SirRFI

Greetings,

I am Nocatia, European core Vella player. I use both weapons, but Swords were always my favourite choice, thus reason of deciding to main this character. All the years of buggy crosscut made me play a bit of Chainblades though, especially during S2 times. I used to record 0 hits taken videos before it was cool, or when Ein Lacher was only a fan suggestion.

Within a week before "Rise" update has arrived to us, knowing the damage output changes and return of atk-cap in Nilfheim I decided to record some decent footage. I challenged myself not only to not be hit during solo play, but also tried to play effectively. Obviously mistakes and unused potential are always there, but after recording these few times I am satisfied enough. I hope You enjoy!



Stats:

• ATK: ~30k (the battle has uncapped ATK limit starting from 24k)
• DEF: ~13k
• STA: 203
• BAL: 83
• ATK SPD: 90 base
• Critical: 141 (capped)
• Critical Damage: 195
• Crit Resist: 101
• Additional DMG: 300 (+15)

My friends were slowly quitting starting from the gap between S2 and S3 and then again during S3, and eventually migration → TIR and XE removal and IP restrictions made last step for them. After patch I see more people online and all around, but better question is how many of them will continue to play. Keep in mind some people were playing this game too long, so it's not just the update to be blamed.
What we need is fresh blood from some advertisements - Nexon gaming platform wide events (like between games, in example: reach 60lv in Vindictus to get free stuff in Maple Story) may be cheap and somewhat effective method to obtain new players.

All my tests are based on 5 runs on NORMAL.



SEASON 1

• Titan:
  Nothing.
• Thor:
  • Challenging
  • Fleet
• Ahglan:
  • Decisive
  • Diamond
  • Grinding
  • Maelstrom
• Ingkells:
  • Armadillo
  • Decisive
  • Diamond
  • Fleet
  • Maelstrom
  • Tricky
• Glas:
  Nothing.
• Controlled Black Hammer:
  • Fleet
  • Grinding
  • Tricky
  • Warlord
• Lionotus:
  • Grinding
  • Warlord
• Colru:
  • Fleet
• Siglint:
  • Challenging
  • Diamond
  • Force
  • Maelstrom
• Beokros:
  • Armadillo
  • Healthy
  • Maelstrom
• Elchulus:
  • Diamond
  • Healthy
• Keaghan:
  • Armadillo
  • Diamond
  
  Note: Titan and Glas have different drops than the others (some ores) - it might, or might be not the reason I dropped no Enchant Scroll.
  

SEASON 2

• Lakiora:
  • Grinding
  • Sentinel
  • Tricky
  • Well-Balanced
• Kraken:
  • Grinding
  • Significant
  • Tricky
  • Warlord
• Iset:
  • Enduring
  • Fleet
  • Force
  • Healthy
  • Maelstrom
  • Tricky
• Havan:
  • Diamond
  • Enduring
  • Force
  • Grinding
  • Healthy
  • Significant
  • Sparkling
• Pantheum:
  • Fast
  • Grinding
• Bark:
  Did just once - skipped it because it's still annoying.
• Juggernaut:
  • Bloodlust
  • Sparkling
  • Valor
• Ulchas:
  • Well-Balanced
• Lavasat:
  • Bloodlust
  • Divine Punishement
  • Master
  • Passion
• Enzo:
  Nothing.
• Crom:
  Nothing.

Sum-up: Purple scrolls drop in S1 & S2, orange scrolls (r7 and incoming r6) in S3.

MrGold wrote: »

Oh boy, I can't wait to see the veteran playerbase pissed off about 4 man S3, and have new players scratch their heads about 8 man S3 being a thing.

"Raid" - default up-to-4 man party. Yeah. Should have been 6.

ikevi wrote: »

Not really trip, just be too board of easy mode to even want to bother playing anymore. As for doing S2... Well any boss wont even last 30 seconds solo so why bother? (Can't even get seals on hero :-(

According to CUBE these ex-raids still drop scrolls, and are limited to 5 battler per day (probably like every other battle, excluding S3 raids, Naemhain etc.).

DarickNguyen wrote: »

New RISE update in Thailand giveaway a Lv90 Reward Box, my suggestion is 10 Seals of Bravery instead of full 90 set, cuz it sucks (Purple + unenhanceable).. Trust me.

What? Definitely not. Enhanced equipement now gives additional damage, which makes it crucial. Any characters that reached 90 beforehands, especially alts, would simply stand out without this box. Not that I like the whole +10 set idea in first place.

DarickNguyen wrote: »

They also removed all Hero mode of S1, some S2 battle

As far I know hero remains only for ex raids, like Titan, Ingkells, Havan, Crom, etc.

aka http://forums.vindictus.nexon.net/discussion/6647/community-livestream-rise , but I understand the repost due to blocked posting possibility. I wonder if it was posted in news archive for a reason. I am glad they finally put Europe time zone, now I hope next time the stream will begin one hour earlier.