New Boss, Accessory Ascension, new Faction Crypt, and more!
We are adding a brand new Dungeon, Accessory Ascension, and the Sylvan Watcher Faction Crypt, as well as rebalancing the Polymorph Blessing and the [Stone Skin] buff, alongside other updates and fixes. Let’s dive into everything coming to Raid with version 7.30.0:
Accessory Ascension unlocks at Level 38 and works exactly like Artifact Ascension. When an Accessory is Ascended for the first time, it gets an Ascension Bonus - an extra stat that can be upgraded further with every Level of Ascension. The Ascension Bonus cannot be removed or changed, and will remain the same even after an Accessory is reworked.
To Ascend an Accessory, it must be at least Rank 4 and upgraded to Level 12.
To Ascend Accessories, you will need a new resource: Extract. The primary way of earning Extract is by raiding the new Dungeon - the Phantom Shogun’s Grove.
The Phantom Shogun’s Grove is where you’ll fight a tough new boss, Akumori the Phantom Shogun. His skills are centered on incapacitating your team through the use of the powerful [Enfeeble] debuff, which makes his enemies only land Weak Hits, unless otherwise specified by their individual skills.
In this Dungeon, you can also earn Silver, Ancient Shards, and XP.
You can find out more information about Accessory Ascension and Akumori the Phantom Shogun by checking out the in-game Guides. Once inside the Accessory Ascension menu, just hit the “i” icon. For a full breakdown of Akumori’s skills, hit the “Boss Guide'' button in the Team Selection menu inside the Phantom Shogun’s Grove.
We have also updated the Advanced Quest for Ascending Artifacts. Ascending Accessories will now also count.
We are adding a new Crypt to Faction Wars for the Sylvan Watchers. The new Crypt will appear after the current Faction Wars cycle ends.
The reward for earning 882 Stars – Lydia the Deathsiren – has been moved to the 945th Star. If you have already unlocked Lydia but haven’t claimed her yet, she will be automatically added to your Champion Collection. If the Collection is full, she will be moved to the Inbox.
A special Clan Quest for clearing Stage 20+ of the Sylvan Watchers Crypt 3 times will be added in the future. As for the CvC Tournament Objectives, beating the new Crypt will count towards them starting from the next CvC Tournament.
We have added a Champion Filter to the Collection and Team Selection interface. It will allow you to easily find the Champions you want by indicating specific parameters, such as the name (or a part of it), Faction, Rank, Rarity, buffs and debuffs, and many more.
Now the [Sheep] debuffs placed by the Polymorph Blessing can be resisted, except the ones placed by the Level 6 Polymorph Blessing.
In addition, Yumeko’s Destiny's Mirror skill now has a chance of transferring [Sheep] debuffs to a random enemy under a [Hex] debuff placed by Yumeko. Also, the Deflection Artifact Set can now reflect [Sheep] debuffs.
The [Stone Skin] buff no longer removes [HP Burn] debuffs from the recipient. It doesn’t make the recipient immune to [HP Burn] debuffs or decrease damage from them either. Instead, [HP Burn] debuffs now deal quintuple damage while the [Stone Skin] buff is active.
Also, if a Champion is under a [Stone Skin] buff, [HP Burn] debuffs damage them for 15% of their MAX HP, and damage their allies for 3% of their MAX HP. If there are 2 or more Champions under a [Stone Skin] buff, [HP Burn] debuffs deal damage for 15% of the MAX HP to all Champions under a [Stone Skin] buff, and 3% of the MAX HP to any allies not under a [Stone Skin] buff.
Clearing Stages 11-25 of the Sand Devil’s Necropolis now has a chance to reward you with more Lesser Oils.
We have reset the Blessings change count on all Champions for all players. The next Blessings change will be free for all your Champions - as though you haven’t changed Blessings on them before. Any subsequent changes will cost Gems, as usual.
This update adds another batch of Champion stories to the game, including Keeyra the Watcher, Altan, and Lord Shazar, with more coming in future updates. If your favorite isn’t here, stay tuned, they may arrive in the future!
The whole list of Champion stories added:
Prism Crystals are a new type of resource available in the Summoning Portal. They are used to summon select Champions during special in-game events. More details about these events will be available in the future.
So basically this update improves the game for the top 0.00000001% of the Krakens/Whales.
I already ignore Hydra, Sand Devil, Live Arena and Iron Twins as it is because they're useless UNLESS you spend 1000$ a week to keep up with the rest of the addicts at the top.
And of course the endless nerfing of anything that MIGHT give players even just a 0.00001% chance of getting something without paying cash is getting OLD!
So basically this update improves the game for the top 0.00000001% of the Krakens/Whales.
I already ignore Hydra, Sand Devil, Live Arena and Iron Twins as it is because they're useless UNLESS you spend 1000$ a week to keep up with the rest of the addicts at the top.
And of course the endless nerfing of anything that MIGHT give players even just a 0.00001% chance of getting something without paying cash is getting OLD!
What are you on about... You don't need to spend 1000$ to do Hydra and Live arena... They are late game content but not end game.
These changes are very decent for a large part of the player base.
Stop complaining...
Lucky me, already old I can just play on... and on... I do like this game...
Bring Frenzy set back to normal!!!
hmm no free equip change for all those stone skins in live arena
LOVE the Champion filter :D
Lucky me, already old I can just play on... and on... I do like this game...
Walker I bet you are
it is only me or the game main screen have no texture and it take forever to load arena or dungon ect.is this really an upgrade?
There are three things that would help me progress in the game:
1 Better guidance on which artifacts/accessories can be enhanced with glyphs. Filtering out items with the same substats still doesn't tell you which ones can be uodgraded - how about the same red dots you get when you have new articts/accessories? That would save a lot of time.
2 Reduce the points loss in the Classic Arena. I went on holiday for a week and then found myself back in the basic arena on Bronze. How about not falling below your current rating?
3 Make it more successful to upgrade artifacts/accessories. It is so demoralising to lose 1 million silvers failing to upgrade an item. There should be a limit to how much you can lose.
Just try to ascend an artifact or accessory and it will show you what stats the ascension can grant
All artifacts and accessories can be ascended
All accessories can get ho, ATK and def. Amulets can also get cdmg and banners can get res and acc
Have been playing for only two months (every day, of course) and haven't spent a penny. I've fallen into those traps before and keep telling myself "No, work for it!" Yes, there's a downside - some rewards are reduced - but generally I'm content with how things are.
Oracle,
Do you know the actual date for when the Sylvan watchers faction crypt is going to become available? I looked in game, but cant find any information on when the current cycle is ending per the patch information.
it is only me or the game main screen have no texture and it take forever to load arena or dungon ect.is this really an upgrade?
If you're still having this issue after updating and restarting, please shoot me a DM with your Player ID, and the device specifications.
Oracle,
Do you know the actual date for when the Sylvan watchers faction crypt is going to become available? I looked in game, but cant find any information on when the current cycle is ending per the patch information.
It'll be activated very very soon. (Last time it was almost hand in hand between the update and the crypt activation)
Folks, thank you for the feedback, both positive and negative! We'll try to keep it in mind for our future game design decisions
