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Campaign: Vecna: Eve of Ruin

Hellbound

Complete Area 1000

Variant: Racing Through Avernus

Quickly travel through Avernus in search of the final rod piece.

Every 5 minutes of real time, all enemies' health and damage are increased by 100%, stacking multiplicatively. Better go fast!
Complete Area 1050

The Red Belvedere

Complete Area 1050

Variant: Ante Up

Score big at a hellish casino to win the rod's final piece and a bunch of gold!

You may only use Champions with the Gold Find role.
Windfall joins the formation.
2-3 Red Dragon Wyrmlings spawn with each wave. They drop no gold nor count toward quest progress.
The house always wins. Monsters drop 10% less gold (stacking multiplicatively) for every second you spend in an area.
Complete Area 1100

Vecna: Eve of Ruin Tier 4 Blessings

Ascent of the Archmages - Local: Increase the favor earned by converting other favors to The Wizards Three Favor by 10%

Heroes of Renown - Local: Increase the damage of Champions with a total ability score of 80 or higher by 100%

Recruit Windfall - Local: Increase the damage of all Champions by 100% and Windfall by an additional 100%

Apothecary Adherent - Global: Increase the damage of all Champions by 20% for each active potion, stacking multiplicatively.

Chromatic Dragon Emergence

Gem Shop Updates

Golden Epics

Grimm Slot 4 - Elegant Snow Cloak (20,000 Corrupted Gems)
Reya Slot 5 - Broken Hellrider Sign (20,000 Corrupted Gems)

Feats

Spurt - Venom Harvester (10,000 Corrupted Gems)
Miria - Heavily Armored (10,000 Corrupted Gems)
Beadle - Reaching Shadow (10,000 Corrupted Gems)
Grimm - Weapon Master (10,000 Corrupted Gems)

Skins

Highlord Miria (10,000 Corrupted Gems)
Dragonlance Spurt (10,000 Corrupted Gems)

Chests

Unlimited Chromatic Dragon Emergence Chests (10,000 Corrupted Gems each)
- Contains gear for Beadle, Grimm, Miria, Reya, and Spurt
8x Gold Supply Chests (2,500 Corrupted Gems each)
8x Modron Component Chests (2,500 Corrupted Gems each)

Buffs

10x Marvelous Support Pigments (7,000 Corrupted Gems each)

After such a long and cold winter, the citizens of Daggerford are eager to celebrate the Festival of Fools: a day of feasting, drinking, and general foolishness. People don brightly colored and garish clothing, dancing in the street like court jesters and competing with one another to see who can pull off the most foolish (yet harmless) pranks.

During the festivities, a concerned villager approaches the party and asks for help. She says that her husband's prank is to try and taunt a frost giant...

Festival of Fools 8 has arrived, and with it, a unique event: Beadle & Grimm have been separated and updated to become two separate Champions! For more information on this month's Featured Champions, read on -- but first, let's talk about an update we are making to Events!

Events Update: Choosing Your Path

When we introduced Events 2.0, players would pick from a range of Flex Champions for each event. However, if players picked the same Champion multiple times, that Champion's progress would continue where it left off. Moving forward, that need not be the case.

For those of you who were playing last year, you likely have a selection of Champions in each event with some level of Event progress. Starting with Festival of Fools, if you choose a Flex Champion who already has event tier progress, you will be presented with a choice: You can choose to maintain that progress and pick up where you left off (automatically triggering any Champion Event Buffs you unlocked last year), or you may choose to reset that progress and re-collect Gold Chests and Bonus rewards from Augments as you complete each variant tier again.

Featured Champions

Beadle

Beadle may not have the strength of his best friend Grimm, but his quick wit and sharp instincts have saved the day more times than he can count. Whether managing the Giant’s Bane Tavern or outsmarting enemies, Beadle brings cunning to every adventure.

Beadle is a cunning Support, Gold Find, and Control Champion with powerful synergies when paired with his best friend, Grimm. He boosts nearby Champions' damage, steals extra gold from enemies while stunning them, and his support scales with a specialization choice tailored to your Champions' gear.

Learn more about Beadle in his Champion Spotlight.

Grimm

Grimm’s immense strength and steadfast loyalty make him the perfect partner for Beadle’s clever schemes. A giant in both stature and courage, Grimm is as at home smashing through foes as he is keeping the Giant’s Bane Tavern running smoothly.

Grimm is a DPS, Tanking, and Breaker Champion who thrives alongside his best friend, Beadle. Grimm's damage and armor-breaking abilities intensify as the battle rages on, with specialization choices that let him taunt enemies, find gold, or slay giants.

Learn more about Grimm in his Champion Spotlight.

Flex Champions

Flex Slots allow players to unlock additional Champions and earn chests during events, choosing from a pool of retired Champions associated with the event. This collection of retired Champions includes the Champions from previous years of the event as well as some Champions whose events have been retired. This event's Flex Slot pool includes:

Spurt

SEAT 3

Briv

SEAT 5

Alyndra

SEAT 6

Catti-brie

SEAT 7

Tatyana

SEAT 8

Aila

SEAT 9

Rosie

SEAT 10

Strix

SEAT 11

The Dark Urge

SEAT 11

Miria

SEAT 12

Event Augments

Boon XP!: The boon system has been reworked in this event! Eligible items purchased with Platinum now grant Boon XP, which unlocks boon levels. The boon level cap has also been removed. Check out all the details here.
Extra Benefits: When the event ends, you'll earn Scales of Tiamat* based on what you completed within the event. You'll get 250 Scales for every event variant of tier 2 or above that you have completed and 250 Scales for each Boon XP you've obtained.
*Scales of Tiamat are used in the Legendary Forge to craft Legendary Equipment.
Auto-Blacksmith: Event Champions whose recruitment adventure or variants you complete gain common rarity equipment in all slots, if they don't already have better.
Brothers in Arms: Completing tier 2+ variants for Beadle or Grimm awards double chests.

You can check out which Augments are active at any time by mousing over the Event Banner.

Festival of Fools Feedback Wanted

What do you think of the Festival of Fools Featured Champions? Will Beadle and Grimm work together - or apart - in your formations?

What do you think about Flex Champion Resets?

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