Post-Global Cooldown (GCD) Video Runs at Balefort Sewers

[Physiologic]

Post-Global Cooldown (GCD) Video Runs at Balefort Sewers
by Physiologic

Check out my other Pocket Legends guides:
How Drop Rates Work (Simplified) and the Factor of Luck Elixirs
In-Depth Guide to Farming Balefort Sewers
Comprehensive Archer Skills and Equipment Guide
Complete Lv 55 Archer Gear List
Pocket Legends Enemy, Boss, and NPC Compendium
How to Craft Lv 55 Gear
How to calculate your attributes using STR, DEX, and INT
Ring List
Guide to Advanced Mechanics in PL: DPS, Crits, etc.
Void Set versus Sentinel equips: An Unbiased Analysis
In-Depth Guide to Farming Alien Oasis 3: Victory Lap

Check out my other Star Legends guides:
Star Legends General Attributes (STR, DEX, INT) Guide
Prefix/Suffix Compendium for Weapons and Armors
Lv 20-21 Operative Weapons and Equips

Still unsure about GCD?

With great teamwork, you can still clear maps as fast as you have prior to GCD. This video reflects the most recent changes regarding GCD, which is decreasing GCD time to about ~0.25 seconds.

There is also evidence that skill damage has increased, as well as time-to-complete certain combos. For instance, an archer's Cruel Blast combo needed Shattering Scream and Blast Shot to connect within 2 seconds prior to GCD. Now, the connect time has increased to roughly 5 seconds to complete the combo. All this combined with a shortened cooldown from 0.5 seconds to ~0.25 seconds, and your party can go through maps as fast as before.

Here are the run times of each Balefort Sewers map. A run time begins at first enemy contact and ends at boss death. No elixirs were used in any run. We could've done better...

The party:
Mitsuimoon 56 mage
Echelongx 55 archer
Ellyidol 56 dex bear
Urrsus 55 dex bear
Physiologic 56 archer

Post-GCD Bandit Hideout run: Finished in 3 mins, 56 secs


Post-GCD Bandit Stronghold run: Finished in 4 mins, 21 secs
[Extra video: How to aggro the Queen]


Post-GCD Catacombs run: Finished in 3 mins, 24 secs


Post-GCD Roach Motel run: Finished in 2 mins, 49 secs


Post-GCD Swill Pitz run: Finished in 2 mins, 16 secs


Total time to complete all BS maps: 16 minutes, 46 seconds

[Ayrilana]

Last picture was a nice touch

[XRAX]

Nice videos. It seems that PVE has not been drastically affected, and low run time is certainly still manageable. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about PVP...

[Physiologic]

They've got a Waterboy reference in the Ancient Swamps

And yes, the shortened CD time as well as other factors to balance out the GCD has definitely stabilized overall run times at Sewers.

[anglfyr]

Wow wow. Nice videos. I wish I can join ur party someday hehe!

[Ellyidol]

Bear doubters, here you are, we don't slow down runs

Thanks Phys! Should have been a pink in at least one on those

[neko]

Fun fun fun! Thanks Phys!

[Samhayne]

Nice vids, Physiologic! Thanks for taking the time to post up your findings.

[Kindread]

I don't know if any of you experience this but it seems I have longer time to complete my cruel blast combo on mobs but on bosses it's really short. I can throw one or two skills between the blast combo on mobs but if try to do it on the queen, I get no combo. Anyone else experience this?

[suomaf]

Thanks boss, much appreciated..

[razerfingers]

oo man ur good i fail so bad hahaha im a delayed reaction kinda guy

[SUPAPRODIGY]

nice job explaning it but i still dont like GCD

[thatboyderek]

I wish when I played It was as smooth as that I'm always lagging and things just seem to teleport

[MITSUISUN]

Pffff, I call this a world tour runs titled: "Elly, Phys and 3 noobs"

First time mage with GCD for me, still need some adjustment and think of a strategy that suits my style and be good for the party at same time...

ahhhhh, i am gonna just go with noobing~~~ it's more fun

[Ellyidol]

Pffff, I call this a world tour runs titled: "Elly, Phys and 3 noobs"

First time mage with GCD for me, still need some adjustment and think of a strategy that suits my style and be good for the party at same time...

ahhhhh, i am gonna just go with noobing~~~ it's more fun

The fact that you can manage by being the lone mage is proof enough that you are not a noob.

Cmon, Ech, neko and yourself noobs? That must be the highest noob standard, ever!

[MITSUISUN]

The fact that you can manage by being the lone mage is proof enough that you are not a noob.

Cmon, Ech, neko and yourself noobs? That must be the highest noob standard, ever!

well, most people runs with me know i noob and make other people noob with me
the only reason I am alive, is because you guys already killed mobs for me
the only reason you are alive, it's because you guys health potion yourself

third they were pros
fourth try it with a group of lvl 50s hen ill believe this.

well, 2 of them were pro, the other 2, they are associated with me so you get the idea

this proves that, 1, or 2 people, as long as they play great games, can lift and help the whole party.

Regardless of race/class, ONE can make a difference and the whole party can be strong and effective. Jedi/speedy bear runs to setup mob for group kill, mage debuff/heal/lighting/combo, bird thron / self combo.

It's still the basics, GCD or not GCD, the order, effective skill usage does not change.

I dont know for sure, but I feel mob/boss level associates with the party level too. Because when at low lv50s, I still cleared under 5 mins with party. When my bear is 49/50 I will give it a try.

We did some runs a while back in AO2, Cyber, Mystery gears as well. Perhaps it's time to dust off those set and do alien vs bandit style

[Echelong]

The fact that you can manage by being the lone mage is proof enough that you are not a noob.

Cmon, Ech, neko and yourself noobs? That must be the highest noob standard, ever!

Thanks Elly, I like that highest noob standard. Should be our motto from now on. Those where really fun runs and we proved that even with two bears or getting killed runs can be under 5 minutes and even having us in the party. Also been a Mage with 14 m/s or a bird with 6m/s is not an issue now. This means that the enchanted set should be really good.

GCD makes the game much more interesting and it does add some strategy at first I didn't want it but after some time I adjusted and now I really like it now. I for now want to pvp because it's not who can spam the fastest skills or multi-tap them.

Players just need to adjust a bit and as you can see this was Mits first playing his Mage with Gcd and he adjusted fast.

PS: Mits thank you for this kind words lol

[Slush]

great vids as always. a little voice intro at the start would be nice :P

[Corpser]

okay first that was a good run

second you had a party of lvl 55-56

third they were pros

fourth try it with a group of lvl 50s hen ill believe this.


hope it doent sound rude sorry if it does

-corpser

[Vallist]

Wow your device is really smooth, mind sharing what device you're using?