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The Vithu set underwent significant changes with the March 19th update. The biggest change is that the 2-piece set bonus now applies to all gems, extending the duration of 2-star gems like Seeping Bile. However, in group play, the beneficial effect stacking and attack speed increase now only apply to the wearer, reducing the previous party synergy. Solo players may not notice a significant difference, but overall damage in group dungeons and boss fights will change. 💎 2-piece set bonus now applies to all gems, increasing versatility. 🤝 Party member stacking effects removed in group play. 📉 Overall group play damage expected to decrease.

For free-to-play and low-spending users, tests with secondary gems at low resonance showed that Pain Clasp delivered stronger damage performance than Tomb of the Leviathan. Pain Clasp is a good gem that deals additional damage to enemies afflicted by harmful effects, and it recorded high damage in the current setup. Tomb of the Leviathan, as a 5-star gem, has great potential, but it's difficult for it to surpass Pain Clasp at lower ranks. ⚔️ For low-resonance secondary gems, Pain Clasp shows stronger performance. 📈 Tomb of the Leviathan's potential is maximized with high-grade upgrades. 💰 Free-to-play and low-spending users should consider keeping Pain Clasp.

In Battlegrounds, continuous communication and strategic movement among teammates determine victory or defeat. It's crucial to prepare for powerful crowd control (CC) attacks from enemies and play cautiously, waiting patiently until abilities recharge. Focus on capturing towers, perform rotations by supporting allies and sharing enemy locations, and in critical situations, quickly call for help to get support from teammates. 🗣️ Continuous communication with teammates to share enemy locations and request support. ⏳ Manage ability cooldowns and adjust attack timing carefully. 🎯 Focus on capturing towers and key objectives (Guardians, Idols).

In tests targeting free players and mid-spenders, 'Fervent Fang' showed significantly stronger damage performance than 'Tomb of the Leviathan'. Fervent Fang increases damage dealt to enemies by up to 24%, and provides a total of 30% damage increase against elites and bosses. Tomb of the Leviathan recorded lower damage than Fervent Fang even at high resonance, so replacing an existing Fervent Fang is not efficient for the investment. 🔥 Fervent Fang provides overwhelming damage against bosses and elite monsters. 🔄 Replacing with Tomb of the Leviathan may result in damage loss. 💡 Consider keeping existing Fervent Fang and replacing other gems.

The Summoner Necromancer build boasts overwhelming damage in both dungeons and raids. Core skills are Soulfire, Corpse Explosion, Bone Wall, Bone Spirit, and Command Skeletons. For equipment, we recommend 4-piece Vithu's Urge and 2-piece Feasting Baron's Pack for boss fights, and 4-piece Baron's Hunting and 2-piece Feasting Baron's Pack for general monster farming. Legendary essences should focus on summoning zombies using Bone Wall and amplifying summon damage. The playstyle involves generating corpses with Corpse Explosion, empowering summons with Bone Wall, and finishing with Bone Spirit and primary attacks. 💀 Core Skills: Corpse Explosion, Bone Wall, Bone Spirit, Command Skeletons. 🛡️ Set Items: 4-piece Vithu's Urge + 2-piece Feasting Baron's Pack (Boss Fights). ⚙️ Legendary Essences: Bone Wall-based zombie summoning and summon damage amplification.

The new Battleground map has been reborn with a demonic theme, and wider passages increase tactical diversity. Monsters spawn on the map, and demon invasion events are triggered. Defeating demons grants souls, which provide a damage increase buff. Additionally, from March 19th until May 2026, an event is running where using a Legendary Crest increases the chance of acquiring a 5-star legendary gem to 50% for 'Tomb of the Leviathan'. 🗺️ Demonic-themed Battleground map with wider passages and demon invasion events. 👻 Acquire souls by defeating demons and gain a damage increase buff. 🎁 Tomb of the Leviathan 50% drop rate increase event (until May 2026).

'Tomb of the Leviathan' provides both a base damage increase and an additional damage increase on critical hits. The important point is that all damage increase effects from this gem apply additively, not multiplicatively, when combined with other legendary gems. For example, if Tomb of the Leviathan's 40% and another gem's 24% are applied together, you get a total of 64% damage increase. This makes it easier to predict the total damage increase when combining multiple gems. ➕ All damage increase effects apply additively. 📊 Easy to predict total damage increase when combined with other gems. 📈 Both base damage and critical hit damage increase additively.

The 'Conflict' debuff in the training ground reduces health, damage, and most prefix effects to 30% of their original values. The damage increase effects of all gems, including 'Tomb of the Leviathan', are also reduced by 30% due to the Conflict debuff. For example, a 40% damage increase is reduced to 12% during Conflict. This shows that the claim 'gems are useless because of Conflict' is incorrect, and that gem effects are reduced by a consistent ratio. 📉 Conflict debuff reduces all gem damage increase effects by 30%. ⚖️ Gem effects apply at a consistent ratio even in Contested Zones. 🛡️ Player-target damage and damage reduction reforge effects are not affected by Conflict.