Expected patch release: June 12 (Pacific Time)

News & Updates
- Check out Lisk's Developer AMA and Jules' Gameplay & Balance AMA from this past month! These AMA ("ask-me-anything") events are run every month, so keep an eye on reddit for the next ones.
- Nekomata Cup: June 10-11. The first-ever tournament tailored for players in Asia, Oceania, Europe and Africa!
- Next Nova Cup: June 24-25
- Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 Esports Portal.






Howler Stats

• Tier 2 (Cost: 35g)
  
• Role: Versatile
  
• Melee / Pierce / Natural
  
• Wolf Pack: Each attack applies a stack of Wolf Prey for 3 seconds (stacking up to 10 times). Deals 6% (3% to bosses) bonus damage for each stack of Wolf Prey on its attack target.

Sunfang Stats

• Tier 2 Upgrade (Cost: 160g)
  
• Role: Versatile
  
• Melee / Pierce / Natural
  
• Wolf Pack: Each attack applies a stack of Wolf Prey for 3 seconds (stacking up to 10 times). Deals 6% (3% to bosses) bonus damage for each stack of Wolf Prey on its attack target.

Starting this patch, the first time you purchase each premium essence bundle, you get a big chunk of premium essence for FREE!

Every premium essence purchase goes towards supporting the game’s continued development. Thank you to everyone who continues to support the game. Without your support, the game would not be where it is today.

P.S. Remember to enter a creator code for 10% bonus premium essence! (and supporting a creator in the process!)


Cool off from the summer heat with three new summery skins, including one more honorable mention from the community skin competition!


Original concept by Drachir






Introducing new collectible cards for the 14 campaign opponents as well as Earth King, Sky King, and Worker!
- These are standard (non-secret) cards with legendary rarity
- These cards are only obtainable via the Card Trader (they cannot be found in-game)




Haste (4v4 Dual Building)
- Attack speed bonus to enemies: 2% → 3%
- AOE reduction for enemies: 45% → 47.5%. This nerf also affects Hades’ Necromancy.

Dual building is too strong when mastered and is currently a point of frustration.


King
- Upgrade Regen: 0.005% → 0.006%

Right now if your king takes too much damage, upgrading regen often seals your fate by giving up too much pressure. A regen buff makes recover + scale a viable alternative.



Counterattack
- Mythium gained: 50 → 55
- Mythium gained per leak: 50 → 55

Low win rate and very low pick rate.


Divine Blessing
- Health: 2150 → 2000

High win rate and pick rate.



Bone Warrior
- Health: 100 → 140

Bringing back Bone Warrior as an off-tank in the early game.


Dark Mage
- Damage: 34 → 32

Shifting power from Dark Mage to Bone Warrior.


Chained Fist
- Health: 210 → 220

More cheap unit buffs.


Pack Rat
- Health: 620 → 640

Low win rate.


Gargoyle
- Health: 270 → 280
- Attack speed: 0.89 → 0.91

Gargoyle promotes aggressive early game plays, which is a fun and interesting strategy. It was over-nerfed back when cheap unit spam was overpowered.


Harpy / Sky Queen
- Attack speed: 1.49 → 1.46

High win rate.


Angler
- Health: 420 → 380
- Damage: 19 → 17

High win rate. Nerfing Angler in the early game. Mid and late game, where Angler doesn't rely as much on its stats, it will be similarly viable.


Rogue Wave
- Delusion: ability damage amplification: 16% → 20%


Fire Elemental
- Attack speed: 0.806 → 0.82

Low win rate and pick rate.


Slime Siren
- Attack speed: 1.37 → 1.34

High win rate.


Nekomata
- Attack speed: 1.03 → 1.05

Low win rate. After the Slime Siren nerf and Nekomata and Gargoyle buffs, all the arcane tanks should be in a reasonably balanced spot.


Chloropixie
- Damage: 46 → 49
- Mythium gained: 6 → 5

Stronger when used as DPS, but weaker when used as fodder or in a split. Encouraging smarter use of Chloropixie.


Sakura
- Attack speed: 1.14 → 1.12

Shifting power from Sakura to Chloropixie.


Violet
- Mana regeneration increased by 5%

Slightly low win rate and pick rate.


Eternal Wanderer / Samurai Soul
- Attack speed: 0.83 → 0.85

Low pick rate.


Sea Serpent
- Health: 660 → 680


Deepcoiler
- Health: 2010 → 2070

Very low pick rate.


Radiant Halo / Arc of Justice
- Attack speed: 1.15 → 1.13

High win rate.


Gatling Gun / Vulcan Cannon
- Attack speed: 2.2 → 2.17

High win rate. Partially reverting last patch’s buff.


Banana Bunk
- Damage: 65 → 68
- Barbs: Damage reflect: 15 + 10% → 13 + 10%

High win rate. Shifting power from the ability to autoattack damage to make it more consistent with Banana Haven. Still an overall nerf.


Gateguard / Harbinger / Lord of Death / Hades / Shadow Dancer / Dread Knight
- After a summoned unit has been alive for 50 seconds, it starts degenerating 10% max health per second

Weaker when holding for teammates, which was a point of frustration.



Witch
- Attack speed: 1.43 → 1.35

Still the top performing mercenary.



Wave 6 (Rockos)
Damage: 40 → 37
- Impale reworked
— Old: Each attack has a 25% chance to deal 150% damage
— New: Each attack amplifies damage by 3% (1.5% to the king), stacking up to 10 times

This removes rng from the ability, rewards having multiple units partially tank, and incentivizes cheaper units in the early game.

The dev team is constantly monitoring game balance, between looking at data and listening to community feedback. If specific units/spells are being more closely monitored than usual, they will be listed in this Balance Watchlist section. For this patch, the following are on the watchlist:

• Treant + upgrades
  
• Grarl + upgrades
  
• Eggsack
  
• Cartel

Long overdue, the mouse cursor has received a modern refresh!

• Emotes: Added a clickable button to use emotes. We’re still gathering feedback and will likely make other improvements to the emotes system in the future. (Screenshot)
  
• Game Coach: Added the “Randomize Every Game” option in the Shop > Game Coach tab
  
• Matchmaking: Improved match fairness for players with less than 10 ranked games in the current season. For such players, it will take into account last season’s peak Elo. This should greatly improve match fairness at the start of seasons, as well as for players who are returning from a break and starting the season a bit late.
  
• Creditor: Earned gold message now displays “MAX” if you earned max gold (Screenshot) and a percentage if you earned less than max
  
• Postgame Builds: Mousing over a unit icon now shows the unit name

• King Upgrades: Fixed a bug where a queued king upgrade wouldn’t go through if you hit 20 mythium just before the wave started (Credits to Kidev)
  
• Parties: Fixed a bug where a party invite from a friend in another player’s party would display the invite from the party owner, instead of the friend
  
• Cards: Fixed a bug where Game Coach cards were not able to be donated or sold
  
• Nekomata: Fixed a bug where the max stacks re-texture wasn’t showing up

• Currently investigating a bug from last patch where the main menu background wrongly shows up in-game, preventing player actions.

This weekend (June 10-11) is the Nekomata Cup! It's like the Nova Cup, but a new time schedule friendlier for Asia/Australia/African players, as well as European players!

Sign-up is FREE! Tune in to http://twitch.tv/ltd2 for casting by Shadowings on the days of the event.


With this update, we are excited to introduce new doggos to the game . These units should be easier-to-use compared to some of the other recent new units, while still offering interesting strategies.

We're also excited to introduce the First Purchase Bonus to encourage more people to support the game's development; even if it's just a one-time purchase, every purchase really does help.

Thank you again for playing Legion TD 2! We hope you continue to enjoy the game.

If you've enjoyed the game, but haven't left a review yet, please consider posting a short review for the game! It really helps get the word out there.

If you enjoy these updates, please give it a Thumbs Up, too!

And as always, if you have constructive criticism, let's chat about it. Discord and reddit are our main channels of communication, and aside from the development team, there are community helpers who can ensure your feedback is heard, as well as answer pretty much anything you've ever wanted to know about the game. If you want a guaranteed answer from the devs, the monthly AMAs on reddit are your best bet.

We are excited to announce our FIRST EVER tournament tailored towards players in Asia, Oceania, Europe, and Africa! Signup is, as always, open to everyone!

The upcoming Nekomata Cup takes place June 10 - 11.

$875 in prizes and sign-up is free - first come first served!
There are up to five skill divisions, so no matter what your rating is, you have a chance to win.
Participation prize: Every participant who plays all of their matches will receive a FREE random card. If you haven't played a tournament yet, this is a great time to join.


Based on the amount of sign ups there will be up to 5 divisions with the following prizes:

--- Division 1: 1st: $300, 2nd: $150
--- Division 2: 1st: $150
--- Division 3: 1st: 18,750 PE (worth $125)
--- Division 4: 1st: 15,000 PE (worth $100)
--- Division 5: 1st: 7200 PE (worth $50)

(Prizes will be split up between both players)



When you watch Nekomata Cup on the official channel, aside from enjoying shoutcasted top-tier Legion gameplay, you'll also receive in-game rewards based on how long you watch!

Watch the official Legion TD 2 Twitch stream during a Nekomata Cup to earn the following rewards:
- Watch for 60 minutes: 2,000 essence
- Watch for an additional 90 minutes: 4,000 additional essence
- Watch for an additional 120 minutes: Random card

In other words, if you watch the Nekomata Cup both days, you'll earn 6,000 total essence and a random card!

IMPORTANT: You'll need to link your Twitch account to your Legion TD 2 account in order to earn the rewards.
Link Your Twitch Account

• Sign-ups are open from NOW until June 10 at 6pm KST (UTC+9) / 11am CEST.
  
• To sign up, find a teammate and form a party. After you're both in the party, have one player type "/signup [team name]" (e.g. /signup Snail Kings) in chat. You should see a confirmation message that your sign-up went through.
  
• The first 16 teams to sign up in each division can participate. Other teams are waitlisted. There are usually no-shows, so waitlisted teams are encouraged to be present in the Discord and ready to play. {LINK REMOVED}View the team list to see your sign-up position and division.
  
• If there are more than 32 teams checked in, there will be an additional best-of-1 qualifying round to allow more teams to participate. It is a best-of-1, rather than a best-of-3, to keep the event from running overly long.
  
• Both players must join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Make sure to set your server nickname to match your in-game name.

• You may sign-up as a solo with a suggested team name using the "/signup [team name]" command. Solo teams will be added to the Public Teams list, then be formed into teams on the day of the tournament. Solo teams will be randomly assigned a team name from either of its members.
  
• If there is a waitlist, team sign-ups will always take priority over solo sign-ups
  
• If you sign up as a solo, but then you find a teammate, you can re-sign up as a team any time before check-ins start. Just use the /signup command again with the new teammate. The tournament organizer will void your old solo signup after they process your new team signup.
  
• After check-ins are over, all checked-in solo players will be randomly formed into teams by the tournament organizer. You cannot request a specific teammate at this point; if you want to play with a specific person, you should have signed up as a team instead.

It is still strongly recommended to sign-up as a team to guarantee your spot in the tournament and to give you time to practice with your teammate beforehand.


Saturday, June 10

• Check-in window: 5:45pm - 6:15pm KST / 10:45am - 11:15am CEST
  
• Games: 7:00pm - 10:30pm KST / 12:00pm - 3:30pm CEST
  
  • Round of 16 (Best of 3)
    
  • Quarter-finals (Best of 3)

Sunday, June 11

• Check-in window: 6:00pm - 6:30pm KST / 11:00am - 11:30am CEST
  
• Games: 7:00pm - 10:30pm KST / 12:00pm - 3:30pm CEST
  
  • Semi-finals (Best of 3)
    
  • Final (Best of 5)

Check-in

• Teams must check in via the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Waitlisted teams should also check in.
  
• Any team that fails to check in will be disqualified. The next team on the waitlist that checked in will earn a spot.

The custom game room creator should enable Tournament Mode in the room. This will ensure the following settings:

• 2v2
  
• Mastermind only
  
• Hybrid disabled

For questions & support, please join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord.

See you on June 10th! The Nekomata Cup will be casted and streamed at https://twitch.tv/ltd2. Check the Tournament Discord on the event day for links to the other casts.

Sincerely,
Your Legion TD 2 Tournament Staff

Expected patch release: May 15 (Pacific Time)

News & Updates
- Check out Lisk's Developer AMA and Jules' Gameplay & Balance AMA from this past month! These AMA ("ask-me-anything") events are run every month, so keep an eye on reddit for the next ones.
- Next Nova Cup: May 20-21
- Nekomata Cup: June 10-11. First-ever tournament tailored for players in Asia, Oceania, Europe and Africa! Details coming soon.
- Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 eSports Portal.

• Express yourself by spamming judiciously using in-game emotes!
  
• Hold Shift+E to open up the emote window.
  
• Personalize each emote with a variety of animation styles in Options > Social.
  
• If you’re not a fan of Emotes, you can choose to receive emotes from nobody or only from friends in Options > Social.

• Each unlockable Game Coach now unlocks special emotes
  
• Your currently-equipped Game Coach is now flexed as an emote just before Wave 1 starts..
  
• Game Coach secret cards are now part of the Card Trader rotation and unlockable using Card Fragments.
  
• Game Coach sound effects are now previewed when cycling through dialogue in the shop.
  
• Plus, three brand new Game Coaches - see below!

Ahoy, an' welcome to Legion TD 2! Booty be aplenty here in these waters. Time t' drop anchor 'n set sail!



Greetings & salutations. Together, let us unravel the mysteries of the universe! Or, you know, just sit here and autosend.



What's up, bro! Ready to have a good time?

Credits to Kidev for the original design!

• NEW: You will now receive 10% bonus Premium Essence every time you make a purchase using a Creator Code!
  
• As a reminder, every time you enter a creator code, AutoAttack Games donates 14% of its revenue from that purchase directly to that content creator.
  
• Special Promotional Period: As soon as the patch drops, until the end of June, we’ll be doubling this rate to 28%!

We truly believe in the Legion community, and this is one more way we want to show our support for all who make Legion TD 2 what it is today. Content creators, it's all up to you to advertise those creator codes!


You can now send Premium Essence gifts to your friends, along with a personalized message. Access the gifting menu from the normal Premium Essence purchase screen. You'll see a new "Send as Gift" button.


This month, we're excited to present the winner & some honorable mentions from the community skin competition!


Original concept by LanaDelRabiesLTD2


Original concept by e1esdee


Original concept by D4NW0LF

Spoiler: one more honorable mention coming in next month's patch.




Dark Ritual
- Gold: 140 --> 145

Low win rate and pick rate.


Divine Blessing
- Health: 2250 --> 2150

High win rate and pick rate. Too strong with ranged off-tanks like Azeria.


Investment
- Income: 34 --> 33

High pick rate and indirectly buffed by king changes.


Loan
- Income penalty: -34 --> -33

Low win rate and pick rate.

- Now weighs mythium slightly higher

This slightly nerfs long-saving mythium by making it less likely for saving to cause your opponents to go on fire.


King
- Health increased by +13% → +3% from waves 1 → 21
- Attack damage and spell damage adjusted by +5% → -4% from waves 1 → 21
- Wave 9’s Deflection now reduces damage from the king by 6%
- Wave 18’s Poison-Tipped Pole now deals 40 bonus damage against the king
- Removed a health nerf that only previously applied to waves 9 and 18

Buffing the king early game to make leaks to the king less punishing and encourage more workers.

King damage will also be more consistent on waves 9 and 18. Previously, mercenaries like Ogre on 9 and Four Eyes on 18 did disproportionately too much damage, while the waves themselves did unexpectedly little damage.



Looter
- DPS: 5.3 → 6.1
— Damage: 5 → 6
— Attack speed: 1.06 → 1.02


Pollywog
- DPS: 6.7 → 7.8
— Damage: 7 → 8
— Attack speed: 0.95 → 0.97


Chained Fist
- Health: 200 → 210


Peewee
- Health: 240 → 260
- Booster: Attack speed bonus: +120% → 125%

Back when cheap unit spam was a dominant strategy, cheap units were heavily nerfed. Now that the game has checks against spam, it’s safe to rebuff these units. To test things and avoid disruption, we’re only buffing underperforming units, not adjusting units that would require power shifts (e.g. shifting power from Consort to Buzz). We may consider this in a future patch.


Veteran
- Stimpack: Attack speed bonus: +120% → 125%

Fun ability that’s currently underutilized.


Sakura
- Attack speed: 1.15 → 1.136

High win rate. One of the strongest openings in the game.


Slime Larva
- Health: 320 → 310
- Damage: 32 → 31

High win rate. Efficient stats, plus wave delay/split potential.


Fire Elemental
- DPS: Unchanged
— Damage: 32 → 30
— Combustion: Damage: 25 → 30
— Attack speed: 0.85 → 0.81

More magic damage, less pierce damage. Now perfectly 2-shots waves 3, bringing back Fire Elemental as an opening.


Canopie
- Health: 4850 → 4800

High pick rate and was indirectly buffed by the introduction of Tree of Life.


Seadragon
- Health: 900 → 870


Lifebinder
- Health: 2700 → 2610

High win rate.


Cursed Casket
- Health: 1520 → 1500


Cage of Pain
- Health: 2680 → 2650


Iron Maiden
- Health: 3820 → 3770

High win rate.


APS / MPS
- Attack speed: 1.43 → 1.39

High win rate.


Trinity Archer
- Damage: 57 → 56

High win rate.


Gatling Gun / Vulcan Cannon
- Attack speed: 2.13 → 2.2

Very low pick rate.


Eggsack
- Health: 2200 → 2300
- Eggsplosion: Fixed a bug where it did magic damage. Now correctly does pure damage.

Very low pick rate. Buffing Eggsack opening.


Soul Gate
- Nightcrawler: Health: 390 → 420


Hell Gate
- Elite Nightcrawler: Health: 1000 → 1080

Very low win rate. Increasing Nightcrawler’s health to better match the health-damage profile of other ranged units.


Great Boar / Red Eyes
- Stampede & Thunderous Charge damage increased by 8%

Low pick rate. Outclassed by Banana Bunk/Haven on most waves.



Witch
- Attack speed: 1.52 → 1.43

Witch is nearly always a viable send and too often the best send.



Wave 6: Rockos
- Impale: Fixed a bug where it did pure damage. Now correctly does impact damage.


Wave 18: Wale Chiefs
- Poison-Tipped Pole: Damage: 230 → 240

- Game pacing and sending meta

Making sure the meta includes a healthy mix of income sending, short saves, long saves, split sends, coordinated sends, high income mercenaries, power mercenaries, and king ups. There are a lot of levers to adjust these things (mercenary stats, mythium rate, king power, tenacity, leak gold, pillage gold, etc.).

Currently, king damage in the early game is too punishing, so we're buffing the king. We'll continue to evaluate and make improvements. We're always monitoring all aspects of game balance, looking at data, and listening to community feedback.

• Game Text: Pirate translation is now selectable via Options > Language. Ya-ha-har!
  
• Pings: Player name is now displayed beneath each ping (Screenshot)
  
• Tooltips: Added a damage type icon and improved readability for all abilities with damage type different than that of the unit.
  
• Performance: Minor improvements to client performance in big battles. This may inadvertently sometimes cause some graphical glitches with missiles; please report a bug if you see them, and we’ll revert the change.
  
• Emojis: Added wp, smiling_face_with_tear, and melting_face (Screenshot)
  
• Spectator HUD: Removed Net Worth & Builds from the main HUD. Scaled larger on 2560x1440 screens. This should improve the Nova Cup viewing experience!

• Gameplay: Fixed a bug where Sakura’s value calculation was incorrectly increasing by 15 instead of 30 on waves 11+
  
• Gameplay: Fixed a bug where Treasure Hunt did not grant mythium on Wave 21+
  
• Gameplay: Fixed a bug where queued King Upgrades wouldn’t prevent using Embargo and vice versa
  
• Gameplay: Fixed a bug where the “Guild Member” Steam achievement didn’t unlock for guild leaders creating their own guild
  
• Gameplay: Fixed a bug where Fiesta gold was mistakenly given after using Restart in campaigns/AI games
  
• Gameplay: Fixed a bug where Tree of Life’s Devotion buff wasn’t correctly applied after doing a -load build
  
• Postgame: Fixed a rare case where First Win of the Day Essence bonus wasn’t given if the game ended right at the cutoff date
  
• Profile: Fixed a bug where the Game Stats - Openings column wasn’t properly sortable
  
• Client: Tweaked a few client fonts to support displaying non-alphanumeric characters
  
• Client: Fixed a bug where the popup when choosing a guild avatar mistakenly displayed gold/silver borders when it shouldn’t have
  
• HUD: Fixed a bug where the Ready button was mistakenly draggable using ctrl+shift
  
• Card Trader: Fixed a rare case where a reroll was consumed, but didn’t actually reroll the card selection
  
• Stability: Fixed some rare cases of game instability with lots of units

- Follow the Legion TD 2 Instagram @legiontdgame for all the latest Legion memes! Brought to you by ToHoe, the legendary Legion memer.


With this update, we are excited to introduce new ways of communicating (Emotes) as well as improve some existing systems (Game Coaches and Creator Codes). We're especially excited for more players to get in the habit of using creator codes, as this will directly support content creators and encourage them to create more Legion TD 2 content! As always, we'll continue to iterate until we get it right, so be ready for hotfixes soon after release.

Thank you again for playing Legion TD 2! We hope you continue to enjoy the game.

If you've enjoyed the game, but haven't left a review yet, please consider posting a short review for the game! It really helps get the word out there.

If you enjoy these updates, please give it a Thumbs Up, too!

And as always, if you have constructive criticism, let's chat about it. Discord and reddit are our main channels of communication, and aside from the development team, there are community helpers who can ensure your feedback is heard, as well as answer pretty much anything you've ever wanted to know about the game. If you want a guaranteed answer from the devs, the monthly AMAs on reddit are your best bet.

Congratulations to the winners of last month's Nova Cup!
- D1: the updogs (Drachir & FC Lucy)
- D2: where is my bonus income? (Toikan & robie)
- D3: pyroblem (Thaeltras & Snow193)
- D4: what's arcane? (warnessa2007 & TDMeister)
- D5: i should be studying (Yert & Selt)

Missed the action? Check the brackets, team lists, & VODs for all divisions on the Legion TD 2 eSports portal!

The upcoming May Nova Cup takes place May 20 - 21.

$875 in prizes and sign-up is free - first come first served!
There are up to five skill divisions, so no matter what your rating is, you have a chance to win.
Participation prize: Every participant who plays all of their matches will receive a FREE random card. If you haven't played a tournament yet, this is a great time to join.



When you watch Nova Cups on the official channel, aside from enjoying shoutcasted top-tier Legion gameplay, you'll also receive in-game rewards based on how long you watch!

Watch the official Legion TD 2 Twitch stream during a Nova Cup to earn the following rewards:
- Watch for 60 minutes: 2,000 essence
- Watch for an additional 90 minutes: 4,000 additional essence
- Watch for an additional 120 minutes: Random card

In other words, if you watch the Nova Cup both days, you'll earn 6,000 total essence and a random card!

IMPORTANT: You'll need to link your Twitch account to your Legion TD 2 account in order to earn the rewards.
Link Your Twitch Account

• Sign-ups are open from NOW until May 20 at 9am PST / 6pm CEST.
  
• To sign up, find a teammate and form a party. After you're both in the party, have one player type "/signup [team name]" (e.g. /signup Snail Kings) in chat. You should see a confirmation message that your sign-up went through. For those who participated in previous Nova Cups, you no longer need to do /join to signup.
  
• The first 16 teams to sign up in each division can participate. Other teams are waitlisted. There are usually no-shows, so waitlisted teams are encouraged to be present in the Discord and ready to play. {LINK REMOVED}View the team list to see your sign-up position and division.
  
• If there are more than 32 teams checked in, there will be an additional best-of-1 qualifying round to allow more teams to participate. It is a best-of-1, rather than a best-of-3, to keep the event from running overly long.
  
• Both players must join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Make sure to set your server nickname to match your in-game name.

• You may sign-up as a solo with a suggested team name using the "/signup [team name]" command. Solo teams will be added to the Public Teams list, then be formed into teams on the day of the tournament. Solo teams will be randomly assigned a team name from either of its members.
  
• If there is a waitlist, team sign-ups will always take priority over solo sign-ups
  
• If you sign up as a solo, but then you find a teammate, you can re-sign up as a team any time before check-ins start. Just use the /signup command again with the new teammate. The tournament organizer will void your old solo signup after they process your new team signup.
  
• After check-ins are over, all checked-in solo players will be randomly formed into teams by the tournament organizer. You cannot request a specific teammate at this point; if you want to play with a specific person, you should have signed up as a team instead.

It is still strongly recommended to sign-up as a team to guarantee your spot in the tournament and to give you time to practice with your teammate beforehand.


Saturday, May 20

• Check-in window: 8:45 - 9:15am PDT / 5:45 - 6:15pm CEST
  
• Games: 10am - 1:30pm PST / 7 - 10:30pm CEST
  
  • Round of 16 (Best of 3)
    
  • Quarter-finals (Best of 3)

Sunday, May 21

• Check-in window: 9 - 9:30am PDT / 6 - 6:30pm CEST
  
• Games: 10am - 1:30pm PST / 7 - 10:30pm CEST
  
  • Semi-finals (Best of 3)
    
  • Final (Best of 5)

Check-in

• Teams must check in via the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Waitlisted teams should also check in.
  
• Any team that fails to check in will be disqualified. The next team on the waitlist that checked in will earn a spot.

The custom game room creator should enable Tournament Mode in the room. This will ensure the following settings:

• 2v2
  
• Mastermind only
  
• Hybrid disabled

Division 1 & 2 Only
- Conquest rules apply. (Once you win with a Mastermind playstyle, you can't use that playstyle again for that series)


For a full list of rules, prizes, and other details, visit the following link:
Nova Cup Rules & FAQ

For questions & support, please join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord.

See you on May 20th! The Nova Cup will be casted and streamed at https://twitch.tv/ltd2. Check the Tournament Discord on the event day for links to the other casts.

Sincerely,
Your Legion TD 2 Tournament Staff

- We are currently planning to organize an additional tournament that is more friendly towards the SEA regions. If you're interested in helping us to organize or cast in this timezone, please reach out to us in the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord

Congratulations to the winners of last month's Nova Cup!
- D1: the underdogs (Drachir & FC Lucy)
- D2: wild and waddling (Danwolf & Pyropenguin)
- D3: pas dit bonjour (w1sp & Wrex)
- D4: guaranteed1st (Slashion & FlyingSquirrel)
- D5: creepalicious-crusaders (Chanman & FlimsyHippo)

Missed the action? Check the brackets, team lists, & VODs for all divisions on the Legion TD 2 eSports portal!

The upcoming April Nova Cup takes place April 29 - 30.

$875 in prizes and sign-up is free - first come first served!
There are up to five skill divisions, so no matter what your rating is, you have a chance to win.
Participation prize: Every participant who plays all of their matches will receive a FREE random card. If you haven't played a tournament yet, this is a great time to join.



When you watch Nova Cups on the official channel, aside from enjoying shoutcasted top-tier Legion gameplay, you'll also receive in-game rewards based on how long you watch!

Watch the official Legion TD 2 Twitch stream during a Nova Cup to earn the following rewards:
- Watch for 60 minutes: 2,000 essence
- Watch for an additional 90 minutes: 4,000 additional essence
- Watch for an additional 120 minutes: Random card

In other words, if you watch the Nova Cup both days, you'll earn 6,000 total essence and a random card!

IMPORTANT: You'll need to link your Twitch account to your Legion TD 2 account in order to earn the rewards.
Link Your Twitch Account

• Sign-ups are open from NOW until April 29 at 9am PST / 6pm CEST.
  
• To sign up, find a teammate and form a party. After you're both in the party, have one player type "/signup [team name]" (e.g. /signup Snail Kings) in chat. You should see a confirmation message that your sign-up went through. For those who participated in previous Nova Cups, you no longer need to do /join to signup.
  
• The first 16 teams to sign up in each division can participate. Other teams are waitlisted. There are usually no-shows, so waitlisted teams are encouraged to be present in the Discord and ready to play. {LINK REMOVED}View the team list to see your sign-up position and division.
  
• If there are more than 32 teams checked in, there will be an additional best-of-1 qualifying round to allow more teams to participate. It is a best-of-1, rather than a best-of-3, to keep the event from running overly long.
  
• Both players must join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Make sure to set your server nickname to match your in-game name.

Like last month, you may now sign up as a solo player!

• You may sign-up as a solo with a suggested team name using the "/signup [team name]" command. Solo teams will be added to the Public Teams list, then be formed into teams on the day of the tournament. Solo teams will be randomly assigned a team name from either of its members.
  
• If there is a waitlist, team sign-ups will always take priority over solo sign-ups
  
• If you sign up as a solo, but then you find a teammate, you can re-sign up as a team any time before check-ins start. Just use the /signup command again with the new teammate. The tournament organizer will void your old solo signup after they process your new team signup.
  
• After check-ins are over, all checked-in solo players will be randomly formed into teams by the tournament organizer. You cannot request a specific teammate at this point; if you want to play with a specific person, you should have signed up as a team instead.

It is still strongly recommended to sign-up as a team to guarantee your spot in the tournament and to give you time to practice with your teammate beforehand.


Saturday, April 29

• Check-in window: 8:45 - 9:15am PDT / 5:45 - 6:15pm CEST
  
• Games: 10am - 1:30pm PST / 7 - 10:30pm CEST
  
  • Round of 16 (Best of 3)
    
  • Quarter-finals (Best of 3)

Sunday, April 30

• Check-in window: 9 - 9:30am PDT / 6 - 6:30pm CEST
  
• Games: 10am - 1:30pm PST / 7 - 10:30pm CEST
  
  • Semi-finals (Best of 3)
    
  • Final (Best of 5)

Check-in

• Teams must check in via the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Waitlisted teams should also check in.
  
• Any team that fails to check in will be disqualified. The next team on the waitlist that checked in will earn a spot.

The custom game room creator should enable Tournament Mode in the room. This will ensure the following settings:

• 2v2
  
• Mastermind only
  
• Hybrid disabled

Division 1 & 2 Only
- Conquest rules apply. (Once you win with a Mastermind playstyle, you can't use that playstyle again for that series)


For a full list of rules, prizes, and other details, visit the following link:
Nova Cup Rules & FAQ

For questions & support, please join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord.

See you on April 29th! The Nova Cup will be casted and streamed at https://twitch.tv/ltd2. Check the Tournament Discord on the event day for links to the other casts.

Sincerely,
Your Legion TD 2 Tournament Staff

Expected patch release: April 12 (Pacific Time)

News & Updates
- Check out Lisk's Developer AMA and Jules' Gameplay & Balance AMA from March! These AMA ("ask-me-anything") events are run every month, so keep an eye on reddit for the next ones.
- Follow the new Legion TD 2 Instagram @legiontdgame for all the latest Legion memes! Brought to you by ToHoe, the now-legendary Legion memer.
- Next Nova Cup: April 29-30. Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 eSports Portal.






Treant Stats

• Tier 3 (Cost: 100g)
  
• Role: Versatile
  
• Melee / Impact / Fortified
  
• 980 HP / 42 DPS
  
• Exuberance: Starts off with +20% damage & damage reduction, but this bonus decreases by 5% after each wave until the bonus is lost.

Tree of Life Stats

• Tier 3 Upgrade (Upgrade Cost: 195g)
  
• Role: Versatile
  
• Melee / Impact / Fortified
  
• 2400 HP / 103 DPS
  
• Devotion: Grants 5% missing health regeneration to the unit built directly behind it.

Tree of Knowledge Stats

• Tier 3 Upgrade (Upgrade Cost: 180g)
  
• Role: Versatile
  
• Melee / Impact / Fortified
  
• 2200 HP / 94 DPS
  
• Forbidden Fruit: Gains mana every time it attacks and is attacked. When this unit reaches max mana or dies, deals up to 600 Magic damage to nearby enemies, based on its current mana.

Press CTRL+[[/b] (adjustable in Options > Controls) to enter free-look mode, where the HUD is disabled. While in free-look mode:

• Hold RMB + move mouse to rotate the camera
  
• Use WASD to move up/down/left/right
  
• Use Q/E to adjust height up/down

This feature is intended mainly for content creators to aid in creating interesting videos.

Major Improvement: Card Trader

Our favorite in-game merchant has beefed up his supply.

• New Feature: Reroll: You can now reroll the Card Trader 1x per day, with up to 4x rerolls stored. Rerolling gives you completely new cards to choose from for that day. (Screenshot)
  
• New Feature: Show My Stacks: You can now toggle a checkbox to show your current stacks of each card. (Screenshot)

New Unlockable: Oasis Background

Animated backgrounds give your game client a new look. Unlock them in the shop! (Screenshot)

Game Balance

Classic

Mode Voting: Mode Voting now requires 2 more yes votes than no votes to pass (up from 1).
Super Fiesta: Reworked. Now replaces regular Fiesta with Super Fiesta, which gives 100% Fiesta gold to yourself and 50% to each of your allies.

These two tweaks should alleviate some players' concerns about feeling forced to play a different playstyle than they wanted

Mastermind

Cash Out
- Starting gold: 22 → 21

Our philosophy is to balance mastermind playstyles around Greed to avoid power creep. Cash Out is currently out-performing Greed.

Cartel is not being nerfed because it’s only strong for the top 2% of players, and even among this 2%, it’s strong but not heavily outclassing other playstyles.


Fiesta
When picking Fiesta, you now have a 50% reduced chance of rolling Seedling.

Reducing the frequency of a fun, but game-distorting combo.


King
- Health increased: +30% on wave 1 → +5% on wave 21
- Damage rescaled: +10% on wave 1 → -5% on wave 21
- Giant Slayer: 20% → 12%
- Upgrade Attack now affects Giant Slayer damage
- Upgrade Attack and Spell: 10% → 7%
- Lightning Hammer damage: -26% on wave 1 → -36% on wave 21
- Lightning Hammer now deals 4% current health damage (this is affected by Upgrade Spell)

These changes address some previously-unintuitive strategies, like upgrading spell being better than upgrading attack for Wave 20. Now:

• Upgrade Attack is now more impactful against big targets.
  
• Conversely, an unupgraded king is more vulnerable to big targets.
  
• Tip: Upgrade Attack on boss waves or if you’re expecting a Mimic on 7 or Ogre on 9!
  
• The king now takes slightly more damage against swarms, like wave 16.

Fighters

Aqua Spirit
- Health: 380 → 370
- Attack speed: 0.82 → 0.833


Rogue Wave
- Health: 1150 → 1200


Fire Elemental
- Health: 1350 → 1400

Low win rate and pick rate. Shifting health and damage profiles, but an overall buff.


Nekomata
- Attack speed: 0.92 → 0.935

Low win rate. Everyone’s favorite cat is underperforming.


Sacred Steed
- Mana restore: 1 → 0.9


Pegasus
- Health: 2510 → 2470
- Damage: 112 → 110

High win rate and pick rate. Sacred Steed’s mana/gold efficiency now matches that of Pegasus.


Tempest
- Health: 780 → 770


Leviathan
- Damage: 70 → 68

High win rate.


Infiltrator / Orchid
- Attack speed: 1.03 → 1.05

Low win rate and pick rate.


King Claw
- Damage: 125 → 120

Very high pick rate.


Whitemane
- Health: 4600 → 4550
- Damage: 181 → 179

High pick rate. You’ll now need more value in your Whitemane aura for it to be worth it.


Priestess of the Abyss
- Mana regeneration decreased by 4%

Priestess is the strongest opening in high Elo.


Azeria
- Mana regeneration decreased by 4%
- Echo Strike: Max health damage: 0.06% → 0.1%

Making it more valuable to build more than 1 Azeria and hold onto Priestess in your roll late game in exchange for opening and early game power.


Lord of Death / Hades
- Intellect: Mana restore on kill: 10% → 8%

High win rate and pick rate. One of the strongest overbuild-and-cover units.


Shadow Dancer
- Health: 1690 → 1700
- Attack speed: 1.45 → 1.47


Dread Knight
- Health: 3710 → 3740
- Attack speed: 1.45 → 1.47

Low win rate and pick rate. Last patch’s Witch change hurt an already underperforming unit.


Millennium / Doomsday Machine
- Attack speed: 0.617 → 0.633

Low pick rate. An OG unit that’s fallen out of favor.

Mercenaries

Witch
- Attack speed: 1.59 → 1.52

Last patch’s change gave Witch a stronger identity, and also spiked its win rate and usage rate.

Waves

Wave 17: Metal Dragons
- Attack speed: 1.71 → 1.68


Wave 21: Legion Lords & Legion King
- Legion Lords: Count: 10 → 8
- Legion Lords: Health: 6600 → 8250
- Legion Lords: Damage: 110 → 135
- Legion Lords: Bounty: 24 → 30
- Legion King: Damage: 550 → 540

AOE is now slightly weaker against wave 21.

On Watch

No outliers that we want to call out individually. As always, we'll continue to keep a close eye on everything.

v10.02 has been, data-wise, the most balanced the game has ever been.

• Fighters: spread between the worst and best unit (according to Jules' power index) is the smallest it's ever been
  
• Waves: healthy distribution of game-ending waves
  
• Mercenaries: all seeing healthy usage & consistent performance
  
• Mastermind: all playstyles seeing healthy usage & consistent performance
  
• Legion Spells: all seeing healthy usage & consistent performance
  
• Openings: lots of openings being widely used at all skill levels

That's not to say it's perfect (after all, we're continuing to patch the game), but it's worth celebrating.

Fixes & Improvements

• Takeover Bots: Fixed a few more cases where a takeover bot would send without his team
  
• Options: Fixed a bug where the Client Background “Randomize on Startup” setting wasn’t saving/working properly
  
• Matchmaking: Improved matchmaking fairness for players under 1800 (tweaked a few edge-cases that shouldn’t slow down anything for most matches)
  
• FairPlay: Players muted for >30 days can now only ping once per minute. By comparison, players muted for <30 days can ping twice per 25 seconds (unchanged).
  
• FairPlay: Players muted for >30 days can now only -ff once per 5 minutes. Players muted for <30 days can -ff once per 2 minutes (new limit).
  
• Codex: Fixed a bug that caused the game to freeze when opening codex on some non-English languages
  
• Codex: Fixed a bug that prevented filtering on non-english languages

Community Highlight

Last October's Nova Cup featured a community-run skin competition run by Pennywise and Schn3rd, where 958 votes were cast to pick the favorite among 16 entries. (Recap: here - scroll down)

The winning skin has been designed & implemented, and will be released in next month's patch. Plus, one of the runner-ups has been implemented as a surprise bonus!



To be released next month!

Closing Remarks

With this update, we are excited to introduce new units that will open up new synergies and strategies. As always, we'll continue to iterate until we get it right, so be ready for hotfixes soon after release. We've also made some tweaks to Classic mode voting based on data & player feedback. Finally, we've given the Card Trader some love and fixed a few nagging bugs.

Thank you again for playing Legion TD 2! We hope you continue to enjoy the game.

If you've enjoyed the game, but haven't left a review yet, please consider posting a short review for the game! It really helps get the word out there.

If you enjoy these updates, please give it a Thumbs Up, too!

And as always, if you have constructive criticism, let's chat about it. Discord and reddit are our main channels of communication, and aside from the development team, there are community helpers who can ensure your feedback is heard, as well as answer pretty much anything you've ever wanted to know about the game. If you want a guaranteed answer from the devs, the monthly AMAs on reddit are your best bet.

We know there's still much to improve, so let's work together.

Until next time!



Sincerely,
The Aye-Aye Attack Games Team

Tis Cap’n Jack here, yore game’s new lead developer from now till… fer’ever! Har har har!

Those landlubbers, Lisk, Jules, 'n Dani 'ave walked the plank - good riddance, eh? *Hic!* Oh ‘n where’s me manners. Meet me first mate, Pirate Coach. This wee whelp 'n I go way back... He's a friendly heartie, though he may pilfer some o' yer gold in the process… eh, that's nah me problem.


"Ahoy mateys! I'll get ye shipshape afore ye can shake an oar."

Any’ow, first order o' business, we gone 'n overhauled the game text t' better represent yore new dev crew.



Menus, tooltips, we got 'em all. Yo-ho-ho.



Har har, 'n we ditched them ole puny Snails in favor o'... Baby Krakens.



Oh, ‘n f ye sorry lot manage t' win a game, ye'll be treated t' some savvy tunes. 🤘 Enjoy, ye scallywags! And stay aboard fer more updates t' come!



Sincerely,
The Aye-Aye-Attack Games Team

More tweaks to Classic game modes. We are still gathering feedback & monitoring, and may have bigger changes in v10.03. Thank you to everyone who has and continues to give constructive feedback!

• Hot Mode: Rotates daily instead of weekly
  
• Blitz: Slowed down a bit, and fixed a bug with wind gust & clock tick sound
  
• A few misc. tooltip fixes and other cosmetic fixes

Last week, we had also made the following changes (listed here in case you missed them!)

• Super Fiesta: You can now pick Fiesta to bring your Fiesta gold to the moon
  
• Ordered Chaos: You can now pick other Legions/Masterminds if you want, but Chaos now gives +6 income. So you should still pick Chaos. ;)
  
• Double Lock-In: You can now pick other Legions/Masterminds if you want.

Small improvements based on player feedback.

Classic Mode Reworks
• Super Fiesta: You can now pick Fiesta to bring your Fiesta gold to the moon
• Ordered Chaos: You can now pick other Legions/Masterminds if you want, but Chaos now gives +6 income. So you should still pick Chaos. 😉
• Double Lock-In: You can now pick other Legions/Masterminds if you want.

These changes should allow players more freedom to play what they want, while the optimal play is to still to go along with the featured Mastermind.

Minor Fixes
• Profile: Game Stats: Improved some formatting by hiding some values if they were 0

Congratulations to the winners of last month's Nova Cup!
- D1: abrasiert: Kingdanzz & Widderson
- D2: doomsday: otyka & dryuzaki1229
- D3: little winners: Tenchi & Templar
- D4: mange schmidt fans: LaidbackVirre & SCHefeN

Missed the action? Check the brackets, team lists, & VODs for all divisions on the Legion TD 2 eSports portal!

The upcoming March Nova Cup takes place March 25 - 26.

$875 in prizes and sign-up is free - first come first served!
There are up to five skill divisions, so no matter what your rating is, you have a chance to win.
Participation prize: Every participant who plays all of their matches will receive a FREE random card. If you haven't played a tournament yet, this is a great time to join.



When you watch Nova Cups on the official channel, aside from enjoying shoutcasted top-tier Legion gameplay, you'll also receive in-game rewards based on how long you watch!

Watch the official Legion TD 2 Twitch stream during a Nova Cup to earn the following rewards:
- Watch for 60 minutes: 2,000 essence
- Watch for an additional 90 minutes: 4,000 additional essence
- Watch for an additional 120 minutes: Random card

In other words, if you watch the Nova Cup both days, you'll earn 6,000 total essence and a random card!

IMPORTANT: You'll need to link your Twitch account to your Legion TD 2 account in order to earn the rewards.
Link Your Twitch Account

Note:
- Please note that the starting times will change from 6 pm CET to 7 pm CEST during the weekend due to the switch to summer time
- We might add a fifth division if there's enough demand to make matchups more fair.

• Sign-ups are open from NOW until March 25 at 9am PST / 6pm CET.
  
• To sign up, find a teammate and form a party. After you're both in the party, have one player type "/signup [team name]" (e.g. /signup Snail Kings) in chat. You should see a confirmation message that your sign-up went through. For those who participated in previous Nova Cups, you no longer need to do /join to signup.
  
• The first 16 teams to sign up in each division can participate. Other teams are waitlisted. There are usually no-shows, so waitlisted teams are encouraged to be present in the Discord and ready to play. {LINK REMOVED}View the team list to see your sign-up position and division.
  
• If there are more than 32 teams checked in, there will be an additional best-of-1 qualifying round to allow more teams to participate. It is a best-of-1, rather than a best-of-3, to keep the event from running overly long.
  
• Both players must join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Make sure to set your server nickname to match your in-game name.

Like last month, you may now sign up as a solo player!

• You may sign-up as a solo with a suggested team name using the "/signup [team name]" command. Solo teams will be added to the Public Teams list, then be formed into teams on the day of the tournament. Solo teams will be randomly assigned a team name from either of its members.
  
• If there is a waitlist, team sign-ups will always take priority over solo sign-ups
  
• If you sign up as a solo, but then you find a teammate, you can re-sign up as a team any time before check-ins start. Just use the /signup command again with the new teammate. The tournament organizer will void your old solo signup after they process your new team signup.
  
• After check-ins are over, all checked-in solo players will be randomly formed into teams by the tournament organizer. You cannot request a specific teammate at this point; if you want to play with a specific person, you should have signed up as a team instead.

It is still strongly recommended to sign-up as a team to guarantee your spot in the tournament and to give you time to practice with your teammate beforehand.


Saturday, March 25

• Check-in window: 8:45 - 9:15am PDT / 4:45 - 5:15pm CET
  
• Games: 10am - 1:30pm PST / 6 - 9:30pm CET
  
  • Round of 16 (Best of 3)
    
  • Quarter-finals (Best of 3)

Sunday, March 26

• Check-in window: 9 - 9:30am PDT / 6 - 6:30pm CEST
  
• Games: 10am - 1:30pm PST / 7 - 10:30pm CEST
  
  • Semi-finals (Best of 3)
    
  • Final (Best of 5)

Check-in

• Teams must check in via the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Waitlisted teams should also check in.
  
• Any team that fails to check in will be disqualified. The next team on the waitlist that checked in will earn a spot.

The custom game room creator should enable Tournament Mode in the room. This will ensure the following settings:

• 2v2
  
• Mastermind only
  
• Hybrid disabled

Division 1 & 2 Only
- Conquest rules apply. (Once you win with a Mastermind playstyle, you can't use that playstyle again for that series)


For a full list of rules, prizes, and other details, visit the following link:
Nova Cup Rules & FAQ

For questions & support, please join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord.

See you on March 25th! The Nova Cup will be casted and streamed at https://twitch.tv/ltd2. Check the Tournament Discord on the event day for links to the other casts.

Sincerely,
Your Legion TD 2 Tournament Staff