(PS: Let’s wait for the second chapter. Amen, the information will be updated together after the second chapter is released. I’m begging for monthly votes. I really can’t survive anymore.)
When the Heart of Canaan-Shadow Wings server was opened, Torrentialrain's technical inspection team immediately received a strange request, but before they had time to respond, the main system 'Mother' had already locked and passed the request.
After a request, this most advanced host array in this era almost experienced its first 'downtime' since it was opened.
‘Mother’ sent 130 million completely different virtual image materials to 130 million clients online at the same time.
What Xiao Fen saw was this scene——
When he logged into the game, he was surrounded by quiet darkness. When the light gradually became brighter, the mage saw many people walking with him in the darkness. They advanced silently, their robes dragging on the dark ground, lowering their heads and stumbling.
OK. Xiao Fen stood among these people, passing them one after another. He couldn't see the faces of these people clearly - he could only see the outline of their robes immersed in the darkness.
He raised his head. At the front, a ray of white light curled up from the dark sky, symbolizing hope.
He saw in front of everyone, several tall figures leading them all the way to the distant light. Those people were walking heavily, but they never gave up. Xiao Fen walked over unconsciously, and a huge force came from behind.
Pushing him, involuntarily. Like the torrent in history that human beings cannot resist, making people drift with the current...
Xiao Fen was a little confused in this torrent.
He saw a leading person fall down in front, but no one cared about the fallen person. He was gradually left behind by the crowd. When Xiao Fen passed that person, he took a closer look, and a gentle feeling immediately sounded in his heart,
A kind voice: "Don't forget your loved ones, little friend, human nature is a noble flash of light in the darkness -" That voice has never been heard before, but it is so familiar.
The next moment, Xiao Fen saw the figure turn into a smiling dwarf.
King Aso.
The mage recognized the dwarf immediately. He wanted to grab the other person's hand and make him stand up, but the huge flow of people pushed the black-robed mage to move forward without stopping. Xiao Fen and the dwarf's hands separated immediately.
, the smile of the Dwarf Mage King stayed in his field of vision for the last moment, and then disappeared into the darkness...
Xiao Fen felt disappointed. He turned around and the light ahead became brighter.
Another leader knelt down, but the people around him ignored him and continued to move forward. When the mage passed by that person, he couldn't help but stretched out his hand - the figure smiled slightly and put his hand in his palm. "No.
Forget faith, Mr. Palin, faith is the sharp knife in your heart that will not break -" The voice in the heart is peaceful and gentle, which makes people feel at ease and has a kind of warmth that touches the harbor.
"Lady Tia." Xiao Fen couldn't help but murmured.
The figure turned into the female knight who always had a warm smile. She smiled at him and nodded.
The mage couldn't help but subconsciously wanted to hold on to her, but Lady Tia disappeared like sand in the wind. Xiao Fen was deep in thought. He turned around and saw a tall figure standing next to the staff in front of him.
Waiting for himself. When the back turned around, a pale and handsome face was revealed below. Teschak Gort smiled slightly.
"Don't forget reason, young man. Wisdom guides you in the direction-"
Xiao Fen smiled slightly and passed the Lich King with a clear understanding in his heart. The latter also smiled slightly as he passed by, with relief in his smile. The black-robed mage looked at the remaining three people in front of him.
, he knew that one person must be the giver of his artifact quest line, but he was a little confused about the identities of the remaining two people - he stepped faster, with an urgent desire to move forward and reveal the mystery.
But it was at this time that he heard a voice:
"Who will you walk with in the darkness——"
Then all the images faded away, disappearing like gravel in the wind.
Xiao Fen couldn't help but blink his eyes, and found that he was still in the brightly lit underground treasure house of the Ella people. Gold and silver treasures were piled up around him, and the dazzling light reflected the entire underground treasure house. The scene was clear.
The transformation seemed to be completed in an instant, as if everything that had happened before was an illusion, like a mirror and a mirror, and after it burst, it was like a bubble.
The mage was stunned for a while before being woken up by two system prompts:
"System prompt: Players are welcome to enter the era of Shadow Wings. Your profession, expertise and skills have been reset."
"System prompt: Your secondary artifact and artifact equipment has been unlocked."
This surprise was no small matter. He hurriedly lowered his head to check, only to find that his profession had indeed been reset to level 15 (no profession), his expertise column was all cleared, and all his skill points were cleared. But there was a light screen floating next to him that said
He has 6 idle expertise (5 upgrades, 1 extra for humans), 237 idle skill points (36 points provided by occupation, no occupation is treated as a civilian, 180 points provided by intelligence, 15 points provided by human talent, and 3 points provided by training)
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Xiao Fen instinctively felt something was wrong as soon as he saw these skill points. According to Canaan's skill system, his character should have at least 1,200 skill points instead of just 237. However, he suppressed his doubts and checked first.
After checking my equipment, I found that all the equipment, including artifacts and non-artifacts, had been unlocked and put directly into the backpack.
torrentialrain was very considerate and gave a novice robe as a gift, which prevented Xiao Fen from running naked because all his equipment was removed.
Xiao Fen tugged at the novice robe on his body, and couldn't help but feel dumbfounded. He remembered how long it had been since he had worn this thing. It was made of rough linen, and it felt awkward to wear. He had complained back then.
I haven't worn it for a long time, and I didn't expect to wear it again now - but fortunately, I don't have to wear this thing all the time.
He took a breath and opened the update log with various doubts to see what big changes Torrential Rain had made this time.
The first line of the update log is exactly the same as the prediction Xiao Fen saw on the forum before, but it is more detailed.
In Wings of Shadow, a character will no longer have defense value and agility settings. Now we will use a more realistic way to display a character's defense attributes. It will consist of dodge correction, armor coverage, and deflection correction.
Determined jointly. The dodge correction includes the agility bonus, insight bonus and morale bonus, the armor coverage includes the armor bonus and natural defense bonus (such as cuticles, scales), and the deflection correction includes the deflection bonus.
with lucky bonus.
A more agile character, a character with amazing insight or high morale may move quickly and be less likely to be hit than ordinary people. And a set of strong, whole-body armor (scales, bone plates) can also make you
Protect yourself from damage. You can attempt to attack areas that are not protected by armor (as long as your hit correction is sufficient). Of course, you can also use amazing power to directly penetrate these solid protections.
But accordingly, a character wearing heavy armor may take a certain penalty to the agility bonus. There are also some spells that can provide protection for the character. An invisible force field shield can deflect your blade (deflection correction
). They will directly compete with your hit correction. A character with accurate shots can also overcome errors caused by deflection and luck——
For Xiao Fen, this means that Canaan has truly introduced the setting of protection level. Torrentialrain expresses this setting in a more intuitive way. Now the armor's defense value no longer directly reduces damage, but instead
Allowing a character to avoid any damage. In addition to the simple confrontation between dodge and hit in the past, deflection and armor bonuses are added——
In other words, unless you now have damage-resistance attributes (such as 5/magic weapons), you will either not take damage, or you will take full damage. From this moment on, the confrontation between hits and misses
It will overthrow in one fell swoop the 'damage first' theory that the physics profession believed in in the past. Gone are the days of using damage to break down defenses.
And he continued to look down, and found that all the changes in Wings of Shadow were revolutionary and subversive.
Magic resistance (non-SR) and magic reflection attributes have been removed. They have been replaced by spell resistance (SR). Any equipment that previously contained magic resistance and magic reflection attributes will be automatically replaced with magic resistance of equal value according to the equipment value.
equipment. The magic resistance and magic reflection attributes in the boss template are removed and re-added to force half damage (including physical). If the character's hit dice is less than half of the boss-level monster's hit dice, the damage reduction will be increased.
It's ninety-five percent.
This change is good news for spellcasters. However, the following additional change made Xiao Fen take a breath. After this change, players will have to think carefully if they want to hunt boss-level monsters. This change can be said to have improved the boss out of thin air.
More than half the strength of the template.
Moving forward, due to magic resistance, magic reflection has been removed. Therefore, the monster level has also been removed, and the method of calculating monster strength will only rely on hit dice and challenge rating.
The fourth change is about magic items. The daily casting attribute of the wand has been canceled and changed to a total of one hundred shots. It will disappear after the number of uses is exhausted. The mental power consumed by using the scroll has been increased by 30%. Xiao Fen
Seeing as this change was all aimed at him, he couldn't help but wonder if the designers of Torrential Rain had been paying attention to the more powerful beings among the players?
The upgrade of feats has been cancelled. There will be only one level of expertise in the future, and there will no longer be master, apprentice, craftsman and other proficiency levels. However, the full list of feats has been opened, and players can browse all feats (including hidden ones) in one database.
Except for the first time, learning expertise still requires finding the corresponding NPC or unlocking the task - but players can now use this function to more conveniently formulate their own character growth route.
Next, Xiao Fen's eyes narrowed slightly.
The career fixed reward specialty system is cancelled, the advanced career level limit is cancelled, and the part-time penalty is changed to an experience penalty (not a profession that is good at, and upgrading requires additional experience). All advancements in warrior professions, expanded expertise unlocks, and all advancements in knight professions
, expanded expertise unlocking, all advancements in priest professions, expanded expertise unlocking, and so on...
Canaan has finally released all advancement and expertise systems, which means the coming of a freer era, but it also means that the next battle will be more difficult and mysterious.
This change will bring about the reset of all characters and NPC career levels. NPCs will re-create a career list that suits their characters according to the original career system. Players can choose more freely, but the range of options for players is different from
It is related to the player's previous adventure experiences, unlocked tasks and combat style. The system records all his experiences and provides corresponding routes for the player to choose.
When Xiao Fen saw this, he understood why his expertise, skills, and career levels had all been reset. However, this was more beneficial than harmful to him. The mage had long wanted to arrange his own career.
And the following one: The skill system has been redone, and the game will now return to the skill system of the closed beta era. The highest level of the professional skill is the current character level + 3, and the cross-professional skill is half of this level; now every time the character invests one point in the professional skill
Idle skill points can obtain a skill level, and every two idle skill points invested in cross-class skills can obtain a skill level.
In addition, sneaking and hiding are merged into stealth action skills, jumping, rolling and balancing are merged into acrobatics skills, craft skills for combat professional players are removed, and detection skills are removed.
Fortitude, Willpower, and Reflex saves return, but Reflex saves are still more reflected in the character's dodge correction to area-of-effect spells. (When I was writing, I always forgot that Canaan only had Will saves, so I changed it back now)
He read these changes one by one and found that Wings of Shadow was indeed moving in the direction of liberalization and realism. However, whether this change was good or bad had to be verified in the game. He originally wanted to continue reading.
, but scrolling down, I found that the game update log has dozens of pages. Torrentialrain lists the update contents in detail, which is more complicated than a battleship operation manual.
There are also some detailed changes regarding terrain, occupation revision and mission content below. Thirty pages later are almost all about life professional players. Life professional players are now completely distinguished from combat professional players, making their professional abilities more professional.
, is also more extensive, but time-consuming, and the scale of the work has become complicated. Xiao Fen thinks that this may be to prepare for the next war era.
The update also mentions the reintroduction of adventure, physical strength and hunger, and extreme environments to make the world more realistic, but Xiao Fen prefers to experience these side effects during the adventure. What really caught his attention was the following.
Another note: the legendary level is unlocked. When the character enters the legendary level, the experience value will lose its effect (the experience value will continue to accumulate, but the level will not be improved due to the increase in experience value). On the contrary, the legendary level will become the role of the character in the legendary level.
New experience system under level.
Unlock the path of the sage. The key items to unlock are the sage certificates of different paths (strength, wisdom, light). After becoming a sage, you will receive legend, sage profession and sage template rewards.
Xiao Fen stared at these two items without saying a word for a long time, and then he realized that it turned out that the properties and effects of the items that everyone had been unsure about. But suddenly he gritted his teeth. When he was given the Origin Stone, Rex actually
Just using a legendary item and 1 point of flexibility to get rid of yourself. This reward seems to be completely different now. But speaking of it - he still doesn't know what this reward of flexibility has become.
Because isn't flexibility removed?
Thinking of this, he quickly opened his attribute list and took a look.
A screen of light immediately appeared in front of the mage.
A profession immediately appeared on it for him to choose: Mage. Xiao Fen was stunned for a moment, and then found that there were also "Hand of the Doomsday", "High-level Mage", "Eye of Order", and "Silver-robed Mage" written in gray font on the back.
' and the five options of 'Shadow Walker'. He just glanced at this option and immediately understood the meaning of these descriptions:
There is only one basic profession because of his past experience, and the forces he came into contact with only allowed him to choose the mage route. The latter ones are all advanced professions he can choose. As for why they are unselectable, it is obviously because he
At this moment, the conditions for advancing to these professions have not yet been met.
For example, the Hand of Doomsday requires absolute neutrality, neutral chaos alignment, level 10 of arcane knowledge, level 10 of concentration, and level 5 of religious knowledge. It must also have any spellcasting skill expertise (non-metamagic) and the ability to cast at least level 4 arcane spells.
Now, as a level 15 'commoner', Xiao Fen obviously did not meet any other requirements except meeting the requirements for the camp.
However, these advanced professions do seem very reasonable and consistent with his character experience: the advancement of the Hand of Doomsday obviously comes from his Doomsday Scroll. The advancement of the High-level Mage comes from his relationship with the Arcane Association. This advancement is the Arcane Association.
Naturally, only characters trusted by the association can get the opportunity to advance to a high-level profession. As for the advancement of the Eye of Order, it is a bit strange. Xiao Fen thinks it is probably because of his relationship with that old guy Carlin.
In this way, the white-robed magician can indeed be regarded as a worthy existence in the Eye of Order. Our mage immediately thought of this.
As for the Silver Robe Mage and the Shadow Song Walker, who are advanced professions of the Silver Vislan and the Shadow Brotherhood respectively, Xiao Fen does have a good relationship with the forces under these two sages. Seeing this, he couldn't help but admire Torrential Rain's
Carefully, even when resetting careers, try to consider the plot - because players have indeed experienced these plots, so they will not be too sudden and unable to react.
He took another look at his professions and was immediately stunned.
"The mage actually has the ability to have unlimited spells...?" Xiao Fen was stunned and couldn't help blurting out.
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