Legend of Mana/Mechanics - Revision history

Silentsigil: /* Power Canceling */

2017-09-04T11:28:56Z

‎Power Canceling

Silentsigil: /* Abilities */

2017-04-02T06:28:18Z

‎Abilities

Silentsigil: /* Weapons and Damage */

2017-04-02T05:41:51Z

‎Weapons and Damage

Silentsigil: /* Weapons and Damage */

2017-04-02T05:36:56Z

‎Weapons and Damage

Silentsigil: /* Weapon Damage */

2016-12-28T10:44:39Z

‎Weapon Damage

Silentsigil: /* Abilities */

2016-12-28T10:44:04Z

‎Abilities

Silentsigil: /* Player Modifiers */

2016-12-28T10:43:11Z

‎Player Modifiers

Silentsigil at 23:46, 1 December 2016

2016-12-01T23:46:57Z

Silentsigil: /* Abilities */

2016-05-17T21:55:13Z

‎Abilities

Silentsigil: /* Weapon Damage */

2016-01-25T04:03:09Z

‎Weapon Damage

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 === Power Canceling ===
-Generally, if you throw out a Power Attack without immediately swinging into a Plunge, you have a pause similar to what happens if you mash the basic attack button. This pause is punishes you far more significantly, though, as it takes much longer to wear off. If you have an empty Special Technique slot (shoulder buttons and triggers), you can press the empty ST slot after the Power Attack has landed. If you time it correctly you will be rewarded with an annoying beeping sound and your Power Attack animation will be reset, allowing you to immediately throw out another Power Attack and repeat the process.
+Generally, if you throw out a Power Attack without immediately swinging into a Plunge or combining it with an ability, you have a pause similar to what happens if you mash the basic attack button. This pause is punishes you far more significantly, though, as it takes much longer to wear off. If you have an empty Special Technique slot (shoulder buttons and triggers), you can press the empty ST slot after the Power Attack has landed. If you time it correctly you will be rewarded with an annoying beeping sound and your Power Attack animation will be reset, allowing you to immediately throw out another Power Attack and repeat the process.
 == "Jump" cancels and QuickPowercancels ==

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 Useful Abilities in a speedrun are:
 *Spin [Default ability] (spin + power attack creates a damage circle around the player dealing slightly less than a basic attack to all opponents caught in its range. Spamming this causes the player to get 'dizzy' [stun animation], but can be used twice successively (Usually). Teaches players their first AoE ST. **The usefulness of this ability is DIRECTLY linked to the damage you are capable of dealing. If you can't kill or wound the enemies severely enough that they can be finished off by a basic or power attack, don't use this.
-*Counterstrike [Learned by accruing Counterattack experience] (makes the player pause for a moment. If the player is struck by a combat ability or an attack, they will strike in the direction they are facing for between 2x(Bow.) 8x (most 2handed weapons) and 10x (most 1handed weapons) a quick attack's damage.
+*Counterstrike [Learned by accruing Counterattack experience] (makes the player pause for a moment. If the player is struck by a combat ability or an attack, they will strike in the direction they are facing for between 2x(Bow.) 8x (most other weapons) and a quick attack's damage.
 === Special Techniques ===

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 x40 is 1600. 1600 divided by 128 is 12.5. 12.5x4 (or 12.5+12.5....) is 50, which is the damage of an unforged IshePlatinum 2hSword.
 Swords are balanced across the board, as shown, and other weapons have much different weights on the four categories.
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 === Player Modifiers ===
 The player character has at least two statistics that apply extra damage to basic, power, ability attacks, and special techniques through an unknown process. The other player statistics have various effects that increase the chance of status effects landing on enemies or being resisted by the character, increase passive magic defense for the character, increase health and health regen, etc. The Magic stat may or may not have anything at all to do with the magic damage dealt by a character using Instruments (Instruments, so far as I know, are not used in speedrunning).
 Character stat growth is determined by the weapon equipped during each levelup. Every weapon has different stat-up cycles, but generally, 2h swords make you better at swording (equal power and skill, general balance of other stats), 2h hammers make you better at hammering (Massive power growth, low skill growth, low balance of other stats), etc. Since a runner in the three single-story runs will likely only swap weapons once or twice, this growth has only minor influence. The 100% category usually ends with the player in the high forties or low fifties in level, meaning that your weapon choice could have a significant impact on your damage dealt.

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 (Ex: 2h Swords all have a modifier of 40,40,40,40. IshePlatinum material has modifiers of 40,40,40,40.)
 x40 is 1600. 1600 divided by 128 is 12.5. 12.5x4 (or 12.5+12.5....) is 50, which is the damage of an unforged IshePlatinum 2hSword.
 Swords are balanced across the board, as shown, and other weapons have much different weights on the four categories.

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 Weapon "Offense" ratings for a number of weapons are slightly lower in the US version versus the JP version, with some exceptions.Some of the rarer drops you're unlikely to see in a run have drastically altered statistics. This is most notable in allstory/100% forge routes, as JP runner weapons will show an offense rating of ~220 for a weapon that displays an offense rating of ~88 in the US versions.
 === Enemy HP ===
 Enemy health from the JP to the US version was unevenly rebalanced all across the board. Some enemies just have more health/defense (which makes the mana level/artifact order placement more significant) and some just have less.

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	The monster's basic level is determined by the order that the land was placed down and the distance the land is from Home, much like store/weapon shop levels. Some areas get enhanced monster levels as they are meant to be 'tougher' (The Flames, The Mana Sanctuary). If you get, say, a Wooding, in an advanced area that was placed very late and has high Dryad levels, you will be slamming your weapon into its face for quite a while.		The monster's basic level is determined by the order that the land was placed down and the distance the land is from Home, much like store/weapon shop levels. Some areas get enhanced monster levels as they are meant to be 'tougher' (The Flames, The Mana Sanctuary). If you get, say, a Wooding, in an advanced area that was placed very late and has high Dryad levels, you will be slamming your weapon into its face for quite a while.
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		+	The US version is significantly different than the JP version. The actual land level formula is something like this:
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		+	Land Level 0-4:.... Base Level = 1
		+	Land Level 5-33:.. Base Level = 2 + (LLvl - 5)
		+	Land Level 34-48: Base Level = 32 + 2(LLvl - 34)
		+	Land Level 49:...... Base Level = 63
		+	Land Level 50-59: Base Level = 69 + 3(LLvl - 50)
		+	Land Level 60-63: Base Level = 99
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		+	Secondary lands (The Flames, Cage of Dreams) and bosses/minibosses (Punkmaster in the Jungle, Skeletal Soldier, Sierra, Deathbringer) are calculated something like this:
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		+	ROUNDDOWN((# of lands - 2) * 1.5)

	== Techs/Abilities ==		== Techs/Abilities ==

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 There is a chance that the "offense" rating calculation (above) was simply corrected in the US version, and this would explain the lower displayed ratings and why the damage of some weapons is actually slightly higher in the US versions.
- This is either mitigated or made worse by the second difference (If the damage formula correction theory is wrong)--
+This is either mitigated or made worse by the second difference (If the damage formula correction theory is wrong)--
 === Enemy HP ===
 Enemy health from the JP to the US version was unevenly rebalanced all across the board. Some enemies just have more health/defense (which makes the mana level/artifact order placement more significant) and some just have less.