Jul 9, 2021

Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense - AutoAttackGames

Season 8 Begins

- July 12: Season 7 ends at 8am PDT / 5pm CEST. Ranked disabled. Player ratings are soft-reset.
- July 12: Patch 8.00 is released.
- July 14: Season 8 begins at 8am PDT / 5pm CEST. Ranked re-enabled.

Season 8 has a softer Elo reset to have fairer games early in the season.

2x Hybrid Featured Game Mode

- Build "tiers" instead of fighters. Each time you build a tier, a random fighter from that tier is built. Waves have x2 the number of spawns.
- Limited time from July 12 to 14

Tournaments

Steeni's Summer Cup 2k21
- Solo signup. Signup ends July 15.
- 1st place: 150€, $30 premium essence, and Steenicoin
- 2nd place: 100€, $20 premium essence
- Viewer raffle: 20€ and Steenicoin

LIHL Diamond Division
- Team signup. Signup ends September 3.
- 1st place: Auto-qualification for the LIHL Grandmaster Division. 3200 premium essence
- 2nd place: Auto-qualification for the LIHL Grandmaster Division. 2000 premium essence
- 3rd/4th place: 1000 premium essence

Masters Cup 8
Coming soon...

Unity Engine Upgrade

This patch upgrades our Unity engine, which is necessary for future development. While it has major benefits, there are a few drawbacks:
- Some Mac OS users may be unable to play due to a Unity issue outside of our control. This affects 1% of players. We intend to support the affected Mac OSes as soon as possible.
- 32-bit OS is no longer supported. This affects 0.2% of players. If it affects you, please consider upgrading to a 64-bit OS.
- If your game crashes or has new issues, let us know in Discord, so we can help you.

Translations

- New languages: Czech, Italian, Hungarian, Romanian
- Significantly improved: Traditional Chinese, Polish
- Improved and in progress: Spanish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Bulgarian, Arabic, Persian, Croatian

If you notice incorrect or missing translations, please visit https://legiontd2.com/translate. Any improvements you make will show up next patch.

Thank you to the wonderful translators who have contributed.

Maps

Crystal Coast

The 2v2 map Crystal Coast is getting a makeover!

Oasis

Say goodbye to Desert Ridge, and please welcome our new 4v4 map Oasis.

Monuments

Monuments are a special new lane cosmetic. Think of them as a hall of fame or trophy case for your favorite cards. Equip up to 10 cards to show them off in-game. 6 monument slots (pedestals) are unlocked for free. The other 4 pedestals can be unlocked by owning secret cards, each secret card unlocking 1 pedestal. Equip 3 or 10 of the same card to get silver or gold pedestals.

Animated Lobby Backgrounds

Earth King

>> Earth King animated background preview

Yozora

>> Yozora animated background preview

Earth King is gifted to all players for free. Yozora can be unlocked in the shop with premium essence. Beta King remains as a free option as well.

Skins

We're finally releasing our Kickstarter Premium skins to the public.

Kickstarter backers who already own these skins will be gifted premium essence to unlock other skins and future content:
- Brute backers: 1260 premium essence
- Aqua backers: 2520 premium essence
- Zeus backers: 3780 premium essence
- Kraken backers: 5040 premium essence

Progression Improvements

Now that the game is soon exiting Early Access and nearing full release, player XP, guild XP, essence, and cards are receiving a big boost.

Essence
- Players now gain x3-5 the amount of essence on average.
- Essence cost for some items x2-3. Essence cost of cards is unchanged.
- Essence can now be used for name resets, instead of requiring premium essence.
- Essence bonus from Guild Contribution: 1% --> 3%.

Cards
- Card premium essence price: 1250 --> 395
- Bonus card drop rate per Pity Point: 1% --> 2%
- Due to higher essence gain, players can now acquire x3-5 the number of cards from the Card Trader.
- Cards can now be shown off in game as monuments.

Cards were ultra rare items. They are still rare, but no longer like a unicorn or grainy picture of the Loch Ness Monster. Cards are now significantly cheaper at the Card Trader, drop slightly more often, and have more real value. Cards are collectibles that can be used as avatars, shown off in game as monuments, and donated for Guild XP. They also add to your collection value.

Collect one of every card, or collect multiple of the same card for special borders and pedestals.

Leveling
- Players now level up significantly faster (x3 on average).

Guilds
- Guilds now level up significantly faster from levels 1 to 5.
- Guild application cooldown: 6 hours --> No cooldown.
- Due to higher essence gain, it's now 50% cheaper to apply to guilds.
- Players that are booted from guilds now get a partial essence refund.
- It's now much easier to find active, recruiting guilds. Browsing guilds now shows recently active guilds with room for new members, rather than random guilds.
- Bonus Guild XP and Contribution during Guild Wars: x2 --> x3
- Bonus Guild XP and Contribution from donating first card of that type: x2 --> x3

Weekly Challenge
- Players tied in first place each week now receive a Challenger Elite trophy and 2500 essence.
- The “First Place Finishes” leaderboard is still reserved for the first player to reach the top score.
- The Weekly Challenge “Top 20” leaderboard is replaced with “Weekly Challenge Wins” which is now awarded to anyone tied in first place.

Game Improvements & Fixes

4v4 Dual Building
- Enemy tab screen (Tab + Space) now supports dual building, rather than not showing their builds.

Quality of Life
- You can no longer use legion spells on units that have zero effect (Villain/Pulverizer on Soul Gate, Sorcerer on units with no ability damage).

Pathing & Targeting
- Fixed a bug where King wouldn't properly switch targets from its current target if a better target was available.
- All tank mercenaries now spawn slightly less in front to reduce the aggro difference when getting a tank send vs. no tank send.
- Fixed a case where ranged mercenaries would unexpectedly “snipe” backline fighters.
- Fixed a few other cases of pathing behaving unexpectedly.
- Fixed a case in the 4v4 map when catching leaks where fighters would keep trying to turn back when there were enemies in front of them.

Fixes & Improvements
- Fixed unintended interactions with Starcaller/Magician and Kingpin, Infiltrator, and Orchid.
- Fixed some cases where Sea Serpent/Deepcoiler didn’t play their burrow animation.
- Fixed a bug where Classic losses always displayed as 0 or 1 after finishing a game, instead of your actual classic losses that season.
- Fixed a bug where a client wouldn’t connect/reconnect to the Lobby server after finishing a game, which resulted in an unresponsive game client.
- Fixed a bug where alt + clicking a unit to ping it would accidentally select that unit, too.
- UI Scale (Experimental) capped at 200 instead of 300. Reminder that this is an experimental, currently unsupported feature. If you experience issues, set it to 100.
- Merged "Toggle Environment Assets" and "Enable High Quality Terrain" options into a single "Enable Full Scenery" option which provides similar performance, but retains more quality.
- When browsing Collection or Skins, it is now less laggy when scrolling up/down.
- Reduced ping spamming
-- All players have more consistent ping limits. Max 4 pings stored, recovering a ping every 2 seconds.
-- Chat banned players now have much stricter ping limits and cannot ping power score.

Game Balance

King

- Now 20-25% stronger in the early game, 10-20% stronger in the mid game, and 0-5% stronger in the late game.
- Fixed a bug where the king didn’t switch to a higher priority target, most noticeably on waves 10, 15, and 20.
- Upgrade Regeneration: 0.005% missing health + 0.005% max health >> 0.004% missing health + 0.004% max health.

Encouraging early game risk-taking and aggression with king health buffs and power mercenary buffs.

Leak Gold
- Gold gained from enemy leaks reduced by 5%.
- Leak gold is now deterministic, rather than random. 1.5 rounds up and always gives 2 gold, rather than granting 1 gold 50% of the time and 2 gold 50% of the time.
- Players that are behind now gain a larger share of enemy leak gold.

4v4
- Starting workers: 2 >> 1
- Leak gold (all sources) increased by 70% (now same as 2v2)
- 4v4-specific wave buffs on waves 11-21 reverted (now same as 2v2)

4v4 has an insanely bloated economy. Despite cutting leak gold many times, adding 4v4-specific wave buffs, and nerfing the king, 41% of games currently go to wave 21, usually causing lag. The above changes get things in a healthier spot, where worker counts and economy are more comparable to 2v2.

Hybrid

- Gold costs:
-- Tier 2: 44 >> 45
-- Tier 3: 81 >> 83
-- Tier 4: 130 >> 132
-- Tier 5: 180 >> 182
-- Tier 6: 254 >> 256

Hybrid is currently outperforming other builders, especially in low and mid Elo.

Legion Spells

Creditor

- Maximum gold saved each wave: 180 >> 170

Hero

- Damage and damage reduction: 6% >> 5.5%

Magician

- Mana regeneration: 0.3 >> 0.35

Pulverizer

- Stun percent: 32% (16% for ranged) >> 34% (17% for ranged)

Vampire

- Life Steal: 22% >> 23%

Venture

- Maximum gold invested: 115 >> 110

Fighters

Peewee

- Health: 260 >> 250
- Attack speed: 1.03 >> 1.01
- Booster: Attack speed gain: 105% >> 120%

Veteran

- Health: 1420 >> 1400
- Damage: 37 >> 36
- Stimpack: Attack speed gain: 105% >> 120%

Pack Rat

- Damage: 57 >> 58

Oathbreaker

- Health: 1150 >> 1140
- Damage: 36 >> 35

Dark Mage

- Redesigned and improved how Dark Mage prioritizes targets with Mind Warp. Will be smarter overall and easier to make adjustments in the future.

Bone Crusher

- DPS: Unchanged
- Damage: 53 >> 35
- Attack speed: 0.7 >> 1.05

Bringing back Bone Crusher opening by giving it better damage thresholds on waves 2 and 3.

Angler

- Health: 420 >> 400
- Damage: 20 >> 19
- Junior Fisherman: Mana per dying unit: 1 >> 2
- Can now gain mana from Magician and Starcaller

Young lads like Angler learn faster than old timers like Bounty Hunter. Increasing the viability of Angler openings and Anglers being used in the mid game.

Bounty Hunter

- Health: 1700 >> 1660
- Damage: 82 >> 78
- Can now gain mana from Magician and Starcaller

Bounty Hunter is statistically the best opening in the game. It is the #1 most common and #1 highest win rate opening in high Elo.

Zeus

- Power Surge: Damage: 80 >> 170
- Power Surge: Mana cost doubled

This change makes Zeus viable with Magician, Starcaller, Sacred Steed, and Pegasus (Zeus get stuck at max mana less often).

Pyro

- Attack speed: 1.59 >> 1.61

Small compensation buff for changes to waves 8 and 15.

Sky Queen

- Damage 69 >> 72
- Mana synergy with Magician, Starcaller, Sacred Steed, and Pegasus increased by 25%

Ranger

- Damage: 26 >> 27

Daphne

- Damage: 73 >> 75
- Mark Target: Damage amplification against bosses: 0.25 >> 0.5
- Mark Target: Max stacks: 20 >> 10

Bazooka

- Damage: 32 >> 33

Aqua Spirit

- Attack speed: 0.73 >> 0.74

Fire Elemental

- Damage: 33 >> 31 (Combustion damage unchanged)

Fire Elemental is statistically the second strongest opening after Bounty Hunter.

Nekomata

- Attack speed: 0.91 >> 0.92

Golden Buckler

- Attack speed: 0.79 >> 0.77

Royal Guard

- Attack speed: 0.91 >> 0.88

Fun fact: Golden Buckler and Royal Guard were the only fighters never to have been buffed or nerfed after release.

Sacred Steed

- Mana regeneration increased by 5%
- Self buff (when no mana users around): 40% attack speed >> 20% attack speed and 20% damage reduction
- Mana synergy with Magician and Starcaller increased by 100% (Sacred Steed was unexpectedly the worst unit to buff with Magician or Starcaller)

Pegasus

- Mana regeneration increased by 5%
- Self buff (when no mana users around): 40% attack speed >> 20% attack speed and 20% damage reduction

Warg

- Health: 980 >> 960

Alpha Male

- Attack speed: 1.11 >> 1.09

Lioness

- Health: 2360 >> 2300

Warg is currently the premier natural fighter with a 94% pick rate and solid win rate. It has efficient stats and versatility with two upgrade paths.

Gateguard / Harbinger

- +5% mana regeneration

Windhawk

- DPS: Unchanged
-- Damage: 46 >> 35
-- Attack speed: 0.97 >> 1.27

Now perfectly 3-shots wave 1. Bringing back Windhawk as an opening and introducing more openings that leak to Snail to mix up the wave 1 meta.

Infiltrator

- Health: 740 >> 720

Orchid

- Health: 2600 >> 2520

Lost Chieftain

- Gaia Shield: Cast Range: 700 >> 1000 (now the same as Chain Heal, Mind Warp, and Mana Blessing/Miracle)

Honeyflower

- Health: 1330 >> 1350

Deathcap

- Health: 4050 >> 4100

Small compensation buffs for the changes to waves 8 and 15.

Butcher

- Health: 1300 >> 1350
- Attack speed: 0.97 >> 1.01

Head Chef

- Health: 3600 >> 3730
- Attack speed: 0.97 >> 1.01

Making Butcher a more competitive pick with natural tanks like Warg, Antler, and Golden Buckler.

Antler

- Thick Hide: Bonus damage reduction when build next to Whitemane: 15% >> 10%

Antler has a 93% pick rate. Rather than nerf its base stats, we’re nerfing how much free damage reduction it gets with Whitemane. Antler’s insane self-synergy with Whitemane makes multi-tank combos like Whitemane + Golem or King Claw less rewarding than they should be.

Grarl

- Attack speed: 0.87 >> 0.86

Now leaks 1 extra Wale to a Snail on wave 2 when solo

King Claw

- Health: 4350 >> 4450

Ocean Templar

- Resonance: Regeneration: 1.75% >> 2%

APS

- Health: 900 >> 870
- Attack speed: 1.49 >> 1.45

MPS

- Health: 2350 >> 2230
- DPS: 148 >> 146
-- Damage: 99 >> 101
-- Attack speed: 1.49 >> 1.45

Radiant Halo / Arc of Justice

- Attack speed: 1.09 >> 1.07

Starcaller

- Self mana regeneration reduced by 0.1
- Amplify Magic aura: Mana regeneration: 0.5 >> 0.6

Millennium

- Health: 2000 >> 2100

Doomsday Machine

- Health: 4900 >> 5140

Reverting the last hotfix nerfs during the AOE meta, which over-nerfed these units.

Soul Gate / Hell Gate

- Mana regeneration increased by 4%

Mercenaries

Right now, it’s too strong to play safely by income sending and scaling, then all-inning late game. Power mercenary buffs create a leakier, more fun game and reward aggression, especially in the early game. Power mercenaries are now more likely to cause leaks, but with king buffs and bounty changes, those leaks are no longer as game-breaking.

Lizard

- DPS: Unchanged
- Damage: 24 >> 34
- Attack speed: 1.05 >> 0.75

Less of a hard counter to Fire Lord and Fenix.

Brute

- Health: 820 >> 870
- Attack speed: 0.87 >> 0.89

Brute has fallen from grace and is the lowest win rate mercenary in both low and high Elo.

Hermit

- Attack speed: 0.95 >> 1

Dino

- Health: 1200 >> 1260
- Damage: 66 >> 62

It’s now more rewarding to outplay opponents by predicting and kiting tank mercenaries.

Imp

- Attack speed: 1.18 >> 1.25

Safety Mole

- Safety Aura: Damage reduction: 3 >> 4

Pack Leader

- Damage: 102 >> 110

Mimic

- Income: 45 >> 40
- Health: 2150 >> 2320
- Attack speed: 1.02 >> 1.11

Mimic is now a power mercenary and the premier early game pierce damage dealer. Still has the Plunder ability for cash money.

Ogre

- Health: 2800 >> 2900
- Attack speed: 1.3 >> 1.33

Witch

- Attack speed: 1.56 >> 1.59
- Damage: 34 >> 36

Ghost Knight

- Health: 3250 >> 3450
- Damage: 195 >> 185

Four Eyes

- Attack speed: 2.27 >> 2.33

Centaur

- Health: 5000 >> 5380
- Attack speed: 1.74 >> 1.64

Siege Ram

- Health: 5350 >> 5550
- Damage: 300 >> 292

Shaman

- Attack speed: 1.25 >> 1.3

Kraken

- Health: 6600 >> 6950
- Damage: 305 >> 291

Waves

(8) Kobras

- Attack range: 250 >> 400
- Attack speed: 1.12 >> 1.09

(15) Quadrapuses

- Quadrapus: Attack range: 250 >> 400
- Giant Quadrapus: Attack range: 450 >> 550
- Attack speed: 1.16 >> 1.14

The range of waves 8 and 15 now match that of wave 19. This makes tank mercenaries a clearer counter to AOE on those waves.

Jun 4, 2021

7.07: Starcaller & Magician Rework, Ukrainian Release

Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense - AutoAttackGames

Congratulations to adames and Widderson on winning season 3 of the Grandmaster LIHL (Legion TD 2 In-House League), and a big thank you to the community for organizing and casting the tournament. If you didn't catch the action live, here's the video.

Translations

Ukrainian is now released. Thank you to Joi Krokodeel and koi.
Polish is now improved. Thank you to rafaleck.

If you can contribute, please visit https://legiontd2.com/translate. Your help is instrumental in getting the game ready for full launch this year.

Improvements & Fixes

Gameplay
- Fixed a bug where Wileshroom and Canopie gained too much health from Gaia Shield and Titan
- Fixed a bug where Nekomata revived with too much health from Guardian Angel
- Fixed a bug where units built at the very front of the lane died before Gaia Shield could cast

MVP Score
- More heavily rewards players who pressure opponents and players who are pressured in the early game
- No longer over-rewards players for hiring tons of workers

Bots
- Smarter about not training too many workers late game
- Smarter about which mercenaries they send

Quality of Life
- Display Mode and Resolution can now be changed in-game (if this causes your game to crash, please let us know in Discord)
- Smarter fighter recommender (green border)
- Recommended value now shows next to your fighter value in the tab scoreboard
- Re-enabled in-game trophy full-screen popup for most trophies

Other Fixes
- Fixed a bug where your UI would become unresponsive if you found a match while in the middle of purchasing a card from the Card Trader
- Fixed a display-only bug where it appeared that you built a fighter at the last second, but it wasn’t actually built in time
- Fixed a rare case of certain game actions not running during lag
- Fixed a display-only bug where recommended value displayed incorrectly
- Fixed some description and translation bugs
- Fixed a display-only bug where number of enemies alive displayed incorrectly
- Hopefully fixed some cases where king animations didn’t play
- Hopefully fixed some cases of units running in place

Game Balance

Hybrid

- Harpy and Sea Serpent can now be sold for 90% instead of 60%
- Eggsack can be now sold for 90% instead of 95%

King

- Chain Frost: Bounce speed: +43%
- Chain Frost: Damage increase per bounce: 2% >> 3%
- Chain Frost: Attack slow duration against bosses: 1.5 >> 0.5
- Lightning Hammer: Bounce speed +25%
- Lightning Hammer, Immolation, Judgment: Damage: -2%

Legion Spells

Embargo

- Gold and mythium gain: 85 >> 80

Embargo has a very high win rate, and higher than similar risk-taking spells: Creditor and Venture.

Giant Snails

- Health: 470 >> 490
- Damage: 20 >> 21

Guardian Angel

- Maximum health on revive: 1650 >> 1500

Guardian Angel has a high win rate, and higher than similar single-target spells: Protector, Pulverizer, Sorcerer, Titan, and Villain

Magician

- Magic Aura: 20% bonus mana regeneration and mana gain >> +0.3 mana regeneration per second. Works with every mana user except Angler and its upgrades.

Now works more like Sacred Steed, where it’s viable with cheap fighters and strong with more expensive fighters - rather than being only viable with a small number of units. We're sad to say goodbye to the Boar + Magician combo, but believe this design is much better and opens up a lot of new combos.

Mana gained from Magician:
- Proton: +782%
- Fire Archer: +400%
- Harpy: +300% *
- Fire Lord: +275%
- Fenix: +275%
- Zeus: +253%
- Head Chef: +225%
- Atom: +200%
- Gateguard: +110%
- Sacred Steed: +76%
- Pegasus: +76%
- Dark Mage: +71%
- Desert Pilgrim: +51%
- Radiant Halo: +50%
- Violet: +36%
- King Claw: +35%
- Priestess of the Abyss: +25%
- Harbinger: +9%
- Arc of Justice: +6%
- Lord of Death: +3% *
- Disciple: +2% *
- Sky Queen: -5% *
- Hades: -5% *
- Azeria: -7%
- Starcaller: -8% *
- Soul Gate: -50%
- Hell Gate: -67%
- Great Boar: -90% *
- Red Eyes: -90% *

* These units have abilities that make the net effect situational

Vampire

- Life steal and ability vamp: 20% >> 22%

Buzz / Consort

- Attack speed: 1.05 >> 1.03

Angler

- Max mana: 75 >> 100

This change allows you to sit on Angler for longer, rather than being pressured into upgrading to Bounty Hunter at an inopportune time.

Kingpin

- Health: 4900 >> 4830
- Damage: 200 >> 195

Sky Queen

- Damage: 67 >> 69

Ranger

- Damage: 25 >> 26

Daphne

- Damage: 71 >> 73

Bazooka

- Damage: 31 >> 32

Zeus

- Power Surge: Damage: 75 >> 80

Pyro

- Attack speed: 1.61 >> 1.59

Shifting some power from Pyro into Bazooka and Zeus

Sea Serpent

- Attack speed: 0.89 >> 0.88

Deepcoiler

- Health: 1760 >> 1740
- Damage: 256 >> 252

Safety Mole on wave 8 now makes Deepcoiler 3-shot the wave instead of 2-shot it.

Eternal Wanderer

- Damage: 37 >> 36

Samurai Soul

- Damage: 118 >> 115

Wanderer has a high win rate and pick rate, and higher than all other fortified tanks.

Butcher

- Health: 1270 >> 1300
- Attack speed: 0.95 >> 0.97

Head Chef

- Health: 3500 >> 3600
- Attack speed: 0.95 >> 0.97

Lost Chieftain

- Health: 2500 >> 2350

Elite Archer / Trinity Archer

- Attack speed: 0.99 >> 1.01

Priestess of the Abyss / Azeria

Attack speed: 0.97 >> 0.96

Priestess of the Abyss is arguably the highest skill cap unit in the game. As players continue to optimize her positioning, her win rate has increased, and she's become top tier in high Elo.

Sand Badger

- Health: 2520 >> 2500
- Damage: 76 >> 75

Iron Scales

- Health: 6800 >> 6720
- Damage: 205 >> 201

Starcaller

- Amplify Magic: 30% bonus mana regeneration and mana gain >> +0.5 mana regeneration per second. Works with every mana user except Angler and its upgrades.

Now works more like Sacred Steed, where it’s viable with cheap fighters and strong with more expensive fighters - rather than being only viable with a small number of units.

Mana gained from Amplify Magic:
- Proton: +880%
- Fire Archer: +456%
- Harpy: +363% *
- Zeus: +320%
- Fire Lord: +317%
- Fenix: +317%
- Head Chef: +267%
- Atom: +233%
- Gateguard: +133%
- Sacred Steed: +96%
- Pegasus: +96%
- Dark Mage: +90%
- Desert Pilgrim: +68%
- Radiant Halo: +67%
- Violet: +52%
- King Claw: +50%
- Priestess of the Abyss: +39%
- Harbinger: +21%
- Arc of Justice: +18%
- Lord of Death: +5% *
- Disciple: +3% *
- Sky Queen: -3% *
- Hades: -3% *
- Azeria: -4%
- Starcaller: -5% *
- Soul Gate: -44%
- Hell Gate: -63%
- Great Boar: -90% *
- Red Eyes: -90% *

* These units have abilities that make the net effect situational

Hydra

- Damage and health decreased by 2.5%
- Damage and damage reduction penalty per stack of hatching early: -20% >> -17.5%

Reverting this change from v7.03. 17.5% feels like the sweet spot, where protecting your Eggsack is rewarded but not overpowered, and intentionally dying Eggsacks aren’t abusive.

Great Boar / Red Eyes

- Mana while charging: +6%

Soul Gate / Hell Gate

- Mana regeneration: +3%

Compensation buffs for nerfs with Magician and Starcaller

May 10, 2021

7.06: Game Balance & Translations

Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense - AutoAttackGames

Translation Improvements

Made translating the game significantly easier by removing thousands of rows. Many duplicates have been removed, and many translations now reference each other, reducing the burden of work on translators.
Released Norwegian!
Deprecated Spanish (Castilian). The Spanish translation should be neutral/international.

If you can contribute, please visit https://legiontd2.com/translate. We're a 4-person indie team, so your help is instrumental in getting the game ready for full launch this year.

Released Languages:

Chinese (Simplified) - 97% complete
Chinese (Traditional) - 75%
Dutch - 85%
French - 99%
German - 95%
Japanese - 60%
Korean - 99%
Latvian - 75%
Norwegian - 90%
Polish - 90%
Portuguese (Brazilian) - 90%
Russian - 97%
Spanish - 96%
Swedish - 80%
Turkish - 90%

Unreleased Languages:

Arabic - 1% complete
Bulgarian - 2%
Croatian - 2%
Czech - 25%
Danish - 30%
Finnish - 20%
Greek - 0%
Hungarian - 15%
Indonesian - 7%
Italian - 0%
Lithuanian - 0%
Persian - 1%
Portuguese (European) - 0%
Romanian - 15%
Slovak - 2%
Slovenian - 8%
Ukrainian - 0%
Vietnamese - 5%
If your language is not listed here, contact Jules in the Discord

Steam Page:

Chinese - 100% complete
Spanish - 100%
All other languages - 0%

Game Improvements

Server Risk Mitigation

Our backup matchmaker (when Microsoft PlayFab matchmaker is down) now supports parties.
Implemented Safety Mode for when there are server issues: 50% rating gain and 0% rating loss.

MVP Score

Increased for players who pressure opponents (by saving, instead of income sending)
Significantly increased for players who are pressured by opponents
Fixed a bug where MVP Score overly rewarded king upgrades

Taglines

You can now set your tagline in your profile by clicking your existing tagline
Typing /tagline now brings up an input dialogue box

Improvements & Fixes

Trophies: Fixed a bug where win/rating-based trophies were sometimes missing
Chat: Messages that are received while picking legion, mastermind variant, etc. (before you get into game) are now re-sent once you get fully in-game.
After level ~5, players will receive a friendly Inbox message to consider reviewing the game on Steam. This only happens once.
Fixed some In-Game Coach cases
Steam Friends: You can now see some in-game information
Wave 21: Fixed a bug where the map was revealed after the first wave
Profile: Fixed a bug where Tactician accidentally included pure-kingup sends
Tab Scoreboard: Fixed a bug where resources would be a little slow to update
4v4 Map: Fixed a bug where a unit that reached the cave too early would be warped to the catch area instead of the bottom of lane
Fixed a rare bug where a game would have various glitches (missing loading screen panels, missing mythium received messages, and other glitches)
Fixed a rare bug where Angler or Bounty Hunter had their mana reset
Catch Area: Warped fighters spawn in a ~30% tighter box to make it less likely for some fighters to not get aggroed when catching leaks
Animations: Fixed some cases where a stationary unit would appear like it was walking
Rendering: Fixed a bug where unit “artifacts” would flicker across the screen when warping/teleporting
Graphics: Fixed a bug where super-effective VFX were either appearing delayed or not at all
Graphics: Fixed a bug where some VFX would appear discolored
Custom Games: Fixed a game-breaking bug when playing with asymmetric matchups

Game Balance

Damage Minimum
- Minimum: 3 >> 0

(only affected Green Devil on wave 3 and Safety Mole in some situations)

The damage minimum was an unnecessary and somewhat hidden mechanic that harmed the gameplay purpose of Safety Mole.

King

- Health on waves 7 and 8: +5%
- Health on wave 9 and 18: -5%
- Giant Slayer: 20% >> 18%
- AOE damage on waves 13+: -5% scaling to -15%
- Chained Frost AOE damage on waves 1-9: +3%
- Upgrade Spell: 8.5% >> 9%
- Upgrade Attack: 8.5% >> 8%

Too many games are going to late game, especially wave 21, in 2v2 and 4v4. Leaks on late game waves will now be more lethal.

Mastermind
- No longer your only source of impact damage: Chained Fist, Butcher
- Redraw: Starting income bonus: 4 >> 3

After the buff a few patches ago, Redraw became ubiquitous in high Elo and made each game less unique and fun. Reverting the buff to shift back towards a Greed meta. We have plans to improve the design of Redraw in the future.

Legion Spells

Guardian Angel

- Maximum health: 1750 >> 1650

Protector

- Regeneration: 0.8% >> 1%

Fighters

Peewee

- Booster: Attack speed increase: 95% >> 105%

Angler

- Health: 470 >> 420
- Damage: 23 >> 20

Kingpin

- Health: 4400 >> 4900
- Big Game Hunter: removed

Big Game Hunter was so powerful early game, it pigeonholed players into only building 1 Kingpin. We tried to encourage multiple Kingpins by over-buffing Angler, but that caused players to use Anglers for raw stats and not upgrade them. These changes allow Anglers to be built in the mid game and for players to build Kingpins later in the game.

Harpy

- Damage: 16 >> 15

Sky Queen

- Damage: 65 >> 67

Shifting some power from Harpy into Sky Queen. Harpy is currently outperforming Sky Queen in most situations.

Green Devil

- Attack speed: 1.37 >> 1.34
- Effective health on wave 3 increased by 4% due to removal of the damage minimum

Sacred Steed / Pegasus

- Adjusted mana synergies with Mana Blessing and Mana Miracle as follows:
- Harpy: +50%
- Zeus: +25% and improved cast responsiveness at max mana
- Proton: +18%
- Fire Archer: +17%
- Dark Mage: +14%
- Desert Pilgrim: +11%
- Gateguard: +8%
- Azeria: -6%
- Arc of Justice: -6%
- Starcaller: -10%

Canopie

- Health: 4700 > 4800

Eternal Wanderer

- Health: 790 >> 770
- DPS: 31.1 >> 30.8
--- Damage: 38 >> 37
--- Attack speed: 0.82 >> 0.83

Butcher

- Health: 1230 >> 1270

Head Chef

- Health: 3400 >> 3500

Lost Chieftain

- Damage: 210 >> 203
- Gaia Shield: Model size now increases with each stack for maximum meme potential

Ocean Templar

- Resonance: Healing: 1.5% >> 1.75%

Yozora

- Health: 1500 > 1530
- Damage: 46 >> 47

Compensation buff for the change to Safety Mole

Disciple

- Mana regeneration increased by 8%

Radiant Halo / Arc of Justice

- Attack speed: 1.12 >> 1.08

Banana Bunk

- Damage: 74 >> 70

Banana Haven

- Damage: 63 >> 60

Hades

- Health: 3150 >> 3100
- Damage: 160 >> 158
- Thanatos
--- Health: 2030 >> 2000
--- Damage: 254 >> 250

Soul Gate

- Hellion
--- Health: 1020 >> 1060
--- Attack speed: 1.43 >> 1.45
- Nightcrawler:
--- Health: 510 >> 530
--- Attack speed: 1.175 >> 1.19

Hell Gate

- Elite Hellion: Health: 2600 >> 2660
- Elite Nightcrawler: Health: 1300 >> 1330

Mercenaries

Safety Mole

- Safety Aura: Damage minimum: 3 >> 0 (can now theoretically reduce damage to 0)

Ogre

- Health: 2750 >> 2800

Ghost Knight

- Damage: 190 >> 195

Waves

(3) Hoppers

- DPS: Unchanged
-- Damage: 7 >> 8
-- Attack speed: 0.95 >> 0.83

Adjustment so that Green Devil isn’t overpowered on wave 3 after removing the damage minimum.

(20) Maccabeus

- Damage: 170 >> 175
- Insatiable Hunger: Health gain on kill: 125 >> 150

Apr 16, 2021

7.05: Party up to 8 players, In-Game Coach

Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense - AutoAttackGames

Expected release: Monday, April 19

New Feature: Big Classic Parties

You can now queue for classic games with parties of 5-8 players! If you queue with 5-8 players, your party will be split up on separate teams in the same game. Think of this as a more streamlined way of playing Legion TD 2 when you're in a squad of more than 4.

Preferable to custom games because:

Classic automatically fills the game with other players in queue and forms the fairest possible teams.
Classic has card drops, trophy achievements, higher essence gain, and contributes to guild XP. Custom games do not.

New Feature: In-Game Coach

Game Coach now gives you real-time feedback during the game. Prepare for class, ladies and gentlemen.

Game Coach is tailored for new players but will be of help to most players. He calls out big mistakes and also gives you a pat on the back when playing well. Game Coach can be disabled in settings, but doing so will make him sad.

Game Improvements

Pathing & Targeting

Fixed a bug where ranged units would run ahead/into melee range when you had fighters at the front of your lane.
Partially fixed a bug in the 4v4 map where catch area fighters would wander back to lane. They may still wander, but they should turn around now. Also added additional tracking that will help with finding a full fix. Please share your logs in Discord if you see this bug happening!

New Player Experience

Play vs. AI difficulties rethemed from Easy, Medium, etc. to Bronze, Silver, etc.
New Play vs. AI difficulty added in between old Easy and old Medium.
Tutorial and campaign are now visually recommended for new players.
Modified level restrictions for play vs. AI, ranked, and classic.

Custom Game & Party UI

You can now more easily invite friends to custom games.
Interface for inviting a friend via entering their name now auto-reopens after sending an invite, plus it shows whether you successfully invited someone or not
Custom game list shows a loading spinner when it is loading games, instead of showing “No rooms available” when it was still loading
Join button is easier to see & click now
Party UI now shows how many players are in your party

Stability

Fixed a major bug where if you had more than 100 friends, the client would get increasingly laggy (thanks BerntDasBROT for help debugging this)
Fixed a rare bug where player ratings/stats/match history wouldn’t properly update after a match finished
Fixed a rare bug where a newly built fighter would sell/downgrade for the wrong amount (thanks 1withALL for logs)
Fixed a rare bug where a takeover bot would continue to act for a reconnected player for one wave build phase (thanks Rostad for logs)
Fixed a rare bug where Soul Gate/Hell Gate would die during the build phase
Fixed a rare bug where a loading screen would take ~30-60 seconds to load into the game even after all players finished loading
Fixed a rare bug where a player would get stuck in the loading screen (thanks Hadsi for logs)
Fixed a rare bug where a player would fail to connect to a game (stuck on Match Found)
Potentially fixed some display-only bugs where units would appear to teleport or drift
Potentially fixed bug where Sea Serpent/Deepcoiler wouldn’t play their burrow animation

Improvements & Fixes

Increased flat duo Elo adjustment by 10. Duos are overperforming Elo-adjusted expected win rates by around 2%. This should bring things closer to parity.
Graphics: Added a glow for fighters when they have an upgrade available (makes it much easier for players to know which fighters they can upgrade when they haven’t memorized costs yet)
Sound: Added option for “Mute insufficient resources alerts” to mute “Not enough gold”/“Not enough mythium” sounds
Codex: Now shows amount per spawn for waves
Matchmaking: (Affects high rated games during off-peak hours only) Queue now restarts after 30 minutes, instead of 15 minutes
Friends List: When signed out of Steam Friends, now properly hides your friends list, instead of showing a buggy/outdated friends list
HUD: Recommended fighter (green border) no longer shows up for fighters that would put you over 115% recommended value, even if that fighter had the best attack/armor type
Postgame Game Coach: Fixed some false positives
Campaign: Opponent display ratings are now a bit more accurate and are different for Normal vs. Hard mode
Custom Games: When inviting players, no longer need to confirm the player’s name
Tab Scoreboard: You can now mouseover enemy fighters during the build phase
King Upgrades: Removed “Upgrade Complete” sound. This lets the unique sounds per upgrade type be heard more clearly.
Guild War: Now only shows the results popup if you participated in the guild war.
Friends List: Now shows “Entering main menu” for players who are still starting up the game, to make it clearer that they can’t be invited to party/custom game yet.
Some new worker and other sound effects
Fixed a bug where an avatar didn’t show up in your avatars list after newly unlocking it from the Card Trader
Fixed some false positive warnings with FairPlay
Fixed missing Taxed Allowance sound
Fixed a bug where purchasing Premium Essence didn’t work for some players
Fixed a bug where you couldn’t hire Giant Snails after reconnecting
Fixed a bug where disconnected/AFK players would accidentally automatically ready up for wave 1
Fixed some cases where player avatars would be duplicated in the chat member list
Fixed display-only bug where Gaia Shield highlighted Sea Serpent/Deepcoiler

Game Balance

Legion Spells

Magician

- Mana regeneration and mana gain: 21% >> 20%

Sorcerer

- Ability damage: 50% >> 52.5%

Fighters

Masked Spirit

- Health: 160 >> 130

Radiant Halo / Arc of Justice

- Attack speed: 1.15 >> 1.125

Green Devil

- Health: 970 >> 1050
- Damage reduction: 1 + 40% >> 1 + 35%

Harpy / Sky Queen

- Attack speed: 1.29 >> 1.33

Sacred Steed / Pegasus

Mana synergies adjusted for the following units:
- Fire Archer +14%
- Gateguard +14%
- Arc of Justice -6%

Tempest

- Machine Gunner: Damage: 13 >> 14

Honeyflower

- Health: 1310 >> 1330

Deathcap

- Health: 3980 >> 4050

Lord of Death / Hades

- Devour heal on summon: 25% >> 20%

Fenix

- Health: 4300 >> 4650

Mar 19, 2021

7.04: Campaign & Imp

Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense - AutoAttackGames

7.04.8 Balance Hotfix

Nerfing AOE to reduce frustration and buffing/nerfing some outliers.
Harpy / Sky Queen

- Attack speed: 1.27 >> 1.29

Zeus

- Health: 950 >> 940

Zeus is one of the strongest openings in high Elo. This slight nerf make it more consistently leak 42% to Dragon Turtle on wave 2 (when left alone) instead of sometimes 33%

Canopie

- Health: 4600 > 4700

Honeyflower

- Health: 1290 >> 1310
- Fragrance: Damage: 10 + 0.05% max health >> 10 + 0.03% max health

Deathcap

- Health: 3920 >> 3980
- Noxious Scent: Damage: 30 + 0.15% max health >> 30 + 0.1% max health

Significant nerfs to their late game.

Berserker

- Damage: 33 >> 30
- Attack speed:1.23 >> 1.33
- Brawler: Damage per stack: 10 >> 9

Berserker is ubiquitous in high Elo, being the most common opening in the game and having a high win rate. It is now slightly stronger on wave 2 (leaking 31% to a Lizard when left alone, instead of 39%) but weaker on wave 3, no longer perfectly 3-shotting the wave.

Fatalizer

- Health: 6370 >> 6250
- Damage: 94 >> 86
- Attack speed: 1.27 >> 1.33

Now better matches Berserker’s durability and damage profile. Fatalizer previously had less damage ramp per gold than Berserker and now has the same.

Priestess of the Abyss / Azeria

- Invigorate: Healing: 10% >> 8%

From a data perspective, these are the strongest units in the game. In high Elo, Priestess is one of the most common openings and rocks an absurdly high 60% win rate.

Banana Bunk

- Health: 3100 >> 3050
- Damage: 77 >> 74

Great Boar

- Stampede: Attack speed reduction: 10% >> 8%

Red Eyes

- Thunderous Charge: Attack speed reduction: 25% >> 20%

Millennium

- Health: 2100 >> 2000

Doomsday Machine

- Health: 5170 >> 4900

Soul Gate / Hell Gate

- Damage of summons increased by 3%

(15) Quadrapuses

- Quadrapuses: Range: 200 >> 250
- Giant Quadrapus: Range: 400 >> 450

Tank mercenaries are now stronger on wave 15 to keep short-range AOE units from hitting the wave.

(16) Cardinals

- Attack speed: 1.17 >> 1.156

16 remains the strongest wave in the game, and it is also the wave where AOE shines. Shifting the meta away from wave 16 indirectly nerf AOE.

7.04 Patch Notes

Translations
In anticipation of Legion TD 2's full launch this year, we are looking for members of the community to help translate the game and Steam page. The Steam page is a new addition to the translation docs. If you're able to contribute, please visit LegionTD2.com/translate.

LIHL Diamond Division
Congratulations to Cynick and YoggYogg on winning the 1st season of the LIHL Diamond Division. The top 4 teams earned premium essence, and the top 2 teams advance to the upcoming Grandmaster Division.

New Feature: Campaign

Introducing Legion TD 2's first campaign map: Crystal Coast. Explore a coastal climate flush with natural resources, and meet its unique inhabitants.

Battle your way through 7 missions with 3 tiers of completion. Gain 100 bonus essence for 1-starring a mission, 200 bonus essence for 2 stars, and 300 bonus essence for 3 stars. Play solo, or team up with with friends as a party of up to 4.

Thank you to TheSlimeKing, Ssamji, and Galaxy Smash for testing and feedback.

New Mercenary: Imp

Imp
Mythium cost: 100
Income: 25
Attack type: Magic
Defense type: Natural
Range: Melee
Health: 780
Damage: 37
Attack speed: 1.18

Diabolic Duo: Imps spawn in pairs

Look out, Brute! Imp is here to offer another option for early game aggression.

Major Improvement: New Player Experience

Our goal this patch is to make Legion TD 2 easier and more fun to learn for new players, especially in preparation for the game's full launch this year. If you have a friend who is considering picking up the game, now's a great time to join the community.

New Player Queue
New players are now much more likely to match with each other in their first classic games and ranked games.

Lower Starting Elo
New players now start at 800 Elo (instead of 1000) but gain significantly more Elo for winning. This
- Makes new players more likely to match with each other and unranked players and less likely to match with silver+ players
- Improves the win rate of new players for their first games
- Helps skilled new players and smurfs climb the ladder faster

In-Game Coach
The Game Coach now helps players during games for their first 10 wins.

Bots / Play vs. AI
- All bots are now much consistent and make fewer unintended mistakes
- Bots now play mastermind, instead of legions, to make them more dynamic and to help players familiarize themselves against mastermind
- Beginner and Easy bots no longer forget to build, but now make mistakes that new players often make
- Hard and Insane bots are now significantly smarter
- Hard bots no longer cheat with income
- Insane bots bonus income reduced from +65 to +50
- Takeover bots (for disconnected players in classic and ranked) are now smarter
- Bots now show the difficulty in their name (first letter only). B - Beginner, E - Easy, M - Medium, H - Hard, I - Insane

Tutorial
- Made improvements to the pacing and difficulty of the tutorial
- The 3rd tutorial mission is now required to help players learn about sending before income
- The 7th tutorial mission (1v1 against bot) is now removed in favor of the campaign

Classic & Ranked Level Requirement
- Minimum level required to play classic and ranked increased from 2 to 3. Partially playing through the tutorial or campaign is now required before going into matchmade games

Game Improvements

New Feature: Pausing (Custom games only)
Press ESC then select Pause/Unpause to use it

Pathing & Targeting
- Fixed a bug where air/hover units would move too far forward, especially after killing a target
- Units are now a bit smarter about not moving forward when they already have a target in range
- Brute, Mimic, Safety Mole, Pack Leader, Ogre, and Imp are now more likely to be correctly targeted when slightly injured on waves 4+

Dodge Penalty
- Elo penalty for dodging increased from 6 to 8
- FairPlay penalty for dodging increased
- Dodging a game now prevents you from queueing for 5 minutes

King
- Fixed a bug where queueing multiple king upgrades would sometimes result in only some upgrades actually taking effect
- Fixed a visual bug where upgrading regeneration caused the king's health to be wrong, sometimes for multiple waves
- Fixed a visual bug where the king's health would jump up/down between waves when it should have remained the same
- Fixed a visual bug where the east team's king would sometimes appear to be fully upgraded at the start of the game

Quality of Life
- Guilds: Added "Last Played" column
- When a mercenary is out of stock, it now grays out the button
- In the Builds tab, you can now mouseover a player's value to see their recommended value for that wave
- Sound Options: Now has a separate slider for Special Music (Card Trader, King in Danger, Campaign Music, etc.)
- Pinging fighter value/recommended value now shows the difference from recommended

Eternal Wanderer, Samurai Soul
- Fixed a bug where Eternal Wanderer, Samurai Soul, and units with Guardian Angel would sometimes spawn in the wrong spot, often behind enemy ranged units

Hybrid
- Fixed some cases where a placeholder fighter was built instead of an actual fighter

Other Fixes & Improvements
- Fixed chat window width on 1440x900 resolution
- Fixed a rare bug where a player couldn't train workers
- Fixed a bug where income displayed incorrectly when dual-building (it would accidentally display your partner's income sometimes)
- Fixed a bug where Wave Stats only showed Ranked, even when selecting Classic
- Fixed fighter value when using -load for most builds
- Improved Power Score text when displaying double digits
- Removed "Guild War" menu entry. Instead, the Guild War icon next to the Play button is now clickable to quickly open the Guild War Leaderboard (when Guild War is active)
- Fixed a rare case when queueing for a Ranked game as a duo, one player would sometimes fail the ready check
- Fixed a rare bug where a player would appear to be afk-flagged at the end of the game, if after their game failed to load the victory/defeat popup
- Fixed a bug with Pulverizer's VFX where it would sometimes be hidden by the ground

Game Balance

Mastermind

- Buzz, Infiltrator, Windhawk, Honeyflower, Butcher, Soul Gate, and Firelord will no longer be your only options for swift or natural defense
- Angler, Gateguard, and Soul Gate will no longer be your only options for fortified or natural defense
- Redraw (Mastermind Option): Starting income: 3 >> 4

Reroll
- Tier 1 fighters are no longer rolled

This increases the chance of a clutch Reroll mid and late game.

Hybrid

- Starting income: 0 >> 5
- Sell value: 80% >> 60% (Eggsack still sells for 95%)
- Gold costs:
-- Tier 3: 80 >> 81
-- Tier 4: 128 >> 130
-- Tier 5: 179 >> 180
-- Tier 6: 255 >> 254

Buffing Hybrid, balancing the tiers, and encouraging upgrading.

4v4
- Nerfed waves 15-18 by 1% attack speed and 1% damage reduction
- Nerfed wave 19 by 2% attack speed and 2% damage reduction
- Sprint: Bonus movement speed: 250 >> 300

Scaling back some of the 4v4 wave buffs to make them less oppressive for newer players and allow more games to reach waves 20 and 21.

Dual-building

-- Attack speed: 3% >> 2%
-- AOE Reduction: 33% >> 35%

Nerfing AOE in dual-building and buffing other strategies. In this context, AOE is defined as any ability whose power scales roughly linearly with the number of enemies. Affected units: Pyro, Honeyflower, Deathcap, King Claw, Yozora, Arctaire, Millennium, Doomsday Machine, Great Boar, Red Eyes

Legion Spells

Lizard Army

- Mythium Gained: 40 >> 45

Overwork

- Worker gather rate on wave 12: 40% reduced >> 35% reduced

Protector

- Protection Aura: Regeneration: 0.6% >> 0.8%

Venture

- Maximum gold paid: 120 >> 115
- Maximum gold earned: 360 >> 345

Fighters

Bone Warrior

- Damage: 7 >> 6

Individually, Bone Warrior, Fire Archer, Dark Mage, and Bone Crusher are relatively balanced. Together, their versatility makes them too strong.

Consort

- Paraphylaxis: Damage: 300 >> 280

Gargoyle

- Damage: 18 >> 17

Green Devil

- Health: 870 >> 970
- Granite Skin: Damage reduction: 2 + 40% >> 1 + 40%

Too much of Green Devil’s power was in its strength on very early waves, which made it a noob trap on waves 7, 8, and 15, where it should be viable. A solo Green Devil now leaks slightly to Snail on wave 2, but is stronger on waves 3 and 5 - 21.

Angler

- Health: 460 >> 470
- Damage: 22 >> 23

Kingpin

- Fighter value increased by 1 per mana

This gives players a better sense of their effective fighter value, rather than having to mentally adjust for Kingpins. It also gives players with Kingpins a higher and more accurate power score, which reduces abuse cases where early high-stack Kingpins (especially with Sacred Steed or eco strategies) had underestimated power scores.

Pyro

- Attack speed: 1.69 >> 1.62

Ranger

- Attack speed: 1.12 >> 1.15

Daphne

- Mark Target: Maximum stacks: 10 >> 20

Harpy

- Damage: 21 >> 16
- Attack speed: 0.83 >> 1.27
- Acrobatics: Mana gain from moving reduced by 25%

Sky Queen

- Damage: 85 >> 65
- Attack speed: 0.83 >> 1.27
- Maximum stacks: 20 >> 15
- Acrobatics: Mana gain from moving reduced by 25%

Sky Queen now gains less mana from moving and hits max stacks faster, nerfing synergies with Starcaller and Magician and buffing synergies with APS and Leviathan and its viability on its own.

Sacred Steed / Pegasus

Mana synergies adjusted for the following units:
- Harpy: +67%
- Proton: +50%
- Fire Archer: +25%
- Atom: +20%
- Gateguard: +19%
- Great Boar: +17%
- Radiant Halo: +9%
- Arc of Justice: -7%
- Starcaller: -11%
- Hell Gate: -11%
- Azeria: -13%

Nerfing with high cost units and buffing with low cost units to introduce some new viable synergies.

Warg

- Health: 990 >> 980
- Attack speed: 1.11 > 1.09

Alpha Male

- Health: 3400 >> 3360

Grarl

- DPS: 57 >> 53
- Damage: 60 >> 61
- Attack speed: 0.95 >> 0.87

Bringing back Grarl’s ability to 2-shot wave 2 to allow for more Grarl opening options and mind games, but nerfing stats to weaken it, notably on wave 6.

Honeyflower

- Health: 1270 >> 1290

Deathcap

- Health: 3850 >> 3920

Tempest

- Machine Gunner: Damage: 12 >> 13

Leviathan

- Damage: 68 >> 72
- Bombardier: Damage: 80 >> 85

Desert Pilgrim

- Chain Heal: Mana cost: 11 >> 10

Lost Chieftain

- Damage: 195 >> 210

Radiant Halo / Arc of Justice

- Attack speed: 1.11 >> 1.15

Priestess of the Abyss

- Health: 920 >> 1000
- Attack speed: 0.94 >> 0.97
- Invigorate: Health restore: 15% missing health per second >> 10%

Azeria

- Health: 3000 > 3250
- Attack speed: 0.94 >> 0.97
- Invigorate: Health restore: 15% missing health per second >> 10%

Priestess and Azeria have become Bone Crusher 2.0 in high Elo, where optimal positioning is hugely advantageous, but a half-square small misplacement (or a bit of unluckiness) means a big leak. We like that these units are high skill cap, but they are too extreme. These changes reduce variance and make Priestess and Azeria more viable outside of very high Elo.

Banana Bunk

- Health: 3000 >> 3100
- Barbs: Damage reflected: 20 + 10% >> 15 + 10%

Banana Haven

- Health: 6650 >> 7600
- Damage: 57 x 3 >> 63 x 3
- Thorns: Damage reflected: 30 + 15% >> 20 + 15%

Banana Bunk is too strong early game, especially after last patch’s attack speed changes to 7 and 9. Shifting power from Banana Bunk into Banana Haven and making Banana Haven more viable past wave 12.

Hades

- Summon Thanatos: Mana cost: 60 >> 65

Millennium

- Explosive Shells: Damage: 40 >> 35

Doomsday Machine

- Damage: 605 >> 600
- Detonation: Damage: 100 >> 85

Soul Gate / Hell Gate

- Damage of all spawns increased by 4%

Mercenaries

Safety Mole and Pack Leader now spawn in the middle of the wave to make them consistent with other non-tank melee mercenaries. Note that this situationally nerfs Pack Leader on wave 8, which abused the fact that its spawn position made it tank halfway through the battle.

Hermit

- Healing Aura: 6 + 0.1% (0.05% for bosses) >> 7 (14 for bosses)

Safety Mole

- Health: 1460 >> 1680
- Damage: 71 >> 84
- Safety Aura: Damage reduction: 4 >> 3

Hermit and Safety Mole are now stronger early game and weaker late game, increasing the number viable low income mercenaries early game and decreasing the power of always sending auras late game.

Waves

Giving AOE weaknesses by making boss wave leaks more punishing and changing wave 18 to be an elite wave. Also, shifting power out of 6/14/16 into 4/5/13/15.

Bosses (10, 20)

- Partial bounty for damaging: 87% >> 83%
- Bounty for killing: 13% >> 17%

Minibosses (5, 15, 21)

- No longer reward partial bounty for damaging

(4) Flying Chickens

- Attack speed: 1.05 >> 1.07

(5) Scorpions

- Attack speed: 0.98 >> 0.99

(6) Rockos

- Attack speed: 0.8 >> 0.79

Shifting power from wave 6 to 4 and 5 because they are comparatively weak, to reduce the wave 6/7 guessing game meta in high Elo, and to reduce all-ins on wave 6 in low Elo.

(13) Drill Golems

- Attack speed: 1.57 >> 1.59

(14) Killer Slugs

- Attack speed: 1.24 >> 1.22

(15) Quadrapuses

- Attack speed: 1.15 >> 1.16

(16) Cardinals

- Attack speed: 1.19 >> 1.17

(18) Wale Chiefs

- Health: 4030 >> 7650
- Damage: 100 >> 150
- Attack speed: 1.32 >> 1.67
- Poison-tipped Pole: 150 magic damage every 3rd attack >> 300 magic damage every 4th attack
- Wale Chiefs spawning: 12 >> 6
- Bounty: 21 >> 42