Awakening

● Hell Break - Improved to apply the Super Armor effect when the grab connects.

Awakening Striker’s Hell Break is a great skill that allows him to grab his opponents with a variety of motions. So, we added the Super Armor effect to apply when it connects to create a skill that is not only cool, but viable on the battlefield.

● Land Buster - Changed the effects of the skill to apply as a standard effect after learning the skills Infernal Destruction III, IV.
● Land Buster - Changed the following:
- Changed the skill name to Battle Cry.
- Changed the skill’s motion.
- Added the Super Armor effect.
- Reduced the cooldown to 7 sec.
- Added the Recover +50 HP per hit effect.
- Added the Stun effect only in PvE.

Land Buster used to be a Flow skill for Infernal Destruction. However, it wasn’t all that useful due to the long cooldown it had. Therefore, the effects of the previous Land Buster were added to the skill Infernal Destruction as a standard effect. Then we created a new skill to replace it.
The new skill Battle Cry can be used after Infernal Destruction and has the effects Super Armor and HP Recovered per hit. It can also be used to gather Martial Spirit Shards quickly as well.

● Flow: Skull Hammer - Changed the effects of the skill to apply to the skills Skull Crusher III, IV as an extra hit.
- Therefore. The attack area of Flow: Skull Hammer was made the same as the attack area of Skull Crusher.
● Flow: Skull Hammer - Changed the following:
- Changed the skill name to Savage Somersault.
- Changed the skill motion.
- Changed to be an independent skill with its own command keys. Therefore, the skill damage was adjusted.
- Added the effect All Evasion –9% for 10 sec on hit.
- Added the effect of increased damage when consuming Martial Spirit Shards.
- Changed the PvE Only effect from Knockdown to Floating.
- Changed the special attack effect to Air Attack.

Flow: Skull Hammer was a skill that occupied the same spot as the skill Land Buster. The effects of the skill were added to Skull Crusher’s basic effects and reworked into a new skill.
Savage Somersault maintains Super Armor and Float enemies with an Air Attack. This makes it a great opener for many high damage combos. Try using Tornado Kick in Awakening stance then combo it with Skull Crusher to deal a quick burst of damage.

● Ultimate Crush IV, Spiral Cannon III – Increased the Reduce All DP effect from –15 to –20.
● Flash Step, Silent Step - Improved to combo smoother into Rampaging Predator after using the skills in Awakening stance.
● Rampaging Predator - Unified the attack area of the skill to the widest area.
● Rampaging Predator - Removed the hit count reduction in PVP effect
● Flow: Bite Off - Changed the following:
- Changed the skill motion.
- Added the damage for when Striker attacks. The damage dealt by Echo Spirit was changed to an Echo Spirit effect.
● Flow: Bite Off – Improved to activate independently when Rampaging Predator is on cooldown.

Flow: Bite Off was used more for its HP Recovery and Forward Guard effects than its damage. However, this made it have shortcomings in its utility. So, it was changed into a skill where Striker dashes in to allow him to charge in aggressively.

● Infernal Destruction - Changed the Down Smash effect to only apply on its last hit.
● Double Flash - Changed the following:
- Changed the skill to a passive skill and removed the cooldown.
- Removed stamina consumption. Stamina will only be consumed twice when the skill Flash Step is used consecutively.
- Following this change, the skill Flash Step can be activated after Silent Step in Awakening stance.
- After learning the skill Double Flash, activating Flash Step twice consecutively will apply an All Evasion +9% for 10 sec buff.

Unlike Succession, the skill Flash Step was very difficult for Awakening Striker to use consecutively. This was due to the long cooldown of Double Flash. Therefore, we have changed Double Flash into a passive and removed its cooldown to make it easier to use.

● Ferocious Assault – Changed to recover Stamina when the Super Armor effect disappears.
● Silent Step - Improved to combo more smoothly into other skills after using the skill in Awakening stance while consuming Martial Spirit Shards.
● Ferocious Assault - Fixed the issue where your character would display its falling animation after comboing from Spiral Cannon from a certain height.
● Fallout - Changed the following:
- Removed the reduce the number of hits in PvP effect. Therefore, the damage of the skill in PvP was adjusted.
- Increased the attack area.
- Removed the PvE Only Critical Hit Rate effect.
- Added the Increase Damage by consuming Martial Spirit Shards effect.

We changed the skill Fallout to be useable after the reworked skill Bloody Fang often in Awakening stance.

● Endless Fight - Changed the following:
- Removed the 1st hit. Therefore, the damage of the skill in was adjusted.
- Removed the Stun on hit effect, so only the Stiffen effect will apply.
- Added the effect Down Smash.
● Spiral Cannon - Changed the following:
- Added an extra hit that activates by holding LMB.
- Core: Spiral Cannon - Increased the duration of the Super Armor effect.
● Rampaging Predator - Improved on the issue where he would get stuck in certain locations by changing the way he approaches enemies.

● Ferocious Assault - Improved to combo into the skill Endless Fight by holding LMB.
● Endless Fight - Improved to combo smoother into the skills Autumn Blaze, Tornado Kick, Ultimate Crush, Endless Explosion, and Fallout.
● Endless Explosion - Changed the Air Attack effect to apply on all hits.
● Ultimate Crush - Improved to combo smoother into other skills when used during the skill.
● Ultimate Crush - Unified the Recover Stamina on hit effect to +15 to match level IV.
● Ultimate Crush - Reduced the Stamina consumed to the following:

● Endless Explosion - Unified the HP Recovery on hit to +30 to match level III.
● Endless Explosion - Changed the Float effect to apply on the 1st hit.
● Endless Explosion - Improved to combo more smoothly into other skills during the skill.

● Endless Explosion - Change the damage of the skill to the following:
- The damage applied when used during cooldown was reduced due to the damage changes.

Ultimate Crush and Endless Explosion were skills somewhat difficult to combo from while the skills were still dealing blows. We’ve improved Ultimate Crush and Endless Explosion to now combo into other skills between each hit, thereby allowing for even more combo potential.

● Echo Spirit - Increased the skill damage to the following:

● Echo Spirit - Changed the skill animation.
● Hell Break - Improved to now activate the backwards evasion movement faster by pressing the ↓ key after failing to grapple.
● Ferocious Assault - Improved to combo more smoothly into other skills.
● Skull Crusher - Fixed the issue where your character would display its falling animation when used from a certain height.
● Silent Step - Improved to combo more smoothly into Flash Step, Flow: Mass Destruction, Echo Spirit, and Rampaging Predator when used in Awakening stance.
● Silent Step – Increased the Invincible effect by 0.2 sec when used in Awakening stance.
● Ultimate Crush - Changed the All DP debuff effect to apply to all hits.
● Martial Spirit Shards – Changed how the shards are consumed to increase the damage of "Ferocious Assault, Flow: Crosswind, Endless Fight” as follows:

Awakening Striker faced some difficulty in gathering Martial Spirit Shards, which would affect how often they could activate the Bloody Fang effect, and thus, we decided to reduce the amount of shards required for consumption by Awakening skills. We hope this encourages a more diverse combat style that can utilize Martial Spirit Shards.