "PBO Fiber" to Phased Alloy, Granite, and Hard Wood. PBO Fiber can now be exchanged for larger quantities of other Pack resources.
● [Pack] Optimized rules for unlocking Practice Range combatants. Clearing activities on Grandmaster difficulty will also unlock combatants from the Master difficulty equivalent.
● [Pack] Added 3 Calamity Ops combatants to the Practice Range: Shinka Psion, Shinka Wizard, and Shinka Servitor.
● [Store] Adjusted the display logic for store items. Some products that are currently unavailable through any means will no longer be shown in the store.
● [Power] Optimized the display of characters' Power upgrade interface and refined some progression guides.
● [Inventory] Optimized the controller operation experience while navigating the Inventory interface.
● [Friends] Added a "Discord Friend" tag, helping Lightbearers easily find and add their Discord friends.
● [Artifacts] Improved modification-related functions. Changes in Power resulting from modification will now be displayed in detail, with each component contributing to the change being shown in the interface.

V. Bug Fixes
● [Snowball Showdown] Fixed an issue in which some devices could freeze when entering the activity.
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.