[ Wizard Changelog ] Wizard changes from kTOS and iTOS

[tampon]

From kTOS 16/06/2016

• Subzero Shield

• 16/06/2016 kTOS
  Will no longer freeze enemies when hit by [Energy Blast], [God Finger Flick]

• Swap

• 16/06/2016 kTOS
  New attribute: [Swap: Bind]
  When the attribute is active, there’s a chance to bind the target after swapping locations
  Inside Guild War & Battle league maps, the chance for binding is always 100%

• Raise

• 16/06/2016 kTOS
  Fixed a bug where players were getting stuck ‘flying’ even when out of PvP

• Gravity Pole

• 16/06/2016 kTOS
  Affected characters movement speed will be decreased

• Joint Penalty

• 16/06/2016 kTOS
  Fixed a bug with the damage value when sharing some magic damage over time skills
  When only one remaining monster is affected by the Joint Penalty debuff, the debuff will now be removed

• Reincarnate

• 16/06/2016 kTOS
  If you fail to re-incarnate a Boss Monster, a message will now be broadcast to the party

Translation by @Gwenyth

[tampon]

RIP Icewall-JP and JP-Burn

I’m not sure what’s with the Gravity Pole thing, whether it’s a debuff applied at the end, a debuff to targets who are not disabled or they changed the disable. I hope it’s not the last one or else, RIP Kino3. But judging from what they seem to be doing, it’s probably the first one

EDIT

kTOS General Thread (keep all in-game discussion here)

The original note about Gravity Pole is a little bit implicit and confusing, so I tested it out.

https://youtu.be/2dT_Jmtn-go

This is how Gravity Pole works after the patch now.

As you can see, Gravity Pole will no longer bind the target, but only inflict Slow debuff whilst doing damage. Thus now you can quite easily escape from the skill and survive.

Although Magnetic Force and Raise are still irritating, this is a big nerf to Psychokino. Thank you IMC, thank you Kim HakQ! I mean it this time.

[icyruios]

After all these nerfs, does it affect CryoKino’s CC in PVE?

[Skeith]

GG my full con PVE linker

[tampon]

Everything that do not have the [PvP] label on them are applied to both PvE and PvP. So yes, the nerfs do affect CryoKino’s CC in PvE, especially since

kTOS General Thread (keep all in-game discussion here)

you can attack, jump, or do whatever you want. So if the Psychokino does not have Sure Spell buff, besides running away, you can just attack and interrupt Gravity Pole.

[rhenan_d]

• Joint Penalty

• 16/06/2016 kTOS
  Fixed a bug with the damage value when sharing some magic damage over time skills
  When only one remaining monster is affected by the Joint Penalty debuff, the debuff will now be removed

There is also this:

[Common Fixes]
6. Fixed a bug with the item [Ignition], where the fire damage debuff was not applying correctly.

Is this the end of Ignition for linkers then?

[tampon]

The damage still seems to be doing the same, but multiple burns in the link seem to no longer provide extra ticks

[icyruios]

So that means monsters that we attack with gravity pole can run away?

Because the description did say affected ‘characters’ can move away. Does ‘characters’ apply to monsters or only playable characters? Since there are other words used to generally describe monsters and players such as ‘affected targets’ or ‘enemies’ (like in the swap descruption)

I don’t really care if it sucks in pvp but i would still want to retain my usefulness as a CC cryokino in PVE. If it is that useless maybe i should consider another option.

[tampon]

Since it’s a nerf that’s applied also to PvE, it probably applies to monsters as well. Just to be sure, let’s ask @tomgo32000

[tomgo32000]

Fortunately, this nerf does not apply to monsters.

What’s strange is that, as you can see in that videos, we tested it between players in town, which is a PvE environment, and it did work. However, monsters that are inflicted by Gravity Pole can not move. So I think the difference is not PvE and PvP, but Players and Monsters.

[icyruios]

Awesome.

So i guess it’s safe to say that CryoKino still remains to be good a CC in a PVE environment despite the nerfs uh?

[barryangelo18011993]

Not much change for kino c3…still we have raise and telekinesis…as kino we still able to rotate the locking combo skill…

Slowing the opponent also still good at pvp…

Tele 15sec bind
sleep 5 hit threshold cap
PP + stun
raise 10sec bind
gravity pole slow down
and catch again with tele…

Still good combo at pvp…

Unless they nerf tele and raise…then i will change job for sure

Off topic :
can i hit enemy that fly by Raise???
Or it just fly the enemy, disabling them to move, and also cant be hit???

[OtterTamer]

Hi, thanks for all the info you’ve been posting, I’ve a couple of questions about the new GP maybe you could answer

Is the slow the same as chronomancers slow? If so, how much movespeed does it reduce and can it be stacked with chronomancer slow?

[Excenmille]

So my pve wiz3 kino 3 is untouched by all these nerfs. Hurray!

[tomgo32000]

The Slow debuff Gravity Pole inflicts is not the same as Chronomancer’s Slow skill.

Gravity Pole’s Slow debuff reduces movement speed by 25.

And since these two kinds of Slow debuffs are different, I think they can be stacked.

[OtterTamer]

Nice, better than I was expecting.

[ikarinoakari]

The only reason I choose ignition over other items was a bug?

Also my linker was pretty useless anyway. Made a full con build, really decent but
1 itos started with a linker nerf
2 physical link is a unusable skill on pretty much every situation
3 joint penalty doesn’t scale well. Lvl 6 is more than enough, Lvl 15 barely adds targets
4 spiritual chain requires pt members to be close each other and the list of shared buffs is even smaller now than ever
5 even though I’ve asked for a change on spiritual chains sprite color, it shares the same spite with physical link. Making party mates run away from me and break the link/kick me.
6 joint penalty “debuffing” a single boss was the only reason linker was “useful” against bosses on first place. Joint penalty could buff some elements dmg. But now it will last as long as our fireball/ice wall last. Requiring an extra rank to linker be successful.

I guess this will decrease even more the featherfoot population. Which is pretty unpopular right now against thousand C3 elementalists/locks/cryokinos.

Well,time to bench that character

[Ellyr]

How does this change affect featherfoot skills?

[Melody]

Subzero Shield
16/06/2016 kTOS1
Will no longer freeze enemies when hit by [Energy Blast], [God Finger Flick]

I am mentally prepared to read a change to SzS like: "Subzero Shield only freezes melee enemys with a 2% chance. Only applies when hit by an autoattack without weapon."
Joking aside. One nerf after another… Now they single out skills. What the hell is IMCs doing.
Balance would have been so easy with just a change of lowering freezing chance by 50%, duration decrease & a small cd increase. I am fine with Bodkin Point as a counter. BUT I do miss a little more effort not only spamming 2-3 arrows instantly (70% chance… just wow…)
IMC rather put one knife after another in the chest of SubZero Shield users instead of learning the meaning of the word balance. Try to stop them. sorry… stabbing is exlcuded to freeze the enemy with Subzero Shield as well. You can’t run. You can’t escape. rolleyes

Reincarnate

16/06/2016 kTOS1
If you fail to re-incarnate a Boss Monster, a message will now be broadcast to the party

For a change, this is something I appreciate. Though a simple “resisted” would have been enough as well. ^^

[stalker.rick]

joint penalty doesn’t scale well. Lvl 6 is more than enough, Lvl 15 barely adds targets

It’s not only about targets, it’s about the number of hits the link can withstand. Currently it’s JP lvl * 10. If you have Ignition, JP10’s 100 hits expire VERY fast.