Expansion class [Night Shadow] playthrough

Jarkhen - Archosaur

Posting this in a new topic so I have somewhere to put together a table of contents and whatnot.

I'd put it under the Screenshots and Videos section, but, uh... nobody reads that forum.


Part 1 - Levels 1-13
WARNING: Extra-loud volume on this one. Turn your volume down.
Lots of fumbling around trying to figure out playing a game in a language I don't understand a word of.

Skills learned:

• - "No Style" (spammable filler spell)
• - "Owl" (increases the next No Style's damage)
• - "Hazy" (transformation skill; increases aps, reduces ranged damage, and reduces some skill cooldowns to 1sec)
• - "Doublet" (makes the next No Style a guaranteed crit)

Part 2 - Levels 13-21
Super special bonus: painful soloing of an fb.

Skills learned:

• - "Relentless Tour" (1-second telestun on 30s cooldown; cooldown resets if target dies)
• - "Wings" (fan-shaped AoE, reduces target's speed by 40%)
• - "Nine Songs" (frontal AoE, [reduces chi?], can only be cast after Wings)

Part 3 - Levels 21-32
Lots of running and questing and stuff.

Skills learned:

• - "God Photos" (5-second ranged sleep; deals Earth damage at the end of the 5s)
• - "Should Dragon" (AoE, can only be cast after Nine Songs)
• - Weapon mastery passive

Other links:
Asterelle's Expansion Guide

Eoria's Night Shadow skill translations

Jarkhen - Archosaur

A couple corrections on Eoria's translations based on gameplay:
(will update these as I go along)

Eoria - Harshlands wrote: »

Owl
Melee Range
Channel 0.1s
Cast 1.0s
Cooldown 6.0s
Chi 10

Inflicts base physical attack plus X physical damage. Increases movement speed by 60% for 3sec and increases the damage of the next No Style within the next 6sec by 35%.

Cooldown shortened to 1sec after transfiguration.

Doublet
Melee Range
Channel 0.1s
Cast 0.9s
Cooldown 6.0s

Inflicts base physical attack plus X physical damage. The next cast of No Style within the next 6s will always crit. If your health is lower than enemy's health, the skill does 5% maximum value of health. If the enemy's is lower, then it does 15% base physical attack plus X physical damage.

Costs 20 chi.

Relentless Tour
Range Xm (25m at level 1)
Cast 0.7s
Cooldown 30.0s
Chi 10

Teleports to the enemy and causes 30% physical attack plus physical damage and stuns for one second. If the enemy this is used on dies within the next 20sec, the cooldown of this skill will be reset.

Wings
Melee Range
Channel 0.1s
Cast 0.5s
Cooldown 6.0s
Chi 15

Within the target direction of 120 degrees, does a fan-shaped 8m AOE that deals base physical attack plus X amount of physical damage and decreases enemy movement speed by 40% for 3sec.

Cooldown reduced to 1sec after transfiguration.

Nine Songs
Melee Range
Channel 0.1s
Cast 0.5s
Cooldown 6.0s
Chi 15

Within the target direction of 120 degrees, does an 8m AOE? does physical attack damage plus X physical damage and reduces chi.

Default shortcut is Q
Can only be used immediately after casting Wings.

After transfiguration, cooldown is reduced to 1sec.

Should Dragon
Melee Range
Channel 0.1s
Cast 1.0s
Cooldown 2.0s
Chi 30

Does an Xm AOE around the target that does base physical attack plus around X amount of physical damage.

Default shortcut is Q
Can only be used immediately after casting Nine Songs

God Photos
Range 20m
Channel 0.1s
Cast 0.5s
Cooldown 15.0s

Sleep the enemy for 5secs and then afterwards inflict earth damage.

Costs 30 chi.

Hunting Life
Range 20m
Channel 0.1s
Cast 0.6s
Cooldown 30.0s

Debuffs the target for 8 seconds. If the target takes damage within the next 8 seconds, the debuff is removed. If the debuff remains after 8 seconds, inflicts base physical damage plus X physical damage and stuns for 6sec.

Costs 50 chi.

Mahidevran - Archosaur

It looks fun. I want to try both new classes but I won't have enough time QQ

KingCrash - Dreamweaver

1. Very Japanese swordsman from what I can see, a katana plus the fashion you got.

2. Crimson Flametalon is the new teleport master.

3. Hopefully at endgame you'll have some bigger balls to show off.

4. Concerning stat build, seeing as your limited to swords and LA armor, you're gonna have the choice of minimum base dex build with everything else thrown into str for high spike damage or vice versa for lower damage but high crt percentage. Looking to be pretty unpredictable in the future in terms of how people build them. Initially I don't see interval gear being much of use on them outside of pve for the same reasons that exist already and on top of the terrible auto attack damage they have from what I see.

5. I can foresee the transformation skill being their main selling point at endgame especially when they let it loose in a triple spark mode cause it looks like it doesn't even cost a spark to use the transform, so even if they go sage, using the transform will still allow for aps increase. If demon, well I can probably see 5 aps happening even without any interval gear at all.

But I'm just speculating so far. Still a lot of unknowns.

Jarkhen - Archosaur

KingCrash - Dreamweaver wrote: »

1. Very Japanese swordsman from what I can see, a katana plus the fashion you got.

2. Crimson Flametalon is the new teleport master.

3. Hopefully at endgame you'll have some bigger balls to show off.

4. Concerning stat build, seeing as your limited to swords and LA armor, you're gonna have the choice of minimum base dex build with everything else thrown into str for high spike damage or vice versa for lower damage but high crt percentage. Looking to be pretty unpredictable in the future in terms of how people build them. Initially I don't see interval gear being much of use on them outside of pve for the same reasons that exist already and on top of the terrible auto attack damage they have from what I see.

5. I can foresee the transformation skill being their main selling point at endgame especially when they let it loose in a triple spark mode cause it looks like it doesn't even cost a spark to use the transform, so even if they go sage, using the transform will still allow for aps increase. If demon, well I can probably see 5 aps happening even without any interval gear at all.

But I'm just speculating so far. Still a lot of unknowns.

Their sword weapon type scales with dex, not str -- just like the other LA classes.

APS probably isn't viable because they seem to strongly rely on skill combos (and likely CC).

And yeah, transformation only costs 30 chi.

jwillson123

WTF they look just like the child of a seeker with a tideborn
It looks like a seeker wearing beginner tideborn clothes!

seriosly PWI could atleast made them look more original is disappointing the character design.

KingCrash - Dreamweaver

Jarkhen - Archosaur wrote: »

Their sword weapon type scales with dex, not str -- just like the other LA classes.

APS probably isn't viable because they seem to strongly rely on skill combos (and likely CC).

And yeah, transformation only costs 30 chi.

Those guys are gonna be so hard to keep still if they are able to reset their tele stun cooldown like that constantly. Freeze doesn't mean anything to this class. This is their puri proc, they'll be porting all over the place. Zerkcrt>port>zerkcrt>port. lol

Eoria - Harshlands

Jarkhen - Archosaur wrote: »

A couple corrections on Eoria's translations based on gameplay:
(will update these as I go along)

ty for this. I'll edit my post in a bit.

Warfare - Sanctuary

Teleports to the enemy and causes 30% physical attack plus physical damage and stuns for one second. If the enemy this is used on dies within the next 20sec, the cooldown of this skill will be reset.

I hope they change this skill PVP wise. Imagine how OP it can get. b:shutup

Jarkhen - Archosaur

Just recorded part 3, learned "God Photos" (sleep + earth DoT), "Should Dragon" (another chain AoE), and the weapon mastery passive. Eoria's translations for these skills are mostly accurate; just clarified Should Dragon's description a bit (target AoE, combo after Nine Songs).

Asterelle - Sanctuary

In the second video did you ever realize you were playing with low res textures? http://i.imgur.com/skyEIvo.png It looked like that was bothering you in the first video.

Jarkhen - Archosaur

Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »

In the second video did you ever realize you were playing with low res textures? http://i.imgur.com/skyEIvo.png It looked like that was bothering you in the first video.

I didn't notice until I logged on for part 3. It's fixed now.

Azura - Lost City

Warfare - Sanctuary wrote: »

I hope they change this skill PVP wise. Imagine how OP it can get. b:shutup

The damage from teleport looks weak, so deaths will happen only if target has low hp.

DeffyNature - Archosaur

Waiting for it impatiently, I'm curious to see the new skills. Both classes seem really focused on AoEs, this is quite unusual for both classes of the same race.

maitatsu

From what I'm seeing based on the skills in your videos, this new class sure seems a lot like a mix between a Seeker and an Assassin. I'm kinda scared what that's gonna bring......

Jarkhen - Archosaur

Got to lv34, so I have all of the 29 cultivation skills now:

Eoria - Harshlands wrote: »

God Photos
Range 20m
Channel 0.1s
Cast 0.5s
Cooldown 15.0s

Sleep the enemy for 5secs and then afterwards inflict earth damage.

Costs 30 chi.

Hunting Life
Range 20m
Channel 0.1s
Cast 0.6s
Cooldown 30.0s

Debuffs the target for 8 seconds. If the target takes damage within the next 8 seconds, the debuff is removed. If the debuff remains after 8 seconds, inflicts base physical damage plus X physical damage and stuns for 6sec.

Costs 50 chi.

The two above are fun to chain (Hunting Life -> God Photos). 5s sleep + 6s stun, and if you time it right you can have those two hit at the exact same time (along with another skill if you time it perfectly, though you risk removing Hunting Life's debuff if you're early).

Eoria - Harshlands wrote: »

Moment
Range Xm
Channel 0.1s
Cast 0.1s
Cooldown Xs
Chi 10

Teleports to the target and paralyzes for 2sec.

Confirming that this does indeed paralyze, which means all of their other skills that say "paralyze" probably do as well. We'll see. 16 meter range and 43.5 second cooldown on this at level 1.

XXHotXx - Morai

Azura - Lost City wrote: »

The damage from teleport looks weak, so deaths will happen only if target has low hp.

it's like Irelia's Q if you know what i mean

eraldus

A new melee class, and they've missed the opportunity to make them use weapons like this... b:surrender

Jarkhen - Archosaur

Part 3 added. Much running.

Video has some random copyright claims at random parts of the video that I think are mistakenly matching PW's background music -- rather annoying. I've put in a dispute, we'll see what happens.


Also, as noted at the end of the video, I'll probably not continue posting videos of me just questing/leveling -- seems kind of pointless for questing areas that everyone has seen for the past 6 years. Expect one for a (hopefully) soloed fb29 soon, and probably each fb after that as I go through, along with notes on new skills I get between each video.

Vanflyheight - Heavens Tear

@jarken that other buff that was along side with the increased movement on the night shadow from that second skill was called holiness (aka faith) which makes ya immune to status affects and it looks like it only lasts for bout 10secs.

@Eoria hope ya can find out whether or not that 2nd skill to the night shadow is realy the buff called holiness or that its something different.

Jarkhen - Archosaur

Vanflyheight - Heavens Tear wrote: »

@jarken that other buff that was along side with the increased movement on the night shadow from that second skill was called holiness (aka faith) which makes ya immune to status affects and it looks like it only lasts for bout 10secs.

@Eoria hope ya can find out whether or not that 2nd skill to the night shadow is realy the buff called holiness or that its something different.

Watch more of the video(s) or read the comments, bro.

The buff increases the damage of the next "No Style" (spammable filler skill) cast within the next 6s by 35%.

Vanflyheight - Heavens Tear

Jarkhen - Archosaur wrote: »

Watch more of the video(s) or read the comments, bro.

The buff increases the damage of the next "No Style" (spammable filler skill) cast within the next 6s by 35%.

yea i caught that later on while watchin your commentary vid of the night shadow.
b:surrenderb:surrender

Puddinsundae - Harshlands

Azura - Lost City wrote: »

The damage from teleport looks weak, so deaths will happen only if target has low hp.

Huge mobility with mobs similar to telestun glitch when seekers were released.

blackeroasis

Well from the looks of Narkotic's video when they were messing around testing damage on each other in sp. The moon fairy couldn't even charm bypass the night shadow. The level difference was only 41 vs 39. While the Night Shadow was able to 2 shot the moon fairy pretty easily.

Looking at PWI's recent track record they seem to make the melee class more op than the magic class. So I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same case for this expansion as well.

Any thoughts?

Kuroimist - Archosaur

blackeroasis wrote: »

Well from the looks of Narkotic's video when they were messing around testing damage on each other in sp. The moon fairy couldn't even charm bypass the night shadow. The level difference was only 41 vs 39. While the Night Shadow was able to 2 shot the moon fairy pretty easily.

Looking at PWI's recent track record they seem to make the melee class more op than the magic class. So I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same case for this expansion as well.

Any thoughts?

Not in good therms to compare at these levels tho. Guess we will have to see that once we get them or they make the same test at lvl 90 \ 100 cause its when there's something to show pvp'wise.
You might have noticed that some casters got outrageous hits at endgame and were kind of weaklings under 100.
Still good to have some skills preview. b:laugh

Father_gold - Sanctuary

Kuroimist - Archosaur wrote: »

Not in good therms to compare at these levels tho. Guess we will have to see that once we get them or they make the same test at lvl 90 \ 100 cause its when there's something to show pvp'wise.
You might have noticed that some casters got outrageous hits at endgame and were kind of weaklings under 100.
Still good to have some skills preview. b:laugh

also keep in mind endgame gears and stat boosts like cards and shards and refines and nuema and whatnot. mages are pretty weak regardless early to mid game then skyrocket straight up endgame. it is not unreasonable the phys class wins so easily.

Xenaaah - Heavens Tear

So is the graphics update a lie?

killeresras

Jarkhen - Archosaur wrote: »

A couple corrections on Eoria's translations based on gameplay:
(will update these as I go along)

God photos seems a tad bit op. 5sec sleep with only 15sec cd? Combine that after using hunting life for the last 4sec of it and u got a pretty op combo. Photos definitly needs longer cd wizzy sleep is 5sec long and has 5 min cd enough said.

Verenor - Morai

killeresras wrote: »

God photos seems a tad bit op. 5sec sleep with only 15sec cd? Combine that after using hunting life for the last 4sec of it and u got a pretty op combo. Photos definitly needs longer cd wizzy sleep is 4 sec long and has 2 min cd enough said.

Corrected the wizzy sleep stats, but even then:

Sin's Deep Sting: 5sec sleep 15sec CD (sage 13sec but 95% chance).
The new LA class is all about CC, so they are designed to have combo's like that (much alike BM has that almost 24/7 lockdown combo).

Reliea - Sanctuary

blackeroasis wrote: »

Well from the looks of Narkotic's video when they were messing around testing damage on each other in sp. The moon fairy couldn't even charm bypass the night shadow. The level difference was only 41 vs 39. While the Night Shadow was able to 2 shot the moon fairy pretty easily.

Looking at PWI's recent track record they seem to make the melee class more op than the magic class. So I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same case for this expansion as well.

Any thoughts?

I find that most melee classes are better vs mages at early levels, at 40-50 it's still too soon to judge, considering outside of pvp servers, most classes don't do much pvping til later game where then I find that, excluding the extreme op individuals, mages usually have a good advantage over melee classes.

Seriously can't wait for this new race XD it's going to be exciting to give'em a try.