Vampir has dropped its 26th and 27th improvement status boards, gathering thoughts and feedback from the heirs. The in-game GM who rounded up the feedback and shipped it straight to the development team was on duty from August 3 to August 14. Since the tracking period was slightly longer than usual, there is a bit more meat on the status board this time around. We are talking everything from marketplace and collection tweaks straight to brand-new content pitches. Let us dive right into the details below, shall we?

Q. We really need a fresh target for Hero grade equipment collections.
A. Alongside dropping new collections of that grade, we will keep a close eye on drop rates and sort them out together.

First up, let us look at the items left off the cutting room floor for these two status boards. One of them involves adjusting the marketplace registration cap for the 'Echo of the Night's Will'. This item is basically a byproduct you get after failing to enhance the 'Night's Will' offering. Since a bunch of heirs have been trying their luck at enhancements, the market is currently flooded with them. You can trade them through the marketplace, but you have been capped at registering them in batches of 1,000 at a time.

Naturally, folks slinging these in bulk started complaining that the registration limit was getting rather annoying.The development team gets it and totally acknowledges the pain in the neck during registration, but their stance is that the cap cannot be lifted. Crank up the quantity limit, and prices will flatline, making it tough to guarantee a basement floor price for items tied to the Night's Will. They are asking for a bit of understanding, framing this cap as a necessary safety net.

Next on the chopping block is the suggestion to add Hero grade equipment collections. If you have been sinking a decent amount of time into Vampir, you have probably already polished off all the major Rare grade collections. Naturally, this is the exact moment when calls for Hero gear collections get louder. The development team is well aware of how far the heirs have progressed, and they are busy cooking up Hero grade equipment collections as the next milestone.

And they are not just throwing in new Hero gear collections blindly. To help the heirs stepping up to the plate, the team is continuously monitoring the drop rate of Hero gear. They explained that they will roll out the Hero grade equipment collections at just the right moment, backed by additional quality-of-life adjustments.

Q. We accidentally clapped our friendly players due to friendly fire. Is there a way to stop this blunder?
A. We need some internal brainstorming to implement a 'no-attack filter' under specific conditions.

Vampir occasionally suffers from accidental civil wars breaking out in competitive zones like 'Gehenna'. The newly opened Global 2 region is no exception to this headache. Heirs have zero intention of swinging at fellow same-server players, but a clumsy slip of the finger leads to an attack and spirals straight into a full-blown feud. Folks have been asking if the developers could patch in a setting that outright blocks attacks against same-server heirs to prevent these blunders.

Sadly, this suggestion got dumped into the unapplied pile. The lead planner chimed in directly, explaining that given Vampir's combat spaghetti code, they need a structural deep-dive to figure out if they can actually pull off a no-attack filter under specific conditions. Since it is not something they can fix overnight, they offered a workaround to help minimize mistakes instead. You can tweak your target detection settings to leave neutral players out of the auto-targeting pool. If you keep bumping into friendly and enemy characters making clicks or touches a nightmare, definitely make good use of the detection filter.

Q. There are way too many slackers idling in Epic Dungeons.
A. We will tweak how character deaths are handled inside Epic Dungeons to sort this out.

Lately, running into heirs who deliberately kick the bucket in an Epic Dungeon and then do absolutely nothing has been on the rise. They are trying to coast on the coattails of the remaining party members, banking on the fact that even if they just stand there doing jack all, they still bag the Epic Dungeon rewards. Because of this, a horde of players is demanding differential rewards scaled by contribution or death counts.

The lead planner explained that this behavior is a leftover safety net originally designed to stop players from accidentally chain-dying in the open world. Since that logic was built for standard fields, it needs a bespoke rule set tailored specifically for Epic Dungeons. They promised to check if characters dying in Epic Dungeons can be handled differently than in the open world, and tweak it if feasible.

Q. Content where we can actually feel our combat power growing is a bit thin on the ground.
A. Hang tight for upcoming content and give the 'Nari-chanye' seasonal challenge a spin in the meantime.

An absolute regular guest showed up at 'GM Celine's doorstep once again: the pitch for brand-new content. This time, players are begging for a fresh playground where they can actually feel their combat power scaling up when they participate. The lead planner slapped a 'planned for implementation' tag on this one and promised new content yet again. That said, since a speedy update might be off the table, they recommended tackling the Nari-chanye seasonal challenge as a solid stopgap.

Nari-chanye, which wrapped up its 3rd season not too long ago, challenges you to crush monsters floor by floor. It tickles your competitive itch depending on how beefy your character is, putting both your combat score and control mechanics to the absolute test. Plus, you can size up your standing by comparing records with other heirs of the same class and similar combat power.

In that sense, the lead planner noted that the Nari-chanye seasons were purposefully designed to let players feel their growing power. It might not be a bad idea to cut your teeth on the Nari-chanye seasons while waiting for the brand-new power-scaling content to drop.

Q. It is a time-limited quest, but does the countdown really have to eat up NPC dialogue time too?
A. It is technically designed with dialogue included in the timer, but we will fix it sometime this August.

Most of the quests famed for being absolute brick walls in Vampir's main storyline are time-limited. You look at the initial timer and think you have got plenty of breathing room, but once you wade through normal mob waves and multi-phase boss brawls, you realize far too late that time is running dangerously short. Complaints about this difficulty spike pop up on the status board often enough whenever people start hitting walls. This time around, the community caught wind of the fact that the clock keeps ticking during NPC conversations, and they are calling foul.

The lead planner dropped a rather upbeat comment on this feedback, tossing it into the scheduled-for-implementation bin before rolling out an explanation. First off, these timed main quests were purposely tuned to act as a kind of 'gatekeeper' difficulty check. They were engineered to ensure players hit a specific baseline of combat power, which is why the dialogue time was baked into the timer in the first place.

However, the team confessed that given how much stronger the player base has grown lately, the clock is admittedly feeling a bit tighter than originally intended. They are planning to patch it so the timer only ticks down during actual combat phases, promising a fix as early as August. If you have hit a brick wall on a timed quest, keep your eyes peeled for the upcoming update.