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Spirit Mode Stance

- Spirit Stance no longer increases magic damage by 50%; instead it reduces mana cost for all spells by 25%. (This includes upkeep for Innate Arcana.)

- Activating Spirit Stance now requires at least 50% Overcharge.

Combat Skills

- Skills now only drain the minimum required Overcharge when used. Bonus damage for having higher than 100% Overcharge is however still applied.

- All skills now have a cooldown.

- Skill chaining has been implemented. Using a tier-1 chainable skill unlocks tier-2 skills for a few turns, while tier-2 skills naturally unlocks tier-3 ones.

- New skills unlock with higher proficiency. Note that for Niten, the smallest of Dual-Wield and Two-Handed proficiency is used.

- The following skills were added/modified:

One-Handed: Shield Bash (Tier-1 chainable) initial skill, Vital Strike (Tier-2 chainable) at 50 prof, Merciful Blow (Tier-3 chainable) at 100 prof.

Dual-Wield: Iris Strike (Tier-1 chainable) initial skill, Backstab (Tier-2 chainable) at 50 prof, Frenzied Blows (Tier-3 chainable) at 100 prof.

Burden and Interference

- The effect of Burden and Interference have been changed. They no longer have any effect on action speed and proficiency; instead they reduce certain stats directly.

Note that the new system does not have a "grace value" before it starts taking effect, so every single point counts. Also, in this context, a reduction of 50% means that the original stat is halved, not a straight -50 for the stat.

- Burden now has the following effects:
-- Evade is reduced by 4/3rd of a percent for every point of burden, capping at 75 where no evade remains.
-- Physical Crit is reduced by 2% for every point of burden above 75, capping at 125.

- Interference now has the following effects:
-- Magical Crit is reduced by 2% for every point of interference, capping at 50.
-- Mana Cost is increased by 0.5 for every point of interference.

- The weight of Redwood Staffs was decreased from 20,10 to 10,4; the weight of Willow Staffs was decreased from 20,10 to 12,6; the weight of Oak Staffs was decreased from 20,10 to 15,7

- Newly generated Shade Armor no longer has burden, but interference was increased slightly.
-- Arcanist-type Shade Armor now reduces interference by 75% instead of 50%.

Misc

- The "Items" pane has been changed to "Battle Items", and now only displays consumables that can be slotted for use in battle.

- A new screen "Inventory" that displays all your items and equipment has been added. This includes the equipment counter that was previously removed from the equipment screen.

- A new stat "Mana Cost" was added. Its default value is 100%, and it's currently only affected by interference.

- Fixed title bonus damage. Note that this is applied live in battle, and will not show up on the stat screen.

- Monster health now scales by an additional factor of 1/200 per level. Monster health bonus for increasing difficulty was decreased.

- A MoogleMail that has MoogleMail as sender can no longer be returned. This prevents a rare situation where messages could end up in limbo.

- Tweaked the item shop prices on most materials.

- Monsters no longer start with more than 50% resistance to any element. The following changes were applied:
-- Celestial: holy -25
-- Daimon: dark -25
-- Giant: piercing -25
-- Mechanoid: holy -25, soul -25, str +1
-- Undead: dark -25, cold -25, elec -25, wind -25, str +1

Why this has to happen when I plan to go to bed?

Oh well, another sleepless night, I guess...

This post has been edited by buktore: Jan 22 2012, 12:00

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nice experimental UI

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- Skills now only drain the minimum required Overcharge when used. Bonus damage for having higher than 100% Overcharge is however still applied.

since the ui isn't working does this mean there are icons now

This post has been edited by Bunker Buster: Jan 22 2012, 12:06

Evade is reduced by 4/3rd of a percent for every point of burden, capping at 75 where no evade remains.
Isn't this a bit too much? I only have 7.2 burden from the staff and lost more than three points.

Monster health now scales by an additional factor of 1/200 per level. Monster health bonus for increasing difficulty was decreased.
This is really annoying, I can barely one-shot on Normal. Guess I'll have to start using the Forge. Meh.

Edit:
Spawned Monster H: MID=14942 (Elizabeth) LV=283 HP=10384.5
What the hell. Last week she had 4330 HP.

This post has been edited by (Cheater) Tiap: Jan 22 2012, 12:19

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-- Physical Crit is reduced by 2% for every point of burden above 75, capping at 125.

expecting bazaar count of repurposed actuators and shielding runes to double

shade armor remains best total mitigation armor ever

e: e: apparently the first 15 minutes after the update had a corrupted page; clear your cache if you get the corrupted UI

This post has been edited by Bunker Buster: Jan 22 2012, 12:13

- A new screen "Inventory" that displays all your items and equipment has been added. This includes the equipment counter that was previously removed from the equipment screen.


good to see the counter back (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

- Fixed title bonus damage. Note that this is applied live in battle, and will not show up on the stat screen.

Hmm ?
I might get it once I get out of my fight.

I'm fighting here !
83 22 Yuki Nagato is agitated!
83 21 Spreading Poison hits Yuki Nagato for 1226 damage.
83 20 Yuki Nagato misses the attack against you.
83 19 Frenzied Blows hits Yuki Nagato for 11510 void damage.
83 18 Frenzied Blows hits Yuki Nagato for 9121 void damage.
83 17 Frenzied Blows hits Yuki Nagato for 11727 void damage.
83 16 Frenzied Blows hits Yuki Nagato for 13682 void damage.
83 15 Frenzied Blows hits Yuki Nagato for 11184 void damage.
83 14 Frenzied Blows hits Yuki Nagato for 13790 void damage.
83 13 Frenzied Blows hits Yuki Nagato for 10750 void damage.
83 12 Frenzied Blows hits Yuki Nagato for 9013 void damage.
83 11 Frenzied Blows hits Yuki Nagato for 11510 void damage.
83 10 Frenzied Blows hits Yuki Nagato for 11293 void damage.
83 9 Frenzied Blows hits Yuki Nagato for 13682 void damage.
83 8 Frenzied Blows hits Yuki Nagato for 11401 void damage.
83 7 Frenzied Blows hits Yuki Nagato for 13573 void damage.
83 6 Frenzied Blows hits Yuki Nagato for 8578 void damage.
83 5 Frenzied Blows hits Yuki Nagato for 9447 void damage.
83 4 Frenzied Blows hits Yuki Nagato for 8904 void damage.
83 3 Frenzied Blows hits Yuki Nagato for 13465 void damage.
83 2 Frenzied Blows hits Yuki Nagato for 13465 void damage.
83 1 You use Frenzied Blows.
82 6 Spreading Poison hits Yuki Nagato for 1226 damage.
82 5 Yuki Nagato misses the attack against you.
82 4 Backstab hits Yuki Nagato for 77699 void damage.
82 3 Yuki Nagato gains the effect Spreading Poison.
82 2 You gain the effect Chain 2.
82 1 You use Backstab.
81 4 hits Yuki Nagato for 25764 void damage.
81 3 Yuki Nagato gains the effect Blinded.
81 2 You gain the effect Chain 1.
81 1 You use Iris Strike.

Hooray for frenzied blows.

This post has been edited by Bunko: Jan 22 2012, 12:38

ahahahha eila has 3x as much health as a rare this makes up for the last patch

Scan doesn't work.

page still corrupted, even after clearing cache. in the middle of battle as well (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/anime_cry.gif)

5 2 You parry the attack from Pile Of Birds.
5 1 You use Scan.
4 2 Pile Of Birds misses the attack against you.
4 1 You use Scan.
3 2 You evade the attack from Pile Of Birds.
3 1 You use Scan.
2 7 Pile Of Birds crits you for 427 piercing damage.

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Scan not working and i lost 5% evade

reallY SAD (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

flee still works; thank goodness for small favors

It seems the cost of Orbital Friendship Cannon doesn't change, so I still can not use it. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

How can I fix this screen?

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clear your cache and reload HV, repeat until uncorrupted

edit: i bow to tenboro for increasing the title damage bonus from 10 points to an actual 10% because that unintentional troll has gone on for that long

This post has been edited by Bunker Buster: Jan 22 2012, 12:30

- Newly generated Shade Armor no longer has burden, but
interference was increased slightly.
-- Arcanist-type Shade Armor now reduces interference by 75% instead of 50%.

oh boy (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

I hope the older shade armors will get the same change(s)

Newly generated Shade Armor no longer has burden, but interference was increased slightly.

So we have a new type of shade armor? Or all the newly generated shade armor will have a larger interference?

I like the new skill description, that's for sure....

And what a lovely icon for skill chaining counter!

This post has been edited by buktore: Jan 22 2012, 12:35

newly generated shade armor has about 15% more interference

e: which is like 4% increase in mana cost~ also mages that want to be protected from 65% of all attacks have more of a reason to get arcanist armor now, shame about no edb though but that's the point!

This post has been edited by Bunker Buster: Jan 22 2012, 12:36

Note that the new system does not have a "grace value" before it starts taking effect, so every single point counts.

guess i need to fiddle around with my equipments again to see if i can reduce burden/interference any further.