Throne and Liberty is kicking off the New Year with a small in-game celebration focused on a simple loop: use daily keys to pull special lanterns, convert them into Wishing Stars, then cash those stars in for Sollant. Alongside the event, there’s also an ornate coin shop restock, a recent hotfix tied to an exploit, and the usual weekly reset routine that keeps your character’s progression moving.

This guide breaks down what’s actually live, what’s unclear due to limited official timing info, and how to prioritize your week efficiently. It also explains where premium currency fits into the bigger progression picture without turning the whole plan into a shopping list.

New Year Event Overview: Lanterns and Wishing Stars

The core New Year event mechanic revolves around a temporary reward item that appears in your Mystic Gloves pulls: a lantern. Using a lantern grants a Wishing Star, which is essentially a lottery-style Sollant payout item. Some stars can be worth very little, while the top-end payout can be extremely high.

Because this event is tied to your daily key routine, it’s best approached as a consistent, low-effort bonus rather than a grind you can brute force in one sitting.

Step 1: Buy and claim Mystic Keys daily

Your first priority is to keep your daily key income flowing. Pick up your keys every day, and don’t forget any check-in sources that grant extras. The event’s value scales with how many lantern rolls you get over time, so missing days is the biggest “cost” here.

If you’re managing a progression budget, this is also the moment to decide whether you’re staying purely free-to-play or supplementing convenience with Throne and Liberty Lucent for time-saving purchases. Either way, the event itself is still worth doing because it’s essentially free Sollant attached to a routine you should already be maintaining.

Step 2: Open Mystic Gloves and look for lantern drops

When you use Mystic Gloves, you may notice the gloves interface looks slightly different during the event period. The key detail: lanterns can appear as a special pull. When you obtain a lantern, it goes into your inventory as a usable item.

• Open Mystic Gloves as normal.
• Claim any lantern rewards you pull.
• Use the lantern item to obtain a Wishing Star.

Using a lantern grants one Wishing Star. The star’s tooltip shows a Sollant value. The range can be modest (for example, hundreds of thousands) or extremely high if you hit a rare result.

Important: Wishing Stars are not a crafting material and do not have alternate uses. Treat them like a redeemable voucher.

Step 4: Sell the Wishing Star to an NPC for Sollant

You can’t “spend” the star directly from your inventory in most cases. Instead, you sell it to the appropriate NPC, and you receive the exact amount of Sollant listed on the tooltip. If you pull a high-value star, it’s a meaningful injection of core currency that can support enhancements, skill growth, and other upgrade costs.

Unclear Event Timings: Star Gift Interactions in Towns

One confusing part of the New Year celebration is that the schedule for certain town interactions may not be clearly communicated in-game. The event description indicates that specific village areas can spawn an interactable “Star Gift” that provides additional rewards.

Because timing details aren’t always posted consistently across regions, the practical approach is to check likely town locations periodically, especially around common spawn windows. A reasonable routine is to check around the half-hour marks when you’re already in town for other errands (merchants, storage, crafting, or queueing).

• Visit the indicated village/town areas when you’re already nearby.
• Look for a new interactable Star Gift object.
• Interact to claim event rewards if it’s present.

If you don’t see it, don’t over-invest time hunting. The lantern-to-star loop is the reliable part of the event; the town interaction appears to be an extra bonus when it’s up.

Take a look at: our KR patch notes preview for New Year event details

Hotfix Note: Recent Exploit Cleanup

A recent hotfix addressed a serious exploit involving abyss daggers. Even if you weren’t affected directly, it’s worth noting because exploit fixes can cause small ripple effects: temporary market shifts, balance adjustments, or stricter monitoring of abnormal item behavior.

For players focused on economy and progression, the safest move after any exploit-related patch is to avoid suspicious “too good to be true” trading patterns and keep your routine clean. If you’re planning to accelerate upgrades, do it through normal systems, whether that’s consistent play or topping up with safe Lucent through legitimate channels.

This week’s notable shop change is a restock rather than a rotation. That means you’re mostly looking at replenished quantities of familiar progression items. If you’ve been waiting to refill core upgrade materials, this is the time to do it.

Common high-value priorities from ornate coin restocks include items that remove bottlenecks in your upgrade pipeline:

• Unlock Stones to open up progression gates and systems.
• Extract Stones for managing gear and materials efficiently.
• Crystals and other upgrade components that commonly bottleneck mid-game.
• Grow Stones and skill books if your build is behind on skill progression.

If you’re balancing time versus power, this is also where premium currency can quietly matter. Players who buy Lucent typically use it to smooth out bottlenecks like upgrade resources and convenience unlocks, but it’s still smart to treat ornate coin purchases as your first line of “free” value.

Weekly Reset Checklist: The Minimum That Keeps You Progressing

If you only have time for the essentials, the goal is to prioritize activities that deliver the best mix of upgrade resources, weekly-limited currencies, and progression materials. Below is a practical weekly routine based on the most consistently valuable merchants and content loops.

Merchant pickups you should not skip

• Scrolls from Sunundre’s merchant (grab them early so you can use them all week).
• Extract Stones and ink from the contract coin merchant.
• Conversion Stones from the guild merchant (especially if your guild activity is steady).
• Unlock Stones from the resistance merchant.
• Runes from the battlegrounds merchant (even if you’re not hard PvP-focused, these add up).
• Pouches and additional Unlock Stones from the nebula merchant.
• Five Chaos Prisms from the raid merchant.

A small but important optimization: make sure you have enough contract coins. If you’re short, plan a quick loop that converts your available contract-related items into the coins you need so you don’t miss weekly-limited purchases.

Content priorities if you’re choosing what to play

If you’re deciding where your time goes, a strong order of operations for the week looks like this:

• Raid: prioritize this first because weekly value tends to be concentrated here.
• Random Normal Queue: good for steady rewards and currency flow.
• Trial Queue: valuable if your character can complete it consistently.
• Spend dungeon currencies on chests: don’t let capped currency sit unused.
• Solo dungeons for reliable, repeatable progression materials.
• Gate of Infinity for additional weekly value.
• Weekly missions to finish your reset cycle cleanly.

This approach also naturally supports Throne and Liberty money making because it keeps your character supplied with upgrade materials that would otherwise require extra farming or market spending.

Take a look at: a deeper look at Lucent planning for long-term progression

The New Year event’s Wishing Stars pay out in Sollant, so the best use is to feed the parts of your character that are most currency-hungry. While exact priorities vary by build and stage, these are common high-impact sinks:

• Skill growth when books and upgrades are holding back your damage or utility.
• Enhancement and crafting fees that block gear upgrades.
• Market purchases for missing materials when you’re one step away from a power spike.

If you’re also planning premium currency spending, keep it separated mentally: Sollant covers day-to-day system costs, while Lucent is often reserved for targeted upgrades, convenience unlocks, or cosmetics. That kind of split makes it easier to avoid waste and supports Lucent planning for long-term progression.

FAQ

Do Wishing Stars do anything besides selling for Sollant?

No. The intended use is to sell them to the appropriate NPC for the exact amount shown on the tooltip.

What’s the most important daily action for the New Year event?

Keeping up with Mystic Keys and your check-in extras. The lantern drops are tied to that routine, so consistency matters more than long sessions.

You may miss a small bonus, but the lantern-to-star loop is the main value. Check towns when convenient rather than camping spawns.

What should I prioritize from the ornate coin shop restock?

Unlock Stones and Extract Stones are usually the safest picks, followed by crystals, grow stones, or skill books depending on your current bottleneck.

Is it worth using premium currency to speed up weekly progress?

It can be, especially for players with limited time. If you choose to do it, focus on convenience and upgrade bottlenecks rather than impulse buys, and only use a trusted Throne and Liberty Lucent site with secure payment and support when topping up.