Visionmaker 3 Myth or Fact?

Update visionmaker 3 is a fact 2/17/2014

So people have been speculating a lot whether there will be a visionmaker 3 as well as another upgrade onto the conjunct set using strikeforce as a base to make another set of gear. And there seems to be some controversy whether or not Tera Online is gonna keep going with the same set's as a continuation or whether they will just junk visionmaker 2 in the future and start over in some way.

But from what we have seen so far they seem to be working towards an overall trend. This trend relates to rewarding the older player base which puts in the effort to obtain the best gear by allowing them to upgrade it to a future expansion. I'm sure many of you remember world of warcraft days but if you don't every time a new expansion was set for a release the old tier of gear was then replaced by greens from the new expansion. This was a very upsetting way of moving on to the new gear cause if you did your 25 or 40 man raids and spent all the time farming it out you would be giving it away to the NPC monster in the end and vendoring it for gold.

While not everything that Tera Online has done has been the favorite of every player in its community I believe that when it comes to gear and how they plan on structuring it they want the older player base to be happy and not feel like they wasted months farming gear only to vendor it in the future so I believe that all of your PvE, and PvP crafted sets will continue to be upgraded while the sets which drop from monsters and require nothing but participation's in daily raids with RNG based drops will continue to be the NPC fodder each expansion.

I also think they will continue with the trend of catch up gear after every new large content update with a set that's easy to masterwork for the newer players to have the ability to catch up with the old and that is most likely why the base set of conjunct now requires 0 crafting to make it as well as in the future KTera has made it even easier for players removing the need to grind battlegrounds and nexus in order to craft the set instead you would only need the two armor pieces and the recipe.

Visionmaker is a similar trend quills now drop at a 100% rate and I'm sure in the future they will take steps to reduce the cost of the items or eliminate them completely so newer players can obtain visionmaker faster so they can move on to visionmaker 2. The other notable thing is while visionmaker 2 right now for NA Tera Online is a grind. In KTera they have updated the servers with other ways to obtain materials such as the new revamped alliance systems credits allowing you to buy Sturdy forge Pitch which is a much needed item that costs 4,000 Killing Spree credits and can only be bought from the Killing Spree vendor. If they had intentions of just stopping the line of gear with visionmaker 2 I seriously doubt they would be making an effort to provide more ways for people to catch up in making this set. Instead they would just leave it as is and not say anything then one day we would be vendoring it.

The GM's in Tera Online as well as some of the development team when talking usually mention gear sets as being from Conjunct Series or Visionmaker Series and if they seem to think its a series it means that most likely they will continue the series onward rather then just removing it. In the current post about the Canyon Clash they talk about using the "Conjunct Series" for the gear for the event meaning they will most likely be using Strikeforce gear during the event.

In the end all we can really do is speculate whether Visionmaker 3 will be released in the future but I would think that there's more fact floating around to support that we will be seeing a visionmaker 3 in the future or at least some sort of upgrade for turning visionmaker 2 into something else. But in the end we are forced to wait and twiddle our thumbs and hope that myth's become a reality.

English Translations of Magical Fortress

So the names of the sets of gear for the new ruthless visionmaker gear as well as just the names of the dungeons has changed from what Ktera is calling them. This makes it really confusing for people who are unsure which dungeon is which and what is dropped from the dungeons.

So to avoid confusion I thought I would explain how the new names work to make it real easy so people aren't lost.

The Armor Sets:
Adonis = Steadfast
Aphrodite = Wonderholme
Ruthless Conjunct = Strikeforce
Nightforge = Luminous and/or Ruthless Visionmaker

The Maps:
Ancient Underground Waterway = Channelworks
Red Mist Pirate Ship = Shattered Fleet
Giant's Forest = Kezzel's Gorge
Magician's Fortress = Wonderholme

With the Nightforge gear there is three different recipes which you can buy to craft this gear. Of course you have the recipe which uses Bloodrave as a material. The recipe which requires Visionmaker and the recipe which makes the Luminous the sets themselve will tell you on the tool tips whether they are PvP or PvE.  The colors for the PvP set is Red and Black while the colors for PvE are Green and Blue.

The Wonderholme sets of gear come in three different variations as well. You have the quick which has attack speed in the gear. You have keen which comes with crit and you have powerful which comes with more damage.

Ktera names:
Agile Aphrodite
Enraged Aphrodite
Swift Aphrodite

Upcoming Ktera PvP update for Visionmaker 2

All of us PvPers only really care about the updates which allow us to the abilities to do more damage within PvP arena's and battlegrounds as well as in open world PvP and with the addition of the Alliance patch if we can build new gear to give us more survivablity we would be crazy not to take it. What makes it even more valuable to us is the fact that we can start working on this before it even comes out since we get information about Ktera before patches come out.

The upcoming sets which have been released for Ktera is the:

Ruthless Conjunct Series

Ruthless Visionmaker Series

From what I understand the difference from the ruthless conjunct and the ruthless visionmaker is not that much different to allow people who have not put as much time and dedication into the game some advantages to compete but the stats from the old conjunct and fraywind gear is much different.

But keep in mind if you are working on making the Ruthless Visionmaker series this will not be a walk in the park to start with you must have either Bloodrave or Visionmaker to use as the base to make the Visionmaker 2 gear.

The materials to make the new Ruthless Visionmaker 2 gear is:

Ruthless Visionmaker 2 with Visionmaker as a base:

Weapon:

• Visionmaker (1)
• Victor's Trophy (11)
• Sturdy Forge Pitch (16)
• Noctenium Forge Slag (8 )

Armor:

• Visionmaker (1)
• Victor's Trophy (8)
• Sturdy Forge Pitch (12)
• Noctenium Forge Slag (6)

 Glove:

• Visionmaker (1)
• Victor's Trophy (4)
• Sturdy Forge Pitch (6)
• Noctenium Forge Slag (3)
• Flexible Forge Pitch (1)

 Boots:

• Visionmaker (1)
• Victor's Trophy (4)
• Sturdy Forge Pitch (6)
• Noctenium Forge Slag (3)

Ruthless Visionmaker 2 with Bloodrave as a base:

Weapon:

• Bloodrave Weapon (1)
• Victor's Trophy (11)
• Sturdy Forge Pitch (16)
• Noctenium Forge Slag (8 )

Armor:

•  Bloodrave Armor (1)
• Victor's Trophy (8)
• Sturdy Forge Pitch (12)
• Noctenium Forge Slag (6)

 Glove:

•  Bloodrave Glove (1)
• Victor's Trophy (4)
• Sturdy Forge Pitch (6)
• Noctenium Forge Slag (3)
• Flexible Forge Pitch (1)

 Boots:

• Bloodrave Boot (1)
• Victor's Trophy (4)
• Sturdy Forge Pitch (6)
• Noctenium Forge Slag (3)

Ruthless Conjunct Set Materials:

Weapon:

• Conjunct Weapon (1)
• Victor's Orthoclase (9)
• Noble Stone (3)

 Armor:

• Conjunct Armor (1)
• Victor's Orthoclase (7)
• Noble Stone (2)

 Glove:

• Conjunct Glove (1)
• Victor's Orthoclase (3)
• Noble Stone (1)

 Boot:

• Conjunct Boot (1)
• Victor's Orthoclase (3)
• Noble Stone (1)

Above is the cost of Luminous Stone's these come from Killing Spree points in otherwords you get these by completing 3v3's The point cap of 1,000 points per week will be removed and the rewards for winning a game will also be increased. But this is not the only item which will be required in order to make the Ruthless set from the 3's. Some of he items from 3's will require the rating of 1800 to actually be able to buy them this will make it very difficult to obtain these items.

Victor's Orthoclase

KTERA 1200 Bellicarium credits

Current NA price 2200 credits

Victor's Trophy

3000 Bellicarium credits

Sturdy Forge Pitch

KTERA 4,000 Killing Spree credits

Flexible Forge Pitch

KTERA 1,000 Killing Spree credits Must be 1800 battle rating to buy them

Noble Stone

KTERA 1,800 Killing Spree credits

Noctenium Forge Slag

Requires 5 Superior Noctenium Membrane to craft. The reagent to craft it costs 1070g at the Alliance Quartermaster.

Total Required Materials for Nightforge:

3 Common Membranes = 1 Uncommon Membrane

3 Uncommon Membranes = 1 Rare Membrane

3 Rare Membranes = 1 Superior Membrane

27 Common Membranes = 1 Superior Membrane

100 Superior Membranes:  5 superiors = 1 Noctenium Forge Slag

•Victor's Trophy (27) x 3,000 =  81,000  Ballicarium Points
•Sturdy Forge Pitch (40)x 4,000 = 160,000   Killing Spree points
•Flexible Forge Pitch (1) =  1,000 Killing Spree points
 

Of course I figured it would be a good idea to also provide the information about the PvE set as well which is called Luminous Visionmaker. The pve set cannot be prefarmed before the patch comes out since all of these drops come from the dungeon. This set is also much easier to make aside from the low drop rates which people will be stuck with and fighting over who gets what loot.

Luminous Visionmaker Set Materials:

Weapon:

• Visionmaker Weapon (1)
• Ancient Weapon (15)
• King Lazard's Cube (5)
• Magician's Insignia (5)

 Armor:

• Visionmaker Armor (1)
• Ancient Weapon (9)
• King Lazard's Cube (3)
• Magician's Insignia (3)

 Glove:

• Visionmaker Glove (1)
• Ancient Weapon (6)
• King Lazard's Cube (2)
• Magician's Insignia (2)

 Boot:

• Visionmaker Boot (1)
• Ancient Weapon (6)
• King Lazard's Cube (2)
• Magician's Insignia (2)

Ancient Weapon
Only be obtained from a repeatable zone quest called "shattered ancient weapon"

King Lazard's Cube
Magician's Fortress normal and hard mode drop from final boss. Untradeable.

Magician's Insignia
Drops from Magician's Fortress. Low drop rate from Ancient Underground Waterway and Red Mist Pirates' Trap as well. Can obtain from boxes obtained after clearing the new dungeons. This item is tradable.

The difference between the Ruthless Visionmaker and Ruthless Conjunct sets are mostly different base stats with the exception of the blacksmith's hammerstrike on the weapons. And after looking at the lumonious sets I wonder how these new stats will effect players in pvp since things have been changed from boss monsters to damage dealt and specific monster reductions to all incoming damage. Some people have decided to all together skip creation of the Ruthless VM set and just decided to build the Luminous set instead of wasting time and money to craft the Ruthless VM set.

Weapons Stats:

Armors:

Gloves:

Boots:

Rerollable stats options:

Some of the changes to PvP vendors and system changes include:

Bellicarium Shop List

• Battleground Equipment: Fraywind
• Supplies: Battle Charger, Victor's Set, Victor's Spoils Item, Black Label Templates, Coat of Arms Box
• Designs: Luminous Conjunct Weapon / Armor / Gloves / Boots
• Sacrificial Equipment: T14 Superior Weapon / Armor / Gloves / Boots

Killing Spree Shop

• Equipment: Bloodrave Set
• Design I: Ruthless Conjunct Weapon / Armor / Gloves / Boots
• Design II: Ruthless Visionmaker Weapon / Armor / Gloves / Boots
• Supplies: Luminous Enchantment Stone, Powerful Luminous Enchantment Stone, Suspicious Enchantment Stone

Reduced the credits required for Cyasmic Oil to 425.

Reduced the credits required for Chaos Block to 6000.

Changed the level of Killing Spree reputation from level 60 to 30.

When a drop-out occurs in your solo matching Champion Skyring queue, the matching system will search for a new member. 

Ktera set names converted to english