Dear Alchemists,
With the new release of V3 features such as Enlightenment and Mementos; gameplay and strategy have risen to the next level. Unit stats have improved and the overall power level within the game has increased. There are now new effects added to Leader Skills, greater synergy between units from group skills and an overall increase to unit HPs.
Although this has helped to close the gap between many units, there is an issue that caused an imbalance and impacted the game negatively.
After extreme consideration, there will be a rebalance to one of our most popular units, Roxanne. The skill Null Grenade from her Basic Subterfuge Ability has resulted in breaking down the difficulty of challenging content too much and taken away much of strategic play within the game. We noted the dissatisfaction as well as the various suggestions regarding Roxanne and have placed it as an important subject that we wish to address. Because of how important it is to tailor the game experience for the best, we took extra care and time to come up with a solution. Especially since she was introduced with an intention to have a very useful role within the new PvP (Ranked Match), we have also decided to roll out this new adjustment one week before the start of the 7th March PvP season to allow players to familiarize and adapt strategies before the season proper. PvP is meant to be an evolving gameplay where players constantly reinvent their strategies and tactics in a bid to be the Champion.
The Intentions and Unexpected Outcomes
Roxanne was designed to have a wide repertoire of skills that are designed to allow her to contribute significantly to battles in the new PvP mode. As a result, she was over-tuned and exceeded our expectations on the power scale especially as she has powerful loadouts for Quests, PvP as well as Arena. Game balance and game experience have been affected by this. This is unintended and an exception and is something that we will learn from to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
As fair play is of utmost importance and unit usefulness are crucial, we took more time in our analysis to conclude the imbalance in the advantage offered to players with Roxanne and the difficulty that opponents face in countering her.
Rebalance details :
The skill will not destroy all Jewels of the affected targets and instead scaled based on a fixed percentage of the targets max Jewel count. Physical damage from the skill will be increased and it will now have a chance of inflicting Daze on targets. The number of uses for the skill will also be adjusted accordingly. This will be applied in the 28th Feb update.
We understand that even though Fair Play is an important part of every great game and not everyone will embrace this decision and the adjustments made to her skill. However the main aim of this rebalance is not meant to take away what you love about Roxanne. She will still bring much joy to players who have her but not grief those who don't. Her "Null Grenade" skill does not drop in usefulness but instead changes the situations where it shines. Players will have this as a powerful trump card up their sleeve. After this change, we hope that Roxanne will still be able to stay as a top tier unit, especially when placed in the hands of a master strategist.
Gem Compensation
In consideration of her rebalance, we will be giving players back the FULL amount of Gems spent on Limited Summons that had Roxanne within the summon pool. We sincerely apologize to players who had spent on the summons due to her previous design. Gems spent in all Summons will be refunded in the form of Free gems only. Additionally, all players who have created an account before 28th Feb prior to this rebalance will also receive 500 Free Gems as an apology for any unfair gameplay experienced from before her rebalance.
10/18/2018
5-Step Special Summon
9-Step Premium Summon
Daily Soul Summon
Grand Promo Summon
12/20/2018
5-Step Promo Summon
9-Step Premium Summon
Daily Soul Summon
5-Step Grand Summon
1/17/2019
5-Step Promo Summon
9-Step Premium Summon
Daily Soul Summon
1/19/2019
Weekend Grand Summon
1/20/2019
2-Step Daily Special Summon
More Shards for everyone!
One more thing we want to do for your experience is to make Limit Breaking units more accessible. There will be more Unit Shards to obtained throughout your experience, such as the Event Quest: Advent of Phantoms as well as through more milestones and giveaways. The Elemental Shards new player login rewards will be increased and existing players will also receive the Elemental Shards! As we progress, we aim to make your quality of gameplay better and better.
Lastly, we want to assure everyone that making changes to a unit’s design after release is an exceptional case and we will do our best to avoid a repeat of it. Due to the persistent impact on the whole of THE ALCHEMIST CODE community, we have decided to do this rebalance to improve your experience. Your feedback and thoughts on THE ALCHEMIST CODE are extremely important to us and we have always stressed that they are a core consideration in our philosophy. Our commitment to making this game the best experience for you has never been stronger and we hope you will continue to love and support THE ALCHEMIST CODE.
Ross Song
Producer
THE ALCHEMIST CODE Team
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