EpicDuel PVP Game Design Notes

May 22, 2015

NEW CHANGES/FEATURES:

• New Guest Artist NPC: Deuce
• New Achievement: Deuce's Defeat
• New Awe Hunting missions
  • Information Hunting
  • Aggressive Persuasion
  • Uprooting the Situation
  • Back to Basics
  • Necronauts' Job
  • Awe-ful Fight
• New Deuce Showcase Shop
  • Tech Blade of Awe P/E (not in shop, 5% drop from Deuce)
  • Tech Daggers of Awe P/E
  • Tech Axe of Awe P/E
  • Tech Staff of Awe P/E
  • Dragon Control Sword P/E
  • Broken Dragon Control Sword P/E
  • Golden AK
  • Energy AK
  • Tommy Gun P/E
• 6 New Hair Styles
• New Home Item
  • Deuce’s Pendant Display
• New Legendary Items
  • Crystallic Claw P/E
  • Crystallic Mace P/E
  • Crystallic Staff P/E
  • Sinful Slayer P/E
  • Avensis War Armor M/F
  • Sinful Pride P/E
    
    

BALANCE CHANGES:

• Maximum Rage defense ignore: 55% ⇒ 50%
• Effective level is now capped to 48 instead of 50 for PvP matches (since two Legendary skills only affect NPCs). This will affect matching as well as Underdog calculations.
• Underdog buffs will now be applied individual level differences, and have been adjusted upwards
  • 1 level = +1 to Str/Dex/Tech/Supp
  • 2 levels = Grants +1 to Str/Supp and +2 to Dex/Tech
  • 3 levels = +2 to Str/Dex/Tech/Supp
  • 4 levels = Grants +2 to Str/Supp and +3 to Dex/Tech
  • 5 levels = +3 to Str/Dex/Tech/Supp
  • 6 levels = Grants +3 to Str/Supp and +4 to Dex/Tech
  • 7 levels = +4 to Str/Dex/Tech/Supp
  • 8 levels = Grants +4 to Str/Supp and +5 to Dex/Tech
  • 9 levels = +5 to Str/Dex/Tech/Supp
  • 10 levels = Grants +5 to Str/Supp and +6 to Dex/Tech
• Losing now grants slightly less experience and Credits than before.
• Winning as an Underdog now grants slightly less experience and Credits per level difference than before.
• Auxiliary damage scaling now matches that of Primary weapons.
• Gun damage scaling slowed at high amount of Dexterity
• Assimilation
  • No longer has a weapon requirement
• Berzerker
  • Now has a club requirement
• Double Strike
  
  • Now has a club requirement
  • Energy cost lowered by 10 at all levels
• Fire Scythe
  • Stat requirement lowered by 5 at all levels
• Shadow Arts
  • Stat requirement lowered by 3 at all levels
• Static Smash
  • No longer has a weapon requirement
  • Now unblockable
  • Drain: 37% - 64% (+3% per level) ⇒ 37% - 55% (+2% per level)
    
    

BUGS FIXED:

• Eteneral Enhance core correctly gives +2 to all stats
• Mark of Azrael correctly gives +6% critical chance
• Fixed an issue with level 1 Health/Energy being slightly lower than intended
• Ice Shield now correctly guarantees blocks and deflections. Again. (This skill really likes breaking)
• Character pages were not properly displaying red stars

Tags: Patch Notes