Bosses always drop something now, and Dungeon Points stop expiring

Bosses no longer come up empty. Until today a boss could hand you nothing at all, or a pile of alz and nothing else. That is fixed — every boss and every chest now drops an item, every single time you kill it.

Bosses drop better things, too

Where a boss was handing out Upgrade and Force Cores three times out of four, it no longer does. Cores are still in there, because they are worth having — they have just stopped being most of the table. On the bosses and chests that were worst affected, gear, weapons and accessories are now about twice as likely to be the thing that falls.

Lake in Dusk is the clearest case. Its bosses were both the ones most likely to give you nothing and the ones most stuffed with cores. Titanium and Shadowtitanium gear is now about as likely to drop as a core is.

Alz bombs, ten minutes instead of an hour

The big alz pile was landing roughly once an hour, which is rare enough that most people had never seen one. It should now turn up about once every ten minutes while you are out farming.

Ordinary monsters also come up completely empty far less often than they did.

Dungeon Points were quietly expiring

This is the one worth reading twice. Dungeon Points vanished three hours after the last one you earned — the whole balance, not just the oldest point. Unless you were running dungeons back to back, everything you had put aside towards a Shadowtitanium set was gone before you could spend it. That is why the counter never seemed to climb.

They now last a year, which in practice means they do not expire.

If you lost points to that timer, they have been put back. There is nothing to claim — talk to Peticia in Port Lux and your balance will be there.

Sorry about the restarts

Getting all of this in meant taking the server down twice this evening, and it caught a few people mid-fight. Apologies if you were one of them.

If a boss still drops nothing, or a dungeon clear does not pay you a point, please say so in #bug-reports — those are exactly the two things to shout about now.