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Nightwraith

August 31, 2019

Titan's Tyranny

Titan's Tyranny

EpicDuel's latest release is now LIVE! Check out the new 3-part sage, Titan's Tyranny, with new weapons, cores, bosses, achievements and more!

 

Titan's Tyranny

New supernatural discharges of energy are erupting all over Fortune City. Visit Talia to start a new three-part mission chain that will test your skills of observation as well as battle as you scour Delta V to unravel this mystery to confront the source of this dangerous new anomaly. Only the toughest, most clever Epic Duelists can hope to reach the end of this chain and put an end to this new Nightmare before it covers Delta V in eternal darkness!

 

Tyrant Titan Gear

Titan's birthday rares are already available, but he'll soon be stocked with a new batch of weapons guaranteed to complement your collection.

  • Tyrant Titan Sword P
  • Tyrant Titan Sword E
  • Tyrant Titan Blades P
  • Tyrant Titan Blades E
  • Tyrant Titan Mace P
  • Tyrant Titan Mace E
  • Tyrant Titan Staff P
  • Tyrant Titan Staff E

 

New Achievements

A new boss and new missions mean three new achievements to chase the highest tiers of stars!

 

Balance

  • Infernal fury: 0 energy.
  • Intimidate (Blood Mage Only): 3 turns instead of 4.
    • Eliminate decrease Rage for both Mercenary and Blood Mage
  • Static Grenade: Improve with every 1.1 Support instead of 1.5
  • Smoke Screen: Improves with every 4.6 Technology instead of 4

 

Unluckiest TLaPD

After completing this latest Nightmare Titan challenge, expect new and returning Pirate-themed gear in addition to the rare Friday the 13th gear and achievement! If you haven't picked up the Kartherax or the Dark Omen Battlegear, you'll soon have an opportunity to add to your collection!

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Nightwraith

August 22, 2019

Nightmare Titan Preview

Nightmare Titan

Greetings and good evening! This is a status report of the latest progress on the upcoming update. Due to a personal emergency beyond my control, the update will need to be delayed until next week. I attempted to cut the intended update to accomodate a smaller mid-week update, but it wasn't possible with the sudden upset in my schedule. This upcoming update is heavy with missions which require the most time to write, implement, and test. I hate to delay again, but a partial update wouldn't be feasible due to the unexpected disruption.

 

Nightmare Titan

Up to this point, you've had a chance to fight many Nightmare variants of challenging EpicDuel boss NPCs, but you've not yet challenged anyone or anything on the level of Nightmare Titan. This twisted version of Titan will be available to challenge after completing a new mission chain to explore the nature of these Nightmare bosses and earn incredible rewards.

 

Tyrant Titan

Titan's birthday rares are already available, but he'll soon be stocked with a new batch of weapons guaranteed to complement your collection.

 

New Achievements

A new boss and new missions mean new achievements to chase the highest tiers of stars!

 

Unluckiest TLaPD

After completing this latest Nightmare Titan challenge, expect new and returning Pirate-themed gear in addition to the rare Friday the 13th gear and achievement! If you haven't picked up the Kartherax or the Dark Omen Battlegear, you'll soon have an opportunity to add to your collection!

 

Sorry again for this unexpected delay. I know this is disappointing news, but I'll do my best to make the extra wait worth it!

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Nightwraith

August 09, 2019

Infernal Slayer 2

New Infernal Slayer

Featuring new, powerful weapons, styles, balance tweaks, and boosted PvP rewards, EpicDuel's latest release is now live!

 

Infernal Slayer 2.0

Many years ago we introduced an amazing, rare item to precede the Infernal War. This weapon, the Infernal Slayer, was a limited rare that was never offered again. There are only 630 in circulation out of the players in EpicDuel's history. Keep in mind, this was sold during EpicDuel's peak population  so its stock ran out in a matter of days. A new, updated Infernal Slayer 2 is now available at  Kraggor in the Mines. This sword comes in Physical and Energy variants, is a limited item, and comes with an Achievement for purchasing either.

  • Infernal Slayer 2 P
  • Infernal Slayer 2 E

The weapon is equipped with 2 unlocked core slots with Massive Strike and Infernal Fury. Much like the original Infernal Slayer released all those years ago, after the quantity is depleted, it will never be restocked again.

 

PvP Reward Boost

To incentivize PvP battles, we've boosted credit and XP rewards for 1v1 and 2v2 automatch battles. All PvP battles have multipliers that govern reward amounts, and the new multipliers are:

  • 1v1 = 2
  • 2v2 = 3
  • Juggernaut = 1

NPC battles should be unaffected. Juggernaut rewards were reduced due to the speed of most Juggernaut battles. 2v2 received the largest boost to compensate for the increased time involved in completing 2v2 battles.

 

Balance

This week we're introducing several new major balance changes to Mages and Mercenaries. Also, some changes were made to the battle formulas to mitigate block and deflect, reducing the role of chance in the outcome of battle.

  • Tech Mage and Blood Mage
    • Deadly Aim: New % increase goes from 10% to 25%
  • Blood Mage
    • Fireball: Removed passive defense reduction since this was added to compensate for the removal of Deadly Aim. Since Deadly Aim returned, this passive effect is not longer needed
  • Tactical Mercenary and Mercenary
    • Double Strike : Weapon requirement removed
  • Cores:
    • Lifeline and Critical Heal are no longer limited by season. Should be available to buy permanently
    • Assault Thorns/Jack-O-Fire : 120% instead of 115%.
  • Bots:
    • Pirate Bot P and E: Reduced stun and crit % to 20 from 25
  • Battle Forumulas:
    • Block Max reduced to 35% from 40%
    • Block Dex Rate increased to 5 from 4 (takes more Dex to increase block rate advantage)
    • Defection Chance Max reduced to 25% from 35%

 

Fixes

Using Pyro Fly's Infernal Swarm no longer breaks  Legendary and regular Dragonoid Brain

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Nightwraith

August 02, 2019

Bido's Upgrade

Bido's Upgrade

Bido, the ethereal artists who dwells in the Afterlife realm, has received some upgrades! If you've already completed Charfade's Challenge and are hungry for new wares, visit Bido in his Afterlife outpost before these new limited rares leave his shop for another year! 

 

Bido's Upgraded Shop

Visit him to explore his new shop of incredible weapons for all classes. As an added bonus, persistent duelists may be able to win his armor from his Legendary form.

  • Swords
    • Bido's Sacred Claymore P
    • Bido's Sacred Claymore E
  • Wrist Blades
    • Soulcursed Blades P
    • Soulcursed Blades E
    • Alchemical Onyx Daggers P
    • Alchemical Onyx Daggers E
    • Toxic Rune Claws P
    • Toxic Rune Claws E
    • Bido's Sacred Blades P
    • Bido's Sacred Blades E
  • Clubs / Axes
    • Soulcursed Mace P
    • Soulcursed Mace E
    • Alchemical Onyx Mace P
    • Alchemical Onyx Mace E
    • Toxic Rune Axe P
    • Toxic Rune Axe E
    • Bido's Sacred Axe P
    • Bido's Sacred Axe E
  • Staffs
    • Soulcursed Staff P
    • Soulcursed Staff E
    • Alchemical Onyx Staff P
    • Alchemical Onyx Staff E
    • Toxic Rune Staff P
    • Toxic Rune Staff E
    • Bido's Sacred Staff P
    • Bido's Sacred Staff E
  • Auxiliary
    • Bido's Bowzooka P
    • Bido's Bowzooka E

Big Brain Bosses

Those of you who defeated the Dragonoid Brain last week will have a new chance to take on its Legendary form! Also, both bosses will now offer new achievements for defeating them!

 

Balance

To top everything off, a few tweaks to balance were made to promote build diversity and address some cores that have been overused or underused.

  • Cyber Hunter
    • EMP Grenade: 3 turn cooldown
  • Tactical Mercenary
    • Toxic grenade: 3 turns instead of 4 
  • Tech Mage
    •  Assimilation: 4 turn coolwond; Improves with every 1.25 strength
  • Core
    • Dark Yeti / Baby Yeti charge +50
    • Infinity Power Stroke: 3 turn cooldown
    • Beast Rider / Frost Reaper Armor cores unlocked

 

Change / Fix

The Soulcursed Vanquisher P was incorrectly priced at 450 Varium instead of 375. This has been corrected, and those with the who already spent Varium on it will have the difference refunded. The Credit price was unaffected.

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