Oaken Tower News

[h3]Oaken Tower Patch: v0.1.7[/h3]

Small balance patch.

Balance:
🔴Hook: Common --> Rare.
🔴Dagger Manual: Rare --> Epic.
🟢Sword Techniques: Gives +3 damage to sword below --> Gives +4 damage to sword below.
🔴Void Stinger: 2.3s cooldown --> 2.9s cooldown.
🔴Nightquill: $40 --> $55.
🟢Life Essence: On trigger: +30 max health --> On trigger: +40 max health.
🟢Jade: 5.1s cooldown --> 4.9s cooldown.
🔴Crystal Flare: 6.1s cooldown --> 6.3s cooldown.
🔴Molten Bow: 4.1s cooldown --> 4.2s cooldown | 8 damage --> 5 damage.
🔴Ruby Knife: 8 damage --> 5 damage.
🔴Amber: 3s cooldown --> 3.3s cooldown.
🔴Eclipse: 2.3s cooldown --> 2.7s cooldown.
🟢Woodchopping: +3 damage to axes --> +4 damage to axes. | 6.3s cooldown --> 6.1s cooldown.

Fixes:
Twillight's Edge now matches the cooldown in the shop and when it's bought.

Other:
Items that are tripled no longer combines the sell value of all 3 items, but only from the 2 that you had in your inventory already.
Added some more animations and sound effects.

//Bocary

[h3]Oaken Tower Patch: v0.1.6[/h3]
[h2]Greetings, Oaklings[/h2]

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Stat indicators have been added to Oaken Tower!
You can now get a nice overview of your items stats at a glance.
This setting can be toggled on/off.



New item: Nightquill | Epic | Artifact/Dark | $40 | 0 damage | "Start of combat: Trigger your other items' start of combat effects".
This item has great synergy with "Cursed Necklace" (Legendary)!



[h3]Balance:[/h3]

• 🔴Natures Call (Epic): 5 damage --> 0 damage.
  
• 🟢Arcane Secrets (Legendary): 8 damage --> 20 damage
  
• 🟢Eclipse (Epic): "Start of combat: Permanently gain +2 damage per dark item." --> "Start of combat: Permanently gain +4 damage per dark item."
  
• 🔴Arcane Bow (Common): 2 bleed --> 1 bleed | 10 damage --> 12 damage.
  
• 🟢Trigem (Legendary): 6.5s cooldown --> 5.9s cooldown | "On trigger: If you have only unique item types, give them all +4 damage permanently."
  
• 🟡Coldshot (Rare) rework: 4 damage | 50% crit | 3s cooldown | "When another frosty item triggers, trigger this." //Dev comment: This gives frosty more playability as it synergizes heavily with Frost Orb and Frostbound.
• 🟢Bat Wing (Legendary): 7s cooldown --> 6.7s cooldown | "Start of combat: Permanently gain +2 multicast." --> "Start of combat: Permanently gain +3 multicast."
  
• 🔴Emerald Sword (Legendary): 4s cooldown --> 4.4s cooldown.
  
• 🔴Ruby Knife (Rare): 3.3s cooldown --> 3.8s cooldown.
  
• 🟢Cursed Necklace (Legendary): 9.5s cooldown --> 9s cooldown
  
• 🟢Life Essence (Epic): "On trigger: Permanently gain +25 max health." --> "On trigger: Permanently gain +30 max health."
  
• 🔴Brass Knife (Rare): 3.5s cooldown --> 3.7s cooldown.
  
• 🔴Hook (Common): 3.3s cooldown --> 3.4s cooldown.
  
• 🔴Dagger Manual (Rare): 3.1s cooldown --> 3.4s cooldown.
  

[h3]Fixes:[/h3]

• Fixed a bug where some (non tripled) items would react if as though they were tripled, if you also had a tripled version in the tower.
  
• Fixed an issue that made some "Start of Combat" effects not work intended, including High Blade and Spikey Mace, which didn't get the buffing it was supposed to.
  
• Fixed a bug where Moon Knife (rare) would provide XP to the player if the enemy had it in their tower.
  

[h3]Other:[/h3]

• The star indicating a tripled item has been moved a bit and centered.
  
• High Blade (epic) now has an animation and sound when triggering its start of combat effect.
  
• Healing Word (common) now shows a healing icon on trigger.
  
• How To Grow (rare) now shows a damage icon on trigger.
  
• Mace Studies (rare) now shows a damage icon on trigger.
  
• When items get buffed in-combat, the buff numbers now stay closer to the item they apply to.
  

The PvP environment might still hold old pre-nerfed items for 1-2 hours.

//Bocary

[h3]Oaken Tower Patch: v0.1.5[/h3]
This was meant to be a hotfix, but I decided to add more balancing, making it a back-to-back balance patch!

Since the damage scaling of items is generally outscaling players' health, the medic will now also appear on day 9 to give a +500 HP boost.

XP Needed from level one reduced to 52 (instead of 56)

Balance:
🔴Modern Archery (Rare): 16s cooldown --> 17s cooldown | $40 --> $45 //Dev comment: The Modern Archery spell has insane scale potential, so the investment needs to be very big.
🟢Life Essence (Epic): 4.3s cooldown --> 4.1s cooldown.
🔴Arcane Bow (Rare): 10% crit --> no crit | 3.5s cooldown --> 3.9s cooldown | $25 --> $30
🔴Molten Bow (Rare): 15 damage --> 8 damage.
🟢Cursed Necklace (Legendary): 11s cooldown --> 9.5s cooldown.
🟡Icy Axe (Common): 4s cooldown --> 3.8s cooldown | no crit --> 50% crit | 40 damage --> 25 damage.
🟢Ice Spear (Common): "On trigger: Gain +5% bonus crit chance per other frosty item." --> "On trigger: Permanently gain +1% crit chance."
🟢Hunters Tome (Rare): 4s cooldown --> 3.9s cooldown.
🟢Frostbound (Legendary): 40% crit chance --> 60% crit chance.
🔴Crystal Flare (Common): 5.5s cooldown --> 6.1s cooldown.
🟢Woodchopping (Epic): 8s cooldown --> 6.3s cooldown.
🟢Frozen Orb (Epic): 8s cooldown --> 7.4s cooldown.

Check out this cool video by SuperAutoGaming!
https://youtu.be/Rg3ml-rRSxY?si=nTT8R6-xbuRgMrZx

//Bocary

[h3]Oaken Tower Patch: v0.1.4[/h3]

Leveling up has now become more expensive/risky than previous.

New:
On day 3, a special encounter will now appear.
The plan is to add a few more encounters to the game.

General Balance changes:
Leveling up now starts at 56 XP required rather than 32 XP required, making leveling up more expensive in general throughout the game.
Winning a fight now grants 12 XP at day start, losing grans 8 XP (Rather than a static +4 XP). These two changes makes it harder to level up manually, and makes the process of leveling something that happens more automatically (a mix between Super Auto Pets and Teamfight Tactics).
Base starting gold $65 --> $55

Item Balance changes:
🟢Cobalt Spear (Legendary): 3.9s cooldown --> 3.5s cooldown.
🟢Bat Wing (Legendary): 10 damage --> 15 damage.
🟢Decay (Epic): "Start of combat: Deal 200 damage." --> "Start of combat: Deal 250 damage."
🔴Lunar Codex (Rare): 2.9s cooldown --> 3.4s cooldown.
🟢Chopper (Common): "Start of combat: Give your axes +2 damage permanently." --> "Start of combat: Give your axes +3 damage permanently."
🟡Lightblade (Rare): "When you heal, trigger this." --> "When you heal, gain +3 bonus damage" | 5s cooldown --> 4.2s cooldown. //This change is mainly because old lightblade was a coding nightmare :D
🔴Arcane Bow (Common): 3.2s cooldown --> 3.5s cooldown.
🔴Mordern Archery (Rare): $35 --> $40.

General prices for common/rare items lowered:
🟢Icy Axe (Common): $30 --> $20.
🟢Regular Bow (Common): $25 --> $15.
🟢Ruby Knife (Rare): $40 --> $35.
🟢Bone Club (Common): $20 --> $15.
🟢Paladin's Hammer (Common): $30 --> $25.
🟢Ice Spear (Rare): $35 --> $25.
🟢Noble Spear (Rare): $30 --> $25.
🟢Refined Spear (Common): $25 --> $15.
🟢Silver Lance (Common): $30 --> $20.
🟢Trident (Rare): $35 --> $30.
🟢How To Grow (Rare): $35 --> $30.
🟢Hunters Tome (Rare): 12 damage --> 14 damage | 4.2s cooldown --> 4s cooldown.
🟢Snowlfakes (Common): $35 --> $25.
🟢Novice Blade (Common): $25 --> $15.
🟢Twillight Edge (Common): $25 --> $20 | 6s cooldown --> 5.7s cooldown.
🟢Darksteel (Common): $35 --> $25.

Fixes:
* Conjure Spear (Epic) now has a sound effect on trigger.
* A triple reward chest no longer stays in your inventory for the next game if you didn't use it in your last one.
* Combining goblets into a triple now combines their total sell values as well.
* Treasure Chest will now correctly make triple-versions of goblets if it would result in a triple (and give you a triple-chest reward)
* High Blade typo fixed.
* Losing internet connection will now display "No connection" when trying to fetch a player encounter, rather than putting you against the last fetched encounter. A "Retry" button will later be implemented to try to fetch the encounter again if unsuccessful.
* Cobalt Spear (legendary) now correctly steals attack from Nightfall.

Small visual improvements.

//Bocary

Yep, the versioning changed to start with 0.

[h2]New items:[/h2]
Treasure Chest (Epic): 0 damage | 7 cooldown | $55 | "When sold: Gain 2 goblets." //Dev comment: This is support for Twinfangs build (see twinfangs change below). Noble Spear (Rare): 50 damage | 3.9s cooldown | $30 | No ability.
Cobalt Spear (Legendary): 35 damage | 3.9s cooldown | $50 | "Start of Combat: Permanently steal all attack from adjacent spears." //Dev comment: The 2 new spears give much more use to "Conjure Spear" (Epic) and creates a new cobalt spear build!


[h3]Balance changes:[/h3]
🟢Eclipse (Epic): "Start of combat: Permanently gain +1 damage per other dark item." --> "Start of combat: Permanently gain +2 damage per other dark item."
🟢Spikey Mace (Rare): "Has +10 bonus damage per other mace." --> "Start of Combat: Gain +3 damage per mace." | 3s cooldown --> 3.2s cooldown
🟢Frostbound (Legendary): "Whenever another item crits, permanently gain +2 damage." --> "Whenever an item crits, permanently gain +2 damage."
🟡Trident (Rare): 30 damage --> 15 damage | 4.1 cooldown --> 2.2 cooldown //Dev comment: A shorter cooldown plays much better with the bleed synergy!
🟢Mace Study (Rare): 5.8s cooldown --> 7s cooldown | "On trigger: Give mace above +4 damage permanently." --> "On trigger: Give adjacent maces +2 damage permanently." | $30 --> $35
🟢Woodchopping (Epic): 10s cooldown --> 8s cooldown | "On trigger: Give all axes +2 damage permanently." --> "On trigger: Give all axes +3 damage permanently."
🟢Moon Knife (Rare): "When obtained: Also gain +12 XP." --> "When obtained: Also gain +16 XP."
🔴Crystal Flare (Rare): 5s cooldown --> 5.5s cooldown //Dev comment: See "crystal flare" under fixes.
🟡Lapis Lazuli (Epic): "On trigger: Permanently gain a level." --> "On trigger: Trigger moon item to the right of this." | 15.5s cooldown --> 3.4s cooldown | $60 --> $40 //Dev comment: This item has been totally reworked.
🔴Life Essence: Rare --> Epic | 5s cooldown --> 4.3s cooldown | $30 --> $35
🔴Dream Catcher: Rare --> Epic | 5.5s cooldown --> 5.2s cooldown | $45 --> $35
🔴Hook (Common): 2.8s cooldown --> 3.3s cooldown
🔴Brass Knife (Rare): 3.3s cooldown --> 3.5s cooldown
🟡Twinfangs (Legendary): "Permanently gain +8 damage every time you buy an item." --> "Permanently gain +8 damage every time you sell an item."
🔴Moonveil (Legendary): 6.9s cooldown --> 7.1s cooldown
🔴Wildfire (Common): 7 burn --> 6 burn
🔴Elven Shield (Common): 2.6s cooldown --> 3.4s cooldown

[h3]Fixes:[/h3]
* Cursed Necklace (Legendary) now works on Chopper (Common).
* Hunters Tome (Rare): Now has a sound effect when triggering.
* Crystal Flare (Rare): Only gave +1 to burn items even though it stated +2. This fix is essentially a pretty big buff, which is why the cooldown had to be increased by 0.5s.
* Fixed the minimum rating to 500.

[h3]Other:[/h3]
* Now that many players have been playing Oaken Tower, the PvP database of builds has been increased. It now holds 30 different player builds per day.
* The game now asks if you are sure you want to *end your run* when clicking the menu button from the pause screen.

Check out this awesome video by The Indie Buffet
https://youtu.be/0gHgPTH-yFg?si=pa6fp2bz3QJGIhlR

//Bocary