02/29 Balance Patch Notes - Elsword, Rena, Ara, Add
22 February 2024
Developer Notes
The balance patch targets are Elsword, Rena, Ara and Add.
While the update is coming, we will provide guidance on the main direction of the patch.
We wanted to redistribute and adjust party synergies.
Physical / Magical Attack permanent effects and Critical / Maximize passives are adjusted.
For some characters, certain skills will be renewed to make up for the inconvenience in content play.
Anemos is getting a rework for the passive "Power Shot" which was requested a lot by our adventurers.
It is intended to focus on main skills while supplying damage and utility with side skills.
The passive will be renewed to enable even more fast-paced gameplay.
The function of Dominator's Master Skill 'Flotilla' has been changed.
Due to play fatigue while using the skill, there was a large gap in damage between players.
In order to alleviate this issue, it is planned to limit the skill's effect in some way to ensure the same level of damage.
Since this is a core skill of Dominator, we plan to update it accordingly with the A/S patch if needed.
We believe it can reach the intended performance after verifying the gameplay result data.
After this patch is applied, a two-week monitoring period will start.
Should there be any inconvenience caused by this update, it will be considered at the end of this period in the A/S patch.
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as per usual KOG grossly exaggerated the fox fire nerf and cuts down blue flame hits by much more than even half (from 56 to 21 !!?) and normal flame hits from 35 to 21.
as always doing a great job in NOT nerfing the class, but making it unplayable instead.
Given this is a balance patch and going strictly by the name of balance. Seeing as there was barely any work done on any of the Elboys except taking away and renewing questionable skills. This brings me to question if Elboy is the most balanced, there have been balance patches over the years done to Elboy there Isn't a substantial difference. Taking away things just to give it back later, or fractionally, or just not at all. I think Elboy's in particular KE's ability to assist both magic and physical without diminishing his combat capabilities, and damage output really helps him stay around as a viable option compared to all the other characters in the game. People consider elboy boring and bland, because his kit, the way his skills look, the way he is used because of the moves he has and the skills he uses aren't as out there as the rest of them. Fair enough, he's the first character afterall and there is only so much you can do. That said, there is still more that can be tried. This patch makes me much rather have no changes being done on him if all the changes are, are like this. It doesn't do much to improve the character in a meaningful way and seems like a trend that will continue across other characters as well, not all of course. Probably should do boss monster balance patches, or not just focus on balancing for end game only. There is a lot of min-maxing going on there but this may do more harm to players not at end game. I think the Elboys are doing below average, could just raise the average more and give everyone good improvements too.
did they just remove every bit of buffing apsara has i get that KR pretty much just use her as a buffer bot but why gut her whole buffing kit
Was so hard to make Double Slash cast faster and remove the charge on Grand Cross??, instead they touch other things and end up turning the Passive "God of War" into God of Memes since they have removed so much effects from that is no better than a 1st job passive
Base Double Slash being so slow is why I heavily prefer its Mod version, which is almost instant.
Whoops, didn't notice that Mod Double Slash was being renewed.
Since the very first batch of characters there's been some extremely questionable changes. We already know the don't play their own game but come on, man. Did they force their newest employee to do this patches, jesus christ. If Ara, who's been considered KoG's favorite for a long time, got shit all over then Eve has a very dark future coming up. All i ask is skills getting affected by action speed for CU. That's all
Well, now I'm worried with how will they balance the other characters. At least Nemesis can't be more dead than she is right now
What's with all the Ara nerfs? Sure, there were some buffs for her sprinkled in, but Ara's one of the weakest characters imo (not unusable, but definitely lacking compared to most of the other chars). She needs buffs, not nerfs.
To give a bit of context why I think Ara's one of the weakest characters, I actually tend to fail to stop Herbaon's Iris In, which is based on damage and not hit count, when leveling up my Aras, while my other characters can usually easily manage that at the same level with the same gear (except my Aishas, she's also weak).
Good patch for MaP
Best patch. Nerf everyone into the ground. Kill your game KoG. More, we want more!
Ara was the meta everywhere for many many years. She was never nerfed except the orb nerf. She f* deserved to suffer like every another class. Deserved, meta slaves.
How so? During Berthe only Devi was good because of the 100% defense ignore skill (which was later nerfed). Aps got popular during Abyss release because of her debuffs. Shakti had to suffer during Berthe but she's doing fine in Abyss, she's still nothing as strong as other physical dps classes like BQ, RI, CA. And SU is just like other healer/freezer classes. Her freeze skill is still the worst freezing skill in the game.
"Worst freezing skill in the game"? Pampero Booster says hi
Oh no worst freezing.... Anyway
dude is still living in 2020 lol, shakti never nerfed? instead of blindly hating how about you check the patches?she got her cdr nerf almost half a decade ago and you complain to this day. she hasn't been S tier since forever but well, haters gonna hate, even if it makes no sense.
All eve class will get crap balance, change my mind.
yikes, still balancing off videos lmao
Killed DoM because players had too much fun, thank god luna isn't uploading cs videos anymore I would not survive another kneecapping.
It's so depressing, I'm currently working using OM for abyss wep and then read this patch. Might just stay OM if DoM's changes are as bad as it seems.
Why they gotta nerf my fav characters. First MtM and now this.
What is A/S?
After sales
????????????????? Shakti / devi weren't even S tier and you guys just killed both for absolutely no reason lmao what is this "balance" patch????
if you wanna promote your new character, illogical changes are definitely not the way to go.
They didn't change Apsara, they made it completely unusable, it's fair to nerf her, but the character simply doesn't exist anymore and what's worse, they call it balance? It would be much simpler to solve this by deleting the character from the game, it would be a more faithful KOG standard for game programming. Surya was the only one who was saved, as Brahma no longer existed in the game anyway, so it wouldn't make any difference anyway.
As an Ara player I feel like quitting Els after this balance. Aps support got demolished without getting anything in return. Her dmg is pretty bad. Devi wasn't even touched. Her dps is still slow and inconvenient in late game. Shakti got her dmg nerfed now that Fox Fire was nerfed. She isn't even top tier in physical dps. Why the nerf was needed considering that BQ and RI weren't nerfed? Surya got some more utility but still 20>10 ASD.
The Shakti nerfs were so unasked for, I haven't even seen a Shakti player since the Rosso days. It's all APS/SU now.
Shakti is still the dps Ara you choose for Abyss raid since Devi is very weak there. But yeah almost all Ara players are either Aps and SU.
Seriously? 2 changes for Devi? It's the first time in 10 years as an Ara main that I'm thinking of quitting Ara.
was hoping for a huge change for TW since her clearing sucks and her overall bossing isn't good at all. My dreams are in shambles ;_;
bro's been playing a different TW than the rest of us
Ara got ruined, tf did they had in mind for aps
good patch i like it
It’s a bitter sweet feeling for TW. She got a little more damage great and they didn’t nerf her directly. And I have yet to see what mod Karma hit box changes are. But I was disappointed they didn’t update her useless passives like Sharpen Arrow, Trap, and Vital point piercing. Not everyone PvPs and those passives are really meant for that. And those passives only really affect her commands and actives which TW doesn’t really get to use endgame :/ She’s a great DPS no doubt but she’s such a drunk. They could’ve did something about her mp management considering the nature of her DPS. All these new damage over time dps classes y’all are lucky XD