EpicDuel PVP Game Design Notes

December 05, 2014

NEW CHANGES/FEATURES:

• 27 Days of Presents!
  • From December 5th - 31st you can log in and claim a free prize. The more days you log in during this time, the better the prizes become!
  • Claiming prizes will also reward you with an achievement. Make sure to claim at least 20 prizes for the most Rating Points!
• Room Gifting
  • Share the holiday spirit by granting a gift to yourself and everyone else in your current room! This option will be available until December 31st. The top gifters will be rewarded for their generosity shortly after the event ends.
  • Gifts will be awarded through the mail system, so make sure to claim them!
• 24 new Home Items now available
• The first part of the Frozen Fury storyline is available: 10 separate missions for Legion and Exiles
• Added Rage percentage to Rage Bar in battle
• Stocked War Commander Cores on all War Depots
• Removed alignment restrictions from matchmaking to improve wait times
• Edgar Boothe is no longer a 2v1 boss (Now a normal 1v1)
• Mission groups removed for the year:
  • Hallowarriors
  • Gourd Grinding
  • OneX6 Retrieval
  • Party Business

BALANCE CHANGES:

• General
  • Deflection now blocks 65% of damage, up from 50%
  • Defense ignore from Rage attacks now decreases by 1% every 2 levels, and increases by 1% every 3 Support. Defense ignore is capped to 55%.
• Atom Smasher
  • Energy drain increased by 3% at all levels
• Backup Battery
  • Cooldown reduced to 4, down from 5
  • Energy gain reduced by 25 at all levels
• Frenzy
  • Cooldown increased to 4, up from 3
  • Now grants Energy at a rate of 2x the Health gained
  • Now costs 0 Energy
  • Health gain lowered to 13-22%, down from 30-57%
• EMP Grenade
  • Stat scaling slowed to 4.5, up from 4
• Static Grenade
  • Energy gain increased to 55%, up from 50%
• Shadow Arts
  • Duration increased to 4 turns, up from 3
• Cores
  • Reduced numerous active skill core energy costs. Specific changes listed below.
  • Armored Roots: 100 to 85
  • Azrael’s Torment: 140 to 125
  • Azrael’s Will: 175 to 160
  • Bacon Breath: 100 to 90
  • Bacon Rain: 100 to 90
  • Chairman’s Fury: 120 to 110
  • Concussive Shot: 120 to 110
  • Curse: 130 to 115
  • Deep Plague: 100 to 90
  • Energy Shot: 70 to 60
  • Energy Storm: 90/120 to 80/110
  • Exile Strike: 80 to 70
  • FrostBite: 70 to 60
  • Frost Shards: 90 to 80
  • Growth Serum: 130 to 115
  • Hatchling Rush: 140 to 130
  • Hawk Guardian: 100 to 90
  • Improbability Gate: 100 to 90
  • Jack-O-Fire: 100 to 90
  • Legion Strike: 80 to 70
  • Meteor Shower: 100 to 90
  • Omega Override: 120 to 110
  • Plasma Meteor: 100 to 90
  • Thorn Assault: 100 to 90
• Titan Chomp: 100 to 90

BUGS FIXED:

• Bloodhawk Battlegear, Bloodhawk Slayer, and Bloodhawk Bots now available on Edgar Boothe for Credits
• Achievement details were given more room to breathe
• Fixed an issue where tooltips would appear under the currency bar
• Several region war swords showed the incorrect location in the item finder
• Regional war leaderboards no longer show leaders from the last region you viewed
• Static Charge description updated to reflect previous changes to the skill

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