Renown. Renown is a new rating tied to Factions. There are 2 types of Renown:Faction Renown – which represents your exploits within a Faction. Chaos Portals. Chaos Portals are similar to Chests, as opening a Chaos Portal will reward you with one of a Faction’s Troops or Treasures.
Each faction has its own Chaos Portal which can be opened with Chaos Shards. Chaos Shards are earned from Delves and Faction Events.
Treasure Hunt is a mini game unlocked by completing all the Quests in Zhul'Kari. The standard board of gems is replaced by a board of treasure - the objective is to play for as many turns as possible and convert your treasure into better loot. In order to play Treasure Hunt, a Treasure Map must be consumed. How to collect Treasure Maps. Sep 4, 2018 - The Krystara Map has gained improvements, including: 3D elements, New Particle effects, Removal of the Fog of War (over locked kingdoms). Jul 28, 2018 - Really like the cute map. Aurorax July 28, 2018, 2:26pm #24. Actually after looking I want the gold and the gems:joy: I don't really.
Chaos Shards are not exclusive to a faction, so Chaos shards earned from Delves in one Faction can be used on a Chaos Portal in another faction. It cost 20 Chaos Shards to open a Chaos Portal. Chaos Shards (spent on Chaos Portals) are the only way (outside of a Faction Event Shop) to get Faction Troops and Treasures.
Treasure Hoards. Each Faction’s Treasure Hoard is upgraded using Treasures, which can be gained from Chaos Portals, and Gold.
There are two upgrades to your Treasure Hoard:- Level – Requires XP for each level (increasing amounts of XP are required per level). There is no level cap, however players only gain Faction Renown up to level 100.- Quality – Only has a chance to upgrade each time you add XP, though this chance can be increased by adding more treasures at once or treasures of higher rarities. Puzzle Game Changes We originally decreased mana gained from 100% to 70% back in 2015, due to the amount of mana gain from the spells was outscaling any other means to gain mana in the game and causing troops to be able to chain their spells.In the past few months, as Magic has continued to scale higher and higher, this same behaviour has reappeared, with some explosion spells being able to power up mythic troops in a single cast (from 0 mana). As such we have reviewed the mana gain from exploders and after a long experimental time, decided to reduce the mana gain down to 50%.
Mana gain from any gem cascade after an explosion will still get 100% of the mana (and it turns out that is often where half of your mana comes from).With Doomstorm, we found that once triggered the number of doomskulls dropping would heavily tip the game in the favour whoever was winning, with little chance for their opponent to counter it. We’ve decided to tone it down a bit, so it’s not quite as deadly and allows some room for opponents to come back. Mana gain from Explosions has been reduced from 70% to 50%. Doomstorms now have a slightly lower chance to spawn Doomskulls onto the board. General. Guild Seals will now display in the Inventory screen of the Hero Menu with the other collectible resources.
A new Gnome, the Soul Gnome, will now start appearing in PVP, Explore, and Quests- He will only reward Souls or Vault Keys, however he has a higher chance of a Vault Key (compared to a Treasure Gnome)- He won’t affect the chance of encountering a Pet Gnome in PVP- Players will have the chance to earn him from Gnome Vaults, like other Gnomes. New Shop Items. We have added 3 new items to the Shop.
Path to Power I & II will give Ingots over a set number of days.
At the start of every “PvP” match you are told what kingdom your opponent is defending. Knowing the mana bonus ahead of time can help you to deny an opponent’s better color(s).Adana: Red YellowBroken Spire: Blue BrownDivinion Fields: Purple YellowForest of Thorns: 2 GreenGhulvania: Purple RedKarakoth: 2 PurpleKhaziel: 2 BrownKhetar: Blue PurpleMist of Scales: Blue RedPan’s Vale: Green YellowPridelands: 2 RedStormheim: 2 BlueSword’s Edge: Blue YellowWhitehelm: 2 YellowZaejin: Brown GreenZhul’Kari: Green PurpleMissing Color Combinations:Blue GreenBrown PurpleBrown RedBrown YellowGreen RedCurrently, mana bonuses are not affected by mana surge and are only added to the final amount. This means something like a 5x red surge with Mist of Scales as home kingdom for red and blue will give 11 mana, not 12. Knowing the mana each unit needs in relation to this is very helpful in every match.Formula is:(Amount of gems in move. 2(if surge)) + kingdom bonusMana surge chance is based on a combination of what color is picked every level and what bonus is gained from being in a guild.
The total number and exact percent can be found on your hero page, so no in game calculation needed.If you want to plan a long term outlook, the formula is:Mana/(Mana+100)i.e. 50 in any color would be 33% surge chance. Name: AtlantaMana: Purple YellowMana Cost: 13Ability: Physical damage to all enemiesEpics Best With: Avina, Brian the Lucky, Raven, RowannePros:- Strongest full AoE physical damage attack, excluding hero- Great base attack- Well balanced in all stats- Perfect with physical AoE builds- Great with physical damage targeting- Good under AI controlCon:- Base attack is sometimes useless for she has to be placed later in the lineup to utilize ability- One of the lowest single target damage abilities for the mana cost- Horrible versus high defense and AoE defense buffs. Name: RowanneMana: Blue GreenMana Cost: 12Ability: Deals physical damage randomly split between all enemies raised by own armor (1 armor = 1 damage)Epics Best With: Alastair, Atlanta, Brian the Lucky, Emperina, Raven, SparkgrinderPros:- Great single focus carry- Strongest damaging epic if supported correctly- Benefits greatly from fewer enemiesCons:- Taking physical damage costs a lot of damage potential- Ability split damage has very little focus until at least one enemy is dead- Mandatory second or third slot to utilize fully- Horrible versus multiple true damage units. Name: EmperinaMana: Brown RedMana Cost: 14Ability: Gives an ally life and attack.
Then heals that target to max and cleanses target.Epics Best With: Brian the Lucky, Finley, Lady Sapphira, Rowanne, Sparkgrinder, Tau, TyriPros:- Best unit in the game for single carry support- Only unit that can max heal another unit- One of the only units that can cleanse- Great with other supports and lifesteal unitsCon:- Has to use heal on self if over targeted- Highest mana cost of any epic- Bad under AI control. Name: AlastairMana: Blue PurpleMana Cost: 14Ability: Increase defense of all allies and removes all purple gems to boost effect (4 purple = 1 defense)Epics Best With: Elwyn, Finley, Lady Sapphira, Rowanne, Sparkgrinder, TauPros:- Best full AoE team armor boost in the game- Physical damage is near useless against it- Great with high HP units with low armor- Great with units that have armor dependent skills- Good under AI controlCons:- Highest mana cost of any epic- Gems removed can backfire or delay cast- Lowest HP of any epic and one of the lowest in the game- Abysmal versus true damage. Name: KeghammerMana: Brown YellowMana Cost: 12Ability: Deals targetable physical damage and reduces target’s magic by 2Epics Best With: Avina, RavenPros:- Only unit that can reduce magic- Great against magic dependent unitsCons:- By the time a unit is severely lowered in magic it will already be dead- Low damage for the mana cost- Useless against units that don’t use magic- Many units have a base minimum for casts, so reducing a unit to 0 magic will still allow many units to still do something. Name: SapphiraMana: Brown YellowMana Cost: 14Ability: Deals true damage to a unit then gains 4 HP and 2 attackEpics Best With: Alastair, Brian the Lucky, Emperina, SparkgrinderPros:- OP with brown gem spawn builds- OP with yellow gem spawn builds- Highest static single target targetable true damage in the game- Highest max HP gain of any epic- One of the best single carry carries in the game- One of the best 2nd slots in gameCons:- Tied at highest mana cost of any epic- That’s basically it. Name: Brian the LuckyMana: Brown GreenMana Cost: 12Ability: Raises a random stat on every unit besides himselfEpics Best With: Atlanta, Emperina, Luther, Rowanne, Sapphira, TauPros:- Best unit for raising other units’ magic- Beneficial to every unit that uses magic- Potentially the strongest buffer in the game- Decent survivability- Great first or last slot- Great under AI control- Great with units that gain HP and use magic- Great with units that use defense and magic in their castCons:- Heavily RNG based- Doesn’t buff self- Low attack.
Name: TyriMana: Purple YellowMana Cost: 8Ability: Removes all of a chosen colored gem and get gold boosted by number removed (4 gems = 1 gold)Epics Best With: Avina, Emperina, Finley, SparkgrinderPros:- Tied at highest base attack in the game at 10+1- Highest gold gain in the game- Lowest mana cost of any epic- Decent single carry carry- Only unit that can remove a chosen colored gemCons:- Horribly low survivability with many commons with higher- Ability can backfire or have to be delayed- Bad under AI control. As of the 1.0.5 patch, kingdoms now have levels. Each level will increase tribute chance by 1%. Additionally, level 2 i +1 armor, 3 is +5 all masteries, 4 is +1 life, 5 is +1 all masteries, 6 is +1 armor, 7 is +5 masteries, 8 is +1 attack, 9 is +5 masteries, and 10 is +1 magic and +5. Levels are earned when complete quests for a kingdom, complete all challenges for a kingdom, and +1 for every level 15 troop of that kingdom. Tribute chance is triggered per kingdom during every gold collection.
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This means you will have a tribute chance once when you log in and every seubsequent hour from your last collection. In theory, it is possible to trigger 24 tribute chances per day. This is balanced by the fact that you are more likely to be invaded if you don't take your gold and tribute chances, allowing for defend resources to accumulate.