[dev1049] New weapon skills

[Dragoy]

can you guys please post a video of these? dosent have to be a perfect video or anything.. id love to see the full animations

I think they'll be quite soon on the test-server so you can just go test them yourself. xd

[Rosalie]

I am back from a nice Thanksgiving break where I ate way too much, and I have some goodies for you all!

I have a couple of images of some of the new weapon skills that will be implemented. They look pretty impressive if I do say so myself Once all the testing has been finalized, we’ll be putting them onto the test server for you all to try out.

Without further ado...

Great Katana:
Tachi Shoha
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Archery:
Apex Arrow
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Scythe:
Entropy
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Dagger:
Exenterator
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*Please note that the English weapon skill names have not yet been finalized and are subject to change.

I feel a great disturbance in Xbox Live....as if thousands of 360's suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced...

Edit: ...But then I play on PC, so ha! These look REALLY awesome!

[Kristal]

I am back from a nice Thanksgiving break where I ate way too much, and I have some goodies for you all!

I have a couple of images of some of the new weapon skills that will be implemented. They look pretty impressive if I do say so myself Once all the testing has been finalized, we’ll be putting them onto the test server for you all to try out.

Without further ado...

Great Katana:
Tachi Shoha
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Archery:
Apex Arrow
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Scythe:
Entropy
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Dagger:
Exenterator
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*Please note that the English weapon skill names have not yet been finalized and are subject to change.

Exenterator... or Exenteration? Evisceration's big brother ;D

I hope automatons aren't left out though. One for each frame would rock ;D

* Valoredge : Vacuum Slash
* Harlequin/Stormwaker : Event Horizon
* Sharpshot : Quantum Tunneler

[Byrth]

The JP version has some text below the WSs. Any idea what it says?

[Riaurio]

The JP version has some text below the WSs. Any idea what it says?

idk why it has become standard procedure to only give us scraps of information half*** copy/paste jobs from day old dev posts in the jp forums.

It always reminds me of a dog sitting under a dinner table begging for scraps, and when he finally gets a bone he's so excited that he finally got something, he doesn't think about the fact that all the good parts have been eaten.

But what do I know... Im just an LOLNA player in a 1337JP game. So I guess I should just be gratefull to get any info!

[Dfoley]

These look pretty epic.

Here is to hoping they aren't tied to weapons and are just a quest anyone can do to unlock.

[Dfoley]

O most of the text is blah. The JP post says stuff like " i thought this was polearm with how high the character was jumping"

[xbobx]

Question is, how many hoops do we have to jump through to get them? Do nyzul 10 times from 1-100? Find 10000 of an item that drops once a day?

or you going to be nice and let us level into them, that way casual players don't keep getting screwed on new weaponskills?

[Zhronne]

Camate please correct me if I'm wrong (ore no nihongo wa yokunai desu!) but the original text also mentioned something about the hard work of doing new animations for all the 5 races.

Could this mean that we'll finally see NEW animations instead that old reused one with different special effects added to them? (which has been the case for all the Weapon Skills from level 76 'til now)




I'll be closely looking on the balancement of these WS, there are risks and potential in them.
They could make the gap between Empy/Relic/Mythic weapons and normal weapons smaller, currently that gap is pretty huge for the majority of them.
But this would also furtherly deprecate the utility of WoE weapons. Not only people who went the WoE path instead than the Empy path found themselves to deal with some unreasonably expensive and time-consuming trials, but all their efforts will mean little.

It's a blind alley.
Make these new WS too powerful and all WoE weapons will be ridiculized, some Empyreal weapons too possibly.
Make these too weak and nobody will want to bother with them (except quest completists or gimpos like me)

It will be seriously hard for them to balance these WSs, but still, I can't deny I'm very excited

[Insaniac]

Dagger looks way more like a sword or club WS. That's some serious air he is getting. I'm really happy to see entirely new animations. The effect on the DRK WS looks really cool.