Missions now have a second gate beside your rank: a license. There are four - Bronze, Silver, Gold, Titanium. Every character starts holding Bronze; the three above it are each earned by passing a certification trial, a one-shot fight tuned to a fresh entrant of the tier below.

A licensed mission scales its XP and currency by the license that mission requires - holding a higher license does not raise those rewards further, and stat or pool grants are never scaled. This release also brought the first one-shot story quests - cleared once per character, some beginning with a visit to the new Blade Sanctum briefing - and your earned license shows as a badge on your sheet and profile.