EpicDuel PVP Game Design Notes

March 26, 2014

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BALANCE CHANGES:

• Hatchling Rush
  • This skill has been generally a bit too strong with a high debuff and full damage. We're bringing these down a bit to make it more manageable.
  • Damage lowered from 100% to 85% strike damage
  • Healing reduction lowered from 50% to 40%
• Necrosis
  • In comparison to other defense debuffs, this skill was simply providing too much reduction for little cost.
  • Defense and Resistance debuff reduced
  • At level 40, final round reduction lowered from 130 to 102
• Azrael's Will
  
  • While Azrael's Will provides a very strong effect, the energy cost was causing it to be underused.
  • Energy cost reduced from 200 to 175
• Azrael's Torment
  • Energy cost reduced from 150 to 140

• While we want energy management and manipulation to be an important aspect of battle, it is still more of a focus in battle than we intend. This, coupled with effective heal looping led us to make a number of changes to energy skills, mainly increased cooldowns for no-cost skills and lowered drain effects.
• Fireball
  • Since Blood Mages tend to have a tougher time regenerating energy as the battle goes on, we lowered the cost of their main attacks to compensate.
  • Energy cost lowered by 10 at all levels
• Plasma Cannon
  • See Fireball
  • Energy cost lowered by 10 at all levels
• Battery Backup
  • Cooldown increased from 4 to 5 turns
• Assimilation
  • Cooldown increased from 3 to 4 turns
  • Energy drain lowered by 10 at all levels
• Static Grenade
  • Cooldown increased from 3 to 4 turns
  • Energy drain lowered by 10 at all levels
• Static Smash
  • Cooldown increased from 3 to 4 turns
  • Energy drain lowered by 3% at all levels
  • Energy gain increased to 80% from 75% of the amount drained
• Static Charge
  • Cooldown increased from 3 to 4 turns
• EMP Grenade
  • Energy drain reduced by 10 at all levels
• Atom Smasher
  • Energy drain reduced by 3% at all levels
• Energy Parasite
  • Added a minimum gain of 10 Energy per turn

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