July 2nd

Idle Champions: Founders' Day 8

Tags: idle, champions, event, new content, update, tess, k'thriss, founders' day.

Celebrations are underway to commemorate the founding of the Free City of Waterdeep. Founders Day attracts huge crowds to the Field of Triumph, where audiences watch illusory shows about Waterdeep's history and martial exhibitions by notable Champions and the renown city guard.

Festivities have also brought an ancient power from Avernus, first layer of the Nine Hells. A fallen angel has arrived to collect souls for the Blood War...

Featured Champions

Tess

Tess grew up in a small village where she wreaked havoc as an amateur thief (she stole to see if she could, not because she wanted to keep the items - mostly), before her parents sent her to be trained by an aging halfling rogue named Mel. Under Mel’s mentorship, Tess became a professional infiltrator, using her skills for good. Now she’s formed her own adventuring party and is actively molding them into the heroes she knows they can be.

Learn more about Tess in her Champion Spotlight.

K'thriss

Curious, affable, and morbid, the drow heretic K'thriss Drow'b seeks the insane god-truth behind the veil of reality. As the "C" Team's hoardsperson, he keeps an eye out for occult relics that could aid him in his unearthly quest.

Learn more about K'thriss in his Champion Spotlight when it arrives on July 4th!.

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:

Deekin

seat 1

Nahara

seat 3

Xander

seat 5

Sgt. Knox

seat 6

Freely

seat 7

Umberto

seat 7

Vin Ursa

seat 7

Walnut

seat 8

Aeon

seat 10

Strongheart

seat 11

Event Augments

Free Rerolls: You gain five free rerolls to use on each set of your Weekly Offers during this event!
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.
Worth Waiting For: Completing tier 2+ variants for the reworked Champion and Champions in the flex slots unlocked with Time Gate Pieces or Boon Levels awards double Chests.
Boon Enhancements: An additional boon buff at each level increases global damage based on the number of unique roles fulfilled by Champions in the formation, stacking additively.

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

Founder's Day Feedback

Are you as excited as we are for Tess? What about the K'thriss Champion Update? 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.

June 27th

New Champion: Tess

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Posted in Idle Champions.

Tags: idle champions, idle, champions, new content, update, champion spotlight, tess, the fallbacks, founders' day.

Tess grew up in a small village where she wreaked havoc as an amateur thief (she stole to see if she could, not because she wanted to keep the items - mostly), before her parents sent her to be trained by an aging halfling rogue named Mel. Under Mel’s mentorship, Tess became a professional infiltrator, using her skills for good. Now she’s formed her own adventuring party and is actively molding them into the heroes she knows they can be.

Tess is a Support Champion who leads by example, buffing the damage of all Champions behind her. This expert in traps has a plan for everything, increasing your formation's damage if she is given companions with a diverse set of roles. Tess can always be found with the Fallbacks' Otyugh companion Uggie nearby.

For more information about the leader of the Fallbacks, read on...

Tessalynde "Tess" Halendria

Tess

name

8

seat

2.5%

crit chance

100%

crit damage

Female

gender

120

age

Chaotic Good

alignment

5

overwhelm

Elf (Wood)

species

Rogue

class

Support

roles

The Fallbacks

affiliation

12

str

17

dex

12

con

15

int

13

wis

13

cha

82

tot

Patron Eligibility: Mirt, Strahd, Zariel, Elminster (until July 2nd, 2028)

Abilities

Basic Attack

Hand Crossbow (ranged) - Tess attacks the closest enemy for 1 hit.

Passive Abilities

Uggie! - Uggie joins the party, starting next to Tess unless they're already in the formation next to another Fallbacks Champion. Uggie increases the damage of all non-adjacent Champions by 100%.

Formation Abilities

Lead The Way - Tess increases the damage of all Champions in the columns behind her by 100%.
Unleash Uggie - Uggie's buff is increased by 400% when Tess is in the formation
Snack Attack - When Uggie is with Tess, Uggie attacks a random target whenever Tess attacks or disarms a trap. Uggie's attack deals 5 seconds of BUD-based damage.
A Plan For Everything - Tess increases the effect of Lead The Way by 100% for each different role in the formation, stacking multiplicatively.
Trap Expert - There's a 5% chance when an enemy dies that they drop a Trap that Tess immediately spots. During Tess's next attack, rather than attacking, she leaps out and disarms the Trap before it can harm any of her friends. For each Trap disarmed in this way, Lead The Way is increased by 10%, stacking additively. Stacks persist through resets.

Specializations

The Fallback Plan - Tess increases the effect of Lead The Way by 100% for each unaffiliated Champion or Fallbacks Champion in the formation, stacking multiplicatively.
Eyes on the Horizon - Tess increases the effect of Lead The Way by 150% for each Champion in the formation with a ranged attack, stacking multiplicatively.
Rogues' Gallery - Tess increases the effect of Lead The Way by 175% for each Rogue Champion in the formation, stacking multiplicatively.

Ultimate Ability

Deadly Dance - Tess throws her dagger at the enemy with the most health for 1 ultimate hit, then teleports and deals another ultimate hit to all nearby foes.

Equipment

Lead The Way Buff

slot 1

Unleash Uggie Buff

slot 2

A Plan For Everything Buff

slot 3

Trap Expert Buff

slot 4

Buffs all Specializations

slot 5

Ultimate Cooldown

slot 6

Feats

Uncommon

Selflessness
Increases the damage of all Champions by 10%
Looking Ahead
Increases the effect of Tess' Lead The Way ability by 20%
Tess Person
Increases the effect of Tess' Unleash Uggie ability by 20%
Gather Up
Increases the effect of Tess' A Plan For Everything ability by 20%

Rare

Inspiring Leader
Increases the damage of all Champions by 25%
Eyes on the Horizon
Increases the effect of Tess' Lead The Way ability by 40%
Tess Friend
Increases the effect of Tess' Unleash Uggie ability by 40%
Gourmand
Increases the effect of Tess' Snack Attack ability by 40%
Ready for Anything
Increases the effect of Tess' A Plan For Everything ability by 40%
Deft Hands
Increases the effect of Tess' Trap Expert ability by 40%
Strategic Adjustment
Increases the effect of Tess' specializations by 40%

Epic

Great Things Ahead
Changes Lead The Way to affect Champions in columns in front of her instead of behind.
Unlockable as an Event Reward
Tenacious
Increases the Constitution score of Tess by 2
Unlockable as an Event Reward
Sleeping Toxin
Tess gains the Control role and 25% of her attacks stun her targets for 5 seconds
Available in the Fortune Hunter Tess Theme Pack

Champion Feedback

What do you think of Tess? 'Are you excited to add the first Fallbacks Champion into your formations? 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.

June 26th

Idle Champions: July Augments Preview

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Posted in Idle Champions.

Tags: idle champions, idle, champions, new content, update, augment, Founders Day.

Welcome to the Event Augment preview for Founder's Day Year 8!

Our next event arrives on Wednesday, July 2, with one New Champion, one Champion Update, and these changes to Augments:

Founders' Day 8 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: Worth Waiting For (New Augment)
Description: Completing tier 2+ variants for the reworked Champion and Champions in the flex slots unlocked with Time Gate Pieces or Boon Levels awards double Chests.

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: Boon Enhancements (New Augment)
Description: An additional boon buff at each level increases global damage based on the number of unique roles fulfilled by Champions in the formation, stacking additively.

Note: Similar to our rollout in June the spotlight blogs for the two Featured Champions will also be spread out, with Tess' tomorrow, June 27th, and K'thriss' releasing next Thursday, July 3rd.

Augment Feedback

What do you think?

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

June 25th

Idle Champions: Vecna: Eve of Ruin, Part 9

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Posted in Idle Champions.

Tags: idle champions, idle, champions, new content, update, vecna.

The hunt for Vecna continues.

Our Champions face off against the forces of Lolth on the Outer Plane of Pandemonium. But this Ruinous Citadel is far more than it seems, and a legendary primordial obyrith is about to break free...

Part 9 of the Vecna: Eve of Ruin campaign introduces Tier 5 Blessings and sees the Champions battle across Pandesmos, the topmost layer of Pandemonium, all the way to the forbidden Ruinous Citadel.

Note: You will need to have completed the previous two Vecna: Eve of Ruin adventures, The Rod of Seven Parts and Pandemonium, in order to access these new adventures.

Campaign: Vecna: Eve of Ruin

The War of Pandesmos

Square off with Lolth's forces in Pandesmos.

Complete area 1200

Variant: The Relentless War of Pandesmos

Square off with Lolth's relentless forces in Pandesmos with a drow companion.

You may only use Champions that are a Standard species. Standard species are Aasimar, Dragonborn, Dwarf, Elf, Gnome, Goliath, Halfling, Human, Orc, Tiefling, Half-Orc, and Half-Elf.
A Drow Priestess joins the formation.
Each wave, 1-2 Giant Spiders attack. When defeated, they respawn in the same location after 5 seconds unless defeated by a Champion next to the Drow Priestess.
Complete Area 1250

The Ruinous Citadel

Enter the Ruinous Citadel to confront Vecna and an ancient evil.

Complete area 1250

Variant: The Ruinous Bosses

Enter the Ruinous Citadel to confront Vecna and an ancient evil with some diverse Champions.

You may only use Champions that are not a Standard species. Standard species are Aasimar, Dragonborn, Dwarf, Elf, Gnome, Goliath, Halfling, Human, Orc, Tiefling, Half-Orc, and Half-Elf.
Aarakocra Champions break 3 times the amount of armored or segmented health when they deal damage.
Bosses cannot be moved, rooted, or stunned, except in extraordinary circumstances, and they immediately start to enrage upon spawning.
All boss monsters have at least 25 armored health.
Complete Area 1300

Vecna: Eve of Ruin Tier 5 Blessings

Today's update also includes Tier 5 Blessings for The Wizards' Three! Check out the new blessings below!

Standard Procedure - Local: Increase the damage of all Champions who are of Standard Species by 100%
Secret of Survival - Local: Increase the base health and healing received of all Champions by 20%
Catch a Patron's Eye - Local: Increase the damage of all Champions by 100% when you're on a patron variant in the Vecna campaign
Legendary Libations - Global: Increase the damage of all Champions by 100% for each active Legendary potion on the current party, stacking multiplicatively.

The Vault Opens

The Vault is open! What wondrous creatures lie within? Access to a special vault has been granted for a limited time. Click the notification or check the Shop to learn more.

Campaign Feedback

Just one update remains for the Vecna: Eve of Ruin narrative campaign. What do you think of the story so far? What about the challenges of the adventures and variants? We would like 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.

June 13th

BW2: Patriot Event 2025 Edition!

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Posted in Bush Whacker 2.

Tags: bw2, patriots, 2025, update, event.

A National Celebration!

It's party time in the Commons! Come join in the fun as the Bushwhackian natives celebrate Canada Day and Independence Day with a big extravagant barbecue and endless displays of fireworks!

Collect hot dogs, hamburgers, chickens, ribs and the rare steak to grill up for Patriot tokens and bonus energy! Find the green, red, yellow, blue and rare purple fireworks from the bushes for Fiona to put on awesome displays!

A Questing Nation

Help assorted party guests with their quests to make their celebration even more fun! Some are one part while others are multi-part that will unlock as the event goes on so check back daily for all the excitement!

Global History

Help Scoutmaster Sam find Globes today, so that she can see the glorious world of Bushwhackia in its entirety. And don't forget to pick up Leopold's quest to collect many books for the Bushwhackia Political History Encyclopedia!

Veggies Daily

The Grill Master is looking to provide some vegetarian options. Keep him stocked up by completing his daily quests to collect vegetarian grillables and ingredients.

New This Year

This year's update includes:

- new costume items in the store!
- new ranch items in the store!
- new tiers 4 and 5 VIP rewards!
- More national flags to the flag store!
- new pet packs!
- new mount packs!
- new 2023 holiday 100% reward!

Holiday Plushies

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

National Flags

If you've completed the Constitution quests in past years you'll be able to attempt three quests of increasing difficulty which reward you with flag ranch items of various nations! This year adds:

- Flag of Argentina
- Flag of Scotland
- Flag of Ireland
- Flag of New Zealand

Achievements

-- POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT There are a total of 24 possible achievements to earn in this year's Patriot Event.

Returning Achievements

Fine Dining - Cook 5 kinds of food during the event.*
Iron Chef - Cook 300 pieces of food during the event.
Colorful Booms - Fire off 6 types of fireworks during the event. **
Many Booms - You've set of 600 fireworks during the Patriot event.
The Tyrant - You overthrew Nate's illegitimate kingdom.
The People's Quester - Complete all of the Patriot event side quests. (Updated with this year's quest)
Patriot Fireworks Launcher - You crafted a Fireworks Launcher!
Patriot Fireworks Launcher Rare - You found a Rare addition for your Fireworks Launcher!
Patriot Fireworks Launcher All Rares - You found all the Rare additions for your Fireworks Launcher!
Sesquicentennial - Help Connie the Canadian and make full use of a Free Parks Pass.
Political History Hunter - You found all the History Books for Leopold!
Vegetarian Options - You completed each of the vegetarian BBQ daily quests!

*If you are having trouble finding the Steak, you can buy it for Celebration tokens from an NPC in the Commons.

**The 6th firework for the quest is the one you help an NPC build later in the event. As well, if you are having trouble finding the Purple firework, you can buy it for Celebration tokens from an NPC in the event area.

New Achievements

National Notable - You bought all the 2025 Patriot event items!***

Retired Achievements

We also have 12 achievements from previous years which may be earnable by spending Bush Bucks if you missed getting them the first time around.

Wordly Wares - You bought all the 2023 Patriot event items!
Citizen Styles - You bought all the 2021 Patriot event items!
Nation Knicknacks - You bought all the 2020 Patriot event items!
Fancy Fanfare - You bought all the 2019 Patriot event items!
Free Trade - You bought all the 2018 Patriot event items!
National Acquirer - You bought all the 2017 Patriot event items!
Patriotic Purchases - You bought all the 2016 Patriot event items!
Celebratory Splurge - You bought all the 2015 Patriot event items!
Freedom's Price - Purchase all of the 2014 Patriot custom items.
Freedom of Purchases - Purchase all of the 2013 Patriot event items.
Dressed for Freedom - Buy all 6 player items from the 2012 Patriot event.
A Patriotic Pad - Buy all 7 house items from the 2012 Patriot event.

***The Patriot event mini-golf piece is not required for the National Notable achievement.

A Proud 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 June 13th to 16th!

The Canadian Moose mount comes free with your first purchase of 100 Bush Bucks or more!

The Worldly Lynx and Worldly Panda 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 picked up June 20th to 23rd in Pet Packs bursting with goodies! Want them all? Grab them all for less in the bundle! From left-to-right they are the Hot Dog, Canadian Moose Calf, and Barbeque!

A Global Network

Post your national adventures and questions on the forum!

The event will run until Friday June 27th at Noon PDT!

Frequently Asked Questions

When will the last quest unlock?
All quests will be unlocked by the 10th day of the event.

Where can I see how much meat and fireworks I've done for the achievements?
Click on the inventory icon and then click on the Achievements list (gold star). Find Many Booms and Iron Chef to see your progress.

Where can I buy Last Year's items?
There are two vendors. The one near the entrance of the Event Zone has this year's items. The other is under the American balloon arch and will have all previous year items for Bush Bucks.

What contributes to my 100% progress?
Turning in the meats and fireworks as well as quests for the folks in the event area.

Why do I want to ask friends for help?
It increases the amount of progress you get from doing a turn-in.

Do I have to do the achievements?
No. Completing the goals for the achievements is totally optional. You get either a large energy pack or a title for your character from them, no event progress.

Where can I see all the achievements available and how to get them?
Either on the holiday dialog, the achievements dialog, or on the blog.

June 6th

Champion Update: Krond

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Posted in Idle Champions.

Tags: idle champions, idle, champions, new content, update, champion spotlight, krond, liar's night.

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.

Krond has been reworked to become a true Support, greatly increasing his versatility, while still allowing him to be a DPS Champion.

For all the details on this Champion Update for Krond, read on!

Krond

NAME

6

SEAT

2.5%

CRIT CHANCE

100%

CRIT DAMAGE

Male

GENDER

42

AGE

Chaotic Evil

ALIGNMENT

5

OVERWHELM

Half-Orc

SPECIES

Fighter

CLASS

DPS / Support

ROLES

None

AFFILIATION

18

STR

12

DEX

17

CON

17

INT

13

WIS

9

CHA

86

TOT

Patron Eligibility: Mirt, Vajra, Strahd, Elminster (until June 11th, 2028)