What a disappointment. And I was so looking forward to the arrival of Mother of Darkness. It was like throwing a bucket of cold water over my head. The expectation to acquire it on Friday still exists, but the desire to use it has disappeared.
As if we don’t already have myths bad enough (did someone say Fallen Valdis?).
Yes, it possibly will come on May 1st, 2 weeks after Doomsayer’s adding.
I don’t follow.
The Deep Hive is linked to Drifting Sands.
Depth of Sin will be Sin of Maraj class weapon.
Sin of Maraj is still a wase away from needing pets to upgrade it’s stars.
Sins’ Harvest is the class weapon, they tend to be mythic. 
Spoiler time!
MYTHIC TROOPS
NON-MYTHIC TROOPS
WEAPONS
OTHER
Siegebreaker for Elves is Sifu Yuan. Invasions were bound to troop types, not to kingdoms.
And only one color. True.
I got them switched up this morning.
The other Sin of Maraj weapon now has a placeholder date. I could of sworn this morning it had a Friday release with it. But again, I think I was looking at Harvest and got them confused.
I guess I’ll be the glass half full guy on Mother of Darkness (Shadows? that’s what she’s referred to as on stream, but we’ve been seeing inconsistent info there for the past month or so). Once you get past the ginormity of her nerf, what’s left is still a pretty good troop. She strikes me as a lesser variant of Arachnaean Weaver, when you factor in the true damage, the looping ability on enemy death, being stealthy, and the summoning (also note the complete opposite mana colors). I still like that third trait, which makes 4 stacks of bleed a legit threat (particularly since it’s rare to have immunity to bleed) and complements her spell nicely. She also gets 50% mana start with Captain Macaw, and +1 magic on 4/5 matches with Corsair class. She def has potential.
One aspect I’m not sure how I like is the fact that her boost is on a mana color she doesn’t take herself. This means that looping purple won’t fill her mana quickly, but it could open up more looping possibilities, by not blocking purple. I tentatively don’t think the trade is worth it, just going off the top of my head, but may be wrong.
First of all, Wrong…
And second, it’s “ways” NOT “wase” 
I can’t say what frustrated me the most today, the new mythical troop with nerf or the new class. I believe that I created too many expectations for both.
Looking ahead to Sword’s Edge week, the glory troop seems to be another Fenrir variant, giving barrier and a big armor boost to a single target. While I tend not to use those troops pretty much ever, the new legendary looks a bit more promising.
Sir Quentin Hadley gives Knights a 50% mana start and is an ever-useful dual converter, ensuring that he’ll be at least somewhat relevant. Knights don’t have much in the way of skull generators, but he’s also beast-type, so there will likely be some synergy with the other beast dual converters (particularly Forest Guardian, whose green he can convert to skulls, and who he can also feed via his yellow generation).
He also does magic damage to two random targets, which highlights the strange fact that his magic stat hasn’t been released yet. I’m not expecting much from this aspect of his spell, though it could be a nice bonus later in rounds.
Do you dream of changes and improvements? I do.
Among the things I dream about, here are some …
New Dungeons, new daily teams, perhaps with greater difficulty (or who knows the possibility of choosing the difficulty as in Explore?) And who knows, better rewards?
One or two new BOSSES at Raid Boss. I have nothing against Zuul’Goth, I like him very much, I even built mine some time ago. But if the Raid had three Bosses (alternating between battles) I would be less bored by having to fight so many Sigils consecutively. Also, having two new Bosses to produce in the forge would take me more to get the necessary resources, probably attracting me more to the game.
New TOWERS in the Invasion. How about 4 new towers? The variety of teams to face would be better and more attractive.
Honestly, this would attract me a lot in Update 5.0, but as we still don’t know anything about how it will be, I can go on dreaming.
New songs!
I was talking recently with the members of three guilds of Brazilians I know and they all play with the game sound off. The complaints are that the songs are few and repetitive. I started recording some videos with suggestions and I was asked to mute the game in the videos.
I, in particular, have been playing without the sound of the game for years. I open the player and put some selection of my taste, leaving only the sound effects of the battles.
Would it be too much to ask that each kingdom have its own music and with a battle rhythm? There are many games with epic, unforgettable sounds.
I have no hope of that happening.
But as I said at the beginning of the post, I’m just someone who doesn’t deny himself the right to dream.
Difficulty selection in Dungeons are highly unlikely occur. Dungeons are a mid-game bridge to assist players in earning diamonds to craft things (usually Mythics) in the Soulforge. The devs are very controlling of the diamond drop values there and have said that there are no plans to make any adjustments to them. New teams in the Dungeons? I’m skeptical on this, with the big question being “Why?”. For most players whose accounts are advanced to the point where Dungeons are trivial, they are a quick three matches and done per day in 2-3 mins at most. I strongly doubt that the devs will invest time in a game mode that meant to be cleared that quickly.
Possibly? Once upon a time on an ancient dev Q&A, Sirrian did kick around the idea of alternate bosses/towers to living things up. In the game’s current context, this might be used to get around the issue where every kingdom has or will soon have both godslayers and siegebreakers by renaming these traits to work against new bosses and towers (aka only works against “Season 2 Boss/Towers”).
/deep sigh
This one hurts.
Yeah, it is. This falls into the same category as avatar cosmetics. In a nutshell, the game is over five years old now and the only approved investments in the game are those their either work to increase player retention or monetize the game. Songs don’t fall into either of these categories. They are expenses with no realistic opportunities to recover their development costs (no amateur tunes, it’s been asked a ton on streams by players trying to find a workaround to this constraint).
There weren’t any new songs added with the second map released, so I strongly doubt there will be any when the third map releases either.
On a side note, the rarest song in the game is the one associated with unlocking new kingdoms and factions. It’s a decent ~2 minute tune that for anyone who has unlocked all the Krystaran kingdoms only plays exactly once a month when the month’s new faction is officially unlocked. And even then, it’s super easy to accidentally click/tap by that screen and cancel playing of the song. I try to make an effort to listen to that tune whenever it comes up monthly just to hear something different momentarily.
Have they even confirmed a 3rd map yet? I’d almost rather not see one, more complicated clutter.
I’m looking through the game’s audio files now, and one thing I’m noting are that there are several sound tracks suffixed _santa.wav, including an orchestral rendition of Carol of the Bells. Is this used during the holiday season? (I normally turn game music off to watch Netflix etc while playing, so I never end up hearing these honestly great tracks).
Depends if you call Sirrian’s “thinking out loud”, “chewing the fat”, or similar quip on a dev Q&A a confirmation or not. Granted, it’s been a looooong time since that Q&A that was the first tease of anything 5.0 related, so it’s possible that plans have changed since then.
On the other hand, for a company that’s tends to be very careful on what exactly what information about the game is released publicly, it would be very strange for there not to be some validity regarding those seemingly way-too-specific “random” comments Sirrian likes to make out of context on those streams.
It replaces the world map music maybe +/- 48 hours around Christmas Day each year. Or perhaps maybe during the event week that contains Christmas Day only. Either way, the tune comes and goes way too fast every year.
If there is an overworld map with mini-kingdoms tied to base kingdoms, I hope it ties into the existing renown system rather than adding a distinct reward structure. Maxing every planned delve gives fairly lackluster stat bonuses.
I was under the impression that the 5.0 update would slightly modify the button at the bottom center of the hud and add a third world map entirely, but I don’t have confirmation on that.
Looking at upcoming Mech P4-NTH4 that comes out on Mon Feb 24th and it says there is a 10% chance to kill the enemy boosted by their Armor. The ratio is listed as 0.2. Well, with the base 10% chance, the enemy only needs 450 Armor for there to be a 100% lethal chance.
You only need about 350 to reach about an 80% chance to kill, which is good enough most of the time.
This troop could be very useful for delves!