Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms News

It's considered lucky to possess and examine a map on Wintershield, so put on your most durable boots and head out into the streets of Waterdeep to claim one for yourself!

Wintershield 8 runs from January 1st–22nd and introduces Eric the Cavalier, whom some of you may recognize from the 1980s Dungeons & Dragons cartoon. Our first Featured Champion, Eric is a Support, Tanking, and Gold Find Champion with knockback capabilities. Eric can be unlocked starting today.

Our second Featured Champion is none other than Verthisathurgiesh Mehen, dragonborn mercenary and adoptive father of twin tiefling daughters. Mehen is the latest Champion to receive a significant rework, and he will become available to unlock starting next week on January 8.

For more details on Wintershield, read on!

[h2]Featured Champions[/h2]
[h3]Eric the Cavalier[/h3]

Eric is the Cavalier of the group of friends trapped in the magical world of Dungeons & Dragons. Known for his sarcasm and frequent cowardice, he's often the butt of jokes. Yet, when danger strikes, Eric's bravery emerges, and he uses his magical shield to protect his friends. Despite his complaints and fears, his loyalty and courage make him an essential part of the group's quest to find their way home.

Learn more about Eric in his Champion Spotlight.

[h3]Verthisathurgiesh Mehen[/h3]

Mehen is a tall, powerful dragonborn with dull-ocher scales and a blunt attitude. With strong opinions on the right course of action, he is just as comfortable yelling orders on the battlefield as he is fiercely protecting his daughters. Despite a life thrown into turmoil after being exiled from his clan and attempting to raise twin tieflings, Farideh & Havilar, Mehen remains resilient in his sense of self and his abilities with a falchion.

Learn more about Mehen when his spotlight goes live on January 3rd!

[h2]Flex Champions[/h2]
Flex Slots allow players to unlock additional Champions and earn chests during
events, choosing from a pool of retired Champions associated with the event.
This collection of retired Champions includes the Champions from previous years of the
event as well as some Champions whose events have been retired.
This event's Flex Slot pool includes:


[h2]Event Augments[/h2]

• Augment 1: Boon Enhancements (Returning Augment)
  Description: The power of most event boon buffs is increased by up to eight times.

• Augment 2: Empowered Rewards (Returning Augment)
  Description: Tier 2 and higher event variants award Corrupted Gems in addition to their normal rewards.
  
• Augment 3: Improved Weekly Offers (New Augment)
  Description: Weekly Offers will be of at least "Rare" (blue) rarity during this event, with even better odds of the higher rarities.
  
• Augment 4: Worth The Wait (Returning Augment)
  Description: Rebalanced Champion Mehen will unlock at the start of week two of this event, and completing his tier 2+ variants awards double chests!

You can check out which Augments are active at any time by mousing over the Event Banner.

[h2]Wintershield Feedback Wanted[/h2]
We want to hear about your experiences in Idle Champions! What do you think about Eric the Cavalier? Are you excited to see a reworked Mehen?? Your participation and feedback are invaluable, and we would love to have you join our community on one of our official platforms:

• The Official Idle Champions Discord.
• The Official Idle Champions Subreddit.
  
• Follow us on Twitter/X, Facebook, Bluesky or Instagram.
  

Welcome to our preview for the Wintershield Event Augments!

Our first Event of 2025 launches on Wednesday, January 1st - New Year's Day! For more info on the Event Augments for Wintershield 8, read on!

[h2]Wintershield Year 8 Event Augments[/h2]

• Augment 1: Boon Enhancements (Returning Augment)
  Description: The power of most event boon buffs is increased by up to eight times.

• Augment 2: Empowered Rewards (Returning Augment)
  Description: Tier 2 and higher event variants award Corrupted Gems in addition to their normal rewards.
  

• Augment 3: Improved Weekly Offers (New Augment)
  Description: Weekly Offers will be of at least "Rare" (blue) rarity during this event, with even better odds of the higher rarities.
  

• Augment 4: Worth The Wait (Returning Augment)
  Description: Rebalanced Champion Mehen will unlock at the start of week two of this event, and completing his tier 2+ variants awards double chests!

We hope you enjoy these Event Augments! Please tell us about your experiences with Augments in Idle Champions. The best way for us to hear your feedback would be for you to join our community on an officially-supported platform:

• The Official Idle Champions Discord.
• The Official Idle Champions Subreddit.
  
• Follow us on Twitter/X, Facebook, Bluesky or Instagram.
  

Eric is the Cavalier of the group of friends trapped in the magical world of Dungeons & Dragons. Known for his sarcasm and frequent cowardice, he's often the butt of jokes. Yet, when danger strikes, Eric's bravery emerges, and he uses his magical shield to protect his friends. Despite his complaints and fears, his loyalty and courage make him an essential part of the group's quest to find their way home.

Eric is a Support, Tanking and Gold Find Champion who reluctantly protects his friends while trapped in a foreign world. He enhances his allies' knockback capabilities while shielding them from ranged and magical attacks. This Cavalier is versatile in how he buffs the formation, all while keeping an eye out for Gold and Corrupted Gems.

For details on this sarcastic Cavalier, read on!

[h2]Eric the Cavalier[/h2]
Patron Eligibility: Mirt, Vajra, Elminster (until January 1st, 2028)

[h3]Abilities[/h3]
[h3]Basic Attack[/h3]

• Forceful Bash(melee) -Eric hits the closest enemy with his shield, dealing one hit and knocking them back a short distance.

[h3]Specializations A[/h3]

• Trait: Cautious - Eric increases the damage of all Champions by 100%, increased by 100% for each column they are in front of him, stacking multiplicatively.
  
• Trait: Brave - Eric increases the damage of all Champions by 100%, increased by 100% for each column they are behind him, stacking multiplicatively.
  
• Trait: Sarcastic - Eric increases the damage of adjacent Champions by 600%.
  

[h3]Formation Abilities[/h3]

• Cavalier's Code - Eric increases the effect of his Trait specialization choice and the party's Gold Find by 20% for each enemy that has spawned in the current area, stacking multiplicatively up to 100 enemies. Boss enemies count as 25 enemies for this ability.
  
• Shield of the Cavalier - Eric increases the health of all other Champions by 25% of his max health, and when any Champion in the formation gains temporary health, the amount gained is increased by 100%.
  
• Preferred Target - All Ranged and Magic attacking enemies target Eric before any other Champion in the formation.
  
• Keep Away - For the first 60 seconds in any area, Eric increases the distance of all knockback effects by 100%.
  
• Corrupted Gem Scavenger - Eric can help scavenge up to 5000 additional Corrupted Gems when killing bosses. While this cap is not reached, Eric has a 10% chance of 10 Corrupted Gems each time a boss is defeated. The cap increases by 150 every day.
  

[h3]Specializations B[/h3]

• Unassuming Force - Eric increases the damage bonus of his Trait specialization choice by 100% for each Champion in the formation with a total ability score of 78 or less, stacking multiplicatively.
  
• Youthful Valor - Eric increases the damage bonus of his Trait specialization choice by 100% for each Champion in the formation with an age of 20 or less, stacking multiplicatively.
  
• Treasure Hunters - Eric increases the damage bonus of his Trait specialization choice by 100% for each Champion in the formation with the Gold Find role, stacking multiplicatively.
  

[h3]Ultimate Ability[/h3]

• Protective Field(magic) -Eric's shield projects a powerful force field, dealing 1 ultimate hit to all monsters while protecting the Champions from all damage for 10 seconds.
  

[h3]Equipment[/h3]

[h3]Feats[/h3]

[h3]Uncommon[/h3]

• Selflessness
  Increases the damage of all Champions by 10%.
  
• Frugal
  Increases all Gold found by 10%.
  
• Tough
  Increases the health of Eric by 15%.
  
• Defensive Duelist
  Eric takes 5 more Enemies attacking to get overwhelmed.
  
• Humble Strength
  Increases the effect of Eric's Cavalier's Code ability by 20%.
  
• Cowardly Commander
  Increases the base effect of Eric's Trait specializations by 20%.
  

[h3]Rare[/h3]

• Inspiring Leader
  Increases the damage of all Champions by 25%.
  
• Lucky
  Increases all Gold found by 25%.
  
• Resilient
  Increases the health of Eric by 30%.
  
• Calm Under Pressure
  Eric takes 10 more Enemies attacking to get overwhelmed.
  
• Hidden Potential
  Increases the effect of Eric's Cavalier's Code ability by 40%.
  
• Opportunistic Bravado
  Increases the base effect of Eric's Trait specializations by 40%.
  
• Misplaced Confidence
  Increases the effect of Unassuming Force, Youthful Valor, and Treasure Hunters abilities by 40%.
  

[h3]Epic[/h3]

• Cavalier Approach
  Increases the per column effect of Eric's Trait: Cautious and Trait: Brave specializations by 80%
  Unlockable as an Event Reward
• Friendly Resolve
  Increases the effect of Unassuming Force, Youthful Valor, and Treasure Hunters abilities by 80%.
  Available for 50,000 Gems or in the Stone Golem Eric Theme Pack
• Scholar
  Increases the Intelligence score of Eric by 2.
  Unlockable as an Event Reward

[h3]We Want YOUR Feedback[/h3]
How do you feel about Eric and the Saturday Morning Squad so far? Join our community and let us know what you think!

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The Champions have finally rescued R04M and learned the truth -- or have they?

In the latest Turn of Fortune's Wheel adventures, the Champions will find themselves on a path that takes them back to familiar territory, where they will discover who their allies are and who the true villain is!

Note: You will need to have completed the previous two Turn of Fortune's Wheel adventures, The Lost Modron and Realm of Enchanted Mysteries, in order to access these new adventures.

[h2]Campaign: Turn of Fortune's Wheel[/h2]


[h3]Full Circle[/h3]
Travel back to Sigil as the puzzle pieces start to fall into place.

[h3]Variant: Fully Aligned[/h3]
Travel back to Sigil as the alignment puzzle pieces start to fall into place.

• R04M joins the formation. He doesn't do much other than get in the way.
  
• You may not have two Champions in the formation with the exact same base alignment.
  
• Complete Area 1150
  

[h3]Return to Fortune's Wheel[/h3]
Search Fortune's Wheel and the Platinum Rooms to find Shemeshka!

[h3]Variant: Four Corners[/h3]
Search Fortune's Wheel and the Platinum Rooms while evading hordes of Modrons!

• You may only use Lawful Good, Chaotic Good, Lawful Evil, and/or Chaotic Evil Champions.
  
• In each non-boss area, there is a 25% chance that 5 Modrons spawn before the first wave. The number of Modrons spawned increases by 5 for every 50 areas completed, capped at 50 Modrons. They drop no gold nor count towards quest progress.
  
• While any Modron enemy is alive, non-Modron enemies can't take damage.
  
• Complete Area 1200.
  

[h2]Turn of Fortune's Wheel Tier 5 Blessings[/h2]

• Gehenna's Heights - Local: Increase the damage of all Champions in bench seats of 7 or higher by 100%
  
• Depths of Limbo - Local: Increase the damage of all Champions for each Champion with a CON score of 14 or lower by 100% (additive)
  
• The Mercy of Hades - Local: Monsters killed in their first second after spawning have a 10% chance to count for an additional quest progress.
  
• The Infinite Power of the Abyss - Global: Increase the damage of all Champions by 10% for each completed event tier, stacking additively.

[h3]We Want YOUR Feedback[/h3]
Our Planescape journey is almost complete. Are you excited for the finale next month? How do you feel about the story so far?

Your feedback is important to us, and we would love to have you join our community on one of our official platforms:

• The Official Idle Champions Discord.
• The Official Idle Champions Subreddit.
  
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Welcome to our 2024 End of Year Update!

First of all, I'd like to thank everyone for supporting Idle Champions this year through some very big transitions. We started the year with our seventh season in January, rolled out Guide and Collections Quests in February, introduced Events 2.0 in March, and transitioned to Platinum in October. It has been a very busy year!

In this update, we're addressing some long-running player feedback with multiple QoL changes. We're also fixing some over-tuned Champion scaling issues, with dismantles for affected Champions to compensate. While this update does not address everything players have been asking for, there's a lot to be excited about that will make your Idle Champions experience smoother and more fun, no matter what kind of player you are!

As always, we look forward to reading your feedback on these changes, and we'll see you in 2025!


[h2]Active Tasks[/h2]


Introducing a new UI feature to help you find your next quest, the Active Tasks Dialog!

We want this to be a one-stop shop when you question what to do next. From here, you can quickly check which Guide and Collection Quests are closest to being completed, your current Event completion progress, Daily Rewards, and more! The Active Task Dialog will now pop up instead of Daily Rewards on initial load, since they are incorporated into this dialog.

You can access this dialog from the exclamation mark button above the bench next to the event button.

[h2]UI Changes[/h2]

Here are all the upcoming changes to the UI you can expect to see!
[h3]Champion Search Update[/h3]

• The Champion Search feature has been updated with a new feature to help you search based on a Champion's attack speed! This can be found in the Base Attack filter as a sliding bar.

[h3]Collections Update[/h3]
The following changes have been made to the Collections screen:

• Added Debuff role to the Champion Collection filter
  
• Improved performance of scrolling many collections
  
• Added Shiny/Golden indication to the Equipment Collection
  
• Added Event to source filter for the Feat Collection
  
• Guide and Collection quest box indicates how many quests are ready to turn in
  
• Collections: Added new color coding system to progress bars:
  
  • Light Green counts towards Progress
    
  • Gold counts towards Premium Progress
    
  • Dark Green does not count towards overall progress
• Collections: Time Gates no longer counts towards overall progress
  
• Collections: Campaign progress now includes progress from campaigns you have not yet unlocked
  

[h2]Gameplay Changes[/h2]

[h3]Area Cap Increase[/h3]

• We've increased the highest area from 2001 to 2501! Hope your formation is ready to tackle the incredibly powerful monsters in these higher areas!

[h3]New Feats[/h3]
We're adding in some highly requested Feats for 2 Champions: Nrakk and Briv!

• Heightened Focus: Increases the damage of all Champions by 10% and Nrakk's ultimate now hits once and sets his Ki Points to 15 without any mini-game. This will be added to Nrakk's Feat list!
• Perfect Focus: Increases the damage of all Champions by 200% and Nrakk's ultimate now hits once and sets his Ki Points to 30 without any mini-game. This can be found in Vajra's Patron shop for 100,000 Symbols of Vajra.
  • If both the Heightened Focus and Perfect Focus Feats are equipped, the 30 ki points will take precedence when using the ultimate.
• Accurate Acrobatics: Briv's Unnatural Haste will always skip the guaranteed number of areas, with no chance to skip an additional one. This can be found in Mirt's Patron shop for 100,000 Ruby Coins.
  • Note: The launch for this Feat has been delayed while we address last-minute bugs discovered in testing. We hope to release it before the end of the year.

[h3]Spurt Update[/h3]

• We've implemented a cap on Spurt's slot 6 equipment item, Ultimate Cooldown. Its maximum increase is now 5280 seconds while at an item level cap of 21750, without any gilding.
  
  • We'll be enabling a 1 week full dismantle for Spurt due to this change. All item levels over the cap will be refunded automatically.

[h3]Rust Update[/h3]
We've had to change some of Rust's numbers to help balance him; see the changes below.

• Rust's base effect of his One Gold Piece ability has been changed from 10% to 5%
  
• Rust's effect of his "I Know Those Guys" Feat has been changed from 20% to a 10% increase to the effect of One Gold Piece
  
• Rust's effect of his "All I Need" Feat changed from 40% to a 20% increase to the effect of One Gold Piece
  
  • We'll be enabling a 1 week full dismantle for Rust due to these changes.

[h3]Yorven Update[/h3]

• We've updated Yorven's Danger Sense ability so that it now targets all Champions in the formation and is no longer positional.

[h3]Dungeon Master Update[/h3]

• Dungeon Master's Specialization Special Guest Star has been updated to target the full seat of Champions now rather than 1 singular Champion!

[h3]Fen Update[/h3]

• Fen's Patron Oath has been updated so that as long as she is in a party, her Patron's Oath will affect all parties.

[h3]Gem Shop & Store Update[/h3]

• Harvestguard Presto will be available for 20,000 gems in the Gem Shop, and the Feat that was available during the Anniversary Celebration (Room to Breathe) is now available for 50,000 gems!
  
• Additionally, with this update, we will retire our Starter Packs, replacing them with new ones that include Platinum. You will find them on the Platinum purchase page in the in-game shop.

[h3]We Want YOUR Feedback[/h3]
How do you feel about the changes in this update? Let us know your favorite!
Your participation and feedback are invaluable, and we would love to have you join our community on one of our official platforms: