1. Resonance Revamp
-Reaching lvl 99 adds a quest to obtain Resonance Reset Scroll (Resonance Resets after the update)
Changes to [Dungeon] category
-All Skill Damage
-Polarize (Attack/Attacked)
-Boss Damage Dealt
-Boss Damage Recieved
-Adaptability
2. Dungeon Matching Time Reduced
-Can choose to standby if matching fails
-Retrying the dungeon by yourself won’t give you Hero’s Assemble buff
3. Raid Revamp
-Staying in raid gathering place gives you a buff
-Added featured to search for Raid Party members
4. Character Growth Revamp
-Story quest exp increased, can reach lvl 99 quicker
-Secret Dungeon, Heroic Dungeon quest rewards increased
-Minimum Rank for Heroic gears is 20, chance to get higher rank increased.
-Elite El-Tears come sealed when dropped
-Ruben ~ Elysion dungeons drop consumable food items.
-Magic stone that is higher tier than Advanced Magic Stones added. Can obtain it through weekly quests.
5. Potions
-Fixed certain potions not stacking.
6. Ice Burner Costumes
-Weapons and Accessories also come in cubes. (But not Character Specific IBs)
7. Character Proportion Change
For Elsword/Rena/Raven/Chung/Elesis/Add/Lu
Before
After
First!
second
Third!
FOUR!!!! (its a line drive down the green and its….A HOLE IN ONE!!)
ALL SKILL DAMAGE FOR EL RESSOOOOOO!!!!! YEAASSSSSSSSS
But why separate HP and MP? T_T
And the MP amount is even lower than before, even with a character with no MP increasing passive T_T
Sorry, i was wrong a little. The amount of MP is indeed lower for characters with more than 400 max MP, but for characters with less than 400 max MP it is higher :p
Thanks for the translation 2na.
Nice update, especially the erp update. Specific skill boost—–>asd, now ppl can get easy CP, less turds complaining senselessly.
More reason to grind erp.
All IBs now drop in cubes including weps and acces, this is so great easier to find/buy parts now.
Overall good update. Some ppl would still find something to complain about this tho.
While losing quite some damage due to ASD being additive compared to individual skills and ASD being multiplicative.
Overall is it’s a dmg buff for most builds since we can also get Att/Attd and Boss Damage on erp now. ASD and Att/Attd are different dmg sources, so the dmg boost from them is bigger than just having pure skill boosts.
Of course it only applies to players who have enough erp to fill them.
For ppl that don’t have an idea on how dmg boosts work[ASD, Crit Dmg, Att/Attd. % atk, etc]
here’s a link on some simple computations on how it works: [Read the part about min-maxing stats/dmg if your too lazy to read the whole thing]
https://forum.elsword.koggames.com/forum/getting-started/game-guides/319118-all-skill-damage-vs-tier-stacking-gloves-which-one-is-better#post368145
This update has pros and cons
Say hello to IB weapon and accessories cube~
Kinda sad to see that solo retrying dungeon won’t give us queue buff again (rip solo dungeon)
ERP update is good. Even more nice choices.
Tho, for me separating HP and MP is meh. Additional MP is now a flat +2, not a percent anymore. Also MP Cost reduction is sad, from 0.25 to 0.2
Overall nice improvements <3
How….. uneventful. I can’t even tell the difference in the before and after pictures other than Rena’s chest being raised a bit.
But they’re probably going to release a new character in December anyway.
Speaking of uneventful….. KR Elsword Ranking Watch:
http://www.gamemeca.com/popup/ranking.php?scode=O&rid=1670
Down 1 rank to 39.
I never seen a circle jerk autist like you that is so obsessed with this game ranking and game itself.
Did KoG murdered your family or something. lol
Doesn’t look like there’s an actual change in chest size; it’s just two different frames of her idle animation
The only difference, at least from what I can see is that they’re slightly taller
From what I see, it seems to be another head resizing, and it also appears that Elsword is now shorter, but that’s probably a matter of perspective.
Yeah that’s what it looks like. Shorter elboy for some odd reason. Maybe makes avoiding damage a pixel easier or something lol.
Maybe besides height something else changed, but i cant tell at all. Is one of them heavier or lighter? Hope not but whatever. Kog wants story consistency with the characters in the game for some reason. But screw balance and skill consistency. Oh well, minor complaint.
Idk. The only difference I see is that they’re more shiny.
So… No farming with random buff anymore
i see no different of character proportion change ….
look really closely to Renas breasts, you an see the cleavage is a bit more hidden, aka her bust got increased
i dub this patch the bust patch, waiting for lu pics cause i think her bust is big now
Oh, they better make Ishtar look like her artwork instead of just being Noblesse with bigger boobs…..
No… that’s because they took the images in different moments in her basic pose, she’s just in a different position, that’s why her chest looks “revamped”.
Also hahah lol you know they will never do that with Ishtar Endy, anyways Ishtar still has mosquito bites as you say for breasts so her in-game model is pretty accurate.
Anyways you know that all character models are identical regardless of class differences now, so doing that would affect each and every single Lu out there, which means that you’ll then start complaining about how “they stupidly increased the size of lolis but now it makes “adult ishtar” look smaller”
Theoretically, they could give her promo costume a bigger chest. I actually found that Elesis’ Kindergarten costume makes her chest smaller, so it’s possible.
However, I actually find that Lu’s model has a bigger chest than her artwork already, so… no real point in doing that.
i can’t see the difference thing about character propotion change except the after picture had more bright…
and also, did KoG already forgot about Ereda Island still exist? this actually really need some attention, or atleast makes it easily to get warrior chronicle acceccories set….
Heads got slightly shrunk. Can’t say I like this, got used to everyone having big heads (and now I’m playing MS2, where chibi is the norm, so even more so)
There’s no change in Rena’s boobs, that’s just from her breathing.
He didn’t say anything about Rena’s boobs though?
No gamebreaking new playable char in this year winter update
Or not yet
Jesus Christ, i allocate all my ERP to MP cost reduce and max HP/MP increase. Now what should i do? they nerf it even seperated the HP and MP increase..
It’s gettig resettled when we get the update so you can choose what you want to put your points in
Potions are a thing, and so are oneshots…
Do you even need the max HP and MP increases anymore? Just take the MP cost reduction if you wanna get spam happy and call it a day
It’s not really good. Couse you can nos get 35%tier with 100ptsERP. After 25%. That new atak/ed gives 7,5% + 25%= 32,5 but… 150ptsERP… Ig you don’t have 400ERP it’s only strong nerf
Also, now we need 3ERP slot opened.
People are still misunderstanding about different increasing damage options. A/A and skill tiers damage does not work like that.
The % was nerfed, true, but now you’re increasing the damage of ALL skills, not just a single tier, so I think that’s an overall buff.
The only % that wasn’t nerfed is hyper skill damage.
If this still affects them, then it breaks even. But it’s still a buff seeing that you now only need 100 points instead of 400+
Still a damage nerf due to asd erp and regular asd being additive while seperate skilldmg tiers with asd worked multiplicative.
While some characters and players suffer from it due to either Depending on one skill(willingly as a player but sometimes rarely due to character flaws on KoG’s part), Other characters could benefit as other skills gain more damage and clearing potential/burst potential; It’s a sacrifice for more. Gives more CP as well, so there’s that.
Soooo… No new character again
Just wait for it.
I think if we don’t get a new character we might get a “renewal.” And nobody wants that.
Pray for the new character.
So no actual content is planned. Got it.
This stuff arrives literally next week, it’s not actual “winter content”
It’s amazing how the game is still up given how little content KOG actually adds these days, isn’t it?
Especially when the latest batch is pay2access.
Actually, this update is for next week, it’s not the winter update
And there’s still something else in the update that has not been posted here
-Retrying the dungeon by yourself won’t give you Hero’s Assemble buff
Out of all the updates in the game, this actually triggers me.
Time to quit boys
Entirely sympathize. Soloing story mode 11-5 w/o leaving and re-entering has been mandatory for me when doing 3rd job quests or the 2nd Hyperactive quest, as I don’t have to deal with people skipping the minibosses for the former, and people needing minibosses for the latter.
Can’t you just go on Discord and form a party?
You shouldn’t need discord to form a party…
There should be in-game features to help you form parties… that’s like the same thing as needing a book to understand a movie
I love you
I don’t really like this new updating..yes, the effect that increase all skill damage is good, but it makes already broken characters as Bloody Queen, Tempest Buster, Herrscher, etc.. more broken because in this way they can boost strength and bravery with wich they are both strong, whereas before, one of the two types had to be sacrificed, but already using only a specific build they were already broken.
I think that with this update the game lost his remained aspect of personalization: every character will spend El resonance points for the same abilities, so there is no different in the builds of different characters.
I feel sooo sad with this. Ugh why oh why
Uh someone enlighten me cause I don’t see the difference in that proportion revamp lol
Head size.
For the ones that don’t see the difference it’s easier to compare side to side in two different browser tabs.
I think they changed the size of their torso pretty slightly and reduced their head size too
The torso is because the characters are breathing in their animation and its hard af to get perfectly matching screenshots.
Except that they’re the developer and thus have access to developer tools and could thus display the animations during the exact same frames.
But they clearly didn’t, this is is most likely an image taken in the Art Studio…
You cant use those poses in the Art Studio. They were lazy.
Good update, although its sad that seemingly NOTHING new is planned for Winter.
Specially after how mediocre the GoD “”””r e v a m p”””” was.
Also solo retrying not giving Buff, <– delet dis.
This update is for next week, it’s not the winter update
PLZ that retry nerf theres some ppl taht need solo i suggest to remove this since we need our solo runs and not waiting 1 minit to do solo runing on sum ded dungeon
and fix ereda plz to make it more active make an event or anything
well, at least if they keep changing all skill tier increases to ASD, the diminishing returns for it gets bigger faster and the meta changes in favor for crit dmg first; and we will most likely see a new ASD ring to enforce it further
To be fair, the ones who actually retry after getting solo buff are not the ones that the queue buff should help in the first place.
Why not? Some people can’t even run in a party because of Major FPS drop since years ago in pre season.
That’s solely your problem if you can’t run in parties in an MMO where you are supposed to interact with other players.
Nice attempt at demagoguery, but if it’s 11-5 Story Mode, you’re either wanting to run it as fast as possible, skipping the minibosses, or you’re running it for as many Spatio Reaper/Skin Splitter kills as possible, meaning you CAN’T rush the first boss.
These are MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE goals. Being forced to wait in a queue is detrimental to the speed runner, and having speed runners in the queue is detrimental to the miniboss-hunter.
In the first place, the auto queue buff is to compensate those who wanna find parties but end up finding no one or fewer members than expected, and it is to ENCOURAGE party play. Of course, you shouldn’t expect to get FREE buff if you wanna help yourselves only. And as expected, the minor restriction is put on these solo buff loners. And the queue time is shortened so not like it is that important, find a party member if you really want.
No one cares for 11-5 story mode lol, that is a piece of cake even without the buff, and even then, not like you will see much of those going for 11-5 story just to rush.
“No one cares about 11-5 story mode”? Bet you’ve never done a 3rd job advancement quest in your life.
I advanced to third job without ever running 11-5. I just did 11-3 every day. Yeah, it takes longer, but you don’t have to deal with the OPness of Hennon.
Then appreciate the possibility of doing this story mode FOR FREE compared to the good ol time grinding 11-3 or gambling for Rng In 11-5 normal mode ( because story mode has shitty reward)
Well, the way I see it, I don’t care if I solo or party… but the thing is…
WHY HAVE THE OPTION TO SOLO IF YOU’RE GONNA PUNISH IY? That’s like making people have to have a +11 to enter a stage, but then nerfing the power of said +11 so you can’t clear said stage….
Oh wait, they kinda did that with combat power already…
The queue buff is there in case you try and cannot find a party, not for refusing to find a party.
In a game like elsword, it’s better to just solo the dungeons instead of worrying about not getting a drop for said item or not have to deal with someone lagging the game as host.
They made the game like this and now they are trying to take it away, to force party making and team work lol
That’s Elsword for ya.
In Babel: “No, because it’s meant to be that way and blah blah blah”
In KoG/Gameforge/Voidels forums, they keep bitching on the salt threads because their blind loyalty and fanboyism bite them in the ass really hard.
KoG should kill this game and bring back Hero Fighter’s Club.
Blind loyalty and fanboyism while playing in VoidEls? wot?
*confused nibba meme here*
Queue buff nerf is especially bad for non KR servers. The queues are dead, all you’re doing is forcing people to exit the dungeon and waste time on queue again. Between this and their attempt to nerf raid buff stacking, do you want us to work together or not? Lol.
Yeah, ok, ok. So where’s the new character we’re supposed to have each Winter, November – December ?
We haven’t had a new char every winter. The 2014 to 2015 Winter didn’t get a new character at all, and neither did the 2017 to 2018 winter.
For anyone wanting a better look at the proportions change, here’s the gif image from KR Elsword’s site:
http://s.nx.com/s2/game/elsword/2018/event/1107_up33ate/tab4_gif.gif
About Rena’s youknowwhat, pretty sure it’s unchanged.
1.) In her Daybreaker pose, it goes up and down slightly anyways so you it’s hard to tell if it’s genuinely different or it’s just breathing
2.) Why would they increase it when that sort of treatment goes to Ara and Rose anyway?
As for what’s actually changed, Head size has been shrunken, feet have been stretched like a pixel- Rena seems to be slightly taller too (stretched her upper body by a pixel, can tell by the out grey lines on the abdomen of her outfit) aaaand that’s about it from what I can tell
Hey thanks, this was helpful!
Damn. Solo buff when retrying gone…I could care less. Let’s see if they actually make a new character lol. Overall ERP revamp is intriguing. Hope y’all look at Ereda and give it a revamp
Not yet. We still have a few weapons that I know kog can create a character with.
Hammer
Axe
Scythe
Rapier
Tonfa
Nunchucks
Character concept:
the final demon lord. We got Lu, Stirbagen is an NPC, Barkat is the only one we do know lead the betrayal and is in charge, so we got the last one.
A Henir fenatic gone rogue or with ulterior motives.
One of the final El Masters…after all there is 2 spots left elrianode but 3 El Masters:
Rosso ( Who didn’t show up after he was saved and returned to elrianode, mind you)
Gaia and Ebalon ( Who are suspected to be in Varnimyr still)
Or they could throw a curve ball and create an entirely original character that has not been mentioned in the story yet.
Or they could pull a Rose…..
I just hope they don’t pull an Ain or a Dreadlord (As much as I love Dreadlord) and give them a concept weapon but never actually use it.
I remember I long long time ago, before the release of Rose, that a friend of mine who used to be an employee at KoG showed us concept art for a new character, a little pink loli kinda like Lu, but used a summon as a weapon, my guess is that it was leftover concept for Lu but some ideas got used for Ain, like her weapon was said to be more conceptual and her playstyle was similar to the Shakti path in that she used aspects of her summon to attack, like Shakti/Asura uses claws from Eun and such.
Or hey, they could dig up some ancient fan-made character from the glory days like Lilith and use her, but that I highly doubt..
Wasn’t it a puppet master?
I thought the rumor was that they didn’t go with it because of how hard it would be to release more costumes and IB. The concept was to have the puppet follow her around in town like a pet, but they really couldn’t create her because there was a hard time thinking of how she would use close combat in pvp….
Valid reason, but it came down to how complicated and how much they would have to work on her. I doubt she’ll come into play..
Yeah that one.
I wouldn’t be mind for scythe or rapier chars. Greatsword would be nice too. (I can’t think about Elsword’s and Elesis’s swords as greatswords – they’re too fast)… Whip maybe. But why again only melee? Like, really, as I was writing before there are so many melee classes already in the game. I hope there will be something with proper magic. We could get water\cryomancer, poison\mushroom witch, succubus summoning\seduce type, spider or snake queen, enchantress with high controll spells that will work even on bosses and team buffs, alchemist with lots of potion based skills etc.
I say melee types because you can have a ranger character, but like Rena, you’ll do a lot of close combat given how many classes there are that are melee, like you said.
Maybe if we didn’t have characters like Raven, Elsword, and Elesis who are heavily confrontational, then maybe. But we do, and they are the most played characters.
Nice, a free El Res reset. Now I can fix my El Resonance on my characters. Also, like the new options for Dungeon category.
Wait, I just realized: what about the coins and scrolls we used before the reset? Will we get reimbursed for them?
I bet not
Have we ever gotten reimbursed for spent money?
Exactly
When they make the great nerfquake in 2015 and revamped the skill system, I lost money I had just used to buy some skill notes… Still waiting for my refund! >:(
KR might get reimbursed…
The other servers… yeah… good luck with that
Oh? KR might?
LF> Server Transfer Event
ok i don’t want to start a disorder but it doesn’t say “resonance (only 40% of effect aplied in PvP.) atleast not in its usual place
Urgh, the ones on the left don’t show how many points you can invest. How am I going to make my new El Resonance builds if I don’t even know how many points I can put into some of the options?
Hey, I have a question regarding the most recent custom sit motion. It seems like you could assign 2 characters in that motion? How does it work?
“-Retrying the dungeon by yourself won’t give you Hero’s Assemble buff” I understand what they’re trying to do, but that’s only going make people cancel more often. A lot of people want to avoid dealing with randumbs, so they try very hard to get a roll going solo with the heroic buff. You just made your queue very awkward.
So….. what does it say about us and/or Rena that the only thing most of us noticed is that Rena’s boobs were positioned differently?
Imean ofcourse that’s what you would’ve noticed tho
jkjk but Imean c’mon. If you’re just casually viewing it and don’t have a gif like this, you honestly can’t see much of a difference
What’s this talk with a new character? Noooo game is unbalanced as hell already but whatever. Kog don’t care and player base don’t care.
Why do i continue to hope?
As far as this patch goes, maybe its good, idk. I cant understand kog these days.
And once again, No developer’s notes telling us why they made these changes but again, whatever.
The game’s dying. KoG knows that. But because Elsword is one of their most important projects this far, to them it makes more sense to create a new character. People gain interest and the game gets more popularity again. That’s how they’ve done it all the time so far. Whenever there were major (NEGATIVE!) changes within the game, they either resorted to Quality of Life – Updates or they introduced a new character to distract players from the actual issues at hand. It’s a circle they repeat every single time. KoG does things people hate, they don’t care and want you to throw money down their throats and then they try to get you by making a new chara or attractive (usually free!) content.
Uh, it’s just speculation at the moment. No new chars have been confirmed yet.
I think what you guys aren’t seeing, and why the El resonance update isn’t particularly good is because, not only do you get less scaling from it, you’re basically spreading your damage to skills you may not even use.
If you’re a BQ, Sariel, KE, FB, etc.. your damage is primarily on strength/bravery skills, with the new update; yeah, your Brutal cutter will get stronger, or your sonic slash is gonna get stronger, but for the risk that your main skills get weaker.
Then, to get back that extra 10%, first you would need another 100 El resonance levels, and second you either sacrifice taking 10% more damage or make it specifically for bosses.
All in all you would need El resonance level 100 for all skill damage, another 100 to break even from the previous el resonance, another 100 for your utility(max MP/MP consumption/cooldowns) or drop rates
So the stats these give is inefficient for both new and old players.
Guys. Look for another game. Even if you don’t intend to move games or pick it up yet, just look for one.
Shit is hitting the fan, and its flying fast. If things fall apart, you should have a backup option. It doesn’t matter what it is. Play Wizard 101 for all I care. Heck, it doesn’t even have to be an MMO. Just find something.
If everything breaks, and you don’t know what game you’re going to play in this one’s place, you’re going to be confused.
Talk about it with your guild. Maybe move games as a collective. Just. Do. SOMETHING.
Or just pray that the Koreans get angry enough at this post so that they undo it
Looking for that good ol’ Chloe as a playable character pls. Can we have legit Assassin class. Prays to KoG.
Overall good patch.
Here’s my take on this:
-better el res options (aside from the HP/MP split, but who cares with all the potions and oneshots). Not bad.
-Okay, being able to request has hits and misses but… WHY THE HELL ARE YOU PUNISHING SOLOING WHERE YOU ALLOW SOLO PLAY KOG?!
-Nice raid changes, no complaints
-Not a complaint but I wish all these changes happened sooner. Especially the Exp thing cause it’s so easy to cap. Back when the lv cap for NA was lv65, that stuff was brutal and we even needed more Exp per level than any server…
-why wasn’t said potions stacking before?
-don’t care about IBs, I’m good with the one I have
-don’t see how the proportions changed, even after others pointed it out so… screw it
RIP oneshotters.
My current ERP = 212
How I distribute them now:
30p HP/MP || 22p StrengthDmg || 100p BraveryDmg || 60p Cooldown
That (used to) give me:
518MP as Bluhen (and I couldn’t care less about HP) || 7.7% StrengthDmg || 35% BraveryDmg || 15% Cooldown
But after this batch, in order to get the same amount of MP and Cooldown, I need to allocate:
34p to MP || 75p to Cooldown
That already wasted 4+15 = 19 ERP
And of course I’ll max out the ASD, so with that I’ll get 25% ASD
And now I’m left with only 3 ERP to allocate to either Atk/Atked or Boss Damage. What can I achieve with only 3 point?
For raid, sure I can consider this a buff (or at least NOT a nerf) since I spam both Bravery and Strength Skill. But for normal dungeons, this is definitely a nerf. A major nerf. I doubt if I will still be able to oneshot even normal mobs, with TEN PERCENT BraverySkillDamage nerfed.
How I perceive this update: Basically KoG is trying to force you to grind more ERP. They just wanted to create a reason for you to keep playing the game, while they’re making new content. Meh~ It’s about time I quit.
Also RIP Henir runners. I’m glad I quitted Henir a long time ago.
Not a bad one Kog. Not Bad