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Bug Fixes
● Fixed the unavailable button bug caused by moving and recalling chess pieces.
● Fixed a bug that may cause a server down from interactions of Nyx Assassin's Carapace with Monks' Druken Stagger or Blademail.
● Fixed a bug that Meepo can potentially replicate forever.
● Fixed a bug that requires a move when promoting Meepo★★★.
● Fixed a bug which Lv.7 pieces may be Hexed into Meepo★★★ that is Lv.6.
● Fixed Morphling's Wave Form bug that may cause melee pieces to attack him from further grids.
● Fixed Sladar★★★ visual effect bugs with Immortal item. He now has a Golden version of the helmet.

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End-of-Season Rewards
● The EoS rewards for S9 Strange Egg (01/09 to 31/10) is based on the following:
♕Top 20 Queens (on Leaderboard): S9 Badge + ♕Queen rewards.
♕Queen: 320 Candies + S9 Crown (valid for S10) + Golden Easter Drodo (Legendary Courier).
♔King: 320 Candies + Silver Easter Drodo (Epic Courier).
♖Rook: 160 Candies + Green Easter Drodo (Rare Courier).
♗Bishop: 80 Candies + White Easter Drodo (Common Courier).
♘Knight: 40 Candies.
♙Pawn: 20 Candies.
● Top 20 Queens are rewarded based on their final places and the other ranks are rewarded for the highest rank achieved in the season.
● As usual, the last of the season (31/10) will be the off season break to award the execellent players. Games played on the day does not affect Rankings. New season S9 Strange Egg starts from 01/11!
● Although Faceless Void has lost to Spectre during the Arcana vote, he has won the most votes (27%) over Troll Warlord (20%) and Spectre (13%) during S9 Favourite Chess Piece Votes. He is expected to join DOTA AUTO CHESS sometime in the middle of S10.
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● Don't panic if you happen to find any bug or severe imbalance in the new patch. Please inform us about your findings through email. We will be releasing a new balacing patch before the new season starts.

Balancing Updates 2
Synergy Updates
● Added new effect for Kobolds' Divided We Stand:
(1) Kobold: When a Kobold piece reaches ★★★, it duplicates a copy. If you control a pair of identical Kobold pieces on the chessboard, summon a replica for each pair of identical chess pieces when battle starts.
● Transformed chess pieces by (4) Shaman's Hex no longer retain item bonuses.
● Humans' Spark of Mind: Changed ToK awarding rule.
(3) Humans: Grants a Tome of Knowledge at the start of a round.
(6) Humans: Grants 2 Tome of Knowledge upon winning a home battle with at least 1 friendly Human piece survived. (from 1 ToK guaranteed and 1 bonus when winning home battles)
● Trolls' Voodoo Frenzy: Slight changed the effect and text description.
(2) Trolls: Increases the attack speed of all allies by 20.
(4) Trolls: Increases the attack speed of all allies by 20. (down from +25)
(6) Trolls: All allies gain +15 attack speed for each succcessful attack. Maximum 15 stacks.
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Chess Piece Balancing
● Decreased Meepo★★★ level from 7 to 6, base health from 3000 to 2400.
● Balanced Meepo's Poof damage from 125/250/500 to 150/200/250.
● Decreased Luna's base armor from 2 to 1.
● Increased Phantom Assassin;s base damage from 85 to 90.
● Decreased Treant Protector's Leech Seed duration from 5/6/7 to 5/6/6 sec.
● Decreased Terrorblade's Metamorphosis bonus damage from 70/90/120 to 60/80/100, increased bonus attack speed from 30/40/60 to 40/50/60.
● Increased Storm Spirit's Ball Lightning cooldown from 6/5/4 to 5/4/3 sec.
● Decreased Enigma's base health from 1000 to 950.
● Improved Monkey King's base attack cooldown from 1.2 to 1.1 sec.
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Bug Fixes
● Attempted to fix the bug with physical damage dealing abilities missing their hits with debuff from Cinder Brew.
● Meepo★★★ and Meepo★★ now correctly provide Iron Fist stacks to friendly Ogres upon death.
● Fixed SoundFX played when double-clicking Buy Xp but with insufficient gold.
● Fixed Meepo tooltip missing from Species and Class descriptions.
● Now Luna will be correctly dimmed in Chess Piece List if either Elf or Knight is Dismissed.

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You no take candle!
Say welcome to the new aggressive, xenophobic, yet industrious friends! Ready to get Mee-Pwn'd?

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Chess Piece Updates
● Mech has now been renamed to Inventor.
● New Chess Piece: Meepo ($3 Kobold Inventor) has joined the game!
Drawing mystical energies from the earth, a Meepo teleports to the side of an enemy, dealing damage in arrival locations.
● Luna ($1 Elf Knight) has rejoined the game! (preiviously $2)
Moon Glaives: Empowers Luna's glaives, causing her attacks to bounce between enemy units. Deals less damage with each bounce.
● Pudge ($3 Undead Warrior) has been temporarily removed from the game for potential bugs.

● Increased Dark Willow's base damage from 50 to 55.
● Increased Winter Wywern's base health fro7m 50 to 600.
● Increased Timbersaw's base armor from 5 to 6.
● Increased Templar Assassin's base damage from 100 to 105.
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Synergy Updates
● New Species: Kobold - Divided We Stand
(1) Kobold: If you control a pair of identical Kobold pieces on the chessboard, summon a replica for each pair when battle starts.
● Trolls' Voodoo Frenzy now benefits all allies at all ranks:
(2) Trolls: All allies have +20 attack speed. (from +35 to all friendly Trolls)
(4) Trolls: All allies have +25 attack speed. (from +30)
(6) Trolls: All allies gain +15 attack speed for each succcessful attack. Maximum 15 stacks.
● Decreased (4) Elementals' Elemental Essence stone duration from 4 to 3 seconds.
● Decreased Knights' Divine Protection bonus armor from shields from 30 to 25.
● Increased (6) Orcs' Battle Hardened bonus health multiplier from 8 to 9.
● Increased (4) Undeads' Horror armor reduction from 4 to 5.

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Gameplay
● Now if you have sufficient gold, by double-clicking Buy Exp you can instantly raise your Courier level by 1.
● Optimized Click-and-Drop operation logic and animation.
● Optimized Eliminate Chess Piece animation and sound effect.
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Bug Fixes
● Fixed Brewmaster's Cinder Brew misss chance tooltip error.
● Fixed a bug where when attacks are forced to magical or pure damage but still encountered reduction from target armor.
● Attempted to fix a displacing bug with Morphling.
● Fixed style bugs with Dismiss notifications.

● fix bug