Hello.

This event 140 isn't coming until ~5 months after this post has been made (in April 2021), but hey? That's not important. What is important is that this update is basically the fourth anniversary update. As I keep finding more and more stuff from this patch all over DMM wiki, I decided to that it'd be about goddamn time to make a thread for this. Please note that the patch notes are not complete. Simply put, we don't have access to the DMM patch notes since the Japs aren't bothering the save them anymore. Which is a problem, since... sigh, Nutaku probably won't give us patch notes at all. But I will try to compile a list of changes here that we can look forward to.


April 2021:
- Battlefield perm event added (think AQs), also includes Titan Hunt raids (max 6 people per raid?). Not entirely sure what the reward for doing these is, but it'll probably be worth it and a MASSIVE grind.

- Weapon skill changes, I made a proper post about it here. The short version is that Elaborate might be a decent stat.

- Nike Medals added, these are something that you get for spending real life money in the game. The only decent reward is a SSR ticket, which requires 20 Nike Medals.

- 15 Dragon Eye weapons buffed (second skill upgrades one step above before and after FLB, so Merc Axe becomes Assault(++)/Exceed(+) base and Assault(++)/Exceed(++) at FLB, allowing you to reach burst cap with two FLB Axes).

- 50 Dragon Eye weapons added:

You can only buy one (1) of these each, and they do not restock. Make sure not to accidentally destroy one of these after buying it. Also, the only way to FLB these is through 3 bricks. Furthermore, they have high skill level requirements (100k total, for reference Guardian weapons are 9k), but that's not going to be a problem to anyone who can afford 50 Dragon Eyes.

There are two per element - one Pride and one Vigor. At FLB, the weapon has Atk(++)/[Pride/Vigor](++)/"increase effect of all [Pride/Vigor] weapons by 50%"
Now, that last part is very... interesting. I am not entirely sure what exactly it does. I think it's simply the same effect as Guardian Eidolons have, except for Pride or Vigor only. Having a look what the Japs have said in comments, it seems that the Vigor weapon makes it very easy to reach the 100% Vigor hard cap. So, while exact mechanics are unknown, expect these weapons to be very, very powerful.

Pride weapons:
Fire: Bow (note! Apollo/Wrath Bow!)
Water: Axe (note! Asherah Axe!)
Wind: Lance (note! Odin Lance!)
Thunder: Hammer (note! Raiko Hammer!)
Light: Arcane (note! Shamash Arcane!)
Dark: Bow

Vigor weapons:
Fire: Lance (note! Mars Lance!)
Water: Hammer (note! Dadga Hammer!)
Wind: Staff
Thunder: Gun (note! Mammon/Phul Gun!)
Light: Glaive (note! Vishnu Glaive!)
Dark: Sword (note! Dark Svarog Sword!)

Now, you might notice quiiiite the convenient synergy here. Chances are that there was a specific Hime weapon that the devs thought about for ALL the weapons. But, I don't know if there are more weapons which work out. Maybe somebody else could bother making a list? Maybe thread dig this convenient little thread where I looked up for like half the weapons here? So anyway, the point is, getting multiple copies of that specific weapon, the Phantom weapon of that type and the 50 Dragon Eye weapon will be an extremely powerful combination.

- Big changes to raid events and rewards:

Story changes:
You now need to clear the event fully in solo mode to get access to the raid fights (these fights are very weak, think collab Advent level).

Raids are (in this specific event):
Expert: 7m HP, drops 2 blue + occasional bonus, 1 spawn item.
Ragnarok: 15m HP, costs 3 spawn items, drops 1 red.
Ragnarok+: 72m HP, costs 6 spawn items, drops 2 red+1 blue, host 3 red+3 blue bonus, also has purple chests for extra loot).
(just ignore Ragnarok difficulty really)

Reward changes:
Blue 50, red 55, all SSRs (as before)
Blue 200, red 90, 2 Dragon Eye Fragments (as before)
Blue 300, red 300, 2 "SSR Ticket (1/10th)"
Premium tickets have been REDUCED from 22 -> 10. Jewels stay at 3000.

Raid gacha changes:
N weapons and Eidolons have been removed (including +1 ones?!?).

Also, there is a one time Mission to complete Ragnarok+ solo. You get 15 raid tickets. Worth!

- Big changes to advent events and rewards (one week later when the first Advent comes around that is):

Fights:
Beginner difficulty removed.
Standard: 8k*3 add HP, 120k boss.
Expert: 60k*3 add HP, 630k boss.
Ultimate: 100k*2*2 add HP, 1600k boss.
Ragnarok: 200k*2*2 add HP, 3200k boss (can be challenged as many times as you want).
Ragnarok+: 2500k add, 2200k add, 3000k add, 15000k boss. Can be challenged twice a day.

Drops:
Standard: ~5 copper, ~2.5 silver, ~1 gold
Expert: ~6 copper, ~3 silver, ~1.5 gold
Ultimate: ~15 copper, ~3 silver, ~3 gold
Ragnarok: ~21 copper, ~5 silver, ~3.5 gold
Ragnarok+: 23 copper, 10 silver, ~3.5 gold
(honestly? Only do Rag+ for the bragging rights)

Rewards:
Raid Hime ticket removed, "SSR Ticket (1/10th)" added (can be bought twice).
Demonic Cores are now bought with materials (can be bought nine times) and don't drop.




May 2021:
- Heroic difficulties have been added. These are solo (even for raid events!) and are extremely resistant to off-element attempts (though not impossible). Debuff resistant. Elixir cannot be used. Has no drops, but beating them gives you a badge of honor. While it has no ingame benefit (as far as I can tell), collecting a bunch of these is basically saying "Hey man, I got through this shit!"

For the first raid, the HP of the bosses are 90m+120m (210m HP total in two waves). Expect to be fighting for quite the while!
For the first advent, the HP of the bosses are 20m+20m, 30m+30m+30m, 100m (230m total in three waves). Expect to be fighting for quite the while!

- Advents get further redone by reducing materials to just one type. Nice! Unless they fucked that up, in which case oh god that's horrible!!!

June 2021:
- T4 Soul buffs, which I wrote earlier here. All hail our new lord and savior Parashurama.

July 2021:
- T3 Soul weapon cost reduced from 30 each to 20 each.
- T2 Cores can now be exchanged 200 times a month (up from 120), for 3x T1 Cores (no longer costs Regalia Fragments).
- Magnas can now be exchanged without limit (up from... 15/month?), for 10x Magna Fragments (no longer costs Regalia Fragments).
- Regalia can now be exchanged without limit (up from 30/month), for 5x Regalia Fragments (there no longer seems to be any other use for Fragments!!)
- Treasures can now be exchanged without limit (up from... 30/month?), for 10x Treasure Fragments.
- Union events redone:

- Kill counts for rewards abolished, only personal PP and Union PP
- Because there is only PP instead of killcount, rankings are now one push day (which is obviously Ults)
- Union ranking rewards 3500 Medals for 1-10, 3000 for 11-30, 2500 for 31-50, etc.
- Personal rankings are 3500 Medals for 1-50, 51-100 3000, 2500 101-200, etc.
- 3000 Union Medals from rewards
- You can buy weapon bricks for 10k Union Medals, or FLB Union weapons (Demon or Angel) for 6k





September 2021:
- Tower events redone:

- Unified missions for all floors, they're now "survive with 5", "clear with all elemental advantage characters" and "clear once" (note! take care as F1 to F6 now require four Hime!!).
- Event is now one day shorter since F15 and F20 no longer need to be cleared twice, thus you still have no room for error.
- Removed bonus Medals for faster fights
- Rankings abolished.
- All these changes combined, max Medals per event has gone down from 20850 -> 11000.
- Hime can now be deployed three times per Tower event. This is a huge quality of life change, since you can just take one trashy team of Rs for F1-F3 and another for F4-F6 for example. And use your A-team for F18, F19 and F20 for example.
- top floors supposedly now easier.

I'm really glad that the turn timer is gone, and for the Hime change but... oh man halving the rewards really sucks.




About upcoming Hime:
Please note that there is not one single original design coming up for the next year. Every single Hime - which will continue to release every two weeks - will be just new clothes for old Hime (or a collab character based on somebody else's design). It looks like the very last original Hime in Kamihime was Anshar about two months ago (September 2020 on Nutaku).

Awakenings will keep happening:
Nephtys December 2020
Frey February 2021
Aphrodite April 2021
Mars June 2021
Arianrhod July 2021
Pluto November 2021

As a quick look, Nephtys and Frey will get decently buffed it seems, from "don't use" to "maybe use." Pluto seems to be a getting a complete waste of 3 Dragon Eyes though, seriously an Odin level Awakening if the DMM wiki is correct. Ugh. The rest get stronger, but doesn't seem like anything that would make you use them if you already aren't.