DragonSword Awakening Update 1.0.4: Player-Facing Changes

#Quick answer

DragonSword: Awakening update 1.0.4 is a large corrective patch rather than a new story release. The most important player-facing changes are:

• Roxy's third-Awakening aerial re-jump cooldown was reduced from 3 seconds to 1.5 seconds;
• Dana and Eileen received fixes to named combat interactions;
• nine World Bosses now award fixed Mercenary Corps EXP plus tiered items;
• Sudden Missions now reward Fragment of Sacred Light ×60;
• several Adventure, Area, Hero and Bond Quest blockers were fixed;
• controller, language, camera, sensitivity, treasure-chest and invite-code issues were corrected.

This page helps you decide whether a symptom or reward changed in 1.0.4. It does not invent new drop rates, boss routes or best builds beyond the official notes.

#Combat and movement changes

The patch note establishes that these defects were addressed. It does not provide a complete balance ranking for Dana, Roxy or Eileen, and it does not establish numerical damage changes.

#Reward and progression changes

Update 1.0.4 made two clear economy changes:

1. the Gold Shop can sell Lowest-Grade Monster Essence, Hide, Bone Fragment, Carapace and Claw;
2. World Bosses and Sudden Missions now have the listed reward values in the official notes.

For the complete nine-boss table, use the World Boss rewards guide. If an old guide says Sudden Missions grant a different amount, the 1.0.4 note supersedes it with Fragment of Sacred Light ×60.

The announcement does not state stock limits, refresh timing, regional pricing or random drop rates for the Gold Shop materials. Check the live shop for those details.

#Quest blockers fixed in 1.0.4

The patch addressed named problems across Adventure Quests, Area Quests, Dana's Hero Quest and a Familiar Bond Quest. The fixes include black screens, missing NPCs, frozen movement, sequence-breaking kills and puzzle access attempted before a prerequisite quest.

Use the 1.0.4 quest progression fix guide for the exact list and a symptom-first checklist. The later Talk to Ornette blocker in Adventure Quests 15–18 belongs to the separate Ornette quest fix page, because that fix arrived in update 1.0.5.

#System, controller and display fixes

The official note also says 1.0.4 fixed:

• Hero Codex skill-description scrolling;
• an incorrect Castella voice line in the active-character Codex;
• Depth of Field not applying;
• controller access to refresh-rate options above 120 Hz;
• list-position restoration in Hunt and Trait Dungeons;
• controller operation of Special Challenge difficulty;
• field text not changing with the selected text language;
• right-stick vertical camera-speed inconsistency;
• mouse sensitivity switching after controller use.

These are corrections, not recommended settings. For persistent startup crashes, distinguish the D3D12 -dx11 workaround from the saved graphics-settings reset.

#World, graphics and multiplayer fixes

Patch 1.0.4 additionally lists fixes for:

• Cerese's Ophelia's Oath hair rendering;
• Charlotte's hood hair;
• abnormal town buildings;
• wall clipping in the Shadowed Woods;
• falling through the ground in some world areas;
• locked underwater treasure chests;
• a Tower of Trials reward that looked unclaimed until reconnecting;
• room lookup failing intermittently when entering multiplayer with an invite code.

A note that an issue was fixed does not guarantee that every visually similar problem has the same cause. If a symptom persists on a newer version, record the route, character, platform input and current game version before reporting it.

#What update 1.0.4 does not establish

The official notes do not provide:

• hidden damage coefficients;
• World Boss spawn locations or strategy;
• Gold Shop refresh schedules;
• random drop percentages;
• a complete hero tier-list revision;
• recovery steps for a corrupted save.

Keep those questions in their own evidence-backed guides rather than stretching one patch note beyond its claims.

#Related guides

• World Boss rewards after update 1.0.4
• Quest progression fixes in update 1.0.4
• Talk to Ornette quest blocker fix
• Roadmap and update status
• Steam and SteamDB status

#Sources

• Official DragonSword: Awakening Update Notes 1.0.4 — complete official list of combat, balance, quest, system, graphics and miscellaneous fixes summarized here.