DN KR 30th Aug Update: PVP Skill Adjustment for Academic

The following skill adjustments only apply to PVP.

Most of them are unfortunately, nerf (in favor of the new Kali? :D )

1. Alchemist

• Icicle Explosion
- Reduce 30% attack
- Slow effect 50% > 30%
- Duration 11 sec > 4sec

• Magma Wave, Poison Ignite
- 3 Phantom 15% dmg inc / 5 Phantom 25% dmg inc.

2. Engineer

• Ping Pong Shot (EX)
-  Additional damage from remaining jump count reduced by 50% (EX additional 5% dmg > 2% dmg )
- Jump count 8 times > 5 times (EX give additional 1 time)

3. Summon Unit HP changes

• Mechaduck : HP 50% > 5% ( =.= what the .... easily 1-HIT KO?)
• Mechaduk EX: HP 30% > 10%
• Cannon Tower: HP 60% > 10%
• Gattling Tower: HP 60% > 10%
• Ice Palm: Invincible > HP 10% (The hand is no longer invincible =.= )
• Chain Saw Tower: HP 60% > 10%
• Ice Pump Tower : HP 100% > 10%

Bug Fix

• Mechaduck EX: While casting it, the caster is no longer invincible
[ Note: erm, took them long enough to fix this bug. I almost thought it was not a bug. Well this give people less reason to learn this EX, not that it is popular to start with ]

• Ice Pump Tower: Fix the bug whereby ice pump tower effect is 50% slow.

Reference:
http://dragonnest.nexon.com/news/page/nx.aspx?n1PageType=2&n4NoticeArticleSN=89875

yes

1:0 for those who don't like lolis xD

lol academics.

but seriously, they were so imbalanced in pvp it was nigh impossible for some classes to do anything against them.
i still think even with those changes alchemist is going to be pretty good, but engineer seems to be nerfed way too badly..

yayyyy nerf to towers, its about F**Kin time!!

Reply 2#  Dyhakys

Well in KR ladder 8 out of 10 are Lolis... They are so OP right now so yeah deserve the nerfs (even though i have an alchemist i believe the nerf is just)

The nerf to lolis makes me happy... But Im not sure if the nerfs is too extreme for Engineers...

I do think that this is necessary especially for engineer class. At least other classes may fight them now, unlike before.

I like that loli won't be as OP as before, but should kr really be adding nerfs to pvp right now? I mean, its pretty hard to kill someone unless you can get them into big combos.

Was thinking the same thing.
I think these nerfs will backfire, especially with Kali being so F**King OP in pvp...

True... But the reason y Kali is also OP cos its a Pure T4 class: Lower CD than alot of classes as well in pvp... Maybe if our pvp CD is tweaked it will improve the chances of winning?

i think pvp if more than fine as it's now.
cause in t3 it was idiotic beyond belief - got stomped by merc = dead, got hit by any kind of ice from ele = dead, got caught in timestop = dead. and there was nothing you can do about it but try to not get caught in those skills next time.
now it's a lot more about skill so i don't even know what kind of "backfire" could there be.

Well, at least this shows that the developers are now starting to look at PvP after T4. This likely isn't all that's going to happen, obviously Academics were on top of the list of classes that needed to have work started on rebalancing first.

Although the HP reduction of the summons is horrible. I mean they were definitely too high before, but they might be too low now. I agree with ice palm no longer being invincible though, it was kinda stupid that it would just eat up my entire chain lightning while the Alchemist was free to throw crap at everyone and lag wave from afar.

EDIT: Well, too low for equalized PvP, but now that I think about ladder, the new HP values are just perfect. Hmm...

lol... poor gear master.. the ducks and towers will be super squishy.. =.=
the current ping pong is imba, so the nerf is reasonable.

They should better increase the hp becuase 5% and 10% is bull and more people will be more inclined to not follow the skill ban rules

5%/10% is just retarded, one skill wlil pretty much kill everything

Reply 16#  黃軒豪

but isn't it a fair trade - skill for skill?

(i'll elaborate a bit. before it was - academic wastes her cd and you have a duck to fight with, and you have to waste like 5 or more cooldowns to kill it off. now it's - she throws a duck and you're just killing it with one skill(which i kinda doubt is possible though, ex ducks might have like 8k hp which is still aren't ohko). sure it seems like against the mercenary and the likes it's going to be pretty damn hard to win since he's going to kill off ducks and towers with same swings he's gonna attack the engineer.. but before it was the other way around, engineer was, like you said "just retarded").

anyway, all in all that reminds me of ele nerfs, when most eles were crying their eyes out about t4 pvp nerfs, and most jumped the ship with only those who actually loved the class remained on board. so yeah, let the tears flow.

I had already translated :/ but kk

Reply 18#  Twerk

1) this thread - Aug 29, 2012 3:49 am
    your thread - Aug 29, 2012 3:44 pm

2) can you please(see, i'm being polite) remove like half of your sig, it's really damn annoying to scroll through a wall of some idiotic video just to read the next post. thanks.