Week 2 of Zodias Arcane Catacombs / FAQ / 86 Expansion News

[asommers]

Thanks to everyone that has provided feedback on the Zodias Arcane Catacombs! We hope you feel that it is a worthy addition to the game.

Congrats to the players currently at the top of the leaderboards for score and time!

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Since questions that keep popping up in various places instead of the feedback thread, we thought we'd make a single location where the answers to your most asked questions can be found.


We're running out of Fathoms!

The Catacombs are open for an entire season (3 months). Also, we have no plans to drop Fathoms in the Catacombs or adjust the current Fathom drop rate.

Can we trade or craft the looted class-specific wearables with something else?

Sorry, no. You can use the looted items that are not for your class with alternate characters.

Can you increase the looted gold?

We have no plans to adjust gold drops. The Catacombs are not meant for you to both earn top gold and loot Arcane items. Although the Catacombs dungeon drops the most gold taking all treasure rooms into account, we do realize the gold/hr farmed may be lower if it takes you longer to clear the dungeon.

Can you reduce the difficulty?

It's meant to be a hard dungeon. We feel it's fairly well-balanced and have no plans to adjust difficulty.

Are you going to make any further changes to the dungeon?

If the change affects gameplay, more than likely, no. The leaderboards are already underway and we don't want to make any changes that will affect existing spots.

However, there has been a request to make MechAnubis larger which we are looking into.



We don't have an event lined up this week, but to keep you in the loop, the team is currently working solely on the new 86 expansion. We expect it to be ready for release near the end of the summer. We'll have some simple events between now and the release of the expansion. The roadmap will make a return once the expansion has been released.

We have no information about the expansion other than we are working on it at this time. Stay tuned for more information about the expansion in the coming weeks!

As always, we welcome your constructive feedback!

[Hercules]

Thank you very much for such excellent content. +1000 so that the boss is a bit bigger and can be seen clearly, sometimes the mobs don't allow it to be seen. I have lost attacks with kraken sword hehe.

[Hercules]

Only one question, in the description of the title that is awarded to the top score, says that it will be given to the top 50. Is it a mistake or are they going to give this to every 50 of each class?
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[questy]

Did you forget to add the halo recipe?

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[Susanne]

Thankyou for the update. 🙂

[Cinco]

Did you forget to add the halo recipe?

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Yeah - looks like that one has gone missing :-/

We'll get it fixed as soon as we can.

Thanks!

[Xyv.io]

Don't rush the expansion, take ur time with it. All the new damage types and skill revamp should be difficult to balance

[Arraire]

We have any event when catacombs still playing?

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[asommers]

Only one question, in the description of the title that is awarded to the top score, says that it will be given to the top 50. Is it a mistake or are they going to give this to every 50 of each class?

Sorry, it's top 10 (we changed it before Catacombs went live). The description is fixed if you patch (log out and log back in).

-ALS

[Nabkro]

Wait is the expansion going to be at the end of this summer or next summer? I’m excited to see what’s next.

[Neutrone]

Thanks for the update on roadmap.

I have 2 questions.

Can we expect the skill revamp you've been working on to be released during expansion? I feel like this would be the best time to release it.

When can we expect aura split to happen? Sometime after expansion is released before expansion?

[JoeBiden]

Hey Asommers thanks for all your hard work and effort.

[Switchback]

Thank you for the update.

I would guess any Skill Updates would occur around the same time(I have seen it as a topic a number of times and also wondering myself.).

If there are Large Changes coming anytime 'soon' i think it is best to tease early than late.

[Cinco]

Can we expect the skill revamp you've been working on to be released during expansion?


I would guess any Skill Updates would occur around the same time...

The Skill Revamp is broken up into a few different components. There's fixing the Ultimate skills (that are too weak and those that nobody uses), adding some cool new Passive skills, adding a suite of new Class skills (that take new weaponry into account), and updating existing Class skills to provide more power and more variety for builds.

Right now we think that improvements to the Ultimate skills and new Passives ought to fit comfortably into the time we have for the 86 expansion.

New Class skills are less likely to drop with the expansion so these may be held 'til sometime after the 86 expansion has had a time to settle-in. Several of these new skills involve new types of weapons (one for each Class) and will involve quite a bit of new tech, tuning, and visual effects before they're ready for release.

Updating of skills that span the entire game will most assuredly not ship with the expansion but a while after. Adding more power, more variety, and specifically: providing some fun 'perks' for your existing Skill Upgrades is going to take a significant time to implement and much (much) more time to test and balance.

Since we're in the midst of developing the expansion content right now we'll be sure to set aside time to tease/ preview the Skill changes to set expectations and get feedback before we're too deep into the details.

[Tekila]

The Skill Revamp is broken up into a few different components. There's fixing the Ultimate skills (that are too weak and those that nobody uses), adding some cool new Passive skills, adding a suite of new Class skills (that take new weaponry into account), and updating existing Class skills to provide more power and more variety for builds.

Right now we think that improvements to the Ultimate skills and new Passives ought to fit comfortably into the time we have for the 86 expansion.

New Class skills are less likely to drop with the expansion so these may be held 'til sometime after the 86 expansion has had a time to settle-in. Several of these new skills involve new types of weapons (one for each Class) and will involve quite a bit of new tech, tuning, and visual effects before they're ready for release.

Updating of skills that span the entire game will most assuredly not ship with the expansion but a while after. Adding more power, more variety, and specifically: providing some fun 'perks' for your existing Skill Upgrades is going to take a significant time to implement and much (much) more time to test and balance.

Since we're in the midst of developing the expansion content right now we'll be sure to set aside time to tease/ preview the Skill changes to set expectations and get feedback before we're too deep into the details.

I have multiple questions:

Will a new class specialisation system be introduced with many path that can be chosen or are we going to stay with the main (tank/2 dps) model ?

Will the new expension bring back to old AL vibes?

Isn’t it possible to introduce the skill revamp before the new expension? (At least some parts)

Will all classes conserve their heal spell?

Will all classes conserve their defensive spell?


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[nemusoa]

so it's mean, you guys now focus on developing cap86 and give us mini and boring event until it's done? so we all player can focus on catacomb too? hmm...

[Roguemaybe]

so it's mean, you guys now focus on developing cap86 and give us mini and boring event until it's done? so we all player can focus on catacomb too? hmm...I mean it's not that bad, for those with better mythics could attempt the catacombs for better gears. While spirit gear users could level up during this time.

This is one of the best times to play since the end game gears have reached a ceiling, making it easier for us to catchup, since 86 is coming.

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[Rocketlauncing]

releasing expansion too soon? Arcane items 81 is not common to everyone, price not drop enough for the mass to buy arcane weapons.

[Itzmemohsin]

releasing expansion too soon? Arcane items 81 is not common to everyone, price not drop enough for the mass to buy arcane weapons.

This time instead of dropping prices of gears , they gave us bound gears drop in catacombs , which seems fair enough if drop rate is good .

[Kaizen]

Plat sale ples [emoji1431]

[Kaziscate]

The Skill Revamp is broken up into a few different components. There's fixing the Ultimate skills (that are too weak and those that nobody uses), adding some cool new Passive skills, adding a suite of new Class skills (that take new weaponry into account), and updating existing Class skills to provide more power and more variety for builds.

Right now we think that improvements to the Ultimate skills and new Passives ought to fit comfortably into the time we have for the 86 expansion.

New Class skills are less likely to drop with the expansion so these may be held 'til sometime after the 86 expansion has had a time to settle-in. Several of these new skills involve new types of weapons (one for each Class) and will involve quite a bit of new tech, tuning, and visual effects before they're ready for release.

Updating of skills that span the entire game will most assuredly not ship with the expansion but a while after. Adding more power, more variety, and specifically: providing some fun 'perks' for your existing Skill Upgrades is going to take a significant time to implement and much (much) more time to test and balance.

Since we're in the midst of developing the expansion content right now we'll be sure to set aside time to tease/ preview the Skill changes to set expectations and get feedback before we're too deep into the details.

Will damage types be playing a role in the new additions to skills?

[nemusoa]

I mean it's not that bad, for those with better mythics could attempt the catacombs for better gears. While spirit gear users could level up during this time.

This is one of the best times to play since the end game gears have reached a ceiling, making it easier for us to catchup, since 86 is coming.

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Yeah, my target i can up my spirit aegis to lvl41 during this time. but it's hard to find serious party. 5 minutes and they leave with no comment. ahhh,... iam tired

[Roguemaybe]

This time instead of dropping prices of gears , they gave us bound gears drop in catacombs , which seems fair enough if drop rate is good .Yea, this is a nice change of pace. Anyways even if the new lvl cap does drop, I suspect the items will be similar to how they do the zod/lvl81. Introducing legendary items first, mythical next then arcanes.

Overall quite well thought out from the side of STS.

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[Antignom]

If u dont wanna up the fathoms drops maybe up the drop rate from electrum chests like orc tag and so on mini event thats 2x electrum chest drop day event is that would be awesome!

[trueido]

The Skill Revamp is broken up into a few different components. There's fixing the Ultimate skills (that are too weak and those that nobody uses), adding some cool new Passive skills, adding a suite of new Class skills (that take new weaponry into account), and updating existing Class skills to provide more power and more variety for builds.

Right now we think that improvements to the Ultimate skills and new Passives ought to fit comfortably into the time we have for the 86 expansion.

New Class skills are less likely to drop with the expansion so these may be held 'til sometime after the 86 expansion has had a time to settle-in. Several of these new skills involve new types of weapons (one for each Class) and will involve quite a bit of new tech, tuning, and visual effects before they're ready for release.

Updating of skills that span the entire game will most assuredly not ship with the expansion but a while after. Adding more power, more variety, and specifically: providing some fun 'perks' for your existing Skill Upgrades is going to take a significant time to implement and much (much) more time to test and balance.

Since we're in the midst of developing the expansion content right now we'll be sure to set aside time to tease/ preview the Skill changes to set expectations and get feedback before we're too deep into the details.

Cinco thats awesome news

thanks!
can we get a clue of the 86 expan theme?

[Tekila]

Cinco thats awesome news

thanks!
can we get a clue of the 86 expan theme?

Oh yeah please the theme it would be cool if it was not sea anymore x)


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[trueido]

Oh yeah please the theme it would be cool if it was not sea anymore x)


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my guess that it will be a skyline theme
like maps on the clouds

[Tekila]

my guess that it will be a skyline theme
like maps on the clouds

I would be cool that we get new mobs design or a return of orcs but with new gear im so excited.


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[Kakashis]

Thanks for the update. Any hints on the special plans for vets this year? Been interested in that since it was mentioned xD

[dangibg]

Make bound arcane items exchangeable to bound elite awaken so ppl can disenchant the unwanted ones and upgrade the wanted ones, otherwise 90% of looted arcs will stay in stash forever.

I have kraken 2 kraken armors for War and 1 for Mage, telling me i should max 2 new chars so i can make use of them seems ridiculous to me.


Ign ~ Danrog

[luanwallace]

Can we have 2x fathom on daily events?

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[Switchback]

Make bound arcane items exchangeable to bound elite awaken so ppl can disenchant the unwanted ones and upgrade the wanted ones, otherwise 90% of looted arcs will stay in stash forever.

I have kraken 2 kraken armors for War and 1 for Mage, telling me i should max 2 new chars so i can make use of them seems ridiculous to me.


Ign ~ Danrog

Be happy you even looted anything. Also you only need 1 warrior, you can use different awake armors...

[Jdjd]

Make bound arcane items exchangeable to bound elite awaken so ppl can disenchant the unwanted ones and upgrade the wanted ones, otherwise 90% of looted arcs will stay in stash forever.

I have kraken 2 kraken armors for War and 1 for Mage, telling me i should max 2 new chars so i can make use of them seems ridiculous to me.


Ign ~ Danrog
To be onest the ones who vote in poll one week ago was the old players of the game. And now they don t like anymore. Sad they didn t use their brain when they vote the drop should be bound. Now all those who loot kraken gears bound, should watch to them in their inventory. i don t think sts will make those bound to exchange for anything.

[QuaseT]

To be onest the ones who vote in poll one week ago was the old players of the game. And now they don t like anymore. Sad they didn t use their brain when they vote the drop should be bound. Now all those who loot kraken gears bound, should watch to them in their inventory. i don t think sts will make those bound to exchange for anything.So you would rather be able to loot nothing than a bound kraken? I stick to my decision.

[questy]

Hello! Can we maybe use the rahabkor recipe to upgrade the MechAnubis artifact?

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[Tekila]

I think that the bound stuff is a good thing but having the opportunity to gamble it for a big amount would be cool to get a piece we want (bound) and to gold sink since we also are looking for gold sink.


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[Twomucho]

Changing the potions has made me not even want to play. Reminds me of laying dead without the ankhs so you got your loot. So much fun, right?

[Tekila]

Changing the potions has made me not even want to play. Reminds me of laying dead without the ankhs so you got your loot. So much fun, right?

Potions were killing the fun of the game. It was so easy that rogue and mage were just as tanky as warrior under horn’s heal.
Broken features like this are not enjoyable at all, now it is still really powerfull but not overpowered.


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[Zfan]

Changing the potions has made me not even want to play. Reminds me of laying dead without the ankhs so you got your loot. So much fun, right?

No, potion nerf was a great move by STS.

It nerfed the survivability of the rogues and mages that can rival a warrior's survivability.
This was very much needed to balance things out. Now, mages and rogues are forced to sacrifice damage skills for more survivability if they don't want to rely on warriors to heal or pet aa heal.

[Snaptubepro]

The Skill Revamp is broken up into a few different components. There's fixing the Ultimate skills (that are too weak and those that nobody uses), adding some cool new Passive skills, adding a suite of new Class skills (that take new weaponry into account), and updating existing Class skills to provide more power and more variety for builds.

Right now we think that improvements to the Ultimate skills and new Passives ought to fit comfortably into the time we have for the 86 expansion.

New Class skills are less likely to drop with the expansion so these may be held 'til sometime after the 86 expansion has had a time to settle-in. Several of these new skills involve new types of weapons (one for each Class) and will involve quite a bit of new tech, tuning, and visual effects before they're ready for release.

Updating of skills that span the entire game will most assuredly not ship with the expansion but a while after. Adding more power, more variety, and specifically: providing some fun 'perks' for your existing Skill Upgrades is going to take a significant time to implement and much (much) more time to test and balance.

Since we're in the midst of developing the expansion content right now we'll be sure to set aside time to tease/ preview the Skill changes to set expectations and get feedback before we're too deep into the details.

A healthy news. I once suggested a third weapon for each classes long ago. Glad you guys heard it. Warrior (Gauntlet), Mage (Orb or Tome), Rogue (Sniper).
Next expansion i guess a cyberpunk themed? Like Quantum/Technology World.

[Twomucho]

And what will a rogue sacrifice a skill for? Razors are only good for one thing and veil is fairly useless for a class that’s meant for a very different play style. Anyways I was just stating my opinion. And forgot that I wasn’t allowed to have an opinion in this day and age. My sincere apologies.

[Zfan]

And what will a rogue sacrifice a skill for? Razors are only good for one thing and veil is fairly useless for a class that’s meant for a very different play style. Anyways I was just stating my opinion. And forgot that I wasn’t allowed to have an opinion in this day and age. My sincere apologies.

My advice to you is to drop a damage skill and get the heal skill that rogues get, or get a pet that adds more survivability.

And no one told you to not voice your opinions. We were merely responding to your earlier comment with our own opinion as well. You have to realize that just like you not agreeing to what STS' decision, there are people out there who feels the opposite.

[Anehazaz]

My advice to you is to drop a damage skill and get the heal skill that rogues get, or get a pet that adds more survivability.

And no one told you to not voice your opinions. We were merely responding to your earlier comment with our own opinion as well. You have to realize that just like you not agreeing to what STS' decision, there are people out there who feels the opposite.

In pve the heal skill you just mentioned for rogue is of little use.

[Hhyey]

When the next event launch

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[inflames33]

Need a good event starting this week please getting bored


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[imOkay]

Need a good event starting this week please getting bored


Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkThey're lazy to make

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[luanwallace]

They're lazy to make

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[profmsb]

They're lazy to make

Sent from my RMX2103 using Tapatalk it wil be history if all event is cancel just because of the upcoming expansion...its not the first time for expansion tho,mybe want to favor kraken user to kept plying catacomb

[Xmap-AL]

it wil be history if all event is cancel just because of the upcoming expansion...its not the first time for expansion tho,mybe want to favor kraken user to kept plying catacombU can play catacomb when expansion
Same as other pple still grinding at maus even we are cap 81

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[Oakmaiden]

U can play catacomb when expansion
Same as other pple still grinding at maus even we are cap 81

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Because everything after that is meh

[dangibg]

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Ffs let us disenchant to something, this is so BAD!


Ign ~ Danrog

[Switchback]

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Ffs let us disenchant to something, this is so BAD!


Ign ~ Danrog

Looks like you need to make a Mage & Warrior.

[Joker1992]

[emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji2960][emoji2960][emoji2960]damn

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[Joker1992]

[emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]

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[dangibg]

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Ffs let us disenchant to something, this is so BAD!


Ign ~ Danrog

There is 0 reason for STS to not make them to disenchant for bound elite awaken, even if i make war and mage class i will just have extra, ending up with 5-10+ depending on how many runs u do. Makes no sense!


Ign ~ Danrog

[Itzmemohsin]

There is 0 reason for STS to not make them to disenchant for bound elite awaken, even if i make war and mage class i will just have extra, ending up with 5-10+ depending on how many runs u do. Makes no sense!


Ign ~ Danrog

They could atleast give us the option to convert bound krakens to bound power stones atleast

[dangibg]

They could atleast give us the option to convert bound krakens to bound power stones atleast

Yes few power stone per arcane would be good too, so we can roll for this CD.


Ign ~ Danrog

[recilencia123]

There is 0 reason for STS to not make them to disenchant for bound elite awaken, even if i make war and mage class i will just have extra, ending up with 5-10+ depending on how many runs u do. Makes no sense!


Ign ~ Danrog

keep mouth together and be thankful for ur luck
~soquete


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[dangibg]

Be thankful for item thats gonna eat up my stash slots in time. As I’m gonna run Catacombs for 68 more days.

Or if i want to have stash slots i have to sell in inventory? Be thankful for 55 gold?


Ign ~ Danrog

[Eggonomy]

Be thankful for item thats gonna eat up my stash slots in time. As I’m gonna run Catacombs for 68 more days.

Or if i want to have stash slots i have to sell in inventory? Be thankful for 55 gold?


Ign ~ DanrogJust ignore lol also even if its basically useless gz for arcs

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[Yorst]

Be thankful for item thats gonna eat up my stash slots in time. As I’m gonna run Catacombs for 68 more days.

Or if i want to have stash slots i have to sell in inventory? Be thankful for 55 gold?


Ign ~ DanrogMany wish they get even one arcane, u got lucky with a lot of IT and complain that IT Takes Ur precious space? Come on, do u hear yourself. U loot best gear in game and still not happy.

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[recilencia123]

Many wish they get even one arcane, u got lucky with a lot of IT and complain that IT Takes Ur precious space? Come on, do u hear yourself. U loot best gear in game and still not happy.

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greed and greed is bad in excess, hopefully one day that boy understands it


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[dangibg]

If you brokies are happy with mechanubis items that are unawakened and with weaker procs I’m not, i like to run 60 sec cata runs not 3 minute ones, if greed is why we are not alike so be it.


Ign ~ Danrog

[Ivezs]

Can bring old events back? Other players would obviously need gold to buy 86 items for sure. Plus it’s getting boring, i got a lot of kraks tho l but when I hit 80k-180k I got nothing literally lol

[Snaptubepro]

A healthy news. I once suggested a third weapon for each classes long ago. Glad you guys heard it. Warrior (Gauntlet), Mage (Orb or Tome), Rogue (Sniper).
Next expansion i guess a cyberpunk themed? Like Quantum/Technology World.

Thanks for the new third weapon sts!! At least mage was right!...It'll be better if the orb is floating and not mage holding them.

[tripexxx]

Thanks to everyone that has provided feedback on the Zodias Arcane Catacombs! We hope you feel that it is a worthy addition to the game.

Congrats to the players currently at the top of the leaderboards for score and time!

258753

258754

Since questions that keep popping up in various places instead of the feedback thread, we thought we'd make a single location where the answers to your most asked questions can be found.


We're running out of Fathoms!

The Catacombs are open for an entire season (3 months). Also, we have no plans to drop Fathoms in the Catacombs or adjust the current Fathom drop rate.

Can we trade or craft the looted class-specific wearables with something else?

Sorry, no. You can use the looted items that are not for your class with alternate characters.

Can you increase the looted gold?

We have no plans to adjust gold drops. The Catacombs are not meant for you to both earn top gold and loot Arcane items. Although the Catacombs dungeon drops the most gold taking all treasure rooms into account, we do realize the gold/hr farmed may be lower if it takes you longer to clear the dungeon.

Can you reduce the difficulty?

It's meant to be a hard dungeon. We feel it's fairly well-balanced and have no plans to adjust difficulty.

Are you going to make any further changes to the dungeon?

If the change affects gameplay, more than likely, no. The leaderboards are already underway and we don't want to make any changes that will affect existing spots.

However, there has been a request to make MechAnubis larger which we are looking into.



We don't have an event lined up this week, but to keep you in the loop, the team is currently working solely on the new 86 expansion. We expect it to be ready for release near the end of the summer. We'll have some simple events between now and the release of the expansion. The roadmap will make a return once the expansion has been released.

We have no information about the expansion other than we are working on it at this time. Stay tuned for more information about the expansion in the coming weeks!

As always, we welcome your constructive feedback!Is there any chance of adding in new loot in catacombs ? Like those 81 arcane force weapons or 81 mythic smug , saber , bounty even as a rare drop percentage like the arcane bracelet ?

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[recilencia123]

Is there any chance of adding in new loot in catacombs ? Like those 81 arcane force weapons or 81 mythic smug , saber , bounty even as a rare drop percentage like the arcane bracelet ?

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jajaja arcane force is from r.i event man wdf xD


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[Ouch21]

I like catacombs but the drop rate of mech weapons is too low ,huhu pls increase the drop rate :/

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[Immortal_Blood]

looks good and im excited to see if any of my ideas for the skill revamp make it into the game ;)

[recilencia123]

I like catacombs but the drop rate of mech weapons is too low ,huhu pls increase the drop rate :/

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its good like 60runs for guarantee arcane loot


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