Update 1.27- The Wrath of Winter

Greetings Heroes, 

Update 1.27 is on the way. We're putting on the final touches and are planning for a release next week. Be sure to keep an eye on the Discord server for the most up-to-date communications! 


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In the frozen north, against all odds, grows a massive tree - known as the World Tree. It is a bringer of life and good, but the Shade Lords are looking to use it to spread corruption. Defend the World Tree in the year's final event The Wrath of Winter. It is not all grim though, Christmas cosmetics have found their way into the game too as well as new campaign levels, heroes, spells, and gear.

Hero Balancing

• Varnar, increased his ability to resist magic damage and made his hero power able to land critical hits as well as updated the way his Daze is applied.
• Increased base Protection from 137 to 155
• Daze base level up from 4s to 5.4s with +0.2s added for each level
• Boulder Throw can land critical hits
• Methus, doubled his hero powers max healing cap.
• See more notes on this in the hero power upgrade update. Basically, this stat has always been in the game but hasn’t been exposed until now. The value of this stat was doubled with the 1.27 update. 
• Raem, increased Dazed duration on his hero power
• Base increase from 3.4 seconds to 4.8 seconds
• Daze duration increase per level increased from 0.1 to 0.2
• Max lvl Daze duration 9.6 seconds

Spell Balancing

• Tempest, changed the rule that it can only hit a target once. 
• Tempest can now strike the same target up to 4 times.
• If you place it carefully over a static enemy you should be able to guarantee 4 lightning strikes hitting the target.

Skills Balancing

• None

Features

• Heroes always run for all game modes. 
• Previously they only did this in the campaign.
• We felt the increase in speed in between encounters only benefited the game
• The clan info description now has a profanity check.

New Event content:

• The Wrath of Winter part 1 + 2
• Master of Elements
• New mini event calendar
• Arena Bash frame - top 3 clans will win the Dec 17th Bash frames
• 2022 new years frame - players who get any placement on the 20 player solo leaderboard on the Jan 1st Bash will get the 2022 new year frame.

New Content:

• New Heroes
  • Fryg, a mystic healer that draws upon her connection with the World Tree to heal her allies. 
    
    
  • Airik, a massive warrior with great damage output and the ability to trap his opponents so there is nowhere to run!
    
    
• New Spell
  • Blizzard, chilling winds start to swirl. Enemies in the area take damage and receive the Chilled debuff. 
• New cosmetics
  • New player profile portraits, that can be won in the events
  • New player profile frames, that can be won in the events
• New Hero Power Upgrades
  • Support debuff: Ualth, Aleon, Makash, Raol, Dagmyr, Qus, Felipo, Riena, Ehiro, Vrimyra
  • Tanks: Otho, Ivon, Zan, Lyc, Sephine, Khaare, Cruzo, Raebert, Varnar, Ylga
  • Support summoners: Bezar, Eremy, Jendrik
  • Added new visual effect when an upgraded hero power is being used
• Update to the hero power inspect: Two stats, that were hidden previously, are now shown. They are not new stats that have been introduced, but during the hero power upgrade work, we realized they weren’t exposed and that they needed to be. The two updates are:
  • Max Healing - If there is a maximum amount of healing that can be gained from an attack that drains life it will now show. This should make it more clear to understand the mechanics of Ylga and Methus.
    Multiple areas of effect:
    • When there is a secondary area (like with Elen or Josse) it shows the shape of the area.
    • When the original projectile causes a side effect (like with Elen) this is now shown in the stats, but it wasn't before. 
      
      
• New areas
  • Psion Infested Village (amin quest)
  • Goblin Horde #10 (side quest)
• New gear
  • 4 epics, part of a 4 piece epic set the “World Tablets”
  • 2 rares
• Bestiary update
  • Updates and fixes to The Restless
  • New entries: The Bandits and The Trolls

Bug fixes 

• Fixed an issue where you couldn’t buy cards in shops when the hero was level 25. It was fixed by adding the option of buying cards for a hero even if it is at level 25 and the hero power isn’t rolled out yet. 
• It was added for those players who wanted to save up cards for a hero power upgrade that is yet to be implemented.
• Cards now show MAX LEVEL only when a hero is level 25 and its hero power have been upgraded to level 10
• Made a restriction to clan names to have a minimum requirement of 2 characters in the name in order to make them searchable.
• Fixed an issue where summoning heroes didn’t apply their unlock boost to their summoned units. 

PvP map cycle

Updated map cycle - the number in () denotes how many times during a week the map is featured.

• Castle Conquest maps: The Darkfire Citadel (1), Classic Arena (2), Two Towers (1), Sludge Towers (1), The Trial Grounds (1), The Hive (1)
• Hero Race maps: The Icy Pass (1), The Sludge Swamp (1), The Twin Castle Race (2), Blasted Woods (1), The Bandit Canyon (1), The Castle Hall (1)

Miscellaneous

• Updated store content.
• All campaign levels have received ambient audio.