DFOArchive: [Korea] Season 7 Act 18: BLADE Goddess of Vengeance

Test Sever note was released on June 24, 2021. Test Sever note was released on July 8, 2021.
It contains detail information about the new class Blade and her skills.
It also includes Ozma guide/squad mode, damage condensation, new epic/mythic/sirocco farming dungeons, and many QoL changes/improvement/revamps.

Table of Contents

New Class: Blade

Ozma Raid Guide / Squad Mode

New Class: Blade

Skill Description

Level 1 - Dress Code Leather Mastery
Level 1 - Professional: Basic passive
Level 1 - Double Shot
Level 5 - Rusty Nail

Level 10 - Shadow Blade
Level 10 - Slice Impact: After the attack is over, you can cancel the delay to other skills.

Level 15 - Dangerous Hook

Level 20 - Black Out

This skill can be used on the ground or in the air.
Leap forward and throw the target.
In the case of an enemy that cannot be grabbed, it pulls the wire wound around the target and cuts it

Level 20 - Old Fashioned: Increase independent attack, hit rate, and give bleeding effects to sword skills
Level 25 - Blending Pain

Level 25 - Hangover

Level 25 - Trace: Buff skill, increase Att, movement speed, etc.
Level 30 - Shattered Glass

Level 30 - Deep Dusk: When you hit a target with a previous skill other than Shaker Blast and Awakening, you can cancel the delay and cast .

Level 35 - Wild Flower

This skill has 2 phases, the ready phase where you hold the sword in a blocking motion, and the attack phase. With 3A passive, you can get invincibility during ready phase for up to 1 second.

Level 35 - Shaker Blast

Level 35 - Vintage: Another passive, increase crit damage and crit chance.
Level 40 - Nightfall. With TP point, you can cast in the air.

Level 45 - Last Order (Tactic Skill)

This also has [Lead Swordsman Skills] that can be activated with 1st Awakening Passive.

First Awakening - Rebellion

Level 48 - License (1A Passive)

Increase skill attack and attack speed
Allowing you to cancel one skill into 3 possible specific skills: Last Order, Straight Shot, and Daybreak.
3 skills specifically when used after cancelling from other lower level skills will activate [Lead Swordsman Skills] and receive special cutscene.
Those 3 skills will glow purple when cancelable skill is in motion (while others r grayed out). And the damage of the skill you used before the cancel will be transferred into these 3 skills. These are known as "Tactic" skills. Examples below:

cancelled into

cancelled into

Level 50 - Showdown (1st Awakening)

Level 60 - Overphase

Level 70 - Bullseye (Landing motion will target the strongest enemy)

Second Awakening - Vendetta

Level 75 - Infamous: Increase attack damage and skill cooldown.
Level 75 - Straight Shot (Tactic Skill)

Level 80 - Katharsis

Level 85 - Daybreak (2nd Awakening) (Tactic Skill)

Third Awakening

Level 95 - Daredevil

Shattered Glass: If the hit is successful, it can be canceled to cast previous-class skills.
Wild Flower: When the skill key is continuously pressed, invincibility is granted to the ready posture. It can last up to 1 second.

Level 95 - Fullbody

Level 100 - Testament

Note: When you link 3A to 1A, your 3a cut-in will not have the first few frames where you summon a bunch of wires. When you link 3A to 2A, since 2A is a tactic skill, you can now use 3A as tactic as well. In this special case, you can cast 1A then immediately cast 3A (kind of like reverse sader) which will give you the cut-in you see above.

Changes from Test Server:

The invincibility time applied after the skill ends for the next skill is reduced Target Skill List: , , , , , .
License: Skill att. increase per level changed. (2% → 1.5%)

Official Artworks

1st Awakening: Dark Background / Transparent Background
2nd Awakening: Dark Background / Transparent Background
3rd Awakening: Dark Background / Transparent Background

Ozma Raid Guide / Squad Mode

Same concept, register up to 3 characters for each mode.
Guide Mode requires 11,604 Reputation, Squad Mode requires 12,022 Reputation.
The maximum possession limit of consumables for Ozma Raid sold by NPC 'Lucille Redmayne' applies the same as in raids. 10 Life Tokens per dungeon.
New entry ticket added to raid shop: Cost 18 Aiolites.
Differences versus normal mode:

Each area consists of 1 dungeon.
When encountering some boss monsters, a guide image for a specific pattern is displayed.
The dungeon is paused when the guide image is displayed.
When the guide disable option is checked, the guide image is no longer displayed.
In Ozma Raid Guide Mode, the death penalty based on the number of inner visits does not apply.
It is divided into 1st and 2nd rounds depending on the number of clears each week, and the open areas of Doom (1st)/Despair (2nd) change according to each round.

Ozma Guide Rewards

Phase 1: Grudges of Chaos: 3-4 counts
Phase 2: 120 Undaunted Determination and 1 of the following in the pool

Grudges of Chaos: 9-12 counts
Grudges of Chaos: 16 counts
Grudges of Chaos: 9 counts + 1 of
Grudges of Chaos: 12 counts + 12 Howling Grudge of Chaos: 19 counts (aka account bound version)
Grudges of Chaos: 9 counts + 1 Ozma unique/leg card
Grudges of Chaos: 9 counts + 1 Ozma Epic
Grudges of Chaos: 9 counts + 1 GoW Mythic

Ozma Squad Rewards

Phase 1: Grudges of Chaos: 4-5 counts
Phase 2: 160 Undaunted Determination and 1 of the following in the pool

Grudges of Chaos: 13-16 counts
Grudges of Chaos: 20 counts
Grudges of Chaos: 13 counts + 1 of
Grudges of Chaos: 16 counts + 16 Howling Grudge of Chaos: 19 counts (aka account bound version)
Grudges of Chaos: 13 counts + 1 Ozma unique/leg card
Grudges of Chaos: 13 counts + 1 Ozma Epic
Grudges of Chaos: 13 counts + 1 GoW Mythic

Damage Compression

Due to the exponent strength of 100 cap equipment, you can now do up to trillion damage. The damage has been compressed by the thousand. Monster's HP will also compressed the same way.

Seria's Prayer (Lupsong) added to regular areas due to Damage Condensation change.
Due to this change, the display of digits in damage font is changed

Object and status abnormal damage of some item options is compressed by the thousand.
In the dungeon of the Contract of Growth, when attacking, there is a 4% chance of x500 additional damage, now is changed to x20 additional damage.

New Dungeons

2 new farming dungeons added to The Elrox area: Crevice Watcher and Guide of Demise. One new system added to these dungeons.
They are designed support level 100 epic equipment farming so that you can challenge higher-level content more quickly.
It is designed so that you can acquire not only the epic/mythical equipment acquired in the guide of wisdom, but also the sirocco epic equipment.

New System: Watcher's Energy

Defeat monsters in Crevice Watcher will charge up this Energy. You can stack up to 300,000.

4,800 Energy charged per regular Crevice Watcher dungeon.
25,000 Energy charged per special Crevice Watcher dungeon.

Think of this Energy as extra entry materials for Guide of Demise.

Crevice Watcher

Think of this as your Guide of Wisdom 2.0, it will still drop epic/mythic and will consume 8 FP and 27 Time's Guide Stones instead of the usual 18 Stones like Guide of Wisdom.
Normal mode will start like you enter Guide of Wisdom, then you move to a portal to another dimension.

Special mode will look like this.

Guide of Demise

Think of this as your Guide of Wisdom 3.0, it will drop the normal epic/mythic AND Sirocco Epics.
Consumes 8 FP, 27 Time's Guide Stones and 100,000 Watcher's Energy.
Boss drops Epic at 100% rate and has a chance of dropping Mythic and Sirocco Epic when defeated.
Note: In this dungeon, you have 2 rooms that have a big crystal in the middle. Destroy it will give you some Time's Guide Stone back (look like 8-9 Stones).

Simple Math

So why do you want to clear this when it costs so much more to enter?
Well, each regular Crevice Watcher gives you 4,800 Energy. So about 21 runs will yield enough energy for 1 clear of Guide of Demise, and the boss there drops Epic at 100% rate.

So in the end, you can spend 594 Time's Guide Stone and 176 FP for a GUARANTEED random epic (those are the cost of 21 Crevice Watcher and 1 Guide of Demise).
AND a chance of mythic/sirocco.
AND a chance of boss intrusion.

So TL;DR: Spend more Stones to cumulatively get a guarantee epic and chances of mythic/sirocco piece.

Boss Intrusion

While playing these 2 dungeons, There's a chance for a random Boss will intrude. These bosses have a 100% chance of dropping something specific.

Prion: 100% chance of Epic
Sponger: 100% chance of Mythic
Rodos: 100% chance of Rodos Epic or Immaterial Essence
Gatekeeper: 100% chance of Gatekeeper Epic or Immaterial Essence
Roxy: 100% chance of Roxy Epic or Immaterial Essence
Nex: 100% chance of Nex Epic or Immaterial Essence
Assassin: 100% chance of Assassin Epic or Immaterial Essence

Example of Prion intrusion below:

Convenience Improvements

Problem: Players not know what items can be obtained where.

Solution: You can how check the rewards of dungeons and raids.

Problem: Certain content channels not show up because pre-quest not completed.

Solution: The channel slots will now always there but will gray out if you don't complete the pre-quest. It's good because new players can know what content is available.

Problem: Players new to raid shop does not know which raid entry to buy.

Solution: You can now buy raid entry immediately when you enter the group. If you don't have the ticket, a material purchase button will display in the raid window.
A material change function has been added to the raid NPC so that you can use the fusion system directly in the raid channel

Problem: There're lots of material in DFO, and new players will not know what's used for what.

Solution: Item tooltips adjusted to show where a material come from, and what's it used for.

Problem: In the past, only a single component box had an automatic opening function, so it was inconvenient to open one by one.

Solution: You can now open multiple boxes at a time (e.g. Arad Explorer Subjugation boxes)

Problem: Players accumulate too much equipment, including talisman and runes. It's bad to sell them one by one.

Solution: Batch sell button added (default as "A"). You can also change the batch setting if needed.

Problem: EXP problem between level 96 and 98, and you don't have quests in between either.

Solution: Repeatable quest like Ghent Place will now give more EXP.
Also added highlight for important quests.

Character Change Reorganization

Problem: Before, you have to level up to 15 to change the class to the subclass you want to play. Therefore new player can't directly play the subclass they wanted.

Solution: You can now just select the subclass you want to play. And you can click the red bottom to change the subclass (Usable for up to level 69)

Subclass Change UI is added and changed. A 'Back' button is added to the screen before selecting a job change.

After July 8, 2021, you can't create generic character.

Character Creation Screen Revamped

After double click on the generic class or select subclass change, you will be taken to the next screen.

Instead of having the old hexagon, you now have ranking bar on relevant information like difficulty, attack power, range, speed, etc.
When clicking the awakening name at the bottom right, it will show the illustration and gameplay examples.