"Vella the Vampire"
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The developers provide more info on Vella’s second weapon, Dualblade, by introducing the skills that are available with the new weapon.
A Dualblade wielding Vella is considered to have the likeness of a vampire due to her cold and rapid movements. There are those who claim that she is in fact a vampire [I really wanted to leave this part out..] We wanted to go with a cold and indifferent vibe for this weapon unlike the cocky attitude she showed when she was first revealed.
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With a certain number of successful smashes, a Dualblade Vella will gain unwavering ’clarity’. Once a certain number of clarity stacks is reached, she will be able to use a skill called ‘cold-hearted’ [or maybe I should just call it cold-blooded in English]
Once the skill is used, Vella will change to cold-hearted mode for a duration that is based on how many stacks of clarity she had before using cold-hearted. Vella will regenerate stamina quickly and have some of her move-sets changed while in cold-hearted state.
For example, her follow-up attack after a smash will become more powerful and active skills could have their effects changed. Dualblade gameplay will be able to display a variety of patterns based on how the player stacks clarity and use cold-hearted.
Basic
Lets first start with the basic attacks for Dualblade. Dualblade, unlike Dualswords, only has 3 smashes.
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This is the first smash for Dualblade called Lunar Flash.
Since the attack radius for Dualblade includes both the blades and chains the attack range is very wide and thus allows the player to juggle multiple monsters in to the air with Lunar Flash.
And next we have,
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the follow up attack, Spiral Spin. Since the blade rotates numerous times the damage this attack deals is massive. The downside is that the attack motion takes a long time to finish.
The next smash, Mist Slash, has the widest range but has comparably low damage and high stamina cost. The third smash, Luminous Rush, is a straight line attack that has a narrow but long attack radius.
The follow up attack for Mist Slash and Luminous Rush is Sonorous Peal Sonorous Peel can reach the farthest distance and has the highest single-hit damage. But, the catch is that you have to aim the point of impact where the blades land for maximum damage.
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Evasion
The evasion for Dualblade is called ‘Moment Lift’. It’s sort of like a back-flip without touching the ground with one’s hand.
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While it has a long range as fast movement speed, the invulnerability frame for this evasion skill is very short. If you look below you can see that moment life has a special function to it.
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The top shows Mist Slash being used followed by Moment Lift, and then Sonorous Peel. The reason why her combos can be continued after an evasion is because of a skill called ‘Cut Across’. Cut Across allows you to continue a combo after using Moment Lift and higher skill ranks for Cut Across allows you to continue a combo even after using Moment Lift several times in a row.
Utilizing the chains for attack
The biggest feature for Dualblade is the ability to use it’s chains. The basic command starts with pressing the Tab key.
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The Tab key is the command for making Vella throw her Dualblade at an enemy and drive the blade into them. During that state, you can press you normal attack or smash key to either charge towards the target or pull them towards you. charging towards a target is possible for all enemies except flying ones but pulling your target only works for normal monsters.
The picture below is a demonstration of attacking after charging towards a chained target.
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The attack skill of charging towards a target is called Moment Blow. Moment Blow can be used by pressing the normal attack key after either pulling or charging towards a chained target. This attack has the basic function of raising your Clarity level by one stack regardless of the number of Smashes that hit mark. Also, if you press smash instead of normal attack, you can immediately use Lunar Flash
Next are the active skills that can be used with the chains We mentioned in the previous Developer’s Note that a Dualblade Vella can overpower opponents with her chains.
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That skill is called ‘Dominate’. You subdue a target with one hand and during that state you attack the target with the other hand by pressing the Smash key. The cooldown for this skill is quite long but you can increase you Clarity stack through this attack.
The next skill is called ‘Red Eyes’
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It’s basically fixating your Dualblades on a break-off point and attempting a break-off. Red Eyes can successfully do a break-off with one try for certain bosses but for some it only contributes to the break-off rate. (and in rare cases have no effect at all) Red Eyes work differently during Cold-Hearted state. Vella will pull at the connected chains which will cause the target to flinch thus hindering the bosses action.
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So Red Eyes used while Cold-Hearted effect can be used to cancel a powerful attack as it is shown in the picture above.
Other active skills include; Freeze which increases the duration of your Cold Hearted status and Vampire’s Kiss which is an attack where Vella jumps and performs a spin attack.
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The picture above shows Vampire’s Kiss in use. You jump towards the direction you were facing and attack enemies around you (and also recover a small amount of HP)Vampire’s Kiss can also be used as a retaliation skill because pressing the smash key after a standing endurance or life flare proc will activate Vampire’s Kiss with no SP cost.
A character with high WILL can proc standing endurance and life flare more often thus allowing more frequent chances to use Vampire’s Kiss. Another bonus from WILL is that it increases the duration for Cold-Hearted. So you can see that WILL is an important stat for a Dualblade Vella and the Dualblades will have differing amounts of WILL thus giving the variety of high-attack, high-speed, or high-WILL weapons.
We would like to show you more but will leave this at this point for we need to finish up some last minute development for the weapon. We’re doing our best to make a fun system while considering balance issues with the long range as well. Please remain patient for Dualblade will soon be revealed on the test server.
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Lunar Flash : LC-RC
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Spiral Spin : LC-RC-RC
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Mist Slash : LC-LC-RC
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Luminous Rush : LC-LC-LC-RC
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Sonorous Peal : LC-LC-RC-RC or LC-LC-LC-RC-RC
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Moment Leap – SPACE
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Mist Slash – Moment Leap – Sonorous Peal Combo : LC-LC-RC-SPACE-RC
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Chain Grapple : TAB
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Chain Charge or Pull – Moment Blow combo : TAB-LCorRC-LC
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Vampire’s Kiss – Z as a normal active SP skill / RC after Standing Endurance or Life Flare for no SP cost.
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Translations by AFKalmighty.
Well, I suppose that'll save money on chain hooks.