EpicDuel

Free MMO with Real Time Strategy

Action and adventure await you in this epic battle game! EpicDuel is a free to play browser MMORPG featuring PvP (Player vs Player) combat. Turn fantasy into reality by creating your custom character to fight your friends in turn-based real time strategy battles. And the best RPG gets better with new releases launching every week, so stay tuned to the Design Notes for behind-the-scenes MMO information and become the most epic dueler in all of EpicDuel!

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Bring your RPG strategy to the next level! When you harness Varium crystals, you gain access to powerful weapons, advanced armors, and unique styles in browser based glory. Varium also lets you create factions, customize your home, and gain an advantage on the PvP leaderboards!

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EpicDuel Azrael's Doombringer Battlepass Is NOW LIVE!

April 04, 2025

The Azrael's Doombringer Showcase Battlepass is NOW LIVE! Login now to earn the latest collection of Azrael-themed weapons, armors, morphs, bots, and more crafted with care by Acatriel and Bido!

So you all know what you're getting into with the new bots available in this season, the skill descriptions are listed below:

• Azrael's Doombringer Beast P:
  • Azrael's Beast Bash P: Physical overhead smash with a 25% crit chance.
  • Azrael's Annihilation P: Mutually massively reduce defense and healing for 1 turn. 1 turn warmup. This is the first skill to apply a debuff to both the attacker and the target.

• Azrael's Doombringer Beast E:
  • Azrael's Beast Bash E: Energy overhead smash with a 25% crit chance.
  • Azrael's Annihilation E: Mutually massively reduce defense and healing for 1 turn. 1 turn warmup. This is the first skill to apply a debuff to both the attacker and the target. 

• Azrael's Doombringer Beauty P:
  • Azrael's Assault P: A vicious physical onslaught ignoring 15% defense.
  • Azrael's Affliction P: 85% dmg. and inflict life-stealing poison for 30% HP over 2 rounds. Maximum 500 / Minimum 50 HP steal. Can be cured with Medic.

• Azrael's Doombringer Beauty E:
  • Azrael's Assault E: A vicious energy onslaught ignoring 15% defense.
  • Azrael's Affliction E: 85% dmg. and inflict life-stealing poison for 30% HP over 2 rounds. Maximum 500 / Minimum 50 HP steal. Can be cured with Medic.

Good luck and happy dueling to reach level 60 of EpicDuel's latest Battlepass season!

EpicDuel Gifting 2024 Ends

January 14, 2025

EpicDuel's 2024 season of Gifting finally concluded in the wee hours of the night and what a season it was! After rebooting to open the last of this year's gifting haul, we put a regal bow on this remarkable season. This season was incredible for a number of reasons, but the leaderboard should speak for itself!

Special congratulations are due to the top 15 Gifters this year, putting up absolutely incredible numbers and ending with a 3-way tie for 1st place! With so many multi-million scores, we certainly have our work cut out for us!

1. Atlas
2. Mandatory
3. Smoking Shadow
4. Alonzo Harris
5. F L O K I
6. l Fade l
7. Enchant
8. CactusChan
9. 2 mil
10. Lele
11. S P l D E R
12. Adromeda
13. Adrianozzq
14. BadWitch
15. D Y S P O

I would also like to thank Smoking Shadow for keeping the events running smoothly and preventing overlaps and unnecessary drama. Gifting should be fun and exciting, not frustrating! 

Secret and Silver Secret Prizes

Currently, the top 15 Gifters are deciding how to allocate their Secret and Silver Secret Packages. These items will "open" to reveal their contents to all who possess them after all distributions are completed.

Winner Prize Progress

As of right now we have established contact with most of the winners. This year players blew past our expectations and earned themselves a wealth of options for personalized prizes. Last year we were able to move efficiently through the prizes, but this year, due to the sheer volume, I expect a longer period of prize creation than last year, even with Lodrian's help. If your patience is running thin, remember the paraphrased saying that a late prize is eventually good, but a rushed prize is bad forever! The next few weeks should be very exciting as new prizes are delivered to the winners and shown off in-game.

Epic Supporter Achievements

Starting THIS Friday January 17th, the 2024 Epic Gifting Supporter/Epic Legendary Gifting Supporter will be retired and replaced with the 2025 Epic Supporter/Epic Legendary Gifting achievements. The 4,000 Artix Point package achievements will also be updated.

Post Gifting Generosity

Some of this year's Gifters have generously opted to grant the general EpicDuel populace access to their prizes from previous seasons. Winner Alonzo Harris is offering replicas of some of his prizes from a previous Gifting season, the newly renamed Brigade’s Fire P and Alonzo’s Triumph E, at Oz while CactusChan is offering his hairstyle 382 for Varium.

Final Gifting Thoughts

Honestly, professions of humility and gratitude are sincere, but frankly, inadequate to express the emotions I feel in the aftermath of this latest event. Every year a part of me worries, "Is this the year we throw a party and nobody shows up?" It might seem ridiculous given the track record, but it is certainly scary to see it happening all over the game industry. This year, once again, the EpicDuel community showed up and delivered. I'm still shocked by the player count creeping past 600! There are plenty of games that come and go, fading into obscurity without seeing anywhere near those numbers. I feel truly blessed that we still have a community that makes EpicDuel worthy of its name!

Let's Duel On into 2025!

Challenger Restock 2024

November 22, 2024

Visit the Challenger for a new stock of returning Battlepass items! Also, all seasonal rare items have returned to their respective shops!

Battlepass Restock

Missed a few months (or years) of EpicDuel updates? No problem! The Challenger's inventory has been boosted with a fresh stock of returning Battlepass items from this past year.

• Olympus' Wrath Showcase
• Azrael's Cavalier Showcase
• Eldritch Onslaught Showcase
• Nanotech Nightmare Showcase

Also, all hairstyles from these Battlepasses are now ready to purchase from the style shop. Basic styles are available for Credits while Enhanced styles are available for Varium.

Seasonal Restock

As in past years, all seasonal rares have returned to their respective shops! These rares will remain until sometime after the conclusion of Gifting. Combined with the return of the Battlepass rares, this an excellent time to complete your collections and boost your achievement score!

Epic Gifting Achievements

The Epic Supporter and Legendary Epic Supporter achievements have been retired and will be replaced with new Epic Gifting Supporter (10,000 AP packages) and Legendary Epic Gifting Supporter (20,000 AP package) achievements. These achievements will be available throughout Gifting and will eventually be replaced with 2025 achievements sometime after Gifting ends so there will be a limited time to max them out!

In addition to the new Epic Gifting Supporter and Legendary Epic Gifting Supporter achievements, we will also offer recognition to those who purchase the 4,000 Artix Point packages in the form of a Gifting Supporter 2024 evolving achievement! This achievement will also be applied to those who purchase the 20,000 AP and 10,000 AP packages.

Gifting Rewards Preview

We are hard at work conceptualizing and rendering the rewards for this year's Gifting. Below are some previews of the Alpha-Omega Valkyrie collection, which will work similarly to the Cyber Wolf Collection from last year. This set will offer rewards from 10,000 Gifts all the way up to 1 million!  These are still just a few of the reward items that are still in-progress.

Please keep in mind that these are still works-in-progress so the exact designs may change before their final release at the conclusion of Gifting. We are working hard to maximize the rewards so we will try to have as many reward items as possible while still maintaining a high level of quality!

War Pause

As we approach Gifting, we will need to pause the alignment War as soon as the current war for Frysteland ends. Please do not be alarmed if you see the cooldown timer extend to 10,000 hours or something like that. We must do this because the War and Gifting aren't able to run at the same time. The War will resume its regular schedule sometime after Gifting ends.

Gifting Returns 2024

October 18, 2024

It’s that time of year again: time for an official announcement of Gifting 2024! The new Gifting Even will go live Monday December 9 and last until Monday January 13! This year’s event will include many of the changes we made last year with some additional bonuses! For this post, we will provide a list of updated rules and prizes so please please PLEASE read these changes carefully if you're thinking of participating in Gifting!

Mailbox Bloat

Last year was a very successful event – so successful that the volume of gifts caused the servers to crash every few hours! This year we’re going to try to mitigate that issue with some changes. To start, the possible gifts will be limited to Credits and Arcade Tokens. Items that were formerly in the prize pool will be available for purchase at a holiday shop. While this is less exciting than opening a package to find a new rare item, awarding Credits streamlines the process and prevents inventories from being jammed with thousands of duplicate items.

Rewards

Last year we made some major changes to the Gifting rewards to mitigate the prize creep that accompanied the prize-creation phase post Gifting. This was largely successful as most rewards were fulfilled within a few weeks as opposed to 6 months or a year later. 

This year, we are adding back some previous reward options like hairstyles and replica items. Though the rewards are more generous, please read this section carefully. We don't want anyone to feel disappointed at the end of the event. We also don’t want to engage in any post-Gifting negotiations to find loopholes or other unreasonable requests. Also, this year, like last year, there will be no prize codes provided for the top prize.

The Top 15

The top 15 Gifters in this event will be eligible to receive one Legacy item. Additionally, they will be able to receive an extra Legacy item for each 1,000,000 points past the first 1,000,000. This means that if you end Gifting with a score of over 3,000,000, you would be eligible for 3 Legacy items.

*A Legacy item is any EpicDuel item aside from Founder Armor that is no longer available in-game. It could be something from a phase like the Gamma Bot or a permanent rare like the Bunnyzookas. Participants in the top 15 at the end of the event may choose 1 Legacy item. These items may have light personalized touches to them. A class-changing weapon counts as 1 item.

Please note: Personalizations that include CPU-taxing effects may affect the in-game performance for you and other players. We will try our best to optimize the items, but there are limitations to Flash’s rendering capabilities. Please consider this when conceptualizing your prize.

The #1 Gifter at the end of the event will be eligible for a Legacy item AND a custom item. The custom item grand prize can be an item from any existing category. If it's a category of item that has P and E variants, the opposite variant can be created as a recolor. Customization requests can be refused if they're deemed unreasonable or illegal (copy-written material, offensive, etc...) or if they exceed the limitation of the game (creating excessive lag, too large, too complex). Unlike last year, cores attached the custom item or robot attacks CAN be customized, but their effects in-battle must have in-game equivalents.

Finally, we will be retaining the bonus awarded to the player or players with the most Top Daily Gifter: The option for an additional Legacy item (non-Founder). If there is a tie for the most Top Daily Gifter achievements, the tied players will all receive the bonus.

Founder Armor Rule

As in previous years, those who achieve a Gifting score of at least 1,000,000 AND place in the top 15 may request Founder Armor as a prize. Hypothetically, your score is greater than 1,000,000 but you're still in 16th place, you will unfortunately not be eligible for the Founder Armor. Additionally, though this is a rare scenario, if you place in the top 15, and have the original Founder Achievement, but not the armor, you may request Founder Armor as your Legacy item.

Sharing

A very popular feature of the most recent Gifting Event was the ability to share prizes with a select list of friends. Since there was no restriction, lists quickly got excessive. This year, the top 15 will be permitted to share their rewards with up to 20 other players. This includes custom hairstyles.

If someone wishes to share rewards with more than 20 other players, they may opt to offer their items or styles in-game for a price. They may also choose to have replica items created to be sold in-game while maintaining the uniqueness of the original. These replica items may have very minor changes to distinguish them.

To clarify some questions about this policy, winners may share each reward with 20 other players per item. For example, if someone qualifies for 2 legacy rares, they can share those rares with 20 people per item, potentially up to 40 different people if those items aren't shared with any of the same people.

Finally, this sharing policy does not include winners from past years of Gifting. If you are a past winner and want to share, unfortunately we had to end the sharing about a month ago. Thank you for understanding. 

Reward Efficiency

Last year we had multiple reward systems including a tiered structure based on rank and one based on placement on the Gifting leaderboard. This year, we would like to consolidate the Chest rewards with the score-based rewards. To clarify, there will be no more Gold, Silver, or Bronze Chests: there will only be score-based rewards, like the Cyber Wolf Collection. The new reward tiers will go from scores of 10K to 1 million. We are currently working on concepts for the new reward items with the theme of Alpha-Omega Valkyrie. We hope this change makes it easier to understand exactly what you’re getting for your Gifting contributions.

New Epic Supporter Achievements

Since the Epic Supporter achievements have been active for most of 2024 already, we’d like to refresh these achievements with special variants for Gifting. These new achievements will be introduced late in November to replace the current Epic Supporter achievements for the duration of Gifting. Because the Varium package quantities were so popular, they will remain at their current quantities throughout Gifting.

Reward Summary (updated 10-25-2024):

• Choose carefully! Winners will be restricted to 1 item as a prize. Mutating items and mutating armors count as one item.
• The #1 winner may have a customized core animation with their prize.
• Any top 15 Gifters who exceed a score of 4,000,000 will be eligible to ask for a custom prize, similar to the 1st place reward.
• Top 15 Gifters are eligible for 1 Legacy item with light personal modifications.
• Personalizations may be refused for being excessive in terms of scope or impact on game performance.
• Those in the top 15 may also request a custom hairstyle. This style may be kept as a personal or offered in-game for a price. It can be given to up to 20 other players by request.
• Those in the top 15 may also request an item/achievement transfer from one character they own to another owned character. The number of transfers is equal to the number of legacy items the winner qualifies for.
• Winners may offer their prizes to up to 20 players.
• Replicas are returning! Winners may request replica versions of their prizes to sell in-game. These replica items may have small changes (or none).
• No prize codes will be offered to the winner this year.
• If you request a Physical variant of an item you may also receive an Energy variant and vice versa. For example, if you request the Bunnyzooka, you may also have the Energy Bunnyzooka.
• If you request a Physical variant of an item and the Energy version does not exist, a new Energy version will NOT be created.
• If you request a Physical variant of an item you may NOT request the Energy variant of a completely different weapon.
• Armors do not have P or E variants, but you may NOT request an armor + an item.
• The prize item can be any sword, sidearm, auxiliary, home item, armor, vehicle, mutation, bot, or class-specific item that has ever been available in-game. Founder Armor may be requested as long as the one placing in the top 15 has a score of over 1,000,000.
• The item must have been available in EpicDuel at some time. Items from other AE games are not permitted.
• You may NOT request the custom reward of a Gifting winner from a previous year or this year.
• If your requested item originally included an achievement (i.e. Infernal Slayer), you will NOT also receive the achievement if you request the same item.
• The item may have any core available in-game equipped to it as long as it's of the proper category (i.e. no auxiliary cores on primary weapons, etc...).
• Core graphics and animations for Legacy items will NOT be customized.
• For balance reasons, skills cannot be modified (i.e. additional damage, % effectiveness, cooldown, damage type, cost, etc...).
• Please consider your prize carefully because once the item is in-game, there will be no revisions permitted except for bug fixes. 

We will work with all winners to help create the best rewards possible, but these limitations are necessary to prevent the scope of the rewards from expanding to far and eclipsing the rest of EpicDuel’s development. Last year, all top Gifters were cooperative and understanding of these goals so we hope to continue that trend for this next event. We tried to include as much information as possible for this post, but there still may be more changes (or things we forgot) before Gifting begins.

Top 15 Secret and Silver Secret Package Bonus (Added 1-3-2025)

As we did last year for the top 15 Gifting winners, we will reward an additional 2 Secret Packages and 2 Silver Secret Packages for each 1 million Gifts distributed. That means if you score 3 million or over, you will receive and additional 6 (2x3) Secret and 6 (2x3) Silver Secret Packages. The top 15 winners may distribute their additional packages at their discretion, but they will need to keep at least one Secret and/or Silver Secret package in their inventories to receive the items when the packages open.

Legacy Secret and Silver Secret Package Bonus (Added 1-3-2025)

As an added bonus this year, we will allow Gifters in the top 15 to use their Secret and Silver Secret Packages to claim Secret and Silver Secret rewards from previous years. This means if you want the Secret/Silver rewards from 2019 and 2020 in addition to the rewards from this year, you will need to retain 3 Secret and 3 Silver Secret Packages in your inventory.

Daily Gift Legend and Daily Gift Legend 2024 Achievements (Added 1-3-2025)

Some of the most esoteric achievements are those awarded to those who finish in the top 15 and also win the top Daily Gifter achievement for multiple years in a row. Those who won top Daily Gifter in multiple Gifting seasons between 2018 and 2024 are also eligible for a special achievement. These have to be expanded each year and can be hard to track so I'll post the new achievements for the latest season of Gifting here:

• Daily Gift Eternal Legend Won top Daily Gifter in 6 Gifting seasons between 2018-2024.
• Daily Gift Eternal Epic Legend 2024 Placed top 15 in 2024 and won top Daily Gifter in 6 Gifting seasons.
• Daily Gift Ultimate Epic Legend 2024 Placed top 15 in 2024 and won top Daily Gifter in 5 Gifting seasons.
• Daily Gift Supreme Epic Legend 2024 Placed top 15 in 2024 and won top Daily Gifter in 4 Gifting seasons.
• Daily Gift Epic Legend 2024 Placed top 15 in 2024 and won top Daily Gifter in 3 Gifting seasons.
• Daily Gift Epic Champion 2024 Placed top 15 in 2024 and won top Daily Gifter in 2 Gifting seasons.

Gifting Concierge

If you are new to gifting, you might now know that there is a prominent player who has acted as a Gifting concierge for the last several Gifting events. Gifting is typically a very chaotic time in EpicDuel so this role helps to keep major Gifting events from conflicting with each other and depriving the participants of their rightful rewards. You may know him as Smoking Shadow, and if you are interested in hosting a major Gifting event, you will want to get in touch with him:

In-game: Smoking Shadow
Discord: mihawk98
Twitter: Mihawkplayss

Tis the Season to Be Wary

Gifting is a joyful time in EpicDuel, but it also brings out nefarious scammers who want to take advantage of other players. Don't risk your account or bank account for a complete stranger online who promises you great rewards or free Varium. Though times and technology change, the old adage holds true: if someone is promising you something that seems too good to be true, it probably is! 

Progress Report

Updates will be slower to arrive leading up to Gifting as we’re preparing the new Battlepass + the new Gifting reward items. To tantalize you, here’s a preview of concepts for the Alpha-Omega Valkyrie set. These are just concepts and not a guarantee of the final rewards.

Announcing the Artix Summer Postcard Contest!

June 11, 2024

Join our Summer Postcard Contest where artists and writers can showcase their creativity by designing Artix-themed postcards.

Salutations sun-seeking heroes of Lore! Summer is starting to sizzle, so let’s turn up the heat with a new contest that celebrates the incredible creativity and passion of the Artix community! Join us for our first-ever Artix Summer Postcard Contest, where we invite both artists ~and~ writers to showcase their talents in a fun and engaging way.

We welcome all our heroes to create Artix-themed postcards! Plus, plenty of Artix Points await the winners!

For a complete contest description complete with rules and prizes, check out the the main post here.