v12.01 Major Update

Expected patch release: Monday, February 10 (Pacific Time)

[h3]News[/h3]

• Check out Lisk's Game Dev AMA and Jules' Gameplay & Balance AMA from this past month
  
• Next Nova Cup is February 22-23! Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 Esports Portal.

[h3]New Team Member: Trik[/h3]
Please welcome Trik from Chile to the team! He will be helping with art and creative work. He modeled a number of units you know and love, including Earth King, Metal Dragon, MPS, and Berserker, and more recently, he did the art for Saboteur and Abyssal Templar. You can check out some of his previous work here. Trik's favorite game is Chrono Trigger, and some of his hobbies include D&D, playing drums, and listening to music.


[h3]New Team Member: Drachir[/h3]
Please welcome Drachir from Germany to the team! He will be helping with engineering and design. Many of you will recognize Drachir from watching Nova Cup, reading our Top 10 Players of All Time, or getting beat by him seeing him in game. He's also the creator of Drachbot! His favorite games (other than Legion, of course) include Cyberpunk and the Gothic trilogy, and he's hit top ranks in most of the games he's played.

[h3]New Legion Spell: Black Market[/h3]

Black Market
Gain 58 income after Wave 13

The ultimate scaling spell! Also known as the Lose By Wave 13 button

[h3]New Secret Card: Send Help Plz[/h3]



Consider building fighters to defeat the enemy wave.

[h3]Monthly In-Game Reward Code[/h3]

• Enter in the ultra-secret code incomeandchill to unlock some free Essence in-game!
  
• Each month, a new code will be revealed right here in the patch notes.
  
• Codes are only valid during the month they are announced.
  
• For this month's code, please wait until the patch releases next week on Monday. For future patches, you can enter the code as soon as you see it

This is our small way of saying thank you to players who take the time to read patch notes and stay engaged with the community.

Here’s how to enter a code in-game:



[h3]Reminder: Link your Discord Account[/h3]



Link your in-game account to your Discord account to show off your hard-earned ranked badge! Simply type /rank in the Legion TD 2 Discord to begin the linking process. As a reward, you’ll receive 500 Premium Essence the first time you link your account.



Read more about our design philosophy on game balance, and use Drachbot to see mastermind, unit, and spell win rates and pick rates!

[h3]Systems[/h3]

Leak Gold
Leaking is now ~20% economically less punishing from waves 2-8 by and ~20% more punishing from waves 10-21

These changes encourage workers and risk-taking in the early game and non-lethal undercutting in the late game

Pathing and targeting

• Fixed some cases where mercenaries would unexpectedly path in the wrong direction.
  
• Fixed some cases where Sea Serpent and Deepcoiler would unexpectedly be targeted after ranged units that were further away.

[h3]Masterminds[/h3]

Fiesta
Gold from leaking reduced by 1 on all waves

This offsets the changes to leak gold, which are an indirect buff to Fiesta.

Kingsguard
Attack speed and damage reduction: 11% → 10%

High win rate.

Saboteur
7 income → 6 income and 3 gold

High pick rate and win rate. In addition to being a nerf, this gives us a better lever to balance Saboteur.

[h3]Legion Spells[/h3]

All Out Assault
Mythium: 125 → 120

Counterattack
Mythium: 65 → 60

Press the Attack
Mythium: 85 → 80

High win rates.

Pulverizer
Stun duration to non-bosses: 2.2 → 2.5

Very low pick rate and slightly low win rate.

Vampire
Lifesteal and spell vamp: 26% → 28%

Low pick rate and win rate.

Creditor / Embargo / Venture
Now have more accurate power score adjustments on waves 12 and 13 both to reflect their potential power and to better conceal legion spell selection.

[h3]Fighters[/h3]

Seedling
Attack speed: 1 → 0.91

The first balance change Seedling has received since its release almost 3 years ago! Seedling is over-statted, enabling players to do some unreasonable things on waves 1-5.

Chloropixie
Damage: 50 → 51

Shifting power from Seedling to Chloropixie.

Sakura

• Health: 1350 → 1390
  
• Damage: 98 → 104
  
• Superbloom: Health: 110 → 80
  
• Superbloom: Damage: 8 → 6
  
• Superbloom: Stacks on waves 11+: Doubled → Tripled

Shifting power budget from the opening to later in the game.


Angler / Bounty Hunter
Mana values changed to nerf Angler and Bounty Hunter’s synergy with external mana sources (e.g. Steed) by 20%. No other effective changes.

Slime Siren

• Attack speed: 1.3 → 1.2
  
• Mana gained when attacking increased by 56%
  
• No longer gains mana when attacked
  
• Max mana: 16 → 15

It’s now easier to reach max mana, particularly in the mid and late game, at the expense of reduced stats.

Ranger
Accuracy: Bonus damage to bosses: 5 → 6

Daphne
Precision: Bonus damage to bosses: 15 → 18

Low pick rate and win rate.

Tempest / Leviathan
Attack speed: 1.053 → 1.026

High win rate. Sorry Lucy!

Pirate Skeleton
Attack speed: 0.82 → 0.833

Reverting last patch’s nerf to Pirate Skeleton. Compensation buff because the two strongest Pirate Skeleton openings (Spectral Scallywag and Eggsack) are nerfed.

Spectral Scallywag

• Health: 2480 → 2400
  
• Damage: 124 → 120
  
• Attack speed: 0.82 → 0.833

High pick rate and slightly high win rate.

Tree of Knowledge

• Mana gained when attacking increased by 25%
  
• No longer gain mana when attacked

Gaining mana when attacked was situationally advantageous, particularly in the early game and against swarm waves, but this wasn’t an interesting point of strategic choice. Power neutral change.

Crab Warlock
Now less likely to be rolled in Diamond or lower games. Games above Diamond are unaffected.

Crab Warlock is underperforming in high-rated games, but overperforming in low-rated games. Our general philosophy is to balance for high-rated games, but Crab Warlock has become a point of frustration that we feel is important to address.

Tips to beat Crab Warlocks:

• Send big. When in doubt, save mythium for an extra wave.
  
• Send DPS mercenaries, not tanks. Brute, Imps, Pack Leader, Ogre, Witch, and Centaur, depending on the rest of their build.
  
• Any wave can work, but wave 16 is your best friend.

Butcher / Head Chef
Attack speed: 0.99 → 1.03

Low pick rate and win rate.

Grarl
Health: 1310 → 1340

This brings back the strategy of Grarl on 1 → Grarl on 2 → Delicacy on 3. Compensation buff because the strongest Grarl opening (Eggsack) is nerfed.

Soul Gate / Hell Gate

• Spawn health increased by 18%
  
• Spawn DPS decreased by 18%

These changes make Soul Gate and Hell Gate less reliant on tanks.

Eggsack
Azurite shell: Damage: 10 → 8

Now easier to break Eggsack on waves 2 and 3. It’s now recommended to “sack” your Eggack (let it die) on wave 2 or 3 if your opponent is saving mythium against you.

Hydra

• Health: 1860 → 1920
  
• Damage: 120 → 123
  
• Hydraling: Health: 620 → 640
  
• Hydraling: Damage: 40 → 41

Shifting power budget from the opening to later in the game.

Crawling Catapult
Damage: 145 → 150

Wandering Trebuchet
Damage: 373 → 386

Very low pick rate.

Holy Avenger / Sovereign

• No longer gain mana when attacked (0.09 / 0.162)
  
• Mana gained when attacking increased by 57% (1.6 / 2.88)

Now reaches max mana faster. Slightly low pick rate and win rate.

Firelord / Fenix

• Fixed a bug where Molden Shield and Prismatic Shield didn’t block damage from the 1st attack
  
• Fixed a bug where Molten Shield and Prismatic Shield were unintentionally capped (only affected Legion King on waves 21+)
  
• Health decreased by 2% as a compensation nerf for the above fixes

[h3]Mercenaries[/h3]

Brute

• Damage: 55 → 52
  
• Maul: Attack speed slow: 4% → 15%
  
• Maul: Stacks 6 times → Does not stack

Brute is now stronger on its own and against big targets, but weaker when spammed and against small targets.

Imp

• Health: 750 → 740
  
• Attack speed: 1.07 → 1.06

Slightly high usage rate and win rate.

Honey Bear

• Damage: 106 → 110
  
• Base heal: 650 → 850
  
• Heal increase per unit healed: 20% → 5%

Less of a hard-counter to AOE, especially on swarm waves. More versatile and less FeelsBad when you get a DPS bear.

Four Eyes
Attack speed: 2.17 → 2.22

Slightly low win rate.

Shaman

• Attack speed: 1.3 --> 1.25
  
• Blood Rush: 30 damage + 10% attack speed → 50 damage + 20% attack speed
  
• Blood Rush: Attack speed: Additive → Multiplicative
  
• Blood Rush: Mana cost: 3 → 8

Solidifying Shaman’s identity as a boss-buffer. Stronger on boss waves and with big mercenaries like Needler. Weaker otherwise.

Needler
Damage: 129 → 132

Slightly low usage rate and win rate.

[h3]Waves[/h3]

Wave 8: Kobras
Attack speed: 1.54 → 1.55

Wave 9: Carapaces
Attack speed: 1.53 → 1.5

Wave 10: Granddaddy
Attack speed: 3.64 → 3.67

Shifting power from wave 9 to waves 8 and 10.


[h3]Balance Watchlist[/h3]
The dev team is constantly monitoring game balance, between looking at data and listening to community feedback. If anything is being more closely monitored than usual, it will be listed in this Balance Watchlist section. For this patch, the following are on the watchlist:

• Potentially strong: Sea Serpent, Aqua Spirit
  
• Potentially weak: Elite Archer, Yozora
  
• Early game all-in strategies

[h3]Classic[/h3]

• Mini & Wumbo: Villain and Divine Blessing replaced with Protector and Guardian Angel. Villain was rarely picked, and Divine Blessing was too strong.
  
• Mini & Wumbo and Superhero: Fixed a bug where stacking multiple Divine Blessings or Hero buffs didn’t properly stack attack speed

[h3]Minor Updates[/h3]

• Classic Schedule: Improved UI
  
• Newly Upgraded Fighters: Fixed a bug where upgrading from Masked Spirit → False Maiden → Hell Raiser, or Angler → Bounty Hunter → Kingpin in the same wave didn’t properly allow you to downgrade both upgrades
  
• Guild War: Now starts 2 hours earlier, to better accommodate East Asia and Oceania
  
• Mini & Wumbo: Fixed a bug where mastery points weren’t being earned.
  
• Mini & Wumbo: Fixed a bug where upgrade costs were displaying the total gold value instead of the upgrade cost
  
• HUD: You can now right-click the purple king upgrade button to say “wants to upgrade the king” - this is particularly useful when playing Saboteur or in other situations where king upgrades are disabled
  
• Weekly Quests: Fixed a bug where Play Double Lock-In was mistakenly still given as a quest for some people
  
• Saboteur: Fixed another case where a takeover bot could mistakenly still upgrade king for a player who picked Saboteur/Embargo
  
• Match History/Sandbox: Fixed a bug where using -load to load a build from match history didn’t properly load rolls in sandbox

[h3]Game Translations[/h3]


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This patch introduces a new legion spell, addresses some pain points with Angler and Crab Warlock, and shakes up the meta with changes to leak gold!

As always, with any major patch, we'll keep a close eye on things and rapidly hotfix as long as needed.

Thank you again for playing Legion TD 2! We hope you continue to enjoy the game.

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If you have constructive criticism, let's chat about it. Discord and /r/LegionTD2 on reddit are our main channels of communication, and aside from the development team, there are community helpers who can ensure your feedback is heard, as well as answer pretty much anything you've ever wanted to know about the game. If you want a guaranteed answer from the devs, the monthly AMAs on /r/LegionTD2 are your best bet.

Sincerely,
The Legion TD 2 Team