03/09/18

This is the update where we take all of the carefully crafted, well-intentioned restrictions designed to try to not make anything too overpowered - And throw it all out the window so we can all have some actual fun. ALong with that, a couple more serious tweaks to momentum and second-turn bonuses, plus a slight buff for spirit specs and a couple new core boosts to play with. Enjoy! Custom Zanpakuto/Resurreccion

• Restrictions on: * The number of offensive and defensive core boosts * The number of area residual abilities * Having both residual and compound residual abilities * The number of offense/defense boosting abilities * Having a recoil ability as an ultimate Have all been removed.
• The cost of changing Theme/Description has been reduced from 10 shards/tokens -> 5 shards/tokens.
• The character limit of combat texts has been increased from 425 -> 500.

New Core Boosts Defense Boost This works similarly to the self-effect ability - It increases your stat-based defense by the listed effect amount. Notably, this makes it one of the most effective ways to reduce the damage of a pen-boosted opponent. HP Leech This is an ability augment core that adds HP leech to all your attacks. It will apply the listed effect amount for 2 turns. So for example, if you were to hit with a 10,000 damage attack, and you have 33% HP Leech core boost, you would heal 3,300 health each turn for 2 turns. Battle System/Momentum Changes

• Second-turn defense boost has been increased from 20% -> 25% effect amount
• Second-turn debuff resist has been increased from 2 turns -> 3 turns (effect amount is still 100% on turn 1, 30% after)
• The start-of-battle momentum override has been decreased from 4/3 turns (solo/team) to 2/2 turns. This means that after 2 turns, momentum will fully unlock, and if the user has orange/red momentum, pools will begin draining.
• Added a -0.5 momentum penalty for waiting while in the 0.75x-0.99x engagement range distance.
• Fixed a bug allowing AoE/barrier to be used on player 2's first turn

Other Changes

• Increased boost amount on Spirit Offense/Balanced specs: * Spirit Offense: 12% -> 15% * Spirit Balanced: 10% -> 12.5%
• A list of specialization passive bonuses has been added to the manual
• Recoil Resist item has been reduced from 50% -> 45% effect
• Added icon on public profile for the 5,000 PvP Win achievement (Death God / Conqueror of Souls)
• You can no longer engage in Arena/Desert/Kyoto City Fights while in a team (this is to prevent an unexpected situation where someone would go into battle, leaving their teammate(s) subject to attack without them)

-Lsmjudoka