Roadmap

Every new champion starts with a weapon, armor and a ring for its class. The kit stays with that champion; it cannot be sold or traded.

Today's duel and the Gauntlet are open. The Gauntlet is played stage by stage, one run a week, and both modes use the current item catalog.

Attunement gives Spirit a use in a fight. Every daily duel can be won. The balance in the live game is the balance we measured before shipping it.

The logo no longer moves with the page; it sits still above the menu. While a section loads you see the mark. Packs open with their seal breaking.

The email about the defenses your champion fought while you were away now arrives in the language you chose, with the Duelsmith logo. If you unsubscribe, the page confirms it worked.

The medal case shows every medal, not just the ones you have won, and each one says how to earn it.

An anvil with two crossed swords over the fire. You will see it in your browser tab and whenever you share a link to the game.

The champion page shows the background, the sprite with the weapon and armour it carries, the frame and the name colour. Below that is the build, laid out so you can study it.

You can see a rival's full build; studying it is the point. Their plan, what the champion decides to do in a fight, stays hidden until you fight them.

If we return a cosmetic that had been taken away, we put it back on for you. If you have equipped something else since, we leave your choice and tell you it is back.

If a booster purchase is reversed, only the unused days from that purchase are removed. Days you have already used stay counted.

Fights now have eight backgrounds. Four are bought in the store. Three belong to your race and are unlocked by finishing Arc I; those are not in the store. In PvP you fight on the defender's background.

Epic and legendary items can wear an ember or frost look. A skin changes how the item looks and nothing else.

Two new modes: a weekly Gauntlet whose rule changes each week, and a daily duel where everyone gets the same fight. Both award medals, and neither costs anything.

The public page now shows a real duel instead of describing one. Two champions fight on a loop from a seed printed under the replay, so you can reproduce that exact fight yourself. With reduced motion on, it stays still.

When someone deletes their account, their duels stay: both builds and the result are kept, and only the name is removed. Shared replay links keep working, and they now unfurl with a card showing both champions and who won.

The black market can be filtered by item, gem and minimum rarity, and it searches both halves of a listing: who is offering it and who is looking for it. The board loads more as you scroll.

Trade equipment and gems with other players. You post what you have spare and what kind of thing you want for it, and whoever holds that can take the deal. There is no currency in a trade: no BP changes hands, there is no bidding and no price. Catalysts and essence cannot be listed either.

After the last canto the path keeps going: every 80 deeds it loops and pays out a material pack. The pack is almost always dust, and a little more than one loop in four gives a gem. It never contains catalysts or essence, so it does not shorten the climb to +9 or +10.

Mage and Channeler get a damage boost while levelling. It is large early on and shrinks to exactly zero at level 20. On the ladder's fourth rung, the gap between the best-off class and the worst-off went from 24 points to 5. At high levels the Mage is still behind; that is for the next design arc.

Several affixes on Mage and Channeler items did nothing. We measured it: removing them changed not one duel. That budget is armor now, and both casters gain between 8 and 18 points depending on level. The Rogue trades some evasion for real armor and still hits fast and folds fast. One more fix: if an item pushed your armor below zero, you used to take 25% more damage. That was a bug on our side and it is fixed.

Warrior and Rogue no longer hit the same way twice. Their skills read the fight: the pain you have taken, the riposte window, the statuses you chain. Every class now starts with a hand-authored spread of skill points that you can change whenever you like. Between levels 14 and 17 the gap between the strongest and weakest class narrows sharply. Mage and Channeler come in the next design arc: their axes work, but they lift the classes that are already ahead, so they are being redesigned with what we learned.

Every time you spend something (forging, reforging, milling, trading BP for materials) a line is recorded with the date, the amount and the item. What the game hands you is recorded the same way. There is no screen for it yet; for now it is an internal tool, so we can answer your questions with data. If you delete your account, those lines are anonymised.

The store now says, in plain words, that rank and season rewards cannot be bought and that everything else costs BP. The material pack lists its own contents: 20 essence, 60–180 dust, 2 gems guaranteed, and an 8.4% chance of a catalyst.

Ladder wins now drop material packs with dust, essence and punches for forging. Grey fights drop nothing.

The front page now explains the forge: the three forge bands, what each costs, and the real history of a weapon that reached +9, including the fall. The numbers are read from the game, so if the forge changes, that page changes with it.

The forge no longer destroys items, at any level. If an attempt fails, the item drops one level and loses what that level gave it, but you keep the item. Risk starts at +5. Protection prevents the drop up to +8; at +9 and +10 there is no protection.

Every forge level rolls: several of the item's existing stats go up, and no level gives nothing. The item keeps what each level gave it, so two +7s are not the same item, and you can see why.

Every skill now shows its growth ladder: how much damage it deals at each level of investment, with your current point marked, what the next one would buy, and the breakpoint drawn where it fires.

What you earn is not lost because you slept, you can select several items at once to mill, and the theorycraft tools are free for everyone.

Every screen that used to leave you stuck now offers the next step: attack from the leaderboard, exit a pack into your stash, see how an item is obtained, and test builds against real opponents.

Protect an item so nothing can destroy it, see what you risk before forging, and compare before and after on every reforge.

The bell takes you straight to the item with an apply button, and the store tells you before you pay that you apply the look yourself.

When you apply an aspect and that combination has no sprite yet, the game generates one and it shows up in combat.

One page lists everything you bought and its status. It works even when the store is closed.

See what time your stamina refills, and the first-steps list folds away instead of vanishing.