Throne and Liberty Update 3.31.0 - Battlegrounds, Floating Elf Garden, and PvP Fixes

Throne and Liberty update 3.31.0 is a focused correction patch built around Battlegrounds tuning, Floating Elf Garden scoring changes, PvP cleanup, and a long list of smaller fixes across guild battles, Path of Ascension, Arena, weapons, equipment, artifacts, Tower of Greed, controller support, and customization. The update went live after downtime that began on April 22 at 10:30 p.m. PT, or April 23 at 5:30 a.m. UTC, and lasted approximately 2.5 hours.

This is not a large content update. Update 3.31.0 does not add a new dungeon, weapon, gear slot, or Battlegrounds map. Its real purpose is narrower: correct the live state of Battlegrounds after recent changes, adjust Floating Elf Garden scoring, remove role-based Battlegrounds effects, and clean up several combat and system issues. For PvP players, that still makes the patch important, because Battlegrounds depend heavily on scoring rules, healing balance, queue health, and whether teams are rewarded for playing objectives instead of farming disconnected interactions.

Throne and Liberty Update 3.31.0 Removes Battlegrounds Role Effects

The main Battlegrounds change in update 3.31.0 is the removal of role-based effects. This follows Amazon's April 2026 Resistance Report, where the team said it had been closely monitoring Battlegrounds data and actively evaluating improvements. The same report also said a healing debuff inside Battlegrounds had recently been reverted because it did not produce the intended outcome.

That context matters. Update 3.31.0 is not just changing numbers in isolation. It shows Amazon stepping back from a PvP modifier that did not improve the mode as expected. Instead of leaving the role-based effects in place while more testing happened, the patch removes them and lets Battlegrounds return to a cleaner tuning state. That does not mean PvP balance is finished. It means this specific solution failed to land, and the team is now adjusting the mode from a different baseline.

For players, the practical result is simple: Battlegrounds should no longer carry those role-based effects, and future PvP balance changes will likely depend on more data, match feedback, role distribution, and combat feel. Update 3.31.0 is a correction patch, not a final PvP redesign. That distinction matters, because live-service PvP is rarely fixed by one modifier, despite the industry bravely pretending otherwise every few months.

Floating Elf Garden Scoring Changes Make Objectives More Important

Floating Elf Garden receives the clearest mechanical changes in Throne and Liberty update 3.31.0. The victory score has been reduced from 150,000 to 120,000, lowering the total score required to end a match. That should make matches resolve faster when one team controls the flow properly, although the real impact will depend on team coordination and how quickly objectives are converted into points.

Occupied Lands are now more valuable. The score gained from maintaining Occupied Lands increased from 200 to 500, which makes sustained map control more important than before. This is the strongest scoring adjustment in the patch because it directly rewards teams that hold territory instead of drifting around the map for scattered interactions. Floating Elf Garden should now push players harder toward control-based play, where holding space matters as much as winning individual fights.

Forging Energy also works differently. Players no longer gain points simply for acquiring Forging Energy. Points are now awarded only when Forging Energy is delivered. That is a cleaner objective rule because it rewards completion, not partial interaction. The Waterways system now depends on the point difference between the two teams, which should make the map state react more clearly to the actual score gap. Together, these changes make Floating Elf Garden more focused: hold Occupied Lands, deliver Forging Energy, and play around the scoreboard instead of treating every side interaction as free value.

Floating Elf Garden Before and After Update 3.31.0

Throne and Liberty 3.31.0 Patch Notes Add Guild, Event, and Arena Updates

Outside Battlegrounds, update 3.31.0 adds several practical fixes and schedule updates. Amazon has announced the end dates for Battlegrounds Pre-Season 2 and Arena Season 5, giving competitive players clearer timing for the current PvP cycle. The patch does not turn those dates into new content, but it does make the seasonal calendar less vague, which is useful for anyone still pushing rankings or planning rewards.

Abysstone Guild Battle receives a fix for an issue where a guild abandoning ownership of an Abysstone during Territory Events could remove its Defense status. Path of Ascension also changes Abyssal Contract Token consumption missions for Abyssal Dungeons. Those missions can now be completed in all Abyssal Dungeons instead of being limited to specific dungeon tiers from 2 through 5. The patch also adds the Recommended Abyssal Dungeon Guide, making those missions easier to follow and less restrictive.

The Rift Rebellion event now has its ending wait time increased to five minutes. The Future Event Info section also confirms Guild Call to Arms: Defeat the Archboss!, scheduled to run from around April 30 at 08:00 UTC until May 14 at 08:00 UTC. During that event window, Archbosses will appear in Guild Raids, giving guilds a defined period to summon and defeat them together.

Weapon, Equipment, Artifact, and System Fixes in Throne and Liberty 3.31.0

Update 3.31.0 includes several combat-related fixes. Daggers receive a correction for Umbral Spirit and its Thunder Spirit specialization, fixing an issue where combat state could continue for a set amount of time even after the skill effect had ended. Spear's Death Knell also receives an important fix: its PvP and PvE activation chances had been switched. After the patch, Death Knell has a 30% PvP activation chance and a 15% PvE activation chance. Before the fix, those values were reversed.

Death Knell, Lucien's Code, and Lunarstone Fixes

Equipment and artifact fixes are also part of the patch. Lucien's Code of the Heretic had an issue where Silver Reaper's Sentence could apply its effect too often under certain circumstances, so the effect is now limited to 10 applications per second. Abyssal Beast Lunarstone, Deathless One Lunarstone, and Chaos Harbinger Lunarstone also had a clipping issue that allowed wearers to pass through players and NPCs. Update 3.31.0 fixes that behavior.

Set switching during combat has been tightened as well. Using the Equipment and Stats Set shortcut to switch equipment and stat sets during combat now applies skill cooldowns. That closes off a combat loophole around fast set changes and makes the shortcut behave more consistently under pressure.

Tower of Greed, Controller Support, Codex, and Customization Fixes

The remaining fixes are smaller but still useful. Adventure Act 11 receives a Codex correction for Wizards' Traces - Collecting Fire Elements, fixing an issue where the player character's answer was repeated during Melvin's dialogue. Tower of Greed fixes an intermittent issue where World Tree Leaves could not be used while the user was carrying a relic.

Amitoi Expedition changes controller movement from virtual cursor controls to focused controls. The Help section also corrects misspellings in the Beginner Guide's Stats section while using controller mode. Customization gets a fix for an issue where selecting a color in the color picker and then changing gender could revert the selected color to the previous one.

Throne and Liberty Battlegrounds Still Need Careful PvP Tuning

The clean read on Throne and Liberty update 3.31.0 is that Battlegrounds are still in active correction after recent changes. Floating Elf Garden needed scoring adjustments after entering the Battlegrounds rotation, and the patch moves the map toward clearer objective play. Lowering the victory score, increasing Occupied Lands value, requiring Forging Energy delivery, and tying Waterways levels to the score gap all point in the same direction: Amazon wants the map to reward finished objectives and sustained control more directly.

The removal of role-based Battlegrounds effects is just as important as the scoring changes. Amazon's own Resistance Report says the healing debuff did not create the intended result, so the team reverted it instead of letting a failed experiment sit in the live game. That is the correct direction for a PvP mode still finding its balance. Battlegrounds depend on live data, player feedback, queue behavior, role spread, and moment-to-moment combat feel. Update 3.31.0 does not solve every PvP issue, but it removes a bad variable and gives Floating Elf Garden cleaner rules.

Final Thoughts on Throne and Liberty Update 3.31.0

Throne and Liberty update 3.31.0 is a small patch with a clear PvP purpose. Its most important changes are concentrated in Battlegrounds and Floating Elf Garden: role-based effects are gone, the victory score is lower, Occupied Lands are worth more, Forging Energy only gives points on delivery, and Waterways now respond to the point difference between teams. These are not cosmetic changes. They directly affect how teams should play the map and how quickly matches can resolve.

The rest of the patch is mostly cleanup, but it is not meaningless filler. Abysstone Guild Battle fixes, Path of Ascension mission changes, Rift Rebellion timing, Arena and Battlegrounds season dates, weapon corrections, equipment fixes, artifact clipping fixes, set-switch cooldown behavior, Tower of Greed corrections, controller support changes, and customization fixes all remove friction from different parts of the game. The Guild Call to Arms Archboss event also gives guilds a short-term activity window after the patch.

The best summary is straightforward: update 3.31.0 does not try to be a major content release. It fixes the live state of Battlegrounds after Floating Elf Garden's recent role in the season, removes role-based effects that did not improve PvP, and changes scoring so the map rewards objective play more clearly. For Throne and Liberty players focused on PvP, this patch matters more than its size suggests.