Blood & Nectar Patch Notes
Patch 0.7521 Relics, and the Lock-In Ceremony
August 24–26, 2026
Twenty-one relics, five elixirs and three artifacts come out of the idea dump and into the game, unlocked so they can actually be tested against. Locking a champion becomes a ceremony that lands your kit in your face one icon at a time and then asks the honest question — keep these, or pick yourself. The arena starts showing what just happened, and Casual becomes one global queue.
90
Pushes
41
Hours in
3,004 pushes · 1,190 h
Total so far
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Artifact Adjustments
Detailed Changes
AArachneReworkHer E was a targeted shield with a turn-skip stapled on. It is now the third stasis seal in the game, built as Gorgon's Gaze's twin: same 10-stack ceiling, same toll curve, same act-and-pay shape.
ECocoon
- Target: chosen, ally mode included⇒a RANDOM enemy, any slot, tank included: she catches what walks into the web
- The wrap bites +3 Venom. Whatever ward the victim wore is swallowed into the shell. Nothing reaches it: damage, healing and wards refused, DoTs held rather than ticked. Only the spider gets in.
- Tearing out costs 10% Max HP per Venom stack up to 95%, never lethal, and destroys the shell. No elixir and no relic from inside it. Standing still, the silk rots at the clock and takes the shell with it, swallowed ward included: no exit leaves the prey richer.
QSpider Strike
- Into her own cocoon it is a drain, not a hit: past the shell into HP, floored at 1 because prey that dies stops feeding her, every point of overkill healing her. The bite SPENDS the venom: every stack is +10% and all of them are consumed. It must be the body in FRONT, so a team can body-block its own wrapped man.
The silk
- A drawn plate keyed on luminance, closing around whatever portrait it lands on, with a dark layer that buries the face and leaves a pair of eyes. Silk white, not Chrysalis gold: silk and stone make the same promise.
SSphinxAdjustedQ spends riddle instead of applying it.
QRiddle
- The stacks are the engine: W and Pandemonium load them, Q turns them into damage and forgetting. The Enigma Gambit's defensive half read a variable that was not in scope and threw every time it fired; it reports what was spent instead.
IIcarusNerfHe was being paid twice: the handler added Momentum on top of the central grant, six times a round off a repeatable Q.
QShrapnel
- Momentum: a straight double⇒10 for the first shot, 5 for each repeat
🍷Dionysus' RageAdjusted
A free round-long damage doubler on a no-cooldown press is not a decision.
Effect
- Cost: free⇒20% of current HP
- Announced with the halt-announce-cut ceremony the riddle uses, in red-pink, the line drawn from YOU because the rage is your own. The ability plays twice: once for your cast, once for the relic.
🍃Olive BranchAdjusted
Renamed from Eirene's Olive; the key stays, since it is the wire name in every saved loadout.
Effect
- Cooldown: 2 rounds⇒none: every press halves your own output, which is its own limit
- This round, half of your damage becomes healing for your team, split between them. Found on the way: every no-cooldown relic had been escaping the Tartarus ledger.
🐕Cerberus' BrewRework
A bare drain with no payout would have been a strict subset of the Nectar Tithe, and a relic strictly worse than another is a dead square.
Effect
- Effect: both flanks bleed 20% so the centre bites 50% harder⇒takes 20% Max HP off the allies either side of the presser and heals the presser for the total
- Neighbours by deck index, since three things reposition champions mid-round. A dead neighbour does not void it.
🔥Fire FormRework
It was doing two unrelated jobs behind one name.
Fire Form (offense)
- Everything you damage catches fire; each fire costs 5% Max HP, charged per fire actually lit. The ability you follow it with sets the price: single target 5%, an AoE across three 15%.
Cinder Mantle (guard)
- The reflect half, split off: blows landing on you are thrown onto your own line at 120%. 3-round cooldown.
🌊Waters of LetheNerf
Retired. One press returning the entire ledger makes Tartarus a speed bump, and Styx already covers reaching back at a price. (It returns in the next patch, pointed the other way.)
Effect
- Status: your whole Tartarus returns to the pile⇒off the shelf
⚡Aegis of BiaRework
It converted Momentum straight into a ward, a straight fight with the Aegis Tonic selling the same trade. One of them had to stop selling shields.
Effect
- Effect: 100 shield for every 10 Momentum spent⇒spend the whole bar: your NEXT attack heals your team for the damage it deals, split between them
- Kept apart from the Olive Branch by the price: Bia is all of it, one attack, and costs the bar that buys your abilities. Retired two days later in the sixteen-relic cut.
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SYSTEMS
📜 The Dump, Shipped
Twenty-one relics, five elixirs and three artifacts, unlocked so they can be tested rather than admired.
🔒 The Lock-In Ceremony
Your kit lands in your face one icon at a time — talents, then artifacts — and each beat asks whether to keep it or pick yourself.
⚔️ One Casual Queue
Casual is one global queue, and the web's fights stop being invisible to it.
💥 The Arena Answers
Hit wash, side wave, silk and the two corners — the board shows what just happened instead of only logging it.
🕸️ The Cocoon
Arachne's Cocoon becomes a larder: silk stasis, only the spider gets in, and no exit leaves the prey richer.
❓ bnhelp Answers
It stops greeting and starts answering, carrying the Atlas's own dropdown instead of turning people away.
Full Patch Notes
- Shipped 21 relics, 5 elixirs and 3 artifacts from the idea dump, unlocked for testing.
- Made champion lock-in a ceremony that shows the carried pair and the talent page, and asks to keep or repick at each beat.
- Opened talents like a rune page — four crests, then icons that light up.
- Arachne's Cocoon becomes a larder: silk stasis, only the spider gets in, and the cocoon rots to nothing.
- Dionysus' Rage takes the Sphinx ceremony and plays the ability twice — once for your cast, once for the relic.
- Fire Form splits in two; Lethe and the Trap go down; the fare shows on the face.
- Relic text says what it does, and the poetry stays in the lore.
- Stasis means unreachable, and Critical Buildup says what it counts: damaging casts.
- Displacement keeps your turn, and the banking relics finally bank.
- Fixed an Atlas guide that was 281 characters over Discord's cap.