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December 24, 2018

Christmas Eve Content Update

Hello! EpicDuel just went down for a small content update to add a little extra spice before Christmas! Some changes, like the new items at Endless M4trix, are instantly noticeable, while others will be apparent as you unwrap your daily gifts tomorrow (for those who have been diligently opening them). We may be able to do another small update on Friday, but until then, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy Gifting!

 

New Weapons! (Endless M4tr1x)

  • Divinity Claymore P/E
  • Divinity Slayer P/E
  • Frozen Skull Slayer P/E
  • Glacial Impaler P/E
  • Frozen Fleshreaver P/E
  • Frozen Katana P/E
  • Glacial Gladiator P/E
  • Frostgrim Slayer P/E

 

Home Item

  • M4tr1x

 

Hair Styles

  • Corrupted Chronomancer style

 

Arcade Changes

  • Bronze home items prizes can be sold for 40 credits
  • Silver home item prizes can be sold for 300 credits

 

Achievement Adjustment

The rating for the Epic Supporter 2018 achievement has been improved at levels 2-10:

  • 4000
  • 5500
  • 7000
  • 8500
  • 10000
  • 11500
  • 13000
  • 14500
  • 16000

 

Power Hour Unlocked

  • Power hour will last through the New Year until january 7th! Double credits and XP to help grind out those Legendary Ranks!

 

Thank you all again for helping to make this an incredible Gifting Event for EpicDuel! It's been amazing to watch old players return and new players try the game for the first time. Without you, none of this would be happening -- so whether you play a couple duels a day or dominate the leaderboards for fame and glory: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Here's to an Epic end of 2018, and an incredible start to 2019!

Duel On!

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Nightwraith

December 21, 2018

Endless M4tr1x Appears!

Seek the Endless M4tr1x!

We hope you've been hanging onto those Omega Wolf Shards, because you'll need them to unlock Endless Matrix's shop and access awesome cosmic and winter-themed gear!

You can find Endless M4tr1x to the right of the 2017 Gifting Leaderboard in Titan's Peak in Frysteland! If this selection doesn't please you, there's still more to come! Expect another update Sunday or Monday with a buffed inventory! 

 

Balance

  • It appears that Mages are hurting, with Hunters still in the lead. We'd like to buff Mages a bit to see if that helps their performance.
  • Tech Mage / Blood Mage
    • Bludgeon: +4% damage per level; Energy cost reduced by 5
  • Tech Mage
    • Fire Scythe: +3% damage to all levels
    • Assimilation: Cooldown decreased to 3 and damage increased to 80%
  • Mercenary
    • Maul: Defense ignore increased by +2% for levels 1-8, and +3% for 9-10
  • Bounty Hunter / Cyber Hunter
    • Massacre: Removed Tech scaling

 

Missions

  • Omega Wolf Key (Endless M4tr1x)

 

Weapons

  • Located at Endless M4tr1x
    • Wolf Scimitar P
    • Wolf Scimitar E
    • Wolf Tri Sword P
    • Wolf Tri Sword E
    • Wolf War Scythe P
    • Wolf War Scythe E
    • Wolf War Blades P
    • Wolf War Blades E
    • Wolf War Axe P
    • Wolf War Axe E
    • Wolf War Staff P
    • Wolf War Staff E
    • Frost Dragon Scythe P
    • Frost Dragon Scythe E
    • Candy Cane Cannon P
    • Candy Cane Cannon E
    • Cookie Claymore P
    • Cookie Claymore E
    • Candy Cane Capper P
    • Candy Cane Capper E

Achievements

  • New Yeti for Winter 2018 tier for 30+ daily gifts opened

 

Vehicles

  • Located at Endless M4tr1x
    • Omega Wolf Rider CC
  • Located at Epic Legendary Arsenal
    • Bareknuckle Bike

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Nightwraith

December 14, 2018

More Gifts More Winners

Gifts for Gifting!

The craziest season of EpicDuel gifting continues the most generous players putting insane numbers on the leaderboards! This week EpicDuel will update with balance changes and Silver Secret Package prizes extended for the top 5 gifters each day!*

*Since there tends to be wide swings in daily gifting scores, and the spirit of the season, I've decided to award the Silver Secret Package to anyone with a daily score higher than 15,000. This is a manual process so please be patient.

  

Delay

Sorry about the long delay for the update earlier today. It was meant to only take a few minutes but ended up taking over 2 hours! Why? Was it stuffing all the good, good morsels of code into the servertron? No. It was the fact that when we turned everything back on, nothing worked! It did, kinda. Some screens would fail to load, sometimes login would fail entirely! After trying to track down the problem's source, Titan changed just enough to get us back up and running. This could have been the reason many were seeing more frequent black loading screens and experiencing sluggish performance. Gifting is usually A LOT for Flash to handle, but the game should still be playable. Let us know if performance improved at all!

 

Daily Gift Rewards!

To reward the extraordinary gifting of those trying to climb the daily leaderboards, we've decided to reward the top 5 gifters each day a Silver Secret Package. This will apply retroactively to previous daily leaders!


Balance

  • Cyber Hunter
    • Venom Strike: Required stat changed to Dex instead of Tech to Venom Strike
  • Tech Mage
    • Plasma Bolt: ignore 10% defenses
  • Tech Mage/Blood Mage
    • Overload: Improved by Dex instead of Support
    • Plasma Rain: Improved by Support instead of Dex (Still set to Dex on BM, will fix soon)
    • Bludgeon: Base energy cost lowered by 15 and goes up by 20
  • Cores:
    • Tactical Reload: Energy cost reduced to 40
    • Icy Overkill: Increase defense ignore to 40% from 35%
    • Necrosis: Lowers defenses for 4 turns
    • Azrael's Will: 2 turn warm-up 

 

Weapons

Stop by the Legendary Chamber in Titan's Peak to check out an updated arsenal for players who've attained the Legendary Rank.

  • Swords (Epic Legendary Arsenal)
    • Platinum Dage’s Desolation P/E
    • Gold Dage’s Desolation P/E
  • Aux (Exquisite Legendary Arsenal)
    • Bareknuckle Breaker P/E

 

Omega Wolf Shards

You may have noticed some new drops from gifting in the form of Omega Wolf Shards. The description will tell you to seek out the Endless M4tr1x, but where is she? You'd better hand onto those shards for when she finally appears!

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Nightwraith

December 07, 2018

Gifting Heats Up

Gifting Heats Up!

Gifting heats up this week with 2 big new features: A daily gifter leaderboard and gifting streaks! Gift multiple times in a row to build up a streak to earn achievements and a chance to gift everyone on the server! The daily board also comes with its own set of achievements, with the winner each day receiving a Secret Package!

 

Daily Gifting Leaderboard

  • Each day after this update the #1 player on the Daily Gifter Leaderboard will receive an evolving achievement and a “Secret Package”
  • When we go live with this update the top 15 on the current all-time board will receive the first level of the achievement and the “Secret Package” in recognition of their epic gifting performance!
  • After the initial rewards, only the #1 Daily Gifter each day will receive the achievement and Secret Package
  • This gift will be updated after gifting in completed (like the Secret Package that became Elite Yeti Armor)
  • Toggle the gifter leaderboards between 2018 and Daily using the radio buttons

 

Gifting Streaks

  • Gift several times in a row to build up a streak!
  • Unlock new tier and earn new achievements at 15,30,45,70,100,150, and 200 gifts (evolving achievement)
  • Each streak tier offers an increased chance to gift the whole server, from 2% all the way up to 20% (even players in battle can get these)
  • Notifications pop up to let other players know a gifter is on a streak or if a global gift is issued
  • A new gifting animation plays once a streak is active
  • If 90 seconds pass between gifts, the streak is lost

 

Quality of Life

  • When the player count is above 60 in a room, the game forces low performance mode
  • For easier gifting use the command /buygift325varium in the chat window. Note: This command will not issue a confirmation screen!

 

Gifter Shrines

New rooms have been added to Titan's Peak to pay homage to the past gifting leaders from 2014-2017! A new room will be added for 2018's winners, whoever they are! To find these shrines, hop to the Legendary shops in Frysteland and walk to the left or the right to explore! It's a fun journey to reminisce to EpicDuel's gifting past and see some of the heavy hitters. It's been incredible to watch gifting go from being a cute add-on feature to spread holiday cheer to the major event it's become. That shouldn't really be a surprise considering EpicDuel players are the most competitive in all of AE!

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