Patch v.0.8.2 More Balance changes.
Hello everyone!
This patch continues with changes to improve the game balance and Act 4, as well as adding new QoL and new art for the towns.
New Features:
Each town in the game has new art and a specific background for each town. In addition, each building has three visual upgrade levels, which are displayed when you purchase upgrades in the Town Upgrades.
In our crusade to improve the usability and clarity of the game, we have implemented a pop-up on the health bar that will show you the pre-turn and post-turn damage received.
The health bar will now show 3 new states with 3 different colors.
- The dark red shows all damage received at the start of the turn. (bleed, burn, others)
- If you will gain life instead of suffer damage at the start of the turn, the bar will be yellow/cream. (due to regeneration or others)
- A dark green bar shows the damage you will receive at the end of the turn. (poison, others)
In addition to this pop-up, a skull icon will be displayed. This shows up in the center of the health bar when a hero/monster is predicted to die at the beginning or end of their turn due to curses.
Note: keep in mind that even if you see a skull on a hero/enemy, it does not assure that they will 100% die. Other heroes/monsters can influence and vary that result (with heals or dispels for example) before their turn.
Hero changes:
- Thuls: Veil of Shadows - Now you can use "Skill" or "Enchantment" cards without losing Stealth. (Twice per turn)
- Reginald/Ottis: Reverberation - Now reduces the highest cost "Holy Spell" in your hand by 3 until discarded. (Twice per turn)
- Malukah: Yin Ritual - Now grants Regeneration to all heroes when applying Dark.
- Cornelius: World in Flames (yellow) - Reduced uses to 3. (from 4)
- Heiner: Shield Expert - Changed to when you play an "Attack" instead of a "Melee Attack".
- Warriors: Tireless - Now makes them immune to Fatigue.
We have changed some cards to have both "Defense" and "Skill" tags to open more possibilities of builds and combos with talents and items (existing and future). This also means that these cards will be valid for events that require that kind of roll types.
- Warrior: Barbed Wire, Garden of Thorns, Push Forward(also changed to rare), Sharing is Caring.
- Scout: Caltrops, Deflect, Disengage, Feint, Parry, Stoneskin.
- Mage: Elemental Ward, Icy Veins, Mana Shield, Prismatic Shield.
- Healer: Anthem of Hope, Infuse Courage.
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- Bouncing Shield & Shield Throw - removed the "Melee Attack" tag.
- Throw Bolas & Torment of Thorns - changed to "Ranged Attack" and "Skill".
- Blood Feeding - changed to "Melee Attack" (from Skill).
- Fan of Knives - now is "Melee Attack" and "Ranged attack".
- Ice Barrier & Scroll of Defense - added "Defense" tag.
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- Reduced the damage of Torment of Thorns (blue) to x1(from 1.5) and (yellow) to x0.6(from 1).
- Changed Last Reward (Yellow & Corrupt) - now you can pick a card from your vanish pile.
- Plague Shot - base cost reduced to 2(from 3), tweaked some numbers on all versions.
- Whispering lies - now requires Stanza but does Mind/Shadow and applies Insane/Dark/Decay.
- Rain (Yellow) - reduced charges to 1, but now is global with no vanish.
- Celestial Brillance - reduced damage but added Purge.
- Divine Ire - changed to deal damage based on Sanctify and increased cost.
- Radiant Assault (yellow) - changed to cost 5, random target, but added damage sides.
- Omen of Peril - upgrades are better but epic rarity. yellow upgrade lets you pick a "Healing Spell" from your vanish pile.
Minor changes of +-1 charges on a few other card upgrades.
General balance changes:
- Revised and adjusted the speed of almost all enemies, especially those that had the same speed in normal mode than in madness. In general, the adjustment has been downwards. As a result, some monsters should be a little slower than before(especially in Act 1 and Act 3).
- Reduced the max speed bonus gain of monsters in high madness levels to +2 (from +3) in Act 3 & 4.
Note: In general, the speed of monsters should be a little slower than before, and players should feel less forced to always have a super fast hero in the party.
- Slightly adjusted downwards the damage and charges of some Act 1 enemies in madeness (also affects Obelisk 9-10 first floor).
- In Obelisk/Weekly Challenge, adjusted the overall mitigation (HP, Block, Shield, Regen, Heal, etc.) of monsters on the third floor.
- In the Obelisk Challenge, a starting Energy bonus of +1 has been added at Obelisk level 5. Making a total of +2 from Obelisk level 8 onwards.
Added the "Despair" versions for Act 1, Champions and Bosses. Some of them have only minor changes in the cards, but others have new Enchantments that will make them more interesting.
Note: The "Despair" corruptor is the most difficult optional corruptor in the game, turning the game into an extra hard mode. The intention is to make it difficult, but not impossible. It will have to be balanced over time and when new Champions or changes happen, it is normal that they can be OP/unfair at the beginning.
Monster changes:
Minor adjustments in damage, heal done and Regeneration charges of some monsters and champions.
Lancers:
Holy Lance & Shadow Lance - Piercing damage is now based on Vitality(from a previous fixed amount), they will do less damage if they didn't steal any Vitality from the heroes. Also, now Holy Lance & Shadow Lance will Purge their own Vitality after used.
This patch continues with changes to improve the game balance and Act 4, as well as adding new QoL and new art for the towns.
New Features:
Each town in the game has new art and a specific background for each town. In addition, each building has three visual upgrade levels, which are displayed when you purchase upgrades in the Town Upgrades.
In our crusade to improve the usability and clarity of the game, we have implemented a pop-up on the health bar that will show you the pre-turn and post-turn damage received.
The health bar will now show 3 new states with 3 different colors.
- The dark red shows all damage received at the start of the turn. (bleed, burn, others)
- If you will gain life instead of suffer damage at the start of the turn, the bar will be yellow/cream. (due to regeneration or others)
- A dark green bar shows the damage you will receive at the end of the turn. (poison, others)
In addition to this pop-up, a skull icon will be displayed. This shows up in the center of the health bar when a hero/monster is predicted to die at the beginning or end of their turn due to curses.
Note: keep in mind that even if you see a skull on a hero/enemy, it does not assure that they will 100% die. Other heroes/monsters can influence and vary that result (with heals or dispels for example) before their turn.
Hero changes:
- Thuls: Veil of Shadows - Now you can use "Skill" or "Enchantment" cards without losing Stealth. (Twice per turn)
- Reginald/Ottis: Reverberation - Now reduces the highest cost "Holy Spell" in your hand by 3 until discarded. (Twice per turn)
- Malukah: Yin Ritual - Now grants Regeneration to all heroes when applying Dark.
- Cornelius: World in Flames (yellow) - Reduced uses to 3. (from 4)
- Heiner: Shield Expert - Changed to when you play an "Attack" instead of a "Melee Attack".
- Warriors: Tireless - Now makes them immune to Fatigue.
We have changed some cards to have both "Defense" and "Skill" tags to open more possibilities of builds and combos with talents and items (existing and future). This also means that these cards will be valid for events that require that kind of roll types.
- Warrior: Barbed Wire, Garden of Thorns, Push Forward(also changed to rare), Sharing is Caring.
- Scout: Caltrops, Deflect, Disengage, Feint, Parry, Stoneskin.
- Mage: Elemental Ward, Icy Veins, Mana Shield, Prismatic Shield.
- Healer: Anthem of Hope, Infuse Courage.
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- Bouncing Shield & Shield Throw - removed the "Melee Attack" tag.
- Throw Bolas & Torment of Thorns - changed to "Ranged Attack" and "Skill".
- Blood Feeding - changed to "Melee Attack" (from Skill).
- Fan of Knives - now is "Melee Attack" and "Ranged attack".
- Ice Barrier & Scroll of Defense - added "Defense" tag.
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- Reduced the damage of Torment of Thorns (blue) to x1(from 1.5) and (yellow) to x0.6(from 1).
- Changed Last Reward (Yellow & Corrupt) - now you can pick a card from your vanish pile.
- Plague Shot - base cost reduced to 2(from 3), tweaked some numbers on all versions.
- Whispering lies - now requires Stanza but does Mind/Shadow and applies Insane/Dark/Decay.
- Rain (Yellow) - reduced charges to 1, but now is global with no vanish.
- Celestial Brillance - reduced damage but added Purge.
- Divine Ire - changed to deal damage based on Sanctify and increased cost.
- Radiant Assault (yellow) - changed to cost 5, random target, but added damage sides.
- Omen of Peril - upgrades are better but epic rarity. yellow upgrade lets you pick a "Healing Spell" from your vanish pile.
Minor changes of +-1 charges on a few other card upgrades.
General balance changes:
- Revised and adjusted the speed of almost all enemies, especially those that had the same speed in normal mode than in madness. In general, the adjustment has been downwards. As a result, some monsters should be a little slower than before(especially in Act 1 and Act 3).
- Reduced the max speed bonus gain of monsters in high madness levels to +2 (from +3) in Act 3 & 4.
Note: In general, the speed of monsters should be a little slower than before, and players should feel less forced to always have a super fast hero in the party.
- Slightly adjusted downwards the damage and charges of some Act 1 enemies in madeness (also affects Obelisk 9-10 first floor).
- In Obelisk/Weekly Challenge, adjusted the overall mitigation (HP, Block, Shield, Regen, Heal, etc.) of monsters on the third floor.
- In the Obelisk Challenge, a starting Energy bonus of +1 has been added at Obelisk level 5. Making a total of +2 from Obelisk level 8 onwards.
Added the "Despair" versions for Act 1, Champions and Bosses. Some of them have only minor changes in the cards, but others have new Enchantments that will make them more interesting.
Note: The "Despair" corruptor is the most difficult optional corruptor in the game, turning the game into an extra hard mode. The intention is to make it difficult, but not impossible. It will have to be balanced over time and when new Champions or changes happen, it is normal that they can be OP/unfair at the beginning.
Monster changes:
Minor adjustments in damage, heal done and Regeneration charges of some monsters and champions.
Lancers:
Holy Lance & Shadow Lance - Piercing damage is now based on Vitality(from a previous fixed amount), they will do less damage if they didn't steal any Vitality from the heroes. Also, now Holy Lance & Shadow Lance will Purge their own Vitality after used.