I hope Nexon focuses more on team play, all this solonogism makes me sad.
...What are you referring to?
I hope Nexon focuses more on team play, all this solonogism makes me sad.
...What are you referring to?
Fireball will be able to do 30-35k crits every 8-10 seconds which isn't bad, it just has terrible CC.
Thunder would be really good if the crits for the 5 bolts were only calculated once.
Not sure that qualifies as garbage tier. Sure they are now, but I doubt they'll suck as bad post-Zero.
Also I dunno about Caravan (honestly never attempted it) but I don't think Scathach mobs are really bunched enough for Hailstorm to be viable (also >scathach being challenging) and if you're actually fighting in Hostage, then you probably won't be able to get off a hailstorm except for Snapcast. Actually Ice Spear is better in Hostage even if it doesn't do as much because it tends to be a clusterfuck, and Ice Spear crowd control can allow the party a little breather.
Also Hailstorm indubitably needs Crisis for NPC. Even naturally bunched enemies unbunch too fast to get a non-snapcasted Hailstorm off.
Ice Spear doesn't need anything except the mage knowing when and when not to Ice Spear (i.e, when everyone's used their AOEs and could appreciate a 3 second breather for CDs to reset and such), and nobody's going to complain about Ice Spear hitting the entire mob for 9-11k.
I hate it whenever mages use ice spear, especially in the tara castle shadow missions, like SS. The resulting splash usually hits everything, and everyone is just sitting in the room waiting for the ice spear freeze to wear off...and splash again...and wear off.
All the content we have is becoming more soloable with each new update, I don't see a lot of encouraging of team play anymore because it's less annoying to do it yourself than getting a party together. I guess I'm just being one of those players that misses the old days of dying in ciar basic and needing a party for anything past int wasn't unusual. Don't mind my ranting.
Correction, IS *used* to suck if you couldn't one shot because you could only get one or 2 charges off if your IS didn't OHKO. Now your endgame IS one or twoshots or one shots everything with noncrits and oneshots everything in Elite, and even against Lord/MA, you still do more than enough DPS to make IS spam worth it to the party.
Hailstorm, no matter how much damage it does, requires outside intervention. So instead of doing other stuff, the party is helping you set up hailstorm. So it's not any *better* for party play at the very least.
Also why the hell are you worried about mana cost? Spend more time on your homestead/in Shylien and have mediation up at all times. And events vomit extra potions at you anyway. I know mages who still have leftover potions from last year's fishing event. And pure mages don't give a shit about poisoning, and potion lore makes it almost a non-issue anyway.
Right, because Crisis + Act 7 or Windmill or Shooting Rush don't disrupt party play. I sure like missing full charge focused fists because someone pops a Crisis. The only problem with Ice Spear was that it didn't do enough, now it will.
I've been thinking about differents upgrades on Savage Wands today and I felt like sharing.
Does casting speed affects blaze charge time? if so
Blaze coefficient is only 0.03 so you could exchange the magic attack upgrades to casting speed (it would make IS casting faster too = better combos)
[SPOILER="Savage Ice Wand ideas"]Save Ice Wand speed cast path +5 magic attack 12% casting speed
R6 (150% + 62% = 212% critical damage)
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Sava Ice Wand magic attack path +19 magic attack
S6 (19+84 magic attack = 103 magic attack x 0.03 = 3.09 damage x blaze charging multiplier that I have no idea how it works)[/SPOILER]
It seems that Fire Wand egos are going to be way better for damage wise. BUT. If you are a person like me that dislike Wand egos [UB]because how fast they eat dura[/UB] you could just do:
Assuming Firebolt coefficient is 0.5 (50% of your magic attack duh) and it has a x6.5 multiplier at 5 charges:
[SPOILER="Savage Fire Wand"]Save Fire Wand speed cast path +5 magic attack 12% casting speed
S6 (5+84 magic attack = 89 magic attack x 0.5 = 44,5 damage x6.5 at 5 charges resulting in a 289,25 max damage boost)
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Save Fire Wand speed cast path +5 magic attack 12% casting speed
R6 (150% + 62% = 212% critical damage)
ps. I only recomend this if you can hit 125% critical at least.
[/SPOILER]
I did not count any base Magic Attack from the Savage Wands on my silly math.
I wanna hear any ideas before someone(me) make something and regret later.
I'm just gonna answer the mana cost part, all other thing you said is just a load of BS and a whole lot of speculation. Ice spear doesn't disrupt party play ? Said no one ever. Oh wait, you did.
Mana cost is important because ain't nobody have time to sit in home stead everyday picking herb or making pot. Maybe a few people will enjoy that I guess. Ice spear is by far, consume the most amount of mp overtime due to it fast load time (even more mp intensive after revamp). I rather use other spell if it mean achieving the same if not better damage output for less mana usage.[/QUOTE]
Blaze charge time is unaffected by casting speed, just like hailstorm / meteor strike charging time I believe.
If you gonna spam fire bolt, would chain cast +4 be better ? Why casting speed upgrade?
Blaze charge time is unaffected by casting speed, just like hailstorm / meteor strike charging time I believe.
If you gonna spam fire bolt, would chain cast +4 be better ? Why casting speed upgrade?
Also from personal experience. Level 20 Casting Reforge + Firebolt Spam = you are going to be covered with glitchy firebolts all around you all the fudging time zzzz. I mean sure you'll have speed firebolts, but at the cost of looking like you are on fire.
Dammit I forgot about the CC+4 upgrade. Editing.
I've heard that casting speed affects Hailstorm ice charge time?
As a person that suffers from Trypophobia I am NOT going to do that. Everytime someone glitche with that around me I try to turn the camera around.
Well doing any kind of speed upgrade when you are doing firebolt spam is going to increase the chance of it happening. So if you plan on doing firebolt spam, stay away from the speed casting. Of course you could always mod to remove the firebolt image.
New Character Cards
In addition to these skills 3 new Character cards are added. The Following information is Post Dream Update and may or may not apply to NA depending on how NA Nexon handles the Rebirth System changes. Prior to the Dream update, you would use the Zero Card to rebirth into the Hero and there wasn't the cheaper Pon option described further down.
Card Details
[spoiler="Card Details"]
Zero Card - Automatically gives the associated Hero skills. Start off with that Hero's Talent, all skills rank F. Costs 7,900nx, new characters only
Hero Card - Similar to Memorial Card, gives all the associated Hero skills, related talent skills start off at a certain rank. Requires total level 1,000. New character has total level 1,000. Costs 14,900nx, new characters only
[spoiler="Merlin Card Specific"]
- First Aid Rank A
- Meditation Rank A
- Enchant Rank D
- Healing Rank A
- Magic Mastery Rank 9
- Party Healing Rank D
- Fire Mastery Rank A
- Ice Mastery Rank A
- Lightning Mastery Rank A
- Bolt Mastery Rank 7
- Magic Weapon Mastery Rank 7
- Lightningbolt Rank 8
- Firebolt Rank 8
- Icebolt Rank 8
- Thunder Rank C
- Fireball Rank C
- Ice Spear Rank C
- Meteor Strike Rank F
- Hailstorm Rank F
- Fusion Bolt Rank A
- Fire Magic Shield Rank D
-Ice Magic Shield Rank D
- Lightning Shield Rank D
- Natural Magic Shield Rank D
- Mana Shield Rank C
- Blaze Rank D
- Moving cast Rank F
- Instant cast Rank F
- Production Mastery Rank A
- Herbalism Rank A
- Potion Making Rank A
[/spoiler]
Elite Card - Similar to Memorial Card, requires total level 2000. Character starts off with 800AP, Total Level 1.2k, gives all the associated Hero skills, related talent skills start off at higher ranks than Hero. Costs 19,900nx, new characters only
[spoiler="Merlin Card Specific"]
- First Aid Rank 9
- Meditation Rank 9
- Enchantment Rank 9
- Healing Rank A
- Party Healing Rank D
- Magic Mastery Rank 7
- Fire Mastery Rank 7
- Ice Mastery Rank 7
- Lightning Mastery Rank 7
- Bolt Mastery Rank 3
- Magic Weapon Mastery Rank 5
- Lightningbolt Rank 3
- Firebolt Rank 3
- Icebolt Rank 3
- Fireball Rank 9
- Thunder Rank 9
- Ice Spear Rank 9
- Meteor Strike Rank F
- Hailstorm Rank F
- Fusion Bolt Rank 5
- Fire Magic Shield Rank 9
- Ice Magic Shield Rank 9
- Lightning Magic Shield Rank 9
- Natural Magic Shield Rank 9
- Mana Shield Rank 9
- Blaze Rank A
- Moving Casting Rank F
- Instant Casting Rank F
- Production Mastery Rank A
- Herbalism Rank A
- Potion Making Rank A
[/spoiler]
In addition All elite cards auto recieve the following (The higher skill ranks given by the Hero specific talents over-ride the lower ranks)
[spoiler="Default Elite Human"]
- Fishing Rank Novice
- Weaving Rank Novice
- Tailoring Rank Novice
- Blacksmithing Rank Novice
- Instrument Playing Rank Novice
- Wild Animal Training Rank Novice
- Carpentry Rank Novice
- Metallurgy Rank Novice
- Cooking Practice rank
- First Aid Practice rank
- Composition Rank Novice
- Refining Rank Novice
- Campfire Rank Novice
- Potion Making Rank Novice
- Handicrafting Rank Novice
- Rest Rank Novice
- Production Mastery Rank Novice
- First Aid Rank Novice
- Musical Knowledge Rank Novice
- Combat Mastery Rank A
- Smash Rank A
- Windmill Rank A
- Counter Attack Rank A
- Critical Hit Rank A
- Defense Rank A
- Range Mastery Rank Novice
- Magnum Shot Rank Novice
- Support Shot Rank Novice
Actions
- Land Maker
- L-rod Exploration
- Performance
- Throw Paper Airplane
- Sketch
- Rock Throwing
- Play Dead
[/spoiler]
Okay, this may have already been asked (or it might be totally obvious and I'm just being dumb) but do these take a character and make this new one out of it (i.e. Overwrite the old character)? Or is it a totally new character?
If it does overwrite, can we choose which one? x,x
50:50 chance I will get one when we get the Alchemist dude cards...