Hi everyone,
Since the roadmap post a month ago we've been working on an update to add new skills, items and also make some improvements and fixes to the game. Please see the details below:
New Skills
Spell Blade
1. Magic Barrier (5/5)
- For 8 seconds, a Magic Barrier is created that absorbs up to 50% of your Mana in damage.
2. Regenerating Magic Shield (1/1)
- Recover 3 Mana every second while the Magic Barrier is active.
3. Efficient Magic Shield (1/1)
- While the Magic Barrier is up, all your skills cost 20% less Mana.
4. Persistent Magic Shield (1/1)
- Increase the duration of the Magic Barrier by 5 seconds.
Berserker
1. Blood Armor (5/5)
- Creates a Barrier for 8 seconds that absorbs 15% of your maximum Life in damage.
2. Rampage Blood Armor (1/1)
- When you take damage or critically strike an enemy while Blood Armor is active, you become Enraged for 2 seconds.
3. Vampiric Blood Armor (1/1)
- Critically Hitting an enemy while Blood Armor is active heals you for 5 Life.
4. Condensed Blood Armor (1/1)
- Gain 20% damage reduction for 4 seconds after Blood Armor disappears.
5. Blood Circulation (5/5)
- Restores 10 Life when you cast Blood Armor.
6. Blood Harvest (5/5)
- Blood Armor increases your maximum Barrier by 10%.
New Legendary Equipment
1. Ancient Lancer Armor
- Melee core or mastery skills have a 5%-30% chance of sending an ancient spear flying in a circular arc from your location. The Ancient Spear pierces through all enemies for 100-600% damage.
2. Warrior's Spiked Gloves
- Gain 100 thorn damage. Additionally, thorn damage is increased by 100% to 1000% Armor.
3. Song of Lightning
- Lightning Frenzy changes to a skill that attacks a larger area. In addition, the number of strikes is 5 and the skill damage is increased by 15% to 100%.
4. Raging Chainblade
- Your Raging Chain will not be broken by enemy attacks, extending your damage range and allowing you to use your abilities in the air.
- Increases the damage of your core skills by 15-50%.
5. Serrated sword
- Changes Rip Off to a 2-hit attack and increases the damage of Rip Off by 10-100% when hitting a bleeding enemy.
- The damage bonus stacks if you land an additional attack within 2 seconds. (Stacks up to 5-8)
New Artifacts
1. Another opportunity
- When you acquire this artifact, the Synergy of all artifacts you initially possess will change to a random Synergy. (The effects of each artifact remain the same)
2. Life Blood Pouch
- The maximum amount of potions you can carry is fixed to 1.
- Every 10 direct attacks on an enemy has a 35% chance to heal you for 50 Life.
Essence restructured
Essence of Life (Tree Spirit Guinevere)
1. Uplifting Fruit
- Max Health increased by 50%.
- Reduces maximum resources by 15%.
2. Leaf of Life
- Increases maximum Life by 150.
- Reduces the maximum amount of potions you can carry by 1. (Minimum 1 remains.)
3. Seed of Charge
- Increases maximum resources by 100%.
- Decreases maximum life by 15%.
4. Cloak of Life
- Increases maximum potions you can carry by 2.
- Decreases maximum resources by 30%.
Essence of Light (Monaxen, Keeper of Light)
1. Lion Scapular
- Increases armor by 100%.
- Increases all resistances by 30%.
- Decreases attack power by 15%.
2. Guardian's Patience
- When you take damage, you take 10% less damage for 5 seconds. (Cooldown 7 seconds)
3. Dragon Pauldron
- When you take damage, all your resistances are increased by 20% for 5 seconds (Cooldown 7 seconds)
4. Light Screen
- Your maximum barrier increases by 200%.
- Reduces the maximum number of potions you can carry by 2. (Minimum 1 remains)
5. Fist of Justice
- Increase the level of all your mastery skills by 7.
- In this challenge, your core skills can not be leveled higher than 1.
6. Gauntlets of Light
- Increase the level of all your core skills by 7.
- In this challenge, your mastery skills can not be leveled higher than 1.
7. Blue Heart
- Increases the damage of your basic skills by 150%.
- In this challenge, your other skills can not be leveled higher than 1.
8. Seal of the Guardian
- Increases invulnerability time by 1 second when hit.
- Reduces maximum life by 25%.
Essence of Transcendence (Kamara the Seeker)
1. Floating Brooch
- Lose all of your coins.
- Increases your character level by 10.
2. Charge Vambraces
- Increases Attack Speed by 15%.
- Increase all of the skill damage by 80%.
- Decrease attack power by 30%.
3. Bone Spear
- Increases critical chance by 7%.
- Increases critical damage by 15%.
- Decrease armor and all resistances by 20%.
4. Transcendent Stone
- Increases your attack power by 100% and decreases your armor by 50%.
5. Shaman's Bell
- Increases all skill damage by 300% and decreases critical chance by 60%
6. Blacksmith's Pipe
- Increases attack power by 50% and decreases magic attack power by 50%.
7. Enchanted Goblet
- Increases all magic damage by 200%.
- Decreases your maximum life by 30%.
8. Vambraces of Riposte
- Increases critical chance by 30%.
- Decreases your armor by 30%.
Improvements
- Now, it shows which legendary item is activated when the same legendary items are equipped in the weapon and ring slots.
- Now, it shows the direction of enemies that are out of the screen, and it's less than 5 enemies.
- Now, it shows newly acquired items.
- Now, when you are in the town, the Source of Succession, and the Burning Heart areas, you gain fast life regeneration. (Your life reaches maximum status)
- Added reconfirming pop-up when you pressed the give up button in the pause menu.
Balancing
- Spell Blade base resource (Mana) value has been corrected. (75 → 120)
- Artifact Synergy Punishment area of effect Punishment's Thunderbolt reduced by 30%
- Artifact Dragon Coin gold drop reduced (300% → 150%)
- Artifact Torture now grants less experience (1000% → 500%)
- Frantic Chain attack cycle is now affected by attack speed.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where Spell Blade's mastery skill [Linked Vortex Slash] would not proc basic skill during the 2nd or 3rd hit of Sword Of Fire.
- Fixed a bug where the skill level displayed in the skill tree would not update when an item that increases the skill level is obtained or equipped.
- Fixed a bug where the first set effect of Artifact Synergy [Fury] would stack up to only 1 instead of the maximum of 10 stacks.
- Fixed a bug where the game would not progress with one enemy remaining.
- Fixed a bug where buffs could cause attack speed to increase and then decrease again over time, and the decreased attack speed would not apply to the attack animations.
- Fixed a bug where the player stat list would not apply values when critical chance became negative.
- Fixed a bug where NPCs' minimap icons in Outside Gallatin Forest were not visible.
Thank you for your feedback and support of Dragon is Dead, we will continue working on content and improvements alongside the roadmap.
Team Suneat