PWI Eclipse Expansion Preview, launching 12/16

Asterelle - Sanctuary

The old thread was getting a bit too hard to find information in so I'm going to try to reorganize things in a new thread. This expansion is slated for a 9/24 PWCN release but has already hit the PWCN test server.

On 12/2 a preview of this expansion was released for us, PWI Eclipse.

Let me know if there is info I am missing from the old thread.

Previous Thread

Top Questions

Whats this about PW2 and a new engine?
This update is being marketed as PW2 in China but it is most definitely just an expansion. The engine upgrade is also overstated and the new areas don't look noticeably improved from what we've seen in recent expansions.

When are we getting it?
The release date is 12/16. It hit CN on 9/24.


Expansion Notes

New Race:
Nightshade race with two new classes: Duskblade and Stormbringer.
Both use class-specific weapons and are unable to use other weapons (like Earthguard).
Character creation screenshots
Flyers gallery (video)


Duskblade
Duskblade Skill Descriptions + Sage/Demon
A LA class that uses Sabers (class-restricted dex-based sword), unable to use other weapons
- has a passive to reduce ranged damage taken
- a squad buff to reduce crit damage taken.
- can enter a temporary transformed state with increased APS and reduced skill cooldowns
- has combo skills that can only be used if chained together
- has a teleport stun with a cooldown that is reset when the target dies
- can use blood paint
- can copy certain skills from nearby classes (Video) Ingame descriptions of copied skills (can be used of friendly targets now)
Jarken's Duskblade Discussion Thread
Gameplay level 1-13 and commentary (Jarken)
Gameplay level 13-21 and commentary (Jarken)
Gameplay level 21-32 and commentary (Jarken)
Meditation and Transformation of the LA class.

Stormbringer
Stormbringer Skill Descriptions + Sage/Demon
an AA class with a scythe (class-restricted magic weapon, can't use other weapons).
- most skills can be channeled while moving
- can create self duplicate (pet) Video
- Ranged AOE Reel In skill
- a passive to reduce melee damage taken.
- a self buff that avoids 1 purge
- a self buff that temporarily increases range by 15
- squad buff lowers damage taken from normal attacks by 20% (lvl 10).
- There are a lot of skills that produce these swirling Ice/Thunder balls around you and other skills that use them. You can have (max?) 3 balls around you and they can be 2 of one kind and 1 of the other.
Level 44 skill showcase from Mel
Character Creation and Initial Gameplay (youtube)
Meditation and Transformation

Skill Descriptions
Stormbringer / Duskblade Sage / Demon skills (Chinese)
Skill Listing (Russian)
Sage / Demon Skills (translated from Russian)
Raw chinese (updated 9/24)
Duskblade Skills translated by Eoria
Stormbringer Skills translated by Eoria


New starting area "Celestial Vale"
This is replacement for the old Origination one
Map
Screenshots
- Players have to be level20+ to leave the new area
- My alt that was in the old origination land was auto-teled to the new start area.
- My lvl 1 alt that was already in arch got a popup prompting it to tele to the new area.
- You can ignore the prompt though and stay in arch.

New Land / City
There is a new island east of Misfortune
Map
New TW MAP
Screenshots
HD Youtube video of the area (Mel)


New instance
Desert-themed instance that is randomly generated
Uses random tiles like these
Entrance Location and Entrance
HD video of instance entrance and peak inside
Stormbringer squad run of the instance (level 50 ver)
Run of the level 100 version (video)
Requires:
1. 2nd awakening lvl 100
2. Mirage Sky X ?
3. Can enter 3 times a day
4. 7 - 10 people

Boss drops materials to upgrade r8r gear

There is a baby version of this instance too:
1. level 50+
2. 6 player squad
3. Boss drops materials to make low level gear (lvl 55-85)

Equipment Upgrades
R8r, Morai gear, and Warsoul weapons can be upgraded
Youtube video of all the forges
Video of archo forges and nirvana forges

R8rr Gear
-4 random stats instead of 3 (not 100% confirmed)
-same set bonus
-no new weapon effects
-higher base stats
-higher refine bonus
-random stats are basically the same pool but come with higher values
-there's a spirit of forge where you can use chienkuns to preview stats before you reroll
Stat comparison of R8rr vs R8r
Gallery of all the new R8rr weapons + the new race weapons

Warsoul Weapons
Two new stages of Warsoul Weapons added.
-One half way between normal warsoul and first recast
-Second after first recast with guaranteed 65 attack level and better refine
Stat comparison of the new Warsoul Weapons

Morai
Morai gear recast is a little buffed. Weapon has +70 slaying levels and is now a part of the set.
Stat comparison of Morai G15 recast vs Morai G15
Morai Recast set (plus weapon):
3/6 = Warding Level +5
4/6 = Slaying Level +5
5/6 = Chan -6% (AA) Int -.05 (LA/HA)
6/6 = HP+600 (AA) / HP+650 (LA) / HP+750 (HA)


New Systems
1) Skill learning window revamp with new interface Screenshot
2) New system to auto unlock a teleporter when you enter a town
3) New daily registration system. Can miss <= 3 days a month and get monthly. There are daily rewards too that progressively get better the more days you register. Screenshot List of prizes
4) Mounts can be upgraded to go underwater
5) Advanced Cultivation conversion. An item that allows you to switch cultivation and autoconvert all level 11+ skills
6) Quest NPCs can be selected from quest tracker without clicking on them
7) Character creation has better camera controls
8) Equipment comparison function Screenshot, very basic
9) Can click on URLs in system chat
10) Easier to see fashion colors
11) Easier to enter 'complex characters' in chat
12) New TW land, the one next to Misfortune New TW MAP

Quest Optimization
1) Low level quests are made easier
2) Low level cultivation has been simplified?
3) Some new level 80+ daily
4) New 8x and 9x BHs
5) New quests in each race's main city
6) level 28-105 quests have their XP buffed
7) New quest reward interface
8) Crazy stone buffed
9) New daily for lvl 83-95
10) Optimization for World Quest daily
11) Learning manufacturing skills unchanged
12) NPC locations in Archo and major cities have been adjusted
13) XP increase for Morai quests
14) New teleporter in Mirrorflower ?

Interface Optimization
1) New beginner guide
2) Event Calendar filtering
3) Better blacklist and shortcut key interface
4) Keyboard map entry for the shortcut keys
5) Better dressing room camera controls
6) New character switching menu
7) Better shortcut bar lock control
8) New aggressive mob indicator, can tell if mob will aggro Screenshot
9) Square minimap (if you have rotating minimap it will still be round) Screenshot
10) Better backpack interface with fashion
11) More pictures for beginner guide
12) Overhaul of the ingame encyclopedia
13) New portrait UI Screenshot
- More memory configuration options
- New progress bar for the book demon
- Max inventory size increased from 64 to 80
- An extra page added to the pet bag (20 total slots)
- New manufacturing interface Screenshot

Other
1) Revelation Potion can be used by assassins to increase awareness by 1 point
2) Cash shop update for new race

New loading screens
All DQ Items are 1 COIN (death of bot induced inflation!) Screenshot
- No new Nuema / RB level / Sky Levels / Avatars / History Advancement, all primal stuff seems the same
- New Title Quest chain
- Adjusted required scores in the veno instance (?)

Misc Screenshots
FB19 Boss
New Flyer Human
New Flyer Untamed
New Flyer Elves
New Flyer Tideborn
New Flyer E.guard
New Flyer Nightshade
Mount

How to log on yourself
If youre interested in trying this out now you can do so on PWCN. The steps you have to do are:
1) Setup an account on PWCN
2) Download the client
3) Install any patches that are needed
4) Log on

Here's a guide for setting things up and Installing patches.
How to answer the anti-bot question
Troubleshooting version mismatch

Resources / Credits
Mel's videos (RU community guy)
Japanese Blog "Just a little time"
Russian Site "PWmarket"
Wanmei News Updates
- attackerv (lots of PWCN news / forum posts)
- Eoria (skill translations)
- Jarken (Duskblade playthrough videos)
- Mars - Morai (RU findings)

Saethos - Raging Tide

Much better to see a formatted thread, thank you.

Nahktuul - Archosaur

All I can say is....wow. So this must have been what they were working on for the past half a decade. Impressive!

I still see no system engine upgrade. That sucks.

Neferhotep - Lost City

All DQ Items are 1 COIN (death of bot induced inflation!) Screenshot

Best point so far. I really hope this will stay so in our version. b:laugh

Also love the new upgrades for lower levels. All my alts are in 70+ range and questing on them is fun, but i have not much time and doing dailies usually takes all the time i can spend. With newer dailies, maybe even some that are soloable i could maybe skip stupid bhs and PV.


I also hope this classes are both gender. I want a male moon fairy so much b:cute

Ty for putting this up.

Edit: Just saw the pictures that show its both genders xD.

Strife_son - Sanctuary

Why introduce auto-culti, earning time, and then a complete DQ nerf?

Desdi - Sanctuary

Sweet! Thanks for making a new thread about it, the old thread was getting messy indeed.

mightymoose

Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »

All DQ Items are 1 COIN (death of bot induced inflation!) Screenshot

If this is done to combat botting, then it prob means there won't ever be a new DQ reward system. Since giving rewards for DQ items will reintroduce value to DQ items which kinda defeats the whole point of making it worthless to combat botting.

Euthymius - Heavens Tear

mightymoose wrote: »

If this is done to combat botting, then it prob means there won't ever be a new DQ reward system. Since giving rewards for DQ items will reintroduce value to DQ items which kinda defeats the whole point making it worthless to combat botting.

Actually, if DQ rewards were to return, people would bot for them again for the sake of the rewards. Its just that the DQ acquired won't inflate the economy via coin injection. Earning time will also serve to "cap" how much DQ can be acquired for the purpose of acquiring said rewards per character.

Still not getting my hopes up for a DQ System though.

Desdi - Sanctuary

The DQ system was just for PWI. It didn't exist in PWCN as far as I know.

However, seeing as it's been so long since we even got any news about a new DQ system....yeah I doubt we'll be getting one.

Saethos - Raging Tide

Strife_son - Sanctuary wrote: »

Why introduce auto-culti, earning time, and then a complete DQ nerf?

So reborns can get exp without FC?

So low levels can grind after discovering their signature combos?

So people with low mana pools can get free mana pots?

Deadalus - Harshlands

Well my hope for pwi to be a bit more graphic appealing is flushed down the toilet with the screenshots and the little creation video, just looks like earthguard all over again.

The scythe class looks interessting and the sword class looks like he has some walking problems.
When he allways walk like this even when not in combat, oh my god.

Mahidevran - Archosaur

Thanks for the new thread, Asterelle! And special thanks to @attackerv, @Eoria and @Mars.

So, apparently moon fairies are going to get their anti-stun/speed buff (yes, its a buff that gives anti-stun and speed) at level 19.

GreenLegend - Archosaur

Amazing.

Thanks for gathering all that information.

Gundameister - Sanctuary

Hey Asterelle can you post the images of Warsoul Fists and R8RR Fist, i'd like to see the difference , if you can post it that would be great b:victory

Erven - Sanctuary

Do you guys know by any chance if the new classes have their sage / demon, 79 / 100, morai / primal skills already or we'll have to wait till the next major patch?

attackerv

=====new report for pw2=======

From pwcn player report in forum

http://bbs.w2i.wanmei.com/thread-2491331-1-1.html

player have to above 20 lvl to enter arch city, catshop better lvl to 20 b:laugh

Slivaf - Dreamweaver

Thank you for the clean up/much easier read about the 'expansion' or whatever it's called.

Very interesting stuff indeed.

Asterelle - Sanctuary

Gundameister - Sanctuary wrote: »

Hey Asterelle can you post the images of Warsoul Fists and R8RR Fist, i'd like to see the difference , if you can post it that would be great b:victory

http://i.imgur.com/xAvA3l6.png
http://i.imgur.com/w1Zy8kj.png

Erven - Sanctuary wrote: »

Do you guys know by any chance if the new classes have their sage / demon, 79 / 100, morai / primal skills already or we'll have to wait till the next major patch?

No demon sage yet. Not sure of the rest.

SakuLv - Dreamweaver

cant wait
I will already start running WS to collect badges for wep roll/rerolls b:chuckle

mechabeastmc666

Imagine the Ego someone must have to create a Duplicate thread and expect it not to get closed.

Slivaf - Dreamweaver

mechabeastmc666 wrote: »

Imagine the Ego someone must have to create a Duplicate thread and expect it not to get closed.

This has nothing to do with self esteem/self importance, all ast was doing was being helpful, the mods can choose what to do with it on their own, obviously this is indeed a duplicate thread, but it became so riddled with nonsense it made it extremely difficult finding any information on it.

Now of course there are different ways going about it, but this works just as well.

gamer4jesus

Include new veno pets plz. b:cute

And pets getting added to evolution list. b:thanks

Euthymius - Heavens Tear

mechabeastmc666 wrote: »

Imagine the Ego someone must have to create a Duplicate thread and expect it not to get closed.

Are you daft? The last thread had info scattered out all over the place beneath everyone else's posts. At least this one's cleaner and more organized. Even the OP of the previous thread's okay with it.

Walpurga - Dreamweaver

Night Shadow is a LA sword user, key points of note is a passive to reduce ranged damage taken and a squad buff to reduce crit damage taken

'Cause **** archers, right?

Can we just server wipe to 1.4.5?

Welp, it's not like I play retail anymore. May Agatio help us

Roseary - Sanctuary

Walpurga - Dreamweaver wrote: »

'Cause **** archers, right?

Can we just server wipe to 1.4.5?

Welp, it's not like I play retail anymore. May Agatio help us

I like these changes, it balances PvP.

Asterelle - Sanctuary

mechabeastmc666 wrote: »

Imagine the Ego someone must have to create a Duplicate thread and expect it not to get closed.

It's not quite duplicate. The other thread is like a month old and started off consisting largely of rumors / speculation / news posts. This one is intended to be a factual guide.

Jarkhen - Archosaur

Walpurga - Dreamweaver wrote: »

'Cause **** archers, right?

Can we just server wipe to 1.4.5?

Welp, it's not like I play retail anymore. May Agatio help us

I honestly don't think it'll be as bad as everyone's making it out to be.

Yes, their damage taken is reduced as you get farther away, but the AA class is the opposite - damage is reduced as you get closer; everyone will be affected one way or another by that, not just archers, and we'll remain the primary means of killing the new AA class since all the other ranged classes are AA as well.

Crit damage reduction sucks, and it'll reduce more of our overall dps than it will, say, casters', but I think we'll see less of a difference than they will since we never really had spike damage anyway.


Combine all of the above with the earlier translation of one of the LA class's skills as a debuff that doubles auto attack damage taken (assuming the translation is correct) with a 6s duration on a 18s cooldown. Nothing really screams archer like a 6-second auto-attack-exclusive HF.


If anything, the thing I'm worried about is that the new LA class has paralyze skills coming out of its ears.

attackerv

mechabeastmc666 wrote: »

Imagine the Ego someone must have to create a Duplicate thread and expect it not to get closed.

we really appreciate Asterelle's hard work.

He made a better thread, like always

I would like to make my new contribution based on his thread instead my old one.

If really need close, plz close my thread.

b:thanks

MyMate - Dreamweaver

Jarkhen - Archosaur wrote: »

Combine all of the above with the earlier translation of one of the LA class's skills as a debuff that doubles auto attack damage taken (assuming the translation is correct) with a 6s duration on a 18s cooldown. Nothing really screams archer like a 6-second auto-attack-exclusive HF.

All new bosses gets anti-aps buff, new class gets aps-amp.. Confused x.x

Euthymius - Heavens Tear

MyMate - Dreamweaver wrote: »

All new bosses gets anti-aps buff, new class gets aps-amp.. Confused x.x

What if the Amp is able to nullify (or at the very least significantly weaken) the Anti-Melee shield?
What if Sage/Demon version extends the duration to 9+ seconds?

Mahidevran - Archosaur

mechabeastmc666 wrote: »

Imagine the Ego someone must have to create a Duplicate thread and expect it not to get closed.

^I say ignore this.

Just someone who thinks s/he will look cool if s/he says not-so-sassy-but-more-like-desperate things to other posters.

The first one was based off of rumors, the second gave a good chunk of information but it was getting messy and even the guy/gal who made the thread agreed that there should be a new thread. This thread makes it more easy to follow the news.