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Posted by Szeszej on 08-28-2014 at19:45:

  Patch 1.56 + Volleyball World Championship + World War II event + EPIC items

Hello,
Below you will find a sizeable list of upcoming and planned changes.


We have prepared a series of events to celebrate the Volleyball World Championship:
30.08 - 31.08 First serve
luck +20
02.09 - 07.09 First serve
luck +20

10.09 - 14.09 Luck favours the better team
luck +30

16.09 - 18.09 Eagles only
luck +40

20.09 - 21.09 There can be only one winner
luck +50


To commemorate the tragic events of World War II we have added a new permanent event:
01.09 In memory of the victims of World War II
effect1: no building bonuses for ambushes and arenas
effect2: building bonuses work for sieges and expeditions


Patch 1.5.6
As always during the holidays, we have decided to focus on minor improvements that were always pushed back in favour of bigger updates.

First of all we would like to make the game more pleasant for new players on new and old (more than 1 year old) servers.

- Attack and quest durations have been shortened for low level characters.
For new servers:
level 1 - 90%
level 2 - 80%
level 3 - 70%
level 4 - 60%
level 5 - 50%
level 6 - 40%
level 7 - 30%
level 8 - 20%
level 9 - 10%

For older servers:
level 1, 2 - 90%
level 3, 4 - 80%
level 5, 6 - 70%
level 7, 8 - 60%
level 9, 10 - 50%
level 11, 12 - 40%
level 13, 14 - 30%
level 15, 16 - 20%
level 17, 18 - 10%

- Drop and experience gained has been increases for characters level 1-20 on older servers.
All characters receive a free premium service that double experience gained and the number of items dropped. There will always be at least one item dropped.

- Experience gained has been increased for characters level 21-40 on older servers.
Premium account required!
Players gain access to a free premium service that doubles experienced gained and can be enabled or disabled.

We have also added some improvements that have been requested by players to make gameplay smoother.

- An automatic message that informs you of new options when you gain a level.
If an option has a level requirement, players will be sent a message that it has been unlocked when the reach the appropriate level.

- Invert selection when sending invites.
This has been requested by players using mobile phones.

- Premium reminder will be sent 5 days before it runs out, instead of 3 days.

- Bidding after being outbid will now be easier.
The message about being outbid will now include a link to auctions list that will contain only that one auction and an open bidding window.

- You can now finish stage 1 of an expedition for 1 day of premium or honour points (the number of points needed is the same as for beginning a hunt).

- Your nick will be purple in reports.

- You can now look at items from quest reports.

- Players who log in from their phones will have a different online/offline icon in clan members list and in invitation window.

And some balance changes.

- Berserker – new ability: Fury.
After receiving a fatal blow in combat, Berserker regains 1 HP. This can happen only once per combat. This ability will be available at the last level of the Sacrifice tattoo.

- Beta UW: the Assassin tattoo now has a maximum requirements of 50/80/50 points of defence at level 5.
We have decided to test a changed requested by you and put the test requirements for the Assassin tattoo on UW servers.

level 1 - 7/15/7
level 2 - 15/25/15
level 3 - 25/40/25
level 4 - 35/60/35
level 5 - 50/80/50

Ranged weapons balance. - we are hard at work on preparing the final patch for ranged weapons balancing. We plan to release it in Fall 2014.

Epic items. - general ideas
For the time being, we are planning to release epic items only on Necro servers.

Each time you find an item, there will be a small change that it will be Epic.

The chance is equal to 1% + (for the time being) 0,1% for each 100 pts of luck (including all clan bonuses, events, higher zone bonuses)

At the moment, we want Epic items to have no requirements.

Fair drop – the number of epic items dropped will be monitored and if a play has found 100 normal items without finding an epic one, an epic item will be dropped automatically.
This will guarantee that EVERYONE will find at least 1 epic item per 100 items found.

Epic items 1.0

Stats for epic items will be better than the stats of legendary perfect items of the same kind.
They will have no quality, just the Epic affix.

For example:

Legendary Perfect Tiger's Hard Hat of Adrenaline
Type: Helmet
Defence: 1
Stats: AGILITY +17, TOUGHNESS +6, item defence -8, STRENGTH +11, PERCEPTION -5
Requirements: STRENGTH: 46, level: 33, Character must be in act: 2


Epic Tiger's Hard Hat of Adrenaline
Type: Helmet
Defence: 1
Stats: AGILITY +21, TOUGHNESS +7, item defence -8, STRENGTH +14


Legendary Perfect Flamethrower
Type: Two-handed gun
Damage: 41 - 135
Stats: chance to hit -10, chance for critical hit +135 %, ignores opponent's defence
Requirements: level: 85, STRENGTH: 34, AGILITY: 26, TOUGHNESS: 26, Character must be in act: 2

Epic Flamethrower
Type: Two-handed gun
Damage: 52 - 169
Stats: chance to hit -10, chance for critical hit +169 %, ignores opponent's defence


Epic items will be account-bound.
The chance for better items will be higher for characters in Act 2 and 3. In Acts 2 and 3 you will get fewer clubs and more katanas (it will be even better in Act 3).
The chance for better prefixes and suffixes will be SLIGHTLY increased.

Epic items will be zone-free (you can get all affixes).

Luck will increase the chance for better basic item and for rare affixes. This will be doubled for characters in act 2 and tripled for characters in act 3!

You will always get epic items appropriate for you sex.


Unique epic items 2.0
WARNING! We will implement these only if you like epic items 1.0 as they will need a lot of work.

There will be a small (we haven't decided on the exact numbers yet) chance that instead of a “normal” epic item you will get a unique one.
ie. 5% +0.5% for each 100 pts of luck * act

For example:

Epic Flamethrower
Type: Two-handed gun
Damage: 52 - 169
Stats: chance to hit -10, chance for critical hit +169 %, ignores opponent's defence


Incinerator
Type: Two-handed gun
Damage: 52 - 169
Stats: chance to hit -10, chance for critical hit +169 %, ignores opponent's defence
Additionally, two random opponents are dealt 50-100% damage.


As you can see Unique items will have some additional effects.

Here are some examples of additional effects:

- sniper rifle - 50% chance for double damage on critical hits.
- hard hat – your TOUGHNESS is doubled
- helmet – you get an additional 2% ignore damage
- mask – each time you hit an opponent, there is a 2% chance for summing an Infernal Hound to your aid. (Max 1 hound per combat, hound attacks for 1 round).
- circlet - your AGILITY is increased by 20%
- cap – your perception is increased by 20%
- balaclava – doubles your reputation
- hat – your appearance is added to your charisma
- crown – your attack ignore 20% defence
- headband – your appearance is added to your charisma and reputation
- bandanna – each time you get hit, there is a 20% for a counterstrike. (deals 50% of final damage – including defence etc.)

UPDATE1:

UPDATE ON EPIC ITEMS:

We have decided that epic items at low levels would be too powerful so we've modified our initial plans. Now you will only be able to use EI in Act 3 (though they will drop for you starting with A2 and A1 characters can still find them via events)

Fair Drop System
We've decided that we want to provide not only item quantity but also quality. If you drop EI with weak affixes, the chance for a better affix will increase. The strength of an affix is calculated based on its price in LGO, so some LGO prices will have to be readjusted.

UPDATE2:

Here you can check the current prices:
http://r2.bloodwars.net/test_items.php?class=0&baseType=0&prefix=0&sufix=0&legendary=0&playerLvl=1

The new item prices and changes can be found here:
Helmets, prefixes:
Horned - 8.000
Artistic - 5.000

Helmets, suffixes:
Dragon Scale - 20.000
Prophet - 17.000

Armour, prefixes:
Field - 21.000
Flexible - 13.000
Elvish - 35.000

Armour, suffixes:
Master - 60.000
Fencer - 30.000
Adept - 15.000
Death Sower - 100.000
Orchid - 70.000

Pants, prefixes:
Strengthened - 5.000
Studded - 10.000
Splinted - 14.000
Panzer - 18.000
Composite - 25.000
Flexible - 8.000
Elvish - 22.000
Quilted - 3.000
Deadly - 27.000
Tiger’s - 19.000

Pants, suffixes:
Dodges - 25.000
Night - 75.000

Rings, prefixes:
Diamond - 5.000
Twisted - 6.000
Vengeful - 5.000
Solar - 10.000

Rings, suffixes:
Accuracy - 7.500
Levitaion - 14.000

Amulets, prefixes:
Diamond - 6.000
Twisted - 7.000
Vengeful - 6.000

Amulets, suffixes:
Accuracy - 7.500
Levitation - 14.000

1-handed melee, prefixes:
Cruel - 1.500
Serrated - 2.500
Deadly - 14.000
Shining - 7.500

2-handed melee, prefixes:
Serrated - 10.000
Deadly - 18.000
Shining - 3.000

Ranged, suffix:
Reaction - 50.000

Balancing changes:

Armour, prefix:
Bloody – critical hit modifier +15%
Removed effect: regenerates X BP for each YY damage

Helmets, prefix:
Bloody – critical hit modifier +15%
Removed effect: regenerates X BP for each YY damage

Pants, prefix:
Bloody – critical hit modifier +15%
Removed effect: regenerates X BP for each YY damage

Pants, suffix:
Dodges - +2% dodge.

Rings, suffix:
Werewolf – decreases damage taken by 2%

Amulet, suffix:
Werewolf – decreases damage taken by 4%

WARNING! The maximum damage decrease from all sources = 30%
This is calculated after all other effects (defence etc.)

1-handed melee:
Axe – max damage +5, critical hit modifier +50%

Kama – max damage +10, min damage +5, critical hit modifier +75%

Wakizashi - max damage +20, min damage +10, critical hit modifier +100%

1-handed melee, suffix:
Dracula – weapon damage +8, +5% BP
Removed effect: +X BP for each hit

Blood - (-)10% BP
Removed effects: -X BP for each hit

2-handed melee, suffix:
Dracula – weapon damage +18, +10% BP
Removed effect: +X BP for each hit

Blood - (-)20% BP
Removed effects: -X BP for each hit

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Posted by Pops on 08-29-2014 at13:25:

 

Good looking patch.

Questions i need to ask. The berzerker tattoo regen thing. Do effects of regeneration, such as blood of life still work after it has been triggered?

Ranged rebalance patch... I know its early yet, but can you divulge if its a buff or a nerf?

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Posted by TwoSwords. on 09-01-2014 at07:30:

 

First of all, really beautiful patch, Thank You for that!

All of us just wondering when You implement epic items in game All of us are curious about that..

Epic item will be better than LP but what about sets if someone use 1 of this item in set? We don't lose bonus from set? What if someone complete epic set, another bonus will show?

Do You put all epic items to "make an item"?
http://r2.bloodwars.net/test_items.php

I'm also agree for epic item 2.0

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Posted by IGN Drunkenmagic on 09-01-2014 at09:42:

 

I heard epic items will be account bound, is this true?

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Posted by npc on 09-01-2014 at16:02:

 

"- Bidding after being outbid will now be easier.
The message about being outbid will now include a link to auctions list that will contain only that one auction and an open bidding window."

please add delete the message too,

thx

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Posted by souvik on 09-02-2014 at16:53:

 

Although not directly related to this patch, but the wiki has not been updated along with the patches for a real long time. May one attempt be made experimentally to allow the registered wiki users to submit drafts on any existing page or about a new page that has not been created before. A group of moderators will scan and sensor the articles and allow them to be included in the wiki. The wiki is long dead and out of date.

Would love to see the possibility of cross server auctions (under similar realm) in future.

The tattoos that can use only very high defence items should be allowed dodge bonus as most of the agility items come at low defence hence the character is unable to dodge the attacks.

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Posted by Knightroad on 09-02-2014 at18:06:

 

Love it, love everything about it.
Im guessing the dev team finally ate those chocolate brownies i sent?

Ya didnt mention the little online/offline thing shown as a phone if players was last online on phone. the little things like that which keep us happy

Love the epic item thing, cant wait till it's bought onto necro.. i dnt play it, but cant wait to see some reports. 2.0 looks better; You didnt ask but here; some wep idea's

Glock ~ Spud Gun
Scorps ~ Bubble Blaster
Mace ~ Love Stick
Short Bow ~ Cupid's Bow
Katana ~ Great Sword
2H Sword ~ Bastard Sword
Throwing Knife ~ Kunai
Shuriken ~ Frisby
Crossbow/Heavy Crossbow ~ Brick/Heavy Brick

for underworld, how about adding 3 levels of weps that are equal to n+5/g+5/p+5 IE; Sniper rifle becomes M14/Walther WA2000/Dragunov (Imma gun nerd, you may not change that order ) perhaps act locking them aswell.

as for the "at least 1 epic item per 100 items found." i would add a 0 to that every act. any half decent act 3 player will be getting an epic item every other day

keep up the good work
Althou, the epic items stuff falls dangerously close to something that you said would probably never ever happen... gear that level's up with you; which is still an epic idea.

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Posted by Szeszej on 09-02-2014 at20:58:

 

quote:

Originally posted by souvik Although not directly related to this patch, but the wiki has not been updated along with the patches for a real long time. May one attempt be made experimentally to allow the registered wiki users to submit drafts on any existing page or about a new page that has not been created before. A group of moderators will scan and sensor the articles and allow them to be included in the wiki. The wiki is long dead and out of date.

If you wish I can add you to an editor group that can edit pages . PM me.

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Posted by dooz on 09-03-2014 at12:36:

 

I don't think we need epic items on underworld, we can make legendary perfect +5 items, should be enough.

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Posted by darc on 09-05-2014 at23:49:

 

ak-47 tommy gun. effect +20% to hit

how about make it on underworld you have to merge 2 legendary perfect+5 items to get epic with chance of it being unique

might kick start auctions again and you cant dupe Legendary items

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Posted by dragonslayer31 on 09-06-2014 at00:28:

 

quote:

Originally posted by souvik The tattoos that can use only very high defence items should be allowed dodge bonus as most of the agility items come at low defence hence the character is unable to dodge the attacks.

Not good idea to be honest having high defence means its usually heavy, heavy armour makes it harder to move, harder to move less agile you'll be, the reward for this high defence and weight is being able to tank attacks. The opposite should apply for low defence items, they'd tend to be lighter maker your char faster. (Dark Souls does this well). Just a shame melee 1h haven't had shields added in they would reduce the amount of attacks but boost defence and stats heavily to compensate (defence wouldn't affect tattoos)

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Posted by souvik on 09-08-2014 at16:21:

 

quote:

Just a shame melee 1h haven't had shields added in they would reduce the amount of attacks but boost defence and stats heavily to compensate (defence wouldn't affect tattoos)

It'll be very interesting if the devs consider allowing a shield in the spare hand. Most rpgs allow the use of shields and I'm pretty curious about the impact it can make on one handed melee users here on blood wars.

Since you mentioned the reward of gaining tank attacks sacrificing agility, the property of the shields should include added toughness (not defence as that will collide with tat specs) and lowered agility. The way it has been implemented with the turtle shell items. I think if the epic items gets successful they may consider about the shield too.

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Posted by FlashAOD on 09-08-2014 at16:39:

 

I've always wondered why there aren't shields in this for 1h melee. Seem's like there would be in a post apocalyptic world when you pick up anything you can to survive..

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Posted by Szeszej on 09-08-2014 at19:17:

 

Shields have been proposed in the past but they mostly likely won't be added.

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Posted by TwoSwords. on 09-08-2014 at21:37:

 

quote:

Originally posted by Szeszej Shields have been proposed in the past but they mostly likely won't be added.

I think shields will be awasome but eh.. someone decide it won't..

I have a qeustion aboiut epic items. Can we drop them also from treasures or from souvenir shop? maybe with a littel higher chance to get it?

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Posted by Szeszej on 09-09-2014 at20:20:

 

No info yet on this

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Posted by Pops on 09-11-2014 at23:18:

 

Any info at all on the ranged rebalance patch?

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Posted by wat on 09-18-2014 at23:30:

 

Would be nice to know whether to expect a ranged nerf before deciding where enchants and pop should go As well as how big of a box of tissues I should buy to wipe up my tears.

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Posted by theheraldofogc on 09-19-2014 at00:46:

 

Given that 2H guns and 2H mellee are the best weapons, and Ranged are difficult as all heck to use, if they get nerfed someone needs to hold an intervention with the devs :p

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Posted by TwoSwords. on 09-19-2014 at12:11:

 

Firstly let us knwo when epic items will be implement in game

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Posted by Szeszej on 09-22-2014 at14:21:

 

As Poland has won the World Championships, Night Of Heroes will take place on all servers on 27-28.IX

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Posted by wat on 09-27-2014 at00:59:

 

Dude I relied on your post and wasted a hard koth level 4 because the event didn't happen. Now I'm starting over instead of getting a once every couple months enchant

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Posted by Ghaldria on 09-27-2014 at04:12:

 

still no NOH on necro :/

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Posted by souvik on 09-27-2014 at06:30:

 

quote:

Originally posted by Szeszej As Poland has won the World Championships, Night Of Heroes will take place on all servers on 27-28.IX

Wow I held up my due expo and Koth for this event and synchronized so that they end only after it clocks into 27 th, and when the report came there was no sign of the promised night of the heroes, only two unfortunate believers were beaten to death by the mobs. And I'm not expecting any compensation either.
Following the forum led me to downfall.

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Posted by FlashAOD on 09-27-2014 at07:08:

 

Following this made us fail a wendingo also as we had it finishing at 12:30.

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Posted by wat on 09-27-2014 at13:28:

 

I've lost two months of saving my fuel depot 4 for noh. Don't know why I'm paying money for surprise auto fails.

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Posted by darc on 09-27-2014 at15:19:

 

yup same here koths and expos fail. polish board knew we should have been told

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Posted by Szeszej on 09-28-2014 at14:41:

 

As I can see NoH is active now.

We're sorry for the inconvenience.

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Posted by Szeszej on 10-09-2014 at14:29:

 

UPDATE ON EPIC ITEMS:

We have decided that epic items at low levels would be too powerful so we've modified our initial plans. Now you will only be able to use EI in Act 3 (though they will drop for you starting with A2 and A1 characters can still find them via events)

Fair Drop System
We've decided that we want to provide not only item quantity but also quality. If you drop EI with weak affixes, the chance for a better affix will increase. The strength of an affix is calculated based on its price in LGO, so some LGO prices will have to be readjusted.

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Posted by steco on 10-09-2014 at22:51:

 

when we can expect them to be in game. and please, be serious.

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Posted by theheraldofogc on 10-10-2014 at00:22:

 

Colour me excited, keep letting us know as the news comes in

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Posted by Szeszej on 10-16-2014 at15:48:

 

The new prices and changes are now in the first post.

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Posted by wat on 10-16-2014 at16:38:

 

Does this mean you are close to a patch?

I forgive you for night of heroes.

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Posted by souvik on 10-16-2014 at21:01:

 

quote:

Originally posted by wat Does this mean you are close to a patch? I forgive you for night of heroes.

Lol me and all the black knights will forgive it when we get our strength back. Or do us a favor let us use the vengeance and suicide weapons and see the effect !!! Come on just make an alpha patch to test it.

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Posted by Szeszej on 10-16-2014 at21:08:

 

The epic items patch is coming veeeeery soon

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Posted by pvcx on 10-18-2014 at00:49:

 

quote:

Originally posted by TwoSwords. Epic item will be better than LP but what about sets if someone use 1 of this item in set? We don't lose bonus from set? What if someone complete epic set, another bonus will show?

BUMP

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Posted by Szeszej on 10-22-2014 at14:17:

 

They are treated as legendary perfect as regards set bonuses.

EDIT:
Sorry for the wait, I just got the official answer today

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Posted by TwoSwords. on 10-22-2014 at20:41:

 

quote:

Originally posted by Szeszej They are treated as legendary perfect as regards set bonuses. EDIT: Sorry for the wait, I just got the official answer today

Maybe in Epic 2.0 version BW change it? it will be good if someone even wtih copper set he for example choose +5 to one of stat or so...

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Posted by Szeszej on 10-24-2014 at14:25:

 

It is something we are thinking about.