Gems of Streaming

[Saltypatra]

We answered so many questions, OH MY. So many! I am tired now.

[Lyrian]

You were a speed demon, tonight.

I struggled to even even write shorthand, but you were owning the chat room.

[Cindy]

Wow that was up quick! Thank you so much for this

[TheIdleOne]

Update is currently in certification. So assuming it passes, it can be very soon. Really depends on when it was submitted. I’d imagine the process takes like 2? weeks or so.

@Lyrian

– Ascend all button implemented. Will not ascend any troop to a rarity that leaves it with less than 4 copies of the troop.

Hope they get around to double checking to see if it doesn’t ascend delve treasures.

[awryan]

I didn’t hear about the Pans Vale question.
I know they answered it though in the comments from Salty.
Was a client patch required for the troops being updated?

[Grundulum]

What are “boosted damage calculations”?

[TheIdleOne]

They mentioned the Pan’s Vale one can be done server side without an update.

[awryan]

@TheIdleOne

Update is currently in certification. So assuming it passes, it can be very soon. Really depends on when it was submitted. I’d imagine the process takes like 2? weeks or so.

Steam less than a day. Android right behind them, then Xbox. PS and iOS compete for last approval.

[awryan]

@Grundulum

What are “boosted damage calculations”?

Ubastets cast for one.

[Grundulum]

Not possible if they are “coming in the future”, per Lyrian’s summary.

[awryan]

@Grundulum

Not possible if they are “coming in the future”, per Lyrian’s summary.

Is possible, they just don’t know how yet.

[Razzagor]

– New status effects: Blessed, Cursed, Bleed
Bleed: Stackable damage over time (1, 3, 6, 10 damage per turn at 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x stacks)
Bless: Grants Impervious
Curse: Disables Impervious, halves chances for a status effect to naturally clear.

Well, this sheds light on the Curse/Bless discussion. Disabling Impervious puts Curse above everything in this game now.

– Shop –> legacy coding issues prevent multiple purchases at once. Considering adding multiple purchase bundles in the future as a workaround to the issue.

In-game shop rework

Since this question didn’t made into the Q.A: I’m reposting it as a request: In the past when asked about the possibility of allowing us to buy multiples packs of something, like Spoils of War, we were told that making something like this could cause issues. Why not simply add some new tab on these items with some pre-set amounts to buy just like we have with the chests? A picture to make things clear: [image] You click on the Spoils of War, for example, and there is a popup/new window wh…

Over an year, but i’ll be happy when this finally gets done.

[Lyrian]

What @awryan said.

Things like conditional damage, damage boosted by gems, and so on.

So, instead of “15 damage, boosted by red gems”, the tooltip would actually report real-time damage calculations of those abilities. The devs said that it’s a possibility in the future now that the game runs on Unity and not on Adobe Air.

[Grundulum]

Ah, boosted damage calculations showing the results in the text. That will be convenient if the devs ever get around to it! (I mean, the game already does those calculations. You just don’t get to see the results until you cast.)

[TheIdleOne]

41 min 18 sec

there ya go

[soulhacker]

@Lyrian

– Weapons: Weapons with exploding affixes being changed. Exploding –> Give mana; Doom weapons –> mana drains

So what is it actually mean and why they do that?

[Grundulum]

Weapons that have “explode a gem” affixes do bad things to the board: they blow up 4+ matches before the game resolves them. So you might cast a spell expecting to get an extra turn, but your weapon blows up the match, and the AI gets a board full of mana.

The devs said the intent was to provide a little bit of extra mana upon casting. So directly giving mana accomplishes mostly the same purpose, without forcing them to rewrite how the code handles gem creation/explosion and match resolution.

Edit: @devs, can you also look at “create a gem” affixes on weapons that don’t already create gems as part of their spell?

[soulhacker]

@Grundulum

Weapons that have “explode a gem” affixes do bad things to the board: they blow up 4+ matches before the game resolves them. So you might cast a spell expecting to get an extra turn, but your weapon blows up the match, and the AI gets a board full of mana.

The devs said the intent was to provide a little bit of extra mana upon casting. So directly giving mana accomplishes mostly the same purpose, without forcing them to rewrite how the code handles gem creation/explosion and match resolution.

Thanks! So it refers to the upgradable affix of weapons and not the exploding effect in the main spell right? Although it’s a weird solution to me but well, seems good to keep the game simple and more predictable.

[Fourdottwoone]

@Lyrian

Weapons with exploding affixes being changed. Exploding –> Give mana; Doom weapons –> mana drains

Any word about affixes that add or remove a low amount of gems? Like the dreaded Warm “upgrade” for Mang?

[back]

So many nice changes coming!

And this:

@Lyrian

Weapons in event shops are one-time chances to purchase with gems on their event launch. Future appearances of weapons will be in the cash shop by design.

There are newer players missing weapons like Yasmine’s Pride, Divine Protector, Earth’s Fury. The only way to get them is with cash. To me this is by far the most P2W thing in the whole game.

I don’t have Divine Protector, but could have bought it and used it to defeat other players in Guild Wars.

Anyway sorry for the complaint amongst so much good news.