Vindictus: You got your action in my anime MMO!

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ArchWizard: Mar 27, 2009; There's the Roy I know ~~and love~~.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu0FEcNkLtE&hd=1

Official Game Sites

Vindictus NA - Go here to register, get the client, read about the latest events, and carefully avoid the forums because they're terrible.
Vindictus EU - Official site for the European version of Vindictus. Arguably better for you if you live in Europe.

INTRO

Vindictus is a free-to-play action MMORPG that uses the Source engine. The game features pretty graphics, a rockin' soundtrack, and ~~compelling~~ stories. It also has visceral, in-your-face combat and rear end in a top hat physics galore. If you're tired of "hurr mash hotkeys" WoW clones and the DPS/Tank/Healer trinity, Vindictus is a game you should definitely try.

Gameplay

The meat of Vindictus is its combat. The game is a third-person action game and the controls (keyboard, keyboard+mouse, and gamepads are all supported) allow for straightforward handling 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 (even bosses)! Use secondary weapons like spears and bombs to damage enemies and break body parts off of bosses. If that gets boring, try grabbing a nearby object and smashing him 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.

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 his or her own methods for self-preservation. Learn them well and you'll be soloing raid bosses in no time!

Playable Characters

From left to right: Fiona, Karok, Hurk, Vella, Lann, Kai, Evie.

Vindictus has nine playable characters. They're characters, not classes, and they don't fit neatly into the typical MMO class roles.

Lann is a dual-wielder. He starts with Twin Swords and has the ability to dodge, then attack his opponent's flank while it's exposed. On the other hand, Lann can eventually pick up Twin Spears. In exchange for losing most of his dodging ability, he gets to spin around and dish out lots of damage, dicing enemies like strawberries in a blender. The biggest challenge facing Spear Lanns is the fact that bosses rarely blend well and can easily kill a careless Lann.
Fiona is a shield user. For weapons, she starts with the fast but weak Long Sword. Later, she can pick up the Long Hammer, which is slower but substantially more powerful. Fiona's real trick, however, is that she can counter-attack with her shield. After a carefully timed block, Fiona can unleash an extremely damaging attack on her enemy that can stun enemies. Fiona is great in solo play because she can outlast nearly every boss. She truly shines in groups and raids because she can draw a boss's attention and get hit without taking damage, or really lay down the damage herself.
Evie is the Japanese schoolgirl/magic user. She starts with staves and can launch magic missiles, fireballs, lightning bolts, and icicles at enemies. Later, she can wield battle scythes and tear through enemies like the physical characters while gaining the ability to summon wisps and place debuffs on enemies. Using the Alchemy Box item, Evies can create golems out of debris and place magical sentry guns. She's one of the few characters who's good at support, with a decent variety of healing abilities and party buffs.
Karok is huge. He is the strongest physical attacker in the game, capable of sending enemies flying away from him even with simple hits. His battle pillar can be used to smash hordes of enemies; then Karok can throw his pillar away and start punching enemies to death. He can even grapple with some bosses, dealing damage or stopping their most powerful attacks mid-swing. The Cestus, Karok's alternative weapon, turns the punching up to eleven. The cestus makes Karok faster, but negating damage becomes more... complicated. On the other hand, he can charge up his cestus to fire a big explosion.
Kai is the token archer. He starts the game with a bow. "What kind of bow?", you may ask. "Is it a shortbow or a longbow?" Well, it's both. Kai can switch between the two modes at will during battle. Shortbows allow for quick attacks at close range, while the longbow form allows for long-range attacks that need some time to charge up. Kai's other weapons is a Crossgun a la Van Helsing. It can rapid-fire, shoot a big explosion, and has some melee capabilities.
Vella is a dual-wielder like Lann, but her play style is substantially different. While Twin Sword Lann survives by dodging, Twin Sword Vella can choose between avoiding hits and countering them. A Vella with Twin Swords can happily spend all of her time up in a boss's business, repeatedly countering its attacks without taking damage. A Twin Sword Vella can also stand back and reflect a ranged opponent's projectiles back at them for massive damage. Chainblade Vella is a much different beast: Using chains means losing the ability to counterattack, but their impressive reach allows Vella to stay out of a boss's melee range while still dishing out lots of pain. Chainblades also give Vella access to a few utility moves, such as a knockdown ability and two attacks that can lock bosses in place.
Hurk is a greatsword user who can chain attacks together even after his stamina runs out, making him a very aggressive character. He has two methods of avoiding damage - Deflection, where he uses his gigantic sword to parry an attack and get a damage bonus for the followup smash, and Impenetrable, a buff that is applied to the character after one of his two dodges. His dodges and smashes also move him very far, making him extremely mobile.
Lynn is a Not-Chinese spear princess. The long reach of her weapon and the agility of her movements means she can easily hit enemies and pole-vault away without getting hit. Her specialty is stacking the "Swift Assassin" debuff on enemies and then detonating the stacks with "Five-Finger Death" to cause massive damage, inflict stun, and restore her own stamina.
Arisha, the newest character, is a sword wizard. By attacking, she charges stat unique to her called MP. When she has some MP, she can empower her sword to deal a non-stop flurry of smashes. She can also send out a mana crystal, hit enemies a bunch with her sword to empower said mana crystal, then make the crystal explode to cause damage to nearby enemies. Arisha also has a few spells that cause explosions, allow for teleportation, and can even stop time for enemies for several seconds.

Story

Yes, this game has a story. With the addition of Season 2, it has two stories. The stories are alright. 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 where you quit merc work after a month 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 continues the story of Season 1, but as of this writing we don't know where it's going. What an exciting time to be alive.

All of this story and plot and character development aren't hugely important and is simply a series of excuses to send you to...

Dungeons and Raids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SdM_TdMHFA&hd=1

All of the PvE in Vindictus happens in instanced dungeons. Up to four people can form a party for a normal dungeon and run through it to kill enemies and bosses, find treasure, negotiate hazards, and basically have a grand old time. For raids, six, eight, or twenty-four people can join in. A few raids are even designed to be done solo. 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 materials. You might even strike it rich by picking up an 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 poo poo and maybe organize a raid. 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:

West - diabetic dogs (Official Goon Guild)
East - FartLords (Official, but not active), Disgusting Duo (Pubbie, Goon-Friendly), Lion Heart (same)

Ask in the thread about guilds before applying to join anything, so you can be directed to the guild that best fits your needs.

How To Get Started

Are you excited as hell about playing this game? Good. Go to the Vindictus client download page and start downloading that client. 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.

Once the game is running, log in and make a character. Run through the prologue at least once so you understand a bit about the controls, how to fight, and the plot. Once you're out of the prologue, you can name your character and set his/her appearance. 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-right 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. 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 depending on which goon guild you're applying to, you should either post before you apply or post immediately after you apply. Some admins are quick to reject mystery applicants because spending a week asking "who dis is" gets old quickly.

Now that you're well on your way to kicking all the Fomor asses, read up on...

ADVANCED TOPICS

Skills

Skills are an integral part of Vindictus gameplay. They grant special abilities or increase your precious numbers. Run battles 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. Some skills you should prioritize:

Defensive skills - These will keep you alive. Focus on the dodge and blocking skills specific to your character before going for the generic Defense Mastery.
Offensive skills - Improves your damage output, with different skills boosting the effectiveness of different attacks. Start with attack skills specific to your character, then raise Smash Mastery and Critical Hit Mastery. Fun fact: Some smashes get additional abilities if you reach a certain rank with them. Pay attention to skill descriptions to find out which ones do this.
Battle Respiration and Stamina Mastery - Lets you smash for longer before needing to back off and recover stamina
Standing Endurance - Reduces the likelihood of being knocked down by an attack
Campfire - Making a campfire in dungeons allows you to repair, regenerate, and obtain two buffs; one increases your damage and the other regenerates your armor's health. Higher levels of Campfire make the buffs better. Good for team players, nearly essential for Fionas in any situation.
Life Flare - Grants a chance to not die when hit by an otherwise fatal blow. When maxed out, has a base 1-in-3 chance of saving your life.
Weight Mastery - Increases your effective weight limit, which lets you wear heavier gear. Not important for Evie or Arisha until the 60s, however.

You can earn an infinite amount of AP over your character's life so you can't gimp yourself permanently. Nevertheless, it's a bad idea to level Meditation, the skill that periodically grants free AP. No, seriously: a while ago, someone figured out that it takes a couple of years for maxed-out Meditation to pay for itself. You can get it at rank F for free, but don't bother with it after that unless you have nothing else to spend AP on.

Crafting

Most of the equipment in Vindictus has to be crafted, and most of it is (was) crafted by specific NPCs. Recipes for new weapons, armor, and jewelry are unlocked the first time you finish particular battles. Existing in parallel is the Expertise system, which allows players to craft items of a specific type so long as they have the minimum skill level. The expertises are:

Weaponsmithing - Longswords and long hammers (Fiona), twin swords (Lann and Vella), twin spears (Lann), battle pillars and cestuses (Karok), battle scythes (Evie), chainblades (Vella), greatswords (Hurk), glaives (Lynn), spellswords (Arisha)
Armorsmithing - Heavy armor, plate armor, light armor, shields
Tailoring - Cloth armor, including some unique cosmetic clothing that NPCs cannot make
Goldsmithing - Jewelry, staves (Evie), bows and crossguns (Kai), Foci (Arisha)
Cooking - Campfire food (eat it before going into battle) and pet food
Gathering - A Season Two skill that lets you gather from Luminary trees in S2 dungeons. You can get fruit (nearly worthless), orbs (for crafting equipment), and various Elemental Stone ingredients.

A character can have Cooking, Gathering, and one equipment expertise. This means that if you have, say, an Evie, you can't double-dip and make both staves and scythes for yourself. Expertises have a few special features that make them worth grinding:

You can craft gear that you haven't yet unlocked with an NPC
You can craft gear that you can't use (but can sell or give to friends)
You can create high-quality gear (up to four stars), whereas NPCs can only craft two-star gear
Leveling an expertise unlocks the ability to dismantle gear and craft element stones

Leveling an expertise is expensive and time-consuming. Don't do it unless you're rich and bored.

PvP

There are several PvP modes available:

Duels - Fight other people on the party boat or in dungeons. This is stupid; nobody does it except for the nightly PvP boat that no one joins.
Deathmatch - 1v1 and group PvP. Rewards participants with Triumph Medals. Medals can be exchanged for PvP gear that's good if you like deathmatch. With the 'Vindictus Under Siege' update, Triumph medals can be exchanged for artifacts (very short-term buff items) and little weapon icons that show up next to your name.
Boss Brawl - Summon bosses to fight for you. Fight other players and their bosses. Rewards participants with Combat Seals, which can be exchanged for scrolls that let you summon other bosses. Swell.
Capture the Relic - It's Capture the Flag. No idea what the rewards are.
Fruit Fight - Strips you of your gear and lets you smash fruit in a 2v2 arena. Rewards participants with Sports Day Trophies, which can be redeemed for a little fruit icon that shows up next to your name.
Siege Match - Two teams try to destroy the opposing team's guardian statue with bombs and catapult stones. Rewards with Triumph medals.

All PvP in Vindictus is optional and consensual. No invading other peoples' raids, sorry.

Upgrading

Your equipment can be upgraded in several ways. They are designed to separate you from your in-game gold, real-life money, and your sanity.

Enhancing - Applied to weapons and armor. Using enhancement stones and some gold, you can increase the enhance rank of your equipment up to +15. Going from +0 to +3 always works. Going to +4 or +5 can fail, and doing so reduces the rank by one. Going to +6, +7, or +8 can fail; failure will reset the rank to +0. Failing when going to +9 or higher can destroy the item. If you buy enhancement runes from the cash shop, you can prevent bad effects on failures up to +10.
Enchanting - Applied to weapons, armor, and jewelry. Find an enchant scroll and bring it to Brynn to have its enchantment transferred to a piece of equipment. Then watch as the enchantment fails and you lose the scroll and possibly the equipment as well. Cash shop runes prevent equipment destruction but are wasted on rank A enchantments or worse since those won't destroy equipment.
Power Infusion - Applied to weapons, armor, and jewelry. In exchange for some kind of element stone and some AP, you can grant a random "bonus" to a piece of equipment. Bonus is in scare quotes because the bonus can be bad. On the plus side, the bonus is the only bad thing that can happen to your gear. If you don't like what you got, try again! You're only limited by how much gold and AP you have!

I'm not going to lie: most of this stuff will drive you fucknuts unless you're wealthy in both gold and real life cash money. Try saving up to buy pre-upgraded stuff from other players.

Commerce and Trade

Nearly all trade is conducted via the marketplace. The marketplace, present in all 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. You cannot trade items bound to you. You cannot trade most cash shop items. You cannot trade empty dye ampoules, though those filled with dye can be sold.

A special note on Enchant Scrolls: scrolls have expiration dates and cannot be placed on the market. If you want to sell your enchant scrolls, post on the Vindictus forums or watch megaphone chat for people buying the scroll you're selling. Then, send your goods by COD mail. It can be useful to watch chat for a while to get an idea of what an enchant scroll is worth so you don't get screwed.

Fashion?!?!

Vindictus has a robust set 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 as gently caress. The not-as-creative ones dye their poo poo whatever colors they can find.

There's no wrong way to decorate your character, so go hog wild.

MORE INFO

This portion is a work in progress. My ultimate goal is to amass as much Vindictus information as possible so I never have to answer questions again.

Official Game Sites

Vindictus NA - Go here to register, get the client, read about the latest events, and carefully avoid the forums because they're terrible.
Vindictus EU - Official site for the European version of Vindictus. Arguably better for you if you live in Europe.

General Information Links

Vindictus Wiki - Wiki that is somewhat spotty, but is currently the go-to source for information.
VSnobs - If you must frequent another forum dedicated to Vindictus, use this one. It's full of resources, tools, and information, and that poo poo is well-moderated. It's not as active as it once was, though.
The old thread - Because the Great Chain must remain unbroken.
Sanitee - Tumblr blog with preview gifs and news.

Character Guides

Guide to Fiona's Heavy Cancel Technique - Cool and good trick to know, but you'll probably figure it out on your own if you have any reflexes.

Boss Guides

Season 1: None yet.

Season 2:
Kraken Guide
Havan Boss Mechanics
Ulchas Guide
Lavasat Guide

Equipment Guides

AP Required to Restore a Broken Weapon/Armor - If you break something while trying to enhance or enchant it, you can get it back by spending AP. How much AP? This page will tell you.
AP Restoration Calculator - This crunches the numbers for you.
Shippu's armory (Submitted by Alder) - Build ideal gear stats and impossible weapons. Recently added a comparison tool for items.
HeroesDB (Submitted by Alder) - Replaced recipes and gear info like VinDB and maintained by a EU guild.

Farming Guides

Enchant Scroll Farming Locations - Enchants are important. This list tells you where to get the good ones.

ArchWizard fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Jun 18, 2015

# ? Sep 22, 2013 20:39

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# ? May 5, 2024 20:19

Smarmy Coworker: May 10, 2008; by XyloJW

Characters that own: everyone except Lann

Is it just me or is Season 2 way too hard to solo?? Maybe I suck but I started up a Vella during the level 50 event and couldn't get through the first mission. With S1 it's pretty easy unless you're trying to solo a raid, but even then it's doable in some instances (if not very fun).

# ? Sep 22, 2013 21:07

LITERALLY MY FETISH: Nov 11, 2010; Raise Chris Coons' taxes so that we can have Medicare for All.

It's been a long time since I played this game, but it was super fun when I did. I remember duoing with a friend, him as the fighter and me as evie, and he would grappling hook rope the boss and drag him to a pillar so I could blow a fireball up in his face and drop the pillar on top of him. "Him" can refer to either my friend or the boss :v:

# ? Sep 22, 2013 21:14

Kessel: Mar 6, 2007

I played this a while back and tremendously enjoyed the core combat. A lot of games bandy the action bit of action MMO about but Vindictus is one of the few games to actually take it seriously.

That said, there are a few (okay, maybe more than a few) things which drove me nuts:

- Latency. Dungeons and raids appear to be peer-hosted, so if the rear end in a top hat hosting the party has a poo poo connection, and he will, your dungeon will be a lagfest. This means you will die.

- The upgrade system is one of the most blatant cash grabs I've ever seen in an online game. Thankfully, as the OP notes, this won't be a huge problem for you when you're just starting out, but eventually you'll reach a point where you see what it's going to take for you to get your dream weapon, and you'll throw up violently.

- It's run by Nexon, and Nexon is loving incompetent.

# ? Sep 22, 2013 22:28

dromer: Aug 19, 2012; THUNDERDOME LOSER

Is Like a Somebody even still active? I thought the guild leader/anyone with invite privelages left long ago.

# ? Sep 22, 2013 22:46

ArchWizard: Mar 27, 2009; There's the Roy I know ~~and love~~.

dromer posted:

Is Like a Somebody even still active? I thought the guild leader/anyone with invite privelages left long ago.

I asked in the previous thread and got no response from admins; I assume LAS is dead. I left it in the OP because there was talk of people applying to join, but no talk of applications being ignored for weeks on end.

I would advise new players to pay attention to who else is posting about playing on their server and add them to their Friends list. If enough goons friend each other, try forming a goon guild.

# ? Sep 22, 2013 22:57

Bakalakadaka: Sep 18, 2004

Gallagher voted best npc forever

# ? Sep 23, 2013 01:37

Tamayachi: Sep 25, 2007; Did you think about it?

Yes. Yes you did.

Is the Heavy from TF2 still a part of this or not?

# ? Sep 23, 2013 01:43

ArchWizard: Mar 27, 2009; There's the Roy I know ~~and love~~.

Tamayachi posted:

Is the Heavy from TF2 still a part of this or not?

Heavy hasn't been around since 2011, but he lives on in our hearts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g4rugzZzv8&hd=1

# ? Sep 23, 2013 01:45

AfroSquirrel: Sep 3, 2011

If there are goons still playing this I might pick it up again. I like how throwing spears feels like firing cruise missiles with the physics engine.

# ? Sep 23, 2013 02:58

Cinderful: Feb 12, 2006

First time hearing about this, but it looks interesting. How is the pvp "scene" in comparison to GW2?

# ? Sep 23, 2013 09:51

Bakalakadaka: Sep 18, 2004

Cinderful posted:

First time hearing about this, but it looks interesting. How is the pvp "scene" in comparison to GW2?

If you're looking for pvp this really isn't the game for you. There's a few gimmick pvp modes and then one that gives actual rewards but is terrible and not even remotely balanced.

If you really want to pvp in this though there's a handful of people (on east anyway) that usually do it at night.

# ? Sep 23, 2013 13:24

Pierson: Oct 31, 2004; College Slice

I remember trying it and really enjoying it, but like was mentioned above it's run by Nexon and it really starts showing its kMMO roots at higher levels with insane exp grinds and materials. I don't recall how much the cash shop affected it either but it was a constant intrusion. I also remember being annoyed that it was not possible without an insane workaround to play on different regions, pretty much instantly splitting the goon groups.

# ? Sep 23, 2013 17:09

OWLS!: Sep 17, 2009; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

I have to say the combat in this on lower levels is super fun. Swords? gently caress that. I'll kill the small fry enemies, then use their bodies to beat the poo poo out of the final boss. :getin:

E: Hahaha, I just lured the boss of a dungeon into a trap that got him stuck there. And then it died to the spiky log moving back and forth. The combat in this game is great

OWLS! fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Sep 23, 2013

# ? Sep 23, 2013 17:52

TheMopeSquad: Aug 5, 2013

Seeing that 1500nx compensation from Dungeon Fighter Online sitting in my wallet is depressing.

# ? Sep 23, 2013 19:00

Fazana: Mar 5, 2011; Dancing Elephant
Instructor

Presuming so as it's Nexon but does this have region locking and thus be from NA or bugger off?

# ? Sep 23, 2013 21:10

ArchWizard: Mar 27, 2009; There's the Roy I know ~~and love~~.

Fazana posted:

Presuming so as it's Nexon but does this have region locking and thus be from NA or bugger off?

It's region-locked, but there are lots of regions to play in. North America, Europe, Japan, Australia... Maybe others? It separates goons, but if a eurogoon and an amerigoon tried to party together, the lag would be unbearable anyway.

SPEAKING OF JAPAN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtWBRLHDdeg

# ? Sep 23, 2013 21:19

ArchWizard: Mar 27, 2009; There's the Roy I know ~~and love~~.

More Japan (from SakuraFarron's Tumblr):

Why do you love your drat tanukis so much, Japan :stonk:

EDIT: Well poo poo, I guess these are giant pandas. They look more like tanukis to me.

ArchWizard fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Oct 11, 2013

# ? Sep 25, 2013 21:08

Neo Mara: Apr 20, 2005

Posting the AP restoration calculator on page one so I can find it easy

http://dillonbursey.deviantart.com/art/AP-Restoration-Calculator-FIXED-3-369532371

# ? Sep 26, 2013 05:11

ArchWizard: Mar 27, 2009; There's the Roy I know ~~and love~~.

Those fuckers over at Nexon sprung a secret update on us.

quote:

Dissatisfied with your performance? Your endurance not what it used to be? Wish you could thrust your javelin harder, perform better, and last longer on the battlefield? The limited time Demonic Necklace can help! Scavenged straight from the bowels of hell, this prized medallion will give you the extra oomph to last all night... fighting battles with the Fomors. Really! There�s all sorts of science to back it up!

So What�s It Do?
All joking aside, the Demonic Necklace uses demonic energy to alter a weapon�s primary stat and make it equivalent to the +10 version of the weapon. The conversion only works when both items are equipped, and the demonic energy powering the necklace runs out after 30 days.

Demonic Necklaces are only on sale from September 25th through October 8th. Put one on, and the next time you run into a Fomor, you�ll do it with an ultra-confident swagger.

quote:

Ballistae, and catapults, and siege bombs, heck yeah!
Our newest PvP mode throws you into the arena in two teams of 12. The goal? Destroy the other team�s Guardian Statue. The problem? The statues are nestled safely behind sturdy castle walls. The wickedly delightful, blissfully destructive solution? Ballistae, and catapults, and siege bombs. Heck, yeah!

The new Siege Match requires teamwork, strategy, and an understanding of the new environmental weaponry to win. You�re on your own for the first two, but here�s a rundown of how it all works.

Game Rules:

The first team to destroy the other team�s Guardian Statue wins.
The game ends after 20 minutes.
If no one�s destroyed a Guardian Statue at the 20 minute mark, the game ends in a tie.
If you become incapacitated, you�ll respawn in your team�s base in 20 seconds.

Game Siege Bombs:

Siege Bombs prime automatically and explode 10 seconds after being used.
Siege Bombs are found in the central area. Only one can be equipped at a time.
Siege Bombs are primarily used to destroy castle gates.
Siege Bombs deal 2,000 damage.

Catapults:

Catapults have 10 shots initially.
More ammo can be found in surrounding areas.
Catapults deal 2,000 damage to enemies in a 200 meter radius around them.
If you�re hit by a catapult, you lose 10% of your armor.

Ballistae:

Ballistae have 20 shots initially.
More ammo can be found in surrounding areas.
Ballistae deal 15,000 damage.
If you�re hit by a ballista, you lose 20% of your armor.

Guardian Statues:

When you�re near a Guardian Statue, all of your HP will be restored. Your armor will be repaired by 20%.
Guardian Statues have 100,000 HP and 8,000 DEF.
When a statue is destroyed, the match ends.

Rewards:

The winning team gets 3 Triumph Medals.
The losing team gets 1 Triumph Medal.
If the match ends in a draw, both teams get 1 Triumph Medal.

New PVP Rewards

Artifacts give you a unique ability that can be used during combat.

Emblems are special medallions that appear over your name or next to your title. Each emblem has a special design, based around a weapon type.

Triumph medals also come from Deathmatch, so this is another way to get PvP gear. Conversely, deathmatch will allow you to farm for emblems and artifacts.

# ? Sep 26, 2013 21:15

Bakalakadaka: Sep 18, 2004

That necklace costs 17 dollars and you would be better off just buying gold and using that to buy a +10 weapon (except for level 80 weapons). Or buy 4 enhancement runes which will probably get you to +10 and then you have a +10 that isn't going to expire in a month.

# ? Sep 26, 2013 21:38

Neo Mara: Apr 20, 2005

Bakalakadaka posted:

Or buy 4 enhancement runes which will probably get you to +10 and then you have a +10 that isn't going to expire in a month.

yeah that was my immediate thought. Cant believe they are trying to sell that thing for more than a dollar.

# ? Sep 27, 2013 00:16

Cartoon Violence: Oct 30, 2012; Stop being such goons, you CLODS!

Just popping in to say that I absolutely love the game for the combat! The boss fights you get each mission are all fun and have a good difficulty curve as you level up through missions. The story is actually passable, if not anything special or great, but the gameplay outshines every other "action MMO" out there.

When you get around the first Side Episode between episodes 5 and 6 and the game basically wants you to grind 7 straight levels with very little story missions to help you through, you can hop over to doing Season 2 story things for massive EXP. For some reason, just beating the missions in Season 2 gives huge EXP chunks.

I'm going to hit 57 soon and am still loving it, though I must agree the Korean MMO grind does rear its ugly head more and more the longer you go. I still wouldn't put it in the same group as something like Lineage 2 level of grinding, though.

If you're like me and like playing through a hack n' slash action game with skills and combos and all of that, you can definitely treat the game as a long, slightly grindy single player game that has the option to play the whole thing multiplayer, although mid-to-high level Raids you definitely need a group for.

Especially if you chose Lann, like me. :smith:

# ? Sep 27, 2013 03:00

Turncoat Mommy: Oct 3, 2010; I believe in you.

Well I started playing this game again after trying a different game that managed to be this game but worse, any goons playing on the east server? I'm currently playing whatever the dual-wielding lady named Laziest.

# ? Sep 29, 2013 02:01

Bakalakadaka: Sep 18, 2004

Lazy Programming posted:

Well I started playing this game again after trying a different game that managed to be this game but worse, any goons playing on the east server? I'm currently playing whatever the dual-wielding lady named Laziest.

I play a Vella on East named Holodeck, I'm also an admin in a pubby guild if you want to join a guild for those sweet sweet mediocre guild bonuses.

vvv Spend it all on 30% off weapon boxes and then regret wasting it all for like 10000 fishing rods :unsmigghh:

Bakalakadaka fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Sep 29, 2013

# ? Sep 29, 2013 02:58

Relin: Oct 6, 2002; You have been a most worthy adversary, but in every game, there are winners and there are losers. And as you know, in this game, losers get robotizicized!

I have 7550 NX left over from DFO. What should I spend it on

# ? Sep 29, 2013 15:44

Shine: Feb 26, 2007; No Muscles For The Majority

Man, hitting Clash on a huge boss is satisfying, as is punching out smaller bosses and breaking zombies' spines in half. What I'm saying is there's nothing better in life than being a huge Samoan-looking guy holding a tree.

# ? Sep 30, 2013 06:19

OWLS!: Sep 17, 2009; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Are there any goons leveling through their first time on the East server? Anybody want to group up? (because grouping up with goons is always best) I can usually hop on in the evening on EST

OWLS! fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Sep 30, 2013

# ? Sep 30, 2013 06:57

BexGu: Jan 9, 2004; This fucking day....

Okay, for the life of me I can not get this game to work past the prologue. I can start up a new character, play all the way through the prologue, but the second I create a character/customize them the game disconnects. This has happened about 5 times so far, any one have any ideas?

# ? Sep 30, 2013 13:27

Bakalakadaka: Sep 18, 2004

Shine posted:

Man, hitting Clash on a huge boss is satisfying, as is punching out smaller bosses and breaking zombies' spines in half. What I'm saying is there's nothing better in life than being a huge Samoan-looking guy holding a tree.

If you haven't fought Siglint yet just wait til you fight him because his clash is the best.

# ? Sep 30, 2013 13:41

The Happy Hyperbole: Jan 27, 2009; What's he up to now? Hard to say since we're not telling him what to do.

Shine posted:

Man, hitting Clash on a huge boss is satisfying, as is punching out smaller bosses and breaking zombies' spines in half. What I'm saying is there's nothing better in life than being a huge Samoan-looking guy holding a tree.

Stuff like this is what makes Karok truly fun. Now if only you could clash more than once every liftetime! He's a very fun character to solo, but as I have moved into group play I have started to feel less and less useful. I'm taking a small break to try Vella, but if I'm going to be honest I am really just hoping they add Hurk soon. He looks like he might give me more of that 'throwing enemies around' high, but with more animu sword on top of it.

# ? Sep 30, 2013 14:18

dromer: Aug 19, 2012; THUNDERDOME LOSER

Shine posted:

Man, hitting Clash on a huge boss is satisfying, as is punching out smaller bosses and breaking zombies' spines in half. What I'm saying is there's nothing better in life than being a huge Samoan-looking guy holding a tree.

Real men throw their pillars and fight with their bare hands. :black101:

Relin posted:

I have 7550 NX left over from DFO. What should I spend it on

God, I can't get over how sad I am to see it go. DFO was a really unique game, even with its faults.

# ? Oct 2, 2013 02:22

Kuai: May 25, 2004

I love Vindictus but I just wish Nexon did not control it.

# ? Oct 2, 2013 03:16

Literally Esoteric: Jun 13, 2012; One final, furious struggle...then a howl of victory

Kuai posted:

I love Vindictus but I just wish Nexon did not control it.

They did finally get rid of the GHOST BOATS full of disconnected parties which cannot be joined and never leave the available parties screen though!

They might even *stay* gone!

# ? Oct 2, 2013 10:09

ArchWizard: Mar 27, 2009; There's the Roy I know ~~and love~~.

Bakalakadaka posted:

vvv Spend it all on 30% off weapon boxes and then regret wasting it all for like 10000 fishing rods

If you had 10,000 fishing rods, you'd actually feel the opposite of regret tomorrow:

Vindictus posted:

Mercenaries,
Fishing season is in and the Ignacht river is full of chests and rewards for you to enjoy. So after a hard-fought battle just kick back and relax with some good ol' fishing. Starting October 2nd the docks will be open to all mercenaries looking to fish up some loot.

Event Name: Fishing Event
Event Period: 10/2 ~ 10/8
Event Location: Fishing Docks
Event Rewards:
-Storage Expansion Tickets
-Inner Armor Coupons
-Hair Change Coupons
-Merc Recovery Potions
-Goddess Grace
-AP Capsules (50-300)
-Various Ores
-Enhancement Stones
-Enhancement Elixirs

# ? Oct 3, 2013 05:46

Blast of Confetti: Apr 21, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

God, why does fishing have to be in every MMO?

# ? Oct 3, 2013 09:50

Elswyyr: Mar 4, 2009

I wanna try playing Karok, but I saw some people mention that he gets really bad in the late game, and pretty much only spams one attack over and over? Is this true? I just want to hit dudes with clubs and punch them.

# ? Oct 3, 2013 20:41

Shine: Feb 26, 2007; No Muscles For The Majority

Elswyyr posted:

I wanna try playing Karok, but I saw some people mention that he gets really bad in the late game, and pretty much only spams one attack over and over? Is this true? I just want to hit dudes with clubs and punch them.

gently caress the late game, live for the moment, beat people with a tree.

# ? Oct 3, 2013 21:19

Bakalakadaka: Sep 18, 2004

Elswyyr posted:

I wanna try playing Karok, but I saw some people mention that he gets really bad in the late game, and pretty much only spams one attack over and over? Is this true? I just want to hit dudes with clubs and punch them.

Karok owns and every class basically has a 'best' attack to spam most of the time so just go hit stuff with trees and gently caress bosses with your big beefy meat hands.

# ? Oct 3, 2013 21:50

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# ? May 5, 2024 20:19

Elswyyr: Mar 4, 2009

This is what I wanted to hear.

# ? Oct 3, 2013 22:00

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