May 2025 Balance Update — Details & Release Notes ⚖

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Note: This balance change is planned go live by 2025-05-15T12:00:00Z

Full details of the changes are as follows:

Astral Dwarfs

Family Bonus

  • Chance to dispel a random buff from all enemies at the end of each turn increased: 20%/25% → 25%/50%

Maegwyn

  • Boosted HP regen increased: 600 → 800
  • Damage reduction increased for all allies: -30% → -40%

Ixinn

  • Direct damage increased: 510% → 530%
  • Wither increased: -400 → -450

Vard

  • Direct damage increased: 450% → 470%
  • Mana generation debuff value increased: -30% → -35%

Salniss

  • Direct damage increased: 460% → 500%
  • Damage to a random enemy increased: 460% → 500%

Quari

  • Direct damage increased: 435% → 450%

Moths

Family Bonus

  • Increased mana generation debuff value for Moth Dust -10% → -30%
  • Increased damage received value when asleep +60% → +80%

Passive Skill: Dodge Special Damage

  • Dodge chance increased: 10% → 15%
  • Affected Heroes:
    • All Heroes of the Moth family
    • Ithar

Pepperbleu

  • Direct damage increased: 400% → 450%

Chunkyroi

  • Direct heal increased: 40% → 45%
  • Mana generation buff value increased: 24% → 30%

Mortewitch

  • Heal for all allies based on damage dealt increased: 30% → 40%
  • Damage of Mega Fiend increased: 250% → 270%

Satinpimenter

  • Toxin damage increased over 4 turns: 540 → 612

Grovevert

  • Mega Fiend damage increased: 260% → 275%

Woodland Fauns

Family Bonus

  • Mana gained from resisting mana reduction and mana generation debuff increased: 5% → 15%

Isidore

  • Direct damage increased: 300% → 350%

Gideon

  • Defense buff value increased: +50% → +60%

Ascian

  • Direct damage increased: 240% → 270%
  • Mana reduction after enhanced defense ailment ends or is removed or replaced: -10% → -15%
  • All allies’ mana gain increased after 2 turns: 10% → 15%

Ysabel

  • Direct damage increased: 525% → 535%
  • Enhanced defense ailment value increased: -50% → -64%

Tamlin

  • Direct damage increased: 450% → 460%

Maud

  • Damage to all other enemies increased: 260% → 280%

Verity

  • Direct damage increased: 320% → 350%

Peregrine

  • Direct damage increased: 440% → 450%

Yolanda

  • Bleed damage increased after Enhanced Dodge ends or is removed or replaced: 483 → 765

Bramble

  • Mana gain increased for allies after 3 turns or immediately if the effect is removed before the duration ends: 20% → 25%

Nidavellir & Myrkheim Realms

Passive Skill: Molten Core

  • Corrosive Burn damage increased
  • Defense reduction buffed: -10% → -12%
  • Affects all Heroes of the Nidavellir Realm

Passive Skill: Arctic Core

  • Corrosive Frost damage increased
  • Attack reduction buffed: -10% → -15%
  • Affects all Heroes of the Myrkheim Realm

Dularfulr

  • Firestorm Ward damage reduction buffed: max -1200 → -1300

Regin

  • Firestorm Strike damage increased: max 1900 → 2000

Hreidmarr

  • Firestorm Strike damage increased: max 2100 → 2200
  • Duration of status effects increased: 4 → 5 turns

Dagr

  • Firestorm Strike damage increased: max 1400 → 1500
  • Damage increase from Burn and Poison buffed: +45% → +50%

Ott

  • Firestorm Ward damage reduction buffed: max -1000 → -1100

Gandr

  • Firestorm Strike damage increased: max 2000 → 2200
  • Health recovered per damage dealt increased: 25% → 30%
  • Counterattack damage increased: 60% → 65%

Högne

  • Frostfall Strike damage increased: max 2200 → 2300
  • Max health reduction buffed: 700 → 800 HP
  • Healing decrease ailment buffed: -60% → -70%

Aethslegaur

  • Firestorm Strike damage increased: max 3000 → 4000
  • Duration of dodge buff increased: 4 → 5 turns
  • Duration of Mark of Immolation increased: 3 → 5 turns

Andvari

  • Firestorm Ward damage reduction buffed: max -1200 → -1300

Beowulf family

Passive Skill: Stacking Attack on Damage Received

  • Attack buff per stack increased: +25% → +30%

Passive Skill: Empowered Resist Mana Reductions

  • Health boost per resist increased: 450 → 600 HP
  • Mana gain per resist increased: 5% → 10%

Status effect: Status Effect Generator

  • Renamed to “Source of Ailments” and “Source of Buffs” for ailment and buff giving variations of the effect respectively
  • The effects are no longer fully undispellable. Instead, attempted dispels shorten the duration of the effect by 1 turn.
  • Affected Heroes:
    • Legendary
      • Hrothgar
      • Wealhtheow
      • Modthryth
    • Epic
      • Aeschere
    • Rare
      • Unferth

Hrothgar

  • Direct damage increased: 310% → 340%

Wealtheow

  • Health boost over time increased: 1050 → 1320 HP over 3 turns

Modthryth

  • Counterattack damage increased: 130% → 135%

Aeschere

  • Heal over time increased: 480 → 600 HP over 4 turns

Unferth

  • Max direct damage increased: 275% → 300%

Slime family

Status effect: Slime Revive

  • Time to revive in Slime form shortened: 3 → 2 turns
  • Slime Slap direct damage increased: 290% → 350%
  • Affected Heroes:
    • Gunktus
    • Gooric
    • Goorian

Charmione

  • The Special Skill now deals direct damage
    • NEW: Deals 400% damage to the target and nearby enemies.

Knightus

  • Holy enemies now receive reduced defense against Dark
    • NEW: All Holy enemies get -34% defense against Dark for 3 turns.

Gunktus

  • Direct damage increased: 520% → 535%

Fungustine

  • Direct health boost increased: 1000 → 1250
  • Defense buff increased: +25% → +30%

Gooldron

  • Direct damage increased: 355% → 385%
  • Slime Fiend
    • Amount of healing absorbed increased: 35% → 40%
    • Attack increased: 38% → 50%

Slimgo

  • Direct damage increased: 260% → 270%
  • Water damage increased: 483 → 627 damage over 3 turns
  • Mana generation ailment buffed: -30% → -35%

Mucktus

  • Direct damage increased: 260% → 290%
  • Slime Fiend
    • Inherited HP increased: 10% → 40%
    • Inherited attack increased: 28% → 50%

Gooric

  • Duration of status effects increased: 4 → 5 turns
  • Added mana generation buff
    • NEW: All allies get +44% mana generation for 5 turns.

Goorian

  • Direct damage increased: 450% → 480%
  • Defense ailment buffed: min -35% → -40%, max -60%

Magic Carpet family

Passive Skill: Flight Momentum

  • Mana generation buff increased: max +30% → +35%
  • Dodge buff increased: max +20% → +25%

Replacement effects

  • Ailments buffed: -35% → -40%
  • Buffs increased: +35% → +40%

Naeem

  • Direct damage increased: 300% → 330%
  • Counterattack damage increased: 135% → 145%
  • Sand Touch
    • Sand damage increased: 356 → 452 damage over 4 turns

Elyssa

  • Direct heal increased: 42% → 50%

Defenders & Nightmares of Atlantis families

Ultrox

  • Stats increased:
    • Attack: 978 → 986
    • Defense: 879 → 887
    • Health: 1643 → 1668

Gelert

  • Stats increased:
    • Attack: 997 → 1001
    • Defense: 848 → 852
    • Health: 1707 → 1720

Heroes of the Month

Alasie

  • Direct damage increased: 492% → 542%

Alasie (Costume)

  • Direct damage increased: 466% → 496%

Yang Mai

  • Direct damage increased: 340% → 370%

Suzuna

  • Heal over time increased: 750 → 855 HP over 3 turns

Bo & Runt

  • Direct damage increased
    • Base damage: 400% → 450%
    • Max damage: 600% → 650%
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Estimated time updated.

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The balance changes are now live! They’re a bit later than we originally announced because a separate backend update also needed to be applied and it was better for game stability to wait and deploy both in a single refresh.

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Edit: The original posting was missing information about changes to family bonus for Astral Dwarves, Moths, and Woodland Fauns

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Some additional balance changes have been applied, now that Version 77 has been forced.

Astral Dwarf family

Passive skills: Resist Negative Minion Effects & Bypass Minions

  • Now applies to Mega Minions as well

Beowulf family

Passive Skill: Heal When Status Ailment Expires or is Cleansed

  • Heal increased:
    • Hrothgar: 10% → 15%
    • Wealtheow: 5% → 10%

NOTE: Hrothgar and Wealhtheow will keep their original passive skill and will not receive the passive skill granted to newer members of the Beowulf Family. In Hrothgar’s case in particular, such a change would effectively make him a counter to himself.

Gooric’s Slime Revive

Gooric needed an extra push to update his revive status effect. The previously announced change to the turn count is now live.

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