Greetings Vikings!
Thanks for all your feedback on the rework of the Military path, forge and upgrade. They help us a lot!
We are near a good version to give to all players but, we still feel that some point of Legion need to be tweaked! The usual feedback posts will stay available even if less considered in future updates.
In this new update we are going to try new things for Legion AND Leadership. These changes are made to reinforce the identity of both paths : Leadership about your Warchief in early and mid game, and Legion about your army around mid and late game!
But this is not the only point we are trying to find a solution. It is time to step into a new phase of the beta, less focused on the global changes and more on specific changes ... Looking at you Dragon!
With the reworked legion path, the clan ends up not fitting to any of the classic military path, that’s why we want to introduce one specific to the clan. At the same time, we also want to modify some knowledge to answer some doubts some of you expressed regarding the Knowledges and Start-With for the clan. That way we hope to make them more useful/used for you!
We let you test all these new changes and give us feedback, nothing is definitive at this point so don’t be too dramatic if you find some changes that aren’t balanced yet :)
Clan of the dragon
A new military path
This unique path will basically work as a normal path.
You will need to gain military experience to unlock new levels. The only difference is that there is one more level.
1st level → 50 xp
- Thralls population generate military Experience (max 10)
- Draconics unit gain 10% move speed
- Reduce the base cost of Dragonkin and Draconic Nightmares by 20%
- Draconic Nightmares doesn’t require Essence
- Draconic Nightmares absorb 20% of damage done to Dragonkin
Rework
We noticed some specificities of the clan were neither used nor…useful (according to you). For example, the mechanics around the thralls were often abandoned mid-game and those poor souls ended up only gathering food instead of working on your production buildings. We’ll try to address that via some changes to make them more efficient for the clan
Start With
Thralls - Gather 50% of the same resources as the specialized worker of the building they are assigned at.
Fame
Fame 200 - You now gain 5 fame for each capture.
Knowledge
- Blood, Sweat & Tears - You can assign 1 extra Thrall to production buildings. If the building is upgraded, they benefit from the production bonus.
- Draconic Frenzy - 30% attack power for a military unit with no other unit of the same kind in their zone.
- Capture has taken Defensive strategy place
- Military Strategy has taken Capture place
Old-< placement New placement [/tr]
Others
Military Path
Legion
We agreed on some point that the first and third levels are too strong right now. So here are the changes we want to try.
- 1st level → 50 xp [list]
- No more free forge, this doesn’t fit with this path, it doesn't make sense that you can forge while this path turns around upgrading military buildings. Instead the first military upgrade will be free.
[*] 3rd level → 1500 xp
- We revert this change to the previous behaviour except the value will be less efficient due to the change on shared bonuses between all military units. The idea behind that change is to strengthen your army when you reach this level and not allow you to over recruit. So each upgrade will grant 25% more bonuses of the corresponding building.
Leadership
We agreed that this path may be a little bit below against Legion so we want to add a little change to make it more impactful in early and mid game and strengthen the identity of the path a little more.
- 2nd level → 500 xp [list]
- Each forge will give 5% more life, attack and defense to the Warchief
Balancing
Following some previous feedback, here are some more changes on previous iterations of the Beta
- Woodcutter camp - The upgrade cost less stone [strike]10[/strike] -> 5
- Warrior forge - break armor reduced [strike]25%[/strike] -> 15%
- Kraken - Valkyrie cost decreased : [strike]120[/strike] -> 100
- Lighthouse - Now cost [strike]100[/strike] -> 50 (except for Raven)
Known issues
[list][*] Dragon - Last draconic path level make all units absorb damages (instead of just draconic nightmares)
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