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Lord Knight skill rebalance - 2018 patch/renewal #3331

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This PR introduces the rebalance of Lord Knight job skills. This change affects Renewal-only.

On official servers this came along with rebalances of 1st, 2nd jobs and transclass too. I am working in additional PRs for the remaining transclasses, being in separate PRs in order to keep those PRs in a reasonable size.

Most credits for this PR goes to @gbasso666, I built it over their changes on #3200, breaking into smaller commits and focusing only on Lord Knight skills. Commits in this PR that has their name, are the ones where most of the changes were picked from #3200.

Some changes of #3200 seems related to a future patch (e.g. SP cost of Concentration in 2018 was still in the old values), those were discarded, since the focus of this PR is on 2018 changes.

I can't say everything is 100% accurate because there are discrepancies between different sources, and I could not test everything in kRO, but should be quite close.

I won't list all the rebalance changes in the PR description, but it may be checked in each commit text. Also, the commits are in the same order as they appear in the references below.

As an extra, there is a fix for Knight's KN_BRANDISHSPEAR (Brandish Spear), based on the changes of #3200 I noticed my previous PR was missing some damage in the STR bonus.

Affected skills

  • KN_BRANDISHSPEAR (Brandish Spear)
  • LK_SPIRALPIERCE (Spiral Pierce)
  • LK_AURABLADE (Aura Blade)
  • LK_CONCENTRATION (Concentration)

References:

Issues addressed:
Part of #2735

@guilherme-gm guilherme-gm changed the title Lord Knight skill rebalance - 2018 patch Lord Knight skill rebalance - 2018 patch/renewal Nov 24, 2024
@guilherme-gm guilherme-gm force-pushed the rebalance-lk branch 2 times, most recently from 447e81f to 509ddef Compare November 24, 2024 21:33
guilherme-gm and others added 5 commits November 24, 2024 18:39
no reason to FALLTHROUGH + if a lot of code just to save one line of code
- Changed variable cast time*
  - Before: 150/250/350/450/500
  - After: 250ms in all skill levels
- Changed fixed cast time*
  - Before: 150/250/350/450/500
  - After: 300ms in all skill levels
- Changed global delay
  - Before: 1200/1400/1600/1800/2000
  - After: 1sec in all skill levels
- Changed damage formula
  - BaseATK increased by 50%
    - Old: 150/200/250/300/350
    - New: 200/250/300/350/400
  - Size modifier changed
    - Small: 125% -> 130%
    - Medium: 100% -> 115%
    - Large: 75% -> 100%
  - Now deals more damage depending on user's base level

Note 1: Cast time update is a somewhat a guess.
Patch notes (iRO / kRO)
  "variable cast time reduced from 0.5s to 0.25s at level 5"
iRO wiki and bRO wiki says "variable cast time is 0.25s on all skill levels"
we are following wikis here.

Note 2: Just like cast time, fixed cast time is also somewhat a guess.
Patch notes (iRO / kRO)
  "Fixed casting time reduced to 0.3 second (previously 0.5 seconds) starting at Level 5"
While iRO wiki and bRO wiki says "0.3 seconds in all skills levels"
we are following wikis here.

From 1st/2nd/Transclass rebalance (2018.11.28)

Co-authored-by: Guilherme G. M. <[email protected]>
- Changed damage bonus formula
   - Old: SkillLv x 20
   - New: BaseLv x (SkillLv + 3)

From 1st/2nd/Transclass rebalance (2018.10)
- ATK Bonus changed
   - Old: (SkillLv x 5) % flat
   - New: (5 + SkillLv x 2) % ATK %
- Def reduction % changed
   - Old: (SkillLv x 5) %
   - New: (5 + SkillLv x 2) %
- Duration changed to 60s at all skill levels
- The effect no longer gets removed when changing/removing weapon

From 1st/2nd/Transclass rebalance (2018.10)
it should increase the ration by 5 for each STR point, not 1

From massive skills rebalance (1st/2nd/transclass) (2018.10.31)
@guilherme-gm guilherme-gm marked this pull request as ready for review November 24, 2024 23:50
@MishimaHaruna MishimaHaruna added this to the Release v2024.11 milestone Nov 30, 2024
@MishimaHaruna MishimaHaruna merged commit 259a7d5 into HerculesWS:rebalance Nov 30, 2024
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@guilherme-gm guilherme-gm deleted the rebalance-lk branch December 4, 2024 23:51
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