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 | October 24, 2025 Epic Evolved Pumpkins |
| October 17, 2025 Gifting Returns 2025
It’s that time of year again: time for an official announcement of Gifting 2025! The new Gifting Event will go LIVE Monday December 8 and last until Monday January 12! This year’s event will include many changes to the reward and requirements! For this post, we will provide a list of updated rules and prizes so PLEASE read these changes carefully if you're thinking of participating in Gifting! If you find that this year’s rewards are not to your liking, you are welcome to sit this one out.
Master PolicyThe final word of all rules and regulations is Nightwraith. If something is not explicitly covered in these Gifting rules, Nightwraith has final say to approve or deny any requests not explicitly outlined in these rules. These rules are for the upcoming Gifting season. They do not apply retroactively, and they override rules from previous seasons. If someone was able to do something or get something 1, 2, or 5 years ago, it doesn’t matter since only these new rules apply!
Mailbox BloatThe changes to the basic gifts will be maintained from last year with some structural changes: We are trying to separate Gifting gifts from the player mail. If the new system works as intended, instead of opening mail to receive gifts, you will be able to open gifts from a button inside the mail interface. This should significantly reduce the login lag commonly experienced during Gifting. Like last year, the possible gifts will be limited to Credits and Arcade Tokens. Items that were formerly in the prize pool will be available for purchase at a holiday shop. While it may not be as thrilling as unwrapping rare items, this approach ensures smoother performance and easier inventory management.
RewardsWhile the 2024 Gifting season was successful, that success came at the cost of increased development responsibilities as we created and distributed more custom prizes in one year than the last 5 years of Gifting combined. This year, we are adding back some previous reward options like hairstyles and replica items. Though the rewards are more generous, please read this section carefully. We don't want anyone to feel disappointed at the end of the event. We also don’t want to engage in any post-Gifting negotiations to find loopholes or other unreasonable requests. Also, this year, like last year, there will be no prize codes provided for the top prize.
Gifting Streak TiersOne of the main contributors to the inflated scores of 2024 was a change to the Gifting Streaks. Since a 100% Global Gift for the top tier was far too generous, we are introducing 3 new Gifting streak tiers above 200: 250, 300, 400, 500. Global gifts will cap at 50% at the new top streak tier. This change is not retroactive as the achievements will not be awarded to higher streaks from previous years. The updated Gifting streak tiers and their global gift chances will be as follows:
Good StandingYou will only be eligible to receive a prize if your account is in good standing. If you are permanently banned during or after the Gifting season, you will not be eligible to receive your prize(s), even on your alternate accounts. Other malicious behaviors like account sharing, cheating, or trying to pre-sell prizes to other players outside of the game may also negate eligibility for rewards.
The Top 15The top 15 Gifters in this event will be eligible to receive one Legacy item. We will no longer offer bonus items for each additional million points this year. *A Legacy item is any EpicDuel item aside from Founder Armor that is no longer available in-game. It could be something from a phase like the Gamma Bot or a permanent rare like the Bunnyzookas. Participants in the top 15 at the end of the event may choose 1 Legacy item. These items may have light personalized touches to them. A class-changing weapon counts as 1 item. Please note: Personalization that includes CPU-taxing effects may affect the in-game performance for you and other players. We will try our best to optimize the items, but there are limitations to Flash’s rendering capabilities. Please consider this when conceptualizing your prize. The #1 Gifter at the end of the event will be eligible for a custom item in addition to the Legacy Item they already earned for being in the top 15. The custom item grand prize can be an item from any existing category. If it's a category of item that has P and E variants, the opposite variant can be created as a recolor. Customization requests can be refused if they're deemed unreasonable or illegal (copy-written material, offensive, etc...) or if they exceed the limitation of the game (creating excessive lag, too large, too complex). Unlike last year, cores attached to the custom item or robot attacks CAN be customized for the #1 Gifter as long as their effects in-battle must have in-game equivalents. Finally, we will be retaining the bonus awarded to the player or players with the most Daily Gift Leader achievements: The option for an additional Legacy item (non-Founder). Unlike last year, if there is a tie for the most Daily Gift Leader achievements, the winner will be determined by the total score achieved on the days they received the Daily Gift Leader achievements. For example, if player 1 and player 2 both have 4 Daily Gift Leader achievements, but player 1 had a score of 500,000 on each of those 4 days, while player 2's Daily Gift Leader achievements were earned with scores of 100,000 on each day, player 1 would qualify for the extra custom prize.
No TiesThis year there will absolutely be no ties. In the event of a tied score, the tie will be broken based on the first person to achieve the score. This can be determined easily by receipt logs. If 2 or more people qualify for the most Daily Gift Leader achievements, the winner will be determined as described in the section above.
Founder Armor RuleThis year, those who achieve a Gifting score of at least 2,000,000 AND place in the top 15 may request Founder Armor as a prize. We raised the threshold this year to combat the oversaturation of rares, compensate for score inflation, and provide an additional incentive for scores over 1,000,000. Hypothetically, if your score is greater than 2,000,000 but you're still in 16th place, you will unfortunately not be eligible for the Founder Armor. Additionally, though this is a rare scenario, if you place in the top 15, and have the original Founder Achievement, but not the armor, you may request Founder Armor as your Legacy item. Please note that this rule does not mean you may request Founder Armor in addition to another Legacy Rare. It simply means that the option to request Founder Armor unlocks if you place in the top 15 and have a score of over 2,000,000.
Score Tier PrizesThe intention for introducing these score tiers was to incentivize people to gift who aren't necessarily competing for the top 15 spots or even a daily 1st place. These tier rewards don’t seem to have achieved that desired outcome in the years we've offered them, and tier rewards involve much more work creating and distributing items during an event that already requires a lot of work and attention. Additionally, the huge workload from 2024 Gifting cut deep into our prep time for new rewards. This year, we will offer far fewer tiers with modest rewards. This year, the score tiers will be:
The most interesting change is that the 1,000,000-point threshold will award an unmodified Legacy Rare (aside from Founder) of the Gifter’s choice.
Faction PrizeThis year we will be offering a new reward to the Faction with the highest Gifting score. The player with the highest score in the winning Faction will serve as representative to request a Legacy Rare item (other than Founder) for the entire Faction. This item may be personalized with the Faction flag or Faction colors. Factions may only be eligible if their Influence is 100,000 or higher.
New Epic Supporter AchievementsSince the Epic Supporter achievements have been active for most of 2025 already, we are refreshing these achievements with special variants for Gifting. These new achievements will be introduced late in November to replace the current Epic Supporter achievements for the duration of Gifting.
Reward Summary:
We will work with all winners to help create the best rewards possible, but these limitations are necessary to prevent the scope of the rewards from expanding too far and eclipsing the rest of EpicDuel’s development. We tried to include as much information as possible for this post, but there still may be more changes (or things we forgot) before Gifting begins.
Prize SharingUnfortunately, extremely generous prize sharing opens a dangerous market for selling items outside of the game. We've even seen people trying to pre-sell their rewards they haven't even earned yet! There are many scammers that try to sell rewards from past years that simply take the money and run. For that reason, we are setting a limit on the ability to share rewards to only the top 15 other winners for the 2025 Gifting season and the members in their faction (up to 25) who also have at least 100,000 Faction Influence. Winners will not be able to share past rewards, but they can offer them in a shop. Items offered in a shop must be sold at a minimum quantity of 50 and a minimum price of 5,000 Varium. Winners from previous Gifting events will not be able to share anything.
Top 15 Secret and Silver Secret Package BonusThis year we will award additional Secret and Silver Secret Packages based on placement in the top 15 at the end of the Gifting event.
The top 15 winners may distribute their additional packages at their discretion, but they will need to keep at least one Secret and/or Silver Secret package in their inventories until they are opened to receive the items when the packages open. Packages will open several weeks after the Gifting Event ends to allow plenty of time for the distribution to take place. At the end of Gifting, excess Secret and Silver Secret packages will transform into items that can be redeemed for Credits.
Legacy Secret and Silver Secret Package BonusAs a bonus this year, much like last year, we will allow Gifters in the top 15 to use their Secret and Silver Secret Packages to claim Secret and Silver Secret rewards from previous years. This means if you want the Secret/Silver rewards from 2019 and 2020 in addition to the rewards from this current year, you will need to retain 3 Secret and 3 Silver Secret Packages in your inventory. If you wish, you will also be allowed to transfer those rewards to other people, Gifting them the Silver or Secret Package for previous years.
Daily Gift Legend and Daily Gift Legend 2025 AchievementsSome of the most esoteric achievements are those awarded to those who finish in the top 15 and also win the top Daily Gifter achievement for multiple years in a row. Those who won top Daily Gifter in multiple Gifting seasons between 2018 and 2025 are also eligible for a special achievement. These have to be expanded each year and can be hard to track so I'll post the new achievements for the latest season of Gifting here:
Gifting ConciergeIf you are new to gifting, you might now know that there is a prominent player who has acted as a Gifting concierge for the last several Gifting events. Gifting is typically a very chaotic time in EpicDuel so this role helps to keep major Gifting events from conflicting with each other and depriving the participants of their rightful rewards. You may know him as Smoking Shadow, and if you are interested in hosting a major Gifting event, you will want to get in touch with him: In-game: Smoking Shadow
Tis the Season to Be WaryGifting is a joyful time in EpicDuel, but it also brings out nefarious scammers who want to take advantage of other players. Don't risk your EpicDuel account or bank account for a stranger online who promises you great rewards or free Varium. Though times and technology change, the adage holds true: if someone is promising you something that seems too good to be true, it probably is!
Grand FinaleI want to cap off this post by stating that this will be the last Gifting event in EpicDuel with custom prizes. We have enjoyed working with past winners making your grandest visions become reality, but we simply do not have the resources to deliver a host of custom prizes every year while also continuing to develop the game. We already have some ideas to keep the Gifting competition alive and thriving without burning out our development staff. In the meantime, we wish you the best of luck in the Gifting 2025! Tags: Nightwraith |
| October 08, 2025 EpicDuel's Buffed Debuffs |
| October 03, 2025 EpicDuel's Big Beautiful Buffs
This latest update introduces new skill augments for all buffs and the remaining offensive skills. We hope you have fun trying them all out and testing new builds!
Next week we will complete our long journey of implementing skill augments (144 new skills in total) with debuff augments, which will feature some of the most consequential (and challenging to build) new skills!
Balance Changes:Rejoice! This release comes with balance changes to the promotional package cores, and this time, they are actually buffs! How fortuitously on-theme!
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| September 24, 2025 Skill Augments Part 7 |
| September 19, 2025 Gamma Pirate Gear NOW LIVE! |
| September 10, 2025 EpicDuel Skill Augments Part 6 |
| September 05, 2025 EpicDuel Skill Augments Part 5 |
| September 02, 2025 Battle Draw UpdateA few days ago, we introduced a new battle end state: Battle Draw. This state applies if the battle ends before the first turn is completed -- most commonly when the opponent instantly disconnects, either unintentionally or intentionally. Currently, in a Battle Draw, the remaining player(s) earns no Credits, Experience, or drops and the battle record is unaffected. This was deemed too punative so we have revised Battle Draws to grant a win as well as reward a small set amount of Credits and Experience. Battle Draws will still reward no drops and wil not deduct limited cores or boosts. In summary, Battle Draws:
We may adjust the rewards further if we see rapid disconnects continue to be abused. We are also investigating excluding Faction wins from Battle Draws, eliminating another incentive to boost wins. Tags: Nightwraith |
| August 29, 2025 Skill Augments Continued
EpicDuel is live with new skill augments, balance changes, and bug fixes! New Skill AugmentsExperiment with these new skill augments for all classes! Some are fairly straightforward, offering adjusted damage values or an alternative damage type, while other drastically change the skill's effect, like reducing healing effectiveness instead of defense ignore. Expect another round of skill augments next week also focusing on offensive abilities.
Balance Changes
Battle DrawNot a new battle mode, but a new battle state: If someone disconnects or refreshes the game before the first turn completes, the duel ends in a draw with 0 rewards, but no impact on the battle record for the person remaining. In the event of a 2v2 or Juggernaut match, the battle will only be a draw if both members of a team leave before the first turn completes. We are implementing this to counteract rapid disconnects used to boost wins and rewards for characters. Players who disconnect from battle will still face with the normal loss and run penalty.
Bug Fixes:Challenges don't work while the chat filter is active. It seems crazy, but last week's chat filter changes broke challenges for people with the filter enabled. It's wild how changes to one system can completely break another seemingly unrelated system.
Coming Soon: Gamma Pirate
We're currently developing a new pirate/Gamma-themed promo back that we're pleased to share: The Gamma Pirate! Prepare to sail the irradiated seas with new weapons, armors, bots, and cores coming soon! Tags: Nightwraith |
| August 22, 2025 EpicDuel Language Filter Overhaul |
| August 15, 2025 Skill Augments: Passive Edition |
| August 08, 2025 EpicDuel Ultimate Skill Augments |
| August 01, 2025 Hephael Knight Showcase Battlepass Is Now Live!
The Hephael Knight Showcase Battlepass is NOW LIVE! Login now to earn the latest collection of Hephael-themed weapons, armors, morphs, bots, and more crafted with care by Acatriel! 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:
New Skill AugmentsThis 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:
For this release we're starting small with a skill that all 6 classes possess: Field Medic. This essential skill will receive 2 augments.
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 ResetNext 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:
Tags: Nightwraith |
| July 25, 2025 Calendar Chronomancer Collector
Unleash the unstoppable power of Infinity! Feel the pulse of legendary battles where every second counts the very moment your power level shatters the limits of time itself! Channel your inner champion, harness the forces of the universe, and push beyond Infinity! Get this gorgeous poster today to claim Epic rewards many AE games, including your favorite post-apocalyptic Flash-based PvP MMO, EpicDuel!
(Collector's Edition Exclusive)*
*NOTE: Collector's Edition Exclusives are not included with a purchase of a Regular Edition.
Content Creators Unite!
For ages EpicDuel has offered special achievements for creating Youtube videos. At the time, this was the best way we could think of to reward and encourage content creators (I think the achievements are so old that "content creator" wasn't even a widely used term yet) in the community to produce videos featuring EpicDuel. Awarding these achievements was a very cumbersome and time-consuming manual process that was very antiquated and unsustainable, especially with limited resources to review dozens, if not hundreds, of videos for quality and content. Fortunately, Beleen has helped establish a new content creator program that serves the same purpose as our existing Youtube video achievement, but centralized and more efficient. Although this system has been available for awhile, I wanted to highlight it here to make EpicDuel's community aware that this new system has fully replaced the old Youtuber achievements. If you didn't catch the original Design Notes post, I'll repost it below for you now: What are the rules/qualifications?
In case you missed it, here is the link to the nomination form: Nominate video makers and streamers to receive a Content Creator Badge!
More War Shop ArmorsMorzyd's War Shop has been stocked with additional War Prize armors!
Bug Fixes / Changes
Hephael Knight BattlepassThe Hephael Knight Battlepass is scheduled to be released next Friday. If you still have some items you need to collect on the current Battlepass, you still have some time! I know it seems silly to comment on this when the current Battlepass has been out since April, but somehow we always get a few emails from people mystified that the Battlepass that was in game for over 3 months is suddenly GONE! It might be better to have a countdown timer to show the exact amount of time remaining for each Battlepass, but I prefer to keep the dates flexible depending on when the next Battlepass items are ready. Tags: Nightwraith |
