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Alliance War Season 47 Update
Foreword Welcome back to another season of Alliance War! We acknowledge issues in Season 46, and we have a sister post that will focus on the plan to help alleviate the pressures of this new direction for Alliance Wars. In this post, we will focus on what we plan to do for Season 47, and inform players on new Tactics…
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Alliance War Updates - A Message from the Gameteam
Forward We want to spend some time today talking about the current state and future of Alliance War. The recent unhappiness regarding the difficulty of the Defense Tactic this season has spurred a lot of conversation amongst our players, and the dev team has been listening. Thanks in part to feedback from many in the…
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Re: AI Throwing Fewer Specials + Re-Parrying Issue Situation
Greetings Summoners, We recently made an adjustment to the Defender AI that aimed to reduce the number of Re-Parries that the AI was carrying out, and while that was successful, it also made the Defenders less likely to throw their Special Attacks, which was not a good experience for Summoners. We have undone the Fix to…
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Alliance Quest Milestones Bug - Week of January 15 - Get your Extra Glory!
Greetings Summoners, There is currently a bug where Alliance Quest Peak Milestones are currently acting as regular Milestones, paying out lots of extra Glory. For this week only, we've reduced the number of Milestones available in Alliance Quests, but are going to let Summoners collect all of the Glory Milestones along the…
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Make Good Choices, Summoners - BG Season 13-15, Alliance War
Hello Summoners, As you prepare for your journey into Necropolis we know that a part of tackling big content like this is to get rank-ups and chase champions that help you in other aspects of the game. So to help everyone make the most informed decisions possible, here is an early look at the upcoming seasons of…
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Gladiator and Iron Man - Balance Update
Hey all, Balance Team here again with an update on the latest round of Champions up for review, Gladiator and Iron Man!Gladiator As the summoners' choice champion, many people were excited to see Gladiator join the contest. He was geared towards being a fun and effective attacker with a couple defensive tricks if you block…
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AQ Raids: A Preliminary How-To
Welcome to Alliance Quest Raids! January 15th, 2024 is your first opportunity to experience Raids with your Alliance! Be sure to explore the enlistment options starting on January 8th, 2024! Map Costs - Raid Tickets To enter the raid map you will have to pay 180 Raid Tickets. Map costs for 7 & 8 have been removed but the…
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Photon and Vox - Balance Update
Hey all, Balance Team here again with an update on the latest round of Champions up for review, Photon and Vox!Photon Photon has immediately made her impact felt on the Battlerealm. She was aimed at being one of the toughest Battlegrounds and War defenders that needed a hard counter. She did this by re-visiting the ability…
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Alliance War Season 46 Update
Foreword Welcome back to another season of Alliance War! There are some massive changes upcoming in Alliance War for the end of the year and we are excited to finally share what we’ve been cooking up behind the scenes. To start off with, we finally set some time aside to improve the player experience within Platinum and…
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Updating Rintrah (and info page) in December
Hello Summoners! Coming with the December update, there will be some minor changes to Rintrah, primarily consisting of a rework of his info page. We've rewritten the info page to make his kit much easier to understand and to accurately represent abilities that are currently present in his kit that we feel are not properly…
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Silk and Kindred - Balance Update
Hey Summoners, Balance Team here again with an update on the latest round of Champions up for review, Silk and Kindred!Silk Silk entered the contest aimed at being an Alliance War and Battlegrounds attacker that quickly and efficiently took down some of the scariest mystics. Her value was immediately felt across the…
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Balance Update - Dani Moonstar and Lady Deathstrike
Hey all, Balance Team here again with an update on the latest round of Champions up for review, Dani Moonstar and Lady Deathstrike.Dani Moonstar Dani Moonstar was designed to be primarily Attacker focused, with some minor defensive threats to play around. Her combo of Marked and Slow passives, as well as the brand new…
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AW Season 45 Changelog
Foreword Welcome back to another season of Alliance War! There aren't many changes tee’d up for Season 45, but there are a few matchmaking tweaks we want to introduce to ensure repeat matches happen less often within a given season. Outside of that, we have bigger changes planned for the next season, so stay tuned for…
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Battlegrounds One-Year Anniversary - BG Season 12
OVERVIEW Season 12 marks Battlegrounds’ one year anniversary, as well as Battlerealm Brawl! To help celebrate, you’ll find some new rewards and some juiced up, temporary rewards this season! CONQUER BATTLEGROUNDS For Season 12, Conqueror Summoners will have access to Battlegrounds again! Welcome back! SEASON 12 DATES Start…
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In-Game Store Interface Update
Greetings Summoners! In a few minutes, many of you will be met with a brand-new Store page in-game. This new layout streamlines how you interact with the Store to better locate the sections you're looking for and monthly changes! This update will be rolling out to Summoner slowly over the course of the next 1-2 months, so…
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Champion Restrictions Removed for Acts 6 and 7!
Hello Summoners! We are happy to announce that Champ rarity restrictions have been removed from Act 6 and 7 content! The intentionality behind this is to allow Ascension to feel more impactful in the current state of the game. Thus, if you want to Ascend your favourite 4-Star Champions and roster them to help you through…
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Summoner's Market Update - Sept 28 2023
Greetings Summoners, Earlier this year, we introduced the Summoner’s Market, a web-based store that allows Summoners to make purchases via our Website, often giving better exchange rates for many Summoners, as well as more options for payment. Today, we have introduced a new option for Unit Purchases to the Summoner’s…
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Adam Warlock and Moondragon - Balance Update
Hey all, Balance Team here again with an update on the latest round of Champions up for review, Adam Warlock and Moondragon! Adam Warlock Adam Warlock joined the contest aimed at being a “damage dealing, two-way champion”. Adam hit those goals with amazing DPS once he finishes his ramp and a very solid defensive win rate.…
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More Incursions improvements in "Metal-pool Meltdown"!
Hello Summoners! Last month we dropped a large update where we improved a lot of friction points within Incursions. We're keeping most of those changes with a few small adjustments to the regular format. We're also giving you a new Themed Zone. That means Bosses and regular encounters on the map will all be new. Stay tuned…
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Battlegrounds Season 11 - Victory Track and Gladiator Circuit
OVERVIEW Season 11 will be our first season with seeding and Attacker Buffs! For more information about seeding, please review our post about Season 10! SEASON 11 DATES Start September 13th, 2023 End October 11th, 2023 Say ‘Hello’ Attacker Buffs! For Season 11 and future Season, we’ll be testing giving the attacker more…
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Updates to Enlistment Gifting Event
Summoners, In order to curb some exploitative behaviour that we have discovered, we will adding a restriction to the Enlistment Gifting event. Only accounts started before 21:00 UTC (2pm PT) today will be able to claim the Gifting Badge and gift their Friends and Alliance Mates with Enlistment Crystals. Additionally, we…
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AW Season 44: New Map and Rewards Update!
Foreword This has been a long time coming, but we have another massive update for Alliance War. We’ve not only had a chance to look at streamlining the Alliance War Map for all difficulties, but we’ve gotten a chance to give Alliance Wars a new Reward update, we’ve enabled Relics for Alliance War, and let’s not forget…
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Acts 4 and 5 are getting revamped! - August 16 2023 [Timeline Updated]
Hello Summoners! Effective August 11th, we will be revamping Acts 4 and 5, addressing some pain points that have held Summoners back, and updating the rewards! We will be distributing the reward differential to anyone who completed Act 4 or 5 content in the last 90 days. If you’ve been stuck on Act 4 or 5 (I’m looking at…
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Weekly Arena Hero Announcements
This week's Featured Champion is the surly Yondu! He'll be joined by Dr Strange as the Basic Hero.
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Following up: Changes to drop rates in Act 5 Revamp
Hello Summoners, We're following up as we have seen some questions. With the launch of the Act 4/5 revamp, we have modified the drop rates for consumables in a number of Act 5 quests. This is necessary because, with 7* and Ascension substantially increasing the power ceiling of champion rosters, these quest will become…
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Balance Update: Shocker and Sandman
Hello Summoners! Balance Team here again with an update on the latest round of Champions up for review, Shocker and Sandman!Shocker Shocker entered the contest aimed at battlegrounds and war. Armed with a massive heavy attack and the ability to never crit, he was intended to be able to thrive in a variety of matchups. At…
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Changes to AQ Map 8 Bosses
Hello Summoners! Effective Friday August 4th, we are lowering the attack boost of both Alliance Quest final bosses on Map 8 by 100%. Champions affected: Scorpion Toad Previous Tuning: 500% Champion Boost 300% Health New Tuning: 400% Champion Boost 400% Health Reminder: Champion Boost = Attack + Health These changes mean…
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Battlegrounds Season 10 Details - Battlerealm Brawl Qualifiers!
OVERVIEW Season 10 will be our first season of an extended Victory Track. It will also lay the groundwork leading into the first fully seeded Season. SEASON 10 DATES Start August, 9th, 2023 End September 6th, 2023 Battlegrounds Seeding What is Seeding? Seeding is a new system added to Battlegrounds that allows Summoners to…
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Alliance War Season 43 - Further Delayed
Hello Summoners, After a rocky off-season and a couple delays, we are further delaying the start to the AW Season This will give Summoners more opportunity to settle into pre-season and familiarize themselves with Persistent Placement. Additionally, we are still discussing an appropriate compensation package for this…
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Alliance War Matchmaker Issues
Hello Summoners, Our Alliance War Matchmaker has run into an issue with some (but not all) matchmaking efforts. As a result, we have taken it down to allow our team to work on it and matchmaking will not take place over the weekend. The source of the issue was the clawback of the Mythic Crystal exploits. Any matchmaking…
