Patch notes

Dwarves, Goblins and Demons join the roster — 40 heroes each, in every tier. The game goes from 240 to 360 heroes and from six species to nine. Each one arrives with a mechanic of its own, described below.

A goblin with Scurry that drops to half health swaps places with another Scurry goblin waiting in your stash — once per combat, and the one coming in fires its entry abilities. Your bench is now part of the fight. Goblins also throw Burn, Poison, Sap and Slow on everyone, their own side included, next to teammates whose abilities fire exactly when they gain those.

A new counter. A silenced character ignores its own ability triggers while it has stacks — passives keep working — and loses one stack every half second. The Silencer passive applies one stack with every weapon hit, before the damage lands. Demons mix it with Burn and Sap and fit into almost any team.

A team with a Prospector earns one Treasure for every battle it wins. A Treasure sells for 30 gold — or stays in the stash, where several dwarven abilities grow for each one you keep. Around that, the species is built on armor: Aegis and Fortify run through the whole line.

The Scapegoat takes the Burn, Poison, Sap, Slow and Silence that its adjacent allies would receive. Put it next to whoever must not be shut down.

Each biome of the ring now has three home species instead of two. Demons live in the Sunlit Plains and the Arid Wasteland, goblins in the Ancient Forest and the Shrouded Marsh, dwarves in the Luminous Tomb and the Enchanted Shallows. The species shop of each biome now always shows one hero of each home species — no more trays without the one you came for.

The hero events that appear in every biome — Mercenary Camp, Hunters’ Post, Oath Altar, Abandoned Cage, Wrecked Cart, Abandoned Camp — now only offer heroes of the home species of the biome you are in. Travelling is how you choose who you meet. In the Sacred Battlegrounds they still offer every species.

An ability used to be worth a percentage of the hero’s attack; now the number on the card is the number. The whole roster was rewritten to flat values and rebalanced on top of that — every hero page already shows the current text.

The second promotion used to flip a coin: heads your ability reached one more body, tails it just got a bigger number. The coin is gone. Now the step always moves a multiplier — the target grows one bracket, or, when it cannot, the ability starts counting something: allies on the field, allies of your species, species around you. A hero who targets only themself, which was the group that always lost the coin toss, is exactly the one this helps most.

When the step reaches for a counter, it picks the one the hero already causes. A hero who burns starts counting burning enemies; one who poisons counts poisoned enemies; one who saps counts sapped enemies. The promotion rewards the plan you were already playing, instead of gluing a generic bonus on top of it.

A few heroes have kits the ladder cannot touch — a summon, a dispel, a granted passive. They used to get the plain stat bump and the promotion felt empty. Now they get it twice.

A global −10% attack and −5% HP on the enemy side, applied everywhere the budget reaches: regular fights, elites, bosses, dungeons, special cards and summons. Regular fights take a further −6% on top — they had crept close to elite power, and a plain fight should not feel like one. Dungeons and special cards keep their authored difficulty, so the extra cut skips them. Measured on day 1, the attack ramp falls from 1.36 to 1.22 for elites and bosses, and to 1.15 for regular fights.

The fight ladder was flattened to 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 / 160: Hard used to pay three times what Easy paid, and now pays twice. What came off the fights went back as a fixed daily wage of 150, with 250 at the start of the run, so a cautious route still funds a build. A dungeon’s inner room went from 45% to 60% of a fight. Over ten days that is about 2.875 gold on Easy, 3.300 on Medium and 4.150 on Hard.

Encounter windows are written in days now, not in raw progress — 77 cards were migrated. Dungeons and the Black Hole only appear from day 6. A special card is only drawn on days when its own tier is reachable at all (Tier 1 up to day 3, Tier 2 to day 7, Tier 3 to day 11, Tier 4 from day 4, Tier 5 from day 8), which is the same window the shop uses. And a special card’s reward now follows its tier: the gold, the drop and the recruit all come from the same number, instead of a separate loot tier that could disagree with the fight you just won.

Both multiply something the hero must already have — Barbed doubles spike damage, Ruthless fattens critical hits — so as a random prize they were either worthless or enormous. They left the prize pool, and the banana, which swaps a passive for a random one, now obeys the same list: it will never hand out Resurrect, Double Attack, Reflect, Reach, Stun, Aegis, Barbed or Ruthless.

A pass over the roster with the power sheet in hand, aimed at the heroes sitting at the very bottom or the very top of their tier. Triggers, targets, scalers and passives moved; the list below shows every change, old text struck through.