New Units: Howler & Sunfang

Expected patch release: June 12 (Pacific Time)

News & Updates
- Check out Lisk's Developer AMA and Jules' Gameplay & Balance AMA from this past month! These AMA ("ask-me-anything") events are run every month, so keep an eye on reddit for the next ones.
- Nekomata Cup: June 10-11. The first-ever tournament tailored for players in Asia, Oceania, Europe and Africa!
- Next Nova Cup: June 24-25
- Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 Esports Portal.

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[h2]New Unit: Howler[/h2]

Howler Stats

• Tier 2 (Cost: 35g)
  
• Role: Versatile
  
• Melee / Pierce / Natural
  
• Wolf Pack: Each attack applies a stack of Wolf Prey for 3 seconds (stacking up to 10 times). Deals 6% (3% to bosses) bonus damage for each stack of Wolf Prey on its attack target.
  

[h2]New Unit: Sunfang[/h2]

Sunfang Stats

• Tier 2 Upgrade (Cost: 160g)
  
• Role: Versatile
  
• Melee / Pierce / Natural
  
• Wolf Pack: Each attack applies a stack of Wolf Prey for 3 seconds (stacking up to 10 times). Deals 6% (3% to bosses) bonus damage for each stack of Wolf Prey on its attack target.
  

[h2]New Feature: First Purchase Bonus[/h2]

Starting this patch, the first time you purchase each premium essence bundle, you get a big chunk of premium essence for FREE!

Every premium essence purchase goes towards supporting the game’s continued development. Thank you to everyone who continues to support the game. Without your support, the game would not be where it is today.

P.S. Remember to enter a creator code for 10% bonus premium essence! (and supporting a creator in the process!)

[h2]New Unlockables[/h2]

Cool off from the summer heat with three new summery skins, including one more honorable mention from the community skin competition!

[h3]New Skin: Beach Party Cannoneer[/h3]
Original concept by Drachir

[h3]New Skin: Tropical Imp[/h3]


[h3]New Skin: Cryo Fire Lord[/h3]


[h3]New Cards: Campaign, King, and Worker Cards[/h3]

Introducing new collectible cards for the 14 campaign opponents as well as Earth King, Sky King, and Worker!
- These are standard (non-secret) cards with legendary rarity
- These cards are only obtainable via the Card Trader (they cannot be found in-game)



[h3]General[/h3]

Haste (4v4 Dual Building)
- Attack speed bonus to enemies: 2% → 3%
- AOE reduction for enemies: 45% → 47.5%. This nerf also affects Hades’ Necromancy.

Dual building is too strong when mastered and is currently a point of frustration.

King
- Upgrade Regen: 0.005% → 0.006%

Right now if your king takes too much damage, upgrading regen often seals your fate by giving up too much pressure. A regen buff makes recover + scale a viable alternative.

[h3]Legion Spells[/h3]

Counterattack
- Mythium gained: 50 → 55
- Mythium gained per leak: 50 → 55

Low win rate and very low pick rate.

Divine Blessing
- Health: 2150 → 2000

High win rate and pick rate.

[h3]Fighters[/h3]

Bone Warrior
- Health: 100 → 140

Bringing back Bone Warrior as an off-tank in the early game.

Dark Mage
- Damage: 34 → 32

Shifting power from Dark Mage to Bone Warrior.

Chained Fist
- Health: 210 → 220

More cheap unit buffs.

Pack Rat
- Health: 620 → 640

Low win rate.

Gargoyle
- Health: 270 → 280
- Attack speed: 0.89 → 0.91

Gargoyle promotes aggressive early game plays, which is a fun and interesting strategy. It was over-nerfed back when cheap unit spam was overpowered.

Harpy / Sky Queen
- Attack speed: 1.49 → 1.46

High win rate.

Angler
- Health: 420 → 380
- Damage: 19 → 17

High win rate. Nerfing Angler in the early game. Mid and late game, where Angler doesn't rely as much on its stats, it will be similarly viable.

Rogue Wave
- Delusion: ability damage amplification: 16% → 20%

Fire Elemental
- Attack speed: 0.806 → 0.82

Low win rate and pick rate.

Slime Siren
- Attack speed: 1.37 → 1.34

High win rate.

Nekomata
- Attack speed: 1.03 → 1.05

Low win rate. After the Slime Siren nerf and Nekomata and Gargoyle buffs, all the arcane tanks should be in a reasonably balanced spot.

Chloropixie
- Damage: 46 → 49
- Mythium gained: 6 → 5

Stronger when used as DPS, but weaker when used as fodder or in a split. Encouraging smarter use of Chloropixie.

Sakura
- Attack speed: 1.14 → 1.12

Shifting power from Sakura to Chloropixie.

Violet
- Mana regeneration increased by 5%

Slightly low win rate and pick rate.

Eternal Wanderer / Samurai Soul
- Attack speed: 0.83 → 0.85

Low pick rate.

Sea Serpent
- Health: 660 → 680

Deepcoiler
- Health: 2010 → 2070

Very low pick rate.

Radiant Halo / Arc of Justice
- Attack speed: 1.15 → 1.13

High win rate.

Gatling Gun / Vulcan Cannon
- Attack speed: 2.2 → 2.17

High win rate. Partially reverting last patch’s buff.

Banana Bunk
- Damage: 65 → 68
- Barbs: Damage reflect: 15 + 10% → 13 + 10%

High win rate. Shifting power from the ability to autoattack damage to make it more consistent with Banana Haven. Still an overall nerf.

Gateguard / Harbinger / Lord of Death / Hades / Shadow Dancer / Dread Knight
- After a summoned unit has been alive for 50 seconds, it starts degenerating 10% max health per second

Weaker when holding for teammates, which was a point of frustration.

[h3]Mercenaries[/h3]

Witch
- Attack speed: 1.43 → 1.35

Still the top performing mercenary.

[h3]Waves[/h3]

Wave 6 (Rockos)
Damage: 40 → 37
- Impale reworked
— Old: Each attack has a 25% chance to deal 150% damage
— New: Each attack amplifies damage by 3% (1.5% to the king), stacking up to 10 times

This removes rng from the ability, rewards having multiple units partially tank, and incentivizes cheaper units in the early game.

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

• Treant + upgrades
  
• Grarl + upgrades
  
• Eggsack
  
• Cartel

[h3]New Mouse Cursor[/h3]

Long overdue, the mouse cursor has received a modern refresh!

[h2]Improvements[/h2]

• Emotes: Added a clickable button to use emotes. We’re still gathering feedback and will likely make other improvements to the emotes system in the future. (Screenshot)
  
• Game Coach: Added the “Randomize Every Game” option in the Shop > Game Coach tab
  
• Matchmaking: Improved match fairness for players with less than 10 ranked games in the current season. For such players, it will take into account last season’s peak Elo. This should greatly improve match fairness at the start of seasons, as well as for players who are returning from a break and starting the season a bit late.
  
• Creditor: Earned gold message now displays “MAX” if you earned max gold (Screenshot) and a percentage if you earned less than max
  
• Postgame Builds: Mousing over a unit icon now shows the unit name

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

• King Upgrades: Fixed a bug where a queued king upgrade wouldn’t go through if you hit 20 mythium just before the wave started (Credits to Kidev)
  
• Parties: Fixed a bug where a party invite from a friend in another player’s party would display the invite from the party owner, instead of the friend
  
• Cards: Fixed a bug where Game Coach cards were not able to be donated or sold
  
• Nekomata: Fixed a bug where the max stacks re-texture wasn’t showing up

[h2]Known Bugs[/h2]

• Currently investigating a bug from last patch where the main menu background wrongly shows up in-game, preventing player actions.

This weekend (June 10-11) is the Nekomata Cup! It's like the Nova Cup, but a new time schedule friendlier for Asia/Australia/African players, as well as European players!

Sign-up is FREE! Tune in to http://twitch.tv/ltd2 for casting by Shadowings on the days of the event.



With this update, we are excited to introduce new doggos to the game . These units should be easier-to-use compared to some of the other recent new units, while still offering interesting strategies.

We're also excited to introduce the First Purchase Bonus to encourage more people to support the game's development; even if it's just a one-time purchase, every purchase really does help.

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

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