Gaming Guides and Resources || Dan Heilman

Watcher of Realms Patch Notes:

Below are the patch note SUMMARY, the complete list can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jOClZURGonVVIAz8falBQFNrYLRzZ3BmSliLZuIbLGE/edit#gid=910854974

 

04/15/2025

I. HEROES
[Anora, The Silver Seraphim] Enhancement
  • Cost reduced from 22 to 19.
  • Talent Enhanced: The stack cap of Ancient Spirit reduced from 15 to 6, and its effect per stack increased from 1% ATK increase to 3% ATK increase.
  • [Wyrm Dive] Enhanced: During the Ultimate, Labor’s Basic ATK has an expanded DMG range.
  • Awakened I: When Noxious Breath activates, immediately inflicts an Immobilized State for 2 sec (previously 1 sec) on up to 8 enemies in range.
[Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies] Enhancement
  • [Ultimate Talent] Added additional effect: When the hero is in a Cultist team, the hero’s Basic ATK and Plague of Ruin restore HP equal to the hero’s 50% ATK to 1 Cultist ally in ATK range.
  • [Corrupted Swarm] Added additional effect: Grants 30% AoE DMG Reduction to Cultist allies in range.
  • Cost reduced from 22 to 19.
  • Added New Faction: Esotericist
  • [Ultimate Talent]
    • Dream Eater summon cooldown reduced from 15 to 10 sec.
    • After the death of a Dream Eater, Rage restored to Beatrix increased to 3%.
    • Maximum number of Dream Eaters increased to 5.
  • [Soul Feast]
    • During the Ultimate, the hero’s and Dream Eater’s DMG Increase changed to 50/55/60/70/70%.
    • After casting the Ultimate, Dream Eaters’ targeting range expanded to the entire battlefield.
    • Ultimate’s Rage Cap is reduced by 100.
  • [Spirit Drain]
    • Before: When an allied summon spawns on the battlefield, increases the hero’s ATK by 1%, stacking up to 5/6/7/8/10 times.
    • After: Beatrix’s ATK increases by 10%. When an allied summon spawns on the battlefield, increases the hero’s ATK by 1%, stacking up to 1/2/3/4/5 times.
  • Awakened I changed to: Each stack of Spirit Drain increases ATK by 2%. Dream Eater’s death can also grant 1 stack of Spirit Drain.
  • Awakened II changed to: Cost -2.
  • Awakened III changed to: Increases the number of Dream Eaters summoned by the Ultimate by 1. And when the Talent is triggered, there is a 25% chance to summon 2 Dream Eaters.
  • Awakened IV changed to: ATK +300.
  • Awakened V changed to: When Dream Eater dies, Beatrix restores 10% of her HP.
 

II. Tower of Deception

Tower of Deception – Launches on 04/21/2025, 00:00 (UTC-8)
  1. Tower of Deception is a tower-climbing challenge that resets every 4 calendar weeks. When a season resets, both stage progress and rewards will be reset.
  2. The challenge consists of Common stages, Boss stages, and Hidden Chamber stages. Common stages offer one-time clear rewards, while Boss stages and Hidden Chamber stages require players to select challenge modifiers, with rewards based on the maximum number of modifiers selected per attempt.
  3. When newly unlocked or after each season reset, players can clear up to 5 stages per day (Hidden Chamber stages not counted).

04/07/2025

  • Rework of Falcia
  • Enhancement of Solcadens and Calypso
  • Titus reduced cost
  • Malvira issue fixed
  • Adjusted Cataclysm and Hell’s Lament sets

03/26/2025

I. PVP

  1. With the new season, the following Raids will have new stages and monster mechanics:

1) Anti-Air DPS Challenge

2) AoE DPS Challenge

3) Single-Target DPS Challenge

  1. With the new season, your previous Auto-fight records for offense and defense will not carry over to the new stages, but your hero lineup for both will be preserved. During defense play, the System AI will automatically take over your defense. (Please update your defense team promptly when the new season begins to better counter offenses from other Commanders.)
  2. Arena:

Added preview for next round’s monster spawns. 

II. OTHERS

  1. Custom gear recommendations now support essential attribute settings.
  2. Added gear set effect description view when editing plans.
  3. Maximum number of savable gear plans increased from 50 to 80.
  4. Increased Demon Soldier drop rate in Gear Raid.

03/20/2025

I. HEROES 
Durza, The Bloodtusk Shaman
Hero Reset:
[Ultimate Talent]
Before: Basic ATKs inflict 50% Slow for 2 sec. Attacking slowed enemies will grant 70 increased ATK Spd. for 3 sec.
After: Basic ATKs inflict 50% Slow for 2 sec. When allies within the Ultimate Range have HP no higher than 70%, 50%, and 30%, they gain 30%, 50%, and 70% DMG Reduction respectively.
[Sanguine Rite]
Before: Instantly reduces 50/50/60/60/60% of the current HP of allies in range. Then starts a ritual, which lasts for 10 sec, to provide allies in range with 50/70/70/100/100 increased ATK Spd. and deduct 20% of their current HP every 2 sec.
After: Instantly reduces 50% of the current HP of allies in range. Then starts a ritual, which lasts for 12/12/14/14/16 sec, to provide allies in range with 50/70/70/100/100 increased ATK Spd. and deduct 15% of their current HP every 2 sec.
[Divine Possession]
Before: During Sanguine Rite, each time an ally’s HP is deducted, if that ally’s HP falls below 50/50/60/60/75%, they gain 30/40/40/50/50% DMG Increase for 2 sec. If not, half of the DMG Increase will be granted.

Fixed an issue where the skill info hyperlinks of Ember Strike didn’t update with Tranquil Reflection skill levels.

Fixed an issue where allies’ skills sometimes couldn’t affect Kigiri during Sweeping Strike and Ember Strike.

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Optimized the dispel effects for certain heroes. 
 
II. GUILD
  1. Added Guild Dividend System
(1) Guild Dividend unlocks at Guild Lvl. 4.
(2) Once unlocked, guild members can claim Guild Coin rewards every Monday based on the previous week’s total Guild Activity.
(3) Commanders with higher Activity contributions and Guild Leaders/Vice Leaders will receive more Guild Coins.
  1. Increased Activity rewards from Guild War attacks and Guild Quests.
  2. Introduced Low-Activity Guild feature.
(1) Low-Activity Guild status check activates after 3 natural weeks (including establishment week). A guild is marked as Low-Activity if it has fewer than 4 members with Activity above 30.
(2) Members of Low-Activity Guilds can leave without cooldown, accept invites from other guilds, and receive weekly recommendations for active guilds.
(3) For Low-Activity Guild members, the system automates the process of leaving one guild and joining another.
(4) Low-Activity status is removed when the guild has 4 or more members with Activity above 30.
  1. Removed the quests requiring Rare Skill Crystal from Guild Donation.
III. OTHERS
  1. Gear storage capacity increased by 300.
  2. In Faction Trial and Gear Dungeon, the Gear and Artifacts info of the current lineup can be saved when Auto-fight records are saved.
  3. Optimized tooltips display in Exclusive Gear details pop-up.
  4. Fixed an issue where Demon Soldier – Scalekin Shaman’s skill Renewal Glow couldn’t fully restore HP for other Demon Soldiers.
  5. Control optimization: Improved Demon Soldier deployment experience by reducing drag and drop speed.
  6. Added a new Settings option to disable in-game Vibration.
  7. Hero Fusion notification optimization: The yellow dot and pop-up will not appear for non-time-limited Legendary hero fusion.
  8. Optimized the “Claim the Tide Onslaught rewards 1 time” Daily Quest. Now, tapping the “Go” button redirects to the Tide interface.
  9. After clearing N3-3, players can switch Camp music between the default track and three additional options.
 
 

03/10/2025

March Patch notes will add:

  • Morrigan A3 now adds 25% slow and 1 extra bomb
  • Talula changes
  •  Added 4 new Artifacts
  • Guild war S8 Starts: reduced attacks from 8 to 5
  • Added new faction wars levels
  • Changes to Void Rift including quick clears
  • Added new Achievements

02/12/2025

February Patch notes will add:

  • Changes to Volka and Yuri
  • Added 4 refreshes to the Black Market

01/09/2025

January Patch notes will add:

  • Kigiri Bond and changes to a couple heroes
  • Changes to gear
  • Guild Season 7
  • Other Changes

12/09/2024

December Patch notes will add:

  • Init buff to add damage reduction
  • increased drop rates of gleaming meteorites in VR
  • Buffed Hell’s Lament set
  • Increased artifact storage
  • added new exclusive gear
  • New arena features for saving gear and artifacts

11/11/2024

November update will bring:

  • Pity changes to summons!
    • Regular: 180 (from 200)
    • Divine: 20 (from 65?)
    • Ancient: 185 (from 200)
    • Limited 200 (from 250)
  • Valkyra and Kai Buffs
  • Guild war S6 changes
    • Manually update gear
  • Gear
    • Added new gear sets
    • Added new exclusive gear
    • Selling ancients gives special mats
  • New Quests and other changes

10/14/2024

WoR will be receiving a major update in mid-October! First of all, we want to thank everyone for their continued support of the game! We understand that some players have expressed concerns about WoR in the community due to recent update delays caused by a delayed Store review process. So, as soon as we confirmed the feasibility of the update content, we are excited to share this great news with you, ensuring you get reliable first-hand information!

This mid-October update will bring:

  • Arena: Added Apex shop and coins
  • Hero Changes: Anora, Hex, Nissandei, Gisele, Selene, and Praetus
  • Gear: Added gear recommendation customization, titan/wisdom forge, gear capacity, and quick enhance into menu
  • AMR: Added new stages
  • Other: Added Unpolished Legendary Soulstones, new skins and achievements.

 

09/09/2024

-Changes for S5 Guild War

-Changed drop rate of promotion raid mats

-Changed drops from Drake Chasm (GB)

 

08/12/2024

-Praetus buff and Maw gets one more deployment

-Added 3 new exclusive Artifacts: Trusk, Falcia, and Kineza

-Buffs to Zelus and abomination artifacts

-Reduced difficulty of Apocalypse 1 Titanic Ruins and added a timer

-Adjusted the method of updating gear and artifacts in Guild War

-Added the War Room to the camp and re-arranged the camp

-You can now customize the gear recommendations

-Increased the XP gained in gear and promotion raids

-Adjusted extreme raid stage drops

-You can now enhance items in the background/auto fight menu

-Skin shop changed to Boreas, Olague, and Theowin

-Arena now saves gear from the auto run being recorded

-Other miscellaneous changes.

 

07/15/2024

-Added levels to VR Epilogue

-Laya: buffed her lord skill

-Ain: buffed his lord skill

-Admiral Claw: Adjusted skill descriptions

-Demon Soldiers: increased drop rates, balance some soldiers, fixed bugs

-Several Variant gear adjustments, and added tiers for gear

-Gear Dungeons: levels adjusted for difficulty

-Adjusted drop rate of E1/2 levels

-Guild and friend changes

-Adjustments to guild war Season 4

-Other changes

 

06/17/2024

-Added Titanic Ruins (new weekly guild boss)

-Added Ancient blood (4% damage) to unnamed heroes 

-Ajax, Nauvras, and Lili changes

-Added Myca Hero Fusion (permanent)

-increase gear drop rates and storage space

-Background battle now works (can actually do stuff while it runs)

-Added 5 exclusive artifacts

-Added gear refining

-added a shop for skins

-Added Demonic Crusade (6/24/24)

-lots of other random changes.

 

05/20/2024

-Adding the Demonic Crusade (Similar to PVE GVG)

-Gear Dungeons will re-open (including new Gear Dungeon)

-Added Odyssey Quests (New quest line with rewards, Dolores Skin, and New Legendary Innit)

-New Hero: Dhalia and her new exclusive artifact “Orb of Ruin”

-Changed gear forging to give more stats that fit the sets (attack stats on attack sets)

-Added new Gear Plan (saved gear sets)

-Added new campaign stages and EXP stage

-Removed smaller rewards from Nighmare GB and increased chances for better rewards

-Moved a bunch of buttons

04/22/2024

I. Hero Adjustments

-Volka Buffed

-Falcia Buffed

II. Effect Adjustments

-Revamped all poison heroes and skills.

III. Quick Dismiss

Introduced Quick Dismiss Feature

IV. Summon

Added Backup Storage (You can only  move from backup to hero storage).

V. Guild War

-Extended Season rank calculation from 1 to 8 days.

VI. Arena

-Arena now offers additional Rewards for offense victories.

VII. Others

NEW

-Legendary skill crystals now drop in Void Rift

-upper summon limit increased to 30k

-etc

ADJUSTED

-bug fix: background fights now frant xp to non-max lvl heroes.

-optimized gear recommendation logic

-etc.

 

 

03/25/2024

I. Summoning Pool

Changed 10x to 15x.

II. Gear Dungeon

Gear Dungeon 4 added.

III. Gear

Added new gear sets: Wicked, Light’s Grace, Hell’s Lament, Tempered Will, Unshaken Will, and Morale.

IV. Hero Adjustment

Boreas Nerf.

V. Guild War

Small Optimizations.

VI. Other

Added top picks (favorites).

Added Forge and Identify.

Added Sanguine Fabric and Smouldering Scale to stages 19,20,21 of GR1/2/3.

02/26/2024

Update Duration: 02/26/2024 19:15 – 02/26/2024 21:15 (UTC-8)

‘Compensation: Diamond x100

 

I. VOID RIFT

1. Added Mount – Nemesis to Void Rift.

2, Nemesis’s Skill: There is a chance to immediately clear the stage that
allows Auto-fight.

4, Source: Commanders can now collect Shards in Void Rift (Nightmare)
to activate Mount – Nemesis.

Note: Void Rift will be temporarily closed for update from
(02/26/2024, 00:00 until the end of maintenance. Stay tuned!

 

Il. BACKGROUND FIGHT

[Background Fight] feature is about to arrive!
[Background Fight] is expected to be launched on 03/12/2024, 00:00

(UTC-8), You will be notified via Mail at that time. If this time is ‘adjusted, please pay attention to any follow-up mail. 

1. Requirements: Clear Campaign Stage N8-4 to unlock. Commanders can enable Background Fight on the Auto-fight page and check progress in Camp.

2. While Background Fight is on, Commanders have the freedom to carry out most other tasks in the game, with the exception of entering other battles.

3. If the game starts running in the system background, the Background Fight pauses temporarily; it will resume as soon as you return to the game.

 

III. FRIENDLY FACEOFF

[Friendly Faceoff] is about to arrive

[Friendly Faceoff] is expected to be launched on 03/12/2024, 00:00 (UTC-8). You will be notified via Mail at that time. If this time is adjusted, please pay attention to any follow-up mail.

 

1. Requirements: Clear Campaign Stage H5-14 to unlock.

2. Friendly Faceoff can only be initiated between friends and Guild ‘members. By tapping your friends! or Guild members’ avatars and selecting [Friendly Faceoff], you can choose to have a Friendly Faceoff in Arena mode or Guild War mode, and your defense and offense teams will mirror those teams you set for the corresponding mode.

 

IV. FACTION TRIAL

1. Challenge chances will not be consumed for the first clearance.

2. To save the time required for Commanders to obtain all rewards for stage, they can only be challenged 1 time per day. The total amount of rewards will remain the same.

 

V. GUILD WAR

Demon soldier balance adjustments:

  1. Demon Soldier –