Good day Captains! 
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In this Developer's Note, we would like to share the direction of growth, including diamond acquisition, focusing on the equipment farming content to be updated in July.

While many of you have shown great affection for the collaboration, introducing seven heroes at once has been somewhat overwhelming.

We aim to explain how we will make it easier for you to grow your heroes, acquire new heroes, and upgrade their star levels through the contents of this Developer's Note.

We are committed to ensuring that each of you can enjoy steady growth at your own pace by preparing various reinforcements to make Grand Saga a long-lasting and enjoyable experience.

Summary of the Information to be Provided

• Alleviate the burden of pickups by including core resources such as diamonds in idle rewards.
• Provide means to steadily acquire and upgrade heroes outside of rate up summons.
• Add equipment farming content as another major growth factor besides hero growth to enhance the speed of the knight order's development.
• Supplement existing high-priced packages with periodic high-efficiency packages to reduce operational burdens.
• We will ensure that users who do not participate in pickup summons can still achieve steady hero growth.

1. Idle Rewards to Include Diamonds and Other Core Resources

To provide satisfaction in the growth of your knight order and the progression through stages, and to ensure steady growth, we are planning a significant enhancement to idle rewards.

◈ Adding Core Resources like Diamonds to Idle Rewards

You will be able to unlock and acquire core resources such as diamonds and summon tickets based on your stage progression. We are preparing mechanisms to increase the amount of resources obtained as you advance through stages.

The previously announced pet system is also being prepared to be linked with idle rewards to enhance efficiency.

2. Ensuring Consistent Hero Star Level Upgrades Outside of Pickup Summons

We are making it possible to acquire and strengthen heroes through content.

In addition to random items, the following rewards will be added to allow you to continuously obtain duplicate heroes.

We plan to add more ways to consistently acquire heroes in the future, so please look forward to it.

◈ Adding Direct Hero Exchange Items to Each Content

To enable continuous acquisition of designated heroes, hero exchange rewards have been added to each content.

※ Also will add more contents in the Challenge and a new Pass!

3. 'Equipment' Farming Content - Warrior's Rest

We are introducing the first phase of equipment farming content through the Warrior's Rest by refining the elemental content of the existing Tower of Challenge.

This content involves farming equipment for heroes by tackling dungeons of each attribute.

It is designed to allow you to farm everything from basic equipment to gear with powerful special abilities.

✎ Form teams based on attributes to enter

✎ Starting with earrings, we will gradually unlock different equipment slots on a weekly basis, allowing you to equip and combine gear according to each character's traits

*The options of the equipment shown in the images are for reference and may change during development.

We are preparing various updates, including seasonal equipment updates and combination effects, to provide you with more fun. Please look forward to it.

This content is in the final stages of preparation and is aimed to be introduced in July.

4. Regular Provision of High-Efficiency Products

We are preparing to regularly offer products in a predictable manner for our players.

• Adding high-efficiency items such as diamonds and keystones to the periodically reset period shop
• Adding a permanent ad removal product

To reduce the burden of repeated purchases during gameplay, we will provide additional daily bonus diamonds.

Here are the details of the changes scheduled between the 22nd and 25th:

✔ Namarie's Skill Casting and Targeting Adjustment 

- Scheduled for the 22ndThe current long skill range causes unnecessary movement. 

• This has been improved to enhance DPS

By reducing movement time, Namarie can inflict more damage on enemies.

✔ Challenge: Trial of Earth Changes

To enhance the fun and strategy of attribute-based deck combinations in the challenge, the rules will be changed as follows.

Ranking Rewards for the Challenge

• Ring exchange chests will be added as ranking rewards in the challenge (Ranks 4-50) - Scheduled for the 22nd
  • 4th-10th place: 14 ring exchange tickets + 1 ring chest
  • 11th-20th place: 10 ring exchange tickets
  • 21st-30th place: 8 ring exchange tickets
  • 31st-50th place: 6 ring exchange tickets

Additional Exchange Rewards for the Challenge Final Phase - Scheduled for the 25th

• 3 Reinhilt
• 3 Stella

✔ Explanation of Challenge Ranking Rewards and Changes to Dione

Trial of Earth - Changes in the Final Phase

• Break multiplier increased from 2x to 3x when attacking with advantageous attributes.
  • Use attribute dealers to utilize breaks more effectively.
• The break point of basic attacks for heroes without attack judgments increased by approximately 28%.
• Dione will now grant herself powerful buffs more frequently:
  • [Increased Defense]
  • [50% Reduced Critical Damage Taken]
  • [20% Increased Attack]
• Display of these changes in the final phase guide tooltips.

✔ Summer Event Costume Details

Introducing costumes for Dark Leon, Chloe, and Quyi.

Both Dark Leon and Quyi can be obtained by anyone through participating in the event.

Please refer to the illustrations and battle scenes below.

∷ Costume Acquisition Method Explanation

• ✎ Participate in draws using event tickets.

• ✎ Reach a certain number of draws to guarantee the full reward.

• ✎ Tickets can be obtained from the event.

  ※ Any shortage of tickets can be supplemented through separate purchases.

In addition to costumes, the event will also feature a variety of rewards including hideout items, abundant diamonds, and pickup summon tickets. Please look forward to the summer event costume pickup!

✔ Additional Stage Explanation

Chapter 2: additional stages to be added.

Rewards

To celebrate the weekend, we have prepared rewards for you.

We hope you have a great time playing!

Date: July 20th at 03:00 UTC

• Keystone Exchange Tickets: 5
• Diamonds: 5,000
• Hero Experience (24 hours), Gold (24 hours), and 3 Types of Food