2014-07-17, 08:27 AM
So I finally got my Blaze Wizard to 100+ after delaying it for months because MapleStory is such a shitty game and Blaze Wizard 1~99 is so fucking boring. Honestly, the skills that aren't Orbital are garbage. Linear attack that hits the exact same range as normal Orbital. Then same attack that knocks things back but only hits twice so it misses often. Then same attack that hits both sides of you. Blazing Extinction is a pretty amazing skill though. It feels like Angelic Buster's Soul Seeker at launch, minus the obscenely high single target damage. You just sit on a platform where monsters don't spawn, pop one off and it slowly glides its way forward, incinerating everything with is corny laser beams. It can literally clear the entire map at Robos in Ludi, which is probably one of the best training maps at 100 because of the flat platforms, small size, and unthreatening monsters. I just had to hit the key every 10 seconds while watching an anime. It's a shame the rest of the experience is so shitty.
Orbital Flame has a bit of lag when inputting it because I don't live in Korea. Comes out about half a second later, and I need to hold the key for it to fire as fast as possible while waiting. This means if I get pushed around or knocked out of position, it takes fucking forever to set back up, i.e. Zakum. That being said, I'm fairly sure I can reach the maximum attack speed with it, which is approximately 4 orbs every 960ms. You can't have more than 4 orbs out at once, so it won't shoot anything, but still does the animation for me, probably because of lag. I tried recording and analysing it frame by frame, and it came out inconsistently with each orb, so I just timed how long it took to reach 100 attack limit, which was about 24 seconds. I believe the additional nerf deals with this, increasing the time before an orb comes back to you.
Along with this, Liberated Magic, their equivalent to Elemental Amplification appears to be a straight up damage multiplier. I don't recall it increasing my range when I added points to it, but there's also something about the damage formula I can't figure out. I tested Echo with it and I still gain a 2% increase in damage instead of a 1.27/1.25 increase. It's also not total damage in sheet because the increase for Demon Avenger and Angelic Buster links alone add up correctly. Testing the damage with Cygnus Beginner Skill, I came out with 28k/10604 range with +55% Total vs 20k/10604 range with +10% Total. Dividing out 130% and the total damage comes out to 32% unaccounted for multiplier for both, whereas it's 12% and 8% if it's Total Damage.
i.e.
10604 * (1 + 0.10 + 0.45 + 0.25 + x) * 130% = 28k, x = 0.25
10604 * (1 + 0.10 + 0.25 + x) * 130% = 20k, x = 0.15
Not Total Damage
10604 * (1 + 0.10 + 0.45 + x) * (1.25) * 130% = 28k, x = 0.1
10604 * (1 + 0.10 + x) * (1.25) * 130% = 20k, x = 0.1
I have no idea where this extra damage is coming from. I took off all my character cards and equipment, and I kept getting the equivalent of +40ATK from my +31ATK buff from Elemental: Flame. The damage kept not adding up, so maybe they changed the Staff formula from 1.0 to 1.20.
Example:
1155 INT, 162 LUK
+31 ATK =
12990 -> 14947 (+1,957)
Using division:
(14947 - 12990)/31 = ~63.13 Range/ATK
~206ATK->237ATK
Using formula
(4 * 1155 + 165)/100 * 1.1 * 206 = 10,842.81 * 1.2 = 13,010, a bit higher because the reverse calculation is too imprecise?
(4 * 1155 + 165)/100 * 1.1 * 31 = +1,630.662 * 1.2 = 1,957
The 1.1 is from Total Damage Link Skill.
Anyways, here are the charts.
Orbital Flame has a bit of lag when inputting it because I don't live in Korea. Comes out about half a second later, and I need to hold the key for it to fire as fast as possible while waiting. This means if I get pushed around or knocked out of position, it takes fucking forever to set back up, i.e. Zakum. That being said, I'm fairly sure I can reach the maximum attack speed with it, which is approximately 4 orbs every 960ms. You can't have more than 4 orbs out at once, so it won't shoot anything, but still does the animation for me, probably because of lag. I tried recording and analysing it frame by frame, and it came out inconsistently with each orb, so I just timed how long it took to reach 100 attack limit, which was about 24 seconds. I believe the additional nerf deals with this, increasing the time before an orb comes back to you.
Along with this, Liberated Magic, their equivalent to Elemental Amplification appears to be a straight up damage multiplier. I don't recall it increasing my range when I added points to it, but there's also something about the damage formula I can't figure out. I tested Echo with it and I still gain a 2% increase in damage instead of a 1.27/1.25 increase. It's also not total damage in sheet because the increase for Demon Avenger and Angelic Buster links alone add up correctly. Testing the damage with Cygnus Beginner Skill, I came out with 28k/10604 range with +55% Total vs 20k/10604 range with +10% Total. Dividing out 130% and the total damage comes out to 32% unaccounted for multiplier for both, whereas it's 12% and 8% if it's Total Damage.
i.e.
10604 * (1 + 0.10 + 0.45 + 0.25 + x) * 130% = 28k, x = 0.25
10604 * (1 + 0.10 + 0.25 + x) * 130% = 20k, x = 0.15
Not Total Damage
10604 * (1 + 0.10 + 0.45 + x) * (1.25) * 130% = 28k, x = 0.1
10604 * (1 + 0.10 + x) * (1.25) * 130% = 20k, x = 0.1
I have no idea where this extra damage is coming from. I took off all my character cards and equipment, and I kept getting the equivalent of +40ATK from my +31ATK buff from Elemental: Flame. The damage kept not adding up, so maybe they changed the Staff formula from 1.0 to 1.20.
Example:
1155 INT, 162 LUK
+31 ATK =
12990 -> 14947 (+1,957)
Using division:
(14947 - 12990)/31 = ~63.13 Range/ATK
~206ATK->237ATK
Using formula
(4 * 1155 + 165)/100 * 1.1 * 206 = 10,842.81 * 1.2 = 13,010, a bit higher because the reverse calculation is too imprecise?
(4 * 1155 + 165)/100 * 1.1 * 31 = +1,630.662 * 1.2 = 1,957
The 1.1 is from Total Damage Link Skill.
Anyways, here are the charts.