Z2 Changelog

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JP WEEK STRUCTURE
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Week 1, 05/07/2017	: Elzelion and Hunter's Road
Week 2, 12/07/2017	: Buffs to Ceaseless and Stylish Up
Week 5, 02/08/2017	: Zenith Midogaron
Week 8, 23/08/2017	: Twinhead Voljang and Rajang
Week 9, 30/08/2017 	: Zenith Rukodiora
Week 13, 27/09/2017	: Zenith Plesioth
Week 18, 01/11/2017 : Z2.1 / Amatsu
Week 21, 22/11/2017 : Zenith Inagami
Week 26, 27/12/2017 : Musou Elzelion
Week 32, 07/02/2018 : Z2.2 / Zenith Toridcless
Week 35, 28/02/2018 : Zenith Doragyurosu
Week 38, 20/03/2018 : Thunder Duremudira Musou
Week 42, 18/04/2018 : Z2.3 / Extreme Raviente
Week 43, 18/04/2018 : Seregios
Week 48, 30/05/2018 : Zenith Gasurabazura
Week 5X, XX/07/2018 : Zenith Anorupatisu

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Z2.3 UPDATE SECTION
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#z2.3 Monsters
Extreme Berserk Raviente
Seregios
Zenith Gasurabazura
Zenith Anorupatisu

#z2.3 Refinements
#Tonfas
Tonfas can EX evade while in air (16(6)･16(6) motion)
All other motion values unchanged
Tonfa Meter sections buff by 0.10x instead of 0.05x (1.50x max buff, 1.60x with Hiden)
Can EX evade after landing faster
Using a Ryuuki finisher locks your meters
Short mode no longer changes hitboxes and instead adds gauge faster, 0.8x multiplier removed
Long Mode has higher KO accumulation
Stylish Up recovers +4 sharpness up from +2
Even with these changes, combat supremacy with evade spam remains the de facto way to play for DPS. With hiden you will get 2.304x Attack with maxed meter over 1.92x Attack if you avoid Combat Supremacy playstyles.
Exploit Weakness only needs 15 points
Dissolver only needs 10 points

#Other
Z pieces in general give origin buff for gunners
Zenith weapon GR800 upgrades nuked from orbit
Sigils don't need items can be saved in presets
Message board in guild you can shitpost on
Can produce 10 stacks of sigils instead of 1 at at time
All sigil recipes always visible
Yellow NPC lets you exchange stacks instead of singles
More monsters on Hunter's Road

#z2.3 Skills
Spacing:
Alters critical distance for Normal, Pierce, Pellet and Blunt shots to be lower and further increases damage at critical distance.
If you consistently attack within this critical distance you gain Movement Speed+2 and Evade Distance Up.
LBG and HBG get increased perfect shot and compression windows. Bow gets lowered charge times that stack with Auto-Reload.

Soul Up (Zenith SKill):
Red Soul gives more attack, grants caring and stops stamina consumption for unsheathed running.
Blue soul gives more defense, grants caring and gives health recovery.

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Z2.2 UPDATE SECTION
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#z2.2 Monsters
Zenith Doragyurosu
Zenith Toridcless
Purple Thunder Duremduira

#z2.2 Refinements
Dual Swords:
Vampirism works in all modes with DS, can easily outleech degen in true demon mode
Red HP buff has been moved to simply attacking consistently over time (40 hits, fencing halves total needed)
Hiden stamina recovery is increased
Stamina consumption for extreme style running reduced

Gunlance:
Elemental heatblades added to Heaven, Storm and Extreme
Heatblade gives sharpness up effect
Heatblade uses less sharpness on cooldown
Evading after shelling is faster
Motion on heatblade is 5 on any elemental GL and 9 on true raw
Heatblade element is 100 at lv1 shelling up to 260 at lv9 (+20 a level)

Zenith Skills:
Obscurity Up : Less guards required for max attack, at max attack guarding recovers sharpness, perfect guards count as multiple guards for the attack stack and recover more sharpness if you are maxed out

Skills:
Abnormality : Activates Status Attack Up, Status Pursuit and Drug Knowledge. 15 Points.

Diva Defense:
Elegance prayer adds stamina recovery alongside health recovery
Status Length prayer has further extended status durations
Status Res prayer added which does what you'd expect it to do

Interception:
HC monsters on quests
HC quests give souls and ribbons
Quests count towards MM objectives
Burst, Origin and Exotic monsters can be on quests

Hunting Road:
Solo Mode added, difficulty is balanced to single hunters and monsters such as monoblos that are solo only can appear
You can take quests from more areas (guild halls etc.)
Quests count towards MM objectives
New medal exchange items added
New monsters added

Other:
New modern camera mode with proper diagnol movement and so on
CP from normal quests and G Rank caravan added
Title quests don't have a decay period and G rank ones added
Adjusted special break conditions for certain monsters (Guren, Shagaru)
Searchable / sortable meals on food NPC with instant buying of materials if required
Can choose if HC on or HC off is the default state for quests
Transcend shows the number of items needed to max level and lets you use multiple items at once
Can hold down F keys of already combined items to combine more

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Z2.1 UPDATE SECTION
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# Z2.1 Monsters
Amatsu
Zenith Inagami

# Z2.1 Refinement
Some festival changes
120,000 maximum festival points
Zenith Sigils for tower weapons
You can make decorations with much less materials directly for most decorations outside of hiden ones
Observer mode if you completely use your revives in Hunter's Road
Ranking with titles attached to hunter's road
Gunner Pouch is being added
Renamable item presets
Additional item presets are able to be used while keeping additional item box active when subbed (5~24)
Being at maxed Rank (GSR and GR) gets you Reward Points you can use to get items or lottery rolls for transmog instead of ranking points on quests.

# Z2.1 Skills
Point Breakthrough (一点突破, lit. Single Point Breakthrough) : Increases the weakness value of a hitbox if consistently attacked. Only applies to one hitbox at a time and disappears after a certain duration. Doesn't affect some monsters. Indicated by orange impact effect. Lessened effect on Raviente.

# Z2.1 Other
Advanced Shiten (Same as normal in every way but has new sigils. Roughly double HP eyeballing runs. Roll ranges unconfirmed.)
Normal Conquests always available in a zenith style tiered format (LV1, LV200, LV1000, LV9999)
G1% quests are regular cycling things
Due to conquests being removed, Soul Gems come from Diva Defense Daily and personal Ranking Rewards
Prayers and interception intended to sync to soul collection in Diva Defense and have bonuses based on targets

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# Monsters
Elzelion (Eruzerion)
Zenith Midogaron
Zenith Plesioth
Zenith Rukodiora
White Fatalis

# Weapons
New element Burning Zero 灼零 from Eruzerion which is a hybrid of Ice (125%) and Fire (125%).
New element Emperor's Roar 皇鳴 from 'Mystery' Monster on Hunter's Road which deals Thunder (150%?) and Dragon (50%?).

# New Skill
Ceaseless / Makunashi / 幕無 : Increases affinity (+35% / +50%) and critical multiplier (+0.10x / +0.15x) across two steps as you land attacks. Disappears if you do not land an attack for 10 seconds.
Skilled / 腕利き : Speed Eater,  Movement Speed+2, True Guts, Weapon Handling hybrid skill

# Zenith Skills
~ Vigorous Up
Adds +100 Attack in addition to the 1.15x multiplier if you have at least 100 health and your HP bar is full.
~ Stylish Up
Buffed to have an aoe motion if you successfully evade that deals damage to monsters. Motion value of 30.
~ Guard Up (Only affects Lance and Gunlance)
Buffed to shorten cooldown on Wyvern Fires.
360 degree guarding, hits from behind knock you down still.
Heavy Guard and Ranged Guard can block attacks that were previously unblockable.
Lance's guard meter fills faster (Extreme Style).

# Refinement and Functions
Tonfas unlocked from GR1.
Gender Change Function for 3 restyle points in hairdressers.
Popular / Trending weapons displayed on smithy.
Some Legendary Rastas have Issen+3, Expert+5 and Critical Conversion.
Legendaries automatically use G Rank weapons if you are GR.
You can swap order of Legendaries if on a course which allows multiples.
Toggleable automatic festival souls turn in.
Ability to convert weapon Souls, Ribbons and Merits to Raw versions (10:1, cooked gives back 5)
You can skip forced tutorials.
You can skip the stamp card after quests. (TW got this early)
You can bind combination recipes to F Keys.
Caravan Gems do not degrade and maintenance was removed.
You can skip Diva Story Dialogue.
You can view other player's equipment details.
Halk pots are given when you claim Dailies intead of in the My Support area.
New 'starting' band for Hunter Guide achievement styled stuff.
You can use some EX exclusive boxes without EX.

# Guild Hall
New guild box that gives you materials based on what the guild has been hunting twice per day
There is an upper limit to materials that rises with Guild Level.
You can claim materials after 12:00 and 00:00, once per timeslot per account rather than character.

# Tower
Killed off
Tower armour and sigil materials are available in Hunter's Road, Festival and Diva Defense
Tower Weapon materials are on the Hunter's Road
You can trade the various materials for upgrading TSP etc. on the Combination NPC for other things like 10P tickets.
Duremudira appears as an urgent quest, likely by the same logic as Mi Ru

# Diva Festi
Killing Zeniths and breaking their parts gives additional Song Spheres.
Breaking parts on multi monster hunts with the same monster multiple times gives Song Spheres for every destroyed part rather than just one per type.
Ringing Prayer is always active and no longer needs to be selected or have a prayer active to be utilised
Interception Quests have branching routes depending on the points gained
Interception has Bonus Quests for additional points
Interception has a First Clear Bonus for the first time you clear quests for the event
Interception quests give Merits relative to the number of monsters hunted
Intereception quest rewards adjusted so you can actually get materials from all monsters

# Blights
Super fireblight is strengthened based on the rank of the Zenith Quest being taken

# Hunter's Road
Hunter's Road replaces the Sky Corridor event.
A series of increasingly difficult randomised monsters.
Cannot take items into the event, same as Tower.
You gain points as you progress across the road.
Points can be spent on things like G, GHC and Zenith materials.
There are armours exclusive to these points.
Uses a system identical to Tower Skills	with different skills.
Each phase is time limited with hunter's having individual failure states like Caravan.
You get Gm to buy items still and the amount varies on monsters etc.
You can choose between two random monsters and there are bonus stages as choices.
Monsters have an associated Hunting Point and Gm value relative to their strength.
Tower rank is converted into skill points for Hunter's Road.
Meeting specific conditions can also give 'Super Special Items'
No use of Halk Pots or Boost Effects from Premium.

Not a traditional time limited quest but rather always up.
Rewards reset periodically, allowing only a certain number of exclusive mats in a time period.

Includes all tiers of current standard G Rank difficulty (G, Burst, Origin, Exotic, Zenith, Special)