November 2024 Balance Update — Details & Release Notes ⚖️

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Note: This balance change is planned go live on 2024-11-18T08:30:00Z

Full details of the changes are as follows:

Hero Family and/or individual Hero buffs

Owl Family

Moonrise Strikes now always hit their targets

  • Affected Heroes:
    • Legendary
      • Timius
      • Ommodus
      • Verus
      • Lodius
      • Cennius
      • Eron
      • Fulvia
    • Epic
      • Juliani
      • Olbec
    • Rare
      • Featherino

Winter Family

  • Costume bonus updated
    • OLD: +22% attack/+20% defense/+ 25% health/+5% Mana Bonus
    • NEW: +35% attack/+35% defense/+ 35% health/+5% Mana Bonus

Defenders of Atlantis, Nightmares of Atlantis Families

  • Costume now unlocks a Passive Skill: Resist Insanity

Faun Family

  • New Family Bonus effect: Increased damage against Minions
  • Affected Heroes:
    • Legendary
      • Peregrine
      • Tamlin
      • Verity
      • Araminta
      • Ysabel
    • Rare
      • Saskia

Villain Family

  • New Family Bonus effect: Increased damage against Minions
  • Affected Heroes:
    • Legendary
      • Dark Lord
      • Toxicandra
      • Crystalis
      • Asterius
      • Isrod
      • Karnov
    • Epic
      • Ingolf
      • Sanngrior
    • Rare
      • Edd
      • Skrekok

November HOTMs

Thoth-Amun

  • Direct damage increased: 280% → 310%
  • Undead Minion
    • Inherited HP increased: 25% → 30%
    • Inherited attack increased: 15% → 20%

Thoth-Amun (Costume)

  • Direct damage increased: 300% → 330%
  • Undead Minion
    • Inherited HP increased: 22% → 27%
    • Inherited attack increased: 22% → 27%

Zimkitha

  • Direct damage increased: 155% → 185%
  • Attack buff increased: 25% → 30%

Zimkitha (Costume)

  • Direct damage increased
    • Base damage: 180% → 210%
    • Max damage: 360% → 390%

Glenda

  • Direct damage increased: 270% → 300%

Balbar

  • Direct damage increased: 300% → 320%

Morax

  • Direct damage increased: 400% → 430%
  • Max health reduction buffed: 400 → 600 HP

Neema

  • Direct damage increased: 220% → 250%

New Passive Skills

New Passive Skill: Resist Status Effect Damage

  • Grants the hero inherent resistance to incoming damage from status effects
  • Added for the Slayer family, replacing Status Ailment Damage Reduction
    • Legendary
      • Cathal
      • Saoirse
      • Rian
      • Caitlín
      • Senan
    • Epic
      • Orla
      • Cillian
      • Aodhan
    • Rare
      • Noril
      • Maeve
  • Added for various heroes from Challenge Festival I
    • Tweedles
    • Black Caesar
    • Guardian Elephant
    • Cinderella

New Passive Skill: Reduce Minion Health

  • Reduces the inherited Health of all enemy Minions by -50%
  • Added for newer members of the Ninja family; replaces old Resist Negative Minion Effects Passive Skill
    • Legendary
      • Tora
      • Iga
      • Chikao
      • Umeko
      • Malum
    • Epic
      • Osamu
  • Added for the Styx family
    • Legendary
      • Hypnos
      • Nyx
      • Erebus
      • Thanatos
      • Charon
      • Amphitrite
      • Nemesis
    • Epic
      • Arges
      • Brontes
      • Steropes
    • Rare
      • Dante
      • Virgil

Construct family

  • Additional Passive Skill added: Resist Special Blocking
  • Affected Heroes:
    • Legendary
      • Ferrus
      • Haulstone
      • Ghealach
      • Blossom
      • Brimstone
      • Shacklebolt
      • Scath
      • Shaal
      • Frond
      • Nautica
      • Hornfel
      • Tenebrae
      • Rhineglow
      • Carta
      • Scoria
      • Skarn
      • Gwynn
    • Epic
      • Bonechill
    • Rare
      • Rustbeak

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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!

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