EpicDuel PVP Game Design Notes

August 15, 2025

New Augments

This week, we added augments to all the class passives! Some of these skills have drastically different functionality from their base forms so you should have a lot of fun experimenting! Be warned, however, some of the passive power boosts now come with debuff tradeoffs so be sure to read the descriptions and plan your builds carefully!

• Bounty Hunter:
  • (UA) Blood Lust: Passively add a percentage of all damage inflicted to health and Energy.
  • (UA) Blood Lust: Passively add a percentage of all dmg. inflicted to HP; drain 5% target's Energy.
  • (EA) Shadow Arts: Boosts Robot damage by a percent; +10 dmg. to Primary, Sidearm, and Auxiliary.
  • (EA) Shadow Arts: Boosts Primary, Sidearm, and Auxiliary damage.
• Mercenary:
  • (EA) Hybrid Armor: Boosts Def/Res; converts 20% of outgoing dmg. to Energy; unaffected by stat changes.
  • (UA) Hybrid Armor: Boosts Def/Res; converts 7% of outgoing dmg. to Energy; gain 25% more Rage.
  • (UA) Deadly Precision: Passively increase the damage of your Sidearm.
  • (UA) Deadly Precision: Passively increase the dmg. of your Auxiliary; reflect 25% melee dmg.
• Tech Mage:
  • (EA) Concentration: Convert % of dmg. received into energy; +70 HP per over 50 dmg. attack.
  • (EA) Concentration: Convert % of dmg. received into energy.
  • (UA) Deadly Aim: Passively increase the damage of your Auxiliary.
  • (UA) Deadly Aim: Passively increase the damage of your Sidearm and Primary.
• Cyber Hunter:
  • (UA) Cyber Armor: Passive shield increases your armor's Def/Res values; 12% lifesteal.
  • (UA) Cyber Armor: Passive shield increases a % of your armor's Def/Res values; 40 HP loss per turn.
  • (UA) Cyber Edge: Passively increases Sidearm and Primary damage.
  • (UA) Cyber Edge: Passively increases Sidearm and Auxiliary damage; 40% Rage gain.
• Tactical Mercenary:
  • (EA) Mineral Armor: Passively boosts Defense; Resistance debuff based on 20% Defense boost.
  • (UA) Mineral Armor: Passively boosts Defense; drain attacker's Energy by 10% incoming dmg.
  • (UA) Reroute: Convert a percentage of all dmg. received into Energy; +30 Sidearm dmg.
  • (EA) Reroute: Convert a percentage of all dmg. received into Energy.
• Blood Mage:
  • (UA) Mania: Passively add a percentage of all damage inflicted to HP and EP; increased Rage Gain.
  • (UA) Mania: Passively add a % of all dmg. inflicted to HP; increased Rage Gain; 20% Def/Res debuff.
  • (UA) Red Vision: Passively increase the damage of your Auxiliary.
  • (UA) Red Vision: Passively increase the damage of your Sidearm and Auxiliary.

Balance Changes

• General:
  • Medical Mastery no longer applies to healing cores (i.e. only to Field Medic).
  • Critical Heal only applies to Field Medic (all versions) and Health Booster.
  • All robot damage bonuses standardized to 175.
• Skills and Cores:
  • Double Strike: +10 Energy cost to all levels.
  • Crippling Strike: +30 --> +20 Energy cost per level.
  • (UA) Field Medic: +1 HP per 1.2 --> 0.8 Support.
  • Infernal Blessing: 175 --> 150 HP per tick.
  • Absorption: 35% --> 25% incoming robot damage to user's Energy.
• Azrael's Doombringer Beauty P/E (NPC) added to The Challenger.

Other Changes/Fixes

• Seasonal rares reset to their normal schedules.
• New Settings option: disable battle backgrounds.
• Pulse Punch: wouldn't add brace to target in the event of a stun.

Progress Report

• Skill augments: I didn't take my own advice and spent too long building 24 new skill augments, plus building support for future augments. Next week, I will actually pause the augment rollout to address other items on this list. This will also give us time to address any balance issues or esoteric bugs that emerge from this update.
• Gifting Rewards: Once again, update ate into work on the prizes due to the unexpected time allocation to the new skills and fixes for the previous week's update. Next week, I will clear my schedule to focus on Gifting prizes with as few distractions as possible.
• Chat Filter Toggle: I am working on a change to EpicDuel's language filter that will allow people to disable the strict chat filter. A more permissive filter will remain, but it will still block the most extreme language and account security topics. That said, abusive language will still be moderated so it will be as important as ever to be respectful to each other.
• Gamma Pirate Promo Pack: Acatriel's new promo package is currently in-progress.

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