Trials of Fire update for 24 January 2020

Trials of Fire Weekly Update (v0.38) Release Notes

Good afternoon all,

This week’s update is part of a big January balance push to try to give the player more options for powerful builds based on the different items you find on each adventure.

There’s a lot of balance changes listed below, but the TLDR version is that we’ve shifted card balance so Item Cards should now be a bit more powerful than Class Cards. This is to make items a bit more exciting, but also to give the player more choice in deck size/composition. (Large item based decks vs smaller, more reliable class based decks).

As always, please join us on Discord for any comments or feedback.

Big Changes

• Item vs Class Card Balance

• We’ve shifted the balance a bit between Item Cards (cards gained from items) and Class Cards gained from levelling up.

• Class cards retain most of the utility they used to have, but they should now have less damage potential than Item Card attacks.

• Also tweaked up some of the less used Item cards and tweaked down some of the over-used class cards to hopefully give a more even choice in item and level up selection.

Card Changes

• ‘Pinning Shot’ (Hunter) – Reduced damage to 2 (from 3).
• ‘Hit and Run’ (Hunter) – Reduced damage to 3 (from 3).
• ‘Signal Shot’ (Hunter) – Reduced damage to 2 (from 3).
• ‘Bone Wolf’ (Hunter) – Reduced Health to 4 (from 5).
• ‘Glass Lizard’ (Hunter) – Reduced Health to 5 (from 6) and Melee Damage to 2 (from 3).
• ‘Earth Grab’ (Elementalist) – Reduced cost to 2 (from 3) and removed damage.
• ‘Static Discharge’ (Elementalist) – Reduced damage to 2 (from 3).
• ‘Charged Weapon’ (Elementalist) – Reduced damage to 2 (from 3).
• ‘Tackle’ (Warrior) – Reduced movement to 2 (from 3).
• ‘Bulwark’ (Warrior) – Reduced Defence to 5 (from 6).
• ‘Measured Blow’ (Warrior) – Reduced damage to 2 (from 3).
• ‘Hamstring’ (Warrior) – Reduced damage to 3 (from 4).
• ‘Attack’ (Warlord) – Reduced cost to 0 and updated effect to, ‘Target friendly Hero draws a Melee Attack card from their deck and then Activates.’
• ‘Inspiring Strike’ (Warlord) – Reduced damage to 2 (from 3).
• ‘Resourceful’ (Alchemist) – Increased cost to 2 (from 1) and reduced Resilience to 4 (from 5).
• ‘Blind Shot’ (Alchemist) – Reduced damage to 3 (from 4).
• ‘Smart Infection’ (Alchemist) – Reduced Damage to 2-4 (from 2-5).
• ‘Soul Blast’ (Witch) – Soul Blast damage now ignores defence and resistances.
• ‘Knife Attack’ (Assassin) – Reduced Melee Damage to 2.
• ‘Smoke Bomb’ (Assassin) – Increased cost to 2 (from 1).
• ‘Mighty Blow’ – Increased damage to 8 (from 7).
• ‘Meditation’ – Reduced cost to 4 (from 5) and increased defence to 4.
• ‘Flame Fan’ – Reduced cost to 2 (from 3).
• ‘Stab’ – Increased cost to 1 and updated effect to, ‘Melee Attack 2. Draw a Melee Attack card from your deck.’
• ‘Chop’ – Increased damage to 4 (from 3).
• ‘Clash’ – Reduced cost to 1 (from 2).
• ‘Strike Through’ – Updated effect to, ‘Melee Attack 3 or Ranged Attack 2. Also hits anyone directly behind the target.’
• ‘Lightning Bolt’ – Increased damage to 5 (from 4).
• ‘Offensive Stance’ – Reduced cost to 0 (from 1).
• ‘Battle Stance’ – Reduced cost to 2 (from 3).
• ‘Fearsome Shout’ – Reduced cost to 1 (from 2).
• ‘Rage’ – Updated effect to, ‘Draw 2 cards. Draw 1 fewer card at the end of your turn.’
• ‘Husk’ – Reduced Health to 5 (from 6).
• ‘Detonate’ – Reduced cost to 2 (from 3).
• ‘Draw Strength’ – Updated effect to, ‘For each friendly Summon, Defend 2 on that Summon and on yourself.’
• ‘Crazed’ – Increased damage bonus to 0-3 (from 0-2).
• ‘Dig Deep’ – Reduced cost to 0 (from 1).
• ‘Incite’ – Reduced cost to 1 (from 2) and updated effect to, ‘Grant Inspired to all of your summons and activate them.’
• ‘Heart Seeker’ – Heart Seeker now gains 1 bonus damage every time you finish your turn with it in hand.
• ‘Burn From Within’ – Increase damage bonus to 6 per card lost (from 5).

Legendary Changes

• ‘Falloran’s Arc’ – Updated effect to, ‘All Ranged Attacks deal +1 Damage for each other Ranged Attack card in hand.’
• ‘Juggernaut’ – Updated effect to, ‘At the start of turn, if you have 15 or more cards still in your deck, draw a card.’

Balance Changes

• Removed the Necromancer’s health bonus for his summons to compensate for some more powerful Summon based cards.
• Tweaked challenge value on other enemies based on card changes.

Other Changes

• The starting weapon you pick for each Hero is now remembered when you begin a new run.