KDN April 2018 Skill Changes (PVE)

[NearLawlet]

Since Vahr (owner of Divinitor blog) is supposedly busy with his real life schedule, I took the liberty of translating the upcoming skill changes ahead of him. There are some minor details regarding Artillery's Magical Breeze and Sniper's Awakened Siege Stance (Aim), but they are just tool tip or bug fix.

The changes for PVP are similar to PVE (and by that, I mean even the numbers are exactly the same. ED is getting a bit too lazy with their editing...)

(Source: http://patchnote.dragonnest.com/category?patchnoteno=17)


ARCHER

Rage of the Owl
Cooldown 10 seconds > 5 seconds
Duration 300 seconds > 900 seconds



ACROBAT

Spirit Boost
Cooldown 44 seconds > 45 seconds
Duration 22 seconds > 20 seconds

Spiritual Excel
Cooldown 10 seconds > 5 seconds
Duration 180 seconds > 900 seconds



BOWMASTER

Bulls Eye
Cooldown 10 seconds > 5 seconds

Spiritual Excel
Cooldown 10 seconds > 5 seconds
Duration 180 seconds > 900 seconds

Sylph's Aid
Increase attack power 25% > 50%
Cooldown 44 seconds > 90 seconds
Duration 22 seconds > 20 seconds

Arrow Barrage
Attack per arrow 584% > 650%



SNIPER

Critical Break
Activation rate 50% > 40%

Cheating Point
Provoking effect is removed
The flower petal is changed to throw several flower seeds to damage your enemy

Charged Shot EX
Increase attack power 30% > 100%

Siege Stance EX
Tool tips that were missing are now added to the skill description

Class Mastery 1
Increase attack power 30% > 15%

Class Mastery 2
Triangle Shot gives 1 Wind Arrow > Triangle Shot reduces Arrow Barrage cooldown

Class Mastery 3
Hold [Normal Attack] button while using Piercing Shot to change into Siege Stance mode.
Piercing Shot cooldown 20 seconds > 15 seconds

Camouflage
Cooldown 60 seconds > 45 seconds

Awakened Siege Stance (Accumulate)
Wind Arrow acquisition 1 per Arrow Shower > 4 per Arrow Shower

Awakened Piercing Shot
Reduce attack power 1000% > 500%



ELESTRA

Class Mastery 3
After Glacial Spike, use Icy Shard EX by [Normal Attack] button instead of skill shortcut

Ice Cyclone
Use [Normal Attack] button instead of skill shortcut when the skill is used continuously



PALADIN

Lightning Zap
Cooldown 21 seconds > 14 seconds

Electric Smite
Cooldown 27 seconds > 17 seconds



CRUSADER

Judge Power
Cooldown 120 seconds > 90 seconds

Holy Relic EX
Increase attack power 30% > 50%
Elemental debuff duration 10 seconds > 20 seconds

Lightning Zap EX
Increase attack power 30% > 50%

Electric Smite EX
Increase attack power 30% > 50%

Class Mastery 2
New effect - Recover the cooldown of Sliding Step when Divine Breaker hit your target

Class Mastery 3
New effect - Recover the cooldown of main skills when Divine Combo hit your target
Divine Combo damage increased 3900% > 6900%

Awakened Passive Divine Bless
Elemental Bless activation rate 35% > 45%



KALI

Spirit of Genie
Duration 300 seconds > 900 seconds



DANCER

Twinkle Spin
Increase attack power 1805% > 2282%

Inner Fire
Increase attack power 8438% > 10773%



BLADE DANCER

Hurricane Gust
Increase attack power 402% per hit > 515% per hit

Twinkle Spin EX
New effect - Increase attack power 100%
Additional attack power 30% > 60%

Elegant Storm EX
Increase attack power 30% > 60%

Hurricane Gust EX
Increase attack power 50% > 100%

Class Mastery 2
Increase attack power 10% > 15%

Grazing Rush
Increase attack power 4425% > 6896%

Blade Step
Increase attack power 580% per hit > 740%



SPIRIT DANCER

Dusk Hunter EX
Increase attack power 30% > 45%

Abolisher EX
New effect - Increase attack power 15%

General Dunblade EX
New effect - Increase attack power 15%

Class Mastery 2
Increase attack power 10% > 15%

Acanthus
Increase attack power 8009% > 8970%

Crushing Hammer
Increase attack power 10799% > 12095%

Awakened Spirit Possession
Wide Stinger damage increase 30% > 45%
Praetor damage increase 30% > 45%



ASSASSIN

Raid
Duration 300 seconds > 900 seconds



CHASER

Dedicate Crow
Cooldown 90 seconds > 60 seconds



RIPPER

Arsonist
Cooldown 10 seconds > 5 seconds
Duration 60 seconds > 900 seconds



PHANTOM

Madness
Up to one additional CTC (max 2) can be stored while the skill is inactive

Soul Breaker
Cooldown 15 seconds > 10 seconds

Intense Suffering
New effect - Recover 1 CTC of Madness when this skill hit a target

Lethal Torture
Reduced casting time for faster effect

Painkiller
The number of explosions is reduced from 5 to 3, but total damage remains unchanged.
If you were attacked while charging the skill, all damage will be unleashed at once.
Remove HP recovery effect

Phantom Drive
New effect - 30% chance to cause Bleeding status
Bleeding duration 15 seconds, 10% damage per tick
Cooldown recovery 1 second per hit > 2 seconds per hit
Reduce attack power 3600% > 1850%

Death Web
Debuff is only applied for the last hit

Bloody Sign
Bleeding effect is removed
Damage debuff duration increased 15 seconds > 20 seconds

Draw Blood
New effect - Recover 4% HP over 8 seconds when used on enemy with Bleeding status

Shadow Step
Can now be used in midair (forward direction)
Cannot be used while using Dash

Chain of Pain
New effect - Deal 10% additional damage when attacking enemy with Bleeding status
Remove Bleeding spread effect



BLEED PHANTOM

Bleed Phantom Transformation
Reduce attack power 3600% > 1150%

Shadow Overdrive
Cooldown 15 seconds > 18 seconds

[Cruel] Intense Suffering
Changed to produce instantaneous effect

Class Mastery 1
Increase STR and AGI 30% > 50%
Attack increase effect has been moved to CM 2

Class Mastery 2
Lethal Torture INS causes Bleeding status, 100% chance, 15 seconds duration, 10% damage per tick
Increase elemental attack power effect has been changed to increase attack power
Increase elemental attack 20% > Increase attack power 15%

Draw Blood A
Increase the number of additional hits from 1 to 4
Damage remains unchanged

Draw Blood B
HP recovery effect is changed from periodical to instantaneous

[NearLawlet]

Call me conceited, but has the time finally arrive when Blade Dancer/Bleed Phantom replaces Flurry as the new strongest class?

[vangeodee]

The BP changes look to me more as a balancing act rather than an actual boost. There's a give and take going on, so it's not all boosts. Also you have to consider that outside of dragon-size bosses, BP's SOverdrive isn't really an earth shattering skill.

But then again, we'll just have to wait and see.

[Jeezus]

@NearLawlet

Bro Bleed Phantom Class mastery 2 has no FD
Its 15% Attack power
previously was 20% attack power on cm 1
now loss of 5 % attack and lost 20% elem cm 2

[NearLawlet]

Jeezus Fixed. Thanks for the correction.

[Mr.Shovels]

so... is that the sniper revamp... coz... its like a demotion on the list of dps tiers

[TashaGodspell]

we need more salt HAHAHAHAHAHA

[Mr.Shovels]

"Delusional" 1 word to describe all your comments, sorry, imma have to ignore you, you're just too pitiful at this situation right now

[TashaGodspell]

did you just copy a sentence from someone hahahaaha demn so salty ROFL

[Xenocho]

I will share this here too; lazy to make thread. CMIIW on these:

Blade Dancer


Spirit Dancer:

[Mr.Shovels]

so is the revamp for sniper this april? or its just some few changes on her skills preparation for the upcoming revamp?

[NearLawlet]

So am I correct to assume that Spirit Dancer is stronger than Blade Dancer with this revamp?

[Xenocho]

I think they are on par. Spirit dancer can cast the 3 main skills and deal super high damage with their burst but BD's use of those 3 main skills also result in similar output.

[Skyros]

They kinda fixed Crusader's rework. Kinda hyped!

[NearLawlet]

Changing Divine Breaker to an Active Skill will affect Guardian as well. And to be honest, it'll be very awkward to use.

So far, I find Bless Switch rotation (Conviction Bless exclusive for normal MB/HH, and Elemental Bless exclusive for main skills) to be stronger than just sticking to one type all the time.

[Skyros]

I thought of changing DB like how they changed Inqui's Mindbreaker just for convenience.

I don't know. As for the current Elemental Bless, the RNG sucks aswell as the activation rate/chance. The Instant versions cant proc the skill and both Smite and LC have above 20 second CD, which could make you miss a cast or two of HH (which chains into more CD time for Thor's Hammer). Elem Bless is indeed good on paper but LC and Smite's long CD hindered it's potential.

IMO, the Bless Switch worked best under JP, casting Conviction HH and MB -> switch to Elemental-> unload all main skills, then cast the Instant HH/MB if available. A nice thing to note tho is that even under Elemental Bless, the -40% CD recovery works for the Conviction versions of HH and MB (as long as it procs) which could make you squeeze another Conviction MB cast while JP is active.

[LordQuntus]

CM3 will recover 4 main skill cd by 8 seconds , main skill refers to zap, HR, JH, AND smite, from this point, cm3 divine combo will become another important skill for crusader in the future.

[sngweiwei]

So...the part about cheating point crapping out seeds. How does that work?

[Mr.Shovels]

flower sucks, cheating point sucks, whats the "point" now of the change on the skill

[Mr.Shovels]

NearLawlet can you confirm if the cheating point attack is dependent towards the amount of arrows hits the cheating point? for example, i used the spread version attack style of siege stance by using the special attack button, do i get multiple petals dropped from the cheating point? or it is dependent only on the attacks siege stance made and not with how many arrows are hit with it?

and also, is it only siege stance that affects it? what about the enhanced version of charged shot and arrow shower whenever you use siege stance? does piercing shot has effects on cheating point as well when you use it to activate siege stance by holding the normal attack button after using piercing shot?

[Mr.Shovels]

nvm, found it, here's a link https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AmO3atQoKI remove the space

[MoonSplitterX]

I have mixed feelings about bleed phantom changes. On one hand, i am glad that we can recover hp more easily now. But on the other, I don't like the 18sec cd of shadow overdrive.

[frozenpotetu]

Sylph's Aid
Cooldown 44 seconds > 90 seconds
Duration 22 seconds > 20 seconds

at least attack% increase

[Jirokun]

Sylph's Aid
Increase attack power 25% > 50%
Cooldown 44 seconds > 90 seconds
Duration 22 seconds > 20 seconds

[Mr.Shovels]

this is actually fine since its 50% increase in attack power, that's a large boost compared to having a longer cooldown, this is only to say that you should use it on key strategy in the game, whenever you cast your powerful skills without interruption from the enemy

[NearLawlet]

I forgot to add that Crusader's CM3 Divine Combo damage was increased from 3900% to 6900%.

Do let me know if there's anything else that I miss.

[Mr.Shovels]

they ruined the cheating point, no "point" in using it now

[yoricks]

so.....where is ML boost ?or they plans to delete ML from the game ?

[Xenocho]

I do not play ML but iirc, similar comments were shared from CDN analysis as well. The dmg of skills were boosted significantly that the output immediately hit top tier, similar to how SS is now

[vangeodee]

Excellent. Just what I wanted to hear.

[Mr.Shovels]

you would pretty much understand the dps tier of a class by how much damage the class can deal per second, there are categories on which skills is classified, this is only my opinion and analysis since no one ever in the forums actually comes up with categories of certain skills.

Instant
Burst
Consecutive

Instant - not to be confused by the "instant EX" of skills, instants are a category of a skill that deals 1~2 or a few ticks of damage each time they cast that particular skill, for example, Dark Crash when landed, the skill damage ticked 1 huge impact on an enemy(s) and that is what you would call "instant" because the damage dealt by that skill is instantaneous and it just needs 1 landing hit in order to deal massive damage, ofc while dark crash is charging, there are ticks of damage being dealt, but it is categorized as "instant" because of the main damage it deals, but it still adds up to its dps. another great example is that of ML's X-Smash which deals massive amount of damage with just a few hits, and ofc it does need a few hits to deal all the damage, but this can't be classified as a Burst, considering it only requires a few hits that impossible to be avoided by any PVE enemies, not excluding in PVP as well.

Burst - Bursts damage skill category are skills that deals rapid ticks of damage, such as cyclone axe, in order to deal all the damage, the player must land all the hits in order to deal full damage as to what is described on the skill, let's say 1000%, but it did not say "per hit" but cyclone axe requires you to to get close to your enemies, and keep on hitting them with your cyclone, the rapid ticks of damage you see is what you call "bursts" of damage, and you need successfully hit your enemies with the skill.

Consecutive - this category can be classified on certain skills such as the sniper's wind shaft, the skill stated that "90% of charged shot per hit" on the charged shot EX (current skill tooltip) consecutive hits of damage is dealt to enemies, these type of skills can't be classified as burst because the damage output is not as a whole, even if you don't land it, the tooltip stated that "90% of charged shot" damage is dealt, while "Burst" damage requires you to land every hit the skill animation progresses. another example would be flash stance of the ML, it says that "413%dmg per hit" is on the tooltip of the skill, which means it will deal that much damage per hit, and using the special attack button deals more damage.

[Knee]

so.....where is ML boost ?or they plans to delete ML from the game ?

ML has been boosted in KR on last February.
We might get them in June.

[IJumpUJump]

Why did they have to nerf acrobat's spirit boost? its the only skill thats keeping acrobats from sinking below bottom tier dps. >.>

[Mr.Shovels]

i dunno they did some unnecessary changes on some of the skills of other class as well... this is really like they are joking on us, hope its an april fools joke and not some kind of crap "update"

[Mr.Shovels]

i forgot to ask, is this the april update for our server, or its an update for the KDN server?

[vangeodee]

KDN update. so we'll probably get it a few months down the line. maybe june or july?

[atom100]

KDN , it's in the thread title , 3 to 4 months before it arrives here.

[Mr.Shovels]

thanks, looks like the revamp i saw on Divinitor's blog isn't the one that will be on our update this 3 or 4 months PVE balance

[iphie]

So what the heck is this change for Artillery?
WARD OF THE SPIRITS

• Combined passive effects to enhance Spiritual Acceleration.

source: https://blog.divinitor.com/blog/2018...r-translation/

[WildMist]

Me when i saw Elestra being mentioned in PVE Balance :



Me after it already translated :

[Mr.Shovels]

how'd you got those emoticons from the CC forums?!

[WildMist]

Copy-pasted from here http://forum.dragonnest.com/forum/se...dits-emoticons