[1.2.318] [KOR] Adventurer Skill Revamps

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Originally Posted by Fiel

One odd thing I noticed that they changed is the "mad" (magic attack damage) for WK charges. So maybe they finally do have a use?

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Attack ++?
Party Buff?
Maybe the damage formula for white knight includes mad?

Another gripe - I just started reworking all of my skill tables again. Then these changes this morning made me have to redo all the work I just did because of the changes. Grah.

Lol I so hope they changed Zerk back to normal :|

Check this out, this was captured not more than 2 minutes ago

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Originally Posted by Xiger

Check this out, this was captured not more than 2 minutes ago

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What the? What job/skill did that?

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Originally Posted by Xiger

Check this out, this was captured not more than 2 minutes ago

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This is an old glitch

LOL IT RESURFACED

Interesting O_o

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Originally Posted by Xiger

Check this out, this was captured not more than 2 minutes ago

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Wow, MapleStory is truly becoming a private server.

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Originally Posted by Xiger

Check this out, this was captured not more than 2 minutes ago

http://i1012.photobucket.com/albums/...OMFGDAMAGE.jpg

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wut.

Its a Mirror image glitch

it appeared when dual bladers were first released

Weird, after the patch, the monsters seem easier to kill.
Is this me or did they just nerf them back to their original states.

Just you getting acclimated. The mobs didn't change at all.

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Originally Posted by Xiger

Weird, after the patch, the monsters seem easier to kill.
Is this me or did they just nerf them back to their original states.

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Nvm..field just answered that

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Originally Posted by Xiger

Weird, after the patch, the monsters seem easier to kill.
Is this me or did they just nerf them back to their original states.

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Victoria mobs were nerfed during 1.2.318 o.0 unless u leveled up alot ever since that screenshot and went out of vic

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Originally Posted by Fiel

Just you getting acclimated. The mobs didn't change at all.

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Fiel fiel any change about i/l mage
i/l is the noobest mage among all magician jobs..
any changes? :eek:
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Fiel,did u post the change in new thread
or just edit it in this thread? tell me ya

More changes....hopes NLs or Wild hunters get upgraded :D

HOLY F'UCKING plantain S'HIT, BATMAN!

The new Brandish is F'UCKING COOL AS HELL. I didn't manage to get a screen shot of it, but this Hero was using it on KMST. It loos like a soul blade appears over your sword/axe and you attack three times with it.

Seriously? That must have been a cool animation!

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Originally Posted by ShiKage

HOLY F'UCKING plantain S'HIT, BATMAN!

The new Brandish is F'UCKING COOL AS HELL. I didn't manage to get a screen shot of it, but this Hero was using it on KMST. It loos like a soul blade appears over your sword/axe and you attack three times with it.

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i really want to see that >:O

Any images/videos of the 2 new DK/DrK moves?

There is one very noticeable change in this patch. Panic definitely causes darkness now - It only took them five years to implement it.

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Originally Posted by Fiel

FFS, they changed all of the adventurer skills again.

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I bet it wont be the last time they "adjust" things...might be a while before everything is finalized and settled.

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Originally Posted by Fiel

There is one very noticeable change in this patch. Panic definitely causes darkness now - It only took them five years to implement it.

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All is right with the world.

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Originally Posted by Fiel

There is one very noticeable change in this patch. Panic definitely causes darkness now - It only took them five years to implement it.

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o-o...oh my.

What the... I spent so much time trawling through GoogleTranslate and now they toss everything like a snowglobe? zzz...

Oh well... We'll wait for your next extraction ba. In the meantime I'll just keep translating and analysing... the rest shouldn't be too bad since it's the mage side that's most affected.

Hadriel

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Originally Posted by hadriel

What the... I spent so much time trawling through GoogleTranslate and now they toss everything like a snowglobe? zzz...

Oh well... We'll wait for your next extraction ba. In the meantime I'll just keep translating and analysing... the rest shouldn't be too bad since it's the mage side that's most affected.

Hadriel

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What happened now? Did I miss something? *runs off to check*

No singlish, please. >.>

"There are currently 171 users browsing this thread. (13 members and 158 guests)"

Wow...

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Originally Posted by MasPan

"There are currently 171 users browsing this thread. (13 members and 158 guests)"

Wow...

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I think most of them are probably MapleSEA players redirected here by a thread I posted at the MapleSEA forums. :p

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Originally Posted by Hanabira.Kage

I think most of them are probably MapleSEA players redirected here by a thread I posted at the MapleSEA forums. :p

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Probably a few from lolbasil, too.

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Originally Posted by MasPan

Any images/videos of the 2 new DK/DrK moves?

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Not yet.

I wonder how long Fiel will take with the most recent updates? I'm itching to construct a few skill builds...

So like

Holy fook.

I'm not even that upset over the SE/Mastery nerf vs Hurricane buff because for all we know, the new damage formula would make archers extremely OP if they didn't nerf SE/Mastery(/Thorns for DBs). This is a very nice balance. :>

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Originally Posted by MariaColette

So like

Holy fook.

I'm not even that upset over the SE/Mastery nerf vs Hurricane buff because for all we know, the new damage formula would make archers extremely OP if they didn't nerf SE/Mastery(/Thorns for DBs). This is a very nice balance. :>

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I DO wonder what the new formula is though.

Off-topic: Hurrah. I successfully scrolled my Maple Asura Dagger with 2 60% Dagger ATT scrolls...and failed two of them ~.~

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Originally Posted by Hanabira.Kage

I DO wonder what the new formula is though.

Off-topic: Hurrah. I successfully scrolled my Maple Asura Dagger with 2 60% Dagger ATT scrolls...and failed two of them ~.~

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so ur maple asura dagger (+? ) now?

Well... If their change to 1x EXP for the damn Test Server wasn't enough, now I can't even continue the character I'm playing to 2nd job. >_>

My Rant

http://i50.tinypic.com/23r50kg.jpg

As you can see in the image, I'm trying to do the Infighter job advancement. The quests asks me to go collect 15 items from the Octos in the special map using Straight. HOWEVER, the map asks me to use Double Fire. Straight and Sommer Sault Kick miss 100% of the time and if I use Double Fire to kill the mobs, the items that I need will never drop.

How the f'uck did they go about completely removing the Infighter job advancement test?! Only the Gunslinger advancement test map exists. >_>

GG Nexon.

Damn it. I just wasted a few hours trying to get to 30 on 1x EXP on the freaking test server just to have a major "f'uck you" from Nexon.

I wonder, though, how they will go about compensating high levels for not being able to obtain the new skills they added. As far as I can see, they're not giving any kind of SP reset or any extra SP to those who are already a high level. The skills will forever be remained untouched unless you spend real money on SP resets just to be decent and in doing so, you lose out on your main skills. I sure hope they go about this better. >_>

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Originally Posted by ShiKage

Well... If their change to 1x EXP for the damn Test Server wasn't enough, now I can't even continue the character I'm playing to 2nd job. >_>

My Rant

http://i50.tinypic.com/23r50kg.jpg

As you can see in the image, I'm trying to do the Infighter job advancement. The quests asks me to go collect 15 items from the Octos in the special map using Straight. HOWEVER, the map asks me to use Double Fire. Straight and Sommer Sault Kick miss 100% of the time and if I use Double Fire to kill the mobs, the items that I need will never drop.

How the f'uck did they go about completely removing the Infighter job advancement test?! Only the Gunslinger advancement test map exists. >_>

GG Nexon.

Damn it. I just wasted a few hours trying to get to 30 on 1x EXP on the freaking test server just to have a major "f'uck you" from Nexon.

I wonder, though, how they will go about compensating high levels for not being able to obtain the new skills they added. As far as I can see, they're not giving any kind of SP reset or any extra SP to those who are already a high level. The skills will forever be remained untouched unless you spend real money on SP resets just to be decent and in doing so, you lose out on your main skills. I sure hope they go about this better. >_>

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Its tespia, the characters made before that were trained at a high exp rate.
Besides they need people to make new characters to test these changes

Hopefully they would reset SP when it reaches KMS (well they have to, since their removing skills)


BTW, Anyone realise the maxHP now is actually higher?

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Originally Posted by ShiKage

I wonder, though, how they will go about compensating high levels for not being able to obtain the new skills they added. As far as I can see, they're not giving any kind of SP reset or any extra SP to those who are already a high level. The skills will forever be remained untouched unless you spend real money on SP resets just to be decent and in doing so, you lose out on your main skills. I sure hope they go about this better. >_>

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I'm beginning to lose hope for this.

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Originally Posted by Kalemora

I'm beginning to lose hope for this.

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Their removing skills, they have to do something about it

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Originally Posted by Pythagoras

so ur maple asura dagger (+? ) now?

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It's +2 now. I used 4 60% scrolls; 2 passed and 2 failed.

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Originally Posted by Hanabira.Kage

It's +2 now. I used 4 60% scrolls; 2 passed and 2 failed.

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3 slots more..scroll it with 5th aniversary scoll..
may miracle will happen?

It's obviously required for testers to actually test low level content. If they had regular tespia exp rates and gave everyone SP resets, there would be too few people trying the new changes out to get good results. You honestly think a 160 character can properly test the effectiveness and balance of 1st~3rd job skills in 1st~3rd job training locations?

Might as well quit my bm :|

I just realized they didn't raise spear crusher dmg ... i thought they raised it to 380% >_>

umm ummm id appreciate a proper translation because everything's in korean.. sucks!
seems like shout is finally useful!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pineapple yahhhhhhh! and panic and coma deal greater damage! finally!
my coma does the same dmg as my brandish f7 (actually the coma does a slightly stronger damage... by 1-1.5k)
im glad i maxed shout HAHAHAHAHAHHAA
HAHAHAHAHAH
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


screw you non shout maxers!:f2:

Not like we aren't getting our Skill Points resetted after this. Unless Nexon wants to lose a lot of players instead of getting more.

Wow, I'm actually excited about these. Been hoping for something like this for the past 3 years now... >_>;

Back to school for another year and a half though~

I'm dying to know the latest changes to criticals... I NEED TO KNOW.

So what of higher leveled buccs? Are they doomed to have to restart because of the new critical? :f6: Guess I'll wait and find out what happens there.

If this reaches GMS I think my bucc will die...Lowered Dstrike damage? That sounds more like a burden than a blessing.

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Originally Posted by LegendGospel

Not like we aren't getting our Skill Points resetted after this. Unless Nexon wants to lose a lot of players instead of getting more.

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lol u know something
i accidently have 20 points in sword mastery and one point in axe mastery
haha free sp reset for me XDDDDD

oh and also you know whats the best for maple 2.0???? :














































BGM modifications!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fffuuuuucking change ludi's BGM!!!

NO! Ludi BGMs are good as they are! It's very suitable for Lego-land style! >=[

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Originally Posted by MysticHLE

NO! Ludi BGMs are good as they are! It's very suitable for Lego-land style! >=[

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its gayish/ 4year oldish

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Originally Posted by Saar331

its gayish/ 4year oldish

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The main town one isn't too bad, but yeah, needed a better one.

AND I HOPE THE PATH OF TIME ONES AREN'T CHANGED. THOSE ARE EXCELENT.

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Originally Posted by Saar331

its gayish/ 4year oldish

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So your saying 4 year olds are gay? :f6:

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Originally Posted by Saar331

lol u know something
i accidently have 20 points in sword mastery and one point in axe mastery
haha free sp reset for me XDDDDD

oh and also you know whats the best for maple 2.0???? :














































BGM modifications!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fffuuuuucking change ludi's BGM!!!

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gt any playlist about new bgm?

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Originally Posted by Alloy

The main town one isn't too bad, but yeah, needed a better one.

AND I HOPE THE PATH OF TIME ONES AREN'T CHANGED. THOSE ARE EXCELENT.

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I agree. Forgotten Path of Time is my favorite. I even play it on the piano very frequently.

I'm not entirely sure what part about MapleStory 2 would warrant a soundtrack change, but I do agree with the general opinion that Ludi music should be kept as is. It's quite nice.

I really want to see a video or a screenshot of the new teleport.

so u guys have a weird taste
they should remake the soundtracks into something less childish
because if youd notice all bgms made in the first years of the game are really childish and resemble these things but lately there r good bgms [horntail cave,dragon rider,neo city,ariant is fine,leafre is fine,but man!!! worst bgms ever:
LUDI AND AQUA

You know what the characters in this game look like right?

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Originally Posted by Saar331

so u guys have a weird taste
they should remake the soundtracks into something less childish
because if youd notice all bgms made in the first years of the game are really childish and resemble these things but lately there r good bgms [horntail cave,dragon rider,neo city,ariant is fine,leafre is fine,but man!!! worst bgms ever:
LUDI AND AQUA

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Ludi will forever be ingrained in all maplers who trudged away at ludi pq. Personally I go back there time to time just to get my nostalgia fix:f3:

and I wanna see the new brandish animation I heard its sick. I'm wondering if panic and coma are so high now would they actually not suck in 4th job?

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Originally Posted by Saar331

lol u know something
i accidently have 20 points in sword mastery and one point in axe mastery
haha free sp reset for me XDDDDD

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You do know if they do a skill reset it will be a universal and complete reset affecting every single character in the game when they patch this to KMS regardless of what they had their points in? Everyone will be able to make completely new skill builds.

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Originally Posted by Saar331

AQUA

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Aqua is awesome, shut up.

Hmm, did they shorten the length of Invincible? Was Heal's power increased?

If heals damage was increased it would be because it works off the new magic damage rather than it's own weird formula.

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Originally Posted by Takebacker

If heals damage was increased it would be because it works off the new magic damage rather than it's own weird formula.

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That's what I was thinking. BTW, the new Bless looks really nice.

I wish I could tell what these things all do.

If they simply decide to give SP resets, what is going to happen to the permanent HP/MP increases given by current skills? If it stays there will clearly be an massive disadvantage to new characters. Maybe they will remove the extra HP/MP? What about those that washed?

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Originally Posted by tron20

If they simply decide to give SP resets, what is going to happen to the permanent HP/MP increases given by current skills? If it stays there will clearly be an massive disadvantage to new characters. Maybe they will remove the extra HP/MP?

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They could just adjust them upon SP resetting or something (and basically screw over HP washers). That's what happens when you advance to 1st job late. Your HP/MP is automatically adjusted appropriately.

Nerfed SE? I sure as hell hope they changed the damage formula...

also

http://i443.photobucket.com/albums/q...nturernews.jpg

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Originally Posted by Tr0jan

Might as well quit my bm :|

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Yea, things are looking very grim for BowMaster (BM) job. So far I think BM is at the most disadvantage job of all.
Unless they change the dmg formula that will include ACC.
Otherwise, BM is just gonna suck really bad. I wonder y can't they do a passive SE dmg calcuation.
E.g Mastery 10 of SE = multiplier 1, Master 20 of SE = multiplier 2, Master 30 of SE = multiplier of 3, just for BM, and not when buffing across party.

Sigh... corsairs is for sure top at DPS now. And since HP isnt a concern anymore, DPS is the only factor remains =X

They HAVE to give everyone a universal reset, otherwise it'll be the BIGGEST "F You" to all the players ever.

And Wild Hunters basically obsolete Bowmasters since they now have 45% Critical while on their Jaguar.


Any videos of Bishops/Arch Mages in action yet? Their training style drastically changed so I'm curious to see how they train now.

Also, Priests have 40% critical vs Evan's 15% loolol.

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Originally Posted by tron20

If they simply decide to give SP resets, what is going to happen to the permanent HP/MP increases given by current skills? If it stays there will clearly be an massive disadvantage to new characters. Maybe they will remove the extra HP/MP? What about those that washed?

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Maybe they'll just re-roll all of that.

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Originally Posted by Bribery

And Wild Hunters basically obsolete Bowmasters since they now have 40% Critical while on their Jaguar.


Any videos of Bishops/Arch Mages in action yet? Their training style drastically changed so I'm curious to see how they train now.

Also, Priests have 40% critical vs Evan's 15% loolol.

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Isn't that lovely? And yes, I second wanting to see a video of magicians in action. I still think teleport mastery will help make their training easier now.

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Originally Posted by vx-2

Yea, things are looking very grim for BowMaster (BM) job. So far I think BM is at the most disadvantage job of all.
Unless they change the dmg formula that will include ACC.
Otherwise, BM is just gonna suck really bad. I wonder y can't they do a passive SE dmg calcuation.
E.g Mastery 10 of SE = multiplier 1, Master 20 of SE = multiplier 2, Master 30 of SE = multiplier of 3, just for BM, and not when buffing across party.

Sigh... corsairs is for sure top at DPS now. And since HP isnt a concern anymore, DPS is the only factor remains =X

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It's hard to tell, since a lot of formulas and stuff have changed. It's possible that by default a crit is x2 damage, and the crit skills just add damage and change of crit to that.

Let's take a moment to breathe and calm down.

We still don't know how critical works, we still don't know the new damage formulas, we still don't know a lot of things. We still aren't sure what's up with the new accuracy, evasion, physical defense, magical defense, etc. Well, at least I don't know.

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Originally Posted by Cavalier

It's hard to tell, since a lot of formulas and stuff have changed. It's possible that by default a crit is x2 damage, and the crit skills just add damage and change of crit to that.

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All we need to know, now, is what the hell is critical's base now. And by base, I mean, damage increased over what it would be if it was a normal hit. Like, on beginners and that.

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Brave* Slash, incase no one noticed cause you can't read korean, Brandish is attained in 3rd job and then Blade Slash comes in in 4th job.
The animation of Brandish looks the same as before, so I'm getting blade slash is passive and adds to brandish? I don't really know.

*Edited cause there is some ambiguity, sounds more like Brave than Blade cause saying the korean makes it sound like blaybuh.

Spent the entire day translating and doing up the skill changes. I've left out pirates because I don't have time to do them... and I also see that there are a number of pirate translations out already. So... here you go. My attempt at translating.

Fighters, Pages and Spearmen

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Skill additions:

[Fighter, Page, Spearman]
Improved Fundamentals
Description: The Champion's base power of Power Strike and Slash Blast is polished. *Hell to translate*
Level 1: Power Strike: +10% damage; Slash Blast: +6% Damage
Level 10: Power Strike: +100% damage; Slash Blast: +60% Damage

Ground Smash
Description: Shoots forward a strong shock wave. Can attack up to three enemies.
Level 1: MP -6, 186% Damage, attacks up to 3 enemies
Level 20: MP -15, 300% Damage, attacks up to 3 enemies
*Sounds like that KOC skill to me...*

Weapon Mastery
Description: *I give up...*
Level 1: 12% mastery, +3 Acc
Level 20: 50% mastery, + 60 Acc
*If I'm not wrong, the back part is accuracy... GoogleTranslate isn't the most versatile translator...*

[Crusader]
Chance Attack
Description: Gives greater damage when attacking monsters in the state of darkness.
Level 1: 101% damage when attacking monsters in the state of darkness.
Level 20: 120% damage when attacking monsters in the state of darkness.
*This works with Panic, now that Panic properly puts monsters into darkness, what kind of darkness is not very clear now. Not sure if this works with stunned monsters from Coma.*

[Hero]
Combat Mastery
Description: Physical Protection of attacks will be ignored at a set rate.
Level 1: Ignores physical defense at a 5% rate
Level 10: Ignores physical defense at a 50% rate

[White Knight]
Restorative Nation
Description: Immediately restores his health using the power of faith
Pre-requisite: Level 5 Shield Mastery
Level 1: MP -300 spent, Immediately recovers up to 20% HP, cooldown 360 seconds.
Level 30: MP -10 spent, Immediately recovers up to 80% HP, cooldown 60 seconds.
*Looks good. Pot-saver, but not really good enough for people who like to chew pots every second.*

[Paladin]
Blazing Armour
Description: Each attack has a chance of creating a personal shield that absorbs damage up to 5 times. The shield will remain for 60 seconds, and will not trigger again for a period of time.
Level 1: 2% chance to create a personal shield, absorbing damage up to 1 time. Cannot be re-played for 120 seconds.
Level 10: 20% chance to create a personal shield, absorbing damage up to 5 times. Cannot be re-played for 30 seconds.
*This is kind of imba...*

[Dragon Knight]
Judgement Dragon
Description: Increases critical chance when using Dragon skills and has a chance to convert some of the physical damage to health. However, does not work when maximum HP is more than half.
Level 1: When using Dragon skills, critical chance increased by 2%, 1% chance for 1% of damage to be converted to health
Level 10: When using Dragon skills, critical chance increased by 20%, 10% chance for 5% of damage to be converted to health
*Pretty good improvement*

[Dark Knight]
Beholder's Revenge
Description: Beholder attacks back at a chance after being hit by an enemy.
Pre-requisite: Level 1 Beholder
Level 1: 55% chance of striking back at 220% damage. 10 seconds waiting time.
Level 20: 100% chance of striking back at 400% damage. 5 seconds waiting time.

Skill changes:
- Rush now deals 250% damage.
- FA is now 40% for 150% damage. Works with Blast and Rush(???!).
- Rage now adds 20WA for 165 seconds.
- Power Guard now chews 100MP, absorbs and returns 30% damage for 20 seconds (nuts...)
- Relax now recovers up to 40MP every 4 seconds.
- Panic now deals 480% damage, and has a 90% chance to put monsters in a state of darkness for 9 seconds. *Finally fixed this...*
- Coma no longer uses HP, deals 360% damage along with 90% stun for up to 4 seconds.
- All power/armour/magic crashes now not only remove their respective buffs 100%, but also stops the monsters from using the buff again within the next 20 seconds. *doesn't work with immunity = still crappy*
- Shout now attacks up to 10 enemies for 220% damage, stun is now 8 seconds.
- Combo attack now increases damage by 3% per combo count.
- Brandish is now "Brave Slash", dealing 170% damage for 3 attacks. Brandish has been brought down to Crusaders, at 220% damage for 2 attacks.
- Advanced Combo now gives 3+5 = 8% damage increase per combo counter, and chance to charge 2 counters is raised to 80%.
- Monster Magnet now applies 200% damage when pulling, and stuns for up to 5 seconds. Has a 5 seconds cooldown. Appears to be 100% success rate... *wow*
- Enrage now adds +40 WA.
- No more shields for Heroes, in a sense that it's no longer practical without Blocking and Shield Mastery.
- Shield Mastery for Knights is now 200% increase in shield WDEF.
- White Knights no longer have Relax.
- White Knight's elemental charges for each weapon class is now merged together so that it is no longer specific to weapon type. *Good... less confusion and chance of making mistakes*. Each charge has a max level of 20. Fire charge is now 120% damage, Ice and thunder charge are 115% each. Holy charge is at 125% damage. Charge stacking effects not tested yet.
- Blocking (Paladin exclusive skill now) stuns for up to 6 seconds.
- Paladins no longer have Monster Magnet.
- Charge Blow now deals 370% damage, and has a 120% (???) chance to stun for 6 seconds. With ACB, it deals 530% damage. *Epic phail... "Wow! Probability of more than 100%! =.=" /facepalm *
- Sanctuary now hits at 1000% damage. Still leaves at least 1 HP. (Might be 10,000... translation not very good).
- Iron Wall now gives +300 WDEF and +100 MDEF.
- Elemental Resistance now resists only 20%.
- Dragon Crusher (combined for polearm and spear) now attacks 3 monsters 3 times regardless of level. Damage reduced to 150%.
- Dragon Fury no longer requires HP. Damage buffed to 380%.
- Sacrifice attacks at 800% damage (!) at 11% HP cost. Unclear if that HP loss is derived from damage or from MaxHP.
- Dragon Roar now attacks for 280% damage, costs 20% MaxHP (down from 30%), and self-stun duration is an increasing trend from 1-3 seconds (as opposed to 4-2 seconds previously).
- Dragon's Blood now uses up to 150HP every 4 seconds (!) (starting at 340HP {!!} at level 1), but gives up to +40 WA boost.
- Berserk is now completely changed. It is now called "Dark Force", and changed from activating below a certain HP, to activating above a certain HP (complete flip). Gives a damage boost for an equivalent defence penalty. At max level, activates above 70% HP, gives 30% damage boost for -30% WDEF.
- Beholder now gives 10% mastery. However, since the damage formulae have all changed, the effect is currently unclear.
- Beholder's buff gives +20WA, +100 WDEF, +100 MDEF, +40 Acc, +40 Avoid per buff instance, and buffs every 4 seconds. Each buff lasts for 100 seconds. *This is very good*

F/P, I/L and Clerics

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- All mage classes (as in ALL, including FW+Evan) gets a new skill:

Spell Mastery
Description: Improves magic skills and magic attack.
Level 1: Magic Mastery 12%, +1 MA
Level 10: Magic Mastery 50%, +10 MA

- Slow now reduces monster's movement speed by 80 (which means movement speed formula changed...) and lasts for 80 seconds.
- Fire Arrow deals 320% damage, and hits 3 monsters regardless of level.
- Poison Bubble deals 270% damage. Apparently from the translation it hints that the poisoning is 100% (unless resistant or immune of course) and deals 60% of the continuous damage every second for 6 seconds at max level... don't know how it works since I bet that every formula got revamped.
- Elemental Resistance for F/P and I/L is now 60%.
- Seal for both F/P and I/L now costs MP -20 at all levels.
- Magic Amplification for F/P and I/L is now 130% damage increase for 160% mana cost.
- New skill for F/P, I/L and Priests:

Teleport Mastery
Description: Teleport distance increases. Gives a chance to teleport of damaging enemies when teleporting to them, with a stunning effect.
Pre-requisite: Level 20 Teleport
Level 1: Teleport distance increased by 2, 3% chance to do 25% damage for up to 6 enemies with a stun time of 1 second.
Level 20: Teleport distance increased by 20, 30% chance to do 250% damage for up to 6 enemies with a stun time of 2 seconds.

- Explosion now deals 280% damage, slightly raised mana cost of MP -52.
- Poison Mist now deals 200% damage on poisoning, and 80% damage per second for up to 8 seconds. Lasts for 40 seconds. *Poisoning is making me crazy... the translation just doesn't make enough sense at times and with the mechanics for poison changing... grrr...*
- Magic booster for Mages now only increase casting speed by 1 level. No longer costs HP to cast.
- F/P and I/L mages get a new skill:

Elemental Reset
Description: *Kinda obvious... GoogleTranslate says that it turns them all into "shamanism" LOL*
Level 1: MP -14, 10% reduction in elemental property for 120 seconds
Level 1: MP -50, 100% reduction in elemental property for 300 seconds

- Elemental Composition (F/P) deals 430% damage, 80% chance of poisoning (up from 70%) and deals 60% damage per second for 5 seconds. Mana cost raised to MP -34.
- Big Bang for all Mage classes now do 900% damage. MP cost raised to MP -70. Hit box data still unelucidated.
- Mana Reflection for all Mage classes now reflect 1000% (!) damage. Duration is buffed to 300 seconds. The usual rules still apply.
- Infinity has changed:

Infinity
Description: For a period of time, HP and MP are continually recovered, and the damage of magic attacks is increased. Cooldown Time: 4 minutes
Level 1: MP -21, Recovers 1% of HP and MP every 4 seconds, and increases magic damage by 1%. Lasts for 11 seconds.
Level 30: MP -50, Recovers 10% of HP and MP every 4 seconds, and increases magic damage by 10%. Lasts for 40 seconds.
*Now that all Ultimates have a cooldown for mages, this becomes more relevant, and at the same time much more useful.

- All Mage classes get a new skill:

Master Magic
Description: Increases the duration of all buffs.
Level 1: 5% increase in duration of buffs
Level 10: 50% increase in duration of buffs

- All Ultimates have a 30 second cooldown at max level. For Archmages, MP cost is MP -380, while for Bishop MP cost is MP -600. Damage values are as follow: Meteor - 1250%, Blizzard - 1100%, Genesis - 1300%.
- All Summons for 4th Job Mages cost MP -120. Bishop's Bahaumat duration raised to 260 seconds while no change for Archmages' summons. Elquines freezes for 3 seconds at all levels. Damage values are as follow: Elquines - 330%, Ifrit - 360%, Bahaumat - 500%.
*In Fiel's translation, Ifrit and Elquines data got mixed up... no way can Ifrit freeze anything.*
- The duration of which Archmages' Demon skills reset elemental weaknesses of monsters now scale properly, at 5, 10 and 15 seconds for every 10 levels. Level scaling for no. of mobs hit has changed. Damage values are as follow: Fire Demon - 280%, Ice Demon - 240%.
- Paralyse deals 660% damage, mana cost raised to MP -40. Disabling duration is now evenly scaled according to skill level.
- Thunderbolt now deals 90% damage, attacks 3 times. MP cost raised to MP -45. *this makes cold beam look like a joke... especially its horizontal range got increased in the Adventurers' Patch...*
- Cold Beam now deals 360% damage. MO cost raised slightly to MP -27.
- Ice Strike now deals 260% damage. *Big difference compared to Cold Beam*
- Thunder Spear now deals 80% and attacks 5 times, and has a chance to stun for up to 5 seconds. Data not well elucidated so nothing said clearly about casting time or stun probability.
- Elemental Composition (I/L) deals 430% damage, MP cost raised slightly to MP -28.
- Chain Lightning deals 500% damage. No. of monsters hit starts at 4 and increases every 10 levels to a max of 6. MP cost raised to MP -44.
- The starting MP cost for Heal is now MP -18. Damage is still based on percentage as written in the description. *I reckon this was the basis of the changes in mage attacking formula.*
- Holy Arrow deals 370% damage, with a raised MP cost of MP -36. *this skill actually outdamages all the other wizard skills against a single monster???*
- Invincible and Bless now only require 15 SP each to max. Bless now gives +120 WDEF, +120 MDEF, +60 Acc, +60 Avoid and lasts for 300 seconds (up from 200s). *The buffing system better be smart... or at least let them stack! Speaking of which... that would make Dark Knights very very sick if they stack...*
- Elemental Resistance for Priests now reduce 40% damage.
- Priests now have a new skill:

Holy Attractions
Description: Through engaging the Holy Spirit of magic and skill, permanently increases the chance of dealing critical attacks when using holy spells.
Level 1: 2% chance of dealing criticals
Level 20: 40% chance of dealing criticals
*My god... this is NUTS TO TRANSLATE!*

- Mystic Door now lasts for 200 seconds and at a cost of MP -60. Still uses 1 magic rock.
- Shining Ray now deals 370% damage.
- Doom now costs MP -35 and 1 magic rock per cast. Change probability is reduced to 60%, and lasts 15 seconds.
- Summon Dragon deals 350% damage.
- Holy Shield lasts for 60 seconds, costs MP -65. Cooldown raised a little to 140 seconds.
- Resurrection now costs MP -50, but only requires 5 SP to master.
- Angel's Ray now costs MP -46, and deals 620% damage.

Hunters and Crossbowmen

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Skill Changes for Archers:
- Hunters and Crossbowmen get a new skill:

Improved Fundamentals
Description: The Archer's base power of Arrow Blow and Double Shot is polished. (kns to translate...)
Level 1: Arrow Blow: +7% Damage; Double Shot: +5% Damage
Level 20: Arrow Blow: +70% Damage; Double Shot: +50% Damage

- Soul Arrow lasts for only 300 seconds.
- FA for both Hunters and Crossbowmen now trigger at a 40% rate, at 150% damage.
- Mastery skills for both Hunters and Crossbowmen now increase mastery to 50% and adds 60 Acc. *There seems to be some data error at the extractions, but I'm reasoning that the mastery skills should be similar throughout all the classes.
- Power Knockback now gives 100% KB rate and pushes back a max range of 300.
- Arrow Bomb now costs MP -24, deals 230% damage. Stun and MP cost scaling according to level has been evened out.
- Thrust now only requires 10 SP to master.
- Mortal Blow 1HKO trigger rate is raised to 30%. Since minimum shooting range has been removed, close-range trigger rate is removed.
- Rangers and Snipers get a new skill:

Dodge
Description: Permanently increase the avoidance rate, [and your next attack will be a critical hit].
Level 1: 2% chance to evade attacks
Level 10: 20% chance to evade attacks
*Parts in square brackets unconfirmed since translation is not clear.*

- Puppet's HP raised to 8000 HP, and its HP and duration scaling according to level is now more even.
- Arrow Rain and Arrow Eruption now hits for 350% damage and attacks 10 (!) monsters.
- Golden Eagle and Silver Hawk attacks at 200% damage.
- Strafe attacks at 125% damage. The skill starts at lower mana cost and damage percentage.
- Inferno attacks at 300% damage, and deals up to 50% damage per second for up to 6 seconds. Starts with 3 seconds burn time, and MP cost and burn time scaling according to level is more evened out.
- Bow and Crossbow Expert now gives 60% mastery and +11WA at max. Starts off with 51% mastery and +1WA.
- Sharp Eyes increases critical rate by 15%, and critical damage by 10%. Mana cost raised to MP -45.
- Dragon Pulse deals up to 180% damage at max level, and MP cost scaling according to level is now more even.
- Pheonix and Frostprey now lasts for 220 seconds, damage values are as follow: Pheonix - 360% damage, Frostprey - 330% damage. MP cost scaling is no longer incremental per level, but rather incremental every 2 levels.
- Bowmasters get a new skill:

Benjyeonseu (???)
Description: Every shot has a chance to damage and knockback surrounding enemies, stunning for 2 seconds.
Level 1: 2% chance to attack up to 2 enemies at 105% damage with knockback and 2 seconds stun
Level 10: 20% chance to attack up to 6 enemies at 150% damage with knockback and 2 seconds stun
*Translation phail...*

- Hurricane now deals 130% at max level.
- Concentrate now gives +25WA boost. Starts off with 140 seconds duration, and duration scaling according to level is now more even.
- Iron Arrow deals 300% damage.
- Ice Arrow attacks at 270% damage. MP cost scaling according to level is more evened out.
- Marksmen/Crossbow Masters get a new skill:

Marksmanship
Description: Permanently increases the hit rate, and attacks can bypass physical protection at a certain rate.
Level 1: 1% increase in hit rate, ignores physical defense at a 1% rate
Level 10: 10% increase in hit rate, ignores physical defense at a 10% rate
*Do we really need 10% increase in Acc? o.O*

- Pierce costs MP -42, and MP cost scaling is now more even.
- Snipe's cooldown is greatly reduced at lower levels. At max, cooldown remains at 5 seconds. MP cost raised to MP -70 at the start, and MP -12 at max level.

Assassins and Bandits

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- Assassins and Bandits get a new skill:

Shadow Resistance
Description: Having an affinity with darkness, increases maxHP and resistance to all elements and states.
Level 1: Increase MaxHP by 1%, 1% resistance to states, 1% resistance to all elements
Level 10: Increase MaxHP by 10%, 20% resistance to states, 10% resistance to all elements
*Translation still a little murky for this skill. States should be referring to conditions such as darkness and seal etc.*

- Claw and Dagger Mastery now gives 50% mastery and +60 Acc.
- Critical Throw gives 50% chance to deal a critical hit, and increases the minimum damage of critical hits by up to 10%.
- Drain now deals 250% damage.
- Shadow Partner maxes at level 20 with 40% basic attack .
- Shadow Web now immobilizes at a 100% rate when maxed.
- Critical rate for Shadow Mesos is raised to 50%.
- Avenger now deals 440% damage.
- Assassins and Hermits get a new skill:

Shadow Mirror
Description: Summons a dark mirror to deny all things for a period of time. The mirror will reflect the damage to all enemies, but will not reflect more than half of the MaxHP of the enemies.
Level 1: MP -60, summons a dark mirror for 22 seconds, reflecting 350% of the damage. Cooldown: 260 seconds
Level 20: MP -100, summons a dark mirror for 60 seconds, reflecting 1300% of the damage. Cooldown: 60 seconds.

- Fake now gives an evasion chance of 40% at max level, starting at 11% at level 1.
- Venom now poisons at a 40% rate, dealing up to 40% damage per second for up to 8 seconds at max level.
- Night Lords get a new skill:

Trained Recognition (???)
Description: ??????
Level 1: 2% chance of charging 1 star.
Level 10: 20% chance of charging 1 star.
[This is some hell of a translation. Something about recognising something during an attack, and has a chance of not consuming a star, or awarding a star?? Something about not applying when something happens, and also something like not being able to charge more than the number of stars consumed by the Spirit Javelin Skill. Also something about the next attack being a critical. Requires Level 5 Spirit Javelin.]

- Ninja Ambush now attacks for 14 seconds, dealing 180% damage.
- Triple Throw now deals 270% damage.
- Ninja Storm now deals 300% damage, and pushes back enemies by a distance of 300. Knockback distance starts at 100 at level 1, and distance scaling over level is more even.
- Steal now deals 220% damage.
- Savage Blow now attacks 6 times at all levels, and deals up to 85% damage at max level. Starts at 56% damage.
- Mana cost of Chakra is greatly increased, at MP -45 at level 1 and MP -140 at max level 20. Damage taken is reduced to 60%.
- Assaulter deals 340% and attacks 4 times (!).
- Pickpocket duration reduced to 150 seconds, but requires only 10 SP to max.
- Band of Thieves now deal 390% damage to 5 enemies. Scaling for no. of enemies hit is also changed, starting at 3 enemies at level 1.
- Meso Explosion now deals 180% damage per bag, and damages up to 10 enemies.
- Shadowers get a new skill:

Greed
Description: Non-degree training of thieves and increase the amount of the acquisition methods. In addition, all the skills to utilize methods that dramatically improves the efficiency.
Level 10: Increases monster drop rate by 2% and pickpocket meso drop rate by 2%. Decreases damage taken by meso guard by 1% and decreases amount of mesos consumed by 1%. Meso Explosion damage increased by 5% per explosion.
Level 10: Increases monster drop rate by 20% and pickpocket meso drop rate by 20%. Decreases damage taken by meso guard by 10% and decreases amount of mesos consumed by 10%. Meso Explosion damage increased by 50% per explosion.
*Had hell trying to translate this. Thanks to Cactuar for his translation.*

- Assassinate now deals 740% damage. No mention about critical damage, presumably the last attack has a predefined rate of critical or possibly 100% critical, but unclear for now. Charge time level scaling is now more even.
- Boomerang step now deals 450% damage and attacks 4 times (!).

Hope might be useful.

Hadriel

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Originally Posted by Tay

http://i50.tinypic.com/2rorwd4.gif

Blade Slash, incase no one noticed cause you can't read korean, Brandish is attained in 3rd job and then Blade Slash comes in in 4th job.
The animation of Brandish looks the same as before, so I'm getting blade slash is passive and adds to brandish? I don't really know.

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That looks awesome.

Edit: Crap they nerfed Elemental Resistance a little? Oh well, a loss of 10% can't be the worst thing...

Greed: +10% Mesos Guard Ratio (according to Pride)

I know Hadriel attempted to translate it differently but I was wondering if someone could test this.

What does that particular effect of Greed actually do? Does it...

1. Increase Mesos Guard's damage reduction by 10%? i.e. -50% damage taken to -60% damage taken.

OR (according to what I understand from Hadriel's post)

2. Reduce the amount that the meso consumption multiplier is applied to without having the character take more damage? i.e. character still takes 50% of the damage, but the other 50% is converted to 40% by subtracting 10% and the 61% (at maximum Mesos Guard) is applied to this 40%.

p.s. Is it Brave Slash or Blade Slash now? Nevertheless, it looks totally awesome. Was expecting Dissidia Cloud's Cross Slash, but...this is good too. :p

Oi, I guess it is Brave Slash.
Read the korean wrong.

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Originally Posted by Hanabira.Kage

Greed: +10% Mesos Guard Ratio (according to Pride)

I know Hadriel attempted to translate it differently but I was wondering if someone could test this.

What does that particular effect of Greed actually do? Does it...

1. Increase Mesos Guard's damage reduction by 10%? i.e. -50% damage taken to -60% damage taken.

OR (according to what I understand from Hadriel's post)

2. Reduce the amount that the meso consumption multiplier is applied to without having the character take more damage? i.e. character still takes 50% of the damage, but the other 50% is converted to 40% by subtracting 10% and the 61% (at maximum Mesos Guard) is applied to this 40%.

p.s. Is it Brave Slash or Blade Slash now? Nevertheless, it looks totally awesome. Was expecting Dissidia Cloud's Cross Slash, but...this is good too. :p

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Or it could mean that damage absorbed is increased by 10% from 50% to 60%.

this is just too much. how do you come in years after the point and change a game so dramatically. i've never seen anything like this done before to such a degree.

they might as well just make a friggin new game, seriously... yeah % attribute items are strong, so i understand some of the nerfing... but you also have to use NX to get the pineappleing scrolls. no one is going to spend time fighting over the scrolls from boss drops. everyone is going to have to save up for nx to get good "new" items. plus, theres so many dimensions to an item that its ridiculous with the new system. grading jewels, makering, regular scrolls, potential scrolling, strengthening scrolling... its pineappleing ri-dic-u-lous.

what we dont know and if this all plays out for good or bad aside; i REALLY dont know how you change a game this much and somehow keep older players from not bailing (im already imaging NX resets for older chars. well maybe not, but you have to wonder lol). i guess though, that dosent matter. reinvent the game, pick up traffic for new players. old players maybe don't spend as much nx, and hell... the ones who stick around for this and will just spend more time (money) on the game.

when i read that interview about maplestory 2 showing up next year, i was thinking a new pineappleing game... not just a complete amnesia of what the current game was once upon a time. seriously...

.... it does seem kinda like a nexon idea though. why spend the time, imagination (lol) or money making a whole new game when you can just take the original that you've milked to death and reimagine it so you can re: milk it alllll over again. its even less riskier since, now you can potentially hold onto your older players and make them spend even more money normalizing to a new game which sits in a familiar, at least visually, setting. between this and item whoring (cash shops), what great ideas and concepts nexon has brought the gaming industry to use for their own money making possibilities.

i've never really thought of having my mmo's play experience be like a board game you could just flip over, dump all pieces out so they now mean nothing... and start over. usually consistency and value of what you spend your time building in a mmorpg, matter...

between this and seeing how completely whacked out most of nexons employees really are at e3... im just... :poast:

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Greed: +10% Mesos Guard Ratio (according to Pride)

I know Hadriel attempted to translate it differently but I was wondering if someone could test this.

What does that particular effect of Greed actually do? Does it...

1. Increase Mesos Guard's damage reduction by 10%? i.e. -50% damage taken to -60% damage taken.

OR (according to what I understand from Hadriel's post)

2. Reduce the amount that the meso consumption multiplier is applied to without having the character take more damage? i.e. character still takes 50% of the damage, but the other 50% is converted to 40% by subtracting 10% and the 61% (at maximum Mesos Guard) is applied to this 40%.

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It's -60% damage taken, so you only take 40% of the hit, and -10% mesos used, so 51% of the 40% taken mesos used up.

I'm actually quite satisfied with these changes. I mean before, a loooooooong time ago, training and leveling was boring. Very boring. It felt like a chore. Now, it'll be completely different.

I won't have an opinion until the changes are officially released because I know there's going to be lots of changes still as they keep testing it. But I am soooooooooooooooooo happy about Shadow Resistance skill increasing our base HP by 10%. I hope that skill doesn't get nerfed, I wouldn't mind if they improve it more though. :P

I'm a but curious if they will take all the HP we got from the old HP Increase away, or if we will just get to keep it in addition to the new 20%.

Well lets just say that HP is much higher in general. Almost at 4k HP at level 4x on a fighter.

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Originally Posted by Takebacker

Well lets just say that HP is much higher in general. Almost at 4k HP at level 4x on a fighter.

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I mean, if we have lets say a level 200 DrK right now, will Nexon take away the HP that we had gained from the old HP Increase, or will we just keep that and get the new 20% on top of that.

They probably won't. We don't know what the 20% refers to either.

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They probably won't. We don't know what the 20% refers to either.

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My optimistic view:

They will let us keep our current HP, bake the HP ability into our HP gain per level (warriors gain 65 HP and Brawlers gain 55 HP per level from the get go), and simply give us the +20% HP ability, in essence making warriors and brawlers true meatshields of the game. Undoing the HP gains of each character is probably going to be too messy. Here's the problem:

Warriors: ~25 HP per level without the HP ability, which brings it up to ~65
Brawlers: ~25 HP per level without the HP ability, which brings it up to ~55

65/25 = 260%
55/25 = 220%

If they were to take away all the bonus HP we got from our levels they'd have to make the new HP ability give more than 200% bonus HP to make up for it. +20% of our current HP without the HP boost ability won't even give us that much more HP than a ranged DPS. Take them Thieves:

~3.2k HP at 120
120% of 3.2k = 3840

Now imagine a 120 warrior with 3.8k HP.

Hahahaha, no. We'd be destroyed and be the most fragile melee ever.

What does KOR mean? O-o

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What does KOR mean? O-o

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I'm going out on a limb here and gonna guess "Korean" because its not translated.

any idea when we will get the new extraction data and stuff from the recent patch?

Holy god, Paladins literally became invincible, or so it seems. Defensive Warrior class has now come true.

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Originally Posted by Tay

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Brave* Slash, incase no one noticed cause you can't read korean, Brandish is attained in 3rd job and then Blade Slash comes in in 4th job.
The animation of Brandish looks the same as before, so I'm getting blade slash is passive and adds to brandish? I don't really know.

*Edited cause there is some ambiguity, sounds more like Brave than Blade cause saying the korean makes it sound like blaybuh.

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Hmmm, Does this mean they actually thought of Axe users...how does changing stab/slash to slash/slash/stab favor Axe heroes?

Interesting...
http://i48.tinypic.com/nxqnav.jpg
From the looks of this picture, the new damage cap is 999K. Hello, 1m damage for snipe?

Also, is Brave slash any slower than Brandish was?

If base HP has increased in general, I wonder what that means for preexisting characters. Are our mains screwed? Will they get the HP increase they should have got with the new system? Or does this new base increase work differently (coming from a level up hp increase like warriors have it as a swordsman)?

One thing I don't want is for Nexon to just set all of our HP's to what they think it should be at our level, especially for those who spent tons of NX on AP Resets to wash. If they're going to give us all an increase in HP, they need to do it right and just raise all preexisting characters by percentage, not just set it to what they think a level 190 character should be. "Oh all level 190 Archers are suppose to have 7k HP" That would be pineappleing stupid.

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Originally Posted by RIPGobies

If base HP has increased in general, I wonder what that means for preexisting characters. Are our mains screwed? Will they get the HP increase they should have got with the new system? Or does this new base increase work differently (coming from a level up hp increase like warriors have it as a swordsman)?

One thing I don't want is for Nexon to just set all of our HP's to what they think it should be at our level, especially for those who spent tons of NX on AP Resets to wash. If they're going to give us all an increase in HP, they need to do it right and just raise all preexisting characters by percentage, not just set it to what they think a level 190 character should be. "Oh all level 190 Archers are suppose to have 7k HP" That would be pineappleing stupid.

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Ideally, they'd take the difference between your base hp and old average base hp and add it on top of the new average base hp.