by Admin“Data begets victory, and victory yields data.”
– Archmagos Draykavac
A new balance update is now live, bringing a wide array of changes for the two newest factions to join the game: the Dark Mechanicum and the Knight Houses. Both of these factions joined the battlefield a bit too strong from the get-go, so we are reining in their biggest offenders.
Read on to discover the full list of changes:
Knight Houses
- Talia Gaerun: Ability changed to: (1) Give Shield to your Weapons
- Thunderstrike Gauntlet: Now only stuns attacked enemies. Changed description to: Your Warlord gains +2/0 and “Stun enemies attacked” this turn
- Targeting Protocols: Cost increased from 7 to 8
- Hekaton Claw: Ability cost increased from 3 to 4 Plasma
- Refinery Hub: Health lowered from 5 to 4
Dark Mechanicum
- Tacitus Proctor: No longer has a passive ability
- Anacharis Scoria: Ability changed to: (2) Discard a random card to draw two cards
- Archmagos Draykavac: Ability cost lowered from 2 to 1
- Chrom Scyllax: Health lowered from 5 to 4, and description changed to: Networked Anima. When you trigger Networked Anima, give +1/+1 to another random friendly troop
- Cyclothrathine Thallax: Health lowered from 5 to 4
- Tenebrax Stalker: Health lowered from 5 to 4
- Chrom Thallax: Attack lowered from 3 to 2; description changed to: Rally: Discard a random card to deal 2-3 damage to a random enemy
- Xana II: Cost increased from 1 to 2
- Scion of Cyclothrathe: Description changed to: Give Shield to a friendly unit. If it’s a Vehicle, also give it 0/+2
- Lachesis Thanatar: Attack lowered from 5 to 4
- Silica Mutus: Description changed to: Create a copy in your hand of a Vehicle
- Krol Yaekube: No longer has Shield
Raven Guard
- Agapito Nev: Initiative lowered from High to Medium
Imperial Fists
- Fafnir Rann: Health lowered from 35 to 30
Ultramarines
- Aeonid Thiel: Initiative lowered from High to Medium
Mechanicum
- Xi-Volta Thallax: Ability cost increased from 1 to 2
- Alchemist Gramaton: Cost increased from 4 to 5
- Machine Spirit: Requirement increased from 8 to 10
Chaos
- Ar’gakhol the Goreborn: Health lowered from 40 to 35
- Ebos Theonoi: Changed passive to ‘Resolution: Give 0/+1 to adjacent Chaos troops’
- Baleful Assembly: No longer affects the cards in your hand. Changed description to ‘Lower the cost of all Chaos troops in your deck to 1’
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