Tales And Tactics News

Gourmand's bonus Attack after eating the donut now deals triple damage (from double).

Torque's skill has been changed: Torque now heals for 150 and the cone deals 75 Spell Damage and Ignites for 4 seconds. Spell Power scaling changed to the healing and damage rather than scaling the Ignite duration. This should make Torque slightly more of a generalist rather than depending entirely on Ignite.

Baa'lor summons now enter combat with 500 Shield base (from 400).

Oakengard's skill now heals itself and adjacent allies for 150 (from 120).

Willow's final burst while casting now deals 300 Spell Damage (from 200).

Lurch is now a genius and smartly targets as many foes as possible every time. (This is a sizable buff despite not changing any numbers!)

Deadhead now deals 250 Spell damage (from 220).

Ragno now casts on itself if no other allies are available. Shield granted increased to 200 (from 150).

Button spores now deal 100 Spell Damage per hit (from 70).

Mawrice now gains an extra +20 Attack Speed while buffed.

Teak shield explosions now deal 200% of Teak's Attack Damage (from 150%).

Sir Sparkles now heals for 55 Health per second (from 50). Since it hits two targets for a duration on each, this is still a sizable buff.

Ivy's Stumpy summon now inherits Ivy's Tier! Go forth, Stumpy enthusiasts, and may the Tier 4 Stumpies be plentiful!

Morita physical damage dealt increased to 175% of Attack Damage (from 150). Spell Damage dealt on collision increased to 175 (from 150).

Zwei max mana reduced to 40 (from 50). This should make getting extra stacks of Life Ender Blade more achievable.

Tinker Mana changed to 60/75 (was 80/100).

Volcanus spin attacks now deal 85% Attack Damage (from 75).

Sanctus now heals for 170 (from 150).

Tidus' main Tidal Wave now deals 200 Spell Damage (from 150).
Porcino's Arrow now deals 160 Spell Damage (from 120).

Skul's Shield Bash damage increased to 120 (was 100).

Fritz Mana changed to 45/90 (was 55/100).

Corvid's Knives embedded in the target now detonate for 90 Spell Damage (was 70).

Deshret Mana changed to 60/120 (was 80/140).

Rime Spell Damage increased to 180 (from 150). Stun duration increased to 1.25 seconds (from 1 second).

Shelly Max Mana now 60 (from 75).

Noctus no longer Stifles all foes for 3 seconds when casting - instead applies Stifle on-hit with the skill.

Uro has been heavily nerfed. Self heal percentage and damage over time both reduced to 2.5% max Health (from 4%).

Additional casts of Wolfgang's rush after transforming now cost 130 Mana (from 90).

Glitter now deals 280 Spell Damage to foes returning from sheepification (from 300).

Demon now grants 10% Damage Amp to all Demons in addition to its previous effects.

Healer II Shrine now gains 70% of the team's healed Health in Charge (from 80%).

Marksman I's Dummy now gains Max HP at the start of combat rather than a Shield, making it easier to gauge the current status of your Dummy.

Marksman II has been reworked. Now grants all Marksmen +3 Attack Range and causes them to retarget to the highest damage foe every 3 seconds while firing the same powerful shot. This should cement their status as focus firing squadrons that can absolutely take down enemy carries.

Orb of Everything changed. Now grants +10% Lifesteal, Damage Amp and Damage Resist, as well as immunity to Hobble, Shred, Stifle and Ignite.

New Item on offer in the Oasis Merchant event: Ponderer's Stone. Discover it yourself in the Oasis in your next run!

Vex's skill duration properly reduced to 4 seconds. The previous nerf had not actually reduced Vex's duration. We'll still continue to keep an eye on Vex after this update, but we didn't want to add a nerf onto a nerf that hadn't taken place yet.

Shock Pendant buffed, 6% -> 8% Max HP damage

Edan's Blade buffed, 15% -> 20% Damage Amp

Vanguard's Helm buffed, 10 -> 15 flat damage reduction

Magicannon buffed, 20 -> 25 damage on hit

Cleaver buffed, 2.5% -> 3% attack damage / HP

Mallet of Mashing nerfed, 10% -> 5% Max HP damage

All Ignite sources buffed, 1.5% -> 2% max HP damage

Demon Trait numbers adjusted, 50 Attack Speed 75 Spell Power -> 40 Attack Speed 50 Spell Power

Vex nerfed by way of Shaman II change - now only affects Stun and Sheep effects rather than all crowd control (this was the original intent, and why Vex received a stun in the first place)

Bug 2 now causes the Swarm to deal aoe magic damage over time rather than gaining bonus stats when the Swarm moves.

Brawler 2 Stomp reduced to 3% (from 4%) max HP damage.

Dweller 1 Damage Resist reduced to 10% (from 15%).

Elemental now grants a small flat health bonus to Elementals in addition to its current effect.

Fixed an issue where Ragno wasn't triggering on-cast procs such as Wand of Missiles.

Fixed an issue where some ranged Legends would be placed in the frontline when facing opponents in PVP.

Fixed an issue where the Triple Wielding perk wasn't granting its stats.

Redeployed Update 22 with an exploit resolved, and with additional bug fixes:

Fixed an issue where Enlightened Gourmand was gaining triple the (non-permanent) Maximum Health each cast.

Fixed an issue where Item Icons would duplicate at various times, particularly when merging Component Items.

Fixed an issue where Devil's Deals with Museum Curator or Tabletop Tactician combat modifiers would have more or less units than intended, leading to more difficult or easy fights. (Fix failed from a previous update.)

Fixed an issue where Trollgar could spawn Shadow Clones when in non-Boss encounters where that effect wasn't supposed to be active.

Fixed a longstanding issue where the Twin Primes Specialization perk did nothing.

Fixed an issue where sharing Divine Blessings with the Ascension perk wasn't functioning.

Added safeguards to prevent an issue where Match Card Events could be skipped after loading the game.

Fixed a longstanding issue where River could sometimes grant her Army a Trait they already had in the Rival combat.

Fixed multiple issues where units could become stuck on the Mouse Cursor when alt-tabbing.

Vex debuff duration reduced to 4 seconds (from 5)

Shaman II duration modifier reduced to 50% (from 100%)

Crosby skill damage reduced to 275 (from 300)

4 more Tiers have been added, specifically for use with various Tier-break items and effects. Go wild with your Moon Blessing'd Double-Royal Dragon.

Fixed an exploit in Ranked PVP involving rating losses.

Fixed a rare specific AI logic bug issue that would occur if there is only one allied unit and one enemy unit left on the board, which could cause both Units to not consider each other valid, softlocking the fight.

Added text to the Ritual Dagger for the Blood trait to clarify the Unit must be in play in order to be sacrificed (as you can technically Prepare a Unit, then Bench it, but this stops the sacrifice from working)

Fixed PVP Elvish Empowerment stating the wrong stats in the tooltip when hovering the hex itself.

Blook now secretly clears crowd control on arrival and prevents crowd control to the possessed Unit, which very rarely happened anyway but could result in some odd AI behavior.

Fixed CC cleanse effects not clearing Taunt.

Fixed Slogurk's Crystal passive (mana on cast) when combined with the Scare Tactics ability granting mana regen to its skill target, not itself.

Fixed Slogurk not gaining benefits from the Elemental trait when one of its core selected Traits was Elemental

Removed an old restriction that fully prevented you from starting a fight if you have no Units, as this could technically softlock if you spend all SP without buying a unit.

Fixed a rare issue when loading a run while a unit is equipped with the Cloning Capsule that could cause the capsule to trigger during the load and generate a new unit.

Fixed an issue where Trollgar (boss form) could create more illusion clones than intended.

Fixed a PVP-related issue where if you played against an opponent with +1 item slots, all future opponents would have the UI for 4 item slots (though would not utilize them, as this was a loading display issue only, not resetting the unit slots back to 3 after that fight)

Fixed Run History not loading Ranked run state properly (said all PVP runs were Unranked)

Fixed Lodestones counting towards 'item power' army total calculations

Fixed Tier 6 units not counting towards 'unit power' army total calculations

Re-fixed Devil's Deals with Museum Curator / Tabletop Tactician cancelling their army size modifier.

Fixed Cosmic Matter causing Tier Ups beyond 4. Only the Moon Blessing specifically calls out the ability to do this.

Added a safeguard to auto-release a Unit if the user left clicks while a Unit is already in hand. This should be impossible, but we've seen a handful of rare reports that it can happen. Seems to possibly be related to leaving the game window while a unit is in hand.

Fixed Privileged Position not adding the extra bonus units to the pool as it said it did.

Additional Chinese localization polish

Fixed a major issue where the rewards granted from Champions would be the rewards of the Champion you didn't choose. This also led to potentially having the same Champion as a Rival and an Ally, causing further issues later on.

Fester's healing per second reduced to 4% (from 5%). Fester's skill has been noted by many players as an outlier among the Common units. By offering Damage Reduction, healing and AOE it covers more bases than most - reducing the self-heal should make Fester need a bit more itemization.

Pyro Kit damage and Shield reduced to 20% (from 25%). Small tap to Tactican tier strategies focusing on max-HP payoffs; generally speaking, Max HP values are higher than when Pyro Kit was set to its 25% values.

Fixed an issue where Compendium Trait entries would display sources of bonus Trait pips from your previous runs in the same session.

Fixed an issue where the original copy of items duplicated by the Blood trait would disappear after being used.

Potential fix for an issue where spamming things that can summon the Speech Bubble rapidly could break the Speech Bubble for the rest of the session.

Potential fix for the rare issue where the 'flyer rod' piece appears on non-flying units.

Fixed an issue where your PVP Combat Modifier wouldn't update when loading back into the game to reflect increases to Army Size and Store Rarity.

Fixed an issue where it was possible to duplicate items with certain Slogurk setups.

Fixed an issue where Xanatos was not gaining the intended Mana when slaying a foe with his Skill.

PVP combats will no longer send to the server or load if they had 2 fewer units than the maximum Army Size.

Fixed a typo with the Infusion perk stating it granted less Mana Regen than intended.

Fixed Gale's skill description not triggering the keyword for On Hit

Not sure how one report showed a die result of 0, but added as a safeguard should that ever happen.

Fixed Summoning Shard not properly interacting with a transformed Morphling

Fixed Trait tooltips potentially bleeding past the bottom edge of the screen, for larger Trait tooltips that happen to be at the bottom of the left-side Trait list.

Fixed an exploit related to Skull of Hedra and running duplicate units

Fixed the Geogukk statue not being right-clickable to preview stats

Fixed Xanatos not creating floating damage numbers

Potential fix for a rare 'lost my Hydra snack' issue.

Fixed Hydra Snacks not having item icons, and were just using the Hydra's character icon (which caused it to have a white background when hovered)

Fixed Hydra missing all VFX attachment point sockets

Clarified Wolfgang's text that he rushes to his skill target even when already transformed (effectively a jump). Adjusted Wolfgang's skill visuals to help clarify this mechanic with a slightly altered animation which has him running for a few frames, and an animated trail towards where he came from when moving far distances.

Fixed an issue where the Weavery (extra enemy banners) challenge climb modifier did not affect the first 2 combats of Act 2 and 3, resulting in those acts being easier than intended in Challenge Climb.

Skeleton revival no longer counts as Healing for purposes of floating numbers, combat recap, Healer trait effects, etc.

Champion Tales now display their rewards at the champion choice phase, rather than only after choosing a champion.

Fixed most Ignite effects not tracking to the Combat Recap

Fixed Engineer Turret being listed as Uncategorized in the recap.

Fixed Potion Belt giving 1 more potion than listed.

Fixed some minor visual issues on the Factory board - one piece in the back of the table not masking during act transitions, and some of the pieces that travel on the conveyor being too metallic (too shiny)

Fixed UI wrap issue with the Hat panel within the Compendium

Fixed a minor visual issue that could let the Engineer turret keep its supercharge visual across multiple combats/runs, even if the turret is not spawned

Fixed Triple Wielding not triggering on items added mid-combat (such as Blood trait)

Fixed Stifled VFX fading after 20 seconds, even if the Stifle effect is still ongoing (only really seen in the Order Templar fight)

Fixed being able to click and drag units while viewing the Combat Recap

Fixed Champigno's turret damage being listed in the recap as "Skill Bonus Damage", now clearly states Turret Damage.

Leader War Banner renamed to 'Leader Heart', and no longer adds a 'Leader Trait' which doesn't actually have any effect. This was a remnant of an older design that was only acting as a text reminder - it wasn't removed when Arbiter was in play, for example.

Chester can no longer eat Leader Heart or Boss Heart items. Chester starting mana removed (was 25).

Fixed the Sword variant of Slogurk not stating the Sword in inherited 75% of stats, not 100% (it has always been 75% in practice and Sword Slogurk has been doing fine)

Fixed the Breakdance effect sometimes causing units not to resume their normal AI after breakdancing.

Re-fixed Mythics not instantly gaining their overhead traits updated when gaining Into the Best (accidentally broke when fixing the Mythic Banner case)

Fixed an issue where the Factory Furnace Act Modifier was granting a percentage-based boost to Attack Speed rather than a flat amount, which could cause units to spike in Attack Speed.

Fixed two different issues with the Face Painter specialization: only one unit transforming each combat, and units that had transformed once not being able to transform unless moved out and into the hex again.

Fixed an issue where Units promoted to Tier 4 via Cosmic Matter would still appear in the Unit Store rather than being Banished.

Fixed an issue where Gorbin and Xanatos wouldn't visually gain Shields when Shielded.

Fixed an issue where the Toxic Infusion hex would fail to appear in some circumstances in PVP.

Fixed issues with the game breaking if Oogoo somehow died while attached via an 'instant death' effect such as the Seed of Corruption.

Fixed an issue where Oogoo wouldn't be able to summon units via effects such as Emergency Chicken or Seed of Corruption.

Fixed an issue where a few icons for rewards in certain Events would never be marked as seen, even after obtaining the corresponding content.

Fixed an issue where Barq clones were still triggering on-death and on-kill effects.

Fixed an issue where it became impossible to view Trait information if the settings were such that the Trait sidebar was always shown and Trait details appeared on hover.

Fixed an issue where Gargoyles in the Monock boss encounter could leap into units that were summoned via the Star Crown item.

Fixed an issue where, if you changed your Options Menu settings from Highest Challenge Level to Vanilla for Instant Start, the game would launch into a bugged state when using Instant Start in that session.

Fixed an issue where, in some cases, it was possible to get multiple procs of Hothead in PVP.

Fixed a performance issue related to Dwellers that would only appear if you hovered the Geogukk statue for a lengthy amount of time.

Fixed slightly awkward hitbox on 'equip' buttons in Hats panel

Fixed some War Banner icons not rendering their trait icon correctly in some cases, showing as a black hexagon

Fixed a case of being able to get traits into a desync'd state, particularly when using Mythic War Banner and a duplicate in-play of the Unit who has that item.

Fixed Tier 6 units having incorrect sell value

Updated Tainted banner layer to be more visible, especially on the Tainted horror banner (purple on purple)