# Vindictus Ver. 3.35 Update Note - Product: Vindictus (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/vindictus) - Vendor: NEXON - Date: 2026-04-14 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/212160/view/537757884478394999 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/vindictus/releases/2026-04-14-ver.-3.35-update-note What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **changed** — Iron Defense skill changed from active to regular skill and cooldown reduced from 95 seconds to 90 seconds - **changed** — Damage Reduction value of Iron Defense status effect changed from 75% to 10% - **changed** — Iron Defense cooldown reduced by 2 seconds when Guard or Shield Deflection is successful - **changed** — Shield Deflection Stamina cost changed from 10 to 30 - **changed** — Shield Deflection now recovers 30 Stamina upon success - **changed** — Shield Deflection allows immediate transition to another action upon failure - **changed** — Delay upon successful Shield Deflection reduced by 66% - **fixed** — Fixed Shield Deflection Stamina consumption being applied as 10 instead of 30 when chaining from some skills - **fixed** — Fixed Stamina not being restored when successfully chaining Shield Deflection from some skills - **fixed** — Fixed Shield Deflection activating after the last Smash motion when consecutively failing following a Smash attack - **removed** — Removed Active: Taunt Strike skill - **fixed** — Fixed removed smash skills being activated after using certain Emotes - **added** — Iron Defense, Shield Enhancement, and Tireless skills are now automatically learned upon character creation - **changed** — Removed Retribution status effect when using Active: Taunt - **changed** — Increased damage of Active: Focal Point by 3% - **changed** — Extended Fiona's chest size slider maximum to 1.31 - **fixed** — Fixed Mini moving unnaturally when moving quickly in a Battle area - **changed** — Story completion condition for skill awakening changed from learning Rose Thorns to learning Petal Toss - **changed** — Shield Enhancement skill changed to passive skill that automatically activates at start of combat when equipping Longsword - **removed** — Removed Rose Thorns skill from Fiona - Longsword Hello, this is the Vindictus team. Below are the list of changes available after the version update of April 14th, 2026. **Table of Contents** [table equalcells="1" colwidth=""] 1. Character Utility Improvements - Fiona - Fiona - Longsword - Fiona - Hammer - Tessa - Charon - Kael - Lethor - Hurk - Tiede - Kai - Crossgun - Calia 2. Shadow's Castle 3. Items 4. Core Boost 5. Combat 6. Friendship 7. Misc. 8. Known Issues **1. Character Utility Improvements** --- **Fiona - Common** - The 'Active: Iron Defense' skill has been changed to a regular skill 'Iron Defense'. - The 'Iron Defense' skill can be used with the shortcut key 'Q', and the shortcut can be changed in the mouse/keyboard settings. - The cooldown of the 'Iron Defense' skill has been changed from 95 seconds to 90 seconds. - The Damage Reduction value of the 'Iron Defense' status effect has been changed from 75% to 10%. - When Guard or Shield Deflection is successful, the cooldown of 'Iron Defense' is reduced by 2 seconds. - The Stamina cost of using 'Shield Deflection' has been changed from 10 to 30. - Upon successful 'Shield Deflection', 30 Stamina is recovered. - Upon failed 'Shield Deflection', the character can immediately transition to another action. - Applied delay upon a successful Shield Deflection has been reduced by 66%. - Fixed an issue where when chaining Shield Deflection from some skills, STA consumption was applied as 10 instead of 30. - Fixed an issue where STA was not restored when successfully chaining Shield Deflection from some skills. - Fixed an issue where, upon consecutively failing Shield Deflection following a Smash attack, Shield Deflection would activate after the last Smash motion. - The 'Active: Taunt Strike' skill has been removed. - Fixed an issue where after using certain Emotes, removed smash skills (Honeybee Sting, Rose Thorns) were being activated. - Upon character creation, Iron Defense, Shield Enhancement, and Tireless skills are now automatically learned. - When using 'Active: Taunt', the 'Retribution' status effect is no longer obtained. - Increased the damage of 'Active: Focal Point' by 3%. - Fiona's chest size slider maximum has been extended to 1.31. - Fixed an issue where the 'Mini' equipped on Fiona moves unnaturally when moving quickly in a Battle area. - The story completion condition for 'Do you want to try skill awakening?' has been changed from learning 'Rose Thorns' to learning 'Petal Toss'. - The guide content provided during Hero's Path progression has been updated in accordance with Fiona's skill improvement changes. - Skill tooltips and skill videos have been updated in accordance with Fiona's skill improvement changes. - The following compensation will be sent by mail due to some of Fiona's skill changes. - AP used to increase skill ranks will not be sent separately by mail, but will be added directly to your current AP. [table equalcells="1" colwidth=",,"] **Category** **Skill Name** **Item(s) Provided** [td rowspan="3"] Skill Removed Active: Taunt Strike - 1 Damage Increase Awakening Stone equipped on the skill - 1 Erg Crystal Bundle Reward Box - Max Awakening Potion (provided in the amount used) Rose Thorns - 1 Awakening Stone equipped on the skill - 1 Erg Crystal Bundle Reward Box - Max Awakening Potion (provided in the amount used) Honeybee Sting - 1 Awakening Stone equipped on the skill - 1 Erg Crystal Bundle Reward Box - Max Awakening Potion (provided in the amount used) [td rowspan="3"] Skill Changed Active: Iron Defense - 1 Cooldown Reduction Awakening Stone equipped on the skill - 1 Erg Crystal Bundle Reward Box - Max Awakening Potion (provided in the amount used) Active: Shield Enhancement - 1 SP Cost Reduction Awakening Stone equipped on the skill - 1 Erg Crystal Bundle Reward Box - Max Awakening Potion (provided in the amount used) Active: Tireless - 1 SP Cost Reduction Awakening Stone equipped on the skill - 1 Erg Crystal B _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/212160/view/537757884478394999]_