Story Episode 06:
Spring Cooking Tournament

Event period: 3/24/2022 - 4/21/2022

Part 1 launch: 3/24

Part 2 launch: 4/7

Episode flow

When you log in for the first time after the 3/24 update, you'll see a brief story scene introducing the event. When you have control of your character, you will be able to access the story episode (use the <!> icon on the left of the screen which toggles the display of current objectives; the story episode will be at the top). Tapping on the episode banner will bring you to a book that handles most of the event. Tap the banner on the left side of the left page to start the story.

You will need to complete several short story quests before unlocking the rest of the episode content.

Story dungeons

There are 3 story dungeons. Party/normal is available at the start of the episode. Party/Hard and Solo/Challenge was made available when part 2 of the story episode is added.

Party/normal

This is an up to 5-person party dungeon and works similarly to Dimensional Boundary dungeons. You can be matched with other solo players or enter as a pre-created party. There are 3 levels to challenge. You must clear the current level to unlock the next one.

• Level 1: Suggested combat power: 200,000

• Level 2: Suggested combat power: 750,000

• Level 3: Suggested combat power: 1,350,000

Party/Hard

This is an up to 5-person party dungeon that was unlocked with part 2 of the event. It is a more difficult version of the Party/Normal dungeon and follows the same setup.

• Level 1: Suggested combat power: x

• Level 2: Suggested combat power: x

• Level 3: Suggested combat power: x

Solo/challenge

This is a solo time attack challenge that was unlocked with part 2 of the event. You have a set time limit to do as much damage to the Cooking Witch as possible. Depleting the Cooking Witch's health bar will her to rank up, replenishing her health bar and making her stronger. It will also grant you extra time.

The higher the rank the Cooking Witch is at the end of the fight, the better your rewards.

There are also rewards for doing a certain amount of damage to the Cooking Witch, and a server ranking rewards. Costume rewards are class specific, and can be earned by multiple classes. Titles are rewarded one per account, based on the score/ranking of your highest class.

• Tier 1 (title, strawberry face paint): Deal 8,000,000+ damage to the Cooking Witch

• Tier 2 (title, strawberry face paint, grilled chicken skewer costume accessory): Deal 21,000,000+ damage to the Cooking Witch

• Tier 3 (title, strawberry face paint, grilled chicken skewer costume accessory, dumpling costume hat): Rank 1-10 for your server for that class

Fighting the Cooking Witch

The Cooking Witch is fire element, and some of her attacks have the chance to inflict the spicy debuff. If you are affected by this, run to and interact with the water barrels to the side of the stage to remove it. She has several telegraphed attacks.

• Fire jet: Breathes fire in a long narrow column in front of her. Can inflict multiple hits of damage, dodge out of it.

• Ladle slam: Smashes her ladle down in a small area in front of her.

• Swinging arc attack: Swings her ladle in a short arc in front of her. Causes knockback.

• Swinging round attack: Swings her pot and ladle around her in a wide sweeping circle. This attack lasts about 5 seconds so stay out of the range until it's done.

• Pepper drop: Drops peppers down on the field in several different areas. Can inflict the spicy debuff.

• Pillars of flame: Raises pillars of flame in a series of areas around her. Attack starts with areas nearest her and moves outwards, be sure to dodge out of the way or you could get hit multiple times. Causes knockback.

• Cooking lesson: When the witch goes into low health mode, she will ask your party to gather ingredients to cook a dish. Along one wall a set of ingredients will appear; your party needs to touch the 3 ingredients asked for. They will always be 3 of the same type of ingredient (i.e. 3 carrots or 3 tomatoes.) If you touch the wrong ingredient, you will be briefly stunned. If your party succeeds in the timeframe, you'll get a bit of a buff; otherwise your party will be hit with a strong fire attack. [This attack does not appear in the solo challenge mode.]

Witch's Kitchen (Cooking) and NPC friendship

There is a special set of dishes that you can make during the story episode. The dishes can be consumed directly for various buffs, or gifted to story NPCs to grow your friendship. Note that you can only gift up to 20 dishes total to story NPCs a week.

Gifting dishes

In the first few story scenes, you were tasked with finding out several NPCs favorite dishes so that Sophie could prepare them. These are each NPC's favored dish, so gifting each person the dish they mentioned will grow your friendship faster. Note that their second favored dish is the high-grade version of the same dish, so if you are successful in making those, they will increase friendship the fastest.

• Ruby: Handmade dumplings

• Karul: Morel mushroom flower stew

• Peter: Volcanic trenien blend coffee

• Aran: Bermuda octopus stir fry

• Red Mane: Berry croffles

• Allen: Fried apple ice cream

Making dishes

Each special dish can be cooked in the witch's kitchen, accessed through the story episode menu. Each dish requires normal and/or story episode-specific food ingredients. Each one has one or two special cooking skills it will level up when making the dish. Once you've fully leveled up a skill you can make those food items in bulk, and you'll also have a chance to make a high-grade version of the dish.

• Morel mushroom flower stew

  • Normal ingredients: Mushrooms (x1)

  • Special ingredients: Morel flower petals (x3)

  • Cooking skill: stewing

  • Buff: single player/boost amount of dishes made at a time in the Witch's Kitchen

• Handmade dumplings

  • Normal ingredients: Flour (x1)

  • Special ingredients: Pulropp meat (x2), Serene herbs (x2)

  • Cooking skill: stewing

  • Buff: single player/boost amount of ingredients gathered from the field at a time

• Bermuda octopus stir fry

  • Regular ingredients: tomato (x1), Fish (x1)

  • Special ingredients: Pearl oyster (x3)

  • Cooking skill: stir fry + sauce

  • Buff: single player/boost atk and damage dealt in the episode dungeon

• Volcanic Trenian blend coffee

  • Special ingredients: volcanic trenian coffee beans (x3)

  • Cooking skill: stir fry + sauce

  • Buff: single player/boost gold drops in field and chaos dungeons

• Berry croffles

  • Regular ingredients: fruits & vegetables (x1), corn (x1)

  • Cooking skill: baking

  • Buff: party/boost HP, reduce cooldown of dodge roll in the episode dungeon

• Fried apple ice cream (party)

  • Regular ingredients: milk (x1), apples (x1)

  • Special ingredients: glacier ice cube (x2)

  • Cooking skill: frying

  • Buff: party/boost drop rate of monster souls/field drops in field and chaos dungeons

Gathering ingredients

There are special ingredients available during the episode, which can be acquired in various ways.

Every day you can get up to 10 picnic baskets as drops from field monsters. These will roll a random food ingredient. The Cooking Witch can also drop an item that will roll a random food ingredient.

Every weekend during the episode, Muse will show up on your familiar farm with a variety of items for sale, including food ingredients and food dishes. Her selection will change each visit. Also, her selection will vary by farm. Visit your friends' or guildmates' farms (or just random players' farms) to see what other stuff she's offering.

Volcanic trenian coffee beans and glacier ice cubes can exchanged for through the episode token shop.

Some ingredients can be gathered from various early story zones. The items respawn quickly so it should be easy to gather up enough the ingredients to make a lot of dishes. You can also eat a handmade dumpling to temporarily increase the number of ingredients to acquire each time.

Costumes

There are two event costume pieces you can craft only during this event, the chef's hat and the chef's outfit. They cost 7 fresh spoonfuls and 1060 magic thread each; Fresh spoonfuls were added to the episode token shop during part 2 of the episode, or they can be rolled in the costume gacha during the event period. The chef's outfit can also be rolled directly in the costume gacha during the event period. Wearing these costume pieces will boost your defense when fighting the Cooking Witch.

Witch's Cauldron (stat buffs)

Defeating the Cooking Witch in the party/normal or party/hard dungeons will give you episode experience that you can use to level up the Witch's Cauldron, the episode's stat boosting item. Each level allows you to add one level to a skill. Some skills are general (such as boost to attack or HP) while some skills are specific to the episode dungeons. Each skill has a different max level. There are 3 ranks of skills, rank 2 is unlocked when you reach Cauldron rank 15, and rank 3 is unlocked when you reach rank 24.

Skill points can be reset so you can reallocate them, but it costs 10,000 gold each time.

These skills are only available during the event period. Once the episode completes, you will get a set of smaller permanent bonuses based on how high you leveled up the cauldron.

Episode Pass

You can unlock the episode pass after clearing the initial story subquests.

The episode pass has a normal and a premium version. Both provide the Sore Boar familiar, along with leveling materials, gold, and other consumables, but the paid pass starts with it and also has higher value rewards.

Episode Token shop

You can earn episode tokens (Witch's Secret Spice) by defeating enemies on the field. You can earn up to 100 tokens per day. They can be exchanged in the shop for a variety of items. Additionally, Sore Boar cookies can be exchanged for more copies of the event familiar. Some items can only be exchanged once, others have a limit per account or per week. Additional items were made available in part 2 of the episode.

Part 1 available items

• For tokens

  • Party/Normal dungeon tickets

  • Mount decoration boxes

  • Gummy Bottles

  • Sore Boar familiar

  • Sore Boar cookies

  • Volcanic trenien coffee beans

  • Glacier ice cubes

• For Sore Boar cookies

  • Sore boar familiar

• For diamonds

  • Party/Normal dungeon entry tickets (no limit)

Part 2 available items

• For tokens

  • Party/Hard and Solo/challenge dungeon entry tickets

  • Fresh spoonfuls

  • Soar boar 4* toy

  • Higgledie gift boxes (purchases cycle rarity between 1* to 4*)

  • Tetroblock puzzle pieces (purchases cycle rarity between 1* to 5*)

• For diamonds

  • Party/Hard and Solo/challenge dungeon entry tickets

Episode Missions (Event Guide missions)

This is a series of step missions. Each mission has a reward; clear each mission in the step to unlock the next step. Missions within a step can be cleared in any order. Clearing all steps will reward you with a Sore Boar familiar.

1. Step 1

   • Acquire 1 pulropp meat: 10 weapon recipes

   • Acquire 1 pearl oyster: 1 aroma pot

   • Acquire 1 Morel flower petal: 3 mount decoration boxes

   • Acquire 1 Serene herb: 20 Witch's secret spice

   • Clear Party/Normal dungeon 1 time: 3 familiar toy boxes

2. Step 2

   • Cook 1 fried apple ice cream: 10 armor recipes

   • Cook 1 handmade dumpling: 1 energy drink

   • Cook 1 Bermuda octopus stir fry: 3 mount decoration boxes

   • Cook 1 berry croffle: 20 Witch's secret spice

   • Gift a story NPC their favorite dish 1 time: 3 familiar toy boxes

3. Step 3

   • Cook 5 dishes on the cooking stove (familiar forest) or witch's cauldron (story episode): 3 purified souls boxes

   • Use the episode shop 35 times: 1 sweet drink

   • Raise the Witch's Cauldron to rank 12: 3 mount decoration boxes

   • Raise the episode reputation rank to level 2: 20 Witch's secret spice

   • Gift a story NPC their favorite dish 20 times: 3 familiar toy boxes