Hello. Ragnarok Online: Zero adventurers, this is the Zero Team from RO1 Studio.
The new year 2022 has arrived. We hope that COVID-19 will settle down this year so that everyone experiencing hardships can find strength. Now, we would like to inform you about the update plans for Q1 2022.
1. Veins Area Update
The Veins area will be newly added.
<Veins Village Overview>
<Nameless Island Overview>
The Veins area is a region accessible to characters of Base Lv.100 ~ Lv.115 or higher after Job Change (Rebirth), and consists of Veins Field, Thor Volcano, and Nameless Island.
Like the Illusion of 
Moonlight, you can earn relatively high hunting experience compared to other hunting grounds of the same level range,
and unlike the one-time daily quests in other regions, it is being designed to allow repeatable hunting quests up to a certain number of times.
Currently, many adventurers use guild dungeons due to their high hunting experience efficiency, but while guild dungeons carry the risk factor of PvP, the Veins area, although relatively lower in experience efficiency, allows you to safely and continuously obtain high hunting experience efficiency depending on the area, making it a region where solo play can grow up to Lv.130 depending on the time and effort invested by adventurers.
Also, through hunting in the Veins area, you will be able to obtain new items, including cards and accessories, that can also be used in higher-tier hunting grounds such as the Biolab dungeon or the Morroc area, so please look forward to it.
2. Partial UI Improvements
The UI of Ragnarok Online: Zero has been continuously changing little by little every quarter since March 2021.
At the end of last December as well, we changed the English buttons on the world map, minimap, and navigation to Korean, and made convenience updates such as adding blinking effects or increasing icon visibility so that players can intuitively grasp their character's current location.
Our Zero Team believes that small changes add up to increase the game's overall quality, so we plan to continue steadily updating the UI based on visibility and convenience throughout 2022 as well.
In Q1 2022, we intend to improve the visibility of UI and icon images related to basic information such as party, skills, and menus. We will strive to ensure that both newcomers starting their adventure for the first time and existing adventurers can use the game system more conveniently and find it easier to understand thanks to the improved UI, so we ask for your continued interest.
Regarding skill improvements for less mainstream classes, we are continuously monitoring and reviewing the matter, and Part 3, which corresponds to the final story of Episode 1, is a story in which the identity of the culprit who caused chaos on the Midgard continent using a necklace is revealed, and the player embarks on an adventure to stop his scheme, and it is planned to be designed so that growth is possible along with the acquisition of various items in the Base Lv.70 ~ 99 range.
The above content is difficult to apply within Q1, but we are focusing on development so that it can be updated in early Q2.
This concludes our announcement regarding the Q1 2022 update content.
The content announced above is still under development or planned, and details may change upon actual update, and there may be additional bug fixes discovered or other partial system revisions.
For more details, please refer to the official website's notice board upon future updates. We will see you again in the next developer note.
Thank you.