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December 2015

## December 7th, 2015

*Monday December 7th, 2015*

*Version 0.41*

Features
* Changed *Crit DMG Mult* to *Crit DMG Bonus* and modified the displayed number so it makes more sense. Eg *200% Mult* is now a *100% Bonus*.

Fixes
* Fixed Momma Kaine's heal buffing item to upgrade the heal to the proper amounts.
* Fixed Short Circuit or Freeze effects sometimes lingering after reset
* Fixed Short Circuit tooltip not updating correctly if it gets buffed before it is unlocked
* Fixed an issue with ability cooldowns when using a lot of warps
* Fixed an issue with muting tn chat
* Fixed an issue where sleeping crusaders could wake up on restarting the game
* Can no longer use sleeping Crusaders' abilities
* Princess' Incinerate and Firestorm upgrades both unlocked at level 75. Firestorm now unlocks at level 125. The costs have been updated accordingly.
* Gold gained while away and Time Warp gold now properly **doesn't** include buffs, were it has been in the last several updates.
* Fixed an issue that could rarely result in two crusaders from the same seat being usable at the same time.

## December 11th, 2015

*Friday December 11th, 2015*

*Version 0.42*

New Objectives !
Features
* Added three new objectives:
	+ (World's Wake) Top Tie: Beat area 350 using only Crusaders from the top row of the Crusader panel.
	+ (Grimm's Idle Tales) Let It Go: Beat area 350 with the Snow Queen.
	+ (Grimm's Idle Tales) I Like Potatoes: You were robbed! Potato mayor, Spuds MacGee, stole all your idols! Beat area 150 without your Idol bonuses.
* Added some experimental opt-in ads/rewards on some platforms.

Fixes
* For un-recruited Crusaders, the DPS/CLK DMG amount below the level up button now shows the amount they'd have at level 1 if they were on the bench.

## December 16th, 2015

*Wednesday December 16th, 2015*

*Version 0.43*

The Nate Before Christmas
Features
* Added Christmas event. Runs until Devember 29th at Noon PST.
* New in this event:
	+ Two new Crusaders that swap with the Golden Panda and Thalia
	+ Free play is once again accessible after recruiting both Crusaders.
	+ Both bonus objectives unlock after recruiting both Crusaders as well.
	+ Increased the difficulty and idol req of the 2nd bonus objective.
* Added a new Golden Epic card for the new RoboSanta Crusader that comes with the purchase of any Christmas Jeweled Chests for real money.

Fixes

* Timed objectives will now stay complete if you finish their goal before the time runs out, even if you don't actually reset until after the time expires. This change applies to both the new even bonus objective and the old Get Me Out Of Here objective.
* Fixed a visual glitch where the 'Gold Gained While Away' pop-up could display 0 gold when you actually had gotten a bunch (what a liar!).
* Fixed the 'Total Chests' icon in the inventory so it doesn't spoil upcoming events. We'll leave that to the data miners.
Dr. Evil, PhD/Strategies

* Dr. Evil main ability is his Horrible Experiment. Which increases the infected DPS by 100%.
* Mutant Powers? stacks multiplicatively
* his Legendary Eyepatch increases the duration of Horrible Experiment which allows more crusaders to be infected which in turn allows you to get more stacks of Mutant Powers?
* Dr. Evil works best as gold buffer in a split gender party with lots of supernatural crusaders.
	+ however when Kris, the Enraged Elemental is infected Dr.evil's Special Grant Money will activate and be boosted as well (Kris is male, female and supernatural)
* Humane Testing works best if there are only human crusaders in range and no animal crusaders
* Because of his Heavy Competition ability, he's used frequently as speed crusaders together with Baenarall, Angel of Hope, President Billy Smithsonian, Sjin the Builder, Turps the Tasty, Penny the Park Planner, Chef Casey and Rex the Wrestler. Mindy the Mime is usually used together to mimic two of them.
Epic Artifact Boxes

There's a box of crafting materials in CIA cold storage that's ripe for the taking. Just sneak past the guards and load it onto the truck. Can contain epic crafting materials!

## Mission Details

### **Crusader TagsRequired**:

2  Male
2  Female
2  Event
1  DPS
1  Gold Finder
1  Tank
1  Support

### **Reward**:

80 Crafting Materials (Contains Common to Epic materials.)

 **Historical:** Prior to June 2017 the mission that went by this name was What's In The Box, Man?. Due to player complains about the name suggesting that the **Epic Artifact Boxes** has more Epic Materials, they swapped names in the June, 1st update.
Extravagently Detailed Dragon Tooth of Princes (Legendary)

### **LegendaryEffect**:

Increases the effect of Brogon, Prince of Dragons's Friends of Brogon ability by 100%

**Legendary Effect by Level**

### **Lv. n**

100%
200%
400%
800%
100%×2n-1

## Extravagently Detailed Dragon Tooth of Princes (Legendary)

* Level 1
* Level 2

## Item details

### **Effect**:

Increases the DPS of all Crusaders by 80%

### **LegendaryEffect**:

Increases the effect of Brogon, Prince of Dragons's Friends of Brogon ability by 100%

**Legendary Effect by Level**

### **Lv. n**

100%
200%
400%
800%
100%×2n-1
Crusaders

**Crusaders** are non-playable characters that either passively deal damage to enemies or enable some characters like The Bush Whacker to damage enemies by clicking. Each Crusader can be unlocked after the previous Crusader has been leveled at least once or the gold required for his/her first level has been acquired. Alternate crusaders can only be unlocked by completing special events or with specific recruitment missions.

### Leveling

You can purchase levels for your Crusaders by spending gold. Leveling increases base DPS, health, and unlocks upgrades. Crusader levels are initially maxed at 5,000, until you buy specific talents (RoboQueen can raise higher with certain gear items).

### Upgrades

Every Crusader has upgrades that can be purchased once their gold and level thresholds have been met. All crusaders have one or more particular upgrades that are unique to that character. These special upgrades either boost the DPS of other Crusaders, increase their own DPS, unlock an ability, heal other Crusaders, or increase gold income.

### Experience points

For every 5 hours a Crusader is in the active formation they gain one experience point (XP), which increases their base DPS by 100%. These values can be improved with talents. Time is counted even while the game is off. All experience points are lost when the current world is reset.

### Equipment

Further information: EquipmentEach crusader can have up to three items equipped at any time. Each item grants various buffs, including increased self DPS, increased group DPS, ability cooldowns, increased gold found, and increased ability effect. The rarity of gear affects the strength of the buff. Equipment is equipped as soon as it is found in silver or jeweled chest, the highest rarity of each item is used. With talents crusaders with all 3 equipment slots filled do 20% to 1000% more DPS.

### Enchantment Points

Enchantment Points increases the Crusader's base DPS by 25% (increasable by talents).
They are gained from EP type missions, and are required to increase the success chance of "High Level" missions.

For DPS calculation crusaders also benefit from 30% of the enchantment points from alternate crusaders in the same bench slot. This can be raised with the talent Sharing is Caring, up to a total of 100%.

All enchantment points are retained when the world is reset.

The maximum EP needed for a mission is 900. (Gear upgrade missions for T5 crusaders) The maximum EP for any reason besides increasing DPS is 1000. (Soulful Escort, final T6 objective in Emo's New Moon)

 **Note:** Before the crafting system was added, Enchantment Points used to be gained when disenchanting a duplicate piece of equipment. Now disenchanting equipment produces crafting materials instead.

## Crusaders' Tags

Every Mission requires certain tags. An overview of the current tags' set up

## Crusaders' Strategies

You can find individual strategy for each crusaders on their respective page or they are all together in this page Strategy List
Father's Day

**Father's Day** or **Father's Day Weekend Promo** was a buff event that ran from June 17 to June 20, 2016.

### **Crusader Buffs**

* The Washed Up Hermit - Increases the DPS of The Washed Up Hermit by 400%
* Khouri, the Witch Doctor - Increases the effect of Khouri, the Witch Doctor's Koffee Potion ability by 200%

* Thalia, the Thunder King - Increases the effect of Storm Rider by 200%

* Nate Dragon - Increases all Gold found by 100%
* Groklok the Orc - Increases the DPS of all Crusaders by 100%

### **Event Chest**

*Jeweled Father's Chests* available for purchase during the event contained gear for The Washed Up Hermit, Khouri, the Witch Doctor, Thalia, the Thunder King, Nate Dragon, and Groklok the Orc. Plus, 2 Trinkets and a Time Warp.
First Lady Betty Smithsonian/Strategies

First Lady Betty Smithsonian is a strong support crusader. Female humans (except Chiyome, because Chiyome share the same bench slot as Betty) profit most from her support.

She is best used if she is next (adjacent) to the main DPS crusader. If her watch becomes legendary (it then is no longer a ‘watch’ but a ‘timepiece’) she should be placed in the column behind the main DPS crusader.

Shenna the Centaur and her unique self buffs have a huge amount of synergy with First Lady Betty Smithsonian.

* Shenna's DPS receives a boost for every animal, human and female crusader in the formation.
* Betty's Buff Rally the Troops gets stronger for every human, female and support type crusader in the formation, whom it should be noted by definition probably comes with a DPS Buff as well.

If you fill in your formation with female human supporters then you'll be able to destroy any late game obstacle between you and your next completed objective, which it should be noted as crusaders in the third and fourth slots left to unlock would probably mean that you've already started to exhaust your primary DPS oriented crusader by the time you've unlocked them.

A list of crusaders that are simultaneously female, human and support (crusaders that share a bench slot will be listed together) keep in mind that for every crusader you have you'll get at least, not including any boosts the listed crusaders have and not including equipment, 25% X 75% boost from Sheanna's combined effects and a additional 25% X 25% X 25% boost from First Lady Betty Smithsonian:

* Pilot Pam
* Sasha the Fierce Warrior/Mindy the Mime
* The Princess
* Momma Kaine
* Red, the Ace Pilot
* Penny the Park Planner
* Queen Siri
* The Shadow Queen
* First Lady Betty Smithsonian
* Chef Casey

If you can arrange all of these crusaders in a way that applies their DPS boosts to Shenna, all the power to you.
Drizzle the Dark Elf

She works with Groklock to boost his abilities!

 Artaxes, the Lion

 Bubba, the Swimming Orc

 Sisaron the Dragon Sorceress

 The Game Goblin

 Ashton, Coffee Pong Referee

**Drizzle the Dark Elf** is the second of two crusaders that are awarded for completing objectives in the Blood Bowl Event; the first, Groklok the Orc, is awarded for completing the first objective in the event.

## Upgrades

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* While Drizzle's skills mainly suggest her various interactions with Groklok, she is a decent buffer to have in your formation.
* To maximize Drizzle and Groklok's buffing, place Groklok in the column behind your main damage dealer and Drizzle in front of them, with the main DPS ideally being in a column of two.
* However, due to the fact that Drizzle shares the same crusader slot as Artaxes, it is likely that a Pam-Groklok-Artaxes buffing combo may surpass a Pam-Drizzle-Groklok buffing combo.

## References

**Drizzle the Dark Elf** is a reference to Drizzt Do'Urden, a dark elf character from the role-playing game series, *Dungeons & Dragons*.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 American football terms.
Emo Werewolf/Strategies

* With the update of Legendary gears, Emo still stood up as a powerful DPS crusader with all golden epics available from the past crafted into golden legendary gears. Even though with stronger additional DPS from the golden legendary gears (+1.2K% instead of the normal legendary's +800%), the main focus is on the **legendary effects**.
* This changes the mindset of building an Emo build from "putting Emo **at a more isolated slot with minimal amount of crusaders will be next to him** as long as the crusaders beside him is non-human" into "putting Emo **in a fully surrounded slot** as long as the crusaders around him are non-human" due to the legendary effect from the legendary cape gear (Increases the Base DPS of Emo Werewolf by 25% for each Crusader next to him at level 1) and playing with Emo's Lone Wolf ability while having the legendary crystal gear (its legendary effect increases the effect of Lone Wolf by 100% at level 1).
* Emo's Lone Wolf only cares about crusaders next to him, any human escorts such as Elsa, kids, Red Riding Hood and Trainers aren't counted it. Therefore, don't hesitate to put him next to those escorts
* In Teacher's Pet and Croakchief at Mugwarts objective (Mischief at Mugwarts), random crusaders get polymorphed into frogs. However, Emo still consider the frogs as humans (if they are human crusaders before) so polymorphed status can't be used to activate Lone Wolf
* Combining with Artaxes, the Lion's legendary hat gear (increases animal crusaders' DPS) with Emo's legendary ham gear (also increases animal crusaders' DPS), and you'll get an effective animal build on the field.
	+ If you have Serpent King Draco and/or Mister the Monkey with their legendary idol/hat gear (both of them also does the same effect as the aforementioned two gears), forget about using humans and robots, for you're building an even stronger Draco+Emo build with Mister the Monkey as your secondary gold finder.
Emo Werewolf

Maybe he didn't get the girl, or maybe he did. Either way, he's sad.

 Sally the Succubus

 Karen, the Cat Teenager

 Turps the Tasty

 RoboQueen

**Emo Werewolf** is the third Crusader available. Emo deals DPS damage to enemies, and his special upgrade *Lone Wolf* boosts his own damage by 200% if there are no humans adjacent to him.

**Crestfallen**

Available in Jeweled Chests or with a one-time token purchase from The Ruby Exchange, Emo Werewolf can change his appearance.

(This is a cosmetic change only.)

 Upgrades

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* With the update of Legendary gears, Emo still stood up as a powerful DPS crusader with all golden epics available from the past crafted into golden legendary gears. Even though with stronger additional DPS from the golden legendary gears (+1.2K% instead of the normal legendary's +800%), the main focus is on the **legendary effects**.
* This changes the mindset of building an Emo build from "putting Emo **at a more isolated slot with minimal amount of crusaders will be next to him** as long as the crusaders beside him is non-human" into "putting Emo **in a fully surrounded slot** as long as the crusaders around him are non-human" due to the legendary effect from the legendary cape gear (Increases the Base DPS of Emo Werewolf by 25% for each Crusader next to him at level 1) and playing with Emo's Lone Wolf ability while having the legendary crystal gear (its legendary effect increases the effect of Lone Wolf by 100% at level 1).
* Emo's Lone Wolf only cares about crusaders next to him, any human escorts such as Elsa, kids, Red Riding Hood and Trainers aren't counted it. Therefore, don't hesitate to put him next to those escorts
* In Teacher's Pet and Croakchief at Mugwarts objective (Mischief at Mugwarts), random crusaders get polymorphed into frogs. However, Emo still consider the frogs as humans (if they are human crusaders before) so polymorphed status can't be used to activate Lone Wolf
* Combining with Artaxes, the Lion's legendary hat gear (increases animal crusaders' DPS) with Emo's legendary ham gear (also increases animal crusaders' DPS), and you'll get an effective animal build on the field.
	+ If you have Serpent King Draco and/or Mister the Monkey with their legendary idol/hat gear (both of them also does the same effect as the aforementioned two gears), forget about using humans and robots, for you're building an even stronger Draco+Emo build with Mister the Monkey as your secondary gold finder.

## References

1. ↑ Reference to an internet video titled *The Poptart Tragedy*, which later became an internet meme.
2. ↑ Line of dialogue from the film *The Hangover* (2009).
3. ↑ Lyric from the song *Smells Like Teen Spirit* by Nirvana.[1]
4. ↑ References to the teen novel series *Twilight*
February 2019

Mobile Retirement
Features:

* Added 4 new Challenges to the weekly pool
* Added missions to recruit and gear all Tier 4 Crusaders up to and including Nargulg

Changes:

* The Idol bonus for watching an ad on reset is now applied without need for an ad.
* Ads have been disabled on all platforms.
* We are beginning to phase out the mobile version of the game.
* Mobile users should ensure their account is linked to another platform.
* Mobile will still be playable until May 1st, 2019
* After this time, the app will still open, but will only prompt you to link your account.
* Don't worry! PC Crusaders is sticking around!

Fixes:

* Fixed single-level talents counting toward achievements for maxing out multi-level talents
* (Jan 29)(PC) Fixed gold sounds failing to play
* (Jan 29)(PC) Fixed gold, smoke puffs, and text getting stuck in Firefox 64
* Adjusted Sashimi’s Golden Epic fish graphic to fit better in loot cards
* (Mobile) Fixed incoming effect descriptions for several formation abilities which add targets to other formation abilities

### Thursday 14 February 2019

*Version: v0.187*

Merci's Mix-Up, Tier 4
Features:

* Added a new Taskmaster to the Challenge Token shop.
* Updated Merci’s Mix-Up for Tier 4
* New Crusader: Ishtar
* New Tier 4 Objectives:
	+ Recruit Ishtar: Reach area 600 amidst firey destruction.
	+ I Put a Cantrip on You: Reach area 700 while drinking every potion you encounter.
	+ Fly Me to the Stars: Reach area 750, if the stars align.
	+ My Funny Valentine Candy: Reach area 800 while candy distracts your Crusaders.
	+ Moon Dancing: Reach area 850 under the moonlight.

Changes:

* Through the power of belief, Katie the Cupid has become an angel.
* Katie’s Gold Find abilities no longer max out at 2 targets.
* Trixie’s second Legendary effect no longer depends on Emo Werewolf.

Fixes:

* (Feb 8) Sashimi and Wrena’s recruit missions no longer say that they swap with themselves
* (Feb 13) Fixed the All the Shapes challenge objective
Fire Storm

**Fire Storm** is an ability of The Princess and Ranger Rayna available at the fifth upgrade, RoboTurkey, Baenarall, Angel of Hope and Willy the Weregoat at the third upgrade, and Euodia the Fencer as the second upgrade.

Fire Storm rains fire balls onto all on screen enemies and does damage to them equal to 50% of their current health. (Prior to May 3, 2019, Fire Storm damage was based on their maximum health.) If the Magnify ability is selected immediately prior to Fire Storm, then 75% damage is done. If all ranks of the talent Higher Magnification are bought, then Fire Storm can do 100% of current health, killing all enemies, except Boss enemies, on the screen.

The ability can only be activated if The Princess, RoboTurkey, Ranger Rayna, Baenarall, Angel of Hope, Willy the Weregoat, or Euodia the Fencer is present in the current formation.

## Equipment

The Princess, RoboTurkey and Willy all have gear that reduces the cooldown time of this ability.

Willy also has the Unchewed Assignment of Repressed Desire that adds a 60 second DPS boost immediate after usage, non-stacking, of Firestorm.
Emo's New Moon/Witching Hour

Grelda, Gertrudie, and Bergilda occupy the following formation slots:

1-100

```
   o
 o   x
   o   o
 o   o
   o   x
 o   x
   o

```

101-200

```
   x
 o   o
   x   o
 o   x
   o   o
 o   o
   o

```

201-300

```
   o
 o   o
   o   x
 x   o
   o   x
 o   o
   o

```

301-400

```
   o
 x   o
   o   o
 o   o
   o   o
 x   o
   x

```

401-500

```
   x
 o   o
   o   o
 x   o
   x   o
 o   o
   o

```

501-600

```
   o
 o   o
   o   o
 o   o
   o   x
 x   x
   o

```

601-700

```
   o
 x   x
   o   o
 o   x
   o   o
 o   o
   o

```

701-800

```
   x
 o   o
   o   o
 o   o
   o   o
 x   x
   o

```

After area 800, the pattern repeats.
Dr. Almquist, Tusk Specialist/Strategies

* compared to Milgrid he grows to the order of O(n^2) DPS boost with at least one level of golden age talent with an additional O(n) gold bonus compared with Milgrid's O(1.5^N) DPS boost. I.e. As you build up tooth stacks he's better at lower areas but Milgrid still provides a bigger DPS buff at higher areas. But since he only builds stacks while in the formation the best strategy is to use him until you can't push any further then switch to Milgrid if needed.
* Mindy can copy the DPS bonus of Wisdom Extraction but won't cause any more teeth to drop.
Farmer Brown's Tractor

Farmer Brown's Tractor has gone missing again. He's got to start plowing his land soon or the world will end.

## Mission Details

### **Crusader TagsRequired**:

1  DPS
1  Support
1  Female

## Solo Crusaders

The following crusaders can satisfy all this mission's requirements thereby allowing any other crusader to occupy the second slot.

* Priestess of Time
* Agent 79
* Kizlblyp, the Alien Traitor
* Pilot Pam
* Sasha the Fierce Warrior
* Mindy the Mime
Fire Phoenix/Strategies

* Generally, Phoenix is used for the Vengeful Fury skill rather than her contribution to the formation. After all, combining its damage (after sacrificing a few crusaders) and a Magnified Firestorm can successfully kill off all normal monsters on screen and greatly weaken a boss monster.
* As of the January 20 update, the use of Phoenix now hints at sacrificing some relatively unimportant crusaders for the greater good.
	+ A possibility of utilising the new Phoenix would be to place your formation tank(s) at the second row instead of the first (provided that the important crusaders don't stand at the frontline). When the frontline crusaders die, the tank's durability will be increased and in addition, the enemies may be weakened by possible Firestorms.

### Boss Killer

Fire Phoenix is great as a high level boss killer.

This is designed for a Triangle, although it will work in a Diamond also with only slight modification.

For this to work, you need Fire Phoenix, Detective Kaine, King Reginald IV, Khouri, the Witch Doctor, The Bush Whacker and The Princess. The rest must be your DPS machines for optimum click damage.

Fire Phoenix must be at front, Khouri, the Witch Doctor, must be in the third column, whilst The Princess and Detective Kaine must be at the back. The remainder of the formation should be arranged to maximize The Bush Wacker's click damage.

After entering the boss stage, immediately activate Click-o-rama (Savage Strikes would be helpful too), then wait for the enemies to get near to Fire Phoenix. When she finally receives damage (watch the HP bar), activate King's Command, this will give the boss enough time to enter the screen; once he does, activate Magnify and then Fire Storm. This combo will deal 75% damage on normal enemies and around 50% on the boss.

This will not be enough to stop the high level wave though, and they will proceed to kill phoenix. When they do, her first ability will wipe the remaining enemies. If the boss manages to survive, Khouri, the Witch Doctor, will keep the second column alive until the boss finally dies.

* + With update 0.45 this strategy would need to be adjusted due to changes made to Fire Phoenix.
Flame on, Bro

Brogon has a lead on some sweet loot that he might be able to use. He's not sure exactly where it is, so he's just going to light everything on fire and see what happens. Send some fire-fighting Crusaders.

## Mission Details

### **Crusader TagsRequired**:

1  Female
4  Human
2  Tank
2  Supernatural
1  Clicker
2  Event
2  Healer
1  DPS

### **Reward**:

Gear Upgrade for Brogon, Prince of Dragons
Euodia the Fencer

Beware her labyrinthine swordplay.

 Fire Phoenix

 Alan the ArchAngel

 Fright-o-Tron 4000

 Spaceking

**Euodia the Fencer** is the new Crusader in the fourth tier of the Dr. Evil's Summer Sabotage Event. If you want to get as far as possible as quickly as possible, Euodia the Fencer is the Crusader for you!

Euodia is deceptively fast for a minotaur, able to increase the speed of monster spawns through *First Blood* and *Lightning Precision* and even increase the speed of quest item drops with *Sense of Direction*. She can even improve First Blood with *Fancy Footwork* as Orcs, Dwarves, and Elves join the formation! Euodia improves DPS and Global DPS through *Cradle the Bird* and *Toe Pokes*.

**Heavenly Defender**

In Dr. Evil's Summer Sabotage 2021, Euodia becomes an angelic minotaur pugilist.
This creates a single set of tag changes:

  Human

  Angel

## Upgrades

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Equipment

One of the rewards from Silver and Jeweled chests are pieces of **equipment**. Equipment pieces are typical gear that are assigned to a specific Crusader, with a passive ability that improves a certain stat. Each Crusader has exactly three categories of Equipment, and each category has a common, uncommon, rare, and epic equipment piece in it. Upon receiving an equipment piece, it will automatically be equipped to the Crusader it belongs to in the first available slot.

Should the received piece be a duplicate or of a lesser rarity than one in the same category, the gear is disassembled into a random amount of Crafting Material. Common gear nets common material, uncommon gear fragments into common and uncommon material, rare gear into rare and common material and epic gear yields epic material.

Crafting Material can be used to craft equipment pieces when the respective Recipe is aquired through Missions.

Equipment pieces are permanent, and do not get removed upon resetting.

Below is a list of all the equipment in the game, sorted by Crusader. Next to each category type is the equipment's ability, followed by how much it adds for each rarity (Common / Uncommon / Rare / Epic / Golden Epic / Legendary / Golden Legendary). The individual pieces are listed beneath, again sorted and color-coded by rarity and followed by the flavor text of each one.

See the following:

* Equipment (1-10)
* Equipment (11-20)
* Equipment (21-30)
* Equipment (31+)
Erabelle, Tisseuse de Nuit

She's seen the light.

 Springy, the Patchwork Plush

**Erabelle, Tisseuse de Nuit** is the new Crusader in the seventh tier of the Carnival of Sorrows Event.

Flap...flap...flap.

Flap...flap...flap.

The hairs on the back of your neck rise as you enter the tent, a pungent smell filling your nostrils, something that smells like dust and dry earth. You look around for the source, hoping your eyes adjust to the dim lighting soon. You try to think back on what the sign outside the tent said, but you were running too fast to have read it properly.

Flap...flap...flap.

That odd sound happens again, closer this time. You turn around, trying to find the entrance to the tent again, thinking it might be worth facing the creatures outside rather than whatever is in here. And then you feel the hand on your back.

A small squeak slips out of your mouth, adventurer or no, and you turn back to whatever touched you. All you can see is wings.

Erabelle, Tisseuse de Nuit is a Support Crusader. When you want to add her to your formation, you can find her in slot 39.

## Upgrades

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Farmer Brown

The monsters keep trampling his crops. Now he's mad.

 Imani Saskien

 Oona, Para Rugby Star

 Garnet, Enchantress of Luck

**Farmer Brown** is the new Crusader in the seventh tier of the Hermit's Premature Party Event.

Farmer Brown was a very fine farmer. He watched over his fields, tending them with attentiveness, rotating fields every few years, rotating the crops in those fields, even reading them bedtime stories over the PA system. His vegetables were known as the best and biggest in the area and though other farmers asked for his secrets, they just couldn't implement them as well as he did.

That might have been because of the other secret to his success: magic!

Though one day, tragedy struck and Farmer Brown lost control of his combine, leading to an unfortunate accident. Thankfully, his beloved crops merged with his body and resurrected him. Though his community was a little wary around him now.

When you come across him in your travels and offer him the chance to join your motley crew, he accepts!

## Upgrades

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Fire Phoenix

This phoenix will object to almost everything and she is almost always right.

 Alan the ArchAngel

 Fright-o-Tron 4000

 Spaceking

 Euodia the Fencer

**Fire Phoenix** is the sixteenth Crusader available in game, and will gain fiery revenge when a Crusader is killed, dealing damage to the enemies on screen with *Vengeful Fury* and increasing the health of surviving Crusaders with *Heart of the Phoenix*.

**Reborn**

Available in Jeweled Chests or with a one-time token purchase from The Ruby Exchange, Phoenix can change her appearance.

(This is a cosmetic change only.)

**Prismic Phoenix**

From the Abyssal Chasms in Dungeons Season 4, a Magical Phoenix emerges from the mists.
This creates a single set of tag changes:

  Animal

  Angel

  Magical

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* Generally, Phoenix is used for the Vengeful Fury skill rather than her contribution to the formation. After all, combining its damage (after sacrificing a few crusaders) and a Magnified Firestorm can successfully kill off all normal monsters on screen and greatly weaken a boss monster.
* As of the January 20 update, the use of Phoenix now hints at sacrificing some relatively unimportant crusaders for the greater good.
	+ A possibility of utilising the new Phoenix would be to place your formation tank(s) at the second row instead of the first (provided that the important crusaders don't stand at the frontline). When the frontline crusaders die, the tank's durability will be increased and in addition, the enemies may be weakened by possible Firestorms.

### Boss Killer

**Fire Phoenix** is great as a high level boss killer.

This is designed for a Triangle, although it will work in a Diamond also with only slight modification.

For this to work, you need Fire Phoenix, Detective Kaine, King Reginald IV, Khouri, the Witch Doctor, The Bush Whacker and The Princess. The rest must be your DPS machines for optimum click damage.

Fire Phoenix must be at front, Khouri, the Witch Doctor, must be in the third column, whilst The Princess and Detective Kaine must be at the back. The remainder of the formation should be arranged to maximize The Bush Wacker's click damage.

After entering the boss stage, immediately activate Click-o-rama (Savage Strikes would be helpful too), then wait for the enemies to get near to Fire Phoenix. When she finally receives damage (watch the HP bar), activate King's Command, this will give the boss enough time to enter the screen; once he does, activate Magnify and then Fire Storm. This combo will deal 75% damage on normal enemies and around 50% on the boss.

This will not be enough to stop the high level wave though, and they will proceed to kill phoenix. When they do, her first ability will wipe the remaining enemies. If the boss manages to survive, Khouri, the Witch Doctor, will keep the second column alive until the boss finally dies.

* + With update 0.45 this strategy would need to be adjusted due to changes made to Fire Phoenix.

## References

1. ↑ Refers to a recurring item in the game series *Final Fantasy*.
First Lady Betty Smithsonian

She's been calling the shots all along.

 Chiyome

 Griz the Robo-Coach

 Biff the Magic Rabbit

 Zoraeban, Demonic Angel

**First Lady Betty Smithsonian** is the new Crusader in the third tier of the Alien Invasion Day Event. The First Lady is a badass human Crusader buffer. Nobody can motivate troops or empower Crusader behavior quite like her. The magnitude of her buff is increased by having certain tags in the formation.

At level 100, *Rally the Troops* increases the DPS of other humans next to the First Lady, and this bonus is increased by her other abilities (such as *Human Will*) for humans, females, and support Crusaders in the formation.

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First Lady Betty Smithsonian is a strong support crusader. Female humans (except Chiyome, because Chiyome share the same bench slot as Betty) profit most from her support.

She is best used if she is next (adjacent) to the main DPS crusader. If her watch becomes legendary (it then is no longer a ‘watch’ but a ‘timepiece’) she should be placed in the column behind the main DPS crusader.

Shenna the Centaur and her unique self buffs have a huge amount of synergy with First Lady Betty Smithsonian.

* Shenna's DPS receives a boost for every animal, human and female crusader in the formation.
* Betty's Buff Rally the Troops gets stronger for every human, female and support type crusader in the formation, whom it should be noted by definition probably comes with a DPS Buff as well.

If you fill in your formation with female human supporters then you'll be able to destroy any late game obstacle between you and your next completed objective, which it should be noted as crusaders in the third and fourth slots left to unlock would probably mean that you've already started to exhaust your primary DPS oriented crusader by the time you've unlocked them.

A list of crusaders that are simultaneously female, human and support (crusaders that share a bench slot will be listed together) keep in mind that for every crusader you have you'll get at least, not including any boosts the listed crusaders have and not including equipment, 25% X 75% boost from Sheanna's combined effects and a additional 25% X 25% X 25% boost from First Lady Betty Smithsonian:

* Pilot Pam
* Sasha the Fierce Warrior/Mindy the Mime
* The Princess
* Momma Kaine
* Red, the Ace Pilot
* Penny the Park Planner
* Queen Siri
* The Shadow Queen
* First Lady Betty Smithsonian
* Chef Casey

If you can arrange all of these crusaders in a way that applies their DPS boosts to Shenna, all the power to you.
Evil Eggs

**Evil Eggs** are mini-bosses in the identically named fourth objective of Tier 2 of Nate's Candy Conundrum easter event. They appear randomly throughout the objective, are damage capped and have different special abilities:

* Pink Evil Egg, max. 20% damage per second, ranged attacks: shoots eggs, that damage one of your frontline crusaders continuously for 20% of their max health per second
* Tentacle Evil Egg, max. 20% damage per second, heals all other monsters on screen for 10% of their max. health
* Cracking Evil Egg, max. 10% damage per second, disables DPS of one random crusader while on screen till 5 seconds after death
* Spiky Evil Egg, max. 10% damage per second, explodes on reaching formation killing one crusader instantly

Since all Eggs take some time to die, if you are unlucky with the spawns and get several Tentacle Evil Eggs at the same time, it might take much too long to kill them or be outright impossible (3+ Tentacle Eggs). A Splash damage source (Petra the Pilgrim, Merci, the Mad Wizard, potentially Karl the Kicker, or Splash Buff) is necessary to advance without wiping.

Arachnobuddy can also be useful, his Stick Webbing ability can keep the eggs from reaching your frontline of Crusaders.

To avoid having your single main DPS nullified by the blue eggs, you'll also need several chars who are leveled up to do damage.

If possible use Karen, the Cat Teenager's Nine Lives to tank the ranged attacks and suiciders. If not, you'll need to set up a Tank line with Healer.
Event Achievements

For the first two tiers of each event, there were six achievements added, each of which grants a permanent 1% DPS bonus. These event achievements followed a pattern; for the two event Crusaders, one achievement is awarded for unlocking them, and another for getting a piece of equipment in each of their slots. The remaining two achievements were for spending a specific amount of event tokens on starting objectives, and one special gameplay-related achievement that usually teaches how to use the new event crusaders in some way.

For Tier 3 and beyond, since only one Crusader was available to unlock, the other two achievements were awarded for completion of all the event's Objectives for that tier, and passing a certain amount of areas in that event's Free Play.

Here is the list of events and their achievements:

### The Yogscast Search For Simon

(Note: This event has been discontinued.)

## Trivia

* The "Recruit xxx" Achievements can only be earned during their respective event as they require the recruit objective to be completed. If the crusader is recruited via mission the respective objective will be marked as completed when the event starts and the achievement rewarded.
* Some of the other Event achievements can be earned at any time of the year, such as gearing up the recruited crusader through crafting.
* While the Search for Simon event is no longer occurring, the "Is It Murder or Suicide?" achievement can be earned in any Objective or Dungeon that uses the same storyline, such as the Making Waves Dungeon from The Crypt.
Fairy Tale

**Formation:** Emo's New Moon

**Description:** You'd best start believing in fairy tales, Crusaders. You're in one!

**Dates:**

2018 - Aug 28-30, Dec 11-13

2019 - Apr 16-18, Jul 23-25

2020 - Jan 21-23, May 26-28, Sep 22-24

2021 - Apr 20-22, Aug 24-26, Dec 28-30

2022 - Jun 21-23, Nov 29-Dec 1

2023 - Jun 13-15, Nov 21-23

**Conditions:** Only Royal Crusaders and Magic Crusaders may be used

***Valid Crusaders***
Futuretech

Kizlblyp, the Alien Traitor has a lead on some sweet loot that she might be able to use. He just needs a flux capacitor, a delorian, and some stolen ukrainian plutonium to go get it. Send along your most expendible Crusaders.

## Mission Details

### **Crusader TagsRequired**:

2  Male
5  Animal
2  Event
1  Royal
3  Support
2  Magical

### **Reward**:

Gear Upgrade for Kizlblyp, the Alien Traitor
Drosenthes

It seems like a plant, but... something's off.

 Wrena the Fair

 Deathpuddle

 Crooked Crow

 Gwendolyn, Daughter of Night

**Drosenthes** is the new Crusader in the fifth tier of the Gardeners of the Galaxy Event. Growing... consuming... Drosenthes has germinated in the beyond and brings with it a unique symbiotic relationship for the Crusaders in your formation.

*Slow Digestion* grants a charge for every 5 monsters killed, stacking up to 10. Once per second, if any Crusader is below 50% health, Slow Digestion consumes one stack to heal all Crusaders for 50% of their total health. This pairs with *Induced Bioluminescence*, which damages human and animal Crusaders for 10% of their maximum health each second while at the same time increasing Global DPS for every human and animal Crusader, stacking multiplicatively.

Drostenthes offers unique utility to your formation:

* *Endless Hunger* spawns an additional monsters based on the number of monsters killed and Drosenthes' equipment.
* *Patient Hunter* increases the drop rate of Quest Items.
* *Cosmic Botany* increases the DPS from Induced Bioluminescence for each Flora Crusader in the formation.
* *Entomophage* helps your formation to grow, boosting Global DPS.

**The Mischievous**

In Gardeners of the Galaxy 2021, Drosenthes goes emo.
This creates a single set of tag changes:

  Flora

  Elf

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Gold Standard

**Formation:** Princess' Pool Party

**Description:** Laugh all the way to the bank with only your most profitable Crusaders

**Dates:**

2018 - Sep 11-13, Oct 23-25, Nov 27-29

2019 - Mar 5-7, Jun 25-27, Oct 15-17

2020 - Mar 24-26, Jul 28-30, Nov 17-19

2021 - Mar 9-11, Jul 13-15, Dec 7-9

2022 - Jun 14-16, Dec 6-8

2023 - May 16-18, Oct 31-Nov 2

**Conditions:** Only Gold Finder Crusaders may be used

***Valid Crusaders***
Frosty the Snowman (Companion)

The companion version of **Frosty the Snowman** is in the first second of the The Nate Before Christmas event, *Recruit Frosty the Snowman*. He occupies the center of the third column of the formation and has the debuff "Blue Christmas", which reduces the Base DPS of adjacent Crusaders by 20% and occasionally freezes a random adjacent crusader reducing their DPS to 0. However, their buffs and abilities are still active while frozen.
Gold-o-rama

Gold-o-rama is an ability of Gold Panda gained at the fifth upgrade, RoboSanta gained at the third upgrade, Leerion, the Royal Dwarf gained at the fifth upgrade, or The Goldhound gained at the second upgrade. Katie the Cupid does not have an upgrade to unlock this ability, despite being in the same bench slot as the others.

Lasting for 30 seconds, Gold-o-rama gains 5% of gold from an enemy with each click; thereafter a 30 minute cooldown is required before reuse. Certain trinkets can cut down the cooldown time.

Gold-o-rama is only available if Gold Panda, RoboSanta, Leerion or the Goldhound is present in the current formation. The effect does continue even if the crusader is removed or replaced in the formation, though usually the gold find bonuses from the crusader are desirable to have with the effect.

## Equipment

Gold Panda has gear that increases the effect of Gold-o-rama.
Foresight

My body is Synthetic, but my DPS is real

 Khouri, the Witch Doctor

 Momma Kaine

 Brogon, Prince of Dragons

 The Half-Blood Elf

**Foresight** is one of the unlockable characters that arrived with the second year of the event Superhero Spring.

Foresight is a new lifeform created by melding the power of an Unlimited Stone, one of the greatest sources of power in the Crusader universe, and an indestructible material called Reverbrium.

At level 100, Foresight unlocks *Playing Favorites*, an ability that heals individual targets for 20% of max health per second. It heals humans if more humans are adjacent to Foresight than non-humans, or it will heal non-humans if more non-humans are adjacent to Foresight. In the end, if there are an equal number of humans and non-humans it doesn't heal anyone. At level 400 Foresight's Supernatural ability increases Supernatural Crusaders' DPS +50%.

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Grandmora

Still a hatchling at heart.

 The Washed Up Hermit

 Kyle the Party Bro

 Serpent King Draco

 Henry, the Scaredy-Ghoul

The return of Gardeners of the Galaxy in 2017 introduced Grandmora and Spaceking on Tier 2 of the event.

Grandmora is the aging grandmother of intergalactic being, Thermos. She's an expert in knitting warm, ugly clothes and her insistence on feeding the other Crusaders makes her an ideal support Crusader.

Grandmora can swap with The Washed Up Hermit, Kyle the Party Bro, Serpent King Draco, and Henry, the Scaredy-Ghoul. As such, she cannot be used in the formation with these crusaders at the same time.

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Grandmora's special abilities are Still Suspicious and Untrusting. Still Suspicious can increase DPS of crusaders in row in front of her up to 200% and can reach 300% with Old Habits. That is more than boost from Roar (Artaxes, the Lion) (effects from gears excluded). Even better, the cost to buy Still Suspicious is 160M while Roar is 400M, which makes the former cheaper and earlier to get than the latter

However this only works if there were none or only single crusader behind her. Therefore, the best way to maximize her boost is by putting her at back row or at least in a row where row behind it only has one slot

Examples to maximize Still Suspicious:

* Grandmora at back row in Normal formation (World's Wake) with main DPS in second row
* Grandmora at second row in Diamond formation (Descent into Darkness) with main DPS in center row
* Grandmora at third row in Dustpan formation (Mischief at Mugwarts) with main DPS in forth row

Alternatively, if Grandmora has to be placed in row with 2 or more crusaders in row behind her, remove the former leaving only one crusader behind her

Untrusting can increase DPS of crusaders in row behind her 50% times number of crusaders in row in front of her. This can be maximized by placing her in row behind row with 3 or 4 crusaders in it. Just like Still Suspicious, the boost can be upraged to 75% per crusader with Old Habits. That's bigger boost compared to Sasha's Bulwark which boosts 30% (effects from gears excluded)

If Grandmora can't maximize her Still Suspicious, then maximize Untrusting instead to boost main DPS

Examples to maximize Untrusting:

* Grandmora at fourth row in Box formation (Captain Ghostbeard's Greed) with main DPS in center row
* Grandmora at center row in Invader formation (Ready Player Two) with main DPS in second row

Special note: Both Still Suspicious and Untrusting only consider crusaders not escorts

## References

Just like other crusaders in Gardeners of the Galaxy , Grandmora is a parody of Marvel character : Gamora
Gold Panda/Strategies

* With 4 skills and an item that boost gold bonus? Yes please! Panda is definitely a must-have in your formation! Don't have room for her? Make room for her then!
	+ Having said that, do not go on idling in the Lone Descent objective with Panda. Since Panda has hardly any skills that boost her base dps apart from the level 200 bonus, your main damage-dealers will most likely outdamage her a great deal and hence you may progress further in and idle at a place where Panda could not handle the monsters.
	+ Panda is, however, a recommended crusader to accompany your main damage-dealer in the Dual Descent objective since it maximizes the dps-gold bonus product value, maximizing gold reward from idling.
Gemthel the Gourmet

The palate of a generation.

 Sarah, the Collector

 The Metal Soldierette

 Snickette the Sneaky

 Sjin the Builder

**Gemthel the Gourmet** is the new Crusader in the fifth tier of the Kaines' Dinner of Doom Event. Gemthel brings additional support and healing to Slot 13. She uses *Rock Sirloin* to boost Global DPS, she shields Crusaders with *Well Fed*, and her *Norog Spice* adds increased potency to the formation, increasing the chance that Crusaders' chance-based abilities activate by 5%.

As you level Gemthel, you unlock additional Global DPS with *Pheasant Under Glass*, and projectile attacks to Crusaders in her column with *Food Fight!*. Make no mistake, this Royal Dwarven Lady is here to liven up your Dinner of Doom!

**Kitchen Nightmare**

In Kaine's Dinner of Doom 2020, Gemthel can become an demon. This creates a single set of tag changes:

  Demon

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Gemthel is not a speed crusader, and she does not direct affect the spawn speed or drop rates/odds. However, *Norog Spice* increases the power of the Double drop/kill abilities, so like Mindy she may be useful when used with speed Crusaders.
Fright-o-Tron 4000/Strategies

Fright-o-Tron 4000 brings a bunch of buffs for your formation. She is a Princess-level group buffer, with additional damage abilities.

* Her signature ability is Remote Detonation, a quite useful ability if you tend to play tanky. It's not likely to help much while autokilling, but if you have a mob ganging up on your front line, an explosion can help clear them out.
* She has three group-buffing abilities, The Architect (+25% DPS to all), Frightening Circuits (+15% DPS to all), and Oogy-Boogy (-10% health to monsters). The last one is of special note. No other crusader debuffs monsters like this. While most of the time, this is more or less the same as +10% DPS, there are some objectives where this is much more useful.
	+ Enemies that are damage-capped (like the witches in Breadcrumbs), or enemies that heal (like the healers in Wowza!)
	+ Unlike the Princesses' (or even Fright's other buffs) party boosts, Oogy-Boogy counts as a formation buff, meaning Mindy the Mime can copy it.