8/16 Season 2 Part 3 Update

• Excalibur wrote on 2012-09-11 23:07

  Quote from RebeccaBlack;949919:

  Her SP buildup looked pretty terrible in the video I watched.
  

  
  
  Try watching this one.
  [video=youtube;HV8hLdr92CI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV8hLdr92CI&feature=g-all-u[/video]
• Invertex wrote on 2012-09-12 01:06

  Quote from Excalibur;949974:

  Try watching this one.
  [video=youtube;HV8hLdr92CI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV8hLdr92CI&feature=g-all-u[/video]

  
  
  Hero mode has boosted SP gain.
  
  My only comment on the post-second buff Vella is that they overbuffed her, but there isn't much to say about that.
• Hobo wrote on 2012-09-12 01:51
  There is no point choosing a Sword Lann over Vella. I'm going spears after a year of swords.
• Oizen wrote on 2012-09-12 03:26
  Sword lann is utterly pointless now unfortunately.
  
  
  He was meant to be the dodgey evasion character. But like many things, he's been bested in that too.
• foreignreign wrote on 2012-09-12 03:46

  Quote from Hobo;950053:

  There is no point choosing a Sword Lann over Vella. I'm going spears after a year of swords.

  
  
  Gliding Furies are still more satisfying than high buff Cross Stance Counters.
  
  Which is the only real reason to use Lann imo.
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-09-12 06:10

  Quote from Excalibur;949974:

  Try watching this one.
  [video=youtube;HV8hLdr92CI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV8hLdr92CI&feature=g-all-u[/video

  
  Still bad after factoring in SP buff.
  
  They overbuffed Vella but we'll see what happens. I still like spears, but I'll play Vella instead if they don't do anything about it. I kinda hope they do for the sake of balance, but if they don't I wouldn't complain about playing such an attractive and fun looking character <.<
• Excalibur wrote on 2012-09-12 16:37

  Quote from Invertex;950016:

  Hero mode has boosted SP gain.
  
  My only comment on the post-second buff Vella is that they overbuffed her, but there isn't much to say about that.

  
  
  Yes, but she can land more smash attacks and get more SP than other classes, whilst keeping a decent survivability.
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-09-13 04:51
  Even while being aggressive, her SP gain is pretty bad. It's just hero mode inflating it. Lanns and most other classes get it a good bit faster.
• Oizen wrote on 2012-09-13 05:15

  Quote from RebeccaBlack;950618:

  Even while being aggressive, her SP gain is pretty bad. It's just hero mode inflating it. Lanns and most other classes get it a good bit faster.

  
  
  Its a shame we have nothing really worth using sp on. Slashing High if you're spears.
  
  Fury 7... ehh....
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-09-13 05:24
  Well at the very least you have berserk, which is 540 free attack added on to whatever you're already doing anyway and it lasts 60 seconds. By the time it's up, you'll definitely have gained the SP back anyway. It helps everyone (but Evies) too, meaning it actually adds up to 4,320 collective attack for 60 seconds in a full room. It's actually a really good party skill if you think about it, and only requires one bar.
  
  F7 still functions as an "oh shit" button if you don't like the damage and don't mind your SP being full. I'd argue it could be really useful for some things, such as continuing to attack Colru when he AoE spams, going into panic mode when Keaghan does whatever... etc.
  
  Slashing High is nice in some situations for swords. I mean, anywhere where you just get a huge opening or need some stamina to keep going.
  
  Lanns gain SP pretty quickly. Swords are a bit slower though, yeah, but they still gain it at a pretty decent rate with the help of GF/LF.
• Oizen wrote on 2012-09-13 06:44

  Quote from RebeccaBlack;950633:

  
  F7 still functions as an "oh shit" button if you don't like the damage and don't mind your SP being full. I'd argue it could be really useful for some things, such as continuing to attack Colru when he AoE spams, going into panic mode when Keaghan does whatever... etc.

  
  I dont like F7.
  
  
  Its not really something I like relying on, as it get incredibly wonky with the slightest bit of lag. Usually resulting in you loosing dashes. With Lag I swear you only do 4 passes.
  
  The damage on it is ok, but I swear I see other things like RG, or Eagle eye easily outshoot it. I've only really been using it as a way to escape from the boss if I had it.
• SakuraFarron wrote on 2012-09-13 16:55
  Translated by AFKalmighty on VHQ
  

  -Changes to stats for some season 2 lv70-80 weapons and to the required mats for the season 2 lv 70 gears. Long story short, season2 lv 70 gear is now much more easier to get and instead of facing all the rage from the people with the lv 70 strength ring due to a mess up they just opted to make the lv 80 ring more crazier than intended
  
  -EP10 battles now drop enchants, since it’s the first day it would be better to wait for a full list but the most important enchant discovered so far is Berserker dropping from Beokros.
  
  -Non-relevant to NA but people will no longer need to lament the loss of fatigue if they DC during the introduction on the boat, fatigue is now depleted once the loading for the battle is completed [still sucks balls but an improvement nonetheless]
  
  -Fixed some bugs related with items at 0 durability not being dis-equipped and others related to Kraken and Scythe Evie’s Soul Skewer.
  
  -Vella’s bug with Double Cross Strike not working when there’s multiple targets have been fixed.
  
  -Spear Lann’s jump smash crit can now proc a GF. Took their sweet time with it, can’t believe it actually took them a month to fix this.
  
  -Lann : Pressing your smash key during a non-crit smash will no longer cause him to use gut stinger after the smash has ended.
  
  -The resurrection effect is now scattered by the wind in Season 2 battles [no idea how it looks like, haven't been to a season 2 battle after the patch]
  
  
  
  -They finally found out one of the main reasons why the game was crashing or DCing so often in Season 2 battles. Well actually it’s the users that found it out but anyway, they applied the boot memory expansion option that they were testing on the test server last week. I’m don’t have a clue about these OS and computer gizmo stuff but they say that the main reason people were having difficulty in Season 2 maps was because of some memory issue with Window 7 and Vista. This explains why there was a big gap between people who only experienced DCing very rarely or when someone in the party does something stupid and the people who seemed to DC 1 out of 3 loading screens they encounter.
  
  -Fixed some armor clipping issues, missed some, added some
  
  
  
  -And of course it wouldn’t be Devcat if they didn’t create new massive bugs with a patch of this magnitude eh?
  
  Skipping the cutscene in Keaghan causes all party members except the party leader to return to town.
  
  Certain situations allow the Dragons to be attacked during cutscenes and gets them killed which in turn makes it impossible to go on with the curscene.
  
  I’ve experienced this myself when an assist staff evie joined an Elchulus party and was able to move during the curscene. He went up to Elchulus while he was discussing how to bring Erin with Keaghan and fired a magic arrow and Elchulus dropped dead and the camera got stuck at a weird angle. It was really hilarious and I regret that I wasn’t able to record it.

• Oizen wrote on 2012-09-13 21:30

  Quote from SakuraFarron;950798:

  
  -Lann : Pressing your smash key during a non-crit smash will no longer cause him to use gut stinger after the smash has ended.

  
  
  Ohmygod finally.
• Excalibur wrote on 2012-09-13 22:09

  Quote from OizenX;950932:

  Ohmygod finally.

  
  
  It only took us two seasons to get that fixed!
• Oizen wrote on 2012-09-13 22:20

  Quote from Excalibur;950950:

  It only took us two seasons to get that fixed!

  
  
  And yet its more attention than Lanns ever recieved from Nexon.
  
  I'm sure in another 2 years, GF might actually get an Invinc frame, or at the very least, Super armor