Legion TD 2 News

Congratulations to the winners of last month's Nova Cup!
- D1: barneskirænn (Drachir & FC Lucy)
- D2: any girls in chat (Shea & Brotbrecherboy)
- D3: wyld stallyns (Vitamin & alacrity)
- D4: elhao_ummeee (Elhao & ummeee)

Missed the action? Check the brackets, team lists, & VODs for all divisions on the Legion TD 2 eSports portal!


The upcoming September Nova Cup takes place September 23 - 24.

$875 in prizes and sign-up is free - first come first served!
There are up to five skill divisions, so no matter what your rating is, you have a chance to win.
Participation prize: Every participant who plays all of their matches will receive a FREE random card. If you haven't played a tournament yet, this is a great time to join.


- Everyone that is level 3 or higher can join for free! First come, first served. So if you joined the game during the free to play weekend, feel free to participate!




When you watch Nova Cups on the official channel, aside from enjoying shoutcasted top-tier Legion gameplay, you'll also receive in-game rewards based on how long you watch!

Watch the official Legion TD 2 Twitch stream during a Nova Cup to earn the following rewards:
- Watch for 60 minutes: 2,000 essence
- Watch for an additional 90 minutes: 4,000 additional essence
- Watch for an additional 120 minutes: Random card

In other words, if you watch the Nova Cup both days, you'll earn 6,000 total essence and a random card!

IMPORTANT: You'll need to link your Twitch account to your Legion TD 2 account in order to earn the rewards.
Link Your Twitch Account

• Sign-ups are open from NOW until September 23 9am PST / 6pm CEST.
  
• To sign up, find a teammate and form a party. After you're both in the party, have one player type "/signup [team name]" (e.g. /signup Snail Kings) in chat. You should see a confirmation message that your sign-up went through. For those who participated in previous Nova Cups, you no longer need to do /join to signup.
  
• The first 16 teams to sign up in each division can participate. Other teams are waitlisted. There are usually no-shows, so waitlisted teams are encouraged to be present in the Discord and ready to play. View the team list to see your sign-up position and division.
  
• If there are more than 32 teams checked in, there will be an additional best-of-1 qualifying round to allow more teams to participate. It is a best-of-1, rather than a best-of-3, to keep the event from running overly long.
  
• Both players must join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Make sure to set your server nickname to match your in-game name.

• You may sign-up as a solo with a suggested team name using the "/signup [team name]" command. Solo teams will be added to the Public Teams list, then be formed into teams on the day of the tournament. Solo teams will be randomly assigned a team name from either of its members.
  
• If there is a waitlist, team sign-ups will always take priority over solo sign-ups
  
• If you sign up as a solo, but then you find a teammate, you can re-sign up as a team any time before check-ins start. Just use the /signup command again with the new teammate. The tournament organizer will void your old solo signup after they process your new team signup.
  
• After check-ins are over, all checked-in solo players will be randomly formed into teams by the tournament organizer. You cannot request a specific teammate at this point; if you want to play with a specific person, you should have signed up as a team instead.

It is still strongly recommended to sign-up as a team to guarantee your spot in the tournament and to give you time to practice with your teammate beforehand.



Saturday, September 23

• Check-in window: 8:45 - 9:15am PDT / 5:45 - 6:15pm CEST
  
• Games: 10am - 1:30pm PST / 7 - 10:30pm CEST
  
  • Round of 16 (Best of 3)
    
  • Quarter-finals (Best of 3)

Sunday, September 24

• Check-in window: 9 - 9:30am PDT / 6 - 6:30pm CEST
  
• Games: 10am - 1:30pm PST / 7 - 10:30pm CEST
  
  • Semi-finals (Best of 3)
    
  • Final (Best of 5)

Check-in

• Teams must check in via the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Waitlisted teams should also check in.
  
• Any team that fails to check in will be disqualified. The next team on the waitlist that checked in will earn a spot.

The custom game room creator should enable Tournament Mode in the room. This will ensure the following settings:

• 2v2
  
• Mastermind only
  
• Hybrid disabled

Division 1 & 2 Only
- Conquest rules apply. (Once you win with a Mastermind playstyle, you can't use that playstyle again for that series)



For a full list of rules, prizes, and other details, visit the following link:
Nova Cup Rules & FAQ

For questions & support, please join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord.

See you on September 23rd! The Nova Cup will be casted and streamed at twitch.tv/ltd2. Check the Tournament Discord on the event day for links to the other casts.

Sincerely,
Your Legion TD 2 Tournament Staff

Fixes/Improvements
- Optimized some systems to speed up the time it takes from "Match Found" to getting into game
- Weekly Quests & New Player Quests are now automatically claimed, which should resolve any lingering issues with quests not being earned properly
- Fixed a major long-standing issue with Power Score sometimes incorrectly calculating previous wave income. This should provide noticeable improvements especially when taking various resource Legion Spells.
- Fixed some tooltips

Balance

Bone Warrior
- Health: 140 → 150
This change was accidentally missed in the initial v10.08 release.

Iron Maiden
- Blade Storm: Damage: 40 → 42

Intentionally kept changes light for now. We are still gathering data & feedback on meta health (long-saving/one-shotting, etc) before doing a more major balance patch, if needed. Also note we are out-of-office next week (9/11-9/15) and will likely patch the following week (9/18-9/22).

Expected patch release: September 5-6 (Pacific Time)

[h3]News & Updates[/h3]

• 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.
  
• Next Nova Cup: September 23-24
  
• Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 Esports Portal.

[h3]New Feature: Weekly Quests[/h3]

• Each week, you receive 5 random quests. These work similarly to New Player Quests: complete the quest, and you receive 500 Essence!
  
• Weekly Quests are earnable in both Ranked & Classic
  
• If your New Player Quests are still in progress, you must complete those before unlocking Weekly Quests
  
• You can turn off quests via Options → Interface if you prefer to keep them hidden (Screenshot)

[h3]New Skin: Fatality Infiltrator[/h3]
Get over heeeeere!

[h3]New Skin: Deathwish Orchid[/h3]
Looking for a new playmate ;)



[h3]General[/h3]

Systemic Changes
- Mythium rate increase per wave starting wave 11: 7% → 6%
- Long saving mythium is now less likely to make your opponents go on fire
- Fixed a bug where upgrading the king and taking Investment, Loan, and All Out Assault did not correctly affect power score

Saving mythium has been a dominant strategy because mid & late-game workers have been more powerful than income. Sacrificing income to keep your opponents from pushing workers has been too strong. These changes tip the scales slightly towards income.

King
- Health increased by 60% (75% in 4v4)
- Tenacity removed

While Tenacity had benefits, it also had unintended effects. We’ve heard enough feedback from the community that we’re testing a complete removal. This is an experimental change, and it may be reverted.

[h3]Legion Spells[/h3]

Press the Attack
- Mythium: +70 --> +75

Pulverizer
- 34% chance to stun (17% for ranged) → stuns every 3 attacks (every 6 attacks for ranged)

Removing a source of frustrating RNG.

[h3]Fighters[/h3]

This patch we’re buffing cheap units and nerfing strategy-limiting openings to increase opening variety, encourage 2+ unit openings, and create a more dynamic early game.

Pollywog
- Damage: 8 → 9

Seraphin
- Damage: 50 → 51

Devilfish
- Health: 1120 → 1100

Shifting power from Devilfish to Pollywog and Seraphin.

Bone Warrior
- Health: 140 → 150

Fire Archer
- Attack speed: 0.91 → 0.93

Bone Crusher
- Health: 1140 → 1120

Shifting power from Bone Crusher to Bone Warrior and Fire Archer.

Buzz
- Damage: 9 → 10

Peewee
- Damage: 8 → 9

Proton
- Health: 140 → 130
- DPS: 9.4 → 10.5
— Damage: 8 → 9
— Attack speed: 1.17 → 1.16

Atom
- Attack speed: 1.17 → 1.16

High win rate.

Chained Fist
- Damage: 8 → 9

Masked Spirit
- Damage: 7 → 8

Harpy
- Health: 220 → 200
- Damage: 14 → 15

Bazooka
- Attack speed: 0.75 → 0.76

Ranger
- Attack speed: 1.15 → 1.2

Daphne
- Health: 1050 → 1080

Chloropixie
- Damage: 49 → 50

Slime Larva
- Attack speed: 0.77 → 0.79
- Mini Slime: Attack speed: 0.77 → 0.79

Fire Elemental
- Attack speed: 0.8 → 0.78

Howler
- Health: 380 --> 360
- Damage: 16 --> 17

Sunfang
- Health: 2000 --> 1970

High win rate.

Golden Buckler
- Health: 550 → 560
- Fixed a bug where it didn't have Deflection (15% reduced damage against ranged units)
- DPS: Unchanged
— Damage: 21 → 18
— Attack speed: 0.75 → 0.87

Warg
- Health: 950 → 960

Dwarf Banker
- Compound Interest: Mana lost when dying: 25% --> 20%

Big Wig
- Aggressive Portfolio: Mana lost when dying: 50% --> 40%

Very low win rate and pick rate. We intend to keep these units slightly on the weak side due to their unorthodox gameplay, but they were still performing worse than expected.

Sacred Steed / Pegasus
- Mana regeneration decreased by 4%

High pick rate.

Sea Serpent
- DPS: 66.4 → 67
— Damage: 75 → 65
— Attack speed: 0.88 -> 1.03

Now has stronger thresholds against waves 2 and 4, but worse against wave 3

Seadragon
- Health: 870 → 830

Lifebinder
- Health: 2610 → 2530

High pick rate.

Treant
- Health: 980 --> 960

High pick rate.

Cursed Casket
- Damage: 28 → 20
- Iron Hail: Damage: 20x3 → 20x2
- Mana cost decreased by 40%
- Mana regeneration decreased by 15%

Cage of Pain
- Damage: 49 → 35
- Iron Hail: Damage: 35x3 → 35x2
- Mana cost decreased by 40%
- Mana regeneration decreased by 15%

Iron Maiden
- Damage: 70 → 50
- Blade Storm: Damage: 43x3 → 40x2
- Blade Storm: Damage Reduction: 1 → 2
- Mana cost decreased by 40%
- Mana regeneration decreased by 15%

More power budget in the ability and now casts more often.

APS / MPS
- Attack speed: 1.39 → 1.32

High win rate.

Gatling Gun
- Health: 1050 → 1020

Vulcan Cannon
- Health: 2950 → 2860

Very high win rate.

Priestess of the Abyss
- Attack speed: 0.97 → 0.95
- Burst Attack: Now also deals 0.035% max health damage

Priestess has long dominated as an opening. We’re nerfing her opening in exchange for slightly more power in the mid and late game.

[h3]Mercenaries[/h3]

Lizard
- Health: 320 → 350

Lizards have been outshined by Dragon Turtles. This change makes Lizards more viable early game, makes their health consistent with other ranged mercenaries, and rewards saving mythium on wave 1. This is an indirect nerf to upgrading the king on wave 1, which is currently a dominant strategy.

Mimic
- Plunder: 2-7 gold → 2 → 9 gold

Very low usage rate. Now stronger from waves 10-21.

Witch
- Witchcraft: 3 mana per any unit dying → 1 mana per enemy unit dying
- Summon Froggo mana cost decreased by 70%
- Effective mana regeneration increased by 50%
- Froggos now decay after 40 seconds, consistent with other summons

Now viable on elite and boss waves. Previously, spam and summoner builds were too strong on these waves due to the lower wave spawn count. Also, Witch + Snail spam is no longer a powerful synergy.

Ogre
- Attack speed: 1.34 → 1.31

Four Eyes
- Attack speed: 2.24 → 2.2

Ghost Knight
- Health: 4050 → 4100

Centaur
- Attack speed: 1.85 → 1.77

Siege Ram
- Health 5600 → 5700

Needler
- Rapid Fire: Attack speed bonus: 35% → 25%

Kraken
- Ancient Power: Bonus damage and damage reduction per wave: 0.9% → 1%

Shifting power from high-performing DPS mercenaries to underperforming tank mercenaries.

[h3]Waves[/h3]

Wave 6: Rockos
- Damage: 38 → 39
- Impale
— Damage amplification: 3% (1.5% to king) → 4% (2% to king)
— Now only affects damage from Rockos. No longer affects mercenaries

The recent Impale rework pigeonholed you into sending DPS mercenaries and heavily incentivized huge sends, making the wave weak on its own but too strong with a Drake, 2x Brutes, or even worse, 3x Brutes. This change should open up more viable sending strategies.

Wave 10: Granddaddy
- Attack speed: 3.704 → 3.636

As a boss wave, Granddaddy is intended to be strong, but it’s been a little too strong. This nerf should rein it in, while still keeping it a threat.

Wave 18: Wale Chiefs
- Damage: 170 → 180
- Poison-Tipped Pole: AOE Damage: 20 → 30
- Fixed a bug where Poison-Tipped Pole was unexpectedly resetting mana on-kill

Cheaper tank fighters are more viable on this wave now.

[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:

• Summoners
  
• Healers
  
• Ramping units
  
• Pawn Shop

[h3]Improvements[/h3]

• HUD: Now displays Wave 22, 23, etc. for waves after Wave 21. (Screenshot)
  
• Ping Wheel: Now displays Wave 22, 23, etc. for waves after Wave 21. Also now displays wave number as text to help differentiate waves. (Screenshot)
  
• Guilds: Guild tagline can now contain slashes & links. Good place to put your Discord link!
  
• Takeover Bots: Now should save on Wave 21+ if their adjacent lane ally saves
  
• Campaign: Locked campaign maps are now previewable in-game
  
• HUD: Reenabled different-colored bars for units unaffected by mana restoration (i.e. Dwarf Banker)
  
• Modding Support: Most internal classes are now public, for better modding support (requested by BoSen)

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

• Dwarf Banker & Big Wig: Fixed a bug where the estimated total gold tooltip after wave ends was doing incorrect math when they were at max mana
  
• Login: Fixed a bug where logins failed if Steam servers were extremely backed up

[h3]Nova Cup: Today We Fight For Glory! (August 2023 Highlights)[/h3]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1n6gzsqJ7Y&feature=youtu.be
Wondering what these "Nova Cups" are all about? Shadowings' hype video captures the excitement of epic holds and epic sends in a tightly edited 90 second video.

[h3]Game Translations[/h3]


Legion TD 2's translations continue to be greatly 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!



With this update, we are bringing some systemic balance changes to diversify the meta at all stages of the game and address some pain points. Systemic changes often have far-reaching effects, so we will be monitoring closely and hotfixing rapidly as always.

We're also excited to introduce Weekly Quests, which builds upon the New Player Quests feature introduce a couple patches ago. The goal of this system is to give players achievable, fun goals to shoot for and feel rewarded for completing them, without being overbearing or too in-your-face.

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!

And as always, if you have constructive criticism, let's chat about it. Discord and 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

Note: all v10.07.x patches are hotfixes and usually contain only minor changes compared to typical monthly updates.

Major Fixes

• Mac Only: Temporarily disabled Emote ground graphics for Mac only to hopefully fix the graphical artifacts

Improvements

• Emotes: New larger Emote graphics, which look much better than the previously upscaled ones. Thanks to Drachir for working hard to make this happen!
  
• Startup Logo: Lowered volume slightly by popular request
  
• Spectator: Map pings now show the spectator’s name, similar to regular player pings
  
• Updated translations. Thanks to everyone who continues to contribute. If you want to get involved, join the Legion TD 2 Contributors Discord.

Minor Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Dwarf Banker and Big Wig cards displayed the wrong item rarity in some situations

Dwarf Banker (buff/nerf)
- Health: 700 → 600
- DPS: 38.9 → 43.5
- Damage: 44 → 47
- Attack speed: 0.88 → 0.93

Big Wig (buff/nerf)
- Health: 2040 → 1760
- DPS: 113.3 → 127.8
- Damage: 128 → 138
- Attack speed: 0.88 → 0.93

This change will make them less reliant on off-tanking, which was difficult and counter-intuitive for a unit you want to keep alive.

Fire Elemental (nerf)
- Attack speed: 0.82 → 0.8

As players have learned how to optimize the new Fire Elemental, it’s become too strong.

Gatling Gun (nerf)
- Health: 1080 → 1050

Vulcan Cannon (nerf)
- Health: 3030 → 2950

High win rate.

Hydra (buff)
- Damage: 111 → 114
- Hydralings: Damage: 37 → 38

Low usage rate and win rate.

Revive and on-death spawn (buff/nerf)
- Spawn delay: 2 → 1.5

This change affects Slime Larva, Slime Siren, Eternal Wanderer, Samurai Soul, Hydra, and Guardian Angel. We will evaluate further changes next patch.

King
- Improved targeting logic against Shaman and Needler

Congratulations to the winners of last month's Nova Cup!
- D1: xcrash (XGod37 & Ashton Butcher)
- D2: duck'n overbuilders (DarkQuacker & mrSLICKINS)
- D3: this_is_the_way (Deimos7007 & Phenazepamum)
- D4: thor (Secretwindow & Kaltvien)

Missed the action? Check the brackets, team lists, & VODs for all divisions on the Legion TD 2 eSports portal!


The upcoming August Nova Cup takes place August 19 - 20.

$875 in prizes and sign-up is free - first come first served!
There are up to five skill divisions, so no matter what your rating is, you have a chance to win.
Participation prize: Every participant who plays all of their matches will receive a FREE random card. If you haven't played a tournament yet, this is a great time to join.


- Everyone that is level 3 or higher can join for free! First come, first served. So if you joined the game during the free to play weekend, feel free to participate!




When you watch Nova Cups on the official channel, aside from enjoying shoutcasted top-tier Legion gameplay, you'll also receive in-game rewards based on how long you watch!

Watch the official Legion TD 2 Twitch stream during a Nova Cup to earn the following rewards:
- Watch for 60 minutes: 2,000 essence
- Watch for an additional 90 minutes: 4,000 additional essence
- Watch for an additional 120 minutes: Random card

In other words, if you watch the Nova Cup both days, you'll earn 6,000 total essence and a random card!

IMPORTANT: You'll need to link your Twitch account to your Legion TD 2 account in order to earn the rewards.
Link Your Twitch Account

• Sign-ups are open from NOW until August 19 at 9am PST / 6pm CEST.
  
• To sign up, find a teammate and form a party. After you're both in the party, have one player type "/signup [team name]" (e.g. /signup Snail Kings) in chat. You should see a confirmation message that your sign-up went through. For those who participated in previous Nova Cups, you no longer need to do /join to signup.
  
• The first 16 teams to sign up in each division can participate. Other teams are waitlisted. There are usually no-shows, so waitlisted teams are encouraged to be present in the Discord and ready to play. View the team list to see your sign-up position and division.
  
• If there are more than 32 teams checked in, there will be an additional best-of-1 qualifying round to allow more teams to participate. It is a best-of-1, rather than a best-of-3, to keep the event from running overly long.
  
• Both players must join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Make sure to set your server nickname to match your in-game name.

• You may sign-up as a solo with a suggested team name using the "/signup [team name]" command. Solo teams will be added to the Public Teams list, then be formed into teams on the day of the tournament. Solo teams will be randomly assigned a team name from either of its members.
  
• If there is a waitlist, team sign-ups will always take priority over solo sign-ups
  
• If you sign up as a solo, but then you find a teammate, you can re-sign up as a team any time before check-ins start. Just use the /signup command again with the new teammate. The tournament organizer will void your old solo signup after they process your new team signup.
  
• After check-ins are over, all checked-in solo players will be randomly formed into teams by the tournament organizer. You cannot request a specific teammate at this point; if you want to play with a specific person, you should have signed up as a team instead.

It is still strongly recommended to sign-up as a team to guarantee your spot in the tournament and to give you time to practice with your teammate beforehand.



Saturday, August 19

• Check-in window: 8:45 - 9:15am PDT / 5:45 - 6:15pm CEST
  
• Games: 10am - 1:30pm PST / 7 - 10:30pm CEST
  
  • Round of 16 (Best of 3)
    
  • Quarter-finals (Best of 3)

Sunday, August 20

• Check-in window: 9 - 9:30am PDT / 6 - 6:30pm CEST
  
• Games: 10am - 1:30pm PST / 7 - 10:30pm CEST
  
  • Semi-finals (Best of 3)
    
  • Final (Best of 5)

Check-in

• Teams must check in via the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord. Waitlisted teams should also check in.
  
• Any team that fails to check in will be disqualified. The next team on the waitlist that checked in will earn a spot.

The custom game room creator should enable Tournament Mode in the room. This will ensure the following settings:

• 2v2
  
• Mastermind only
  
• Hybrid disabled

Division 1 & 2 Only
- Conquest rules apply. (Once you win with a Mastermind playstyle, you can't use that playstyle again for that series)



For a full list of rules, prizes, and other details, visit the following link:
Nova Cup Rules & FAQ

For questions & support, please join the Legion TD 2 Official Tournament Discord.

See you on August 19th! The Nova Cup will be casted and streamed at twitch.tv/ltd2. Check the Tournament Discord on the event day for links to the other casts.

Sincerely,
Your Legion TD 2 Tournament Staff