Balancing euro and chinese

Hey there.

Finally Private servers allowed us to adjust the Joymax given balancing.
I won't be able to make my own server anyway, so I would like to share my thoughts on it. Nothing of this is really tested though. Since I don't have the programming skills.

It is just for fun and open for discussion.
Many servers try to balance out euro and chinese race. Usually it fails.
The intention of this list is to bring private server owners new ideas which could improve the balancing in the future.

The changes may seem drastic but still needed in my opinion to finally make an almost equal pvp gameplay possible. Also I think some stuff is just not possible to change with the existing serverfiles. (Like the crit thing)

These changes are made to work for an basic pvp server.

Sorry for the bad layout. Word document copy/paste ^^

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Originally Posted by sonniboy

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Basic changes:

- Bad status division, impotent, slumber/deep slumber are not useable against players anymore. Just against monsters.
- Shields do not block attacks anymore, they just give the usual defence increase.
- Critial damage increase reduced to 50%. Means prick and daredevil crits won�t 1hit anymore.
- Purification pill cooldown reduced to 10 seconds

Euro:

Cleric:

Holy Recovery and Holy Group recovery → both skills share the same cooldown
Innocent and Integrity → both skills delete 1 bad status instead of 2
Over Healing and Glut Healing → both skills share the same cooldown

Glory/Favor armor passive buffs → Just available for characters with more int points than str points

Offering/Pure Offering → skill cast animation 5 seconds (no more warlock stun+offering combo)

Warlock:

Advanced Reflect → requires warlock rod (like SRO-R bless spell requires cleric rod)

Warrior:

Sprint assault → stun prob. deleted
Pain quota → does not share damage dealt by players anymore. Why that? To make china pq more important?1Just from monsters as usual.
Ultimate screen → deleted

I don't agree with the quoted aspects. Also I don't have the experience to judge about Rogue and China skills.

Anyway: EU was intended to require a party to shine. That's why I would suggest to increase EU potion cooldown to 30 seconds. That would also make bards more important for pvp again.

Warrior:

Skin buffs require 1h sword OR 99% dmg reduction when they are used.
increased cooldown on skins/screens
reduce 2h damage slightly

Bard:

Tambours can't be cancelled from attacks anymore.
Bard passive that gives a small chance of block.
increased absolute damage/ add 2nd absolute damage.
increased damage and more PT support (increase chances of bind etc.)

Cleric:

Bless Spell requires Cleric Rod.
Lower the absolute damage.
Healing Orbit requires Cleric Rod.
Decrease values of cleric defense buffs.