[EMS] Level 252!

Ding! Another big event, another Typhoon Storm Growth Potion. Having a level up in January has been a thing since 2016, huh? Let's see if I can get to 255 this year.

That's it for today - I'll see you guys again next post!

[2020] What happened this year to Rayque?

It's that time of the year again! It's time for another summary!

This year marks the 10th summary on this blog. As always, the Rayque3 Staff wishes you a great 2021!

2020 to me has been a pretty good year, for a change. It's been an incredibly productive year, although expensive. Regardless, among the specific milestones achieved this year are some pretty significant ones...

Anyway, let's get to those statistics of 2020.

[EMS] Awake - 5th Job's seventh wave!

Another big update, another skill wave. What does Nexon have in store for us this time? Half a year worth of skill changes, two new skills and a 5th Job skill with the potentially highest target count in the game which also comes with one of the higher line counts that you'll currently find. Pretty good stuff, if you ask me.

For this particular blogpost, I'm going to scale a bit down on the skill changes compared to last time because it ended up being just way too much for me to keep track of. Not all of the skill changes we received are major, so they don't need a sizable wall of text. Plus, this month's pretty stuffed (complete with a poor sleep pattern) and thus I don't have a decent number of effective hours to work on anything. Recent days have felt too short, to be honest.

Anyway, that aside, let's get to it.

[EMS] Upper Charge & Leap Attack

After a bit of delay, EMS released two new skills for Hero's toolkit. Introducing Upper Charge and Leap Attack, a pair of powerful skills that's significant enough to warrant its own dedicated blogpost. Originally released shortly after the Rise update in KMS, Nexon decided to postpone this patch for several additional months so they could include these with our edition of the Awake update instead. To say the wait was painful is an understatement, but at least the Celestial Festival and Mark of Honor III events were nice distractions and gave out some great rewards.

So, basically: Upper Charge and Leap Attack are here to improve Hero's movement options, allowing us to perform a multitude of new ways to tackle platforming and dodge boss attacks. While these skills are shared with Paladin and Dark Knight, as usual I will only focus on the in-depth applications with Hero.

[EMS] Sword Illusion - Level 30!

Sup guys! Today saw the release of the Awake update, which in old EMS tradition is a combination of several updates combined. Basically, we got a huge backlog of new skills, skill adjustments and upcoming content all at once. 

So, there's a bunch of new stuff to write about, and the following is my planned schedule for EMS-related blogposts:

• Near the end of the month, I'm expecting to publish a blogpost covering the new Upper Charge and Leap Attack skills, which are new movement options for Hero with a surprising amount of utilization.
• In mid-December, I'll cover our newest 5th Job skill, Sword Illusion, together with the other skill adjustments. The usual stuff (example).
• Maybe I'll write about the upcoming changes to the Amaterasu item set in January, if I feel like it...

Obviously, I'm still working on that Xenoblade Definitive Edition article, so the progress on it will have to happen at the same time as these EMS blogposts (and any work on the Hailfire Droid, at that). I took a (much-needed) break on the DE's article for about two weeks, but I'm ready to pick it up again tomorrow. There's just so much stuff to cover there, and I've been working on it actively for the past six months - it's kinda difficult to maintain a consistent productivity when it's such an undertaking.

Anyway, that's it for today - I'll see you guys again next post!