Greetings Everyone,

The submission period for the Visions of Amareth Midterm Short Story contest has ended. We have 10 entries for the Pox Nora community to vote to decide who will be the 3 finalists. To cast your vote go to the Vote: Visions of Amareth Midterm Short Story Contest forum thread. You will be able to vote for up to 3 stories that you would like to see become part of Pox Nora cannon. The community voting period will be open until January 4th, 2016 12PM PST (3PM EST, 8 PM UTC).

We wish the best of luck to all the contestants!

Greetings Everyone,

The submission period for the Visions of Amareth Midterm Short Story contest has ended. We have 10 entries for the Pox Nora community to vote to decide who will be the 3 finalists. To cast your vote go to the Vote: Visions of Amareth Midterm Short Story Contest forum thread. You will be able to vote for up to 3 stories that you would like to see become part of Pox Nora cannon. The community voting period will be open until January 4th, 2016 12PM PST (3PM EST, 8 PM UTC).

We wish the best of luck to all the contestants!

Greetings Everyone,

This is the last patch of the year and we have many joyous things.

We have given one Legendary champions form each faction a holiday makeover. These festive combatants will be available in the Holiday Reskins pack. For those who want to spend some gold there is also a Holiday Extended Set Special pack that guarantees a Legendary and Exotic runes.

For those who love a good Single Player challenge a Winter Holiday campaign is also available for free for a limited time. Romp around as the abominable rhyming Krampus as it revels in the displeasure of others in joyous glee.

The Holiday Packs and Campaign will only be available until January 4th, 2016.



General

• Added a new festive Holiday Reskins pack to the Pox Nora Marketplace. Each pack comes with 1 Limited Edition rune from 8 holiday themed reskins of legendary runes and 2 platinum tokens.
  
• Added a new Holiday Extended Set Special pack to the Marketplace. Each of these packs give the following runes from the Extended Set: 1 legendary, 1 exotic, 2 rares, 4 uncommons and 4 commons.
  
• For a limited time an all new Winter Holiday campaign will be available to all players. Completing this campaign on Legendary difficulty will award 2 Platinum tokens.
  
• Removed the gold notification for progressing to a new League to address confusion regarding gold earned.
  
• Avatar abilities are now capped at Rank 3

Website

• Only players who have reached the Battlemaster league will now appear on the Ranking's page.
  
• Updated the rankings and player profile pages to properly use the new League icons.
  
• Added new wallpapers to the website Pox Nora Website.

Design Change

• Temporary Incorporeal conditions can now be removed by Dispel effects

Bugs

• Fixed several issues that caused errors in matches.
  
• Fixed an issue where the ability Nexus Aura was not functioning properly.
  
• Fixed an issue where Tournaments would crash resulting in any active tournaments ending prematurely.
  
• The conditions from the abilities abilities Mirefolk Fealty, Mirefolk Resurgence, and Mirefolk Transcendence can now be properly removable via Dispel.
  
• The effects from the spell Vampirism can now be properly removed via Dispel.
  
• Fixed an issue with the launcher where clicking Account would not take the player to the appropriate webpage.
  
• Fixed an issue where Zombie Apocalypse would not properly consider summoned Festering Corpse's for giving the ability Swarm: Festering Corpse.
  
• Fixed an issue where the ability Black Tempest would continue to hit enemy champions that are outside of it's area of effect.
  
• Fixed issues with the spells Call of the Tundra and Drone Signal where the summoned champions would still drop Nora Globes.
  
• Fixed the following issues with the ability Tidal Wave:
  
  • Fixed an issue where it was not properly affecting friendly units
    
  • Fixed an issue where the targeting template would remain present after activation
    
  • Fixed the broken Combat log message
• Fixed an issue where the ability Holy Armaments was incorrectly triggering when an enemy champion was equipped.
  
• Fixed and issue where the ability Healing Wind would continue to heal a friendly champion that moved out of range.
  
• Fixed an issue with Haunting Visions where it was giving the wrong buffs and had an incorrect tooltip
  
• Fixed an issue where champions could still become Inhibited from the Diseased condition even if they had the ability Immunity: Disease.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Large champions would not be affected by the ability Dreamstate.
  
• Fixed an issue where the condition possessed from the ability Sleeper Agent could be inappropriately cleansed or removed.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Sandblasted from the spell Sandstorm would only lasts 3 turns instead of 6.
  
• Fixed an issue where the ability New Growth would create a real champion not a summoned champion.
  
• Fixed an issue where the abilities Electric Overload and Frost Overload would equip Unequippable units.
  
• Fixed an issue where the spell Obelus would do damage even on abilities that return invalid target.
  
• Fixed an issue where the spell Consecrate the Earth was missing its rune art in-game.
  
• Fixed an issue where the spell Spell Ward was missing its rune art in-game.
  
• Fixed an issue where players weren't getting the proper Battlemaster icons.

For a full list of all the Faction and Ability changes checkout the Official Patch Notes.

Join the Discussion on the Forums.

See you on the Battlefield!

Greetings Everyone,

This is the last patch of the year and we have many joyous things.

We have given one Legendary champions form each faction a holiday makeover. These festive combatants will be available in the Holiday Reskins pack. For those who want to spend some gold there is also a Holiday Extended Set Special pack that guarantees a Legendary and Exotic runes.

For those who love a good Single Player challenge a Winter Holiday campaign is also available for free for a limited time. Romp around as the abominable rhyming Krampus as it revels in the displeasure of others in joyous glee.

The Holiday Packs and Campaign will only be available until January 4th, 2016.



General

• Added a new festive Holiday Reskins pack to the Pox Nora Marketplace. Each pack comes with 1 Limited Edition rune from 8 holiday themed reskins of legendary runes and 2 platinum tokens.
  
• Added a new Holiday Extended Set Special pack to the Marketplace. Each of these packs give the following runes from the Extended Set: 1 legendary, 1 exotic, 2 rares, 4 uncommons and 4 commons.
  
• For a limited time an all new Winter Holiday campaign will be available to all players. Completing this campaign on Legendary difficulty will award 2 Platinum tokens.
  
• Removed the gold notification for progressing to a new League to address confusion regarding gold earned.
  
• Avatar abilities are now capped at Rank 3

Website

• Only players who have reached the Battlemaster league will now appear on the Ranking's page.
  
• Updated the rankings and player profile pages to properly use the new League icons.
  
• Added new wallpapers to the website Pox Nora Website.

Design Change

• Temporary Incorporeal conditions can now be removed by Dispel effects

Bugs

• Fixed several issues that caused errors in matches.
  
• Fixed an issue where the ability Nexus Aura was not functioning properly.
  
• Fixed an issue where Tournaments would crash resulting in any active tournaments ending prematurely.
  
• The conditions from the abilities abilities Mirefolk Fealty, Mirefolk Resurgence, and Mirefolk Transcendence can now be properly removable via Dispel.
  
• The effects from the spell Vampirism can now be properly removed via Dispel.
  
• Fixed an issue with the launcher where clicking Account would not take the player to the appropriate webpage.
  
• Fixed an issue where Zombie Apocalypse would not properly consider summoned Festering Corpse's for giving the ability Swarm: Festering Corpse.
  
• Fixed an issue where the ability Black Tempest would continue to hit enemy champions that are outside of it's area of effect.
  
• Fixed issues with the spells Call of the Tundra and Drone Signal where the summoned champions would still drop Nora Globes.
  
• Fixed the following issues with the ability Tidal Wave:
  
  • Fixed an issue where it was not properly affecting friendly units
    
  • Fixed an issue where the targeting template would remain present after activation
    
  • Fixed the broken Combat log message
• Fixed an issue where the ability Holy Armaments was incorrectly triggering when an enemy champion was equipped.
  
• Fixed and issue where the ability Healing Wind would continue to heal a friendly champion that moved out of range.
  
• Fixed an issue with Haunting Visions where it was giving the wrong buffs and had an incorrect tooltip
  
• Fixed an issue where champions could still become Inhibited from the Diseased condition even if they had the ability Immunity: Disease.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Large champions would not be affected by the ability Dreamstate.
  
• Fixed an issue where the condition possessed from the ability Sleeper Agent could be inappropriately cleansed or removed.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Sandblasted from the spell Sandstorm would only lasts 3 turns instead of 6.
  
• Fixed an issue where the ability New Growth would create a real champion not a summoned champion.
  
• Fixed an issue where the abilities Electric Overload and Frost Overload would equip Unequippable units.
  
• Fixed an issue where the spell Obelus would do damage even on abilities that return invalid target.
  
• Fixed an issue where the spell Consecrate the Earth was missing its rune art in-game.
  
• Fixed an issue where the spell Spell Ward was missing its rune art in-game.
  
• Fixed an issue where players weren't getting the proper Battlemaster icons.

For a full list of all the Faction and Ability changes checkout the Official Patch Notes.

Join the Discussion on the Forums.

See you on the Battlefield!

Greetings Everyone,

The Pox Nora Midterm Short Story Contest has been revived! For those budding and experienced writers who love Pox Nora's lore, here is your chance to contribute to this game's cannon.

For this story contest, players who want to participate can submit as many short stories as they want. Short stories submitted to this contest can not exceed 500 words and can not conflict with any current Pox Nora Lore. The short story should build upon what happened in the Visions of Amareth Expansion.

All short stories for this contest must be posted on the Submissions: Visions of Amareth Midterm Short Story Contest forum thread on the Pox Nora forums before December 21st 10AM PST (1PM EST, 6 PM UTC). If you don't have a Pox Nora forum account you will need to create one at http://forums.poxnora.com/index.php.

For full details about this contest including Rules and Prizes see the Visions of Amareth Midterm Short Story Contest thread on the official Pox Nora forums.

We wish all participants the best of luck!

Greetings Everyone,

The Pox Nora Midterm Short Story Contest has been revived! For those budding and experienced writers who love Pox Nora's lore, here is your chance to contribute to this game's cannon.

For this story contest, players who want to participate can submit as many short stories as they want. Short stories submitted to this contest can not exceed 500 words and can not conflict with any current Pox Nora Lore. The short story should build upon what happened in the Visions of Amareth Expansion.

All short stories for this contest must be posted on the Submissions: Visions of Amareth Midterm Short Story Contest forum thread on the Pox Nora forums before December 21st 10AM PST (1PM EST, 6 PM UTC). If you don't have a Pox Nora forum account you will need to create one at http://forums.poxnora.com/index.php.

For full details about this contest including Rules and Prizes see the Visions of Amareth Midterm Short Story Contest thread on the official Pox Nora forums.

We wish all participants the best of luck!

From November 25th to December 3rd all exotic and legendary runes form the Ronin, Coalitions, and Path of De'lim are available in special holiday packs on the Pox Nora marketplace.



The Exotic Collector Pack includes one of every Exotic rune, while the Legendary Collector Pack contains one of every Legendary rune from those three expansions. This is the perfect chance to finish your collection of those hard to get runes released this year. Join the forum discussion.

Seasons Greetings from all of us at Desert Owl Games.

From November 25th to December 3rd all exotic and legendary runes form the Ronin, Coalitions, and Path of De'lim are available in special holiday packs on the Pox Nora marketplace.



The Exotic Collector Pack includes one of every Exotic rune, while the Legendary Collector Pack contains one of every Legendary rune from those three expansions. This is the perfect chance to finish your collection of those hard to get runes released this year. Join the forum discussion.

Seasons Greetings from all of us at Desert Owl Games.

Greetings Everyone,

Pox Nora's 27th expansion, Visions of Amareth, is now available!

• 50 New runes have been added to Pox Nora.
  
• 8 Limited Edition versions of revised runes have been added to Pox Nora.
  
• Visions of Amareth Pack has been added to the Marketplace. This pack comes with: 6 common, 3 uncommon, and 1 rare rune. Each rare slot has a 10% chance of becoming an exotic. Also this pack comes with 1 Platinum champion point token.
  
• Visions of Amareth Box has been added to the Marketplace. This box comes with 10 Visions of Amareth packs. Get 9 packs and the 10th is FREE. The first pack is guaranteed to contain an exotic and two Limited Edition champions. Additionally, this box comes with 500 FREE shards.
  
• Path of De'lim Megabox has been added to the Marketplace for a limited time. This Mega Box comes with three Visions of Amareth boxes, one Limited Edition relic, and 5 extra platinum tokens.
  
• A new League system has been added to Pox Nora along with League rewards. Players will now be able to earn rewards including runes from the Visions of Amareth expansion by playing Ranked PvP matches. Rewards will be earned for each new league the player reaches. Ranked 1v1 and 2v2 leagues will have separate progressions and both will have their own rewards. This new ranking system will reset upon every expansion cycle.
  
• Path of De’lim expansion is now available on the rune forge has been added to Extended Packs and Boxes.
  
• The next installment of the ever enduring Pox Nora story is now available.
  
• Updated 300+ abilities, spells, relics, and equipment to use popup condition tooltips for descriptions.

• Standard League V (Level 1) - Starting Level
  
• Standard League IV (Level 2) - 1000 Gold
  
• Standard League III (Level 3) - 3x Commons from Visions of Amareth
  
• Standard League II (Level 4) - 3000 Gold
  
• Standard League I (Level 5) - 3x Uncommon from Visions of Amareth
  
• Rare League (Level 6) - 500 Shards
  
• Exotic League (Level 7) - 2x Rare from Visions of Amareth
  
• Legendary League (Level 8) - 1000 Shards
  
• Limited League (Level 9) - 1x Exotic from Visions of Amareth
  
• Battlemaster League (Level 10) - Ice Dragon Statue LE and Flaming Skull LE

+1 Points for a Ranked Loss, +2 Points for a Ranked Win

• Standard League V (Level 1) - 5 points
  
• Standard League IV (Level 2) - 10 points
  
• Standard League III (Level 3) - 15 points
  
• Standard League II (Level 4) - 20 points

0 Points for a Ranked Loss, +2 Points for a Ranked Win

• Standard League I (Level 5) - 25 points
  
• Rare League (Level 6) - 30 Points

-1 Points for a Ranked Loss, +2 Points for a Ranked Win

• Exotic League (Level 7) - 35 Points
  
• Legendary League (Level 8) - 40 Points

-2 Points for a Ranked Loss, +2 Points for a Ranked Win

• Limited League (Level 9) - 50 Points
  
• Battlemaster League (Level 10) - Top League

• Fixed an exploit that would allow players to trade untradeable runes.
  
• Fixed a display bug regarding the expanded deployment zone from the ability Necrosis that would occur after reconnecting to the game if disconnected or in observer mode.
  
• Fixed an issue with the spell Razor Ice that was preventing it's area of effect from being shown.
  
• Fixed an interaction issue with the spell Loot and the equipment Chillshard where the equipment would still continue to chill your units instead of the opponent's.
  
• Fixed an issue when the ability Psychological Warfare applies Confused to a Frightened target. If the target was already Confused the ability would cause upgrades to return to the champion.
  
• Fixed an issue with the map Tundra Lake that was preventing terrain changes on some tiles.
  
• Fixed an issue with the map Underdepths where some tiles were not properly indicating they were Lava.
  
• Fixed an issue with the map Ironfist Mountains where some tiles were not properly accessible.
  
• Fixed an issue where champions with the Elite ability could be destroyed by the equipment Forbidden Fruit.
  
• Fixed an issue where the effects of not being able to gain AP would remain on a champion after the ability Blood Fueled was removed.
  
• Fixed issue with the ability Mason's Spire rank 1 not properly having AE5.
  
• Fixed an issue with the spell Minefield where the mines would continue to be visible to the opponent after being destroyed.
  
• Added the ability to forge and sacrifice Legendary Equipment, Relics, and Spells in the Rune Forge.
  
• Fixed an issue with the spell False Orders where this spell's global effect would be removed if the same player deployed a champion.
  
• Fixed an issue with the spell False Orders where the global effect was not properly displaying its description.
  
• Removed the requirement of a Deployment Zone for the spell False Orders.
  
• Fixed an issue where champions with the Compelled condition could still attack relics.
  
• Champions with the ability Boss can no longer get the condition Plagued this was done to resolve an issue where the on death effect would not trigger.
  
• Fixed an issue with the abilities Psychic Agony and Defensive Turtle where they were not triggering if the cause of the HP reduction was Loss of Life.
  
• Fixed an issue where the equipment Bone Circle Staff would sometimes be duplicated when the on death effect would trigger. Also, fixed an issue where some champions couldn't equip the staff.

All players who played a minimum of 50 ranked matches and their primary faction was the Drums of War Winning Faction, Underdepths, have been awarded 2000 Gold along with 5 Three Day Gold Bonus Tokens.

For a full list of all the changes in the Visions of Amareth go to the Official Patch Noteson the Pox Nora forums.

See you on the Battlefield!

Greetings Everyone,

Pox Nora's 27th expansion, Visions of Amareth, is now available!

• 50 New runes have been added to Pox Nora.
  
• 8 Limited Edition versions of revised runes have been added to Pox Nora.
  
• Visions of Amareth Pack has been added to the Marketplace. This pack comes with: 6 common, 3 uncommon, and 1 rare rune. Each rare slot has a 10% chance of becoming an exotic. Also this pack comes with 1 Platinum champion point token.
  
• Visions of Amareth Box has been added to the Marketplace. This box comes with 10 Visions of Amareth packs. Get 9 packs and the 10th is FREE. The first pack is guaranteed to contain an exotic and two Limited Edition champions. Additionally, this box comes with 500 FREE shards.
  
• Path of De'lim Megabox has been added to the Marketplace for a limited time. This Mega Box comes with three Visions of Amareth boxes, one Limited Edition relic, and 5 extra platinum tokens.
  
• A new League system has been added to Pox Nora along with League rewards. Players will now be able to earn rewards including runes from the Visions of Amareth expansion by playing Ranked PvP matches. Rewards will be earned for each new league the player reaches. Ranked 1v1 and 2v2 leagues will have separate progressions and both will have their own rewards. This new ranking system will reset upon every expansion cycle.
  
• Path of De’lim expansion is now available on the rune forge has been added to Extended Packs and Boxes.
  
• The next installment of the ever enduring Pox Nora story is now available.
  
• Updated 300+ abilities, spells, relics, and equipment to use popup condition tooltips for descriptions.

• Standard League V (Level 1) - Starting Level
  
• Standard League IV (Level 2) - 1000 Gold
  
• Standard League III (Level 3) - 3x Commons from Visions of Amareth
  
• Standard League II (Level 4) - 3000 Gold
  
• Standard League I (Level 5) - 3x Uncommon from Visions of Amareth
  
• Rare League (Level 6) - 500 Shards
  
• Exotic League (Level 7) - 2x Rare from Visions of Amareth
  
• Legendary League (Level 8) - 1000 Shards
  
• Limited League (Level 9) - 1x Exotic from Visions of Amareth
  
• Battlemaster League (Level 10) - Ice Dragon Statue LE and Flaming Skull LE

+1 Points for a Ranked Loss, +2 Points for a Ranked Win

• Standard League V (Level 1) - 5 points
  
• Standard League IV (Level 2) - 10 points
  
• Standard League III (Level 3) - 15 points
  
• Standard League II (Level 4) - 20 points

0 Points for a Ranked Loss, +2 Points for a Ranked Win

• Standard League I (Level 5) - 25 points
  
• Rare League (Level 6) - 30 Points

-1 Points for a Ranked Loss, +2 Points for a Ranked Win

• Exotic League (Level 7) - 35 Points
  
• Legendary League (Level 8) - 40 Points

-2 Points for a Ranked Loss, +2 Points for a Ranked Win

• Limited League (Level 9) - 50 Points
  
• Battlemaster League (Level 10) - Top League

• Fixed an exploit that would allow players to trade untradeable runes.
  
• Fixed a display bug regarding the expanded deployment zone from the ability Necrosis that would occur after reconnecting to the game if disconnected or in observer mode.
  
• Fixed an issue with the spell Razor Ice that was preventing it's area of effect from being shown.
  
• Fixed an interaction issue with the spell Loot and the equipment Chillshard where the equipment would still continue to chill your units instead of the opponent's.
  
• Fixed an issue when the ability Psychological Warfare applies Confused to a Frightened target. If the target was already Confused the ability would cause upgrades to return to the champion.
  
• Fixed an issue with the map Tundra Lake that was preventing terrain changes on some tiles.
  
• Fixed an issue with the map Underdepths where some tiles were not properly indicating they were Lava.
  
• Fixed an issue with the map Ironfist Mountains where some tiles were not properly accessible.
  
• Fixed an issue where champions with the Elite ability could be destroyed by the equipment Forbidden Fruit.
  
• Fixed an issue where the effects of not being able to gain AP would remain on a champion after the ability Blood Fueled was removed.
  
• Fixed issue with the ability Mason's Spire rank 1 not properly having AE5.
  
• Fixed an issue with the spell Minefield where the mines would continue to be visible to the opponent after being destroyed.
  
• Added the ability to forge and sacrifice Legendary Equipment, Relics, and Spells in the Rune Forge.
  
• Fixed an issue with the spell False Orders where this spell's global effect would be removed if the same player deployed a champion.
  
• Fixed an issue with the spell False Orders where the global effect was not properly displaying its description.
  
• Removed the requirement of a Deployment Zone for the spell False Orders.
  
• Fixed an issue where champions with the Compelled condition could still attack relics.
  
• Champions with the ability Boss can no longer get the condition Plagued this was done to resolve an issue where the on death effect would not trigger.
  
• Fixed an issue with the abilities Psychic Agony and Defensive Turtle where they were not triggering if the cause of the HP reduction was Loss of Life.
  
• Fixed an issue where the equipment Bone Circle Staff would sometimes be duplicated when the on death effect would trigger. Also, fixed an issue where some champions couldn't equip the staff.

All players who played a minimum of 50 ranked matches and their primary faction was the Drums of War Winning Faction, Underdepths, have been awarded 2000 Gold along with 5 Three Day Gold Bonus Tokens.

For a full list of all the changes in the Visions of Amareth go to the Official Patch Noteson the Pox Nora forums.

See you on the Battlefield!