Alliance: Heroes of the Spire

Bug fixes and backend changes.

Alliance War Season 5 kicks off September 19th!

Changes:
Each level of Stat Ascension now gives 2.5%, up from 1%
Shadow and Ethereal Basic Core Shards can now be fused into XP Wisp Core Shards and Ultimate XP Wisp Core Shards in the Material Lab.
New Artifact sets are available for Mythic Heroes! Some less desirable Artifact sets have been retired.

Fixes:
Devourer's Ascended skill, 'Gormandizer', now triggers correctly when receiving heals from allies.
Cultist's 'Staff of the Formless One' Artifact now correctly places 2 DoTs on a randomly chosen enemy.

New Hero Event: Unholy Onslaught, June 18th
The Void has invaded Fracture! Adherents to a dark faith and the fearsome Gorgons seek to corrupt the land! Recruit the powerful Slayer to hunt evil and bring peace to the Spire!

Alliance War Season 4 kicks off with a special War on June 20th!

Fixes:
• Damage Crit and Healing Crit stats are now properly counted in simplified stats

Recent Changes:
• Simplified stats on Hero Inspector screens.
• Commander Skills toggle option
• Capped replay file sizes to fix specific performance/stability issues
• Skills with Power stat reduction can no longer take Power below 100; skills with HP stat reduction can no longer take HP below 1

New Hero Event: Unholy Onslaught, June 18th
The Void has invaded Fracture! Adherents to a dark faith and the fearsome Gorgons seek to corrupt the land! Recruit the powerful Slayer to hunt evil and bring peace to the Spire!

Alliance War Season 4 kicks off with a special War on June 20th!

Additional Changes:
• Commander Skills toggle option
• Simplified stats on Hero Inspector screens
• Capped replay file sizes to fix specific performance/stability issues
• Skills with Power stat reduction can no longer take Power below 100; skills with HP stat reduction can no longer take HP below 1

Updated Alliance War Matchmaking for Alliance War Season 3!
Previously, you were matched with Alliances near you on the Leaderboard. Now, Alliances you are matched with will be more randomized among Alliances in your Tier.
Inactive Alliances who do not get queued into matchmaking will receive a Trophy loss equivalent to placing 3rd in an Alliance War.
Barracks and Hero select menus now open on the last viewed tab (Mortal/Spirit)
Debuff Extension abilities no longer extend Bombs and Death Sentence debuffs
“Rally” text now appears when a Hero does a Rally attack
Updated Requirement for Rank V Mythic Heroes: The required Rank II Legendary Hero can now be used at any level

Hero changes and fixes:
Tammy, the Water Winter Knight - 'Snowblossom' no longer reduces HP on Invincible enemies
Gunnr, the Order Enforcer - 'Imperium Avenger' no longer damages your team if an ally dies from Dread, cleansing Dread, or Damage Over Time effects

Updated Rank V Equipment Dungeon rewards:
Removed 1-star XP Wisps and increased Basic Core drops to compensate.
Shop Updates:
Update Shop layout
Rank XP Wisps added to Alliance Shop

Hero changes and fixes:
Priestess:
Artifact fix where it wasn’t dealing damage with all abilities

Cutpurse:
Chaos Cutpurse Artifact fix where her Artifact was not only duplicating the first stolen buff from her ‘Grand Theft’ skill

Treant:
Water Treant Artifact fix for ‘Thorn of Hate’ where its Aim Buff was not being applied due to the debuffs placed from the Artifact

Warchieftain:
Order Warchieftain ‘Warpath’ now grants 3 turns of invincibility, increased from 2

Improved performance on some devices.
Hero of the Day Artifact Cores:
Rank II and Rank IV Artifacts can now drop from Hero of the Day Artifact Cores!
Old
4_star_artifact = 70%
5_star_artifact = 27%
6_star_artifact = 3%
New
4_star_artifact = 62%
5_star_artifact = 27%
6_star_artifact = 7%
rank2_artifact = 3%
rank4_artifact = 1%

Angel of Mercys’ ‘Emergency Triage’ now grants Heal Buff for 2 turns
Constance, the Chaos Angel of Mercy AI priority fix on using ‘Emergency Triage’ as the first skill
Nara, the Nature Assassin AI now has a higher priority on her ‘Poison Dagger’
Bahamut, the Order Dragon ‘Heart of Light’ skill description clarification
Shadow Legendary Core Shards will be added to PotA reward rotations starting with January 2020
Ethereal Legendary Core Shards will be added to PotA reward rotations starting with February 2020

Fixed HP bar showing wrong amount after a Rally attack.
Cleaned up text formatting across all Hero Event descriptions
Fixed base Power stats on unascended Warlords to match ascended changes
Fixed VFX issues not playing for Shadow Widowmaker and Order Holiday Elf
Fixed Earthsingers’ third skill to properly extend Health Ward durations
Fixed Fire Unicorn’s 'Flames of Friendship' not properly resurrecting heroes
Fixed Shadow Pathfinder’s ‘Expedition’ not properly decreasing cooldowns to itself
Fixed Chaos Ferret Gearhead’s ‘Thunderous Assault’ debuffs being blockable
Updated Angel of Mercy’s ‘Emergency Triage’ text on debuff transformation for clarification
Updated missing Rank Info help text for Toy Soldier, Pathfinder, and Winter Knight
Updated all skill description text pertaining to lowest HP percentage sorting for clarification

Unicorn Balance Changes:
The Unicorn hero class has been updated to make them more competitive Mythic healers.

Alliance Conquest Update:
Conquest threshold numbers have been rebalanced in order to make some levels more attainable on the high end of the leaderboard.

Reflect Damage timing change:
Ferret Gearheads in Attack Mode should do damage in attack mode before reflect damage is applied that would force them to switch to Defense Mode.

Co-Op boss changing Oct 18th:
Co-Op Dungeon boss change coming soon.

Screen gestures deferring fixed.

Combat fixes:
Rank V experience and gold mods now work outside of leader skill.
Death shield now checks on application.
Fix dread and plague to match DoT damagetype properties.
Content:
Elemental Extreme Hero Event
Festival of Nature
Time Trap Hero Event

Dungeon Event: The Elemental Nexus
Hero Event: Ashes to Ashes (Monk, Succubus, Lich)

Equipment Set Updates
With R4 Equipment and Jewel levels released, some of the current set bonuses have begun to feel a bit less impactful. We want to ensure meaningful choices when players choose which equipment to use. Updates include both increased stat bonuses and new secondary effects where needed.

2-Piece Sets
Bloodstone: 20% Lifesteal, 20% Healing Received, up from 15% Lifesteal, 10% Healing Received
Wraithbone: 50% HP, up from 35% HP
Dragonfury: 50% Power, up from 35% Power
Icesteel: 50% Armor, up from 30% Armor
Elderthorn: 35% Crit, up from 25% Crit
Sunshield: 50% Block, 7% Reflect on Block, up from 25% Block
Voidleather: 65% Aim, 10% Armor Ignore, up from 45% Aim
Ghostveil: 35% Crit Resist, 10% Block, up from 25% Crit Resist, Block stat added
Duskshroud: 35% Speed Bar Drain Resist, 15% HP/Armor, up from 10% HP/Armor

4-Piece Sets
Ironclaw: 30% Stacking Chance to Counterattack, 25% HP/Armor, up from 15% HP/Armor
Swiftsteel: No change
Wartech: 50% of Critical Hits will Supercrit, +50% Power, up from 15% Power
Witchstone: Witchstone Buff/Debuffs, +30% Aim/Block, up from 25% Aim/Block
Lifesilk: No change
Titanguard: 30% Party Damage Taken, +25% Damage Reduction from all sources, When another ally takes dmg they have a 20% chance to be shielded for 20% of your max HP for 1 turn. +5% chance increase on fail. Chance reset to 20% on success. Secondary shield effect added.
Bulwark of Shadows: 30% HP, 20% Block (Block has replaced Crit Resist), 20% chance to give yourself Evasion for 2 turns. +5% chance increase on fail. Chance reset to 20% on success. Secondary effect changed from Shield to Evasion
Garb of Madness: Deal 100% of Power as damage on Debuff, +65% Aim. 20% chance to increase random enemy debuff for 1 turn. Debuff extend chance occurs when you attack an enemy, on the enemy you targeted.Debuff extend ignores Aim/Block. Secondary effect added.

Improved Guard AI
Plague and Dread can no longer be reflected
Increased Plague and Dread effectiveness against bosses with DoT protection
Bonus gold from VIP and events are now shown in raid results
Fixed a bug where Deathshield can be bypassed
Fixed rotated camera issue in visualized battles

Campaign Updates Continue the fight against Vortryn and his minions in two new campaign difficulties; Grandmaster and Nightmare! Defeat all the nodes in a region to earn rewards and access each new difficulty from the dropdown. New campaign updates include increased energy costs Grandmaster - 7 Energy Nightmare - 10 Energy Benefits include: Increased combat challenge More XP for leveling heroes Increased value of festival drops Grandmaster - 4 Nightmare - 6 Quests for completing each region Upcoming Content (03/14-03/20) Hero Event: Breaker of Blades featuring the all new Fencer, Cultist, and War Chieftain! (03/21-03/27) Hero Event: Tides of War returns, featuring the Cyclops, Winged Herald, and Tactician! (03/28-04/03) Hero Event: Colosseum of Worlds returns, featuring the Free Blade, Nekojin Warrior, and Gunslinger! (03/07-03/20) Lost Dungeon: The Lady of Flames - Battle the Lady of Flames and her consorts for artifacts and Swiftsteel equipment. Be sure to bring a resurrection Skill to the battle, because not everyone will survive this fight! Earn a top spot on the Lost Dungeon Leaderboard for special Artifact rewards. (03/11-03/24) Spring All-Stars Event: Spring All-Stars has begun, showcasing the strongest and most popular heroes across the world! (04/01-04/10) Spring Faction Feud: The Faction Feud draws near. Who's side are you on? Will you join the Voidspawn legion, the Nomad tribes, the Mechborn builders, the Enlightened masters, or the Imperium army? Bug Fixes Fixed Advanced Stats & the Hero Inspector to correctly show Debuffs and negative values Fixed mismatched Power and Armor stat totals between Advanced Stats and the Hero Inspector Optimizations for auto battles to avoid cases of battles taking too long Fixed cases of the Action Camera getting stuck Skills with Debuff transfers, Buff steals, and Debuff spread will now use a Aim & Block to determine success chances. Some Heroes that are not innately dependent on Aim have received skill changes to make these effects become Unblockable. Fixed Dungeon Bosses having double Enrage abilities Fixed Blighted Dragon Artifact granting an extra Decay duration Fixed various Dungeon Bosses not enraging properly Fixed various enemies enraging early from skills granting cooldown reductions and cooldown resets Fixed Chaos Assassin’s ‘Smoke Bomb’ skill description Chaos Skeletons have been added to the Item Drop List for Chaos Elemental Temples Fixed Nature Valorborn Champion’s ‘Healing Reflection’ not triggering on non-direct healing sources Fixed Sacred Wolves’ second skill triggering their respective secondary effects and ignoring their target’s Speed stat Fixed Ethereal and Shadow Werewolves’ third skill triggering their respective secondary effects and ignoring their target’s Speed stat Fixed Ghostveil Dungeon Boss skill descriptions on spelling error Fixed Elemental Temple Bosses’ skill descriptions on their missing Free Turns on Hero death Fixed Fire Vampire’s ‘Crimson Pool’ skill description on mismatched Curse duration Fixed Crown Jewels applying Debuffs when using skills that target allies Fixed Fencer and War Chieftain Artifact icon issues Fixed Blind and Aim Buff calculation inconsistencies compared to other percentage based Buffs/Debuffs Improvements and Features Fixed Blighted Dragon Artifact granting an extra Decay duration Removed Rank 3 equipment filters from the Armory sell screen AI improvements to Heroes targeting allies with Guard AI improvements to the Ethereal Huntress - ‘Spiritual Energy’ will now take priority over ‘Target Engaged’ Lowered Armor stats across all Rank 4 and 5 Dungeon Bosses Increased Power stats across all Rank 4 and 5 Dungeon Bosses Moved Hero Vault unlocking to defeating Mazemire Decay Debuff has been reworked: Reduces Power and Armor by 10%. Reduces Aim, Block, Crit, Crit Mult, and slows down Speed Bar increases by 25%. Updated NPC Aim & Block base values to be closer tied to their Hero Roles

Lady of Flames Lost Dungeon Battle the Lady of Flames and her consorts for artifacts and Swiftsteel equipment. Be sure to bring a resurrection Skill to the battle, because not everyone will survive this fight! Earn a top spot on the Lost Dungeon Leaderboard for special Artifact rewards. Conquest Rewards Conquest rewards have been updated to include Wildcard Hero Shards at lower stages, replacing bounty cores.

Hero Events
Hero Event: Imperium Law featuring the all new Marauder, Priestess, and Royal Dragon!
Hero Event: Rampant Magic returns, featuring the Corrupted Elf, Peacekeeper, and Battle Priest
Hero Event: Skull Island returns, featuring the Nomad, Sky Pirate, and Assassin
The Slime Queen Lost Dungeon
The Slime Queen returns February 21! Will you be able to face the threat and escape the evil of the ooze? Wartech equipment and powerful Artifacts await!

Starting with the Slime Queen, Lost Dungeons are shifting from a four-week to a two-week schedule. Quests for opening Artifact cores and spending Artifact Dust have been moved from the Lost Dungeon tab to the Limited tab. These Quests will be available for an entire month to span multiple lost dungeons.

Elite Explore Rift Update
There are new Epic Rifts types that have a chance of appearing for all players. These new rifts will exclusively contain the following items.
Rank XP Wisps
Wildcards
Riftstones
Shadow Essences
Shadow XP Wisps
Ethereal Essences
Ethereal XP Wisps

Additionally, new Elite Commander quests have been added to the General > Account tab. Completing all Elite Commander quests will unlock the chance for new Elite Epic Rifts to appear for Jewels and Equipment with up to Rank II drops, depending on the rarity of the rift.

Hero Balance -Battle Priests, see forums for details.

Crown Update Promotion
Celebrate the new changes to Crowns!
Crowns can now be used on any member of your team (XP Crowns excluded)
Crowns will stack with all active Crowns on your team
Look for limited time quests for powerful rewards and daily free offers starting on February 22nd!
New Ethereal Crowns, Alliance Raid Crowns, and Explore XP Crowns have been added to the game

Bug Fixes:
When you are force logged out, the background music will resuming playing once you are logged back in.
Fixed missing rank images on jewels from explore rifts
Increased the number of abilities shown on the Hero Inspector panel - often hid Rank 5 and Crown abilities
Fixed combat effect description for Empowered Taunt
Fixed Fafnir, the Fire Dragon missing its Rank 5 Aura skill
Fixed Warhorn abilities not being updated with their balance update
Fixed Hero passives and Leader skills that are not working properly. This includes things like Giftbringers, Aleria, Rank Auras, and a few other miscellaneous visual bugs that involve the Advanced Stats page for heroes.

Improvements and Features:
Better Connection/Disconnection handling
Initial Load optimizations
Auto battles will now show all available rewards instead of just the first three.
Viewing a hero's equipment in the barracks will now show all abilities and not just the leader ability
Viewing a hero in various places will now always show the rank abilities
Optimized auto battle performance
R4/R5 Floor bosses take increased damage against stat boosted skills
Updated skill descriptions on Equipment dungeon bosses to be more consistent with current Heroes

Hero Events
Hero Event: Imperium Law featuring the all new Marauder, Priestess, and Royal Dragon!
Hero Event: Rampant Magic returns, featuring the Corrupted Elf, Peacekeeper, and Battle Priest
Hero Event: Skull Island returns, featuring the Nomad, Sky Pirate, and Assassin

The Slime Queen Lost Dungeon
The Slime Queen returns February 21! Will you be able to face the threat and escape the evil of the ooze? Wartech equipment and powerful Artifacts await!

Starting with the Slime Queen, Lost Dungeons are shifting from a four-week to a two-week schedule. Quests for opening Artifact cores and spending Artifact Dust have been moved from the Lost Dungeon tab to the Limited tab. These Quests will be available for an entire month to span multiple lost dungeons.

Elite Explore Rift Update
There are new Epic Rifts types that have a chance of appearing for all players. These new rifts will exclusively contain the following items.
Rank XP Wisps
Wildcards
Riftstones
Shadow Essences
Shadow XP Wisps
Ethereal Essences
Ethereal XP Wisps

Additionally, new Elite Commander quests have been added to the General > Account tab. Completing all Elite Commander quests will unlock the chance for new Elite Epic Rifts to appear for Jewels and Equipment with up to Rank II drops, depending on the rarity of the rift.

Hero Balance -Battle Priests, see forums for details.

Crown Update Promotion
Celebrate the new changes to Crowns!
Crowns can now be used on any member of your team (XP Crowns excluded)
Crowns will stack with all active Crowns on your team
Look for limited time quests for powerful rewards and daily free offers starting on February 22nd!
New Ethereal Crowns, Alliance Raid Crowns, and Explore XP Crowns have been added to the game

Bug Fixes:
When you are force logged out, the background music will resuming playing once you are logged back in.
Fixed missing rank images on jewels from explore rifts
Increased the number of abilities shown on the Hero Inspector panel - often hid Rank 5 and Crown abilities
Fixed combat effect description for Empowered Taunt
Fixed Fafnir, the Fire Dragon missing its Rank 5 Aura skill
Fixed Warhorn abilities not being updated with their balance update
Fixed Hero passives and Leader skills that are not working properly. This includes things like Giftbringers, Aleria, Rank Auras, and a few other miscellaneous visual bugs that involve the Advanced Stats page for heroes.

Improvements and Features:
Better Connection/Disconnection handling
Initial Load optimizations
Auto battles will now show all available rewards instead of just the first three.
Viewing a hero's equipment in the barracks will now show all abilities and not just the leader ability
Viewing a hero in various places will now always show the rank abilities
Optimized auto battle performance
R4/R5 Floor bosses take increased damage against stat boosted skills
Updated skill descriptions on Equipment dungeon bosses to be more consistent with current Heroes

The Slime Queen Lost Dungeon
The Slime Queen is back! Will you be able to face the threat and escape the evil of the ooze? Wartech equipment and powerful Artifacts await!
Starting with the Slime Queen, Lost Dungeons are shifting from a four week to a two week schedule. Quests for opening artifact cores and spending artifact dust have been moved from the Lost Dungeon tab to the Limited tab. These quests will be available for an entire month to span multiple lost dungeons.
Hero Event: Draconic Arcana featuring the Ranger, Valkyrie, and Dragonmage
Hero Event: Mechanical Marauders returns, featuring the Iron Sentry, Elder Prophet, and Hammerfist
Hero Event: Skull Island returns, featuring the Nomad, Sky Pirate, and Assassin

Ranks 4 & 5
•Ranks 4 & 5 are now available
•The Rank Up system has been updated with new requirements to rank your heroes.
•Rank Up Information and Hero requirements can be found in the Hero Stat’s panel of the Barracks after selecting a Hero or through the Fusion Building after selecting a Hero ready to rank up.
•New Ranked Floors are also available across Hero Events, Lost Dungeons, Equipment Dungeons, and Elemental Temples.
•All Equipment Dungeons, Lost Dungeons, and Elemental Temples have their ranked Hero requirements removed from entering their floors. Any player may now enter these floors after defeating the previous one.
•Rank 4 equipment will be available in Rank 4 & Rank 5 Dungeon floors.
•Wildcard prices for Mythic heroes have been reduced.

Crowns Update
Most Crowns will no longer require the leader slot to activate their ability. Crown skills will now stack additively without any reduced effect.

The Slime Queen Lost Dungeon
The Slime Queen is back! Will you be able to face the threat and escape the evil of the ooze? Wartech equipment and powerful Artifacts await!
Starting with the Slime Queen, Lost Dungeons are shifting from a four week to a two week schedule. Quests for opening artifact cores and spending artifact dust have been moved from the Lost Dungeon tab to the Limited tab. These quests will be available for an entire month to span multiple lost dungeons.

Hero Event: Draconic Arcana featuring the Ranger, Valkyrie, and Dragonmage
Hero Event: Mechanical Marauders returns, featuring the Iron Sentry, Elder Prophet, and Hammerfist
Hero Event: Skull Island returns, featuring the Nomad, Sky Pirate, and Assassin

Ranks 4 & 5
•Ranks 4 & 5 are now available
•The Rank Up system has been updated with new requirements to rank your heroes.
•Rank Up Information and Hero requirements can be found in the Hero Stat’s panel of the Barracks after selecting a Hero or through the Fusion Building after selecting a Hero ready to rank up.
•New Ranked Floors are also available across Hero Events, Lost Dungeons, Equipment Dungeons, and Elemental Temples.
•All Equipment Dungeons, Lost Dungeons, and Elemental Temples have their ranked Hero requirements removed from entering their floors. Any player may now enter these floors after defeating the previous one.
•Rank 4 equipment will be available in Rank 4 & Rank 5 Dungeon floors.
•Wildcard prices for Mythic heroes have been reduced.

Crowns Update
Most Crowns will no longer require the leader slot to activate their ability. Crown skills will now stack additively without any reduced effect.

The Slime Queen Lost Dungeon
The Slime Queen is back! Will you be able to face the threat and escape the evil of the ooze? Wartech equipment and powerful Artifacts await!

Starting with the Slime Queen, Lost Dungeons are shifting from a four week to a two week schedule. Quests for opening artifact cores and spending artifact dust have been moved from the Lost Dungeon tab to the Limited tab. These quests will be available for an entire month to span multiple lost dungeons.

Hero Event: Draconic Arcana featuring the Ranger, Valkyrie, and Dragonmage
Hero Event: Mechanical Marauders returns, featuring the Iron Sentry, Elder Prophet, and Hammerfist
Hero Event: Skull Island returns, featuring the Nomad, Sky Pirate, and Assassin

Ranks 4 & 5
•Ranks 4 & 5 are now available
•The Rank Up system has been updated with new requirements to rank your heroes.
•Rank Up Information and Hero requirements can be found in the Hero Stat’s panel of the Barracks after selecting a Hero or through the Fusion Building after selecting a Hero ready to rank up.
•New Ranked Floors are also available across Hero Events, Lost Dungeons, Equipment Dungeons, and Elemental Temples.
•All Equipment Dungeons, Lost Dungeons, and Elemental Temples have their ranked Hero requirements removed from entering their floors. Any player may now enter these floors after defeating the previous one.
•Rank 4 equipment will be available in Rank 4 & Rank 5 Dungeon floors.
•Wildcard prices for Mythic heroes have been reduced.

Crowns Update
Most Crowns will no longer require the leader slot to activate their ability. Crown skills will now stack additively without any reduced effect.

Hero Event: Windfury
New Heroes: Harpy, Telepath and Warhorn
Festival of Nature
Lost Dungeon: Empyrean Wrath - Garb of Madness, Ghostveil, Elderthorn
Hero Balance
Camera Work
Server Data Optimization
Asset/patching fixes

Hero Event: Apocalypse Rift returns
Hero Event: Winter Solstice featuring the new heroes Toy Soldier, Pathfinder, and Winter Knight.
Order and Chaos Festival
Hero Event: Wintertown returns
Hero Event: Icewall Keep returns.
Holiday heroes will be available from regular cores through January, then they will be gone!
Lost Dungeon Tendrils of Tenebrous - Bulwark of Shadow, Duskshroud, Icesteel
Winter All Starts
Path of the Ancients 2019 - all new levels, expanded content, and new rewards!

Tainted Order Lost Dungeon

The Voidspawn are infamous for corrupting powerful kings and leaders. Their whispers have confused even one of the most lawful of heroes, Valtyr, the Hero's Shield! Escape the clutches of his Heralds of Death and take down the legendary champion of the Imperium before they sentence you to a fate worse than death. Battle in the Lost Dungeon for a chance to collect Titanguard, Bloodstone, and Sunshield Rank 2 Equipment.

Hero Updates:

Planeshifter Assassins

All Planeshifter Assassins
•‘Muramasa’ Artifact now gives Planeshifter Assassins 10% Crit, in addition to its previous effects


Hotaru, the Fire Planeshifter Assassin
•‘Poisoned Blades’ Proc chance increased to 40%, up from 20%

•‘Poisoned Blades’ will now correctly trigger on all enemies hit, rather than just the initial target of an ability


Equipment Set Updates:

Garb Of Madness
•Power Scaling increased to 50%, up from 15%

•Garb Of Madness now deals damage to all enemies, rather than just the target affected by the debuff

•Garb Of Madness can now only trigger once per turn

•Garb Of Madness still cannot Crit


Bulwark Of Shadow
•Proc chance increases by 20% every time you are hit and the Bulwark Of Shadow Shield does not trigger, up from 10% increase

◦Base Proc chance of 20% is unchanged

◦Shield amount is unchanged

Added the ability to lock/unlock characters on the Hero summary dialog.
You can now auto upgrade your Hero's equipment in the Armory.
Updated player avatar selection dialog.
Mythic summons are now locked by default.

Fixes:
•Fix for some devices taking a long time on the "logged in" step.

•Rank 3 heroes can now be used in fusion to add Rank XP.

•Fixed a bug where Fortify, Plague, and Decay did not have their Witchstone effects listed in the FAQ

Hero Events
‘Song of the Wild’
The Voidspawn are invading the world of Fracture! The vicious Lizardman and the fierce Gargoyle are reducing the wilds to rubble! You'll need to enlist the help of the majestic Earthsinger to heal Fracture!
New Mythic Hero: Earthsinger
New Legendary Hero: Gargoyle
New Epic Hero: Lizardman
‘Song of the Wild’ Hero Event will have a 2x Wildcard drops on the first day November 8
Tier 3 Floor 6 Rank Points increased to 25 Rank Points from 20
New ‘Limited’ Quest available only on the first day of all Hero Events: Play any Tier 3 or Tier 4 floor 20 times for 25 Wildcards
Arena Changes
Grandmaster 1 will now be introduced with a 750 Trophy requirement to enter. Players that reach Grandmaster 1 will be reset back down to Grandmaster 1 at 750 Trophies at the start of each Arena season.
Master 3 requirements have been increased to 675 Trophies.
Bounty Blade turn-in rewards now have a chance to grant different currencies other than gold. Higher Arena tiers will grant a larger diversity of rewards as well as greater amounts of them:
Bronze: Temple Keys & Energy
Silver: Temple Keys, Energy, Lost Dungeon Keys, Riftstones, and Legendary Core Shards
Gold: Temple Keys, Energy, Lost Dungeon Keys, Riftstones, Legendary Core Shards, and Co-op Crests
Master: Temple Keys, Energy, Lost Dungeon Keys, Riftstones, Legendary Core Shards, and Co-op Crests
Grandmaster: Temple Keys, Energy, Lost Dungeon Keys, Riftstones, Legendary Core Shards, and Co-op Crests
Players now have a chance to match with opponents 1 bracket tier below their current placement
Players cannot fall below more than 3 bracket tiers of their highest tier placement ever recorded
Players at Commander Level 40+ cannot fall below Silver 1
Alliances
A limited time offer for Rank Points Wisps from November 3 - November 10 UTC has been added to the Alliance Store
Changing your Alliance will now be reflected in your leaderboards immediately instead of next login.
Alliances can no longer be disbanded unless the Leader is the only remaining player

Alliance Raids
A warning prompt has been added when attempting to enter Alliance Raids with an Alliance smaller than 5 members
Alliance Raids will no longer allow you to deal damage to a boss if it is already dead.

Material Lab
A new Material Lab fusion using Basic Cores has been added:
Convert 25 Basic Cores into 500 Basic XP Wisp Core Shards
Convert 1000 Basic XP Wisp Core Shards into 1500 Ultimate XP Wisp Core Shards
500 Basic XP Wisp Core Shards opens for a random 3* XP Wisp
1000 Ultimate XP Wisp Core Shards opens for a random 4* or 5* XP Wisp

Conquest
Conquest Stages have reduced threshold requirements for Stages 21-29.
Stages 31,33,and 35 now reward Wildcard Shards instead of Alliance Honor
Stages 32 and 34 now reward a Rank XP Wisp instead of Alliance Honor
Stages 36-40 have been removed.

Fixes:
Fixed issue with going to a quest tab from a banner/go button would cause the go/claim button on quests to be inactive.
Fixed issue with deselecting rank 2 wisps would put you in an inconsistent state.
Fixed issue with lost dungeon help button not working.
Fixed issue where if you destroyed an item when replacing it the ui would not refresh.
Added warnings when using more skill wisp than needed
VIP perk that increases Temple Key limits has been renamed to be called “Max Temple Keys”
Updated Duskshroud Dungeon mission tip for defeating the dungeon
Fixed Crown Jewels not properly updating their value amounts in some of the Armory screens

Hero Events
‘Song of the Wild’
The Voidspawn are invading the world of Fracture! The vicious Lizardman and the fierce Gargoyle are reducing the wilds to rubble! You'll need to enlist the help of the majestic Earthsinger to heal Fracture!
New Mythic Hero: Earthsinger
New Legendary Hero: Gargoyle
New Epic Hero: Lizardman
‘Song of the Wild’ Hero Event will have a 2x Wildcard drops on the first day November 8
Tier 3 Floor 6 Rank Points increased to 25 Rank Points from 20
New ‘Limited’ Quest available only on the first day of all Hero Events: Play any Tier 3 or Tier 4 floor 20 times for 25 Wildcards
Arena Changes
Grandmaster 1 will now be introduced with a 750 Trophy requirement to enter. Players that reach Grandmaster 1 will be reset back down to Grandmaster 1 at 750 Trophies at the start of each Arena season.
Master 3 requirements have been increased to 675 Trophies.
Bounty Blade turn-in rewards now have a chance to grant different currencies other than gold. Higher Arena tiers will grant a larger diversity of rewards as well as greater amounts of them:
Bronze: Temple Keys & Energy
Silver: Temple Keys, Energy, Lost Dungeon Keys, Riftstones, and Legendary Core Shards
Gold: Temple Keys, Energy, Lost Dungeon Keys, Riftstones, Legendary Core Shards, and Co-op Crests
Master: Temple Keys, Energy, Lost Dungeon Keys, Riftstones, Legendary Core Shards, and Co-op Crests
Grandmaster: Temple Keys, Energy, Lost Dungeon Keys, Riftstones, Legendary Core Shards, and Co-op Crests
Players now have a chance to match with opponents 1 bracket tier below their current placement
Players cannot fall below more than 3 bracket tiers of their highest tier placement ever recorded
Players at Commander Level 40+ cannot fall below Silver 1

Alliances
A limited time offer for Rank Points Wisps from November 3 - November 10 UTC has been added to the Alliance Store
Changing your Alliance will now be reflected in your leaderboards immediately instead of next login.
Alliances can no longer be disbanded unless the Leader is the only remaining player

Alliance Raids
A warning prompt has been added when attempting to enter Alliance Raids with an Alliance smaller than 5 members
Alliance Raids will no longer allow you to deal damage to a boss if it is already dead.

Material Lab
A new Material Lab fusion using Basic Cores has been added:
Convert 25 Basic Cores into 500 Basic XP Wisp Core Shards
Convert 1000 Basic XP Wisp Core Shards into 1500 Ultimate XP Wisp Core Shards
500 Basic XP Wisp Core Shards opens for a random 3* XP Wisp
1000 Ultimate XP Wisp Core Shards opens for a random 4* or 5* XP Wisp

Conquest
Conquest Stages have reduced threshold requirements for Stages 21-29.
Stages 31,33,and 35 now reward Wildcard Shards instead of Alliance Honor
Stages 32 and 34 now reward a Rank XP Wisp instead of Alliance Honor
Stages 36-40 have been removed.

Fixes:
Fixed issue with going to a quest tab from a banner/go button would cause the go/claim button on quests to be inactive.
Fixed issue with deselecting rank 2 wisps would put you in an inconsistent state.
Fixed issue with lost dungeon help button not working.
Fixed issue where if you destroyed an item when replacing it the ui would not refresh.
Added warnings when using more skill wisp than needed
VIP perk that increases Temple Key limits has been renamed to be called “Max Temple Keys”
Updated Duskshroud Dungeon mission tip for defeating the dungeon
Fixed Crown Jewels not properly updating their value amounts in some of the Armory screens

Hero Events
‘Song of the Wild’
The Voidspawn are invading the world of Fracture! The vicious Lizardman and the fierce Gargoyle are reducing the wilds to rubble! You'll need to enlist the help of the majestic Earthsinger to heal Fracture!
New Mythic Hero: Earthsinger
New Legendary Hero: Gargoyle
New Epic Hero: Lizardman
‘Song of the Wild’ Hero Event will have a 2x Wildcard drops on the first day November 8
Tier 3 Floor 6 Rank Points increased to 25 Rank Points from 20
New ‘Limited’ Quest available only on the first day of all Hero Events: Play any Tier 3 or Tier 4 floor 20 times for 25 Wildcards

Arena Changes
Grandmaster 1 will now be introduced with a 750 Trophy requirement to enter. Players that reach Grandmaster 1 will be reset back down to Grandmaster 1 at 750 Trophies at the start of each Arena season.
Master 3 requirements have been increased to 675 Trophies.
Bounty Blade turn-in rewards now have a chance to grant different currencies other than gold. Higher Arena tiers will grant a larger diversity of rewards as well as greater amounts of them:
Bronze: Temple Keys & Energy
Silver: Temple Keys, Energy, Lost Dungeon Keys, Riftstones, and Legendary Core Shards
Gold: Temple Keys, Energy, Lost Dungeon Keys, Riftstones, Legendary Core Shards, and Co-op Crests
Master: Temple Keys, Energy, Lost Dungeon Keys, Riftstones, Legendary Core Shards, and Co-op Crests
Grandmaster: Temple Keys, Energy, Lost Dungeon Keys, Riftstones, Legendary Core Shards, and Co-op Crests
Players now have a chance to match with opponents 1 bracket tier below their current placement
Players cannot fall below more than 3 bracket tiers of their highest tier placement ever recorded
Players at Commander Level 40+ cannot fall below Silver 1

Alliances
A limited time offer for Rank Points Wisps from November 3 - November 10 UTC has been added to the Alliance Store
Changing your Alliance will now be reflected in your leaderboards immediately instead of next login.
Alliances can no longer be disbanded unless the Leader is the only remaining player

Alliance Raids
A warning prompt has been added when attempting to enter Alliance Raids with an Alliance smaller than 5 members
Alliance Raids will no longer allow you to deal damage to a boss if it is already dead.


Material Lab
A new Material Lab fusion using Basic Cores has been added:
Convert 25 Basic Cores into 500 Basic XP Wisp Core Shards
Convert 1000 Basic XP Wisp Core Shards into 1500 Ultimate XP Wisp Core Shards
500 Basic XP Wisp Core Shards opens for a random 3* XP Wisp
1000 Ultimate XP Wisp Core Shards opens for a random 4* or 5* XP Wisp

Conquest
Conquest Stages have reduced threshold requirements for Stages 21-29.
Stages 31,33,and 35 now reward Wildcard Shards instead of Alliance Honor
Stages 32 and 34 now reward a Rank XP Wisp instead of Alliance Honor
Stages 36-40 have been removed.

Fixes:
Fixed issue with going to a quest tab from a banner/go button would cause the go/claim button on quests to be inactive.
Fixed issue with deselecting rank 2 wisps would put you in an inconsistent state.
Fixed issue with lost dungeon help button not working.
Fixed issue where if you destroyed an item when replacing it the ui would not refresh.
Added warnings when using more skill wisp than needed
VIP perk that increases Temple Key limits has been renamed to be called “Max Temple Keys”
Updated Duskshroud Dungeon mission tip for defeating the dungeon
Fixed Crown Jewels not properly updating their value amounts in some of the Armory screens

Additional performance improvements.
Download improvements. Faster and more accurate download progress.
Commander Level cap now increased to 100!

Alliance Raids
Reward change on the Elite Daily Quest (Complete 3 Alliance Raid Bounties of any Quality) - now rewards 1 Ultimate Commander Skill Point
Reduced Alliance Raid Boss health and added more floors

Fixes:
Setting a duel team will no longer warn if all the hero slots aren't full.
Fixed issue where the logout dialog could get stuck behind a dimmed out screen.
Fixed element type on friends representative hero selection always had a nature icon instead of the proper one.
Fixed issue with replays showing a loss in duels when it was really a win
Fixed hero sort on iphone x in fusion screen would show upwards instead of downwards.
Fixed Crown Jewel of Demolition bomb damage
Fixed Crown Jewel of Iron damage redistribution to properly redistribute 5% damage
Fixed equipment requirement warnings with Crown Jewels
Fixed NPC targeting issues on Tier 4 Hero Event stages
Fixed Alliance Raid Phoenix and Damage Over Time effect dealing too little damage
Fixed Bloodstone First Tentacle issues of never taking turns
Fixed Phoenix Buff interaction issues with Alliance Raid bosses

Download improvements. Faster and more accurate download progress.

Commander Level cap now increased to 100!

Alliance Raids
Reward change on the Elite Daily Quest (Complete 3 Alliance Raid Bounties of any Quality) - now rewards 1 Ultimate Commander Skill Point
Reduced Alliance Raid Boss health and added more floors

Fixes:
Setting a duel team will no longer warn if all the hero slots aren't full.
Fixed issue where the logout dialog could get stuck behind a dimmed out screen.
Fixed element type on friends representative hero selection always had a nature icon instead of the proper one.
Fixed issue with replays showing a loss in duels when it was really a win
Fixed hero sort on iphone x in fusion screen would show upwards instead of downwards.
Fixed Crown Jewel of Demolition bomb damage
Fixed Crown Jewel of Iron damage redistribution to properly redistribute 5% damage
Fixed equipment requirement warnings with Crown Jewels
Fixed NPC targeting issues on Tier 4 Hero Event stages
Fixed Alliance Raid Phoenix and Damage Over Time effect dealing too little damage
Fixed Bloodstone First Tentacle issues of never taking turns
Fixed Phoenix Buff interaction issues with Alliance Raid bosses

POTA 2 unlock fixed.
Blade Dancer A3 fix.
Hero Vaults have been updated to include Tier 4 that requires three of the featured Mythic heroes. Rank requirements for Floors II & III also to each hero. Additionally you will be able to earn Conquest Points, and Rank XP from the Hero Vault.
The format of Alliance Raids will be changing from persistent long term bosses to a weekly cadence of 12 bosses to defeat. This allows for more consistent earning of Ultimate Commander Skill Points from Raid Boss kills. The more difficult the boss, the greater the rewards! Additionally, a new Alliance Raid leaderboard has been added for Alliances to compete against one another for highest cumulative raid score earned during the week.

Fixes:
•Fixed crash when claiming quests too fast on some devices.

•Fixed festival quests character dialogs could leave behind the previous conversation when going through it too fast.

•Fixed manual arena battles did not save the last used team and the refresh button will no longer populate with the last used team.

•Fixed currencies will now round down instead of up to prevent you from thinking that you have enough currency to buy something but was really a rounding error.

•Fixed issue where if you disconnected during a battle sometimes you could no retry sending your results.

•Fixed you can no longer skill up wisps

•Fixed issue where you could select more skill ups than the character had left.

•Combo Points are now properly prevented by Debuff Immunity

•Fix issues with stat bonuses being reported incorrectly for character stat screens

•Fixed issue with mission results screen popping up early in combat

Added in new scrollable currency hud.
Hero loading performance improvements.
Tapping on the hero vault will now show you the next time one becomes open if it has been scheduled.
Players that play on multiple devices can no longer go back to a previous version on another device, instead it will require an update.

Hero Vaults have been updated to include Tier 4 that requires three of the featured Mythic heroes. Rank requirements for Floors II & III also to each hero. Additionally you will be able to earn Conquest Points, and Rank XP from the Hero Vault.

The format of Alliance Raids will be changing from persistent long term bosses to a weekly cadence of 12 bosses to defeat. This allows for more consistent earning of Ultimate Commander Skill Points from Raid Boss kills. The more difficult the boss, the greater the rewards! Additionally, a new Alliance Raid leaderboard has been added for Alliances to compete against one another for highest cumulative raid score earned during the week.


Fixes:
•Fixed crash when claiming quests too fast on some devices.

•Fixed festival quests character dialogs could leave behind the previous conversation when going through it too fast.

•Fixed manual arena battles did not save the last used team and the refresh button will no longer populate with the last used team.

•Fixed currencies will now round down instead of up to prevent you from thinking that you have enough currency to buy something but was really a rounding error.

•Fixed issue where if you disconnected during a battle sometimes you could no retry sending your results.

•Fixed you can no longer skill up wisps

•Fixed issue where you could select more skill ups than the character had left.

•Combo Points are now properly prevented by Debuff Immunity

•Fix issues with stat bonuses being reported incorrectly for character stat screens

•Fixed issue with mission results screen popping up early in combat

Added in new scrollable currency hud.
Hero loading performance improvements.
Tapping on the hero vault will now show you the next time one becomes open if it has been scheduled.
Players that play on multiple devices can no longer go back to a previous version on another device, instead it will require an update.

Hero Vault Currency Fix

Max Level Hero Skill Up Fix

Rank 3 is now available! The Rank Up system has been updated with new requirements to rank your heroes.

Hero Event Tier 4
All Hero Events will have a new Tier 4! Successfully defeating these floors will reward you with Super Ultimate Hero Event Cores, more Rank Points, and a chance
at Wildcards!

Spirit Heroes (Shadow/Ethereal)
You are now able to fuse, evolve, and skill up heroes across both Mortal and Spirit Hero types! Mortal and Spirit Heroes are able to earn experience from all missions.

New Co-op Boss
Acheron, Sentinel of Tombs defends the treasures for eternity. Pair up with a fellow Alliance member and take down Acheron for a chance at obtaining powerful Crowns and Crown Jewels!

Hero Vault
The Hero Vault rewards you with powerful Ancient Hero Shards. Ancient Hero Cores feature Heroes from a small rotating list that can be summoned for a limited time.

Temple Difficulty Selection: Added new floors to various temples, and redesigned how difficulty selection works.

Commander Skills: +Speed now correctly gives flat +Speed bonus, instead of percentage

Alliance Raids: Autofill now attempts to prioritize non-crown leader skills


Fixes
Fixed dialog opening animations.
Fixed summon cost was showing incorrectly after you summoned from a shard.
Fixed commander skills would not update until you restarted the game
Fixed alliance wars would not refresh often when idling on the alliance war map
Fixed many minor equip related ui bugs.
Fixed crash in alliance wars when viewing the team manager
Fixed issue where explore rifts would double the currency given for the first node
Fixed store offers are no longer shown when selecting "fuse heroes" when your barracks is full
Fixed issue with heroes from reserve barracks would not show equipment sometimes
War Dragon skill ‘Tornado’ string has been updated to be more accurate
Order Peacekeeper ‘Unwavering Will’ has been fixed and now correctly functions
Nature Time Weaver passive ‘Timelessness’ now correctly Bar Fills one ally, but Bar Fill amount has been increased to 25%

New Ethereal/Shadow Heroes
Coming Soon - Unique Craftable Heroes
Major Combat Bug Fix and Balance Pass
Faction War Hero Event
Conquest Update
Coop Improvements
Performance Improvements
Individual Leaderboard Fix
Explore XP Display Issue Fix

New Ethereal/Shadow Heroes
Coming Soon - Unique Craftable Heroes
Major Combat Bug Fix and Balance Pass
Faction War Hero Event
Conquest Update
Coop Improvements
Performance Improvements

Arena Autobattle - New feature to autobattle arena matches up to 3 at a time! Opponents after the first battle will be randomly chosen based on your current Arena Ranking at the time of the autobattle.
Shadow Festival featuring the all new Duskshroud Dungeon! Fight the Cursed Shadow for a chance at two new equipment sets:
Duskshroud
Bar Drains are 35% less effective
+10% HP
+10% Armor
2 Piece Equipment Set
Bulwark Of Shadow
+25% HP
+25% Crit Resist
You have a 20% chance when hit to grant yourself a Shield worth 10% of your max HP. This chance increases by 10% every time it does not trigger, then resets back to 20% upon triggering.
4 Piece Equipment Set

Improvements to Co-op Dungeon’s Quick Battle calculation time
Made arena bigger to accommodate large characters like Fafnir, Voidbeast and friends.
Fixed team manager sometimes would not allow you to complete things.
Improved viewing of players from leaderboards
Fixed exporting your barracks will now export equipment as well.
Many memory and performance optimizations
Updated fusion safeguards
You can no longer fuse away heroes if it would put you under 4 heroes total
You will get a warning if the fusion food has equipment on them
You will get a warning if players are trying to fuse/evolve away a hero that has a higher current star value than the target or has a higher quality than the target.
You will get a warning pop up if the fusion food has been skilled up at least once.
Alliance Raids: Smarter ‘Bonus Requirement’ allocation, preventing impossible combinations.
Reduced size of replays
Add button to view alliance leaderboard in Alliance info screen

Combat changes and fixes
-fixed combat effect icons appearing and disappearing visually
-fixed plague doing 0 damage to bosses with DoT immunity
-Witchstone effects now take priority over regular effects with the same or lesser duration
-Evasion stacks are no longer used up if a hero has a passive immunity to that effect
-improved auto battle AI to attack the best target when there are multiple taunting targets

Fixing Otto’s Man Up skill up description displaying in Cyrillic
Removing duplicate stun description in the Combat Effect Help
Reducing Slime Prince and Princess minions’ self-explosion damage

Arena Autobattle - New feature to autobattle arena matches up to 3 at a time! Opponents after the first battle will be randomly chosen based on your current Arena Ranking at the time of the autobattle.

Shadow Festival featuring the all new Duskshroud Dungeon! Fight the Cursed Shadow for a chance at two new equipment sets:
Duskshroud
Bar Drains are 35% less effective
+10% HP
+10% Armor
2 Piece Equipment Set
Bulwark Of Shadow
+25% HP
+25% Crit Resist
You have a 20% chance when hit to grant yourself a Shield worth 10% of your max HP. This chance increases by 10% every time it does not trigger, then resets back to 20% upon triggering.
4 Piece Equipment Set

Improvements to Co-op Dungeon’s Quick Battle calculation time
Made arena bigger to accommodate large characters like Fafnir, Voidbeast and friends.
Fixed team manager sometimes would not allow you to complete things.
Improved viewing of players from leaderboards
Fixed exporting your barracks will now export equipment as well.
Many memory and performance optimizations
Updated fusion safeguards
You can no longer fuse away heroes if it would put you under 4 heroes total
You will get a warning if the fusion food has equipment on them
You will get a warning if players are trying to fuse/evolve away a hero that has a higher current star value than the target or has a higher quality than the target.
You will get a warning pop up if the fusion food has been skilled up at least once.
Alliance Raids: Smarter ‘Bonus Requirement’ allocation, preventing impossible combinations.
Reduced size of replays
Add button to view alliance leaderboard in Alliance info screen

Combat changes and fixes
-fixed combat effect icons appearing and disappearing visually
-fixed plague doing 0 damage to bosses with DoT immunity
-Witchstone effects now take priority over regular effects with the same or lesser duration
-Evasion stacks are no longer used up if a hero has a passive immunity to that effect
-improved auto battle AI to attack the best target when there are multiple taunting targets

Fixing Otto’s Man Up skill up description displaying in Cyrillic
Removing duplicate stun description in the Combat Effect Help
Reducing Slime Prince and Princess minions’ self-explosion damage

Bug Fix: Soft lock when trying to collect from an auto-battle when near equipment cap.

Hero Event - Time Trap (7/12-7/18): Heroes of the present meet heroes of the past in this time-spanning event! Battle the primal Sabertooth and the skilled Oathbow as you seek the ultimate prize - a deadly Android Huntress!
Hero Event - Wintertown (7/19-7/25): A strange Rift appears in Fracture, bringing gifts and joy to all! Recruit the exclusive Wintertown heroes - the spritely Holiday Elves, the troublemaking Yetis, and even jolly Santa Claus himself!
Updated Festivals (now with Ethereal)
Lost Dungeon: The Slime Queen returns to the Lost Dungeon (7/12-8/8). Defeat the evil ooze to earn Wartech, Dragonfury, and Bloodstone Gear. You will also have a chance to collect Shadow and Ethereal Primal Core Shards to bolster your Spirit Barracks!

Freedom Hero Event - The Militiamen, soldiers from a long lost battle, have risen up! The Bounty Hunter seeks to collect a price for putting a stop to the Militiamen, but may need the help of the powerful Imperium Eagle!
New Heroes:
Imperium Eagle (Mythic): Soar the skies and assist your allies with the Imperium Eagle!
Bounty Hunter (Legendary): Quickdraw your way to victory with the Bounty Hunter!
Militiaman (Epic): Fight for your freedom with the Militiaman!
Content Cadence:
Hero Event - Time Trap (7/12-7/18): Heroes of the present meet heroes of the past in this time-spanning event! Battle the primal Sabertooth and the skilled Oathbow as you seek the ultimate prize - a deadly Android Huntress!
Hero Event - Wintertown (7/19-7/25): A strange Rift appears in Fracture, bringing gifts and joy to all! Recruit the exclusive Wintertown heroes - the spritely Holiday Elves, the troublemaking Yetis, and even jolly Santa Claus himself!
Updated Festivals (now with Ethereal)
Lost Dungeon: The Slime Queen returns to the Lost Dungeon (7/12-8/8). Defeat the evil ooze to earn Wartech, Dragonfury, and Bloodstone Gear. You will also have a chance to collect Shadow and Ethereal Primal Core Shards to bolster your Spirit Barracks!

Performance Improvements.
New Festivals:
Shadow and Ethereal Festivals have been added to the weekly elemental rotation!
Ethereal Element
The Ethereal Element is finally here! Ethereal Heroes are direct rivals to the Shadow Heroes, gaining 20% bonus damage, Aim, and Block across both directions. Ethereal Heroes will be able to be collected from the Lost Dungeon.
New Ethereal Story Maps and Temple:
New Ethereal Story Maps requiring Ethereal Heroes to enter and beat!
Non-Ethereal Heroes cannot gain experience from Ethereal Story Maps
Ethereal Heroes cannot gain experience from non-Ethereal Story Maps
Alliance Raids
Take down powerful bosses with your Alliance! Work together with your entire Alliance to defeat powerful, new bosses. Send your Heroes on Bounties to attack the boss, filled with special bonus requirements that boost your rewards for each Bounty. Earn Commander Skill Points to level up Commander Skills that boost your Heroes across the entire game!
Commander Skills
All new Commander Skills will be available to strengthen the Heroes in your Barracks for each specific Element and Faction!
Liches:
Raum, the Order Lich
‘Life From Death’ renamed 'Extinguish Life'
Extinguish Life:
Attack all enemies and heal yourself for the full amount of damage done. If you kill an enemy with this attack, gain an Invincibility buff for 1 turn and lower your Cooldowns by 1 turn.
‘Life From Death (Ascended)’ renamed ‘Extinguish Life (Ascended)’, but functionality is unchanged
Mechanics:
Curie, the Chaos Mechanic and Rosie, the Fire Mechanic
‘Logistics' has been updated:
Whenever you use an ability, fill all allies' Speed Bars by 3%.
Sacred Wolves:
Itsuki, the Nature Sacred Wolf
‘Speed Commander’ updated:
Once per turn, whenever an ally's Speed Bar is filled, fill all allies' Speed Bars by 15%.
Combat Changes and Fixes:
Evasion no longer blocks Reflect damage
Evasion no longer blocks Boss Death Sentence
Fixed visuals when stunned by a Bomb
Fixed display inconsistent display issue with buff/debuffs at start of stage
Fixed passive resurrect cooldown being burned on a Soulcut hero
Ferret Mechs now switch modes right away when healed over 50%
Bug Fixes:
Aleria, the Water Dreadbringer will now properly use her ‘Dreadblade’ ability on Autoplay
Titanus, the Order Void Beast, and Helrend, the Chaos Void Beast, will now properly trigger ‘Final Hour’ from the self-hit portion of ‘Indomitable’ and ‘Hypertrophy’
Hyacinth, the Chaos Fairy, and Dahlia, the Shadow Fairy, will once again be able to heal with ‘Magic Drain’ while Counterattacking
Helrend, the Chaos Void Beast's ‘Cage of Death’ now properly extends the duration of buffs on Helrend, rather than on his enemies
Fixed a few crash issues
Fixed Alliance War and floaty rewards being corrupted when you were forced logged out
Fixed performance issue in Hero Crafting screen
Fixed some jerkiness with scrollviews
Fixed issue with Israeli currency not showing up
Many localization fixes
Fixed 'Erase Data Files' feature in Profile menu
Fixed missing visual effect on Hiroaki, the Order Sacred Wolf's ability
Fixed issue where summoning a Crown Jewel from the Equipment Forge would check the Equipment Inventory count instead of the Jewel Inventory count
Fixed issue where scrolling the possibilities carousel in the Summoning Portal backwards too far would cause missing hero icons
Fixed issue where previous periods in leaderboards were showing the current period. Most notably in Conquest rewards.
PotA Level 30 Hero Leader abilities now properly make their allies immune to Shadow Damage
Fixed issues where players were getting stuck on early game tutorials
Hero Crafting screen now has tabs for the different Hero Element types
Barracks and Fusion screens are now split between Shadow/Ethereal and Fire/Water/Nature/Order/Chaos
Shadow/Ethereal Barracks starts with 40 slots and can go up to 150 max
Shadow/Ethereal Reserve starts with 10 slots and can go up to 120 max
New Defeat screen
New UI for combat effects

Performance Improvements.
New Festivals:
Shadow and Ethereal Festivals have been added to the weekly elemental rotation!
Ethereal Element
The Ethereal Element is finally here! Ethereal Heroes are direct rivals to the Shadow Heroes, gaining 20% bonus damage, Aim, and Block across both directions. Ethereal Heroes will be able to be collected from the Lost Dungeon.
New Ethereal Story Maps and Temple:
New Ethereal Story Maps requiring Ethereal Heroes to enter and beat!
Non-Ethereal Heroes cannot gain experience from Ethereal Story Maps
Ethereal Heroes cannot gain experience from non-Ethereal Story Maps
Alliance Raids
Take down powerful bosses with your Alliance! Work together with your entire Alliance to defeat powerful, new bosses. Send your Heroes on Bounties to attack the boss, filled with special bonus requirements that boost your rewards for each Bounty. Earn Commander Skill Points to level up Commander Skills that boost your Heroes across the entire game!
Commander Skills
All new Commander Skills will be available to strengthen the Heroes in your Barracks for each specific Element and Faction!
Liches:
Raum, the Order Lich
‘Life From Death’ renamed 'Extinguish Life'
Extinguish Life:
Attack all enemies and heal yourself for the full amount of damage done. If you kill an enemy with this attack, gain an Invincibility buff for 1 turn and lower your Cooldowns by 1 turn.
‘Life From Death (Ascended)’ renamed ‘Extinguish Life (Ascended)’, but functionality is unchanged
Mechanics:
Curie, the Chaos Mechanic and Rosie, the Fire Mechanic
‘Logistics' has been updated:
Whenever you use an ability, fill all allies' Speed Bars by 3%.
Sacred Wolves:
Itsuki, the Nature Sacred Wolf
‘Speed Commander’ updated:
Once per turn, whenever an ally's Speed Bar is filled, fill all allies' Speed Bars by 15%.
Combat Changes and Fixes:
Evasion no longer blocks Reflect damage
Evasion no longer blocks Boss Death Sentence
Fixed visuals when stunned by a Bomb
Fixed display inconsistent display issue with buff/debuffs at start of stage
Fixed passive resurrect cooldown being burned on a Soulcut hero
Ferret Mechs now switch modes right away when healed over 50%
Bug Fixes:
Aleria, the Water Dreadbringer will now properly use her ‘Dreadblade’ ability on Autoplay
Titanus, the Order Void Beast, and Helrend, the Chaos Void Beast, will now properly trigger ‘Final Hour’ from the self-hit portion of ‘Indomitable’ and ‘Hypertrophy’
Hyacinth, the Chaos Fairy, and Dahlia, the Shadow Fairy, will once again be able to heal with ‘Magic Drain’ while Counterattacking
Helrend, the Chaos Void Beast's ‘Cage of Death’ now properly extends the duration of buffs on Helrend, rather than on his enemies
Fixed a few crash issues
Fixed Alliance War and floaty rewards being corrupted when you were forced logged out
Fixed performance issue in Hero Crafting screen
Fixed some jerkiness with scrollviews
Fixed issue with Israeli currency not showing up
Many localization fixes
Fixed 'Erase Data Files' feature in Profile menu
Fixed missing visual effect on Hiroaki, the Order Sacred Wolf's ability
Fixed issue where summoning a Crown Jewel from the Equipment Forge would check the Equipment Inventory count instead of the Jewel Inventory count
Fixed issue where scrolling the possibilities carousel in the Summoning Portal backwards too far would cause missing hero icons
Fixed issue where previous periods in leaderboards were showing the current period. Most notably in Conquest rewards.
PotA Level 30 Hero Leader abilities now properly make their allies immune to Shadow Damage
Fixed issues where players were getting stuck on early game tutorials
Hero Crafting screen now has tabs for the different Hero Element types
Barracks and Fusion screens are now split between Shadow/Ethereal and Fire/Water/Nature/Order/Chaos
Shadow/Ethereal Barracks starts with 40 slots and can go up to 150 max
Shadow/Ethereal Reserve starts with 10 slots and can go up to 120 max
New Defeat screen
New UI for combat effects