Author Topic: Dungeon Fighter Online is back (OBT 2) (Read 15404 times)

Smashy · « **on:** March 24, 2015, 10:48:48 PM »

www.dfoneople.com

http://dfo-notice.blogspot.com/

EARLY WARNING: LOTS OF THINGS HAVE CHANGED

Dungeon Fighter Online is a beat-em-up MMO that died because Nexon NA is Nexon NA. Late last year, Neople (the devs) themselves did a quick alpha and just today started the first OBT period. Things you need to know:

1) OBT brings us the Metastasis update, which changes up the entire landscape massively and makes the early levels go by much faster. For instance, Behemoth has been bumped up to the late 30s/early 40s, and many areas you once knew have been completely replaced. As for the early levels, you can get to level 15 (where you can pick a subclass) with about 35-40 fatigue left and you don't even leave the first area to do so.
2) We're back to fatigue. Currently at 156 Fatigue/day (with West getting extra as compensation for server problems) but this may change.
3) Skill resets are now free, so don't be afraid to experiment with your builds now.
4) I couldn't find a topic about it, but if anyone here played during that alpha, you can get those alpha characters back and they'll be at their previous level, albeit without any previous gear (you get a full magic-sealed set to work with). Your characters from Nexon!DFO are dead, however.
5) Dark Knight and Creator have been added, ~~with a chance that F. Slayer will be released before this OBT period ends.~~ Dark Knight and Slayer and two unique classes that do not get job advancements (and cannot participate in PvP), but have their own quirks.
6) Current events for OBT are submitting bugs for a chance at Cera (the new name for the premium currency), squashing (literal) bugs in dungeons to earn rewards, getting coins for clearing dungeons that will be used for safe and inventory expansions right now and maybe stuff in OBT II, and the "New Beginning" title that gives +1 everything you can think of (except skills).
7) The East and West servers are seperate: Characters you use on East can only be used in the East server and vice versa. PvP may be linked though.

CURRENT EVENTS

*Balls

*Get daily quests for more exp and to make balls that help you level with extra stats. Dailies are huge exp so if nothing else do all of them. For characters level 17-71

Enchanted

Clearing similar-level dungeons will get you a 1.5x exp potion, extra Mileage, and eventually Torn and Clear cards. Those last two can be turned in at a limited-time shop for Beads to enchant gear with.

Everyday DFO

Ye Olde Daily Login event. You get a Fatigue Pot on Sunday, Mileage on Monday, Exp Pot on Tuesday, Life Tokens on Wednesday, Mana-Aids/Remy's Touch on Thursday, Material Pouches on Friday, and Kaliedo Boxes on Saturday. You also get items for logging on at least once each week, including Safe and Inventory upgrades and a perm avatar ticket.

Get Pinky

The increased drop rate for boss uniques event is still on for 2 more weeks.

The old topic is here if you want to touch up on what each class does.

IGN (and alts) list:

Smashy, level 69 Hyperion | Smasheh, level 50 Battle Mage
Zentillion, level 25 Blade Master | Estiyna, level 37 CLICKS
Cyclone, level 70 Bellatrix
Noachia, level 39 Battle Mage
OddBoy, level 67 Silver Moon | TheSeaSlug, level 50 Witch

Dormiko, level 64 Trickster | Dormisa, F. Spitfire
sukunekatano, CLICKS

Smashy · « **Reply #1 on:** March 24, 2015, 10:57:24 PM »

Don't want this in the OP (since I like to update the OP with new info), but I'm going to streaming my Battle Mage learning process at www.twitch.tv/smashy

No mic, but will have twitch chat off to the side so I can see that.

Dormio Ergo Sum · « **Reply #2 on:** March 24, 2015, 11:19:10 PM »

I can't access my alpha characters, so I'm just leveling a witch for now.
RIP my max level lawnchair.

Playlist

Level 44 Elven Knight - Tower of Illusion
Level 50 Witch - Tower of the Dead
Level 70 Trickster - Altar of Infinity
Level 70 Trickster - Tau Kingdom
Level 12 Knight - Murky Glassfey
Level 26 Battle Mage - Village of the Confined
Level 43 Spitfire - Forbidden Shrine
Level 44 Spitfire - Dendroid Hub
Level 45 Spitfire - Lotus Lair
Level 45 Spitfire - Fanatics
Level 46 Witch - Bramble Garden
Level 47 Witch - Viper's Nest
Level 48 Witch - Corrupt Temple
Level 49 Witch - Contagious Area
Level 50 Witch - Black Mount Thunderime
Level 51 Witch - Depth
Level 52 Witch - Endless Nightmare
Level 53 Witch - Frost Cave
Level 54 Witch - Seal of the Death Dragon
Level 55 Witch - Ghent Outskirts
Level 56 Witch - East Ghent Gate
Level 57 Trickster - South Ghent Gate
Level 58 Trickster - North Ghent Gate
Level 59 Trickster - Ghent Battlefield
Level 60 Trickster - Midnight Assault
Level 61 Trickster - Kartel Supply Camp
Level 62 Trickster - Final Pursuit
Level 63 Trickster - Mt. Hardt Showdown
Level 64 Trickster - Iron Scale
Level 65 Trickster - Runaway West-Bound
Level 66 Elven Knight - Pirate's Deck
Level 66 Trickster - Shrouded Heiz
Level 67 Trickster - Battle at Arden City
Level 68 Trickster - Pursue the Express Train

Dormio Ergo Sum · « **Reply #3 on:** March 24, 2015, 11:37:47 PM »

Also, you should note if you're on the East or West server since they can't interact with each other.
I'm on West, myself.

The ⑨th Zentillion · « **Reply #4 on:** March 25, 2015, 05:00:23 AM »

Hmm, decided to give this a shot, I'm rather liking it so far so I guess I'll keep playing. Anyway:

Zentillion, Lv. 9 Slayer (East)

Cyclone · « **Reply #5 on:** March 25, 2015, 07:41:29 AM »

Ahh, it's good to be back. I have my level 70 battlemage back in action. Character is named Cyclone on East server. I'm also running my own guild called Halcyon if anybody was interested in joining. Smashy, if you ever need battlemage advice, feel free to ask me.

trancehime · « **Reply #6 on:** March 25, 2015, 07:55:07 AM »

I would like to play again with my Battle Mage but I simply just don't have the time anymore T.T Ah well...

Dormio Ergo Sum · « **Reply #7 on:** March 25, 2015, 10:14:45 AM »

I feel like my decision to play on USW was a poor one.

Dorakyura · « **Reply #8 on:** March 25, 2015, 10:53:50 AM »

Wasn't able to join any server yesterday, sad boys.

Smashy · « **Reply #9 on:** March 25, 2015, 02:02:34 PM »

Quote from: Dormio Ergo Sum on March 24, 2015, 11:19:10 PM

I can't access my alpha characters, so I'm just leveling a witch for now.
RIP my max level lawnchair.

If you're talking about the facebook linking problems, I had it too but then it got fixed and I was able to get my Exo back.

(pls come East somehow I hear West is dead due to server problems)

Quote from: Cyclone on March 25, 2015, 07:41:29 AM

Smashy, if you ever need battlemage advice, feel free to ask me.

Other than the really obvious stuff (Ancient Library, Mana Shield, Phase Shift, maybe Panzer Hodor?), what base skills should I even bother with?

Dormio Ergo Sum · « **Reply #10 on:** March 25, 2015, 07:54:16 PM »

Did you do anything to fix the problem or did it resolve automatically?
I'll probably end up playing on whatever server my lawnchair gets restored on.
E: Well, apparently, they're going to be fixing some alpha characters' issues in the next maintenance so fingers crossed.

Also, Panzer Hodor is more of a utility for PvP when it comes to BMs.
And Ancient Library is meh unless you're going the chaser build I guess?

Cyclone · « **Reply #11 on:** March 25, 2015, 08:36:52 PM »

Even with the chaser build ancient library is pretty poor. Mana shield and phase shift are already BM moves, they are just usable by other classes. Hodor is a PvP skill, yeah. I'd also recommend a single point in disenchant.

Smashy · « **Reply #12 on:** March 25, 2015, 10:58:25 PM »

Well I suppose I have to get the other skills for BM before I have to worry about builds and stuff like that, only level 19 right now

(Also I am streem)

Dormio Ergo Sum · « **Reply #13 on:** March 25, 2015, 11:25:53 PM »

Just spam everything until you reach the higher levels, it will make your life easier. I mean you get free resets so why not?

Neodymium · « **Reply #14 on:** March 26, 2015, 12:27:00 AM »

Just got back on today on the East Server:

Noachia, Level 20 Battle Mage

Dormio Ergo Sum · « **Reply #15 on:** March 26, 2015, 10:03:21 AM »

Quote

Maintenance notes

- Alpha Test character recovery available now in both (Cain & Delezie) servers for your convienience

If I can get my lawnchair back, I might put it on USE to play with everyone here.
If.

An Odd Sea Slug · « **Reply #16 on:** March 26, 2015, 10:32:23 AM »

You can find me on the East Server.

OddBoy - LV. 63 Silver Moon.

TheSeaSlug - LV. 40 Witch

Gonna do a Soulbender build before too long.

Dormio Ergo Sum · « **Reply #17 on:** March 26, 2015, 02:02:01 PM »

My alpha characters still aren't back.

RIP my lawnchair.

draganuv15 · « **Reply #18 on:** March 27, 2015, 01:58:13 AM »

OK I remember this game being region-locked but apparently it isn't anymore so...

I'm on NA-West as sukunekatano - LV. 4 Creator I think?

Smashy · « **Reply #19 on:** March 27, 2015, 02:31:16 AM »

Blimp OP pls nerf

(Yes I am going to change ingame recording settings now)

Dormio Ergo Sum · « **Reply #20 on:** March 27, 2015, 03:21:36 AM »

Oh yeah, so for now my characters are Dormiko (Witch) and Dormisa (FSpitfire) on the USW server.
Give me back my alpha characters. :ohdear:

The ⑨th Zentillion · « **Reply #21 on:** March 28, 2015, 03:49:06 AM »

And now Zentillion walks the path of the Blademaster at Lv. 17...

Edit: And introducing the currently Lv. 10 Estiyna, a time-taveller who clicks and kills things. Easy to use, but man getting SSS-rank with them is a LOT harder than Slayer and its variants.

Edit 2: Lv. 15 now and I've found the secret to SSS-rank: Take a large enemy, infinijuggle with the normal click attack, and watch your rank go up!
...Also first time I've hit fatigue so no more playing til tomorrow.

Ghaleon · « **Reply #22 on:** March 29, 2015, 08:02:56 AM »

I played DFO a LONG time ago and couldn't get into it. And I don't think it had anything to do with NexonNA. But maybe it did because they refuesed to give it proper updates or something? I dunno. I mean I'm sure Nexon did a poor job of keeping it updated unless microtransactions were involved or something but that's not why I couldn't get into it. It just didn't feel "tight" to me. I can't really explain it.

Basically. Assuming my issues were not lack of content, or too much cashed things, or broken cash items, or demanding events, or anything like that, was there some giant overhaul at some point that made the base mechanics feel different? I kinda doubt it but you never know. I DO like beatemups which is why I'm asking.

That said I'd murder someone if valkyrie sky got re-hosted by people less dumb, or at the very least, remove the maximum durability loss crap.

Dormio Ergo Sum · « **Reply #23 on:** March 29, 2015, 08:18:45 AM »

Act 4 (Which is what the beta starts on) streamlines a lot of the earlier game content. The whole 1-55 process, which is really the worst part of the game is a lot faster now and you only really run a single dungeon 3-5 times during the early part of the game.
I say it's the worst part of the game because you don't have access to most of your skills, which can really hurt the gameplay experience.
Like, DnF is balanced mostly around the endgame. Around 40-50 is when most of the classes really start finding their groove and you can go clear dungeons stylishly without having to wait for cooldowns because you only have three skills to cycle between or something.
And, of course, there have been many balance changes that we missed and stuff that have been introduced. A full list of patch logs isn't too hard to find on google or something but I'm lazy.

Quote from: The ⑨th Zentillion on March 28, 2015, 03:49:06 AM

...Also first time I've hit fatigue so no more playing til tomorrow.

And here I am hitting fatigue on three characters a day and wondering if I should make more characters or if I should just wait for my alpha character issues to be resolved...

The ⑨th Zentillion · « **Reply #24 on:** March 29, 2015, 01:15:30 PM »

Rather glad Fatigue's per character, because if it wasn't that would just be really frustrating. Couple more levels gained on my Blademaster to a nice~~, even~~ 20 21.

Also, the Forgotten Forest is a hell of a place, I managed to solo it with said Slayer and 1 coin use but geeez. Probably should quickparty special dungeons from now on.

~~Edit: Uhh... did the server just break? Hmm.~~

Dormio Ergo Sum · « **Reply #25 on:** March 29, 2015, 10:23:24 PM »

Here's a video of me running Bramble Garden on my Witch.

I've decided to just randomly record each dungeon as I level up, so we're starting here.
I wish I recorded the earlier dungeons, but whatever.
I'm also collecting the links in my first post here

Smashy · « **Reply #26 on:** March 30, 2015, 03:16:00 AM »

GOOD NEWS: I am level 50. Yay +10 all stats and exo assisting my bmage (I assume I just stick to Atomic Smash because I don't have the crap to do a quick magic respec for Lightning Amulet or BIRDS) also magic sealed axe that comes with +2 Crucifix Wind.

BAD NEWS: Awakening Quest :colonveeplusalpha:

Dormio Ergo Sum · « **Reply #27 on:** March 30, 2015, 11:00:24 AM »

The next dungeon, Viper's Nest!
I was pretty unhappy with the video quality from DnF's built in recorder, you'd think that it would be better by now, so I used my own.

Also, grumble grumble mega drill RNG.

Quote from: Smashy on March 30, 2015, 03:16:00 AM

BAD NEWS: Awakening Quest :colonveeplusalpha:

I actually forgot this existed and remembered immediately after I wasted about 1.3m on failing to get my 50 weapon to +10. (It ended up at +7, hail RNGesus)

EDIT: Also, have some Corrupt Temple too.

Tapsa · « **Reply #28 on:** March 30, 2015, 06:55:49 PM »

I started with a Spitfire on East, but I don't really feel like continuing unless if somebody can convince me that Gunners get more fun later on, so for now I'm playing a F. Nen Master on West.

On West:

HeupRedown - Lvl 17 Nen Master

On East:

SpacefireMk9 - Lvl 25 Spitfire

Dormio Ergo Sum · « **Reply #29 on:** March 30, 2015, 08:16:10 PM »

Personally, I find the early levels of Spitfire to be some of the worst. I mean, all you really have access to are a few bullet skills, the basic grenade, and shared Gunner skills.
To make things worse, your bullet count for the bullet skills you have access to is abysmally low.
I think that Spitfires are one of the coolest classes though and I'm just waiting for that delicious second awakening to hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ3UV4-RuVU
I mean who doesn't want to be able to do that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhsp9r2S7yo

Author Topic: Dungeon Fighter Online is back (OBT 2) (Read 15404 times)

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