New Update 10/27/2016: New Shadow & Myst Specialty (The Trixter) and much more!

[Nate]

Greetings Pit Masters!

Please read below for information about this update:

TRIXTER SPECIALTY
Today marks the day that the new Shadow & Myst Trixter specialty is available for Early Access! Pit Masters wanting to recruit a Trixter ahead of the crowd can head over to the Stable Upgrades screen and hire a Trixter trainer now!

NEW SLAVES
The Slave Masters have come into possession of new stock that rivals anything they've ever offered before! If you're in the market for a new addition to your stable, head on over to the Slave Market to buy your next arena champion before they're all sold out!

CONQUESTS
Conquests has changed slightly. Resting times and time to complete the conquest have been reduced. In addition, it no longer takes energy to start a conquest. Instead, every fight that takes place during a conquest reduces a gladiators energy. The higher the difficulty level the more energy a fight takes.

A new conquest "The Hidden Grate" has been added! To unlock the new conquest, a gladiator much first defeat the previous conquest (in this case The Underbelly) on Hard or above difficulty levels. Once that has been accomplished the new conquest will be unlocked and difficulty levels Easy and Normal will be available. To unlock Hard, a gladiator must defeat the conquest on Normal. Likewise, to unlock Nightmare, a gladiator much defeat the conquest on Hard.

BUG FIXES
There was a bug in Conquests and in the Gauntlet where the NPC gladiators where not getting skills assigned to them correctly. As a result they were much easier to defeat then they should have been. Pit Masters should once again expect much tougher fights in these two areas of the game and it is possible some gladiators will need to move down in difficulty to complete them.

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Good luck in the Pit!

-Nate-

[Kreegan]

Good to have the Trixter around finally. Not so excited about the new slaves though, I have one in the market which costs 1161 gold at the moment and I suppose he's not even top tier. This "new" thing will probably cause a forceful restocking of the stables (which is its intended purpose I suppose) and as with the introduction of the HoL slaves will gradually retire the vast majority of the veterans from the upper brackets. I guess something more subtle could have been introduced instead...

[Adoede]

Glad the trixter is finally out and the Shadows and Myst is finally complete.

I feel Kreegan on the new slaves though...just made nearly all my glads obsolete. If blood games weren't running I'd be left with one glad in Blood Gods...only planning to keep Seraph Madigant for nostalgia sake. On the other hand...it was effective in making me pull out my wallet and spend on trophies...and at least this puts all of the old timers and the newbies on the same level again.

[Ghkg]

Just got my first glad to full orange gear. Now that slave is far from being competitive...a little bit frustrating. Looks like have to replace all my slaves with new ones since new ones are just way better.

[vihorsthename]

i retired an old one and bought another one YESTERDAY :mad:

[Megamieuwsel]

Did the Gauntlet get an "upgrade"as well?
I noticed that my (HOL)glads that could easily run it on "hard" SOLO are now being butchered even in "Normal"....
And no: I didn't change anything on these glads.
The change appeared overnight.

[Megamieuwsel]

Also; The Gauntlet often "hangs" ; showing the "<Gladiator-name> is currently in the middle of competing in Jimmy the Squid's Gauntlet of the Underground! Press the FIGHT button to continue."-screen and not going any further, no matter how often I click the "Fight"-button.

[PedroJorge]

As Kreegan said, I wonder what the top tier HoL slaves will look like right know... I currently have a 1185 gold slave in the market and I am wondering if he is really that good compared with the rest.

[Ghkg]

There are slaves that cost over 1220, 1241 most expensive I've seen so far but I'm pretty sure those are very rare. If you are looking top tier slaves I would aim for 1220+ costing slaves.

[Adoede]

Best I've seen now is 1251 gp. But...by far the majority are in the 1100's.

Above 1200 gp is ~2% of the glads.
Above 1220 gp is ~.6% of the glads...so be prepared to spend a lot of trophies if you're looking for one.
Above 1230 gp is ~.4% of the glads
Above 1240 gp is ~.09% of the glads

However, one of my favorite new guys is:
79 86 100 92 81 92 84 1189 gp
Didn't cost the most, but stats are distributed very well for what I wanted to do with him.

[weaw]

This "new" thing will probably cause a forceful restocking of the stables (which is its intended purpose I suppose) ... Perhaps, its intended purpose is an introduction of a new gear. Because:
... with the introduction of the HoL slaves will gradually retire the vast majority of the veterans from the upper brackets. "They will be retired with their gear" i mean.


I guess something more subtle could have been introduced instead... Agree. This decision is ... ambiguous. I don't think my stable contains a real "veterans from the upper brackets". But i prefer to play in first half of the BG. And it's a bit sad to loose those of my gladiators which i like to work with. Because i worked with them about few dozen of months. It's a work. And i will need to drop them not because of my will...
But there is another dozen of months to that moment, i think.

Anyway. This ambiguous step may renew the game. Regardless of its general purpose. It may give the money for the game. And it may give "new" interest for players.
So. Generally, it's good news. I think.

// Nate. It seems it's time to start "Trixter" forum in the "Gladiator Specialties" section...

// By the way. About 40 BG gladiators are retired after this change. It's about 2/5 of all BG. Heh. If we are lucky enough we'll see the BG of 20 gladiators. ;)

[Just J]

Gauntlet definitely got 'upgraded'... it throws you UP in the air, and then down the GRADEd hill into the pit of spikes \^,^/ http://postimg.org/image/e7171los3/25fdba4d/

[Nate]

Did the Gauntlet get an "upgrade"as well?
I noticed that my (HOL)glads that could easily run it on "hard" SOLO are now being butchered even in "Normal"....
And no: I didn't change anything on these glads.
The change appeared overnight.

Hi Megamieuwsel, thanks for the question. Nothing has been modified or changed regarding the difficulty of The Gauntlet or Conquests other than fixing the bug where enemy gladiators were not being assigned skills which is why your gladiators were able to do it solo with relative ease in the past. This bug had been present for awhile it turns out, so it is possible you've only known these areas of the game to be easy so it is understandable why it may feel like there was an increase in difficulty with the recent update. The current level of difficulty of The Gauntlet and Conquests are back to what they were when first introduced a couple of years ago up until the bug was introduced. The good news is many gladiators defeated them in the past and continue to do so now. Careful ally selection that complements your gladiator's build and good use of strategy, build type and gear selection can go a long way in being successful in these challenges. I'll make a note to look at the issue you are reporting regarding some of your gladiators hanging when running the gauntlet.

Good luck in the Pit!

-Nate-

[weaw]

The current level of difficulty of The Gauntlet and Conquests are back to what they were when first introduced a couple of years ago up until the bug was introduced. The good news is many gladiators defeated them in the past and continue to do so now.
Sorry, Nate. But i think You are said ... few of some wrong words here. Because in my memory my gladiators have a chance on the start Nightmare Gauntlet "couple of years ago".
These gladiators was about 53. And there was no chance to finish it, yes, but there was a chance to go through few rounds.
My current one sometimes in the top 10. And he can't move through first stage of Nightmare having the best allies in the game (Every of the Hive stable, Eleventwentytwo, Adoede's last man and so on).

Or. May be my memory is wrong, but, i'm sorry, these Gauntlets "couple of years ago" contains a Tricksters skills? I think, no.


Careful ally selection that complements your gladiator's build and good use of strategy, build type and gear selection can go a long way in being successful in these challenges. Sorry, i have a question: How the people must to choose gear/strategy/ally while we are just don't know who is an enemy? It's a joke. Really.

// Or do You suggest to record the properties of all the enemies of all the fighting? This method, besides, gives nothing in the Conquest. Because there are random (or "random") enemies, except "the Bosses" and as i know.

// I'm not a fan of the Gauntlet and such. But i'm a fan of the Clarity. But what i see in Your words ... only mist.

[PedroJorge]

There are slaves that cost over 1220, 1241 most expensive I've seen so far but I'm pretty sure those are very rare. If you are looking top tier slaves I would aim for 1220+ costing slaves.
Thanks alot.

[oedi]

There are slaves that cost over 1220, 1241 most expensive I've seen so far but I'm pretty sure those are very rare. If you are looking top tier slaves I would aim for 1220+ costing slaves.
ive been through several hundred slaves and seen none of those. My best yet is 1217, and im currently buying slaves from 1185 and up.

[The Revenants]

Curious on what the bio for Trixters are, anyone able to post the text for the Trixter's bio?