Blox Fruits Empyrean Release Timeline: from Holiday Updates to Summer Balance Patches
The unchecked dominance of the holiday release made balance interventions inevitable. Duelists on private practice servers documented that the weapon's secondary slash registered damage well outside its visual swing arc. Phantom hitboxes rewarded mistimed swings, sparking fierce debates across community Discords and competitive forums.
Developers addressed these anomalies directly in the August competitive patch. Hitbox volumes were aligned cleanly with visual particle effects, reducing horizontal strike forgiveness by nearly 18%. Simultaneously, the tuning team targeted raw output:
Damage multiplier adjustments trimmed down the weapon's extreme ceiling, particularly when stacked alongside hybrid stat builds. Scalings that previously spiked past 4,200 damage in single-string hits dropped to modest ceilings around 3,650 to 3,750. This modification prevents players from securing two-shot eliminations without landing fully committed combo setups.
