EX Challenge System

EX Challenge System
Name of NPC:	Various
Location:	Various
Rewards:
Status:	Permanent

EX Challenges are a way to take on content with special restrictions unique to each challenge.

These challenges always come with their own set of rewards for every clear, but also have rewards for first time clears.

First time clears on the highest difficulty level of 150 will always grant a unique Shadow Armor Artifact.

Below you can find the currently available EX Challenges, their settings, rewards, and list of all available Shadow Armor Artifacts.

List of EX Challenges

Below you'll find the list of EX Challenges and their difficulty options.

Endless Tower

Setting	Amount 1	Difficulty Value 1	Amount 2	Difficulty Value 2	Amount 3	Difficulty Value 3
Increase Enemy HP	25%	5 DIF	50%	10 DIF	100%	20 DIF
Increase Enemy ATK & MATK	25%	5 DIF	50%	10 DIF	100%	20 DIF
Reduce Ranged Damage Dealt	10%	5 DIF	20%	10 DIF	30%	20 DIF
Reduce AoE Damage Dealt	10%	5 DIF	20%	10 DIF	30%	20 DIF
Reduce Steel Body Effectiveness[1]	20%	5 DIF	40%	10 DIF	Disabled	20 DIF
Reduce Assumptio Effectiveness[2]	50%	5 DIF	Disabled	10 DIF
Pneuma/Safety Wall/Land Protector Effectiveness[3]	75%	5 DIF	50%	10 DIF	Disabled	20 DIF
Reduce Healing Effectiveness	25%	5 DIF	50%	10 DIF
Add Hell Power on Death	15 Seconds	5 DIF	30 Seconds	10 DIF
Reduce Resistances from Gear/Cards[4]	15%	5 DIF	30%	10 DIF	50%	20 DIF
Disable Status Immunity from Gear/Cards[5]	Disabled	15 DIF
Limit Party Size	Max 10 Members	5 DIF	Max 8 Members	10 DIF	Max 6 Members	20 DIF
No. of Non-Trans Characters Required	2 Non-Trans Char	5 DIF	4 Non-Trans Char	10 DIF	6 Non-Trans Char	20 DIF
Only 1 of Each Class	1 of Each	15 DIF
Enable EX MVP (Wounded Morocc)	Enable EX MVP	20 DIF

• ^[1]: Amount of DEF and MDEF set by Steel Body is reduced by the amount. E.g. 20% means Steel Body sets your DEF and MDEF to 72 instead of 90. If disabled, Steel Body cannot be used at all.
• ^[2]: Amount of damage reduction given by Assumptio is reduced by the amount. 50% means Assumptio gives 25% damage reduction instead of 50%. If disabled, Assumptio cannot be used at all.
• ^[3]: If chosen, Pneuma, Safety Wall, and Land Protector do not give immunity to their respective damage types. Pneuma instead gives reduction to ranged damage to the amount chosen, Safety Wall gives reduction to melee damage, and Land Protector gives reduction to AoE damage.
• ^[4]: Resistances from gear/cards are reduced by the amount. E.g. 50% means a 60% reduction to Boss monsters becomes a 30% reduction.
• ^[5]: Any equipment/card that directly gives 100% resistance or immunity to a status does not work. Other +% statuses resistances (from e.g. random options or other equipment/cards) can still stack up to 100%.

List of First Time Clear Rewards

Below you'll find the First Time Clear Rewards for each EX Challenge.

These are only acquired the very first time you clear on the designated difficulty.

Clearing a higher difficulty will behave as if you also cleared the lower difficulties.

EX Challenge	DIF 30	DIF 60	DIF 90	DIF 120	DIF 150
Endless Tower	x 1, x 1, x 20	x 1, x 10	Costume Stellar Gratia (Garment)	x 10, x 5	Vampiric Shadow Armor Artifact

Permanent Clear Rewards

Each EX Challenge also has permanent clear rewards that you gain even after the first clear.

There is also a drop chance increase that is multiplicative, not additive for the enemies cleared.

Note that the drop chance increase is not additive and will only consider the highest value.

This drop chance increase applies only to drops from MVPs, but does not apply to MVP cards.

For all other rewards, you will gain all rewards for the highest tier you clear and below.

EX Challenge	DIF 30	DIF 60	DIF 90	DIF 120	DIF 150
Endless Tower	x 1, x 10, x 10, +3% Drop Rate	x 1, x 10, +5% Drop Rate	x3, x 5, x 25, +7% Drop Rate	x 1, x 3, x 10, +10% Drop Rate	x 5, 20% Drop Rate

List of Shadow Armor Artifacts

Clearing an EX Challenge for the first time on the highest difficulty will grant you an Artifact.

These Shadow Armor Artifacts are one of a kind and master account bound.

Every Artifact occupies the same Shadow Armor gear slot so choose which to use wisely!

Artifact	EX Challenge	Effect
Vampiric Shadow Armor	Endless Tower

EX Challenge Calculators

Courtesy of Sonikki we have a calculator for our EX Challenges starting with ET first.

Endless Tower EX Challenge Calculator