Lost Ark has just released an update regarding the content of “The Art of War.” This update mainly includes the introduction of new battle modes of 48V48, PVP and Realm vs Realm, as well as Lost Ark’s first Specialist class: Artist.

At the same time, Lost Ark did not forget to improve the quality of life of players in the game in this update. Plus, some side quests that the developers have tailored for new characters will make players want to try out Artist class even more.

Smilegate will bring the popular free-to-play MMORPG in Korea to West for the first time. They launched once Lost Ark, numerous players poured in, wanting to see what is unique about this game. It even broke the record for the highest number of simultaneous online players on Steam at the time.

Even though Lost Ark launched in the west a few years later than the original, the developers have been updating the content, classes, and systems of the original game at a steady pace, rather than abandoning them all. This also allows players to continue to progress in the game and have a new sense of experience.

Although each update of this Lost Ark is based on the original, it is not completely intact. The developers have also made corresponding adjustments according to Western culture.

This update of “The Art of War” introduces the much-talked-about Artist class, but whether Artist class skin “fits Western norms,” has been a hotly debated issue among players.

Artist class is the most special one among all the classes in Lost Ark. Because this Artist class does not belong to any of the basic classes such as Assassin, Gunner, or Mage.

Artist class is the first Specialist class in Lost Ark. Strictly speaking, this Artist class is an auxiliary character. It can use the brush to summon any creature or item. It looks like a treasure chest.

Artist class as the first Specialist class in Lost Ark, but it won’t be the last either. Artist class has many skills, but the attack power is generally not high. The main ability of Artist class is to use the paintbrush to increase attack damage for oneself or teammates within the range, and become a high-quality auxiliary character.

Of course, this Artist class can also restore HP for itself and teammates, help teammates use the same skills to cause damage to the enemy, and also provide shield defense for teammates. So this is also a class specially designed for team battles. There are two different skins for this class, but it focused each skin on this goal.

In addition, PvPers also want to try a new way to perfect the skills of each character. With the arrival of Rowen, the region also needs a new faction to maintain political culture, and the new Tulubik Battlefield is a natural extension of this model.

In this mode, players must reach 1490 Item Level and Faction Rank of 3 before they are allowed to enter the place. Tulubik Battlefield will provide 96 players with a complete game field and all rewards during the regular game time frame.

But at other times, there will also be “Friend Matches” for 30-96 players. Both parties will strew the rewards for these competitions, and the rewards are naturally different.

Therefore, this way of playing will be very suitable for team battles.

As a highlight of this update, Tulubik Battlefield is not only special. It is also a large 48v48 PVP battle mode based on different factions. Players only need to reach Faction Rank of 3 in Rowen PvP battle to participate in Tulubik Battlefield and fight for their respective factions.

This is also very similar to World of Warcraft’s Alterac Valley section. Players continue to fight on this large battlefield to expand the occupation of their factions. As players advance in their respective factions, they can choose to unlock new faction skins by acquiring enough Lost Ark Gold to showcase their PvP prowess.

This update also includes some progression changes to the main quests, including Punika Powerpass. This update also allowed some players to quickly upgrade their character equipment to Item Level 1340, thereby skipping a lot of story content, just in time for the launch of Artist class.

According to the 2023 roadmap released by Lost Ark, players can understand that a more challenging new raid content will appear in April.

With the launch of Punika Powerpass. This time, a new Hyper Express Plus and Story Express will also be launched, and the promotion of all mission plots is for the upgrade of players’ character equipment.

In addition, this updated Ark Pass season event and daily login event provide players with rich rewards. Ark Pass season, players have two choices of free or premium level, all players can participate. The daily login event will be for those new players or old players who have been away from the game for more than a month.

There’s a lot going on in this update, though it doesn’t have much impact on the main quest line. But the developers have put a lot of effort into balancing changes to player classes or how Lost Ark Gold works, as well as some technical fixes. I also believe that the results of this update will not disappoint players. Come and try it out.

The developers of New World have just released an updated Patch 1.8.3, which also marks the beginning of Legacy of Crassus World Boss event, including fixes and improvements for some general issues in MMO. 

At the same time, New World will also switch to Seasonal Model in the future, and provide players with free and advanced Battle Pass.

The new first season of New World is called Fellowship & Fire and will be released on March 28th. At the same time, this new patch will add new story missions, new adventures, and new Hearttrune Abilities, including New World's Patch of Dungeons and storage missions for Brightwood and Weaver's Fen zones and gear sets.

The duration of each season is about three months, and the developer decided to release the roadmap for the next season at the end of this year. The developer intends to add much-requested features like gear transmog, raid groups, and cross-server Outpost Rush in Season 2, which are very popular with players. 

The first expansion to New World will be released this fall alongside the third season. At the same time, a long-awaited feature will also be added-mounts. Existing areas of the game will also be "transformed" and include some new main storylines, new weapons, and new adventures. In this regard, the developer has not yet announced whether the upcoming new expansion will be free.

New World has enjoyed a lot of success during the year since its release in 2021. Even after the release of New World, the loss of players was severe, and the number of online players plummeted, making it difficult to maintain the existing player base. 

However, the developers of New World did not give up on this game. And it has been improving the game through stable update output and various seasonal activities or other limited-time activities to enrich the fun of the world of Aeternum and increase player activity. 

These updates bring players new weapons, main storylines, adventure maps, and dungeons to explore. While improving the gameplay, it has made major improvements to the balance of the in-game economy.

In this update, New World has added Legacy of Crassus limited-time event. The main takeaway from the event is that after Roman General Crassus’ defeat, its Level 66 Cyclops Captains invade the south and wreak havoc.

And their players can get unique rewards by challenging Lucanus and Decimus. In addition, it will reward players for defeating them every day, until we can get all rewards after defeating Lucanus and Decimus eight times in a row. 

Therefore, players should be able to get these rewards fairly easily before the event ends on March 7. Of course, no matter how many times we killed the boss every day, some daily rewards will still be issued normally.

This update of New World’s seasonal Battle Pass will include free or premium bonus items. In Battle Pass, players can complete various challenges through the game’s season adventures, and earn season XP to get cosmetics and New World Coins.

And these New World Coins are one of the important tools to help players get weapon XP as soon as possible or improve trading skills and equipment. If you want to improve your skills quickly, complete more tasks and PVP battles, you can get enough New World Coins through IGGM.com to help you get a better game experience.

Among them, the advanced Battle Pass will use 20,000 New World Coins, which also makes players need a proper use of nearly 20 dollars if they want to open Battle Pass. 

This Battle Pass here contains 100 levels of free and advanced items, which can be shared among multiple characters in the same service area, but one character can only claim each reward.

In Q&A section of New World’s official website, the developers have tried to explain that Battle Pass will reward corresponding equipment, in order to reduce players’ concerns about the status quo of Battle Pass. 

The developer explained that not all the equipment in Battle Pass can be got just by relying on the free Battle Pass. In the free Battle Pass, players can only get equipment points only 600, and cannot obtain the privileges of the advanced Battle Pass from other channels.

As New World players expect, all the bug fixes, quality of life improvements, economic balance, and mode updates are in this patch.

At the same time, some resources that cannot be exchanged will be returned to the factory again, recent activities will replace some too frequent expedition missions, and some bugs of Dryad Soldiers that cannot harm players will be fixed.

New World is releasing its last major content in October 2022. At that time, the developer launched a new Brimstone Sands section and changed some novice areas to provide new players with a better gaming experience. 

MMO was once the best result Amazon launched in 2021, and even briefly topped Steam game list, and the upper limit of the number of players reached 1 million when the game was released.

This will be the beginning of this year, and looking at it now, New World’s roadmap for 2023 is very reasonable. At the same time, New World is developing the popular Transmog System, including raid groups, quest improvements, and cross-world outpost rush, which will be released in the spring and summer of 2023.

Path of Exile has recently fixed some bugs in the latest patch, including bug fixes and improvements in 3.20 Sanctum League.

This patch mainly fixes those bugs. After the holidays, many teams have returned to their posts, so we will often see this kind of housekeeping patches. In this case, this patch has fixed everything from three client crashes, one instance crash, to one display error. For example, when you use Path of Exile Currency to get some items from a merchant, and the last remaining items are still on the list. You can also safely dismiss NPCs in your hideout after the team fixes this bug where you couldn't pack them up.

The adjustment to Death Toll Major Affliction is also one of Sanctum changes, reducing 250 Resolve in place of Aureus Coins. Today, as more and more people know about Lycia, Unholy Heretic battle has greatly increased its popularity. Scourge's lightning wave also no longer produces large and small lightning bolts, but instead produces many and small lightning bolts. When a monster dies, the visual effect of its explosion also disappears to avoid affecting the vision. In addition to these, the changes include text corrections and clearer descriptions.

This time, the team also adds a new game to the patch, Voidborn Reliquary Key. The reliquary itself has 1231 options to thwart possible Unique items and will continue to work so that the items are all in place.

There are also some penalties Ruthless mode has also been a series of corrections. Previously, The Imagined Pursuits Atlas Passive, when encountering Delirium, increased Cluster Jewels by 800%. Today, 800% has been corrected to 10%, making Cluster Jewels even rarer when you encounter Delirium. At the same time, a bug with Vaal Venom Gyre has also been fixed so that you can no longer get Vaal Venom Gyre by mistake in Ruthless in the future. Ruthless is built on scarce foundations, and the two are clearly mutually exclusive.

If you want to read the full patch notes, you can head over to official Path of Exile website.

Shortly after performing a full analysis of The Witcher 3 Next-Gen on Xbox Series X and PS5, those folks over at Digital Foundry are back to do a full once over of the Xbox Series S version of CD Projekt RED's RPG.

Much like the Series X and PS5 analysis showed us, The Witcher 3 on Xbox Series S is a bit of a mixed bag overall. DF notes that those input latency problems present in the quality mode on Xbox Series X are still here, even if the overall performance at 30FPS is better thanks to a lack of ray tracing on Xbox Series S.

"Looking at performance, Series S impresses initially, hitting a rock-solid 30fps, no matter what I threw at the console and no matter which of the classic stress points I used. Even in the Heirarch Square, which is a real CPU stress-test for PS5 and Series X, there are zero issues.

Series S has the same high NPC count as those much more powerful consoles, although without the ray-tracing features, and it's absolutely holding 30fps, unlike the two more expensive machines."

That lack of RT is a bit of a bummer, but at least the frame rate holds up nicely. However, over in the performance mode, the Xbox Series S version doesn't fare quite as well. There are some major frame rate drops in the machine's 60FPS performance mode, dropping down to the low 40s in that aforementioned stress point; the Heirarch Square.

"Unfortunately, it's not a solid 60fps lock by any means. For most horseback riding in the wilds, Series S hits the mark mostly, but there are significant dips anywhere around Novigrad's centre, with lurches down to the low 40s as we go through Heirarch Square.

This is much worse than PS5 and Series X are in their own performance modes, and truly is the very worst performing section of the game we've found."

The performance mode does improve in more open, less NPC-dense areas, but it's still a very varied experience overall on Xbox Series S. It seems the 30FPS quality mode option is the more stable way to play right now, although with that mode's input delay issues, DF finds it hard to fully recommend either mode right now.

"It's a strange situation but the verdict is similar to the one we had on the two premium machines. The Series S Complete Edition needs a bit more time and some more work to iron out its rough points.

Fundamentally there's a great release of The Witcher 3 for Series S owners here, and it's perhaps just a patch or two away from where we need it to be."

Ultimately, it looks like the Witcher 3 is still a whale of a time on Xbox Series S despite some lingering performance issues, which sounds very similar to our own Xbox Series X experience at launch. We're hoping CDPR cleans this one up in the new year, so we can all enjoy a more consistent current-gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

2023 marks the 10th anniversary of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and the MMORPG is bigger than it’s ever been. FFXIV is set to get another big drop of post-Endwalker content with Patch 6.3, titled Gods Revel, Lands Tremble. As you might expect there are plenty of new Main Scenario quests for players to dive into, but there’s quite a bit of other content on the way as well, including one major job rework. Here’s everything you need to know about FFXIV’s Patch 6.3

When is the FFXIV Patch 6.3 release date?

Patch 6.3 — Gods Revel, Lands Tremble — will go live on January 10, 2023. As is usual with these patches, you can expect FFXIV to go down the evening of January 9, with maintenance running into the early morning. Although Square Enix hasn’t announced the exact time for maintenance yet, the main patches usually start at roughly 10 p.m. Eastern and run until 6 a.m. Eastern.

Patch 6.3 New Alliance Raid and more additions

Per usual, Patch 6.3 will feature a handful of new Main Scenario Quests, a new dungeon, and a new trial. The dungeon this time around is called Lapis Manalis, and is described as follows “In pursuit of voidsent, you learn of an abandoned village in the mountains of Garlemald where Garleans once practiced the reaper arts. But what will you find there deep in the heart of the mountain?”

The big changes in Patch 6.3, however, is the continuation of the Myths of the Realm Alliance Raid, with Part 2: Euphrosyne. Once again players will come face-to-face with The Twelve, the guardian deities of Eorzea. This is the land of revelry for the gods, and this time around players will be facing Nophica, Althyk, Halone, and Menphina. Of course, keep in mind to access Euphrosyne, you’ll need to be level 90, have a sufficient equipment level, and be up to date with the Myths of the Realm questline.

Treasure Hunt is also getting a bit of an update and will change to a new treasure dungeon “The Shifting Gymnasion Agonon.” You can access the new dungeon through a treasure map that’s usable in Elpis.

Those are the major additions, but there are plenty of other smatterings of content as well, which we’ll cover below.

• New Unreal Trial - Containment Bay P1T6 (Unreal)

• Additional Duty Support for Heavensward - Duty Support added for The Great Gubal Library, Sohr Khai, The Aetherochemical Research Facility, Xelphatol, The Antitwoer, and Baelsar’s Wall.

• New quests for Tataru’s Grand Endeavor

• PvP Season Three Starts as well as Season Five of Crystalline Conflict. A new arena for Crtyalline Conflict “The Clockwork Castletown” will be added.

• Island Sanctuary Update - New ranks, visions, items, materials, crops, animals, and handicrafts.

• New Housing Wards - All housing wards will get 6 new regular wards as well as 6 new subdivisions. (1800 new plots per world)

• Alternate UI Theme - Clear Blue

• Umbrella fashion accessory can be automatically opened when it rains

• New Gear

• New Custom Deliveries for Anden

Additionally, a couple of pieces of content will be added in the sub-patches for the 6.3 series, which we don’t have exact dates for yet.

• (Patch 6.31) Ultimate Duty #5 - The Omega Protocol (Ultimate). This will release two weeks after Patch 6.3, and players need to have completed Abyssos: The Eighth Circle (Savage).

• (Patch 6.35) - Continuation of Somehow Further Hildabrand Adventures questline.

• (Patch 6.35) - Deep Dungeon #3 Eureka Orthos - In order to access players need to have complete MSQ of Endwalker and reached floor 50 of Palace of the Dead.

Patch 6.3 Paladin Bulwark and more changes

Outside of new content, there are some fairly major changes coming to the Paladin job, which fans have been asking for since the launch of Endwalker. Other jobs are only getting minor adjustments to usability. Below you can see an overview of the changes, straight from the latest Live Letter.

• Rotations have been shortened to accommodate high-powered actions.

• Damage over time effect for Goring Blade and Blade of Valor was removed and their potency adjusted.

• Divine Might is now applied after weaponskill combos, allowing an enhanced Holy Spirit to be executed once without casting.

• Holy Sheltron’s effect has been changed to reduce damage taken, thereby enhancing defensive capabilities against damage over time.

• The previously removed Bulwark ability has been revamped and reintroduced, offering increased defensive capability.

• Utility of several other actions and combos have also been adjusted.