On March 15th, some changes to the Mystic were made in Black Desert Online KR. Spiral Torpedo, one of the Mystic’s primary skills that gave her good mobility, will not recover 500 HP anymore, and Hurricane Sweep will now recover 500 HP with increased damage.

The changes to the Mystic, a top-tier class in PvP, brought out heated reactions from both Mystic mains and non-Mystic mains. Some players argued that the changes are not necessarily a nerf, because the HP recovery ability was just transferred to another skill and was not completely removed. Other players argued that it is a PvP nerf because the Mystic cannot recover HP while dealing damage or escaping anymore.

Below are the patch notes regarding the Mystic changes and KR players’ reactions towards the changes.

■ Mystic Changes

Fixed an issue where Lv57 Rabam skill (Fist of True Strength + Elbow Edge) gave the Martial Spirit buffs (Movement speed and Critical hit).

Iron Fist Fury (Lv57 Rabam skill) will recover 50 HP per hit.

Hurricane Sweep will deal more damage in PvE
- 415% * 5 > 830% * 5
- The damage when the skill is on cooldown has increased as well.

Spiral Torpedo will not recover HP anymore.

Hurricane Sweep will recover a different amount of HP
- 20 HP per hit > 500 HP upon using the skill (not applied when the skill is on cooldown)

A sentence stating that ‘the below effects will not work when the skill is on cooldown’ has been added to the skill description of Hurricane Sweep.
- All DP -10 for 10 seconds
- Knockdown on flying kicks
- Bound on good hits

■ Reactions on the changes to Mystic's Skills 

▷ The Mystic used to be a 10 out of 10 class. Now she is… about 9.8 out of 10?

▷ A slight nerf on PvP, and a buff on PvE.

▷ This isn’t really a nerf.

▷ Transferring the HP recovery ability to another skill… is balancing?

▷ You don’t have to hit Hurricane Sweep to recover HP. You get HP upon using the skill.

▷ 500 HP per 6 seconds isn’t a nerf... Well, they said “changes” not “nerfs”.

▷ Hurricane Sweep can deal 2x more damage in PvE now.

▷ In some ways, this might actually be an upgrade.

▷ To some Mystic mains, this is a buff. They can get 500 HP with Hurricane Sweep.

▷ I use Hurricane Sweep to use Wave Orb instantly, so I welcome this change.

▷ In my opinion, HP recovery and damage is not the biggest problem that the Mystic has. The biggest reason she is OP is because she can pierce through forward guard and super armor. If Spiral Torpedo cannot pierce through guards then it will be a game-changing nerf.

▷ Nothing changed with damage. How is this called balancing?

▷ The Mystic cannot heal while maintaining super armor in PvP anymore.

▷ A DP-focused Mystic used to be a zombie that never dies during Node Wars, but now it is slightly harder for them to survive. I don’t know about small scale PvP yet.

▷ I checked the arena at Heidel #1. The ones who are used to using Spiral Torpedo for HP should feel the nerf.

▷ No one really uses Hurricane Sweep, so it doesn’t matter if the skill has HP recovery or not. I don’t even know what Hurricane Sweep looks like.

▷ This is a nerf. Hurricane Sweep doesn’t have super armor and the Mystic has to stay on one spot so it’s hard to use the skill.

▷ I locked Hurricane Sweep (F). But now that I have to unlock it, I might use Spiral Torpedo (W+F) by accident when I mean to use Hurricane Sweep (or the other way around).

▷ Hurricane Sweep has big and slow animation so it’s hard to use that skill in PvP.

▲ Spiral Torpedo, one of the Mystic's primary skill that can ignore Forward Guard, has been nerfed.

▲ Hurricane Sweep will not recover HP instead of Spiral Torpedo.