25 May 2017
Lords and Ladies!
Update 11.1 has been installed, and the servers are up! Head to your Castles now to find Oaksmasher, a few interesting rebalances, and lots more. And away we go!
You can read more about this new hero here.
Like previous heroes, you can get Oaksmasher in one of three ways:
With the release of this new Hero the price of Hellblade has been reduced to 500,000 silver and 199 gold.
Original hero: Soul Catcher / Soul Reaper
Features: sex change, new voice
Cost: 99 gold
Original hero: Berserker
Features: new voice, new effects
Cost: 69 gold
We've got great news about Golden Ages. Having a Golden Age will now also double your chance of receiving exclusive talents at the Forge. It would be remiss not to mention that this also affects overall upgrade speed, since every fifth exclusive talents is now very effective for upgrading.
This bruiser had a difficult, if enviable fate. For a while after he was introduced to the game the Berserker was a dark horse, but then he quickly began to gain popularity and ended up being the most sought-after hero on the lateral branch. The reason is simple: in addition to his high survivability and excellent initiative, the Berserker possessed an ultimate ability that players could, with a little skill, use to instantly crush a single enemy hero — you could spam Fetters in such a way that all the chains hit a single target and dealt massive damage.
At first this was designed as a special trump card, but in practice it turned out to be too easy to do. The Berserker can now only hit one enemy with each chain.
Fetters
Time passes, standards change, and the Amazon, once intended exclusively for the late game, has now become a hero for whom it's hard to find a place. In this update we want to enhance one of the most undervalued abilities in the game: Decisive Shot.
It used to fire in the wrong direction pretty often, hitting random enemy soldiers with low health, so it was difficult to use the skill in a lane. Decisive Shot will now only hit enemy heroes, the Woodwose, Kiton, and the Fire Drake.
Smashing Whirlwind
Decisive Shot
In this "age of breakthroughs," real tanks have it rough. Earlier conditions allowed Rumbler not to focus on frequent exchanges of Health with the enemy, but in the modern, more aggressive game he needs to be just as aggressive. So a little effort from a "trampoline" will help Mountain out in all stages of the game.
Shockwave
The Intellect-focused Marksman is a fully "aimed" hero who is very useful in the late game, where his buffs can really strut their stuff. But nowadays Strength builds are lagging significantly behind Intellect builds in terms of popularity. A Strength-focused Hunter has a very powerful attack, but the effect from his passive class ability isn't enough to make up for the difference in terms of usefulness when compared to other "carry" heroes.
One of the Marksman's key buffs — to Agility — thus now depends not only on Intellect, but on Strength or Intellect, whichever is higher.
Rage of the Hunt
Paint was very recently a sought-after midder, but nowadays its popularity has declined a bit. Despite the fact that the Artiste has incredible potential for dominating a lane and the ability to go into overdrive (speed boost and quick farming with crawls facilitate this), Paint is rather difficult to pull off and demands a lot of concentration from the player.
This applies in particular to a Strength-based Paintbrush, which has trouble competing with other, more productive midders. The Strength build has thus been slightly enhanced, and the mechanic for the passive class ability has been retooled.
Palette
Painted Beast
The Highlander is mighty and powerful in the late game, but in modern, more aggressive play he is tightly constricted in lanes. The rule "get rich or die trying" applies in full to the Immortal — if the early game is lost, getting yourself out of a financial hole with hero is quite difficult.
The lane stage has therefore been enhanced — the Highlander's Health will now regenerate more quickly in the lane than before.
Bloody Massacre
Your Prime World Team