Minion Masters!
We hope you have been enjoying the Uprising expansion! 1.21 adds the last two cards of the expansion into the game: Lash of Ah’Mun and Shroom Puff.
As you know, this means we will soon release info on our next expansion coming out in March! We can honestly say that we are super excited to share what the team has come up with for the next expansion; it’s really out there.
But for now, for 1.21 we have some balance changes, two new cards, and a variety of bug fixes coming your way.
On to the changes!
Uprising - Season Pass #3
- A new Season Pass has arrived to Minion Masters!
- Tons of new rewards, including 2 cards, a Legendary Skin, bonus cards, and more!
- Two new cards have been added to the game:
- Dark Fury Dryad Morellia has also been added to the game!
- The Season Pass will end on the 4th of March.
Card Balance
Arcane Bolt
- Mana Freeze 3 -> 2
- Threshold 500 -> 450
Boom Buggy
- Cooldown 5 -> 4.5
- Delay 2 -> 1.5
Bridge Shrine
- Health 350 -> 400
Crossbow Dudes
- Attack Cooldown 1.8 -> 2
Dragon Ball
- Summon a flightless dragon if not activated
Empowered Soul Stealer
- On spawn gain 2 stacks and +1 for each sacrifice
- Remove Call Slitherbound
Grasping Thorns
- Cost 3 -> 2
- Damage 200 -> 170
Lord Fanriel The Stormcharger
- Damage 120 -> 100
- Charge Damage 150 -> 100
- All damage is now true damage
This introduces a new damage type, True Damage which is essentially just armor piercing. Certain things like Pincer of Dread already has this, though this is the first Minion to get this. Fanriel's design was always to force you to defend with big minions. This removes Shielded Crossbow Dudes and Armored Scrats as value answers to his charge.
Nether Bat
- Nethersteps forward on spawn
These are attempts at making more 2 mana cards feel valuable to play, it may or may not workout, in which case we will keep working on them
Sewer Scrat
- Basic attacks inflict 2 seconds of poison
- Poison on hit duration 3 -> 2
These are attempts at making more 2 mana cards feel valuable to play, it may or may not workout, in which case we will keep working on them
Shen Stormstrike
- Attack Stun Duration 2.5 -> 2
- Zen Chi Flow Stun Duration 3 -> 2
- Zen Chi Flow Stun Radius 4.5 -> 6
This is to unify the stuns a bit more so that they work the same. Also in the case of Zap shrine we wanted less of it's value to be in that first Zen-Chi Flow stun, but instead make the building provide slightly more reliable value afterwards.
Shield-Captain Avea
- Shield Range 6 -> 8
- Now counts toward the quest even if the target unit already has a shield.
Ting Teng Tung
- Health 300 -> 270
Void Altar
- Cost 9 -> 8
Zap Shrine
- Zen Chi FLow Stun Duration 3 -> 2
- Health 75 -> 100
This is to unify the stuns a bit more so that they work the same. Also in the case of Zap shrine we wanted less of it's value to be in that first Zen-Chi Flow stun, but instead make the building provide slightly more reliable value afterwards
Healing Balance
- Flying minions have healing reduced by half
Last patch we tried this with Valorian's perk 1 only, and we feel it worked out nicely. Now we're trying it to all healing on flying Minions, mostly to keep things consistent and hopefully easier to keep track of.
Master Balance
Volco
- Perk 2 - Embers of Flame changed to all minions gain rage
- Perk 3 - Embers changed to melee minions gain berserkers rage instead
This change gives him more diversity for his deckbuilding while still retaining incentive to go for aggression. In longer games Melee will still prevail for him, but now ranged minions should feel like less of a compromise to bring along to balance out the deck.
Bugs
- Fixed Jing Long’s shock entry radius size being visible in preview
- Fixed Jing Long’s card status icons referring to Xiao Long. Thanks me
- Added the indicator for blood pact to Brutish Betrayer
- Fixed Avea’s shields reacting fast enough to fireball to block the fireball’s damage on units around her
- Fixed blood imp sound and animations. Thanks hinkyt25
- Fixed the indicator for Pincer of Dread showing that it damages buildings
- Fixed the master selection interface breaking in draft
- Fixed a bug causing Sugilite Shield to block melee damage
- Fixed Avea’s drop rates from tokens being too high. Thanks Huffchux, Brit Churchill and all the other people who reported this and got us to actually check the values.
- Fixed the hitboxes for Laser Turret and Magma cannon to match their new models. Thanks Coconut Commander
Misc
- Puff cards have been removed from Jungle Rumble
Edits - Added missing dev comments, missing grasping thorns change, and missing healing change for flying minions.
