After spending a year in Early Access, we're very excited to transition to version 0.9 of Keeper's Toll. This major update brings the final character class to the game: the Blood Maiden.
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We've spent a tremendous amount of time designing and building her and we can't wait for you all dive in and play. Here's a few things that makes her unique:
1. Animated Ultimate Attacks. We gave her some slick animations, such as Crimson Fury, the attack shown above. These ultimates are the final two talents in her talent tree, and thus must be unlocked. They have a cooldown timer and you must manually activate them during gameplay by holding the action button for 2 seconds (a prompt will be shown on screen when the ultimate is ready).
2. Build Variety: The Blood Maiden has the most build variety out of any class in the game. We spent a lot of time designing unique ways to build her with various synergies across talents, actives and passives. For instance, you could go with a straight poleblade build and utilize passives to strengthen poleblade attacks. Or you can choose a blood based build and choose passives to support that build type. Or, perhaps, you want to get deeper and choose the corruption passive, which places a small but permanent penalty on you, but strengthens your power. You could then gain additional passives to boost benefits of becoming corrupted. This is just the tip of the iceberg, for as we continue in version 0.9 of KT, we have more plans for the Blood Maiden. Some cool surprises and additions will be coming, just like we created the Black Flame for the Pyromancer.
Along with the new character class comes a new Perks System. Class XP now serves a greater purpose beyond just upgrading talents. As long as you have enough XP to buy a perk, the new perks merchant will arrive at the beginning of a round.
You can choose to purchase one of 3 available perks for a variable amount of XP, providing yet another way to boost your character during a run.
