Patch Notes/2017

## Update 29/12/2017

* New PvP and Trials events are now available.
* Item locking has been added to the Craft screen. Pressing the lock icon at the top left will allow you to lock specific items. This will cause the item to no longer appear in upgrade, exchange, or reforge sections of the Craft screen. You can unlock items at any time through the same tool.
* Players can now filter World Boss searches by any boss, tier or difficulty.
* Bonus and Reduced text in battle will now display the percentage of change that was applied.
* Success and Failed text from familiar captures will no longer be hidden when the Battle Text game setting is disabled.
* Slightly improved the damage of BuvBoi and front enemy attacking pets.
* *Fixed a bug causing Gold Find bonuses to not effect Treasures in dungeons.*
* *Fixed a bug that sometimes caused World Boss battles to freeze.*

## Update 22/12/2017

* New PvP, Gauntlet, and GvG events are now available.
* Festive Sale! 20% off everything in the shop for a limited time during the holidays!

## Update 15/12/2017

* New PvP and Trials events are now available.
* Holiday cheer is here! Collect free presents in town each day for the next 12 days!
* *Various serverside issues have been fixed.*

## Update 8/12/2017

* New PvP and Gauntlet events are now available.
* Winter items have been added to the cosmetic reward chest.
* *Fixed the fusion size on Robobuddy 2.0 and Zingo.*
* Search and filter options have been added to the upgrade and reforge sections of the craft window.

## Update 1/12/2017

* New PvP, Trials, and GvG events are now available.
* New Defense Pets are now available in the shop.
* All daily bonuses are doubled throughout the month of December. Happy Holidays!
* Visit Grampz in town for a special winter gift!
* Morgoroth familiars can now appear in Trials.
* Added a + button next to the energy cost in World Boss rooms to let players gain energy without leaving the room.
* Players can now specify when item notifications appear on your screen based on friends, guildmates, or others in the game settings.
* Players can now use multiples of certain consumables at a time.

## Update 24/11/2017

* New PvP and Gauntlet events are now available.
* Increased the healing value of the 3 piece Illustrious Artifacts set bonus.
* Increased the ricochet chance of the 3 piece Trugdor’s Call set bonus from 6% to 7%.
* Reduced the SP cost of the 4 piece M. A. R. U. set bonus from 3 to 2.
* Slightly increased the damage output of the 3 piece Taters set bonus.
* Changed the 3 piece Taters set bonus to attack weakest enemy instead of random enemy.
* Increased the shield regen value of the 2 set Jynx set bonus from 15% to 20%.
* World Boss rooms will no longer prioritize specific bosses at the top of the list when searching.
* *Note: Last week there were some alterations on how damage increase and damage reduction mechanics worked. This resulted in an unintended fix of a pre-existing bug with the Obliteration set. The 4 piece bonus on this set was giving more damage reduction than intended, and is now working correctly.*

## Update 17/11/2017

* New World Boss: Netherworld! Battle with friends and collect new loot!
* New PvP, Trials, and GvG events are now available.
* New Defensive Accessories are now available in the shop.
* Regrouping in World Boss will now place you back in the team order you entered in.
* Slightly increased the drop rate of Hobbit Feet in World Boss.
* Increased the Dual Strike chance on Trugdor's Call 2 piece bonus from 3% to 4%.
* Increased the drop rate of Hypershards and Doubloons.
* Increased the overall stats of Mythic Familiars.
* Slightly reduced the difficulty of Tier 7 Heroic and Hard Orlag Clan World Boss.

## Update 10/11/2017

* New PvP and Gauntlet events are now available.
* Various Zone dungeons have had their difficulty reduced.
* Increased the frequency of the staff healing skill being used on auto.
* Projectiles are now effected by battle speed.
* Capture success/failed text is no longer effected by battle speed.

## Update 3/11/2017

* New PvP and Trials events are now available.
* New temporary sales are now available.
* *Fixed a bug with the Night Visage Mythic headpiece.*
* *Fixed a bug where PvP history was not being recorded.*
* *Fixed various UI bugs.*
* Highborn equipment has been changed to Epic rarity.
* Increased the amount of gems received from World Boss battles.
* Added a "/time" chat command to display the current server time.
* "Disable Auto Pilot on Death" has been moved to the top of the game settings list.

## Update 31/10/2017

* Halloween is here! Trick or treat with the friendly townsfolk for some special rewards!
* Astaroth’s Diadem has replaced Melvin Champ in the Offense Accessory Boxes.
* Defense Accessories and Defense Pets have been rotated in the shop.
* 15% off everything in the shop for the next 3 days!
* Doubled daily bonuses for the next 3 days!
* Mythic rarity has been added as an exchange filter option.
* Fixed a bug where the E hotkey was not working for damage enrage.

## Update 27/10/2017

* New Zone: Morgoroth! Continue your adventure after completing Aramore.
* New Raid: A Haile’of a Mistake! Collect legendary loot with friends after completing Morgoroth.
* Zombo Invasion is back!
* New PvP and Gauntlet events are now available.
* Legendary Experience and Item Find Tomes are on sale!
* Slightly increased the drop rate of Legendary Schematics.
* Slightly increased the drop rate of Legendary and better items from Gauntlet and Trials.
* 0 SP Spear attack is now a projectile attack.
* Reduced difficulty of Gauntlet and Trials Tier 6 Sets.
* Reduced difficulty of World Boss Tier 6 Hard and Heroic.
* Slightly increased the drop rate of Doubloons.
* Don’t forget to check in on Oct 31st for some special Halloween fun!

Notes:

* This week's PvP 'Pumkwim' event introduces a new Legendary pet.

## Update 20/10/2017

* New PvP, Trials, and GvG events are now available!
* New Zone and Raid coming soon!! Prepare yourselves.
* A new leaderboard for Total Stats has been added.
* *Fixed battle speed text from being cut off when too long.*
* Various buttons have been added throughout the game to allow players to use consumables easier.

## Update 13/10/2017

* New PvP and Gauntlet events are now available!
* New Offense Accessory is on sale in the shop.
* Increased the time before being disconnected for being idle from 10 minutes to 20 minutes.
* Movement speed bonuses will now also increase battle speed.
* "Disable Auto Pilot on Death" option has been added to the game settings.

Notes:

* This week's mid-week Shop sale introduces a new Legendary pet (Skulldemort).

## Update 6/10/2017

* New PvP and Trials events are now available!
* Offense Accessories and Defense Pets have been rotated in the shop.
* Increased the Crit Chance on Melvin Champ from 5% to 6%.
* Increased the Shield Regeneration on the Jynx set from 10% to 15%.
* Removed Robot Sprocket, Jumbo Syrum, and Mini Syrum from World Boss loot tables. This greatly increases the chance of Hobbit Feet dropping due to being the only possible material drop.
* Ninja invasion head cosmetics will now correctly hide your hair.

## Update 30/9/2017

* Celebrating Bit Heroes one year anniversary of being on Kongregate!
* All daily bonuses are doubled for this week!
* New sales will be appearing every day this week!
* New PvP, Gauntlet, and Invasion events are now available!
* Energy cost for World Boss has been reduced from 25 to 20.
* Reduced the difficulty of Hard and Heroic World Bosses on Tier 5 and below.
* Slightly increased the drop rate of Schematics and Hobbit's Feet from World Bosses.
* Increased the amount of Gold and Experience gained from World Bosses.
* Increased the Lunar Guardian healing bonus from 10% to 15%

Notes:

* This week's mid-week Shop sales introduces two new Legendary pets (Wuvboi and Buvboi).
* See Kong'iversary (2017) for details on the week's sales.

## Update 22/9/2017

* New Feature: World Boss! Participate in co-op realtime battles with other players for new loot!
* New offensive Pets are available in the shop! 10% discount for a limited time.
* New PvP, Trials, and GvG events are now available!
* Staff 1 SP damage skill (Eruption) has been changed to damage the weakest enemy instead of the closest enemy.
* Increased the overall effectiveness of single target Healing Skills.
* Increased the overall effectiveness of front line Damage Skills.
* Adjusted the min-max values for all Staff Skills.
* Players can disable World Boss Requests in the game settings.

Notes:

* This content update introduces the Lunar Guardian and Jynx sets.

## Update 15/9/2017

* New PvP and Gauntlet events are now available!
* New limited time sales this week.
* *Fixed an issue which caused item tooltips to extend past the bottom of the screen.*
* For non-mobile users, pressing "E" will now activate Enrage during your turn in battle.
* Players can now disable Enrage from automatically being used by disabling "Auto Enrage" in the game settings.
* Players can now ignore the boss when doing a dungeon on Auto by enabling "Ignore Boss" in the game settings.
* Locked treasure chests in Hyper Dimension now have a slight chance to contain a Hypershard.
* Locked treasure chests in Woodbeard's Booty now have a slight chance to contain a Doubloon.

Notes:

* This week's mid-week Shop sale introduces a new Legendary accessory.

## Update 8/9/2017

* New PvP, Trials, and GvG events are now available!
* A new limited-time Mega Defense Accessory Box can now be purchased in the shop! This box contains a guaranteed Epic defense accessory and is available this week only (The new legendary accessory in this sale will eventually become purchasable again).
* Absorb and Evade will now trigger "When you get hit" and "When you hit an enemy" Pet abilities.

Notes:

* This week's PvP 'Snut' event introduces a new Legendary pet.

## Update 1/9/2017

* New PvP and Gauntlet events are now available!
* Familiars have 50% increased stats during this weeks event.
* Previous Offense Accessories are back! The new Offense Accessories have been temporarily replaced with the old ones. These will occassionally switch along with other shop items that were previously removed.
* Widowmaker’s 5% Life Steal has been changed to 3% Empower Chance.
* Enchants can now be exchanged.
* Destroying an Enchant will also exchange the Enchant, giving you extra materials based on how many rerolls you have done on that Enchant.
* Total Stats indicator has been added to the team building screen.

## Update 25/8/2017

* New PvP, Trials, and GvG events are now available!
* Healing Pets are back! Shielding pets have been temporarily replaced with Healing pets. These will occasionally switch along with other shop items that were previously removed.
* Familiar Capture screen will now take into consideration how many of that Familiar you have in your stable.
* When using stat points, you can now press and hold on the adjustment buttons to use your points quicker. Alternatively, for non-mobile users, you can hold the Ctrl key to use 10 points at a time.
* Enrage will now automatically be used by AI controlled units.

## Update 18/8/2017

* New PvP and Gauntlet events are now available!
* Large Offense Accessory Boxes and Large Offense Pet eggs are now on sale!
* Improved the bonus on the Chet Meta rune.

Notes:

* This week's PvP 'Grim' event introduces a new Legendary accessory.

## Update 11/8/2017

* Zombo Invasion! Work with your fellow players to defend the town from the Zombo horde!!
* New Feature: Enchants! Find and identify enchants throughout the game to improve your character. Enchants can be aquired from Zones, Raids, Gauntlet, Trials, and event rewards.
* Players will receive up to 3 free Enchants upon logging in this week based on their level. The level requirements are as follows:
	+ Level 25: 1 Common Enchant
	+ Level 50: 1 Rare Enchant
	+ Level 100: 1 Epic Enchant
* New Bonus: Empower Chance! Chance for skills to be twice as powerful.
* New Bonus: Damage Reduction! Reduces all damage received by a percentage.
* New PvP, Trials, and Invasion events are now available!
* Empower Chance, Damage Reduction, and Absorb Chance have been added to the character Info screen.
* Two new Major Runes (Isa + Tol) have been added to the game.
* Reduced the gold cost for upgrading materials at the crafter.
* A new leaderboard for highest Invasion wave clear has been added.
* Sort options for Familiars and Fusions will now display the color of the rarity.
* You can now disable Battle Text in the game settings.
* “Bonus” and “Reduced” battle notifications are now smaller, no longer have audio, and display in a different color.
* Health percent bonuses will now regenerate an equal percentage of your missing health per combat phase.
* “Damage Return” has been reworked and renamed to “Damage Enrage”.
	+ Instead of returning the damage directly, your unit will store that damage on themself as a bonus.
	+ Each unit can store up to 10% of their maximum health in damage.
	+ During your turn, you can use this stored up bonus to enrage your next ability, increasing its potency.
* Various Grim Ward accessories have been adjusted to compensate for this change.

## Update 4/8/2017

* New PvP, Gauntlet, and GvG events are now available!
* Small and Large Defense Pet eggs are now on sale!
* Updated animation on Eluria Staff.
* Removed the "Change" option when viewing other players Runes.

## Update 28/7/2017

* New PvP and Trials events are now available!
* Small and Large Offense Accessory boxes are now on sale!
* Celebrating over two million accounts! Login each day for the next 7 days to collect a unique Eluria Cosmetic item!
* Slightly improved the Set bonuses for Divinity, Ares Legacy, Trugdor’s Call, and Taldrilth’s Artifacts.
* Time Played in your Info panel will now display slightly more information.
* Ticket Pouches are now usable directly from the PvP screen.

## Update 21/7/2017

* New PvP, Gauntlet, and GvG events are now available!
* Legacy Offense Accessories and Defense Pet eggs are temporarily available to purchase this week!
* *Fixed an issue where unique Hyper Dimension Epic items were not dropping.*
* Daily PvP bonuses will now also effect GvG.
* Several daily bonuses have been adjusted.

## Update 14/7/2017

* New PvP and Trials events are now available!
* Small and Large Defense Accessory Boxes are now on sale!
* Players can now ignore shrines in the game settings while doing an auto dungeon.
* Friend requests will now display more information about the player.
* Sorting options have been added to friend requests and guild applications.
* Items can now be used immediately after trading for them at the crafter.

## Update 7/7/2017

* New PvP, Gauntlet, and GvG events are now available!
* Small and Large Offense Pet eggs are now on sale!
* Various enemies and bosses have been added to the Gauntlet.
* *Fixed a bug where shielding was not benefiting from critical hits.*
* Increased the drop rate of Hypershards in Hyper Dimension and Tier 5 Trials/Gauntlet.
* Cosmetic Chests have returned to the shop!
* Reduced Gem cost for purchasing items from the merchant in Dungeons.
* Merchants, goblins, and locked treasure chests in Raids now have a slight chance to contain a Legendary item.
* You can now select which rarity of items you want to auto-decline from dungeon merchants in the game settings.
* Major Item Find Scroll, Major Experience Tome, Major Gold Potion, and Major Speed Kicks can now appear as a flash sale.

Notes:

* This week's PvP 'Crem' event introduces a new Legendary pet.

## Update 30/6/2017

* New Zone: Aramore! Continue your adventure after completing Ashvale.
* New Raid! Woodbeard's Booty! Collect legendary loot with friends after completing Aramore.
* New Feature: Familiar Stable! Board extra familiars here for bonuses to their stats.
* New Mechanic: Shielding! Pets and other features can grant shielding to teammates in battle. Shielding acts as an additional health bar that will deplete before your health gets touched. You can have up to a max of 50% of your total HP in shielding.
* New defensive Pets are available in the shop!
* New PvP and Trials events are now available!
* The "Aerial Assault" Axe skill will now drain health from its targets.
* Various cosmetics have been added to the event cosmetic reward chest.
* Item tooltips will now display the item's Tier.
* Gauntlet and Trial difficulty tiers now reflect the highest possible rarity that can drop from that difficulty.
* You can now sort Equipment by Tier when changing an equipment slot.
* Tier 5 Set items can now be Reforged to Tier 6 when they are fully upgraded.
* Slightly increased the drop rate of Schematics.
* All Raid difficulties now give the same exp and gold. This value is equal to what Heroic previously gave.
* Increased the proc rate on the Ares Legacy set bonus to 15%.
* Reduced difficulty on various dungeons.

## Update 23/6/2017

* New PvP, Gauntlet, and GvG events are now available!
* Small and Large Defense Accessory Boxes are now on sale!

Notes:

* This week's PvP 'Colonial' event introduces a new Legendary accessory.

## Update 16/6/2017

* New PvP and Trials events are now available!
* Small and Large Defense Pet eggs are now on sale!
* Our first GvG Event is now over. The next one will begin in one week. Get your Guild prepared!

Notes:

* This week's PvP 'Nerder' event introduces a new Legendary pet.

## Update 9/6/2017

* GvG is finally here! Compete against other guilds for special guild prizes!
* Guild Halls have been added to the game! Hang out with your guildmates and customize your guild hall. Unlock special cosmetics from leveling up your guild and competing in GvG.
* Guild Perks have been added to the game. Earn special guild wide bonuses for competing in GvG events. Guild Perks can be unlocked by earning Guild Bucks in GvG events.
* Pets and Accessories can now be upgraded by using materials gained from exchanging extra Pets and Accessories. Only Pets and Accessories with upgrade paths can be exchanged for these materials. Guild Shop Pets and Accessories do not have upgrade paths.
* To compensate for people that have made previous purchases and exchanged Pets or Accessories already, we have implemented a system to give you an amount of Pet and Accessory materials upon logging into the game. For more information on how this is calculated, please visit the forums.
* New accessories have been added to the shop.
* New PvP, Gauntlet, and GvG events are now available!
* This weeks Gauntlet event will be ranked by highest clear.
* You can now trade for Badges with coins at the crafter.
* Average Badge Pouch has been added to the guild shop.
* Players can now use up to 5 tickets at a time when entering PvP.
* Movement arrows have been added to the team selection screen to allow users to move units around without dragging them.
* GvG Wins, GvG Losses, Gauntlets Completed and Trials Completed have been added to the character information screen.
* Damage and Speed bonuses no longer adjust your current stats, but instead adjust values during combat. This change was made to allow these bonuses to be equally valuable to all types of damage builds and balance out other bonuses.
* Reduced the gold cost for reforging items.
* Improved loading times for various screens of the game.
* Increased the crit chance of Widowmaker by 1%.

## Update 2/6/2017

* New PvP and Trials events are now available!
* A new limited-time Mega Egg can now be purchased in the shop! This egg contains a guaranteed Epic pet and is available this week only.

Notes:

* This week's PvP 'Mirror' event introduces a new Legendary accessory.

## Update 26/5/2017

* New PvP and Gauntlet events are now available!
* Common and Rare Familiars have 50% increased stats in this week’s PvP event.
* Major Item Find Scroll, Major Experience Tome, Major Healing Potion, and Major Revive Potion are now on sale.
* Various cosmetics have been added to the cosmetics reward chest.

Notes:

* This week's PvP 'Nemo' event introduces a new Legendary pet.

## Update 19/5/2017

* New PvP and Trials events are now available!
* Large Defense and Offense Accessory Boxes are now on sale!
* *Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause Gauntlet battles to freeze.*
* Battles that are frozen will now attempt to fix themselves after a short delay.
* You can now disable Duel Requests in the game settings.
* You can now decline all pending friend requests.
* You can now force battle status bars to overlay on top of units by enabling "Overlay status bars" in the game settings.
* You can now select a player's name when a notification appears to view their profile.
* You can now specify which rarity of Familiars you want to decline when declining familiar duplicates.
* Legendary and set items are now disabled by default in the exchange filter.
* Cosmetic chests will now display which cosmetics you have already unlocked.
* Your friends list will now display the amount friends you have.
* Slightly adjusted status bars and unit positions in battle to prevent visibility issues.

Notes:

* This week's PvP 'B.I.T.' event introduces a new Legendary accessory.

## Update 5/5/2017

* New PvP and Trials events are now available!
* Large Defense and Offense Eggs are now on sale!
* Item notifications will now only appear the first time a player obtains the item.
* *Various languages issues have been fixed.*
* Numbers in the player information window now show their full amount.

Notes:

* **(11/5/2017):** A pop-up window now appears when you disconnect during a dungeon.
* **(15/5/2017):** World chat channels have been added. *A new bug causing havoc on event ranking has also been fixed.*
* **(15/5/2017):** A pop-up window for switching servers now appears when you attempt to duel someone in a different server.

## Update 28/4/2017

* New PvP and Gauntlet events are now available!
* Small and Large Defense Accessory boxes are now on sale!
* This week will have 3 short pvp events, each with different team size restrictions.
* Leaderboards now show the top 100 players, up from 50.

## Update 23/4/2017

* New PvP and Trials events are now available!
* Small and Large Offense Accessory boxes are now on sale!
* Weekly updates will now occur on Friday instead of Sunday. PvP and Trials this week are only 5 days long due to this.
* You can now view how much experience each guild member has contributed to the guild with the Contribution button in the members tab of the guild.
* You can now select the quantity of items being purchased in the guild shop.
* *Various issues with specific languages have been fixed.*

Notes:

* **(27/04/2017):** Bit Heroes is now available for pre-registration on Google Play. Players who pre-register receive the Droid pet cosmetic, 10 PvP tickets, 100 Energy, 100 Gems, and 10000 Gold.

## Update 16/4/2017

* New PvP and Gauntlet events are now available!
* Common Familiars have 50% increased stats in this week's PvP event.
* This week's Gauntlet event will be ranked on highest clear.
* A new easter Pet Egg will be available in the shop this week. This egg can contain any of the defense or offense pets for 20% off.
* All players that login during this week will receive the Lilbun pet cosmetic.
* *Fixed a bug which caused ricochet procs to gain multiple bonuses.*
* *Fixed a bug which caused Gauntlet and Trials leaderboards to update inaccurately.*
* Notifications will now only appear lower on the screen when the primary currencies are being displayed.
* 5 new selectable languages have been added to the game. French, Italian, German, Spanish and Portuguese. You can select your preferred language by going to the Language tab within Settings.

Notes:

* A font size reduction has been applied to long names in the leaderboards/party screens.

## Update 9/4/2017

* New PvP and Trials events are now available!
* Familiars have 25% increased stats in this week's PvP event.
* Major Item Find Scroll, Major Experience Tome, Major Gold Potion, and Major Speed Kicks are now on sale. 20% off!
* Two new leaderboards have ben added to the NPC in town. One for Trials highest all time clear, and one for Gauntlet highest all time clear.
* Increased the amount of dungeon ad chests available per day from 4 to 6.
* Cosmetics purchased from the shop will no longer display a notification.
* You can now exchange previously inserted runes.
* Players can now take leadership of a guild after a certain period of time of the leader being offline. This timeframe depends on your current ranking in the guild. Officers can take leadership after 2 weeks of the leader being offline, members 3 weeks, and recruits 4 weeks. This gives the higher ranking players priority over the leadership role. When allowed, a "Mutiny" button will appear next to their name in the members section of the guild.
* The settings window has been redesigned to create more room for new options.
* "Reduced Effects" has been added to the game settings. Turning this on will disable white flashes on text and units in battle, as well as particle effects.

## Update 2/4/2017

* New PvP and Gauntlet events are now available!
* Large Defense and Offense pet eggs are now on sale!
* Hyper Dimension Hard and Heroic difficulties have been reduced.
* Tier 6 Gauntlet and Trials difficulty has been reduced from 120 to 110.
* Various quest bosses have had their difficulty reduced.
* A new Cosmetic Chest has been added to the shop. This chest will allow you to purchase a random Cosmetic of previously available shop items.

Notes:

* A new Gauntlet boss has been added to the rotation: the Juppiomenz character (developer account). The developer describes it as a rare spawn, similar to Olxa or Gobby.

## Update 26/3/2017

* New PvP and Trials events are now available!
* Large Defense and Offense accessory boxes are now on sale!
* Demon Potion has been added to the random cosmetic chest.
* *Fixed a bug that caused piercing attacks to effect dead targets.*
* Agility has been reworked. Turn rates are now based on a difference between power and agility. This will allow players to use different builds without losing any overall damage. (Yes this affected familiars too).

Notes:

* In the Guild panel, '? Members Online' has been changed to '? Guildmates Online'.
* This week's Trials 'Boogie' event introduces a new Legendary pet.

## Update 19/3/2017

* New PvP and Gauntlet events are now available!
* All Epic boosts are now on sale!
* *Fixed a bug where only equipment from Bit Valley was appearing from dungeon corpses.*
* *Fixed a bug that sometimes caused dungeons to not generate correctly.*
* Attacks deflected after a redirect or ricochet will now correctly return to the attacker.
* Notifications will now appear below your currency tabs when they are visible.
* The raid selection window will now default to your last summoned raid.
* Dungeons will no longer generate art that can hide objects.
* Trading for Set items at the crafter will no longer display a global notification.
* You can now press the number keys on your keyboard to choose a target for a selectable skill.

## Update 12/3/2017

* New PvP and Trials events are now available!
* This week's Trials event will be ranked by highest clear.
* Small and Large Defense Pet eggs are now on sale!
* *Fixed an issue where reforging epic items would disconnect you from the server.*
* A new type of treasure chest can now be found in dungeons. You can watch a short ad to open these chests, which contain multiple equipment pieces, gems, rune fragments, and more. Only 4 of these can appear per day.
* Abilities for Robby and Olxaroth have been changed.
* Various new trade options for PvP Coins have been added to the crafter.

Notes:

* A new Kongregate logo animation has been added.

## Update 5/3/2017

* New PvP and Gauntlet events are now available!
* Small and Large Offense Pet eggs are now on sale!
* Damage dealing pets can no longer be evaded or blocked.
* PvP matchmaking will now prioritize recently logged in players as opponents.
* Optimized PvP matchmaking and various other parts of the game that were very slow.
* Redesigned all bounties that require you to quest in Hard difficulty.
* Added more bounties that require you to defeat opponents in PvP.
* *Fixed an issue that was causing duels to crash at the end of the battle.*
* A new Meta rune has been added to the trading section.
* Redirect Chance has been added to the character information section.
* *Fixed a few visual errors with item tooltips.*
* An overall balance pass on certain skills has been done.
* Redesigned the SP costs of weapon skills to give players more options during combat.
* Added multiple new rank brackets for PvP, Gauntlet, and Trials events.
* Slightly increased the drop rate of hyper shards in raids.
* Set items will now give a new crafting material when exchanged. Players that have already exchanged set items can contact us to receive the materials they didn't get previously.
* Players can use the above mentioned crafting material to create a new, random set item at the crafter.
* Increased the effective bonus of fused familiars to be more similar to their equivalent accessory bonus.
* 3 new legendary schematics have been added to the game.
* Increased the drop rate of legendary schematics to compensate for the above change.
* If an opponent dies from the first attack of a targetable dual strike attack, the second attack will now grab a new target.
* Movement speed minor runes (Dar) will now give gold find instead.

Notes:

* *The duel bug introduced in the last update has been fixed.*
* The PvP optimizations were soon removed after the update.
* Two full energy/shard/ticket/token refills were given to compensate for excessive server lag post-update.
* The Set chest requires 1 Harmony Orb, 3 Hyper Shards, 10 Epic Materials and 250,000 gold.

## Update 26/2/2017

* New PvP and Trials events are now available!
* Small and Large Defense Accessory boxes are now on sale!
* Dual strike has been added to the player information screen

Notes:

* New set items have been added to the T6 Trials/Gauntlet loot table. The Trugdor's Call set has a bow, offhand, and headpiece.

## Update 19/2/2017

* New PvP and Gauntlet events are now available!
* Small and Large Offense Accessory boxes are now on sale!
* Increased the SP drain from Chet runes.
* 2 new Meta Runes have been added to the trading section at the crafter.
* Updated the world chat word filter.
* Added a terms of service agreement to world chat.
* Various UI adjustments have been made to prepare for upcoming features.

Notes:

* A new Gauntlet boss has been added to the existing rotation. The new boss uses the legendary Kov'alg set from Tier 5 Trials/Gauntlet.
* The GvG tab has been changed. It now shows the Event name and a greyed out Enter button.
* **(24/02/2017):** Two achievements (Easy/Medium) have been added to the Kongregate version of Bit Heroes.

## Update 12/2/2017

* New PvP and Trials events are now available!
* Meta runes have been added to the trading section at the crafter
* You can now exchange runes for 20% of their rune fragment cost.
* Sets and Runes have been added as exchange filters.
* You can now purchase items in bulk by selecting a quantity at the bottom of the shop.
* *Various minor bug fixes.*

## Update 5/2/2017

* New PvP and Gauntlets events are now available!
* Major Item Find Scroll, Major Experience Tome, Major Gold Potion, and Major Speed Kicks are now on sale. 20% off!
* Tier 6 has been added to Gauntlet and Trials.
* New Legendaries have been added to the Tier 5 / Tier 6 Gauntlet and Trials loot tables.
* Hypershards now have a small chance to drop from Tier 5 / Tier 6 Gauntlet and Trial bosses.

## Update 29/1/2017

* New PvP and Trials events are now available!
* All Large Eggs and Boxes are now on sale!

## Update 22/1/2017

* New PvP and Gauntlet events are now available!
* Large Defense Accessory Box and Large Offense Pet Egg are now on sale!
* Two new Major runes (Pire and Vex) have been added to the trading section.

## Update 15/1/2017

* New PvP and Gauntlet events are now available!
* This week will have a 4 day Gauntlet event, followed by a 3 day Trial event. Both of these events will be ranked by highest clear and have a special cosmetic point reward!
* Large Offense Accessory Box and Large Defense Pet Egg are now on sale!

## Update 8/1/2017

* New PvP and Trial events are now available!
* Keyboard controls have been added! You can use WASD or the arrow keys to move around. BACKSPACE and ESCAPE act as a "Back" or "Exit" command. SPACEBAR and ENTER act as a "Confirm" command.
* Adjusted matchmaking for PvP to look for a larger spread of opponents based on your total stats.
* Players with high total stats will have a lower adjusted point value in PvP than previously. Point rewards have been lowered to compensate for this change.
* Increased the maximum amount of points you can receieve from fighting someone in PvP.
* Opponents in PvP are now ordered from weakest to strongest. This can be reversed by pressing the "Stats" button when choosing an opponent in PvP.

## Update 1/1/2017

* New Mystery PvP and Gauntlet events are now available!
* Various performance improvements have been made.
* *Fixed multiple issues when trading in Energy for Shards.*
* Potions and other cosmetics have been added to the cosmetics reward chest.
* You can now view the possible rune options when trading in rune fragments.
* Shields and Offhands are no longer separate cosmetic selection types.
* *Fixed a bug where players could drag a private message window off screen.*
* *Fixed a bug where friends / guildmates were not correctly updating when selecting a team.*
* You can now duel other players while battles are disabled.