RED update thoughts and feedback

[Prism]

I should also mention that finishing Hilla at 28:13 is not at all the fastest it's doable. You can see between the 2 screenshots I did half her HP in 13 seconds... the reason she wasn't already dead is that I missed Magic Crash on her DR, so I sat and waited for 15 seconds instead of attacking. I also didn't use my Hyper attack cause I dunno how it works (similar to Crash I guess?) I'd probably kill Hilla in 30 seconds if everything went according to plan and be done at 28:50 or so.

It's a bind so yeah similar to crash except it prevents her from doing anything at all, even moving.

[Stereo]

Does that mean they can be used sequentially and affect the same mobs?

[edit] tried it, looked like it does. Neat.

[Prism]

If my rage could be manifested into a tangible object it would be big enough to destroy the Sun.

Spoiler

I must have summoned them by accident and forgot.

[Takebacker]

The unbelievable lag has got to be the only thing bad about this patch so far. I think it might have to do with the new mob respawn change...(which, by the way, seems to be ~5-6 seconds now instead of 10 seconds)

[fodjgngf]

I drop like a whole 2 seconds of frames when someone smegas. It's really dumb.

[LegendGospel]

The unbelievable lag has got to be the only thing bad about this patch so far. I think it might have to do with the new mob respawn change...(which, by the way, seems to be ~5-6 seconds now instead of 10 seconds)

Funny, I've never felt Maple so lag-free since Big Bang.

Not only the towns don't lag me, the event area with Gaga and friends isn't laggy for me, and I don't fail my logins anymore.

Guess they messed up for some and fixed for some.

[Collofit]

Maybe I don't understand it but I feel pain with this new paladin I really have to smash 5 different charges every 30 seconds just to get a blast that doesn't sucks? It was so straightforward before, blast bosses and charge mobs.

After a while I'm getting a grasp of it, I find comfortable using lighting on a key and a macro of three charges on another key (if you keep pressed the macro it keeps cycling charges), just wish the blast buff was longer

[FabledGumbo]

Just in case anybody's still trading tickets and hasn't realized this yet, Ereve has Cassandra, storage, maple admin, and the red shop NPCs all in the same map.

[Daakun]

So, the whole way getting my ring mule to 130 my brain kept saying "get a better attack pattern, they respawned before you cleared the map".
This new spawn rate is really nice and really annoying at the same time. :v

[hadriel]

Non-charge Pierce is disgustingly good. I might end up turning my XBM into my secondary (Lumi love... though he's slow and lags a great deal).

Let me try a Pally... I'll see how he turns out.

Hadriel

[Razmos]

I went to Weathered Rocky Road (map in Twilight Perion with ridiculously good spawn rates), then I used Kishin Shoukan.

I was literally drowning in enemies. I was killing them so fast the game was lagging like crazy, the only reason I stopped was because I was worried i'd get auto-banned. That place is god-tier for Kanna's.

[ManxDrk]

These are what you HAVE to get:

4th: Final Cut, Sharp Eyes

just saying, arrow platter its WAAAAAY better than sharp eyes + finnal cut..... at least for bossing

Well, crafting cubes isn't as easy as I thought it would be. I had no problems coming up with all the ingredients, other than those Cubic Chaos Blades.
I know they drop from Mysterious and Legendary Ore Veins, yet they're so hard to find.... I found a couple, but none dropped.

Did you guys have better luck than I did? Also, where did you find the veins?

I found a cubic chaos blade, could you teach me please, how do I craft cubes (what do I need and stuffs like that)

BTW, I found that vein at leafre, the map outside manon

[Luxeraph]

Leveling my priest all the way back has proven to be interesting:

first job: although I hate they choose magic bolt over magic claw for the reason endgame said it's still a really nice skill, liking they increased teles range too and I'm pretty sure I'm getting way more MP than before.

second job: the animations are nice but the skills as annoying as ever, only thing I like about second job is the new ability heal has which means that on bosses you can spam heal and still be helping with the damage.

third job so far: shiny all is shiny, shining ray is OP(plus looks nice), dispel is so shiny and HS is so sexy.

Also it took me till today to figure out how to double jump up on my BM, on thursday I kept trying to do it just like WAs do it till I guessed they didn't add it but meanwhile doing ludiPQ with a xbowman saw him using it, thought I was bugged or something till for some reason while I was on my BM I double tap up while jumping and voilà it work(felt so stupid after checking the description of the skill I saw it said it right there).

[IllegallySane]

What's all this I heard about spawn rate changes for monsters? Are some places plain godly now to train?

[Ombudsman]

I should also mention that finishing Hilla at 28:13 is not at all the fastest it's doable. You can see between the 2 screenshots I did half her HP in 13 seconds... the reason she wasn't already dead is that I missed Magic Crash on her DR, so I sat and waited for 15 seconds instead of attacking. I also didn't use my Hyper attack cause I dunno how it works (similar to Crash I guess?) I'd probably kill Hilla in 30 seconds if everything went according to plan and be done at 28:50 or so.



The only thing I'm sad about is 2h sword animation's not as cool as 2h BW, and I have a way better scrolled sword...

why didn't use your 30 seconds invisible skill , i think it works also ? (not sure tho because i always cast magic crash near the start of the fight) , the hyper skill is a bind skill so you can it when she has the damage reflect buff.

[FoolsLove]

What's all this I heard about spawn rate changes for monsters? Are some places plain godly now to train?

It appears that there was a game-wide spawn increase, yes. Though as far as I can tell, outside of low and high level characters, your best bet for EXP is still Extreme MP/Invasion/Evo.

[Thorr]

What's all this I heard about spawn rate changes for monsters? Are some places plain godly now to train?

It's a global change to the server spawn tick.

Old spawn tick - 10 seconds
New spawn tick - 4 seconds

[GunPowder]

I found a cubic chaos blade, could you teach me please, how do I craft cubes (what do I need and stuffs like that)

BTW, I found that vein at leafre, the map outside manon

Not much to it. You have to learn Smithing and get it to level 11 / 12.
For ingredients, you need Cube Frags, that most bosses drop, Superior Item Crystals, which you can get by extracting Necro Weapons, and some item you can buy from an NPC.
That's it, really.

I should mention you need at least 5 Cubic Chaos Blades to craft 1 cube.

[dowie]

It appears that there was a game-wide spawn increase, yes. Though as far as I can tell, outside of low and high level characters, your best bet for EXP is still Extreme MP/Invasion/Evo.

Of course, those 3 areas weren't left out of the spawn increase. Don't see how that would change anything :P

[Muppy]

It's being such a pain in the ass checking which characters need which book. And double that pain when it comes to organizing books on various mules... I didn't even start using the RED shop yet.

Guess that's what I get for having so many chars

'nyways, I really need to PAY MORE ATTENTION when distributing 4th job sp. I tend to forget that some skills might not have 10 as their master level

Night Lord

Oh boy. Stars, stars everywhere. Showdown is awesome. I thought my NL was much more faster skill-wise.

Shadow Splitter actually makes sense now. Whoever thought that giving an AoE skill that required you to stand RIGHT INSIDE OF A PACK OF MONSTERS and gave it to a ranged class is an pimento. Now, monsters are hit in front of you, instead of around you. BTW, the new SB for Shads works almost identically, only a bit worse - it's a 2nd job skill vs a 3rd one after all, but its old animation was way cooler.

The new Quad Throw animation feels a little weird but it is way better now (you don't look like you're having a seizure anymore). Either way, I think it's safe to say that NLs actually enjoyable now.

Dark Knight

Complete overhaul! I couldn't test much because of lack of SP but it looks like Dark Impale is still your main mob skill and the new Beholder looks really silly. It floats around just like Mercedes's fairies... I preferred the old animation actually. Also, just like Shads, you can't jump Rush anymore.

If you thought Dark Impale looked really dark and badass, the new skills' animations will make you even happier.

And finally, needless to say, they're pretty much OP now.

F/P Mage

Couldn't test much either but there's a new skill that makes Misting much more easier because it acts like a projectile. If it hits an enemy, the Mist will appear wherever that enemy was. If it doesn't hit any, Mist will appear where you're standing. Pretty neat.