Illuvium: Arena Update 1.7.0

This patch overhauls several core systems, including Illuvials, Synergies, and Augments. We aim to simplify mechanics while addressing balance concerns related to team compositions and support/empath Illuvials. The following changes aim to adjust power levels and enhance the game's pacing by making combat snappier.

Instead of detailing every unit, we highlight the major changes and leave the finer details for players to explore in-game.Gameplay & System Updates

We have simplified existing conditions to make them more intuitive:

Removed stacking behavior from all conditions.
Burn: Reduces healing received by 25%.
Poison: Deals 1% of target's Max Health as Pure Damage per second.
Frost: Reduces target's Attack Speed by 25%.

New debuff effects:

Shatter: Reduces Physical Resistance by 25%.
Corrode: Reduces Energy Resistance by 25%.

These effects are present on Augments and are stronger on Legendary Augments or certain Synergy thresholds.

Addressed a core system issue causing all the percentage buffs to be applied from the current values instead of the base.
In multiple scenarios, this caused the units to reach very high damage values, due to the buffs being scaled multiplicatively.
Damage Amplification, Max Health and buffs based on a different stat (e.g., 10% Omega Power as Attack Speed) will still be applied from the current value.
Adjusted the Energy gained by units when taking damage from 20 to 40.
This means that for every 40 damage received, the unit gets 1 Energy.
Fixed an issue causing the Damage Reduction to stack on specific units, like Seeforus, when chain casting.
Grit and Resolve are now part of a single effect, instead of individual buffs and debuffs–Mitigation.
Physical and Energy Resistance are now part of a single effect–Resistance, but they can also be received as individual buffs and debuffs.

Adjusted the Drone Damage formula to be less aggressive in the game's early stages.
Adjusted the Credit drops from the PvE rounds from flat to per enemy tier.
Default Credits per Tier: 1/2/3/4/5/6

Description Updates

Rich Text descriptions are now extended to Augments for better clarity.
Tooltip updates now display effect descriptions directly where needed (e.g., an item using Corrode will also explain what Corrode does in its tooltip).
Reduced the amount of Rich Text on all tooltips to make it easier to read.

Illuvials
To create faster-paced combat, we have decreased overall Health and Resistance while refining the DPS formula. Additionally, we’ve standardised Illuvial Attack Damage types and added a damage component to Empaths. For more information regarding the current Illuvial stats, please visit Illuvidex. Overall Health decreased by 25%. Overall Resistances decreased by 25%. Attack Speed range adjusted from 0.5 - 1.2 to 0.5 - 0.9. Attack Damage adjusted by 5-25% (increase or decrease). Until now, Illuvials' basic attacks could deal Physical, Energy, or Pure damage. Now, all Illuvials' basic attacks will deal only Physical damage, except for Lynx Stage 1, which will continue to deal Pure damage. All Empath units now have a Damage component added to their Omega Ability. Added Omega Power scaling to all Omega Abilities, including Monkier’s passive attack. Removed the specific ability effects from Tier 0 Illuvials and Stage 3 Lynxes. (e.g., On Crit, gain Dodge Chance) Temporarily removed the Exploit Weakness effect from Dash, Rake and Umbre. Added utility for Attack Damage, Attack Speed and Movement Speed to Ebb, Fludd and Geyyser.

To create faster-paced combat, we have decreased overall Health and Resistance while refining the DPS formula. Additionally, we’ve standardised Illuvial Attack Damage types and added a damage component to Empaths.

For more information regarding the current Illuvial stats, please visit Illuvidex.

Overall Health decreased by 25%.
Overall Resistances decreased by 25%.
Attack Speed range adjusted from 0.5 - 1.2 to 0.5 - 0.9.
Attack Damage adjusted by 5-25% (increase or decrease).
Until now, Illuvials' basic attacks could deal Physical, Energy, or Pure damage. Now, all Illuvials' basic attacks will deal only Physical damage, except for Lynx Stage 1, which will continue to deal Pure damage.
All Empath units now have a Damage component added to their Omega Ability.
Added Omega Power scaling to all Omega Abilities, including Monkier’s passive attack.
Removed the specific ability effects from Tier 0 Illuvials and Stage 3 Lynxes. (e.g., On Crit, gain Dodge Chance)
Temporarily removed the Exploit Weakness effect from Dash, Rake and Umbre.
Added utility for Attack Damage, Attack Speed and Movement Speed to Ebb, Fludd and Geyyser.

Affinities & Classes
Synergies have been reworked to introduce distinctiveness between Primary and Composite Synergies. Primary Synergies: Now empower all allies, with double effects for Synergy Units. Synergy thresholds adjusted from 2/3/5/7/9 to 2/4/6/9. Synergy Units gain a special ability at the final threshold. Composite Synergies: Reworked to provide unique abilities tailored to their identity. The final threshold now unlocks a special ability, which may introduce new effects, modify existing effects, or switch ability properties. Due to some system limitations, special abilities may display incorrect values (e.g., "0") in descriptions but will function correctly in-game.

Synergies have been reworked to introduce distinctiveness between Primary and Composite Synergies.

Primary Synergies:

Now empower all allies, with double effects for Synergy Units.
Synergy thresholds adjusted from 2/3/5/7/9 to 2/4/6/9.
Synergy Units gain a special ability at the final threshold.

Composite Synergies:

Reworked to provide unique abilities tailored to their identity.
The final threshold now unlocks a special ability, which may introduce new effects, modify existing effects, or switch ability properties.
Due to some system limitations, special abilities may display incorrect values (e.g., "0") in descriptions but will function correctly in-game.

Forge Augment
We are restructuring Normal Augments in anticipation of new systems. Each Augment will now belong to a defined combat category. Players will eventually craft Augments using two components out of three, but until then, Augments will be acquired as usual. Additionally, Augments are undergoing a name revision to better align with their attached abilities, though they will temporarily retain old images. Component Types: Fury (Attack Offensive): +10% Attack Damage Defiance (Tank): +100 Health Apex (Omega Offensive): +10 Omega Power Each Augment can hold up to three total stats, depending on category. Augment Crate Categories: Strike (Fury + Fury) - Grants 20% Attack Damage Augments: Chronoflux, Titanbane, Shatterpoint, Vorpal Crest, Seismic Resonator, Prey Drive, Furyheart, Fatesealer, Riftstriker, Umbral Stride Brawler (Fury + Defiance) - Grants 10% Attack Damage and 100 Health Augments: Phoenix Surge, Phagefire, Bloodroot Charm, Entropy Sigil, Mendoskeleton, Ion Shroud, Cryonic Talisman, Crisis Module, Goliath Force, S.I.T.D.O.W.N Fusion (Fury + Apex) - Grants 10% Attack Damage and 10 Omega Power Augments: Power Diverter, Sunder Matrix, Shield Bane, Critical Surge, Battleborn Pact, Plasma Catalyst, Primeval Force, Veil Piercer, Barrier Reverb, Crimson Vow Shield (Defiance + Defiance) - Grants 200 Health Augments: Overguard, Lifewell, Guardian's Grid, Emberheart, Riftbreaker, Counter Shock, Abyss Rot, Adaptive Carapace, Titan Boon, Vengeful Mantle Support (Defiance + Apex) - Grants 100 Health and 10 Omega Power Augments: Duskfall, Empyrean Core, Hollow Repressor, Immunity Prism, Safeguard Protocol, Etherlock, Steadfast Pulse, Eldersurge, Flow Equalizer, Vanquisher’s Barrier Energy (Apex + Apex) - Grants 20 Omega Power Augments: Mindstorm, Echo Jammer, Arcane Accelerator, Spellweaver’s Aegis, Infurion, Essence Siphon, Blazewrath, Apex Supercharger, Aethersteal, Corroder

We are restructuring Normal Augments in anticipation of new systems. Each Augment will now belong to a defined combat category. Players will eventually craft Augments using two components out of three, but until then, Augments will be acquired as usual.

Additionally, Augments are undergoing a name revision to better align with their attached abilities, though they will temporarily retain old images.

Component Types:

Fury (Attack Offensive): +10% Attack Damage
Defiance (Tank): +100 Health
Apex (Omega Offensive): +10 Omega Power

Each Augment can hold up to three total stats, depending on category.

Augment Crate Categories:

Strike (Fury + Fury) - Grants 20% Attack Damage
Augments: Chronoflux, Titanbane, Shatterpoint, Vorpal Crest, Seismic Resonator, Prey Drive, Furyheart, Fatesealer, Riftstriker, Umbral Stride
Brawler (Fury + Defiance) - Grants 10% Attack Damage and 100 Health
Augments: Phoenix Surge, Phagefire, Bloodroot Charm, Entropy Sigil, Mendoskeleton, Ion Shroud, Cryonic Talisman, Crisis Module, Goliath Force, S.I.T.D.O.W.N
Fusion (Fury + Apex) - Grants 10% Attack Damage and 10 Omega Power
Augments: Power Diverter, Sunder Matrix, Shield Bane, Critical Surge, Battleborn Pact, Plasma Catalyst, Primeval Force, Veil Piercer, Barrier Reverb, Crimson Vow
Shield (Defiance + Defiance) - Grants 200 Health
Augments: Overguard, Lifewell, Guardian's Grid, Emberheart, Riftbreaker, Counter Shock, Abyss Rot, Adaptive Carapace, Titan Boon, Vengeful Mantle
Support (Defiance + Apex) - Grants 100 Health and 10 Omega Power
Augments: Duskfall, Empyrean Core, Hollow Repressor, Immunity Prism, Safeguard Protocol, Etherlock, Steadfast Pulse, Eldersurge, Flow Equalizer, Vanquisher’s Barrier
Energy (Apex + Apex) - Grants 20 Omega Power
Augments: Mindstorm, Echo Jammer, Arcane Accelerator, Spellweaver’s Aegis, Infurion, Essence Siphon, Blazewrath, Apex Supercharger, Aethersteal, Corroder

Legendary Augment
Once the new system is implemented, legendary Augments are now rarer but more powerful, with unique abilities. They remain three times more powerful than Forge Augments but do not hold embedded stats. Legendary Augments will still be acquired via the Legendary Augment Phase until the new system is ready. Warpwave Assault and Meteoric Onslaught were removed from the Legendary Pool. These will be moved to the Drone Augment phase in a future update.

Once the new system is implemented, legendary Augments are now rarer but more powerful, with unique abilities.
They remain three times more powerful than Forge Augments but do not hold embedded stats.
Legendary Augments will still be acquired via the Legendary Augment Phase until the new system is ready.
Warpwave Assault and Meteoric Onslaught were removed from the Legendary Pool.
These will be moved to the Drone Augment phase in a future update.

This patch marks a massive step toward a more refined and balanced gameplay experience. We’re eager to see how players adapt to the changes and how new strategies evolve.

Illuvium: Arena Update 1.7.0

Patch Notes

Gameplay & System Updates

System Changes & Terminology Updates

Gauntlet Changes

Description Updates

Balance Adjustments

Illuvials

Affinities & Classes

Forge Augment

Legendary Augment

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