Hey folks!

Welcome to Chapter 3: The Wardens!

We've got some big changes to movement and a number of asked for features coming your way, along with a bunch of bug fixes and general improvements. The patch will be going live July 22 at 10AM EDT with an hour or two of downtime. Let's see what we've got!

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Movement

Dodge

Players have traditionally asked for some sort of built-in skill-based movement option outside of Runes, so we're introducing a new Dodge mechanic. It's a short-range burst of speed that allows players to, well, dodge inco...

Hey everyone!

I'm sure you've noticed we've been doing a number of hotfixes since Chapter 2 launched to improve various aspects of the release. On top of those, we've also been hard at work on a number of features and improvements that require a client update and so here we are! A quick note on the patch timing: We wanted to get these out to you ASAP so the patch notes "editorials'' and other things we usually do are going to be a bit more sparse than usual. We've got some new features, balance changes, as well as a host of bug fixes, so let's get into them.

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Hey y'all, we've got a second hotfix on the back of yesterday's to clean up some issues with matchmaking.

• Fixed an issue where players would be put on servers in suboptimal regions, resulting in higher pings. This appears to have been most common in Europe.
  • Important note: your preferred region will still not be chosen 100% of the time. The matchmaking system can potentially put you into a different region (where ping is still low enough to be playable) if it cannot make a match in your preferred region within a reasonable amount of time.
• Fixed a rare matchmaking issue issue where BR players could sometimes end up in a match with all bots, even though a player match could be found.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes the player could get stuck in an infinite matchmaking queue. This was also another cause of unbalanced teams sometimes happening in Dominion.
• Increased how long the matchmaker waits to find an optimal 5v5 mat...

Hey y'all,

We've just made a hotfix that changes various aspects of Leagues. We’ve heard player feedback that it felt too hard to advance into new Tiers and Leagues and at the same time, it didn’t feel like it was working well as a competitive ranking system. To that end, we’ve made the following changes:

• We have drastically reduced the number of Crowns needed to advance to new tiers, for all Leagues. For example, it previously took 42,000 Crowns to advance from Gold Tier 5 into Gold Tier 4. Now it only takes 6000(!) Crowns.
• We have increased the Crown “entry fee” for most Leagues. For example, the previous entry for Gold was 250 Crowns. Now the entry fee for Gold is 1250 Crowns. This means that you need to earn 1250 Crowns to prevent losing rank.
• We have added entry fees for Silver League. The entry fee starts at 500 Crowns, then becomes 1000 Crowns once you hit Silver Tier 5.
• We have removed the floors at Tier 10 for each League a...

brb getting my shock gauntlet.

Tornado, Dan. It's called Tornado.

Hey all,

Welcome to the Chapter 2 release notes! This is our biggest update ever and there's a lot to get through so let's just get into it. One note before we begin, this release will be going live on April 8 simultaneously on all platforms.

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Dominion

Dominion is our brand new, 5v5 objective-based mode. Play with a group of up to 5 players and take control of three different zones on the map to rack up points and win. There are no chests here, so you'll need to defeat other players as well as NPC Vowguard to earn potions and scrolls as well as to charge yo...

Nice skin spoiler, jeez

Not at launch, no. It's on the list of future improvements for sure.

Nope, only badges and titles.

Are all maps for dominion included in Leagues?

Yeah.

is there still a level 23+ veteran matchmaking system?

there are more matchmaking updates as a part of this release.

is it possible to ever lose crowns when winning a match but having terrible personal performance?

Yes, especially in higher leagues.

is it possible to drop rank when below gold?

No.

can a high ranked player be in the same team as a low ranked player?

Yes and matchmaking adjusts accordingly.

Max is something like 6k but that's fairly unlikely. Average is around 1500 or so. A good game is ~2500 while a bad game is around 650 or thereabouts, but it's hard to say in the very abstract.

Hello again!

Today we’re going to talk about Leagues, Spellbreak’s system for ranked play coming in Chapter 2. Like yesterday’s post about Dominion, we’re going to start out by explaining our goals before diving into the details.

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Hey there!

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After weeks of teases and months of hearing about Spellbreak’s new game mode, we’d like to introduce you to Dominion, a new 5v5 objective-based game mode debuting with chapter 2. In this post, we’re going to describe the game mode in its entirety and hopefully answer any questions you may have.

Dominion Goals

Before we dive into the nitty gritty of how it works, we wanted to start off by detailing our goals with Dominion.

When we first started talking about this mode, we wanted to highlight a few things:

1. Small-scale...

Hello!

Welcome to the official kickoff of the Chapter 2 previews and we're going to start off with three days of talents.

For this release, our goal with talents was two-fold:

• We want to increase the number of viable builds.
• We want to shake things up.

To that end, we’ve made the following changes:

• Talents now cost between 1 and 4 points (up from 3).
• Players now have 7 total points to spend (up from 6).
• There are now 7 talents per category (up from 6).

Body

1 cost:

Tough (New)

• Max Armor: +10/12/15/25

2 cost:

Dexterity (Updated)

• Run Speed +3
• Levitation Mana Cost: -15/18/20/30%
• Cost from 1 to 2
• No longer gives Jump Height

Wellspring (New)

• Mana Recharge Rate: +25%
• On 0...

Oh very much.

Hello!

Welcome to the official kickoff of the Chapter 2 previews and we're going to start off with three days of talents.

For this release, our goal with talents was two-fold:

• We want to increase the number of viable builds.
• We want to shake things up.

To that end, we’ve made the following changes:

• Talents now cost between 1 and 4 points (up from 3).
• Players now have 7 total points to spend (up from 6).
• There are now 7 talents per category (up from 6).

1 cost:

Tough (New)

• Max Armor: +10/12/15/25

2 cost:

Dexterity (Updated)

• Run Speed +3
• Levitation Mana Cost: -15/18/20/30%
• Cost from 1 to 2
• No longer gives Jump Height

Wellspring (New)

• Mana Recharge Rate: +25%
• On 0 Mana: Spell Damage +10/12/15/...

Not sure where this info came from, but this is unfortunately not the case. There will be some content downtime between the last week of Ch1's content and the start of Ch2's.

Hey all,

We're here with the release 2.1 patch notes! This update to Chapter 1 largely focuses on bug fixes, quality of life updates, and laying the groundwork for Chapter 2. Y'all are still in the midst of Chapter 1 and there's more stuff to uncover there as well…

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Store

• The Bewitching Glimmer Starter Pack has been removed.
• Added Beguiling Rogue Starter pack.
  • We'll generally be rotating Starter Packs over the course of multiple releases. We'll keep you updated as they're coming and going though so you don't miss out.
  ...

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