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
Store 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.

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