Hello, this is the Vindictus team.

Below are the list of changes available after the version update on July 15th, 2025.

Table of Contents

1. Character Utility Improvements

• Vella - Common

• Vella - Twin Swords

• Vella - Twin Chainblades

• Evie - Battle Scythe

2. Items

3. New Currency: Airgead

4. Misc.

1. Character Utility Improvements

\[Vella]

1) Common

• Improved the appearance of the character's face.

• You can read more about these improvements in our previous notice \[Here]

2) Twin Swords

• Changed Cross Stance to grant an additional 50 SP if you hit an enemy with a Pure Cross Cut within 40 frames of using it.

• Made a fix so that attacks that did not activate Cross Cut prior to this change are able to be blocked while in Cross Stance.

• Adjusted the Blade Heart status effect by one stage.

  • Changed the existing stage 3 effect, "Recover 2 STA on hit, gain 14 ATT SPD", to a base stage effect.

  • The icon for the Blade Heart status effect will be changed to the old stage 2 icon.

• Changed the Blade Heart status effect by removing its duration, allowing it to last for an unlimited amount of time.

  • However, the status effect will still disappear if you are hit while under its effect.

• Changed Active: Wind Rider to no longer consume Blade Heart when used.

• Changed Active: Wind Rider to restore 250 SP when used while under the Blade Heart status effect.

  • The Blade Heart status effect has been consolidated into a single stage, changing the way SP is recovered as opposed to being based on the stage of the Blade Heart status effect.

• Changed the cooldown time of Active: Wind Rider from 5 seconds to 15 seconds.

• Changed the SP consumption of Active: Sword's Will from 500 to 250.

  • Adjusted the Blade Heart status effect gained from using Active: Sword's Will to 'Recover 3 STA on hit, gain 15 ATT SPD.' (Previous Effect: 'Recover 2 STA on hit, gain 14 ATT SPD')

  • The icon for the Blade Heart status effect gained from using Active: Sword's Will will display as the old stage 3 icon.

• Added a Super Armor effect to the Gust Sting skill animation.

• Changed the STA consumption of Slipaway and Backlash from 20 to 10.

• Changed Cross Cut to be usable on attacks that previously did not activate Cross Cut.

  • The attack above will always activate as Pure Cross Cut.

• Adjusted the skill damage increase for Blade Heart to the following:

• Changed Active: Typhoon Slash to be able to receive the Blade Heart status effect.

• Increased the damage of Active: Gale Cutter by 20%.

• Increased the damage of Cross Cut and Pure Cross Cut by 10%.

• Increased the damage of Double Cross and Pure Double Cross by 15%.

• Increased the damage of Active: Typhoon Slash by 15%.

• Changed Active: Typhoon Slash so that it cannot be chained after using Double Cross.

  • The skill description for Active: Typhoon Slash has been adjusted to match the changes listed above.

• Removed the following text from the skill description for Double Cross.

  • You can ONLY use this skill after dealing damage with Cross Cut.

• Changed Active: Typhoon Slash so that it can be chained after using Active: Gale Cutter or Double Cross.

  • Adjusted any chained Active: Typhoon Slash to have an evasive frame.

• Changed Gust Sting so that it cannot be chained after using Double Cross.

• Changed the shortcut keys for Backlash and Slipaway as follows.

  • Before - Dodge \[Space] after Cross Stance or Storm Step

  • After - Kick \[R] after Cross Stance or Storm Step

• Changed skill descriptions to match the changes to Vella - Twin Swords.

  • Preview videos for the changed skills will be fixed at a later date.

3) Twin Chainblades

• Changed Active: Red Blizzard to no longer consume SP.

• Changed so that using Active: Red Blizzard reduces the cooldown of Active: Frostbite by 20 seconds.

• Changed the cooldown time of Active: Red Blizzard from 10 seconds to 20 seconds.

• Changed Active: Red Blizzard to grant the new status effect, Bloodstain, when used.

  • While affected by Bloodstain, using Active: Frostbite will restore 500 SP, then remove the status effect.

• Changed the SP consumption of Active: Frostbite from 500 to 100.

• Increased the horizontal width of Active: Glacial Strike's attack range by 1.3 times.

• Added evasive frames to the second and third attacks of Active: Blade Dance.

• Changed the STA consumption of Glint Rank A from 11 to 10.

• Changed skill descriptions to match the changes to Vella - Twin Chainblades.

\[Evie]

1) Battle Scythe

• Changed Blade Shift and Demon Splitter so that they create a Spirit Bind when used.

• Added evasive frames to Horrific Scream, Soul Skewer, and Dimensional Loom.

  • If at Rank 9 or above, the additional attacks used via smash do not gain evasive frames.

• Changed Blink so that drains are still possible when it is used after Soul Skewer and Dimensional Loom's additional attacks.

• Added an evasive frame to the drain animation.

• Changed Active: Void Star so that when used, it reduces the cooldown time of Active: Arcane Gate by 10 seconds.

• Changed Active: Void Star, so that after use, Blink can be chained after 55 frames, instead of 83.

• Changed the SP consumption of Active: Void Star from 250 to 125.

• Changed the SP consumption of Active: Insane Reaper from 500 to 300.

• Fixed an issue where being hit by an enemy while using Active: Arcane Gate would intermittently cancel the skill.

• Changed Blade Shift so that Smash attacks can be chained after 32 frames instead of 40.

• Changed Blade Shift so that Normal Attacks can be chained after 30 frames instead of 40.

• Adjusted the stamina recovery per second for Active: Insane Reaper to the following:

• Changed skill descriptions to match the changes to Evie - Battle Scythe. 

• Preview videos for the changed skills will be fixed at a later date.

2. Items

• It is now possible to receive battle completion gold rewards when using Resenlian's Battle Completion Scroll.

  • When using the Battle Completion Scroll, you can view the estimated gold reward in the pop-up UI.

  • As before, you can choose whether to apply a Core Boost, and your gold rewards will be adjusted accordingly.

  • Gold rewards are adjusted based on whether the secondary mission from the previous battle was met.

3. New Currency: Airgead

• With the July 15th update, the secondary currency: Airgead, will be available in the North American and European servers.

• Airgead can be used to purchase in-game gold through the Gold Trading Post, or to purchase cash items in the Supply Depot and Avatar Shop.

• You can hold up to 2.1 billion Airgead at once.

• Airgead must be moved from the NX Storage Chest to the Storage Chest after purchasing to be used for recharging.

• Find more details on how to obtain and use Airgead in our previous notice \[Here]

4. Misc.

• Fixed an issue where the Special Precious Maiden Set had empty space between the top and bottom parts when worn together.

• Fixed an issue where the leg graphics were unnaturally exposed for some characters when wearing the Special All Curves+/All Curves/Regular Precious Maiden Set.

• Fixed an issue where the abdomen area's graphics broke when wearing the Special All Curves+/All Curves/Regular Oriental Pearl Set.