2024-04-27

Blessing of the Naaru (Part 2)

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Having fallen under the yoke of the Burning Legion, the Eredar has been twisted into chaotic, ferocious entities devoid of humanity. They no longer recall their homeworld, their kin, their professions, or even their own visages. All that fills their gaze now is boundless slaughter, spreading fear across world after world.
Chess Pieces
NEW
Shadow Demon: Disseminate ($3, Demon/Draenei/Priest)
New chess piece. <Active Skill: Instant Activation> Applying the toxic curse of Shadow Demon's attacks: Nearby allies will receive damage of the same type as a percentage when taking damage, and nearby enemies will also receive healing as a percentage when receiving healing. Note: The spreading effect cannot be stacked on the same unit. Note: The spreading effect can benefit from Spell Prism and Soulbind. When the Eredar no longer requires his followers, he'll discard his shackles—along with their lives.
NEW
Lion: Finger of Death(Upgraded from $1 to $4)
New chess piece. <Active Skill: Activates on full mana> Tear into an enemy, inflicting a substantial amount of magical damage and siphoning their current mana. Furthermore, for each stack of the Fel Power effect, it will deal additional magical damage based on a percentage of the target's maximum health. Lion's disfigured hand is also the source of his greatest power, capable of flooding victims with malefic force.
NEW
Slardar: Downgraded from $3 to $2, with adjustments made to its attributes and skill values to match the new cost
New chess piece.
NEW
Slark: Downgraded from $2 to $1, with adjustments made to its attributes and skill values to match the new cost
New chess piece.
NEW
Grimstroke: Downgraded from $4 to $1, with adjustments made to its attributes and skill values to match the new cost
New chess piece.
NEW
Hoodwink - Acorn Shot: Simplified the skill, removing the mana cost and duration of the debuff
New chess piece.
NEW
Ogre Magi - Multicast: Removed the mana cost of the skill
New chess piece.
NEW
Dark Willow - Cursed Crown: Reduced stun duration from 3/4/6 seconds to 3/4/5 seconds
New chess piece.
NEW
Lina - Laguna Blade: Cooldown reduced from 12/8/6 seconds to 9/7/5 seconds
New chess piece.
NEW
Keeper of the Light - Illuminate: Reduced maximum damage from 300/500/800 to 300/500/700
New chess piece.
NEW
Anti-Mage - Mana Void: Damage threshold for triggering Mana Void changed from 100/80/60 to a unified value of 100
New chess piece.
NEW
Lone Druid: Base attack damage of summoned bear companion reduced from 175/275/375 to 150/200/300
New chess piece.
NEW
Necrophos - Reaper's Scythe: Cooldown reduced from 10/8/4 seconds to 8/6/4 seconds
New chess piece.
Synergies
CHANGE
Draenei - Blessing of the Naaru
Synergy Update to(2)(4) (2)Draenei: All friendly Draenei gain the effect: Every 2 seconds, steal 100 health from the nearest enemy chess piece to heal themselves. (4)Draenei: All friendly pieces gain effects: Whenever a cumulative total of more than 100 points of healing is taken it is split (cumulative healing) points of pure damage among the surrounding enemies. Note: (2) Draenei's life-steal effect deals pure damage + healing. Draenei illusions are also effective. Note: (4)Draenei's Baptism damage is no longer divided, and each enemy within the range will receive the same damage.
BUFF
Knights - Divine Protection
(2) (4) (6)Knights:  The shield trigger probability for Knights is increased from (described as 20%/20%/10% but functions as 20%/10%/20%, inconsistent with the description) to 20%/20%/15%.
NERF
Warlocks - Soul Leech
(4) Warlocks: The lifesteal percentage is decreased from 5%/20% to 5%/15%.
BUFF
Priests - Salvation
(4) Priests: The duration of the Priest's Mind Control is increased from (controller level × 2) seconds to (controller level × 2 + 2) seconds.
CHANGE
Elves - Evasion
(9) Elves: Enemy illusions copied by Elves now inherit the passive effects of the enemy's equipment (but cannot use active equipment).
NERF
Demons - Fel Power
Maximum stack count reduced from 10 to 8.
BUFF
Orcs -Battle Hardened
(6) Orcs: The health bonus coefficient increased from 8 to 10.
Items
NEW
New Tier 3 Item - Diffusal Blade
Attack Damage: +25, Mana Break on Attack: +50 The carrier deals +50% damage to non-permanent chess pieces.
BUFF
Vladimir's Offering
Lifesteal percentage increased from 15% to 20%.
NERF
Trident
Attack damage bonus reduced from +60 to +50.
NERF
Manta style
Illusions now inherit passive effects of the carrier's equipment (but cannot use active equipment). Duration of illusions reduced from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.
BUFF
Satanic
Lifesteal percentage increased from 45% to 50%. Cooldown reduced from 20 seconds to 15 seconds.
Season Awards
CHANGE
The EoS rewards for S30 Arcane Player (01/03 to 30/04) are based on the following
♕Top 20 Queens (on Leaderboard): S30 Badge + ♕Queen rewards. ♕Queen: 320 Candies + Crown (valid for S31) + Arcane Player♦Red. ♔King: 320 Candies + Arcane Player♦Magenta. ♖Rook: 160 Candies + Arcane Player♦Blue. ♗Bishop: 80 Candies + Arcane Player♦Green. ♘Knight: 40 Candies. ♙Pawn: 20 Candies.
CHANGE
Top 20 Queens are rewarded based on their final places and the other ranks for the highest rank achieved in the season
CHANGE
As usual, the last day of the season will be the off-season break to award the excellent players. Games played on the day do not affect Rankings. The new season of S31 Keshira Season starts on 01/05/2024!
Bug Fixes
FIX
Improved chess piece preloading to prevent crashes
FIX
Rectified issues with score and rank protection in lower-tier ladder modes
FIX
Ensured Elves can evade attacks from (4) Demon Hunters
FIX
Addressed the oversight of cooldown adjustments for "Keeper of the Light - Illuminate."
FIX
Corrected Shaman's Hex to allow transformed units to use abilities
FIX
Fixed a bug where Priests with Helm of the Dominator could mind control multiple times
FIX
Fixed a bug where Anti-Mage's Mana Void could affect enemies immune to abilities
FIX
Fixed a bug where reading a playbook at the beginning of a turn would instantly level up a piece
FIX
Fixed a bug where selling an item from the Weapon Smith would grant 1 gold
FIX
Fixed a bug where the resizing animation of Giants Ring could trigger Shaman's Hex (it is not considered an active item)
FIX
Fixed an issue with the description error during loading of casual maps with spectator slots (line breaks showing as <br>)
FIX
Fixed inaccuracies in the description of Rapier