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August 30th, 2024
Idle Champion Spotlight: Bobby 
Posted in Idle Champions.

    Bobby is the youngest of the group that was transported to the magical world of Dungeons & Dragons. As a brave and loyal Barbarian, he wields a powerful magical club that enhances his strength. Bobby has close ties to his sister Sheila and his pet unicorn, Uni. Despite his impulsiveness, Bobby's courage and determination are key assets in the search to find the way back home.

Bobby is a DPS and Support character who prefers to be on the front-line. Regardless of whether he's used as a damage dealer or to buff your formation, his abilities are increased for each column behind him. He can also help your formation find more Scales of Tiamat. Once unlocked, you can find this daring Human Barbarian in Seat 12 (Arkhan).

Read on to learn more...

Bobby the Barbarian

Bobby
NAME
12
SEAT
Male (He/Him)
GENDER
8
AGE
Chaotic Good
ALIGNMENT
5
OVERWHELM
Human
SPECIES
Barbarian
CLASS
DPS / Support
ROLES
Saturday Morning Squad
AFFILIATION
18
STR
15
DEX
12
CON
9
INT
8
WIS
10
CHA
72
TOT
Patron Eligibility: Mirt, Elminster (until September 4th, 2027)

Abilities

Basic Attack

  • Thunder Club (Melee) - Bobby swings his club at the closest enemy.

Formation Abilities

  • Critical Hit - Bobby's base chance to Critical Hit is 20%.
  • Charge Into Battle - Bobby increases his damage by 100% for each column behind him, stacking multiplicatively.
  • Uni, the Unicorn - Uni takes her place next to Bobby. Uni (in Bobby's slot) increases the damage of Bobby and all other Champions next to her by 100%. If Uni is in Dungeon Master's formation slot, this is further increased by 400%.
  • Now We're Talking - Whenever Bobby lands a Critical Hit, the effect of Charge Into Battle is increased by 100%, stacking multiplicatively up to 10 times and resetting when changing areas.
  • Scales of Tiamat Scavenger - Bobby can help scavenge up to (5,000 + 150/day) additional Scales of Tiamat when killing bosses. While this cap is not reached, Bobby has a 10% chance of scavenging 10 Scales of Tiamat each time a boss is defeated. The cap increases by 150 every day.

Specializations A

  • Stunning Strength - Bobby increases his damage by 100%. When Bobby scores a Critical Hit, the enemies are also knocked back and stunned for 5 seconds.
  • Group Charge - Bobby's Charge Into Battle now also increases the damage of all Champions behind Bobby by 100% of the buff it provides to Bobby.

Specializations B

  • Not So Low - Bobby increases the effect of his first Specialization choice by 100% for each Champion in the formation with a total ability score of 78 or less, stacking multiplicatively.
  • Still Growing Up - Bobby increases the effect of his first Specialization choice by 100% for each Champion in the formation that is 20 years old or younger, stacking multiplicatively.
  • Strong Armed - Bobby increases the effect of his first Specialization choice by 100% for each Champion in the formation with a Strength of 15 or higher, stacking multiplicatively.

Ultimate Ability

  • Bobby-quake - Bobby strikes the ground with his club, knocking all enemies up and back and stunning them for 5 seconds.

Equipment

Global DPS Buff
SLOT 1
Charge Into Battle Buff
SLOT 2
Uni, the Unicorn Buff
SLOT 3
Buffs Specialization A
SLOT 4
Buffs Specialization B
SLOT 5
Ultimate Cooldown Buff
SLOT 6

Feats

Uncommon
  • Tavern Brawler
    Increases the damage of Bobby by 30%
  • Tactical Prowess
    Additively increases the Crit Chance of Bobby by 5%
  • Selflessness
    Increases the damage of all Champions by 10%
  • Lead the Party
    Increases the effect of Bobby's Charge Into Battle ability by 20%
  • Oh, Uni!
    Increases the effect of Bobby's Uni, the Unicorn ability by 20%
Rare
  • Grappler
    Increases damage of Bobby by 60%
  • Battle Expertise
    Additively increases the Crit Chance of Bobby by 10%.
  • Cataclysmic Strike
    Increases the Crit Damage of Bobby by 60%
  • Inspiring Leader
    Increases the damage of all Champions by 25%
  • Lead the Charge
    Increases the effect of Bobby's Charge Into Battle ability by 40%
  • Uni, Watch Out!
    Increases the base damage of of Bobby's Uni, the Unicorn ability by 40%
  • A Magical Friend
    Increases damage boost Bobby's Uni, the Unicorn ability receives when Uni is in Dungeon Master's slot by 40%
  • Barbarian Confidence
    Increases the effect of Bobby's Now We're Talking ability by 40%
  • Rage!
    Increases the effect of Bobby's Stunning Strength and Group Charge specializations by 40%
  • Playground Rules
    Increases the effect of Bobby's Not So Low, Still Growing Up, and Strong Armed Specializations by 40%
Epic
  • Lead the Unicorns
    Increases the effect of Bobby's Charge Into Battle ability by 80%
    Available in the Harvestguard Bobby Theme Pack
  • Barbarian Strength
    Increases the max stacks of Now We're Talking by 100%
    Unlockable as a Tier 3 Event Reward

We Want YOUR Feedback

What do you think of our Saturday Morning Squad so far? Are you as excited as we are to add Bobby the Barbarian to your formations?

Join the discussion on the official Idle Champions Discord or the Idle Champions Subreddit!
August 9th, 2024
Idle Champion 2024 Spotlight: Ellywick Tumblestrum 
Posted in Idle Champions.

Ellywick Tumblestrum is the greatest bard in the multiverse, and joined Idle Champions back in year 4 with her triumphant song! But every performer needs to adjust their shows to make them better for the next tour. So this year Ellywick is getting an update to her set list during Ahghairon's Day!

I. Ellywick Tumblestrum

Dungeons & Dragons Ellywick

    Thanks to a lucky draw from the notorious Deck of Many Things, Ellywick Tumblestrum is now the Greatest Bard in the Multiverse! Her magnificent music has dazzled beings across many planes, including royalty from the Feywild. The Summer Queen and the Queen of Air and Darkness were so moved by her performance that they gifted the bard her exquisite instrument, the beautiful lute Morningmist. She tells tales of her amazing adventures at the Witchlight Carnival, aided by her frog companion Groak.


Ellywick is a Support, Gold Find, and Healing Champion who uses the Deck of Many Things to augment her abilities. When you want her bardic skills to inspire your formation, she can be swapped out with Tyril in seat 10.

Check out our Champion Spotlight Video embedded below for a quick overview of Ellywick's abilities, and read on to get all of the details!

II. Ellywick's Stats

Race: Gnome Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Gender: Female Pronouns: She/Her
Age: 125 Affiliation: None Class: Bard

STR: 12 DEX: 17 CON: 14
INT: 13 WIS: 12 CHA: 20

Role: Support, Gold Find, Healing
Eligible for Patrons: Vajra, Strahd, Zariel, Elminster (until August 7th 2027)
Seat: 10 (Tyril)


Dungeons & Dragons Ellywick Key Art

III. Ellywick's Abilities

Basic Attack

  • Quick Strum - Ellywick strums her lute three times in quick succession, sending out three streaks of magical musical energy that damages random enemies; a single enemy can be affected by multiple streaks.

Formation Abilities

  • Powerful Following - Ellywick increases the damage of Champions in the column behind her by 100%.
  • Fortunate Soul - Gold Find is increased by 50%.
  • The Deck Of Many Things - Ellywick draws a random card from the Deck of Many Things after every 25th enemy kill or after 60 seconds, whichever comes first. She can draw up to 5 cards at once and most duplicate card effects stack multiplicatively. Cards are discarded when she uses her ultimate ability, Call Of The Feywild. Her card options are:
    • Knight - Powerful Following +100%
    • Moon - Fortunate Soul +100%
    • The Fates - Other active card effects +5%
    • Flames - Enemies move 100% faster and deal 100% more damage.
    • Gem - Bosses drop 10% more gems
  • Greatest Song In The Multiverse - Ellywick counts the total number of cards she has drawn in the adventure. She increases the effect of Powerful Following by 3% for each card she has drawn, stacking multiplicatively and capping at 1,000 cards.
  • Call Of The Feywild - Ellywick unlocks her ultimate ability and, when she uses it, discards her current hand of cards. There is an instant effect based on each card discarded:
    • Knight - All enemies currently spawned take 500% more damage from all attacks, stacks multiplicatively.
    • Moon - Instantly drop 10% of the gold from all currently spawned enemies but enemies do not die, stacks multiplicatively
    • The Fates - Champions gain temporary hit points for 50% of their max health, stacks additively.
    • Flames - All currently spawned enemies move 50% slower and deal 50% less damage, stacks multiplicatively.
    • Gem - The next X bosses you fight has their max health reduced by 50%, where X is equal to the number of gem stacks.

Specializations

  • For The Fans - Additively increase the odds of Knight cards by 20% (additively reducing the odds of each other card by 5%)
  • Faster Tempo - Additively increase the odds of Moon cards by 20% (additively reducing the odds of each other card by 5%)
  • All That Sparkles - Additively increase the odds of Gem cards by 20% (additively reducing the odds of each other card by 5%)

Ultimate Ability

  • Call Of The Feywild - Ellywick draws six fey creatures to her; they appear on the right side of the screen and dash towards her across the enemies, dealing damage as they pass by. Once they are gathered, Ellywick plays a short solo riff in celebration and then they dash off again to the right, dealing damage to any remaining or newly spawned enemies.


IV. Ellywick's Epic Equipment



Slot 1: Greatest Song in the Multiverse
Slot 2: Deck of Many Things
Slot 3: Powerful Following
Slot 4: Fortunate Soul
Slot 5: Ultimate Damage
Slot 6: Ultimate Cooldown

V. Ellywick's Achievement and Adventure Variants

Achievement:

  • Stack The Deck - Have Ellywick draw an entire hand with all 5 of the same cards.

Adventure Variants:

Pixie Trickery -
  • One Slot is taken up in the formation by a Pixie riding an intellect devourer, who is along to watch Ellywick do her thing.
  • Each time a boss arrives on screen, all Champions are stunned for 5 seconds. If Ellywick is in the formation, the stun does not take effect.
  • Area Goals:
    • Tier 1: Complete Area 75.
    • Tier 2: Complete Area 250.
    • Tier 3: Complete Area 600.
    • Tier 4: Complete Area 1200.

Fey Harmonies -
  • Ellywick starts in your formation. She can be moved.
  • Every area, 2 Satyrs arrive to harmonize. While any Satyrs are on screen, all enemies can only be damaged by bards.
  • Only Champions with CHA 14 or higher can be used.
  • Area Goals:
    • Tier 1: Complete Area 125.
    • Tier 2: Complete Area 350.
    • Tier 3: Complete Area 800.
    • Tier 4: Complete Area 1400.

Draconic Dissonance -
  • Every area (including boss areas), 5 chromatic Dragon Wyrmlings spawn with the second wave. Each type of Dragon buffs the Dragons on screen in a unique way:
    • White - When a Dragon attacks, it heals 20% of its health.
    • Blue - Increase the normal attack cooldown of Champions by .5 seconds.
    • Black - When a non-boss Dragon dies, there's a 25% chance that it immediately respawns.
    • Red - Dragons move 100% faster.
    • Green - Dragons deal 100% additional damage.
  • Area Goals:
    • Tier 1: Complete Area 175.
    • Tier 2: Complete Area 450.
    • Tier 3: Complete Area 1000.
    • Tier 4: Complete Area 1600.

VI. Conclusion

Ellywick's new tour is in full swing! Let us know how much you are enjoying the show:
August 2nd, 2024
Idle Champion 2024 Spotlight: Rust on the Harbour 
Posted in Idle Champions.

Many are excited by the thrilling life of a pirate on the high sea. But all the swashbuckling skills in the world cannot help when you are afraid of water!

Rust on the Harbour is the sweetest, nicest sellsword to ever be shot out of a cannon, and it was time we gave a new shine to his one gold piece. So read on to learn all about this terrific tabaxi and the changes we've made to make him even better!

I. Rust

Dungeons & Dragons Rust

    Rust on the Harbour is a former pirate who gave up a life at sea because it was far too wet. His deadly skills are in contrast to his sweet nature and short attention span, and he enjoys seeing others succeed even if they are supposed to be antagonists. Now trying life as an adventurer on land, he'll lend his roguish skills to anyone who can give him that which his heart desires most: one gold piece.


Rust is a Support and Gold Find Champion whose excitement to find coin helps the rest of the formation increase their gold find. When you need his assistance in the formation, he'll be counting his coin in seat 11 opposite Jamilah.

We are fortunate to get to work with a huge variety of liveplay D&D series, but it's a rare treat to be able to include the Dungeon Master as one of the Content Creators who bring a Champion to our game. So we're very happy that this Champion from the Oxventure crew from Outside Xbox and Outside Xtra comes from DM Johnny Chiodini! They created Rust as their character for a Saltmarsh campaign, and brought the supportive tabaxi in as an NPC for Oxventure to enjoy. Along with their impressive DM skills, Johnny has made content for Eurogamer, GameSpot, and Dicebreaker, and currently creates videos about tabletop and video games for their Patreon.

Check out our Champion Spotlight Video embedded below for a quick overview of Rust's abilities, and read on to get all of the details!

II. Rust's Stats

Race: Tabaxi Alignment: Neutral
Gender: Male Pronouns: He/Him
Age: 23 Affiliation: Oxventurers Guild Class: Rogue

STR: 12 DEX: 18 CON: 15
INT: 11 WIS: 12 CHA: 14

Role: Support, Gold Find
Eligible for Patrons: Vajra, Zariel, Elminster (until August 7th, 2027)
Seat: 11 (Jamilah)


Dungeons & Dragons Rust Masquerade

III. Rust's Abilities

Rust has received a rework that super charges his gold find build-around, especially the buffs he gives and how much better he is at holding on to his shiny gold piece. His new abilities let him affect the weather, decrease cooldowns, and generally provide more bonuses to his affiliation and his fellow gold find Champions!

Basic Attack

Rust has two different attacks that he rotates through. He attacks once with Bang Bang, then drops his pistols and will attack with his Rapier three times before retrieving the pistols and starting over.
  • Bang Bang - Rust shoots a random enemy with his pistols, once from each pistol.
  • Stabby Stabby - Rust leaps out and stabs a random enemy with his Rapier once.

Formation Abilities

  • Hello, Friends! - Rust increases the damage of all Champions by 400% for each Champion in the formation with the Gold Find role or the Oxventurers Guild affiliation, stacking multiplicatively.
  • One Gold Piece - Assuming Rust does not already have one, he has a 10% chance to find a shiny gold piece after any kill that drops gold (not just his own). Each time Rust finds a shiny gold piece he gains a Riches stack. Rust increases the effect of Hello, Friends by 10% for each Riches stack he has, stacking multiplicatively. Rust loses his shiny gold piece whenever you use his ultimate ability. Riches stacks are capped at the highest area unlocked / 5, rounded up.
  • Rust For Hire - Rust increases your gold find by 400%.
  • Highest Bidder - Rust increases the damage of all Champions by 100% for each order of magnitude of your Gold Find percentage, stacking multiplicatively.
  • Rags to Riches - Whenever Rust is holding a shiny gold piece, increase the effect of Hello, Friends by 200%. Whenever Rust is NOT holding a shiny gold piece, increase the effect of Rust For Hire by 200%.

Specializations

  • Get Rich Quick - When Rust uses his ultimate, all other Champions with the Gold Find role or Oxventurers Guild affiliation have their remaining ultimate cooldowns reduced by 10%.
  • Even More Riches - Increase the cap of One Gold Piece's Riches stacks by 20% for each Champion in the formation with the Gold Find role or Oxventurers Guild affiliation, stacking multiplicatively.
  • Rust's Fever Dream - Whenever Rust uses his ultimate ability, the weather changes to "raining gold", causing gold coins to rain from the sky. You gain gold equal to 5% of a monster kill (including your gold find modifier) in the current area every second.

Ultimate Ability

  • Cannonball! - Rust loads himself into a cannon and fires himself toward the enemies, dealing damage in a large area upon landing. If Rust has a shiny gold piece, he drops it while flying through the air.

IV. Rust's Epic Equipment



Slot 1: Global DPS
Slot 2: One Gold Piece
Slot 3: Rust For Hire
Slot 4: Highest Bidder
Slot 5: Hello, Friends
Slot 6: Ultimate Cooldown

V. Rust's Achievement and Adventure Variants

Achievement:

  • What's Lost Is Found Again - Gain 300 of Rust's One Gold Piece Riches stacks in a single adventure.

Adventure Variants:

Gold Devourer - Rust increases your damage based on your total gold find. Use gold find buffing Champions in your formation to boost his support abilities!
  • Rust begins in the formation. He can't be moved or removed from the formation.
  • The Devourer appears as a secondary boss on area 25. It must be defeated in order to advance.
  • Gold Find is reduced by 99%.
  • Gold Find is increased by 200% per Champion in formation with the Gold Find Tag.
  • Area Goals:
    • Tier 1: Complete Area 75.
    • Tier 2: Complete Area 250.
    • Tier 3: Complete Area 600.
    • Tier 4: Complete Area 1200.

Deadwinter Drama
  • Only Champions with CON of 14 or higher can be used.
  • Every area, frozen skeleton archers that attack a random Champion from range appear. These enemies do not drop gold, nor do they count towards quest progress.
  • If any undead enemy attacks a Champion, that Champion is stunned for 1 second.
  • Area Goals:
    • Tier 1: Complete Area 125.
    • Tier 2: Complete Area 350.
    • Tier 3: Complete Area 800.
    • Tier 4: Complete Area 1400.

Heads or Tails
  • Rust begins in the formation with his One Gold Piece ability unlocked. He can't be moved or removed from the formation.
  • When Rust is not holding his shiny gold piece, adjacent champions damage is disabled.
  • When Rust is holding his shiny gold piece, non-adjacent champion damage is disabled.
  • Area Goals:
    • Tier 1: Complete Area 175.
    • Tier 2: Complete Area 450.
    • Tier 3: Complete Area 1000.
    • Tier 4: Complete Area 1600.

VI. Conclusion

Has Rust joined your gold find formations to gain even bigger rewards? Tell us all about it: