On Wednesday, March 22nd, the next update will come to Vindictus and bring with it a new special dungeon, new outfits, the brand-new Alban Festival and countless improvements to make growing in power easier!
Alban Festival
The Alban Festival update brings forward a special festival for you to practice your skills with the Spear Master and Wall Master mini-games!
Practice your aim with the Spear Master mini-game, throwing spears at pop-up targets. Hit 8 out of 10 targets before they hide again to move onto the next stage for greater rewards. The Wall Master mini-game faces you off against ten rows of oncoming walls with only a small gap to pass through. Get through them all to reach the next stage and fight for better rewards!
The more stages you get through, the more Festival Trophy's you'll earn, with a Festival Gold Trophy rewarded if you complete all the stages. Take those trophies to Allysse in the Malina Inn to exchange them for special Emblems, colorful headgear inspired by the good William Tell and more.
New Special Battle: Shrouded Truth
The Alban Festival Update gives us another special team-up boss fight. The Blood Lord of Ainle was a formidable foe on his own, but can you withstand his barrage of attacks with the skirmishing Assassin Ekinar backing him up?
Join up a party of up to 6 players and defeat the new dynamic duo for a chance at some powerful rewards, includin ga Masterpiece Gem Box, Season 3 Essence Items or a Special Dungeon: Enchant Pouch containing a random high-rank Enchant Scroll! You can complete the Shining Keaghan battle quest once per day, and only on Hard difficulty.
Easier Enchants and Enhancements
Among the numerous improvements to come with the Alban Festival update are massive changes to make Enchanting and Enhancement easier to do, especially for those still climbing up the levels and working with less powerful equipment.
On the Enchanting front, all Enchant Scrolls have had their ranks reorganized to Rank F through Rank A. These Ranks now mean more than just how powerful the Enchant is or how hard the Scroll is to find: the odds of success for Enchanting have been greatly improved, especially for low-rank Enchants or when boosted with Brynn Elixirs.
Enhancement has also been enhanced to make failed Enhancements less punitive and encouraging you to improve low level equipment. Gold costs have been reduced, Elixirs are needed on fewer items and penalties for Enhancing lower level items start much later, being able to reach +7 Enhancements of Level 20 items without no chance of a penalty or gold cost at all.
Penalties and costs will rise as more powerful Enhancement Stones are required, but no costs or penalties have been increased, with everything being easier for those still seeking to climb the ranks of Vindictus! We also have more sales, events and countless other improvements, so keep an eye out as the update comes next week!
More info here:
http://vindictus.nexon.net/news/21171/coming-soon-alban-festival-update 
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---What new outfit do you guys think?
The Alban Festival Update gives us another special team-up boss fight. The Blood Lord of Ainle was a formidable foe on his own, but can you withstand his barrage of attacks with the skirmishing Assassin Ekinar backing him up?
---LOL So having blood lord teleporting back and forth is not enough? They bring in another teleporting raid boss. That's a challenge alright.
IIRC the scroll revamp will remove most of the useless scrolls because devcat cant be bothered to make them useful. They tried to make useless stuff like explosive, resistant, etc useful by giving them shitty RNG buffs (like how fury, dominance, etc work) but this isnt a very good solution because the buffs are meh, RNG and cause more UI lag with more buff icons.
Explosive would be a decent scroll if they reduced/removed the crit % penalty but...nope, devcat is too bad to even do that.
People who want balance speed and crit with out blowing there sh!t up
I'm hoping for rocheste agent, will also be happy with the Thailand high elf set.
What about r9-8 scrolls not breaking gear ? ^^^
The ES revamp is nice at least.
>has stats meant for people in full level 90 gear with enchants
>drops nothing that people appropriately geared want
>finding people to do the raid is insanely hard because most peope who are appropriately geared refuse to do it
>keag in 2nd phase with hero mode speed is cancerous for melee characters
Then they decide to do something similar but with two of the most cancerous bosses in the game, one of which spams a teleport that does AOE damage. How devcat comes up with such retarded ideas baffles me.
Ive heard about the alban festival thing from a friend of mine who plays in KR. Its apparently retarded and most koreans hate it. Like resenlia/sports day/etc.
They can 2vs1 punish me any day. I will be a willing victim.