June 4th

Idle Champions: Dragondown 8

Tags: idle, champions, event, new content, update, hank, krond, dragondown.

It's the Summer Solstice in Faerûn, which means it is time for Dragondown celebrations!

While the City of Waterdeep celebrates Dragondown by burning dragon effigies to symbolize the city's victories over invading dragons, some smaller celebrations focus on ceremonial bonfires and charms, with mock-spells and chanted prayers performed as the sun sets.

But something has gone wrong in Luskan this year, where locals have drawn the ire of a Bronze Dragon and its kin...

The first Dragondown was the 13th limited-time event in Idle Champions, launching on June 25th, 2018. This year marks our eighth Dragondown event, which introduces Hank the Ranger, the leader and final member of the Saturday Morning Squad affiliation, with today's launch. Our second Featured Champion, Krond, will be receiving a significant update, with a new Champion Update blog coming on Friday, June 6, before his launch next Wednesday, June 11.

For details on Dragondown Year 8, read on!

Featured Champions

Hank

Hank is the steadfast and courageous leader of the group of friends that has been swept away into the perilous realm of Dungeons & Dragons. As the Ranger, he wields his signature Energy Bow to fend off danger and light the way forward. Though the weight of leadership tests him at every turn, Hank’s tactical insight and unwavering resolve keep the party moving forward in their quest to find a way back home.

Learn more about Hank in his Champion Spotlight.

Krond

Krond was born of a union between an academic human wizard and a mighty orc fighter who led a nomadic orc community. Raised as a fearsome warrior and arcane scholar, he studied these arts with equal passion. Krond's parents tragically lost their lives protecting their family and friends during an enemy raid. This moment changed Krond, and he swore revenge upon the world. Taking up an ancestral warhammer called Unity, Krond set out to make things right, one way or another.

Learn more about Krond when his Champion Spotlight arrives on June 6th!

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:

Korth

SEAT 2

Merilwen

SEAT 2

BBEG

SEAT 3

Binwin

SEAT 3

Antrius

SEAT 4

Dungeon Master

SEAT 6

Duke Ravengard

SEAT 8

Shaka

SEAT 9

Nova

SEAT 11

Selise

SEAT 12

Event Augments

Augment 1: Free Rerolls (Returning Augment)
Description: You gain five free rerolls to use on each set of your Weekly Offers during this event!

Augment 2: Golden Weekly Offers (Returning Augment)
Description: One of your weekly offers will be Golden during this event. Golden offers provide an additional 10% discount! The Golden tag persists when an offer is rerolled.

Augment 3: Auto Blacksmith (Returning Augment)
Description: Event Champions whose recruitment adventure or variants you complete gain common rarity equipment in all slots if they don't already have better. Every tier two or higher event variant completed automatically applies 100 Tiny Blacksmithing Contracts to the variant's Champion's equipment for free!

Augment 4: Additional Boon Buff (New Augment)
Description: An additional boon buff at each level increases global damage based on the number of Pigments on Champions in the formation, stacking additively.

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

Steam Local Currency Update

Yesterday, we rolled out an update to Steam players which allows our in-game shop to show their local currencies instead of USD. Steam will now charge players in local currencies instead of a converted USD price, using Steam's standard conversion rates. With this update, local currencies are now displayed in Idle Champions across all platforms except Android, which is our next priority.

Dragondown Feedback Wanted

Are you as excited as we are for Hank the Ranger? What about a potential update for Krond? We'd love to hear what you think!

Your feedback is important to us, and we would love to have you join our community on one of our official platforms:

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

May 30th

Champion Spotlight: Hank

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Posted in Idle Champions.

Tags: idle champions, idle, champions, new content, update, champion spotlight, hank, saturday morning squad, dragondown.

Hank is the steadfast and courageous leader of the group of friends that has been swept away into the perilous realm of Dungeons & Dragons. As the Ranger, he wields his signature Energy Bow to fend off danger and light the way forward. Though the weight of leadership tests him at every turn, Hank’s tactical insight and unwavering resolve keep the party moving forward in their quest to find a way back home.

Hank is a Support and Control Champion who leads a bunch of kids who have been swept away to the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Hank's stalwart encouragement buffs the damage of Champions next to him, and his unerring Energy Bow keeps the enemies away.

For more information about The Ranger, read on!

Hank

NAME

1

SEAT

2.5%

CRIT CHANCE

100%

CRIT DAMAGE

Male

GENDER

15

AGE

Lawful Good

ALIGNMENT

5

OVERWHELM

Human

SPECIES

Ranger

CLASS

Support / Control

ROLES

Saturday Morning Squad

AFFILIATION

13

STR

17

DEX

12

CON

10

INT

14

WIS

10

CHA

76

TOT

Patron Eligibility: Mirt, Elminster (until June 4th, 2028)

Abilities

Basic Attack

Energy Bow (ranged) - Hank attacks the closest enemy, dealing 1 hit. (They are also knocked back once the Energy Bow ability is unlocked.)

Formation Abilities

Stalwart Encouragement - Hank increases the damage of Champions adjacent to him by 100%.
Energy Bow - Enemies that Hank hits are knocked back. The distance they're knocked back increases the closer they are to the formation.
Time Gate Piece Scavenger - Hank can help scavenge up to 5 additional Time Gate Pieces when killing bosses. While this cap is not reached, Hank has a 1% chance of scavenging 1 Time Gate Piece each time a boss is defeated. The cap increases by 1/3 every day.
Every Little Bit Helps - Hank increases the effect of Stalwart Encouragement by 10% for each item that has ever been collected by Scavenger abilities, stacking additively.

Specializations A

Heart of Heroes - Hank increases the damage bonus of Stalwart Encouragement by 100% for each Champion in the formation with a total ability score of 78 or less, stacking multiplicatively.
Arrow Alliance - Hank increases the damage bonus of Stalwart Encouragement by 125% for each Champion in the formation with a Ranged attack, stacking multiplicatively.
Unyielding Unity - Hank increases the damage bonus of Stalwart Encouragement by 200% for each member of the Saturday Morning Squad in the formation, stacking multiplicatively. This also adds the Saturday Morning Squad affiliation to Dungeon Master.

Specializations B

Tactical Advantage - Whenever an enemy is knocked back, Hank gains a Tactics stack. For each Tactics stack, the Critical Hit Chance of all Champions in the formation is increased by 1%, and the Critical Hit Damage of all Champions in the formation is increased by 10%. Tactics stacks stack additively up to 50 times and reset when changing areas.
Dragon Slayer - Hank gains the Hunter role with Dragons as his Favored Foe. Non-boss waves spawn a Dragon 50% of the time. Stalwart Encouragement’s effect is increased by 100% for each Dragon defeated in the current area, stacking multiplicatively up to 10 times. In boss areas, non-boss waves always spawn a dragon, and defeated dragons provide 5 stacks.

Ultimate Ability

Arrows of Restraint (ranged) - Hank fires 5 arrows at random enemies, dealing 1 ultimate hit and stunning each of them.

Equipment

Global DPS Buff

SLOT 1

Stalwart Encouragement Buff

SLOT 2

Every Little Bit Helps Buff

SLOT 3

Buffs Hank's Heart of Heroes, Arrow Alliance, and Unyielding Unity specializations

SLOT 4

Buffs Hank's Tactical Advantage, and Dragon Slayer specializations

SLOT 5

Ultimate Cooldown

SLOT 6

Feats

Uncommon

Selflessness
Increases the damage of all Champions by 10%.
Rookie Leader
Increases the effect of Hank's Heart of Heroes, Arrow Alliance, and Unyielding Unity specializations by 20%.
Chipping In
Increases the effect of Hank's Every Little Bit Helps ability by 20%.
Kind Words
Increases the effect of Hank's Stalwart Encouragement ability by 20%.

Rare

Training Montage
Increases the effect of Hank's Tactical Advantage, and Dragon Slayer specializations by 40%.
Skilled Leader
Increases the effect of Hank's Heart of Heroes, Arrow Alliance, and Unyielding Unity specializations by 40%.
Helping Hand
Increases the effect of Hank's Every Little Bit Helps ability by 40%.
Stirring Words
Increases the effect of Hank's Stalwart Encouragement ability by 40%.
Inspiring Leader
Increases the damage of all Champions by 25%.

Epic

Tenacious
Increases the Constitution score of Hank by 2.
Unlockable as an Event Reward
Foe Slayer
Hank's Dragon Slayer Specialization now stacks on any favored foe killed.
Available in the Dragonslayer Hank Theme Pack

Champion Feedback

What do you think of Hank? Do you have any feedback about the leader of our Saturday Morning Squad? We want to know!

The best way for us to hear your feedback would be for you to join our community on an officially supported platform:

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

November 8th, 2024

BW2: Thankful Thanksgiving Event 2024

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Posted in Bush Whacker 2.

Tags: bw2, event, update, 2024, thanksgiving, november.

Thanksgiving Time!

The residents of The Commons are preparing for a massive feast to celebrate the end of harvest season, and of course they need your expertise at finding things in bushes!

Finding a Feast

First and foremost, it's all about helping the chefs fill their food stations to the brim - and beyond. There's three of them for three types of meals, so you'll be collecting Meat, Veggies and of course Desserts to feed the hungry masses of Bushwhackia! Can you make all the Pristine Food? Keep doing turn-ins to achieve it!

On the subject of food - four of the guests have promised they would bring a dish to share, but they've forgotten ingredients.

Turkey Trouble

And then, there's the problem of the Turkeys. Apparently, they need to be rescued in some fashion, so you'll need to get on that. You have the whole event to complete it.

Harvests of the World

Once again we're celebrating other harvest festivals around the world and hosting an inflatable surprise. They'll unlock as the event goes on. And tune later in the event for a parade!

Post-Thanks

Of course, it wouldn't be Thanksgiving without the Black Friday questline introduced in a previous year, and an appliance for all those leftovers!

New for 2024

This year's update includes:

- new pet and costume VIP rewards!
- new costume items in the store!
- new ranch items in the store!
- new pet packs!
- new mount packs!
- new 2024 holiday 100% reward!
- new stove to repair!

Holiday Trees

If you can complete the event, you'll earn this awesome 100% reward: The Thanksgiving Tree!

A New Stove

Another littering dragon has tossed an appliance, crashing it into the event area. But one dragon's trash is Fatima's treasure! Help her repair this appliance and take it to your ranch!

Achievements

-- POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT
There are an incredible TWENTY FOUR possible Achievements to earn in this event:

Returning Achievements

Special Order - You helped all of the people prepare their special dishes.
Master of the Ways - You have helped cook each dish excellently for the pristine table.
Short Order Cook - You've helped prepare one of each dish.
Turkey Lover - You saved enough turkeys to guarantee survival. This year.
Historical Detective - You helped Bob the Historian investigate the Pilgrims.
Family Matters - You brought all of Brock's family together for Thanksgiving.
Parade Enthusiast - You watched the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Fridge Fix-Up - You helped Fatima fix an old fridge and move it your ranch.
Thorough Taste Testing - You helped out Miss Mei enough to try all the different daily side dish samples.
Fattened Feathered Friend - Help Nate fatten up his turkey.

New Achievements

It's All Gravy - You bought all the 2024 Thanksgiving event items.*

Retired Achievements

We have 12 achievements from previous years' events, which may be earned by spending some Bush Bucks if a player was not present during the original years:

Thankful Decorator - You bought all the house items from the 2012 Thanksgiving Event.
Thankful Dresser - You bought all the player items from the 2012 Thanksgiving Event.
Thankful Shopper - You bought all the 2013 Turkey Day items.
Black Friday - You bought all the 2014 Thanksgiving items.
Thanks For The Stuff - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2015 items.
Grateful Expenditure - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2016 items.
Feastful Frittering - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2017 items.
Banquet Blowout - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2018 items.
Stuffed Shopper - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2019 items.
Harvest Haul - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2020 items.
Gainful Gathering - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2021 items.
Thanks Gettings - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2022 items.
Boutique Bounty - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2023 items.

* The Mini Golf piece is NOT included in the It's All Gravy achievement, and therefore it is not required to purchase it.

Grab a new harvest companion!

Mount Packs

To kick off the event, we're having a sale! Get 30% more on purchase of 50 Bush Bucks or more! Plus, all new mounts are available this weekend, from November 8th to 11th!

The Autumn Opossum mount comes free with your first purchase of 100 Bush Bucks or more!

The Dark Opossum and Opossum are in packs containing 100 Bush Bucks, 10 Pristine Feed Vouchers, and a VIP Voucher! These two mounts produce their own unique sparkly particles when you ride them!

Pet Packs

Three new pets can be seen in the event area! You can pick them up November 15th to 18th in Pet Packs bursting with goodies! Want them all? Grab them all for less in the bundle!

Get Ready!

The event will run until Friday November 22nd at Noon PST!

Post your harvest feasts and questions on the forum!

November 10th, 2023

BW2: November 10th, 2023 Release Notes

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Posted in Bush Whacker 2.

Tags: bw2, november 2023, release notes, thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Event (November 10th, 2023)

- Updated Thanksgiving Event
- Added new customization and ranch items
- Added new ribbons and 100% reward
- Updated 2 of the VIP event rewards
- Added new event mounts in Bush Bucks sale and mount packs, available the first weekend of the event
- Added 3 new pets available the second weekend of the event
- Added new parade balloon quest
- Swapped new appliance ranch item for Fatima's appliance quest
- Rebalanced turn-in progress. You can get 100% by completing all the quests and turning in station items found while whacking a minimum of 3 energy bars worth of bushes

November 10th, 2023

BW2: Thankful Thanksgiving Event 2023

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Posted in Bush Whacker 2.

Tags: bw2, event, update, 2023, thanksgiving, november.

Thanksgiving Time!

The residents of The Commons are preparing for a massive feast to celebrate the end of harvest season, and of course they need your expertise at finding things in bushes!