May 02, 2025 New Boss Approaches: Smoking Shadow
NEW BOSS INCOMING: SMOKING SHADOW
A new boss has emerged from the shadows of Central Station and he's itching for a fight! As a wish from the most recent Gifting event, Smoking Shadow wanted to become a boss NPC in EpicDuel. I was happy to grant this request as it is sure to provide an ample challenge and enjoyable experience for the entire EpicDuel community! This boss will feature 3 modes: basic, Legendary, and Nightmare, each with their own achievements. Legendary and Nightmare modes will have their own exclusive drops with some only lasting a week! A few of Smoking Shadow's fellow Gifting winners were even generous enough to include their items as low percentage drops!
Legendary Drops:
- Kaidou --> 1%
- Yoru's Legend --> 3%
- Lele's:
- Nika --> 1% (1 week only)
- Enel --> 1% (1 week only)
- Alonzo Harris':
- Brigade’s Inferno --> 5% (1 week only)
- Alonzo’s Pulse --> 5% (1 week only)
Nightmare Drops:
- Draconic Igris --> 1% (1 week only)
- Yoru's Nightmare --> 3%
- Lele's:
- Enma --> 1% (1 week only)
- Shusui --> 1% (1 week only)
- Alonzo Harris':
- Brigade’s Guardian --> 5% (1 week only)
- Alonzo’s Shadow --> 5% (1 week only)
Those who are able to defeat Legendary or Nightmare Smoking Shadow before the update next Friday will also receive new achievements commending their alacrity and determination!
NPC Drop Improvements
Since this update features NPC drops so heavily, I decided to make some improvements to the NPC drop system. NPCs can now drop more than 1 rewards at a time! Also, each item now rolls for it's own independent drop chance. Previously, if we set item A to have a 50% drop chance and item B with a 50% drop chance, nothing else would ever be able to drop and you could only receive one drop at a time. Now an NPC can drop as many 50% drop items as we want! This should help ease frustrations when farming for low percentage drops since each item in an NPC's drop pool receive it's own drop chance, meaning it is possible, if unlikely, to receive multiple low percentage drops from one battle.
Restrictions have also been placed on NPC drops in other battle modes they may appear in aside from challenging them directly.
PvP and Arcade Drop Improvements
Good news! PvP drops, aside from mission/miscellaneous items (like Arcade Tokens and various shards/gems), will now auto-convert to 150 Credits, accumulating into one Credit prize at the end of battle if multiple duplicates are obtained.This will be joyous news for people who frequently use the Arcade games or play PvP battle modes extensively. Sellback on PvP drops that can be auto-converted have been normalized to 150 for drops going forward.
It's still possible to win a duplicate item if you upgrade the item you already have with Credits. This is to allow people to have multiple versions of the same item in different configurations if they wish.
This functionality has been extended to Arcade games as well. Duplicate rewards will skip the spin animation and provide a small notification box indicating the duplicate credits awarded. The duplicate rewards are configured to match the sellback of the items, saving you a trip to a nearby merchant.
This isn't quite as good as batch sellback, but I feel we're getting closer!
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