Devlog #40 - Go Big

Hello Talented Gamers

It's been a fortnight of Talent balance and reworks - so if that's your kind of thing you've got plenty to look forward to! 

Our focuses this time are Wizard and Warrior, but before we dig into those let's take a look at a classic Talent that's been on our radar for a while.

Old Favourite

The 1UP is one of our oldest Talents - and possibly the one that's received the most feedback! For the most part, we've focused on moving forward and adding more content as Talented has grown, but with this update we're taking the opportunity to look back and bring some older content up to our new standards.

So we've finally done it! 1UP has been reworked in the way we've always wanted!

Wizardry

Our focus throughout the 0.10 phase has been to bring down the power of some of our clearly overpowered Talents but also buffing Talents that aren't really being used currently. This should increase the variety of viable builds and make it less likely that you roll a Talent Tree that's objectively useless.

Buffs

• Illuminate now gives 10% additional experience
  
• Added a short delay to the level up provided by Simple Interest so it can better synergise with On Level Up talents
• Frost Nova now deals 2 damage (up from 1)
• Gifted now gives an additional 5 levels at the start of night 10
• Gemmed Glove now adds 15% Critical Strike chance to abilities (up from 10%)

Nerfs

• Knowledge is Power now only increases the experience granted by experience gems by up to 3x
• Straight Flush now gives 15% Ability Power per Ability learnt (down from 25%)
• Orbs base movement speed has been reduced by 30%
• Blazing Orbs speed increase reduced to 10% (down from 20%)
• MP Regeneration Talents now grant 10% increased Regeneration Rate (down from 15%)

Rework

• Atomize has a new design!

• Magical Hat has a new animation and targets a rare talent closer to Magic Hat (making it much harder to get lost on the Talent Tree)
• Inspiring Knowledge has been added to the tree and Bracing Knowledge is now available only in Core Talents

Really Big Sword

Let's start with the elephant in the room. We've received feedback from a few different players that the Level 15 Core Talents for Warrior aren't really cutting it. We agree that they don't do enough to cover his weaknesses at the moment, so much that we've even made a brand new Warrior Core Talent!

Now with Largening, Warrior can grow big and strong and extend his range for the first time ever. Additionally Perfectionist now gives triple combo points for critical strike kills instead of double - will you focus on becoming big and tanky or racking up a massive combo? The choice is yours!

Furthermore, we've added a few extra buffs to the Warrior Base Talent Package!

• Intimidating Strike now deals 2 damage (up from 0)
• Bladework now adds 10%  Crit Chance on Parry (up from 5%)

And that about covers it for this time. The next devlog should have information on Summoner and *hopefully* a very exciting special announcement.

Stay Talented