December 2019

Cinnamon and Cloves Weekend Buff
Features:

* Added the Cinnamon and Cloves weekend buff, starting at noon PST.

Changes:

* When mimicking Mycall’s “Static Spores”, Mindy's version now scales based on the strength of Mimic, as with most other chance-based abilities.
* The escape key and spacebar now perform the same function (closing windows and dismissing notifications.)
* Added a number of weekend buff chests and GEs to the pools for flash sales and the challenge shop.

### Wednesday 11 December 2019

*Version: v0.223*

Changing Seasons
Features:

* The crafting screen now provides options for which Crusaders to list
* Crusaders in the crafting screen now display a marker when they have a recipe for a better item.
* The number of saved formation slots has been increased to 5.
	+ Hotkeys: Q,W,E,R, and T
* Each challenge objective now has its own saved formations.
* Objectives with altered formations now have their own saved formations, which are cleared when changing objectives.
* Campaigns in the objective selection screen now show their formations when moused over.
* Added an entry to the guidebook for saved formations.
* Added two Taskmasters: Gooby and Old Lefty.
	+ Purchased with Rubies and Challenge Tokens respectively.
* Added new skins for Mindy, Baenarall, and Eiralon.
	+ Purchased from the skin shop.
* Added “Crusaders Owned” and “Recipes Owned” to the stats window.
* Updated the bonus Golden Epic for purchasing regular Jeweled Chests.

Changes:

* Storm Rider and Magnify can now be activated during area transitions (including by taskmasters.)
* More Formation Ability tooltips can be shown when mousing over Crusaders.
* Increased the time limit for Sprint Mode from 6 to 10 seconds.
* Clarified how Sprint Mode works.
* Changed Nargulg’s abilities.
* Reduced the cost scaling of the 10K Training and Montage Training talents.
* Revamped the Phase Skip talent.
* Added Chiyome’s and Trixie’s skins to the skin shop.
* Added the False Idol Taskmaster to the ruby shop.
* Topped all players’ free respecs back up to 3

### Wednesday 18 December 2019

*Version: v0.224*

The Nate Before Christmas, Tier 5
Features:

* Updated The Nate Before Christmas for Tier 5
* New Crusader: Kris, the Enraged Elemental (slot 29)
* 5 New Objectives:
	+ Recruit Kris, the Enraged Elemental: Plant a festive formation and head to area 400.
	+ Home Alone: Reach area 450 all by your lonesome.
	+ O Tannenbaum: Enjoy a traipse through the bowers to area 475.
	+ It's Elemental: See you in area 500, hotshots.
	+ Koliada: Reach area 525 with cajoling carolers.
* New Skin: Snow Wight skin for Frosty
* Added recruitment and gear missions for Carmen and Petunia, and The Evanescent

Changes:

* Objectives that increase the rate of monster spawns now reduce the delay between monsters, to compensate.
* Changed Robo-Rudolph's name to RoboRudolph to match the other "robo" Crusaders

Fixes:

* Fixed a number of formation abilities showing their original owner’s name when copied by Mindy.
* Fixed the Sprint Mode buff icon showing the wrong time limit.
* Fixed multi-open buttons in the chest screen not always updating correctly after opening chests

### Thursday 19 December 2019

*Version: v0.225*

The Update After Nate Before Christmas
Changes:

* Added the support tag to Kris.
* Updated Kris’ recruitment objective so Crusaders granted the flora tag by an ability can deal DPS.
* Effects that increase max hp no longer increase current hp when the formation is under attack.
* Changed The Holy Guardian’s shortened name from Guardian to Holy Guardian.

Fixes:

* Fixed Gooby and Old Lefty showing slightly large and pixelated in the taskmaster roster.
* Fixed health-increasing effects from legendary equipment not applying.
* Fixed Gryphon’s and Red’s abilities not applying health-increasing effects added by loot.