Strong mana potions for knights and challenge spell against distance fighters
Knights will finally be able to use strong mana potions, as the mana pool of high level characters has constantly grown, which made it difficult to fill up with normal potions. They will also receive a new healing spell which fills the gap between
Wound Cleansing and
Intense Wound Cleansing, to strengthen their healing abilities. On the other hand, while using
Blood Rage, the knight will now take more damage, to make the spell's trade-off between attack and defense more pronounced. Knights will also get a new spell, which will temporarily turn distance fighters into melee fighters and challenge them, as a common criticism has been that knights do not have a good way of dealing with distance fighters.
More healing options for druids
Druids receive two new healing spells:
Nature's Embrace, a stronger version of
Heal Friend, and
Restoration, which will be the most powerful self-healing spell. In turn, they can no longer use
Heal Friend on themselves, as their overall healing capabilities have been strengthened. The mana costs for
Terra Wave will also be lowered to reduce waste.
New attack and debuff spells for sorcerers
Sorcerers receive a new offensive spell,
Great Fire Wave, which in terms of power lies between the
Energy Wave and a
Fireball Rune, to increase their attacking potential. Attack and critical damage of the wand of darkness will be lowered to curb its power. On the other hand, the sorcerer receives two completely new PvE debuff spells:
Expose Weakness and
Sap Strength. These new AoE spells weaken monsters by reducing their damage or making them more sensitive and thus provide the sorcerer with a wholly new facette to their gameplay, strengthening the vocation's role in a team hunt.
Something which affects both druids and sorcerers is the change of the
Magic Shield. In its current state, it gives mages the ability to absorb a lot more damage than knights and paladins. The druid's and sorcerer's
Magic Shield now only blocks a certain amount of damage before it breaks. The energy ring can now only be used by knights and paladins, but sorcerers and druids get a new item, which casts a
Magic Shield that works like their new, modified one. With these adjustments we hope to strike a balance between giving mages a reasonable amount of protection while not outclassing knights and paladins in terms of defensive capabilities.
Quiver and elemental damage imbuements on weapons for paladins
Paladins get a new item with the quiver, which may hold either arrows or bolts and can only be equipped by this vocation. Ammunition is no longer used out of the backpack, but solely out of the quiver. Paladins can now make use of elemental damage imbuements, since bows and crossbows are going to be imbueable with elemental damage. This will apply the effect to the quiver's ammunition, while it also depends on the ammunition type how this manifests. Elemental damage imbuements do not affect diamond arrows. However, speaking of diamond arrows, the cooldown of
Conjure Diamond Arrow and
Conjure Spectral Bolt has been massively decreased down to two seconds, so that players no longer need to prepare ammunition a long time in advance of a hunt.
They will also be able to use great mana potions, similar to how knights can use strong mana potions now. The distance skill bonus that is gotten through
Sharpshooter has been reduced a bit, since it is widely considered as too strong by players. On the other hand, they receive a new spell similar to the knight's one, turning distance fighters into melee fighters, though it does not challenge monsters and does not affect as many creatures, combined with a longer cooldown.
Increased healing and adjusted damage range
Intense Healing and the
Intense Healing Rune now heal slightly more than before, to bring them in line with the new
Supreme Healing spell. Moreover, to narrow the spread of damage dealt by single target, non-critical physical range and melee attacks, their minimum damage has been increased a bit while their maximum damage has been reduced a bit. Overall, this does not affect the power level of players, but makes the damage output more stable.