Welcome to our preview for the Wintershield Event Augments!

Our first Event of 2025 launches on Wednesday, January 1st - New Year's Day! For more info on the Event Augments for Wintershield 8, read on!

Wintershield Year 8 Event Augments

• Augment 1: Boon Enhancements (Returning Augment)
  Description: The power of most event boon buffs is increased by up to eight times.

Buff	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Tier 4
Global DPS	100% > 200%	300% > 900%	500% > 2500%	900% > 7200%
Gold Find	100% > 200%	200% > 600%	300% > 1500%	400% > 3200%
Health	50% > 100%	100% > 300%	200% > 1000%	300% > 2400%
Click Damage	60s > 120s	150s > 450s	300s > 1500s	600s > 4800s
Game Speed	1.25 (no change)	1.75 (no change)	2.25 (no change)	2.75 (no change)

• Augment 2: Empowered Rewards (Returning Augment)
  Description: Tier 2 and higher event variants award Corrupted Gems in addition to their normal rewards.

• Augment 3: Improved Weekly Offers (New Augment)
  Description: Weekly Offers will be of at least "Rare" (blue) rarity during this event, with even better odds of the higher rarities.

• Augment 4: Worth The Wait (Returning Augment)
  Description: Rebalanced Champion Mehen will unlock at the start of week two of this event, and completing his tier 2+ variants awards double chests!

We hope you enjoy these Event Augments! Please tell us about your experiences with Augments in Idle Champions. 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.
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The Champions have finally rescued R04M and learned the truth -- or have they?

In the latest Turn of Fortune's Wheel adventures, the Champions will find themselves on a path that takes them back to familiar territory, where they will discover who their allies are and who the true villain is!

Note: You will need to have completed the previous two Turn of Fortune's Wheel adventures, The Lost Modron and Realm of Enchanted Mysteries, in order to access these new adventures.

Campaign: Turn of Fortune's Wheel

Full Circle

Travel back to Sigil as the puzzle pieces start to fall into place.

Variant: Fully Aligned

Travel back to Sigil as the alignment puzzle pieces start to fall into place.

• R04M joins the formation. He doesn't do much other than get in the way.
• You may not have two Champions in the formation with the exact same base alignment.
• Complete Area 1150

Return to Fortune's Wheel

Search Fortune's Wheel and the Platinum Rooms to find Shemeshka!

Variant: Four Corners

Search Fortune's Wheel and the Platinum Rooms while evading hordes of Modrons!

• You may only use Lawful Good, Chaotic Good, Lawful Evil, and/or Chaotic Evil Champions.
• In each non-boss area, there is a 25% chance that 5 Modrons spawn before the first wave. The number of Modrons spawned increases by 5 for every 50 areas completed, capped at 50 Modrons. They drop no gold nor count towards quest progress.
• While any Modron enemy is alive, non-Modron enemies can't take damage.
• Complete Area 1200

Turn of Fortune's Wheel Tier 5 Blessings

• Gehenna's Heights - Local: Increase the damage of all Champions in bench seats of 7 or higher by 100%
• Depths of Limbo - Local: Increase the damage of all Champions for each Champion with a CON score of 14 or lower by 100% (additive)
• The Mercy of Hades - Local: Monsters killed in their first second after spawning have a 10% chance to count for an additional quest progress.
• The Infinite Power of the Abyss - Global: Increase the damage of all Champions by 10% for each completed event tier, stacking additively.

We Want YOUR Feedback

Our Planescape journey is almost complete. Are you excited for the finale next month? How do you feel about the story so far?

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/X, Facebook, Instagram, or Bluesky.

Well met, Champions!

We have some shop updates to share as we close 2024 and look forward to 2025.

New Starter Packs: We recently released new Starter Packs featured on the Platinum page of the in-game shop. Packs include the new Scroll of Champion Summoning, which unlocks one event Champion of your choice along with full uncommon gear, 6 Platinum Champion Chests, and a Golden Epic (if you haven’t already purchased a Chest pack for that Champion). Packs also include bonus Platinum and potions to help you explore and progress!

Platinum Offers Update: On January 10, 2025, the Double Platinum offers on Platinum Packs will be retired and replaced with a new offer: First-time Platinum Pack purchasers will receive an additional 1500 Platinum with their first Platinum Pack purchase. This new offer will be available to all players who install on or after January 10th, 2025.

If you have been waiting to take advantage of the Double Platinum offer, you still have three weeks before they are retired.

Hi Whackers!

The folks of the Prismatic Passage are ready to fight for their freedom! Rally behind the cause as they establish a new Quest Hub, featuring its own story quest chain, dailies, store, and more! If you've collected both halves of the Magister's Sigil with help from Nate and Kaine, you can start this new adventure at the Town Crier. Happy whacking!

Note: You need to wait 20 hours after completing Nate and/or Kaine's quests in the Prismatic Passage before the hub quests become available.

The Town Crier will let you know when enough time has passed to pick up the continuing story quests. As you finish the story parts, you'll unlock new daily quests to do!

Choose carefully though, because once you've started these daily quests, you won't be able to do any Cenote Site, Cera Altepetl, Explorer's Camp, Sanctuary, or Cloudland daily quests for the next 20 hours.

Completing the Daily Quests will award you Prisma Mirians, which can be used to buy a plethora of exciting custom items and treats from this hub's unique store once it's been unlocked.

Chat about it on the forum!

Happy Whacking!

Year End Update (December 19th, 2024)

- End of Year Pet/Mount sale (Dec 25-Jan 1)

- Updated New Year's Eve limited-time quest (Dec 30th):
- New quest reward
- New store items for Ye Auld Lang Store: New Year Chest, New Years Banner, Party Blower

- Updated Endangered Species mini-event (Jan 3-7):
- 3 new pets
- 3 new plaque ranch items
- New completion reward

- Fixed sometimes walking through terrain after teleporting to field via area progress map (Thanks Ty!)

- You can now ask the Fisherman in the Commons what fishing holes you are missing unique items from. He'll only mention fishing holes in areas you've unlocked. (Thanks Ty!)

- You can now trade down 1 Unique DNA to 4 Epic DNA after you've collected more than 10 Unique DNA (Thanks Ty!)

- Added a new quest hub in the Prismatic Passage region! Becomes available after collecting both halves of the Magister's Sigil with help from Nate and Kaine. Speak to the Town Crier to start! (Dec 20th)
- New riveting story quests!
- New compelling dailies!
- New blinged-out store!
- New puzzles!
- And so much more!

'Tis the Season for Giving!

Get into the giving mood of the holiday season by tackling the Bushwhackia Christmas event.

To the North Pole!

You'll want to get started by heading to the event area in the Commons to meet up with the stranded elf and help him fix his teleporter. (It's delicate, OK?) Once you've got it operational, you'll be able to make the journey far to the North Pole where you'll find a bevy of characters who need your special skills to make the holiday celebrations work!

Fueled By Candy Canes!

Your primary task will be helping the elves make presents by bringing them Candy Canes (that you find in bushes), but there is a veritable smorgasbord of holiday related quests to complete as well. All of these quests will unlock over the course of the event, with the last ones unlocking on Christmas Day.

Delivery!

Once you've found reindeer chow for the poor reindeer, then you can help out Santa by delivering a present to a random house daily.

Gingerbread Housing

Gingerbread Men are settling down in the event area and need your help gathering construction materials! Perhaps they'll build you a Gingerbread House of your own?

And much much more!

Presents all Around!!

Here's the event that started the gifting tradition! Once a day, if you have excess tokens, you can send a Present to a friend! These presents will contain a random amount of gold, energy, mana, power and come with some other treats as well. If you want to send more presents in a day, it will cost you a few Bush Bucks. Talk to Sasha in the North Pole to learn more!


Sasha has the power to gift your friends!

New This Year

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 Christmas tree for your ranch received from completing the Decorate Tree quest
- new Snowman companion from the Build a Snowman quest
- another ranch item for ice fishing
- new item to steal
- new ugly sweater to craft
- new quest-line for Nate

Read the change log for the full list!

Holiday Completion Tree!

Get 100% completion this event to collect the final Holiday Tree of 2024!

Achievements

-- POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT
There are a total of THIRTY TWO possible Achievements to earn in this event:

Returning Achievements

Apprentice Elf Helper - You've been responsible for at least one present!
Journeyman Elf Helper - You've been responsible for at least 20 presents!
Professional Elf Helper - You've been responsible for at least 50 presents!
Expert Elf Helper - You've been responsible for at least 50 presents from each Elf!
Santa Man - You've delivered a present to someone's house!
Diverse Santa - You've delivered a present to several houses!
Schoolyard Victor - You won 5 snowball fights!
Reindeer Herder - You've saved the reindeer 5 times!
Yay! Presents - You've opened a present from the Developers!
12 Days of Bushmas - You completed all 12 days of Bushmas!
Christmas Savior - You've helped all the citizens in need at the North Pole!
Snow-ho-ho! - You built yourself a snowman!
Well-arranged Caroling - Find all the special arrangements of famous Christmas carols. Sweater Weather - Buy one of Mrs. Claus' specialty sweater weather.
Grumpy Cocoa - You helped fix Grumpus a hot cocoa!
Kind Krampus - You've delivered a present dressed as Krampus!

New Achievements

Gifts Galore - You bought all the 2024 Christmas event items!*
Freshly Stolen - You stole something from someone's house!

Retired Achievements

We also have 14 achievements from previous year's events, which may be earnable by spending some Bush Bucks, if a player was not present during the initial years:

Santa Santa - You're practically Santa! (deliver a present while dressed as Santa)
Materialist - You bought all the Christmas 2012 event items!
Reverse Grinch - You've delivered a present dressed as a Grinch!
All The Toys - You bought all the Christmas 2013 event items!
No Returns Allowed! - You bought all theChristmas 2014 event items!
Season of Shopping - You purchased all the Christmas 2015 event items!
Winter Solstice Souvenirs - You purchased all the Christmas 2016 event items!
The Gift of Getting - You purchased all the Christmas 2017 event items!
Boxing Day - You purchased all the Christmas 2018 event items!
Stocking Stocking Stuffers - You bought all the 2019 Christmas event items!
Holiday Haberdashery - You bought all the 2020 Christmas event items!
Under the Tree - You bought all the 2021 Christmas event items!
Tree-sure Trove - You bought all the 2022 Christmas event items!
Accessory Avalanche - You bought all the 2023 Christmas event items!


* The Mini Golf piece is NOT included in the Accessory Avalanche achievement, and therefore it is not required to purchase it.

Note: The achievements Reverse Santa, Reverse Santa 2.0, Napping Nate Nabber, The Gift of Taking, Naughty Nabber, Perks of the Job, Burglar Burglar, Nicked Knicknacks, Pilfered Plushie, Art Thief, and Just Deserts are not available during this event.

Grab a new winter 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 December 13th to 16th!

The Polar Bear mount comes free with your first purchase of 100 Bush Bucks or more!

The Frost Bear and Rudolph Bear mounts 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! They are the Santa Robot, Grinch Dog, Candy Cane Giraffe! You can pick them up December 20th to 23rd in Pet Packs bursting with goodies! Want them all? Grab them all for less in the bundle!



Many other pets and ranch items available from previous years via the "Ye Past Yuletide Store"

Get Ready!

Share the holiday spirit on the forums!

The Christmas event will run until Sunday December 29th at Noon PST (8pm GMT.)

Christmas Event! (December 12th, 2024)

- Updated Christmas Event
- Added new customization and ranch items
- Added new ribbons and 100% reward
- Added new snowman pet and christmas tree quest rewards
- Added new item to fish up from the ice fishing hole
- Added new item in leftmost dev present
- Added a new gift to steal
- Added a new quest-line for Nate
- Added 3 new pets available the second weekend of the event
- Added new event mounts in Bush Bucks sale and mount packs, available the first weekend of the event

- Added new particle trails (symbols, bubbles, hearts, leaves, magic) to the following mounts: Onkagku Kitsune, Kelpie, Sweet Bat, Bush, Wicked Broom

Welcome to our 2024 End of Year Update!

First of all, I'd like to thank everyone for supporting Idle Champions this year through some very big transitions. We started the year with our seventh season in January, rolled out Guide and Collections Quests in February, introduced Events 2.0 in March, and transitioned to Platinum in October. It has been a very busy year!

In this update, we're addressing some long-running player feedback with multiple QoL changes. We're also fixing some over-tuned Champion scaling issues, with dismantles for affected Champions to compensate. While this update does not address everything players have been asking for, there's a lot to be excited about that will make your Idle Champions experience smoother and more fun, no matter what kind of player you are!

As always, we look forward to reading your feedback on these changes, and we'll see you in 2025!

Table of Contents

• Active Tasks
• UI Changes
• Gameplay Changes

Active Tasks

Introducing a new UI feature to help you find your next quest, the Active Tasks Dialog!

We want this to be a one-stop shop when you question what to do next. From here, you can quickly check which Guide and Collection Quests are closest to being completed, your current Event completion progress, Daily Rewards, and more! The Active Task Dialog will now pop up instead of Daily Rewards on initial load, since they are incorporated into this dialog.

You can access this dialog from the exclamation mark button above the bench next to the event button.

UI Changes

Here are all the upcoming changes to the UI you can expect to see!

Champion Search Update

• The Champion Search feature has been updated with a new feature to help you search based on a Champion's attack speed! This can be found in the Base Attack filter as a sliding bar.

Collections Update

The following changes have been made to the Collections screen:

• Added Debuff role to the Champion Collection filter
• Improved performance of scrolling many collections
• Added Shiny/Golden indication to the Equipment Collection
• Added Event to source filter for the Feat Collection
• Guide and Collection quest box indicates how many quests are ready to turn in
• Collections: Added new color coding system to progress bars:
  Light Green counts towards Progress
  • Gold counts towards Premium Progress
  • Dark Green does not count towards overall progress
• Collections: Time Gates no longer counts towards overall progress
• Collections: Campaign progress now includes progress from campaigns you have not yet unlocked

Gameplay Changes

Area Cap Increase

• We've increased the highest area from 2001 to 2501! Hope your formation is ready to tackle the incredibly powerful monsters in these higher areas!

New Feats

We're adding in some highly requested Feats for 2 Champions: Nrakk and Briv!

• Heightened Focus: Increases the damage of all Champions by 10% and Nrakk's ultimate now hits once and sets his Ki Points to 15 without any mini-game. This will be added to Nrakk's Feat list!


• Perfect Focus: Increases the damage of all Champions by 200% and Nrakk's ultimate now hits once and sets his Ki Points to 30 without any mini-game. This can be found in Vajra's Patron shop for 100,000 Symbols of Vajra.
  • If both the Heightened Focus and Perfect Focus Feats are equipped, the 30 ki points will take precedence when using the ultimate


• Accurate Acrobatics: Briv's Unnatural Haste will always skip the guaranteed number of areas, with no chance to skip an additional one. This can be found in Mirt's Patron shop for 100,000 Ruby Coins.
  • Note: The launch for this Feat has been delayed while we address last-minute bugs discovered in testing. We hope to release it before the end of the year.

Spurt Update

• We've implemented a cap on Spurt's slot 6 equipment item, Ultimate Cooldown. Its maximum increase is now 5280 seconds while at an item level cap of 21750, without any gilding.
• We'll be enabling a 1 week full dismantle for Spurt due to this change. All item levels over the cap will be refunded automatically.

Rust Update

We've had to change some of Rust's numbers to help balance him; see the changes below.

• Rust's base effect of his One Gold Piece ability has been changed from 10% to 5%
• Rust's effect of his "I Know Those Guys" Feat has been changed from 20% to a 10% increase to the effect of One Gold Piece
• Rust's effect of his "All I Need" Feat changed from 40% to a 20% increase to the effect of One Gold Piece
• We'll be enabling a 1 week full dismantle for Rust due to these changes.

Yorven Update

• We've updated Yorven's Danger Sense ability so that it now targets all Champions in the formation and is no longer positional.

Dungeon Master Update

• Dungeon Master's Specialization Special Guest Star has been updated to target the full seat of Champions now rather than 1 singular Champion!

Fen Update

• Fen's Patron Oath has been updated so that as long as she is in a party, her Patron's Oath will affect all parties.

Gem Shop & Store Update

• Harvestguard Presto will be available for 20,000 gems in the Gem Shop, and the Feat that was available during the Anniversary Celebration (Room to Breathe) is now available for 50,000 gems!
• Additionally, with this update, we will retire our Starter Packs, replacing them with new ones that include Platinum. You will find them on the Platinum purchase page in the in-game shop.

We Want YOUR Feedback

How do you feel about the changes in this update? Let us know your favorite!

Your participation and feedback are invaluable, 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, or Instagram.

A Garden For Butterflies

The butterflies are out there somewhere, and this weekend's visitor is looking to attract them to the event area! This is their SEVENTH visit, so complete their tasks and get another one of their butterfly companions!

There are a total of 8 companion options to choose from, should you manage to attract them all to the event area in time.

Plus, if you've missed any of the past runs of this quest and cannot wait for another butterfly companion, you can spend 150 Bush Bucks to unlock the choice of another, including the other quest rewards! You can only do this till you have 7 of these butterflies.

Butterfly Gardening

Head to the event area in the Commons to get started. Attract different species to the event area in two ways:
1 - Help Harrow in the event area with her quests, unlocking at Noon PST (UTC-8) on Saturday and Sunday. There are 2 species to unlock this way.
2 - Collect Rare Flowers! You can do this after completing Harrow's first quest, available on Friday. There are 6 species to unlock this way, which will be much more challenging to get!

At the end of this colourful quest, you'll get to choose a butterfly companion from the different species you attract.

You have until noon on Tuesday to attract as many as you can, and until noon on Wednesday to choose one as a companion. Good luck!