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Friday, May 2, 2025
Arena at the Edge of Time: Reorganized!
Hey there, heroes!

This week, the Arena Board at the Inn at the Edge of Time has been updated and reorganized!

The list of challenge boards has been split into multiple pages organized by release date, rather than theme, with the most recently updated challenge board displayed again separately at the top. The board has also been updated to return you to your most recently accessed challenge board when you return to it each session. (In other words, it will save which board and page you accessed last until you log out or change characters.) We've also fixed font issues on a number of boards!

We've also added difficulty indicators to most challenges! These can be toggled on or off if you want to see the boards without them (Saved between log ins). As challenge difficulty can vary significantly based on many factors, including gear, class, etc, the difficulty indicators are less hard declarations of difficulty and more based on general complexity and community sentiment. The indicators are easy enough to adjust as well, should these factors change in the future. New challenges will have a ? difficulty indicator until the next month's Arena release to give time for general difficulty to be settled (We don't always hit the aimed for mark with how difficult we want or expect fights to be, especially with the limited time we have to test and develop them!).

We also decided against adding a new challenge this week, as the reorganization update took a bit longer than expected, and putting a new Arena challenge on top of that would have been a bit too much. We spent the remaining time working ahead on various things for the future!

Base classes have now had their Retro versions folded in as customization options, for example, and I've tried to get ahead on some writing.

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Also this week, we have a few new items available!

The StarGuard cosmetic helm is now available for 550 Dragon Coins! This amazing helm is color custom to your base color and also your weapon element. You can also click on it to lift the visor and show your hairstyle!

Other May seasonal items have returned as well! Check them out in the Book of Lore!

The Student class has also received two new customization options!

The Pilot customization can be obtained by purchasing the Pilot's License Catalyst from the Armor Catalyst shop!

Star Captain customization, on the other hand, can be obtained with the Antique Star Captain's Claymore, available from the Star Captain verification shop in the Guardian Tower basement.

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Also this week, the Star Lores Episode IV "A New Hype" Poster has returned to HeroMart!

Along with rewards in other Artix Entertainment games, you'll also get the cosmetic StarGazer Sword, which is both color custom, and clickable to swap the blade between black and white and Base and Trim custom!

https://heromart.com/

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And that's all for this week!

If there's one thing I've learned from this week, we definitely need a vacation at some point in time. While I did manage to get some writing done, I wasn't happy with it, and I also ran into a block. A little bit of time away form things might be in order soon...