EpicDuel PVP Game Design Notes

April 14, 2026

New Meta Achievements

The big change in this update is meta tracking achievements that will track damage inflicted with various weapon types, stuns, amount healed, and more! These achievements only track PvP battles, which includes 1v1, 2v2, and Juggernaut battle modes.

• Sword Master: Upgrade by winning PvP battles with a sword equipped.
• Blade Master: Upgrade by winning PvP battles with wrist blades equipped.
• Club Master: Upgrade by winning PvP battles with a club equipped.
• Staff Master: Upgrade by winning PvP battles with a staff equipped.
• Weapon Master: Achieve Tier 20 on all Weapon Master Achievements (Sword Master, Blade Master, Club Master, and Staff Master).
• Epic Gunslinger: Upgrade by dealing damage in PvP battles with a sidearm.
• Epic Artilleryman: Upgrade by dealing damage in PvP battles with an auxiliary.
• Epic Roboticist: Upgrade by dealing damage in PvP battles with a robot.
• Epic Swordsman: Upgrade by dealing damage in PvP battles with a sword.
• Epic Fleshripper: Upgrade by dealing damage in PvP battles with wrist blades.
• Epic Bonecrusher: Upgrade by dealing damage in PvP battles with a club.
• Epic Spellbinder: Upgrade by dealing damage in PvP battles with a staff.
• Epic Medic: Upgrade by healing in PvP battles. Counts HP healed even if it exceeds your max HP.
• Epic Defender: Upgrade by blocking damage in PvP battles.
• Epic Discombobulator: Upgrade by inflicting a stun in PvP battles.
• Epic Assassin: Upgrade by inflicting critical damage in PvP battles.

Changes:

• The Dire Depot mission chain is now rare.
• Auxiliary Armory Key sellable.

Tags: Nightwraith

April 09, 2026

Unfortunately, there will not be an update this week. However, we are pleased to offer an update on everything we're currently working towards.

Meta Achievements

One exciting new development that should be ready for next week is the introduction of new meta achievements that will track total damage in PvP battles with different weapon categories. These achievements will level up as you play so they'll be another potent method for earning more Rating Points! Potentially, they could allow us to track other battle events like blocks, stuns, and critical hits.

Power Weekend

Since there is no update this week, we are activating Power Hour which means double XP and Credits all weekend long!

Anubis Zealot Battlepass Coming Soon

Progress on the Anubis Zealot Battlepass is ongoing and it's still scheduled to release on May 8th. That may seem like plenty of time to unlock all the levels from the current Battlepass, but there are always a few people who wait until the last few days to grind and miss out!

War Fairness Change

To improve fairness across all the PvP battle modes for the War events, we are working on separating all the war drops by battle type. We would also separate the war leaderboards into 1v1, 2v2, and Juggernaut. This will give equal recognition to the top participants in each battle mode and prevent one from dominating. This is a major change that will take awhile to implement, but it is something we are actively working towards in the mid to near term.

Gifter Rewards

As expected, we're still working diligently on remaining Gifter rewards. We're not as far along as we would like to be, but we're definitely in a better position than last year. Some of these rewards are proving to be extra challenging, but we're confident the final results will be worth the time and effort.

Finally, there's a new boss on the horizon, and he's nearly ready to stomp all challengers into the dirt!

Tags: Nightwraith

April 03, 2026

EpicDuel is LIVE with a stunning restock of NEW Epic Rares! Plus, an incredible array of balance changes!

A Stunning Restock

TheAlzonzoHarris' Epic Rare shop on Titan's Peak has been resupplied with new Epic Rares!

• Stun Cannon 2026
• Stun Blaster 2026
• Stun Cannon CC 2026
• Stun Blaster CC 2026
• Bunnyzooka 2019 2026
• Energy Bunnyzooka 2019 2026
• Bunnyzooka 2019 CC 2026
• Energy Bunnyzooka 2019 CC 2026
• Ghoul Cannon 2019 2026
• Spectral Blaster 2019 2026
• Ghoul Cannon 2019 CC 2026
• Spectral Blaster 2019 CC 2026

These weapons will be available for the month of April, with the Ghoulzookas returning in October. 

Balance Changes

Skills:

• Cyber Armor: 91% at level 10
• Cyber Armor (UA1): Max 35 Def/Res at level 10, 10% lifesteal
• Kernel Panic and Smokescreen (All Augments): 100 -> 120 base Energy
• Fireball (All Augments): 105 -> 100 base Energy at level 1, +20 cost per level
• Concentration (EA): +70 HP gain per attack -> +55 HP gain per attack

Cores:

• Curse Aura: -10 to all stats -> -10% to all stats
• Astral Projection: 40% Energy steal -> 50% Energy steal
• Azrael's Torment: 100% Damage -> 85% Damage
• Botanical Infestation: 25% Lifesteal -> 40% lifesteal
• Dark Omen: Reduce healing 15%, reduce base Strength by 30 -> 10% healing, -40 Strength
• Exsanguinating Stomp: 2 turn warmup -> 1 turn warmup
• Forbidden Pact: Heal for 125 HP -> Heal for 250 HP
• Icy Overkill: 110% dmg, 25% def ignore -> 115% dmg, 30% def ignore
• Indominus Spear: 20% Rage steal -> 50% Rage steal
• Gamma Brand: 0 Energy -> 90 Energy
• Inexpiabilis: 20% Rage steal -> 35% Rage steal
• Wolf’s Fury: 30% Energy conversion -> 40% Energy conversion
• Wrath of Callisto: 115% damage, 90 Energy -> 120% Damage, 100 Energy
• Zeus’ Might: 27 Technology debuff -> 35 Technology debuff
• Titans Shroud/Hardened Armor: 3 turns -> 4 turns

Bots:

• Necrotek Skull Bot:
  • Special: Hain HP inversely to target's Rage % (300 HP max) -> Gain HP equal to targets Rage (300 HP max)
• Azrael's Cavalier Bot:
  • Special: Gain 30% Rage -> Gain 50% Rage
• Flesh DemiGod:
  • Special: 15% lifesteal, 2 turn warmup -> 20% lifesteal. 1 turn warmup
• Monkakazi:
  • Normal: 100% damage -> 105% damage
  • Special: Bonus damage equal to 2x highest base stat, multi-use. -> Bonus damage equal to 1.5x highest base stat. Single-use.
• Phantasm Droid:
  • Normal: 0 Energy drain -> 10% Energy drain
  • Special: 25% Energy damage, increasing by 5% per turn, max 50%. -> 35% Energy damage, increasing by 5% per turn, max 60%.
• Botanical Hazard:
  • Special: 50% damage as poison -> 55% damage as poison.
• Blood Wyvernpyre:
  • Special: 60% lifesteal -> 70% lifesteal.
• Tactical Shark Drone:
  • Special: 30% Rage Steal -> 35% Rage steal.
• Kaijuzilla:
  • Special: Target regens over 5 turns -> Target regens over 4 turns (total regen is the same)
• Azrael's Borg:
  • Special: Multi use, 100% damage, can't Rage -> One Time Use. 110% damage. Can Rage.
• Jack Frost:
  • Special: 20% of robot damage as Energy drain -> 25% of robot damage as Energy drain.  

Changes:

• More level 34 and level 40 NPCs added to improve variety and fairness in PvP modes.
• 2v2 NPC level will guarantee a level 40 if the average of the human players is 40.
• Juggernaut NPC level will guarantee level 34 NPCs if the Juggernaut is level 40.
• Juggernaut rewards capped at 250 instead of 300 to reduce incentives for botting.
• Simulation rewards capped at 200 instead of 300 to reduce incentives for botting.
• To discourage botting in Juggernaut, PMs will still go through in Juggernaut battles even if /dnd is enabled.
• Queue time before introducing an NPC opponent reduced 1v1, 2v2, and Juggernaut modes.
• New end-of-battle anti-bot measures.
• Item Name Changes:
  • Invictus Draconis -> Aeternum Draconis
  • Libertalia Launcher -> Libertalia Remnant
  • Cordyceps Cannon -> Cordyceps Bloom

Tags: Nightwraith

March 27, 2026

Can you complete Nightwraith's Dire Depot missions before April 13th and gain access to Empress' Epic auxiliaries?

Nightwraith's Dire Depot

A new mission chain has been added to Nightwraith "Dire Depot." Accept the first mission, "Legendary Resume" to being your quest to earn the Auxiliary Armor Key and unlock Nightwraith's ArmorBot!

Rather than Nightwraith's typical stock, this merchant now contains Gifter Empress' Epic Rare Auxiliaries, Penelope's Precision and Dire's Deception, as limited quantity weapons as an homage to the original Bunnyzookas, which were a rare promotion that ran from March 26th to April 11th in 2010. We shifted the schedule a bit to accommodate the weekends for your convenience.

These weapons will only be available from today until the end of the day on April 12th. The missions will still be available until we reboot the server but the items themselves will disappear. If you don't have enough Varium to purchase these items you will still be rewarded with substantial Credit prizes and an achievement for completing the missions!

TheAlonzoHarris Shop Update

TheAlonzoHarris' shop has been updated with new and returning Epic Rares!

• Cold Ignition: core added for this weekend
• Itachi's Pride: available one more weekend (last chance for now!)
• Zeus's Might: 50,000 Varium, available only for this weekend
• Katie's Replica Slayer CC P: 10,000 Varium / 10 Balance Tokens
• Katie's Infernal Slayer P: 5,000 Varium / 5 Balance Tokens
• Roman's Replica Interdictor CC E: 10,000 Varium / 10 Balance Tokens
• Roman's Infernal Interdictor E: 5,000 Varium / 5 Balance Tokens

Quality of Life

The NPC lists on the map interface now support scrolling so we can show more NPCs at once, giving you a more complete view of all the active NPCs in a region. Many mission-gated NPCs are still hidden, however.

Tags: Nightwraith

March 20, 2026

EpicDuel is LIVE with new Nulgath limited rares and a restocked Epic Rare shop!

Nulgath Reinforced

Nulgath has been stocked with even more delightfully devious limited rares! Will you collect them all?

• Archfiend Overlord Sword P
• Archfiend Overlord Sword E
• Archfiend Overlord Slayer P
• Archfiend Overlord Slayer E
• Archfiend Overlord Greatsword P
• Archfiend Overlord Greatsword E
• Archfiend Overlord Greatsword CC P
• Archfiend Overlord Greatsword CC E
• Archfiend Overlord Arsenal P
• Archfiend Overlord Arsenal E
• Archfiend Overlord Greatbow P
• Archfiend Overlord Greatbow E
• Archfiend Overlord Greatspear P
• Archfiend Overlord Greatspear E

TheAlonzoHarris Shop Update

TheAlonzoHarri's Epic Rare shop has been stocked with new and returning Epic Rares! Some of these are only available for a limited time. Have you been keeping up with your weekly missions?

• Zeus's Legacy - 25000 Varium - Available this weekend
• Accomplishment's Pirate Rep. - 10000 Varium / 10 Tokens - Available this weekend
• Itachi's Pride - Returning for the weekend
• Cyber Frogzard - 10000 Varium / 10 Tokens
• Brazilian Bunnyzooka P - 10000 Varium / No Tokens
• Brazilian Bunnyzooka E - 10000 Varium / No Tokens
• CC Hellfire Havoc Harrower P - 10000 Varium / 10 Tokens
• CC Hellfire Havoc Harrower E - 10000 Varium / 10 Tokens

Coming Attractions

I am pleased to share with you a preview of the next Battlepass which will have an ancient Egypt theme! It's already shaping up to be one of the best-looking yet.

Tags: Nightwraith

March 13, 2026

New Nulgath Weapons

New seasonal and limited rares have been added to Nulgath!

• Ancient Archfiend Sword P
• Ancient Archfiend Sword E
• Ancient Archfiend Greatsword P
• Ancient Archfiend Greatsword E
• Ancient Archfiend Spear P
• Ancient Archfiend Spear E
• Ancient Archfiend Arsenal P
• Ancient Archfiend Arsenal E

New Dage the Evil Items

New seasonal and limited rares have been added to Dage the Evil!

• Primal Legion Sickle P
• Primal Legion Sickle E
• Primal Legion Spear P
• Primal Legion Spear E
• Primal Legion Scythe P
• Primal Legion Scythe E
• Primal Legion Katana P
• Primal Legion Katana E
• Primal Legion Sword P
• Primal Legion Sword E
• Primal Legion Greatsword P
• Primal Legion Greatsword E
• Primal Legion Longsword P
• Primal Legion Longsword E
• Primal Legion Bow P
• Primal Legion Bow E
• Primal Legion Arsenal P
• Primal Legion Arsenal E
• Primal Legion Greatsword CC P
• Primal Legion Greatsword CC E
• Primal Legion Dagger P
• Primal Legion Dagger E

New Nightmare Cores Shops

Special VendBots containing anti-Nightmare cores have been added to several NPCs that offer Nightmare battles. Remember, you will need to defeat their Nightmare form at least once to unlock the shop!

• Nightmare Pumpkin Lord (appears after mission is triggered)
• Nightmare Dage the Evil
• Nightmare Acatriel
• Nightmare Azrael

Friday the 13th Again?

Seems like it was already Friday the 13th just last month. Weird! The Friday the 13th rares are available again along with a new achievement: Dage's Friday The 13th 2026.

TheAlonzoHarris' Shop Restocked

TheAlonzoHarris' shop has been restocked with new and returning Epic Rares! Some are only available for a limited time so you'd better hurry!

• Itachi's Pride (appearing for this weekend)
• Boreas
• Purgatory
• Sharingan
• Rinnegan
• Izanagi (appearing for this weekend)
• Izanami (appearing for this weekend)
• Polyxenes Replica (returning for this weekend)
• Zelicaon Replica (returning for this weekend)
• Butterfly Blessing (returning for this weekend)
• Butterfly Boost (returning for this weekend)

Progress Report

We're still hard at work on this year's Gifter rewards and so far we are more than halfway done! That's better progress than last year, but not as far ahead as we'd like. I hope to improve our efforts to deliver these items in a timely manner so we can resume development on new features and improvements. We have also made some progress on the next Battlepass so there won't be such a long wait for the next one.

Tags: Nightwraith