Today, Asobimo gave us our first live look into the new channel-wide raid and job class, Necromancer.

(*ﾟДﾟ)*ﾟДﾟ)(*ﾟДﾟ)ｫｫｫｵｵ

Channel Raid

I was surprised to see that they started to show off the new information so much earlier in the video than they usually do (perhaps they listened to the comments begging them to show the new stuff faster?). So when I woke up at 4:30AM today, I was excited to see the GMs playing their channel raid.

They explain that the "channel raid" involves all channel players in the raid, not simply from the 1 channel you are in. That's really crazy!

Or is it just...crazy lag? (￣∇￣|||)

The example they showed us was in the Raton boss field map, where literally the entire channel fought with Tothras, Nutriam, Imseti, Ushilith, Raton (who chills in the background most of the raid and looks to have an extremely powered up AOE attack and freezes players' movement), taking the channel about 4 minutes each time to complete and giving players レイドオーブＡ in their inboxes (awesome--no problem with wasting space in our inboxes). Unfortunately, the GMs never mentioned what was contained in those raid boxes nor tried to open any up.

The channel raid seems like a really fun new feature for Iruna!

Speed Quiz

This was just a game the announcers played with the chatters in real time.

The only part of this I enjoyed was when one of the answers was Goddess Tears and an announcer misspoke and called it Glasses Tears... then commented how it was so scary that people called him out on his mistake as soon as he spoke it. wwwwwww

Then the commenters argued about Kunon's gender (they agreed male)...ww

Then they argued about whether the announcers could even see the YouTube comments...ww

Then I fell asleep writing this entry.

But I woke up to the announcement of...

Necromancer

I'm sure this is what everyone's been waiting for...
Like me. ヾ(*´∀｀*)ﾉ

Necromancer, which I will affectionately call ネクロ, is the 2nd tier class from wizard -> apprentice necromancer.

ネクロ is "really cool," as stated by one announcer.

I actually agree.

Sporting the Dojiru Plume and Struggler, the first ネクロ has the following skills:

"Dark Javelin"

"Skeleton"

Unlike pet, it can attack mobs you have targeted with its own skills, but it can also protect you in fights. It has its own skills:

Bone Crash

Bone Bash

Skeleton Crash

Bone Stab

"Bone Knight"

This is like skeleton, but looks like Irai. It is a tanker-type.

Rage Smash

"Phantom"

Again, like skeleton, but stronger and looks cuter like a little girl. It uses the skill "Tempest," which is akin to Nemesis, and "Frost." Phantom cannot be used as tanker as it is your DPS type and will die quickly.

Frost

Tempest

Yupitel

"Cementerio"

Reduces the ネクロ's damages within a purple barrier for 30 seconds. Can be used in parties, too. The timer is located on the screen in white.

Timer

"Unsummon"

Recall the summon.

"Skill Order"

Choose type of skill you want your summon to use and targets a mob.

"Will Crash"

Another skill that looks rather weak.

"Blood Wine"

Damage that converts into an HP heal.

ネクロ still does not have many skills yet, so it may be very difficult to level. It is currently scheduled to be available on Japanese servers next month. They will have the icons for each skill ready by then, hopefully!

Owari. m(__)m

*Edit:
I forgot to mention 3 things about the "familiars:"
1. they can only be summoned 1 at a time
2. they don't appear to take any damage (like pets) but I don't really get it myself
3. but they do appear to have some kind of skill delay.

Future New Updates: Necromancer, Channel Raid