EpicDuel PVP Game Design Notes

August 01, 2025

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Who or what is Hephael? When the first colonists arrived on Delta V, they brought the myths of the old worlds with them, laying the foundation for new legends to emerge. To the superstitious of Delta V, Hephael is the god of the son and god of the forge, offering aid to followers and desolation to non-believers. Though the dominance of technology suppressed such beliefs during Delta V's peak, desperate times have caused the citizens to seek salvations through more primitive, but no less potent, means.

So you all know what you're getting into with the new bots available in this season, the skill descriptions are listed below:

• Hephael's Avatar P
  • Hephael's Slash P: Summon Hephael's Avatar to inflict Physical Damage.
  • Hephael's Incantation P: Lock all target's skills that require Energy for 2 rounds.
• Hephael's Avatar E
  • Hephael's Slash E: Summon Hephael's Avatar to inflict Energy Damage.
  • Hephael's Incantation E: Lock all target's skills that require Energy for 2 rounds.
• Hephael's Frenzy: Convert 5% of outgoing dmg. to Energy if dmg. is over 50. 
• Twilight Strike: Increases Primary Critical chance to 75% when HP is below 30%.
• Twilight Aim: Increases Sidearm Critical chance to 75% when HP is below 30%.
• Twilight Blast: Increases Auxiliary Critical chance to 75% when HP is below 30%.
• Twilight Shield: Increases Defense/Resistance 15% when HP is below 30%.

New Skill Augments

This update, we're starting the grand implementation of skill augments. Eventually each skill will have at least 2 augments. If you're interested in the math, that means each class will have up to 531,441 potential skill combinations! Augments will come in one of four different varieties:

• Duration Augment (DA): Changes the duration of the effect of the skill, and either strengthens or weakens the effect accordingly.
• Utility Augment (UA): Changes one or more of the effects of the skill to another effect.
• Polarity Augment (PA): Changes the damage type of the skill to the opposite of its base version.
• Efficiency Augment (EA): Makes the skill weaker in one way and stronger in another.

For this release we're starting small with a skill that all 6 classes possess: Field Medic. This essential skill will receive 2 augments.

• (EA) Field Medic: Heal yourself or an ally over 2 turns. Cures poison.
• (UA) Field Medic: Heal yourself or an ally and remove debuffs. Cures poison.

To access these augments, retrain your character, then reduce your points in Field Medic to 1. That will reveal left and right arrows you can use to choose the augments. All skill augments will work this way when they are eventually introduced.

Please be patient as we fill out the class skill trees with new augments in the coming weeks, creating 144 new skills. We'll do our best to balance the updates so all classes get equal attention without overwhelming balance with too many options at once.

Special thanks are due to the community that suggested and contributed to these new skill augment ideas! This would definitely not be possible without your dedication and input. With great persistence and a little luck, this change could lead EpicDuel into an exciting new era of PvP action!

Seasonal Rare Reset

Next week, all seasonal rares will reset to their normal schedule, meaning this is your last chance to collect any remaining out-of-season seasonal rares you had your eye on!

Epic To-Do:

Here's a taste of what we have cooking up in the coming weeks:

• Skill Augments: As stated above, completing the 144 (132 after today) skill augments will be the main focus of the coming weeks. 
• Gifting rewards: Hopefully this is the month all prizes are complete! Will the latest Battlepass out of the way, progress should be much faster.
• New Promo: It's been ages! Acatriel is steadily working on an epic new promo!

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