Patch Notes 12/5/24

Economy Overhaul:

• We’ve heard you and are making significant improvements to card acquisition.

• We hope this set of changes lets players develop their collections more quickly, level up more cards, and have greater agency which cards they use in a deck, how they grow their collection, and which cards they upgrade.

  • Pulling a standard card cost reduced from 125 chroma to 40 chroma.

  • Increased drop rate of legendary/epic cards

• Combination of ~3x more cards and increased drop rate of rarer cards means for a similar level of spend/engagement, you’ll see:

  • ~12x increase in epic cards

  • ~18x increase in legendary cards

• Upgrading cards is cheaper at all levels. The reduction in cost is greatest at lower levels.

  • IE: 1->2 is much cheaper than before, and had a greater reduction in cost than 6->7.

• As a thank you for sticking with Shardbound:

  • Double Rewards for Purchasers: If you’ve made purchases in the past, we’ve got your back! You’ll be credited with 2x the value of your previous purchases as a thank-you for your support.

  • In addition, a thank you package is available to all existing users to claim via the in-game news section.

• Substantially increased the number of card pulls acquired per day through quest completion.

• Royal Mark cost reduced on cards in store:

  • Common 1250 -> 400

  • Rare 5,000 -> 2,750

  • Epic 50,000 -> 8,500

• Changed rewards for quests to better match how difficult that quest is to complete.

• Simplified how shards work: 1 Shard = 1 pull from the corresponding loot pool.

• Elemental Shards: 1 pull from any faction’s loot pool. Flexibility at its finest!

• Standard Shards: 1 pull from the standard loot pool.

• Radiant Shards: 1 pull from the premium loot pool for the best rewards.

• Faction Coins: 1 pull from the loot pool that corresponds with that faction.

  • (Example: Steelsinger Coins let you pull from the red loot pool—perfect for honing your faction strategy!)

• AddedCurrency ConversionDon’t worry—your existing currencies will automatically adjust to match these new systems.

First Time User Experience Changes:

• A new single tutorial mission replaces the existing 4 mission tutorial series.

Bug Fixes and Changes:

• Fixed an issue where some cards would inaccurately highlight in hand as though they were playable when they were not

• Fixed an issue where Commanders were gaining incorrect Deck Power on upgrade

• Fixed an issue with several cards showing error text in the Upgrade screen

• Fixed several issues with Quests not accurately tracking progress

• Fixed several Quests which were showing inaccurate rewards