You've unlocked Anson, recruited the rebalanced Binwin, and pushed your limits across multiple Wintershield variants. Now it's time to put your skills to the test with WINTERSHIELD MASTERY!

Welcome to the second run of this exciting Event augment! You can learn more about how Mastery Challenges work in last month's Introduction blog. Today, however, we're here to talk about the specifics for this month's challenging restrictions as we all push to get Dragonsoul Card Sleeves for Artemis the Wintershield Event Champions!

Wintershield Mastery Challenges

Base Restriction: Fellowship of the Fallbacks

• You may only use Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Halflings, and members of The Fallbacks affiliation.

• Restriction A: Slow Going
  
  • Enemies gain 5% more health in each area, stacking multiplicatively.
  • You may only use Champions with a base attack cooldown of 5 seconds or higher.

• Restriction B: Shadow VIPs
  
  • Enemies gain 5% more health in each area, stacking multiplicatively.
  • Two Formation Slots in the formation are taken up by Shadow Imp Escorts.

• Restriction C: Attack Pattern
  
  • Enemies gain 5% more health in each area, stacking multiplicatively.
  • If a Champion is adjacent to another Champion with the same base attack type (ie. melee, ranged, magic), all Champions have their damage set to 0.

• Restriction D: Building Shadow
  
  • Enemies gain 5% more health in each area, stacking multiplicatively.
  • In non-boss areas after area 10, an invulnerable Shadow enemy has a 100% chance to spawn alongside each enemy. This chance is reduced by 10% for each unique alignment in your formation. Subsequent enemies spawn with 100% more health for each Shadow enemy in the current area, stacking multiplicatively.

Champion Shop Improvements

With today's update, we also began implementing quality-of-life improvements to the Champions section of the Shop. These updates will roll out gradually over the coming months.

We also noticed during Chest Vaults last year that players enjoyed having access to every Champion's chest. We decided to make that a feature moving forward, accessible through the updated Champions section of the Shop.

Mastery Challenges & Card Sleeve Feedback

Are you excited to test your Wintershield Mastery and collect Card Sleeves for your Wintershield Event Champions? Which Champion are you looking forward to decking out first? Your feedback is important to us, and we would love to have you join our community on one of our official platforms to share your thoughts:

• The Official Idle Champions Discord.
• The Official Idle Champions Subreddit.
• Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Bluesky, or Instagram.