Kapo

HOW TO SUPPORT


Not so rarely new Skylords ask a simple question on Discord or the forums: How can I help? As we all wish for more players, there are things you can do to help to make Skylords Reborn succeed. Skylords Reborn can be supported through many actions, some of them are just two minutes for some clicks, others are a long-term commitment.
Important Disclaimer: This guide does not rank people by importance - these are suggestions how to help the game succeed, ranked by their needed involvement level. Also, you don't have to “climb this ladder” to become part of the Skylords Reborn team.
Hopefully some of these suggestions speak to you, and inspire you to take some action:

 
 SOLDIER
Quick Tier - the most helpful clicks to settle in
Help drive the most essential metric by subscribing to the official Skylords YouTube channel, and like the trailer. Join the Skylords Discord to stay on top of news, and help build an enjoyable community. Subscribe to the other official Skylords Reborn socials: Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and TikTok.  CHAMPION
Basic Tier - become a part of the community
Subscribe to BattleForge content creators, and like their videos if you enjoy them. Participate in events - not just for prizes, but to support event hosts. Make sure beginners are welcomed properly: Answer questions, and play multiplayer maps with them. Read the monthly Community Update and help spread correct information about the state of the project. Interact with forum posts or Discord messages through likes, emoticons etc. - the creators will appreciate that. Make a proper bug report when you encounter a bug or crash. This rarely happens, but: report rule violations, either ingame or on the #contact-staff Discord channel. Suggest the game to people you know that will enjoy a RTS/TCG game, but make sure you coordinate with the Skylords team Outreach Coordinator when contacting high profile people or outlets.  HERO
Dedicated Tier - invest some time to make the Skylords experience better
Accompany some Twitch streamers, while the community is still small, one viewer more or less makes a huge difference. Participate in the votes or share your decks on the SMJ community deck section. Become an educator: Help others understand core concepts like void power or faction mechanics, and give advice on expert maps on the ingame strategy channel or on the deckbuilding channel on Discord. Write a beginner guide or a deck building/strategy guide on the forum, or a more general one like the one you are reading right now. Create something: make a painting, a graphic, a short clip, a song, a text, a meme, an animated GIF or just some cookies, and share it in the art, video or meme channel. Become a sponsor of a community contest/event to beef up its prize pool. Join the discussion and give quality feedback on the Balance Discord.
   SKYLORD
 Invested Tier - halfway down the rabbit hole
Become a Contributor: There are several roles that don't require you to join the team, like Map Tester, Translator, Proofreader, Art Critique, or Internal Tester. Get involved into more detail-focussed Discords, like lore, descriptions, mapmaking, or rPvE. Help maintain the Skylords Reborn Wiki by either adding or updating articles. Create an enjoyable community map. Host an event for other Skylords to enjoy, be it PvE, PvP or something else. Contribute to Skylords Open Source projects. Become a content creator on YouTube, or start to stream the game on Twitch.  

Maybe this rather long list inspired you to help in one way or another. 
As a final suggestion: If you have free resources, you might be interested in joining the Skylords Reborn team and directly work on the game to make it better! Please be aware that almost everybody thinks “I'm not good enough” at first. Don't let that stop you! There are loads of different positions for nearly every skill set. 
 


If you have any suggestion about something I missed, please write it in a comment down below, so I may add it!
Kapo.

Hey all,
the rewards for the 12th official PvE Event "Faction Fusion" have just been sent out.
If you did not receive your reward or you think you received the wrong one, please contact me as soon as possible, so we can set things straight.
Thank you again for participating, we received an overwhelming amount of entries!
The next events are already in the making and one is just around the corner.🌈
See you in the next event!

Feel free to also join our Discord server since most day-to-day activity and communication happens there: https://discord.gg/HkxG8UdNEn 

Feel free to also join our Discord server since most day-to-day activity and communication happens there:  https://discord.gg/HkxG8UdNEn

Hotfix - 10 February 2024

Card Fixes
Resolved movement speed issues: cards like Imperial will no longer get stuck in their slow movement mode.

The winners now also received their prizes.
Besides that, I asked Ultralord to scramble in the statistic, and to answer the questions from the stream:
* The fastest Shadow-start was @Serar, with a time of 14:33.
* The total number of Windweavers played in all games was 710.

Hey Skylords,
If you have a hard time because you are new, I made a low-budget participation run as a blueprint for you:
Deck code: MiIqFDLsSOLuLYFsXKZtYZFYUzMULrLtLYIOMgVsI
Good luck on your run! 😃

Hey Skylords,
If you have a hard time because you are new, I made a low-budget participation run as a blueprint for you:
Deck code: MiIqFDLsSOLuLYFsXKZtYZFYUzMULrLtLYIOMgVsI
Good luck on your run! 😃

Hello Skyladies and Skylords,
Welcome to the twelfth official PvE event!

Quick Overview:
Map                           1-player random PvE, Map of the Month Difficulty                   Your choice! Date                           01.02.2024 until 14.02.2024 23:59 CET Prizes                        Boosters and the recently released cards  
Rules and Goals:
A new update just came to the game a few days ago, so let's use the opportunity to enjoy the fresh content!
... you can choose which faction you play - Stonekin or Lost Souls. ... you are only allowed to build orbs that fit your faction - Frost and Nature orbs for Stonekin, Frost and Shadow orbs for Lost Souls. ... you are allowed to select any of the newly redesigned difficulties, but the higher you go, the better your chances are at amazing prizes!  
What's the Prize Pool?
All entries, that are done at the difficulties Standard, Standard+ and Standard++, as well as Advanced, Advanced+ and Advanced++, will enter a random draw with a 50% chance of winning the new card of their faction (Tectonic Shift / Lost Manabeast), the other 50% will get a faction booster.
All entries done on the difficulties Expert and Expert+ will receive the new card of their faction (Tectonic Shift / Lost Manabeast) AND a faction booster.

 
How can I participate?

Everyone with an ingame account can participate in the event, there is no need to sign up separately.

To enter, you just have to send in your best replay, including the player name and the faction used, to Metagross31 on Discord (metagross31) or the forum (@Metagross31)
Battleforge automatically saves a replay of your last game. You can find your replays here: Documents=>Battleforge=>replays
To save me some time, please rename the replay to the following name format:  <your_faction>_<your_difficulty>_<your_name>.pmv (e.g. "Stonekin_standardplusplus_Majora.pmv")

You can send in your replays until 14.02.2023 23:59 CET.
 
FAQ:
I will update the below as questions are asked throughout the event. 
 
Future events
If you are interested in helping with these kinds of events for the community, or want to host one yourself, don't be afraid and simply reach out!
Send @Metagross31, or @Minashigo Hiko a PM on the forum, or direct message via Discord (metagross31, minashigohiko).
We are happy to assist you with upcoming events and with sponsoring towards your prize pool!
 
We hope you have a lot of fun with this event and are looking forward to seeing all your replays!
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

update:
- added new cards Tectonic Shift and Lost Manabeast
- added random deck generator direct link to the header navigation (https://smj.cards/deck?random=true)
- updated rPvE and Passage to Darkness difficulties for community decks and adjusted the existing decks accordingly
- updated in-game name verification steps
- fixed typo in the filters (Affinity)
- fixed Witchclaws [B] affinity
 
Other card changes in the new patch will be updated at a later date.

Patch #400045 - Revenant's Doom
Welcome to our newest patch. This update contains our tenth balance patch for the game, two brand-new cards, a rework of the rPvE difficulty system, tutorial missions, and many other changes, enjoy!

Patch Preview
Two new cards are now available! Jump in-game to collect Tectonic Shift and Lost Manabeast. Added tutorial missions! New and old players alike can now receive rewards for simple missions meant to explain some of the harder to understand mechanics of BattleForge. A new rPvE difficulty and changes to the existing difficulty system to align it better with the campaign map difficulties. Our much anticipated Lost Souls rework, a large number of buffs to well-designed but underperforming cards, and a change to the neutral unit exclusion rule. A complete rework of the campaign reward system, with individualized upgrades, gold rewards overtime, and gold rewards on-loss.
General Changes
Pause, Speed-up, and Slow-down buttons have been added to the Forge. Standard difficulty has been removed for the 12p maps Passage of Darkness and Ascension. Achievements have been adjusted accordingly.  The game will now remember the difficulty you selected for each map until you restart the game. Removed post-game message "Maximum rank achieved" for those players who are Master of the Forge rank in PvE. The post-game reward screen now always displays the player's current rank and experience earned. A description of the achievement completed has been added to achievement reward mail. Added previews when hovering over card and boosters rewards for achievements.  The networking library used for the client has been updated. Linux users will now need Wine 7.13 or higher to play the game. The game should still work on Windows 7, but support has been discontinued. General Fixes
Improved user interface responsiveness. Longer gaming sessions were previously experiencing slowdowns. Resolved an issue that prevented free PvP decks from being cloned. Fixed a game crash related to map scripts, most commonly affecting the "Titans" map.
New Cards
Tectonic Shift - 50p T3 Stonekin Spell 
You will find the upgrades for this card on the map "King of the Giants".
When thinking about Stonekin's design, we determined that more buildings interactions fit well with the faction. More specifically, we thought that a building-based archetype was the natural expansion for a faction of living stones. Tectonic Shift is a T3 spell that adds a teleport ability to friendly Stonekin, Frost, and Nature buildings. This teleportation ability functions highly similar to Phase Tower's ability as a permanent addition, similar to how Santa and Infernal Chain add new abilities to a unit. For more information, check out Community Update - September 2023.
Lost Manabeast - 120p T3 Lost Souls 
You will find the upgrades for this card on the map "Titans".
As part of our Lost Souls rework, we wanted to add the well-known NPC unit Lost Manabeast to the faction. The player version of Lost Manabeast is a ranged unit, which collects the souls of its victims to reset the revenant timer of allied Lost Souls units. It is a perfect fit for those players wanted to engage in revenant-based gameplay. For more information, check out Community Update - December 2023.
 

Random PvE Difficulty Redesign
A major part of the upcoming update is the addition of a new random PvE difficulty between level 9 and level 10. The significant gap that exists between level 9 and level 10 is well known, and this new difficulty, often referred to as level 9.5, is meant to help players prepare themselves to make the jump into level 10. Alongside this new difficulty, we are also changing the naming scheme of the random PvE difficulties and removing difficulty levels 1 to 3, which are almost never played. We hope this new system will make it easier for players to understand what difficulty is right for their skill level.
[ New Difficulty Naming Scheme ]
Standard difficulty - Old level 4 Standard+ difficulty - Old level 5 Standard++ difficulty - Old level 6 Advanced difficulty - Old level 7 Advanced+ difficulty - Old level 8 Advanced++ difficulty - Old level 9 Expert difficulty - NEW level 9.5 Expert+ difficulty - Old level 10
Campaign Loot Rework
Anyone who plays PvE in Skylords Reborn knows that the most commonly played multiplayer game mode is random PvE. One part of this is due to the ease of matchmaking, you can go to the 4p area and join a random PvE game of any difficulty without needing to jump around the map checking lobbies, and the other part is due to rewards. In most cases, random PvE simply rewards the player better, unless you get lucky while looking for an expensive level 3 upgrade. While our upcoming improvements to campaign map matchmaking will have to wait for a future patch, we are now rectifying the reward discrepancy between the two modes. 
[ Campaign Reward Changes ]
Campaign maps now reward gold over time. The total amount of gold rewarded has been substantially increased at all difficulty levels, even if players previously disenchanted all upgrades. Solo maps and multiplayer maps now give the same rewards. Campaign maps also reward players who lose a map part of the gold they would have obtained had they won. Standard maps reward 70%, advanced maps 40%, and expert maps 25% of the expected gold on-loss. Gold on-loss cannot be earned unless at least 5 minutes have passed in-game. The new Pick reward mode has replaced Random, Need/Greed, and Assign, which have been removed from the game.  Upgrades are now decided on a per-player basis, with each player able to choose the upgrade(s) of their choice. Expert and advanced maps reward 1 upgrade, while standard maps reward 2 upgrades. In the future, players will have the ability to earn more upgrades per map completion under special circumstances. Disenchanting an upgrade now rewards the same gold regardless of the rarity of the upgrade, while also providing the player with PvE experience, depending on the level of the upgrade. 

Tutorial Missions
Twenty-one new tutorial missions have been added to the game. These missions are designed to help new and old players alike to discover basic game features, as well as many of the new functionalities the Skylords Reborn team has added since the game's revival. Completing all 21 missions will reward players with 12 common cards, 8 uncommon cards, 900 gold, and the new in-game title "Lyrish Scholar." These rewards are designed to help new players and function as a supplement to the existing starter decks. All missions are completable within an hour.
Tutorial Missions will be the new focus of attention when opening the rewards window, but focus will revert to quests once the missions are complete. 

 
 

Thanks to @Ultralord for the awesome stream yesterday! If you missed it, here is the YouTube link to it:
 
Also, these were the top players:


You want to know how you stacked up? Here is a list of all times:
Difficulty 6

Difficulty 5

Difficulty 4

Hope you had fun in the event, and see you in the Forge!
Kapo

The winners now also received their prizes.
Besides that, I asked Ultralord to scramble in the statistic, and to answer the questions from the stream:
* The fastest Shadow-start was @Serar, with a time of 14:33.
* The total number of Windweavers played in all games was 710.

The Soulstones and Boosters have been sent out - check your mailbox to find out what you received 🙂

Thanks to @Ultralord for the awesome stream yesterday! If you missed it, here is the YouTube link to it:
 
Also, these were the top players:


You want to know how you stacked up? Here is a list of all times:
Difficulty 6

Difficulty 5

Difficulty 4

Hope you had fun in the event, and see you in the Forge!
Kapo

The winners now also received their prizes.
Besides that, I asked Ultralord to scramble in the statistic, and to answer the questions from the stream:
* The fastest Shadow-start was @Serar, with a time of 14:33.
* The total number of Windweavers played in all games was 710.

Thanks to @Ultralord for the awesome stream yesterday! If you missed it, here is the YouTube link to it:
 
Also, these were the top players:


You want to know how you stacked up? Here is a list of all times:
Difficulty 6

Difficulty 5

Difficulty 4

Hope you had fun in the event, and see you in the Forge!
Kapo

Thanks to @Ultralord for the awesome stream yesterday! If you missed it, here is the YouTube link to it:
 
Also, these were the top players:


You want to know how you stacked up? Here is a list of all times:
Difficulty 6

Difficulty 5

Difficulty 4

Hope you had fun in the event, and see you in the Forge!
Kapo

nice build! 🤯

Great Greetings People of the Sky 🙂
i need to fix my TV Table and decided, when i spend time to paint it -> then make something cool.
And so here it is the SLR TV Table:

 
You can fine the making of it on my YT Chanel under this link:
 
Or find the making as a slide show here:
 
Maybe some of you got inspired and make something too 🙂
See you in the forge, fellow Skylords

Name: As clean as can be
Description: Win a random battleground on standard difficulty without receiving a single point of damage.

(Alternative: BG on standard AND a single-player map on standard, but I couldn't think of a good one except Encounters and Soultree, and those have been used so often in achievements already.)
Reward: Clean Forge

Name: As clean as can be
Description: Win a random battleground on standard difficulty without receiving a single point of damage.

(Alternative: BG on standard AND a single-player map on standard, but I couldn't think of a good one except Encounters and Soultree, and those have been used so often in achievements already.)
Reward: Clean Forge

People of the Sky,

I just sorted everything in, and everybody got a confirmation message. If you didn't receive something from me, please reach out - with 76 entries in total, it's possible I overlooked someone.
Thanks for participating!

After having nothing disputed yesterday, I just sent out all Winners prizes. Congratulations again!
This concludes all business concerning the Crappy Community Contest #12.

I just sent out all random prizes. 
The winner's prizes will be delayed until tomorrow on purpose, in case anything gets disputed - with all the entries there is always the possibility to overlook something.