Wynncraft - The Gameplay Update: Changeblog #1 [powders]

enoq · Jul 23, 2016

me just wanna do the new quest

Thunder · Jul 23, 2016

Allen_R111 said: ↑

YAY 8TH PAGE
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9TH*

Vaward · Jul 23, 2016

give us quests!

Kraby · Jul 23, 2016

Allen_R111 said: ↑

YAY 10TH PAGE
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9th*

DCM627 · Jul 23, 2016

I'm just hoping for quests from 88-99 just cause I don't want to grind...

GunBlaze12 · Jul 23, 2016

Pls say it is 1 more week left. It alredy has been 1 week alredy since wynncraft twitter leaked it to be 2-4 weeks. Better be two weeks or else the hype will shut down, no offense

Eric Yang · Jul 23, 2016

Why 6 Tiers!!! Why!!!

yuuenchi2 · Jul 23, 2016

Allen_R111 said: ↑

fixed ty
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not fixed :D

Mistrise Mystic · Jul 23, 2016

Icy said: ↑

I can finally force people to be my friends by trapping them in my wind prison :)
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That or FUS RO DAH them into infinity. Either way, it's great for me because my build focuses on knocking the enemy around to elude people, IE. Keeping them off balance

LotKnockMC · Jul 23, 2016

Now the question is, will passive specials stack? (I.E.) I have all four armors equipped with rage, (Assuming 2 slots each) will that passive be 4x as effective as only having one armor with it?

Icy · Jul 23, 2016

Slimeonatree57 said: ↑

That or FUS RO DAH them into infinity. Either way, it's great for me because my build focuses on knocking the enemy around to elude people, IE. Keeping them off balance
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My favorite build is an agility/speed Mage with 150 agility, so the powders on the armor will enhance me so much :) it's damage is pretty balanced with melee and spells too.

Mistrise Mystic · Jul 23, 2016

Icy said: ↑

My favorite build is an agility/speed Mage with 150 agility, so the powders on the armor will enhance me so much :) it's damage is pretty balanced with melee and spells too.
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I use an air assassin, so I don't deal insane amounts of damage, but I get good walk speed and OK mana regen. I focus on eluding damage until I win, so the damage boost and charge ability from the air powders will help a lot will help me a lot

BlahBlah161616 · Jul 23, 2016

Salted said: ↑

The update is near, and this time we are gonna try something different. Instead of surprising you guys with every features all at once, we are gonna post them separatly over the course of the next few weeks. A full changelog will be posted at the very end.

On the update, we focused a lot on the gameplay aspect of the game. We took a good look at our game and fixed what we thought was time to change. You guys gave us a lot of feedback since the Gavel Expansion, and even though it sometimes stings to hear complaints about your game, we listened and fixed some of the issues we've been told about. This is why the official name for the update is...

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We've done a lot of changes for this update. But for now, what better way to start the first post about the Gameplay Update than talking about powders?

Powders

For the new players who didn't play before the Gavel Expansion, powders were a way to enchant your items with special effects like damage, knockback protection, fire, etc.

If you recall correctly, there were pretty much only one powder that everyone used, the green one. Why? Because it was the one buffing your damages. Well this time, EVERY single powder will do that.

How do they work now?
There are now 5 types of powders. Air, Fire, Water, Thunder and Earth. There are also 6 tiers.

Powders will do mainly two things: Add some elemental damage to your item, and transform some neutral damage into elemental one. On armour, they simply add some elemental defense and weakness.

Not all powders are equal. Some of them will give more neutral to elemental damage, but less raw elemental damage.

These elemental damage will obviously be affected by your skill points and item IDs.

Pretty straight forward, isn't it? Well, we got a little bit more for you. Look a little bit closer....

"Adding 2 powders of tier 4-6 to your item will activate its special". Powders of tier 1 to 3 will not add anything insane, but starting at tier 4, you will be able to add some cool "specials" to your items. There are two types of special: Charged Special, and Passive Special. Charged are found on weapons, while passives are found on armours.

Charged Special:

Here's what it looks like on your weapon...

The powder of the special will depend on the powder tier you used. Two T4 will not give you a special as strong as two T6, or even one T4 and one T5. We've been careful to make sure that every special can work with each other to deal insane amount of damages. Here is the list:

Thunder: Chain Lightning. Will damage all nearby enemies one after the other
Earth: Quake. Will deal great damage around you and very slightly stun your enemies
Water: Curse. Will create rain over an enemy's head, reducing its defense by a lot for a few seconds.
Fire: Courage. Will highly buff the damage of everyone nearby for a few seconds.
Air: Wind Prison. Will hold the enemy hostage for a few seconds. If attacked, the enemy will get knockbacked far and receive additional damages.

You can charge up your special by dealing melee damage to an enemy. This little icon will appear, letting you know that your special is charging up.

When it's ready, you will hear a sound effect and the icon will become coloured. You then simply shift+left click (or right-click for archers) to unleash it. Don't worry, quick-duel is disabled when your special is charged up. It's important to note that you can only have one special per weapon.

We've also taken attack speed into account. Slow weapons won't be penalised.

Passive Special:

If added to an armour, here's what you will see...

Just like weapons, the strength of the special will depend on the powders you used. The goal with the passives is to get you killed. For real, we want to encourage risk-taking in order to buff your damages. Here's the list:

Thunder: Kill Strike. Gives additional damage per kill streak. As soon as you are too slow, the bonus go away.
Water: Concentration. Gives additional damage per mana used. The duration also depends on the spell used, so casting a Meteor at 8 mana will give you a bonus for 8 seconds.
Air: Dodge. Gives additional damage per time spent close to a mob. It resets as soon as you get hit or go too far.
Earth: Rage. Gives additional damage per percent of health missing.
Fire: Endurance. Gives additional damage per hit received, for a few seconds.

Again, you can only have one special per armour. However, nothing stops you to put 4 special of the same element on all 4 of your armours, giving you four times the damage bonus. It's important to note that Passive Specials damage bonus only work on the element of the powder itself.

How do you add these powders?
In every major towns, there will be a new NPC called the Powder Master. This NPC will allow you to add, remove, and upgrade powders. For a price.

When you talk to him, this will appear.

The green + will allow you to add powders to your items. The red X will let you remove powders from your items. However, you won't be able to get your powders back. The yellow arrows will let you transform 4 powders of the same tier into a higher tier one. Alternatively, you can take a chance and upgrade powders of different element and tier in the hope of getting what you want.

This is pretty much it. I'll skip the small details for this post, you'll see them yourself in game! We hope you guys will like the new powder system, we've spent a lot of time and thought on it. Powders should hopefully change your gameplay around depending of what element you want. Thunder is all about killing mobs quickly, Water is all about being support and using your mana, etc.

See you next time for another quick peak at the new update!
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Told you there was an npc

LotKnockMC · Jul 23, 2016

I'm probably the only person who likes fall damage and hopes it won't be removed....

Ghastslayer914 · Jul 23, 2016

This isn't out yet right? And also, do we get these from the relics?

Lemniscate · Jul 23, 2016

Sick fucking nasty.

Glitch496 · Jul 23, 2016

Ghastslayer914 said: ↑

This isn't out yet right? And also, do we get these from the relics?
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Not out yet, it will be in a few weeks though.
Yes, we get them from relics (or otherwise).

Hexorcism · Jul 23, 2016

What if a weapon doesn't deal neutral damage? Will the neutral to elemental damage not work?

Selvut283 · Jul 23, 2016

TwageTomato said: ↑

This is, of course, with all due respect and patience, as well as understanding that you work on many other projects Selvut (item creation for example), and that you do all of this on top of being a stellar moderator.

Nonetheless, the thread in which you had us searching for Gale's tomb was breaking records for how many views and replies it was receiving, so I believe it is safe to say that a lot of people would love to see this project come to a satisfying conclusion that is worth the wait. Knowing you, it definitely will be worth it, I just hope that you won't ask us to wait any longer than is necessary for this story's completion.

Again, thank you Selvut for all of the hard volunteer work you do for this server - after all, having a strong team of dedicated volunteers is the key to creating a high-quality server, and you are one of the people most responsible for all of it.
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I certainly do want to make it as best as I possibly can, but you'd be surprised at how difficult that is.

TwageTomato · Jul 23, 2016

Selvut283 said: ↑

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I certainly do want to make it as best as I possibly can, but you'd be surprised at how difficult that is.
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Which is why the community should be more appreciative of how much work the Dev team does in creating all of this content. It's harder than we'd like to admit it is most of the time.

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