EpicDuel April Balance Bounty on Artix Entertainment

EpicDuel is back with a truly EPIC balance update covering everything from damage ranges to core balance. If that's not enough, we even threw in some bug fixes and quality-of-life changes for good measure!

Balance Changes

General

x30 cores: Reverted all to the same values as their permanent versions. Removed all from shops except the following:
- Absolution (armor) x30
- Destruction (armor) x30
- Domination (armor) x30
- Fortitude (armor) x30
- Infinity (armor) x30
- Supremacy (armor) x30
- Vigor (armor) x30
Damage ranges reduced by slighting increasing the lower values (Divisors) and reducing the range multiplier. Divisor changes:
- Resistance = 0.29, 0.39, 0.48, 0.48
- Defense = 0.29, 0.39, 0.48, 0.48
- Bot Damage = 0.39, 0.48, 0.58, 0.58
- Primary Damage = 0.44, 0.56, 0.62, 0.82
- Auxiliary Damage = 0.37, 0.56, 0.64, 0.81
- Gun Damage = 0.37, 0.64, 0.64, 0.84
- Reduce the multiplier that determines maximum damage/defense from 1.2 to 1.1
Improved robot damage bonus for lower focus levels:
- Focus 1: +90 robot damage
- Focus 2: +120 robot damage
- Focus 3: +150 robot damage
- Focus 4: +180 robot damage
- Focus 5: +210 robot damage
- Focus 6: +240 robot damage

All Classes

Field Medic: Requires +3 → +2 Technology per level

Bounty Hunter:

Shadow Arts: Removed Dexterity boost
Venom Strike: 4 → 3 turn cooldown; remove support scaling: Flat 80 poison damage at level 1, +10 per level

Mercenary:

Hybrid Armor: Removed highest stat boost; Add effect that converts 7% of all outgoing damage to user’s Energy; +2% def/res boost to all levels
Bunker Buster: +20 damage to all levels
Surgical Strike: +20 damage to all levels

Tech Mage:

Concentration: Removed damage reduction; added effect that grants user flat +40 HP for every outgoing attack
Deadly Aim: Removed Support boost
Assimilation: Removed Strength scaling: Flat -110 Energy at level 1, +10 per level
Overload: Improves with Support → Dexterity; 2 → 1 turn cooldown
Plasma Rain: Improves with Dexterity → Support

Cyber Hunter:

Plasma Grenade: Add 20% lifesteal
Proton Cannon: 25% lifesteal → Flat +100 HP gain; 20% energy drain → Flat -100 Energy
Venom Strike: Removed Support scaling: Flat 80 poison damage at level 1, +10 per level

Tactical Mercenary:

Tactical Grenade: Removed Support scaling: Flat -110 Energy at level 1, +10 per level; 150 → 170 Energy gain
Mineral Armor: Remove highest stat buff
Barbed Grenade: +30 damage to all levels
Suppressing Fire: +30 damage to all levels
Annihilation: +30 damage to all levels
Field Commander: Removed Support scaling: Flat +40 Support boost at level 1, +3 per level; removed increased Rage gain; added effect that grants lifesteal based on 50% of Support boost
Toxic Grenade: +20 Energy cost; 85% → 100% damage; remove Strength scaling: Flat 80 poison damage at level 1, +10 per level

Blood Mage:

Fireball: Removed stun chance; add 15% def/res debuff for 2 turns; +1 damage per 0.32 → 0.3 Strength
Red Vision: Removed Strength boost
Blood Shield: 5 → 4 turn duration; 90 → 75 Energy gain; remove Technology boost; remove Support scaling: Static resistance increase values 40%, 43%, 46%, 48%, 50%, 52%, 54%, 56%, 58%, 60%
Blood Instinct: +1 Dexterity per 3 → 5 Technology; 90 → 75 Energy gain

Cores:

Mega Stun Blast: 25% → 20% stun chance
Paralysis Coating: 25% → 15% stun/crit chance; 15% → 20% defense ignore
Screaming Soul Spears: 85% → 100% damage; 3 → 2 turn duration
Ballistic Shield: 13% → 6% deflection chance increase
Deflection Shield: 13% → 8% deflection chance increase
Ninja Reflexes: 13% → 8% block chance increase
Lucky Strike: Multiplicative instead of additive
Lucky Strike/Aim Assist/Laser Sights/Super Scope: Effects apply to all attacks instead of only basic attacks
Primary/Gun/Auxiliary Mastery: Remove crit chance increase; +10% weapon damage on basic attacks → Flat +25 weapon damage for all attacks

Robots:

Azrael’s Affliction P/E: 30% → 20% of current HP as life-stealing poison
Infernal Overload P/E: 95% → 85% initial damage; 130% → 125% max damage; peaks at round 9
Asgard’s Fury P/E: 4 → 3 turn cooldown
Dino Fire P/E/PxE/ExP: 4 → 3 turn cooldown; 10% → 8% of target’s max HP as damage bonus
Rusted Dino Fire P/E/PxE/ExP: 4 → 3 turn cooldown
Dragonblade Familiar Drill P/E: 4 → 3 turn cooldown; 20% → 17% of damage to HP and Energy
Flesh Demigod Judgement P/E: 4 → 3 turn cooldown; 25% → 15% lifesteal
Infernal/Plasma Super Beam: 91% → 97% initial damage
Shadowlord’s Severance: P/E: 4 → 3 turn cooldown; 35% → 30% defense ignore

Bug fixes / Changes:

Description for Darkeater’s Impaler reads 3 turns instead of 2.
Descriptions for Ninja Reflexes and Deflection Shield read 50% max block/deflection chance instead of 30%.
Description for Dualism reads 100% damage instead of 110% (105% AOE).
Azrael’s Annihilation is sometimes applying the debuff to the user for 2 turns instead of 1. The skill is now tracked via turns instead of rounds so in a 1v1 each player has a chance to react or retaliate. This also helps balance the skill in Juggernaut and 2v2 since the debuff will expire before a character can be attacked twice. This was a unique problem because it was the first skill ever to apply a debuff to both the target and attacker in the same turn.
Azrael's Doombringer Beauty P/E (NPC): NPC version with a maximum HP drain/gain of 200 and 6 turn cooldown. Added to level 56 and 57 of the Basic Battlepass. Those who already claimed those levels of prizes will receive the bot manually.
All seasonal robots will now have a permanently available version for Varium-only while the seasonally available one will have a Credit option.
- Baby Yeti
- Dark Yeti
- Ballistic Bunny Bot
- Electro Bunny Bot
- Botanical Hazard
- Dark Botanical Hazard
- Blood Hawk P
- Blood Hawk E
- Lionhart's Avatar P
- Lionhart's Avatar E
- Kartherax's Darkspawn P
- Kartherax's Darkspawn E
- Cyber Yeti P
- Cyber Yeti E
- Monkakazi P
- Monkakazi E
- Pirate Bot P
- Pirate Bot E
- Phantasm Droid P
- Phantasm Droid E
- Cyber Shark P
- Cyber Shark E