Dates

• Livestream — June 1 (Mon), 11:00 UTC on the official YouTube channel — simultaneous for Korea, Japan and Global. Shows Merlin's gameplay first look, the new main story and a new-content overview. A replay stays up afterward.
• Update — Version 1.5 ships at the June 4 (Thursday) maintenance. Maintenance compensation: Star Fragment x300, claimable until June 18 (Thu) 14:59 UTC.
• Ending June 4 — Clotho 'Enigmatic Helper' pick-up, the 'Moonlight Across the Dawn' skin, the 'Echoes of Hearts' event story, the 'To the Top' ranking mission, the Cube Unboxing event, the 'Rising Sun' check-in and Leaderboard Pre-Season 1 all close at the maintenance — claim their currencies first.
• Shop resets — Purchase limits for the listed bundles and the Star Trace Crystalloid / Star Trace Fragment exchange shops reset June 3 (Wed) 07:00 UTC.

New content

• New SSR hero — Merlin — Added together with her exclusive skin 'Morning Star Aldan'.
• Daisy Pick Up — A Timeless Heart — Daisy rerun, paired with the exclusive skin 'The Fresh Scent of Autumn'.
• Main Quest Act 14 — 'The Snare of Time' — the new story chapter.
• New region — 'Sealed Sanctuary'.
• New Raid content — A new weekly co-op Raid and the 'Taranis's Sanctuary' arena.
• Leaderboard Pre-Season 2 — Begins after Pre-Season 1 ends at the June 4 maintenance.
• Boss Challenge — Corrupted Guardian Golem — Gains new [Hell] and [Abyss] difficulties.
• New Engraved Equipment — Fresh engraved gear added alongside the equipment overhaul.

New events

• Hero Merlin Trial Event — Try Merlin in action before deciding to pull — plus growth materials including Star Fragments.
• The Crimson Boar Appears — Update-celebration check-in event (Hero Pick Up tickets, cube keys, potions, engraving seals).
• Raid Missions — Conqueror's Path — Mission track tied to the new Raid.
• 14-day login reward — 100 Star Fragments per day for 14 days = 1,400 total, from update day. Mail expires — claim daily.
• Community events — An X/social repost event (chance at 500 Star Fragments) and a Discord raffle (1,000 Star Fragments).

New products

• Merlin Growth Mission Bundle I–II — Growth-mission bundles for the new hero.
• Jericho's Potential Point — Added to the shop.

Her kit, as shown live

• Three weapons, three elements — Grimoire = Cold/Ice, Wand = Lightning, Staff = Fire — the first hero to span three damage elements.
• Tag-Skill carry — Built around stacking a Frost Mark (or her debuffs) then Tag-switching for a spike — over 1M shown in the demo. Wand ultimate costs 2; Staff ultimate is free (0 cost) once you have burst.
• Special weapon — Gluttonous Soul Grimoire — Boosts Cold attack on normal skills and raises Tag Skill. Her exclusive engraved gear adds Crit Damage while her Cold boost is active.

Who Merlin is (Seven Deadly Sins canon)

• Title — The Boar's Sin of Gluttony — one of the original Seven Deadly Sins.
• Reputation — Regarded as the greatest mage in Britannia, a master sorceress.
• Signature magic — Her power 'Infinity' makes a spell's effect last permanently once cast — a defining trait in the source material.

• [Tier 6] potential corrected — Fixing a prior localization error: landing a Normal Attack or Ultimate Move now lowers the enemy's Crit Defense by 15% for 20 seconds.
• 'A Timeless Heart' banner returns — Daisy's Pick Up reruns during 1.5 — 120-pull guaranteed like a new-hero banner, sharing the current SSR Pick Up guaranteed counter, and her exclusive skin 'The Fresh Scent of Autumn' is included.

Gluttonous Soul weapons — new sub options

• Longsword — + Attack Increase.
• Axe — + Crit Damage.
• Sword & Shield — + Ultimate Move Damage Increase.
• Rapier — + Wind Burst Efficiency.

Crafted quality unlocked — exact ranges (min → max)

• Ruler of the Ocean (Top/Bottoms/Belt/Boots) — 61 → 70
• Arachne's Melody (Bottoms/Belt/Boots) — 96 → 120
• Life Crystal (Bottoms/Belt) — 96 → 120
• Jet-black Crystal (Top/Bottoms/Belt/Boots) — 96 → 110
• Star Guardian (Top/Bottoms/Belt/Boots) — 86 → 100
• Revived Nightmare (Top/Bottoms/Belt/Boots) — 86 → 100
• Twisted Wish (Top/Bottoms/Belt/Boots) — 86 → 100
• Immortal Guardian (Necklace/Ring/Earrings) — 61 → 70
• Twisted Thought (Necklace/Ring/Earrings) — 96 → 110
• Cursed Pulse (Necklace/Ring/Earrings) — 100 → 125
• Hymn of Regeneration (Necklace/Ring/Earrings) — 115 → 125

Easier weapon caps

• SR → SSR shards — A new recipe crafts SSR Magic Crystal Shards from SR ones, so raising SSR weapon limit breaks is more accessible.
• Cheaper SR weapons — SR weapon crafting is made easier, feeding that new shard recipe through salvage.

What changes

• New: weekly Raid — Co-op for up to 5 players at 'Taranis's Sanctuary' (Abyss only, its own dedicated key). Not a daily grind — rewards are weekly, capped at 2 claims per week at ~500 Star Fragments each (≈1,000/week). The 'chess boss' has destructible board pieces and party gimmicks. Mission track: 'Conqueror's Path'.
• Three dungeons close — Ferzen Mines, Deep Spider Nest and The Capital of the Dead temporarily close for renewal — and will return reworked into the raid format, like Taranis's Sanctuary. In the meantime The Capital of the Dead becomes elite-monster farming content (lower difficulty, adjusted rewards).
• Rewards move to Boss Challenge — Existing Boss Challenge rewards are unchanged; the dungeons' rewards (accessories, Star Guardian engraved materials, boss armor sets) are added on top — one clear pays out both, so total rewards go up.
• Old dungeon materials — Items like 'Mysterious Source of the Long-dead' exchange 1:1 for Boss Challenge components after maintenance, and the recipes that used them are updated — so hold onto them.
• Corrupted Guardian Golem — The Boss Challenge boss gains new [Hell] and [Abyss] difficulties, with first-clear fragment rewards.

• Elite monsters cost 0 cube keys — Field elite monsters no longer cost cube keys — combined with last patch's faster respawn, elite farming is effectively unlimited. The hosts called this the defining change of 1.5.
• Double-reward cube keys — Opening a cube now yields two different random gear rewards (not a duplicate). Cube keys apply everywhere except the raid (field bosses, dungeons, the boss).
• Trade-off — Gold and Mastery EXP are removed from elite rewards; fragments, marks and other drops still come as before.
• SR → SSR Magic Crystal Shard — A new blueprint converts SR shards up to SSR (and SR weapon crafting is cheaper), making SSR weapon limit breaks far easier — still capped once per week per weapon.

• New sources after 1.5 — Earning Potential through Mastery past the highest Potential tier (SR hero x5 / SSR hero x20), and the Hero Pick Up 120-Loyalty-draw bonus (SSR x10, or x20 if the hero is already at the highest Potential tier).
• Retroactive grant — Players who qualified before the change but didn't receive them get them back via in-game mailbox (minus any already received during the error window).
• Apology reward — Star Fragment x1,000 for everyone, claimable from the mailbox after the 1.5 update until June 18 (Thu) 14:59 UTC.

• Under watch — Devs are studying a pre-season strategy — stacking maximum buffs before the timer starts, then chaining a transformation-type ultimate with a maintained duration to cut clear time. It is considered a normal use of the content's starting rules for now.
• What's next — They will review its impact after 1.5 and announce the direction for the regular Time Attack ranking season in a dev note timed with its start, to avoid pre-buff/transformation play becoming overly central.