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<\/a><\/p>\nFirst, the bloodbound and poolbound gem components: In the previously told version white and black gems affected only a part of the other colors, excluding slowing and chain hit entirely, with fears that they would go out of control. But this solution wasn’t too elegant, and to make the 3×3 gem button grid reflect the black-white gems’ affected components, the colors had to be mixed up, making the grid less pleasing to the eye altogether.
\nNow, both black and white can boost all other types (except each other). Why: modifications to the math behind how the actual slowing etc. values are calculated made it easier to prevent going out of control (it’s about having an indefinitely boostable raw value and using logarithm for calculating the actual value, which gives rapidly diminishing results after the “ideal” intended maximum value of the gem attribute is exceeded).<\/p>\n
Gems won’t have the hard cap of 3 on component abilities, but the more components a gem will have, the lower the “penalty multiplier” each abilities will get (for example, a pure gem will have its special ability at full power, dual gems have 70-70% power modifier, 5 component gems have 35% for each spec, etc).<\/p>\n
New feature: one click gem deployment – click on an empty tower\/trap\/amp to place the topmost gem in the inventory into it, without the drag-n-drop hassle.<\/p>\n
The increased versatility of amplifiers (namely, the ability to boost shrines) comes at a price: there will be a deployment time just like with towers and traps. This is to prevent “hit and run” amplifying shrines just for the moment of activation.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n