CHANGES TO THE FORGE OF DAITH
We’ve heard your feedback on the Forge, and have implemented a preliminary set of changes to deal with the most prominent gameplay issues:
Items will now revert back to their previous upgrade level after Reforging expires, rather than their base level
The ‘Naestra leaves’ option that appears when Daith offers to reforge a completed item with now reduce the timer until the next new item is offered by 2 turns
In addition, we’ve done a balance pass on all the items offered by the Forge. All items have had their stats tweaked, and Reforged items will now be significantly stronger, so they are viable choices in comparison to permanent upgrades.
These are not the final changes for the Forge. We’re currently working on various UI improvements that we’re hoping to get to you early next year.
CHANGES TO OFFICES
With the Wood Elf offices, we generally sought to avoid too many factionwide effects as these tend to promote recruiting Lords purely to fill a slot, then disbanding them. While this is appropriate for some factions – such as the Empire, where filling the Elector Count seats is the goal of the campaign – for Wood Elves we wanted to focus on offices as a tool for customising Lords and enabling alternative strategies and playstyles.
In this context, Durthu’s offices were meant to complement a more defensive playstyle where your Treemen lords would passively buff their local region while defending it, whereas Orion’s were designed to promote a more ‘spiky’ playstyle focused on expansion and contraction, with multiple armies running alongside each other to maximise bonuses.
In retrospect, the effects were probably not strong enough to have the desired effect. As such we have added adding the following:
ORION
Master of Scouts and Herald of the Hunt: +30% income from raiding to local forces
Master of Drums and Master of Supplies: +25% income from post-battle loot to local forces
Talon of Kurnous, Spirit of the Hunt, and Master of the Hunt: +15% razing income to local forces
Like other effects, these are doubled in strength during Wild Hunts. If several Lords with the same effect are in the same region, the effects will stack
DURTHU
All non-faction-leader Office slots provide -20% upkeep for all units while in owned territory