Greetings, Warlords!
We will perform a Season update and Maintenance on October 22 from 14:00-17:00 Beijing Time (UTC+8). The Maintenance is estimated to take 3 hours. Once the Maintenance concludes, we will distribute the following Maintenance compensation: Bronze Coins8000, Honour300, and Unit Medal*15. Warlords, please plan your Game time accordingly.
Here are the update details for this Maintenance, Warlords:
Update Highlights
The new Aztecs Season map \[ City on the Lake.] is now live. The map is divided into three areas: the canal, the front of the temple plaza, and the great temple plaza. Bridges over the canal can be destroyed or constructed. After accumulating enough sacrifice points, players can summon one of three deities—Sun, Rain, or Night Sky—to join battle. Opening hours are 12:00~14:00 and 18:00~22:00 daily.
Added the \[Equipment Inheritance] system, accessible via the Armourer.
Added the \[Return to the Journey] activities, and revamped the \[Return Sign-in]. Return rewards are tiered based on the number of days without logging in. Players who have not logged in for over 180 days can complete the 7-day sign-in to get a specific 5-Star Units selection box.
Balance Modifications:
Short Bow is significantly buffed. Parting Shot, Throw Bola, Wrath of Artemis, Melee basic attacks, and Dismount skills have all been modified. Additionally, the new purple schematic \[Rating Rampager Shadow Chaser] is added.
Glaive \[Flying Reaper] and Musket are nerfed.
Maul handling is optimized.
Balance modifications for Season Units \[Eagle Warriors] and \[Jaguar Warriors].
Themed activities \[Blood Sacrifice] are now available. Participate in battles like City on the Lake. and Siege Battle to drop Bloodstones. Sacrificing Bloodstones will grant personal and server-wide rewards.
Halloween activities are coming soon.
2. Event Content
1. New Aztec Season Map - City on the Lake is Live!
Background:
Above the lake, a city floats in the center of the water, surrounded by the turbulent waves of Lake Texcoco. Crisscrossing waterways carve the blocks into a chessboard, and two towering Great Temples stand side by side in the city. This is the capital of the Aztec Empire. Sacrifices are escorted up the long steps of the pyramids, offered to the gods in plain sight to seek power. Blood and drumbeats are the chips on the scale of victory, with both sides raising the stakes. Which way will the scale tip in this battle?
Map Introduction:
City on the Lake is mainly divided into three areas: the Canal Area, the Temple Square Front, and the Great Temple Square.
The Canal Area features waterways and bridges, containing two Banner points: \[Point A] and \[Point B]. The Temple Square Front features the \[Point C] Banner, located on high ground with complex surrounding terrain. The Great Temple Square is vast, with the \[Base] Banner situated in the center.
The Canal Area has two Banner points, \[Point A] and \[Point B]. Capturing either Banner will unlock the next area. Attackers and defenders will need to contest \[Point A] and \[Point B] back and forth, testing both sides' observation and troop mobilization skills.
The Canal Area features two bridges that can be destroyed or constructed, with construction taking a certain amount of time. One bridge is near the defenders, connecting \[Point A] and \[Point B], and is fully constructed at the start of the match, favoring the defenders' troop mobilization between the two points. The other bridge is near the attackers, connecting their spawn area to \[Point B], and is unconstructed at the start, favoring the attackers' troop mobilization when built.
Constructing bridges that benefit your side and destroying those that benefit the enemy, while capitalizing on construction time differences, is the key to gaining an advantage in the Canal Area.
The terrain around the Banner in the Temple Square Front is highly varied. Attackers can utilize the two-story structures to strike the defenders' Supply Point in the rear or take narrow paths to launch surprise flanking attacks. Defenders must leverage the terrain and Artillery advantages to intercept the attackers, staying vigilant against flanking enemies.
The Great Temple Square is spacious and offers two main paths: the front gate and the side gate.
Attackers can attempt a frontal assault or use Cavalry to flank through the side gate. Once inside the square, the wide terrain is highly advantageous for Cavalry and Bring The Storm.
Defenders should maximize their defense at the gates, depleting the enemy's Strength and stalling for time to secure Victory.
Special Mechanics:
In City on the Lake, offering sacrifices to the gods allows you to request their descent to assist in battle. Every player starts the match with \[Divine Favor]. \[Divine Favor] naturally regenerates and can also be acquired through kills, causing Damage, or through Damage Taken.
When \[Divine Favor] is fully charged, you may select one of three gods to descend upon the battlefield:
Descent of the Lord of the Fifth Sun: Centered on yourself, the sun slowly descends. Upon landing, it deals one instance of Burning Damage to surrounding enemies, applies a Buff to Allies, and grants attacks a stackable Burning effect for a short time.
Descent of the Lord of Rain: Generates healing waters centered on yourself, instantly restoring Health once for surrounding Allies and removing Control effects. For a period afterward, it continuously provides minor Regeneration to Allies. After a brief delay, the healing waters erupt, providing one massive instance of Health Regeneration to surrounding Allies.
Descent of the Lord of the Night: Creates a small black hole at a specified location, applying Slowed to enemies who step into the area. After a brief delay, the black hole erupts, pulling enemies toward its center and dealing minor Damage.
Map Availability Time:
After maintenance on Oct 22 ~ Before maintenance on Nov 5
Daily 12:00~14:00 & 18:00~22:00
2. \[City on the Lake] Theme Activities \[Blood Sacrifice] On; join the battle to get rewards!
Event Introduction:
After the Season Level \[ City on the Lake] is available, participating in \[ City on the Lake] battles will drop \[Bloodstones]. Sacrifice \[Bloodstones] to get a generous Reward in the Activities \[ Blood Sacrifice].
Activities Content:
Warlords can acquire \[Bloodstones] by participating in the Season Level \[ City on the Lake], Siege Battle, Field Battle, and Free Battles. 20 will be dropped per Season Level battle, and 10 per battle for the others. The weekly drop limit for \[Bloodstones] is 100, and the drop limit will Refresh at 0:00 on Thursday.
By sacrificing \[Bloodstones], you can increase the server-wide progress, and acquire corresponding personal Contribution points and Random Reward packs.
By accumulating personal Contribution, you can Unlock personal Reward in sequence. Warlords can Check the Reward of each Stage through the progress bar above the sacrifice panel; after the server-wide progress bar is full, you can still Acquire Reward through personal sacrifices.
After the Activities end, unsacrificed Consumables will be Auto recovered by the System and Transfer to Bronze Coins.
Activities Reward includes: Treatise *10, Epic Divine Crow (Bound), and other precious Consumables.
Activities Time:
Drop Activities Duration: After Maintenance on Oct 22 ~ Nov 5, 0:00 The drop deadline for the Elysium Peak server is Nov 4, 18:00.
Reward Get Duration: After Maintenance on Oct 22 ~ Nov 10, 23:59.
3. Illusion Orb \[Symmachean Stalwarts - Vampire] Time Limited Return!
Activities Introduction:
The Illusion Orb Map Activities is On! The Legendary VFX Illusion Orb \[Symmachean Stalwarts - Vampire] makes a Time Limited return!
The first opening is free. Subsequent openings of the treasure vault require \[Mysterious Treasure Map], and the required Quantity increases each time.
The Quantity of Mysterious Treasure Maps required for the 10 openings is as follows: 0, 1, 3, 6, 10, 16, 20, 24, 30, and 40.
During the opening process, once the Illusion Orb grand prize is drawn, All remaining undrawn Rewards will be granted for free.
After opening the \[Illusion Orb Map] 10 times, you are guaranteed to obtain All Rewards.
For specific Rewards and opening probabilities, please Go To the in-Game \[O] - \[Activities] page to Check.
This Illusion Orb Map Activities is newly On and does not inherit progress from previous Activities. After drawing the grand prize this time, you can choose one Reward between the Illusion Orb \[Symmachean Stalwarts - Vampire] and Golden Key *30.
Activities Time:
After Maintenance on October 22 ~ Before Maintenance on November 5.
3. Halloween Bonus! Free Doctrines Removal Activities Incoming
Event Introduction:
Enjoy this bonus! Log In to the Game during the activities, and removing \[Doctrines] from all Units will no longer consume \[Lotus Water] Consumables!
Event Time:
October 31, 2026, 0:00 ~ November 1, 2026, 23:59
3. System Modify and Optimization
1. New Equipment Inheritance System is Live!
System Access:
Armourer
System Introduction:
Equipment inheritance can transfer the Attributes affixes of old and new purple Schematics to the target Equipment of the new purple Schematics;
After inheritance, the original Attributes affixes of the target Equipment will be overwritten, keeping only the Attributes affixes you Acquire from inheritance; Blessing affixes are not affected by inheritance;
There is no limit to the number of inheritances. The same piece of Equipment can be used as the target Equipment for inheritance multiple times, and the same Equipment can also be used as the material Equipment for inheritance multiple times;
The target Equipment after inheritance will become unbound only when the consumed Schematics, material Equipment, and target Equipment are all in an unbound state;
After inheritance, the material Equipment will become bound;
The material Equipment and target Equipment selected during inheritance must be of the same Weapon Type and must be Equipment that has undergone Reforging. All Weapons you Acquire from Reforging Epic Schematics can be used as material Equipment, but only Weapons from Reforging new Epic Weapon Schematics can be used as target Equipment (Weapon Schematics you Acquire from the Schematic Selection Box are considered new Epic Weapon Schematics).
The Quantity of inheritable affixes during inheritance is determined by the Equipment quality and the number of Blessing affixes:
Epic quality Equipment can have up to 4 affixes, and Legendary quality Equipment can have up to 6 affixes;
Through the inheritance System, the total number of Equipment affixes (the total number of Attributes affixes and skill affixes) can reach the affix Quantity limit of the Local quality, but it cannot exceed the limit. For example, a Legendary Equipment with 2 skill affixes can inherit a maximum of 4 Attributes affixes;
When inheriting 1 to 6 Attributes affixes, the Quantity of new purple Schematics consumed is 3/6/9/10/11/12 respectively;
There is an affix loss during inheritance. The Attributes affixes you Acquire on the target Equipment will lose 8% of their Attributes values based on the original Basic;
Whether the Attributes affixes can undergo Honing after inheritance will be re-evaluated based on the Attributes value of the inherited affix and the limit of the corresponding Attributes Type of the target Equipment. Only affixes whose Attributes value after the loss meets the Honing threshold corresponding to the target Equipment's Attributes limit can undergo Honing.
2. Brand-new returning player benefit System online!
New \[Return to the Journey] Activities
The brand-new \[Return to the Journey] Activities are online, helping returning players Get ready with Exclusive Benefit and gameplay guides.
The Activities will use multiple tabs to introduce recently launched returning support benefits, Hot gameplay, and Recent content.
Check the Activities guide to Get free Reward, including 4 pieces of Time Limited Equipment with Leadership +20 and a Local Season Units trial voucher.
\[Return Sign-In] Activities Revamp
The return sign-in Reward has received a full Upgrade, and will Battle for the corresponding sign-in Reward based on the number of days the player did not Log In. Complete the 7-day sign-in to Get a large amount of rare Reward.
Did not Log In for 30~60 days: Complete the 7-day sign-in to Complete the Seasonal Epic Doctrine Selection, Hero Epic Schematics Selection Box, Legendary Artillery Selection Box, and other rare Reward.
Did not Log In for 60~180 days: Complete the 7-day sign-in to Complete the Seasonal Epic Doctrine Selection, Hero Epic Schematics Selection Box, Legendary Artillery Selection Box x2, and other rare Reward.
Did not Log In for more than 180 days: Complete the 7-day sign-in to Complete a specific 5-Star Units Selection Box 1*,** Seasonal Epic Doctrine Selection x2, Hero Epic Schematics Selection Box x2, Legendary Artillery Selection Box x3, and other rare Reward.
3. Specialty Balance Modify Related
Glaive
\[Flying Reaper]
Skill Basic Blunt Damage multiplier: 690% → 633%;
Attack targets: 8 → 7;
Skill Basic Cooldown: 50/45/40s → 55/50/45s.
Musket
\[Blackpowder Grenade]
Attack targets: 5 → 4;
\[Five Rounds Rapid]
Skill Basic Piercing Damage multiplier: 88% → 77%;
\[Common Shoot]
Damage falloff Distance percentage within range: 80% → 60%.
Maul
\[Mountain Breaker]
Optimized action transition Frame Rate to enhance Action feel;
\[Mighty Mjölnir]
Optimized action transition Frame Rate to enhance Action feel.
Short Bow
\[Parting Shot]
Skill Basic Piercing Damage multiplier: 16% → 96%;
Skill Basic Cooldown: 25/23/20s → 18/15/12s;
Max Bow range: 80m → 50m;
Damage falloff Distance percentage within range: 37.5% → 62.5%;
Optimized Bow firing Frame Rate.
\[Stunning Shot]
Skill Basic Piercing Damage multiplier: 75% → 105%.
\[Throw Bola]
Skill Basic Cooldown: 20/18/16s → 13/11/9s.
\[Angry Hornets]
Skill Basic Piercing Damage multiplier: 36% → 40%.
\[Wrath of Artemis]
Skill Basic Piercing Damage multiplier: 44% → 66%;
Skill Basic Cooldown: 48s → 44s.
\[Melee Basic]
1st hit Blunt Damage: 100% → 150%;
2nd hit Blunt Damage: 100% → 150%;
3rd hit Blunt Damage: 100% → 150%, Knockback enemies;
Optimized action transitions, enemy-engaging displacement, and Damage detection logic to enhance Action feel.
Short Bow Other Modify
\[Dismount] Basic Cooldown: 15s → 8s;
Fixed the issue where \[Enhanced Shoot] could not stack the \[Enhanced Attack] passive;
Optimized the Shoot camera perspective in on-foot & mounted states.
4. Units Balance Modify
Eagle Warriors
Optimized the issue where the \[Feathered Strike] command indicator turning red prevented Normal jumping;
Optimized the Attack hit detection logic for \[Basic] and \[Feathered Strike];
\[Feathered Strike] max Attack targets: 1 → 2;
\[Feathered Strike] skill Basic Armour Penetrated multiplier: 150% → 130%;
\[Feathered Strike] skill Basic Damage multiplier: 210% → 190%;
\[Feathered Strike] Basic Block breaking value: 630 → 500;
\[Eagle Strike] max Attack targets: 1 → 2;
\[Eagle Strike] skill Basic Armour Penetrated multiplier: 120% → 110%;
\[Eagle Strike] skill Basic Damage multiplier: 150% → 130%;
\[Eagle Strike] Basic Block breaking value: 560 → 400;
Unit Training node \[Eagle Catch·Change Flags] Slowed effect: 60% → 100%;
Fixed the issue where Eagle Warriors Kit was consumed too quickly;
Fixed the issue where \[Skyward] was Permitted to trigger after the Hero dies;
Fixed the issue where \[Feathered Strike] jumps could clip through walls in some cases;
Fixed a text description error for the \[Skyward] skill.
Jaguar Warriors
Optimized the issue where the \[Jaguar Claw] command indicator turning red prevented Normal jumping;
Optimized the unresponsive time to player commands during the \[Jaguar Claw] jump;
Optimized the RVO of Jaguar Warriors, allowing them to Form Up/Follow/engage enemies in a more Average manner;
Fixed the issue where the \[Surge] Unit Training node failed to reduce the Cooldown of \[Obsidian Fang];
Fixed the issue where Jaguar Warriors Kit was consumed too quickly.
4. Other Modify and Optimizations
Fixed the issue where the model in the \
- \[Character] UI might display abnormally;
Fixed the issue where the Side value in Territory War had an extremely low probability of displaying abnormally;
Optimized the Legion rally and march System in Territory War;
Fixed the issue where Reforging and Honing had an extremely low probability of displaying abnormally;
Fixed the issue in Ranked Battles where Anniversary Access Units were unable to Take multiple Season sealed Units;
Fixed the battlefield replay System;
Fixed the issue where Eagle Warriors and Jaguar Warriors suffered abnormal Kit Loss due to captured units being killed in the battlefield.
