9/10 Balance Patch

Patch 6.0 - September 10

BALANCE PATCH OVERVIEW

DESIGN GOALS

• Reduce the power level of Stelle, particularly in the early game with cards like Private Runabout and late game with Hangar.

• Reduce the power level of out of combat scaling items (like Money Tree and the cards that enable it).

• Make the strongest enchants with the biggest immediate impact rarer (primarily Obsidian and Shielded) as they often are a culprit in making otherwise safe items into a problem.

• Improving the numbers on existing items that are not seeing much play so that they now feel more viable.

GENERAL CHANGES

• Matchmaking Changes

  • We are changing the way players are matched with opponents' ghosts in Ranked and Normal modes in order to create a smoother onboarding experience for new players.

  • Players will only be matched with ghosts of players of their rank or lower for their PvP fights.

  • This will be a smoother experience for new players as they work to get better at the game, and find the rank they naturally level up to.

  • The experience for higher rank players should not be changed as they still can play against ghosts of any rank.

  • Players will now gain and lose rank points throughout the ranking process to help keep them in the proper rank for their current skill level:

Wins

Bronze

Silver

Gold

Diamond

0

-2

-3

-4

-5

1

-1

-2

-3

-4

2

0

-1

-2

-3

3

1

0

-1

-2

4

1

1

0

-1

5

2

1

1

0

6

2

2

1

1

7

3

2

2

2

8

3

3

3

3

9

4

4

4

4

10

5

5

5

5

Enchantments

- Continued clean/up balance pass on enchantments

- Added Golden Enchant to most items

- Adjusted Deadly enchants on a number of items

- Obsidian enchant is rarer (very rare in level up options or fates, no longer on Aila)

- Silver tier or lower merchants no longer sell enchanted items

• Pricing Changes

  • Enchantments no longer double an item’s value

  • Legendary Buy Price 64 (from 100)

  • Legendary Sell Price 32 (from 64)

  • Legendary items with an on-sell effect now sell for 0

• Obstacle Course (Event)

  • No longer spawns for Stelle

• Prospero (Event)

  • Now Gold-tier

  • Spawns day 5+

• Regenerative Tincture (Event)

  • Now gives Regen equal to twice your level

• Dire Mosquito

  • Health to 1500 (was 1700)

• Regen skills no longer boost the output of items that give you permanent regen outside of combat (e.g., Tome of Yyhan, Sifting Pan, Lunch Box)

• Free loot item events (get scrap, get extracts etc) should no longer appear on Heroes that don’t generally use that output

• Fixed Haddy's Wheel infinite spin bug

• Players can now access settings from Collection + Chest opening scenes

• Sped up time between experience shard hitting player portrait and game continuing

• Chest opening should no longer display most recent season chest asset when opening previous seasons

• New loading screen

MAK

• Apothecary

  • Cooldown to 5 (from 6)

• Atmospheric Sampler

  • Now only Charges items that were not the original trigger

• Black Rose

  • Cooldown to 7 (was 8)

  • Regen scaling to 2/3/4 (was 1/2/3)

• Boiling Flask

  • Cooldown changed to 12/11/10 (was 10/9/8)

• Cauldron

  • Poison and Burn changed to 2/3/4 per type (was 1/2/3)

• Covetous Raven

  • Damage changed to 80/120/160 (was 60/80/100)

• Death Caps

  • Poison scaling to 3/6/9 (was 2/4/6)

• Emerald

  • Poison to 2/3/4/5 (was 1/2/3/4)

  • Poison buff to 2/3/4/5 (was 3/4/5/6)

• Oil Lantern

  • Cooldown to 8 (was 10/9/8)

  • Burn to 10/20/30 (was 10)

• Ruby

  • Cooldown to 7 (was 10)

  • Burn to 2/3/4/5 (was 3/6/9/12)

  • Burn buff to 2/3/4/5 (was 3/4/5/6)

• Runic Double Bow

  • Cooldown to 6 (was 7)

  • Damage to 20/40/60 (was 25/35/45)

• Secret Formula

  • Cooldown to 9/7 (was 10/8)

• Sifting Pan

  • Regen skills no longer increase this item’s permanent gains

• Tome of Yyahan

  • Regen skills no longer increase this item’s permanent gains

• Viper Cane

  • Poison and Regen scaling to 20/30% (was 15/25%)

• Weaselpede

  • Freeze duration to 1 second (was 1/2/3)

  • Cooldown to 6/5/4 (was 6)

DOOLEY

• Alpha Ray

  • Cooldown to 6 (was 7)

• Arc Blaster

  • Damage to 15/30/45/60 (was 20/40/60/80)

  • Cooldown to 6 (was 7)

• Barbed Wire

  • Changed to “Slow 2 items for 1 second(s).” (was 1 item for 1/2/3/4 seconds)

• Battery

  • Ammo to 5 (was 4)

• Bellelista

  • Damage to 50 (was 40)

  • Changed to “When you Haste, this gains +25/50 Damage for the fight.” (was 20/40)

• Beta Ray

  • Cooldown to 6 (was 7)

• Bill Dozer

  • Changed to “When you use another Friend, this gains +35/70 Damage for the fight.” (was 30/60)

  • Changed to “Your other Friends' Cooldowns are reduced by 15/25%.” (was 10/20)

• Chemsnail

  • Cooldown to 8 (was 6)

  • Changed to “When you Slow, Charge this 2 seconds.” (was 1 second)

• Chris Army Knife

  • Damage and Shield to 20 (was 15)

• Cog

  • Haste duration to 2/3/4 seconds (was 1/2/3)

• Cool LEDs

  • Cooldown to 5 (was 6)

• Copper Ed

  • Poison to 5 (was 3)

  • Shield to 25 (was 15)

• Crane

  • Damage to 150/300 (was 100/200)

• Cybersecurity

  • Changed to “This has +50/75 Damage for each other Weapon and Tech item you have.” (was 75/125)

  • Changed to “This deals triple Damage if it is your only Friend.” (was double)

• Defense Matrix

  • Cooldown to 5 (was 4)

  • Haste duration to 1/2/3 seconds (was 1)

• Dino Saddle

  • No longer a Property

• Flamethrower

  • Damage to 10/20 (was 2)

• Forklift

  • Damage to 150/250 (was 150/200)

• Gamma Ray

  • Cooldown to 6 (was 7)

• Hammlet

  • Cooldown to 6 (was 10)

  • Changed to “When you Slow, Charge this 1 seconds.” (was 2 seconds)

• Hover Tech

  • Flying targets to 2/3/4 (was 1/2/3)

• Ice 9000

  • Poison scaling to 15/30 (was 10/20)

• Induction Aegis

  • Burn to 5 (was 2)

• Isochoric Freezer

  • Cooldown to 6/5/4 (was 6)

  • Changed to “Freeze an item with a Cooldown of 5s or less for 2 seconds” (was 1/2/3 seconds)

• Laser Pistol

  • Damage to 15/30/45/60 (was 10/20/30/40)

• Micro Dave

  • Cooldown to 7/6/5/4 (was 8)

  • Burn to 5 (was 6/8/10/12)

• Miss Isles

  • Changed to “When you use a Core, this gains +10/20/30 Damage for the fight and Reload it.” (was “When you use a Core, Reload this”)

• Monitor Lizard

  • Poison scaling to 5/10/15 (was 3/6/9)

• Omega Ray

  • Cooldown to 6 (was 7)

• Pierre Conditioner

  • Freeze targets to 2/3 (was 1/2)

• Plasma Rifle

  • Cooldown to 6 seconds (was 7)

• Power Sander

  • Changed to “Haste the item to the right of this for 2/3/4/5 seconds.” (was 1/2/3/4)

• Propeller Hat

  • Fixed an issue where this item could only make one Core fly at a time

• Pylon

  • Changed to “Slow [1/2/3] item(s) for 1 second(s).” (was 1 item for 1/2/3 seconds)

  • Changed to “When you Slow, Haste an item for 1 second(s).” (was 1/2/3 seconds)

• Pyrocarbon

  • Haste duration changed to 1/1.5/2 seconds (was 1 at all tiers)

• Railgun

  • Damage to 250/500 (was 200/400)

  • Quest requires 8 Tech (was 10)

• Rex Spex

  • Scaling to 80/160 (was 60/120)

• Rocket Launcher

  • Burn to 2/4/6/8 (was 2/3/4/5)

• Sat-Comm

  • Haste duration to 1/2/3/4 seconds (was bugged as 2/2/2/5)

• Temporal Navigator

  • Fixed an issue with Obsidian variant triggering on Crit instead of Use

• The Core

  • Cooldown to 6/5/4 (was 7/6/5)

• Thermal Lance

  • Burn to 6 (was 5)

  • Burn scaling to 6/12/18 (was 5/10/15)

• Pulse Rifle

  • Gains the Tech type

  • Cooldown to 5 (was 6/5/4/3)

  • Damage to 10/20/30/40 (was 10)

• Unstable Grav Well

  • Cooldown to 7/6/5 (was 8/7/6)

• Welding Torch

  • Cooldown to 8/7/6 (was 9/8/7)

• Z-Shield

  • Shield to 75 (was 75/100/125)

  • Freeze duration to 1 second (was 1/2/3 seconds)

  • Cooldown to 7/6/5 (was 8)

• Z-Sword

  • Damage to 50 (was 75/100/125)

  • Burn to 10 (was 12/16/20)

  • Cooldown to 7/6/5 (was 8)

PYGMALIEN

• Atlas Stone

  • Corrected an issue where Obsidian Atlas Stone tripled its damage output on use

• Balcony

  • Starts at Gold

• Brass Knuckles

  • Cooldown to 9/8/7/6 (was 8)

  • Damage to 8 (was 8/16/24/32)

• Cargo Shorts

  • Fixed an issue where this counted items in the stash for Multicast instead of its own tags

• Cash Cannon

  • Starts at 50 damage (was 1)

• Cold Room

  • Starts at Silver

  • Cooldown to 6 (was 9)

  • Changed to “Freeze 1/2/3 items for 1 second.” (was 1/2)

  • Changed to “When you use an adjacent Tool or Property, Charge this 1 second.” (was “When an enemy uses an item, Charge this 1 second”)

  • Changed to “When you Freeze, gain 2/4/8 Regen for the fight.” (was 5/10)

• Dog

  • Cooldown to 9/8/7/6 (was 8/7/6/5)

  • Quests to sell 25/50/75 Food or Toys (was 20/40/60 Food)

• Fixer Upper

  • Cooldown to 4 (was 5)

• Grindstone

  • Cooldown to 3 (was 4)

  • Added: “If the Weapon to the Left has a Cooldown over 5 seconds, this has +1 Multicast.”

• Hot Stones

  • Cooldown to 4 (was 6)

  • Burn to 2/4/6/8 (was 3/5/7/9)

  • Regen to 1/2/3/4 (was 1/4/7/10)

• Investment Pitch (event)

  • Appreciated value changed to “Give your items +10 value (not including stash)” (was double the value of your leftmost item)

• Jabalian Drum

  • Haste duration changed to 2 seconds (was 1/2)

  • Damage changed to 5/10 (was 6/9)

• Keychain

  • Corrected enchantments to only target active items

• Landscraper

  • Cooldown to 5 (was 7)

• Luxury Tents

  • The first time you would die each fight, Heal 10/20% of your Max Health. (was 25/50%)

• Model Ship

  • Starts at Silver

  • Cooldown to 5/4/3 (was 5)

  • Shield to 10 (was 25/50)

• Money Tree

  • Cooldown to 5 (was 4)

• Piggles Launcher

  • Cooldown to 7 (was 8)

• Regal Blade

  • Quest requirements to 12/10/8 items bought (was 12/12/12)

  • Third quest now scales damage based on all items' value (was just Properties)

• Slingshot

  • Starts at 2 ammo (was 1)

• Spiky Shield

  • Shield to 10 (was 10/15/20/25)

  • Cooldown to 9/8/7/6 (was 9)

• Textiles

  • Changed to “When you Heal with an item, Charge an adjacent non-Healing item 1 second.” (was Charge adjacent items)

• Truffles

  • Lowered enchant numbers

• Tusked Helm

  • Cooldown to 9/8/7/6 (was 10)

  • Damage and Shield to 10 (were 10/15/20/25)

• Vineyard

  • Cooldown to 5 (was 6)

• VIP Pass

  • Cooldown changed to 5 seconds (was 7)

  • Haste duration changed to 2 seconds (was 1/2/3)

  • Value increase changed to 4/6/8 and only for the current fight (was 1 and permanent)

Stelle

• Firecrackers

  • Ammo to 5 (was 6)

• Flare Gun

  • Corrected an issue where this did not correctly count as an Ammo item in some cases

• Flashbang

  • Slow to 2/3/4 seconds (was 3/4/5)

• Hangar

  • Starts at Diamond

  • Cooldown to 1 second (was 1.5)

• Hammer

  • Quest goal increased to 10 (was 8)

• Headset

  • Corrected an issue where several of this item’s enchants also triggered on “stops Flying”

• Hydraulic Squeezer

  • Now correctly charges all of your Flying items instead of just 1

• Lavaroller

  • Adjusted effect ordering so destroy happens before the Burn

  • This also corrected an issue where Grabinator would not buff Lavaroller

  • Cooldown to 9/7 (was 10/8)

• Launch Tower

  • Changed to “The first time you use an item each fight, all your Vehicles start Flying.” (was at the start of each fight)

• Lightning Rod

  • Corrected an issue where the enemy and player triggers were on different internal cooldowns

• Lunch Box

  • +Regen skills no longer increase this item’s permanent gains

• Orbital Polisher

  • Needs 150 items to fly (was 99)

• Oxygen Mask

  • Regen to 3/6/9/12 (was 2/4/6/8)

• Oxygen Tank

  • Healing to 75/100/125 per Vehicle (was 50/75/100)

• Private Runabout

  • Cooldown to 9/8/7 (from 7)

  • Damage to 100 (from 50/100/150)

• Rivet Gun

  • Cooldown to 8/7/6 (was 6)

  • Self-charge to 2 (was 1/2/3)

• Sandbags

  • 2/3/4 Vehicles start Flying (from 1)

  • When a Vehicle starts Flying, Charge it 1 second (from 1/2/3 seconds)

• Siren

  • Cooldown to 5/6/7 (was 7)

  • Slow and Haste duration to 1 second (was 0.5)

• Solar Drone

  • No longer a Vehicle

  • Cooldown to 7 (was 8)

• Squirrel Suit

  • Regen to 10/15/20 (was 6/8/10)

• The Big One

  • Damage to 40/50% of max health (was 35/45)

• Wrecking Ball

  • Cooldown to 20 (was 22)

VANESSA

• Anchor

  • Haste duration changed to 2 (was 2/4)

  • Cooldown to 12/10 (was 13)

• Blowgun

  • Cooldown to 8/6 (was 9)

• Butterfly Swords

  • Cooldown to 7 (was 8)

• Cyber Sai

  • Cooldown to 3 (was 5)

  • Damage to 10/20/30/40 (was 20/40/60/80)

  • Invulnerability charges to 2/3/4/5 (was 1/2/3/4)

• Darkwater Angler

  • Cooldown to 8/7/6 (was 8)

• Electric Eels

  • Damage to 100 (was 50)

• Flagship

  • Damage to 50 (was 50/75/100)

  • Cooldown to 7/6/5 (was 7)

• Kusarigama

  • Cooldown to 5 (was 6)

  • No longer Slows

  • Scaling damage to 5/10/15 (was 3/6/9)

• Mantis Shrimp

  • Cooldown to 9 (was 10)

• Mr. Richardson

  • Cooldown to 6 (was 7)

• Old Saltclaw

  • Cooldown to 6 (was 7)

• Orange Julian

  • Cooldown to 11/10/9 (was 11/10/9/8)

  • Starts at Silver

• Pufferfish

  • Cooldown to 8/7/6 (was 8)

• Seadog’s Saloon

  • Cooldown to 5/4 (was 6/5)

• Stealth Glider

  • Re-enabled

  • Corrected an issue where enchanted Stealth Gliders' invulnerability did not break properly

• Submarine

  • Damage to 50 (was 50/75/100)

  • Cooldown to 4/3/2 (was 4)

• Torpedo

  • Max Ammo to 1 (was 2)

  • Damage scaling to 40/80/120 (was 40/70/100)

• Zoarcid

  • Starts at Silver

  • Cooldown to 6 (was 7)

  • Haste duration to 2 seconds (was 1/2/3/4)

  • Damage to 15/30/45 (was 20/30/40/50)

COMMON ITEMS

• Citrus

  • +Regen skills no longer increase this item’s permanent gains

• Gland

  • +Regen skills no longer increase this item’s permanent gains

• Scythe

  • Cooldown to 7 (from 11)

• Hands of Time

  • Now properly no longer targets tools with no cooldown (or a cooldown of 1) with its active effect

SKILLS

• Advanced Synthetics

  • Now Dooley only

  • Starts at Silver-tier

• Alchemical Precision

  • Removed unnecessary Ammo check which prevented it from working on items that gained the Ammo tag

• Bombs Away! (New Skill)

  • Stelle only

  • When you use a Vehicle or Drone, Burn [1/2/3]

• Hot Air (New Skill)

  • Stelle only

  • The first time you Burn each fight, [1/2] of your items starts Flying

• Equivalent Exchange

  • Corrected an issue where the triggers were not on the same internal cooldown

• Expert Pilot

  • Starts at Bronze-tier

  • Your Vehicles have +[20/30/40/50] damage and Shield (from 30/60%)

• Focused Strike

  • Renamed from Temporal Strike

  • Now Vanessa only

  • If you have exactly one Weapon, its cooldown is reduced by [--/5/10/15]% (from: cooldown reduced while your enemy has a Slowed item)

• Heavy Machinery

  • Corrected an issue where this was not counting uses correctly

• Heat Shield

  • Attempted a fix to correct an occasional issue where this would not trigger

• Noisy Cricket

  • If you have at least 7 items in play, your Weapons deal +[--/20/30/40] damage (from 20/25/30)

• Searing Flames

  • When one of your Burn items gains Haste, it gains [--/1/2/3] Burn for the fight (was conditional on already having Haste)

• Steelstorm

  • Your Weapons have +[--/4/6/8] damage for each Weapon you have (from 4/8/12)

• Streamline Weapon

  • When one of your Weapons gains Haste, it gains [--/5/10/15] damage for the fight (was conditional on already having Haste)