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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu0FEcNkLtE&hd=1 Quick Links: Official Game Sites and Info Sites Vindictus Main Site - Go here to register, get the client, read about the latest events, and carefully avoid the forums because they're terrible. Vindictus Wiki - Wiki that is somewhat spotty, but can provide some information other sources cannot. The previous thread - Old times, old crimes. Guides New Player Gearing Guide - A thorough explanation of what you need to do to get the good stuff Boss Stats, Caps, and QB Requirements - A comprehensive table that tells you the stats for raid bosses, so you know what kind of stats you need to do appreciable damage to them Season 3 Raid, 12-Man Raid, and Special Raid Break-off Guide Mood Missions Guide - Get those buffs, free as can be INTRO Vindictus (known as Mabinogi Heroes in Korea) is a free-to-play action MMORPG that uses the Source engine. The game features pretty graphics, a dramatic soundtrack, and interesting-ish stories. It also has fierce combo-based fighting and rear end in a top hat physics. If you're tired of WoW clones and the DPS/Tank/Healer trinity, Vindictus is a game you should definitely try. Gameplay The meat of Vindictus is the combat. The game is a third-person action game and the controls (keyboard, keyboard+mouse, and gamepads are all supported) allow for straightforward execution of your character's abilities. Battles are fluid, fast-paced, and depend on your reflexes and ability to think quickly under pressure. Chain together weak and strong attacks to perform special moves called smashes, which deal lots of damage and can stun enemies. Use secondary weapons like spears and bombs to hit distant enemies and break body parts off of bosses. If that gets boring, try grabbing a nearby object and smashing someone with it, or press E to grab your foe and punch him to death. Or slam him into a wall. Or kick him off of a cliff. Or drop-kick him into a bunch of other dudes. The possibilities are many. Plus, killing enemies with sick wrestling moves restores health! What about defense? There's no Evasion stat to keep you alive: If you don't want to get hit, do your own dodging. Or block the attack. Or counter-attack to reflect the damage back at your foe. Every character has their own methods for self-preservation. Learn them well and you'll be soloing raid bosses in no time! Playable Characters Vindictus has twenty-two playable characters. They're characters, not classes, and they shouldn't be pigeonholed into typical MMORPG roles.
Story This game has a long, over-arching plotline involving questions about free will, predestination, time travel, and sexual harassment. The plot of Season 1 centers around your activities as a mercenary with the Crimson Blades, fighting to protect the village of Colhen from the demi-human Fomors. Season 2 takes place in a parallel universe in which you quit merc work after a week and move to the pirate town of Malina to become a treasure hunter. Along the way, you find some treasure and it's honestly rather boring. Season 3 picks up where Season 1 left off while bringing in the characters from Season 2 to create exciting new conflicts involving lots of deities getting their asses beat by you and your buddies. All of this story and plot and character development aren't important. All of these words are just a bunch of excuses to send you to... Dungeons and Raids All of the PvE in Vindictus happens in dungeon instances. Up to four people can form a party and defeat bad guys, negotiate hazards, find loot and basically have a grand old time. For Royal Army Raids, up to twelve people can join in. Raids are tons of fun because they're all about beating the crap out of gigantic bosses that will kill you dead if you're dumb. They're also quite rewarding, as bosses can drop valuable crafting and upgrading materials. You might even strike it rich by picking up that ultra-rare drop from an end-game boss! Guilds Vindictus's guild system allows you, oh goony person, to chat with other goony persons about random crap and maybe organize a raid train. Guilds themselves have experience levels and unlocking higher levels gets you rewards like bonuses to experience and discounts on improving your equipment. It is very good to be in a guild. The guilds to know are:
How To Get Started Are you excited as hell about playing this game? Good. Go to the official site and click Play Now to start downloading the client or the official Nexon launcher. Register for an account if you don't have one. Alternatively, you can install the client through Steam, but running Vindictus through Steam is a bit iffy. I'm personally quite keen on the Nexon Launcher because it works and keeps the client up to date. Once the game is running, log in and make a character. Run through the prologue at least once so you understand the controls and know how to fight. Congratulations, you now have a real character and have some measure of control over yourself! Start visiting NPCs, get some quests, and head to the docks to do battles. Once you're settled in, look to the lower-left corner of the screen for an icon that looks like this: That's the button for the Guild window. Go to the Search Guilds tab and look for the resident guild for whatever server you're on, like this: Send in an application, post your in-game name in this thread, and someone will accept you eventually. From there, any guild worth being in will guide you through the tougher battles and give you advice and maybe even free stuff. Who knows? It doesn't hurt to ask so long as you don't ask for too much at once. Note that you should post before you apply or failing that, post immediately after you apply. Some admins are quick to reject mystery applicants because spending a week asking "who dis is" gets old quickly. Also, guilds can go inactive; so inactive, in fact, that they don't even bother to post and say that they're inactive. ArchWizard fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Jan 24, 2023 |
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ADVANCED TOPICS Skills Skills are an integral part of Vindictus gameplay. They grant special abilities or increase your precious numbers. Run battles or eat capsules to earn AP, then spend that AP to level up your skills in the Skill window. Some skills require other skills to be at a minimum rank; this will be indicated in the skill description. The game's Growth Goals system will provide a little guidance when choosing skills to level. In addition, I'm going to make some suggestions here:
At level 40, you'll be able to complete the Pact questline. This lets you unlock your transformation ability, which lets you unleash your Paladin or Dark Knight abilities in battle for a few minutes. Paladins gain a slight boost to defense, Dark Knights gain a decent boost to attack power. Leveling transformation skills requires a different type of skill currency called Transformation Points, or TP. Earn these by running battles in general and by transforming in battle and killing enemies. The more enemies, the better. Feed your soul with the agonies of your foes. Commerce and Trade Lots of trade is conducted via the marketplace. The marketplace, accessible from the first three towns, is a place to dump poo poo you don't want but others might. Most items can be bought or sold through the marketplace. Alas, there are caveats to note: You cannot trade items bound to you unless you can use unbind potions on them. You cannot trade many cash shop items. You cannot trade empty dye ampoules, though those filled with dye can be sold. You cannot trade many items given away during events, even if you busted your hump to earn them. Is a Lann not entitled to the sweat of his brow? Apparently not. The marketplace also has a function for searching specifically for ingredients for a particular craft. This is useful if you know what you want and that you don't want to buy it pre-made for one reason or another. Fashion?!?! Vindictus has a robust array of cosmetic dyes, clothing, hairstyles, underwear, tattoos, make-up, and so on and forth. The more creative and fashionable players have combined these to make their characters look fabulous. The not-as-creative ones dye their poo poo whatever colors they can find, or spend money on gacha outfits for an easy look, instantly. There's no wrong way to decorate your character, so go hog wild. Crafting As you're leveling your way through Vindictus, most of your equipment will be given to you as a reward for passing milestones. At level 90 and beyond, gear is crafted by specific NPCs. Existing in parallel to this is the Expertise system, which allows players to craft equipment so long as they have the materials and minimum skill level. The crafting expertises are:
Meanwhile, there are also three skills that accompany the four equipment expertise skills:
Expertises have some features that make them worth leveling:
Upgrading Your equipment can be upgraded in several ways. These processes are designed to separate you from your in-game gold, real-life money, and sanity.
PvP There are several PvP modes available:
While PvP is optional, it is a good idea to find some way to get Triumph Medals to purchase artifacts. Artifacts aren't game-breaking but there are several that can make battles a lot easier. Notable artifacts include the Cat Statue (instant SP recovery, usable every 70-90 seconds), the Werewolf Paw (+20% to move and attack speed for 20-30 seconds), or the Succubus Fang (grants lifesteal for 20 seconds). ArchWizard fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Jan 24, 2023 |
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Everyone forgot the most important item for S3 and now iron ores are worth more than Regina components at 180k each. You need 120 for a full set of Lvl 80 or 30 for a weapon And they fixed the lag.
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We need a gif of the bear decapitation/elf dismemberment because drat. SO MUCH BLOOD
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Bakalakadaka posted:We need a gif of the bear decapitation/elf dismemberment because drat. I guess he found our onslaught to be UNBEARABLE. So anyway: I really like the new Regina gear system. If you're not rich as balls, you can easily/cheaply wrangle up a set of purple feathers that don't let you enhance past +10 or enchant past rank 8. Even if you do find an orange feather later, you can spend some Godly mats to switch it into the piece of equipment you already have. Of course, you lose any improvements you had in the first place, so you might be better off selling your orange feathers anyway
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ArchWizard posted:Last night I was doing a Ben Chenner run and I turned around to see a party member cut a bear in half and send the front half flying across the map, blood spraying out of it like a rocket. This is my plan for my Arisha who's gear I sold for loads a money a few months before S3.
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# ? Jul 19, 2015 22:08 |
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I need to correct my earlier self. I just checked the S3E1 announcement page and found out that replacing the feather or shards in a Regina item doesn't reset enchants or enhancement level. That's actually really generous.
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ArchWizard posted:I need to correct my earlier self. I just checked the S3E1 announcement page and found out that replacing the feather or shards in a Regina item doesn't reset enchants or enhancement level. That's actually really generous. It does replace it if you upgrade the level of it apparently though, like going from blue to purple. Not that it matters since it has to be orange to go past 10 anyway.
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# ? Jul 20, 2015 01:29 |
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I haven't used the new system yet, but the cheapness of the older stuff has let me upgrade all my visible pieces for practically free. I had saved up a ton of junky dragon parts, they jumped up 100x over on release and I dumped them for millions.
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# ? Jul 20, 2015 07:33 |
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How horribly P2W is this Nexon game?
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ShadowMoo posted:How horribly P2W is this Nexon game? Not much at all, especially with the latest round of updates.
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# ? Jul 20, 2015 21:39 |
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Has the grind factor changed much in say, the last 2 years or so? Haven't played since before GW2 came out but I felt like this got pretty intensely grindy even by the 30's.
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# ? Jul 20, 2015 21:46 |
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Apparently I had 5k NX in my old account that expired. Lovely. Never seen an MMO put an expiration date on their currency.
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ShadowMoo posted:Apparently I had 5k NX in my old account that expired. Lovely. Never seen an MMO put an expiration date on their currency. You are a fortunate person to have never played Wildstar. E: Apparently they never went through with expiring Credd in that game? Initially they had said it would expire after 3 months but I guess they went back on that. Gwyrgyn Blood fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Jul 20, 2015 |
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Gwyrgyn Blood posted:Has the grind factor changed much in say, the last 2 years or so? Haven't played since before GW2 came out but I felt like this got pretty intensely grindy even by the 30's. They shortened all of the S1 boats significantly and dramatically increased the XP you get from the story missions and some side missions. The end result is that playing through the story and doing the easy, valuable side stories for S1 and S2 gets you up past level 80 without any additional grind. edit: Almost all S1 boats, the castle levels are all still really long.
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OnceIWasAnOstrich posted:They shortened all of the S1 boats significantly and dramatically increased the XP you get from the story missions and some side missions. The end result is that playing through the story and doing the easy, valuable side stories for S1 and S2 gets you up past level 80 without any additional grind. That sounds really good. When I was playing last, basically I hit a point in the 30s where I would rapidly run out of level appropriate quests each level and so it was just raw grinding most of the time. By 'shortened all of the boats' you mean the actual levels themselves got a lot shorter? I was trying to remember if there was any way to skip those boat introductions when entering/reentering dungeons or not.
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Gwyrgyn Blood posted:That sounds really good. When I was playing last, basically I hit a point in the 30s where I would rapidly run out of level appropriate quests each level and so it was just raw grinding most of the time. They basically lopped off one loading screen from every boat, so that they have 2/3 sections instead of 3/4, and the generated maps are somewhat shorter as well. The introductions are still there afaik. The lull at the end of Ainle where people would have to grind Blood Prince forever to get to the next stories is pretty much gone, completely gone if you do side missions and hard mode/macha most of the time. Also when you hit 20/30/40 there are the 20-person raids you can do 3x/week each that give a ton of experience and let you get a big boost that will take you over any xp lull that might be left.
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Sometimes you'll even outlevel the boats before finishing all the episode. You don't run out of stories until about level 60s because you need levels or season2 boats will take a giant poo poo on you. But rocheste stories can get you pretty high if you do all the side stuff, and with the new newbie armor boxes you should be able to break into season2 really easy. The level 60 raids are pretty much the most fun anyways imo. P2W is kinda goofy because as long as you don't die a ton no one really knows how awful you are. Season3 atk caps haven't changed at all; kraken still has the highest defense in the game. And with all the new weapons, the level 80 weapons are cheap as heck right now. I'm sure you could grind some money for someone's +10 weapon decently easy. Enchanted armor is the real divider, but honestly I doubt most players have them. Even if you buy or grind the scroll, they have like 60% chance to fail, and they break your armor. It's a hosed up system, but not 100% necessary to care about. darkhand fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Jul 20, 2015 |
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You can play the game just fine without enchants and with minimal enhancement, plus you occasionally get free enchant/enhance stuff periodically. If you like the game enough to bother slogging through enchanting you will probably be willing to drop some dollars on runes and poo poo.
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darkhand posted:P2W is kinda goofy because as long as you don't die a ton no one really knows how awful you are. Season3 atk caps haven't changed at all; kraken still has the highest defense in the game. And with all the new weapons, the level 80 weapons are cheap as heck right now. I'm sure you could grind some money for someone's +10 weapon decently easy.
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# ? Jul 20, 2015 23:14 |
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What's the main USA guild thats's active?
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ArchWizard posted:A thread on the official forums pointed out that a +10 purple Regina weapon (which is cheap) hits the attack cap as easily as a +10 orange Regina weapon. Worth nothing though that the orange weapons get higher crit/speed/bal and can actually go past 10 (rich people only zone). Although technically all you need to go past 10 is an orange feather.
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Gwyrgyn Blood posted:By 'shortened all of the boats' you mean the actual levels themselves got a lot shorter? I was trying to remember if there was any way to skip those boat introductions when entering/reentering dungeons or not. You can get to Lvl 70 (all raids open) in approx 3-5 days which is nice considering how long it took in the past even with story quests. The only time you probably will grind is for the final leg to Lvl 80-90 where everyone is at right now so you'll find people to farm exp with if necessary. The only place that has annoyingly long maps are in S2 esp TD but fortunately people actually host boats right now. Rule #1: Don't enhance/enchant unless this is the last thing. Pre-made is the way to go unless you enjoy failing back to back scrolls for each armor part.
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Does anyone know if the stuff in the S3 preparedness package is tradeable yet? Or if the individual contents were ever meant to be tradeable?Alder posted:The only place that has annoyingly long maps are in S2 esp TD but fortunately people actually host boats right now. ShadowMoo posted:What's the main USA guild thats's active? ArchWizard fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Jul 21, 2015 |
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ArchWizard posted:Does anyone know if the stuff in the S3 preparedness package is tradeable yet? Or if the individual contents were ever meant to be tradeable? The closed package is tradeable b/t the same acc but the individual items are not. For example, I can't split the Inner and Hair coupons or +10 one. Idk if it's just me but I lag a lot in the new maps vs some S2 raids. Great for mining godly ores though. Regina is OK but her I'm averaging 20-30 min each raid and that gets old fast. I'd rather run older raids and sell off the useless secondary mats.
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# ? Jul 21, 2015 09:13 |
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There any way I should be building my Lann? I'm kind of just putting in skills at randon.
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ShadowMoo posted:There any way I should be building my Lann? I'm kind of just putting in skills at randon. There isn't really a 'wrong' way to build your character in this game since there's a hard cap for your skills (I think it's about 180k AP total for Lann). That said, putting AP in your actual combat skills is always a good choice, especially since they're much cheaper than mastery skills. You also want to make sure you level up your armor and weapon proficiencies so you can use new poo poo as you level.
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CRIT and gliding first imo.
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At around what level will I start to see other boats?
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ShadowMoo posted:At around what level will I start to see other boats? edit: Welp. OnceIWasAnOstrich fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Jul 22, 2015 |
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ShadowMoo posted:At around what level will I start to see other boats? Don't be silly, Vin is the anti-social MMO until endgame. Then you can set-up boat reqs to meet more people who are into the game that much. @OP: Time to update link to shippu's armory because he finally hosted his own site after all: http://vindictusmanual.com
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That doesn't bug me, mainly playing as a side game when I am at cap with skyforge and bored of XIV.
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Alder posted:Don't be silly, Vin is the anti-social MMO until endgame. Then you can set-up boat reqs to meet more people who are into the game that much.
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ArchWizard posted:I have a link to Shippu's Armory? Yep, I submitted one a while back and time for new links.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 03:41 |
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Yeah the game is a billion times better than it was even a year ago.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 07:25 |
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I don't know when I played this last. All I know is I came back after over a year of not playing to a level 23 Fiona. With D level Meditation. I had like 40,000 AP to spend when I logged in last night! Still have like 34k after buying most of what looked good. I only dicked around in one dungeon but drat the combat in this game is fun and exactly what I was looking for. I probably quit originally because of a combination of sucking and too much grind.
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Darke GBF posted:I had like 40,000 AP to spend when I logged in last night! Still have like 34k after buying most of what looked good. I only dicked around in one dungeon but drat the combat in this game is fun and exactly what I was looking for. I probably quit originally because of a combination of sucking and too much grind. Probably quit due to terrible lag too if it was still in the "too much grind" stage for lower levels
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 19:13 |
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Darke GBF posted:I don't know when I played this last. All I know is I came back after over a year of not playing to a level 23 Fiona. With D level Meditation. At 23 you would have been in the awful bits of Hoarfrost Hollow, the second and largely unchallenging tileset. They've made a couple passes on that part of the game to make it faster and less "the worst part of the game". If you do end up playing much more, you don't need to mess with completing all the items listed as "Season 1 sub-story" or something to that effect and are totally fine to just do main story stuff.
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# ? Jul 22, 2015 19:34 |
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Is this a koreagame? Its all animes and it has something called kraken like archeage?
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GaylordButts posted:At 23 you would have been in the awful bits of Hoarfrost Hollow, the second and largely unchallenging tileset. They've made a couple passes on that part of the game to make it faster and less "the worst part of the game". If you do end up playing much more, you don't need to mess with completing all the items listed as "Season 1 sub-story" or something to that effect and are totally fine to just do main story stuff. I can already see they made it a ton less grindy. Pretty much got an entire level out of a single quest in Ainle. Had a semi-hilarious bug where I did the quest where Ellis dies, then came back to town and talked to Ellis, who ran off to Ainle alone, and then immediately got called a murderer by Gwynn because Ellis died. Haha. Right now I'm just kind of doing whatever quests I can find and seem to be appropriate for my level. It's fun.
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