v26.8 Major Update

Expected release: Monday, August 17

1v1 Featured Event

Teammates holding you back? It's your time to shine in our 1v1 event lasting August 21-23!

Twitch Drops

To celebrate the new patch, we will be having twitch drops for every live channel from the 17th to 23rd August.

Nova Cup

• Monthly 2v2 tournament with an $875 prize pool and 4 divisions

• The next Nova Cup will be August 29-30. Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 Esports Portal

Major Updates

New Fighter: Rift Trader

Rift Trader

Cost: 55g

Role: DPS

Typing: Impact/Swift

Ability: Portal of Trash

Attacks cycle as follows:

• Tomato or teeth: 25 damage

• Coin: 45 damage

• Tin can or fork: 65 damage

• Anvil: 85 damage

Heroic Rift Trader

Upgrade cost: 130g

Role: DPS

Typing: Impact/Swift

Coins now generate gold, and Anvils now stun.

• Tomato or teeth: 75 damage

• Coin: 140 damage and rewards you with +1 gold

• Tin can or fork: 205 damage

• Anvil: 265 damage and stuns for 1.5s --> 0.6s (10% against bosses) from waves 1 --> 21

Game Balance

Read more about our design philosophy on game balance, and use Drachbot to see mastermind, unit, and spell win rates and pick rates!

Masterminds

**Ace **

• HP gain: 40 → 50

• Attack speed: 1.4% → 1.15%

• Attack speed stacking: Additive → Multiplicative

Shifting power from attack speed → HP to make Ace viable on more openings. Multiplicative stacking makes it consistent with other attack speed buffs.

**Scrapper **

• Starting gold: 0 → 3

• No longer affects bonus value on Kingpin, Hydra, and Sakura (70% sell rate on bonus value)

• Angler is no longer less likely to roll with Scrapper

This makes Scrapper stronger on average and more versatile, but less abusive with a few units.

Legion Spells

**Embargo **

Gold gain: 80 → 75

High win rate.

**Prosperity **

Gold: 155 → 160

Low pick rate and slightly low win rate.

**Pawn Shop **

• Gold: 68 → 75

• No longer affects bonus value on Kingpin, Hydra, and Sakura (70% sell rate on bonus value)

**Sacrifice **

• Gold: 88 → 92

• No longer affects bonus value on Kingpin, Hydra, and Sakura (70% sell rate on bonus value)\

This makes Pawn Shop and Sacrifice stronger on average and more versatile, but less abusive with a few units.

**Robo Squad **

Mythium: 40 → 35

High win rate.

**Savior **

Gold: 90 → 92

Low pick rate.

**Sorcerer **

Mana regeneration: Decreased by 3%

Slightly high pick rate and win rate.

Fighters

**Peewee / Veteran **

Attack speed decreased by 4%

Slightly high pick rate and win rate.

**Angler **

Damage decreased by 12.5%

**Bounty Hunter / Kingpin **

Damage and HP increased by 1%

Shifting power out of Angler.

**Orchid **

Shuriken Cyclone: Bonus attack speed: 85% → 100%

Slightly low pick rate and win rate.

**Honeyflower **

Damage: 9 + 0.02% max HP → 8 + 0.04% max HP

Overall a nerf with a small compensation buff against very high HP targets.

**Deathcap **

Damage: 31 + 0.07% max HP → 32 + 0.07% max HP

Shifting power from Honeyflower to Deathcap.

**Heroic Scrappy **

• Wind Up: Cost: 40 → 30

• Wind Up: Now lasts for 10 seconds (after first attack)

• Wind Up: Attack speed: 12% → 25%

This makes Wind Up less coin-flippy, less OP on certain waves, more versatile (shifts power budget from splash to attack speed), and more visible.

**Priestess of the Abyss / Azeria **

Mana regeneration decreased by 4%

Slightly high pick rate and win rate. One of the strongest openings in the game.

**Ocean Templar **

HP increased by 13%

Low win rate. Substantial buff.

**Doppelganger **

• HP increased by 1%

• Base damage increased by 2%

Doppelganger can pop off with the right supportive fighters, but on average, it underperforms.

**Fenix **

HP and damage decreased by 1.5%

Slightly high win rate.

**Crawling Catapult / Wandering Trebuchet **

Damage decreased by 1.5%

Slightly high win rate.

**Soul Gate / Hell Gate **

Summon HP increased by 2%

Low win rate.

Mercenaries

**Needler **

Attack speed increased by 2%

Low usage rate and slightly low win rate.

Waves

Wave 1: Crabs

If the battle phase lasts longer than 45 seconds, it will now fast forward at 2x speed (mythium generation still 1x).

It’s interesting when a battle happens to last a long time, since it influences the game state and causes chaos. However, it’s too easy to consistently force a long wave 1, in particular with Fire Archer + Bone Warriors. This change reduces frustration without nerfing the actual fighters.

Balance Watchlist

The dev team is constantly monitoring game balance, between looking at data and listening to community feedback. If anything is being more closely monitored than usual, it will be listed in this Balance Watchlist section. For this patch, the following are on the watchlist:

• Strong: All Out Assault

• Weak: Bazooka

Improvements

• Fixed some performance issues with heroic units vfx

• Fixed leaked units sometimes attacking other lanes

• Improved profile and matchhistory loading times

• Fixed Sniper making the projectile from Catapult/Trebuchet invisible

• Fixed the game not pausing correctly when a DC happens right at the start

• Fixed rerolls not showing up in chat

• Fixed some crashes

• Fixed being able to mistakenly place Sorcerer on Kingpin

• Added a way to unlink your currently linked twitch account (unlinking has a 30day cooldown after receiving a drop, to prevent abuse)

• Improved Discord account linking flow

• You can now purchase double down in queue

• Fixed gold values when loading a sandbox build with nekomata

• Fixed Seadragon self damage not being reduced by damage reduction

Game Translations

If you'd like to contribute to improving the game's translations further, visit the following link: Help Translate Legion TD 2

HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped up to this point!

Reward for Boosting Discord

Anyone who Boosts the Legion TD 2 Discord will receive

500 Premium Essence each month the Boost is active. Here's how it works:

• When you Boost the Legion TD 2 Discord, you'll get a DM from Safety Mole with a code

• The code can be redeemed by clicking the book icon at the bottom of the main menu and selecting Redeem Coupon Code

• Players who keep their Boost active will receive a new code every month

• Codes expire when the Booster receives a new code or if the old one wasn't used

Thank you to everyone for contributing to the community!

Monthly In-Game Reward Code

• This month’s ultra-secret code is icanseemynest to unlock some free Essence in-game!

• Each month, a new code will be revealed right here in the patch notes. Codes are only valid the month they are announced and the following month.

Here’s how to enter a code in-game:

Closing Remarks

As always, with any major patch, we'll keep a close eye on things and rapidly hotfix as long as needed. Thank you again for playing Legion TD 2! We hope you continue to enjoy the game.

If you've enjoyed the game, but haven't left a review yet, please consider posting a short (hopefully positive

) review for the game! If the game reaches 90% positive, Steam will give it more visibility = more players = more freelo & better matchmaking! If you enjoy these updates, please give it a Thumbs Up, too! If you have constructive criticism, let's chat about it. Discord and /r/LegionTD2 on reddit are our main channels of communication, and aside from the development team, there are community helpers who can ensure your feedback is heard, as well as answer pretty much anything you've ever wanted to know about the game.

Sincerely,

The Legion TD 2 Team