Warhammer: Chaos & Conquest News

[h3]Patch Notes[/h3]

• [p]All spawnable locations have been reworked, so in busy events the highest level Resources, Foes, Armies etc are now prioritised by the location respawner.[/p]
• [p]The Chaos Champion has had his maximum level increased from 80 to 85.[/p]
• [p]Added a new optimisation to the Spoils delivery system to improve server performance and reduce delays.[/p]
• [p]Allow rallies to be created against NPC targets while PVP is disabled[/p]
• [p]Improved display for troops in battle report notification to be clearer (survived, hospitalised, salvaged and perma dead)[/p]
• [p]Block-list has been increased from 20 to 64 slots.[/p]

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• [p]Fixed display in battle report notification for hospitalised troops[/p]
• [p]Fixed UI overlap issue with the Spoils on conquest button on the HUD on some devices[/p]
• [p]Fixed UI overlap issue on PC warlord upgrade panel[/p]

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[p]Tomorrow we will be performing an optimisation update that will require approximately 3 hours of server downtime, at 9:00 AM UTC. As a result of this, PvP will also be disabled for a further 2 hours until 2 PM UTC on Tuesday, 20th. We will also be extending the spawns of the Colossal Squigs event by 3 hours; they will now finish spawning at 7 PM UTC on Wednesday, 21st January.[/p][p][/p][p]Below is a list of the features and fixes in this patch.[/p][p][/p][p]Features[/p]

• [p]All spawnable locations have been reworked, so in busy events, the highest level Resources, Foes, Armies, etc., are now prioritised by the location respawner.[/p]
• [p]The Chaos Champion has had his maximum level increased from 80 to 85.[/p]
• [p]Added a new optimisation to the Spoils delivery system to improve server performance and reduce delays.[/p]
• [p]Allow rallies to be created against NPC targets while PVP is disabled.[/p]
• [p]Improved display for troops in battle report notification to be clearer (survived, hospitalised, salvaged and permanently dead).[/p]

[p]Bug Fixes[/p]

• [p]Fixed display in battle report notification for hospitalised troops.[/p]
• [p]Fixed UI overlap issue with the Spoils of Conquest button on some devices.[/p]
• [p]Fixed UI overlap issue on PC warlord upgrade panel.[/p]
• [p]Fixed an issue where the Dynamic Island on iOS could obscure Resource values.[/p]

[p]Spoils of Conquest[/p][p]This month's 'Spoils of Conquest' has had the following changes made:[/p]

• [p]Level 25: Added Ruinous Shards, 5 to the Free Track, 20 to the Exalted Track[/p]
• [p]Level 30: Added Corrupted Wayshards, 5 to the Free Track, 15 to the Exalted Track[/p]
• [p]Level 35: Added 25 Runes of Domination to the Exalted Track[/p]
• [p]Level 40: Added Blood Essence 10 to the Free Track, 165 to the Exalted Track[/p]

[p][/p][p]Challenge Improvements[/p][p]Legion - Gather Iron Challenge:[/p]

• [p]Increased Boosts and Iron Rewards across various Brackets.[/p]
• [p]Increased Alliances Coins and added Ruinous Shards.[/p]
• [p]Added Tier 4 Units as Leaderboard rewards.[/p]

[p][/p][p]Legion - Gain Power Challenge:[/p]

• [p]Increased Alliance Coins across every Bracket.[/p]
• [p]Added additional Boosts to every Bracket.[/p]
• [p]Added Tier 4 Units as both Bracket and Leaderboard rewards.[/p]

[p][/p][p]On Rotten Wings (Terrorgheist):[/p]

• [p]Added 250 Warpstone to the Gold tier. (all 6 brackets)[/p]
• [p]Added 5000 Warpstone to the 1st place in the leaderboard.[/p]
• [p]Added 2500 Warpstone to the 2nd-3rd place in the leaderboard.[/p]

[p][/p][p]Fury of the Frosthearts:[/p]

• [p]Added Brayherd Bestigors to the top 3 leaderboard positions. (2000/1000/500)[/p]
• [p]Added Warpstone to the top 25 leaderboard positions. (1000/500/250)[/p]
• [p]Added Silver Leaf, Warpstone, Warpstone Star and 8h Shield to tier rewards.[/p]

[p][/p][p]Infernal Warlord Challenges[/p][p]The following Infernal Challenges, Damage Khorne/Nurgle/Tzeentch/Slaanesh/Undivided Foes [/p][p]have had the following changes made:[/p]

• [p]Clay + 50 Warlord Honour[/p]
• [p]Bone + 10 Ruinous Shards[/p]
• [p]Bronze + 100 Warlord Honour[/p]
• [p]Silver + 100 Warpstone[/p]
• [p]Gold + 1000 Tier 5 Chaos Faction-based Units, 2 x 8 Boosts, 1 x 24h March Gather Boost.[/p]

[p][/p][p]Defeat Beastmen Armies[/p][p]Improved the Bracket Rewards as follows:[/p]

• [p]Bone +2x 1h Training Boost[/p]
• [p]Bronze +3x 1h Hospital Boost[/p]
• [p]Silver +1x 12h Armour Boost[/p]
• [p]Gold increased Warpstone from 100 → 250[/p]

[p][/p][p]Improved Leaderboard Rewards as follows:[/p]

• [p]1st +3000 Warpstone[/p]
• [p]2-10 +1500 Warpstone[/p]
• [p]11-25 +600 Warpstone[/p]
• [p]26-50 +400 Warpstone[/p]
• [p]51-100 +250 Warpstone[/p]

[p][/p][p]Defeat Beastmen Foes[/p]

• [p]The Warpstone Reward for achieving the Gold bracket now scales up on your Chaos Keep level.[/p]
• [p]The number of Vanquish Chests in the bracket rewards also scales up with your Chaos Keep Level.[/p]
• [p]Warband Boosts have been added to the Leaderboard rewards.[/p]

[p][/p][p][/p][p]Greetings, Lords of Chaos! Game Update 4.9 - Dragon Incursion is now LIVE on all Regions![/p][p][/p][p]Patch Notes[/p][p][/p][p]Added Structure Levels [/p][p]The following structures have had their maximum level increased from 38 to 40:[/p]

• [p]Chaos Keep[/p]
• [p]Slaughter Pens[/p]
• [p]Quarry[/p]
• [p]Blast Furnace[/p]
• [p]Lumber Mill[/p]
• [p]Warehouse[/p]
• [p]Sorcerer’s Citadel[/p]
• [p]Warlord’s Conclave[/p]
• [p]War Council[/p]
• [p]Fortress Walls[/p]
• [p]Capture Pit[/p]
• [p]Sawbones[/p]
• [p]Watch Tower[/p]
• [p]Daemonic Forge[/p]
• [p]Workshop[/p]

• [p]Temple of Nurgle[/p]
• [p]Temple of Khorne[/p]
• [p]Temple of Slaanesh[/p]
• [p]Temple of Tzeentch[/p]
• [p]Cave[/p]
• [p]Trading Post[/p]

[p]The following structures have had their maximum level increased from 35 to 40:[/p]

• [p]Chaos Warshrine[/p]
• [p]Training Ground[/p]
• [p]Bestiary[/p]
• [p]Dungeon[/p]
• [p]Chaotic Rift[/p]
• [p]Beastmen Herdstone[/p]
• [p]Hellcannons[/p]
• [p]Drinking Hole[/p]

[p]The following new items have been added to the game:[/p]

• [p]Helm Essence[/p]
• [p]Chaos Essense[/p]
• [p]Chaos-Infused Dragon Hide[/p]
• [p]Dark Favour[/p]

[p]Added New Champion Equipment / Warlord / Fortress Skin Ranks[/p][p]The following Champion Equipment can now be updated to Eternal rarity:[/p]

• [p]Helm of the Barrow[/p]
• [p]Corrupted Runic Helm[/p]
• [p]Ritualist Hood[/p]
• [p]Skull Helm of the Chosen[/p]
• [p]Great Helm of the Vanquisher[/p]
• [p]Mask of Blinding Hate[/p]
• [p]Elfslayer Winged Helm[/p]
• [p]Headsman's Skull Helm[/p]

[p]Reaching Eternal rarity in each of these items will grant a new reward of 100 Helm Essence.[/p][p]
All Warlords can now be upgraded to rank 7 using the new item - Chaos-infused Dragon Hide.[/p][p][/p][p]All Fortress Skins can now be upgraded to rank 6.[/p][p]
Improved Slaanesh Melee Attack Bonus on Palace of Rapture Fortress Skin.[/p][p][/p][p]Unit Stat Adjustments[/p]

• [p]Skullcrushers: Armour from 56 to 57. Health from 2225 to 2300.[/p]
• [p]Hellflayers: Armour from 62 to 64. Health from 1935 to 2100.[/p]

[p]New Raid [/p]

• [p]Dragon Incursion - Driven forth by the surging power of the Winds of Magic, the Chaos Dragon soar on mutated wings, eager to vent their ancient fury on the Empire.[/p]
• [p]This new Raid brings epic new rewards, such as the Chaos-Infused Dragon Hide from defeating the Raid and both Dark Favour and Chaos Essence available in a new Cache![/p]

[p]Spoils of Conquest[/p]

• [p]This new system adds additional rewards for Daily Quest Completion, both in terms of a Free and Purchasable journey each month.[/p]
• [p]All Daily Trials now reward Spoils of Conquest points daily.[/p]
• [p]The large Daily Trials rewards have also been adjusted to include more Speed Ups and Daemonic Fulgurite.[/p]

[p]Aspirant of Darkness Item Set[/p]

• [p]A new Item has been added to this set, the Helm of Damnation.[/p]
• [p]The set bonus has been expanded to include larger bonuses when 3 items are equipped.[/p]
• [p]Blood Essence can now be exchanged for Chaos Essence in the Daemonic Forge.[/p]
• [p]Both the Daemonblade and Armour of Damnation can now be upgraded to rank 6.[/p]

[p][/p][p]The maximum Prestige level has been increased from 30 to 40.[/p][p]
The Undivided Ritual Tree has been expanded with the following Rituals[/p]

• [p]Hell Forged Plate IV[/p]
• [p]Norscan Vigour IV[/p]
• [p]Godly Fervour III[/p]
• [p]Rending Blows IV[/p]
• [p]Battle Born Accuracy IV[/p]
• [p]Frenzied Blows IV[/p]
• [p]Chaos Bolts IV[/p]
• [p]Chaos Dragons[/p]

[p]Updated Gathering Locations[/p]

• [p]New Level 14 variants of the potential Gathering locations can now be found within the Siege of Altdorf area.[/p]
• [p]The Gathering locations in Veteran Regions (i.e Regions older than 360 days) will now consistently spawn higher-level Resource locations based on the Region Age.[/p]

[p]Event Changes[/p]

• [p]Updated the Spoils of Victory rewards from the Region Wars Event to feature more high-level Resources and Warpstone locations, along with higher-level Foes and Armies, but slightly less dense spawns of Foes and Armies to not interfere with other Live Event schedules.[/p]
• [p]The Scourge of Chaos Event has been improved with an increase in Resource nodes of 11 and 12, and also an overall increase to level 13 resource appearing in the Siege of Altdorf.[/p]
• [p]The number of gatherable Warpstone locations in the Warpstone Rain Event and the Warpstone Deluge Event has been considerably increased, and the rate at which these locations respawn has been increased.[/p]
• [p]The Boon of Slaanesh Event has been improved with an increase in Resource nodes and their respawn rates throughout the event. More consistently higher-level resources will also now be available during this Event.[/p]

[p]Bug Fixes[/p]

• [p]Fixed the incorrect icon for Construction in Champion Skills.[/p]
• [p]Fixed region relocate restrictions not appearing in the Relocate panel.[/p]
• [p]Fixed some stats not being grouped correctly for a simpler display.[/p]
• [p]Fixed defending Warlord not displaying in the War Camp troops breakdown pop-up.[/p]

New Feature - Warhost Raids
Raids are a new type of enemy that will appear on the World Map. These enemies will appear larger on the World Map, typically filling a 3x3 area.

These are Alliance exclusive locations, which when defeated, can yield new rewards and loot.

The first of the Warhost Raids, in which prides of Frenzied Manticores soaring from the World’s Edge Mountains attack the Old World in the Manticore Rampage event.

Additional Structure Levels

Seven structures have had their maximum level increased from 35 to 38. These are:

• Watch Tower
  
• Drinking Hole
  
• War Council
  
• Temple of Khorne
  
• Temple of Nurgle
  
• Temple of Tzeentch
  
• Temple of Slaanesh
  

Each of these structures has had new objectives added for these 3 new levels.

Additional Loadouts
2 new Equipment and 2 new March Loadouts are now available, they can be researched from the Mastery Tree.

New Rituals
The following new Rituals have been added to the Mastery Ritual Tree:

• Equipment Loadout V
  
• Equipment Loadout VI
  
• March Formation V
  
• March Formation VI
  

Each of these Rituals has had a new objective added.

New Craftable Item

The Tusk Amulet has been added to the game.
To craft this new item, you’ll need to obtain Manticore Tusks from Manticore Raids.

Daily Trials
Daily Trial rewards have been rotated, to now give Ilthmar Shards and Azazel Shards as a reward for completing 18 Daily Trials

Event Improvements
A number of Events have had their Leaderboards and Rewards adjusted.