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| Benedictio Sanctissimi Sacramenti (BSS); another rare but useful skill :) | |
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| Topic Started: 21 Jan 2009, 11:19 PM (842 Views) | |
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21 Jan 2009, 11:19 PM Post #1 |
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Skills Information Benedictio Sanctissimi SacramentiSkill Type : Active, Supportive, Ground Targeted. Max Level : 5 Skill Requirements : Aspersio (Level 5), Gloria (Level 3) SP Cost : 20 (10 for each winger) Cast Time : Instant Cast Delay : N/A Range : Magic range (9 cells) Property : Holy Target : 1 cell on the ground Area of Effect : 3*3 (affects all characters in the AoE) Duration : (40 x SkillLevel) sec Skill Description: This skill changes the elemental property of all characters in a 3*3 area around the targeted cell to Holy1. Undead and Demon monsters within the range of this skill will be damaged by the Holy property at half of your Heal amount. 2 Acolyte class type characters is required to stand next to the caster, on either side in a straight horizontal line, in order for B.S.Sacramenti to be casted. Note: i) GTB user is immune to this skill. ii) Dispell should remove this effect (any proof?) _____________________________________________ FAQ : Application of the Skill in WOE Benedictio Sanctissimi Sacramenti Commonly known as : "B.S.Sacramenti" or "BSS" in short. What is this skill for? Please refer to the skill information for the answer. What advantages does this skill provide in WOE? Having Asura Strike and Acid Demonstration (against high vit characters - may exclude exclude swordman class due to the high hp modifier) as 2 of the most deadly skills in WOE or PVP,ghostring armor has become one of the most commonly used armors in these circumstances. BSS forcingly changes the armor of anyone in the 3x3 AoE to holy1 armor,thus enabling killers (champions,creators,sinXes) to take them down easily. Moreover,unequipping an reequipping armor will NOT remove the effect of BSS,hence leaving the ghostring user vulnerable to Asura Strike and Acid Demonstration. You may ask the question "Why sinXes are included here? They can switch element of weapon using elemental scrolls or dark water.". This is because,even though sinXes can switch weapon's element anytime they like,they might not know what armor enemy is using. So,swapping element scroll might not enable sinX to take down the opponent too. Moreover,against ghostring user,none of the element that they can enchant gives a damage modifier of more than 100% against mind1 armor. So,by using BSS on the enemy,sinX are able to know that affected enemy's armor is of holy1 attribute,hence they could use dark water which gives a 125% damage modifier on the target. When can I use this skills? This skill can be applied defensively or offensively. As long as there are two acolyte class characters available to be the "wings" of the caster,this skill can be applied as a precast on the spawn point of emperium room (actually any rooms will do if you want to defend the portal). By doing so,all enemy that comes into the room (besides GTB user) will be affected,thus become vulnerable to neutral property attacks/skills (including the deadly asura strike) even though they are using ghostring armor. Nevertheless,as stated earlier,high vit characters are also vulnerable to Acid Demonstration; while darkness element sonic blow will deal 125% damage against the affected characters too. Now,how does offensive BSS works then? BSS can be used in breaking precast for non-ghostring/undead armor users. Holy1 armor reduces 25% damage from fire, water, wind and earth attack or spells. A significant reduction of damage which might make a difference when you are under heavy precast. Also, generally, since BSS is a rare skill, and holy armors are rarely used in woe, defending guild's sinXes will usually use one of the 4 basic elements to sonic blow. Again with this 25% damage reduction from the 4 elements, you may be able to survive much longer than without the reduction. Besides,this reduction is one major boost for unfrozen armor users since with 100% resistance to freeze status,these characters will take full hits from stormgusts, and this 25% damage reduction again will be really helpful in increasing their ability to survive. Similarly to defensive use, it can also changed enemy's ghost armor to holy and make every own guild/allie's asura = 1 kill count. Why didn't/rarely I see any guild using this skill in WOE if it is so useful? This skill is not a common skill as it requires 1 HP and 2 more acolyte class to be casted. As most people think that it wasn't that useful overall, most of the HP do not include this skill in their skill built. Hence, as time passes, it has became one of the forgotten skills. Many people don't even know about its existence, or what is BSS; and even less people exploit and find the use of it. So basically there is almost no one that is using this skill (at least up to the time i stopped ro-ing). Another reason is that most people thinks that it is impractical to use. It is claimed that the requirement of another 2 acolyte class to flank the caster will disable 3 characters during woe just to cast BSS. This may be true for beginner users of BSS as sometimes (if you are not used to it yet) it is tough to keep the bss formation on all time. However, with sufficient practices and applications, together with the building up of teamwork between the BSS caster and the wings, this is definitely not much a problem. Some people thinks that ghostring users can be disabled by petrifying or freezing the character and then asura. An obvious fact. But considering that freezing status and stone status can be breaked by just another hit of any form of attack, champions may not get the chance to take down the character before that happens. By applying BSS as a precast on the other hand ensures that each incoming enemy (non-gtb user of course) will be pre-aligned with holy armor before the asura takes place, hence giving champions 1 kill per asura, which speeds up the clearing enemy process overall. Also,skills/equipments that give freezing/petrying status are all by chances (i.e. stone curse 60% chance),making them less effective compared to BSS which has a success rate of 100%. Does other characters play any role in the application of this skill? Killers play the role of taking down enemies who were BSS-ed. This includes champions and creators taking down enemy with Asura Strike and Acid Demonstration respectively after the enemies no longer has a ghost property armor; and also sinX who takes down the BSSed enemies with the use of Water of Darkness. Any other acolyte class characters could be the wings of the caster,in order for BSS to be casted. Not forgetting,HP could also aid in applying aspersio on enemy's sinX,while BSS is applied on own people. This could prevent them from dealing any damage on us temporary. Though no longer effective due to the existence of water of darkness. Speaking about BSS' use in PvM,the main use probably will be changing a ghost ele monsters to holy1 so that asura strike could work on them i guess.. However,with the introduction of element change skill which is much easier to apply,i believe this use is no longer effective. Again,hope these information help and do feel free to list out any mistakes or misleading facts. Thanks for reading. cheers, ~[ ^ _ ^ ]~ P/s: this guide is a slightly revised version from an old guide of mine,so most information should be only accurate up to mid 2008. unless there are changes introduced by gravity, during the past 6 months,otherwise it should be pretty reliable.
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22 Jan 2009, 01:02 AM Post #2 |
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this is my fav skill as a priest!!! ><" love it love it so muchie~ |
  
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22 Jan 2009, 02:11 AM Post #3 |
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Great. Nice interpreting. If this is job-specific, then I should move it.  Moving to Divine Intervention section... |
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22 Jan 2009, 04:26 AM Post #4 |
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thanks.. yeah,more to job-specific section.. |
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22 Jan 2009, 11:11 AM Post #5 |
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jz some correction: BSS will deal damage to monster that are undead element or demon race means that u cant deal dmg to those mob that are undead race but not undead element, eg: skel worker(undead race, earth2 element), injustice(undead race, darkness2 element) BSS will NOT override undead armor for undead armor enemies, they'll b treated as mobs with undead element, thus receive damage furthermore, hit stop will occur if they receive dmg this way as for undead armor party/guildmates, their armor will NOT b enchanted to holy element *hit stop: when a player character is being hit/damaged, he/she will not b able to move temporary(very short time, but enuf if its in a GVG situation whr time is crucial) ----------Separator---------- add on: even those who are standing inside LP will b affected, since BSS is floor targeting AOE skill, so the only way to prevent armor's element being change is to either use undead armor or GTB shield so long there are 2 acolyte class character by ur side(left n right only, up n down cannot), u will b able to cast BSS, even though those 2 by ur side r already dead ----------Separator---------- thats all i can rmb/think of for now i guess XD |
BRS fan-made light novel (jp) might try to translate... if i ever finish kure-nai...   | |
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22 Jan 2009, 04:30 PM Post #6 |
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that was one issue that i was worrying about.. some claims that BSS do override undead armor,some claims that it doesn't.. thanks for the correction anyway.. will change it later when i have time.. _______________ and yeah,even the 2 wings use hiding,bss will work too.. but i remember testing out with the wings using cloaking,but it doesn't work.. _______________ thanks again for the infos! |
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9 May 2009, 08:02 PM Post #7 |
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for woe bss shld be kept at lv3 (120sec) or lv5 (200sec) ? anyone try this skill b4.. know the pro n con of the different in duration? |
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10 May 2009, 07:39 PM Post #8 |
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for me i will take max coz i love that skill =X good for rushing  if many of your teamates love to change to gr, then use lvl 1 lol~~~ if me, i prefer just use it lvl 5 so can last long.
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Miles
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10 May 2009, 08:23 PM Post #9 |
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My opinions: it's quite useless to have it at max since most of the peoples only want it to go through precast with lesser potion. It will be unwise if Darkness Water is still popular (I'm not playing anymore so I don't know). Also, it will be hard to find your "wings". Most of the guild has less priest; champions are busy; and you don't recruit an acolyte. Edited by Miles, 10 May 2009, 08:24 PM.
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Noir Ange
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10 May 2009, 11:25 PM Post #10 |
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well, depends on how u see it PvM/MvP wise or PvP/GvG wise since these 2 perspectives always contradict each other =3= GvG wise... atk: probably lv1(40s) is enuf, jz cast it b4 u wanna go thru pre cast, 40s is probably enuf for u to settle things def: probably lv1(40s) is enuf also, since u'll jz b spamming BSS on the same spot(i guess) |
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11 May 2009, 08:03 AM Post #11 |
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@Miles: not really.. defense-wise it's quite important to have it at max level (or as high lvl as possible).. The reason is that,as Noir mentioned,spamming BSS on the spawn spot is what you do most of the time. Enemy come in -> affected by BSS -> proceed past precast and head towards emp. In other word,once they past the spawn spot,the BSS will no longer cast on them anymore. In this case,if they survive past 40sec (if BSS is lvl1),Asura Strike can no longer kill them in a hit. If your BSS is at max level,affected enemies basically have their ghostring armor become useless for more than 3 minutes,and 3 minutes is more than sufficient for a couple of champions to take down all those who went past the precast. Attack-wise,perhaps yes,high level is not a neccesity,it's just a bonus  Darkness water is not popular for killing people since not many people uses angeling card in gvg.. and there are even lesser guild that uses BSS.. so that's not much a concern  To look for the wings... of course it's not easy to get them simply in any guild.. or even there are guilds that have few High priests,BSS is not easy to be carried out efficiently as it seems.. Wingers need to be trained specifically if you plan to based your gvg strategy on BSS.. My guild's (now mostly quitted) strategy has been based around BSS since few years back. FOr defending,wingers are trained to follow the BSS HP to and from emperium and to and from Precast position. These are the 2 positions where BSS are mainly used. Once command is given,the wingers are required to position themselves beside the HP.. though by default the position is at wiz line. Most of the time they are high priests,but when there are not enough high priests in play,champs will take up the position. WHen champ does the job,this is how it goes when BSS at emp.. form BSS position near emperium->BSS applied on enemy at emp to disable their ghostring effect->champ despatch from the wing position to asura the enemies->position back as a wing to prepare for the next asura,while BSS again is casted on the new enemies who reached emp->despatch for asura again and so on.. But all these are useless if enemy is using ghostring and gtb at the same time This is basically how it goes in my guild.. the basic routine of BSS-based defense.
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Noir Ange
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11 May 2009, 01:37 PM Post #12 |
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well, tht tactic... XD i doubt players nowadays can do tht =3= at least thts the impression of the players(not only RO) nowadays giv me... "tactic? technique? nonid la jz go ram in n whack the sxxt out of em can edi" |
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11 May 2009, 05:39 PM Post #13 |
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ahh..indeed.. lol.. nowadays,most people willing to spend cash on buying godly equipments for sinX,double megingiorde + samurai infiltrator is the most common one.. and one sonic blow can send almost anyone out of the castle.. for guild with such people,tactic is really not required,like what you said,just go in and whack everyone out each blow,lol.. Oh well,the champions who play the winger role are usually old players and was trained for quite long already,so they usually manage to carry the winger role out quite well.. but yeah,the guild is no longer active anymore.. perhaps only a couple of them left who still go for woe for fun now.. those are the old days
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19 Jun 2009, 09:44 PM Post #14 |
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hi qn on bss still blur on how it work..right and left + me in middle it required.. 1 monk class, aco class + me OR 2 aco class + me OR 2 monk class + me OR either of them? sometime keep skill fail..? anyone know y? Edited by RedBlood, 19 Jun 2009, 09:48 PM.
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sakura
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20 Jun 2009, 01:15 AM Post #15 |
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hey! that bss tactic is same as my guild last time! xD~ redblood, u must inline either vertical or horizontal. and the one who cast the BSS skill must be at the middle. the besides are must an aco class thus either aco, priest, monk, champ or high priest ar applicable. for example: A-X-A or A | X | A A is aco class and X is the caster  casting in \ position or / position will fail. same thing with the caster is not in the middle. P/s: this position are not by your view (except your view is neutral view without u moving the view around) but by the map. means the line must be from south to north or west to east and vice verse. Edited by sakura, 20 Jun 2009, 01:19 AM.
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