2026-04-20

Starlight & Beacon

Official notes
Beneath the night sky of Drodo Island, stardust cuts through the silent darkness. Starlight chases the glowing magic beacon, crossing shadowed wastes and barren lands. Travelers of all races entrust their wishes to the flickering lights. Guided by starlight and bound by sacred flames, every glimmer holds hope amid strife across this wondrous realm.
Relics
NEW
Lucid Starⓘ
New relic. 20% chance to directly obtain a ★★ piece on purchase if you already own one.
NEW
Defiant Shellⓘ
New relic. Reduces damage taken on home defeats or increases damage dealt on away-home victories by 1–10 based on your courier's lost health. Every 10% health lost adds 1 to the reduction or bonus, capped at 10.
NEW
Weighted Diceⓘ
New relic. Refunds 1–2 random gold if you fail to recruit any owned chess piece. Consecutive recruitment failures gradually raise the chance of receiving 2 gold.
REMOVED
Shroud of Concealmentⓘ
Temporarily removed from the drop pool.
Chess Pieces
BUFF
Lunaⓘ
Base attack interval reduced from 1.3s to 1.2s.
BUFF
Void Spirit — Astral Step
Magical damage 200/300/400 → 300/400/600.
NERF
Storm Spirit — Ball Lightning
Cooldown 5/4/3s → 6/5/4s.
BUFF
Kunkka — Ghost Ship
Stun duration 1/1.5/2.5s → 1.5/2/3s.
NERF
Disruptor — Static Storm
Radius 400/450/500 → 350/400/450; duration 5/7/9s → 4/6/8s.
NERF
Gyrocopterⓘ
Base attack damage 87.5 → 75.
NERF
Gyrocopter — Flak Cannon
Projectile count 3/5/9 → 2/4/8; target count unchanged.
CHANGE
Morphling — Morph
Attribute conversion threshold now uses standard rounding (was floor). First conversion HP threshold 99% → 94%.
BUFF
Altar of Spirits
Damage resistance 20% → 25%.
Synergies
REWORK
Naga — Scaled Armor
(2) grants allies 15% magic resistance. (4) grants allies 35% magic resistance. (6) when taking non-pure damage, reflect 1.5× the damage reduced by magic resistance.
BUFF
(9) Assassin — Backstab Leap
Cooldown 15s → 10s.
CHANGE
Undead & Pandaren
Sold Undead and Pandaren units no longer refill back into the chess pool (same rule as SSR units, IO, and monopolized units).
Talent Tree
BUFF
3A — Frenzyⓘ
Lifesteal 25% → 30%.
NERF
3B — Protection
Damage reduction 25% → 20%.
Game Rules
CHANGE
Chess pool refill
Pieces not in the chess pool (Undead, Pandaren, etc.) no longer refill back to the pool after being sold.
CHANGE
Round 1 prep time
25s → 35s. Rounds 2–11 remain 25s; every other round is 35s.
Bug Fixes
FIX
General
Various bug fixes.
Hotfix — 2026-04-21
NEW
Russian localization
Added Russian version.
FIX
Bug fixes
Fixed bugs.