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Nightwraith

June 21, 2019

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This week in EpicDuel, get ready to boost your rating points as we introduce 3 new, long-awaited, evolving achievements. While your stacking your ranks and trying the latest round of balance updates, try downloading the latest Artix Game Launcher for the best dueling experience!

 

Balance

As of the latest balance update, Mercenaries were punished hard and Hunters surged while Mages languished somewhere in the middle. This update will introduce some changes to soften the other passive armors, reduce the spam-ability of Venom Strike, and increase the stat cost of Shadow Arts. Mages should see a bump with a boost in Plasma Bolt and a change to Supercharge which can provide a huge boost to Rage depending on the target's Rage.

General

  • Auxiliary damage rate improved slightly to encourage Support builds

Bounty Hunter

  • Smoke Screen: Improves with every 4 Tech instead of 3.7
  • Venom Strike: Cooldown 3
  • Shadow Arts: Changed requirement to Support
    24 Support(+2 per skill level increase)
    Level 1: 24 Support
    Level 2: 26 Support
    Level 3: 28 Support
    Level 4: 30 Support
    Level 5: 32 Support
    Level 6: 34 Support
    Level 7: 36 Support
    Level 8: 38 Support
    Level 9: 40 Support
    Level 10: 42 Support

Mercenary

  • Artillery Strike: Improves with every .35 support instead of .4

Tech Mage

  • Plasma Bolt: Boosted defense ignore to 15% from 10%
  • Supercharge: Caster receives bonus Rage based on target's current Rage
  • Deadly Aim: requres Strength instead of Support

Cyber Hunter

  • Venom Strike: Cooldown 3
  • Shadow Arts: Changed requirement to Support
    24 Support(+2 per skill level increase)
    Level 1: 24 Support
    Level 2: 26 Support
    Level 3: 28 Support
    Level 4: 30 Support
    Level 5: 32 Support
    Level 6: 34 Support
    Level 7: 36 Support
    Level 8: 38 Support
    Level 9: 40 Support
    Level 10: 42 Support
  • Plasma Armor:
    Level 1: 10% Resistance
    Level 2: 12% Resistance
    Level 3: 14% Resistance
    Level 4: 16% Resistance
    Level 5: 18% Resistance
    Level 6: 20% Resistance
    Level 7: 22% Resistance
    Level 8: 23% Resistance
    Level 9: 24% Resistance
    Level 10: 25% Resistance

Tactical Mercenary

  • Artillery Strike: Improves with every .35 support instead of .4
  • Toxic Grenade: Cooldown 3
  • Mineral Armor:
    Level 1: 10% Defense
    Level 2: 12% Defense
    Level 3: 14% Defense
    Level 4: 16% Defense
    Level 5: 18% Defense
    Level 6: 20% Defense
    Level 7: 22% Defense
    Level 8: 23% Defense
    Level 9: 24% Defense
    Level 10: 25% Defense


Blood Mage

  • Supercharge: Caster receives bonus Rage based on target's current Rage
  • Deadly Aim: requres Strength instead of Support


Bots

  • Pyro Fly:Chooses from top 3 skills rather than top 4 


Achievements

Win Rank: Awarded for wins, corresponding to rank icon on stats page. This will default to hidden and will update after one PvP victory.

Buy Backer: Now an evolving achievement with 12 levels. Will take some time to update, but can be updated instantly with a Buy Back purchase.

Banker: Awarded for buying bank slots (doesn't include the 20 free slots). 10 levels. This will take some time to update, but can be updated isntantly with a Bank Slot purchase.

 

Get the Artix Game Launcher V2

Artix Launcher

If you didn't know already, very soon most major browsers are discontinuing support of Flash! You may notice that browsers already disable Flash by default and require you to give special permissions to enable Flash. The best way to play EpicDuel and all the other Flash Artix Entertainment games is with the Artix Games Launcher 2.0! This app is the best way enjoy all your favorite AE browser games with easy access ot the latest news on each game's ongoing development. Ideally, all these Flash games will be ported to alternate platforms (like Steam, iOS and Android), but that project will take a bit more time and resources considering many of these games have decades of content!

In the meantime, get the latest Artix Games Launcher and Duel On today!

 

Get the Moglins on BackerKit! New stretch goal unlocked! 

You can still get the Moglins for a limited time on BackerKit!
The Moglins Kickstarter was a success! We have been using a service called BackerKit to send out the in-game codes to backers months ahead of schedule. If you missed out on the Kickstarter, you can still pledge and get your Moglins through BackerKit until the end of December. For more details, check out the complete Design Notes post about it!

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