EPISODE 10 part II game designer
So the first content pack has been applied on the Public Servers with tons of Skill Re-balancing. Now I want to introduce you the plan of 2nd part of skill re-balancing. The post might be long, here is the Table of Content, try to copy and search for the interesting content so you don’t have to read the whole post ;)
Table of Content
[General]
1. Efficiency of Defense is now lowered?
2. Low-Level difficulty problem
3. Concept of Skill SP consumption
4. Cool time and Duration shortened
5. Instant-cast related issues
6. Dungeon Time increased?
7. Dungeon Balancing for Sword / Magic characters
8. Skill slot and Skill point problems
[Warrior]
WIP
[Blader]
WIP
[Wizard]
WIP
[Force Archer]
WIP
[Force Shielder]
WIP
[Force Blader]
WIP
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[GENERAL]
1. Efficiency of Defense is now lowered?
▶ The formula for calculating damage reduction is changed in the Rising Force update as you know.
Since there are many others stats that take place in the damage reduction, the efficiency of Defense is changed for sure.
In the past, Defense is equivalent to the damage reduction terminology.
Better than before, with the new damage reduction calculation, Defense acts as higher factor in the whole formula.
With new contents like monsters’ stats rebalancing, the challenging level of whole game increased. However adapting is a MUST, since there will be harder content which will be released ahead.
2. Low-Level difficulty problem
▶ Rising Force update provides some certain challenges for low-level characters.
Difficulty for lower-than-100 range has been tuned to be equivalent with higher-than-100 range, the game play is smooth and clear.
The main idea of keeping updating low-level content is making the game more attractive for new players as well as genuine players who want to be re-experienced the game.
Dungeon at 100 and below (like Volcanic Citadel) will be adjusted some how.
Some will be hardened, some will be lowered, for the best game play…
3. Concept of Skill SP consumption
▶ From Rising Force update, some skills consume SP for casting
The idea of requiring some SP for casting skill does not come out from the development team only, that was from the community.
When we heard about the skill casting required SP, we found that would be nice idea since special skills must consume some special things too, not easy-to-get like MP (buying directly from NPC).
So with the comsumption of SP when casting some special skills, player must pay more attention and the game play will be more “strategic”.
4. Cool time and Duration shortened
▶ In Rising Force update, many skills got adjusted for cooldown and duration.
These adjustments are pointed to rebalance game play, these changes are tested and adjusted based on the feedback from players and volunteers.
Changes will affect both PvE and PvP activities in game so it’s hard to control factors as players but that improves the challenging level of game play.
5. Instant-cast related issues
▶ Instant-cast is designed for improving the game play experiences
Instant-cast allows players doing another actions in the same time with casting Instant-cast skill (for example, using moving skills)
And by the way, the Instant Immunity skill is now Instant-cast too, so when you see the opponent, cast the Instant Immunity and cast another attack skill is possible. It’s now a REAL “Instant” Immunity.
6. Dungeon Time increased?
WIP
7. Dungeon Balancing for Sword / Magic characters
WIP
8. Skill slot and Skill point problems
WIP
