Wednesday, July 17, 2019

LIVESTREAM RECAP - July 17, 2019 (Kronos)

** SteelSpine’s LIVESTREAM RECAP for JULY 17, 2019 **

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Matt (Game Designer) and Haig (Live Ops Manager) were our hosts for this week’s LiveStream.  Dom (Game Artist) was not on the Stream this week.

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EVENT DETAILS:

This week’s Event will be called KEEPER OF TIME.  It will begin on THURSDAY, JULY 18 (around 3:30 pm BST) and run until MONDAY, JULY 22.


Titan Details:

This week’s Event features the return of KRONOS, the 4* Earth Paladin. 

KRONOS’ has the unique ability to summon groups of Omega Goliaths to the battlefield.  Each group of Omega Goliaths has four individual Omega Goliath units.  The Omega Goliaths you Summon will be the same Level (and have the same Stats) as your regular Goliaths, but will also have +80% Health, +30% Speed, and a reduction to their Armor (-40).  Any Relics that boost the Stats of regular Goliaths also boost the Stats of Omega Goliaths.


Kronos’ SKILLS are the same as when he was originally offered:
Slot 1:  1x Summon Omega Goliaths Spell, +35% Titan All Elemental Resist
Slot 2:  Archer Offensive X Skill
Slot 3:  2x Summon Omega Goliaths Spells, +88% Goliath Armor
Slot 4:  Archer Offensive X Skill
Slot 5:  2x Summon Omega Goliaths Spells, +117% Goliath Health

(NOTE: Archers Offensive X Skills are either 110% Archers Armor Piercing or 225% Archers Damage.  The order is random, but you will receive one of each Skill; one in Slot 2, and the other in Slot 4).

KRONOS will be available for 16k Souls.


New Relic available in this Event:  

4* Omega Belt
+80% Omega Goliath Damage
+36% Goliaths Armor Piercing
+24% Titan and Army Resist Against Void


Top Rewards available in this Event will include:

4* Mountain Fist (Goliaths Version) at 7k Souls
Epic Token at 8k
4* Nazul’s Feathers at 9k
NAZUL (4* Earth Infiltrator Titan) at 11k
4* Nazul’s Heirloom at 12k
4* Omega Belt at 14k
450 Divine Gems at 15k  *Thanks for the correction, MedicWeed(H)4CE*
KRONOS (Titan) at 16k
4* Kronos’ Hourglass at 17k
4* Timeworn Doll at 18k Souls

(See dotdatabase.net for full details on the above Relics.  THANK YOU for all you do, Yuki - you are a superstar!).


1.4x Soul Bonus for using Nazul or Vuldan.
1.2x Soul Bonus for using 4* Ragnar Titans.
1.1x Soul Bonus for using 3* Ragnar Titans.


It will be an ALLIANCE LEADERBOARD EVENT (also known as an Alliance War Event); prizes will be awarded to all Players in an Alliance according to their Alliance Ranking at the end of the Event.

Top Ranking Rewards in this Event:

1st Place:  Level 40 Kronos
2nd Place:  L30 Kronos
3rd Place:  L25 Kronos
Top 4-5:  L20 Kronos
Top 6-10:  L15 Kronos
11-50:  L5 Nazul
51-100:  Level 1 Nazul
101-250:  4k Gems

Other Ranking Rewards (Gems) will be available below 250th Place.

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QUESTIONS and ANSWERS:

Question (Q) from a Player:  Will Kronos be available as a Ranking Reward for the Top 50 Alliances?
Answer (A) from a Developer:  NO.  He will only be available for the top TEN Alliances in the Ranking Rewards.  Nazul will be the prize for the rest of the Top 100.

Q:  Will we be able to equip BOTH 5*s (the old one and the new one) on the same Titan at the same time?
A:  YES.

Q:  Will the original 5* Relics still be available when the new 5* Relics are added?
A:  Yes, they will still be in the Divine Altars.

Q:  What’s up with the login issues on Android devices?
A:  We’re not aware of any.  Please give us some more info, maybe we can help.

Q:  PLEASE remove the Damage Vs Titans Skill.
A:  We know this Skill is awful.  We’ve been talking about it, and we plan on fixing it.  We aren’t sure what the change will be, but we may just change it to a normal Damage Skill or something like that.  We also talked about increasing the DvT Damage, but we feel like Damage vs just a Titan is not very useful later in the game in the current meta.  That’s just two of the solutions we’re discussing right now, but when we DO make a change it will be applied retroactively to all Titans with the DvT Skill.

Q:  Can you make it so we can control our Troops on Defense when we are online?
A:  We talked about doing that, but it would be a lot of work and there are other things we are focusing on.  So that won’t be coming to DoT, unfortunately.

Q:  Void Hog Titan coming?
A:  (in a cheeky way):  Maybe.

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VERSION 1.33 HIGHLIGHTS:

The Devs gave more information regarding DoT’s next Version (v1.33).  They said they believe it will fully roll out to all players sometime early next week.  The changes will be turned on after it has rolled out to all Players.

Version 1.33 will include:


RELIC STORAGE IMPROVEMENTS:  The Devs said in v1.33 we can expect ten new “Levels” for our Relic Storage - which will give players an extra 100 Relic slots (a capacity increase from 500 to 600).  They said they will continue to work on Relic Storage improvements - and they may increase Storage capacity even further later on.


DIVINE GEM ALTAR IMPROVEMENTS:  The 10k Divine Gem Altar will be “split” into two separate Altars.  The “Divine Titans Altar” will be priced at 12k Divine Gems and will ONLY consist of the four “featured Titans” (Oni, Huntress, Chernobog and Belobog), all of which will have an equal chance to drop.  The “Event Titans Altar” will be priced at 8k Divine Gems and will consist of all four “featured Titans”, along with other 4* Titans.  The “featured Titans” will have a lesser drop rate at the “Event Titans Altar”, and if you receive a non-featured Titan it will be either Level 20 or Level 30.

They also released the Stats for the new Divine Altar Titans:

HUNTRESS’ Skills:
Slot 1:  90% Titan Physical Damage, +45% All Human Troop Armor
Slot 2:  +58% Titan Health, +45% All Human Troop Armor Piercing
Slot 3:  +44% Titan Critical, +45% All Human Troop Critical
Slot 4:  88% Titan Armor, +64% All Human Troop Armor
Slot 5:  88% Titan Armor Piercing, +100% All Human Troop Physical Damage

ONI’s Skills:
Slot 1:  +40% Titan All Elemental Resist, +2 Summon Omega Militia Spells, +360% Militia Damage
Slot 2:  Titan Dual Resist (+44% Titan Resist Against Void and Lightning shown)
Slot 3:  +117% Titan Health, +2 Summon Omega Archers Spells, +110% Archers Armor Piercing
Slot 4:  Titan Dual Resist (+44% Titan Resist Against Void and Poison shown)
Slot 5:  +88% Titan Armor Piercing, +2 Summon Omega Spearmen Spells, +110% Spearmen Armor


NEW 5* RELICS:  Two new 5* Relics will be added to the 5000 and 500 Divine Gem Altars.  They will be:

5* MJOLNIR (Champions Only)
+70% Titan Damage
+100% All Spell Damage
+60% Titan Resist Against All Damage

5* SVERD OG SKJOLD (Guardians Only)
+50% All Troop Resist Against Ranged
+50% All Troop Resist Against Melee
+50% Titan Resist Against All Damage

(NOTE:  The Devs said “All Damage” means everything - Elemental, Ranged and Melee).

(ALSO:  The Devs said you WILL be able to equip BOTH 5* Relics - the old and the new versions - on a Titan at the same time).


CHANGES TO 500 DIVINE GEMS ALTAR:  All “normal, standard” Relics will be removed from the 500 DG Altar (3*/4* Kite Shields, Goliath Belts, etc).  3* Titan XP Relics will also be removed.  4* Titan XP Relics will still be available, but will have a lower drop rate.  “More powerful” 3* and 4* Relics “which are normally available in Events” will be added to the drop pool instead.


HORDE TROOPS:  Horde Troops’ utility is supposed to be the massive 6x Charge Damage that they do upon initial contact with enemy Troops, but overall their survivability has been extremely low.  Therefore, Horde Troops will be given +40% more Health.  This seems like a lot, but because a Horde “battalion” is twice as large as any other Unit in the game the overall Health added to each individual unit is smaller.


OTHER CHANGES:
New “Egyptian Titans”.  (No further info).
Support for a new midweek Event type (no further info).
New Conquest maps.
Void Relics will be added to the PVP battle drop pool.
Improved cheater detection.

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NEXT WEEK (July 22 to July 25):

MONDAY, July 22:  There will be a TITANS UNLEASHED Event (also known as a TITAN FUSION EVENT).  (NOTE from SteelSpine:  It will be “Guardian Themed” - but remember, that ONLY matters for what’s available in the Temple.  ALL “Same Class to Same Class” Fusion will grant a large XP Bonus.  I’m mentioning this because of how confusing the Devs make the in-game messaging, and I’ve received questions about this from newer players in the past).

Either TUESDAY or WEDNESDAY:  There will be a Titan Temple Event, featuring a new Fire Guardian called “Makar” (or “Nakar”?).  (He/she will give the top Soul Bonus/Boost for next week’s Event).

THURSDAY, July 25:  The next Event begins.  The Devs didn’t give any details, but Matt said it will be “special” and Haig said it would be “big”.

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LIVESTREAM CONTEST WINNERS:

YouTube:  Ali Nass

Facebook:  Mark Crostway(?)

(Note from SteelSpine:  I am sorry for any misspellings.  If your name is similar to one of the names above, and you entered the LiveStream contest, please contact the Devs on DoT’s Facebook page to claim your prize.  Congratulations!!)

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That’s it for this week’s LiveStream.  If I made any mistakes or left out anything important, please let me know and I will issue a correction in next week’s Recap (and give you a shoutout for the help).  

As of right now (July 2019), the easiest way to contact me is by finding me in the game.  You can reach me in-game under the name SteelSpine (I am the Level 40 one, as of July 2019).  Feel free to reach out to me with any questions, comments or suggestions!


YOU CAN FIND FUTURE (and PAST) EDITIONS OF MY RECAPS ON MY BLOG at steelspinesdot.blogspot.com   Feel free to copy the Recaps and share them to whoever you think would like to read them - but please remember to give credit.

Thanks for reading!  :-)

-SteelSpine

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Wednesday, July 10, 2019

LIVESTREAM RECAP - July 10, 2019 (Delphira and Etalus)

** SteelSpine’s LIVESTREAM RECAP for JULY 10, 2019 **

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Matt (Game Designer), Haig (Live Ops Manager) and Dom (Game Artist) were our hosts for this week’s LiveStream.  This was Matt’s first LiveStream appearance since June 12, having been away on vacation for the past two weeks (in addition to the cancelled Stream on June 19).

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EVENT DETAILS:

This week’s Event will be called FROZEN ARROWS.  It will begin on THURSDAY, JULY 11 (around 3:30 pm BST) and run until MONDAY, JULY 15.


Titan Details:

This week’s Event features the return of two Titans:  DELPHIRA (Elithen/Ice Paladin) and ETALUS (Elithen/Ice Ranger).  

DELPHIRA has been given an upgrade.  She now buffs herself with two Titan Dual Resist Skills (Lightning and Void guaranteed), two Titan Defense Tier II Skills and one Titan Defense X Skill.  (Note:  The Devs did not show Delphira on screen, so I’m not 100% sure which Skills will be in which Slots).

ETALUS has also been given upgraded Skills for this Event:

ETALUS’ SKILLS:
Slot 1:  Imperials Offensive Tier II
Slot 2:  Imperials Defensive X
Slot 3:  Imperials Offensive Tier III
Slot 4:  Imperials Defensive X
Slot 5:  Imperials Offensive X

DELPHIRA will be available for 10k Souls.  ETALUS will be available for 15k Souls.


New Relic available in this Event:  

4* Chilling Vial
+60% Titan Ice Damage
+40% Imperials Health
+16% Imperials Resist Against All Elements


Top Rewards available in this Event will include:

4* Avalanche (Imperials Version) at 7k Souls
Epic Token at 8k
4* Frost Shield (Poison Resist) at 9k
DELPHIRA (Titan) at 10k
4* Titan’s Soul (XP Relic) at 11k
100 Divine Gems at 13k
4* Spartan Helm at 14k
ETALUS (Titan) at 15k
4* Chains of Winter at 16k
350 Divine Gems at 17k
4* Chilling Vial at 18k Souls

(See dotdatabase.net for full details on the above Relics).


1.3x Soul Bonus for using 4* Elithen Titans.
1.1x Soul Bonus for using 3* Elithen Titans.


It will be an ALLIANCE LEADERBOARD EVENT (also known as an Alliance War Event); prizes will be awarded to all Players in an Alliance according to their Alliance Ranking at the end of the Event.

Top Ranking Rewards in this Event:

1st Place:  Level 40 Etalus
2nd Place:  L30
3rd Place:  L20
Top 4-5:  L15
Top 6-10:  L10
11-50:  L5
51-100:  L1 Etalus
101-250:  4k Gems

Other Ranking Rewards (Gems) are available below 250th Place.

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QUESTIONS and ANSWERS:

Question (Q) from a Player:  Will there be an Event soon that allows us to use all of our old Event Relics?
Answer (A) from a Developer:  Yes.  Probably in 2 or 3 weeks.

Q:  Why are there so few Armor Piercing Relics for Imperials?
A:  (The Devs didn’t give much of an answer to this - they just kind of agreed that there weren’t enough Imperial AP Relics)

Q:  Can we get an increase to Troop Storage?
A:  We’re going to do Relic Storage first.  Once that’s done, we are going to look at which other storages we can increase.

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TEASERS and OTHER INFORMATION:

The Devs said they think they will be able to give a date during next week’s Stream for when the new features in Version 1.33 will be turned on - but it may take a bit longer.  They said the rollout is progressing slowly because there are a lot of “behind the scenes” technical changes in v1.33.

Some of the upcoming changes in v1.33 include:

New 3* Void Titans
Relic Storage size improvements
Changes to Divine Shrines
Possible changes to Horde Troops (increased survivability, lower training times)
Support for a new small midweek Event type


The Devs announced the names for the new 5* Relics.  The new Champion 5* will be MJOLNIR (which is Thor’s legendary hammer).  The new Guardian 5* will be SVERD OG SKJOLD (Norwegian for SWORD AND SHIELD).

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NEXT WEEK (July 15 to July 18):

MONDAY, JULY 15:  There will be a small Relic-centered Leaderboard Event called TRUESHOT.  This Event will be SOLO/INDIVIDUAL, and it will run for about 48 hours.  It will be similar to the midweek Event a few weeks ago, which introduced the 4* Kopis and 4* Spearhead Relics into the game - but instead of new Relics, this Event will feature the return of some old favorites.  (Note from SteelSpine:  Players in the upper leagues have been asking for the 4* Wild Arrows to make an appearance in an Event for a long time.  It’s nice to see the Devs bring them back - even if it is in their own Event).

Relics available in this Event will include: 

4* ANCIENT CROSSBOW
4* HEARTSEEKER
4* FOREST BOW
4* WILD ARROWS

(Note:  The Devs did not show the Soul cost for the above Relics, but they did say there would be a  1.2x Soul Bonus for using 4* Ranger Titans and a 1.1x Soul Bonus for using 3* Ranger Titans.  Check dotdatabase.net for details on the above Relics).

WEDNESDAY:  There will be one of those one day mini-Events (like Spell Frenzy, Construction Frenzy, discount to Land Refresh, etc).  No details regarding which one it will be.

THURSDAY:  There will be a “big” Alliance Leaderboard Event.  (Note: The Devs didn’t say which Titan, but they said players “could probably guess” - so it SOUNDS LIKE it might be Kronos, but that’s just speculation on my part).

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LIVESTREAM CONTEST WINNERS:

YouTube:  Demu Gaines (or Games)

Facebook:  Raul Molez Arrero

(Note from SteelSpine:  I am sorry for any misspellings above.  If your name is similar to one of the names above, and you entered the LiveStream contest, please contact the Devs on DoT’s Facebook page to claim your prize.  Congratulations!!)

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You can reach me in-game under the name SteelSpine (I am the Level 40 one, as of July 2019).  Feel free to reach out to me with any questions, comments or suggestions!


YOU CAN FIND FUTURE (and PAST) EDITIONS OF MY RECAPS ON MY BLOG at steelspinesdot.blogspot.com Feel free to copy the Recaps directly from my blog and share them to whoever you think would like to read them - but please remember to give credit.

Thanks for reading!  :-)

-SteelSpine

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RECAP - September 28, 2020 (Zabava)

  ** SteelSpine’s RECAP for SEPTEMBER 28, 2020 ** XXXXX https://steelspinesdot.blogspot.com XXXXX Hey, all!    I’m sorry for my long absence...