Category: Info Broadcast

 

October 7th Tidbits

October 25th Balance Adjustments

Passive Stance

• Some stances will become passive skills:
  • Fury Stance
  • Brave Stance
  • Elemental Stance
  • Average Stance

Stance Behavior Changes

• The following stances will remain Active Skills.
• However, these stances will be paired with their counterpart where the effects will switch when activated.
• For Example: (Guard Stance : Fury Stance)
• If you press the stance button again, the effect will return to the original stance.
  • Guard Stance
  • Wise Stance
  • Weak Stance
  • Break Stance

Skill Activation Animation Removed

• Some skills will have their activation animations removed
  • Guard Stance, Wise Stance, Weak Stance
  • Break Stance, Wand Lovers, Wand Gear Element
  • Talis Fast Throw, Switch Strike, Pet Switch Strike
  • Pet Switch Shoot, Critical Field, Elemental PP Restorate Field
  • Reverser Field

Skill Activation Animation Speed Up

• Some skills will have faster activation animation speed.
  • War Cry, Limit Break, Photon Flare.

Techer Skill: Elemental Weak Hit Improvement

• Damage will also rise when attacking the non-elemental weakness.
• 10% non-elemental weakness at level 10

Braver & Bouncer Skill: Braver Mag / Bouncer Mag

• Changed the conversion rate to 100%
• Becomes a default skill

 

Future Balance Adjustments

Movement Speed Improvements

• They are looking into measures so you don't have to continuously use movement type PAs/Technics. They'll announce whatever their plans are in the future.

Technic Battle Tempo Improvements

• They are looking into implementing a skill that treats charged technics as Just Attacks.

Gameplay Content to Test the Strength of Powerful Players

• They plan to release content in the future where the enemies are stronger. They'll increase the rare drop rate in response to match how difficult it is.

 

Other Stuff

Trick or Treat 2017

• The EQ will drop a new ★13 Talis (Lumihorrey)

Solo Buster Quest

• You'll soon be able to start a Buster Quest solo.

Dark Blast

• Dark Blasts can be used once per quest and lasts for 60 seconds.
• In the future, you might be able to customize the color too!
• Dark Blast EXP is shared among the account, but the skill assignment is character based.
  • (Dark Blast has a bunch of skills that requires a set amount of EXP to level up. For example, Punishment Short Charge reduces the charging times for Punishment Knuckle. This skill requires zero EXP on LV. 1, but then asks for a very high amount on Lv. 2. Also on an unrelated note, some Dark Blast skills require certain actions before they're unlocked in the Dark Blast Skill List.)

Emergency Buster Quest

• Emergency Buster Quests will have difficulties: N, VH, SH, XH
• The enemy level in SH is 75
• ★14 may drop in SH too, but the drop rate on XH is higher.
• XH requires Lv. 80/80
• You can play two times per ship.
• Elder Pain Omega is said to have a potential similar in some way to Elder Pain.

Regular Buster Quest (10/25~)

• Buster Tower and Pile HP will change based on the number of people.
• Buster Quest Play Stamina limit will be removed.

ARKS Boost Rally

• Deus ★14 weapons will drop in the next ABR

Buster Quest Weapon Camos

• They plan to add weapon camos with each country.

Story Quest Campaign (TBA Oct 11)

• You can get the Valiant camo by clearing upcoming story content in chapter 2
• You can get EP Zero Memory by clearing upcoming story content in chapter 2 and one of Episode 2's Omnibus Quests.
• Exact details will be announced during an upcoming maintenance.

Ultimate Quest Resuscitation

• They're thinking about having NT versions of the Slave series, etc, in the future. 
• Ultimate Amduscia is getting a special boost for a limited time. It's the type that buffs the enemies while increasing the RDR.
• ★14 will be inserted into the drop table during this special boost.

Special Ability Reordering

• They haven't finalized their decision yet, but they're thinking of having a feature that reorders the list of the special abilities.

More to be added.

 

 

 

 

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September 2nd Tidbits

Balance Adjustments to Existing Classes for Late October's Update:

• Close-range weapon step distance improvement.
• Step Attack pursuing ability improvement.
• Movement type PA improvements.
• Step Jump will also apply to Dive Roll.
• Mirage Escape movement distance and turning ability improvement.
• Improved the damage performance with normal attacks.
• Reduced Hitstops (Aka Hit-Pause)
• PP recovery performance improvement.
• Buffed the power of certain PAs.

(Existing Classes) refers to classes added before Hero was implemented. The point is to make players who are skillful in utilizing existing classes, come a little closer to Hero. This will be the first round of adjustments, more will be coming in the future.

Special Ability Affixing Boost Day (Dudu Day)

• Certain Special Abilities will have an affixing boost on Tuesdays.
• The Affixes that qualify will be boosted by 5% on that day.
• The Affixes that qualifies for the boost event will rotate.
• Striking = Power / Act The Soul, etc
• Ranged = Shoot / Till The Soul, etc
• Tech  = Technic / Mother Factor, etc
• HP/PP = Stamina / Spirita / Stigma, etc

The first Special Ability Affixing Boost Day is September 12th.

Arks Autumn Function (October)

• Unit Design General Election
  • Winning Unit becomes an Accessory
• Weaponoid Costume Election
  • Male and Female in separate divisions.
• Concert Boost Event
  • +30% Live Boost
• Daily Client Order Campaign

Bluesy Requiem and Avenger's costume will be implemented too.

PSO2 Day

• The next PSO2 Day will be Oct 2nd.
• On this day, the Rappies will transform into ARKS Rappies.*
• The ARKS Rappies will drop a new special ability called Arks Fever
• *Technically it should be [Aks Rappy] but it sounds silly.

Favorite Songs

• Nicolas and Director Hamasaki's favorite song is Las Vegas Night
• Ichitaro likes Big Vardha

Multi-Block Matching

• This will take some time but they're thinking about having a feature where you log into blocks that support multi-block matching.  (This would prevent the case where people log into beginner blocks and wonder why the MPA isn't filling.) They also want to make it apparent when you're in a block that supports multi-block matching.

 

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August 5th Tidbits

Late August Update

• Kingdom Fantasy Scratch
  • Luther, Harriett, and Alisa Layered Wear
  • Cuent Natives outfit
  • Scratch Bonus: Arm Claws L/R & Missile Lobby Action

 

Late August Update

• The "Mysterious Man," Harriet, Alisa, and Cuent Commoner outfits.

 

Late August Update

• A new Advance Quest after all these years.
• Advance Quest: Shironia
• Anjhadu-lili or Gigur Gunnegam may appear at the end.
• Requires advance capsule f on SH

 

Late August Update

• New limited-time Event: ARKS Boost Rally
• The Boost effect increases when you clear the targeted quests.
• The boost effect will increase based on the difficulty cleared.
• Advance Quests: Coast, Volcano, and Shironia will host the first Rally.

 

Stratos Weapon Camo

• The weapon camo will be awarded through a Story Quest campaign.
• The camo is called Lux Frieden.
• Campaign begins August 9th.

Cross-Block Matching Bugs

• They are planning to do a partial fix next maintenance, but there will be another fix arriving August 16th.

Arks Battle Tournament

• Apparently there was a bug discovered during the tournament where one could cast invisible Technics. They're going to implement that bug fix around September.

Buster Quests

• [MM Advanced] requires Class level 80/80 and 3000 Buster Points. The drop contents will be the same as [MM], but in [Advanced] you'll have a better shot at rares.
• If you disconnect or logout during the quest, you'll lose even more Buster Points than normal.
• 3000 Buster Points is the maximum you can have. 
• Buster Quests will have the 999,999 damage cap.
• [MM] has 2 Devil Barriers, while [MM Advanced] gets 4 Devil Barriers.
• The ★14 Demonia weapon series and the ★12 units will drop on the higher end difficulties.
• If you haven't done so already, make sure to play through EP5's Story Quest in order to access Buster Quests when it launches.

Expert Matching

• Expert Player matching will work regardless of difficulty, but it will not work specifically for [Free Match Buster Quests].

Advance Quest: Shironia

• Shironia will have a low chance to drop Chandra stones.

Battle Arena

• The weapons you pick up from the mining spot have special abilities attached.

Heroes

• First Blood does not apply to the A.I.S.
• For basic attacks, they're going to slightly modify the jump cancellation timing due to an issue that occurs with macros.
• During development, there were talks over having a gauge or some such for Hero Boost, but it was dropped due to visibility concerns.

ARKS Boost Rally

• A new ★13 Sword called "Altacray" will drop for this event.

More to be added…

 

 

 

 

 

July 30th Tidbits

 

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