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New Season Notes (2024 S2 -> 2025 S1)

Early Bird will last until the end of next Thursday, May 8th, at Midnight UTC. During Early Bird, the rate of equipment drops from monsters is increased by a factor of x5 (500%).


The following things have carried over from the previous Isekai season to the current Isekai season:

- Credit balance + value of item inventory + value of equipment inventory, capped to 1 million

- Leftover trophy value for Snowflake's Shrine


The following things have been added to Persistent:

- Peerless equipment and all soulfused equipment

- Peerless vouchers and equipment cores

- Credit balance + value of item inventory + value of equipment inventory, exceeding 1 million

- A bonus to all primary stat of +1 for reaching Floor 30, +2 for reaching Floor 40, or +3 for reaching Floor 50

- A peerless voucher for everyone who reached Floor 50

- An additional peerless voucher for everyone who reached Floor 100

- A global damage bonus of 0.1% for each tower floor cleared, capped to Floor 100

Let me know if you are missing any of the things listed above.

Last season had 119 people making it to Floor 100:

Floor 188: heshouwu (1026189)
Floor 187: HT862 (1751283)
Floor 180: Spyroflex (3579654)
Floor 139: gehelife (1070629)
Floor 131: unikwind (2480915)
Floor 125: Kyrie80 (1292094)
Floor 122: 918273 (807509)
Floor 121: hc br (2760368)
Floor 120: Chisato Nishikigi (638489)
Floor 118: 8JQFPA (4570684)
Floor 115: zhayin (3040158)
Floor 114: l13763824039 (5965189)
Floor 113: uchimatan (3543730)
Floor 112: zzt1508 (775015)
Floor 110: YFADpkm (1092838)
Floor 110: youshi1 (3146277)
Floor 110: wollofnine (4216931)
Floor 109: nguzhr (3132621)
Floor 108: einhers (1497199)
Floor 107: RuLaRi (4582938)
Floor 105: NailB (90537)
Floor 105: Aquanaut (5783287)
Floor 104: sabregimp (188779)
Floor 103: MidNightPass (565719)
Floor 102: sigo8 (791906)
Floor 102: Jowling_K (1312893)
Floor 102: mikeCrow (3275728)
Floor 102: renanta (8556217)
Floor 101: wp541788 (205687)
Floor 101: ddwiki (254381)
Floor 101: unitready (337916)
Floor 101: mindiana (438944)
Floor 101: CronoBoA (500512)
Floor 101: mfs5vnut32 (613700)
Floor 101: sparroff (692363)
Floor 101: lovegg (833991)
Floor 101: TCPG (1198266)
Floor 101: 铠翼之魂 (1298606)
Floor 101: vam2 (1320689)
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Floor 101: redtanser (2286724)
Floor 101: Bolide (2309354)
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Floor 101: ChouYuFuck (2918967)
Floor 101: davidtsu (3626226)
Floor 101: hasdsssss (3794637)
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Floor 101: Altair.AC (3905888)
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Floor 101: 剑行血间 (5363065)
Floor 101: OnceForAll (5648780)
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Floor 100: arashileung (142541)
Floor 100: terrefee (368941)
Floor 100: aznknightfire (378656)
Floor 100: Always_liar (476263)
Floor 100: BlackHimari (485420)
Floor 100: hujiko555 (669507)
Floor 100: Treesion (707354)
Floor 100: lltt013 (752695)
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Floor 100: Lighdark (786979)
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Floor 100: Ass Spanker (1068757)
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Floor 100: ex-homehome (1284678)
Floor 100: Anemone (1373597)
Floor 100: 3675 (1385038)
Floor 100: bmbl (1412819)
Floor 100: faiya (1448012)
Floor 100: manganese25 (1576399)
Floor 100: dkslfkslRk (1599703)
Floor 100: SakiRaFubuKi (1620623)
Floor 100: wanen (1755364)
Floor 100: sssss2 (1843795)
Floor 100: name83u5 (1909681)
Floor 100: glabr (2205912)
Floor 100: szuhra (2358496)
Floor 100: privatechen01 (2496328)
Floor 100: Sad Penguin (2544364)
Floor 100: vplusvvisvvv (2632258)
Floor 100: final78 (2705101)
Floor 100: 无心の小F (2731698)
Floor 100: lztxdy (2748125)
Floor 100: Noni (2977124)
Floor 100: CrazyingZ (2981515)
Floor 100: Ming28561 (3775954)
Floor 100: ElamShahanshah (4342413)
Floor 100: Xeda (4388600)
Floor 100: Sakuya_Saki (4535068)
Floor 100: mathl33t (4675561)
Floor 100: firefish55 (4784315)
Floor 100: 闯关弟子 (4802944)
Floor 100: 任凭三千落花 (4824134)
Floor 100: YasuoQAQ (5004417)
Floor 100: yskwqr (5430590)
Floor 100: Jake643 (5494494)
Floor 100: ShirayurinoNEKO (5747779)
Floor 100: tjjyuki (5783632)
Floor 100: awszdwy2 (5844909)
Floor 100: jerry38 (5852714)
Floor 100: xilixilixi (6088125)
Floor 100: friedrices (6193460)
Floor 100: sarkur01 (6298010)
Floor 100: Mdash99 (6384012)
Floor 100: Bellecana (6427852)
Floor 100: Penjuin (6658373)
Floor 100: xiboly (6940243)
Floor 100: polisperic (7664409)
Floor 100: ppp4321 (7800787)
Floor 100: yanyaaaa (8551838)
Floor 100: C-Quietism (8648264)

Aaawwww yeeaah. Let's do this again! Getting that +3 to all stats is like a drug.
I think I'll try Light 1H this time.

... I just wasted 30k on shade because I forgot I need to soul fuse over leveled equipment...

i love u🥰

Applied one minor change to Persistent:

- Everyone now has five autocast slots on Persistent. The perk "Innate Arcana" now only gives an upkeep discount on the spells in these slots, it no longer dictates now many slots you have.

I forget, but did this affect isekai? Does isekai still have IA5 for the mana savings, or just the default free autocast slots now?

I forget, but did this affect isekai? Does isekai still have IA5 for the mana savings, or just the default free autocast slots now?

It still has IA5.

I had a bit of free time when this season began and felt highly motivated to play this game, but now I'm all burnt out and we are only on Tower Floor 44.

My level is really high, my guy is pretty strong I think (and about to get much stronger, as I'm still using 1H exquisite wakizashis, for the first time ever at such high level). I think I played too much, and it wasted too many hours of my days, and I don't wanna play anymore. In most seasons I didn't play nearly this much, especially not every day. I probably played more to compensate for my insecurities after dying naked on Tower Floor 2 again (like last season) and for having only puny wakis to poke all the monster.

Having frequent seasons is nice for poor and low level Persistent players to make money and acquire useful equipment on the side, and that's what the frequent players have voted for. But the people who don't want to play this much every season should have a reasonable way to take a break (it did help tremendously that the Tower was made shorter, however this could be argued to have helped all players universally whether they are in the hardcore frequent player camp, or the casual relaxed camp).

I propose the +3 bonus stats, being the only truly "missable" thing in an isekai season, should be awarded upon reaching Tower Floor 40. No need to do Pfudor Tower. Then pretty much everyone can get it really fast, without grinding, even if all your equipment sucks, as long as you are paying attention to the site and this game (which I feel ought to be worth something and rewarded on its own). Also the 2~3 million bonus credits we get for clearing all the arenas would be collected by then. So you stop there if you are hard on time and have to do other things.

Players would still get a Peerless Voucher on Tower Floor 50 which is a worthy reward for going just a bit farther. The added effort is reasonable so probably most players would still do it (including myself, most seasons). And also you might as well go to Tower Floor 50 if you had decent drops that season, while you can bail out at Tower Floor 40 if you crapped out.

(And if you crap out, you can still struggle to Tower Floor 50 if you want, or adopt the pause and level up tactic, or the pause and wait for other players to sell or lend you their hand-me-downs).

I also think maybe we could have the difficulty stay at Pfudor +0% for at least until Tower Floor 45 or Tower Floor 50. Why does it have to start ramping up immediately, when the move from Iwbth to Pfudor was itself already the biggest difficulty jump that is ever encountered?

Alternatively, we could have the low Tower Floor difficulties increase faster so that we still end up at Pfudor +5% on Tower Floor 41, Pfudor +10% on Tower Floor 42, same as now...but maybe a bunch of Pfudor +0% from like Tower Floor 36 to 40 or something. (This could work well in conjunction with granting the +3 bonus stats at Tower Floor 40, so that it's still a challenge).

Floor 188: heshouwu (1026189)
Floor 187: HT862 (1751283)
Floor 180: Spyroflex (3579654)

Why are a bunch of players continuing to climb really high? I thought nothing past Tower Floor 100 awarded anything.

Maybe the Top 10 finishers in each season could be awarded a 3rd Peerless Voucher or something (no extra seasonal bonus damage past +10% at Tower Floor 100 though).

I largely disagree that it's that much of a struggle, or you need to excessively level up or wait for hand-me-downs.

To prove the point, I did the following:

No direct trading (so, if I used a moogle, it was only to send things without cod, and I received no gear or money, but I did use bazaar and market)

I used exquisites only (albeit I did get a full magnificent set anyway, but to illustrate the point, I used only exquisites for 50)

I also avoided using protection (bar on the shield where the bonus was small enough to not care)

Did not upgrade enough to reach a point where I needed high grade materials

0 upgrades on the armour

No consumables other than restorative items in battle (no scrolls/infusions etc, though I did use out of battle enchantments)

I stopped doing arenas the moment I hit 310 (I wasn't even clearing all arenas daily before that either), levels after that were only from tower

All soulfusing was done with fragments from the tower without buying extra (115 spare after)

Still cleared it, plenty of leeway, didn't die in tower even once. The only thing you require really is general knowledge on how to build a set, and if made it so you don't even need that, may as well just not bother and give the +3 out for nothing. Insert I am winner screen here.

Selling everything after got me over 1mc for the following season too.

You have to put in the bare minimum effort, but saying it's a "struggle" for just floor 50 is a stretch

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I only mentioned the word "struggle" in parenthesis for someone who has really crapped out on equipment drops that season, and furthermore did not want to play any arenas (which would result in fairly easy pfudor tower climbs, at the cost of burning out overall time-wise as I did this season).

Most of the criteria you listed, I already consider standard for a typical season's worth of play. In some ways you went slightly below what I would, but in other ways you went above. I wouldn't say your limitations proved a point, it's what you should have done to begin with.

Except for Protection. Do you mean to say you never used the spell Protection the whole season? That's probably the best defensive spell in the game, so it would indeed be something if you didn't use it. (Although, there's no reason to avoid it).

Your post did make me think that as it currently stands, we already get +1 or +2 almost for nothing, so maybe having some difficulty for +3 is okay after all. Then again, that's all "missable" so I think it would be nice to get +3 with no grind, and reserve the Peerless Voucher for some efforts. We didn't use to have that first Peerless Voucher so the rewards system made sense. Now that we have it, I think an opportunity is wasted having the +3 and Peerless Voucher tied together.

I think it's also natural to let isekai get easier over the seasons, as the pattern has thus far been going. After a while it is getting repetitive and some players want a break. If nothing was missable, I wouldn't care.

Except for Protection. Do you mean to say you never used the spell Protection the whole season?

No, I mean I avoided the protection suffix, instead mostly having balance which wasn't required due to the voidseeker. I did that to emulate someone with absolute dogshit luck. That run was basically as if someone who isn't involved on the forum for direct trading, with very little luck, and not willing to spend out on high forging, would still be able to reach 50 with tonnes of leeway, with basically only enough knowledge of the game to know how to set up a basic set.

The point I was making, is that +3 is already basically accessible to everyone, except people without the basic knowledge or that can't/wont invest the time, but if you wanted to also make it accessible to those, then there'd be no point making it something you have to achieve to begin with.

A more normal run, even without direct trading, assembling a full magnificent set or a full magnificent with the odd legendary, is pretty trivial, and that gives a bunch more leeway.

I see. I realized it later, when I had checked out your equipment link pictures. Still, I think your guy has better equipment than a terrible luck person, and has used more resources than should be used.

I propose the following criteria, with partial reasoning behind them, subject to discussion and negotiation:

You can play no more than 1 hour of isekai each day, including the time to count fire hydrants, navigate menus, etc.
You must finish in the minimum number of days. If you can't beat Tower in 1 hour near the end, you fail the season. (Reasonable with shorter Tower)
You cannot buy anything the whole season except for Draughts and Potions. (I have played numerous seasons this way and I think it is proper)
You cannot upgrade anything. You cannot buy scraps. (I rarely upgrade much, and some seasons not at all. It's expensive)
You cannot use any shards, even ones you self drop. (I have played most seasons this way, as you don't drop enough of all shards to be self sufficient)
You cannot use scrolls. (Uncertain of this requirement, as you do drop a ton of them yourself)
You can use infusions.
You cannot be a mage. (A bad luck season wouldn't yield a usable staff)
You cannot use a rapier or wakizashi, ever. (I heavy grinded this whole season without dropping a usable rapier until 3 Floors before the end)
You can only use Superior or below equipment. (Exquisite is too good, especially if you have good rolls or prefixes/suffixes)
You cannot use anything with the ethereal prefix. (It's too good in isekai, and you may be unlucky to drop one)
You cannot soulfuse anything. (You shall save your fragments until you get something worthy that never comes)

If you can clear those requirements, then I might consider that isekai every 6 months is currently both quick and easy enough, without wasting excess credits, and allowing for the possibility of bad luck. It's a tradeoff between your grind and how easy it is.

Making 1 million credits at the end of the season doesn't mean you didn't waste credits. These days I make 5 million base credits per isekai season, but I grind more. And you might have made more in Persistent if you didn't spend your time in isekai (depends how powerful you are in Persistent).

This post has been edited by BlueWaterSplash: Jun 5 2025, 00:00

So, isekai 50 is only hard when you do all that and don't play much? I don't even need to convince you, because apparently we agree. If a moron does that and complains its a struggle, then he can only blame himself

Taken as a single season, I don't think isekai is too hard. I was not among those who asked for isekai to be made easier in the first few seasons. I finished them while being under level 300, even though it took me 3 hours to finish a Tower Floor and we had to go beyond 50, and I spent all my credits on potions.

My complaints only arose after isekai stabilized, when one side seemingly outvoted the other regarding the length of the seasons. If we are going to have a 6 month pace, it's too much work for busy people. I'm trying to provide suggestions to satisfy both types of players.

One possibility is to make the +3 stat boost even easier to achieve. If you oppose that, fine. I can think of other propositions, too.

Having a 12 month pace would satisfy me for now, although that was outvoted. Requiring everyone to dedicate 2 hours of their lives every day for 1 month out of every 6 months for their whole lives is ridiculous. Maybe 1 hour is okay, hence my "proposed criteria" in previous post.

Or, how about putting a planned cap on the isekai stat boost, say +50 to all stats? Then it'd be like artifact stats. Players could skip seasons when busy, and in theory not "miss" out on anything permanent. At least there would be a theoretical end to our suffering in sight. Perhaps the temporary Persistent damage bonus could be adjusted to use the greatest bonus earned in the previous two isekai seasons.

Requiring everyone to dedicate 2 hours of their lives every day for 1 month out of every 6 months for their whole lives is ridiculous.Maybe 1 hour is okay, hence my "proposed criteria" in previous post...Players could skip seasons when busy, and in theory not "miss" out on anything permanent. At least there would be a theoretical end to our suffering in sight.

For some context, it takes me about 4 hours to reach level 200 and clear everything available at that level. The reward for that is more than three times the credits I would earn in the same amount of time in Persistent. I am happy with that reward for most seasons, and do not feel like I'm missing out on anything. If I have some extra time, I'll spend about an extra 6.5 hours to get the +1 stat bonus, but that is as far as I'll go. I don't agree that there is a requirement that everyone must dedicate a certain amount of time every 6 months. If you are all burnt at Tower Floor 44, then I suggest stopping. I believe the difference between +2 vs +3 at the end of the season is not worth any level of suffering.

There might be a hard cap, but if we ever get to the point where the Isekai cycles have gone on for closing on ten years or so, we would probably at least start soft-capping the total, so that at like 50+ you can only get +2 and at like 80+ you can only get +1.

As someone who probably will get +3 this season but is highly questioning whether I will do any other seasons I'd say I would preferhadrcap of 50 to every other option, and a hardcap of 100 to the proposed softcap option. Though 50 do seems balanced with artifacts and also requires more than 8 years to reach. I'd hate to see the stats grow infinitely but it really does not matter for the vast majority of people.

Hell, make a separate donation option that gives bonuses to Isekai (not stars/catgirls) - makes Daemon Duality work on your Isekai account (but must find Hath separately), gives you 2000 soul shards at the start of season, something something

On an unrelated note do we get XP bonus for tower cleared like in the earlier seasons? Wiki is silent on that

This post has been edited by Paarfi: Jun 10 2025, 18:23

On an unrelated note do we get XP bonus for tower cleared like in the earlier seasons? Wiki is silent on that

https://ehwiki.org/wiki/The_Tower#rewards for isekai exp
https://ehwiki.org/wiki/Isekai#Rewards for persistent exp after season