Patch Notes: Martial Arts Changes #3

Disclaimer: Some information may be wrong, incomplete or inaccurate. They will be updated as soon as we learn more about the patch, once the patch hits.

1. Introduction

It is now a recurring theme that skills and inners are rebalanced every new patch. This patch especially focuses on lower tier inners and lower level skills, although some skills also have their mechanics changed.

Changes to a sect's 3rd, 4th and 5th inner also apply to the rework inners level 1-2, 3 and 4, respectively. Thus, you can't loophole the system by using the reworked inner.

2. Beggar's Sect

1. "Raining Wine Godly inner skill" 4th inner is nerfed. The debuff's crit rate bonus is changed from 18% to 8%, the defense reduction is changed from 50% to 20%. The dodge rate reduction is untouched. The "Sobering Up" self buff's critical rate is changed from 10% to 5%

3. Shaolin

1. Salvation and Judgment Staff's "Thunder Shocks Brahma" parry break is nerfed and now blue stuns for 1.7 seconds instead of 2

2. "Arhat Demon-Subduing Skill" 3rd inner is nerfed. It is not possible to comprehend all four forms simultaneously anymore

3. "Mixed Chi Skill" 4th inner is nerfed. The damage reduction is changed from 50% to 25%, and obtaining the sandalwood stack has a 5 second cooldown

4. "Marrow-Cleansing Manual" 5th inner is nerfed. The critical hit rate bonus is removed. The debuff cleanse & immunity effect is separated from the heal, and has a 90 second cooldown

4. Wudang

1. "Inner Pill Skill" 2nd inner is nerfed. The 4% additional damage has a cooldown of 4 seconds

2. "Inner Pill Skill" attribute is changed from "Yin Soft" to "Tai Chi". This will make your Yin Meridian power drop a bit, while strengthening your Yang meridian power

3. "Purity-Without-Limits Technique" 3rd inner is nerfed. When swapping into the inner, it immediately enters a 15 second cooldown before triggering

4. "Pure Yang Wuji Skill" 4th inner is nerfed. Once the "Aggravated Internal Injury" effect is triggered, it is immediately removed

5. "Dragonslayer" 5th inner is nerfed. The attack buff has its 25% parry ignore effect removed

5. Emei

1. Golden Diamond Soft Palm's "Auspicious Beginnings" rework is nerfed. The anti-CC buff can only be applied when the caster uses the skill on the ground

2. Golden Diamond Soft Palm's "Buddha's Golden Aura" is buffed. The requirement to boost the next nuke is changed from: "when only using Emei inners" to "when NOT using Clear Jade Divine Skill inner", allowing the user to use all other inners, except for the Flower Palace one

3. "Emei Mastery" 6th inner rework is buffed. The attack stacks don't clear anymore, when using non-Emei skills. Only a few skills cause the stacks to clear. It is not mentioned which skills cause this

6. Tangmen

1. "Six Directions Canon" 2nd inner is nerfed. The attached damage only triggers when the target receives a critical hit

7. Royal Guards

1. "Dark-Heaven Code" 4th inner is nerfed. The parry ignore effect is removed. The damage reduction time is halved to 16 seconds

2. "Hell Soul Changing Skill" 5th inner is changed. Once the 3 second damage immunity ends, a 35% damage reduction effect activates for 7 seconds. When attacking, you have a chance to increase your damage by 20% for 10 seconds. The critical hit rate bonus is removed

3. "Royal Guards Mastery" 6th inner rework is buffed with a completely new effect: When attacking, have a chance to enter Bloodthirsty Fiend state: +20% damage and +10% critical damage for 10 seconds (20s cooldown). When being attacked, have a chance to enter Fiend's Protection state: 25% skill damage reduction for 10 seconds (25s cooldown). Asura's Descent: While Bloodthirsty Fiend is active, attacks apply Blood Sacrifice for 5 seconds, causing the target to suffer Yang damage equal to 30% of all damage taken during the debuff when it expires. While Fiend's Protection is active, being attacked grants 5 stacks of Asura for 5 seconds; each time you're hit, one stack is consumed to heal 350 HP, scaling with your Evil Points up to 1000 HP. Triggering either Blood Sacrifice or Asura starts a shared 75-second cooldown.

8. Scholars

1. Jade Flute Sword's "Golden Sound and Jade Vibration" (+ rework) move attribute is changed from Qi Move to Overt. It is possible that the skill can now miss its attacks as a result of this

2. Jade Flute Sword's "Cloud Fills the Heart" becomes a 5 meter frontal AoE, when the user is inside the set's aura

3. Jade Flute Sword's "Clear Voice Beyond The Mountain" gets a new parry buff effect: When the cooldown removal effect triggers, for the next 10 seconds, the next hit of "Golden Sound and Jade Vibration" (+ rework) deals 30% more damage and splashes up to 10 targets within a 5 meter radius. It is currently unknown if the stun also splashes to the surrounding targets, or if it's just the damage

4. Weapons and annotation books can now get a % damage bonus for Jade Flute Sword's "Golden Sound and Jade Vibration"

5. Treasures can now get a + damage bonus for Jade Flute Sword's "Golden Sound and Jade Vibration"

6. If you have treasures with Scholar's 4th set, you have to go to a city's treasure NPC to repair the treasure to make the damage bonus for "Cloud Fills the Heart" functional again

9. Kunlun Sect

1. "Proud Sun Secret" 2nd inner is nerfed. The damage now scales based on the character's strength level, rather than melee + internal power

2. "Clear Conversation Secret" 3rd inner is nerfed. The limping shock effect now has a 2 second cooldown

10. Ming Cult

1. Divine Arrow Nine Skills' "Sharp as a Halberd" parry break is nerfed and does not knockback the target anymore

2. "Prairie Fire Miracle" 4th inner is nerfed. Only one target can be injected with the parasite now

3. "Vidyaraja Secret" 5th inner is nerfed. The "Wheel Emperor state" effect is changed from 30% defense ignore, to a 10% damage and 15% critical damage increase

4. "Ming Cult Mastery" 6th inner rework is nerfed. The 15% max HP shield now shares the same cooldown as the class-07 jade gear's Protective Treasure Cloak (also known as Larva Cloak) combo, disallowing the stacking of both shields. However, this change allows the player to use other gear combos, instead

11. Tianshan Sect

1. "Cold Soul Secret" 1st inner is nerfed. It does not ignore parry anymore.

2. "Moonset Manual" 2nd inner is nerfed. The cooldown is increased to 25 seconds

3. "Plum Shadow Lift" 4th inner is nerfed. The received critical hit rate reduction +1.5% is replaced with damage reduction +3%

12. Wanderer's Valley

1. Lethal Thirteen Sword's "Cleave by the Green Sword" is changed. Instead of removing buffs, it now immediately knocks down the enemy upon a parry break. Some would consider this a nerf

2. "Joined Happiness Secret" 3rd inner is nerfed. The HP recovered is based on your equipped weapon's damage, rather than the damage dealt

3. "Monster Image's Secret" 4th inner is nerfed. Critical hit rate +30% is changed to Critical Damage +30%. When landing a critical hit, the HP recovery is based on your equipped weapon's damage +150%

4. "Shadow Patting Skill" 5th inner is nerfed. HP recovery is based on your equipped weapon's damage +200%

13. Celestial Wheel Temple

1. Fix issue of "Neither Happy Nor Sad - Pure Intent" status being consumed prematurely

14. Snow Sword

1. Treasures can now get a + damage bonus for "Bitter Cold"

2. "Walking in Snow - Trace of Snow" now has faster animation and can be interrupted with another skillcast immediately

3. "Traceless Snow" + Rework fixes issue where knockdown occurs immediately by skipping the ground target sprint

15. Tai Chi Fist (Ancient Manual)

1. "Opening the Tai Chi - Inaction" at level 10 and higher gets an extra effect: When three enemies are in the range of the first hit, gain a self buff: Reduce incoming damage from attacks more than 8 meters away by 15%, and reflect said damage up to 10 enemies within 6 meters of you

16. Nine Yang - Ultimate Skill

1. Fix "Trigram Origin" rage's red armor and invincibility status bugging out and lasting longer than intended.

17. Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palm

1. "Divine Dragon Sways Its Tail" at level 12 can be interrupted with another skillcast immediately

2. "Divine Dragon Sways Its Tail" at level 12 is immune to debuffs for the first 0.5 seconds, and the first hit lands 0.15 seconds sooner

3. "Divine Dragon Sways Its Tail" at level 12 briefly stuns enemies that are not parrying

4. "The Crane Descends Gracefully" at level 12 becomes a 20 meter charge and is able to knockdown an airborne target through their parry

5. "Dragon Fights in Plains" at level 12 gets an extra effect: When three enemies are in the range of the first hit, gain a self buff: Reduce incoming damage from attacks more than 8 meters away by 50%

18. Saint Plum Secret

1. "Heal the Nation" parry break is nerfed and does not pull the target anymore. Instead, it disables flying skills for 3 seconds

2. "Heal the Nation" parry break is nerfed and lands 0.5 seconds slower

19. Gale Fan Technique

1. "Fickle Human Nature" parry break is nerfed and blue stuns for an additional 0.7 seconds instead of 1 second

20. General's March

"General Comes to Northern Land" is changed from 5 meter frontal AoE to 15 meter single target. If the target fails to parry, target gets a debuff stack reducing movement speed. Three stacks disables flying skills for 3 seconds.

"Break Enemy's Array" changed from 5 meter radius ground target to 15 meter single target

21. Skillset lower level nerfs

Some skillsets have their effects nerfed at lower levels, and recover their original effects after reaching a certain level. Characters with maxed out skillsets can ignore these changes, so they're in this separate list to avoid confusion. Here's a list of them.

1. Shaolin's Bhodidharma's Stick "Myriad Buddhas Return": Levels 1-5 has a cooldown of 18 seconds, only the first and last hit can knock up unparried targets. Levels 6-7 has a cooldown of 15 seconds, and the original knockup effect is restored. Levels 8 and beyond restores the skill back to normal

2. Beggar's Sect's Spirit Snake Stick "Snake in the Mouse Lair": Levels 1-5 removes the yellow armor effect. Levels 6 and beyond restores the skill back to normal

3. Tianshan Sect's Forgotten Sword Skill "Depressed Trance" + Rework: Levels 1-5 has a range of 10 meters, levels 6-7 has a range of 15 meters. Levels 8 and beyond restores the skill back to normal

4. Tangmen's King of Hell's Invitation "Brush of the Underworld Judge" + rework: Levels 1-7 has a range of 8 meters. Levels 8 and beyond restores the skill back to normal

5. Ming Cult's Divine Arrow Nine Skills "Tiger Butchering" + rework: Levels 1-7 has a range of 15 meters. Levels 8 and beyond restores the skill back to normal

6. Emei's Golden Diamond Soft Palm "Auspicious Beginnings": Levels 1-7 cannot apply the anti-CC buff. Levels 8 and beyond restores the skill back to normal

7. Tangmen's King of Hell's Invitation "Brush of the Underworld Judge" rework: Levels 1-7 are not affected by hidden weapon damage reduction effects of jade shoes. Levels 8 and beyond restores the skill back to normal

8. Emei's Golden Diamond Soft Palm "Buddhist Heart Subdues the Devil" + rework: Levels 1-8 have reduced base + bonus damage. Levels 9 and beyond restores the skill back to normal

9. Scholars' Falling Flower Sword "Plum Blossom and Spring Rain": Levels 1-8 has 3 seconds more cooldown and removes the shield effect from the red armor spin. Levels 9 and beyond restores the skill back to normal

22. Other changes

1. Red armor skills immediately cleanse any movement-impeding debuffs, which includes slowness, flying skills disable and paralyze. The only debuff that cannot be cleansed is Kunlun 6th inner's "Kunlun Lead" with its slowness effect. For a full list of red armor skills that cleanse the debuffs, refer to the CN patch notes

2. Some parry break skills have their blue stun duration increased by 0.5, 0.4 and 0.3 seconds. For a full list of skills, refer to the CN patch notes