I'm in the same point of Loot, my Pam has all epics (spent enough to get 220 personal ep on her), my natalie has epics aswell and she's getting above. I mean it's ok to have other crusaders buffed but Pam need something, she's a dpser (2 self dps epics) and need something to suit more. She has 4 +100% skills in her kit to boost her own dps, boosting 2 of those to 150% or 200% would be nice.
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It's just bad luck. I just got a few of those. Consider that I am pretty sure they didn't touch that part of the code.

This is simply a marvelous update that properly defined each and every crusader. The game seems to also be taking the right turn away from the Idle genre and more towards RPG.

@ Loot, just take a look at the other crusaders, expecially before this patch: 2 DPS items do not guarantee that a crusader is a DPSer (Jim has those, and he is a DPSer only if you have godly items for him and crappy items for everyone else). Pam is exactly like Jim except that her formation skill is stronger but more situational. She has a 100+ DPS buff and she is NOT a buffer? She is the stronger DPSer you have because you clearly didn't start playing until recently, and you pumped a lot of money in event chests to give her good EPs. But until the talent shop is released, she could never be a good DPSer, because of lack of EPs. My Pam has 150 EPs (most of which come from Jim) compared to the 300+ of every other classic crusader. This fact alone makes clear that she is not a DPSer, no event crusader can ever be unless you spend hundreds of dollars on them or the talent shop is released.

And no, you should not get a refund. The game is in beta, it clearly says so every time you load it. You spend money on it at your own peril. She has +400% epics because the devs were already working on boosting epics for every crusader, clearly. Since I started playing, my main DPSer changed FIVE times, because of gear, new crusaders, amount of EPs, etc. (the last time was yesterday with this patch). As the game grows, you can't expect your formation to be the best one for eternity. It was your choice to spend a lot of money on Pam (a poor choice IMHO), you can complain all you want, but that doens't entitle you to a refund.

Why should Pam's epics be any different from other crusaders'? The only, and I mean ONLY, reason she has +400% epics was that the devs were already working on buffing epics for every crusaders when they introduced her. An epic DPS item gives +400%, always. Items are consistent, if you notice: they all do the exact same thing, with the exact same numerical values at a given rarity, regardless of the crusader they are assigned to. There is absolutely no reason to make an exception for a particular crusader, just because you spent a ton of money on it.

Personally I think that any crusader with a signature skill that is a buff should be considered a buffer. The only reason why she deals the most damage for you is that you spent money to boost her EPs. But since the event is over, and you will see it again no sooner than one year from now, she will fall behind on EPs compared to classic crusaders. The talent shop may change that, but at the moment no event crusader can be a viable DPSer. They can work for a while, expecially if you started playing recently or if you spend A LOT of money on them, but eventually they will always lag behind. Her skills will not matter, in 6 months her damage will be less than what you will get from other crusaders (like Natalie, thanks to recent buffs). I strongly suggest that you move on and change formation, like many people did more than once since they started playing, instead of asking for buffs to the particular crusader you are using right now.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone feel so maliciously attacked based on a buff.

Being in beta is no excuse for everything. In the end of the day, the game is to make profit and losing customer trust doesn't help achieve that.

I feel cheated for getting 3 epics on Pam, especially the two DPS epics. At the very least, I think either buff Pam's dps or change her two DPS epics to something else.

Loot, how the heck are you getting more damage on natalie (with only rares) than sarah with the golden epic? Natalie is a mediocre dpser even with the new buffs as she is missing 1 damage item, and certainly no match for sarah.

Personally I think the updates are great, and even though the best dpsers remain pretty much the same, there is now more freedom to use other crusaders as dps, not to mention the changes in hero roles (ninja is no longer useless!) which will enable more interesting missions and gameplay.

I like and agree with most of the changes. It's nice to see so many formerly useless items suddenly become so useful! So many crusaders I barely touched before have good uses now! Although I feel like almost all of these changes are great, I feel I should give a tiny bit of feedback too on the tiny bit I don't quite agree with:

-With the massive buffs to Natalie and Sal, Emo and Hermit's conditional buffs seem kind of weak considering the trouble they take to achieve, especially since they often involve not using powerful buffers like Sasha, Jim, or Pam, depending on the formation (or leaving a slot empty). Natalie and Sal's conditional buffs merely involve having a specific crusader on the field anywhere to buff them (and a little bit of gear to raise the buff % doesn't hurt). For example, right now my Sal has a 26437.5X vs Hermit's 24360X despite having worse gear and fewer EP! Plus I can use Sasha and Pam with him without any effort. There's still base damage to take into account so I need to do a few more calculations, but it's not looking too good for Hermit in most formations right now. I haven't done the math on Natalie yet, but she might potentially be in a similar situation.

-I will use Phoenix even less now than before due to the RNG. With the increase in tanks this patch, I was expecting her to be a tank with a built-in self-heal with that nice 100% chance of burst damage if something managed to take her out. Now I have no idea where to make her fit in. She would be overpowered if she could do her damage spike 100% of the time from the back row whenever someone died now that it's not limited to her death only, but I feel that she's lost her 100% emergency damage niche in exchange for now primarily being useful in RNG cheese strategies where people simply repeat waves until RNG lets her kill everything. She just seems confused and broken now, especially since she still retains a lot of her DPS skills which are pretty worthless considering she now lacks DPS gear.

-I love the changes to Simba's Pride, but I'm dissapointed that Gold-o-Rama didn't receive a similar passive buff. There are two reasons I almost never use Gold-o-Rama. 1) I'm rarely ever able to click enemies before they die because 99% of the time they die instantly. Even in deep runs where enemies don't die instantly, I can still rarely click them enough to make much difference without putting my party in danger. It's a bit better now with the tank/healer buffs though. 2) Clicking a lot, especially with Gold-o-Rama active simply lags my game tremendously. It's a lot better since your optimizations a few patches ago, but I still don't see myself ever using Gold-o-Rama, even with these changes.

-There's a typo, I think. Frog Soup is only healing 30% even though I have the rare. (patch notes say 35%)

Sorry for the bit of a downer. I really like the majority of the changes this patch and love seeing this game develop! It's really all coming together very nicely!