Blood & Nectar Patch Notes
Patch 0.68The Tournament Draft, with Real Stakes
August 3, 2026
The Tournament becomes a real one-match snake draft, run inside champion select where every draft belongs, with the points staked and shown on both sides and an accept window that counts down out loud. The Training Grounds arrive the same day — four pickable quest-tutorials with three real fights — and the scoreboard becomes a drawer you read one stat at a time. Forty-eight pushes, one day.
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2,439 pushes · 947 h
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Detailed Changes
AAriadneReworkHer loop is Q, then W then Q, four times. Momentum was the real problem: she banked about 160 a round against a Shred gated at 20.
QNeedle Strike
- The only source of Bleed now. Five into one enemy caps the bleed at 5; spread across three trades the burst for pressure.
- Momentum: +10 engine, +20 handler⇒+10, the engine default
WReweave
- Per round: 2⇒4, and each hands the Needle back whether she moves or stays
- Momentum: +20⇒none, load-bearing: with it Shred is an every-round button
- The end-of-turn move needs an UNSPENT Reweave and consumes it; if she used them, where she chose to stand is where she stands.
EShred
- Effect: applies stacks⇒DOUBLES the bleed on every bleeding enemy; on the one across her, whatever will not fit under the cap tears out at once
- Five stacks doubles to ten, caps at five, and the five that overflow eviscerate. Nothing to tear opens one stack first. Every kill hands back a Reweave.
Balance
- L1 to L8 gauntlet: 50–63% win, 4th of 11 damage dealers at L8. Lands on exactly 50 Momentum a round: Shred every other round.
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SYSTEMS
🏆 One Match, Real Stakes
The snake draft runs in champion select, with points staked and shown on both sides, and staked matches fought at level 8.
⏱️ The Accept Window
Sounds, a real countdown, and a no-show penalty. Test runs walk the whole ceremony instead of shortcutting past it.
🎓 Training Grounds
Four pickable quest-tutorials with three real fights, a sanctum quest board, and coach marks on the first two.
📊 The Scoreboard Drawer
A see-through left drawer — one stat at a time, one team at a time, with abilities on the talent discs.
🌳 Talents as a Rune Page
Big icons, keystones first, one row at a time — and artifact cards become talent-path columns.
🖼️ Skins in Select
Full card art in the picker, skin selection, and the chosen skin carried into the match.
Full Patch Notes
- Rebuilt the Tournament as a one-match snake draft with a stake model, run inside champion select.
- Cut the tournament cycle from two weeks to one and the pot cap from $50 to $25.
- Made the ladder post once daily, and only when someone has actually played.
- Shipped Training Grounds v2 and v4 in five phases — a test vault that feels like a busy channel, a sanctum mirror, dailies and the first familiar, coach marks, and the Trading & Company lesson.
- Ariadne rework: one Needle, four Reweaves, and Shred doubling the bleed — with the end-of-turn move requiring an unspent Reweave rather than an empty slot.
- Gave the collection the real card, the champion's kit and its talent page, with the numbers coloured in ability and talent text.
- Made web sessions survive a restart.
- Fixed a player-profile route being swallowed by another API route, and an artifact craft refund bug.