EpicDuel PVP Game Design Notes

February 27, 2026

EpicDuel is LIVE with new balance changes, achievements, and quality-of-life improvements!

Balance Changes

Skills:

• (UA 1) Mania: -3% HP/MP/Rage gain to all levels
• (UA 1) Terrify: +5 --> +10 Energy cost per level; -3 stat debuff to all levels
• Fire Rain: 7% --> 5% of target's max HP as bonus damage
• Frenzy (all augments): +15 --> +5 Energy cost per level
• Suppressing Fire: 7% --> 5% of target's max HP as bonus damage
• Barbed Grenade: 10% --> 15% defense ignore
• (PA) Barbed Grenade: 10% --> 15% defense ignore
• (EA) Barbed Grenade: +1 damage per 0.29 --> 0.31 Technology
• Tactical Grenade (all augments): -20 Energy gain to all levels
• (UA) Annihilation: +1 damage per 0.32 --> 0.34 Technology
• Field Commander: +3 --> +2 Support per level
• (DA) Field Commander: +4 --> +3 Support per level
• Kernel Panic (all augments): +15 energy cost to all levels
• Static Charge: Reverted to allow user to gain full amount of Energy, regardless of target's current Energy
• (UA) Smoke Screen: 1 Dexterity per 6.9 --> 7.5 Technology
• Hybrid Armor: 7% --> 10% damage to user's Energy
• (EA) Hybrid Armor: 12% --> 15% damage to user's Energy
• (UA) Hybrid Armor: Added 15 Def/Res per level (+50 at max level)
• (UA 1) Deadly Precision: Sidearm --> Primary & Sidearm damage boost; 3% boost at level 1, 8% at max level

Cores:

• Feast of Flesh: Removed bonus crit chance
• Infernal Offering: 80 --> 100 HP cost
• Infernal Overload: +5% --> +10% damage per round (max. 125% at round 5)
• Revenant's Wall/Infernal Fortitude: Removeable --> Not removeable

Bug fixes:

• Azrael's Chimera Curse still does 85% damage instead of 100%

New Achievements

At visit the Achievement shop to get the Year of the Fire Horse and the Seventeen Year Alpha achievements!

Going Potato Mode

Now available in Settings, choose "Potato (Low Detail) Mode" to render all other characters as basic, flat, grey player models. This should be a huge boost to performance in Battle where gear with complex animations and detailed artwork can still drag framerates to a crawl.

Arcade Token Overdraft

We identified and fixed an issue where Arcade Tokens were unintentionally capped at 100,000. In rare cases, players exceeding this amount may have had their balance reset to the cap. The issue has now been resolved.

As compensation and a reward for your for your dedication and patience, players who maintained high Arcade Token balances (over 50,000) will receive a one-time bonus of 40,000 Arcade Tokens.

Additionally, as an early Player Appreciation reward, we would like to gift all players who have at least 1 Arcade Token, an extra 5,000 Arcade Tokens!

This Arcade Token award will be distributed by the time you read this post!

Next Week!

Next week, in addition to more rewards being distributed to this year's Gifters, we will be introducing new Nulgath and Dage the Evil seasonal rares for everyone!

AQW: Infinity Kickstarter Starts Next Tuesday!

The funding goal & reward tiers for the AQWorlds: Infinity Kickstarter has  officially been announced.  Join us next week on Tuesday (March 3rd, 2026) at noon (12:00pm EST). Bring popcorn and watch as our video game community attempts to break a world record.

Needless to say, the team has been burning the midnight oil on both the game development and also preparing the Kickstarter. Artix just updated the game's  Progress Update with the latest report.

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