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2.70 - Diastrophism #1
Dark Bard

• Added a brand new promoted class for the Bard base class called Dark Bard.
• 21 new skills with many new animations.
  

Map Requests

• Wanderer's Vale Floors 2+3 (Courtesy of Slydria)
  
• Geladyne Construction Workshop (Courtesy of Appo)
  
• Fairview Renovation (Courtesy of Appo)
  
• Telegrad Southern Fields Urbanization (Courtesy of Autumn)
  
• Various minor map changes (Courtesy of Dev)
  

New Areas (Korvara)

• Added 6 new large exterior areas.
  
• Added 5 new dungeon areas.
  
• Added many new interior areas for the above.
  
• Added 12 new battlefield maps.
  

New Enemies

• Added 3 new boss monsters.
  
• Added 13 new monster enemies.
  
• Added several dozen new monster skills and many new animations for the above.
  

New Equipment Items

• Added 30 new equipment items to the Korvara item pool.
  

New Materials

• Added 20 new item materials;
  
• 5 Ore
  
• 5 Wood
  
• 5 Page
  
• 5 Cloth
  

New Enchantments & Adjustemnts

• Added 8+ new enchantments.
  
• Volcanic (Weapon); Damage effect now hits all enemies except the original target within 5 Range.
  
• Volcanic (Armor); Effect changed; +25 HP. Being hit by an attack creates Cinders at all tiles within 2 Range (LV 15, 2 duration, once per round.)
  

New Special Strikes & Adjustments

• Added 10 new Special Strikes to various weapons.
  
• Added animations to all pre-existing Special Strikes which did not have them.
  
• Maou; Damage now ignores armor.
  

New Item Potentials

• Added 10 new Item Potentials to various weapons.
  
• XP requirement to unlock potentials has been adjusted.
  

New Crystal Terminal Upgrade

• Added 1 new Crystal Terminal upgrade.
  

New Traits

• Added 15 new character traits.
  

New Youkai

• Added 3 new Youkai; Fire Elemental, Wind Elemental, and Kerberos.
  
• Added an animation for Snow Crow's Creysr.
  

New Donation Item

• Added Sticker Set 2, containing Air and Risu stickers.
  
• Added Ashe Padoru and Nemalyth Padoru as free stickers.
  

New Craft Recipes

• Added 22 new material change kit recipes.
  
• Added 12 new Tailoring recipes.
  
• Added 1 new Metalwork recipe.
  
• Added 4 new Alchemy recipes.
  
• Added 8 new enchantment catalyst recipes.
  
• Added 8 new recipe books (available in various shops on both Korvara and G6).
  

ETC

• Added over a dozen new music tracks, including a new Korvara battle theme and boss theme.
  
• Added animations for Absorb and Reflect effects.
  
• Spiritualism spirits will no longer leave you if your talent rank is insufficient; instead, they will simply not take effect. (IE, if you have 5 spirits and only rank 4 Possession, the 5th spirit will not give any bonuses.)
  
• Battle rings now have a flashing state for enemies who have 1 HP (which makes tracking things such as Winged Serpent's final attack HP threshold easier).
  
• Walking monsters over level 70 are now immune to traps placed on the map. (Not traps which are used in battle.)
  

Soldier

• Execute; Bonus damage capped at +100.
  
• Watchful Eye; Now has a 3 round CD.
  

Hexer

• Strangling Etacof; HP damage capped at 50, FP damage capped at 25.
  

[b][b]Verglas[/b][/b]

• Ice Point Guard; Can now parry monster weapons.
  
  
• Icicle Spear; Now has a 3 round CD.
  
  
• Crawling Spikes; Now has a 1 round CD. Damage bonus for multiple hits reduced to 25%/100% max per extra hit (from 50%/200%).
  
  
• Rapid Kick; Now has a 1 round CD. 3 round CD if the enhanced version is used.
  

[b][b]Items[/b][/b]

• Fenri; Base Power changed to 11 (from 15), base Weight changed to 15 (from 6).
  
  
• Hisen; Fatal Stroke adjusted. New animation effect. Damage can now critically hit and restores 5 FP for every enemy defeated by its effect.
  
  
• Throwing Dagger; No longer receives Farshot penalties within its default attack range.
  
  
• Elytra; Blunt resistance changed to 1*UL%. Effect which activates on knockdown removed.
  
  
• Red Letter; No longer absorbs Fire damage or gives an Ice weakness. Now deals Fire bonus damage equal to 50% of Fire ATK on hit.
  
  
• Circle Ring; Effect changed; Gives Skill
  
  
• Circle Nine. (Prove to everyone you're not an idiot by dealing 99% of your Ice ATK as bonus armor-ignoring Ice damage to all enemies in a 3 range Circle. You also gain Absorb Ice (Limited) LV 1 for 9 rounds. 9 round CD.)
  
  
• Reactive Armor; Fire damage effect must now come from an enemy and has a 1 round CD. Damage increased to 10 + UL (from 2 + UL).
  
  
• Guard Riposte item effects; Now only triggers if the Guard LV is at least 30.
  
  
• Masking Trail; SWA Ratio is now 100%. Skill now goes on a 3 round CD when invoked successfully.
  
  
• Luckiness Dance; Now has Dance tag.
  

[b]- Fixed a bug where Conductor's Misdirection didn't work when used on a player character.
- Fixed a bug where weather effects would persist if you were defeated in battle.
- Fixed a bug where resistances given by prayer statuses were calculated incorrectly.
- Fixed a bug where elemental resists weren't updating if you used a material kit on an equipped item.
- Fixed a bug where skill/movement usage while airborne sometimes didn't break the airborne effect.
- Fixed a bug where Jet Stream knocked back enemies who dodged its damage.
- Fixed a bug where certain bonus Critical Damage modifiers for basic attacks weren't applying.
- Fixed a bug where Excel Crash Plus effects for Turnover weren't activating.
- Fixed a bug where Critical Damage calculations that didn't involve a weapon didn't actually provide a critical multiplier above 100%, leading to no damage increase.
- Fixed a bug where Frostbite applied by Chilling Rune was using an incorrect value.
- Various other reported bug fixes.[/b]