Seasonal Events

Seasonal events are time-limited events that offer a variety of unique gameplay additions or changes, along with a reward system that is completed by doing various quests as you play.

## Season 1: Arcane Ascensions

> "*Thunder cleaves the sky, an unknown power scatters among the people, seemingly originating from the same source as the occult scrolls. After much exploration, it was found that three scrolls could harness this power for their own, thus beginning the era of Arcane Ascensions...*"
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Arcane Ascensions is available on Nightmare and Reincarnation difficulties.

It introduces a selection of 3 extremely powerful occult scrolls at the start of every run. Once a scroll has been picked it cannot be discarded, and attempting to cancel the selection instead gives you a scroll at random. Meanwhile, the standard form of these scrolls will not appear in the run. If Spiritual Link is enabled, these special "scrolls" cannot form any link either.

As you play you will find Arcane Jades from green chests (replacing one scroll except in Boundless Dream), random drops from elites (instead of scrolls) and from bosses (always a golden jade in addition to other rewards), which allow you to select an ascension related to the scroll, greatly boosting its capabilities. Each ascension obtained increases certain base stats as well.

Arcane Jades offer a varying amount of options according to its color. Blue/purple/golden jades offer 1/2/3 options, respectively.

In endless modes (Endless Journey and Boundless Dream), if the player has all possible ascensions for the scroll, further Arcane Jades will be recycled automatically into one buff stack.

###  Thunder Step

> "*After using the Dash, unleash a bolt of lightning on the nearest 2 enemies within 25m, dealing 300 Lightning DMG. +300 base DMG for each Arcane Jade obtained. Enhance the next primary skill (up to 3 stacks) with every 160m moved, and release an Overcharged Thunder. The Overcharged Thunder +400% total DMG and cause 2s imprisoning.*"
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Information on base mechanics to be added.

When in use, bonuses to  Lightning? damage,  Movement Speed and  Dash should be higher priority, allowing you to move faster for Overcharged Thunder, and letting you dash more often for unleashing more bolts of lightning.

Additionally, bonuses to Primary Skill should also be considered, due to being enhanced with Overcharged Thunder.

List of arcane ascensions for Thunder Step is shown below.

**Thunder Step Ascensions** Edit

###  Elemental Pulses

> "*Release a random Elemental Pulse at the location of a target and deal 600 elemental DMG with a 30% chance to trigger elemental effect (CD: 10s). +600 base DMG and +9% chance to cause elemental effect for each obtained Arcane Jade. -0.2s cooldown for each time an elemental effect is triggered, this effect can trigger a maximum of once every 0.5 seconds.*"
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Hitting an enemy with weapon may trigger a random pulse effect with a short delay.

When in use, bonuses to various elemental damage types and elemental effects should be higher priority.

Additionally, elemental weapons and skills should also be considered for also benefiting from elemental bonuses and fusion effects, especially those with high elemental effect infliction rates for increasing how often the cooldown is reduced.

List of arcane ascensions for Elemental Pulses is shown below.

**Elemental Pulses Ascensions** Edit

###  Thorny Carapace

> "*Generate 1 thorny spine every 2 seconds, which can track targets automatically when aiming at them. Each thorny spine deals Corrosion DMG equal to total Max HP, with a 30% chance to cause Decay effect. +(total Max HP\*0.6) base DMG for every Arcane Jade. Maximum storage of thorny spines is 10.*"
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When the player has any spine in stock, aiming near enemies will shoot homing spines to them. Spines deal  Corrosion? skill damage.

When in use, bonuses to  Corrosion? damage, Max  Health? and Max  Shields?/ Armor? should be higher priority.

Additionally, bonuses to Secondary Skills should also be considered, due to several arcane ascensions either generating spines from casting Secondary Skills, or passively casting them and recovering uses when hitting with spines.

List of arcane ascensions for Thorny Carapace is shown below.

**Thorny Carapace Ascensions** Edit

### Quests and Rewards

Quests can be completed as you progress through runs and perform certain tasks. Each quest completed will grant a reward of  Soul Essence?, depending on the difficulty. Additionally, each time a certain amount of quests are completed, an additional reward will be given.

Only 80% of all quests need to be completed in order to obtain every non-soul essence reward. This allows players to safely ignore some that are difficult or have requirements they cannot achieve. Each soul essence reward will still require the respective quest to be completed however.

List of quests and quest rewards is shown below.

## Trivia

* Despite the Arcane Ascensions lore referring to harnessing power with occult scrolls, Elemental Pulses is not a real occult scroll, instead being a combination of  Magnetic Coil,  Blazing Hoop and  Realm of Corrosion.

## Update History

* 01/12/2024 update: Added Season 1: Arcane Ascensions to the game.