[KR TEST] Armor masteries and stat/skill rebalancing

• Mentosftw wrote on 2013-03-20 09:33
  To me the lengthy cooldowns of some of the alchemy skills seem more like nerfs put in place to stop the overuse of those skills.
• December wrote on 2013-03-20 09:56

  Quote from abc33kr;1051942:

  
  [SIZE="4"]by the way[/SIZE], [SIZE="4"]wearing heavy armor [SIZE="5"]heavily [/SIZE][SIZE="6"]reduces your dex[/SIZE][/SIZE].
  at r1 heavy armor mastery, [SIZE="6"][SIZE="7"]you lose[/SIZE] 35% of your dex[/SIZE].
  

  
  
  [SIZE="7"]ಠ_ಠ[/SIZE]
• Aubog007 wrote on 2013-03-20 10:08

  Quote from Mentosftw;1052156:

  To me the lengthy cooldowns of some of the alchemy skills seem more like nerfs put in place to stop the overuse of those skills.

  
  
  They are heavily buffed though, frozen blast actually has a good hit chance now.
• Yakumo Yukari wrote on 2013-03-20 10:10

  Quote from December;1052162:

  [SIZE="7"]ಠ_ಠ[/SIZE]

  
  
  All of my this.
  
  Disgusting.
• Mentosftw wrote on 2013-03-20 10:15
  xD Give it a rest.
  
  We don't even have G17 S4 yet, by the time this update gets to us, who knows how many revisions it'll undertake? It might not even resemble what it is right now.
• Yakumo Yukari wrote on 2013-03-20 10:16

  Quote from Mentosftw;1052174:

  xD Give it a rest.
  
  We don't even have G17 S4 yet, by the time this update gets to us, who knows how many revisions it'll undertake? It might not even resemble what it is right now.

  
  
  

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• ca25nada wrote on 2013-03-20 10:27
  here's a translation this post regarding stat balance changes which I think is a lot clearer in explaining the changes than the patchlog.
  (not to mention some information here weren't in the patchlog)
  
  
  http://mabinogi.nexon.com/C3/News/Update.asp?mode=view&aid=12&page=1&ReadSn=4880803
  
  
  Stats Related
  [SPOILER="Spoiler"]
  
  Strength:
  - Strength based Max/Min Damage increases remain the same
  - 1 Def per 10 str
  
  Intelligence
  - Magic Attack has been revamped (*will be explained later in a separate post)
  - No Longer Affects Magic Defense
  - Magic Protection has now been added, magic is no longer affected by the current protection value.
  - 1 Magic Attack per 5 int
  - 1 Magic Protection per 20 int
  
  Dexterity
  - Balance Bonus from dexterity has been changed
  - Balance related figures has been changed (*will be explained later in a separate post)
  - A new stat Armor Piercing has been added. This will reduce the opponent's defense by that amount
  - Wearing Heavy Armor will drastically reduce dexterity
  - 1 Armor Piercing per 15 dex
  
  Will
  - Will based knuckle damage / crit chance remains unchanged
  - 1 Magic Defense per 10 will
  
  Luck
  - Increases the chance of automatically avoiding a ranged attack
  - Automatic evasion is limited to skills that can be avoided with the evasion skill and does not display on the tooltip
  
  Magic Attack
  - Each Skill now has different effect (?)
  - Damage: Skill Base Damage + (Magic Attack * Skill Coefficient) = Final Damage
  - Each skill has a different coefficient and is normally proportional to the skill's base damage
  
  Defense (Physical)
  - Remains same as the current Defense
  
  Protection (Physical)
  - Protection is now separated as Physical and Magic protection.
  - Reduces damage done by physical attacks
  - Damage reduction is calculated separately based on the protection value
  - As the damage reduction increases, a higher protection value are required to raise it by the same amount
  - the former % reduction per point of protection no longer applies
  
  Magic Defense
  - Subtracts 1 damage per point of Magic Defense when attacked by Magic/Alchemy Attacks
  
  Magic Protection
  - New Stat
  - This Stat cannot be raised with the current items at this point.
  - Magic Protection reduces the damage dealt by magic and alchemy attacks
  
  Balance
  - The maximum balance (character + equipment balance) remains the same at 80%
  - The maximum bonus balance from dexterity is now capped at 50%
  - The balance now affects damage balance based on new calculations
  - as the balance stat gets higher, the amount of dex required to raise the balance further becomes higher
  - the former % balance per certain amount of dex no longer applies
  
  Armor Piercing
  - New Stat
  - This stat increases with dex
  - When calculating damage, refer to this:
  (Opponent's Defense - Character's Armor Piercing Stat)
  - This does not reduce the opponent's defense below 0[/SPOILER]
  
  Skill Related
  [SPOILER="Spoiler"]
  3 new skills
  
  Heavy Armor Mastery
  - Only takes effect when heavy armor is equipped
  (does not apply to equipments equipped on fashion slot)
  - Significantly increases defense and protection
  - Has a chance of reducing stun significantly
  - The accessory restriction for heavy armor has been mitigated
  - Human and Giants only
  - Wearing Heavy Armor will drastically reduce dexterity (copy pasted from above)
  
  Light Armor Mastery
  - Only takes effect when light armor is equipped
  (does not apply to equipments equipped on fashion slot)
  - Increases defense and protection
  - The accessory restriction for wearing light armor has been mitigated
  - Human and Elves only
  
  Shield mastery
  
  - Only takes effect when a shield is equipped
  (does not apply to equipments equipped on back slot)
  - Significantly increases defense and protection
  - Significantly increases magic defense and magic protection
  - has a chance of automatically defending a attack and reduce its damage
  - Can be learned by all races
  
  Defensive Skill Buff
  - The effects of Defense and Wind Breaker increases dramatically when a shield is equipped
  
  CP related Skill Adjustment
  - Taunt and Sand Burst is no longer affected by CP
  
  Alchemy Skills are now affected by Life/Mana/Stamina
  - Life: Barrier Spikes, Flame Burst, Life Drain
  - Mana: Shock, Water Cannon
  - Stamina: Wind Blast, Frozen Blast, Sand Burst, Heat Buster
  
  - For skills that have stat variation (?) depending on rank, the skill damage will be adjusted based on the remaining Life/Mana/Stamina
  - Life drain is the exception to this and will do more damage when the character has fewer life.
  
  Alchemy Crystals are now combined
  - You can now use all alchemy skills with the 4 basic crystals (water, fire, wind, clay)
  - The skills that used special crystals (cloud, shock, golem,etc) now use 2 or more of the 4 basic crystals
  - crystal-forming portion of pre-existing skills have been changed.
  
  Casting Time Changes
  - Sand Burst, Wind Blast, etc are now instant cast
  - Chain Cylinder activates 100% of the time but is now cooldown based
  - Pressure drain has been reduced to almost insignificant levels [/SPOILER]
• Yakumo Yukari wrote on 2013-03-20 10:33
  Everything there sounds amazing.
  
  [SPOILER="Spoiler"]Except for Heavy Armour Dexterity penalty and balance, along with new balance calculations. Bullshit.[/SPOILER]
• BizarreJuju wrote on 2013-03-20 10:40

  Quote from Yakumo Yukari;1052183:

  Everything there sounds amazing.
  
  [SPOILER="Spoiler"]Except for Heavy Armour Dexterity penalty and balance, along with new balance calculations. Bullshit.[/SPOILER]

  
  
  inb4 Giants don't get dex penalty, cause they can naturally wear Heavy armors without any problem (like heavy armor + fighter)
  
  Making Heavy armor ideal for Melee Giants and not for Ranged Elves.
• Yakumo Yukari wrote on 2013-03-20 10:41

  Quote from BizarreJuju;1052186:

  inb4 Giants don't get dex penalty, cause they can naturally wear Heavy armors without any problem (like heavy armor + fighter)
  
  Making Heavy armor ideal for Melee Giants and not for Ranged Elves.

  
  
  I'd support this proposition.
• Aubog007 wrote on 2013-03-20 10:43

  Quote from Yakumo Yukari;1052183:

  Everything there sounds amazing.
  
  [SPOILER="Spoiler"]Except for Heavy Armour Dexterity penalty and balance, along with new balance calculations. Bullshit.[/SPOILER]

  
  
  Use light armor, /solved.
  
  
  Balance is 80% endgame anyway besides giant warhammers.
• Yakumo Yukari wrote on 2013-03-20 10:45
  Lances, blunts, bars, penalties to puppeteers and to hybrids.
  
  It's like you haven't been reading.
• Aubog007 wrote on 2013-03-20 10:47

  Quote from Yakumo Yukari;1052189:

  Lances, blunts, bars, penalties to puppeteers and to hybrids.
  
  It's like you haven't been reading.

  
  
  
  Puppet balance is 80%. Are you daft
• BizarreJuju wrote on 2013-03-20 10:48

  Quote from Aubog007;1052190:

  Puppet balance is 80%. Are you daft

  
  
  Half of their damage comes from dex and heavy armor will affect it.
• Yakumo Yukari wrote on 2013-03-20 10:49

  Quote from Aubog007;1052190:

  Puppet balance is 80%. Are you daft

  
  
  I didn't see that individual puppets gave 50% balance at rank 1, I checked after posting. So I guess I am.
  
  Everything else is totally valid though.