I'm back and I need help

• Halfslashed wrote on 2011-01-29 03:03
  Alright, so I finally came back from my multiple-month hiatus. Sorta. I quit in early G12, what have I missed in a nutshell, other than the G13 storyline.
• Kaeporo wrote on 2011-01-29 03:16
  1. There are several new equipment sets that provide bonuses such as improved life skill success rates, skill-specific damage bonuses, etc.
  2. Several new weapons have been added such as the Glory Sword, Dragon's Fang, Trinity Staff and advanced cylinders.
  3. A massive number of new skills have been added such as Assault Slash (ie: Leap from Final Fantasy/Diablo), Hailstorm (The first advanced magic skill; super icebolt), Fusion Magic (solo magic-fusion), Bewildering Performance and a plethora of of new mastery skills, each providing weapon/skill-specific bonuses.
  4. Magic has been rebalanced. Intemediate magic (Ice Spear/Fireball/Thunder) now deal 20% less damage while Blaze deals 25% less damage. The Blaze reduction is a permanent nerf. The intermediate loss can be made up by obtaining a large amount of intelligence. The intelligence formula was changed so that 20 intelligence now equals +1% magic damage (Blaze being the exception).
  5. You can now run Theater missions. They require you to sheer paper sheep for pages, which can be woven together to create passes. Higher luck (the stats) improves your ability to obtain rarer pages.
  6. G12S2 added Crash Shot and improved Support Shot. G13S2 will add Bow/Crossbow Mastery.
  7. Most spirit weapons are now outclassed by upgraded weapons. Players can further improve equipment through artisan upgrades which can substitute the final normal upgrade (5/5) and offer random equipment-specific bonuses. Gem-upgraded weapons can be special-upgraded (over-upgraded) to improve their min/max damage or their critical damage multiplier. There are three levels of special upgrades, which will improve to six levels in G14.
  8. G14 will add personal farms, which allow players to take advantage of several life skills. They are instanced areas.
  9. G14 will add lances, lance mastery, lance charge and lance counter-attack. In G14S2, players will be able to use Lance Charge while mounted.
• Cryosite wrote on 2011-01-29 03:20
  Theatre missions are a change of scenary from shadow missions/dungeons. They requires passes to get to, but unlike dungeon passes where you have to hunt for them from mob drops or end chests, theatre mission passes are crafted using a "weaving like" production effect, using play pages sheered from paper sheep in avon. Overall I consider the process a but more tedious than hunting passes for dungeons as it is random what pass you get, and the success rate is low and only influenced by luck stat. On the plus side you can still get these passes from end chests of theatre missions.
  
  Elite Shadow missions were released. Elite mission passes drop randomly from end chests in existing missions. Once such a pass is obtained, the mission can be chosen from the mission board. Participants in the mission can be level 1, though the missions are harder than hard missions by a good bit.
  
  There are some new skills. A whole slew of "mastery" skills add a passive boost to different weapons, elements for magic, and elements for alchemy. Bow and Crossbow masteries not out yet, but most everything else has an applicable mastery. Hailstorm (the first advanced magic) assault slash (very fun melee skill that adds a lot to aggresive play styles) and bewildering performance (or whatever it is actually called now, largely useless gimicky bard skill that eats up tons of stamina) are new activeated skills.
  
  A whole lot of new equipment and enchants were added in. You missed the Delegate event where a lot of free gacha-boxes were given out that could give you a lot of the new stuff.