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2 Sep 2023
Version 60 Out Now - New Event: Gobling Village
Status
 September 8, 2023 9:50 AM: Version 60 is now fully available on both platforms. Please update your game!
 September 6, 2023 2:00 PM: iOS rollout has started.
 September 5, 2023 3:30 PM: Edited schedule details for Hero League global beta.
 September 4, 2023 4:22 PM: Android rollout has started. We hope to do the same for iOS soon.

Release Notes
[NEW & UPDATED CONTENT]
Goblin Village
Sep. 18, 07:00 UTC – Sep. 21, 07:00 UTC

New Goblin Summon

When you summon a Legendary Goblin from the Goblin Summon, you get another Legendary Goblin as a bonus!
New Goblin Heroes

• Legendary
• Deadboot
• Darkfeather
• Kettle
• Smarttongue
• Epic
• Goldie
• Rare
• Boots
• Family Bonus for 1/2/3+ Heroes:
• Each time this Hero takes damage from an enemy’s Special Skill, removes 30%/60%/100% boosted health from all enemies
• Passive:
• 20%/25%/30%/35%/40% chance (based on Mana Speed) to perform the following actions when this character casts their Special Skill:
• Deal 70% damage to all enemies
• All enemies get -25% accuracy for 3 turns
• New mechanic: Wither & Growth
• Wither: Lowers defense and/or attack for the duration of the battle
• Growth: Increases defense and/or attack for the duration of the battle
• Re-applications of Wither/Growth can further modify Ability Scores, up to a limit
• Ability Scores can be increased to a maximum of {}% of their original value
• Ability Scores can’t be reduced to lower than {}% of their original value
• Modified Ability Scores cannot be dispelled or cleansed
• Modified Ability Scores remain even after the caster is defeated
• Regular buffs and debuffs are applied to modified Ability Scores

New mechanic: Mega Minion

• A Hero can only have one Mega Minion at a time
• All existing Minions and Fiends are replaced when a Mega Minion is summoned
• Mega Minions cannot be replaced by Minion or Fiend summons
• Mega Minions are not affected by effects that destroy or otherwise affect Minions

Hero League (Global Beta)
Sep. 19, 07:00 UTC – Oct. 23, 07:00 UTC
(EDIT: Postponed for now, new start date TBA)

An all-new competitive format in which players Raid for glory and survival in a monthlong League!

• Each League runs for 4 rounds
• At the end of each round, the bottom 25% scorers are eliminated
• Battle other players and accumulate points to reach the final round!

NOTE: Not connected to Raid Arena or Raid Tournaments

Special Event Bonuses

Featured Families

• +30% increase to all stats
• Featured Families are designated at the start of a League and do not change between rounds
• Featured Classes
• +10% increase to all stats
• Featured Classes change each round
• Regular Schedule

Registration Phase (7 days)
Register for the League and prepare your Defense Team!

• Battle Phase (each league has 4 rounds; each round runs for 6 days)
• Earn points by conducting attacks
• Maximum of 10 attacks per day
• Points are affected by a number of factors, such as whether you won, how many enemy Heroes you managed to defeat, and how well you matched shields during the battle
• Each opponent features a Difficulty Bonus that is calculated by comparing the performance of their Defense Team to your performance in previous attacks
• Fleeing a battle before it is over will result in 0 points
• At the end of each day, players receive Defense Points based on their Defense Team’s performance
• Cooldown Phase (occurs between rounds and lasts for 1 day)
• All players are unable to battle during this Phase
• The bottom 25% scorers from the previous round are eliminated
• Eliminated players cannot play in the next round

Rewards

• Loot is received when you are eliminated OR after the final round ends
• Rounds-based loot is determined by your last Round reached
• Ranking-based loot is determined by your final rank (which is determined by your final score)
• As in other events, players receive only the rewards from the highest loot tier they belong to
• PLEASE NOTE: The rewards set for this September’s Hero League are placeholders for testing. They may change after Hero League exits global beta and is “officially” launched.

Return to Morlovia
Sep. 25, 07:00 UTC – Nov. 6, 07:00 UTC

• New Legendary Heroes
• Amber
• Edwin
• Lucinda
• Untold Tales: Chapter V

Sep. 27, 07:00 UTC – Oct. 1, 07:00 UTC

New stages, new stories, new Heroes!
Please note: Some boss enemies in Chapter V may use placeholder animations until they are released as obtainable Heroes

[BALANCE ADJUSTMENTS]

• Counterattack no longer interacts with “friendly fire” damage dealt by an allied character (e.g., Mok-Arr)
• “Dodge Special Skills that deal damage” effects, when activated, now dodge ALL effects from the incoming Special Skill
• Previously, any effects applied before the Special Skill’s first attempt at inflicting damage would not be dodged
• The Cleanse Block status ailment can no longer be cleansed
• Previously, when cleanse was performed on a character inflicted with Cleanse Block, other status ailments would not be cleansed but the Cleanse Block effect itself would be cleansed

[IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES]
Improvements

• Testing a doubly powerful version of Mystic Tower
• Every 2 hours, you can watch 1 Mystic Vision → 2 Mystic Visions
• This change applies as soon as you update to Version 60
• Drop rates from Mystic Vision have not been modified
• Please note that this is a test run and details may change in the future
• Improved the following texts for clarity:
• Description text for Cleanse Block
• Description text for Dispel Protection
• Description text for Special Skills that damage “a random different enemy”
• Added rewards to Horde battles (Monster Island)
• Added Trainer Hero element & rarity details to Aether Summon previews
• Mok-Arr’s Special Skill animation is now played on both sides!
• Stage/Floor Rewards screens in Challenge Events and Tower Events now display the usual warning message (“FULL”) when you have max Recruits

Fixes

• Fixed the following audio/visual issues:
• Alliance Quest becoming viewable (not playable) for some prior to event kickoff
• Challenge Event overlapping with and obscuring other quests on the quest map
• Costume Guinevere missing Special Skill animation and sound
• Bleed damage inflicted by Wound (Barbarian Talent) being shown as ‘0’ instead of ‘1’ under certain circumstances
• Essentials Delivery Pass opening up in the wrong location in the base
• Extra max HP reduction against targets with boosted health not being displayed
• Note: Only a visual issue — the effect itself has been functioning as intended, with extra max HP reduction values being correctly applied
• Flat damage values displayed in battle preview UI sometimes being incorrect
• dialog box slightly mispositioning when opened for the first time after startup
• Thunderclap’s art obstructing view of the  button in Limit Break View
• Fixed the following unintended gameplay issues:
• Apex Monsters sometimes failing to immediately appear upon battle start
• Certain Minions and Fiends could steal “parts” of Odette’s Dance of the Swan
• Contest of Elements: Holy using different number values for Elemental Chaos
• Enemies killed via Power Gem match damage not “properly” dying immediately and still being hit by Troops during that turn
• Defenders/Nightmares of Atlantis Family Bonus could be calculated incorrectly when teamed with more than one “regular” Atlantis Family Hero
• Heroes killed via an allied Hero removing an enemy Erlang Shen’s status ailment could sometimes incorrectly “revive” if the Special Skill that removed the ailment proceeded to heal or boost a sufficiently large amount of health
• Heroes killed via an allied Odette removing an enemy Erlang Shen’s status ailment could, even in death, fire Dance of the Swan’s “damage random enemy upon subsequent allied Special Skill cast” effect
• Jana’s second hit not benefitting from the defense debuff applied in the first hit on occasions where her Special Skill strikes the same enemy twice
• Kalø not gaining any mana from copy-casting Xnolphod’s Special Skill
• Kalø’s Passive activating in the middle of, instead of after, his Special Skill
• Killing an enemy Hero with the damage dealt by Green Knight’s resurrection could send them into Ghost form for a turn before they died
• Mystic Titan Ifrit sometimes being able to block two Battle Items for a turn
• Odette and Phantom of the Opera’s “remove existing status effects” function failing to activate “if this effect is removed” effects cast by Tremor
• Rare Enemies being able to shield themselves while in Abyss Ghost form
• Special Enemies not properly spawning in Certain quest/event levels
• Taunt cast by a Fighter could remain active during Revive-induced Ghost form
• The turn counter for Deep Underwater (Untold Tales level property) sometimes displaying a negative number
• Using an Aether Reset Token on a Hero under certain conditions could lock them out from reaching max Costume Bonus
• Note: Affected Heroes’ Costume Bonus values will be corrected soon
• Fixed a rare technical issue that could cause a connection error in Raids
• Friendly Raid Battles no longer affect Raid-related statistics in Player Profiles

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Oct 2023
Version 61
Status
 October 13, 2023 9:50 AM: Version 61 is now fully available on both platforms. Please update your game!
 October 11, 2023 3:40 PM: iOS rollout has started.
 October 9, 2023 10:50 AM: Android rollout has started. We hope to do the same for iOS soon.

Release Notes
[NEW & UPDATED CONTENT]
Hero League (Global Beta)
Kickoff: Oct. 17, 07:00 UTC

An all-new competitive format in which players Raid for glory and survival in a monthlong League!

• Each League runs for 4 rounds
• At the end of each round, the bottom 25% scorers are eliminated
• Battle other players and accumulate points to reach the final round!
• NOTE: Not connected to Raid Arena or Raid Tournaments
• Special Event Bonuses
• Featured Families
• +30% increase to all stats
• Featured Families are designated at the start of a League and do not change between rounds
• Featured Classes
• +10% increase to all stats
• Featured Classes change each round
• Regular Schedule
• Registration Phase (7 days)
• Register for the League and prepare your Defense Team!
• Battle Phase (each league has 4 rounds; each round runs for 6 days)
• Earn points by conducting attacks
• Maximum of 10 attacks per day
• Points are affected by a number of factors, such as whether you won, how many enemy Heroes you managed to defeat, and how well you matched shields during the battle
• Each opponent features a Difficulty Bonus that is calculated by comparing the performance of their Defense Team to your performance in previous attacks
• Fleeing a battle before it is over will result in 0 points
• At the end of each round, players receive Defense Points based on their Defense Team’s performance
• Cooldown Phase (occurs between rounds and lasts for 1 day)
• All players are unable to battle during this Phase
• The bottom 25% scorers from the previous round are eliminated
• Eliminated players cannot play in the next round

Rewards

• Loot is received when you are eliminated OR after the final round ends
• Rounds-based loot is determined by your last Round reached
• Ranking-based loot is determined by your final rank (which is determined by your final score)
• As in other events, players receive only the rewards from the highest loot tier they belong to

PLEASE NOTE: The rewards set for this October’s Hero League are placeholders for testing. They may change after Hero League exits global beta and is “officially” launched.

Alliance Quest: Clash of Knights
Oct. 18, 07:00 UTC – Oct. 23, 07:00 UTC

• New boss waves and rewards
• New Heroes as bosses
• New boss wave combinations consisting of older Heroes
• New rank-based avatar rewards featuring new Bear and Stag Heroes
• New Bear Family Heroes
• Legendary
• Torben
• Teddy
• Epic
• Koda
• Family Bonus for 1/2/3+ Heroes
• All received defense status ailments will be replaced by a +40%/+60%/+70% defense buff for 3 turns
• New Stag Family Heroes
• Legendary
• Xiamara
• Lysanor
• Rare
• Fawn
• Family Bonus for 1/2/3+ Heroes
• All received attack status ailments will be replaced by a +40%/+60%/+70% attack buff for 3 turns
• New Passive for Bear and Stag Family Heroes:
• This character recovers 5% health when they receive a buff or a positive stack

Black Friday Summon
Nov. 21, 07:00 UTC – Nov. 27, 07:00 UTC

The Black Friday Summon is back — welcome to the biggest Summon Gate in Empires & Puzzles!

Special Black Friday Summon Bonus Chest:

• Significantly improved chance to receive useful Aethers, Emblems, high-level Ascension Items, Trainer Heroes, and Food Bundles
• This year’s Black Friday Summon does NOT contain:
• Classic Heroes
• Costumes
• Myztero
• Enigmo
• This year’s Black Friday Summon DOES contain Heroes from:
• ALL past Challenge Events
• ALL past Heroes of the Month
• ALL past Seasonal Events
• ALL past Tower Events
• Untold Tales, Dunes, Underwild, Valhalla, Atlantis
• Alliance Quest, Contest of Elements, Covenant of Champions, Goblin Village, Tavern of Legends, War of the Three Kingdoms
• …and more! (see below)

The 2023 Black Friday Summon will also introduce 2 new Heroes to the game:

• New Astral Elves Heroes
• Legendary
• Starwalker
• Sparklight
• Toon Costumes for Classic Heroes

Oct. 30, 07:00 UTC – Nov. 1, 07:00 UTC

New Passive: Toon

• 50% extra chance to resist status ailments
• 50% extra chance to resist mana reductions
• 50% extra chance to resist buff dispels
• Extra chances are calculated independently of other similar checks
• 50% less damage received from Troops at an elemental advantage
• x3 Costume Bonus for Legendary Heroes:
• +35% Attack / +35% Defense / + 65% Health / +5% mana

[BALANCE ADJUSTMENTS]

• Dance effects (used by Phantom of the Opera, Guardian Gazelle, Odette) can now refresh their own duration or replace another Dance effect
• Dispel block and cleanse block status effects now also prevent reallocation (e.g. stealing & transferring) of buffs and ailments respectively. This includes the status effects themselves
• The Spell Slayer status effect (Hansel and Gretel) can now be resisted by Passives that resist mana reduction

[IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES]
Improvements

• Rare Quests and Mirages of Omega quests will now start on Wednesdays according to a fixed schedule — see here for more information
• This change will go into effect some time after Version 61 rollout is completed
• Added unique status icons for burn damage ailments that recover either health or boosted health
• Using the magnifying glass to inspect a Monster Horde will now tell you how much Energy it costs to attack (Monster Island)
• Values and descriptions of Talent nodes now update when a classic Hero’s Superior Talent is unlocked. The Superior Talent that is below the Talent Tree now clarifies that it is an example node and is not included in the full effect
• Troops can now be sorted by power in Barracks
• Added a dedicated quest team slot for the Goblin Village event
• Performance improvements in the Museum — loading and scrolling Heroes is now faster and smoother

Fixes

• Fixed a rare issue in Monster Island that resulted in a conflict when two players attacked a Minion Horde at the same time
• Fixed a recently-introduced text error in Costume Kvasir’s Special Skill description — final line now again correctly states “The target is immune to new status effect buffs for 2 turns”
• Fixed an issue that caused the Aether Power “Defense Up” to not be dispelled correctly
• Phantom of the Opera’s Ballad of Obsession effect is now removed immediately after the caster dies, instead of at the end of the turn
• Fixed an issue where costumed Guardian Gazelle’s Dance would not get removed from allies if the Gazelle was killed by damage from resisted healing due to Xiaotu’s status ailment

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Status
 November 10, 2023 10:00 AM: Version 62 is now fully available on both platforms. Please update your game!
 November 8, 2023 10:45 AM: iOS rollout has started.
 November 6, 2023 1:30 PM: Android rollout has started. We hope to do the same for iOS soon.

Release Notes
[NEW & UPDATED CONTENT]
Challenge Event: Secrets of the Opera
Nov. 30, 07:00 UTC – Dec. 4, 07:00 UTC

New Opera Heroes

• Legendary
• Christine Daae
• Madame Giry
• Richard Firmin
• Odette (previously featured in the 2023 Summer Solstice Summon)
• Phantom of the Opera (previously featured in the 2023 Summer Solstice Summon)
• Epic
• Raul

New Stage Properties

• Swan Fiend
• Summoned for all Heroes every 5 turns
• Absorbs healing; disappears after absorbing 30% of its target’s health
• Damages its target with 100% attack every turn
• Elemental Resistance
• Using multiple Heroes of the same element on your team will have diminishing returns. For each additional Hero of the same element after the first, the damage from that element will be reduced by -10%
• Updated Family Bonus for 1/2/3+ Heroes:
• +5%/+10%/+15% attack, defense, HP

Season V: Judgment of Dunes
Nov. 23, 07:00 UTC – Nov. 27, 07:00 UTC

• Reduced World Energy cost for Season V stages!
• New rare enemy: Dune Scarab
• New Season V-specific Monster Lure

Santa’s Challenge
Dec. 1, 07:00 UTC – Jan. 1, 07:00 UTC

Santa’s Challenge returns with updates and improvements!

New Winter Heroes

• Legendary
• Cookie
• Zappa
• Ginger
• Epic
• Dizzy
• Rare
• Jolly

Improvements

• Added Featured Heroes to the Santa’s Challenge Seasonal Summon
• Added more avatars to rewards and refreshed old avatars to costumed editions
• New avatars: Buster, Jolly, Holly, Dizzy, Mr. Pengi
• Updated avatars: Mother North, Santa Claus, Krampus
• Some stages have new bosses (the overall difficulty of stages remain unchanged)
• [IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES]
• Improvements
• Improved text description of “Elemental Resistance” stage property for greater clarity
• Mentions of death in Special Skills and Family Bonuses changed to “being defeated”
• OLD: “when an enemy dies”
• NEW: “when an enemy is defeated”
• Changes made to the Troop level up logic:
• Troops assigned to a Hero League Defense Team cannot be sacrificed
• Troops assigned to an Alliance War Defense Team cannot be sacrificed while an Alliance War is ongoing
• Added text clarifying new account switching process on Android
• Updated social media icons and names under the “Social” tab in the Options Menu

Fixes

• Fixed a visual issue with Yang Mai in which the animation appeared to hit allies
• Fixed broken description text under [Raids] → [League] → [Rules] → [Rewards]
• Fixed an issue where players’ personal Trophies were not displayed in Leaderboards
• Clarified Congalach’s Special Skill description
• Increased Food cost font size in the Troop leveling screen in the Barracks
• Fixed an incorrect text confirmation when buying VIP Pass for the first time
• Fixed an issue with Telonius’ status effect providing immunity against ailment damage — effect no longer incorrectly negates damage dealt from buffs on the opposing team
• Fixed a text issue with missing percentage values in the Masked Gods Family Bonus
• Fixed an error that would occur when an Energy Flask is used at the moment Energy becomes full
• Fixed a sound issue with Frond’s Special Skill
• Fixed an issue with the placement of enemy speech bubbles in the Untold Tales final boss fight
• Fixed an issue where Heroes in the Hero League Defense Team could be sacrificed in the leveling up process
• Fixed an issue where Wither and Growth were incorrectly altering description text for damage-over-time effects
• Fixed an issue where Lu Bu’s Minions did not apply their status ailment to their owners when memorized and summoned by Enigmo
• The Hero League crown indicator now shows on the Raids icon only when a player has daily attacks remaining
• Hero League battles now correctly count toward progress in “Defeat [Hero Class] enemies” Path of Giants Challenges
• Fixed an issue where the Hero League Class Bonus icon would not display in the “Edit Team” view on Heroes that were not fully ascended
• Added missing sounds/animations for some of the following Heroes’ Costumes: Prisca, Garjammal, Belith, Boril
• Fixed an issue where the Journey Family Bonus extended the duration of some status effects that were cast on them, instead of only those cast by them

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Dec 2023
V63 Update Out Now
Status
 December 15, 2023 9:50 AM: Version 63 is fully released on all platforms.
 December 14, 2023 9:36 AM: iOS rollout has started.
 December 11, 2023 2:45 PM: Android rollout has started. We hope to do the same for iOS soon.

Release Notes
[NEW & UPDATED CONTENT]
Legends Summon refresh
Tavern of Legends returns on Dec. 19, 07:00 UTC

• “Choose your Featured Hero” option added
• The Legends Summon no longer includes Legendary Classic Heroes
• A mystery Hero has been added to the Legends Summon!
• Mystic Summon
• Selected Event Summon Gates will now sometimes include a free Mystic Summon
• Watch an ad for one free pull from the Event Summon
• Limited to one Mystic Summon per Event
• The Mystic Summon shares the same pool of Heroes as the Event Summon, but the appearance rates are different
• Mystic Summon is also replacing the free ad summon in the Daily Summon Gate
• One free ad summon per day, as before, but with improved rewards and chance of a bonus Trainer Hero!

Tower Event: Owl Tower
Dec. 20, 07:00 UTC – Dec. 24, 07:00 UTC

New Tower Event: Tower of Owls

• 25 Stages Normal difficulty
• 25 Stages Impossible difficulty

New Owl Heroes:

• Legendary
• Fulvia
• Timius
• Relius
• Ommodus
• Livia
• Epic
• Olbec
• Rare
• Paeia
• Featherino
• New offense buff: Moonrise Strike
• New defense buff: Moonrise Ward

Season of Love
Jan. 8, 07:00 UTC – Feb. 4, 07:00 UTC

New Legendary Heroes

• Kabeiroi
• Elba
• Eros
• Quest refreshed with new heroes as Bosses
• Refreshed Booster stage rewards
• Perfect 10 Summon
• Chance to do a Perfect 10 summon only in the 10x summon
• Includes a random Seasonal Legendary hero and Bonus items
• Can only occur once every 24 hours

Legendary Troops
This feature will go live on Jan. 2, 07:00 UTC

• Class based 5 star troops
• Each troop class has their own stats
• Troop can be equipped to any hero
• Each Troop has two preferred classes
• Gives extra stats and a passive effect if equipped to a preferred class
• Each troop has a unique passive effect.
• Leveling up
• Requires Iron
• Milestones
• Every 10 levels boost to bonus class stats
• Requires Class Emblems
• Converting Epic Troops to Legendary
• Minimum Barracks building level for conversion to be available: lvl 10
• Conversion requires Iron and Emblems
• Conversion will have a cooldown: 28 days
• Conversion will have an Epic Troop Level Requirement that goes up with number of Epic Troops converted
• Epic Troop Level Requirement:
• Lvl 26: 0 Epic Troops converted
• Lvl 27: 1 Epic Troops converted
• Lvl 28: 2 Epic Troops converted
• lvl 29: 3 Epic Troops converted
• lvl 30: 5 Epic Troops converted
• Troop Sacrifice XP boost

This change will go live on Dec. 19, 10:00 UTC

• All troops will now give more XP when sacrificed
• Cheaper leveling - the food cost per sacrificed troop when leveling up an Epic Troop now increases by only 2500 per level, instead of the old figure of 5500
• Goal is to lower the time and resources required for leveling up troops

[IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES]
Improvements

• Colors in Smarttongue’s special skill animation were adjusted to better fit the hero’s element.
• Adjusted the icons for 2 passive skills for the Bard Family to better communicate their effects visually.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with Cel’s Special Skill description.
• Fixed an issue with Erebus’ status effect blocking new minions and dealing damage per attempted summon. The issue allowed the target to transfer the status effect away through a passive skill before the damage was dealt, which is no longer happening.
• Fixed an issue where status effects that scale every time the Hero is hit would not carry their increased values after being redistributed
• The icon for the critical hit chance effect was adjusted for some heroes to make it consistent across the game.
• Fixed an issue that resulted in Passive skills that have “Activations left” not counting correctly.
• Removed “Connect to Facebook” button.
• Fixed an issue that resulted in an edited Raid Attack Team not being automatically selected for battle.
• Fixed an issue with Flip’s special skill animation.
• Fixed an issue with Poseidon’s status effect not providing resistance to new negative mana effects. Now it correctly resists effects that it previously let be applied.

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Version 64Version 64 - February Highlights
Status
 January 22, 2024 2:45 PM: Android rollout has started. We hope to do the same for iOS soon.

Release Notes
[NEW & UPDATED CONTENT]
Lunar New Year event returns

Feb. 8, 07:00 UTC – Feb. 26, 07:00 UTC

• Updated seasonal calendar with new Bonus Chest
• Event booster offer added

New Lunar Heroes:

• Legendary
• Qinglong
• Gongniu
• New Mystic Vision levels
• The Mystic Tower is gaining new floors!

Note: this feature will be enabled later

• Bottom floor is the existing Mystic Vision
• Middle floor is the new Epic Mystic Vision
• Better rewards, longer cooldown
• Top floor is the new Legendary Mystic Vision
• Best rewards, longest cooldown
• Contest of Elements Summon
• The minimum age of a Hero to be included in the Summon Gate has been reduced from 180 days to 60 days
• E&P’s 7th birthday

Feb. 27, 07:00 UTC – Mar. 5, 07:00 UTC

Birthday Summon

• This summon includes a specially curated pool of Heroes with NO Classic Heroes
• 2 new Gargoyle Heroes
• Garten
• Pophit
• Choose your featured Hero (3 slots)
• Get an additional non-featured Legendary Hero for every Legendary Hero you summon

Changes to event calendar

• We are making some minor tweaks to the scheduling of events.
• The interval between instances of an event will remain the same
• The distribution of events will be more even to reduce overlap and increase the number of days with playable events
• The first schedule changes will appear in the week beginning on Jan. 29
• Keep an eye out for the official February calendar of events on empiresandpuzzles.com

[IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES]
Improvements

• Added “New” tag for new featured costumes
• Updated icon for Max’s status effect that reduces damage from attacks and special skills of the stronger element
• Updated icon for Becky’s ailment to better distinguish it from other ailments that used similar icons
• Made Max HP reduction battle notification easier to read in Finnish
• Adjusted the wording of Morax’s passive skill to increase its clarity
• Food/Iron costs for leveling up troops are now not shown when the required amount is zero
• Changed the icon for Legendary Troop summon bonus chest
• Unclaimed Legendary Troop summon chests are now auto collected after the summon period has ended
• Legendary Troop Token has been renamed to Legendary Troop Coin, and the item image has been updated
• Added a counter to the Legendary Troop Summon that shows the number of Legendary Troop Coins a player has available
• Added a new indicator that shows up on the Barracks building when a player has a troop that is eligible for conversion into a legendary troop
• Choose your featured Hero: the player’s choice is now saved automatically as soon as a Hero in the list is tapped. No confirmation is needed

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where max stat toggle was incorrectly shown when inspecting other player’s heroes
• Dodge and Miss no longer prevent Anne’s Special Skill from targeting additional enemies
• Fixed an issue where values were missing in Giant Harpoon item description
• Fixed an issue where Legendary Troop’s extra healing passive wasn’t triggered by Raffaele’s heal
• Fixed an issue where the note indicating that the preview values are those of a max level troop was shown when inspecting a lvl 1 troop after summoning one, or when inspecting another player’s team
• Fixed an issue where buffs applied immediately after an ally was revived did not show up on the hero portrait. The buffs now show correctly
• Fixed an issue where the mindless attack would trigger even after all the enemies had been defeated
• Fixed Deadboot’s special skill description to use “steal” instead of “lift” to be consistent with other skills that steal buffs
• Fixed an issue with Challenge Event Approaching icon overlapping other events in the Quests view
• Fixed an issue where Path of Valor event challenges would sometimes start later than the corresponding event, so that early progress was not counted towards the challenges
• Fixed an issue where current balance of Iron was missing from Troop level up screen
• Fixed an issue with Tametomo’s special skill where enemies adjacent to the target received more damage than indicated by the skill description
• Fixed an issue with Desmond’s special skill animation
• Fixed an issue on devices with tall screens that prevented players from collecting the bonus chest on the Legendary Troop summon
• The “Untold Tales I Combat, Defeat Untold Tales I Bosses VI” mission progress now correctly counts when Gestalt is defeated in Map stages and not in Raids
• Fixed an issue where the note indicating that the preview values are those of a max level troop was shown when inspecting a lvl 1 troop after summoning one, or when inspecting another player’s team
• Fixed an issue where buffs applied immediately after an ally was revived did not show up on the hero portrait. The buffs now show correctly
• Fixed an issue where the mindless attack would trigger even after all the enemies had been defeated
• Fixed Deadboot’s special skill description to use “steal” instead of “lift” to be consistent with other skills that steal buffs
• Fixed an issue with Challenge Event Approaching icon overlapping other events in the Quests view
• Fixed an issue where Path of Valor event challenges would sometimes start later than the corresponding event, so that early progress was not counted towards the challenges
• Fixed an issue where current balance of Iron was missing from Troop level up screen
• Fixed an issue with Tametomo’s special skill where enemies adjacent to the target received more damage than indicated by the skill description
• Fixed an issue with Desmond’s special skill animation
• Fixed an issue on devices with tall screens that prevented players from collecting the bonus chest on the Legendary Troop summon
• The “Untold Tales I Combat, Defeat Untold Tales I Bosses VI” mission progress now correctly counts when Gestalt is defeated in Map stages and not in Raids
• Release notes have been amended with some missing fixes.

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Status
 February 26, 2024 3:00 PM: Android rollout has started. We hope to do the same for iOS soon.

Release Notes
[NEW & UPDATED CONTENT]
New Astral event
Mar. 7, 07:00 UTC – Mar. 9, 07:00 UTC

Visit the Astral Plane and take up the challenge of the Astral Elves!

New Astral Summon

• When you summon a Legendary Astral Hero from the Astral Summon, you get another Legendary Astral Hero as a bonus!
• New Quest
• Level Property: Plane of the Astral Elves
• Hero mana generation is doubled. All status effects cast by Heroes only last for 1 turn. Only applies to status effects where duration is specified. All enemies are unaffected.
• Enemies steal 15% Mana from all Heroes every 3 turns.

New Astral Elves Heroes:

• Legendary
• Lemonwood
• Moonflower
• Dreadstar
• Hammerclang
• Epic
• Lionstring
• Rare
• Starswift
• Springvale

Mar. 18, 07:00 UTC – Apr. 29, 07:00 UTC

• Chance for Perfect 10 in summon
• Event Booster for a battle bonus and extra stage gifts

New Easter Heroes:

• Miss Ethel
• Timothy

New Costumes:

• Archie
• Jasper

New VIP Passes
[NEW] Timesaver VIP
Please check this FAQ article for details!

• Daily item drops
• New time-saving features
• Unlocks the ability to use Loot Tickets to clear certain Quest stages
• Unlocks Fast Battle mode
• Improvements to the VIP Pass system
• Please check this FAQ article for details!

Monster Island Returns
Starting Mar. 6

• Monster Hordes now appear in three different sizes
• Damage to Minions in Monster Island has increased
• Monster Hordes in Monster Island now reward loot
• Number of Treasure Chests increased
• Persistent damage carries over between Costumes in Monster Island
• Minion Hordes now have a chance to drop Chest Keys as rewards
• …and many more smaller changes and improvements!
• Hero League Makes a Comeback!

Starting Mar. 5

• Featured Families for this global beta: Pirates, Teltoc, Avalon, Grimforest, Wonderland
• Added resources as a reward for League battles (Iron, Food, Recruits). The level of awards is identical to those of Global Raid battles.
• Adjusted the number of attacks players can do in the Hero League. Maximum daily attacks vary from round to round:
• Round 1: max. 4 per day
• Round 2: max. 6 per day
• Round 3: max. 8 per day
• Round 3: max 10 per day
• Fleeing battles is now counted as a Defeat instead of getting 0 points.
• Communication of Hero League Battle Bonus Points improved
• The indicator showing the player ranking in the league and whether they are at risk of elimination has been improved.
• Fixed the Boosted Class indicator in the Team Edit Screen
• Added an option to prioritize heroes that gain bonuses during the Hero League when assembling the League Defense and Attack Teams.
• Featured Family bonuses have been revised
• Updated stat bonuses for heroes (previously 30% for all rarities)
• Legendary Heroes now get a 40% increase
• Epic Heroes now get a 60% increase
• Rare heroes now get a 100% increase
• All Featured Family Heroes get a new passive in Hero League battles

[IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES]
Improvements

• Added a coin for the Pick Up Summon
• Added a new visual effect (a blue swirl) when a Hero’s mana amount is changed at the end of a turn.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue of not being able to select the last item in the Alliance Banner carousel when creating alliances on tablets
• Fixed an issue where a Hero’s HP bar would sometimes appear full with lowered HP value in War Player Info, even though the Hero has already taken damage in a War battle
• Fixed an issue where using Aether reset in Raid Tournament team edit would result in an endless loop of popups for Legendary Heroes
• Fixed an issue where some hero portraits looked pixelated on iOS
• “Resist Healing Ailment” passive now works against Nogu’s, Xiaotu’s, and Aradia’s Special Skill status ailment
• Dodges from Margaret and Arfanias now correctly break cascading attacks that specify a need to hit a target (e.g. Khufu, Areax)
• Fixed an issue with a status effect from Hansel’s Special Skill (+ Gretel, Pixie, and Xandrella) where the status effect attempted to reduce the target’s mana more than once per turn if it was unable to do it on the first attempt
• Alucard’s special skill description was fixed to state that it affects minions rather than fiends.
• Fixed issue with Tametomo’s Special Skill
• Corrected the order of effects in Relius’ Special Skill
• Faline’s Special Skill Effect will always target an enemy with a Mana Bar. If there are multiple enemies with Mana bars, the one with the fastest Mana Speed is targeted.
• Fixed a bug that allowed claiming more than 5 Legendary Troop summon chests

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Status
 April 2, 2024 1:00 PM: Android rollout has started. We hope to do the same for iOS soon.

[NEW & UPDATED CONTENT]
Goblin Village
Apr. 15, 07:00 UTC – Apr. 18, 07:00 UTC

The Garrison Guard arrive in Goblin Village and bring their own Mega Minions to battle!

New Garrison Guard Family Heroes:

• Legendary
• Vanya
• Shimmerscale
• Epic
• Greg
• Rare
• William
• Hero League Returns!

Starting Apr. 15

Take Two for Hero League 2024!

The issue that caused some Hero League battles to freeze and become unplayable has been resolved.

New: Secret Summon

• The Secret Summon has a chance to appear as a Bonus Draw from selected summons (e.g. Epic Hero Summon, Elemental Summon and various limited duration summons).

[IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES]
Improvements

• Added an Additional Info box with clarification text to some Special Skill descriptions.
• Made the Fast Battle indicator more visible in battle when it is enabled.
• Added TIkTok and Instagram links to Inbox/Social tab.
• Modified mana steal to adjust for Heroes having different mana speeds. Mana steal now grants the same percentage of max mana as is stolen.
• Added an info box to Nautica’s Hero card that specifies their mana generation increase does not apply to other copies of Nautica.
• Adjusted some special skill animations (Akkorog and Galapago).

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused the costume tutorial to appear when in Quest view.
• Fixed an issue with Mulgog’s Special Skill audio.
• Fixed an issue with the ability to claim chests from some specific summons on devices with narrow and tall screen resolutions (like Galaxy Z Fold3).
• Fixed a visual scaling issue with Alchemy Lab on tablets
• Status effects or stacks that affect mana generation now correctly only apply to mana gained from matching tiles (when attacking) or at the end of a turn (when defending).
• Fixed an issue with the fiend/minion cloning behavior where they didn’t clone correctly to wings and the center. Now the fiends/minions will fill empty familiar slots on heroes over time but will not attempt to duplicate themselves if there are no empty slots available in the targeted locations.
• Fixed an issue where the attacks that chain “though all the enemies who are adjacent to any hit enemy” ended if one of the hit enemies was defeated by the attack. Now the attack continues past the enemy to adjacent targets as intended.
• Fixed an issue where purchasing a calendar offer very close to the expiry time could prevent the purchase from being counted toward the calendar chest.
• Belladonna’s special skill now executes in the correct order, and increased healing from fiends is included in the initial heal.
• Troops are now displayed correctly on Riddles of Wonderland stages before and after the element change stage property.
• Fixed some unintended situations where restrictions on Legendary Troop conversion were not properly applied.
• Fixed an issue that caused some PoA missions to not coincide with the start of relative Events.

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Status
 May 6, 2024 12:45 PM: Android rollout has started. We hope to do the same for iOS soon.

Release Notes
Return to Sanctuary
May 16, 07:00 UTC – May 20, 07:00 UTC

New Gargoyle Family Heroes with softskin passive:

• Legendary
• Uwe
• Mena
• Hilda
• Epic
• Grumbl
• Rare
• Betty
• The softskin passive has been improved. This also applies to the existing Heroes, Pophit and Garten.

This new Challenge Event includes:

• Magical Fluff level property
• Rare enemies
• Monster Island

May 24, 07:00 UTC – May 27, 07:00 UTC

Monster Island now has its own Summon including Event Heroes from the following Families:

• Plains Hunter
• Jungle Hunter
• Abyss Hunter
• The Monster Island Summon also includes a bonus chest!

Beach Party seasonal event
Jun. 3, 07:00 UTC – Jul. 15, 07:00 UTC

Beach Party is back! The Summon, which includes Beach Party and Sand Empire Heroes, now also features the Perfect Ten bonus.

Master Talents
Enabled May 14

• Addition of 5 new Talent nodes for each class
• New nodes require Master Class Emblems to unlock
• 25th node unlocks Master Talent (for Classic Heroes, Superior Master Talent)
• New effects or boosts to all existing class talents
• Reduced the emblem costs on some existing Talent nodes for 5* Heroes:
• 250 → 125 emblems
• 125 → 80 emblems
• Similarly to Golden Emblems, Master Class Emblems will not be returned when the Talent Grid is reset
• Master Class Trials

First time May 17

• All-new recurring weekly Quest
• Only teams of a single Class allowed in each trial
• Fight the Master of each Class to earn Class Emblems and Master Class Emblems!

[IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES]
Improvements

• Offers are now available in the Featured tab of the Shop
• Changed wording of Moonflower’s Special Skill
• Improvement to Legendary Troop conversion. If an Epic Troop assigned to a team is converted, it will be replaced by an available troop that best matches the rarity requirement
• Adjusted the status effect icon for Ukkonen’s heal over time status effect, which refreshes its duration if hit by damage from a special skill
• Added an info box for safe dispel/cleanse effects that ignore certain secondary effects to better communicate the function
• Events with rarity requirements will now allow Legendary Troops to be used with Legendary Heroes

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that resulted in the Event Hero Bonus description being duplicated
• Fixed Epic Hero Tokens reward sources duplicated text
• Fixed some display issues with the secret summon preview
• Fixed an issue where an epic troop could not be converted into a legendary troop during the signup and preparation phases of a tournament if it was still in an attack team from a previous tournament
• Meg Giry and Carta now correctly reallocate ailments to one or more enemies
• Fixed an issue with the Path of Valor Event Challenges sometimes getting overlapped by the Daily Challenges if there were two event challenges running at the same time
• Fixed an issue with the Monster Island Apex Monsters dropping several keys if they were defeated by several players at the same time

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Status
 June 10, 2024 1:50 PM: Android rollout has started. We hope to do the same for iOS soon.

Release Notes
[NEW & UPDATED CONTENT]
Solstice Summon
Jun 18, 07:00 UTC – Jun 24, 07:00 UTC

• The mega-value Summon and offers return, this year with something secret…
• Summon will now include Costumes!
• Legends of Kalevala returns

Jul 29, 07:00 UTC – Sep 9, 07:00 UTC

• Updated Kalevala quest with new bosses - Otso, Ukkonen, C. Ukkonen and C. Väinämöinen
• Timesaver VIP Tier Revamp
• These changes will go into effect once all players are on Version 68
• (NEW) Premium Timesaver VIP
• Instant ad skip for Mystic Vision (all 3 tiers)
• Instant ad skip for Mystic Summons (both Daily and Legendary)
• More daily rewards (9 Loot Tickets & 9 Time Skips)
• Unlocks Fast Battle mode
• Loot Tickets can be used in Quest Stages

Crystal Pet Dragon

• (Current) Premium Timesaver VIP → (NEW) Standard Timesaver VIP

NOTE: The new Standard Timesaver VIP is the exact same product as the current Premium Timesaver VIP. If you currently have a Premium Timesaver VIP Pass, it will be renamed, but you will continue to receive the exact same benefits:

• Daily rewards (6 Loot Tickets & 6 Time Skips)
• Unlocks Fast Battle mode
• Loot Tickets can be used in Quest Stages

Onyx Pet Dragon

• (Current) Standard Timesaver VIP → Offer discontinued
• If you currently have a Standard Timesaver VIP Pass, its remaining duration will be transferred to the new Standard Timesaver VIP Pass.

[IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES]
Improvements

• Updated loot appearance rate tooltips for Hero League and Raid Tournament
• Simplified the additional info tooltips for Wither and Growth
• Info box implemented for Heroes that use Dance/Ballad Effects in their Special Skills
• Legendary Troops now increase the team power value when theTroop Class bonuses are active (Troop paired with hero of matching class)
• Updated the icon for Christine Daae’s Ballad of Passion status effect
• VIP Passes and Seasonal Event Boosters are now shown in the “Featured” section of the Shop menu; Avatar offers are now shown in the “Gems” section

Fixes

• Fixed a visual issue on W3K costumes unstoppable Mnions passive where its icon appeared every time the costumed Hero had a Minion
• Multiple minor grammatical edits to Special Skill descriptions for improved clarity
• Scoria’s Special Skill animation now always appears on the target with most health
• Fixed an issue with the Owl Family passive, which was reducing the mana gain from Special Skills more than it stated in the description
• Fixed an issue where players were unable to convert Epic Troops into Legendary Troops if the Epic Troop was assigned to a Hero League defense team regardless of whether or not the player was actively participating in the event

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Status
 August 13, 2024 1:00 PM: Android rollout started on August 12. We hope to do the same for iOS soon.

Release Notes
[NEW & UPDATED CONTENT]
Hero Academy – More 5-star Heroes
This change will go live on Aug 19

Legendary Heroes added to HA10 retraining:

• Jasper
• Archie
• Augustus
• Tinsel
• Peppermint
• Alucard
• Miriam & Midnight
• Matilda
• Ilmarinen
• Louhi

Harvest Festival Summon
 August 20, 2024 9:00 AM –  August 27, 2024 9:00 AM

• Chance to Summon Heroes from all events, with costumes included
• no classic Heroes
• Includes two new Heroes from the upcoming Fox family
• Whitefang
• Rust
• Harvest Festival Summon has a chance of receiving extra draws for each summon you make.
• Up to 9 extra draws per summon!

Ninja Tower returns!
 August 27, 2024 9:00 AM –  September 1, 2024 9:00 AM

• No Classic Legendary Heroes in Summon
• Ninja Family bonus now applies to 1/2/3 members (instead of 2/3)
• New Passive Skill: Resist Negative Minion Effects
• New Ninja Heroes:
• Chikao
• Iga
• Nomad
• Tora

New Family: Woodland Fauns

• New family effect:
• Bonus for 1/2/3 Heroes: 50%/75%/100% chance to resist mana reductions and mana status ailments.
• New passive skill: Resist attack reduction
• This character has innate resistance against status ailments, stacks and Wither effects that affect attack.
• New passive skill: Resist Insanity
• This character has innate resistance against Insanity

New Woodland Faun Heroes:

• Saskia
• Verity
• Tamlin
• Peregrine

Contest of Elements, featuring Slimes
 September 4, 2024 9:00 AM –  September 7, 2024 9:00 AM

New Slime Heroes

• Gooldron
• Mucktus
• Slimgo
• Sludgus

[IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES]
Improvements

• Hero Academy list of Legendary heroes now fits on screens with lower resolutions
• Minor syntax improvements in Insanity Special Skill texts and tooltips. No changes to functionality
• Shifting into Ghost form or its variants now also removes and resists Wither and Growth effects (this change will be enabled after V69 is forced)
• Cleaned up the Special Skill descriptions for Ghost form and its variants
• Cleaned up formatting of Monster Island Bonus text, which appears on Plains Hunter Heroes when the Monster Island event is active

Fixes

• Fighters affected by a Dance buff now show the correct number of turns remaining on the buff after they are revived by their Class Talent
• Fixed an issue that caused Zhuge Liang’s Fiends to attack allies instead of enemies
• Fixed an issue where Guan Yu damaged heroes in ghost form
• Mazoga’s defense ailment turn timer now works correctly when applied and reset
• Fixed an issue where enemies with Element Barrier incorrectly resisted secondary status effects which were triggered by status effects cast by Heroes of a different element
• Corrected Kinsaishi’s Special Skill description to match the actual functionality of the Special Skill
• Fixed some display issues on the OnePlus Open Main
• Fixed display position of Craum’s face in raid and leaderboard views
• Fixed issues with ads on Android devices with API lower than 27

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