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Awards were added for the first season of Isekai, let me know if there's anything missing or weird with this. Note that for this first season, the inventory value was added to persistent directly instead of being included in the 1 million cutoff calculations.


Arenas

- Added two new arenas:
-- Level 400 locked to PFUDUR +50% with a 2x T7 equipment clear bonus
-- Level 500 locked to PFUDOR +100% with a 3x T7 equipment clear bonus and a new title

- Arena round counts were rescaled and now cap at 100. This includes a tweak to the arena monster scaling where you effectively skip the first 25% of arena rounds compared to the old scaling.

- A Dance With Dragons now forces PFUDOR difficulty, and the granted Dovahkiin title now has the same bonuses as Godslayer in addition to the skill. (You don't have to reobtain the title.)

- Low-level arenas now become unavailable as you level up, mostly to prevent needing to show multiple pages of irrelevant challenges and making people feel the need to clear them every day. At level 500, Endgame (level 100) and up will still be available.


Misc

- When crystal or chaos upgrading monsters in the monster lab, you can now do +5 levels by holding shift and +10 levels by holding control. If you do not have sufficient crystals/tokens for all level upgrades, it will abort it. If there are fewer than 5/10 levels until the cap, it will increase it to the cap.

- If your equipment inventory is full, equipment drops will now be generated and auto-sold instead of being discarded or replaced with an item drop, unless it qualified for auto-salvage in which case that will happen instead.

- Stamina is now considered "Great" above 60, and increases stamina drain by 50% rather than 100%.

- Stamina is now considered "Exhausted" if it drops below 1 (used to be 10). You cannot start a new battle if your stamina is below 2.

- Switched HV to use a new refactored core library. This is the first part of the site to use this, so let me know if you encounter any new weirdness.


Post-Update Fixes

- There was an issue where some arenas started before the update became uncompleteable or did not give a trophy bonus, this has been fixed.

- Corrected an issue that prevented titles from being granted.

- The Lvl 400 and Lvl 500 arena bosses were adjusted to have the same bonus health as the dragons when the difficulty health multiplier is factored in. For the ponies, this cuts the health in half.

- The "difficulty boost" health multiplier is no longer applied to boss-type monsters that already have a separate health multiplier. They still receive the damage multiplier. This includes the Level 400 and 500 arena bosses, as well as the "schoolgirls".

- You can no longer start an item world if doing so would bring you below 1 stamina. (This would prevent you from getting anything.)

- An old issue where you could sometimes gain "fake" levels should now actually be fixed. Please let me know if anyone still gets this.

• Now there are only a couple of small arenas without exp bonus, eliminating the tactic to play only low level arenas to minimize exp gain.
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• The process of entering and fleeing IW to quickly reduce your stamina below 60 (for those who minimize exp gain) takes too long now.

If your tactic is to minimize exp gain, you might want to consider limiting your forum postings. Your exp gain will drop in half if you can go 31 days without posting and that counterbalances the gain for having Great stamina. Should be easier than repeatedly fleeing IW.

Dang, I used to just get my "Dawn of a New Day" stuff, hop on HV to do the lowest-level arena for an easy and fast (what was it, 200?) credits and chance of a token drop at the end. Now I have to slog through 25 rounds if I want that chance of an arena token drop.

This post has been edited by Billabo: Aug 25 2021, 23:26

I finally tried playing HV 0.88 and all the new arenas. I don't like the shorter arenas. I like the old way better in most aspects.

• Now there are only a couple of small arenas without exp bonus, eliminating the tactic to play only low level arenas to minimize exp gain.
• There is too much stamina now. It is unnecessary for players who don't play heavily.
• The process of entering and fleeing IW to quickly reduce your stamina below 60 (for those who minimize exp gain) takes too long now.
• Spirit Gems and Draughts became totally useless for 1H, which is one of the styles which ought to have use for them.
• I'm not high level enough to try the Level 400 or 500 arenas yet, but for people who think SG arenas take too long, their addition is useless.

The worst part is that all these changes combine in the same negative way for players like myself that play a certain amount with a certain approach to leveling. They didn't balance each other out.

I don't understand what is the point of having so much stamina when the arenas are so much shorter now. Could a 3 tier approach to stamina improve things somehow? Maybe below 80 stamina, exp gain goes back to 50% (so that I can dump stamina in IW more quickly) while the increased stamina drain remains until below 60 stamina?

I'm so confused. Why would you want to minimise experience gain? Are you trying to prolong the experience to get to level 500? Is it a challenge to yourself?

Monsters die quicker at low level because of the monster hp scaling. Some gear also has value at low level whilst unsellable at high level.

Personally I don't think its worth caring about, 400+ comes with a lot of benefits. For example, if killing speed is a problem, mage is more doable at 400, as well as having more access to gear and abilities, and will be far quicker than low level melee at pfudor. You don't really see a lot of low level gear trading for stuff that won't sell at high level either, so not even sure there's much to be had through that avenue, and it'd be outclassed by just playing isekai and selling there where there's more demand anyway.

That said, low level gameplay, up to around 250~ (imo, due to 3 cast no cooldown imperil unlocking a little bit too late to avoid some tediousness), is far more enjoyable as melee. But you get that in isekai now anyway really.

Oh, it's a new month already.

It is time for:

#AddTheTowerToPersistent for August 2021

#AddTheTowerToPersistent for September 2021


One day...

Running the two new arenas are pointless, if you are already at level 500, especially since their locked at PFUDOR
You get 0 experience points

Running the two new arenas are pointless, if you are already at level 500, especially since their locked at PFUDOR
You get 0 experience points

But you keep earning proficiency points. At least until it reaches 600 points, which takes a long time.

edit: Actually I'm not quite sure about it. Let me double check.
Nevermind...

This post has been edited by jy-laji: Sep 6 2021, 22:07

Does Vital strike have a chance to fail to apply the Bleeding and damage multiplier if the stun is from a counter?
I have had this happen every few rounds on ISK where Vital Strike randomly decides to act like a stun is not applied to the target when the target is clearly stunned still.

Does Vital strike have a chance to fail to apply the Bleeding and damage multiplier if the stun is from a counter?

The release notes do not mention any changes to equipment procs or weapon skills so I believe there are no code changes related to Vital strike. I suggest you ask that question in the Ask the Experts thread.

I do find the changes to be enjoyable, as well as the challenges that I've faced so far.

DWD and PGC made me rethink my strategy a little bit since I found myself getting a bit overwhelmed by 3 SGs and 6 other monsters... though I just ended up firing OFC a lot more on the regular monsters more or less to ease the strain (and kill them before they can start doing some real damage with their SP attacks). Hopefully one day I'll get some radiant phase cold mage gear along with a decent redwood staff to get this going a bit faster.

All in all, they're pretty fun to do as long as you've got the patience to develop your gear to a sufficient level!

It was reported to me that the stamina cost for IW seems to be rounded up now where it wasn't before the patch; can you confirm if this is happening and whether it is intended?

For example, a 56 round IW seems to be taking 2 whole stamina on every run now.

It was reported to me that the stamina cost for IW seems to be rounded up now where it wasn't before the patch; can you confirm if this is happening and whether it is intended?

For example, a 56 round IW seems to be taking 2 whole stamina on every run now.

E.g I enter a 77 round IW at great stamina (which is 64), and after I finish the IW my stamina is at 61. Then I do it again, this time my stamina drops from 61 to 58.

It was reported to me that the stamina cost for IW seems to be rounded up now where it wasn't before the patch; can you confirm if this is happening and whether it is intended?

For example, a 56 round IW seems to be taking 2 whole stamina on every run now.

Looks like it. Not intended, it was caused by the other stamina changes, so I'll fix that for the next one.

Hello, I mainly play DualWield and I have a question about Frenzied Blows.

When facing more than 5 enemies, Frenzied Blows can be manipulated to hit fewer enemies in exchange for greater damage. Unfortunately, this trick doesn't work when the round consists of 5 or fewer enemies. Is this by design? Any chance for a change in the future?

I'm sorry if this has been explained before, I've only played HentaiVerse for a few months and not that familiar with everything.
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@Tgbvfr: Thank you!

This post has been edited by amaimono: Oct 1 2021, 05:55

When facing more than 5 enemies, Frenzied Blows can be manipulated to hit fewer enemies in exchange for greater damage. Unfortunately, this trick doesn't work when the round consists of 5 or fewer enemies. Is this by design?

The release notes do not mention any changes to weapon skills so I believe the Frenzied Blows code is unchanged. I suggest you ask that question in the Ask the Experts thread.

Hello, I mainly play DualWield and I have a question about Frenzied Blows.

When facing more than 5 enemies, Frenzied Blows can be manipulated to hit fewer enemies in exchange for greater damage. Unfortunately, this trick doesn't work when the round consists of 5 or fewer enemies. Is this by design? Any chance for a change in the future?

I have talked about this with some veterans. And here is what we find out:

• You have used a skill or cast a spell that can affect multiple targets. Like Frenzied Blows which will affect 5 monsters.
• If the current round has 5 or fewer monsters:
  • All of the monsters will be affected.
• And if the current round has more than 5 monsters (Let's say 7):
  • When you hit monster A, or B, or C, all first 5 monsters (which will be A, B, C, D, E) will be affected.
  • When you hit monster D => B, C, D, E, F will be affected. The same rule goes for E.
  • When you hit monster F => only D, E, F, G will be affected.
  • When you hit monster G => only E, F, G will be affected.
  • In short, here are the rules:
    • Not enough monsters above the target => Find more in the below
    • Not enough monsters below the target => Ignore and keep going

Idk if it is by design. But the implementation is very confusing, especially inconsistent behavior between targeting the first and targeting the last.

And here is my advice for players (with the current version of the game):

- If you are a DW player and want to use FB to kill monsters as fast as possible => Attack from bottom to top so that you can hit fewer targets dealing more damage.
- If you are an elemental mage (and play Imperil) and want to kill more monsters at once (Since offensive spells have a higher effect range) => Choose target in the middle as much as possible.

This post has been edited by OnceForAll: Oct 1 2021, 08:11

@OnceForAll: Thank you!

Would be great if the trick also work in rounds with 5 or fewer monsters in the future. From my experience, it's faster to kill 1-2 fully healthy monsters than 4-5 half dead monsters after all.

This post has been edited by amaimono: Oct 1 2021, 08:43

Almost forgot it has been a new month for a while

Oh, it's a new month already.

It is time for:
#AddTheTowerToPersistent for September 2021
One day...

#AddTheTowerToPersistent for October 2021

Never give up!

Can it a Dungeon, or Basement instead