Devs, you need to read this Reddit thread if you haven't yet.  As a customer, I find it funny and worrisome at the same time.  When you do the old class updates.......I kindly ask that you DON'T mess up older classes.  They need to maintain their "feel" while playing.  And it starts with movement.  Combat mechanics as well.  F with Sorc, Lost Ark will gain another loyal player and you will lose one.

Just saying.  Here's the funny and concerning Reddit post, well, concerning to players who are concerned about their class' overall "feel".

Old class movement vs. new class movement. Aka your pain visualized : blackdesertonline (reddit.com)

Nah, you overthink it. The "rework" will be probably changing like 2-3 abilities and giving one maybe two extra.

It's pointless to think much into it.

Wow, that's bad. I'd noticed some of that sort of problem with Nova, but I've mostly been playing older classes. The newer classes should move like the older ones. When a game lacks precise movement for its characters in the name of realism with inertia or the like, I hate it. I want precise control and realism be damned.

That being said, I agree with PlasticDK that you're probably overthinking it. Sure, they're going to rework the classes in some fashion, but it's almost certainly going to be entirely focused on their skills and not on how they move or are animated. But yeah, if they do change that, then it's going to be disgusting.

I wouldn't mind if they ~balanced~ the OG classes. Players of classes like Witch, Ranger, Musa, Maewha, and Shai will love you long time. In a game built around anti-cooperative experience where most of the game play is 1v1 'competition for resources'. No class should be too weak or strong that a fight is decided before gear is even brought into the equation.

I personally support the nerfing of mechanics for Sorc, War, Valk, Nova, Lahn, Ninja, Tamer, Mystic, Striker, and Hashashin. And the buffing of Ranger, Witch, and Shai. No class should be hard countered at same gear score and skill level in a solo oriented MMO with Open World forced PvP. All classes need to be around equal footing with each other. At least in 1v1 disputes and PvE.

Personally i dont really mind about the dumb lingering walk mechanic as 99% of the movement comes from skills anyway (unless you are a witchard), and im saying that as someone who does play one of the new classes.

Having said that, i fully understand your concern about it but as said above, the rework would probably be more about adding/removing skills, effects (cc, protections, modifiers) and changing dmg value of skills then changing core stuff such as walking animation, but who knows.

Im actually interested to see where the reworks will lead to (but expect nothing).

How about PA finishes working on Shai.

More and more time and effort is being used on new classes and reworking efforts, but Shai remains INCOMPLETE.

Please dust off the old shai dev file and FINISH YOUR WORK before resuming other projects. 

Apparently PA has heard about this and listened. This post for global labs indicates that they will be patching out the "weighty" movements on the newer classes and making them work like the old ones. You'll have to machine translate to read it though. I'd post a translation of the relevant bits, but for some, bizarre reason, this forum doesn't seem to support copying or pasting - one of the most basic features of any text editor or word processor.

*pry's shift key from board*

*throws the shift key in the fire*

-=they will never know now=-