Patches/Patch 400043

This patch went live on 25 July 2023 and is the ninth patch that contains balancing changes.

General Changes

• Enabled playback of outdated replays.
  • Replays may not accurately reflect the original gameplay if the replay contains actions that have since been affected by balancing patches.

General Fixes

• Improved overall performance in the Forge and while within game creation lobbies.
• Improved the remaining days display of auctions in German.
• Improved the RPvE Cosmetic Portrait Names to be more consistent.
• Improved the descriptions of various achievements to be more consistent:
  • Codebreaker
  • Lone Ranger
  • The Nightmare's Nightmare
  • Urban Planner

Card Changes

Player Card Changes

• Abyssal Warder (Fire) / Abyssal Warder (Frost):

• Active ability  Crystal Spikes:
  • Improved description to be more accurate in German.

• Burning Spears:

• Toggle ability  Weapon Change:
  • Ability display on the card visualization has been reordered.

• Fleshbender (Shadow):

• Fixed the card tooltip to show the correct English name in non-English languages on upgrade 3.

• Hammerfall (Frost):

• Passive ability  Breeze of Strength:
  • Fixed the ability tooltip to display 40 instead of only 15 shielding capacity regeneration.
  • Improved description to be more consistent.

• Life Weaving:

•  Pain Link:
  • Fixed the damage transfer to no longer target nearby structures but only units.

• Lord Cyrian:

• Fixed the description of the upgrade card for upgrade 3 in German.

• Lyrish Knight / Lyrish Knight (Promo):

• Passive ability  Steadfast /  Steadfast:
  • The ability is now displayed as the 5th ability in the card tooltip.
    • Due to lack of space, it remains omitted on the card visualization.

• Mind Control:

•  Infinite Domination:
  • Added the missing origin name of the debuff immunity tooltip.

• Regrowth:

•  Emerald Blessing:
  • Improved the translation of the Godspell name to be more accurate in German.

• Sleet Storm:

•  Heavy Rain:
  • Improved the upgrade card visualization of upgrade 1.

• Stone Warrior (Frost):

• Active ability  Blessed Shatter Lance:
  • Fixed the ability to properly work against some frozen conditions.

• Sunken Temple (Nature):

• Autocast ability  Gifted Plague:
  • Fixed an issue that caused upgrade U0-U2 to not spawn Pest Creepers.

Non-Player Card Entity Changes

• Lost Crawler:

Disclaimer: This is about the generic entity in PVE scenarios.

• Passive ability Blowout:
  • Improved the description to be more accurate.

• Caustic Sentinel:

Disclaimer: This is about the entity introduced by the nature battlegrounds preset.

• Autocast ability Acid Spit:
  • Added an impact visual effect to the projectile.

• Overmind:

Disclaimer: This is about the entity introduced by the nature battlegrounds preset.

• Autocast ability Infinite Domination:
  • Fixed a bug where the ability did not change the population count when mind-controlling a unit.

• Swamp Drake:

Disclaimer: This is about the entity introduced by the nature battlegrounds preset.

• The general mind-control immunity that allowed power expenditure without actually granting the target has been removed.

• Wheel of Juvenescence:

Disclaimer: This is about the entity introduced by the nature battlegrounds preset.

• Fixed a typo in the card's name.
• Toggle ability Gift of Juvenescence:
  • Improved description to be more consistent in non-English languages.

Test Server Card Entity Changes

• Teststrike:

Disclaimer: This is about the card exclusively available on the test server.

• Adjusted the internal classifications and removed the visualization of a Fire affinity.
• Increased the unit's life points from 5000 to 10000.
• Increased the average damage dealt over 20 seconds from 5000 to 10000.
• Changed the size type from XL to L.
• Decreased the visual model size scaling from 200% to 135%.
• Added a German card name to search for it.
• Active ability Fire Lance:
  • Fixed incorrect handling of overkill damage.
  • Removed M-sized counter damage bonus.
  • Improved description to be more consistent.
• Passive ability Fiery Birth:
  • Increased damage from 10000 (30000 in total) to 30000 (90000 in total).
  • Fixed incorrect handling of overkill damage.
  • Removed M-sized counter damage bonus.
  • Improved description to be more consistent.