Legion TD 2 News

This post will be updated with November hotfixes, with the most recent at the top.

(January 13)

Balance

Crawling Catapult
Damage: 140 --> 145

Wandering Trebuchet
Damage: 360 --> 373

Slightly underperforming.

Redraw (classic-only)
Redraw gold cost increased by 30% on average

In classic, masterminds like Redraw that give you easier access to certain units and combos are too strong.

Double Lock-In (classic-only)
Now disabled

Double Lock-In is heavily nerfed (-2 income and -50 gold) but still causes issues with build variety, so we’re disabling it from classic.

Recommended Fighter Value
Increased slightly to account for mercenary buffs in recent patches

Balance Watchlist
Saboteur

Fixes & Tweaks
- Saboteur: Fixed takeover bots mistakenly being able to upgrade King when the player had picked Saboteur. Similar fix for Embargo.
- Classic: Fixed an issue where the Classic voting screen was auto-closed too quickly in some cases (PvE and TD modes)
- Mini & Wumbo: Fixed matches not being canceled if players didn't build/train workers on the first wave
- Matchmaking: Slightly improved some Classic matchmaking cases (now better compensates for season reset when considering ranked rating)
- Megamind: Improved Megamind graphics (and no longer lags the game)
- Megamind: Fixed a rare bug where you could trick the UI into allowing you to redo your Megamind roll if you rolled Lock-In or Double Lock-In
- Stability: Fixed some long-standing cases of the lobby locking up and players failing to connect (until Dani or I intervene)

(January 8)

Mini & Wumbo
- Fixed various bugs
- Removed Titan, since most units didn't have enough room to display all the spells
- Disabled Champion, since it wasn't compatible

(January 7)

Balance

Crawling Catapult
- Health: 2100 --> 1800
- Damage: 132 --> 140
- Projectile speed increased by 20%
- Fixed a bug where it wasn't properly classified as a tier 6 unit

Wandering Trebuchet
- Health: 5410 --> 4630
- Damage: 340 --> 360
- Projectile speed increased by 20%

Solidifying their identity as DPS units

Fixes
- Mini & Wumbo: Fixed a major bug where reconnecting after the starting wave didn't prompt you to select a Mastermind
- Mini & Wumbo: Fixed a bug where gold costs were displaying incorrectly on the starting wave
- Mini & Wumbo: Fixed a rare bug where selecting Lock-In during a very small time window resulted in your rolls staying as your original rolls
- 1v1: Fixed a bug where you couldn't -ff in the battle phase
- 1v1: Fixed a bug where Spread the Wealth mistakenly showed up
- 1v1: Fixed a bug where if both players played Chaos, they got the same rolls
- Giga Mercs: Fixed a bug where reconnecting mistakenly restricted you to hiring 8x of each mercenary type

Now that the 2024 Season has officially ended, we wanted to congratulate the very best players of Legion TD 2. Below is the Top 100 Ladder Points leaderboard:

These are the players who performed consistently well throughout the 2024 Season, dominating their competition and fighting to not only reach the top, but stay at the top all year long.

An extra special shout out to the Top 10 finishers!

1. FC Lucy
2. Aatrocity
3. Pzig42
4. SagittariusA
5. Drachir
6. Oyee
7. Pennywise
8. Paweded
9. adames
10. fine



Ladder Points (LP) are earned for the first 10 ranked games per week. LP gain per game ranges from 10 to 100; more points are earned the higher rated you are.

Rewards: Every January, at the end of the ranked season, special badges are given to the top 1/10/25/50/100 LP earners based on their final LP rank. Then, everyone's LP is reset back to 0 for the next season.

• GOAT: Top 1 LP
  
• Raidboss: Top 2-10 LP
  
• Champion: Top 11-25 LP
  
• Pro: Top 26-50 LP
  
• Elite: Top 51-100 LP

As a reminder, here are the dates for the upcoming 2024 Season:

• January 6-10: Ranked rewards are given out. Player ratings are soft-reset.
  
• January 10: New season begins at 9am PST / 6pm CET. Ranked re-enabled.
  

Expected patch release: Monday, January 6 (Pacific Time)

• January 6 (Monday): Current season ends at 9am PST / 6pm CET. Ranked disabled. Season 2025 (v12.00) goes live! Rewards are given out over the next few days & ratings are soft-reset.
  
• January 6-10 (Monday-Friday): 1v1 featured event is live
  
• January 10 (Friday): New season begins at 9am PST / 6pm CET. Ranked re-enabled.

[h3]1v1 Featured Event[/h3]
Teammates holding you back? This your chance to shine. It's time for 1v1 action!

• Skill-based matchmaking: Play with and against players near your skill level.
  
• Visible ratings: Used for matchmaking and bragging rights.
  
• Event Points (EP) leaderboard: Gain and lose EP by winning and losing games. Additionally, +3 EP each game, so play as much as you can to climb.
  
• Rewards:
  • Top 10 finish: 25,000 Essence
  • Top 100 finish: 15,000 Essence
  • Top 1,000 finish: 10,000 Essence
  • Reach 150 EP at any point: 5,000 Essence

[h3]Season Goals[/h3]

• Achieve up to 3 season goals based on your current rating and previous season's rating. Season goals reward players who play early in the season and keep climbing throughout the year.
  
• Goal 1 must be achieved by April 1. Earn 5,000 Essence.
  
• Goal 2 must be achieved by July 1. Earn 5,000 Additional Essence.
  
• Goal 3 must be achieved by October 1. Earn 5,000 Additional Essence.
  
• If you achieve any 2 goals, you immediately unlock the seasonal Abyssal Templar skin! Or, you can wait until it enters the shop next year (January 2026), but who wants to wait that long?

[h3]New Mastermind: Saboteur[/h3]


Saboteur
+7 income
You cannot upgrade the king.

Saboteur can be played as either a carry-oriented or supportive mastermind. Scale hard with frequent income sending, or save mythium and send power mercenaries to avoid feeding your opponent.

Saboteur is disabled in PvE mode because you can't upgrade the king in that mode, which would make it a strictly better version of Greed.

Additionally, three more Masterminds are coming this year!

• Vault (Coming in April)
  
• Aristocrat (Coming in July)
  
• Miner (Coming in October)

[h3]New Unit: Crawling Catapult[/h3]


Crawling Catapult

• Tier 6 (Cost: 265g)
  
• Role: DPS
  
• Long-ranged / Impact / Fortified

Artillery
Deals up to +100% bonus damage the further away the target is.

Stone Legs
Moves 80% slower.

[h3]New Unit: Wandering Trebuchet[/h3]


Wandering Trebuchet

• Tier 6 (Upgrade Cost: 425g)
  
• Role: DPS
  
• Long-ranged / Impact / Fortified

Artillery
Deals up to +100% bonus damage the further away the target is.

Stone Legs
Moves 80% slower.

Crawling Catapult's design is a throwback to Gatling Gun's original design where you're rewarded for manipulating the wave to be a certain range away. However, it's more forgiving because it still moves (albeit slowly) and encourages you to maximize, not minimize, distance.

[h3]New Legion Spell: Spread The Wealth[/h3]
Spread the Wealth: +95 gold to your teammate

Time to decide who's the true carry.

In Classic, the gold goes to your lane partner.

[h3]4v4/Classic Reworks[/h3]

4v4 Worker Rework
Mythium rate increase per wave after wave 10: +12% --> +8% scaling to +18%

Workers are now weaker in the mid game and stronger in the late game. This disrupts the Classic meta of stopping workers by wave ~17.

Mini & Wumbo Rework

• Now starts on wave 3, and players start with 300 gold, 15 income, and 5 workers
  
• After wave 3 spawns, players can choose a mastermind as usual
  
• Now start with your choice of: Divine Blessing, Sorcerer, Villain, Titan, and Magician, instead of Champion
  
• You can now roll Eggsack in your initial roll

These changes reduce deadtime, allow you to play your favorite mastermind, and increase strategic variety.

PvE Rework
Mythium rate increase per wave after wave 10: +12% --> +4% scaling to +24%

Workers are now weaker in the mid game and stronger in the late game. This disrupts the PvE meta of stopping workers by wave ~15.

Giga Mercs Rework

• Maximum stacks per mercenary: 8 --> 99
  
• All abilities scale linearly, except Safety Mole's Safety Aura (scales to the 0.7 power) and Mimic's Plunder (does not scale).

Giga Lizard doesn't exist. It can't hurt you.

Giga Lizard:



[h3]New Skin: Abyssal Templar[/h3]
Immediately unlock the Abyssal Templar skin for free if you achieve any 2 season goals. Otherwise, you can unlock it via the shop when it's offered next year.

Still not as creepy as irl.

[h3]New Skin: Toony Mimic[/h3]
The seasonal skin from 2024 is now available in the shop!

Open me, I have candy inside~



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

[h3]Legion Spells[/h3]

Glacial Touch
Damage: 45 → 48

Low win rate. Glacial’s weak at 45 and strong at 50, so somewhere in the middle must be right.

Hero
Attack speed and damage reduction: 4% → 3.8%

Very high pick rate.

Pawn Shop
Gold: 65 → 70

Low win rate.

Pulverizer
Stun duration against non-boss units: 2 → 2.2

Low pick rate.

[h3]Fighters[/h3]

Chained First / Oathbreaker / Oathbreaker Final Form
Attack speed: 0.91 → 0.89

Slightly high pick rate and win rate.

Looter
Health: 80 → 90

Pack Rat
Health: 640 → 660

Slightly low pick rate and low win rate.

Dark Mage
Mind Warp: Attack speed: 35% → 30%

Bone Warrior is the most picked unit in the game and has a >50% win rate. Its versatility with 3 unique upgrades makes it strong, and Dark Mage is the biggest offender.

Masked Spirit / False Maiden / Hell Raiser
Attack speed: 1.087 → 1.104

Slightly low win rate and pick rate.

Goblin Copter / Whirlybird
Attack speed: 1.064 → 1.081

Slightly low pick rate and win rate.

Slime Larva
Attack speed: 0.813 → 0.8

Slime Siren
Attack speed: 1.325 → 1.3

Slightly high pick rate and high win rate.

Pirate Skeleton / Spectral Scallywag
Attack speed: 0.833 → 0.82

High pick rate and slightly high win rate.

Alpha Male
- Damage: 102 → 103

Fix from last patch. This change accidentally slipped through.

APS
Health: 870 → 900
Damage 38 → 39

MPS
Health: 2370 → 2400
Damage: 103 → 104

Slightly low pick rate and win rate.

Mudman
Health: 1330 → 1310

Golem
Health: 3800 → 3750

High win rate.

Gatling Gun / Vulcan Cannon
Attack speed: 2.5 → 2.56

Low pick rate and win rate.

Yozora
Health: 1510 → 1530

Arctaire
Health: 4350 → 4380

Slightly low pick rate and win rate.

Whitemane
Health: 4500 → 4470
Damage: 173 → 171

High pick rate.

Great Boar / Red Eyes
Charge damage increased by 5%

Slightly low pick rate and win rate.

Holy Avenger
Health: 2510 → 2550

Sovereign
Health: 6400 → 6500

Low win rate.

[h3]Waves[/h3]

Wave 5: Scorpions
- DPS: 14.9 → 14.7
--- Damage: 15 → 11
--- Attack speed: 0.99 → 1.33

Pack Leader is now viable on wave 5.


[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:
- Brute
- All Out Assault and offensive legion spells
- Solo holder Tree of Life + Canopie/Spectral Scallywag

[h3]Minor Updates[/h3]

• Classic Modes: Now rotate every 3.25 hours (from 5.75 hours)
  
• Guild Contribution: Fixed a rare bug where a player wouldn’t gain the correct contribution bonuses if they donated cards to a guild that they hadn’t contributed any GXP to (i.e. never won any games with)
  
• Big Play Announcements: Added an Interface option to toggle them on/off (scroll to the bottom). If toggled off, they will display in chat instead.

[h3]Game Translations[/h3]


Legion TD 2's translations continue to be improved, thanks to major contributions from community members! If you'd like to contribute to improving the game's texts further, visit the following link:

Help Translate Legion TD 2

HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped up to this point!



New units, new mastermind, new legion spell, and classic reworks... get ready for Season 2025! We hope you're as excited as we are. Any Saboteur mains in the house?

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.

If you've enjoyed the game, but haven't left a review yet, please consider posting a short (hopefully positive ) review for the game! If the game reaches 90% positive, Steam will give it more visibility = more players = more freelo better matchmaking!

If you enjoy these updates, please give it a Thumbs Up, too!

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

Expected patch release: Monday, December 9 (Pacific Time)

[h3]News[/h3]

• Check out Lisk's Game Dev AMA and Jules' Gameplay & Balance AMA from this past month
  
• The FTCup with a $2500 prize pool starts at 9am PST / 6pm CET on December 7-8. For Division 1, watch aesirpenke on Twitch. For Division 2, watch ToHoCo on Twitch.
  
• Season 2024 ends on January 6th. Last chance to get your ranked rewards! Read more: here!

[h3]Happy Holidays![/h3]

A treacherous snow queen has cast a spell over the world of Legion, and it's all frozen over! But fear not...she's actually not treacherous. She just wanted everyone to get in the holiday spirit! On top of the snow-covered landscape, you'll find Christmas trees, presents, colored lights, snowmen, stockings, candy canes, and more goodies around the map. Enjoy the fresh look for Legion TD 2 while you eat Christmas cookies and hopefully spam some games over the holidays!

The snow queen promises to lift the "eternal" winter next patch, when Season 2025 starts. You can toggle decorations in Options if your PC is struggling to contain her power.


[h3]Tripled Creator Code Rewards![/h3]
‘Tis the season of giving! From when this patch goes live until next month’s patch on January 6th, entering a creator code when purchasing Premium Essence will give:

• +30% Premium Essence (normally +10%) to the purchaser
  
• 42% revenue in USD (normally 14%) to the content creators whose code you enter

The Legion TD 2 community is the heart of what makes this game special, and this is our way of giving back to everyone who helps make this community amazing.

How do I support Legion TD 2 creators? See a video guide: here! Remember that supporting a creator costs nothing to you. It rewards you with bonus Premium Essence and gives a share of the revenue to the creator.

Want to get paid for creating Legion TD 2 content? Join the Legion TD 2 Partnership Program hosted by Nexus.

[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.

[h3]New Secret Card: The Katana Kid[/h3]





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

[h3]Mythium Gate (2v2)[/h3]
Improved consistency & responsiveness of when the gate opens

[h3]Masterminds[/h3]

Cash Out
Bonus starting gold: 20 → 21

+1 gold buff, which in the context of Legion, means we’re going from C tier to A.

Champion
Attack speed and damage reduction: 9.5% → 10%

Champion's been one of the worst-performing masterminds for the past year, and we regret that. Here's a much-needed buff.


[h3]King[/h3]
- Base attack and flat Lightning Hammer damage increased by 15%
- Giant Slayer: Percent health damage: 2.5% → 1.8%
- Lightning Hammer: Percent health damage: 2.5% → 1.8%

Weaker against boss waves. Stronger otherwise.

[h3]Fighters[/h3]

Peewee / Veteran
Booster / Stimpack: Attack speed bonus: Additive → Multiplicative

Attack speed buffs now behave more expectedly.

Fire Archer
Attack speed: 0.99 → 1.01

Fire Archer has been a historically underutilized unit. We can’t buff it too much because the Bone Warrior line is already strong.

Dark Mage
Attack range: 400 → 600

Dark Mage often died too early with its short range.

Bone Crusher
Health: 1110 → 1090

Slightly high pick rate and win rate.

Masked Spirit / False Maiden
Attack speed: 1.06 → 1.09

Low pick rate and win rate.

Hell Raiser
- Attack speed: 1.06 → 1.09
- Tantrum: Attack speed bonus: Additive → Multiplicative

Attack speed buffs now behave more expectedly.

Gargoyle
- Health: 330 → 320
- Attack speed: 0.9 → 0.885

High pick rate and slightly high win rate. This unit singlehandedly allows some openings to get an extra worker by wave 3.

Orchid
Shuriken Cyclone: Attack speed bonus: Additive → Multiplicative

Attack speed buffs now behave more expectedly.

Alpha Male
- Health: 2650 → 2700
- Damage: 101 → 103

Now more alpha. Low win rate.

Warp Wing / Void Manta
- Damage increased by 5%
- Plasma Decay: Damage reduction: 4 → 3

High win rate and particularly oppressive in the early game.

Deathcap
Damage: 30 + 0.06% max health → 31 + 0.07% max health

With the introduction of Honeybear, Deathcap was indirectly nerfed. Low win rate.

Millennium / Doomsday Machine
Attack speed: 0.606 → 0.595

High win rate.

Lord of Death
Mana regeneration increased by 5%

Low win rate.

Hades
- Conjure Thanatos: Mana cost: 60 → 55
- Mana regeneration increased by 5%
- Necromancy: Mana gain: 3 → 2
- Necromancy: No longer excludes Froggos

Let the summoner war begin.

[h3]Mercenaries[/h3]

Brute
- Maul: Attack speed reduction against the king: 1% → 0.5%

Brute’s attack speed reduction made it too strong against the king, particularly in the late game.

Centaur
- Damage: 86 → 88

Low usage rate and win rate.

[h3]Waves[/h3]

Wave 6: Rockos
- Impale: Damage amplification against king: 2% → 4%
- Impale: Max stacks against king: 10 → 4

The king now takes more damage against small leaks and less damage against large leaks on wave 6.

[h3]Classic[/h3]

Dual Building
Attack speed bonus to waves removed, and buff renamed from Haste to AOE Damage Reduction

While our goal isn't for dual building to become meta, it could use a buff to increase its viability.


[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:
- Kingsguard

[h3]Minor Updates[/h3]
- Big Play Announcements: Not Even Close is more responsive now. Also, if triggering Not Even Close and Power Play/Game Changer at about the same time, it will show both back to back.
- New Emoji: wirklich_zornig
- MVP Score: Various improvements
- Gold Remaining: Fixed a bug where if your Dwarf Banker/Big Wig was your last unit remaining, it didn’t update the correct estimated gold value
- 4K: Fixed a bug where certain game popups were uncloseable when using the UI Scaling setting
- Pathing: Fixed some rare cases of units being stuck
- Campaign Menu: Fixed some cases where the Play button was mistakenly hidden in certain languages
- Big Play Announcements: Fixed a false positive case for Not Even Close
- Double Down: Fixed a rare case where two stacks were consumed instead of one
- Campaigns: Nerfed Mama Mayra and Fabulous Freddy slightly



[h3]FTCup with $2500 Prize Pool[/h3]
The FTCup starts at 9am PST / 6pm CET on December 7-8. For Division 1, watch aesirpenke on Twitch. For Division 2, watch ToHoCo on Twitch. Thank you to ftq for sponsoring and Shadowings for organizing!

[h3]Game Translations[/h3]


Legion TD 2's translations continue to be improved, thanks to major contributions from community members! If you'd like to contribute to improving the game's texts further, visit the following link:

Help Translate Legion TD 2

HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped up to this point!



This patch is relatively light, as we prepare for our big upcoming Season 2025 patch, but there's still a lot to be excited about! It'll be great to have Cash Out and Champion as more viable masterminds.

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.

If you've enjoyed the game, but haven't left a review yet, please consider posting a short (hopefully positive ) review for the game! If the game reaches 90% positive, Steam will give it more visibility = more players = more freelo better matchmaking!

If you enjoy these updates, please give it a Thumbs Up, too!

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

The 2024 season is ending, and a new season is coming!

Below is the calendar for January 2025:

• January 3 (Friday): Season 2025 (v12.00) patch notes are posted
  
• January 6 (Monday): Current season ends at 9am PST / 6pm CET. Ranked disabled. Season 2025 (v12.00) goes live! Rewards are given out over the next few days & ratings are soft-reset.
  
• January 6-10 (Monday-Friday): 1v1 featured event is live
  
• January 10 (Friday): New season begins at 9am PST / 6pm CET. Ranked re-enabled.

We've got a ton of exciting changes coming in Season 2025 (v12.00). Details to come in January's patch notes.



Ranked badges and loading screen borders are based on your peak rating this season. You are not penalized for dropping below a tier you already achieved. Eligibility for each tier requires 10 ranked games and a peak rating this season of:

• Bronze: 1000
  
• Silver: 1200
  
• Gold: 1400
  
• Platinum: 1600
  
• Diamond: 1800
  
• Expert: 2000
  
• Master: 2200
  
• Senior Master: 2400
  
• Grandmaster: 2600
  
• Legend: 2800
  

Best of luck in the final weeks of the season! Remember you cannot drop ranked rewards by playing. Rewards are based on your peak rank this season.



Ladder Points (LP) are a measure of your overall presence on the ladder throughout the course of the year.

LP are earned for the first 10 ranked games per week. LP gain per game ranges from 10 to 100; more points are earned the higher rated you are.

Rewards: Every January, at the end of the ranked season, special badges are given to the top 1/10/25/50/100 LP earners based on their final LP rank. Then, everyone's LP is reset back to 0 for the next season.

• GOAT: Top 1 LP
  
• Raidboss: Top 2-10 LP
  
• Champion: Top 11-25 LP
  
• Pro: Top 26-50 LP
  
• Elite: Top 51-100 LP