Experience & Hunting Zones

1. Less Exp From Much Higher Monsters. From level 86 monsters up, a monster 4 levels above you now gives 60 % exp, and one 5 levels above gives 20 % (up to 3 levels above is still full exp).

2. Zone Exp Rebalanced. Fire Dragon's Swamp (2nd and 3rd grounds), Elite Sel Mahum Barracks, the level 92 monsters of Giant's Cave, Tayga Camp and Crow Village pay less, while Gorde Canyon, Shifting Mirage, Hot Springs, Seal of Shillien and Lands of Shadow pay more. Aden's Royal Cemetery now pays in order of level: less on its level 87 and 88 monsters, more on its level 90 ones. Time-limited zones now pay much more: Whispering Woods, Frost Lord's Castle, Water Dragon's Canyon, Celestial Tower, Kelbim's Fortress, Pagan Temple, Steel Citadel, Storm Ruins, the Catacomb of Forbidden Path, the Catacomb of Witch and the level 90 monsters of the Gardens. Those Garden monsters and Lands of Shadow also respawn twice as fast.

3. New Farming Zone: Ruins of Agony (PvE). Characters level 80 and up can farm the Ruins of Agony with no PvP: your first hit raises a monster to level 85. Sea of Spores (PvE) now wakes its monsters for level 87+ characters (was 85).

Matchmaking Dungeons

1. More Exp From Dungeon Monsters. The regular monsters in Dwelling of Spirits, Ifrit's Temple, Dream Dungeon and Four Sepulchers now give much more exp.

2. Dungeon Entries and Descriptions. Ifrit's Temple now uses your daily entry on the first monster you kill, not on the first boss. The four dungeon descriptions now say what really applies: a premade party of 2 or more, solo queue parties of 3, and 1 entry per day.

Eva's Rise

1. Eva's Bounty on Eva's Rise. Rise runs Tiers 1 to 3 with 25 bosses, its own loot and its own auction prices. All six Tier 3 bosses spawn every evening between 16:00 and 22:00 UTC, and the weekly crystal cap starts at 500. The Bounty schedule screens show Rise's own times. Hellbound stays closed at launch.

2. Dolls on Eva's Rise. The doll summon gives Common dolls 90 % of the time and Enhanced 10 %, and only Common dolls can be compounded.

3. Monthly Rewards on Eva's Rise. Day 28 of attendance gives a Selection Coupon: Superior Doll (Sealed). The Hunt Pass premium costs 1,000 L-Coin and its final reward is a Boss Weapon Coupon (Sealed). The mission level has its own rewards, ending in a Package: +4 Agathion Dragon Egg (Sealed).

4. Shops and Missions on Eva's Rise. Rise has its own mission set, its own Ancient Adena Store (nine items with monthly limits) and its own Special Craft list, including Doll Summon Coupon crafts for Eva's Blessing Crystal Energy and a Rare Spellbook craft for Giran Seals.

5. Dungeon Loot on Eva's Rise. Dungeon bosses on Rise give a Doll Summon Coupon (Common) and a Doll Summon Coupon (Enhanced) instead of the Common - Superior coupons.

6. Removed on Eva's Rise. Eva's quests no longer pay Ancient Adena. The Special HP Recovery Potion is no longer sold in Rise's shops or clan halls, and Boss Slaughter's top rankers get a Supply Order instead.

   Shops & Crafting

7. L-Coin Store Reorganized. The grocers no longer sell their special goods: the zone passes and time stones are in a new Hunting Zones tab and the rest is in the Adena Store tab, at the same Adena prices. The Home tab now shows the Starter Pack and the monthly pass on top, the Equipment tab has no purchase limits, and the Weekly Kit: Dye/ Hidden Power Booster can be bought 4 times a week (was 1).

8. Special Craft Reorganized. The Special Craft window has new Eva's Bounty and Skins tabs, and the Event tab is gone. Kill Effect - Plasma Spear, Falling Flower Vortex, Antharas' Energy, Fafurion's Energy, Candies and Refreshing Ice Bomb, plus Name Background - Flowers and Snowfall, can now be crafted for 2,000 Mirror Shards (Sealed) each. New: a Guardian's Locket craft for 88 Giran Seals, and the Guardian Earring and Guardian Ring crafts now give the item itself instead of a package.

9. Doll Summon Costs L-Coin. Summoning dolls in the doll window now costs 300 L-Coin for one, or 3,000 L-Coin for 11, instead of Adena.

10. Hunt Pass: Buy a Step. You can now buy a Hunt Pass step from the pass window: 1,800 L-Coin on Eva's Grace, 500 on Eva's Rise. The window shows the server's real prices.

11. Abundance Shop. The Time Stones of Whispering Woods, Alligator Island, Forgotten Garden and Aztacan's Temple now cost 200 points (was 300). New: Water Dragon's Canyon's Time Stone (200) and Mother Tree's Orphanage Time Stone (300).

Missions

1. Mission Changes. The Eva's Bounty Tier Challenges are now weekly: defeat five targets of the tier for a bigger reward. A new daily, Light and Shadow, covers Whispering Woods and Mother Tree's Orphanage and replaces the weekly Explore the Whispering Woods, and Explore Water Dragon's Canyon is visible again. Several hunting zone missions now count every monster of their zone.

Classes & Skills

1. Class Balance. Samurai deals about 14 % less damage to players and takes about 43 % more from them. Doomcryer deals about 44 % less damage to players and 20 % less to monsters. The five tank classes now take about 10 % less physical damage from players (was 23 to 29 % less).

Honor Grounds

1. Primeval Hunt. Primeval Hunt now comes up as often as each team map, 1 match in 4. The hunt now pays fame and the same consumable rewards as a team map: the podium gets the winners' rewards, the other hunters the losers'.

   Chat & Interface

2. Chat Emojis. A new emoji button next to chat opens a picker with 48 free emojis and 5 premium ones you can unlock for 50 Mirror Shards (Sealed) each. Up to five emojis per message.

3. Movable Windows and New Settings. The skill casting bar and the chat window can be moved in Settings > Window Positions. Settings > Configuration has a new L2EVA group: chat language, chat translation and other L2EVA options.

4. Eva's Blessing Auto-use and HUD Touches. Right-click the Eva's Blessing flower to use it automatically. New tooltips on the DPS meter, the Eva quest window, the Eva's Bounty window and Eva's popup, the autohunt button wears the Eva emblem, and the collapsed event timeline now expands from its arrow only, so it can be dragged.

Quality of Life

1. Herbs. Herbs now drop from monsters up to level 85 (was 82). Party members level 90 and above no longer receive them, and herb buffs are removed when you enter the Olympiad.

2. Text Corrections. Hermin's subclass page, the Mastery board and the Codex now describe the current subclass system, and Eva's Barrier shows its real 1 hour cooldown. Eva's Blessing V and Eva's Divine Grace no longer list a "Drop Rate +2%" bonus, which never existed.

Website & Launcher

1. Vote Reward. Each vote now gives 18 Giran Seals, instead of 5 Eva's Secret Shop Tickets and 5 Veruti's Coins.

2. Launcher: DLSS 5 Detection. The DLSS 5 option now checks your GPU again when you turn Vulkan on or come back to the launcher, instead of saying "file not found" until a restart.