Renewal 2026

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• Adjusted multiple passive effects that reduced player agency to now encourage more active battles

• Several hard-to-avoid effects have been made easier to strategically counter

• Reduced the randomness of various effects while increasing their reliability in battle

• Improved a multitude of effects to be more useful in battle

• Various effects that were too general in functionality now have a more focused role

• Many effects now function more consistently

• Adjusted PvP rules for improved general balancing of attackers vs defenders

Adjusted multiple passive effects that reduced player agency to now encourage more active battles

• Vengeful Haunting

  • Ghost form direct damage reduced

  • Ghost form now only dispels 1 buff from the target, instead of all

• Ghosts of Yang Jiang family bonus

  • Mana gained after Ghost form expires reduced

• Thief’s Opportunity

  • Now activates on ally Special Skill cast, instead of automatically each turn

• Cheat Death

  • Added a cap to how much damage the passive can reflect at maximum

• Nine Lives

  • Can now be prevented with status ailments and Passive Skills

• Astral Demon family bonus

  • The cleanse part of the family bonus can now activate only once per turn, instead of any amount of times

• Seedling Summoner

  • Reduced the HP of Seedling and Sapling Fiends

• Empowered Resist Skills

  • No longer boost health on each resist

• Fighter Class Talent

  • Chance for further revives now reduces on each activation

Several hard-to-avoid effects have been made easier to strategically counter

• Ghost forms

  • All Ghost forms are now Stubborn instead of undispellable

• Ambush

  • No longer removes ailments when applied

• Insanity

  • More sources of healing now also slightly reduce Insanity

  • Added a new Passive Skill for Forsaken and The Institute families which reduces Insanity slightly each turn

    • This replaces the Marked By the Old Ones and Branded By the Old Ones Passive Skills

    • Special Skill effects have also been adjusted for balance

• Nine Lives

  • Can now be prevented with status ailments and Passive Skills

• Growth/Wither

  • Critical hits from Special Skills now reduce Growth by 50%

  • Dispelling/cleansing now reduces Growth/Wither by 50%

  • Slightly increased amount of Growth and Wither applied by certain heroes for balance

• Stacks

  • Each Critical hit from a Special Skill now removes 1 positive Stack

  • Dispelling/cleansing now removes 1 positive/negative Stack

  • Buffed certain Heroes’ Stack effects slightly for balance

• Mega Minions and Mega Fiends

  • Mega Fiends/Mega Minions are now damaged when blocking Minions/Fiends from being summoned

• Evolving Fiends

  • Evolving fiends are no longer delayed by healing, but require more turns to evolve

  • The evolution of Fiends will now be blocked if there are any Minions on the same hero

• Cheat Death

  • Now only prevents and reflects damage from normal attacks and Special Skills

  • Can not activate if the Hero is the only member of their team in battle

Reduced the randomness of various effects while increasing their reliability in battle

• Thief’s Opportunity

  • Now Ransacks the enemy with most buffs, instead of a random enemy

• Cheat Death

  • Now reflects damage back to the attacker instead of to a random enemy

• One for All!

  • Activation is no longer chance-based

  • Now activates only from Cover damage, and no longer from Special Skill hits

• Ailment/buff immunity status effects

  • Added a variant of the effect with an activation-based duration instead of a turn-based one, guaranteeing that at least some effects get blocked

    • Affects certain Heroes and the Ailment Immunity Aether Power

Improved a multitude of effects to be more useful in battle

• Wild effects

  • Now have a chance to deal triple instead of double damage

• Status effects increasing Special Skill damage

  • Increased the power of various buffs increasing Special Skill damage

    • This includes the Special Boost Aether Power

• Status effects increasing defense against Special Skill damage

  • Increased the power of various buffs increasing defense against Special Skill damage

    • This includes the Special Armor Aether Power

Various effects that were too general in functionality now have a more focused role

• Valiant Vegetable family: Blossom Mega Fiend

  • Stats adjusted to be more focused on absorbing healing

    • Attack reduced

    • HP increased

• Ambush

  • No longer removes ailments when applied

• One for All!

  • Now activates only from Cover damage, and no longer from Special Skill hits

• Resist Negative Mana Effects

  • Replaced with the Resist Mana Reduction Passive Skill on heroes that had it

Many effects now function more consistently

• Insanity

  • More sources of healing now also slightly reduce Insanity

• Critical hits

  • Now reduce max health in all game modes, not just PvP

  • Critical hits dealt by defense teams and enemies now behave the same way as they do for attack teams

• Astral Demon family bonus

  • Matched the functionality of the family bonus with that of the Beowulf family bonus: now cleanses a random ailment, instead of the most recent one received

• Adjusted PvP rules for improved general balancing of attackers vs defenders

  • Base Critical chance lowered

  • Generally increased the survivability of defense teams