Our ultimate goal is to transform Dimensional Trials from an exclusive challenge for top-tier players into a feature that everyone can gradually grow into and enjoy together. This is not just about adjusting difficulty, it's the result of a structural redesign that takes into account the growth and experience of each individual player. We want to ensure that Dimensional Trials live up to their name — a deeply immersive experience where each player can take on challenges in their own way, compare their performance, and grow from it.

More Rewards, less Repetition

To start, Tier 1 now maintains a difficulty level similar to that of standard co-op dungeons, but with enhanced rewards. This allows players to jump in without pressure and still feel a sense of achievement from the rewards alone, even in the early stages.

While the content retains its replayable structure, each trial is now built with strategic variety through affixes and specific conditions, offering more than just repetition. Players familiar with co-op dungeons can now learn through actual gameplay without needing perfect knowledge beforehand, making for a more intuitive, hands-on approach to mastery.

An ideal level of difficulty is one where both the possibility of success and the risk of failure coexist. It’s a point where players can create meaningful differences in outcomes through their own choices, combinations, and playstyle. We want to foster a structure where this naturally leads to a sense of accomplishment and healthy competition.

Affix System Changes

Each trial round now offers unique affixes and challenge conditions, requiring players to adapt their strategies. Each attempt is designed to feel like a self-contained, rewarding experience. One of the biggest shifts is that the affix system is now central to the content’s design. Affixes don’t just increase difficulty, they encourage players to think critically about which weapon and role combinations are most effective.

This naturally enhances both the strategic depth and variety of party play. The shorter the clear time, the more difficult affixes you select, the fewer times you die, and the more affix monsters you defeat, the higher your score will be. The new system evaluates how efficiently players clear challenges under the same conditions. It’s no longer just about who is on top. It’s also about reflecting on your own gameplay and optimizing your approach for the next attempt.

That said, we haven’t removed replayability entirely. For players who enjoy repetition, there are still pathways to engage with the content, but we’ve reworked the reward structure to move beyond rune-focused incentives. Now, repeated runs offer more meaningful opportunities for growth.

More than just a Revamp of a Single Piece of Content

Dimensional Trials serve as a platform to explore and establish the future direction of PvE-focused competitive structures we aim to pursue.

The most noticeable change for players will be the need to adopt different strategies and compositions with each attempt, even when repeating the same content. Moreover, those outcomes are now recorded through objective metrics and performance tracking. This design shifts the focus from simply whether a challenge is cleared to how it’s cleared. It’s a deliberate change in how we shape the player experience.

We’ve also built this new structure with scalability in mind. Elements such as affix-based conditional content, reward scaling based on challenge conditions, and maintaining strategic depth within a repeatable format are all systems we believe can be applied to a variety of environments.

While Dimensional Trials are competitive in nature, they are open to everyone. It is a space where the challenge lies not in simply entering, but in how effectively you can solve the content using your own approach. We hope this update becomes the first step in evolving Dimensional Trials into a system that rewards both creativity and mastery.

Thanks for your support! We’ll see you in the new Dimensional Trials on September 18.