Community Patch Preview 11-5

Hello Bazaarians!

We want to give you an early taste of what’s coming in the patch next week. While Jules is the primary feature, we have changes in store for every hero.

Jules: Chef-Entertainer-Warrior-Mom

• 110 all new Jules cards

• Jules brings an all new mechanic: Rug sockets.

  • Sockets sit on top of your rug (but below your items) and add effects to the items in those slots. 

  • Sockets allow us to provide buffs (or debuffs) to items in specific slots on your board (even as your board expands/grows). 

  • With Jules there are two socket effects coming to the game: Stoves and Coolers.

• Stoves and Coolers provide items with either "Heated" or "Chilled" effects. Some of Jules’ new items and skills can utilize being Heated and Chilled to great effect! There are several ways to apply Heated and Chilled, but the most consistent source is from Stoves and Coolers.

Balance Update

• This month we focused on elevating unplayed items across heroes, while strategically nerfing overperforming items. We reduced the impact of triggered skills by limiting the number of times they can trigger during a fight. Don’t worry; we didn’t do this with *every *skill. We still want late-game rare monster skills to be exciting build-enablers!

New Stuff

• Stelle and Mak have uncovered a few new items! Stelle receives a mini Drone pack, and Mak has stocked up with unique skills as well. Keep your eyes out for the Item Reveals coming from Creators in the next few days!

• On this topic, we’ve seen questions about how old Heroes will receive updates now that we’re no longer releasing seasonal Item Packs. The plan moving forward is to release new items to old Heroes regularly alongside our Balance Patches between Releases. While these updates may be smaller in scale, our goal is to make sure that every Hero gets love from time to time. 

• Two new monsters featuring Jules items.

Soft Ranked Resets

• For the first time, at the start of the season we have a soft rank reset instead of everyone being rolled all the way back to Bronze 5. This should help the transition into the new season go smoother as every player won’t be clumped together for ghost matching

  • Legendary and Diamond players will go to Gold 5

  • Gold players will go to Silver 5

  • Bronze and Silver players go to Bronze 5

Cosmetics Duplicate Handling

• Players will be awarded gems for their duplicate cosmetics. From now on, when players open duplicate cosmetics they should automatically be converted to gems