October 2024 Balance Update — Details & Release Notes ⚖️

Note: This balance change is planned go live on 2024-10-21, 10:30 UTC.

Full details of the changes are as follows:

Hero Family and/or individual Hero buffs

Faun family

Peregrine, Verity, Tamlin

  • Enhanced effects buffed: the effects can no longer be stolen, lifted or copied

Saskia

  • Passive skill buffed

Slayer family

  • Stacks buffed in family bonus and special skills
    • Heal over time: 10 → 15 HP per stack
    • Mana generation buff: +5% → +6% per stack

Affected Heroes:

  • Legendary
    • Cathal
    • Saoirse
    • Rian
    • Caitlín
    • Senan
  • Epic
    • Orla
    • Cillian
    • Aodhan
  • Rare
    • Noril
    • Maeve

Ninja family

Tora

  • Class changed: Ranger → Barbarian
  • Health stat increased: 1648 → 1728

Malum

  • Health stat increased: 1493 → 1530
  • Max health reduction buffed
    • x1 Mana Charge: 400 → 500 HP
    • x2 Mana Charge: 500 → 650 HP
    • x3 Mana Charge: 600 → 800 HP
  • Damage inflicted on enemy heal increased
    • x3 Mana Charge: 350 → 450 damage

Chikao

  • Health stat increased: 1627 → 1726

Iga

  • Health stat increased: 1639 → 1720

Nomad

  • Health stat increased: 1664 → 1763

Garrison Guard family

Dima

  • Defense stat increased: 1083 → 1097
  • Direct damage increased: 350% → 400%
  • Defense ailment buffed: -20% → -25%

October HOTMs

Alberich

  • Heal over time increased: 612 → 712 HP over 4 turns
    Alberich (Costume)

  • Heal over time increased: 548 → 648 HP over 4 turns

Aegir

  • Duration of buffs increased: 3 → 4 turns
    • Excludes duration of Element Link

Aegir (Costume)

  • Duration of buffs increased: 3 → 4 turns
    • Excludes duration of Element Link
    • Heal over time increased: 549 HP over 3 turns → 732 HP over 4 turns

Russell

  • Direct damage increased: 350% → 400%
  • Burn damage increased: 264 → 381 damage over 3 turns

Celidana

  • Direct health boost increased: 800 → 1000 HP

Uthragan

  • Poison damage increased: 573 → 711 damage over 3 turns


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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