🔷 When participating in a Duel, area skills will no longer affect other players besides your opponent. This means you can Duel without worrying that area skills will hit nearby people.
🔷 The issue where summon area skills were hitting all players even without a flag has been fixed.
🔷 It will now be possible to choose a separate Buff Scheme only for Summons in events. In addition, whenever a player summons a summon inside an event, the most nobless buff scheme will be applied to it.
Balance Adjustments
🔷 The elemental damage formula has been reworked. See the chart below for how the damage bonus (damage increase percentage) now behaves according to the elemental difference (Elemental Defense - Power).
Why is the new formula better?
- The new formula prevents a very large GAP between veterans and beginners. Very large elemental differences can only occur between a beginner and a veteran, and the new formula considerably reduces the damage bonus in these ranges.
- Unlike the old one, the new formula has no "steps". It grows continuously. This means that small elemental differences will already affect the damage (even slightly). This is good because sometimes we can use debuffs or other resources that alter elemental defense or attack, and in the end nothing changes because the difference did not reach the next “damage tier”.
- Less volatile for small differences: The old one varied from 0 to 20% up to 50 points of difference. That’s quite a lot and could give the impression of imbalance.
ℹ️ In practice, the new formula will only have an effect against beginners, monsters, and when debuffs are used, since in most cases elemental defenses surpass the attack.
🔷 All “Surrender” type skills (Surrender to Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Holy, Unholy, Elemental, etc.) have been changed. Instead of reducing a fixed 20 points of elemental defense, they will now reduce by -30%.
🔷 The Meteor and Star Fall skills have been changed to deal five total hits. These skills repeat their animation five times, once every 2 seconds. This new behavior reflects how the skill was meant to function. To avoid the damage, simply move out from under the skill area.
🔷 The Exile and Mass Exile skills can no longer be removed with Cleanse or similar skills.
🔷 All summons (servitors) have had their P. Def. and M. Def. increased by 10%.
🔷 The skill Elemental Final Storm had its power reduced to 177.