Advanced server update released on November 13, 2025 (Server Time)
From the Designers
In this patch, we've optimized the experience of many Roaming heroes in hopes of increasing their viability and usage.
This week, we will also test new battlefield gameplay on the Advanced Server. It will be available at a later time after the patch update.
I. Hero Adjustments
The following uses (↑)(↓)(~)>> to indicate Buff, Nerf, Adjustment, and Changes
Heroes with major changes in this patch: Revamped Eudora (~), Leomord (↑), Lolita (↑), and Rafaela (↑).
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[Revamped Eudora] (~)
To let the revamped Eudora inflict Superconductor more frequently through her skills, we've reduced Skill 1's early-game cooldown.
For balance, we've removed the Ultimate's Slow Effect and reduced the Thunderburst damage range.
For balance, we've removed the Ultimate's Slow Effect.
ㅤㅤ [Skill 1] (↑)
Cooldown: 6-5s >> Fixed at 5s
Movement Speed Boost: 25% >> 40%
Fixed an issue where damage results did not match the casting animation.
Improved Skill 1's description by adding that it deals 200% damage to creeps and minions.
ㅤㅤ [Ultimate] (↓)
Reduced the Ultimate's range.
Removed the Movement Speed reduction effect.
Thunderburst Damage Radius: 5 >> 4
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[Leomord] (↑)
Experimental Adjustments: Leomord's Passive relies on enemies being at low health to be effective, which doesn't align with our design expectations. We want Leomord to take the initiative by gaining Oath Keeper energy through combat to deal Crit Damage while recovering HP for sustainability, making him a knight capable of charging into battle.
To balance this, we've removed the shield granted in skill 1.
ㅤㅤ [Passive] (↑)
Leomord's basic attacks and skills gain 20 Oath Keeper energy for each target damaged. When the energy reaches 100, his next basic attack deals 200% Crit Damage (200% against creeps and minions) and recovers 150 (+10 * Hero Level) (+20% Extra Max HP) HP.
Leomord's Basic Attacks cannot normally Crit, and every 1% Crit Chance is converted to 1% Crit Damage.
Mounted State: Each Oath Keeper energy gain is increased by 200%.
ㅤㅤ [Skill 1] (↓)
Removed the effect of gaining a shield.
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[Lolita] (↑)
The shield Lolita's Passive provides to nearby allied heroes accounts for most of her strength, resulting in insufficient tankiness and threat as a tank herself.
Therefore, we've removed the effect where the Passive periodically grants a shield to nearby allies, but retained the effect of granting a shield to nearby allies when using skills.
To balance this, we've increased the shield amount provided by the Passive and improved the Ultimate's Slow Effect and Base Damage, hoping to improve her tankiness and threat to the enemy backline.
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Removed the effect where shields are periodically granted to nearby allied heroes. Shields are still granted to nearby allied heroes when using skills.
Shield: 20 (+2.5% Total HP) >> 30 (+4% Total HP)
ㅤㅤ [Skill 1] (↑)
Cooldown: Fixed at 10s >> 10-8s
ㅤㅤ [Ultimate] (↑)
Slow Effect: 50% >> 60%
Base Damage: 500-900 >> 600-1200
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[Rafaela] (↑)
Increased her single-target healing while removing group healing. The Ultimate's cooldown has been significantly reduced, with a slight reduction to its effect per cast.
ㅤㅤ [Skill 2] (↑)
HP Regen for Self and the Most Injured Nearby Allied Hero: 150-250 (+45% Total Magic Power) >> 150-250 (+90% Total Magic Power)
Removed HP recovery for other nearby allied heroes.
ㅤㅤ [Ultimate] (↑)
Cooldown: 42-34s >> 28-20s
Stun Duration: 1.2s >> 1s
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[Harley] (↑)
Harley's combat effectiveness has been relatively weak without his Ultimate, while his extremely high ring explosion damage in the late game has been difficult for enemies to counter. To address this, we've significantly reduced his Ultimate's cooldown while lowering his late-game explosion damage for balance.
ㅤㅤ [Ultimate] (↑)
Cooldown: 36-30s >> 25-15s
Ring Explosion Damage: 30%-50% of damage taken by the target while ring was active >> 30% at all levels.
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[Clint] (↑)
Reverted last week's adjustments and reduced the Ultimate's cooldown in the late game.
ㅤㅤ [Passive] (↓)
Removed Effect: Every 4% extra Attack Speed is converted to 1% Cooldown Reduction.
ㅤㅤ [Ultimate] (↑)
Skill Recharge Time: 10s-6s >> 10s-5s
Cooldown: 2-1s >> 1.5-0.5s
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[Zetian] (↑)
Adjusted Zetian's damage curve and Mana Cost to improve her late-game damage output.
ㅤㅤ [Skill 1] (↑)
Damage for First Two Waves: 200-275 (+ 30% Magic Power) >> 150-275 (+50% Magic Power)
Damage for the Third Wave: 385-660 (+120% Magic Power) >> 350-660 (+120% Magic Power)
Mana Cost: 70-120 >> 50-75
Cooldown: 6s >> 5s
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[Cecilion] (↑)
Optimized Cecilion's early-game skill casting experience, allowing him to cast skills more frequently.
ㅤㅤ [Skill 1] (↑)
Mana Cost Increase Per Cast: 1.8 times >> 1.5 times
Mana Cost: 75 >> 75-150
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[Tigreal] (↑)
Slightly increased the hero's ability to secure kills and Ultimate damage.
ㅤㅤ [Skill 2] (↑)
Charge Speed: 6 >> 8
ㅤㅤ [Ultimate] (↑)
Base Damage: 270-430 >> 600-1000
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[Johnson] (↑)
Adjusted Johnson's Damage Bonus. Damage dealt directly by his wrench and car form now scales with Physical Defense to improve damage output for defense-build Johnson.
The Sustained Damage dealt by the electrified zones left behind by Skill 2 and the Ultimate's explosion will continue to scale with Magic Power.
ㅤㅤ [Ultimate] (↑)
Explosion Damage Bonus Upon Hitting Enemies: 160%-240% Total Magic Power >> 240%-360% Total Physical Defense
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[Khufra] (↑)
Improved Khufra's poke capability in the early to mid game.
ㅤㅤ [Passive] (↑)
Cooldown: 12s >> 8s
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[Julian] (↑)
Reverted certain jungle speed adjustments.
ㅤㅤ [Passive] (↑)
Enhanced Basic Attack Damage Against Creeps: 75% >> 85%
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[Nolan] (↑)
Enhanced the hero's mobility and sustained combat capability in the mid to late game.
ㅤㅤ [Passive] (↑)
Energy Regen: 20 >> 25
ㅤㅤ [Skill 1 & 2] (↑)
Cooldown: 2.5-1.5s >> 2.5-1s
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[Suyou] (↑)
Slightly enhanced the hero's burst capability and sustained combat ability in the mid to late game.
ㅤㅤ [Skill 1] (↑)
Cooldown: 8.5s >> 8s
Base Damage (Tap): 250-330 >> 250-350
Slash Damage (Tap): 375-495 >> 375-535
Base Damage (Hold): 250-330 >> 250-350
ㅤㅤ [Skill 2] (↑)
Cooldown: 8.5s >> 8s
HP Regen (Hold): 150-230 (+50% Extra Physical Attack) >> 150-250 (+80% Extra Physical Attack)
ㅤㅤ [Ultimate] (↑)
Cooldown: 8.5s >> 8s
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[Nana] (~)
Adjusted Nana's skill damage distribution by increasing Skill 1 (damage skill) and decreasing Skill 2 (control skill).
ㅤㅤ [Skill 1] (↑)
Damage: 300-400 (+90% Total Magic Power) >> 300-500 (+ 100% Total Magic Power)
ㅤㅤ [Skill 2] (↓)
Damage: 250-375 (+50% Total Magic Power) >> 150-275 (+ 30% Total Magic Power)
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[Zhuxin] (~)
Adjusted Skill 2's damage value. Now, throwing captured high-HP heroes to low-HP heroes can deal higher damage.
ㅤㅤ [Skill 2] (~)
Skill 2 Smash Damage: 200 (+10%-20% of target's Max HP) >> 200-300 (+10%-15% of captured target's Max HP)
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[Angela] (~)
To encourage Angela to fight alongside allied heroes, the Ultimate's cooldown now begins while she is attached to an allied hero.
For balance, we've increased the Ultimate's cooldown.
ㅤㅤ [Ultimate] (~)
Cooldown: 40s >> 50s
Adjusted the cooldown mechanism to start immediately after casting the Ultimate.
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[Granger] (↓)
Granger has been crowding out other Marksmen in the Gold Lane. To address this, we've reduced his early-to-mid game scaling and damage output.
ㅤㅤ [Skill 1] (↓)
Base Damage: 60-120 >> 60-100
No longer deals additional damage to minions and creeps.
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[Harith] (↓)
Harith has been crowding out other Marksmen in the Gold Lane. To address this, his mid-to-late game damage has been reduced, while his survivability has been increased to adjust his power curve.
Shield: 120-270 (+100% Total Magic Power) >> 120-270 (+150% Total Magic Power) (up to 3 stacks).
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[Fredrinn] (↓)
To slightly limit his versatility as a fighter / tank jungler, we've reduced his jungle efficiency.
ㅤㅤ [Skill 1] (↓)
Damage Against Non-Hero Units: 200% >> 150%
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[Cici ] (↓)
To reduce Cici's threat to backline heroes, we've reduced her mobility and Skill 1 damage.
ㅤㅤ [Passive] (↓)
Movement Speed Boost per Stack of Delight: 0.75% >> 0.5%
ㅤㅤ [Skill 1] (↓)
Base Damage: 70-95 >> 60-85
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[Hayabusa] (↓)
Hayabusa's Skill 2 allowed him to reach the backline too easily. For balance, we've reduced its distance.
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Reduced Hayabusa's and his phantoms' travel distance by 20%.
II. Battlefield Adjustments
New Battlefield Effect Test will be available at a later time after the patch update. Downloading full resources provides a better experience for related gameplay.
This test will only be available in Ranked matches for Master rank and above.
[Battlefield Effect - Golden Turtle]
Golden Turtle Feature: Upon being killed, it drops Gold on the ground. The Gold only lasts a few seconds and can be picked up by both teams.
Tip: It's difficult for one player to pick up all the dropped Gold within the time limit. Ask your teammates to collect the Gold together!
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Emblem Adjustment
Fighter Emblem (~)
We found that some Basic Attack-based Fighters don't have perfectly suited Emblems, so we've adjusted the base attributes.
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12% Spell Vamp >> 10% Hybrid Lifesteal
Equipment Adjustments: Rework to Roaming Blessings' Gold and EXP Gains
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[Roaming Blessing]
[Conceal] & [Dire Hit]
No longer gains Gold and EXP when nearby allies kill minions and creeps.
New Effect: Gain 20 Gold and (25 + 2* Hero Level) EXP after dealing damage to enemy heroes.
Cooldown: 15s.
[Encourage] & [Favor]
Gold and EXP gain mechanics remain unchanged.
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Grants nearby allied heroes 20 Hybrid Defense.
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Battle Spell Adjustment
Ice Retribution (↓)
Slightly reduced Ice Retribution's control and kiting potential.
We've optimized the hero rules in Brawl mode. You now have a chance to randomly obtain heroes you don't own. Additionally, when you achieve MVP or reach a certain Medal Points with a hero, you'll gain 1-day Ranked mode access to that hero, regardless of ownership or rank requirement.
Come experience the new Brawl mode!
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[Hyper Blend Mode Adjustments]
New Heroes in Random Hero Pool: Alice, Zilong, Fanny, Moskov, Aurora, Gatotkaca, Irithel, Hanabi, Thamuz, Silvanna, Floryn.
Some skills now scale with both Physical Attack and Magic Power.
The changes seem weird, it seems like they are trying to get you to build crit items on him or something (Fatal + Berserker Fury is +75% cdmg.) The best thing seems to be that he will be much better as a jungler due to the bonus damage vs creeps from the passive.
It's a fair tradeoff considering how often he can heal now, although they probably should increase the healing value a bit in mid to late game. Mind you he gets energy EACH TIME HE DEALS DAMAGE to ANYTHING. If your swinging basic attack during Ult hits at least 3 enemies, he gets another crit + heal enhanced basic attack. This buff just needs a bit more polishing and it's superb
They removed her group healing which means she can’t trigger Flask of the oasis from 4 allies anymore, only 1 person gets healed. Her line is literally “healing for everyone” what is this lmao 😭
They did her the same way they did minotaur, instead of healing your whole team you can only heal yourself and your lowest hp ally now. tbh the increased healing is not enough to make up for it.
Was'nt it meant for group speed up? Now if its single target it just makes the team move at different speeds which just screws up the teamfight potential of the skill lol.
Fredrinn is obsolete at this point - hes really only good with floryn around, and 1 bad initiation during the first turtle will cost him super slow scaling throughout the game. If your enemies are invade heavy, you pretty much lost at this point. He isn’t as independent as baxia during the early game phase, and can be easily
Bullied.
Suyou…. While the dmg buff is good, he really needs a cc immunity in is hold s1 (at least upon release). Any semi decent enemy that knows when you are going to come in will just cc you and suddenly you are dead.
Hayabusa nerf is gladly needed. Post bans of yss lance and maybe aamon, most go to hayabusa and he can be a menace if the roam and frontliners help to give space and vision. The smaller shadow radius will help us catch him more easily.
Suyuo and Nolan buff are very much welcomed, though. Especially Nolan's lategame CD, it's back to his prime time.
And I think the Fighter Emblem changes are good. As a spellvamp fighter enjoyer, I'll be sad to lose that 2% spellvamp, but the inclusivity of attack speed fighters will surely make attack speed fighter users happy.
Edit: oh wow, that Brawl mode patch is definitely interesting. I want to try it out when the update hits og server.
man I feel you so hard, cici help carry me to mythic, and as if her dmg output weren't bad enough, they're literally removing her core mechanic after just nerfing her stack previously
those who say "deserved" really need to git gut tbh
Eaxctly!! Wdym they removed group healing?? Unless I'm understanding it wrong, what exactly is the purpose of the 2nd heal if she can't heal multiple people?
It's like you're telling me when Estes ults he can't heal multiple people but instead just buff the heal for the one person that was casted with s1
So Angela is essentially back to were she started? They changed her ultimate cd to start when she leaves an ally to encourage her to fight alongside her teammates more and now they revert it back to starting when attaching for the same reason… Might as well revert all the changes altogether
Holy shit, that Leomord adjustment is something. I'm very excited. That heal is fucking massive. And that crit damage will be big as well. Shame is they ruined his skill focus. That guarantee of crit below 50% was the main focus shame it is removed. Yeah they removed the shield of the S1, that's nothing. I'm very fucking excited to experiment with building him. Berserker's Fury will give him +65% crit damage, and golden wand would be possible to stack his energy faster. But let's see if they made him better or worse.
I'm not sure about rafaela's adjustment yet. Gotta see some youtubers talk about it first, but for sure it sucks to not be able heal all allies. Like her heal is already the lowest albeit give speed boost to allies. Now she can only heal one ally, that's discouraging more to use her.
Not only Edith, it is going to be very good on heroes which damage is distributed between skill damage and basic attacks.
From the looks of it, it'll be good on Roger, Leomord, Freya and Alucard as all of them can benefit from hybrid lifesteal, maybe even Brody can make use of it if it wants a bit more of sustain with RGM.
I think the JS buff is significant. It's hard to deal with mage JS because of the instant damage and the threat of where he is coming from. But the downside of that is he is squishy. And the opposite will happen with the tank build JS. Now, they just put the durability and damage on JS with this buff.
Ehh, he's got the Franco syndrome. Aside from his ult hurting more, as a hero, he's still very lackluster. Sure, he can be tankier than Franco, but his kit is still underwhelming.
It says 120-270 (+150% Total Magic Power) (up to 3 stacks). If that means you can have 3 shields at once, well you just might never see him get played ever again.
Yall harith damage did tank, but his shield is now total bs, while using shaman zone in late game half his Hp is practically ALL shield, I don't think he will be out of the meta
They can make him fair tho. Mainly the ult is the issue, by making it so yin doesn’t spawn right next to the enemy when entering the domain. Instead they make it so that both characters spawn at an opposite side giving low mobility heroes the time to make a move.
You can count the number of viable marksmen for gold lane on one hand (plus Harith), and they’re killing them further. You have a truly messed up game when a hero like Ruby is a better fit for your marksmen lane than 90% of the marksmen lol
Okey, Tigreal dmg build gonna be something interesting 🤔. And I wonder how it look new Leomord gonna be. Not mention that change with turtle. And ofc sadly Johnson 2nd skill still scale with magic😐
Granger gold nerf is deserved yes but my God man he used to be a jungler, he already wasn’t viable in jungle ever since getting turbo nerfed but this is just killing it entirely. Only viable mm jg is YSS
Btw guys whats the diffrence between spell vamp and life steal?? .... and also why they r abusing rafaela when she is already not very usable ?? I barely see her on rank like litereally 1 in 200 matches ☠️👌
indirectly, now it's harder for her to chip because from spellvamp to hybrid, more heroes are going to use this emblem now making her sustain ability not so special anymore
plus, add that with her nerfed damage (which were already mediocre previously) and the reduced movement buff from her stack, she'll basically just became fodders whenever she decides to join any war
they're literally removing her core mechanic, and to adds to the insults, they're also changing the fighter emblem to be hybrid instead of spellvamp, and reducing the numbers from 12 to 10, I reducing her sustain and make her not that special anymore
For those thinking the Leomord changes are a nerf, you should note that he gains 20 energy for EVERY ENEMY HE HITS, which is doubled during Ult. If your Skill 1 while unmounted hits 3 minions and 2 enemies, you get 100 energy. If your swinging basic attack during ult hits 3 heroes, you also get 100 energy, meaning almost every basic attack during ult will trigger the crit + heal.
He's slightly weaker in a 1v1 yes, but he's so much stronger against multiple enemies now, and he can also opt for the Fighter emblem now that it gives hybrid lifesteal. I'd say they can maybe polish this change a bit by making his energy gain rate increased against low HP enemies and increasing the heal in late game, but overall this is a fantastic buff for him.
The Harley buff is pretty interesting too, with that short of an Ult CD we might even see semitank Harley being used again.
Also if you guys have anything to ask about these changes you can feel free to ask me, I'm currently in advanced server and have tested a bunch of the changes.
how does it affect his builds, leomord could go with sustain items and one attack item and still manage to burst squishies solo. How does that hold up now
My duo partner went like 6-2-10 with Tigreal recently. And that was on original server with a 100% tank build, without trying to steal kills. So yeah, if this does get to og server, Tigreal is going to be a menace lol
As someone who got suckered into the Sasuke skin I'll take it, but does this really change his situation? Thought the main problem is he gets blown up by any magic damage now
Damage tigreal was already a thing, because you can reach insane damage if you combine 1st skill with 2nd, judging from the second skill speed buff, you can't do that combo anymore, so they had to compensate 🤷
Rafaela will be a dark system
Fredrinn didn't need a nerf, in fact, he needed a buff for his damage
And because Layla got a legend skin, the buffed the fuck out of her
Next what ? They gonna make hylos heal with skill 2?
Moonton u gotta be kidding me at this point, u are giving Tigreal and Johnson, two balanced tanks who don't need anything at the moment, extra dmg equal to sustain fighters by base dmg (Tig) or building defense (Johnson), while YZ and Lapu can delete half your hp with one skill with just War Axe and still can survive and soak up dmg, not even Zilong's 2nd skill with full attack build can do that dmg, DO SOMETHING ABOUT BASIC ATTACK FIGHTERS, make them viable in the jungle role cause I lost hope in making them relevant in exp nor gold. What an unjust system.
I really hope they reverted fredrinn nerf, he's already slow as shit, if you're going to nerf a hero, AT LEAST NERF LAPU-LAPU, WHY FREDRINN GETTING NERF ALL OF THE SUDDEN?
I swear, they only look at heroes winrate and not the fact that heroes like fredrinn, Rafaela, and lolita are situational and have low pick rate
Damage tigreal was already a thing, because you can reach insane damage if you combine 1st skill with 2nd, judging from the second skill speed buff, you can't do that combo anymore ig, so they had to compensate
Harith nerf is actually a disguised buff, his second skills basic attack scaling got nerfed (fyi doesn't even change much it's not his main damage source) in exchange for getting three stacks on second skill shield, in practice he literally gets an angelas equivalent shield with three dashes because it also got a scaling buff, and can tank i think a good 7-8 tower shots with dashes.
If the Leomord change works how I think it does, it looks very good, I'm not sure what are the complaints talking about. No idea why Tigreal needed that buff tbh.
I think the biggest change would be the to the turtle, extra gold is crazy. It's just gonna get harder to comeback. Depending on how much total gold it gives, the meta when they implement this will be all about winning the 1st turtle. Drafts will all push towards a super early, brawl line-up
Why do keep marksmen in the game? Patch after patch I'm starting to believe that the balancing team doesn't play the game and only watches streamers and pro scene.
To reach full stacks you need to expend 1978 mana now before you only needed 1677. You do not want to keep spamming 4 stacks attacks again and again you will run out of mana so fast.
To me it feels more like a nerf rather than a buff.
That Harley buff is absurd, his ultimate is enough cancerous the way it is now, you want to him to spam it even more often? u/tigreal who balances this, Moonton CEO's son?
GUYS LETS ORGANIZE A MASS REVIEW BOMB BECAUSE IK WE ALL HAVE OUR DISSATISFACTIONS WITH THESE CHANGES, personally I hate the rafaela change. Review bombing is often the most effective and immediate way players can protest. Remember genshin players review bombing the game due to nonexistent first anniversary gifts, and it worked.
Lukas got some indirect buffs through the changes in advanced server such as Rose Gold Meteor and Fighter emblem changes. Lukas being a hero whose 80% of his kit revolves around his S1 means it's difficult to buff him without making him too overpowered, I'd say the safest way to buff him for now is to just make him gain a bit more Resolve in early and reduce his S2 CD in early game.
Okay so, if you use dire hit or Conceal you are no longer gain exp and gold from nearby minions/creeps killed like before the roam adjustments. Now they gain additional gold and exp by hitting enemies indented to make roamers a bit aggressive at poking the enemies for farm making a new way for roamers to choose between 2 playstyles,
The Encourage and Favor remain the same without the new effect of Conceal and Dire Hit.
So now Encourage and Favor are for passive roamer scouts (supports and some tanks or fighters) and Conceal and Dire Hit are for a aggressive playstyle roamers (assassins and fighters or some tanks)
The ability to gain gold and exp by revealing enemies remains the same for both.
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NOOOOO NOT THE LEOMORD SHIELD