Returnee after 2 year hiatus

blindv

Hello PWI BMs!

I really doubt that anybody that I used to play with still is around... I haven't touched this game in over 2 years! But I missed it - so I am back

The reason why I am posting today is mainly to ask you guys for help. "Help," you ask? Yes, help.

I am a lvl 100 BM (main) named Mikagami with sparked APS of 4 (as far as I can remember) using deicide and... I forgot the rest cough. Is this still any good nowadays?

Second, what new additions have been implemented in the world of PW that I should be aware of? Unfortunately, I cannot seem to locate updates on the main page for PW =( Would somebody be able to point me in the right direction?

Thirdly, any old factions still around? Like Essence... RQ... I can't remember anybody else lmao.

And finally - is this game still super fun like it used to be? I remember the days of gold being <100k per piece, when running through FBs was the way to level... Although I left around the time hypers got implemented and FCC overtook FBs. Just around the time when BHs got put in (which was major fun).

I look forward to playing again And would sincerely appreciate your help in getting caught up! As much as I would appreciate a full responses here - simply pointing me to threads/pages etc is fine as well! =D

Thank you very much for your time!

Sincerely,

Mika

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BMs didn't really change much over the past few years. 4 aps sparked is still respectable, but gear has been taken up a notch. You'll see tons of 100+bms running around with nirvy casted fists/claws, full rank 9 set, even g16 (recent addition). Just wait for the next 2x drops and you'll be back on track.

The Genesis expansion was added early 2011, which introduced 2 new classes, seekers and mystics. Give them a try if you want. Another whole area for 95+ players called Morai was added in the Descent expansion (late 2011). This gave greater endgame options to PvE players. Recasts for rank 8 and rank 9 have also been introduced $$$$$$.

I've never heard of Essence, so we must be on different servers b:surrender
Anyway hope this helped, good luck

Sakubatou - Sanctuary

Just gonna copy-paste what I wrote to a returning sin recently.

Morai- A new map that offers 3 'Orders' to join. You can join and leave these when you want but you need to have 24 hours in between joining and a week in between leaving and joining a third time. There is a level 80 demo skill Death Chain, and then each order offers 1 skill. You need to earn these skills with daily quests that give you prestige and influence. You need 3500 prestige, and then you purchase the skill with your influence. Takes about 2 months per skill.

AEU- Advanced Endless Universe. A new instance that offers high experience and rewards you with apothecary goods, gems, or upgraded version of the level 80 skill or another 100 skill.

New BH bosses- They rebalanced Aba and Seat BH to have harder bosses to prevent apsing or soloing. Aba boss self buffs with a sort of reverse bloodpaint that instead of taking damage it starts healing from damage, and the more its attacked the stronger its next attack becomes. Seat boss is a [?] boss so 1/4 damage, but now self buffs with an anti-auto attack buff that reduces it about 1/5 more, so 1/20th the amount of dd when auto attacking.

Nirvana tier 3 and R9 tier 3- Nirvana has a 3rd stage now that is fairly cheap to get once you have the second stage. Both are actually cheap to get once you have the second stage, but tier 2 R9 is still unbelievably expensive. How you craft them is you need a t3 mold, an Essence of Offense (for Weapons) or Defense Essence (for armors), xx amount of duty badges (60 for weapons, 30 for armor), and a mil or 2 mil coin. The duty badges are earned by doing advanced bosses in Lunar or Warsong. So Full Warsong is more popular now since the weapons only drop from the final boss. Its also standard practice now to do the advanced bosses when doing a BH Metal or BH Lunar.

Thats... about it. Map Reset.



K. To add on to that Seekers are a sword only class that are what other games would consider a 'battle mage'. They are an HA class who get their damage from casting and skill spamming. They can't use any weapon but sword class. They are substitue barbs in many cases and were given attack and def level buffs to help them, but they lack aggro skills.

Mystics are kind of a mix between a cleric and a veno. They are an AA caster class. They can summon pets (can't tame them). They have multiple heals and use plants to debuff mobs, dd, heal, or reduce damage the party takes.

When these guys were released they added the Tellus region, but not many quests down there for higher levels.

As for gameplay, the gear of 2 years ago is still what most people have. There hasn't been too much endgame progress. Most of us just now have multiple alts to level.

CapnK - Sanctuary

The big gameplay change for BMs is that cancel-casting is gone. If you never learned to do it in the first place then you won't miss anything.

If you know how to use weapons other than fist, you'll be a better player than 90% of the BMs in the game now.

Sjuggs - Lost City

Oh you from LC, well everyone before me already told you pretty much everything so welcome back if you decide to stay b:chuckle

_Nottunyx_ - Heavens Tear

blindv wrote: »

Hello PWI BMs!

I really doubt that anybody that I used to play with still is around... I haven't touched this game in over 2 years! But I missed it - so I am back

The reason why I am posting today is mainly to ask you guys for help. "Help," you ask? Yes, help.

I am a lvl 100 BM (main) named Mikagami with sparked APS of 4 (as far as I can remember) using deicide and... I forgot the rest cough. Is this still any good nowadays?

Second, what new additions have been implemented in the world of PW that I should be aware of? Unfortunately, I cannot seem to locate updates on the main page for PW =( Would somebody be able to point me in the right direction?

Thirdly, any old factions still around? Like Essence... RQ... I can't remember anybody else lmao.

And finally - is this game still super fun like it used to be? I remember the days of gold being <100k per piece, when running through FBs was the way to level... Although I left around the time hypers got implemented and FCC overtook FBs. Just around the time when BHs got put in (which was major fun).

I look forward to playing again And would sincerely appreciate your help in getting caught up! As much as I would appreciate a full responses here - simply pointing me to threads/pages etc is fine as well! =D

Thank you very much for your time!

Sincerely,

Mika

1. new adds is that everyone and their dog pretty much has r9 with +12 refine which requires you to cash shop hard to own it. its pretty OP and everyone who owns it like to stomp everyone who doesn't.

2. and there are alot more peeps that is 100+ with nirvy equips or g16 or awakened rank 8 armor and 5 aps. sin is now known as "uber meleee class that hits hard and can't be hit back" instead of "squishy melee with no aoe" like they used to be.

3. there are something called powerlevelling, which basically makes it possible to lvl from 1-100 in a day. its basically high levels running low lvls through FCC instance so they can level in turns for money(usually high level peeps who has an alt does this).

4. pack sale everyday, gold price now 1.8mil or more, deicide is pretty much a must have for aps bms and GX TT90 gold axes are not considered awesome anymore.

oh and there are new class which is seeker and msytic.
seeker is PWI's effort to make people start using swords while mystic is a **** child of cleric,venomancer and pwi's staff who ran out of ideas b:laugh








run while you still can dude.

Mikagami - Lost City

Wow! Thank you very much everybody for the updates =D Some seem extremely awesome and looking forward to them (such as new dungeons and upped difficulty levels on bosses... aba was a joke before cough)

As for

CapnK - Sanctuary wrote: »

The big gameplay change for BMs is that cancel-casting is gone. If you never learned to do it in the first place then you won't miss anything.

If you know how to use weapons other than fist, you'll be a better player than 90% of the BMs in the game now.

EWWWWWW - so no more heel cancel fist attack, spear ulti cancel, triple spark cloud erupt HF fist attacks anymore? =(((( That is kind of disappointing. Bosses used to keel over to that...

Oh well - at least I won't be the dumbass who tries that on a boss and just ends up using a spear ulti... Thank you for the heads up! xD

And yes - I am on LC! Sorry I should have specified that in the OP.

_Mg_Zr - Heavens Tear

Um everything you need to know has already been said so guess i'll just welcome you back xD.
Welcome back lol