[Tor]

I envie the people with extreme graphic cards.

[Yeroti]

Originally Posted by Tor

I envie the people with extreme graphic cards.

It really doesn't take that much to play this game.
My Radeon HD 4850 can run the game on max with about 35-40FPS.

Evie is my choice for a class. Not because of her second weapon, but because of her first.

[Vashkin]

This looks rather over powered to me.
Anyone know how she balances out?

[Yeroti]

Originally Posted by Vashkin

This looks rather over powered to me.
Anyone know how she balances out?

Her attacks are flashy, but if I remember, she doesn't deal as much damage.
She can teleport around, and has those five shields, but her HP and defense are rather low.
Of course I'm speaking off the top of my head so it may not be right.
And this is only for her second weapon.

[loadjade]

But do you guys know that THE BIGGEST B**BS THAT EVY CAN GET IS ACTUALLY THE SMALLEST SIZE THAT FIONA CAN GET??????????????????

.....that said, I play both Fiona (lvl. 58) and Evy (lvl. 47) so if you have anything to ask, please feel free.

[loadjade]

Originally Posted by Keeyroe

Her attacks are flashy, but if I remember, she doesn't deal as much damage.
She can teleport around, and has those five shields, but her HP and defense are rather low.
Of course I'm speaking off the top of my head so it may not be right.
And this is only for her second weapon.

Evies start using staffs first cuz she is a magician (duh) but she can use battle scythe after level 24 or 26ish.

Battle scythe is extremely useful taking out smaller enemies in groups due to its large sweeping motion and does extremely (again) high damage when executing smash attacks.

After some level progress, she can execute hand action (that's what they call it in Korea... yes... hand actions...) after each smash attacks by pressing E key (that's grab button for Lann and Fiona).

You can execute:

Life Steal (attack - smash - hand action) - steals some life from enemy.
Spirit Bind (attack - attack - smash - hand action) - takes spirit energy from enemy to use to summon a will o' wisp.
Death Label (attack x 3 - smash - hand action) - leaves the mark of death to the group of enemies surrounding Evy.
Bloody Thread (attack x 4 - smash - hand action) - binds enemies around Evy with invisible / magical threads.

All actions except Life Steal that has immediate effect can be executed by pressing smash button. This is called Release.

Releasing after executing hand action of Spirit Bind will summon a wisp that will fight alongside of Evy. Has some HP and can be hit and die but (here is important) this little dude can gain aggro that means when it comes to life and death situation, this little guy can grant this 5 seconds to revive all of your party members using Party Resurrection Feather.

Releasing after Death Label will cause explosions to all the enemies who has the white skull Label on their head. This had moderate amount of damage and has high groggy value.

Releasing after Bloody Thread will let Evy to slash through flesh of all the monsters bound to the thread, dealing enormous amount of damage.

In my opinion, Battle Scythe Evy is surely the first (if not second) top dmg dealer in this game.

And she can cast Blink!!!!!!!!! Even tho Staffvy (Evy who uses staffs) can't!!!!!!!

[Yeroti]

Thanks for the info.
But what about her HP and defense?
All I know is that she has five shields that can regenerate, and she only starts taking damage to her HP after all of them are gone.

[loadjade]

Originally Posted by Keeyroe

Thanks for the info.
But what about her HP and defense?
All I know is that she has five shields that can regenerate, and she only starts taking damage to her HP after all of them are gone.

HP itself isn't as bad as other characters except... Evey's weight limit is pretty harsh so all she can wear defaultly is limited to clothes armors and this means they will be ripped apart easily (yeeeeeeessssss) and also provide only miniscule amount of defense.

As you said, you do not take damage until the mana shields are all gone, but Evey will show damage motion (shruggles) when hit so do not expect something like a super armor in KOF or something. If a huge boss executes a series of combo and your Evey starts to getting hit, she WILL die no matter how much you've charged your mana shields

Shields won't start regenerate right away, it will start to regen when Evey is not hit for certain amount of time. Like Halo or Starcraft 2 Protoss units. But takes longer time than those.

When mana shields are gone, she will die real easily after a single or two hits from a more advanced boss monsters unless she puts alot of APs to improve her heavy or light armor mastery skills and actually start to wear heavier armors.

You can do that, but it's a hard path to follow.

Oh and those five shields do not represent you can get hit 5 times before taking damage, but actually refers to set amount of damage that can be mitigated by mana shield. It can go off with one shot.
But do note that even if the attack is strong enough to take all the shield and crush Evey inside, only the shield depletes as Evey does not take damage.

You could consider this as an one time insurance toward uber bosses as if you have at least one shield left, you won't die by one shot. But the following combo could kill you as this game doesn't have any invulnerability time when thrown into ground.

So you could die like this

Head bash (shields are gone, Evey is down on the ground) - connecting body stomp on the ground - your Evey is drop down dead.

[Yeroti]

I knew most of the stuff on the shields already, but thanks for clarifying.
So it isn't that her HP is that bad, but the fact that her defense for most people who play her is just so damn low?

[loadjade]

Originally Posted by Keeyroe

I knew most of the stuff on the shields already, but thanks for clarifying.
So it isn't that her HP is that bad, but the fact that her defense for most people who play her is just so damn low?

The low defense rating (armor rating, they call it defense in Korean server) of Evie is mainly due to her wearing clothes armors. As I said, Evie can eventually wear some of heavy armors later on based on how much AP one's invested into appropriate skills. This case, she will have so much better protection along with mana shield.

But her play style should be mainly ranged attacks for Staff Evie or close combat with escaping thru blink skill, so she doesn't get hit that much.

Furthermore, Fiona has this skill called Defense which increases defense rating (duh) and she also carries shield so that contributes for high defense rating as well.

Lann mainly uses light armor (sometimes heavy armors, but almost never plate armors - might have been changed in real high levels tho) so he has better protection over Evie.