Warrior Skill Changes [kDN June 2018 Update]

[LazyKahn]

[Mercenary]
Taunting Howl
->Debuff duration increased from 10 to 20 seconds

Circle Swing
->Damage reduced from 2372% to 2144% (Reduced to 90.38% of original value)

[Barbarian]
Class Mastery 1
->Attack power reduced from 18% to 15%
->Final Damage increase from Highlander reduced from 25% to 20%

Class Mastery 2
->Attack power reduced from 22% to 15%

[Destroyer]
Flying Swing EX
->Super armor increased

Maelstrom Howl
->After applying provoke effect, changed to enable movement instantly

Crash mode
->Cooldown reduced from 75 to 60 seconds
->Super Armor increased
->HP recovery increased from 2% to 3% every 2 seconds

[Avenger]
Graves
->Damage increased from 1991% to 2787% (39.97% increase)

[Nightmare] Dark Stinger
->Added +20% Damage increase debuff to tooltip
->Damage increased from 2402% to 3363% (40% increase)

Piercing Crescent
->3 attacks no longer need left click to execute
->Can use Dark Crash or Aerial Blade while midair. (Right click to use Aerial Blade, Spacebar to use Dark Crash)
->Damage increased from 877% to 1403% (59.98% increase)

Doom Blade
->Damage increased from 3757% to 5259% (39.98% increase)

Vengeance Storm
->Damage increased from 3840% to 5376% (40% increase)

Dark Mastery
->STR% and attack gain from [Avenger Force] removed

Shadow Call
->Duration increased from 60 to 900 seconds
->Cooldown reduced from 10 to 5 seconds

Dark Riser
->Damage increased from 826% to 2891% (350% increase)

Death Knell
->Final Attack automatically launches when fully charged

[Dark Avenger]
Dark Crash
->Damage increased from 4355% to 6097% (40% increase)

[Nightmare]Dark Crash
->Absorb rate increased

Class Mastery 1
->Added 50% STR increase

Class Mastery 2
->Attack power reduced from 30% to 15%
->When Step Blade hits, recovers Soul Cutter instant cooldown

source: http://patchnote.dragonnest.com/category?patchnoteno=19

[Kuen]

It's time to switch from barb to glad.

[LazyKahn]

Gladiator will only outdps Moonlord if
a.)Gladiator has far better gears than the Moonlord in comparison, OR
b.)The Moonlord user is stupid in terms of skill rotation.

[vangeodee]

@LazyKahn

Gladiators used to have a chance to out-dps MLs during the 9s FA era.

But, that time's just a memory now. lol

[LazyKahn]

@vangeodee

Even if the bug still worked today Gladiator would still most likely never be able to outdps Moonlord since Finish Attack is only strong when enemy is below 50% health. And the bug only works on normal Finish Attack EX, and not on the instant.

[sngweiwei]

Destroyer is now harder. More SA whee. Cmon ED, gimme that 90% reduction on my flying swing.

[LazyKahn]

Destroyers getting a bit of love on this patch

[sngweiwei]

Making up for that stupid support nerf. lol

[yutehara]

So can anyone tell us if this is a nerf/buff for DA or doesn't really change that much? I'm not a very smart person.

[LazyKahn]

Most likely a boost. Even if their STR% and Atk% gets nerfed, All of their damage skills got boosted by a lot.

[yutehara]

I guess I should stick with my DA for now, thanks for the clarification ^^

[LazyKahn]

My comments on the balances for warrior:
Gladiator: Untouched
Moonlord: Untouched
Barbarian: Slight nerf
Destroyer: Slight boost in support capabiliities
Dark Avenger: Boost

[vangeodee]

For anyone who's wondering about the DA boost, I did some math to check if it is indeed a boost, and if it is, by how much exactly. Here are the numbers:



To sum up: it's basically a 40% boost over the current DA

[vangeodee]

For anyone interested, my methodology is as follows:

Current stats are taken from in-BTG stats (PATK and STR) before and after using the Avenger Force to get 90% STR bonus.

I got the PATK increase for the adjusted (post-change) stats by dividing the PATK gained per point of STR increase, and multiplied that by the gained STR after a 50% increase. The base PATK for pre-50% increase was computed by removing the 30% from the current patk, and multiplying it with 15% to get the adjusted base (town) PATK.

After that it was basically just a matter of multiplying the resulting PATK to the skill's damage%. Since there are no changes to how the Dark Avenger Transformation affects skill damages, these numbers will scale accordingly when you go into DA mode.