#apsara guide changelog

[anonraja]

Changelog #63 - Mod E First Impressions

I'm posting this early as I'm likely only going to have one of the new mod skills upon release (drop rates suck and I'm ED broke) so all my current opinions are based on observation and general knowledge of the game. Overall, Ara's Mod E skills seem very strong and essential to her kit. That said, I plan to continue grinding for the new mod books in order to conduct my own testing. Example builds will be updated once I actually am able to experiment with the skills myself. My current plan is to get Shakti's -> Devi's -> Apsara's -> Surya's.

General

Updated Attributes for Shadoweave

Apsara

Added [Mod] Falling Dragon & [Mod] Shadoweave

Devi

Added [Mod] Falling Dragon & [Mod] Shadoweave

Updated El Resonance

Shakti

Added [Mod] Falling Dragon & [Mod] Shadoweave

Updated El Resonance

Surya

Added [Mod] Falling Dragon & [Mod] Shadoweave

[anonraja]

Changelog #62 - Finally. Apsara Things.

People who visit my blog proper will notice I've made a page with links to my guides along with links to the tags for the changelogs. It's been almost 8 years since I've started this so it's long overdue.

In 2018, I did a quick write up for people to see which Ara would suit them best. It has aged like a fine milk left to sit in the sun. So I wrote a new one. You can find it here. It has also been added to the guides page on my blog.

Without further ado, here's the actual update.

Apsara

Updated Power of Eun

Updated Movement

Updated [Mod] Dragon Stance 3: Eight Trigram Palm, Ultimate Spearmanship

Updated Opinion for Fire Lotus, Secret Dragon Art - Blast, Suppression, Secret Tiger Art - Fierce Tiger, Full Moon Slash, Counter Switch, Flying Kite, Ultimate Spearmanship, Charging Fury, Tiger Stance: Fierce Spear Dance, Time of Enlightenment, [Mod] Dragon Stance 3: Eight Trigram Palm, [Mod] Dragon Stance 4: Moonlight Slash

Updated Example Build(s)

Updated El Resonance

Updated Conclusion

Might be some undocumented changes since I started to forget to add them to the list. Oops. Oh well.

Shakti

Updated Recommended Attribute for Suppression: Specter & Spell: Storm

Updated Opinion for Spell: Storm, Suppression: Specter, & Fox Illusion

Added one sentence to the Opinion for [Mod] Fox Fire to really illustrate its sheer strength

Updated Example Build(s) to include recommendations for the Transcendence slots

Surya

Updated Wishing Star

[anonraja]

Changelog #59 - I'm not dead shockingly enough

Well, tumblr doesn't allow indented bullet points anymore so this is gonna be fun.

General

Removed Equipment, Title, Elements, and Socketing

Added a general Progression section

Separated Master Skills so each tier is its own thing so I can more easily do more detailed opinions without having to say "Stage 1 blah blah blah. Stage 2 blah blah blah. etc.." as that has always felt deeply unorganized

Combined Force Skills and Master Class Force Skills so they're all in one section. Force Skills are now underneath Master Class for organizational purposes.

Added attributes to Mod skills

Apsara

Updated Fierce Tiger Strike, Abundant Power, Fire Lotus, Tiger Stance 4: Raging Wave, Energy Activation, Tiger Power, Ultimate Spearmanship, Valor and Devotion, Time of Enlightenment, Flow of Chi

Updated Opinions for Orchid Fall, Ultimate Spearmanship, Awakened Will: Sakra Devanam, Valor and Devotion, [Mod] Dragon Stance 3: Eight Trigram Palm

I don't have her Master Class yet so opinions for Nirvana are extremely limited

Updated Example Build(s)

Devi

Updated opinion for all Dance of the Butterfly stages

Updated Attributes for Wind Wedge, Energy Wave, Energy Void, Rakshasa Inferno

Updated opinion on High Speed and [Mod] Rakshasa Inferno

Updated Example Build(s)

Shakti

Updated Assimilation, Fox Valley, Repose of Souls, Specter Walk, Spell: Necromancy, Spell: Spiritual Eye, Awakened Will: Asura, Spirit Synchronous: Millennium Fox, Awakened Specter Power, [Mod] Shadow Blast

Updated Opinions for Mana Drain, [Mod] Spell: Thunder, [Mod] Fox Fire, [Mod] Spell: Necromancy

I have not finished the quests for the Master Class skill yet so opinions for Phantom Fox: Shadow Possession Stage 2 - 4 are extremely limited

Updated Example Build(s)

Surya

Updated Transcendence portrait to be the proper image

Added all Mod force skills

Added all Combos

Updated Attributes for all skills

Edited Opinions for all skills

Updated Example Build(s)

Updated Conclusion

Potential Error(s)

elwiki states that Surya's Phoenix Stance 2: Strike has Enhanced as an attribute option, but the game itself has Empowered. I've chosen to use Empowered since that's what's showing in the game and that's how it's interacting in game.

Honestly got really lazy on my Apsara guide so there might be some oversights

[anonraja]

Changelog #60 - Just Surya Things

Surya

Updated Power of Eun

Updated Movement

Updated Phoenix Wings

Heavy attributes now include the cooldown increase

Updated Opinion for Phoenix Wings

Edited some wording in the Opinion for Fox Shadow to be more clear

Updated Example Build(s) to include Combo Damage

Updated El Resonance

Updated Conclusion

To Do List

Update Apsara's guide (major)

Update Devi's guide (moderate)

Update Shakti's guide (minor - moderate)

I'll try to do this in a timely manner because of the +11 VoS event, but I make no promises

[anonraja]

Changelog #51

Apsara

Added a Titles section

Updated Opinion

Fire Lotus

RIPperoni & cheese

Edited Example Build(s)

Updated Master Class Force Skills

Added a Conclusion because there wasn’t one for some reason

Devi

Added a Titles section

Updated

Unleashed Chi

Updated Master Class Force Skills

Shakti

Added a Titles section

Updated Master Class Force Skills

Updated Mod Spell:  Thunder

Eternity Winner, Radiant Soul, and Nisha Labyrinth guides are on an indefinite hiatus.  I don’t know when I’ll update them again, or if I ever will.  They’ll probably always remain useful to get an idea of how each class plays, though.

[anonraja]

Changelog #53

Apsara

Updated Titles section

Devi

Updated Titles section

Shakti

Updated Titles section

Keep in mind the changes to title acquisition do not go into effect in NA/INT until December 16th, 2020.

[anonraja]

Changelog #50

Added in Master Class stuff for all of them and redid the Equipment section for all of them.  Finally added in combos for Laby.

Apsara [x] Devi [x] Shakti [x] Eternity Winner [x] Radiant Soul [x] Nisha [x]

[anonraja]

Changelog #49

Apsara/Vishnu

Changed ??? to Orchid Fall

Updated opinion for Orchid Fall

Devi/Brahma

Updated opinion for [Mod] Energy Void

Changed ??? to Ignition Spear

Shakti/Shiva

Changed ??? to Fox Valley

Updated opinion for Fox Valley

[anonraja]

Changelog #56

Apsara

Updated Skills

Fierce Tiger Strike

Updated Passives

Valor and Devotion

Flow of Chi

Devi

Updated Skills

Ignition Spear

Shakti

Updated Skills

Spell: Ellipse of Blades

Updated Passives

Specter Power Release

Updated Mods

Fox Fire

4th Path

Created a completely placeholder guide that is currently just a copy-pasta of my Apsara Guide with a new image for 1st job and 2nd job

[anonraja]

Changelog #55

Apsara

Updated Ultimate Spearmanship & Flow of Chi

Updated Opinion for Ultimate Spearmanship

Devi

Updated Energy Enhancement & Chi Release

Shakti

Updated Mana Release

[anonraja]

Changelog #15 - Idk what the f*ck is going on anymore

Sakra Devanam (Apsara Vishnu)

Changed all mentions of Apsara -> Vishnu

so far literally every other server except NA/INT is calling her Vishnu

this will avoid confusion with those outside of NA/INT

Apsara doesn’t even make sense thematically

Replaced a placeholder icon with an official icon

[anonraja]

Changelog #14

Sakra Devanam (Apsara)

Added El Resonance opinions for:

Elemental Activation Rate

Max HP/MP

Active Skill Damage

Tenacity Skill Damage

Strength Skill Damage

Bravery Skill Damage

MP Cost

Skill Cooldown

A few of these opinions may change once I actually fool around with Apsara, but her passives don’t seem to effect her El Resonance needs much, if at all

Replaced placeholder image for Apsara’s HA with the official icon

Fixed a typo in Apsara’s HA’s decription

originally it read, “Ara jumps into the ara”

Updated the descriptions for Apsara’s passives

[anonraja]

Changelog #13 - She Bought a Name Change

Sakra Devanam (Apsara)

Changed all mentions of Vishnu -> Apsara

She’s having an identity crisis

All future changes will be listed under Sakra Devanam (Apsara)

I’ll simply be using Apsara upon her NA release

Changed 2 of Apsara’s skill placeholder images to their official ones

[anonraja]

Changelog #54 because I’m petty

Apsara

Updated Opinion for Shadoweave

Devi

Updated Opinion for Shadoweave

Updated Opinion for Ignition Spear

Shakti

Updated Opinion for Shadoweave

These opinions are more detailed then they’ve ever been out of sheer f*cking spite.  Shadoweave’s opinion is still pretty short, it’s not even an essay, but I talk more about why it’s good.  Ignition Spear is an essay (but it has pictures) because I’m so f*cking petty.  It does have a tl;dr (you have to scroll past the entire essay though or just use ctrl + f and write in tl;dr once you reach Ignition Spear), but I urge you to read my basically 4 page essay (the length has the pictures and basic skill info included) so you fully understand.  Anyway, I spent so much time testing Ignition Spear in various different scenarios that I know more about it than I ever wanted to and I hate it.