Patch #2

Combat

We spent a lot of time on improving combat and balancing the game based on tons of feedback and lots of end-game parties. Some of the "crazy" builds took us by surprise :)

Most important is a set of changes to animations, pathing and enemy behavior that should make everything much more responsive and smooth.

Also, we did some rebalancing - especially to champion's skills and mid-game floors (5-7) that were too easy.

Magic Penetration decreased slightly on higher end items.
Armor Penetration - increased across all weapons / tiers.
Physical-based party should be again viable on Hard and Epic.

Fights on the first floor have an easier learning curve now. You don’t have too many options yet to customize your party and you made a valid point. If you find some of them too easy now - please adjust your difficulty as needed. Level 2 is unchanged.

There are close to 300 individual changes made, so I will list only the most important ones below.

Mech companion has been buffed somewhat. He has a speed aura and can temporarily stun enemies around him. He remains the team mascot, but at least he does some confusion on the battlefield now. That is a small compensation that he just charges at closest portal without asking anyone.

Skills

Kane:

• Stone wall - mana cost reduced to flat 20 for each level, duration set at flat 16 seconds at each level [with max cd reduction the uptime on the wall is now 80%]

Maeve:

• Arrow Barrage - damage per arrow increased, at max level from 50 to 70
• Bear Traps - bleeding damage increased, at max level from 10 to 15 dmg per second.
• Rain of Arrows - damage per arrow increased, at max level from 40 to 48

Aeric:

• Earth Fury - damage per stone increased, at max level from 100 to 140. B2 poison damage increased, at max level from 9 to 12.

Rakhem:

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• Rakhem - Base Health increased from 160 to 180. Health per level increased from 18 to 20.
• Inner Fire - an upgrade for both B1 (tanking path) and significant upgrade for B2 (damage path) - so there is a more clear risk/reward for different playstyles.
• Path of Flames - increased length at all levels, B2 extended burning duration
• Blinding Flash - B2 now deals Air damage too.

Boron:

• Health per level increased from 20 to 22.
• Cleave - reduced cleave% by 10% for each level
• Axe Throw - increased damage per axe. For B2 - reduced weakness to 30% at each level

Whisper:

• Thunder Injection - reduced elemental weakness slightly at each level, at max level from 18% to 12% (dual wielding was too strong at higher levels / it still applies 2x debuff for dual wield)
• Elemental Barrage - no of base projectiles 5 to 4, Damage per projectile base - slight reduction. For B2 - increased Void dmg component - so B1 and B2 are now competitive. Overall - at max level the effective damage of this skill is reduced by approximately 20%. It is still very overpowered.
• Magic Tower -- B1 now deals splash damage of Base damage at the same speed

Kaela:

We made few interesing changes to Kaela as she was too difficult to master yet too overpowered when did so.

• Electric Cage - B1 - damage per second increase at all levels, at max from 20 to 24 Air dmg per second. B2 - Weakness reduced across all levels - at max level from 60% to 40% (it is a very long duration skill and it was too easy to stack with other skills for 100% weakness).
• Summon Mech - variable duration increased from 20-40 to 20-60 seconds. Number of mechs increased. At max level she can now create up to 12 mechs. (insane, yes - but it is so fun skill)
• Elemental Grenade name changed to Void Grenade. Explosion radius reduced from 5m to 4m. At B1 - resistance reduction decreased, at max level from 100% to 80%
• Tesla Cannon - as it is high risk / reward skill (requiring positioning), its damage output has been increased significantly. With B2 boost, at max level damage increased from 400 to 600
• Titan - a massive boost to everything. Now this is truly an ultimate ability.

Balancing

• Added new type of skill - magic reflect (similar to physical reflect) - some enemies on floors 5-7 received this upgrade, tired of being shredded by Whisper's Elemental Barrage.
• Shade - was too easy, Voidspawns now should be more than a nuisance (new skills added)
• Titan Boss - major overhaul - he is no longer just a target dummy
• Floors 5-7 - enemies and combat encounters rebalanced as they were too easy. That includes their statistics, damage output and skills. Now there should no longer be such a difficulty spike between 7 and 8 - as you will need to take care of your party always.
• Both Exo-ME 10 and Exo-RA560 bosses - rebalanced to offer better challenge.
• Warleader - throws 2 axes and now and the skill description is clear for axes and his leap. He should be much easier to deal with now.
• Tower Avatar - health increased
• Francisco Pizzaro - his skills are more dangerous now
• Ferdinan Magellan - combat overhauled to make it more challenging
• Irradiated Elemental Lord - he wasn't enough irradiating - now he should be. (he is an optional boss, so yes, he should be very fun now)
• Void Horror - he wasn't enough horrifying - now he should be.

We will continue to work on further improvements.

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Thanks for playing Tower of Time

Cheers,
Event Horizon Team