2025/8/26 Maintenance Announcement
Dear Ladies and Lords,
To provide you with a better gaming experience, all servers of Fate of the Empress will be under maintenance on 2025/8/26(UTC+8). You will not be able to login to the game during the maintenance. The estimated maintenance duration is about 3 hours. And maintenance time may be adjusted according to the actual situation.
Update rewards will be sent by mail after the maintenance.
This update will be contained in a patch, which will be detected and loaded when you log in to the game after the maintenance.
【Maintenance Duration】
SEA Servers: 8/26 14:00 - 17:00 (UTC+8)
NA Servers: 8/25 23:00 - 8/26 02:00 (UTC-7)
EU Servers: 8/26 08:00 - 11:00 (UTC+2)
【Updates】
u New gameplay: Guild Marathon
1. A racing activity jointly participated by Guild members, which starts at 20:40 every Monday and Friday evening. At least 5 members participate to start the activity.
2. During the activity preparation stage, ingots that were consumed through the warm-up will be sent to the Guild channel in the form of red packets after the competition ends, without occupying the daily limit of red packets.
3. Guild members gain different Buffs by colliding with props on the track, and maintain their character's health by completing mini games. When their HP is zero, the memember's current activity ends prematurely.
u New function: Lodestar
1. Unlock when the Character reaches level 150 and Division reaches Cirrus I or above. Lodestars are divided into three types: attribute Lodestars, skill Lodestars, and Flair Lodestars.
2. Use new material [Icy Twig] and [Icy Petals] to level up attribute and skill lodestars. [Icy Twig] and [Icy Petals] can be purchased through the Pass shop or obtained from Skin Anecdote Biography.
3. Achieve the training goals of "Orbit" and "Constellation" to get Galaxy Fire. Collect enough Galaxy Fire to get progress rewards.
4. After reaching the max level of Skill lodestars in all branches, Character can fathom Flair lodestar. Level up Flair lodestar will obtain suppression effects on enemies During PVP.
u New function: Advanced Guild Skill
1. The Guild skill interface has added a "Advanced " button. Different advanced Guild skills have different unlocking conditions.
2. Add a new consumable 'Advanced Nimbi Pill' to level up advanced Guild skill.
3. Add new consumables 'Advanced Blaze Pill' and 'Advanced Aura Pill' to advance advanced Guild skill.
4. Advanced Nimbi Pill, Advanced Blaze Pill, and Advanced Aura Pill can be purchased through the Guild Shop or obtained by participating in the Guild Marathon event.
u New LR Hero: Xie Weijin SP
1） Active Skill: Soaring Sword (Lv 1)
3 swords are unsheathed to deal DMG of 450% ATK to 3 enemies, leaving Sword Marks on them.
2）Rage Skill: Shattered Space (Lv 1)
Xie Weijin deals DMG of 400% ATK +10% enemy's max HP (not exceeding 150% of Xie Weijin's ATK) to all enemies twice, with the second-stage DMG increased by 20%. This DMG ignores 30% of enemies' DEF and grants 30 Fierceness.
Enhanced Skill: (Consume 100 Fierceness, with no influence on the original Rake Skill release.)
1. Settle the DMG based on the Sword Marks on all enemies. Each mark deals DMG equivalent to 10% of the enemy's max HP (not exceeding 200% of ATK).
2. Deal DMG of 400% ATK to all enemies 4 times. Each subsequent DMG dealt increases by 20%.
3. This DMG ignores 30% of enemies' DEF and shields. Every 20% HP lost by the enemy increases DMG dealt by 15%.
3)Passive Skill: Rumbling Spring (Lv 1)
1. When allies receive the following attacks, a 60% chance to trigger Unsheathed Sword. The sword will deal DMG of 200% ATK and Sword DMG of 25% enemy's max HP (not exceeding 500% of ATK) to 3 enemies, leaving a Sword Mark and healing effect decrease on the targets (decreasing the next healing effect by 100%).
This DMG ignores shields, and Sword DMG additionally ignores Armor. The Sword Mark lasts 2 rounds and can be stacked up to 3 times.
Attacks that will trigger Unsheathed Sword: Active attacks, Rage attacks, Assist attacks, counterattacks, and additional attacks.
2. Xie Weijin initially owns 25% Final DMG Buff and Buff DMG+. Every time the sword is unsheathed, 1 layer of Sword's Will will be obtained (stacked up to 6 layers). The effects of Sword's Will are as follows:
① Each layer of Sword's Will increases ATK by 5%.
② Each layer of Sword's Will increases Final DMG Buff and Buff DMG+ by 10%, up to 30%.
③ When stacked Sword's Will exceeds 5, DMG from the Rage Skill will ignore DMG Immune.
3. When Xie Weijin is under control, 2 layers of Sword's Will will be lost to dispel the control effect (max once a round).
4. When Fierceness reaches 100, consume all of it to release an additional powerful Rage Skill.
Except for Rage Skills, Fierceness can be obtained through:
① A 50% chance to increase 10 Fierceness when attacked by the above-mentioned attacks.
② Defeat an enemy Hero to get 30 Fierceness.
③ 30 Fierceness can be obtained at the beginning of each round.
5. Will always act before Heroes of lower quality. DMG dealt increases by 100% when attacking Heroes of lower quality.
6. Xie Weijin's Final DMG RES increases by 50%.
u New Astral Relic: Mirage Konghou
1. The Astral Relic is only effective in the CirrusⅠand above Division. When the Astral Relic is repeatedly obtained, it will be converted into 80 corresponding Relic Spirit;
2. Feng Shui Effect：Every quick clearance of immortal Scroll increases Team ATK by 1000 (0/85000). Feng Shui of [Enamel Swirl] enhanced: Every pet breeding increases Team ATK by 100, up to 30000. Feng Shui of [Romance Case] enhanced: Every Celestial Gear (Aura Gear included) equipped on deployed heroes increases attributes from value increase and appraise by 1%，up to 30%.
Relic Skill：
【Active Skill: String Notes】(level 1)：Increases ATK and Final DMG RES by 12% for the 2 highest-ATK allies for 2 rounds (If the target is a Scholar, the effect increases 30%). With a 10% chance of removeing all attributes debuffs on the targets.
【Rage Skill: Lingering Tune】(level 1)：Necromancer removes attribute debuffs for the 2 highest-ATK allies with a 40% chance to Meditate（Be immune to Frost，Frazzle，and True Stun in this state with a 50% to reflect effects to any enemy.) for 3 rounds. If the target is a Scholar, additionally increase the Scholar’s CRIT Rate by 20%.
Cast the Musical Note effect on all enemies hearing the music for 2 rounds, decreasing AGI by 10%. When the round ends, additionally deal DMG equivalent to 5% of the enemy’s max HP (not exceeding 75% of Character ATK).
【Passive Skill: Loyal Follower】(level 1)：Share 60% of DMG on allies and offset 50% of the shared DMG.
u New celestial Costume: Peacock Glow
1. New celestial Costume: Peacock Glow
[Peacock Glow] Costume adds exclusive skill effects:
① After collecting the entire set of costumes, players can use the exclusive skill "Aurora" in the interactive function of the "Royal Garden" scene to change the weather performance in the "Royal Garden" scene to dazzling aurora;
② If there are other players who have not yet finished changing their weather performance in the Royal Garden scene, they or the player themselves need to wait for the current weather performance to end before using the skill again;
③ The exclusive skill of changing weather performance does not affect the alternating changes of normal weather, nor does it affect the bonus effect of the current weather on other functions.
2. New long Hair components
The female character adds long hair [Watery Glow], and the male character adds long hair [Mystic Glow]. These components support dyeing and are not part of the [Peacock Glow] set.
u Skin Anecdote Biography Optimization
1. New Skin Anecdote Biography: Chilly Bud, Languid Night, Past Vision and Top Spot.
2. Add difficulty level Ⅶ, Ⅷ, Ⅸ of Guild Skin Anecdote Biography: Peachy Sonnet, Curvy Inkwash and Enlightening Star.
u New Ride: Chinchilla Chef, Rose Lullaby
New Costume：Sunlit Swirl, Poetic Scene and Heir Costume：Sunglow Pride.
Various new costumes for character/Heir are coming! Participate in the events and get your preferred ones!
【Tips】
1. There will be a 5-minute maintenance countdown before the maintenance starts, during which you can not do anything in the game. As soon as the maintenance starts, you will not be able to log in the game. Please arrange your time in advance.
2. Please take note of your account, password as well as your server name before the maintenance.
3. Please pay attention to the time of your Banquets and prearrange them in case of any unnecessary losses.
4. Thanks for your understanding and support. Please do not hesitate to contact us as following if you have any problems.
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