EpicDuel PVP Game Design Notes

April 10, 2020

New gear and major balance changes abound in this holiday update! Plus, Power Hour extended until June 1st!

Balance

There are some major balance changes in this update, including core buffs and a major change for Blood Mage -- Intimidate will be replaced with Terrify, a Strength debuff with a chance to stun!

• Intimidate (Blood Mage): Changed to Terrify; Added Stun effect
• Static Charge: Improve with Support instead of Technology
• Memory Leak: Increase energy cost base to to 90; Duration decreased to 3 turns
• Venom Strike: Improve with every 6 Dexterity
• Barbed Grenade: Improve with Support instead of Dexterity; Added Technology requirement; 1 turn warmup
• Reroute (Tech Mage and Tactical Mercenary): Improve +2% per level
• Brutal Strike: Removed stun effect
• Shell Shocker: Damage increased to 100%; Warmup increased to 2 turns
• Icy Overkill (Gun): Ignores 40% of target's defenses.
• Icy Overkill (Auxiliary): Ignoring 40% of target's defenses.

Morning Star Gear

Deuce has delivered another set of rare gear available at his NPC in the Mine's abandoned train station!

• Morning Star Cutters P
• Morning Star Cutters E
• Morning Star Axe P
• Morning Star Axe E
•  Morning Star Staff P
• Morning Star Staff E
• Morning Star Launcher P
• Morning Star Launcher E
• Morning Star Plasma Cannon P
• Morning Star Plasma Cannon E

Collecting all of his gear won't be so easy, however, as his swords will only be available as battle drops from his Legendary form!

• Morning Star Claymore P
• Morning Star Claymore E

Leaving Soon!

Next week on Friday, April 17th, Dage the Evil's seasonal and rare gear will be leaving until the next Friday the 13th in November! Also, Nightmare Dage will be reverting to Legendary Dage, meaning this will be the last chance in many months that you'll be able to collect his rare weapons and armor drops!

Power Time!

To help easy the long grind of credits and Experience for many of our returning and current players looking to level up and power up their gear, EpicDuel is extending Power Hour until June 1st! Duel On!

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