Project Zodiac 2.0:

 

Horizon:

I started the 2nd stage of the project with Ex Assassin, mainly because I need a toon with Merchant Profession on every account to ensure most of the stuffs are tradable. At the same time I would be able to compare it with Regular Assassin to see if the result end up the same as I had expected, but to my surprise it actually surpass Regular Assassin with a 4 level different. The skill is very similar with Ex Rogue able to learn short duration buff which will be useful in most situation, but Ex Ranger seem to be more popular with the benefit of attack speed and range.

High Lander is another surprise for me, I never expect the Axe Crasher skill is as good as the Wrath of Light for Temple Knight. But as expected due to their attack speed they are unable to level pass Level 100, but getting Level 95 still better than what I had expected. Never really use the Wild Axe AOE skill much as I felt that Axe Crasher seem to work better as it got shorter skill animation, it is also able to hit mob at a distance with range attack.

Overall Titan still a very powerful class if players knew how to use it wisely, it had higher DPS as compare to Knight and the higher HP seem to offset defense as compare to the Knight. I also never really had the chance to use the Perfect Body Skill much as I am lazy to keep unequip and reequip the Accessory with Coral to activated the skill, but since the duration is short I guess it is not really going to make much different.

The last one which I decided to try out is the most controversial Elementalist, not much had been said and done since the new patch had make it more powerful. I guess most players are still skeptical about it as not much improvement had been done, but to my surprise it is actually very powerful after the revamp as now the summoned spirits can actually deal the same damage as the player itself. This is what Elementalist is suppose to be in the first place and not the usual weak spirits which can only kill low level mobs, and to my greatest surprise is that the AOE Skill Chain Lighting when combine with the Soul of Fire of Fire Spirit and Hand of Earth AOE of the Earth Spirit actually make the whole gaming experience extremely enjoyable.

I didn't think much about Soul of Fire much as the skill description say that the spirit will explode and sacrifice itself, but the spirit did not die after the explosion and continue to attack the mobs. Although it still have a 2 sec cool down like those stun skill even with 100% cool down reduction, but it is reasonable for them to keep this powerful skill nerf at certain level to prevent Elementalist to become too OP. Ice Spike is disappointing as the Terra Spear of the Wizard, but since I got other better and more powerful skill to use it doesn't reallybother much.

I manage to hit Level 94 just before the server is down for maintenance, as the GM Buff are almost finish and I am also going to go abck to town for another rebuff I foresee it will be able to cross the Level 100 limit when the server is back online. From the above experienceI do not think players really had to level as Specialist and then later do class change any more, and I hope the same would happen for Cleric when I try it out later. But it is just a very slim hope as Temple Knight situation still remain status quo after all these years.

 P.S.:

Manage to level Elementalist to Level 101, as expected most magic user are better with AOE instead of single target. Melee Class still got higher DPS as compare to most magic user, so magic user are abale to level fast if there are no mobs that debuff. They had make a lot of changes with new update, an additional inventory space, auto Laca and Moonstone, ability to open multiple box, P2 Weapon and Armor become permanent, quest and shop slot increase.

A lot of these changes are suppose to occur earlier but seem like they keep delay the schedule until now, but it is still a good direction and hope for more to come in future. With all the new changes, the private server would have to start worrying on the lost of players as the official will continue to improve to become like private server.