Update 1.13

Welcome to update 1.13, brave adventurers! We’ve got an exciting mix of things for you this month - with both new clan features, a much requested gear option, and more live events rolling out over the month.

The month’s big event is Creatures of the Dark, which will play out over two weekends - October 10-11 and October 24-25 - so get ready for things that go bump in the night as we head into the Halloween month! There will be chances to win heroes, spells, and gear during the events, so polish your armor and sharpen your swords!

We will also be testing the first “mini events” this month. These are smaller challenges that play out over a day or two and give you a chance to earn some extra rewards during the month.

Finally, we’re rolling out a lot of small balancing changes, listed in the notes below. If this removes or reorders any of your heroes’ current skills, we will repay you the essence so you can reinvest it as you best see fit.

More information to come, so stay tuned at: https://discord.gg/darkfireheroes

What’s New!

• New live event: Creatures of the Dark, playing out over two weekends
• Two new heroes
• Vargr - Rare, Earth, Damage dealer
• Methus - Epic, Dark, Tank
• New spell
• Surge - Epic
• 2 new pieces of epic gear
• New campaign levels and side quest
• Travel to The Darkfire Citadel, the fortress of the Darkfire Cult, and stand face to face with its horrible masters as you battle your way through the stronghold’s halls.
• Multi-salvage gear
• Use the new multi-salvage gear function to quickly turn multiple gear items into shards. This makes gear management a lot easier!
• Battle history
• Rewatch your arena battles through the new battle history feature.
• Share loadouts and replays
• Want to show your clan your optimal loadout? Or your best battle? Now you can share them in the clan chat!
• Friendly battles
• Challenge your clanmates to friendly battles, and settle who is the best in the arena.

Balance Changes

Heroes

• Adaline
• Changes to X-Bow Specialist Critical Hit Chance bonus from skill has been lowered
• New skill: Elite Assassin /  Replaces Assassin
• Aleon
• New skill: Improved Spellbreaker / Replaces Spellbreaker
• Bjor
• New skill: Extra Durable / Replaces Durable
• Carmyn: 
• New skill: Improved Focus / Replaces Focus
• New skill: Elite Precision / Replaces Precision
• Dagmyr
• New Skill: Extra Durable / Replaces Durable
• Updated skill tree: Valkyrie Wrath, Precision, Extra Durable, Sharpen Blades
• Ehiro 
• New skill: Expert Assassin / Replaces Assassin
• Emani
• New skill: Improved Spellbreaker / Spellbreaker
• Fena
• New skill: Improved Spellbreaker / Spellbreaker
• Hagin
• Base damage increased from 14 to 16
• Updated Skill: Frost Axe, new Freeze duration increased 1 second at all ranks to 2s / 3s / 4s
• New skill: Extra Resilient / Replaces Resilient
• Herlin
• Hero power charge time improved from 25 seconds to 19 seconds
• Hero Power self heal increased from 19% to 25% of Witch form Health
• Skill 1 - Weaken Curse, changed to:
• Chance to apply Weaken 25%, 50%, 100%
• Weaken lasts 4 seconds, but is affected by targets Protection
• Skill 3 - NEW SKILL, Jinxed
• When an enemy is Dazed she shoots a projectile at the enemy. 
• The projectile deals magic damage and Weakens all enemies in a small area around the target.
• Base dmg 5 / 10 / 15, base Weaken 4s / 6s / 8s. Cooldown 1 second.
• Skill 4 - Dire Transform, increased trigger amounts from 1/2/3 to 2/4/6 times per level. Triggers when Herlin is dropped below 20% Health, instead of 15%.

• Josse
• New skill: Improved Parry / Replaces Parry
• Lïnx
• New skill: Expert Assassin / Replaces Assassin
• Lirs
• New skill: Expert Assassin / Replaces Assassin
• Lyc
• Skill change: Heroism, defense bonus from Heroism has been lowered.
• Marthe
• New skill:  Improved Parry / Replaces Parry
• Otho
• New skill: Improved Power Attack / Replaces Power Attack
• Salva
• New skill: Expert Assassin / Replaces Assassin
• Tonio
  improved base stats, improved skill Bully
• Base Damage up from 36 to 42 dmg
• Base Health up from 297 to 340
• Base Protection up from 13 to 40
• Attack Speed slowed down from 2.0 to 2.2
• Skill: Bully, improved damage 
• Uälth
• New skill: Extra Durable / Replaces Durable
• Yera
• New skill: Improved Focus / Replaces Focus
• Ylga
• New skill: Extra Resilient / Replaces Resilient
• Zao
• New skill: Improved Resistance / Replaces Resistance

Skills

Major update to “general skills” - general skills such as Durable or Power Attack now exists in 3 tiers ex. Assassin, Expert Assassin, Elite Assassin depending on what skill slot the skill is placed in. This is done to reflect the increased cost of getting the skills in the higher slots. 

Affected heroes: 

• Upgrade to Veteran 2 = Lyang
• Upgrade to Parry 2 = Marthe, Josse
• Upgrade to Focus 2 = Carmyn, Yera
• Upgrade to Precision 3 = Carmyn
• Upgrade to Assassin 2 = Ehiro, Lïnx, Lirs, Salva
• Upgrade to Assassin 3 = Adaline 
• Upgrade to Durable 2 = Uälth, Bjor
• Upgrade to Durable 3 = Dagmyr
• Upgrade to Spellbreaker 2 = Fena, Aleon, Emani
• Upgrade to Resilient 2 = Hagin, Ylga
• Upgrade to Power Attack 2 = Otho
• Upgrade to Resistance 2 = Zao

• Bully, increased base attack bonus to +15 / +30 / +45 from +10 / +20 / +30. Damage bonus applies to both auto-attack and hero power.
• Affects: Tonio
• Fierce, changed stats to make it more in line with current skill power progression.
• Reduced Rank 3 Crit Chance bonus to 15pp from 25pp 
• Increased damage for Rank 2 (from 75pp to 100pp) and Rank 3 (100pp to 150pp)
• Affects: Bjor, Tonio
• Frost Axe, increased Freeze duration by +1 second at all ranks to 2 / 3 / 4 seconds. 
• Affects: Hagin
• Improved Tactics, changed stats to reflect it is a start skill (skill 1)
• Damage will now increase 3% / 6% / 10%. 
• Defense will now increase 5% / 10% / 15%.
• Affects: Lyang
• Heroism, general bonuses from the skill is WAY higher than any other skill. Decreasing stat gain to get more in line with other skills.
• Defense / Protect bonus 30% / 60% / 90%
• Affects: Lyc
• X-Bow Specialist
• Reduced bonus to Critical Hit Chance to 1% / 2% / 3% per ranged attack type hero.
• Affects: Adaline

NEW SKILLS:

• Elite Assassin
• Increase Critical Hit Damage by 200pp / 300pp / 400pp
• Affects: Adaline
• Elite Precision
• Increase Critical Hit Chance by 4pp / 6pp / 8pp
• Affects: Carmyn
• Expert Assassin
• Increase Critical Hit Damage by 150pp / 250pp / 350pp
• Affects: Ehiro, Lïnx, Lirs, Salva
• Extra Durable
• Bonus to Health +75 / + 150 / +225
• Affects: Uälth, Bjor, Dagmyr
• Extra Resilient
• Bonus to Defense and Protection +45 / +90 / +135
• Affects: Hagin, Ylga
• Improved Focus
• Bonus to auto-attack Damage +7 / +15 / +22
• Affects: Carmyn, Yera
• Improved Parry
• Bonus to Defense +60 / +120 / +180
• Affects. Josse, Marthe
• Improved Power Attack
• Increase auto-attack Damage by 15% / 25% / 35%
• Affects: Otho
• Improved Resistance
• Bonus to Protection +37 / +75 / +150
• Affects: Zao
• Improved Spellbreaker
• Increase Protection by 15% / 25% / 35%
• Affects: Aleon, Emani
• Jinxed
• When an enemy is Dazed she shoots a projectile at the enemy. 
• The projectile deals magic damage and Weakens all enemies in a small area around the target.
• Base dmg 5 / 10 / 15, base Weaken 4s / 6s / 8s. Cooldown 1 second.