Cabal Eternal – Episode 43 Part 2 – Full Patch Notes

Winter 2025 marks 20 years for the journey of Cabal, the franchise keeps broadening and soaring into the bright future. Episode 43 Part 2 – aka Winter 2025 update – comes with:

🔄 E️ternal Chaos Arena Renewal
🤌 Solo Raid – Selective Attack Mode
🎖️ Honor Medal – Elite Rank
↗️ A️P Limit Increase
💍 Chaos Upgrade – Ring
👗 Costume UI Improvements & BM3 Costume Preset
🔔 Notification UI & Popup Message
🚫 Block List Improvements
🗿 New Karma Rune / Rune Slot Extender (Karma)
🔄️ Battle Mode 3 Extreme Combo
🪖 Mission War Rewards

Last Update: 14-Aug-2026 with contents up to 18-Mar-2026 Patch notes.

Change map design, change some monster.
Change bosses at Boss Battle 4 and Boss Battle 5.
Change the daily entry limit from 15 to 10
Change of Drop
- After defeating boss at Boss Stage (excluding the last boss Eternal Vutos) there is chance for dropping Fragment of Chaos.
- All existing Essence of Chaos Guardian could be dropped from last boss Eternal Vutos for a certain chance.
- There is also a chance to drop Essence of Chaos Guardian (Ring) from the Eternal Vutos.

Add “Selective Attack” mode:
- A special mode that allow player to break the sequential dungeon flow, and let player pick a specific boss to start with.
- Mechanism:
  - Click on “Selective Attack” at the bottom of the UI
  - Select the boss that you want to skip to using the arrows
  - Start the selective raid by clicking on “Enter” button
- To exit the “Selective Attack” mode, you can either:
  - Click on the “Selective Attack” button again while being in the “Selective Attack” mode
  - Close / Reopen the Solo Raid UI
  - Change the Difficulty of the Solo Raid
- Limits:
  - You can only skip to the boss that you have defeated and received the reward before.
  - Cannot skip directly to Demonking Patren
  - Ranking will not be updated based on the result of Selective Attack mode

Solo Raid Clear Achievements & Titles:

Abyss / Chaos Difficulty Balance
- Reduced the base attack of all boss monsters by 20%.
- Reduced the damage of selected patterns from Archlich Rigel, Demon Lord Faitren, and End of Faitren.
Drop Rate Changes

Paradox Story: Demon King Patren Changes
- Fixed an issue where the client could crash when a Wizard fought Demon Lord Patren during dungeon progression.
- Reduced the damage of selected patterns on Destiny difficulty:
  - Archlich Rigel’s circular attack.
  - Demon Lord Patren’s Pure Soul and straight-line attacks.
  - End of Patren’s orange/red orb and meteor patterns.
- Added explanatory dialogue when certain patterns occur on Destiny difficulty.
  - The dialogue provides hints for handling specific boss mechanics.
- Fixed an issue in Paradox Story: Demon King Patren where using Crushing Blow while fighting End of Patren could disconnect the client from the server
- Fixed an issue in the End of Patren area of Paradox Story: Demon King Patren where ranged characters could not attack from certain locations.
- Fixed the ranged attack issue at certain locations in the End of Patren area of Paradox Story: Demon King Patren.

Overview:
- Add a new Rank for Honor Medal: Elite Rank
- When the Honor Medal reached Legend Rank 10, it will be promoted to Elite Rank 1.
- After promoted to Elite rank:
  - A new tab will be displayed next to “General”
  - Character’s AP Limit is increased:
    - Old: 700
    - New: 10,000

Honor Medal – Elite Rank
- By obtaining the Honor Medal Point the Honor Medal – Elite Rank will progress
- Elite Rank has Grade 1 – 40
- Character can use Potion of Honor Medal for obtaining up to 10% of each Grade
- Amount of Honor Medal Point required per level

Elite Point
- For each grade in Elite Rank increased, 01 (one) Elite Point will be granted
- Elite Point is used for opening slots in Honor Medal – Elite Rank

Honor Medal – Elite Rank Category:
- There are 04 categories:
  - Elaborate Strategy
  - Resolute Advance
  - Iron Blood
  - Iron Wall Vanguard
- When all slots of the previous category is opened, the next category will be activated
Slot Open:
- Each category has 10 slots
- Cost of opening:
  - Elite Point: 1
  - Chaos Core: 100
  - Divine Stone: 100
Assign Slot Stats:
- After a slot is opened, there is not stats assigned
- Cost to grant stats for a slots: 200 AP & 100 WExp
Available Slots & Chance:

Upgrade Slots:
- Once the stats is assigned, it can be upgraded up to Level 10, stats value of the slot increases accordingly.
- Slot Upgrade UI is showing when clicking on a slot.
- Slot Upgrade cost and chance:

Slot Stats per Upgrade Level:

Use of sealing items is the same like with other Rank:
- Honor Medal Chest: Chest used for saving the Honor Medal Option. Possible to save option or apply saved option.
  - After used, all slots will be cleared (open state is maintained) and all Elite Point will be refunded.
- Honor Medal Seal Chest: Seals Honor Medal State (grade and point) for trading.

Elite Medal Slots are automatically disabled During Character Transfer
- Elite Medal slots will be disabled when transferring a character.
- They can be reopened after the character transfer process is completed.

Summary:
- Certain Rings can be converted to have Chaos Upgrade.
- From +0 to +1, using Chaos Converter will grant the Chaos Upgrade at +1 with 100% success.
- From +1 to +15, using Chaos Core to upgrade as usual.
  - Different amount of Chaos Core and success rate depends on upgrade grade.
Ring Categorisation:

Core Consumption & Success Rate per Upgrade Level:

Stats:
- Stats are different, depends on Ring type.
- Concepts:
  - General Ring: Defensive Stats
  - Unique Ring: Offensive Stats & PvP Offensive Stats
  - Event Ring: PvE Defensive & Offensive Stats

Safeguard:
- New type of material is added: Essence of Chaos Guardian (Ring)
  - Source:
    - Last Boss of Eternal Chaos Arena
    - Cube of Blaze (Easy ~ Awakening) [Guild Dungeon Reward]
  - Able to register in Auction House
- New recipe to request “Chaos Safeguard (Ring)” at NPC Chloe.
  - Required Amity: 5,500
  - Registration Fee: 50,000,000 Alz
  - Material:
    - Chaos Core x100
    - Essence of Chaos Guardian (Ring) x1
  - Success Rate: 100%
  - Request Time: 2s
Sealing
- Can seal the Chaos Upgrade of Ring and allow trading
- Applying Restriction:
  - Only allowed to apply on the correct Ring Category.
    - E.g.:
      - A Chaos Upgrade Seal Stone of Critical Ring +5 cannot be applied on Dr. Mazel’s Ring, because one is General Ring and another is Unique Ring.
      - A Chaos Upgrade Seal Stone of Critical Ring +5 cannot be applied on Ring of Champion +10, because one is General Ring and another is not supported Chaos Upgrade.
Ring with Chaos Upgrade cannot be registered into Collection or used as material for requests.
- E.g. request to convert from Awakened Tyrant’s Ring to Dr. Mazel’s Ring; for that case the Awakened Tyrant’s Ring must NOT have Chaos Upgrade.

Allow setting up the Preset for character for the look when Battle Mode 3 is activated.
- Access: Using the special switch button on the top-right of the Costume UI.
- Available slots for configure on Battle Mode 3 Presets:
  - Clothing Costume
  - Head Costume
  - Force Wing Costume

A special checkbox “Use Preset” is available in the UI:
- If the checkbox is checked:
  - Apply the costumes equipped in the slots of BM3
  - When no costumes are equipped, default BM3 appearance will be shown
- If the checkbox is NOT checked:
  - Apply the character normal costume presets, BM3 weapon is showing as normal.

Allow the BM3 costumes to be linked with Combined Presets.
Changes of existing game options:
- Option > Display > General
  - Old: Disable BM3 Helmet / Armor Display
  - New: Use BM3 Preset for Costume

Other changes for Costume UI:
- Move the “Register” button to bottom-left of the UI.
- Add “Search” button to top-right of the left side of the UI.
  - Still search is possible with typing and hitting Enter.
- Add icon to indicate that the costume is equipped or not.
  - Equipped in Normal mode
  - Equipped in BM3
- Add new convenient buttons:
  - Hide / Show UI
  - Hide / Show Costumes
    - When toggle the “Hidden” mode, all cosmetic items will be hidden, showing the original actual item-based appearance.
    - Non items will be unequipped when triggering “Hidden” mode.
  - Save Preset:
    - Normal Mode: 5 Presets
    - BM3: 3 Presets
  - Revert: To revert all change without saving
  - Remove All: To remove all equipped costume items.
- Change the icon of Shopping Cart icons for open/close state

Blocking is now account-wise, not character-wise
- E.g.:
  - A player initiate the “Block” from a character in account A, the block is for a character in account B.
- Result:
  - All characters in accounts A cannot see chat of all characters in account B.
Add notice message to explain the consequences of blocking is account-wise.
If the target is moving the character to another account or renaming the character, there will be an “X” mark next to the character name, and that “block entry” is not applied.
Both blocker and blockee cannot send friend request or party request to each other.
If a block is initiated and the target is in the friend list, it will also be automatically removed from the friend list (including all other characters from that account).

Add 8 new types of Karma Runes at NPC Flasha.

Added the Rune Slot Extender – Karma
- An item that expands the number of available Karma Rune slots.
  - Base slots: 10
  - Maximum additional slots from the extender: 50
  - Maximum total: 60 slots
- Purchase
  - NPC: Rune Agent Flasha in Bloody Ice
  - Price: 10,000,000 Alz + 300 Karma Rune Exchange Tickets
  - Binding:
    - Character-bound
    - Cannot be transferred between accounts

Fixed the bug that caused Skill Reflect Shield of Force Shielder will now work properly with consideration of some “survival” skills:
- Wing Protect (all classes)
- Adrenaline of Rage – Gladiator
- Adaptive Technique – Force Gunner
- Quick Move – Force Archer
- Rhino Toughness – Warrior
- Force Shell – Wizard
Change the range of “Core Break” skill from 6 to 13, update the info in skill tooltip.
Core Break Skills registered to the Quick Slot will no longer activate automatically.
Force Archer: Fixed an issue where the Immortal effect did not activate when using Spirit Walk.
Force Blader: Fixed an issue where the Rooted effect was not applied to monsters when using Excration.

Changes the rewards for Mission War based on War Point ranges and synchronized the rewards of all Mission War maps to be the same:

Added Immunity Against Repeated Crowd Control Effects
- In PvP, after being affected by a status effect , the character gains immunity to the same status effect for [the effect’s duration + 2 seconds].
  - Example: If a character is stunned in PvP and the stun lasts 2 seconds, the character will be immune to stun for a total of 4 seconds.
- This immunity does not apply to PvE or attacks from monsters.

Improved Status Effect Icons
- Added a new icon for the Root debuff effect.
- Improved the buff/debuff icons displayed above the HP bar:
  - Added new icons.
  - Adjusted the size of existing icons.
- Added icons for these status effects.
  - Target Lock / Skill Target Count Reduction
    - PvP only.
    - Target skill: Force Shielder’s Blind Anger.
  - Movement Speed Reduction
    - Applies in both PvE and PvP.
    - Target skill: Dark Mage’s Leg Fracture.
※ In PvP, Knockback is displayed using the Down icon.

Overview
- Added a feature that allows players to configure Battle Mode 3 with their preferred skill combination and automatically repeat it.
- Available only to characters with active Premium benefits:
  - Blessing Bead – Platinum Wing
  - Blessing Bead – Plus
  - Blessing Bead – Superior
  - Premium PC Room (only for Cabal KR)
- Available only in selected content:
  - Dungeons
  - Mission War
  - Mission Battle
  - World Ruler Bosses
Opening the Battle Mode 3 Extreme Combo Settings UI
- Click the Battle Mode 3 Combo Settings quick button next to the Bond buff icon in the upper-right corner.
- Alternatively, open Skills > Special > Settings.
- The existing Battle Mode Skills section has been separated into Battle Mode 2 and Battle Mode 3.
  - Added a Battle Mode 3 Combo Settings button.
  - Added class-specific Extreme Combo skills.

Battle Mode 3 Extreme Combo Setup
- Select up to 4 skills from Attack A and B, then activate them using the ON button.
- Select desired Synergies using the Import button.
- The effect of the selected combination will be displayed when a Synergy is registered.
- Up to 3 combinations can be configured.
- Select the desired Fatal stage from Fatal I-III.
- When Auto Repeat is enabled, the configured combinations will repeat continuously while Battle Mode 3 is active.

Battle Mode 3 Extreme Combo Skill
- Drag and drop the Extreme Combo skill from Skills > Special into the Quick Slot.
- Hovering over the skill displays the currently active combo and Synergy in the tooltip.
- The combo will stop when:
  - The active Premium benefit expires.
  - A non-instant buff or movement skill is used.
  - Attack A/B or a Specialty skill is manually activated.
  - Battle Mode 3 Combo Settings are changed.
Presets
- Up to 5 combo configurations can be saved as presets.
- When Extreme Combo is activated, the preset currently selected in the Combo Settings window will be used.
- Added a Battle Mode 3 Combo Settings preset to the Unified Preset system.
- Added class-specific guides to the help section of the Combo Settings window.

Added Essence of Chaos Guardian (Ring) into Cube of Blaze (Guild Dungeon reward)
- All grades of Cube of Blaze could generate Essence of Chaos Guardian (Ring) as reward
Add new dungeons warps and change of NPC location
- NPC Terner for Guild Dungeon is moved to near the Legend Arena entrance.
- New dungeon entrance warp is added [Bloody Ice (X77, Y33)], next to NPC Terner, target dungeons:
  - Faded Dungeons
  - Weakened Dungeons
  - This works instead of the old “4th Gate” in Warp Centre.

Increase the drop rate of some unique accessories / material for unique accessories from some dungeons:
- Target Items:
  - Killian’s Limbic Tissue
  - Drosnin’s Earring
  - Drosnin’s Earring (Character-Binding)
  - Prideus’ Bracelet
  - Prideus’ Bracelet (Character-Binding)
  - Piece of Siena’s Bracelet
  - Orphidia’s Amulet (Lv. 3)
Increase limit of players for participating Guild Dungeon:
- Old: 25
- New: 30
Glacies Inferna Changes
- Monster Balancing
  - HP reduced by 5% across all monsters.
  - Offensive Stats increased:
    - Attack Rate, Attack, Penetration, and Ignore Damage Reduction
  - Defensive Stats increased:
    - Defense, Damage Reduction, and Ignore Penetration.
  - Added Resist Skill Amp. and Resist Crit. DMG stats.
- Red/Blue Sealing Stones
  - HP increased from 100 → 120.
  - HP recovery after defeating a boss increased from 15% → 20%.
- Divine Stone Fragment Drop Changes

Reward Chest	Before	After
Source of the Power of Nazabrum	5	7
Source of the Power of Barlog	10	14
Source of the Power of Minisha	15	21
Source of the Power of Diablos	20	28
Remains of Diablos’ Power	70	50

Fixed an issue where Warm Heart of Wienelander would occasionally fail to drop during Tower of the Dead B3F.
Fixed an issue in Eternal Chaos Arena where some monsters appeared to disappear because they were hidden behind crystal objects.
Changes to Drops in Selected Dungeons: The equipment grades and drop rates from boxes and Legendary Cubes in high-end dungeons have been adjusted.
- Mirage Island (Awakened)
  - Relic Box: Removed Palladium drops and added higher-grade Demonite Epic equipment.
  - Legacy Box: Removed lower-grade Demonite Epic equipment.
- Celestia / Purifier in the Woods
  - Increased equipment drop rates.
- Secret Base SCA-76
  - Legendary Box: Removed lower-grade Dragonium Epic equipment.
- Tower of the Dead B4F
  - Increased equipment drop rates.
  - Relic Box: Removed Demonite equipment.
  - Legendary Box: Removed lower-grade Dragonium Epic equipment.
Fixed an incorrect binding setting for Demonite equipment from Mirage Island (Awakened) Legacy Box.
- Demonite equipment is now correctly set to Character-Bind on Equip.
Mirage Island (Awakened)
- Unified the attack range of fixed-position boss monsters to 12.
  - Target bosses:
    - Awakened Grogo
    - Awakened Gorgue
    - Awakened Bariald
    - Awakened Garliardo
    - Awakened Crasio
    - Awakened Tolerant
    - Awakened Dispensio
    - Destroyer Ageluth
    - Controller of Temple Chief Laxar
Secret Base SCA-76 Balance Adjustment
- Normal Monsters: HP reduced by 30%, Ignore Damage Reduction increased.
- Boss Monsters: HP reduced by 10%, Ignore Damage Reduction increased.
Purifier in the Woods Map Improvements
- Reworked the overall map route to make character movement easier.
- Added smoke effects to the hole-filled terrain in the Underqueen Ripley area.
Eternal Chaos Arena Improvements
- The attack ranges of the certain monsters / bossess have been adjusted because they were set too short
- Fixed an issue where Tempus’ Suppression Attack applied a longer suppression duration than intended.
- Fixed an issue where dialogue from some monsters was not displayed.
- Adjusted monster sight ranges.
Fixed an issue where Ghosts did not spawn in Tower of the Dead B2F.
Adjusted Boss Portal Location in Legacy of Mandarat
- The portal, which previously appeared in the center of the dungeon, has been relocated.
- The portal location is now also marked on the floor.

A fragment of memory Drop Monster Changes:

Dungeon	Previous Monster	New Monster
Forgotten Temple B2F	Rest Tyrant	Tyrant
Tower of the Dead B3F	Immortal Etherno Calligo Tempus	Charayan Fenysere
Forgotten Temple B2F (Awakened)	Awakened Leth Tyrant	Awakened Tyrant
Acheron Arena	Great Warrior Detestatus	Overwatcher Guoicpeta
Pandemonium	The King of Hell Nix	The Commander of Hell Demonz
Mirage Island	Island Ruler Bariald	Watchman Darthpencio
Mirage Island (Awakened)	Controller of Temple Chief Laxar	Destroyer Ageluth
Secret Base SCA-76	Turmacan (Final Boss)	Turmacann (First Turmakan)
Celestia	Keeper of Emptiness Perius	Furious Abyss Vitos
Purifier in the Woods	Ancient being Omerai	UnderQueen Ripley
Tower of the Dead B4F	Unknown Fear Hekatoncheires	Hekatoncheires

Change of Inventory Sorting Rule:
- Priority:
  - Existing: Item Size
  - New: Item Type
- Order: High to Low
  - Weapon
  - Armor
  - Vehicle
  - Accessories
  - Other Equipment (Effector, Crest…)
  - Costume
  - Rune
  - Potion
  - Others
Chat-related improvements
- General Changes:
  - Change Chat to tab design.
  - Each tab can be filtered with what content should be shown.
  - Default: Normal / Party / Guild
  - All available conversation types:
    - Normal
    - Party
    - Guild
    - Trade
    - Channel
    - Whisper
    - Shout
  - E.g., you can config that:
    - Tab #1 name is “General”
      - Showing: Normal / Party / Guild / Should
    - Tab #2 name “Private”
      - Showing: Party / Whisper / Channel
    - Tab #3, #4, #4: Not used
- Change of Options UI for Chat according to new changes:
  - Allow to change in Tab style
  - Allow to see / not see “Buddy” and “Guild” login message separately (it was combined before)
  - Merged option that show / hide the gaining of EXP / OXP / MXP into a single option
  - Chat options are saved as account-based
- Change buttons related to Chat UI
  - Add feature to select tabs
  - Add “Scroll to Top” button
  - Change locations of “Minimize” and “Setting” button
Improve the “Burning” indicator for various content in-game
- “Burning” is representing the special boost of certain content in-game such as EXP, AXP…
- Burning is normally for some events and Seasonal Characters
Improvements for in-game notifications
- Concept:
  - Old: When there is any game-related notification:
    - There will be a small pop-up message shown up at the bottom-right corner of the screen.
  - New: When there is any game-related notification:
    - The notification will be added into the Notification list in the “Notification” UI
      - Notification UI is a new UI, accessible by clicking on the notification icon, bottom-right of the screen, next to Force Gem balance display.
    - A small number (white text / red background) will be displayed to indicate number of unread notifications.
    - Type of notifications to be displayed in the new UI:
      - Completion of Research / Pet Exploration
      - Completion of Platinum / Diamond Merit Mastery Slot Open
      - Expiration of durational items
      - Expiration of Blessing Beads
      - Expiration of Buff (Event Pass Buff / Platinum Buff / Season Mission Buff…)
      - Others
Add “popup message”:
- Display a temporary notification on the game screen in various situations
- Type of notifications to be displayed in the new “popup message”
  - Altar Maintain Condition changes
  - DP Expiration
  - Availability of Guild Golden Treasure Chest
  - Wing Upgrade available
  - Others
Chat
- Fixed the General tab selection under Chat Tab View being reset when restarting the game.
- Fixed an issue where entering more characters than the chat limit prevented Korean text from being entered.
- Standardized the shout/whisper options and chat font colors.
Event Pass
- Fixed overlapping tooltip messages in the UI.
- Added thousand separators to Increasing Score and Force Gem in the Stage Score purchase window.
HP Bar Debuff & Status Effect Icons
- Fixed an issue where multiple debuff/status icons could disappear or overlap when many icons were displayed.
- Icons are now centered above the HP bar.
Ping/Latency Indicator: Moved the latency indicator to the bottom-left corner, next to the clock.
Fixed an issue where items below +15 were displayed in the right-side item list under the Epic Booster tab of the Unified Upgrade UI window.
Fixed an issue where the AP value and AXP bar overlapped in the Karma Rune window.
Fixed abnormal UI display in the Pet Dispatch and Honor Medal windows.
Corrected a typo in the Secret Society dispatch mission description.
Improved text alignment in the Elite Medal Storage tooltip.
Improved the responsiveness and overall smoothness of the in-game UI for:
- Unified Item Enhancement
- Skill Transcendence
- Warehouse
- Other related windows
Fixed an issue where the Equipment window tooltip appeared over the Honor Mastery window when the Honor Mastery window was opened while the Equipment window was active.
Fixed an issue where thousand separators were missing from the maximum purchase quantity in the Event Pass Stage Score purchase window.
Fixed an issue where the entire tooltip box became excessively large when a color code was included in the chat tab name displayed on mouse-over.
Fixed an issue where the default color codes for the Party/Guild chat tabs were missing after selecting Options > Chat > Set to Default.
Status Effect
- Fixed an issue where the Immune message was continuously displayed when attacking boss monsters. It will now only be displayed when attacking characters.
- Fixed an issue where debuff icons for some monsters and Force Towers were displayed incorrectly.
Notification Window Improvements
- Fixed an issue where the Delete All button did not work.
- Fixed an issue where clicking a Game General Message notification did not open the Notice tab in the mailbox.
- Fixed an issue where some automatically deleted notifications remained after their expiration time.
- When opening the Notification Window or CABAL Menu, any currently open window will now be closed first.