Note: This balance change is planned go live on 2024-12-16T12:00:00Z
Full details of the changes are as follows:
Hero Family and/or individual Hero buffs
Raven Family
- The bonus is now active with only 1 family member in team
- OLD: For 2/3 members, 35%/50% chance to make a cast ailment uncleansable.
- NEW: For 1/2/3 members, 20%/35%/50% chance to make a cast ailment uncleansable.
Wolf Family
- The bonus is now active with only 1 family member in team
- OLD: For 2/3 members, 35%/50% chance to make a cast buff undispellable.
- NEW: For 1/2/3 members, 20%/35%/50% chance to make a cast buff undispellable.
Quenell
- Heal over time added
- NEW: The caster regenerates ~600 HP over 3 turns.
Wolfgang
- Delayed health boost replaced with health boost over time
- OLD: After 4 turns, the caster boosts health of all allies by 600.
- NEW: All allies regenerate 720 boosted health over 4 turns.
Classic and Winter family Costume Bonuses
- Changed costume bonus increase per ascension level to be more linear for Classic and Winter families (this buffs costume bonuses that are non-maxed but above level 1)
Regin
- Stats increased
- Attack: 1149 → 1157
- Defense: 1108 → 1116
- Health: 2088 → 2113
Ott
- Stats increased
- Attack: 1095 → 1106
- Defense: 1149 → 1159
- Health: 2125 → 2156
Gandr
- Stats increased
- Attack: 1133 → 1143
- Defense: 1126 → 1137
- Health: 2078 → 2109
Dularfulr
- Direct heal added
- NEW: Recovers 30% health for all allies.
- Firestorm Ward damage reduction increased: up to -820 → -1200 damage
Gunktus
- Stats increased
- Attack: 1126 → 1190
- Defense: 1069 → 1133
- Health: 1771 → 1963
Swiftpaw
- Direct damage increased: 480% → 540%
December HOTMs
Perseus
- Direct damage increased: 405% → 455%
Perseus (Costume)
- Direct damage increased: 355% → 405%
Evelyn
- Direct damage increased: 260% → 290%
Evelyn (Costume)
- Direct damage increased: 250% → 280%
Grimble
- Direct damage increased: 285% → 315%
Hanitra
- Health boost on dodge increased: 375 → 425 HP
Balur
- Direct damage increased: 500% → 530%
- Bleed damage increased: 402 → 519 damage over 3 turns
Leadria
- Special Skill damage buff increased: +20% → +25%
Mechanic update
Corrosive effects updated
- All Corrosive effects now deal extra damage against Minions and Mega Minions (previously only the Corrosive Burn of the Nidavellir Realm Heroes did so)
- Affected Heroes:
- Legendary
- Asterius
- Atlanteia
- Atlanteia (Costume)
- Crystalis
- Dark Lord
- Dark Lord (Costume)
- Domiventus
- Domiventus (Costume)
- Ferrus
- Gwynn
- Jabberwock (Costume)
- Persa
- Persa (Costume)
- Rumpelstiltskin (Costume)
- Scoria
- Skarn
- Tenebrae
- Epic
- Ingolf
- Legendary
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We hope the adjustments above will help you field these Heroes in a wider range of situations. If you feel that your favorite Hero could really use a buff, please remember to let us know here on our Community Forum.
As always, we will continue to keep an eye on all Heroes affected by this update in case further adjustments become necessary. Please refer to our Hero Balancing FAQ for why we occasionally make post-release balance adjustments. If you wish to share your feedback and discuss this update with fellow players, please feel free to join the discussion here.
Thank you for your continued interest and support. Best of luck in the battles!
Note: Corrosive Effects changes will be applied separately later this week! We’ll update this announcement once they are live.