Ellyrion
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Originally posted by Pyrostasis
For someone who hasnt played L2 in 2 - 3 years, what exactly is being added in Gracia thats so nice? I just remember the bots, and the horrible economy for early items, not to mention the charges or whatever that they gave you on newbie island to get you hooked and then became to expensive to use as you levled..
Here's the rough summary from our clan forums. Huge thanks to Bogus from Lunatris for the research on various Korean sites and subsequent compilation. Many thanks to the Lunatris PTS regulars who contributed.
- Extra bonus exp is added
- Dynamic Point can be earned while in Peace zone and from Boss/Raid Boss.
- Depending on Dynamic Point, added bonus is changed.
- Excluding Boss/Raid Boss, while killing regular monsters, this Dynamic point will be consumed at various rate.
- You can check Dynamic Point on Character Status screen.
**IAW PTS trials, Max of 4 bars can be obtained. 1 Bar is used up around every 30 min. With full 4 bar, on PTS, you get around 4X more exp, 3 bar=3X exp...etc Once these bars are gone, u need to do Raid boss, sit in Peace zone for some time to regain or restart.
- Song/Dance gets their own buff slot -3rd row. Up to 12 Dances/Songs
- Char/Monster's close physical damage is increased
- Depending on Target and attackers, added bonus is increased
- Damage changes depending on the distance between char and monster (ex, Archer. Max Damage from Max Distance. Reduced damage while close)
- Poison, Bleed..etc damage is increased.
- Depending on Char's status, debuff duration is reduced.
- Accuracy/Evasion effectiveness is increased.
- Skill:* Skills that can be learned by double clicking SBs are added
- Knight: Vanguard(43)--Works with dual/two handed weapon. New skill is added while in Vanguard status. (Ex. More P.def and can use Dual/Two handed weapon while in Vanguard status to do more damage)
- Healer: Inquisitor (44)-New mage skill is added while in Inquisitor status (probably some transformation status). (IAW PTS trials, EE can kill mobs at FoD with just 2 shots, so I'm thinking it's for undead type mobs)
- Abyss Walker: Evasion Counter (74)
- Plane Walker: Evasion Chance (74)
- Treasure Hunter: Evasion Haste (74)
**Much improved Daggers with their High Evasion, low MP on skills...etc
- Warsmith-Repair Golem (40), Mighty Power (43), Armor Plate (40), Sharpen Edge (49), Spike (49), Bow-String (49), Face Harden (46), Hard Tanning (46), Imployder (46), Summon Merchant Golem (52)
- Prophet--Steal Mana (44)
- Kamael--Fast Recovery (43) **Kamael classes gets many boosts
- Beserker--Reconstruction Body (52), Blood Construction (55)
- Soul Breaker--Soul Web (62)
- Avarester--imbue Doom Seed (68), Oblivion Trap (64)
- Soul Breaker, Inspector--Pain Killer (58), Expert Casting (40)
- Skill Change:
A. Newly Added
- Deflect Arrow--Added for Crossbow damage
- Real Target--Range increased to 900, reduced bow attack, while attacking chance of cancel
- Soul Cleanse--Works on Kamael classes
- Bleed--Reduced run speed
B. Changed
- Shield Mastery--Increased Shield Defense, added p.def while wearing Heavy armor
- Armor Mastery--Fighter, Kamael. MP recovery increased
- Kamael--Soul collection increased to 40
- Souless--No more contract Penalty
- Unicorn merrow--Hydro Screw is limited
- UD skills-While in UD status, buffs can be received
- Protection of Rune, Elemental, Alignment--Increased passive, m.def and elemental m.def is increased
- Archers Wall, Fighters Wall--Increased Passive effectiveness, and Increased Physical/Critical chance
- Cleanse--Raid Boss Curse, Poison/debuff can't be altered
- Wild Magic(buff)--Changed its effectiveness
- Dance of Siren--same as above
C. Casting speed change
Escape Shackle, Poison Recovery, Cure Bleeding
D. Duration change
- Dodge Attack--5sec to 10sec
- Counter Attack--5 sec to 10sec
E. Melee Physical skill, MP consumption, over hit
- Increased Physical attack/skill
- MP consumption of Physical skill is reduced
- Added Over hit to all Physical skills
- MP Consumption of toggle skills have increased (Soul Cry, Accuracy, Silent Move, Guard Stance, Soul Guard, Vicious Stance, Shield Fortress, Fortitude, Perry Stance, War Frenzy, True Beserker, Strike Back, Hard March)
F. Mage damage change
- Random mage damage between Low <-->Max (Damage will fluctuate within this range)
- Depending on Weapon, Random damage effect is changed
G. Mage Crit damage (Wild Magic, Dance of Siren)
- While using Mage skills, chance to crit is increased 10X
- Crit damage is reduced from 4X to 3X
- Chance of Crit damage is not to exceed 20%
*In other words, you can crit more but at much reduced damage.
H. Skill
- Warsmith, Bounty Hunter--Fatal Strike
- Abyss Walker--Lure
- Phantom Summoner--Death Spike, Summon Cursed Bone, Curse Poison
I. Summoner
- Summoners Basic Stat has changed (p.atk, m.atk, p.def, m.def)
- New Skills for Queen, Seraphim, Shade:
a. Queen:Bless the Body, Bless the Soul, Haste
b. Seraphim:Acumen, Clarity, Empower, Wild Magic
c. Shade: Death whisper, Focus, Guidance
J. Monster
Excluding mobs from Rift, Instant Dungeon, mobs 75 below will use soul shot/spirit shots at random rate and use P.def skill against ranged attack. Those monsters using shots have better drop rate.
K. Quest
- First Class change quest reward has increased
- 2nd class change quest reward has increased, and quest items requirement has changed
- Master Toma's location is now fixed
- Quest related Clan Reputation Point is increased
- One time quest reward has increased
- Repeatable quest Item drop rate is increased (some quests remain same) *Hope they changed drop rate for Pagan's Temple & IT?
- Tutorial Quest: Chars can finish 1st class transfer quest more easily through NPC.
- New Quest: Special Order (40+)-Get Mysterious Cube as reward.
G. MISC
- VR herbs are now dropped
- Damaged weapon/armor are added. Mobs drop these damaged weapon/armor at higher rate than regular weapon drop rate.
- Enchant Weapon/armor scrolls can't be applied to Damaged Weapons
- VERY low Crystal if crushed and need to unseal them using Mammon.
- With the help of Mammon and some $$, you can add option
- Crafts that are not 100% can produce these Damaged weapon/armor
- 100% Craft can produce either 1 Regular Item, 2 Regular item, or 1 Rare Item.
- 60% Craft can produce either Damaged Item, Regular Item or Rare item.
- You can Augment Jewels but require several same level/kind Life Stones (around 5 LS)
- Instant Dungeons can be accessed by special NPC in every town. Style is similar to Festival of Darkness type (rift?) but only one person can enter and only once a day. Mobs drop herbs so people are saying it's nice place . Instant Dungeon is by Point system so if you acquire certain points, you get some special chest box that costs around 150k and chance to get Enchant weapon/armor scrolls. Also, herbs at Instant dungeon lasts 5 min, instead of normal 2min.
- Monsters will return to their original place if they are out of their *short* boundary. IAW PTS trials, mobs from other room will return to their room if you try to pull 2+ rooms.
- Up to High C grade are sold at store (Dark Screamer=3,799,945a). Up to Low B are sold at Luxury Shop (Kris=5,420,525a).
- All B grade weapons can be traded with Mammon. (no more high price for Damascus. YAY!!!)
- All items from stores are sold at reduced price (weapon, armor, jewel...etc. For example, Sword of Revolution 1,610,000a-->1235,100a)
- GREAT News for Pet owner==Rez time is increased from 20min to 24 hrs and Pets can now wear Jewels for added m.def
- Faster Class Transfer quest is expected.
- Gate Keeper fee is free till level 40.
- Beginners buff last till level 62. (6~62=WW, Shield, Magic Barrier, Btb-warrior, Bts-mage, VR-warrior, Acu-mage, Regen-warrior, Conc-mage, Haste (level 2 at 41+), Empower-mage; 16~34 Life
 )
- You can remove buff from your slot by doing Alt + Mouse click. (Recently patched out I think)
- Increased drop rate on Raid Bosses
- All SBs for level 1-74 are sold at NPC. Mobs no longer drop SBs that are sold at store
- Mobs drop new weapon/armor/jewels
- Raid Ranking System is reduced from 1mo to 1week. CRP is applied every Maint cycle. Based on ranking, CRP is given half of original 1mo period
- During PVP status, Purple status increased 40sec to 120sec.
- Don't know what to call it, kinda like Shadow but they dont disappear like Shadow weapon. But you can't put any enchant, Augment or SA. They are added to help new players. (For example, regular Sword Revolution at Giran sells for 1,235,100a, but only cost 59,857a, Dark Screamer 209,530a. Also for Armor (up to low B grade)
- Items:
- Lux Shop (up to Low B):
Kris, Hell Knife, Vahalla, great sword...etc : 579 B cry/1737 C cry
- Weapon Store (up to Top C):
Cystal staff, chakram...etc: 2,203,625a / 102,000a
Katana, Raid Sword, Spirit Sword...etc: 2,762,125a / 125,250a
Tsuragi, Dark Screamer, Homun...etc: 4,130,375a / 227,750a
Scorpion, Widowmaker, Paagrio Axe: 4,597,125a / 243,000a
SLS, Crystal Dagger, Yaksa, Emi bow, Orchish Pole Axe...etc: 5,891,875a / 349,250a
- Armor:
Full Plate Armor: 2,235,000a / 132,500a
Full Plate Helmet: 515,750a / 30,625a
Full Plate Gaunlet 343,875a / 20,375a
Full Plate Boots 343,875a / 20,375a
Full Plate Shield 361,000a/ 21,375a
- Screen Shot:
- Clan Reputation Point:
Clan reputation points by graduating Academy char has increased from 400 to 650
Castle Siege 1000-->1500
Castle Owner, extending for 2 weeks 500-->750
Lose Castle 2000 --> 3000
CH (Deva castle, Rainbow springs...etc) 300 --> 500
Fortress 100 --> 200
Destroying Vallesta from Fortress 15 --> 30
Win Festival 100 --> 200
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Added April 26
New skill added
EE-Greater Group Heal
SE-Bless the Blood:at certain rate, when attacked, person gains HP instantly (there are 3 levels of this and at highest lvl, person regains around 750HP instantly. on PTS, rate is at around 30%. Good for tank, AOE party, raid...etc Only lasts around 15 sec but recast delay is around 4 sec)
New patch:
You can't remove dance/song by doing Alt+mouse click.
Misc:
Quest to enter Hell Bound is shortened at least for PTS. I'll update when I find more info.
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Added May 6:
Hellbound Quest: Talk to
1. Casian-Wasteland
2. Galate-Heine
3. Casian-Wasteland
4. Galate-Heine
Done!!!
*You no longer have to get Contaminated Cry, Steam Room, Coral Room, Emerald Room+Valor to enter Hellbound.
Personal Reputation Point (PRP)
On this Chron, you get "Personal Reputation Point" which can be accessed on your Stat menu.
With this point, you can put special enchants to your weapon/armor (Top A grade and higher) as well as few others.
You can obtain PRP through, PVP (Underground colliseum), Fortress, Siege, Festival, Olympiad.
- Lower your PK count by 1: Require 5,000 point
- Raise Clan Reputation Point: Require 1,000 point (not sure how much CRP it actually raises)
- Can purchase Black (get out of root), White (get out of sleep/shock), Red (max CP), Red (increase CP recovery speed), Brown (transfer pain) Tallisman for 500 PRP
- PVP Recovery scroll-regain lost % by PVP= 30 PRP
- BSOE (for siege/fortress) = 270 PRP
- Elixir HP for siege/fortress = 14 PRP
- Elixir MP for siege/fortress = 92 PRP
- Elixir CP for siege/fortress = 40 PRP
*Right now, you can purchase BSOE, Elixirs I mentioned above from Fortress Mysterious Merchant, maybe they are removed from Mysterious Merchant on next chron? They are relatively cheap from Merchant so maybe it's good idea to stock them up before next chron.
So far, there is no specific information on any weapon/armor since people on Korean servers dont have enough PRP.
Example:
- Arcana Mace (S grade): requires 11,545 PRP + 1,154,200a to put special bonus (rumor has it that, it adds m.atk)
- Dynasty Robe set (S80 Robe): requires 6,455 PRP + 645,480a (Rumor has it that, it adds casting speed bonus)
- Majestic Robe (Top A robe): requires 1,981 PRP + 198,100a
MISC:
- People are saying, success rate on OE has decreased
- When you crush items (weapon/armor/jewel), compared to previous Chron, you get less Crystals from them.
- SE gets Holy Weapon buff (when transfer into Inquisitor)
- Changes to CRP via Academy as I mentioned before:
16~40 650
17 630
18 610
19 590
20 570
21 550
22 530
23 510
24 490
25 470
26 450
27 430
28 410
29 390
30 370
31 350
32 330
33 310
34 290
35 270
36 250
37 230
38 210
39 190
Regards,
Ellyrion Fiallathandriel
The Reckless Knight
Lunatris |
Erica = best server.
