Forge Essence, New Forge, Chance Stones and Bestiary

🕛 Goes live: today, October 5, at 15:30 Brasília time (UTC−3) · 18:30 UTC

The Forge has been rebuilt: Forge Essence arrives, no failure destroys your item anymore, and we're adding Chance Stones and the Protection Scroll. There's also news for the VIP Pass, Abilities and the Bestiary (formerly the Collection). ⚠️ Please read the Forge section: the bonus of each forge level changed, and that applies to items you already own.

🔥 Forge Essence

• In the Ritual, a new Deconstruct tab. It unlocks together with the Forge.
• Burn equipment, gems, runes, skill stones, Chance Stones, keys and time pieces to get Essence.
• The yield triples with each rarity: Common 10 · Uncommon 30 · Rare 90 · Epic 270 · Legendary 810 · Mythic 2,430 (at level 10). Equipment yields more with level: a level 300 Mythic gives 72,900.
• Burning a forged item also returns 60% of the Essence spent forging it (for anything forged from this update on).
• Up to 100 items at once. Auto-fill picks your Commons and Uncommons, and burning always asks for confirmation. Equipped or locked 🔒 items are left out.
• Essence belongs to your account and only comes from here: it can't be bought and doesn't drop.

⚒️ The new Forge

• Every attempt costs Gold + Essence.
• Chance per level: +1 to +4 100% · +5 90% · +6 80% · +7 70% · +8 60% · +9 50% · +10 40% · +11 30% · +12 25% · +13 20% · +14 15% · +15 10%
• No failure destroys the item. Up to +11, failing doesn't cost a level; from +12 to +15, the item goes back to +10.
• 🍀 Failure bonus: each consecutive failure on the same item adds +5% to its next attempt. Succeed and it goes back to normal.
• Auto-forge now goes all the way to +15.
• 📊 Stat bonus per forge level. Your items keep their forge level; what changed is how much each level adds. Up to +10 it's +5% per level (it used to be +8%). Hero Power and the rankings may shift because of this.
• +5: 40% → 25% · +8: 64% → 40% · +10: 80% → 50%
• +11: 88% → 60% · +12: 96% → 75% · +13: 104% → 95%
• +14: 112% → 120% · +15: 120% → 150%

🪨 Chance Stones

• Common +10% · Uncommon +20% · Rare +30% · Epic +40% · Legendary +50% · Mythic +60% chance on one manual forge attempt. The stone is used up whether you succeed or not.
• They come from Chance Stone Chests, which drop on any map (0.01% per block). The map's difficulty decides which chest drops, and the stone is rolled when you open it:
• Easy: Common 95% · Uncommon 5%
• Normal: Common 75% · Uncommon 20% · Rare 5%
• Hard: Common 55% · Uncommon 25% · Rare 15% · Epic 5%
• Very Hard: Common 35% · Uncommon 30% · Rare 20% · Epic 10% · Legendary 5%
• Inferno: Common 20% · Uncommon 30% · Rare 25% · Epic 15% · Legendary 7% · Mythic 3%

[*]Stones and chests can be sold on the Steam Community Market.

📜 Protection Scroll

• In the manual forge, tick Protect and pay with Essence: if it fails, the item doesn't lose a level (the failure bonus still adds up). Works from +12 to +15; the price grows with rarity, level and target. It's not an item: you pay each time you tick it.

⭐ Star Ritual

• Now costs Essence on top of Gold: 10,000 (1★) · 20,000 (2★) · 30,000 (3★).

🎲 Abilities

• New rarity odds when abilities are rolled: Common 40% · Uncommon 30% · Rare 20% · Epic 5% · Legendary 3% · Mythic 2% (was 50 · 30 · 11 · 5 · 3 · 1).
• Applies to new heroes and to the Skill Stone. Heroes you already own don't change.

👑 VIP Pass

• New perk: +15% Gold and +15% XP while farming, stacking with the Return Bonus and Boosts.
• New accounts start with 1 day of VIP Pass to try it out.

📖 Bestiary (formerly the Collection)

• The Collection is now called the Bestiary.
• Piece by piece: a page no longer needs all 8 pieces at once. Each piece already gives part of the bonus, and the 8th completes the page (a full page is worth the same as before).
• Any open page accepts pieces, without waiting for the previous one to close.
• A higher-rarity piece can go into a lower page, only if you tick that option in the confirmation.
• New tooltips on the piece, the bonus and each page. The "✓ Nx" shows how many pages the piece can still fill.
• The Bestiary room is lighter now, no more stutter.
• On the hero sheet, the Bestiary has its own line in each stat's breakdown.

🖥️ Interface & performance

• The first time you open the game after the update, it asks once: Classic or Graphics upgrade. You can switch anytime in Settings → Game or with the F8 key.
• Light mode (Graphics upgrade): in Settings → Video & Display. 30 FPS, simple aura, no trail. On weaker PCs it comes on by default; just turn it off if you prefer.
• Hero drawer (Graphics upgrade): All in battle now stays pinned at the top.
• Special chests (Classic): scrolling in all three, same-size cells, and the bulk sell box no longer lets your click go through to the item underneath.
• The Shop can now run percentage discounts.
• Wiki: new Bestiary tab, and the Forge & Fusion tab was rewritten with the new rules.

Have fun! 💣