Look, let's be honest, Raven 2 has received a chunky update this week. We are talking about balance tweaks, quality-of-life adjustments, and brand-new content landing all at once. Plus, there is a whole slate of Halloween festivities running right now. The Halloween activities intertwine nicely, meaning you will need to keep a close eye on everything. Weekly Forum Highlight has rounded up the core issues for you, so let us dive straight into the details. Of course, checking out the official community for yourself is always a smashing idea!

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Warlord and Heavenstone Balance Adjustments

Alongside the October 21 update, tweaks landed for the Warlord, Heavenstones, and skill awakenings. The Warlord was originally designed for large-scale dust-ups, but the developers apparently felt the class lacked sufficient aggression to pull off that role properly. To fix this, they buffed five skills: Line Break, Apprehend, War Taunt, Suppressing, and Neutralise. The focus was mainly on cranking up skill damage numbers or shaving down cooldowns.

As for Heavenstones, the update doubles down on their original concepts and gives some love to underused options. A total of 10 items got the treatment, spanning one Legendary, six Heroes, and three Rares. Skill awakenings also felt a bit lacklustre at the Mythic tier, so those effects were either beefed up or expanded altogether. You can inspect the precise design goals and patch notes over on the official Raven 2 community boards and developer diary.

Guild Tier 6 Added, and Whose Statue Is That in Town?

Next up is the content update and quality-of-life improvements for Raven 2. The weekly Guild Dungeon challenge has been expanded with a brand-new Tier 6. Clear all three rounds of Tier 6, and you will unlock Tier 6 loot back at your guild hideout. Every single round cleared dishes out rewards, complete with C-to-S ranked time attack bonuses. We are rather curious to see what kind of records the top-ranking guilds will pull off.

On the quality-of-life front, the developers have added Stellar Amplification presets. You can now save your setups across presets A, B, and C to swap things around with absolute ease. Stigmas have also been pushed out to 18 tiers across all four groups. On top of that, an auto-engraving feature has been rolled out so you can try engraving up to a specified tier without losing your mind.

Following the Synerim patch, prime statues will stand proudly in major towns until the maintenance on November 18. These commemorative objects celebrate the players who first claimed the Prime-tier guardian stones in each world. Interacting with the statue lets you purchase the Prime Will Grace buff, which sticks around for a full day. Meanwhile, specialized worlds are offering server transfer tickets, giving players a window until 11:59 PM on October 27 to move between the ZERO and ZERO2 worlds.

Q&A and Guides Corner

Q. Vanguard versus Warlord: Which melee class should I pick?
A. The general consensus seems to lean a bit more toward the Berserker.

Remember when we mentioned the Warlord buffs earlier? Well, Raven 2 originally teased those balance changes back on Friday, October 16. Sparking plenty of curiosity, a player popped onto the community boards this week asking for melee class recommendations. Playing as a Warlord currently, the poster wanted to know which melee option performed better for pure grinding between the Vanguard and the Warlord, sitting around 1,300 combat power and eyeing a switch to Vanguard. However, after experiencing skills unlocked via Glory Coins and catching wind of the Warlord buffs, they found themselves in quite a dilemma.

Fellow players chimed in with their two cents, and opinions were rather divided. To cut a long story short, the Berserker gathered the most votes, though a few folks did shout out the Warlord for its handy area-of-effect attacks. Honestly, you probably cannot go wrong picking either the Warlord or the Berserker.

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Trick or Treat: Raven 2 Enters the Halloween Season

Raven 2 has officially kicked off its Halloween seasonal fun, opening up a story event alongside a dedicated event dungeon packed with linked activities. The main catalyst kicks off with a pre-event quest available to characters level 40 and above. Power through the story to unlock the Pumpkin Ghost Candy Village event dungeon. The dungeon scales across five difficulty tiers and gives you a standard 30 minutes of daily playtime. Top up your allowance using exclusive time recharge stones handed out through various in-game events.

Grind away inside the Pumpkin Ghost Candy Village to tick off the Candy Village Adventure missions. Slaying a set number of dungeon beasties rewards you with exclusive time recharge stones. Keep a sharp eye out for the rare-grade Pumpkinus Earrings among the dungeon drops, as they have plenty of uses. You can equip them directly or upgrade them using dedicated enhancement stones to fill out your item collection.

We strongly recommend focusing your efforts on enhancing those Pumpkinus Earrings. The Candy Village Enhancement mission objective requires you to attempt enhancements and hit specific reinforcement milestones. Your reward for this trouble is the Pumpkinus Supply Box, a random box stuffed with enhancement stones and advanced, superior, or ultimate 11x summon vouchers. Furthermore, you will need to burn through 90 of these supply boxes to clear the Pumpkinus Supply mission. This year's Halloween setup really ties all its moving parts together nicely.

You can grab extra Pumpkinus Supply Boxes via the Candy Village 14-day check-in and the Candy Village 7-day missions. The former hands out 11 supply boxes across a fortnight, alongside cheeky bonuses like the Pumpkinus Earrings on day one, a Trixy Familiar 1-pull summon voucher on day seven, and Pumpkinus Pumpkin Pieces on day fourteen.

As for the latter, the Candy Village 7-day missions dole out goodie bundles day by day. Every single individual mission reward is a Pumpkinus Supply Box, and the grand finale gives you a cool 5,000 Pumpkinus Pumpkin Pieces, which also drop inside the event dungeon. Take those pieces over to the event shop to buy whatever catches your fancy, whether that is Heroic Heavenstone Polish or Radiant Heroic Essence of Power. Right then, since it is the Halloween season, we ought to wrap up this Weekly Forum Highlight with the mandatory line: Trick or treat!

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