dark knights' PD changed?

My friend and I were messing around in a duel, and he spammed AR while I was in trans. I got hit around 20 times without having natural shield's 100% auto-defense kick in once. Did the activation rate of DK PDs/the auto defense rate change or is it just glitchy?

Unfortunately, due to the nature of DKs, Passive defensives are subjected to the multipler bonuses, resulting in reduced rates.

Edit: I'm going into Rabbie Arena to test this...so far most of the Japanese players say that it's something about DK's multiplier bonuses. I have rank F, but enough to rank it to about A maybe? maybe less, so I'll see what happens.

o.e I apparently forgot my login for the other server...

Wait, Falcon/Paladins don't get activation on all three Passive Defenses like Dark Knight/Beast but the ones that do activate are more rapid-activating? (Or did you mean transformation Passive Defenses in general?)

This only happened since the update that removed the knuckles btw.

o.e if it's update related, then it is most likely broken...

May I recommend you write all your log-ins/passwords in a password protected encrypted file and hide it well with some obscure name.

Yeah I know. Lost it in a computer crash though o.e.

Looks like NA servers are back up so gonna test DK passives.

I forgot to add in that my friend was firebolt spamming on the side whenever I got too close, and MD didn't kick in either o-e; Either way, both PDs wouldn't get the crap end of the stick. Only HS was active.

Ranks of Passives? (Have yet to test DK multiplier theory)

r1 HS, MD, and r5 NS

DK's PDs were also subject to multipliers too? Since when? Wiki makes no mention of it.

Well that's just Mikaya's theory on it. Let her test it out.

I'd test it myself but neh...college Wifi o.e...

at any rate, I would think it would be the case considering it's a DK thing...DK has always been interesting for me. They have akward stat boosts to begin with...and the passives...yeah...them passives when they get active.

Multiple Tests show that it should activate 100 percent of the time. This was done with 60 runs in the arena. I have yet to check PVP. Think you can explain what exactly happened? Did you trans during pvp?

“	My friend and I were messing around in a duel, and he spammed AR while I was in trans.	„

Yup, we both ended up using trans halfway into it. We're both DKs, and he didn't seem to ping against magic, but did for range and melee. On the other hand, I only pinged against melee. It may have been fixed with the recent update? I'll test later today.

Due to the nature of Mabinogi, they don't need an update to fix glitches like that. Translations, mistranslations, hack shield errors, visual errors, those require an update. However, they may still need to turn off the server for certain glitch fixes.

I did not see the duel part x.x...anyways sounds bugged from the update. or it could be visual errors. You didn't get knocked back did you?

Whenever I got hit by arrows or bolt spells, I wouldn't hear any pinging sounds. As for the knockback, I was still getting pushed back from the second shot of AR (friend was using wing bow). I'm about to head home so I'll test it later tonight.

I just tested it and the PD activation seems to be back to normal now.