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I hereby post my compiled thread of ideas and thoughts on the horribly, horribly maintained balance system of EpicDuel. Thus may all read and prosper.

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Robots:

These items were implemented in game to give Varium users an advantage around the free players, and it did its job well. A little too well. These items were supposed to guard the food chain of EpicDuel, yet in their quest for power, they completely altered the game, as well as the strategy required to play it.
The robots, their problems and possible solutions will be posted in this format:

Name
-Special Ability
-Problem
-Solution

Azrael
- Reduces 80% of a buffing skill
-Synergizes too well with hard hitting builds, causing a lean to STR
-Reduces 60% of a buffing skill, only applicable one turn after the skill has been activated

(Rusted)Assault
-Reduces 80% of a debuff skill
-Allows the neutralization of a debuff with no cost, causing a lack of investment in the defensive skills, causing STR to grow more effective
-Reduces 70% of a buffing skill, causes the owner's Damage to get a 15% reduction when cast

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Passive Skills

Ah, what a nice idea. Skills that passively aid a player without needing to be activated using a single turn. But here come the problems:

Bloodlust: You need to land heavy hits to be able to regain HP, which encourages STR. I propose that BL adds a small amount, up to 30%, of the damage taken in one turn.

Shadow Arts: Increases blocks and stun %. A very, very useful skill. I believe it should, at maximum, increase block chance by 5%. Maybe, let it add 5% Block Chance and 15% Stun Chance when capped, instead of 10/10.

Passive Armors: Ah, the crowning glory of tanks. These skills should be completely demolished and rebuilt to reduce damage done by a %, instead of directly stopping damage, creating an effective brick wall in front of a player.

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Enhancements

I don't think I'd be lying if I said this feature is one of the best sources of income for the game. I don't mind that the developers want to earn money, I mean, it's a product, but seriously. Gaining a bonus of 30+ Stats? That's downright ridiculous. Varium users are supposed to get an easier time in the game, not be able to decimate free players at their whim. With enhancements, one could overlook their weapon's requirements and build their character to have an absurd amount of power, be it defensive or offensive. I doubt that any player could win against another that possesses 30 more stats compared to them, which is around 7 level's worth of base stats, without utilizing a build that completely abuses a specific stat.

Therefore, I suggest that each player be given 50% more stats upon levelling up. This would reduce the effectiveness of enhancements, rendering them still useful, but not blatantly a requirement to play the game.

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Skill Synergy

This is, in my opinion, one of the reasons that abuse is so rampant. The synergy between a chain of skills is so powerful, it practically screams out: "Use me and PWN those n00bs!"

For example, the Bounty Hunter class. SmokeScreen, Bloodlust, Cheapshot, Massacre. When you see those skills, its extremely probable that you want to make a STR build. The Mercenary class, however, defines a tank. Hybrid Armor, Intimidate, Surgical Strike, Bunker Buster. A defensive barrier, a damage reduction skill, a Rage drain, a damager skill based on a defensive stat.

I suggest that skills that synergize too well be locked. As in, when you use skill A, skill B is locked for the game. Ultimates when matched with Defense Debuffers are a prime example.

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Player Matching

Now, the system matches players according to their Levels. As stated in the Enhancement section of my post, the system is extremely flawed. Now, I understand that if they removed level matching and used stat matching in Solo Battles, they'd lose money. SO, what about TEAM matches and JUGGERNAUTS? If the system could pool together the team's Weapon Bonus Stas (WBS) and group them together in the most balanced way possible, balance would be so much better. An ideal situation in my mind would be a maximum of 30 WBS differences in a Team Battle, and 40 WBS differences in Juggernaut matches.

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Rage

This battle factor needs a revamp. In the game, rage gain is calculated in how much damage is repelled by the defences of the target, and also in how much damage is dealt by the opponent. This factor allows for STR builds to get the best of both ways to gain rage. They push a large amount of stat points into the STR stat, enabling them to deal large amounts of damage. Against defensive players, they can get in a good amount of damage while still gaining rage from the target's shields. Besides that, their high health allows them to take in a high amount of damage towards their extremely low defences, also gaining rage.

A possible way to fix Rage is to make Rage gain a steady flux of points that accumulate in a player's Rage Meter. If the player was deflected, blocked, or stunned, their Rage would increase by a small %. This would make it so that Tanks, who possess large amounts of Technology and/or Dexterity, would still get less amounts of Rage compared to their opponents. However, STR builds would not be able to get exponential amounts of Rage as it would not depend on the amount of repelled damage.

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Luck Combos

Luck affects battles drastically in this turn based "strategy" game. Blocks, critical hits, deflections... they all break a person's strategy. I hereby propose a feature that will lessen the power of these luck based factors.

When you manage to activate one of the three factors (Block, Critical, Deflect), on the next turn, you have a 5% less chance to activate that factor again. The reduction stays with you for the remainder of the battle, until it hits the bare minimum of the rate of activation. As an example, you have a base of 11% Block Chance. You blocked, so now you have a 6% chance to block. You block the next attack too, so now, your block chance drops down to 2%, not 1%, as that's the minimum. This applies to ALL luck-based stats, excluding Stun, since it has a fixated base.

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Primary Strength

As we all know, Strength is one of the most powerful Stats as it raises the damage potential of two weapons, as well as being able to be utilized in every turn. As people can swing their primaries without pause, I think the Primary weapons should have a smaller amount of base Damage. Maybe we could reduce 5 Damage from every primary weapon to reduce their power. Another way would be to increase the number of allocated Strength points needed to increase the Damage potential of Strength.

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Support buff?
New Weapon Grenades:
Only 4 in the entire game, 2 Physical and 2 Energy, they are unblockable and undeflectable, give no stats, 3 cool down, no enhancements, and gains power at the same rate of your auxiliary.
The grenades damage are determined by your level. If you buy the Varium version then it is your level+1 is your damage, non-varium version is your level-1. (Slightly stronger)
So lets say you are using the non-varium grenade and your level 32, the grenade's base damage will be 31.

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Hmmmmm....Seems cool...I was thinking more of per use like you buy each Grenade for 10 Credits and No Varium. After you use it, you must restock. You are allowed 2 per Battle.
Reasons: Well, one is that a sword when you strike your opponent is doesn't break...When you throw a Grenade however, you don't go pick it back up >.>

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Main Reason: I've seen some support builds with 28-32(+39) DMG on their Aux...Thing about Aux is that it has a long cooldown in exchange for big Damage. Now the level cap is currently at 35 so the max would be +36. That's easily 64-68 Damage of Unblockable, Undeflectable OP Ness.

I know support builds are weak but...

Turn 1: Aux (67-71 DMG)
Turn 2: Multi (Around 75 DMG)
Turn 3: Grenade (64-68 DMG)
Turn 4: Aux
Turn 5: Heal
Turn 6: RAGE GRENADE!!!
Turn 7: Strike
Turn 8: AUX!
Turn 9: Something...
Turn 10: GRENADE AGAIN!
Turn 11: Something else...
Turn 12: RAGE AUX TIME!!!

Yeah, in those long battles, it would be really OP when Looped...