 | April 29, 2022 Cyber Hunter Surge
This week's update begins the surge of the Cyber Hunter! Login now to try out this revamped class with 4 new skills and many other skill adjustments!
Balance
EpicDuel's classes are receiving an update this week, with a particular focus on Cyber Hunters. This class has struggled for ages to find a niche and this update equips it with a new array of offensive and defensive options. If you want to try out this class but don't have the Credits or Varium, coupons for free class changes are available from PvP drops and at a higher % Simulation mode drops.
- Cyber Hunter
- Defense Matrix: Replaced with Adaptive Armor. Increases Defense and Resistance by a %.
- Proton Cannon: Changed behavior to be more like Massacre; increase damage by % per level; 25% lifesteal.
- Static Charge: Strike damage increased from 85% to 100%.
- Pulse Punch: Removed random cooldown effect; wrist blade requirement; lifesteal a flat 25%.
- EMP Grenade: Replaced with Memory Leak. Skill values are the same as its most recent revision, without the 70% of initial hit to user’s energy.
- Kernel Panic: Replace with Lock On. Effect: Strike and increase the defense ignored by the user’s attacks for 3 turns (non-inclusive); defense ignore values: 10%, 12%, 14%, 16%, 18%, 20%, 22%, 23%, 24%, 25%; energy cost: 100 energy, +20 per level; stat required: 21 dexterity, +2 per level; no warmup, 1 turn cooldown.
- Plasma Armor: Replaced with Counterattack. Reflects % of damage from incoming attacks for 3 turns; reflected damage values: 24% + 2% per level (max 50%); energy cost: 90 energy, +15 per level; no warmup, 3 turn cooldown.
- Gene Augment: Replaced by Master of Arms. Passively increases the damage of the equipped sidearm, primary, and auxiliary by a percentage; % damage increase: 1%, +1% per level (10% max)
- Tactical Mercenary
- Crippling Strike: Max level reduced to 15% of the opponents defense; improves with ever 4 points of Strength.
- Field Commander: Increases Support instead of Strength.
- Battery Backup: 4 turn cooldown.
- Tech Mage
- NanoTech Shield: 15% damage reduction max.
- Battery Backup: 4 turn cool down.
- Plasma Bolt: 20% defenses ignored.
- Assimilation: Increased damage from 70% to 100%; scales with Dexterity.
- Mercenary
- Intimidate: Improves with every 3 Support, duration increased to 4 turns.
- Surgical strike: Same scaling as Annihilation; improves with everyy .3 points of Technology; improves for every .4 levels over 20 and weakens for ever .4 levels below 20.
- Bounty Hunter
- Smoke screen: Added effect of reducing heal effects by 15%.
- Shadow Arts: Increased minimum to 4% and max to 15%.
- Blood Mage
- Fireball: Improves with Support instead of Dexterity.
- Fire Rain: Improves with Dexterity instead of Support.
- Terrify: Removed stun chance.
UI Adjustments
- Home Interface
- Increased item limit to 35 per room.
- Reduced scaling on items in inventory to address overlap on huge items.
- Character Creator/Customizer
- Moved color picker buttons further right to prevent character overlap
Bug Fixes/Changes
- Primary Master, Gun Mastery, Auxiliary Mastery Cores, Yeti Charge Cores were outputting inflated damaged values beyond the 10% buffs.
Security Checkup
If you're experiencing difficulty logging into your EpicDuel accounts, this may be due to a recent security change that will require you to review their user information and update your old passwords with new ones.
If after attempting to login, you received a message about your account being locked or secured, you will need to login into your account via the Battleon Portal. After successfully logging in via the website and updating your password you should then be able to login to your EpicDuel account through the Launcher normally.
For more help and information regarding login issues, please visit this Support Page.
Even if you are not currently experiencing any login issues at all, you should still take this as an opportunity to review your account information, make sure you still have access to the email associated with the account, and choose new, strong passwords. It's generally good practice to do this every 6-12 months to keep your accounts and the epic characters they contain safe and secure. Tags: Nightwraith |
| April 27, 2022 EpicDuel Security Checkup
If you recently started experiencing difficulty logging into your EpicDuel accounts, this may be due to a recent security change that will require you to review their user information and update your old passwords with new ones.
If after attempting to login, you received a message about your account being locked or secured, you will need to login into your account via the Battleon Portal. After successfully logging in via the website and updating your password you should then be able to login to your EpicDuel account through the Launcher normally.
For more help and information regarding login issues, please visit this Support Page.
Security Checkup
Even if you are not currently experiencing any login issues at all, you should still take this as an opportunity to review your account information, make sure you still have access to the email associated with the account, and choose new, strong passwords. It's generally good practice to do this every 6-12 months to keep your accounts and the epic characters they contain safe and secure. Tags: Nightwraith |
| April 15, 2022 Find the Fallen Star
A star has fallen in the ravaged mountain range on the outskirts of the Dread Plains. Track and challenge this ancient power for new gear and achievements!
Luthiel: Commander of the Stars
2 new bosses have dropped (quite literally) out of the sky in the Dread Plains! Track down this otherworldly beast and defeat it to collect it's coveted weapons and armor!
Luthiel
- Luthiel's Bane P (15% drop rate)
- Luthiel's Bane E (15% drop rate)
Nightmare Luthiel
- Luthiel's Bane P (25% drop rate)
- Luthiel's Bane E (25% drop rate)
- Winged Star Hunter (20% drop rate)
- Winged Star Hunter CC (20% drop rate)
Legendary Arsenal Boost
If you'd prefer to spare yourself some time and anguish fighting a boss, you can stop by the Legendary shops (assuming you have the proper level) and buy variants of the boss armor!
- Legendary Arsenal
- Caped Star Hunter
- Caped Star Hunter CC
- Exquisite Legendary Arsenal
- Star Hunter
- Star Hunter CC
New Hairstyles
Cosplay as hunter or prey by opening the style picker to check out hairstyles 435-443! Tags: Nightwraith |
| April 08, 2022 Commander of the Stars Preview New PvP Drops!
If you've been doing PvP battles since last weekend, you've likely acquired some new April Fools themed weapons. Going off that theme, we've released fourteen new CC sword variants to the PvP drop pool! Can you collect them all before they leave?
- Hyperion Greatsword P CC
- Hyperion Greatsword E CC
- Shrouded Hyperion P CC
- Shrouded Hyperion E CC
- Fw0rsht B4n3 SeeSee
- FluF B4n3 SeeSee
- Inf3rn0l Sl4y4h SeeSee
- Impurrnal Slayer SeeSee
- S0l Inv1kToos SeeSee
- Sol Inv1ct Meows SeeSee
- Dorge's Decimalat0r SeeSee
- Borge's D3c1m4T0R SeeSee
- 4zr33l Bj0rn SeeSee
- Azreal Bean SeeSee
Commander of the Stars (Preview)
Acatriel and Bido have been cooking up a grand feast for you with new weapons, new armors, new styles, and 2 new boss fights!
This week was a blitz to complete more work related to gifting rewards, but luckily Acatriel, Bido, Deuce, and Spider are still able to develop new content and features to keep the game moving along!
Keep watching the stars and prepare yourself for the coming cosmic onslaught next week!
In Development
We haven't forgotten the outstanding list of suggestions and features for improvements to EpicDuel! Here's a short list of some features currently in-progress!
- Cyber-Hunter focused balance improvements
- Bank interface improvements
- More robust character options
- XP mission rewards
- Skip turn button
- Daily login rewards
To be clear, these features do not have an ETA, but more details will be revealed as development proceeds.
Bug Fixes:
- Emerald stars should now display correctly.
Tags: Nightwraith |
| April 01, 2022 Egg-stra-terrestrial Invasion
A new rift in the cosmos has scrambled the natural order of Delta V. Horrific hybrids from outside the known Universe have infiltrated the planetary protection field and invaded PvP. Battle friends and foes to egg-spose these egg-stra-terrestrial menaces and capture them for your own!
Egg-celent New PvP Drops
New April Fools-themed drops have been added to all battle modes. Here's a complete list of all the possible new drops so if you want to be surprised, look away!
Event Weapon Drops
- Fw0rsht B4n3
- FluF B4n3
- Inf3rn0l Sl4y4h
- Impurrnal Slayer
- S0l Inv1kToos
- Sol Inv1ct Meows
- Dorge's Decimalat0r
- Borge's D3c1m4T0R
- 4zr33l Bj0rn
- Azreal Bean
Rare Dage-themedTravel Form Drops
- Knightmare War Horse CC
- Knightmare Horse CC
Home Item Drops
- ChickenCalf Right
- ChickenCalf Left
- Armored ChickenCalf Right
- Armored ChickenCalf Left
- Chibi Ox Right
- Chibi Ox Left
- DF ChickenCow Right
- DF ChickenCow Left
- ChickenCow Right
- ChickenCow Left
- ChickenCow 2 Right
- ChickenCow 2 Left
- RoosterBull Right
- RoosterBull Left
- Spirit RoosterBull Right
- Spirit RoosterBull Left
- Sriracha RoosterBull Right
- Sriracha RoosterBull Left
New Hairstyles
Don new poultry-based paraphernalia with 5 new hairstyles for each class!
Bug Fixes / Changes
- NPCs will deploy shields less frequently
- Varium sellback in quantities higher than 1000 will award correctly.
Tags: Nightwraith |
