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  1. Markus34222 liked a post in a topic by Skylords Reborn in Welcome to our Forum!   
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  2. Markus34222 liked a post in a topic by WindHunter in Patch #400045 - 27 January 2024   
    Card Balance Changes
     

    Global Balance Changes
    Neutral Units are now limited on a per-player basis: 
       - Each player will now be able to play one copy of each neutral units. Neutral buildings are still limited on a per-team basis.
    We have been increasing neutral unit synergies and releasing new neutral cards, but an issue is that if one player is running a neutral archetype, say Ravenheart & Raven Archwalker, the other members of the team are also restricted in their deckbuilding choices. We think this is contrary to the spirit of the game, and since there are no balance considerations preventing a change, we are loosening the restriction while keeping the uniqueness of neutral units intact.

    Balance Changes
    While changes are split here between PvE and PvP sections, many of the changes have important consequences for both game modes. Our PvE and PvP balance teams work closely together to ensure that the impact of all changes are evaluated for both game modes. Below, we have listed both the changes and our reasoning behind them. 
    [ Tier 1 ]
     Envenom:
    1. Base damage: Restored one missing tick on both affinities
    2. Infused Intoxication: Scaling damage: Each time the 80 dmg threshold is reached, the poison damage increases by 10, stacking up to 6 times up to a maximum of 95 damage per second, and refreshing the spell duration.
    This change should allow the card to remain near its current state in PvP by allowing the player to micro their unit away before the poison stacks out of control, while providing a powerful new tool for Nature T1 in PvE as powerful singular units steadily kill themselves by stacking the poison damage higher and higher.
     Mumbo Jumbo:
    1. Power cost: 40p ➜ 50p
    2. Targeting: Units only ➜ Units and buildings
    3. Debuff strength (both affinities): 25% ➜ 35%
    Improve Mumbo Jumbo's usability in PvE by allowing it to target buildings. This will be especially useful with the infused affinity (r) which increases damage taken by 35%. This should help Nature T1 focus down troublesome towers and spawners.
    [ Tier 2 ]
     Earthkeeper:
    1. Damage: 540 dp20 ➜ 660 dp20
    2. Back Up, power cost: 25p ➜ 0p
    Improve use cases for Back Up by removing activation cost and give the card slightly more in-combat power by giving it a 22% damage boost.
     Lost Reaver:
    1. Mob:
       A. Targets: Hostile and friendly units ➜ Hostile units
       B. Corpse cost: 1500 ➜ 2000
       C. Crawler health: 310 ➜ 440 life points
    2. Corpse Gathering maximum amount: 1500 ➜ 2000
    Lost Reaver's ability seems made for PvE, but it has anti-synergy because it damages other friendly units and even its fellow crawlers. We have increased the corpse cost to make it slightly harder to use in PvP, while increase crawler health for better survivability. Additionally, and most importantly, we have removed the ability's friendly fire, which will allow players to spawn multiple crawler groups at a time without worrying about them killing each other instead of the enemy.
     Lost Shade(p):
    1. Tainted Union
       A. Remove existing reflect effect.
       B. New effect, "When surrounded by at least 2 other Lost Shades, each individual unit will deal 61/61/61/68 damage per second and take 15% more damage."
    Lost Shade(p)'s reflection effect has never quite worked, the more shades are in the union, the less damage is actually reflected. Instead of attempting to salvage an affinity effect we think is unfitting to the unit, we have instead decided to make the tainted affinity the true opposite of its frosty counterpart. Tainted Shades will receive more damage but deal more in turn, making them a high risk-high reward option.
     Vileblood(g):
    1. Gifted Liquids (g) healing per wave: 300 life points equally spread ➜ 160 life points, up to 800 in total
    Now works similar to Forest Elder's healing ability, with a separated single-target and multi-target healing amount. There are 6 total healing waves, meaning this changes the spell from 1800 total healing to 960 single-target healing to up to 5 targets. 
    [ Tier 3 ]
     Ethereal Storm:
    1. Charges: 8 ➜ 16
    2. Power: 150p ➜ 130p
    3. Duration: 21 / 21 / 21 / 26 ➜ 25 seconds on all upgrade levels
    4. Now only damages hostile units.
    5. Blessed affinity (b): All enemies in range take full damage, even when frozen (everything does full damage).
    6. Infused affinity (r): Enemy units take 20% more damage.
    7. Remove all stages except 1:
       A. Only one stage, baseline (0 Revenants) and stage 1 (1 Revenant).
       B. Baseline: 40 damage / Stage 1: 100 damage
    The existing scaling effect is bugged, so we are simplifying the mechanic. There is now a base effect and an improved effect if one Revenant is present. This gives LS a consistent damage spell for itself but with reduced effectiveness in helping allies due to a lack of Revenants unless the player also casts Lost Evocation. The affinity effects provide missing things in the faction, such as the ability to ignore freeze's damage reduction.
     Lost Banestone:
    1. Underworld Gate:
       A. Remove existing effect
       B. Add affinities, Tainted and Blessed
       C. Now spawns an own Lost Shade Revenant of the respective affinity
       D. Duration: Infinite ➜ 20 seconds
       E. Cooldown: 60 seconds ➜ 40 seconds
    2. Tainted Underworld Gate (p):
       A. New effect: "Activate to curse the targeted enemy unit. Every second, the targeted unit will lose 40 life points. Additionally, if the target dies, it explodes dealing 300 damage to every enemy in a 10m radius and a Lost Shade revenant with an affinity toward Shadow will spawn out of its corpse with a lifetime of 25 seconds."
    3. Blessed Underworld Gate (b):
       A. New effect: "Activate to curse the targeted enemy unit. Every second, the targeted unit will lose 40 life points. Additionally, if the target dies, Lost Banestone is fully repaired and a Lost Shade revenant with an affinity toward Frost will spawn out of its corpse with a lifetime of 25 seconds."
    4. Glacial ➜ Everlasting
       A. Remove affinities, now one effect
       B. Radius: 25m ➜ 30m
       C. Now suspends the duration of any friendly revenants in the area.
    With its new aura and the ability to generate unbound defenders, Lost Banestone will allow players to transition their T2 offensive units into T3 defenders. This fits in line with the new Revenant-based playstyle we envision for the faction. This will also remove the exploit where Banestone can permanently stop enemies on some cPvE maps from spawning, such as Bad Harvest and Siege of Hope. While this exploit is well known and used, these maps are perfectly completable without them, and they trivialize defending by functionally turning the map off.
     Promise of Life:
    1. Affected units can no longer be healed.
    2. Blessed Revive (b):
       A. Spawn delay: 15 seconds ➜ 10 seconds
       B. Ice Shield strength: 800 ➜ 1500
    Improve blue affinity without impacting the current workaround to spawn extra legendary units. Additionally, add a new effect to both affinities preventing units affected by Promise of Life from being healed. This should especially help in multiplayer, where well-intentioned allies heal units you want to die. 
     Stone Launcher:
    1. Orb cost: 1 Nature, 1 Frost, 1 Hybrid (T3) ➜ 1 Nature, 1 Frost, 1 Neutral (T3)
     Twilight Slayers:
    1. Orb cost: 1 Nature, 1 Fire, 1 Hybrid (T3) ➜ 1 Nature, 1 Fire, 1 Neutral (T3)
    [ Tier 4 ]
     Green Peace:
    1. Protect the Environment! allied buff duration: 20 seconds ➜ 30 seconds
    2. Protect the Environment! (r) damage buff: 50% ➜ 60%
     Infernal Chain:
    1. Orb cost: 2 Shadow, 2 Neutral (T4) ➜ 4 Shadow (T4)
    2. Power cost: 150p ➜ 100p
       A. Spell now costs 50p to cast once applied to the unit.
    3. Ability Rework:
       A. Target: Single-target ➜ Up to 5 enemy units
       B. Bugfix: Allow Infernal Chain's healing to regenerate squad members
    3. Blessed Bond (b) ➜ Tainted Bond (p):
       A. Remove 50% damage reduction for caster ➜ Add healing effect (55 per second) for each bond established
       B. Affected enemies now return 12% of current void power as power from the void
    4. Gifted Bond (g): 
       A. Healing: 75 per second ➜ 55 per second per bond
       B. Stuns affected targets after 5 seconds for 15 seconds.
    Two dedicated Shadow orb decks already have a lot going for them, 3 dedicated Shadow orb decks have both Death Ray and Plague, and Shadow Worm fails to provide a sufficient reason to go Pure Shadow on its own. The changes allow multiple bonds, with healing occurring per bond. This is intended to synergize with Shadow Worm's life loss from Mass Disintegration. Each affinity has a different role: the shadow affinity provides in the field void return, and the nature affinity grants a crowd control effect. 
     Lost Evocation:
    1. Power cost: 150p ➜ 140p
     Lost Spirit Ship:
    1. Torpedo Changes:
       A. Splash Radius: 15m ➜ 10m
       B. Knockback: Remove S & M-knockback
    2. Life points:  3930 ➜ 3630
    3. Power cost: 240p ➜ 230p
    4. Recycling:
       A. Target: Own buildings ➜ Own buildings and Revenants
       B. Cooldown: 10 seconds ➜ 5 seconds
       C. Ability description simplified
    5. Crystal Rework:
       A. Gifted Crystal (g): Damage effect removed, it now only heals
       B. Infused Crystal (r): Grants a +40% movement speed increase to friendly Lost Souls units
       C. Ability description simplified
    Lost Spirit Ship (LSS) is the major damage dealer for Lost Souls, which relies on units to deal damage. Therefore, we would be unable to remove its high damage without providing heavy compensation in other places. Instead of doing a full stat realignment of Lost Souls units, we are focusing on LSS.
    While the changes might look like LSS was significantly nerfed, this is less true than it first appears. First off, the card has the same stat efficiency as previously due to the cost decrease. The splash reduction is a direct nerf, but the removal of S & M-knockback is actually a buff. LSS would frequently knock back units, particularly S-squads, so far that it and other splash cards could no longer damage them. Additionally, there is a hitbox bug with flying S-units which makes it so that when they are knocked back their "click-box" extends over a massive radius. This issue was a major problem for LSS which is supposed to move around the camp to stay safe and to damage enough targets, as the player could no longer click a location to move, but now only press "attack" on the displaced S-unit."
    The crystal is being changed to either heal or increase movement speed, with the pointless spawn zone effect being removed. By allowing it to vacuum up Revenants, we add strong synergy with both Lost Warlord's new ability and Lost Evocation. This means that LSS will scale in strength the more a player invests into Lost Souls.
     Lost Warlord:
    1. New passive, "Undying": 
       A. Blessed Undying (b): The unit's revenant form spawns with an Ice Shield that absorbs up to 3000 damage. The Ice Shield refreshes every 25 seconds. 
       B. Infused Undying (r): The unit's revenant form deals 50% more damage.
    2. Onslaught rework:
       A. Remove affinity
       B. Provides ground presence.
       C. New effect - "Activate for Lost Warlord to project a revenant of himself to a destination within a 40m range. This revenant provides ground presence, has no abilities, and lasts for 25 seconds. Reusable every 30/25/25/25 40/35/35/35 seconds."
    With these changes, we hope to make Lost Warlord into the ultimate Lost Souls card, with a heavy focus on Revenants that synergizes with Nether Warp for quick movement of armies. We view this violation of fundamental game principles to be justified by the card's high orb restrictions and the recognition that by T4, the exploits enabled by teleporting ground presence are largely moot. The blue affinity is being buffed to have a refreshing Ice Shield for when players use cards like Lost Banestone and Revenant's Blessing to extend Revenant life times. This should help to equalize the two affinities.
     Overlord:
    1. Blood Share:
       A. Life point cost: 1000 life points ➜ 1500 life points
       B. Healing: 1500 life points ➜ 1500 life points, up to 7500 in total
       C. Cooldown: 5 seconds ➜ 30 seconds
       D. Ability cost: 0p ➜ 20p
    This change makes Overlord's "Blood Share" work similar to Forest Elder's "Forest Charm" in that it heals the group and the individual in different amounts. The goal here is to allow Overlord to function more fully as a sustain tank for the units it is protecting, as it already does for itself. This will help it to support army-based Shadow compositions, such as Shadow Worms, which is important because Overlord is the only melee Shadow unit in T4.
     Twilight Pestilence:
    1. Power cost: 150p ➜ 120p

    Miscellaneous Changes
    Added Nature faction classes to generic NPC Nature buildings: Mark of the Keeper, Primal Defender, Stranglehold, Healing Well, Living Tower, Root Nexus, Healing Gardens, Howling Shrine, Mindweaver, Gateway of Nature, Temple of Nature, Wheel of Resilience, Wheel of Juvenescence, Wheel of Strength, Earth Crystal, and Fortress of Nature. Added Fire faction classes to generic NPC Fire buildings: Makeshift Tower, Rocket Tower, Blaster Cannon, Pyromaniac, Volcano, Tower of Flames, Gateway of Fire, Temple of Fire, Flame Crystal Added over 20 new Shadow NPC enemies for use in community maps. Includes units, towers, and spawn buildings. Units - Dreadcharger, Forsaken, Skeleton Warriors, Wrath Blades, Nox Trooper, Harvester, Shadow Mage, Mutating Frenzy, Cultist Master, Rifle Cultists, Necrofury, Unstable Demon, Ashbone Pyro, and Grim Bahir. Buildings - Stone of Torment, Lifestealer, Soul Splicer, Time Vortex, Necroblaster, Church of Negation, Embalmer's Shrine, Incubator (small spawner), and Shrine of Greed (large spawner)  Worldbreaker Gun: Fixed animations not playing on U3. Fixed the normal maps of several map objects to correct their interaction with light. Nomad: Improved upgrade description to be more consistent.
  3. Markus34222 liked a post in a topic by Majora in Community Update - January 2024   
    Greetings Skylords!
    A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

     
    • Skylord Reborn 3rd Anniversary

    Happy New Year, everyone! We hope 2024 will be a wonderful year for every one of you! 
    December 2023 marked the 3rd Anniversary of Skylords Reborn, and we are happy you are here to celebrate it with us!
    In case you missed it, we hosted a special Anniversary Stream last Friday, which you can rewatch here. 

    In this Community Update, we would like to take a look back at 2023, and share what 2024 has in store for Skylords Reborn. We have a lot to talk about, so let's get started!
     
    • Looking back at 2023

    Can you believe it's already been a year since we added cosmetics? Here is a quick summary of every patch we released in 2023. 
     
    January 14th, 2023

    Early in 2023, we released our 2nd Anniversary Patch. The patch contained three new cards; Sanctuary, a Tier 4 Nature spell to go along with our ongoing Pure Nature rework, Raven Archwalker, our first Legendary card, and Worldbreaker Gun Promo, the first Promo building in the game. 


    This patch also introduced cosmetics; unlockable ways for Skylords to personalize their banner and avatar border. We also added 32 new achievements, many balance changes, and a ton of Quality of Life features; like a longer Marketplace option, more advanced filtering options including a handy in-game guide, and an import/export deck function.


    February 27th, 2023

    As with most major patches, our follow-up patch was a small one, containing some bugfixes, and the QoL option for players to re-roll the same quest multiple times. The minimum quest reward after re-rolls was changed to 50 BFP. 
     
    April 8th, 2023

    After our successful Halloween Event, we wanted to surprise Skylords with an Easter-themed event. While the map and general idea were received positively, we probably should not have attached a speedrun contest to it. Players expressed playing the map once was fun, but grinding the clunky Egg-push mechanic for the top time turned out to be a bit tedious. 

    Regardless, completing the special map ''The Easter Tree" on any difficulty resulted in the completion of the newly added achievement "Bunny Brawler", which automatically rewarded Skylords with a new Easter-themed banner. We saw that banner equipped a lot around the holidays, so we are happy to see it being received so positively. 

    This patch also contained some bugfixes, and a change to the friend list to display only online friends by default, a much requested change. 
     
    May 19th - 2023

    In May, we released another big content patch, called appropriately called Nature's Awakening. Alongside many Nature-themed changes, the patch also contained one new card: Sleetstorm.

    The spotlight for this patch, however, was on the addition of the Nature faction to rPvE, joining Fire as the second Skylords-Reborn exclusive addition to the game mode. Hodron spend a lot of time balancing the faction and making it fun to play against, which you can read more about in our interview. The patch also contained many balance changes, mostly focusing on our Pure Nature rework. 

    The patch also included many Quality of Life changes, including a single-player pause feature, key-down vs key-up interaction, the ability to copy text or import a deck from the in-game chat, and gold chests being openable in combat. Lastly, the patch also included our first part of our Gold rework, a few campaign map changes, and a rework of the community map section. 


    This rework allows Skylords to have an easier time finding great community-made maps, by showing more information, and having featured maps for maps that are especially good or unique. We also had an event on two of those great community maps: An Expedition South and Lyrish Uprising. We would once again like to stress that every Skylords Reborn installation comes with a Map Editor, so feel free to add your creations to the list! 
     
    July 25th - 2023

    Sadly, the major content patch came alongside some annoying bugs, the most infamous being the lag in the Forge after playing for a while. The issue should be solved, though we still sometimes receive reports of similar behavior. If this is the case for you, please report it to our team to investigate. 
    We also used this occasion to fix some inconsistencies in card descriptions and enabled playback for outdated replays. However, because replays are playbacks (instead of being a video), if cards were used that have since been changed, it can still result in not accurately reflecting the original gameplay. Regardless, it solved a major headache for our Event Department and Community Events to still be able to access replays if the game had been patched in a way that only effected a few cards that were not present in their replays. 
     
    October 28th - 2023

    For our Halloween patch, we added a new Pumpkin avatar for Skylords to unlock by playing the custom map Spooky Encounters once more during the Halloween season. The patch also contained one new card: the long awaited Soulstone. This card saw the longest development cycle yet, but we are very proud of how it turned out. 

    There was one more thing for Skylords to unlock: we released a special Fire-themed Forge, locked behind an achievement we noticed not many players were participating in due to the old lackluster reward. We are happy to see an increase in the completion rate after adding the special Forge. 
    Lastly, we also released a bunch of balance changes, bugfixes, and a batch of Quality of Life changes, like a higher deck-limit (500), a warning notification for queuing up with a low deck level for ranked (pointing towards the free PvP decks), and some improvements to comparing profiles. 

    The Fire-themed Forge can be unlocked by completing the achievement "Never Thought of Him"
     
    December - 2023 -> January 2024

    Originally, our plan was to bring out a patch for our 3rd Anniversary in December. Sadly, we had to delay after crucial staff members became sick. Which brings us to...
     
    • Looking ahead at 2024

    We are kicking off 2024 with our first content patch, and today we are happy to announce the patch date:
    January 26th - 2024

    Our first content patch of 2024 will contain various previously announced features. You can expect to see the new card Lost Manabeast, our overhaul of the rPvE difficulty system, our Lost Souls Rework, balance changes, and quality of life features, like buttons in the Forge to pause, speed up and slowdown. While we are trying to include previously announced cards like Tectonic Shift and Bedrock, technical issues are plaguing their developments, so we can't make the promise they will be included yet. 
     
    2024

    While we are not able to provide a concrete roadmap for 2024, we are able to share some general information about what we have planned for the new year. We have spent a lot of 2023 working on map-content, and we are very excited to share what we have been working on! The following content can be expected further along in 2024: 
     
    New Campaign Maps

    2024 will see the release of some brand-new campaign maps! There are currently four maps in development, three 2-player maps, and one 1-player map. The first two maps you can expect will be Unexpected Visitors and Into the Jungle, which are part of our new Key of Ashia story campaign, filling in some of the questions the original campaign failed to answer. In Unexpected Visitors, you will face the Lost Souls to protect the last Amii tribe, while Into the Jungle tasks you with finding a new safe haven for them. We did a short live-play of Into the Jungle during our stream.

    Unexpected Visitors will be the first new campaign map of Skylords Reborn.
     
    New Cards

    You can expect more new cards, including three for the Amii faction: Amii Golem, Amii Simulacrum and Amii Skydancer, bringing long-awaited higher tier units to the faction. We will reveal more about these new cards in the upcoming Community Updates. 
    Besides new Amii cards, we also have a couple of other new cards in various stages of development. 
     
    More voice-acting

    Alongside voicing our new campaign-maps, we are also working on providing voices for both new and old cards alike. A teaser of the Amii Golem was already heard in the Amii-teaser above, but we also have talented people working on Burning Spears and other cards that patched without voice-lines. 

    To navigate the players through the new campaign, we have also worked on a Frost Skylord named Gaeron, artwork made by our artist Tweeto. Gaeron was an Imperial Captain defending a Lyrish town. He is shortly mentioned in the original lore book in the game, and we thought he would be a fitting candidate to expand upon. We have found a great voice-actor to voice him during our search back in June.
     
    Balance changes

    We are always tweaking cards and looking for opportunities to make underplayed but cards with potential viable, and 2024 will be no different. Be sure to join our balance discord if you want to join the discussion and/or provide suggestions! A lot of the changes in SR are community suggestions, after all!
     
    More Map Content

    2024 will continue our vision of focusing on returning content. We are especially excited about Map Modifiers, special conditions that can be activated on campaign maps to provide new and exciting challenges. Modifiers that increase the defense of enemies, or cause them to explode once defeated, are simple examples that can already impact maps drastically. We plan to bundle these with a highlighted Map of the Day campaign map, resulting in additional rewards for Skylords facing the challenge. 

    Example screenshot of Map Modifiers. Work in progress.

    With new campaign maps, expanding on rPvE and Map Modifiers freshening up the original Campaign Maps, 2024 should be a good year for replayable content! 
     
    • Events

    Kicking off 2024 we also have a new event to enjoy!
     
    • NEW - Amii Training Camp
    While we eagerly wait for new Amii cards, let's find out if you fully master the excising ones! Play rPvE with only Amii Paladins and Amii Phantoms on Tier 2 and see how fast you can get! More information.
     
     • FIRST PHASE - PvP AI programming contest
    We are gathering players for a new type of event. Get ready for an AI Programming Tournament, where the submitted programs will face off in an epic showdown to find the ultimate AI strategist! More information.
     
    In between our monthly Community Updates, we host various events and tournaments, so be sure to keep a close eye on the in-game event tab and the forum calendar to stay informed and not miss out on any exciting events!
     
    • Host your own tournament / event
    Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our other Event Organizers, @Metagross31or @Minashigo Hiko. We can help you out with various topics and are glad to discuss potential ideas. We can also sponsor the prize pool for your event. If you have a cool idea for a PvE event, or want to host a PvP tournament, please don't hesitate to reach out to us, we will gladly assist you.
     
    • Community Spotlight - Masters of the Forge

    In this podcast-like series, Kapo interviews various staff members to discuss the project and personal stories about their interaction with BattleForge and Skylords Reborn. There are currently 10 episodes to watch:
    • Episode 1: Dutchy, Lead Moderator - Watch now.
    • Episode 2: Majora, Project Coordinator - Watch now.
    • Episode 3: Volin, Testing Coordinator -  Watch now.
    • Episode 4: RadicalX, Faction Designer - Watch now.
    • Episode 5: Ult, Server Developer - Watch now.
    • Episode 6: Ultralord, Video Editor - Watch now.
    • Episode 7: Zyna & Ladadoos, Admins - Watch now.


    • New: Episode 8: Maze, Web Developer - Watch now.
    In this episode, Maze and Kapo talk about the moderation tool, different APIs, and of course in great detail about Maze' wonderful website, the Skylords Marketplace Journal (www.smj.cards)
     
    • New: Episode 9: Windhunter, Lead Designer - Watch now.
    In this episode, Windhunter and Kapo talk all about design, the priorities of picking what to change next, the state of the economy and loads of submitted questions from Fire-Frost to Deepdives, and what's upcoming in the next months and years. 
     
    • New: Episode 10: Emmaerzeh & Hodron - Watch now.
    This episode is all about the art of map-making, in all variations from campaign, rPvE and PvP-maps; with a highlight on how (community) mapmaking is done.
     
    • Contribute

    Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 volunteers. We are always on the lookout for like-minded individuals. If you have a passion for gaming, programming, design, or marketing, we invite you to have a look at our open positions!


    We are especially looking for an active and passionate outreach coordinator, helping us reach new Skylords by contacting streamers, influencers, media, and other potential parties. This role can make a drastic impact for Skylords Reborn! More information.
    Please consider applying for this position; we would love to gather both new and old players alike in 2024 to check out our new campaign maps. We are also looking for someone who can help us with our newsletter. 
    Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member.
     
    • In Conclusion

    That's all for this Community Update! We appreciate you taking the time to read through it.
    As is tradition, we're including a scratch code as a small token of our appreciation for your support.
    The code will reward you with a General booster: LOOK-BACK-YEAR-2023
    The code is valid until February 1st, when we will bring you another Community Update. 
    We're always looking for ways to improve and value your feedback. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please don't hesitate to share them with us. We'll be back next month with more updates on our ongoing projects and upcoming features. You can also sign up to our e-mail newsletter here. 

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  4. Markus34222 liked a post in a topic by Majora in Community Update - August 2023   
    Also a special shout out to Ultralord who celebrated his 1 Year of Streaming on Twitch! 🥳 

    He spend the last 12 months with over 160 hours on 100 streams, showcasing 22 events, 120 replays and was joined by over 40 co-hosts. So go show him some love 🙂 
     
  5. WindHunter liked a post in a topic by Markus34222 in Patch #400042 - 19 May 2023   
    So many adjustments again - thanks for the great work!
    The biggest change for me is that hotkeys are activated when a player first presses a key. The game feels so much nicer and smoother now. It's a high-quality change, in my opinion.
  6. Markus34222 liked a post in a topic by WindHunter in Patch #400042 - 19 May 2023   
    Card Balance Changes

    Global Balance Changes
    Random PvE Boss Leader Immunity:
       - Added Steadfast to all rPvE bosses.
    Ranged attack delays re-randomized:
       - Towers and ranged units are now assigned a randomized 0.3-0.7 second delay on a per-attack basis instead of a standardized 0.5 second delay on spawn. This only modifies cards affected by the bug, many ranged units and towers will be unaffected by the change. 
    Last patch, we changed the randomized attack delay assigned on spawn from ranging between 0.1-1.1 seconds to a standardized delay of 0.5 seconds. While this successfully achieved our goal of making each unit and tower a player spawns equal, it introduced other problems. The chief concern reported by the playerbase was an aesthetic one. While previously battles in BattleForge felt very alive, with units and towers on each side attacking continuously, with the standardized delay combat started to feel more turn-based. Your units would attack, their units would attack, then your units would attack again. This also led to easy kiting of enemies, particularly NPC enemies, because you could play around the standard delay to unleash volleys of attacks then retreat until the next volley was ready. Given the widespread and consistent feedback we received that something unique to the BattleForge experience had been lost by this change, we decided to pursue a few alternative solutions that would fix both the old and the new problems. The solution we settled on was to re-add the attack delay with a smaller range and to make it apply on a per-attack instead of a per-spawn basis. This means each affected unit or tower will have a slightly different attack speed for each attack, but will on average have the same attack speed over a long enough period. The chaotic nature of combat should also return, with both sides continuously attacking instead of engaging in a semi turn-based encounter.
    Revenant's Doom Costs Standardization:
       - Standardize Revenant's Doom costs by tier, with an increasing discount as the tiers progress: T2: 75%, T3: 65%, T4: 50% of unit's normal power cost
    NPC Building Power and Orb Cost Fix:
       - All NPC buildings now have an assigned power and orb cost. 
    Similar to how we fixed the missing power and orb costs for NPC units several patches ago, we have now given each NPC building its own power and orb cost. One motivation for this change is to allow us to add new cards and card abilities that can be limited in terms of which buildings they can and cannot be taken over, which would otherwise not be possible. A second motivation is to create consistency between NPC buildings. Prior to this change, buildings added with Fire rPvE had properly assigned costs, which is also true of the new Nature rPvE buildings, while the original buildings did not. This created a major inconsistency between and within game modes in regard to Matter Mastery, making it difficult or impossible to know when to bring one or the other affinity. A third motivation was to create a real distinction between the two existing affinities of Matter Mastery. Previously, before this change, the nature affinity could overtake every building in the game, meaning there was no real reason to use the tainted affinity or for it to exist. At the same time, we do not want to strongly nerf the nature affinity, which we do not view as inherently problematic. As such, as part of this change, we are also changing the nature affinity of Matter Mastery to work on T3 buildings, up to a power cost of 140p. Below, we have listed each building affected by this change and what will be its new tier and power cost.
    Tier 2 - 100p
    Bandit Launcher, Stonekin Hurler, Twilight Infected Tower, Lost Launcher
    Tier 3 - 140p
    Bandit Sky Defender, Bandit Waystation, Bandit Wizard Tower, Stonekin Deepgorge, Stonekin Launcher, Stonekin Shatterer, Twilight Fleshbender, Twilight Hatecaster, Twilight Skyscorcher, Lost Banestone, Lost Converter, Lost Disruptor
    Tier 4 - 200p
    Bandit Artillery, Stonekin Hammerfall, Stonekin Shredder, Twilight Bombard, Twilight Willsapper
    XL-unit Turn Speed Increase:
       - Increased the turn speed of all player XL-units based on category.
    Ground XL: 25% faster turn speed
    Flying XL: 40% faster turn speed
    Worm XL: 200% faster turn speed
    Global Disenchant Hostile versus Friendly Root Distinction:
       - Disenchant's immunity no longer prevents the application of the Immobile, Immobileroot is still prevented.
    BattleForge has two types of root effects, one called Immobile and the other Immobileroot. The distinction between them is that Immobile is only applied by friendly effects, while Immobileroot is applied by hostile effects. This change makes it so that a friendly effect which causes a unit to be rooted in place is no longer prevented by Disenchant's immunity effect. The primary reason behind this change is that effects which self-root a unit or its allies are baked into the balancing considerations of a card and its effects. The ability to bypass this downside, which has become easier as we have added, and likely will continue to add, more ways to apply Disenchant, has therefore become a constant balance consideration for both upcoming and existing cards. We are forced to ask ourselves if we can really buff Forest's Vim if we have to account for a Razorleaf that can walk around at normal speed, attacking the entire time. As we work on campaign maps with longer T4 sequences, we have to consider that a player can summon a Dreadnought and have it permanently stay in its Pledge of the Giants mode while walking around, trivializing vast portions of the map with ease. In such cases, do we nerf the Dreadnought and the Razorleaf, or do we nerf the mechanic which is causing the issue? Our decision was to nerf the Disenchant interaction.
    Squad Position Fix:
       - Game now checks and updates the Squad position to the unit position if they are too far away from each other.
    Any unit has two positions. A squad position and a unit position, which is equal to what we see on screen. This position tends to be close or equal to the units position itself but seems to behave slightly different for some actions. For example,. a Magma Hurler will shift his squad position slightly behind himself when attacking. This is not problematic. But some actions lead to only the unit position being updated while the squad position remained stationary. Prime candidates for this are hold position orders or rooting effects. The squad position can remain at the initial spot while the unit including its unit position can move to attack. Squad position is used by many abilities and spells to check if they should apply to the corresponding unit. Meaning, a unit with a squad position far away from its unit position would no longer be hit by things like CC or AoE attacks targeting the unit position. The fix going live now checks and updates the Squad position to the unit position if they are too far away from each other. Worms are not included here due to issues with worm movement.

    PvE Balance Changes
    While changes are split here between PvE and PvP sections, many of the changes have important consequences for both game modes. Our PvE and PvP balance teams work closely together to ensure that the impact of all changes are evaluated for both game modes. Below, we have listed both the changes and our reasoning behind them. 
    [ Tier 1 ]
     Banner of Glory:
    1. Life points: 500 ➜ 300
    2. Void return percentage: 33% ➜ 40%
    Higher percentage void return will allow more efficient cycling of lower tier units into real power. The life points were lowered to avoid situations in PvP where it becomes too strong, such as offensively inside an Aura of Corruption.
     Decomposer:
    1. Void return percentage: 50% ➜ 60%
     Frost Mage:
    1. Remove knock back from damage cone
    2. Add non-damaging cone with reduced range, that applies knock back. A 33m knock back cone should result in Frost Mage consistently applying damage to squads she attacks, fixing the issue where units are knocked outside of her damage range, but she continues to attack them anyway.
     Imperials:
    1. Add passive, "Protected Rush:" While under the effect of an Ice Shield, the unit gains significantly increased movement speed.
       A. Only works while Defensive Stance is active
       B. Movement speed while shielded = 4.8 m/s
    Improve Frost Sorceress and Ice Shield Tower synergy with Imperials. 
     Scorched Earth (p):
    1. Tainted Deconstruction (p):
       A. Damage debuff: 50% ➜ 75%
       B. Remove “The erection of buildings that are presently under construction will be interrupted and it will not be possible to repair anything.” from functionally and description.
    The increase of Scorched Earth(p)'s debuff allows it to become a semi-suppression of buildings in a large area (20m) and to protect your fragile Fire units in PvE. We removed the construction-suppression effect to reduce double-scorched usage in PvP, which also gives each affinity a role in either PvE or PvP. 
     Snapjaws:
    1. Remove Splash Damage: 5 damage, up to 9 in total ➜ 7 damage
    Snapjaws have an abysmal splash radius of only 3m. This is so small it effectively does not exist and only serves to reduce the unit's damage against squad units. We are removing the splash and changing the unit's damage to single-target. This increases the unit's single-target damage from 138 to 193 dp20, a +40% increase in total effective damage. This will change the damage of Satanael's Snapjaws from 414 dp20 to 579 dp20.
     Tunnel:
    1. Power cost: 40p ➜ 35p
    2. Life points: 880 ➜ 600
    Encourage Tunnel play by slightly lowering cost. HP reduction to prevent issues with an overly health efficient Tunnel.
     Witchclaws:
    1. Power cost: 65 ➜ 70
    2. Damage: 630 ➜ 680
    3. Add passive, "Corpse Gathering:" Harvests energy from nearby corpses equal to their former maximum life points to enable more powerful explosions. A maximum of 3000 life points can be stored at once.
    4. Infiltration Rework:
       A. Damage (both affinities): 330, up to 1650 in total damage + up to 600 damage per target, up to 5 targets in total based on the number of corpses gathered
       B. Enable splash overflow fix for ability.
       C. Both affinities now damage units and buildings.
       D. Explosion radius: 20m ➜ 15m
       E. Fire affinity: Additionally, when 3000 corpses have been gathered, Witchclaws deal 50% more damage after teleporting.
       F. Shadow affinity ➜ Frost Affinity: Additionally, when 3000 corpses have been gathered, Witchclaws take 50% less damage after teleporting.
    [ Tier 2 ]
     Breeding Grounds:
    1. Power cost: 70p ➜ 90p
    Breeding Grounds is one of the stronger cards in the game and has some of the best scaling of any T2 card or building. At only 1 Nature orb and available as easy as T2, it grants a permanent -25% discount to all own and allied units. While the card is something of a third rail due to its popularity, now that we have significantly buffed nearly all parts of Nature, we believe it is time to give the card a minor nerf. When considering what to do with the card, we considered several options, such as making the discount scale upwards or downwards with tier (i.e. 15% discount if player is T2, 20% if T3, etc.) or just nerfing the -25% discount outright. In the end, we settled on a slap-on-the-wrist nerf, at least initially. The increased bound power will delay players initially in T2, but only cost them 2 extra permanent power if they destroy the building. At the same time, the increased bound power cost should encourage players to actually destroy Breeding Grounds made obsolete by map progression, and it will provide a much needed nerf in the PvP game mode as well. 
     Burrow Ritual:
    1. Orb cost: 1 Nature, 1 Neutral (T2) ➜ 1 Nature (T1)
    Reducing the card's tier should allow more synergy with Tunnel, allowing for more strategies to emerge and helping to better justify Burrow Ritual's inclusion in a deck.
     Defenders:
    1. Crossbow Attack damage: 9 per shot (540 dp20) → 10 per shot (600 dp20)
    2. Life points: 810 → 750
    Stat realignment to make Defenders more viable offensively and a more attractive option. Life points are worth less than damage when considering stat efficiency, particularly amongst ranged units in PvE.
     Earthkeeper:
    1. Fixed a bug which allowed Earthkeeper to make connected units immune to all damage while also not affecting Earthkeeper. 
     Lost Priest:
    1. Exhaustion:
       A. Cast range: 30➜ 40m
       B. Total targets: 5 ➜ 10
       C. Debuff Timer: 20 sec ➜ 30s
       D. Jump speed increase
       E. Debuff strength: 30% ➜ 40%
    Improvements to Lost Priest's support capacity will help its viability in PvE, particularly in combination with other units such as Lost Shade and Lost Dancer. 
     Matter Mastery (g):
    1. Gifted Takeover (g): maximum of 2 orbs and 100 power costs ➜ maximum of 3 orbs and 140 power costs
    See Global Balance Changes above for more details. We are also considering more substantial changes to the tainted affinity in a future update. 
     Revenant's Blessing:
    1. Charges: 8 ➜ 12
    2. Radius: 20m ➜ 25m
    3. Gifted Immortal healing: 15 ➜ 30 life points per second
    4. Infused Immortal damage: 25% ➜ 30% more damage
    5. Bugfix: Allow overlapping Revenant's Blessings to reapply the effect without requiring the unit to exit and re-enter the area.
    We are working towards improving the current use case of Revenant's Doom through direct buffs to it and through improving its support tools. With this change, Lost Shades are usable without needing Viridya and the spell scales better into the higher tiers for those you want to use revenants. More support to the faction and to revenants in particular will come in the next patch when we finish the rest of the upcoming Lost Souls rework. 
     Root Nexus:
    1. Orb cost: 1 Nature, 1 Neutral (T2) ➜ 1 Nature (T1)
    2. Life points: 850 ➜ 650
    Moving Root Nexus to T1 gives Treespirit a much-needed support card. Life points reduced to prevent too health efficient blocking options in T1. 
     Spikeroot:
    1. Waves per root attack: 2.5 spike waves ➜ 2 spike waves
    2. Damage per wave: 100, up to 150 in total ➜ 125, up to 190 in total (+25% increase)
    Overall damage remains identical. Spikeroot now always deals the same damage at each point in its attack, instead of having high and low points. 
     Sunken Temple:
    1. Added Mode-change, "Hibernate:" Pest Creepers enter a state of dormancy and are no longer summoned.
    2. Pest Creepers now aggro against enemies in an area around the Temple.
    The new mode change will allow the player to temporarily turn off Pest Creepers. This will be especially helpful when using a large number of Sunken Temples, which quickly fill up the unit population limit, and you want to summon new non-Creeper units. The other change will make it so that Pest Creepers no longer stand around waiting for enemies to either attack them or move within a short distance. They will now actively aggro on enemies that come within a moderate radius around the Temple which spawned them. Overall, these changes should make the card function much more fluidly. 
     Unholy Power:
    1. Stored Strength (ammo): 2000 ➜ 3000
    2. Ammo is refreshed whenever Unholy Power is recast on a unit already affected by another instance of Unholy Power.
    3. Bugfix: Unholy Power no longer decays all remaining ammo when a previous instance of the spell expires. 
    Unholy Power is a highly inconsistent spell, and a lot of that regards bugs in its original implementation. By fixing the decay issue, new applications of Unholy Power existing concurrently with previous applications should no longer be removed by older instances expiring. Additionally, new applications, in addition to continuing to stack additively, now refresh the card's ammo pool back to full. On top of these important changes to the card's functioning, we also increased its total strength pool by 50% from 2000 to 3000 which should help it to scale better into T3. With all these changes, Unholy Power should become a significantly stronger and more consistent buff spell.  
     Viridya (normal and promo versions):
    1. Viridya’s Blessing is now able to restore lost squad members
     Wallbreaker:
    1. Orb cost: 1 Fire, 1 Neutral (T2) ➜ 1 Fire (T1)
    Opens up several early use cases for the card on Titans, Dwarven Riddle, and Sunbridge. 
    [ Tier 3 ]
     Abyssal Warder:
    1. New Active ability for large and medium-sized golems, "Reassemble:" Bond with two other Abyssal Warders of the same size in a 20m radius to reform into an Abyssal Warder of a larger size.
    2. Frost affinity effect, Ice Shield duration: 15s ➜ 30 seconds
    There is a large disparity between the usefulness of the two Abyssal Warder affinities in terms of effects. The fire affinity (r) provides a permanent buff, while the blessed affinity (b) only grants an Ice Shield for 15 seconds. In an attempt to partially remedy this issue, we have doubled the length of the smaller Warders' Ice Shields to 30 seconds. Additionally, we have finally been able to add a new effect to the small and medium sized Warders which will allow them to rebuild themselves into a larger Warder. Reassemble requires 3 Warders to work, meaning that it is not inherently efficient, though it provides another strong synergy with Promise of Life and builds on the buffs to Abyssal Warder last patch. 
     Blood Healing:
    1. Charges 12 ➜ 16
     Thornbark:
    1. Melee damage: 1400 dp20 ➜ 1550 dp20
     Mutating Frenzy:
    1. Sacrifice cooldown: 15 sec ➜ 5 sec
     Santa Claus:
    1. Blue Gift, Red Gift, Christmas Peace cooldown: 60 seconds ➜ 40 seconds
     Satanael:
    1. Fealty (both affinities):
       A. Cannot be activated if the player is at or above 125 population. 
       B. Summoned Snapjaws damage: 200% ➜ 120%
    Removing all instances of infinite spawning in the game due to the attendant performance issues they cause. Buffing Snapjaws individually as compensation. Overall, the damage of each summoned Snapjaws squad is increased slightly. 
     Shrine of Martyrs:
    1. Void return per frozen unit: 12% ➜ 18% of current void pool
    2. Bugfix: Void return effect is no longer triggered multiple times per entity.
    Regular users of Shrine of Martyrs know that the void return effect is often inconsistent. The same group of enemies could provide wildly different void return rates when frozen due to the fact that the effect would switch between applying once or multiple times per enemy. We fixed this inconsistency, but it left the shrine, which is likely already the weakest of the four standard options, even weaker. As such, we have given it a large +50% buff to its void return percentage in compensation for removing the existing bug. This change will allow players to develop an intuitive understanding of how much void is actually returned per frozen enemies. The percentage we chose is a bit of a guess and is subject to change based on the feedback we receive from player testing.  
     Shrine of War:
    1. Orb cost: 1 Fire, 2 Neutral (T3) ➜ 2 Fire, 1 Neutral (T3)
    When we first began nerfing cards, many people asked us when we were planning on touching Shrine of War. We previously delayed any changes to the card due to its importance to the rPvE game mode at all levels and because other factions, such as Frost and Nature, lacked sufficient methods of void return, an aspect we think is integral to the balance of all factions. Now that all factions have a viable method of void return, we have decided to give Shrine of War a nerf. We were between the two ideas of nerfing its void return percentage or increasing its orb restrictions. While Shrine of War has by far the most efficient void return when accounting for multiple players out of all the available options, we decided that we did not think its efficiency was outside the line of acceptability, but that the Shrine was too splashable compared to the other options. As such, we choose to leave Shrine of War as the best void return shrine in the game, but to require the player to invest into 2 Fire orbs to access it. 
    [ Tier 4 ]
     Altar of Chaos:
    1. Change Nether Bomb cast range to work like spells instead of like units & buildings. Still limited to own ground presence only.
    This seemingly small change substantially increases the positioning capacities of the Nether Bomb and allows own units to be much farther away when placing bombs. 
     Battleship:
    1. Barrage damage per shot: 550, up to 3300 in total ➜ 800, up to 2400 in total
    Battleship's ability has a long range of 50m and can be used to snipe out enemies far into the enemy's backline while remaining safe itself. The ability has a very large amount of splash damage, able to fully damage up to 6 enemies in its target radius. At the same time, the target radius is only 12m making it very unlikely there are 6 enemies to damage. Additionally, despite its long animation and unleashing 5 shots, the single-target damage is not even able to destroy a large spawn building. We are reducing the total splash damage in favor of higher single-target damage, increasing the damage dealt to one target from 2750 to 4000 in total. 
     Cluster Explosion (p):
    1. Tainted Burst radii per successive explosion: 25m / 20m / 15m / 10m / 5m ➜ 25m / 20m / 15m / 12m / 10m
    Increased the radius of the explosion for the 3rd and 4th waves of Cluster Explosion (p). These radii were so small, they often failed to hit any enemies. By increasing them, we hope to give a slight buff to this affinity in ideal situations with a lot of closely clustered enemies. 
     Earthen Gift:
    Earthen Gift Redesign
    1. Charges: 4 ➜ 8
    2. Infused Earth (r) ➜ Blessed Earth (b):
       A. Damage buff: 30% ➜ 50%
    3. Tainted Earth (p) ➜ Gifted Earth (g):
       A. Affects Elemental units, not structures
       B. Remove "Every hostile building in the current game will deal 50% less damage."
       C. Damage buff: +50% more damage
       D. Healing per second: 10% ➜ 5%
    Earthen Gift is one of the worst cards in the entire game. Before Reforging, its normal price was 3 BFP despite being a Rare spell. As Stonekin's Pure T4 spell, it ought to be one of the reasons why a player goes 2 Nature and 2 Frost orbs, but right now it is a waste of a card slot. The card's existing identity is as a combined buff and healing card, but it is restricted to only work on structures. Even on structures it is not useful.
    Instead of completely rejecting the card's initial design, we are attempting to improve on it for the one affinity by increasing the damage buff where it may prove useful upon the release of defensive rPvE. For the other affinity, we are swapping its effect from structures to elemental units, which includes all Stonekin units, and modifying its heal and damage buff accordingly. The idea is to potentially allow the spell to replace Regrowth while also giving Stonekin access to a minor damage buff for itself and any other friendly elemental units. Between this and the Grinder buff, Stonekin's T4 should feel significantly stronger.
     Evil Eye:
    1. Damage now ticks every 0.5 seconds instead of every 1 second. Rage still takes the same amount of time to activate.
    2. Initial damage delay for Evil Eye's Searing Sight has been removed. Damage will now starts as soon as Evil Eye targets an enemy.
     Grinder:
    1. Harmony: Added a yellow bar akin to Mountaineer showing when the healing effect will next occur.
    2. Provoke (both affinities): Single target ➜ All enemies in a 15m radius
       A. Infused Provoke Buff: 50% more damage ➜ 75% more damage
    Quality of life change to Grinder's harmony ability. Added some increased strength and flexibility to Grinder's taunt by allowing it to affect multiple targets in a small area. This will also allow Grinder (r) to taunt the empty air versus bosses, allowing it to still generate the personal damage buff, which has been increased to +75%, regards of whether or not any enemy units are actually taunted. Stonekin struggles against strong single target enemies such as bosses and this is one step in an attempt to remedy that without damaging the faction's existing identity.
     Lost Evocation:
    1. Charges: 4 ➜ 8
    2. Cast time reduction: 2 seconds ➜ 0.8 seconds
    3. Infused Revenant damage buff: 50% ➜ 100%
    The charge increase allows Lost Souls to get access to its primary support spell without having to use two deck slots on Rifle Cultists + Offering. The cast time reduction prevents the use of both Evocations simultaneously, while the buff to the fire affinity (r)'s damage buff makes it a more compelling option for a faction whose main damage dealing occurs through units.
     Shadow Worm:
    1. Increase turn rate of disintegration turrets: 200 ➜ 260
     Tempest:
    1. Whirlwind splash radius: 5m ➜ 8m
     Twilight Pestilence:
    1. Damage: 44 ➜ 64 life points per second
    2. Healing (both affinities): Both affinities now heal friendly Twilight units by equivalent damage as they deal to enemies.
    3. Change Gifted Affinity (g) ➜ Infused Affinity (r)
       A. Add +30% damage buff for friendly Twilight units
    Improvements in nearly all aspects of Twilight's marquee spell. Previously, the blessed affinity (b) was the only one worth using due to the damage reduction it provides. We decided to roll the healing effect of the gifted affinity (g) into the base spell and create an alternative damage buff variant instead. The goal with this change is to allow Twilight Pestilence to be a more flexible spell, one able to provide a supportive effect while also clearing minor enemies and recovering chip damage to player units that might otherwise prompt the player to cast an additional healing spell. 
     Void Maw:
    1. Void Shear ability cost: 75p ➜ 60p
    [ Tower Changes ]
    It is the general principle of the faction design team not to change abilities or introduce complex mechanics needlessly. Cards should generally perform a single function and perform that function well. A lot of the buildings in the game are already well-designed, but lack sufficient stats or possess too strict of requirements. As such, we have opted wherever possible to introduce simple changes to bring towers up to the appropriate power level. If you would like to learn more about our thought process behind the tower changes, please head to Skylords Reborn Documents to read our design Deep Dive on Towers, as well as other design documents. 
    Tower Targeting Fixes:
    1. Changed the damage delay of the auto-attacks for a large range of towers to the standard delay of 0.1 sec. These towers should now have an easier time hitting moving targets, including swift units. 
       A. Affects the following towers, including both affinities when applicable: Artillery, Hammerfall, Defense Tower, Lifestealer, Northern Keep, Primal Defender, Twilight Bombard, Tower of Flames
     Blaster Cannon:
    1. Splash radius: 5m ➜ 8m
    2. Tainted Magma: 15m ➜ 20m
     Defense Tower:
    1. Splash radius: 5m ➜ 8m
     Howling Shrine:
    1. Essence Bolts firing arc: 90 degrees ➜ 135 degrees
    2. New passive, “Restoration:” Regenerate 30 life points every second.
    To truly fulfill its role as a fortress and to provide a meaningful choice between itself and Razorleaf, Howling Shrine must be a self-sufficient defender able to justify the massive amount of space it occupies. The restoration effect will allow the tower to persist even absent player attention or when facing continuous attack waves that prevent repair. The increase to the firing arc of its main weapon is a much needed change. Prior to this, Howling Shrine could only target most enemies with one turret at a time and XL units with two turrets only if the tower was positioned perfectly with respect to the XL unit's path. The tower should now be able to target units of all sizes with two turrets in most cases. 
     Lifestealer:
    1. Splash radius: 5m ➜ 8m
    2. Still alive regeneration: 5 life points per second ➜ 8 life points per second
    3. Sacrifice cooldown: 15 seconds ➜ 3 seconds
     Lost Disruptor:
    1. Damage: 300, up to 330 in total ➜ 300, up to 450 in total (3000 dp20)
    2. Splash radius: 5m ➜ 10m
    3. Disruption cost: 50p ➜ 20p
    Increase Lost Disruptor's effectiveness against multiple enemies. Also, Lost Disruptor's ability is one of the better counters to Shrine of Memory in 2v2 PvP. By decreasing the cost, we better enable players to make use of the card simply for its ability effect.
     Northern Keep:
    1. Splash radius: 5m ➜ 8m
     Primal Defender:
    1. Earthstrike splash radius: 5m ➜ 8m
    2. Cloudstrike:
       A. Damage (add splash): 225 ➜ 250, up to 375 in total (2030 dp20)
       B. Splash radius: 0m ➜ 8m
    Buff to Primal Defender's anti-air capacity. This leaves it as a middle ground between a non-raged and a fully raged Blaster Cannon, and should hopefully allow the tower to better aid Nature T1 in dealing with anti-air threats, particularly those which can counter small and medium units.
     Rocket Tower
    1. Orb cost: 2 Fire ➜ 1 Fire, 1 Neutral
    2. Power cost: 80p ➜ 70p
    3. Life points: 2000 ➜ 1480
    4. Rocket Barrage:
       A. Total rockets: 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 ➜ 4 on all upgrade levels
       B. Attack speed: Every 5 seconds ➜ every 4 seconds
       C. Damage per rocket: 85 ➜ 90 (900 dp20)
    Fire T2 currently lacks a splash tower, while Pure Fire T2 has 2 towers. We think Pyromaniac sufficiently fills the slot of T2 tower for Pure Fire, so we are transitioning Rocket Tower into a splash card. As part of this change, we will be cutting down on its large pool of life points while otherwise increasing the consistency of Rocket Tower, both in terms of knockback and damage dealing. Even with the cost decrease, this change will make Rocket Tower mildly less stat efficient against large groups in exchange for a lower start up cost and the ability to consistently knockback multiple enemies due to the fixed targeting and increased rate of fire. These changes should allow Rocket Tower to fulfill its role as a knockback-centric tower while its high damage allies provide the necessary fire power. 
     Skydefender:
    1. Damage: 128 up to 192 in total ➜ 153 up to 230 (2300 dp20)
    2. Life points: 1400 ➜ 1600
    3. Range: 40m ➜ 50m
    4. Splash Radius: 5m ➜ 8m
    Substantial buff to Skydefender to give it more teeth against the T3 and T4 air threats it is designed to counter. The range increase will make it able to fight back against Raven Battleships, which are one of the most common flying enemies in the campaign. 
     Time Vortex (p):
    1. Tainted Void Shock (p), attack speed increase void levels: Above 150, 300, 600, 1200 void ➜ Above 100, 200, 400, 800 void
    Improve the efficiency of the tainted affinity (p) by decreasing the amount of void which is required to trigger each attack speed increase.  
     Volcano:
    1. Power cost: 150p ➜ 200p
    2. Damage: 581, up to 872 (3990 dp20) ➜ 766, up to 1149 (5270 dp20)
    3. Life points: 4390 ➜ 5690
    4. Infused Eruption (r) Rage:
       A. Rage scaling: 100% 1st stage, 200% 2nd stage ➜ 75% 1st stage, 150% 2nd stage
       B. Rage reset timer: 7 sec ➜ 10 seconds
    5. Lava Sea:
       A. Radius: 25m ➜ 30m
       B. Bugfix - Lava Sea now works as described
       C. Added a new visual effect
    The goal is to make Volcano more "dense" by increasing its power cost and then adjusting its stats accordingly. Making each Volcano more powerful helps to mitigate the tower's large size and also makes it a better target for building buff effects such as those provided by Frost's Skyelves. Total damage when enraged is slightly increased despite the Rage nerf (12,000 dp20 ➜ 13175 dp20). Overall, Volcano loses a very small amount of total stat efficiency, but gains in total strength by having an ability that actually works. The old Lava Sea provided zero value to the tower because it did not work. The new Lava Sea, which functions as described on the card, turns this Fire fortress into a terrifying strongpoint capable of wiping out hordes of enemy units.  

    PvP Balance Changes
    [ Tier 1 ]
     Life Weaving:
    1. No longer affects buildings.
    Life Weaving changes are made to weaken its scaling potential into higher tiers considering most shadow splashes tend to be fairly strong at later game stages anyway. Buffed single unit attacks with straight well focus are very easy to execute and fairly annoying to play against when any damage on the target also increases the damage against your Power Well.
     Sunstriders:
    1. Suppression Fire ability cost: 25p ➜ 10p
    In PvP, Suppression Fire's most relevant applications arise on higher tech levels, where a 50 energy investment for a fragile T1 unit is already enough of a restriction. As a result, there is room to buff the ability power cost for those niche cases.
    [ Tier 2 ]
     Bandit Launcher:
    1. Power cost: 60p ➜ 50p
    2. Firebug ability cost: 40/35/30/25p ➜ 40p on all upgrade levels
    The addition of a weaker building with reduced construction time led to some rather unique T2 strategies, but the high bound power requirements restrict its relevance. This change should open up some more room for creative usage of Bandit Launcher and the Fire Bug ability.
     Bandit Minefield:
    1. Mine spawn speed reduced by 0.25 seconds per mine. 
    Bandit Minefield has been a fairly controversial topic. The spell was very powerful and played an important role in every game mode. Based on play rates and general feedback, our PvP faction overhaul succeeded in making Bandits more viable and fun to play, but there was a lot of frustration when playing against the faction due to an overly dominant Minefield. After recent tweaks, play rates have dropped by about 20% and Bandits seems to be in a very healthy position based on global faction popularity and high ELO presence ever since. However, the experience of playing against Minefield continued to be perceived as frustrating by many of our players. The intended goal of this set of changes is to keep the faction at a similar level of strength, but distribute its power more evenly across Bandit T2 cards and strategies.
    Mine spawn speed will be reduced to enable counter play without removing its zoning power and damage potential upon being ignored. The design direction of allowing placement under units is absolutely intended, crucial for the faction viability, and differentiates the card from basic trap card design. Due to a lack of crowd control and building protection, Bandits needs a tool to defend vs melee unit well focus consistently. A major issue in PvP is that outside of its intended design direction (melee unit zoning and S unit denial), Minefield generates too much trading value as its damage is almost guaranteed. The spell tends to trade up against anything except for swift unit micro. This should be addressed.
    In return, we will buff Commandos, Sniper, and Bandit Launcher in compensation. As Warriors Death came up to the discussion for compensations: The card design is not healthy for PvP due to a lack of counterplay, as such we will just leave the card as is since its mechanic is also powerful in end game PvE content.
     Bandit Sniper:
    1. Damage: 75 dmg per hit (750 dp20) ➜ 78 dmg per hit (780 dp20)
    Slight damage increase to compensate for Bandit Minefield nerfs.
     Commandos:
    1. Power cost: 75p ➜ 65p
    2. Concentrate ability cost: 10p ➜ 20p
    After some testing, we think it is safe to make Commandos a little stronger, as long as the upfront cost of mode-switching remains the same. This should be beneficial for the card in all game modes.
     Gravity Surge:
    1. Cooldown: 20 seconds ➜ 15 seconds
    Allow Gravity Surge to be more functional as a niche counter for air unit heavy strategies.
     Lyrish Knight:
    1. Damage: 400 dp20 ➜ 800 dp20
    2. Life points: 980 ➜ 900
    3. Surge of Strength:
       A. No longer increases damage by 100%
       B. Now increases damage dealt to frozen targets by 50%
    While we had the intentions to give Lyrish Knight a more meaningful role in the game, finding a healthy buff for the card just by tweaking the stats has not proven easy. The extraordinarily high health ratio makes the unit very powerful when combined with health scaling mechanics like Nasty Surprise. Furthermore, the card is easily spammable and can take over games. As a result, we will allow the card to interact more with Frost's spell arsenal rather than just adding value through raw stats.
     Mauler:
    1. Power cost: 75p ➜ 70p
    After Mountaineer fell out of the meta, Mauler lost its main purpose in PvP. A slight cost reduction should help him shine more in niche situations.
     Mountain Rowdy:
    1. Tainted Ice Block damage (p): 25 dmg/sec ➜ 20 dmg/sec
    2. Blessed Ice Block (b):
       A. Damage reduction: 25% ➜ 30%
       B. Now affects friendly air units.
    With the previous changes, Mountain Rowdy (p) played a strong role in pure Frost due to its high damage potential, which made it a little too effortless to shut down T2 aggression. While Frost should be strong at deflecting attacks around own structures, we want to give players a fair chance to punish the faction when a player acquires a strong tempo lead. Mountain Rowdy (b), on the other hand, has been rather underwhelming, so we will buff the damage reduction percentage a bit.
     Shadow Mage:
    1. Sacrifice range: 30m ➜ 40m
    2. Foul Play:
       A. Damage percentage: 300% ➜ 400%
       B. Duration until explosion: 20 seconds ➜ 12 seconds
       C. Cast range: 30m ➜ 40m
       D. Now deals half damage to buildings
    Despite her great stat efficiency, Shadow Mage's abilities have been rather underwhelming in relation to what the card is supposed to do with them. By adding a burst limit against structures, we open up a lot of room for Foul Play buffs in order to make this ability more rewarding in unit combat.
     Spirit Hunter (p):
    1. Tainted Bow Attack poison damage: 20 dmg per second ➜ 25 dmg per second
    The current damage loss compared to the green affinity does not get compensated by the additional piercing damage. This change should grant Spirit Hunters purple some better niche uses.
     Stone Shards (b):
    1. Blessed Fury ➜ Shatter Ice
       A. No longer deals increased damage to demons and undead
       B. Now deals full damage to frozen targets
    Stone Shards (b) are currently unused across all game modes. The affinity effect being effectively useless plays a big role here. This change is supposed to enable alternative strategies in Stonekin (Shards (b) + Spirit Hunters (p) + Coldsnap) without overbuffing the already powerful T2.
     Stone Tempest:
    1. Stone Rest healing: 20 life points per second ➜ 40 life points per second
    This change is supposed to give the self-heal ability a more meaningful role given that the self-cc almost always outweighs the benefits of using this mechanic. As many of the factions received more tools to counter the unit (i.e. Burning Spears release), we think it is safe to enable more ways to use the card without directly strengthening patterns that have been perceived as oppressive in the past.
     Twilight Curse:
    1. Cooldown: 15 seconds ➜ 2 seconds
    Allow Twilight Curse to scale into high energy T2s without increasing card efficiency.
     Warlock (r):
    1. Infused Witchcraft damage buff: 15% ➜ 25%
    We agree that the previous buff reduction was unnecessary when we reduced unit power cost. This has now been reverted.
    [ Tier 3 ]
     Drones:
    1. Life points: 1760 ➜ 1840
    The recent changes for Drones did not help the card as much as we had hoped. Stat efficiency will be increased a bit further.
     Nox Carrier:
    1. New passive, "Push the Cart:" Increase movement speed to 6.4 m/s when at least 3 friendly units are within a 25m radius
    Based on some previous suggestions by the community in the balancing discord, we will add a conditional movement speed increase to Nox Carrier in order to make sure it actually reaches its destination.
     Sandstorm:
    1. Charges: 8 ➜ 12
     Shield Building:
    1. Cooldown: 20 seconds ➜ 30 seconds
    Shield building has been very powerful for a long time, and a card nerf has been requested by the community rather frequently. We agree. 100% uptime on a shield, strong enough to outlast XL unit focus, is too much value even if you invest a full deck slot for a purely defensive spell.
     Timeshifter Spirit
    1. Healing per jump: 275 / 220 / 165 / 110 / 55 life points ➜ 300 / 240 / 180 / 120 / 60
     Tremor:
    1. Ground Slam:
       A. Ability cost: 30p ➜ 40p
       B. Cooldown: 15 seconds ➜ 20 seconds
    2. Tremor's walk speed (2.4 m/s) is now half of its normal speed (4.8m/s), instead of being identical. 
    Tremor is one of the most popular and most powerful siege units in T3. We will be making some minor changes to the ability in order to bring it more in line with other T3 options.
     Unstable Demon
    1. Demonic Rage:
       A. Bonus movement speed: 25% ➜ 60%
       B. Cooldown: 20 seconds ➜ 15 seconds
    After the initial round of changes, Unstable Demon is not being used as much as we had hoped. As the card is very difficult to use, we will strengthen it to reward good unit management a little bit more.
  7. Markus34222 liked a post in a topic by WindHunter in Patch #400042 - 19 May 2023   
    Patch #400042 - Nature's Awakening
    Welcome to our newest patch. This update contains our eighth balance patch for the game, a brand-new card, all kinds of quality of life features, and many other changes, enjoy!

    Patch Preview
    - One new card is now available! Jump in-game to collect Sleet Storm.
    - Nature becomes the next faction to join the party in random PvE. 
    - The first half of our two-part gold rework for PvE game modes and card upgrade costs.
    - The Community Map menu has been completely reworked to increase usability. Also, gold rewards and a new achievement have been added for community maps. 
    - Our third balance pass on towers, numerous buffs to well-designed but underperforming cards, and some of our first changes to NPC enemies.
    - New quality of life features including a single-player pause feature, key down versus key up interactions, the ability to copy text from the in-game chat, the ability to immediately import a deck when a valid code is pasted in chat, and many more!

    General Changes
    The Community Map section has been completely revamped. Players can now better filter between maps, rank maps themselves, search for high-rated maps from other players, and receive overtime gold rewards while playing both featured and non-featured community maps. Cards played in featured community maps now also count towards daily quest rewards, and a new achievement to play and beat featured community maps will reward players with the Spring Forge skin. This rework will open up a lot of new content with which players can engage, and hopefully encourage more community members to bless their fellow Skylords with their map making talents. For more information, check out the February 2023 Community Update. Players can now pause PvE matches when they are the only active player in the game, including situations where multiple players were previously active in the match but have since left. The game automatically pauses whenever you open the options menu, showing a pause message while darkening the screen, and automatically unpauses when you close the options menu. Players will still be able to earn progress towards quests and achievements when pausing, but any game where a pause occurred will be removed from the leaderboard. Pausing solo matches can be disabled in the config file by changing the "allow_pausing_solo_games" option under the "application" section to false. The game now handles global key events on key down rather than on key up interactions. BattleForge is an outlier among modern games in that hotkeys are activated when a player releases a key, not when it is first pressed. By changing this, the game now feels much smoother and more responsive. Players can change back to using key up interactions by changing the line "global_key_events_on_key_down" in the config file to false. Gold rewards for rPvE have been changed. Random PvE now rewards players with overtime gold rewards based on map difficulty and whether they are playing 1p, 2p, or 4p. Gold earned from a 4p level 9 match will be roughly identical, while the gold reward for most other levels has been increased. 1p and 2p rPvE matches now reward significantly more gold than previously. Additionally, all rPvE matches now reward 15% of the expected rewards on-loss.  The gold cost to purchase and apply upgrades has been restructured. Previously, the application cost accounted for 28% of the total gold cost; it has now been increased to 40% while the cost to purchase upgrades has been decreased proportionately. Additionally, common and uncommon cards now have higher gold costs, while rare and ultra-rare cards have lower gold costs. The total cost to purchase and apply all upgrades, approximately 5.7 million gold for all cards, remains unchanged. This change is intended to make higher rarity cards easier to upgrade for newer players, while making lower rarity upgrades more valuable. More changes to upgrades and their procurement will be coming in a follow-up patch when we rework and increase the rewards for playing campaign maps.  Card upgrade drop locations are now provided in-game. When upgrading a card, it will now tell players where they can find the other upgrades they are missing. Additionally, each map now has a "Show Upgrades" button where players can filter and search for what upgrades the map provides at each difficulty level. For more information, see the March 2023 Community Update. All card upgrades have had their locations changed. Each map now has a roughly equal amount of commons, uncommons, rares, and ultra-rares. The 12p maps Passage to Darkness and Ascension are unchanged and will continue to only provide gold.  Players now have the ability to compare their profiles. Right now, this feature is limited to just comparing what achievements each player has completed, though it may be expanded to include more details in the future depending on community feedback. The feature is set to "Friends only" by default (meaning only people that you personally have added as a friend can see your profile), but it can be opened to the public or restricted completely in the settings.  Nature has been added as an enemy faction in rPvE. Face iconic Nature units, discover new bosses, battle through enemy root networks, and overcome the ultimate control faction in this newest addition to the random PvE game mode! For more information, and an interview with the designer, see the May 2023 Community Update. Shaman users rejoice, gold chests are now openable in-combat! Two new chat options have been added to the right-click context menu. Players can now copy messages directly from the chat and import decks from any message that contains a valid deck code automatically. Additionally, the context menu now only shows currently available actions instead of every possible action at all times.  Major changes have been made to the global effects system. More than 5 global effects are now shown at the top-left of the match window, with temporary effects, like Shrine of War, taking precedence over permanent effects, like Wheel of Gifts. Players should now be able to see all, or nearly all, global effects currently active in the game.  Twilight Transformation now counts as playing a card for the sake of achievements, meaning it can no longer be used to bypass achievement unit or card restrictions. Does not affect Not Even My Final Form.
    New Cards
    Sleet Storm  - 60p T3 Frost  
    You will find the upgrades for this card on the map Defending Hope.
    Two issues plague Frost in the higher tiers of PvE. The first is that the faction's only source of area CC is freeze. Given that a unit or building can only be frozen once, freeze application cards overlap in non-productive ways. The second issue is that while one orb of other factions gives the player powerful tools, the same is not true of one Frost orb. Most good Frost cards are locked behind 2 Frost orbs. We therefore wanted to address both issues at once by releasing a new Frost CC which was fully splashable. We made it an area Gravity Surge effect to synergize with Construct and to give other deck archetypes that lack anti-air easy access to it. For more information, check out the April 2023 Community Update.

  8. Markus34222 liked a post in a topic by Kapo in Official Card Design Contest - CLOSED - Winners Reveal inside   
    It's time to announce the winners!
    First, a big thanks to all involved in the contest, from the participants to the jurors and all in-between - the energy that emerged from the contest was great! Here is a link to the reveal stream, if you don't want to read that much and just want to check the top entries out:
     
     
    Here are the winners of the Card Idea Contest:
     
    PLATINUM TIER
    The following entries have achieved platinum tier:

    by Metagross31
     

    by Ult
     

    by Maze
     

    by Kapo
     
    GOLD+ TIER
    The jurors decided to highlight five entries that outperform Gold tier, yet do not make it completely into platinum:

    by Laze
     

    by Jolares
     

    by Styxious
     

    by Weak1ings
     

    by ElementG
     
    GOLD TIER
    There were so many excellent entries, re-formatting for presentation in the forums would be days and says of work, severely delaying the winner's announcement. So please click here to view them in a google docs:

    CLICK HERE FOR THE GOLD TIER WINNERS
    If you just want to check out if your entry landed in this tier, here is a shortlist of the Gold Tier winners:
    Reminder: Even if your name comes up twice, you will only receive the prize of the highest achieved tier.
     
    SILVER TIER
    The following entries have achieved silver tier:

    CLICK HERE FOR THE SILVER TIER WINNERS
     If you just want to check out if you landed in this tier, here is a "shortlist" of the Silver Tier winners:
     
     MEME TIER
    Some entries aimed (hopefully intentionally) at meme-worthy content, so the jurors decided to split them off and select the best two of them in a Meme Tier:

    by Damo
     
    by WaterMelonLord


              
    The prizes will be sent out within the next days. We all hope that you, even if you did not land in one of the top tiers, enjoyed this contest. This new encyclopedia of creative sparks will assist in the future development of cards for sure!
    Best regards,
    Skylords Reborn Team

     
     
     
     
     
  9. Markus34222 liked a post in a topic by Kapo in Official Card Design Contest - CLOSED - Winners Reveal inside   
    Less than two hours until the stream starts!

  10. Ggoblin liked a post in a topic by Markus34222 in Official Card Design Contest - CLOSED - Winners Reveal inside   
    Mock-up #1:
    Name: Shadow Arrow
    Tier & Orbs: T3, 2 Shadow & 1 Neutral 
    Type: Spell
    Power: 80
    Spell Effect:
    Sacrifices a own unit to create a shadow arrow with a 20m range and dealing
    8 times their power cost up to 2000 dmg in total. Reuseable every 20 seconds
    Notes:
    - I miss a more precise soulsplatter 
    - I think this spell should be T3 because in PvP it could be very OP (I dont play PvP but could well imagine it)
    - I could imagine an affinity with bullet impact and with energy refund on enemy unit death

    Mock-up #2:
    Name: Eclipse
    Tier & Orbs: T4, 2 Shadow & 2 Fire
    Type: Spell
    Power: 350
    Spell Effect: Darkness
    All enemy units in the game are restricted in their vision radius for 30 seconds.They can only see 5m away and take 15% more damage.
    Buildings are not affected by this effect. Has a 60 second cooldown.
    - I could visually imagine a change in brightness for the whole map

  11. Xamos liked a post in a topic by Markus34222 in Official Card Design Contest - CLOSED - Winners Reveal inside   
    Mock-up #1:
    Name: Shadow Arrow
    Tier & Orbs: T3, 2 Shadow & 1 Neutral 
    Type: Spell
    Power: 80
    Spell Effect:
    Sacrifices a own unit to create a shadow arrow with a 20m range and dealing
    8 times their power cost up to 2000 dmg in total. Reuseable every 20 seconds
    Notes:
    - I miss a more precise soulsplatter 
    - I think this spell should be T3 because in PvP it could be very OP (I dont play PvP but could well imagine it)
    - I could imagine an affinity with bullet impact and with energy refund on enemy unit death

    Mock-up #2:
    Name: Eclipse
    Tier & Orbs: T4, 2 Shadow & 2 Fire
    Type: Spell
    Power: 350
    Spell Effect: Darkness
    All enemy units in the game are restricted in their vision radius for 30 seconds.They can only see 5m away and take 15% more damage.
    Buildings are not affected by this effect. Has a 60 second cooldown.
    - I could visually imagine a change in brightness for the whole map

  12. Kapo liked a post in a topic by Markus34222 in Official Card Design Contest - CLOSED - Winners Reveal inside   
    Mock-up #1:
    Name: Shadow Arrow
    Tier & Orbs: T3, 2 Shadow & 1 Neutral 
    Type: Spell
    Power: 80
    Spell Effect:
    Sacrifices a own unit to create a shadow arrow with a 20m range and dealing
    8 times their power cost up to 2000 dmg in total. Reuseable every 20 seconds
    Notes:
    - I miss a more precise soulsplatter 
    - I think this spell should be T3 because in PvP it could be very OP (I dont play PvP but could well imagine it)
    - I could imagine an affinity with bullet impact and with energy refund on enemy unit death

    Mock-up #2:
    Name: Eclipse
    Tier & Orbs: T4, 2 Shadow & 2 Fire
    Type: Spell
    Power: 350
    Spell Effect: Darkness
    All enemy units in the game are restricted in their vision radius for 30 seconds.They can only see 5m away and take 15% more damage.
    Buildings are not affected by this effect. Has a 60 second cooldown.
    - I could visually imagine a change in brightness for the whole map

  13. UltDragon liked a post in a topic by Markus34222 in Official Card Design Contest - CLOSED - Winners Reveal inside   
    Mock-up #1:
    Name: Shadow Arrow
    Tier & Orbs: T3, 2 Shadow & 1 Neutral 
    Type: Spell
    Power: 80
    Spell Effect:
    Sacrifices a own unit to create a shadow arrow with a 20m range and dealing
    8 times their power cost up to 2000 dmg in total. Reuseable every 20 seconds
    Notes:
    - I miss a more precise soulsplatter 
    - I think this spell should be T3 because in PvP it could be very OP (I dont play PvP but could well imagine it)
    - I could imagine an affinity with bullet impact and with energy refund on enemy unit death

    Mock-up #2:
    Name: Eclipse
    Tier & Orbs: T4, 2 Shadow & 2 Fire
    Type: Spell
    Power: 350
    Spell Effect: Darkness
    All enemy units in the game are restricted in their vision radius for 30 seconds.They can only see 5m away and take 15% more damage.
    Buildings are not affected by this effect. Has a 60 second cooldown.
    - I could visually imagine a change in brightness for the whole map

  14. Palmolive liked a post in a topic by Markus34222 in Official Card Design Contest - CLOSED - Winners Reveal inside   
    Mock-up #1:
    Name: Shadow Arrow
    Tier & Orbs: T3, 2 Shadow & 1 Neutral 
    Type: Spell
    Power: 80
    Spell Effect:
    Sacrifices a own unit to create a shadow arrow with a 20m range and dealing
    8 times their power cost up to 2000 dmg in total. Reuseable every 20 seconds
    Notes:
    - I miss a more precise soulsplatter 
    - I think this spell should be T3 because in PvP it could be very OP (I dont play PvP but could well imagine it)
    - I could imagine an affinity with bullet impact and with energy refund on enemy unit death

    Mock-up #2:
    Name: Eclipse
    Tier & Orbs: T4, 2 Shadow & 2 Fire
    Type: Spell
    Power: 350
    Spell Effect: Darkness
    All enemy units in the game are restricted in their vision radius for 30 seconds.They can only see 5m away and take 15% more damage.
    Buildings are not affected by this effect. Has a 60 second cooldown.
    - I could visually imagine a change in brightness for the whole map

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