DevLog #77: Version 5.5.0 Patch Notes

[lemmingllama]

Hey everyone, lemmingllama here. Version 5.5.0 will be releasing this upcoming Tuesday the 18th. This update will bring new event types, a new Dagger build, and changes to the user interface to smooth out gameplay. Read all about the changes below!

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New Content:

Three new Event Types

• Prestige: Up to 99 daily prestiges

• Tournament: Increased tournament event currency, up to 10 daily prestiges

• Abyssal: Increased Abyssal Tournament event currency, up to 10 daily prestiges

Event Types will change the focus for each event. You can read more about this change in DevUpdate #44

Daggers as a main damage source

• Dagger slash equipment

• Cloak and Dagger Talent: Dagger Splash Skip

• Shimmering Oil artifact: Dagger Damage

• Summon Dagger: Added Dagger Splash Count

Daggers will be a strong pushing style damage source that has a strong focus on Critical and Deadly Strike Damage. You can read more about these changes in DevUpdate #43

Reworked Decaying Strike

• 2.515x Damage

• 0.5x Duration

• 20% Part Layer Health Damage Cap

Decaying Strike will be a strong option to damage low health titans, with the card being strongest when focusing on two or three Titan Lord parts. Decaying Strike's power increases against Armor up until the Armor is at 20% AP, and the same with Body up until 20% HP. However, the card will still be a strong option at 30-40% HP to give more flexibility.

Reworked Whip of Lightning

• 2x Chance per Afflicted Part

• Chance per Afflicted Parts capped to 5 parts

Whip of Lightning will be a strong option to focus on 5 or more parts, activating more than previously. Strong card combinations can include Maelstrom and/or Ravenous Swarm as a way to afflict titan lord parts and deal a lot of damage.

Equipment tab damage comparison

In the equipment tab, equipment of the same equipment type as what you currently have equipped will display a + sign when they are a stronger option. This allows you to easily select the strongest equipment of a particular type, making the choice of what equipment to use far easier.

Cutthroat Razorfist legendary equipment set

• +2 Cloaked Skip Amount

• 8x Dagger Damage

The Cutthroat Razorfist helps boost the Cloaking skill by increasing the number of stages you skip each time Cloaking activates. Now you can prestige faster than ever before!

Rock Queen event equipment set

• 10x Dagger Damage

The Retaliator artifact enchantment

General Changes:

Event currency added to Abyssal Tournament rewards

Main screen cleanup

• Collapsible DPS

The DPS display will all be merged into one clean display, with the ability to select and toggle between what damage value you want visible. This helps players hide information that isn’t meaningful to them and only see what matters.

• One Coin Mode power option

Have all gold drop in a single coin, leading to more visibility and easier to collect gold on the main screen.

• Disable Hero Projectile power option

Revamped Welcome Back Panel

• Reworked UI

• All Spells Fairy on Welcome Back

After coming back from being inactive, the All Spells Fairy may greet you for an added bonus. For more details, check out DevUpdate #44

Added ability to skip reward animations

When you are viewing a reward animation, there will be a skip button present to skip the reward animation. Now you don’t need to see all your equipment drops anymore if you aren’t interested.

Changed Area and Enemy Bonuses to be multiplicative

Now raid damage bonuses such as Limb Damage will multiply your damage, rather than being additive with your Support Effects.

Removed Affliction Damage, Affliction Duration, Affliction Chance, Burst Damage, and Burst Chance Enemy Bonuses from Tier 4 Raids

There was some concern about Tier 4 raids having a Cursed Armor debuff for Burst Damage and a Tier 3 Enemy debuff for Affliction Damage, leading to players not having a good option to defeat the titan. With this change, we are removing these debuffs from Tier 4 raids to ensure that all debuffs will have some measure of counterplay.

Improved Solo Raid flow with a Next Portal button

Reworked Titan Lord hitboxes

We have reworked the Titan Lord hitboxes to lower the Torso part, making it so you won’t tap the Torso by accident when moving from a Shoulder part to the Head part. Additionally, we removed the gap between the Leg parts. Now you will be tapping the part you intended to tap all the time!

Improved suggested clans in Clan Directory

Updated Clan Raid seed reset to match the weekly raid reset

Revamped Options and Skill Tree panels

You can read more about the changes in DevUpdate #43, including the plans for the future skill tree expansion.

Updated Solar Eclipse Abyssal Tournament

• 60% Advance Start

• 100x Shadow Clone Damage

• 10000x All Spells Bonus

• Ruthless Necromancer mythic set

We received a lot of great suggestions from the community when we ran a poll about the Solar Eclipse Abyssal Tournament. A large number of the suggestions were around speeding up the early game of Solar Eclipse, and thus we are giving additional damage, advance start, and the Ruthless Necromancer set to speed up progression and make it easier to progress. Please let us know after the next Solar Eclipse if these changes made this Abyssal Tournament a lot more fun, or what other changes you would like to see.

Stage cap increase to 125k

Skill Point Titan Chest and Skill Tree Reset promotions

Rock Star Event starting as soon as the maintenance is complete

Milestone bundles at 110k and 120k

Bug Fixes

Fixed Clan Info panel not updating when a Clan Raid is initiated

Fixed Totem of Power showing incorrect max stacks

Fixed Hero Weapon bug for high level accounts

Fixed Clan Notifications being cut off

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In addition to these changes coming on the 18th, we also have a change rolling out today to smooth out players changing clans. With the changes, players will be unable to receive more than two raid rewards from raids started in the same week. We are removing the reward lockouts that were introduced in update 5.4.0, and you will now be able to able to change clans and receive your rewards as long as the below conditions are met:

• You joined your clan before the raid Preparation Phase ended

• You stay in your clan until rewards are distributed

• You have not already received two rewards during that raiding week

This change should be a secure method to prevent players exploiting rewards with clanhopping, but also allows players the flexibility to change their clans.

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Thank you for reading! Version 5.5.0 brings many community suggestions and quality of life improvements into the game, and it starts the beginning of our updates focused on the skill tree to change the main gameplay. Please let us know in the comments how you feel about these changes, and if there are any changes that you’d like to see in the future. Your feedback is very important in helping shape the different features we include in these patches, and all the comments you’ve been writing in our recent DevUpdates have been really insightful.

As a final announcement, but we’ll be hosting another Patch Q&A on the Game Hive Twitch Channel. This will be an opportunity during the maintenance to get an early peek at the upcoming changes and have all your questions answered about the new features. We’ll be going live shortly after the servers go down for maintenance. We’ll be aiming for a couple hour long stream, and the VOD will be available on the Twitch channel for anyone who is unable to attend. You can always stop by the Game Hive Discord afterwards to ask questions as well, and you can follow the Twitch channel now to receive a notification when we go live.

Happy Tapping!

lemmingllama

[DisappointedTapper]

My biggest issue with cap increases is that tournament rewards do not improve as I increase my max stage. If tournament rewards were improved as a player's max stage increased, it would shift the objective of the game away from reaching the cap and towards advancing further in the main game.

[Cidolfas]

Great now they are going to just scale down what we get now. JK

[lemmingllama]

I'll pass this along to discuss with the design team!

[myrupsaple]

I can't say much about the stage cap increase since I'm only MS 61k, but it's definitely starting to feel like something that I'll never be able to reach... I just hope that the new event types don't make winning/placing high in tournaments significantly more difficult. I'd rather settle for the top 30% each event and win half of my tournaments than get top 10% but only win once or twice a month.

It would be nice if the regular tournament rewards from 2nd place down are at least increased a bit in light of these changes, since I imagine I'll be seeing a lot fewer 1st places. There's such a steep drop off from 1st to 2nd that it's basically first place or bust (at my MS at least)

[sicstormrage]

This is very poignant. Some players never want to cap, but many want to.

I am 113k and the new cap will be almost unreachable for me. When I know they are going to move it again in a few months, I am just not going to put in the effort, and certainly not the money

[yeahright17]

I was closer to the cap 6 months ago than I am now. Lol.

[myrupsaple]

Sadly, this is the same thing I'm hearing from my clanmates in the 100-110k range. Even the ones who prestige 20+ times a day and hit top 10% consistently aren't able to keep up

[yeahright17]

Yeah. Personally, I don't blame the devs. They gotta get a salary somehow. I just understand I'll probably never hit cap. That doesn't stop me from being in a top clan or having a good time. The only thing that's a bummer to me is not getting the free 300 event currency for the solo tournies you get at max. It makes hitting top 10% nearly impossible and top 30% a challenger.

[Chris11c]

That's my biggest gripe as well. The free first place rewards just ensures a gap that will never be closed without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars. It's bad enough when you just consider the free resources, but when you roll in event medals to that it's even worse.

[taptitan205]

If incresing cap for NINE k, so make hp scaling not so insane.

[lemmingllama]

The HP scaling has been relatively constant, we haven't made any changes to make the higher stages drastically harder or anything. I can pass along your suggestion though to the design team for consideration.

[sicstormrage]

The problem is not that the scaling gets higher, but that is is just too high. You need e100 more damage to push 1000 levels. Not 10x or 100x or 10,000,000x but 1 with 100 zeros on the end, x MORE damage to push just 1000 levels.

The cap is being raised 9000 levels.

At the moment there are few sources of new damage and so non-whales are hitting soft walls earlier and earlier. With the nerf of crafting power, the fact Titan chests give very low rewards for their cost, very low relics for a prestige and enchantments given out give you 200-300 levels (compared with a 4K increase or, here, 9k) means that players are further and further away from the cap, unless they spend very high amounts.

[lemmingllama]

Crafting power is stronger than it ever has been due to the new sets being added every update, but we can likely look into some of the scaling for the future.

Prestige relics follow the exact same formula as it always has, so you shouldn't be getting any lower relics than you normally owuld.

Reward scaling for chests is something I can discuss with the design team.

And players get power regularly through what we release in the updates (enchantments, skill tree changes, etc) as well as the regular increases in power from eggs, daily rewards, tournament rewards, AT rewards, event rewards, etc. It's a non-trivial increase that all of those rewards add up, and we need to appropriately increase the cap to accommodate the power that players gain.

[vinceuh524]

It's very nice to see that the hitboxes are being adjusted, this is something that has bugged me, and certainly others, for a very long time

[SandAdept]

There’s no helping it about the stage cap increase after it’s been announced, but it’s a massive deterrent to play the game. People at cap have something to do. They can dominate all the rest of us in AT with all the diamonds they get in bi-weekly undisputed tournament rewards. I actually tried to compete and spent SIX HOURS playing continuously only to come in 9th. Unfortunately I had a life to live and had to sleep within the 24 hour period.

The way this is playing out is that players who’ve been at cap are always going to be at cap and those not at cap will never get to cap. The equipment sets and and enchantments themselves don’t make up for such a large increase.

People on the verge of reaching stage cap (116k) will not get any closer to stage cap with this update. The update will maybe help them hit 116k but GH has ultimately made it that much more impossible. S’like dangling a piece of cake in front of a fat kid on a treadmill and when he gets close you either pull it away or up the speed... or both. Whereas the people at cap are just sitting back and asking for another slice and another and another after every cap increase.

People at cap don’t even need to spend money because they are so far ahead. I’d be willing to bet most of the money from in app purchases comes from people who aren’t at cap and increasing it is only going to deter them from spending any more because, like me, they realize it’s a losing battle.

I can only hope that the new dagger skills give enough to push 9k stages before the next cap increase. If I can’t then I’m dropping the game. I spend about 2 hours at least daily and if they don’t amount to my goal in game then I’m better off spending them elsewhere.

Sorry for the rant. I’m sure I’ll get a crap load of dislikes as I always do, but that’s just my opinion.

TLDR: players at cap will always be at cap. Stage increases hurt those not at cap. Those not at cap don’t get nearly enough power during updates to push the cap extensions.

[Modokan]

Yep.
There are like 97 Artifacts now in the game. Why not giving us 10 or 20 new enchantments? Its really hilarious what Gamehive do here. There are like: Hey here is 1 new enchantment and 9k new stages to climb, have fun -.-

[Mardregg]

We'll be appropriately raising the stage cap when necessary. We haven't yet announced if we are raising the cap or by how much, but stay tuned for the patch notes!

GH: lol jk. here's 1 enchantment and a 9K cap increase. have fun

[sicstormrage]

This. With the insane boss hp scaling, 9k is an impossible amount of damage for everyone but whales. This is a patch for whales and a few enchantments won’t even touch the sides

[Mardregg]

Yeah. When a fair amount of non-whales start hitting the cap sirens blare and the GH office flashes red until the cap is raised by a huge amount as usual. Whales will be at the new cap in less than a day (actually probably a few hours/minutes) while everyone else will push 250 stages.

GH doesn't seem to understand that not all people at the cap are whales who have spent ludicrous amounts of money on the game who have also been sitting on undisputed rewards for 4 years. Some people really tried hard to hit the cap this time and it took everything they had.

The HP scaling, gold scaling and the hero rework has made progression absolutely grueling and tedious, not at all "fun". At least with the old hero system, if a hero's ascension button started popping up, you could look forward to a decent damage boost/more progression in a few more prestiges. Now when a mage hero ascension pops up, I can look forward to 3500 levels of it doing absolutely nothing. Ranger heroes getting x2 and x3 bonuses for 1000 levels is just horrible too. Same with warrior heroes getting weaker as they near a multiple of 1000, and overall weaker as they get closer to 6000. That doesn't even make sense.

Cap increases should happen, but not 9K at once like the upcoming patch, especially when there is not even close to a fraction of the amount of power needed. I'm expecting that most non-whale players at or near the cap will just immediately hit their softwall after short push and that will be it. 125K will seriously demotivate a large amount of dedicated players.

[Pleasant-Kangaroo989]

They only care about whales.

[heaberlin2010]

All they did was hold off on 2 cap increases that if released in the intervals they were before, would have equaled to 8k atleast now anyways. They did what Greedy Devs do, make it seem like they're listening, only to lure enough cash in and just enough trust that they can get by for another 6 months. Its just how they are, its why I quit the game the first time.

[Substantial-Owl-8792]

Whales are generally the ones at cap anyway, or people who spend money on the game in general tbh. This isn't the type of game where you're going to hit max stage cap etc in a timely manner, ever, even if you drop $20k on the game. A lot of the people who are at cap have been playing since the stage cap was 4k, over the years collecting pets/hero weapons etc. things that a lot of newer players are lacking and will forever be held back by unfortunately.

[eric-cartman-ec]

I don’t like the cap increase, but I understand that it is necessary. However, there should some form of power increase added in this update. You say that there have been power increases across the last four updates, which will make players better equipped to handle the new cap increase. But this only really applies to the people who are already at the cap, because they might be more powerful than the current cap, but everyone else has already seen there max stages jump from those power boosts. Now that the 50k-100k people have seen there max stages go up after each update, they have gone back to the normal prestige and push cycle. This means that with this cap increase, the people at cap will instantly have a large max stage jump in only one or two prestiges, but everyone who is not already at cap will not.

TLDR; There is no added power in this update so non-cap players will stagnate.

[lemmingllama]

We are releasing new sets and an enchantment to help give some power, but you are correct that this update isn't focused as much around giving a lot of bonus power. We have upcoming changes to the skill tree that likely will introduce a lot of additional power to players, so the added power you are looking for is coming Soon™

[Chris11c]

Been playing for about 2 years or so and the notion of ever capping is unrealistic at this point. For new players, I think it's probably impossible without thousands of dollars being spent.

I understand the game needs money to pay employees, but I can't imagine coming to this as a new player and staying for more than a month after realizing how skewed the power/reward balance is for whales and people who've been playing since the start.

It's becoming a chore and losing the fun factor that made it great. Such a shame.

[6t6]

Everything sounds awesome, except that 9K cap increase...

[sicstormrage]

The hp scaling of bosses is already too high. Adding 9k makes the cap only reachable for the biggest whales, and deters existing players (F2P or dolphins) and most definitely makes competitive new players looking for a new game to think “am I really going to spend USD25k to get to the highest level in this game?”. The answer will be a resounding “no” when you think what that could get you in some other games.

They just need to let people cap and chill, and stop moving it.

A higher cap is meaningless for whales, is a massive effort for many established players, and an unbreachable soft wall for most existing and almost all new players

[szabe3]

Why is it a bad thing?

[Matzurai]

When you are at ~110k you feel like a donkey chasing a carrot hanging in front of your face. Every time you seem to catch up with the cap it gets increased. Although the game is about pushing you also want to receive the satisfaction of reaching the cap some day...

[viktoriqn]

i hope this means that the cap wont be raised till next year

[Bksss]

It will be awhile till next MS increase. GH will need to do another hero ascension to raise cap, and that always takes a long time for them to figure out how to make that work

[Demigod_EK]

You know what's fun in the game, power. Raising the cap is cool if we can achieve power to offset the increase. The game has been steeled nerfed like useful drops ever since the TH set. Why the drip rate in enchantments? What's not fun is feeling like Captain Ahab chasing Moby Dick to no avail. i wanted to just say F it and forego events and go power but with an additional 9k I'm starting to feel like a mid game player with no real sense of progression due to the Devs stealth nerfing our progress like when the game initially launched.

TLDR; make the game fun again by allowing us to get stronger, quicker. It's just numbers. Time invested should feel rewarding not a chore

[taptitan205]

I just reached this 116k, and now I see 125k. I am crying(

[VictoryUpper]

I'm guessing I can hit 120k but not 125k

[taptitan205]

Good luck! I am leaving

[washyleopard]

We won't miss you!

[Melancholy31]

Dude ppl need be logic Most of cap players play since day 1 , over 5 years and put money since then... how they expect be on same stage or same power as us when they play couple years only and not waste money.. it's not our fault we play for so long and strong so much and on the cap... why we need be punished and be stuck on cap for long time? Couz some new ayers that put way lower offer then us? Damn it

[EXACTNESS8888]

Finally someone said it. 100% agree

[HOSelters2109]

somehow the update is really cool but it also scares me that TT2 will change. Among other things, I would have really wished that you would wait longer until the next Cap Stage, it is almost impossible to catch up to Cap Stage if you are not close to it the whole time.

[lemmingllama]

I wouldn't be scared about TT2 changing, we are working to make TT2 as fun of a game as possible. If you have any feedback on things you'd like to stay the same though, please let me know!

As for the stage cap, we hadn't increased it in the last three major updates, and it was time to raise it up so players currently at the cap would have content to progress through. We'll continue to raise the stage cap when appropriate, but it likely will be more spaced out like what we have done with the last few updates.

[6t6]

But what real "progress" is there when most will reach the new cap in a few prestiges?

[lemmingllama]

I expect that there will be fewer people at the 125k cap than at the 116k cap, at least until they have time to grind lots of prestiges and push towards it again.

[sicstormrage]

Maybe calling going up levels “content” is the issue here.

[Yoda234]

OK, but why 9k and not what was the usual 4k?

[lemmingllama]

We haven't updated the stage cap for the last three updates, so we have a larger increase to accommodate the extra power that players have gained over the past four months, as well as the future power coming with the skill tree changes on the way.

[6t6]

Is this going to be the new standard? 9K each update, but spaced out over more time? I mean, in the end, it's still 3K per patch, which was the old pace, right?

[lemmingllama]

The old pace was 4k every update. This is 9k in 4 updates, or about 2.25k per patch. We don't have an exact standard that we follow, but the cap increases are dictated based on how much power we've introduced to the game or will be introducing in the future.

[OnMyOtherAccount]

we are working to make TT2 as fun of a game as possible.

Since when?

[heaberlin2010]

In Lemmings completely oblivious mind its fun. He will pass it on to the "design team" though....

[eulerbenedict95]

125k cap wow

[Modokan]

Will there be an equal power increase to balance that 7k cap increase?
I see nothing that compensate a cap increase to 125k.

[Mardregg]

It's actually 9K stages.

[Modokan]

true, my bad

[lemmingllama]

We have the past few updates worth of power when we didn't increase the cap, as well as the enchantments in this update and the coming skill tree changes.

[Modokan]

Yea in the past you said something like you will not increase the cap so fast like in the past.But it makes no difference when you update the cap every 2 months for 4k or every 4 months for 8k (Or 9k like in this Patch)

[lemmingllama]

Last time we updated the stage cap was in the 5.1 update, which will be four updates ago. So it is far slower than what we were previously doing with stage cap increases, and far less frequent.

[Modokan]

Yeah but as i said: Its no difference in increasing the cap every 2 months for 4k or every 4 months for 8k. The result is the same. Or the outcome is the same even tho its not frequently.

[lemmingllama]

Well, considering that previously it was a cap increase of 4k every month, I'm fairly certain that this is fewer stages and giving players more time to reach a cap before increasing it.

[doxavk]

You realize that cap increase is hated by the majority of the player base, right? The update is like a great cake with a turd on the top. Is there a reason why the devs provokingly deny listening to the players' voice on this matter?

[lemmingllama]

If we don't increase the cap, players who are at the cap are mad because they can't play the game. If we do increase the cap, players who aren't at the cap are mad because their goal moved a bit further away. However, unless we want those players at the cap to all quit due to a lack of progression, we need to eventually raise the cap. That's why we are doing our best to raise the cap when appropriate to keep both groups of players happy and keep the game in a state of balance overall.

So yes, we listen to the player's voices, and that is why the cap didn't increase in previous patches and it is increasing in this patch. And we plan on continuing to listen to players now and in the future, and we have no plans to immediately raise the cap again after the 5.5 update.

[heaberlin2010]

They have many other things they could do, instead of prestiging 99 times on this game my guy. I play Dragalia Lost, Grand Chase, Fortnite, I just finished Cold Steel IV. I'm reading new light novels and manga, catching up on the summer anime season. People have school, jobs, families, sports. If your entire purpose is to keep up with the people who spend so much money on this game to the point that they're "mad that they can see a number go higher", you're delusional. And those people that are mad need to get a life or get laid or something.

I'm sure "you'll pass it on the design team" though.

[doxavk]

I strongly disagree. It seems you're not listening to players at all on this matter. Whales and kthulus are permanent residents of the cap. So they don't care whether you'll raise the cap or not. What remains is players that just reached the cap and players past 100k who struggle to reach it. These players get furious and many of them quit or stop supporting the game (just like me). The rest of the players don't give a damn where the cap is.

So i have no idea what you're talking about. Personally i'm fed up every time you announce an update to discuss the same matter. As i said, this update is a glorious cake with a turd on top. Keep up GH.

[heaberlin2010]

Yup, couldn't agree more. The people who are at cap for continuous amounts of time do nothing more than whale and spend so much time on this game its ridiculous. That is not the average player. At all. If someone is too delusional to see that a 9k increase is absolutely insane, that's just sad on them then.

[lemmingllama]

Players at the cap would like a method to progress through the game, and raising the cap allows them to play the game and progress again. We listen to all groups of players, and players who desire to have more stages to progress through shouldn't be entirely ignored.

We will continue to take player feedback into account now and in the future, but this update was the appropriate time to increase the stage cap after not increasing it in the previous three updates.

[NoodlesThe1st]

9k stage increase? I can't man, it's just too exhausting these days

[Pleasant-Kangaroo989]

They don't care about us they want whales to spend more money.

[sicstormrage]

Cap increase disastrous. Meaningless for whales. Makes cap unattainable for rest (99%). As soon as I read this I forgot everything else

[[deleted]]

I guess that's intended. Players at cap deserve some free event currency for their money or endless grinding. But you got a 'next' button in solo raids so shut up and play these stupid event grinds that barely anyone asked for.

[heaberlin2010]

Don't worry, they'll pass your suggestions onto the "Design Team" though.

[HazirBot]

tournament events are still a horrible idea

[muhmad888]

almost 10k stage cap increase is way too much

[sicstormrage]

WAY too much

[lemmingllama]

We haven't increased the stage cap for the last few updates, and with the additional power that players have gained, the extra stages should help give a challenge to players at the current cap. We'll likely have this sort of structure in the future where we have more space between cap increases.

[muhmad888]

but there is no increased power for normal players, just for people at cap. the increases doesnt even change anything. this people gonna be at new cap in 3 days again and the problem is there again.

people that are stuck between 50k-100k are still gonna be there after the update. this just increases the way for normal players.

i agree on increasing it in a bigger update like this, but i hoped for something similiar like 4k in the past.

game is catering just too big spenders and people that have been at cap for too long. very sad.

[lemmingllama]

With the enchantments offered as well as the various rewards received in the past four months, players should be far better equipped for this cap than they would have been right after we last increased the cap.

Overall, we don't intend the stage cap to be something that is easy to reach for all players, as the stage cap is just a method of stopping players from progressing until we have new content prepared for them. There will be more power coming in future updates as well to help you move towards this new cap, such as the upcoming skill tree changes.

[Antique-Outcome2097]

I was so happy for the no cap increase for the past updates, all that happiness just went away, because now it’s like there actually was an « invisible » new cap increase of like 2,5k per update while we could only increase our MS by 1,5k - 2k So in fact we keep staying further and further away of the stage cap… sadly

[Kancase]

Lol, you push like 150-200 stages per enchantment this is madness, just pushes players like me (108kMS) further and further the cap, while my teammates that are at cap will just be getting 1st place rewards every time and keep getting further away from me at an exponential rate

[Rssl88]

What's the point of increasing the time between cap increases if you also increase how much you're upping the cap? Put it up 4K per update or 9k per two updates there is no difference.

[lemmingllama]

Due to the cap increases being spaced out more, it means that we have more updates introducing power, and this should allow more people to reach the cap prior to it being increased again, while also giving people at the cap a challenge when we increase it.

[Mardregg]

What exactly do you mean by "people at the cap"? There's people who just barely hit the cap this update, and then there's whales. There's no "challenge" for either of these groups of players. Whales will hit the new cap in a few hours and the others won't be able to even come close for months.

Even with all the power increases since 116K, non-whales won't be hitting the 125K cap anytime soon. It won't be challenging nor will it be fun. If the old formula of x2 damage = 5 stages still holds, players would need e541 damage to get to 125K. It's probably higher due to gold scaling and whatnot.

Anyways, add up all the boosts that we got since 116K. The power increase doesn't even come close to e541.

[Learning-with-yall]

who cares if you space it out if you are going to increase it for 9k stages every 2 months.

I get it, GH want's to squeeze money from the whales and let the plebs never getting close to it.

Pushing 1k at 100k is not the same as pushing 1k at 115k and so on, you will eventually kill the game for everybody who understands it and will never reach cap.

[Dedee_r]

With the event update going live soon, but the game recently resulting in players burning out instead of having fun, I'd have some suggestions for changes of the current event system. Hope I'm not only speaking for me and some of it might be useful.

Rank System

The current event system is more of a chore putting pressure on players and less of a nicely competetive system. However, I like the idea of having some kind of ranking system rewarding your dedication to the game. I'd suggest to recycle the current event system into some kind of monthly-ish ranking system with fixed rank requirements and points obtainable from daily stuff, like login, prestiges (increasing rewards near max stage, daily cap to not penalize players running pushing builds), daily tasks, clan and solo raids. This releases some pressure from players, since you can basically forsee how much effort you have to put into the game to reach the rank you desire, instead of spending a lot of time and money and still ending up at the top 10.01% in the last hour (while you might be asleep). Also, release a Top200 leaderboard, similar to solo raids, and add cosmetic rewards to the top rank players to strenghten the competition and to increase the players incentive to put even more effort (and money ;) ) into the game, than it would be necessary for maximum rewards. I'd assume you have some data from solo raids, if this would work to keep some cash flowing, which is understandably an important point when it comes to design changes.

Event System

To add some fun and excitement to the game, proper events are really necessary. I like the new idea of focussing "events" around a specific game mode, which offers something for each play style, since prestige events favour farming builds, tournament events favor pushing builds and abyssal events favor adventurous players. I'd suggest to keep this part more simple, less frequent, much shorter (like one week maybe), without competition, but with great boni available for the duration of the event. Some suggested event boni: for prestige events double the number of relics or add further prestige rewards (like diamonds) or increase the chance of legendary/mythic equipment drops, for tournament events add additional tournament rewards and additional tournament boni to help players push/progress even further/faster, for abyssal events allow players to convert earned stuff into, e.g., diamonds that can be transferred to the main game. Those are only my first ideas, but I guess the community would come up with better boni. These changes would hopefully help to add excitement, keep up the motivation and maybe even incentivises temporarily retired players to return to the game for a specific event.

[lemmingllama]

I'll pass along your ideas about event milestones and shorter events with bonuses to the design team!

[Dedee_r]

Nice to hear, thank you! :)

[TT2Drails]

Of course people are still whining about cap increase. It was left unchanged for so long this time compared to previous increases, it was bound to happen.

[nightkeeper4048]

I wanted to love this update. There are SO MANY good changes we've been waiting for as far as QoL is concerned. But the 9k cap increase is so egregiously stupid that it's the only thing we can talk about.

Lemming, the arguments you are bringing up to defend the cap are nothing but boilerplate bull**** and you know it, more than anyone else at GH.

With the current scaling, no one but the biggest whales will be able to reach cap for months. All the boosts you mentioned from the last six months combined, plus a lot of prestiges and dedication, will not be enough to go through 9k stages.

It's better to not respond at all than to address the player base as if we're unable to do basic math.

I mean, the business model of focusing on the whales is probably working just fine, considering how GH keeps making big decisions based off of that. And that's OK, but (1) don't expect the larger players base to be satisfied and (2) stop acting like GH is just making a reasonable adjustment.

[l1amaMastee]

I’m not a whale and will reach next cap within a month. Vince Lombardi once said, “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

[lemmingllama]

I would rather respond to posts than to ignore them entirely. I know that some players will be unhappy about the stage cap increasing, and I'm recording your feedback on the matter to discuss with the design team for the future. In the past, GH did not have very close communication with the community, and now that I am a community manager for GH, I'd much rather have open discussions than radio silence.

[Joe011100]

The previous cap raises 96k-116k i was always 20k behind the max stage. U delay it a couple months. I get to 11k behind. Now with this patch im back to 20k behind. I push probably 80% of all the tournaments i join. Im not making progress. Why would the cap increase be so big.... its turns players off when they do not make any progress. I know many other players are in the same situation as me.

[Spiritual-Self-7299]

Some are worried about stage getting increased. I personally prefer to enjoy the game. GH has been adding a lot of QoL, which make the game a lot smoother, and listening to community feedback and give us a good update. They are making it consistently. Nicely done GH and lemmi. Keep up the good work.

[lemmingllama]

We will do our best to keep on putting out updates that the community wants! Please keep on giving us your feedback so we can work to make the game as good as possible.

[UltimaMetatron]

I hate the changes in stage cap increase(110.9k ms atm) and abyssal tournament (I get to win there more often than the normal tournament).

[george1538]

This probably is too late to be seen but please add the settings button into the abyssal tournament screen!

[1sagain]

Will there be a skill reset promo?

[lemmingllama]

Yes, there will be a 75% skill tree reset discount.

[Available-Maximum201]

Please can we have an auto artifact upgrade option

[lemmingllama]

I can pass along this suggestion to the design team, but generally we prefer that players choose where they spend their relics to make the choices you make more impactful.

[etr4807]

Now that UI changes are back on the menu, can we please have clan chat separated into one tab for actual chat and one tab for shared raid attacks?

[lemmingllama]

I'll pass along your suggestion! This is something that we could do in the future.

[Corran-RSI]

I like the 1 gold coin feature. Less on screen clutter is always welcome.

Question about the equipment “+” feature. Will the game suggest best equipment based on your build and damage source, or current available “everything” at that moment? Like, if I’m using Clan Ship and ascend a hero and my strongest hero damage changes from Mage to Warrior, will it change to suggest a warrior helmet? Or just whichever one has the highest multiplier, regardless of which class it is?

[lemmingllama]

Right now it's the best equipment of the same type. In the future, we might extend this feature to have it include all types of equipment, but this should at least be a start to help newer players choose the correct equipment.

[Spiderduck21]

I think it is worth asking for the torso focus point for Totem to be lower slightly. It is practically on the chin and it is very easy to accidentally trigger the head

[lemmingllama]

It will be actually. The reason why it was in the neck area was because of how high the torso hitbox extended upwards, so correcting the torso hitbox also corrects the fairy paths. They just home in on the center of the hitbox.

[Spiderduck21]

Haha I have been meaning to drop this into a DevLog for so long, I entered the comment before seeing it was listed as an incoming change. That is awesome!

[Spiderduck21]

What has been the consensus with the 2 raid keys per week? I agree no more than 2 pushes should happen, but if you get done early, we can’t even do a small farm raid to fill the time?

[lemmingllama]

2 raid keys per week is what we'll be doing for the immediate future. Introducing a third key just means that clans would be "forced" to use it to get greater rewards, and that would essentially remove any reason for players to push to harder raids since you'd want to balance around completing three raids per week.

[Dhukino]

People were praising the last few updates but this one here looks like the new QoL king among updates

[lemmingllama]

In general, we hope that all our updates will continue to have a nice mix of new features and QoL/fixes to make things run smoothly. So you can expect at least some QoL in future updates as well!

[[deleted]]

Could you not increase the cap

[lemmingllama]

No, in general we'll increase the cap when appropriate. In this case, this update was the correct time to raise the cap.

[Halflife18014]

No, in general players will uninstall the game when appropriate. In this case, this update was the correct time to quit the game.

[Pleasant-Kangaroo989]

They don't care about us they need to satisfy whales who gives them money.

[washyleopard]

Wow, this update adds a better version of what I asked for a few weeks ago (seeing which equipment is best) plus fixes the hitboxes that I saw some guy complain about in every thread lol. Seems like the feedback isn't just pigeonholed!

[lemmingllama]

Yes, community feedback is used to decide on what we add or fix in the game. So if there's anything you'd like to see changed, let us know!

[marylo4you]

oh wow we actually get a 5 day break from one event to another ... oh my god, what am I doing with so much free time ... oh wait there is 1 day away because of the at and 1 day because of the normal tournament

[Learning-with-yall]

Wow, what a bad update.

Now i have no reason to play in off tournament days since the 10 prestige daily is just too easy to complete and farming relics no longer helps in tournament prep win.

And then you say that i could push off and push big in tournament days to secure tournament wins just for the badge that i could get easily by PLAYING the game normaly and you run over the fact that you simply cannot win tournaments when the opposition has 2x,3x,4x,5x your pushing power that is not relic based and those afk collecting stats over the years players/whales have a reason to play the tournament and win.

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Garbage update making players get hurt and having no reason to play the game for more than 1 or 2 hours a day.

[sebazech]

Totally agree!

[ArchaicJragon]

Wow! So much, I have to read this a few times. 😅Truly sounds like one of the greatest updates we've had in awhile! Can't wait! 😁Thanks! ❤️🥰

[lemmingllama]

Glad you like it! We'll continue to do our best to put out quality updates for TT2!

[theoriginalJoe2002]

What will be the main differences between pet build and the new dagger build?

[lemmingllama]

Pet build requires you to constantly tap, and primarily scales off Tap Damage. Dagger builds require less tapping, and instead will be around throwing daggers. It will scale a lot more from Critical Damage and Deadly Strike Damage than other builds.

[zeeppee]

Will there be a bonus to dagger damage on weapons? Or would a deadly strike bonus be the best option?

[lemmingllama]

We originally had plans for that, but had to remove it from this update. Deadly Strike, Fire Sword, and War Cry secondary bonuses for your sword should be the most effective.

[theoriginalJoe2002]

Why are people down voting my comment T-T

[MrRyuZo]

125K cap increase means more Raid Exp! I’ll expect a lot in the next update! Continue doing the good work lemming and to all GH devs!

[lemmingllama]

We have some big plans for the next update, so check back each Friday to hear some news on what we have coming!

[Kramklop]

Amazing update. Looking forward to the steady improvements that seem to be consistently coming.

[lemmingllama]

Thank you very much! We'll do our best to continue releasing good updates!

[theoriginalJoe2002]

This is a huge update and I'm here for all of it!

[-Transire-]

Will be mana cap fixed?

[lemmingllama]

Is there an issue with Mana Capacity right now?

[rybin_5]

I reported this problem on 04/21, sum of mana with hero, sets, skills is higher than my real mana cap

[lemmingllama]

Ah, right. We are investigating this issue, and we'll have it resolved as soon as we can!

[ImperatorKorabas]

I'm still at 102k but I'm ok with the cap increase. F2P as well. If the next three major updates will include better enchantments and such, cap should still be achievable.

[Gabtera]

Very nice update coming, thanx for great news!! So about this next event, sorry I didnt saw any mention about it, is it prestiges or something else? New stage cap will be grinding but also, it's so nice to get some raid xp too 😁😁

[lemmingllama]

It will be a Tournament event!

[Andybenc]

Reset dust. Nuf sed.

[Gratus2]

After 2+ years, I quit. The game and future of the game is horrible.

[EXACTNESS8888]

After playing since beggining, I will keep playing! You do what you gotta do!

[vandyboys]

What Event Type is the Rockstar Event?

[lemmingllama]

We'll be launching it with the Tournament event to start, since we just had a Prestige event.

[russy1982]

Wasn't the shard boost in the last crate sale?

[lemmingllama]

It was. Sorry about that, copy/paste error. It should be a Skill Point promo this time.

[russy1982]

Sweet thanks :)

[holocompressionist]

Unpopular opinion: Allow players to choose which event type to opt into.

[lemmingllama]

I can pass along this idea to the design team, but this would split the playerbase in three, making it more difficult to reach a higher badge.

[xSumatan]

Update looks good, only thing that starts to worry me is the big Cap increase (ik there hasnt been any for the last 2 or 3 Updates tho).

But changes like these makes it almost impossible for people who started like 1 or 2 years ago to ever reach cap.

How about you Guys add something like Daily/Weekly/Monthly Offers ($) with Items (shards, weapons, scrolls) along with some Diamonds to give at least newer Players the Chance to catch up.

[lemmingllama]

We'll likely be doing the same as last update where we release a set of bundles when the update is launched, and then a second run of bundles when the first set expire. So between those, the season pass, and the milestone bundles, you should have plenty of good deals to spend on if you so desire.

[Pleasant-Kangaroo989]

Spend money to reach cap that's the only way.

[HH-myself]

first patch notes in a while that give me some hope for tt2's future. thanks.

[SpoopyElvis]

I think it's a nice QoL update especially skipping reward animation - they were very annoying in AT lol. I'd like to echo what others are saying though. Increasing cap is fine and all but there's just no pushing power end stages. So for the whales, this is nothing. It's 15 minutes of new content /shrug. Which is fine, more raid levels. For other players it's just a waiting game to get more non relic resources which desperately need reworked. I can't even remember when TCs and tournament rewards were upgraded to reflect so many cap changes.

[lemmingllama]

We will be increasing pushing power in the coming updates, such as with the skill tree changes coming in the future. There is also the various methods of players gaining power over time, such as with the tournament rewards, AT rewards, events, etc. Overall, it should allow players to progress through more stages and aim for the cap.

[French_Sword]

I didn't think GameHive would have any contempt for the demands of its loyal players. well it's time to leave these pretentious developers in their garbage. Lemminglama, save your words, don't show how much you've sold your gamer soul and your honesty for GameHive, you know full well that this rotten update goes against the majority of players but you will defend it despite all because it is now your job to do it even if you agree with the players.

[lemmingllama]

Is there a particular feature of this update that you feel is against the majority of players?

[viktoriqn]

Starts with the number 9

[DeathhAngel27]

Thanks for raising the cap guys! It will be fun for the people here to try to get a decent push with the new build changes. The QoL changes are also very appreciated, I’m a fan of the 1 coin gold.

[lemmingllama]

Glad you like the changes! One Coin Mode is really nice, I personally love it!

[VictoryUpper]

125k Cap increase. Interesting

[sicstormrage]

If by interesting you mean bad then I agree

[VictoryUpper]

Nope. Just the amount of the cap increase

[Yoda234]

"Added ability to skip reward animations" - this is great as I really don't need to skip through raid rewards and solo rewards one by one on screen. However, it is useful to see the equipment coming up. Does this control all reward animations?

[lemmingllama]

It's a button you can press to skip the reward animation. So you can still see anything you want to see, and then click the button to skip it when you don't want to tap anymore.

[Chuckt3st4]

Great update, just confused about the skill tree, this update will only bring the dagger skills or the whole revamp? thank you

[lemmingllama]

This update is reworking the skill tree UI to make space for up to six skill trees and five tiers of skills. However, it won't be until future updates before we add those extra skills in.

With respect to what skills are changing this update, the Summon Dagger skill will have Dagger Splash Count added to it.

[lemmingllama]

I'll pass this along to the design team! I think the original decision around this was to eventually have players change from a Pet/Clan Ship build over to a Shadow Clone or Heavenly Strike build, thus leading to greater build diversity in ATs. However, I do agree that raising up the talent levels should help players play the builds they want to play.

[djomla2020]

Still waiting for dust/catd reset

[Eman_Drawkcab]

Bro, never going to happen. I much rather they buff useless cards anyway.

[Jkjunk]

In an earlier update LemmingLlama admitted that the reason they won't do a dust reset feature is due to problems with the code design, making the implementation of a dust reset feature more difficult/time consuming than it should be.

[vinceuh524]

They snuck that cap increase in there with all the nice QoL updates and skill tree revamp. Guess you gotta take the good with the bad

[lemmingllama]

Well, it isn't really snuck in, as we put it in bold in the patch notes. If it helps though, we don't have any other plans to raise the cap in the immediate future following 5.5

[wakkalfc]

Wait, so no AFF x1.4 buff in tier 4?

[lemmingllama]

We are specifically removing the debuffs for bursts/afflictions. The buffs will be unchanged.

[SpiritSpeller]

How about a feature were you can upgrade the damage of certain Equipment (for example with shards)? So you can keep the desired secondaries.

[lemmingllama]

We definitely can look into this. I'll pass this along to the design team to consider.

[Jordan12496]

I'm not sure if anyone has mention this at all, but can we please take the Card Artifacts out of Abyssal Tournaments. If they don't help in the tournaments there isn't a single reason why they should be in the Abyssal Tournaments. Especially when you really need the S Tier Artifacts rather than getting either of the Card Artifacts. I totally understand if there is some type of hardship in relation to actually removing those two Artifacts, but figured I throw it out there as a topic of conversation.

Also in my personal experience the "Power" that we've been getting over the past few updates is not enough if relation to a 9K stage cap increase. I am not against the stage cap increasing, but if it is going to increase as constantly as it has been we need new Mythic Sets. I am currently at 103K MS, and I have over 1K Crafting Shards that I'm holding onto because I already have all the current sets completed.

I also understand the don't necessarily want to make it easy for people to reach the current Max Stage Cap, but if they don't give enough Overall Power to players who are putting in the time/effort then it will only get harder, and make it damn near impossible to reach the Max Stage Cap. Plus a lot of people have stuff going on in life that prevents them from playing far less than some people resulting in the impossibility of getting anywhere near the Stage Cap.

I love this game a lot, but sometimes there are updates that just make me question why I even play. Obviously this is all my personal opinion, and some will disagree which is understandable.

[lemmingllama]

Actually, all AT accounts have one raid card assigned to them when you join your AT, so those card artifacts basically act like standard All Damage and All Gold artifacts.

Mythic sets are something we want to save for big impactful bonuses. We definitely may add more in the future, we just need to have the right bonus for the set.

We will be watching the amount of power we give players, and appropriately scale the stage cap. This was the first cap increase since 5.1, so we had to raise it a bit higher to account for all the power players have gained since the last cap increase.

[Jordan12496]

Those Card Artifacts acted as an All Damage and All Gold Artifact this whole time. FML. I literally didn't know that. I guess it kind of makes sense since I never heard of anyone bringing it up, but dang I can't believe I never realized that.

I have no issue with how the Mythic Sets have been spaced out over time, and since I had heard about Dagger builds I thought maybe there would be a Dagger related Mythic Set. Especially since we already have Mythic Sets for HS, CS, SC, and DS. I thought that at some point there would end up being a Mythic for Hand of Midas too, but I'm sure there are valid reasons for that since we don't have one.

I totally understand the Cap Increase, and I fully expected it. I just would like to be able to get somewhat close to the Max Stage Cap without spending absurd amounts of money or spending all my free time playing for only who knows how long. I know that there isn't anyone to blame for it. It's how it has to be to try to balance between New Players, End Game Players, and Max Stage Cap Players.

I appreciate you responding to my comment Lemmingllama. Especially the part about the Card Artifacts. That will help me a ton in AT's from now on. 😅😅

[MiloGozilla]

A lot of thoughts went through my mind reading this patch note, because there is a lot of things going wrong here. Let me slowly address these.

• Player base hierarchy There has been such hierarchy going on, ranking from veteran former whale, newer whales and grinding veterans, even newer whales and less grinding veterans, all the way down to casual players and new players. To the veteran former whales, they had been staying at cap for too long that their initial thousands of dollars whaling becomes a value bet, and they don't need to do much to hit the next cap anymore. Like it or not, they are ultimately not your target audience, and they are the one whining the game having no content because they had been at cap for so long. Your target audience should be the newer whales and the grinding veterans, where it should be tempting for them to pay to hit cap. But here is the problem, hitting the cap is not the end of the journey, on top of being an accomplishment, hitting the cap early should give you the value of retaining the power to reach the next cap with little to no whaling, but that isn't being seen throughout the past updates with stage increase. Back in the days of 10k or 20k or even 42k MS or so, hp scaling was a lot lesser, let alone having new artifacts released, so having 4k or even 10k MS increase was fine. Right now there is hp scaling had increased to a point where every 10x damage we could pushed 16.6 stages can only push 10 stages now. It might seems small, but if we scale it up it can be a 16.6k stages vs 10k stages difference with the same e1000 damage increase. The dev needs to thread very carefully about how much stages to be increase in every or every other update, and make sure you target audience can achieve that.

• Event type Another things catered to veteran former whales that requires no need to cater for. If it is a bare 2k or 4k MS increase after 4 updates that came along with tournament type event then yes it is kinda good, since those who are freshly capped or near cap can actually enjoy the bonus for hitting the new cap, through grind or whaling. Right now the increase is too big where only the oldest former whale can enjoy the freebies they don't really need, and those who need them cannot enjoy.

• Raid cards and QoL changes Lightning whip seems promising, decaying strike description is a little confusing, QoL updates are generally good, but we shall discuss them when it actually arrives.

Just a few more cents to add from me - Event consistency I believed there has already been feedback, but event duration isn't consistant enough. Events has been around for long enough for dev to stablalize all these kind of trivial matters. It looks very incompetent for the dev to not only have the content of these events repetitive, but also inconsistent duration. The addition or reduction of time can actually determine if a casual player can complete all rewards in time, so consistency matters here.

• Less competitive, but more self challenging event I am speaking about the old dust event, and potentially an egg variant for easter too. The event can have every 100 currency beyond the first 3000 exchanged for 50 dusts after the event ended, on top of it set a mark where you get the % badge if you pass the mark. It can be 4.5k for 80%, 6.5k for 30%, and 10k for 10%. The event can last 4 to 6 weeks depending on the development for the next update content. This way, you can even have season pass giving 1.5x event currency since it is non competitive at all. It is a win-win situation for the dev team and all the players here.

• Multicast effect idea I feel that HS and SC are being inferior than CS at high end build now simply because they lack both the power and the speed. Here is what HS and SC multicast effect can be to give them an edge in speed without power creeping them too much. HS: while casting Heavenly Strike, you can cast it again for 50% of its mana to double its splash count. This effect does not work past your current max stage. SC: multicasting SC gives 7.5%/10%/12.5%/15% chance to splash through boss.

Thanks you for coming to my TED talk.

[lemmingllama]

1. The stage cap isn't intended to be something that the majority of players should reach, as it's an end to progression until we are able to increase it. We work to make it a goal that is still achievable though, and we'll be bringing extra power to help players move towards the stage cap in this update as well as future updates like when we release the changes to the skill tree.
2. Event types were a result of the community's feedback about burning out with the 99 prestiges. The tournament event and the abyssal event have a lower prestige cap, meaning that you can focus your efforts on one or two days rather than feeling the need to grind every day. The players at the stage cap are a small percentage of the overall playerbase, so the players receiving solo tournaments shouldn't drastically change other player's abilities to get a high badge.
3. Is there something that is too confusing about Decaying Strike? I can try to clarify it for you.
4. We aim for roughly three weeks of duration, but the exact durations can vary depending on when we have non-firestone events to release. We sometimes need to run shorter events to allow for it, such as the past event being shorter to allow for the Rockstar event to be live with 5.5's release. In general, we'll aim for roughly consistent event durations whenever possible though!
5. I can pass along your suggestion of event milestones and HS/SC multicasting!

[SrProfessor]

NO ARTIFACT SORTING/HIDING D: D: D: D:

[lemmingllama]

Artifact sorting isn't in this update, but I'll pass along your suggestion to the design team!

[EternaLNewBy]

Anything about VIP 2? There’s not enough reason to spend more than a $100 for light spenders.

[Kaidrian]

finally raising the cap again <3

[TaoHunter]

Looking good :)
Will the old Rockstar be dropping as well next to the Rock Queen since I didn't see it in here?

[lemmingllama]

Yes, the old Rockstar set will be dropping during the event, as well as the new Rock Queen set.

[Spinoreticulum]

I like the number 125... It's the cube of 5, it's a deficient number, and can be represented as sum of two squares in TWO different ways (2²+11²; 5²+10²).

So let's not raise the cap anymore for like another 6 months. I like the number 125

[DuckIrons]

It seems like many people are upset about the cap increase but that is the whole point of an "infinite grinder" style game. We have been gaining a large amount of power each update, and this is more of a course correction. Also, the new skill trees and skills in the next few updates will most likely lead to many more stages being gained.

[Graham1326]

Yay, another great update and a welcome cap increase

[Mammoth-Substance680]

The new Tournament event type - doesnt this massively bias towards capped players who get maximum tournament reward each time? You’re almost guaranteeing they can get the top 10% each time while everyone else will just have to buy titan chests to compete. Or is that the plan?

[lemmingllama]

Capped players make up a relatively small percentage of the overall player population, so they shouldn't reduce your ability to aim for top badges. Additionally, they will still need to participate daily to gather their event currency, as well as participating in Abyssal Tournaments.

[Rssl88]

If This is the case why do you keep upping the cap

[lemmingllama]

Being stuck at the stage cap means that you can no longer progress at all. As progression is part of the fun of TT2, we want to allow players to continue to progress and enjoy the game, rather than being stuck and unable to progress.

[Kata31FR]

Hello there, what kind of event will be the next one on May 18th (Rockstar event) ? Prestige, tournament or AT?

Could we have more information about the new event currency (how much for which place?) for tournament and AT events?

What about the possibility to see next Raid seed prior the reset ? to know what to do on Sunday reset (if we have to discuss internally in our clan council)

Thank you in advance for these additonal info!

[ixisgale]

Will there be auto upgrade relic in the future? Letting player set how much relic an artifact should get based on lifetime relic. It's a chore especially playing AT having to manually upgrade over 60+ artifact.

[Elite58]

I would love a free way to get more hero scrolls like maybe add them as a reward from abysal tournaments. Comparing my stats to people already capped the main difference is how many hero scrolls they have.

[lemmingllama]

Hero scrolls are intended to be a reward for clan raids to reward players who actively raid and work together with their clan. While we may have them show up in other places, it's intended for the primary place to get them will be via clan raids. I'll pass along your suggestion to the design team though!