8/16 Season 2 Part 3 Update

• Excalibur wrote on 2012-07-04 03:52
  Wait, so can't you just skip the bosses and try to find the boss you need to beat? And I'm looking forward to the jumping thing, don't know why people seem to hate it. And this looks like a big overhaul, will there be a wipe?
• foreignreign wrote on 2012-07-04 05:35
  If they wiped anything at this point they would lose more people than they would gain.
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-07-04 05:44
  It WOULD be pretty funny if everyone had to start over. And I'm saying this having played forever. Going back now with all the knowledge we have, racing to the end of the game, etc... it'd all be great fun. Should happen on another server though. And yeah, a lot of people would quit.
• Darkboy132 wrote on 2012-07-04 07:09
  Well, what'd happen to battles like Prepare for Counterattack?
• Invertex wrote on 2012-07-04 07:33

  The TLDR is this; In season 1, you chose which ‘battle’ you want to go to. In season 2, you choose which ‘area’ you want to go to.

  
  
  I'm pretty sure they're just using the S1 bosses as examples, but S1 will be left untouched.
• Oizen wrote on 2012-07-04 08:08
  this stuff all looks so awesome, yet its going to be another 6-7 months til we get it ;~;
• Narthice wrote on 2012-07-04 15:02
  [FONT="Century Gothic"]More Pictures and Q&A I guess
  
  http://heroes.nexon.com/news/devstory.aspx?bn=20&no=145&mode=view
  
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• SakuraFarron wrote on 2012-07-04 16:24
  New Damage Percentile Table made by astroboy1928:
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  Fun Fact:
  
  They said there was a nerf for hammer, they did, but at the same time, they also increased the skill mastery bonus, so the finalised percentiles of hammer attacks actually increased, frak
  
  

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  AFKalmighty answers some questions about the Battle Concept Notes:
  

  Quote from AFKalmighty:

  
  Leonidis: sooo basicly with the new player actions thier just turning premier servers into XE servers………. if i wanted to jump and all that other nonsense i would play on the XE server.
  
  AFKalmighty: that was a typo :P they said that the moves added will NOT be simply copy pasting the same old XE moves.
  
  Randomly: My main concern is whether we will be restricted to fighting bosses in order in one go. I have my doubts about this happening, but still… Look at the board showing the Season 2 battle listings. All of the battles have the same title, and are identical.
  
  AFKalmighty: No, they said that players will be able to choose which bosses they want to fight freely.
  
  BeggarSlayer: As a Monster Hunter fan I’m looking forward to all of this with just the above mentioned concern of where do find desired boss, are they all out and wandering? Do you beat them in order or do they randomly appear?
  
  AFKalmighty: What they said seemed to imply that bosses will be at a fixed location.

  
  
  If Google translate is correct for the Developer's Note: Season 2 Production Process, it seems like they're raising the max level to 80 (along with a mount and lvl 80 gear?) and the Season 2 content should be on the test server at the end of July. :skip:
• Invertex wrote on 2012-07-04 20:15
  So they actually did buff Moon Splitter and Butterfly and stuff like that, by moving damage from percentiles to skill bonus. It's nice to see them add better incentives for ranking a skill though, since right now the skill rank bonuses are a bit low.
  
  But they buffed some pretty silly things that really didn't need buffing.
  
  If I may ask, is there Kai info and info on the 2 additional Ivy Sweep kicks after Shield Bash? It'd be interesting to see how much the weakened Kai. That and I want to see how Shield Bash stacks up in terms of damage now, is it just the Ivy Sweep 3rd Hit percentile of 0.232? If so the overall is 0.574 for 1 bar of SP, which is pretty crazy (meaning Shield Charge's only use would be invincibility frames).
• Darkboy132 wrote on 2012-07-04 21:21
  What does Skill Mastery mean in those tables?
• Invertex wrote on 2012-07-04 21:33

  Quote from Darkboy132;900926:

  What does Skill Mastery mean in those tables?

  
  
  Damage bonus at max rank of the skill. This table assumes all skills are maxed (Smash Mastery included).
• SakuraFarron wrote on 2012-07-05 00:35

  Quote from Invertex;900887:

  
  If I may ask, is there Kai info and info on the 2 additional Ivy Sweep kicks after Shield Bash?

  
  I'll ask him on VindictusHQ. :thumb:
  
  And here's the Season 2 Teaser Video:
  [video=youtube;NpH7dfaW2EY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpH7dfaW2EY&feature=g-u-u&nxid=15[/video]
• Aryiane wrote on 2012-07-05 00:37

  Quote from SakuraFarron;901041:

  
  And here's the Season 2 Trailer:
  [video=youtube;NpH7dfaW2EY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpH7dfaW2EY&feature=g-u-u&nxid=15[/video]

  
  
  Huh...it wasn't as cool as I imagined it would be. But still, I'm definitely looking forward to it.
• SakuraFarron wrote on 2012-07-05 01:58
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  Season 2 Website
  Teaser Video on the Season 2 Website
  Crescent Island will be released (main KR servers) on August 2nd. :cheer:
• SakuraFarron wrote on 2012-07-05 15:22
  INVEN Link
  ThisIsGame Link
  
  Seems like the new reward system will include pirate's treasure chests and they show the Siren AI:
  
  [video=youtube;R1FLkHXBeBY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R1FLkHXBeBY[/video]
  
  In the ThisIsGame article they show Ellis coming back for Season 2:
  

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