General

• The 1 mana winner bonus has been removed. This is in an effort to make matches more even and not too one-sided.
• Significantly reduced the punishment for losing to a player with a much lower rank than you. You will also gain more rank points for winning against a lower ranked player.
• Starting mana has been increased to 10. This aims to slightly increase the starting pace of the match.
• Added a 10 second cancel delay to ranked and casual search to reduce the amount of players matching against an opponent that does not join.
• Time to wait for opponent to connect to the match has been reduced to 30 seconds.

Balance

• Basic attack damage has been reduced by 15% across the board and ability damage and healing has been increased by 15% across the board. This is in an effort to further emphasize each unit's unique capabilities.
• 1 mana cost units have had their stats and abilities reduced by 10% across the board.
• 2 mana cost units have had their stats and abilities reduced by 5% across the board.
• Trapper attack speed reduced from 1.15 down to 1.05.
• Devourer stun duration reduced from 1 second down to 0.8 seconds.
• Sentinel Curse damage multiplier reduced from 70% down to 60%.
• Heavy Gunner maximum Focused Fire stacks reduced from 8 down to 6.
• Pit Fighter knockback reduced from 4 down to 3 tiles.
• Priestess basic attack damage reduced from 65 down to 56.
• Mana Hound mana gain from allied spells cast reduced from 15 down to 10.
• Shadowstalker basic attack damage increased from 20 to 24.
• Rockling base health reduced from 275 to 200.
• Irali Imp health reduced from 100 down to 70.
• Dark Pact Void Imp health reduced from 170 down to 90.
• Negate damage reduced from 12% maximum life down to 5%.
• Execute damage reduced from 15% maximum life down to 7%.
• Lifewell healing split increased from 50% to 52%.
• Adrenaline attack speed gain reduced from 40% to 35%.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where players joining a match would encounter an empty board with no Deities.
• Improved the bad connection detection to prevent continuous popups in short periods.
• The Rockling description no longer has #spellPower in it.
• Fixed a bug where pressing 'X' during a Freestyle match zooms out the camera.