Chess Piece Updates
● New Chess Piece Added: Spirit Breaker ($1 Tauren Assassin)
Greater Bash: Attacks have a chance to stun and knockback the enemy and deal bonus damage.
● New Chess Piece Added: Earthshaker ($4 Tauren Shaman)
Fissure: Slams the ground with a mighty totem, creating an impassable ridge of stone. Enemy chess pieces along the line are stunned and knocked to nearest vacant squares, and suffer physical damage.
● Templar Assassin has been promoted from $4 to $5! Refraction now has passive Psi Blades.
Psi Blades: Templar Assassin's psi blades slice through the attacked chess piece, damaging enemies directly behind it.
● Death Prophet has been temporarily removed from the game. She will be back after rework or rebalancing.
● Increased Lion's base armor from 0 to 2.
● Redecorated Chaos Knight, Doom, Tidehunter, Enigma, Legion Commander, Pudge and Templar Assassin with items from Immortal Treasure II.
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Synergy Updates
● New Species Trait: Tauren - Totem of the Clan
(2) Taurens: Summons a Taunt Totem at the start of the battle.
Totems: A stationary guardian that does cannot attack, cast or restore health. The Totem has health equal to 3x current number of enemy chess pieces on board and takes 1 damage at a time.
Taunt: Enemies must attack this chess piece first whenever they can.

● (4) Shamans: Friendly chess pieces transformed by Hex will not have items equipped any more.
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Bug Fixes
● Attempted to fixed the bug which causes items to lost if given to Hexed chess pieces. Reworked Hex algorithms to allow items be given to cheering chess pieces after a win.
● Fixed Chaos Knight's Chaos Bolt not stuning the target for correct duration.
● Fixed knockback abilities affecting chess piece on the bench.
● Fixed Mars has a chance to immediate cast Shield Bash and the start of the battle.
● Fixed Hexed Drow Ranger still retain her Precision Aura effect.
● Fixed Sven's God's Strength incorrrect stacking issue.
● Fixed Vesture of the Tyrant unable to obtain (4) Shaman's Hex effect.
● Fixed Lv.16 Courier can only recruit $1 chess pieces.
● Now Linken's Sphere can correctly block Force Staff.
● Fixed Lion being unable to be dismissed with Demons.
● Fixed sound effects issues with some neutrals and summoned units.
● Fixed incorrect portrait postion of Ember Spirit and Storm Spirit in tooltips for Assassin and Mage.
● Fixed Earth Spirit shown in purple colour in post game panels.
● Moved positions of some unreacheable trees on the chessboard.

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End-of-Season Rewards
● The EoS rewards for S8 Spirit Beast (01/07 to 31/08) is based on the following:
♕Top 20 Queens (on Leaderboard): S8 Badge + ♕Queen rewards.
♕Queen: 320 Candies + S8 Crown (valid for S9) + Black Brightskye | Refresher Orb (Legendary Courier).
♔King: 320 Candies + Black Brightskye | Soulstone (Epic Courier).
♖Rook: 160 Candies + Black Brightskye | Gem (Rare Courier).
♗Bishop: 80 Candies + Black Brightskye | Yarn (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 (31/08) 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 01/09!

● fix bug

-fix bug

Return of the Demon Witch Update
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Chess Piece Updates
● Lion ($2 Demon Wizard) has now rejoined the game after a short break.
● Viper's Viper Strike now has a priority to target the highest-leveled enemy chess piece.
● Balanced Visage's Familiars Grave Chill attack speed steal from 20/40/80 to 30/40/60.
● Redecorated Rank 3 Sven, Jakiro, Slardar and Witch Doctor with the latest items from Immoratal Treasure II.
● [Least Wins Prize] Increased Shadow Fiend's Requiem of Souls damage from 100/150/200 to 100/175/250 per line.
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Synergy Updates
● Balanced Shaman's Hex:
(2) Shamans: Transforms a random enemy chess piece to a random piece of the same level when battle starts. (From transforming an enemy into harmless animal for 6 seconds.)
(4) Shamans: Transforms all friendly Shaman pieces to random chess pieces that are 2 levels higher when battle starts. (From randomly transforming enemies that kill the Shaman pieces.)
● Balanced Humans' Spark of Mind:
(3) Humans: Grants a Tome of Knowledge when battle starts.
(6) Humans: Grants a Tome of Knowledge when battle starts. An extra Tome of Knowledge is rewarded for winning a home battle with at least 1 friendly Human survived.
Tome of Knowledge: Activate to add 1/16 of Courier XP for the current Courier level (Rounds up to nearest integer). Bonus Courier XP granted via Tome of Knowledge is unlimited to the maximum Courier Level. (From adds 2 Courier XP.)

● Balanced Assassins' Coup de Grace:
(3) Assassins: All friendly assassins have 15% chance to critical hit for 300% damage.
(6) Assassins: All allies have 15% chance to critical hit for 400% damage.
(9) Assassins: All allies have 5% chance to critical hit for 500% damage, and gains a Backstab Leap move after killing an enemy. (From gaining Backstab Leap only)
● Balanced Trolls' Voodoo Frenzy:
(2) Trolls: All friendly trolls have +35 attack speed.
(4) Trolls: All allies have +30 attack speed.
(6) Trolls: All allies gain +15 attack speed for each succcessful attack. Maximum 15 stacks. (From 10 bonus attack speed per stack and maximum 20 stacks.)
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Bug Fixes
● Fixed the bug causing Linken's Sphere fail to block the following spells:
Mirana's Sacred Arrow, Treant Protector's Leech Seed, Scythe of Vise, Dagon, Shamans' Hex, Oracle's Fate's Edict.
● Player Info Panel now correctly instnatly updatesif a player levels up the Courier by using the Tome of Knowledge.
● Fixed a bug that Storm Spirit's Ball Lightning and Earth Spirit's Rolling Boulder pierce through spell immunity.
● Fixed chess piece model preloading bugs with Pandaren pieces and IO.
● Fixed Rank 3 Shallow Grave duration bug. Now correctly lasts 5 sec on each targetted ally, in stead of 4/4/5 sec.
● Fixed a bug that causing Mars immediately casts Shield Bash when battle starts.
● Fixed Monkey King's Jinggu Mastery missing tooltip.
● Fixed that bug cauing (6) Undeads' Horror Wraith pieces attacking your own Courier.
● Fixed various chessboard decoration bugs.
● Fixed a bug with dismissing that causes double gold spent.

Rebalance Patch

7.27b

fix 7.27b