Spotlight: Extreme Damage Staffie

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Draciel - KR Premier Server

Draciel: 
Dealing Extreme Damage as a Staffie

Draciel is the epitome of a beast in Vindictus. Armed with his Staff in hand he dishes out spell after spell with deadly results. Fomors everywhere fear the wrath of the almighty mage, Draciel!   

Evie: Ice Blow Tips

I thought this was kinda cool to show your Ice Blow and perhaps it might help with placement.

Ice Blow is not only fun but can hit up to 8 times.

I know a lot of Evies don't use it in their rotation for various reasons but one of those reasons is because they don't feel like they can achieve most of the hits.

For Ice Blow, it is the shards of ice that do the damage.  The range of the blow is far and its arc is wide.  Build your ice arch so that the shards are released toward the enemy (rather than on top of or inside of him)to obtain 6-8 hits.  When the shards break, your damage will be applied.  These shards can also travel far so you have some breathing room, hop back if you need to before executing. You can notice its distance and long reach if you're ever using the move during a Duel.

Important note, the shards apply damage, whether or not the boss is frozen from the action.

Vsnobs.com Damage Chart Excerpt

Build your arc

Ice Shard Release path

8 Wondermous Hits!

This is based on my experience.  Most of you know, I'm not a damage junkie and I could generally care less about the numbers but I feel this skill is underused and I wanted to show the placement, path and animation.

Feel free to offer different insight.
I leave you with a cool side view screenshot. :cool:

The side view

Follow up notes: 

• The range on Ice Blow is ridiculous, the guidance provided was to give the maximum potential for impact.
• When the Ice breaks, shards fly both forward and backward so if you are in the middle of being attacked, your Ice Blow will hit and damage will be applied, just not the full amount.
• You can hear the impact of the ice freezing  as well as when it breaks. 
• Don't forget to get your Freeze Bonus.
• Ice Blow is AWESOME in PVP.
• A good boss to practice your Blow on is Shakarr or the Emperor in Holy Ground.

Originally posted to Vindictus Forums

Evie Builds 3.0

Build Your Evie 3.0 (2014 Version)

You've got an Evie. You've reached level 60-80 - now what?

TrixiEEEE - Critty Evie

You may prefer a Scythe, or a Staff or even be a great hybrid but at your core you are an Evie. So how do you make her the best possible Evie for your play style? How do you maximize her potential? How do you make those LLR's and Pew Pew's count for you?

Having an actual build - creating your character purposefully - will go a long way to help support your play style overall. So take some time out and mold your Evie to be more than just the cute magic chick.

After several additions to gear, accessories and scrolls along with the update to the Vindictus Armory old builds that were shared are no longer viable.  We've taken Evie to new heights since the last  post and it is the perfect time for a new one.

On the forums I encouraged Evies - new and old - to share their builds and goals for their Evies here. I hope you find list to be a great starting point for generating ideas for your Evie.

Spoof: The Lame Game

SPOOF: The "Lame" Game

This ISN'T What You Want...

What follows is a spoof of the "perfect" game based on the desires of the honorable members of the "Complainers Society". The Society is a group of well meaning individuals that propose ideas in the form of complaints on whatever target they chose. In the interest of full disclosure, I do hold a secre membership in the Society, participating when I feel its necessary.


I posted the concept below on the forums as a spoof. I did it during one of those crazy, "everyone-is-complaining-about-everything" kind of weeks to make people pay attention as well as laugh a bit. I took a step back and looked collectively at all the complaints from the forums and I when I put the more vocal ones together - this is what I got.

Beware...insanity is written below...

Disclaimer:   This is not a real game. The name "Nexon" has been changed to "Nextton" to avoid internet insanity stemming from someone actually doing a game like this. I wholeheartedly believe they have more sense than that.


My point is that we have a great game but, no its not perfect. Somehow that is actually some of its charm. If things become too easy, too readily available, to equalized for all...zzZzzZ...we'd quickly be off to the next thing.

We need challenge, differentiation and a bit of pizazz to knock us off of our rockers and keep us coming back.
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Based on Player Feedback...A New MMO...

"Nextton releases new MMO..."Loosely" based on the awesome game Vindictus... "

The Devs team has been listening.  They've been cruising the forums for the last year really taking in all of the feedback.   The Devs listened to all the Vindictus forumers and their desires to have a truly equal and balanced game.  They decided to design a game that was happy, balanced, carefree, and open to the casual and less than casual player as well as the "all I want to do is AFK'er."

Here are some of the features in this new action packed but pain free MMO:

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT:

• There is 1 character to choose from, the character can be male or female.
• All functionality is exactly the same with different skin options to represent a class - ears for elves, wings for ferries, muscles for tanks, etc.
• All characters share the same armor with different color options available. All armors are completely interchangeable.
• The only armor type is 'armor'.
• Armors will not cross lines and will not be slutty nor cute.
• All characters reach max level within 72 hours of creation and automatically unlock bonus levels of equally balanced material every month.
• All characters start out as tweens, and within 72 hours the character becomes an adult. This is sure to provide engaging character growth as you watch your character develop.
• All characters receive a buff of 50 in Att, Def, MAtt, AGI, WIL, and Speed every single week.

HEALTH:

We felt health symbolized death. Death is no longer a possibility in our game.

• All players are given Kittys to symbolize life. The kitty cannot be destroyed.
• Stamina is no longer an issue for all as we felt that overexertion might lead to dissatisfaction on someone's part. It has been removed.

WEAPONRY:

We scoured the planet to provide the most robust set of weapons possible.

• Choose from over 100 weapons. From Spears to Butter Knives, Javelins to Wands.
• You are free to equip one, all or none, whatever makes you happy.
• In order to maintain balance there are no levels on weapons - no differentiation exists in this MMO.
• Accessories are provided from the server to all equally. There are plenty to choose from all with the same stats.
• Weapons and Accessories are for appearance only.

ACTION:

We felt that our previous game was too difficult and promoted competition rather than leisure. We wanted to rectify that.

• All boss fights are 10 minutes. Regardless of effectiveness the boss is defeated by the 10th minute.
• Ending screen displays "Great job" with a thumbs up icon, regardless of your actual performance during the mission.

• Equal gold, ap and exp are delivered regardless of participation in the battle, because all things are equal.
• All bosses receive buff of 15 attack, defense and speed, to coincide with the buffs provided to characters weekly.
• Awesome screenshots are guaranteed. All players will automatically receive them at the end of the run. Each player can choose their fighting stance - there are 50 equally awesome poses designed to make you look your best.

FRIENDS FIRST

This is an MMO.  No one should ever be lonely or worry about their friends leaving for other games
it should be fun and everyone should be friendly. Runs and boats should always be ready to launch.

• Every player will automatically be assigned 50 friends upon character creation.
• Each interaction with friends will provide 50 gold, per friend.
• A.I. gamers will be created to fill boats that sit for longer than 26 seconds waiting for players.

MATERIALS SYSTEM:

We really listened to the players desire to have more gold. Because absolutely everything is provided to players for your gaming experience there is nothing to purchase. Your hard earned gold accumulates on your character infinitely.

• No materials need to be "farmed" and therefore farming is not a "thing".
• Players that want to farm are of course, more than welcome to.
• All characters can obtain scrolls by talking to an NPC.
• Scrolls provide things such as 'smiles' or 'dance moves'.
• There is no marketplace. Trading, scamming, timed item expiration and mailbox limitations no longer exist and do not plague the community.

PVP

We really wanted a PVP system to set us apart from other games. Keeping in line with our anti-competitive, leisure only theme, we really do think we've captured the players desires.

• PVP is completely 100% balanced. Everything is equal.
• PVP consists of 30 second auto-matched duels that are system matched based on the color of the day.
• Queuing is nonexistent. PVP's occur in midair and don't require a player to actually be there to participate.
• Best of all, no one dies in PVP. Kitty's are replenished automatically throughout the match.
• Much like PVE - all players receive exact same reward for participation.
• AFK is welcome from all. We want you to spend infinite amounts of time sitting in our game doing nothing but talking. Our servers are built to support this.

The new game is called "Lame", its coming to a beta near you.

Looking at it like this, I'm sorta glad they don't listen to most of the players complaints.

Merry Christmas from TrixiEEEE

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

To:

     Inner Sanctum Family,

     Nexon Team Ziny, Sammy, and the newbie Zoltie

Vindictus Marketing - Improvement Required

Vindictus is not Beyonce

We need advertisement for this game.

As many of you know Beyonce popped out the box with a whole new album complete with videos overnight. The fans gobbled it up so much that iTunes and Twitter actually crashed.

That method worked for her because she is a pop icon. She has billions of fans globally waiting to see her breathe or hear her speak, gnawing their fingernails for a quick glimpse or sighting. It works for her because she built up that following, over many many years and knows how to sell her product (herself).

That does not work for Vindictus. We need advertisement...in advance of new things.

What's a Hurk?

Hurk Is here..Who?

A month ago we should have had "real" teasers for Hurk. To those of you that think we get advertisement, no we do not. Having one article on one site, is not advertising, its a single story and quickly overwritten with the next one. It only reaches those that are on that particular site to read it, unless its picked up by other sources.

Become a BumbleBee, Cross Pollinate

Pollinate me with Buzz

There are real gaps in our current plan of action.  Updating your Twitter, when you've done nothing to promote a Twitter following, is a failure.

Updating your own Facebook page and not updating your own website with at least a link or a teaser to that update, is a failure to close the loop.

Not incorporating (your own) YouTube in the advertising plan, is a mistake. For example, the Hurk trailer should have been there within minutes of giving the interview (if not before) and as of writing this,  its still not.  Cross pollination has always worked and needs to be put into action for this game.

Use Your Time Wisely...and Mine too.

For the love of everything Vindi, please please learn to advertise in advance.  One weeks notice is not long enough for people to get hype. Its not long enough for people to give notice to take off of work, stay home from school, rearrange meetings of Mathletes and NurdsRUs.  People need time to make room in their lives for things like grind fests and level up events.

"Coming Soon" Make Use of It.

Admit 100,000,000

The only people waiting for the new character Hurk are the ones that are already here. Hurk has been talked about on the forums for over a year now. Due to Vindictus' regional management and publication, we have the advantage of knowing what is on the horizon, well before it ever gets here.  NEXON, you have 6 months...SIX MONTHS, to plan and procreate a new player base for each content release.  Right now, the player base does all the "hyping" for you via our own enthusiasm and word of mouth...

...Normally the word of mouth method would be an awesome thing but with us, your hype is limited to those who already know about you and their friends. Word of mouth in our case isn't always good because its hindered by Nexons reputation...that is hurting us way more than it is helping. Start, motivate and steer your own hype trains to formulate the picture that you want others to see. Feed the hype train with good videos, advertising and a ton of teasers to make it stay on track and healthy.




Its not like our game sucks or even needs much to make an effective advertising campaign. The graphics, movement, fashion - everything about the game is glorious. The characters in action could be great hype. ALL you would have had to do for Hurk was ring up MMOHUT, Alienware, MMOSite, PCGamer and for goodness sakes MMOReviews and tell them you had a new character coming out.  Send the trailer and watch players stream in. These sites are all getting info after the updates are launched and often times only from press releases which are generally bland. Put up a teaser on our site, heck even just a picture saying "coming soon" so people make the connection that they are in the right place when they get here.

You've got mail...we should!

Remember that thing called EMAIL?

Even emails to the playerbase are late. Who wants to know that their provider thinks of them as an afterthought? That doesn't encourage repeat business. Let your playerbase know VIA EMAIL what you have going on in advance so they can

1. Make plans to return to you
2. Talk it up with other people, extending your promotion.

In Conclusion

We need players. We need people to "know" Vindictus exists. We're on year 4, the action mmo with real life gravity and insane graphics is still unique in its genre. Its time for it to stop being a hidden gem. We'd have server overload if Nexon actually took time to develop the playerbase. Get the word out please. Its time.

And no this isn't instead of making progress on supporting the game, it is in addition to it, a completely different resource. That guy from the team that gave the last interview, put yourself out there, make friends with these people and get our game noticed!

Evie Builds 1.0

Evie

How 

to 

Build 

Your 

Evie

There are lot of mainstream ideas about what Evie is. While Evie IS the supportive character by nature she has evolved as the game has.
UPDATE: Check out the updated article.

Inner Sanctum Presents: Betrayal Olympic Training

Betrayal - Controlled Black Hammer

Some of you know how fun it is to play in Vindi late at night when physics just ain't right. You can go flying, the boss can be in slowmo-mode and your skills well sometimes they just aren't there.

This video was taken during and after our nightly Betrayal duo. No animals were harmed during the making of this video though we did lose a Controlled Black Hammer.

Featuring:  Kanzo - the Clash King and the Green Goddess, TrixiEEEE

Mission (we chose to accept it): Enter the lair of the Controlled Black Hammer, take him out and have a good time doing it. 

There is no hacking or modding, the run was bugged like others were that night. Everything was slowed down so much of this is in real time. Enjoy and LIKE it if u do!

Olympic feats include:

• Ring around the Evie 
• Moon Hopping 
• Cliff Hanging 
• Flying Amber 
• Skywire Floating 
• Freeze the Beast 
• Boss Crunchies 
• Air Surfing 
• Boss Toss