 | September 13, 2024 Epic Friday the 13th
EpicDuel's latest update contains core/robot balance changes, war item influence changes, and new achievements, but it's only a appetizer for the main course: the Kaiju Slayer Battlepass which will be releasing at the end of September/early October.
War Item Influence Boost
War Bomb influence has been increased to a 50 point base (42-57 range) for regular drops. This should make using war items more impactful on influence scores while making super war items much more powerful.
Friday the 13th Returns
Friday the 13th seasonal rares are back! Visit Snork, Caden, and Dage to complete your collection!
Achievements
The following achievements have been added to the achievement shop:
- Big Show 2024
- Friday The 13th 2024
These new achievements will appear in the Seasonal section of the achievement shop for a limited time.
Balance Changes
Phantasm Blast: 25% Energy damage, increasing by 5% per turn, max 50%
Pyro Fly: Take any random active skill instead of just top 3
infernal Offering: 2 --> 1 turn duration (initial MP gain on use + 1 additional turn), increase mana from 150 to 180
infernal Prism: 3 --> 2 turn duration
Remember, you only have a few weeks left to complete the Nanotech Nightmare Battlepass before it's replaced with the Kaiju Slayer! Tags: Nightwraith |
| September 06, 2024 Jaguar Warrior Arcade
EpicDuel is back with a new addition to its ArcadeBots: Jaguar Warrior! Will you be the first to claim all the new gear and reach the top of the Arcade's leaderboard?
NEW Jaguar Warrior Arcade
Seek out your nearest ArcadeBot (many are concentrated in Valestra's shop in Fortune City) to play the latest Arcade game: Jaguar Warrior! Use your Arcade Tokens to win the 20 new prizes!
- Jaguar Warrior Armor A
- Jaguar Warrior Armor B
- Jaguar Warrior Armor A CC
- Jaguar Warrior Armor B CC
- Jaguar Warrior Sword P
- Jaguar Warrior Sword E
- Jaguar Warrior Sword CC P
- Jaguar Warrior Sword CC E
- Macuahuitl P
- Macuahuitl E
- Jaguar Warrior Blades P
- Jaguar Warrior Blades E
- Jaguar Warrior Axe P
- Jaguar Warrior Axe E
- Jaguar Warrior Staff P
- Jaguar Warrior Staff E
- Jaguar Warrior Gun P
- Jaguar Warrior Gun E
- Jaguar Warrior Bow P
- Jaguar Warrior Bow E
Since this is a new Arcade game, it also comes with a new evolving achievement. Spend those Tokens to max out the new achievement to level 20! As you accumulate more rating points, you'll creep ever closer to the 10 new rating tiers!
Jaguar Warrior Styles
To complement the new Jaguar Warrior gear, we've added styles 805 - 810 to the style shop! Check them out to complete your look! Tags: Nightwraith |
| August 28, 2024 Epic Justice
This post is a blunt reminder of the new consequences of cheating, plus an important message about the 2023 Gifting perks and account security.
Updated Consequences of Cheating
Awhile ago, EpicDuel implemented a policy of resetting wins as a punishment for repeat offenders who attempt to cheat to boost their wins. Apparently, that policy was not nearly severe enough because we still saw repeat offenders who continue to cheat even after a reset. To escalate the penalty for multiple infractions of cheating, effective immediately, in addition to having wins reset in the battle mode in which the cheating occurred, there will be 3 additional punishments.
- The first change is that the wins from the battle mode that was reset will be subtracted from the main win tracking achievement. For example, if the character has 1000 Juggernaut wins reset, 1000 points would be deducted for their achievement.
- Second, the achievements that track 1v1, 2v2, and Juggernaut wins for each class will be deleted based on which battle mode was reset. For example, if Juggernaut wins were reset for a character, their Juggernaut class achievements would be removed.
- Third, since Influence is a character stat earned from wins, the character's personal Influence would be reduced based on the proportion of the wins that were reduced.
This may seem severe, but that is precisely the intention! Hopefully these additional consequences will give pause to anyone considering cheating in the future. Again, these new punishments are in effect immediately.
Gifting Perk Cutoff
One of the perks of this past year's Gifting event was awarding prizes to a select group of friends. Generously, or perhaps foolishly, I did not establish a limit on either the number of friends or how long this offer would remain open. I have noticed an uptick in reports about people attempting to scam Gifters by abusing this offer so I feel it is now necessary for a hard deadline. Friday, September 20th will be the final day for awarding Gifting prizes to friends for this past Gifting season. If you don't read or care about Design Notes posts, but still ask about sharing items after the cutoff, your request will be politely denied.
Scam Alert
As the holidays approach, this is also a good space to remind you all about account safety and protecting yourself from scams. If you don't remember when you last changed your password, now is a great time to do so. Also, make sure you are the sole owner of your account. A common way to lose control of your account is account sharing. Not only is it against the Terms of Service, but it also puts your account at great risk of being stolen and eventually disabled. If you use a public or shared computer to play EpicDuel, always fully close the launcher or browser window the game is being played on, and avoid using the "save login info" feature.
Protecting your account can be as simple as following a few rules: DO NOT share your password. DO NOT share your account. DO NOT try to sell accounts or items outside the game. The classic advice still applies: If someone offers you something that seems too good to be true, it probably is! Tags: Nightwraith |
| August 23, 2024 Righteous Gemstones Part 2
Extra Achievement Update
This latest update features new tiers for some existing achievements, plus a new evolving achievement to complement the new gem achievements added last week. Those who already meet or exceed the new tiers will be updated manually. To update your Archivist achievement, you will simply need to have your gear re-appraised by an NPC that offers this service such as Charfade.
- Daily Solo Champion: Expanded to Tier 10
- Daily Team Champion: Expanded to Tier 10
- Juggernaut: Expanded to Tier 10
- Daily Prize Champion: Expanded to Tier 10
- World Domination: Expanded to Tier 11
- Rising Star: Expanded to Tier 10
- Archivist: Expanded to Tier 21
- Black Diamond: Evolves up to Tier 20.
New Legendary Rank Leaderboard
By popular request, we have added a new Leaderboard to track All-Time Legendary Ranks.
Character Page Changes
The Character Pages have been updated to correct an error that was causing some items to not load correctly on the character. This bug mainly affected players with extremely large inventories. This is because the query that loads the items on the character was written back when the inventory cap was much, much smaller than it is today. To help clean up the Character Page and accommodate the added items, Home Items and Missions Completed have been removed from the page.
Balance Changes
- Force Field: Replaced with Energy Shield
- Critical Heal (Armor): Activates at any HP --> Activates below 25% HP
- Frost Revenant Retribution P/E: 100% damage --> 85% damage
- Acorn Annihilator: 35% --> 40% robot damage as MP poison; multi-use --> single-use
Jaguar Warrior Arcade Preview
Acatriel is cooking up some awesome new art for an upcoming Jaguar Warrior Arcade game that will be available within the next few weeks!
Tags: Nightwraith |
| August 16, 2024 Righteous Gemstones
New Evolving Gemstone Achievements
To help players invest their excess Credits accumulated over the years, we've introduced 6 new evolving achievements, each upgradeable to level 20. This amounts to thousands of Rating Points. A fair trade for a few million Credits!
- Raw Ruby
- Raw Topaz
- Raw Sapphire
- Raw Emerald
- Raw Amethyst
- Raw Diamond
We may need some extra rating star levels after these are maxed out!
NPC-Only Cores
With this update we are introducing new NPC-only cores. These cores, while mostly identical to the correspondingly-named cores already in-game, can only be used in NPC-only battle modes. These modes include 1v1 NPC, 1v1 Boss, 2v1 Boss, and Simulation. Unlike their PvP counterparts, these cores are multi-use with 4-turn cooldowns:
- Exsanguinating Shield (NPC): Available at Azrael
- Flagellation (NPC): : Available at The Challenger
- Chained Blood (NPC) Available at The Challenger
- Feast of Flesh (NPC): Available at Alydroid
- Titan's Shroud (NPC): Available at Titan
- Hardened Armor (NPC): Available at Deuce
- Infernal Surge (NPC): Available at Kraggor
- Draconic Frost King's Will (NPC): Available at Titan
If you struggled against EpicDuel's toughest bosses in the past, these new cores might be just what you need to take them down!
Note: These cores will still be disabled in PvP battle modes even if your opponent is an NPC! For example, if you are matched with an NPC in 1v1 automatch mode, the cores will still be disabled.
New Bido Core
This update also introduces a new core available at Bido!
- Bido's Bitters: Weak poison (5 HP per turn) that prevents stronger poisoning for 4 turns.
This core could be useful for countering heavy poison builds. Note: This core will not block poison attacks from NPCs. Tags: Nightwraith |
| August 09, 2024 Bido's Birthday Showcase 2024
Bido's Birthday Gear
We've finally adding a long-awaited update to EpicDuel artist Bido's Birthday shop! We know we're later than usual, but better late than never! Pay Bido a visit in his Afterlife perch to browse his latest limited-quantity rares.
- Bido's Venom Greatsword P
- Bido's Venom Greatsword E
- Bido's Venom Blade P
- Bido's Venom Blade E
- Bido's Venom Scythe P
- Bido's Venom Scythe E
- Bido's Venom Glaives P
- Bido's Venom Glaives E
- Bido's Venom Axe P
- Bido's Venom Axe E
- Bido's Venom Staff P
- Bido's Venom Staff E
- Bido's Venom Dagger P
- Bido's Venom Dagger E
We've also re-added the Bido weapons to the PvP drop pool that are necessary for completing his collection missions.
New Achievements
This update is also bringing several new NFTeaser Achievements. Remember NFTs? Such a time capsule of 2020-2021, which, to my mind, feels like it was simultaneously 5 months ago and 50 years ago. Anyway, these new themed achievements should provide a quick boost of the big Credit spenders out there. This isn't the last batch of Credit sink achievements so don't spend them all in one place!
- Titan's NFTeaser
- Rabblefroth's NFTeaser
- Charfade's NFTeaser
- Big Tuna's NFTeaser
- Cinderella's NFTeaser
- Acatriel's NFTeaser
- YOLOScythe's NFTeaser
- Baelius' NFTeaser
Tags: Nightwraith |
