User talk:Varst/HVintroduction

This is a WIP page where I'm trying to consolidate information for new HV players.

What I'm trying to do now is to merge some of the crucial HV information into this thread, thus decreasing the total number of pages in the whole category. This should give players better information on what they should know.

There will be some overlapping with some of the existing pages. Still thinking how to deal with that.

A few things that your should know before starting to play HV. If you want to know more, click on those links.

At the very beginning...

If you've just registered an account, your stamina will start with zero. Zero stamina means you won't get any experience/credits from battles.

In the meanwhile, take your time and read through this introduction and HV advices!

Character Panel

Character Screen

First thing you can see is the main character screen.

Going to add a screen cap here.

Primary Attributes

There are six attributes:

Strength(STR) increases physical damage

Dexterity(DEX) increases physical accuracy and parry

Agility(AGI) increases action speed and evade

Endurance(END) increases defense and health points(HP)

Intelligence(INT) increases magical damage

Wisdom(WIS) increases magical accuracy, magical points(MP), magical defense, and resist

Those attributes in dark brown can be adjusted up to 10 times in 24-hour period. Those in grey are from equipments, while those in red are from artifacts.

Proficiencies

Proficiencies can be gained by using the related weapons, armors or spells.

Getting proficiencies will give you various benefits, which will be furthered explained when the related equipments/spells are concerned.

Derived Attributes

You can see various of your attributes here, derived by your primary attributes.

Health Points = (50 + Level * 5 + STR + END * 4) * HP Tank Modifier * white_aura_bonus
Magic Points = (10 + Level + INT * 0.25 + WIS * 0.75) * MP Tank Modifier * black_aura_bonus
Spirit Points = (1 + (Power / 7) + (STR + DEX + AGI + END + INT + WIS) / 10) * SP Tank Modifier

There are some modifiers which I will explain in the related sections. What you need to know is that those value before tank modifier is called 'base HP/MP/SP'. Restoratives only apply to your base HP/MP/SP instead of the HP/MP/SP shown in the derived attributes.

Health Regen (per minute) = 20 + (END / 5) * aura_bonus
Magic Regen (per minute) = 5 + (WIS / 25) * aura_bonus
Spirit Regen (per minute) = 1 + (STR + DEX + AGI + END + INT + WIS) / 600 * aura_bonus

Note that these regeneration rates occur outside battles. Only MP/SP will regen during battles.

MP gained per turn = Magic Regen / 15
SP gained per turn = Spirit Regen / 30

In general, you can act faster if you have higher action speed, though some action requires more time to finish.

Overcharge is required to use weapon skills and spirit stance, which will be introduced later.

Action Speed = 100 + AGI / 3
Overcharge = 100 + Overcharge Boost

Information Bar

It gives you some general information of your character.

Restoratives

When you press on the restorative button, a panel will appear, giving you the chance to restore your HP/MP/SP with your potions or health tokens.

If you choose to restore with potions, the lower tier will be consumed first before the higher tier are consumed. Notice that it's a full restoration, so you can't choose how many potions to use.

If you choose to restore with health tokens, all your HP/MP/SP will be fully restored, and one healing token will be consumed.

You can also restore your stamina with rare energy drinks, and each energy drink will restore 20 stamina.

Equipments

Going to add a screen cap here.

You can equip your equipments by clicking into different panels: weapons in the main-hand (MH) and/or off-hand (OH) slots, and armors in the helmet/body/hands/legs/feet slots. You can also choose to equip in different equipment sets. Notice that only armors can be used in different sets!

Equipments can be classified into weapons and armors.

Weapons can be used in the main-hand (MH) slot and the off-hand (OH) slot. They can be further classified into one-handed and two-handed weapons. There are also ethereal weapons, which are rare equipments that deals void damage and have no burden and interference.

Armors can be used in the other five body slots. They can be further classified into cloth, light and heavy armors.

Weapons

Here's a brief introduction to different weapons.

One-handed Weapons

Can be used in one-handed or dual-wield.

Axe: High damage, but low accuracy and high burden. Proc is bleeding.

Club: Also high damage, low accuracy and high burden. Proc is stun.

Rapier: Medium damage, good accuracy and have parry. Proc is penetrated armor (PA).

Dagger: Low damage, high accuracy and parry, and low burden. Proc is bleeding.

Shortsword: Medium on every stats. Proc is bleeding.

Wakizashi: Rare version of dagger. Can be used with katana to form niten. Proc is bleeding.

Two-handed Weapons

Note that they all have higher damage/burden/interference than one-handed version, while with lower accuracy.

Estoc: Medium damage, gives AGI bonus instead of STR. Proc is PA.

Longsword: Medium damage, very common weapon. Proc is bleeding.

Mace: High damage, but low accuracy. Proc is stun.

Scythe: Semi-rare, very high damage, low accuracy, high burden. Proc is bleeding.

Katana: Rare, high damage, good accuracy, high burden. Can be used with wakizashi to form niten. Proc is bleeding.

Shields

Used in off-hand for blocking.

Buckler has lower block rate and low burden, while tower shield has higher block rate and high burden. Kite shield goes in-between.

Staffs=

Staffs are mainly used by mages. They can get Coalesced Mana from casting spells on enemies, and hitting enemies with staff will proc Ether Theft.

Ebony Staff: Common staff with good magical damage bonus (MDB). It gives fire, ice, wind and elec elemental damage bonus (EDB).

Latalox staff: Rare staff with good MDB. It gives holy and dark EDB.

Oak staff: Common staff with low MDB. It gives holy EDB and better weapon damage among staffs.

Redwood staff: Very common staff medium stat. It has all proficiency bonus and maximum ether theft chance of 50%.

Willow staff: Semi-rare staff with low EDB. It gives dark EDB and better weapon damage among staffs.

Armors

Here's a brief introduction to different armors.

Cloth armors

It has no burden and interference, so it's usually used by mages.

Cotton: Common clothes with gives basic protection.

Gossamer: Uncommon clothes with gives different proficiency bonus.

Phase: Rare clothes with better evade and gives EDB.