Fixes & Balancing

Thank you to everyone for supporting and allowing me some time to get through the updates. This is my first Solo Dev project so I am trying my best :D I've put some big changes down to balancing to make the game a little harder and fixed a few known issues. But please continue to report ANY major or minor issues you see so I can continue to provide quicker updates!

🎮 Quality of Life

Audio/Visual Settings Persistence

• Music volume and SFX volume settings are now saved globally via localStorage and persist across sessions, game resets, and new runs.

Boss Performance

• Set videoLoop: false on all 19 boss and ascended boss enemies to reduce GPU memory pressure from continuous video decoding during extended fights.

🔮 Relic Fixes & Reworks

Fate Weaver's Loom — Complete Overhaul

• Fixed a critical softlock where the card reorder modal's "Confirm" button was rendered off-screen, trapping players in the selection UI with no way to proceed into combat.

• Scry depth increased from 5 → 10 cards. With the default 5-card hand draw (and heroes like Ranger Fenriel drawing 7), scrying only 5 cards was functionally useless — the player would draw all of them regardless of order. Now seeing 10 cards gives meaningful agency over the opening hand.

• Modal UI rebuilt from scratch:

  • Cards are now caled down from their native resolution to prevent visual overlap.

  • The confirm button is always visible within the viewport, with a scrollable layout fallback for smaller screens.

• Updated description:"At the start of each combat, view and rearrange the top 10 cards of your draw pile."

Void Shard — Turn 1 Penalty Fix

• Fixed: The "+1 cost to all cards on turn 1" penalty was not applying during the initial combat draw. The turn-1 cost increase now correctly fires during both the normal draw path and the Fate Weaver's Loom deferred draw path.

• Execution order corrected: The cost increase now runs before the random zero-cost card selection, so the free card isn't immediately reinflated.

⚔️ Enemy Balance Pass

Bosses

Lich King, Ezekiel

• Max HP: 290 → 355

Corrupted Blood Knight, Draefus

• Max HP: 390 → 560

• Primary attack: 15 → 14 base damage

• Heavy strike: 22/8 scaling → 20 base / 6 scaling per 4 turns

• Phase 2 — Reworked:

  • Main attack split into two 8-damage hits (was single 18) + 12 block (down from 14), all scaling +2/3 turns

  • AddedBlight debuff reduced6 → 3 stacks, but now also grants 3 Resolute + 8 Thorns (new defensive combo)

  • Galvanize buff now scales

  • AdjustedEnrage phaseMight reduced 20 → 12 , Galvanize increased 10 → 18

• Phase 3 — Reworked:

  • Removed power up + Fading Resolve curse affliction move

  • Replaced with triple 6 damage attacks scaling attacks

Blade Crafter, Zoros

• Max HP: 230 → 475 (major increase — intended as late-game wall)

• Triple-strike: 3 → 4 base per hit, scaling 1 → 2 per 4 turns

• Heavy slash: 14 → 16 base, scaling 3 → 8 per 4 turns

• Heal/Defend: now both scale +4 per cycle (was flat 12)

• Phase 1 threshold: 65% → 70% HP

• Phase 1 devastating strike: 25 → 35 base (pierce)

• Phase 1 lifesteal scaling frequency: 3 → 4 turns

• Phase 1 defend scaling: 5/3 → 3/4 turns

• Phase 1 attack scaling frequency: 3 → 4 turns

• Phase 1 defensive move reworked: Replaced Defend 10 + Evasion 3 with Resolute 3 (scaling +5/4) + Evasion 3 (scaling +1/4) + Might 4 (flat)

• New Phase 1 move: Triple 6 damage attacks, each scaling +2/4 turns

• Phase transition regen: 8 → 10

Ancient Wolf, Frostfang

• Max HP: 236 → 249

• Bite combo: 2 → 3 base per hit, scaling 1 → 3 per 4 turns

• Venom stacks: 2 → 3 per application

• Ablaze stacks: 2 → 3 per application

• Pierce attack: 5 → 10 base, scaling 1 → 4 per 4 turns

• Defend: 5 → 10 base, scaling 1 → 4 per 4 turns

• Regen: 3 → 5 stacks

• Negate and Forcefield buffs now scale (+1/4 turns each, was flat)

• Heavy attack: 14 → 16 base, scaling 2 → 4 per 4 turns

• Shock debuff: 2 → 1 (less oppressive)

• Phase transition Might buff: 4 → 6

Parallax, Scourge of the Plains

• Max HP: 300 → 398

• All DoT debuffs (Frostbite, Venom, Ablaze, Brittle): scaling 1 → 2 per 3 turns

• Regen: 4 → 6 stacks, now scales +3/3 turns (was flat)

• Defend: 12 → 18 base, now scales +3/3 turns (was flat)

• Blood Tithe curse affliction now scales (+1/3 turns)

Infernal Dragon, Melastraza

• Max HP: 270 → 330

• Ablaze debuff: 4 → 8 stacks, scaling 2 → 4 per 4 turns

• Attack: 14 → 16 base, scaling 2 → 3 per 4 turns

• Defend scaling: 2 → 3 per 4 turns

• Frail debuff: 2 → 3 stacks

• Immolated self-buff: 3 → 4 stacks

• Cleanse: 2 → 4 value

• Dispel: 2 → 3 value

• Regen: 4 → 6 stacks, scaling 1 → 4 per 8 turns

• Phase transition threshold: 30% → 40% HP (earlier summon)

• Summoned units now use global scaling (if you encounter at a later act, the summons should be stronger than a base Act 1 version).

Omnimicron, King of Greed

• Max HP: 300 → 350

• Primary attack scaling: 3 → 4 per 4 turns

• Secondary attack scaling: 2 → 4 per 4 turns

• Phase 2 threshold: 50% → 40% HP

• Phase 2 attack: 7 → 10 base, scaling 3/1 → 2/2 turns

• Phase 2 defend: 7 → 10 base, scaling 1 → 2 per 2 turns

• Phase 2 cleanse move replaced with AoE Might buff (+2 to all allies, scaling +1/2 turns)

Beowulf, Champion of Eodolas

• Max HP: 300 → 375

• Voidmare curse affliction: 3 → 4 curses

• Phase 2 Shock debuff: 2 → 1 (less oppressive)

• Phase 2 heavy attack: 12 → 14 base, scaling 2 → 7 per 3 turns

• Phase 3 devastation attack scaling: 4 → 10 per 3 turns

• Phase 3 now grants 2 Negate alongside Might buff

• Removed redundant power up move from Phase 3

• Final slam scaling frequency: 3 → 2 turns

Shield of Draefus

• Max HP: 150 → 220

• Support buff changed from Fortified → Might (3 stacks, +1/3 turns to all allies)

• Attack: 8 → 7 base, scaling 1 → 2 per 3 turns

• Defend: 8 → 7 base, scaling 1 → 2 per 3 turns

• Foresight buff: 8 → 10 stacks, now scales +2/3 turns

• New: Grants 3 Impenetrable (scaling +1/3 turns)

Sword of Draefus

• Max HP: 136 → 156

• Primary attack: 6 → 18 base damage

• Secondary attack: 10 → 12 base, scaling 2 → 4 per 4 turns

• New: Secondary attack also applies 4 Venom (scaling +3/4 turns)

• Power Up value: 5 → 1

• Multi-attack: scaling 2 → 3 per 4 turns

• Dispel: 2 → 3 stacks, now scales +1/4 turns (was flat)

Normal Enemies:

Rebalancing of Various Normal Enemies