Hey Champions - new things galore in patch 0.14.0! Two new items, three new keywords, one new item rarity, balance changes, and more - all from your feedback over the last few weeks...lots to try here! We've heard you on weapon targeting/randomness in Total Loadout, the feeling of consumables as a build and a lot more, so these changes look to shake things up in those areas - would love to hear how they feel for you. Battle start effects now being 'Auras' that can be removed when an item is destroyed, as well as two other new keywords and mechanics in 'Accurate' and 'Spillover' should also mix things up a bit! Find a summary of changes below - rather than make the patch notes super long here, we've given insight/comments on why we've made changes over on Discord. Come and join the community here to get all the team's balancing thoughts and background. As always, we want to share ideas we have nice and early with you for you to try and feedback on. There may well be the occasional bug and imbalance as things are cooked so fresh - enjoy and let us know what you think! -1TK Team- --

Major Changes:

New Items Unstable Core: Core Set, Unique Consumable with 3 charges. Ability: When an Adjacent Consumable is triggered, give it 1 Charge (the number of charges the Unstable Core has and it gives to other Consumables increases by one for each level up) Pocket Watch: Alice, Unique. Ability: Battle Start: damage adjacent items to half health and then refill to full health (this happens 2 times at level 2 and 3 times at level 3) New keyword: "Accurate" Definition: Always hits a weapon, if a weapon can be hit. Items affected: -Targeting Monocle: now gives Accurate to an adjacent weapon (and more weapons as it increases in level) -Spotlight Buddy: now gives Accurate to an adjacent weapon (and more weapons as it increases in level) in addition to Remove Taunt -Eagles' Javelin: now has Accurate, paired with its ability to hit the item with the lowest health. Without taunt items present, it will always hit the lowest health weapon. New keyword: "Spillover" Definition: Apply overkill damage from an Attack to a random adjacent weapon Items affected: -Sentinel Amulet: now also has Spillover -Swift Edge: now gives Spillover to items it hits, plus Damage Area. Price increased from 6 to 10 Credits. New keyword: "Aura" Definition: This item's effect is active as long as it's not destroyed. Items affected: -Targeting Monocle -Cat's Charm -Finesse Bracers -Peppered Soup -Sugared Almonds -Duchesse Tea Service -Olympic Strike Boots

Smaller Changes:

Cost changes: Most items have had their cost reduced by 1 credit since their effect isn't guaranteed for a whole battle anymore. Exceptions: -Olympic Strike Boots: kept the same price as it was originally slightly overpowered. -Finesse Bracers and Cat's Charm: reduced by 2 credits as they were originally too expensive for their power level and constraints. New rarity: "Unique" Definition: As rare as a Legendary Item but only one copy can be present in the player's loadout at any time Items affected: -Monkey Fur: This has quickly become a staple of Monkey King's strategy. It enhances Sun Wukong's strengths and enables powerful, quick-scaling builds while shutting down opponents. Multiple copies could make battles non-interactive, so we're keeping its powerful effect but making it unique, letting it scale with level-ups. -Unstable Core: new item. See description below. -Pocket Watch: new item. See description below New mechanic: Applying a keyword to a weapon increases the effect of that keyword with the item level Items affected: -Targeting Monocle -Spotlight Buddy -Monkey Fur

Other balance changes

-Divine Empowerment (Trinket): reduce weapon increase per attack from 5 to 3 -Whack-Back Glove: increase from Reflect 2 to Reflect 6 - its a big punch now! -Cat Charm: base health increased from 2 to 4 - being an aura and not a battle start effect anymore, health matters.

[ 2025-03-19 15:51:16 CET ] [ Original post ]