Balance

Filet - Heavens Tear wrote: »

4 words for you- Will of the Bodhisatva. ;D byebye chromatic seal. Either case if you do manage to get a chromatic seal on us... doesn't change the fact that the shield's still there

RRARRRRGGHHH - Sanctuary wrote: »

I have recently played around with this genie skill and i must say...I am amazed by its potential. This skill is designed to work with alter marrows to give enormous amounts of defense. Basically what the skill does is it takes your average magical and physical defense and compares them. Whichever is higher it takes the lower value defense, and subtracts that from it. So if physical is higher than magical for example, it does physical - magical = some difference. This difference is then multiplied by a constant, and the resulting number is the amount of max damage of the lower defense that is absorbed.

Example: you have 5k physical defense and 2k magical defense, you use this skill, 5k - 2k = 3k. At level 1, multiply 3k by .1, 3000 * .1 = 300. Since avg. mdef < pdef, mdamage is absorbed. That means that over the time period of the skill the shield may absorb up to 300 magic damage.

This effect lasts for 12 seconds *AND* during this 12 seconds you are also immune to stun.

Now the amazing part about this skill is when you consider how it levels up, the only value that changes is the constant. Level 2 for example is .2, level 3 is .3 etc. Level 10 is 1. Now how is that amazing? Well now suddenly, the example above at level 10, absorbs up to 3k damage over 12 seconds...

Now lets use this with alter marrows, which can massively increase the difference in defense values. At level 10 an alter marrow increases one type of defense by 120%, and decreases the other by 120%. So we use this to bolster this skill.

Say you are fighting a wizard for example (or anything that casts), you could use alter marrow physical to increase the difference between pdef and mdef for about 2 seconds(stun the enemy first so they cant do sht to u during this time), during that time you use this skill, which means you should easily have over 10k difference between the two values of defense. (see note as to why this is done) After casting the shield you then cast alter marrow magical, because you have already used the defense difference to give yourself the massive magical shield, now you make yourself more resistant to magic as well. The reverse works with physical damage of course. But that is how alter marrows can work perfectly with this skill.

Note: the reason we switch marrows is because the shield absorbs damage done, so if your defense is still sht, then it takes less hits because more damage is hitting it, so we change it back to resist the right damage, after using it to significantly boost our shield.

This skill can of course be used normally; however, to get a physical defense shield magical marrow has to be used to get mdef higher than pdef. Also, not using marrows of course makes it less effective since the difference is smaller, but is better in some situations of course.

The stun immune for 12 seconds can be used to counter other blademasters along with will of bodhistava, giving you a fair set of countermeasures for stun.

This skill can be used in combination with true emptyness, which now in the air does probably almost as much as thunderstorm does on the ground in magic damage (x3 in air, 150 + 20x energy consumed (so 160 energy = 3 * ((20*160) + 150) damage)). Also now that true emptyness uses all energy to be cast, you can cast it even with 1 energy, making it a very nice last ditch defense against magic attacks. (another 2500 max magic damage resisted if valid target is within 16 meters to cast on)

Personally that is my opinion on these skills at least so far from what i have tested, if u guys find out any other new things please say so...and of if my info is incorrect cus some of it is theoretical based on trends in leveling.

HatheR - Sanctuary wrote: »

Very Nice, Balance FTW.

Well, i got a lvl 50 genie, LP 45/50, and now i have Thunderstorm and Balance. I put some points into vit, to have the enough energy to use Balance, and all the rest into STR (big dmg with thunderstorm).
Also I have 1 free slot for 1 skill, and now, what should I do? Which skill should i choose? (for PVP). And how about the points, all into STR? Or add some more into Vit to have more energy to use more skills at same time? Thanks.

RRARRRRGGHHH - Sanctuary wrote: »

Bwahahahaha, i have just thought up another evil scheme with genies. Explosion now uses all energy, so it is effectivly like true emptyness, you can use it even with no energy. The damage has been increased alot as well, level 5 is around 731 fire damage, so 10 i would assume goes over 1.2k at least, double up close. This is less than thunderstorm (1.4k * 5) BUT, who says you cant use it right after you use thunderstorm to inflict even more magical pain. Heavens > thunderstorm > explosion = ouchies to anyone not using balance. b:shocked This also means you can use explosion every 12 seconds to deal magic damage...not a bad deal. You could also toss on an extreme poison as well. Oh and it gets better, using both true emptyness and explosion your genie has both offense AND defense at 0 energy ftw, which means, make a genie with those two skills, switch to it when primary genie uses all energy on its skills, and bam, u got more lovely skills to use. But hold on, just when that wasent enough, our secondary genie for using 0 energy skills needs no vit, nor mag, therfore we can pump strength or dex ONLY. True emptyness gains 1 second duration per 40 dex, and 10 damage absorbed per 1 dex, so we make the genie 120 pure dex, and have an 11 second magic shield absorbing 3.7k damage, and all we need to do to use this is switch genies, wow. On offense you could do 120 strength genie, thus making even the damage from explosion better by over doubling it again, so you could then spam every 12 seconds, so, switch from your full strength thunderstorm genie, to your full strength explosion genie in middle of heavens to destroy your opponent. Wow i literally just thought of that as i was writing this lol.

Of course bramble rage is always an option if your genie is level 85+ (when it starts to do more than thunderstorm) for even more damage.