Yes! So i spent about 2hours + mapping just a while ago… (now I'm back on mac of course, and using my favorite MarsEdit).
I'm back with an armful of SSes and yes… i tested out all 3 new pqs! So let's JUMP!
Loads of SSes coming up, you have been warned!
EDIT: wow, i've written for 1.5 hours and I'm not even halfway through the post… and more and more news about jump is coming up from forums… ok, i guess i'll just post what i have and add on later?
!st up, is the new login screen:
So they changed the SG and Msia gateway pics to this… nothing much special otherwise.
Hmm… that's the mount skill screen… and nope, I'm throughly disappointed. The mount etc items are still there in my eq inv :S sighs… i guess this only works for those mount coupons thingys… where the say pink bean rider skill will show up here instead of in the beginner skills. Speaking of which, i still have loads of those coupons in my use inv...
Ah… just saw this in forums. The medals tab thing is here, under the medals window… medals can be re-issued now, so free feel to throw them out… http://forums.asiasoftsea.net/showthread.php?t=1011726
As expected, my Achilles 30 is gone, and replaced by AFA 30. I'll miss you, Achilles T.T
Other changes include power guard changing into power reflect (if i remember the name correctly?)… which doesn’t reflect much damage at all really.
whatever the case, its definitely not 500% of your attack… :S which makes it kinda useless… as compared to power guard… i want my old power guard back T.T at least it blocks out more damage. Who cares about this wee bit of extra damage dealt really?
Also, i noticed the IS animation is faster… so looks like they finally fixed the bug? MongGhost and Adryan from the lounge confirmed that its now faster… heck, just a feel hits and i felt that it was different and faster… though i didn’t think too much about it till mong mentioned it in forums...
Its quite amazing how i never forget how to use my hero. I guess once a hero, forever a hero… I'd forget my keys on my evan and other chars… but now my hero. Granted i played on my hero years more than the other chars… but the feeling… I'd never forget it… right down to all the small and new things like where my mount skill (key) is, and where my pet food and mining/npc chat button is. That's what makes me still miss maple i guess… I'm not mapling much anymore, but I'd probably never FULLY quit it either… still enjoyed my hour of leviathan hunting and another hour plus of pqing… anyway moving on…
EDIT: Thanks to ah law for doing the calculations for me… 500% from power reflect is that of the original damage you would have taken if power reflect didn’t absorb the 30% damage. So the damage you take with damage reflect is 70%, the mob gets 500% of that. Not much really...
So, the light bulls got moved out of the way and to the left side. Nice. Hmm, the instructor renting out the airplanes can only be found in certain places… basically like all the stations. Except ludi? Cos that place has a train station instead of a flying object station? IDK… haven visited the npc yet.
Than there's the star indicating the events available now…
The elite warrior quest gives you the special mastery books… but since i've maxed them all, i picked the MMB… which gave me a pathetic smoke bomb book...
The 2nd event is about the new event menu. Not bad, lets you see far ahead on what's coming out, way before it's even announced on the maple site.
So that's how the event window looks like...
(yes, this SS was taken at the ice knight's curse pq area)
And ah, i stand to be corrected on my earlier post, it seems like they are giving everyone a free coupon… hmm… wonder what i'll end up with after the previous time with my weird haircut...
So you can see what rewards you can get from events, and the eq stats too.
Some random SS of my whaling random mobs. I tried to look for treasure monsters, but didn’t find any wandering around leafre...
NOTICE! EXP gain from mob is now scaled according to player level! This is something that i obviously didn’t notice yesterday while playing… like why would a lvl 200 care abt the mob exp anyway? :S So yeah, the above SS just proved that… From HS blue kents are supposed to give 1884exp, but i got 754exp… good news is that you don't end up with zero exp altogether… baad news is that you can't stay at that ideal training spot for an extended amount of time anymore… like how i love training my evan at ghost pirates cos i can 1hko them… sighs… bad news for those with low damage, and for those jobs that has restrictions on training grounds like elemental weaknesses… This thing might make it harder for you to find training grounds now…
More random SSes of me whacking leviathan. Well actually… take note of my pathetic damage.
More noob damage...
Ah yes, panic! It now hits 6 mobs, and has a 30 sec CD time. And yes, they changed the panic damage formula so it actually hits decent damage… see it actually hits more damage than my IS (saw a 300k too). And now it only uses up 2 orbs instead of all the orbs… plus it puts the mob in darkness, even boss mobs… so that means...
Tada… see the (ever so slightly) higher damage? Yes, with darkness on mobs (and boss mobs), that means we now can get chance attack to work on boss mobs. Hurrah! ok, its quite hard to see from this ss…. but with darkness, i hit 8Xk, 9Xk a lot, even 10Xk when there's crit… w/o darkness i mostly hit 6xk and 7xk… no 8xk ever.
more random SSes...
hmm, they mentioned in the patch notes that the look of the mirror of dimension got changed…. they CALL THIS CHANGED??? it just looks a little bigger to me -.-'''
They also mentioned that the mini map will auto resize… well when you go in leafre town (from outside the town, or even just coming out from the pot shop), they will auto resize the mini map till THIS big. I swear its not even mini anymore. This 'auto resizing' feature can be really irritating at times when they decide you need a map taking up a quarter of the screen space.
I came across a monster park shuttle… so 7th of March eh? Guess those ppl looking for a place to grind will have to do PQs in the mean time.
So the new PQs have of cos been added to the mirror of dimension. Oh yes… just a random note… the new pas have this completion bar thing to show how close you are to the end/which stage you are on. Not sure if the old pqs have that bar now too… haven tried any of the old pqs yet.
Kenta In Danger
The 1st PQ i tried was the Kenta in Danger PQ. You need a pt of 3-6 members for this one...
Basically, all you have to do is kill and kill and kill. Oh and pick up some bubbles the mob drop in between. That's about it… the exp is good, and it gives 74 Ambition, 44 willpower, 26 charm per round too. Yes the hard to obtain charm too! There's a limit of 10 rounds per day though.
1st stage, kill everything you see. Squids and risell squids… but the mob level scales according to average level of the pt. So if you are a low leveled player in a pt with lvl 19x and lvl 200 peeps… good luck to you heh. You'll end up missing the mobs a lot...
Sharks, with the ability to cast slow… which is quite irritating. Unlike the previous stage where you just kill everything to clear, in this stage you have to collect 20 air bubbles which droop from the sharks. So don't just kill w/o collecting the bubbles!
If you got a decent pt, you can do this 2 stages fairly quickly.
After that is a protect Kenta session. 3 mins, fixed time, so you can't shave off any time on this stage… The mobs come in rather huge droves, so if u have a low hp, watch out…! Someone in my pt almost died here… (oh yeah, and if u're lagging…)
Quite a bunch of them coming at once...
I guess the bm was kinda suffering… missing the mob loads and all.
After that is kill pianus (left and right!) time! Yes, it’s the regular pianus that can hit up to like… 6k damage? with the full bunch of skill locks, and 1,1 etc… so bring along some all cure pots… and make sure you aren't lagging else...
The bm died shortly after entering, and the other nl lagged terribly and died… just like how pianus has always been, the left pianus dispels a lot…So for mages, beware the DP! Oh yes, there's skill lock too… glad i had my supply of ACP with me, and more importantly, it was rigged to a key!
Killing the two pianus gives me 2 fish scales..
80 scales will give you a goggles with stats that's… not very good… if u already have the sg/msia flag sunglasses.
Oh and oh… did u see that? 5.7mil exp! I missed the right fish one, not sure if it gave the exp too, but i know it did give me the pianus scale. Now sure if the exp is scaled to level or something… i think it's scaled to level though...
EDIT: yup, the exp gained is scaled to level. My friend gets 3.6+mil exp at lvl 182, which is about 1% per pq. Very good exp… gives 74 Ambition, 44 willpower, 26 charm per round too. No wonder they have to limit it to 10 rounds per day...
And oh, nothing much, just the fish scale… its untradeable of cos
Escape
Ok, next up is the Escape party quest. There's a limit of 10 rounds per day too.
As usual, you get in from the mirror of dimension. Note that there is a limit of 10 times per day for this pq!
1st… rewards are as follows...
The belt is not too bad… 2wa.. lvl 120 too, so you'll get tier 3 potential if u decide to pot it. It has only 3 slots tho...
1st up, is a jump quest -.-''' Any member in the pt will jumps to the portal at the top will bring the rest of the members in. Phew… else ppl like me will never be able to do this pq.
After that you go to a stage where you have to defeat all the mobs… well there aren't that many mobs tho...
Next is the confusing place… the Dark towers… There are dark towers 1-6… so the goal is to get to dark tower 6. When you reach the 6th tower, there will be a portal at the bottom right side that brings the whole pt to the next stage. A blue notice will appear in the chat box too. There are 4 portals at the top in each tower, each of which brings you to a random tower… and the way the portal links to each other changes with each pq too. I recommend taking note of the tower number in the mini map and keeping a mental note on which portal leads to where to make things easier. The 1st time round i didn’t know wat was happening and was simply entering portals at random… didn’t even realize there were different towers till later...
After that… its more mass killing….
Than there's jump quest part 2… which i absolutely failed at.
Dunnoe why, but this round everyone kept falling off and off, and we took super long to complete this stage :S
After that is more killing… This time round you have to pick up the keys that the mob drops in order to open the prison doors. Clicking on the treasure boxes will spawn more mobs… more mobs = more chances or getting the keys = faster pq completion.
The final stage… defeat the prison guard boss… which is really simple. Its like the usual ani raid boss, but so far i haven gotten SD yet.
There… finishing the pq nets you a bunch of exp… same as the kenta pq, the exp is dependent on level. Oh you get 70 willpower too, not sure if it gives any other stats though… didn’t really take note.
Untradable as usual.
The Ice Knight’s Curse
Ok, the last new pq… this is is mainly for low leveled players… Its really easy, and really quick. (ok, maybe not that easy for low levels)
Looks familiar? Yes… it’s the low level mapper's version of rex pq.
Basically it’s the same thing… the little blue guy walks, and you protect him. With the pq revamp though, rex should walk a lot faster now, and take a much more direct route, as was in this pq. The guy walks much faster than the old ahpeh rex ever did, and there's only a total of 2 maps before the boss fight. Phew!
pq completed in 4 mins… the final boss is the ice knight - the very same sprite you see players get changes into in the ice knight PVP… not sure about it's skills though… it died before i could do anything… heck, i didn’t even get to charge up my orbs!
And now for the rewards...
Since it’s a pq for low levels, the rewards aren't almighty super powerful either. Nonetheless, the rewards aren't too shabby either… (and they are pretty easy to get too)
20 rounds of pq for the earrings, and 10 rounds for the shoes… why did i say the rewards aren't too shabby? They add battle mode attack! 1 on the earrings and 2 on the shoes… So if you have enough space in ur eq inv and do pvp loads, you might want to consider getting these two eqs for the sole purpose of pvp… Since larson's battle eq doesn’t include shoes or earrings… these two pieces of eqs help fill up the gap.
Just how much attack does battle mode attack give? Say compared to you regular eq? i really don't know…! Just keep in mind that unless you do the lvl 180+ bracket pvp, potential stats aren't counted in so eqs with battle mode attack might just be better…? Well its been a while since i did pvp, esp after their pvp revamp that made everyone die really fast so… I'm not sure if the battle mode attack really helps at all :S
Hmm ok, that's all the Party Quest updates i've got for now!
woots, finally finished this post!
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