App Update March 4th 2024 Release Notes

Greetings brave Knight,

Here are the Release Notes for this update.

Overview

There are strange goings on at the Sacred Portal - what is the Dark Energy emanating from it? The Dark Portal is opening…

This update contains:

• New mini-Event: The Dark Portal
• Karnheim Rebalancing
• Economy Rebalancing
• Hero Rebalancing
• Various Fixes and Optimisations

Dark Portal

The Dark Portal is a fast paced mini-event, offering a glimpse into a sinister alternate dimension. The first Dark Portal is set to open when Dark Tor ends.

• Battle both new and familiar enemies
• Earn Dark Fragments to spend in the Dark Portal shop, where you can buy a variety of exciting things, including past Event Skins
• Progress along the Event Track for more rewards!

Karnheim Rebalancing

With Atlantica on the horizon, we felt it was time to rebalance the difficulty of the Karnheim enemies a little. We’ve toned down their health and damage, which will hopefully make Karnheim less terrifying for those just venturing into it, whilst also reducing the overall length of battles featuring these enemies.

This rebalance applies to wherever these enemies appear, so Expert Rift, Dark Onslaught and Karnheim’s Lost Knight will also be a little easier, as well as the ‘core’ Karnheim regional content.

Economy Rebalancing

An issue that’s been on our radar for a while has been chokepoints on players progressing their gear and Heroes. You may have already noticed that we increased the amount of Tellurian and Volcanite on many Hunts, and this update also sees:

• Boosted Hero XP gain from Shrines
• Boosted production rates from the Mirefen and White Peak Tellurian and Volcanite mines
• The ability to not only convert lower rarity materials to higher rarity materials in Tyge’s Metalworks, but also to break down higher rarity materials into lower ones
• A new Shop in Realm of Fire, ‘For Better Ore Worse’, which allows you to convert your Ores into different rarities.

Hero Rebalancing

We’ve tweaked a few Heroes! Firstly, we’ve made the following changes:

• Armour-only heals will be increased, the heals provided by heroes that only affect armour are seen as worse than general heals, we are increasing the amount of armour they recover to give them more identity within Knighthood.
  • Pentatonix: Base Power - Fanfare
  • Wormwood: Base Power - Repair
• Nijuro’s base power Awaken Blade healed and applied the focus status effect for 1 turn, being that he is the only hero with a status effect that works in this way we are buffing him to bring him in line with other heroes' status powers.
  • Nijuro: Base Power - Awaken Blade
• Neko’s damage for her rage power Cat’s Cradle is dealing too little damage for a distributed damage power, we will be increasing the damage she does with her rage power to reflect the intended balance.
  • Neko: Rage Power - Cat’s Cradle
• Column-based powers deal the same damage as powers that row-based powers deal although the maximum number of targets a column will hit is 2, because of this we have decided to increase the damage output for column-based powers with the except of Viktor, he is dealing the damage he should be with his base power.
  • Aeron: Base Power - Poison Arrows
  • Tara: Base Power - Furious Strike
• Viktor’s is going to be receiving a minor rework inline with the other heroes' which have a star perk that boost minion damage, although Viktor will receive a change to his rage power. Viktor’s rage power will now apply regenerate and the focus status effect will be moved to his star perk.
  • Viktor: Rage Power - Mental Focus

We’ve also replaced the Max Star Perks that were focused on Minions, as it made them a bit too ‘niche’. We’ve replaced them with abilities that will hopefully give those Heroes a bit broader appeal across more game modes.

New Star Perks

• Balendu: Increased critical chance against Golem enemies 50%
• Blaine: Increased critical chance against Goblin enemies 50%
• Griz: Increased critical chance 30%
• Geber: Chance to apply Weaken to target on Base Power
• Grax: Chance to apply Poison to target on Base Power
• Outis: Chance to apply Expose to target on Base Power
• Pentatonix: Chance to apply Unfocus to all enemies on Rage Power
• Viktor: Chance to apply Focus to the knight on Rage Power

Bug Fixes and Optimisations

• We’ve raised the Fame cap, so current number one BANG | Jonny can continue his terrifying ascent!
• Assorted fixes and optimisations