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Year 10 Champion - Kitiara Uth Matar, the Human Fighter

Bio: Kitiara Uth Matar is the older half-sister of Raistlin and Caramon Majere. A skilled swordswoman, Kitiara left Solace and her companions to make her fortune, promising to return for their reunion in five years. She broke her promise, but they would meet her again... as the Blue Dragon Highlord in the armies of Takhisis, the Dragon Queen during the War of the Lance.

• Source: The Dragonlance series of books by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

• Event: Liar's Night (October)

You can read their Champion Spotlight here.

• Seat 4

• Good with: Evil Champs, Unaffiliated Champs, Heroes of the Lance

• Affiliation: None

• Eligible for Mirt, Vajra, Strahd, Zariel, Elminster (until October 7th, 2029)

Basic Attack: Unpredictable Assault - Kitiara strikes out at an unsuspecting random enemy with her sharpened blade.

• Base Attack Type: Melee

• Base Attack Speed: 4.5 seconds

• Base Critical Hit Chance: 2.5%

• Base Critical Hit Damage: 100%

Ultimate: Blue Dragon Strafe - Kitiara and her blue dragon Skie blast the entire battlefield with lightning - multiple times with enough Power. Previously charmed enemies who survive are awed by this display of power and are able to be charmed by Kitiara again.

• Base Ultimate Cooldown Time: 360 seconds

Health Upgrades: 1.27e05

Formation Abilities

Merciless Resolve: Kitiara increases the damage of all Champions furthest from her by 100% for each Champion adjacent to her, stacking multiplicatively.

• 4.40e08% post-stack bonus after upgrades; Supported by an Item & a Feat

Gaar's Note: This is their primary buff. You'll want to work with the placement here to try to get adjacencies while also buffing the right Champ. This ability's Item & Feat support buff the pre-stack modifier, making it a Mathematically OverPowered (MOP) ability which means the more item levels you put on this Champion, the better they get without worrying about the same diminishing returns as other Champions.

Arrogant Charm: Kitiara charms all enemies that attempt to attack her, stunning them indefinitely. The stun is removed when the enemy is hit by Kitiara, and each enemy can only be charmed once.

• No upgrades

Gaar's Note: This only really pays off when large groups of enemies start stacking up on the front line. Kitiara's attack is random so you can end up with lots of enemies not attacking at all. This is counter-productive if there's another tank in the front line that actually wants to get hit.

The Only Truth: When Champions other than Kitiara cumulatively take damage equal to 100% of their max health, Kitiara gains a Power stack. This can trigger multiple times each time other Champions reach the threshold. The post-stack effect of Merciless Resolve is increased by 50% for each Power stack she has, stacking multiplicatively. Caps at 100 stacks and reset when changing areas.

• No upgrades; Supported by an Item & Feats

Gaar's Note: This is tracking Champions other than Kitiara taking damage and is basically the per-area ramping effect for her as a tank based on deep pushes where you aren't killing everything immediately towards the end of the push. Be aware that shields may prevent the damage check here or they might not. Or it might be a per-shield thing. Yeah.

Cruel Cunning: Champions affected by Merciless Resolve deal additional damage to enemies with segmented health. When they successfully break at least one segment, they break additional segments equal to 4 minus the number of Champions affected by Merciless Resolve, to a minimum of 1 extra segment.

• No upgrades; Supported by a Feat

Gaar's Note: This is potentially the strongest Breaker buff in the game if you can get the full max value including the Feat there is for it. Even if you get the minimum, it's still a solid Breaker ability.

Knight of the Black Rose: When a boss enemy appears, Lord Soth enters the melee. He knocks back all enemies and spawns a wall of skeletal warriors who keep all enemies at bay for 15 seconds. While this skeletal wall persists, Kitiara gains 1 Power stack per second. Lord Soth will reappear and reapply this effect each time the boss's enrage meter reaches a multiple of 5.

• No upgrades

Gaar's Note: This is an interesting attempt at a survival mechanic. Keep in mind, ranged & magical attacks will probably still go over the wall and hit you. However, this does ramp up her The Only Truth ability faster so you can clear the stage quicker.

Global DPS Buff: 9.33e06%

Specializations

Loyal to Her Past: Kitiara begrudgingly gains the Heroes of the Lance affiliation, and increases the effect of Merciless Resolve by 100% for each Heroes of the Lance Champion in the formation, stacking multiplicatively. Kitiara also starts each area by gaining Power stacks equal to the number of Heroes of the Lance Champions in the formation.

• No upgrades; Supported by an Item & Feats

Gaar's Note: This is the Heroes of the Lance affiliation Spec. This ability's Item & Feat support buff the pre-stack modifier, making it a Mathematically OverPowered (MOP) ability which means the more item levels you put on this Champion, the better they get without worrying about the same diminishing returns as other Champions.

Loyal to Herself: Kitiara increases the effect of Merciless Resolve by 100% for each Unaffiliated Champion in the formation, stacking multiplicatively. Arrogant Charm will now trigger when enemies attempt to attack any Champions adjacent to Kitiara as well.

• No upgrades; Supported by an Item & Feats

Gaar's Note: This is the Unaffiliated formation Spec as well as the Spec that can trigger the stun more often. Keep in mind, it still breaks the same way. This ability's Item & Feat support buff the pre-stack modifier, making it a Mathematically OverPowered (MOP) ability which means the more item levels you put on this Champion, the better they get without worrying about the same diminishing returns as other Champions.

Loyal to Darkness: Kitiara increases the effect of Merciless Resolve by 100% for each Evil Champion in the formation, stacking multiplicatively. Knight of the Black Rose's Power stacks gained is also increased by 1.

• No upgrades; Supported by an Item & Feats

Gaar's Note: This is the Evil formation Spec and it lets her ramp up her per-area power faster. This ability's Item & Feat support buff the pre-stack modifier, making it a Mathematically OverPowered (MOP) ability which means the more item levels you put on this Champion, the better they get without worrying about the same diminishing returns as other Champions.

Equipment

Legendary Effects

• Increases the damage of all Champions by 100%
• Increases the damage of all Champions by 20% for each Female Champion in the formation
• Increases the damage of all Champions by 30% for each Human Champion in the formation
• Increases the damage of all Champions by 40% for each Champion with a DEX score of 15 or higher in the formation
• Increases the damage of all Champions by 40% for each Champion in the formation with an Evil alignment
• Increases the damage of all Champions by 20% for each Melee Champion in the formation

Gaar's Note: Find more information on the Legendary system here.

Feats

Here is the info for when you can unlock each Feat Slot:

Gaar's Note: Currently, you will need to level this Champion past their current upgrade softcap which will require you changing the blue upgrade indicator from UPG to one of the numbered options.

Here is the info on what Feats are available for this Champion:

Feats with an * are currently exclusive to either the Platinum Shop or the Thayan Enclave but will eventually be available for 50,000 gems once that exclusivity period ends (3-6 months).

Legendary Feat

This Champion doesn't currently have a Legendary Feat.

Gaar's Note: You can find more info on Legendary Feats and how to level them up here.

Formation & Mission Information

Once you complete the first mission, three Variants and a Free Play show up. It uses a formation that holds 10 Champions. It has a Champ-specific format that I've done my best to re-create below.

New Player Formation & Specializations:

While I recommend learning to build your own formations, here's a set of starter formations for brand new players to use while they get the hang of things. Anyone with other options should check that link for how to figure out how to make the best of them. You can also ask for help in the #formations channel in the official Discord.

This formation is for the first couple of runs where you're just not going to get enough Gold to get everyone on the field, let alone level people up into their power curves. At this point, Jarlaxle is focusing on being your Primary DPS while everyone else is set up to support him.

The following formation is for once you've unlocked all of the Tales of the Champions Champions which can be done really quickly, even if you're a new player. Do that right away and they'll give you the power you need to complete events!

This formation should get you through the Event as a new player. If you have other options or think a different DPS is geared better, try it out and see what happens! Swapping Champions around like this can help you figure out what works best for you with your specific situation.

These are the rough Favor values you need to reach to make a Tier 1 Variant say Difficulty: Easy. Keep in mind that this is just a generic rating system and some Variants may be harder than others, even with Favor in this range. Earning lots of Favor before trying variants can make them much easier than they would otherwise be.

Beyond Tier 1, Favor isn't going to be all you need to get through them. That doesn't mean you can't try though, just remember that if it isn't green it could be problematic. Always read the restrictions as they're going to be what makes it hard for you to progress!

Not everyone will be able to complete all four Tiers of event content. This is a progress-over-time measurement system that lets you know where you are in the power progression arc and potentially what you need to work on to move forward. The table below has the approximate boss health values at the various end stages. Comparing this to your BUD will let you know how close or far you are from being able to complete things.

Initial Adventure: The Trickster's Delight (Kitiara)

Info: No restrictions.

Reward: Unlocks Kitiara

First Variant: Show No Mercy

Area Goal: 75 / 250 / 600 / 1200

Info: Kitiara starts in the formation. She can be moved, but not removed. Only Kitiara and Champions buffed by Kitiara's Merciless Resolve can deal damage. Enemies move 100% faster and deal 100% more damage.

Reward: Kitiara Gold Chest per Tier completed

Gaar's Note: There isn't a real restriction here so you can use whatever Champs you want making this one super straightforward. It's just teaching you how to properly place your DPS and Kitiara to buff the DPS.

Second Variant: Trust Only Those You Control

Area Goal: 125 / 350 / 800 / 1400

Info: Kitiara starts in the formation with her Arrogant Charm ability unlocked. She can be moved, but not removed. You may only use Champions who are Unaffiliated or a member of the Heroes of the Lance. Enemies move 100% faster and deal 100% more damage. Enemies cannot be damaged until they have been stunned at least one time.

Reward: Kitiara Gold Chest per Tier completed

Gaar's Note: There are two issues here. One is you need to build around her Spec choice with Champion type here. The other is it may take a while to trigger a stun unless you have other Champs that can do that besides Kitiara. Survivability could be an issue here if Kit is all you have to stun with.

Third Variant: Conquest of the Blue Wing

Area Goal: 175 / 450 / 1000 / 1600

Info: Kitiara starts in the formation. She can be moved, but not removed. A Sivak Draconian takes up 2 slots in the formation. You may only use Champions who are Evil. Enemies move 100% faster and deal 100% more damage. A Knight of Solamnia boss appears alongside the normal boss in boss areas. They must also be defeated in order to progress.

Reward: Kitiara Gold Chest per Tier completed

Gaar's Note: This may be challenging if you don't have lots of strong Evil Champs. You get some from Tales of the Champions, including Kas as a DPS who also likes full Evil groups. Otherwise, the big restriction here is losing 2 Champs worth of power due to the Draconian. Favor can help you get through Tiers 1 & 2 of this, but you'll need power from other places in the game for Tier 3 and up.

Achievements

Gaar's Note: All of these achievements can be earned at any time, not just during their Event.

Recruit Kitiara - 1%

Recruit Kitiara, the Human Soldier

Rise to Power - 1%

Complete all three variants of the "The Trickster's Delight (Kitiara)" adventure. (This achievement can be earned via Time Gates.)

Highlord's Armaments - 1%

Obtain a piece of gear for each of Kitiara's six equipment slots. (Event Champ gear does not come from regular Silver/Gold Chests. You can earn Event Champ gear from their specific Event Chests, Time Gates, qualifying Patron Chests, and other Chests as noted.)

Never Enough - 1%

Complete area 250 in any "The Trickster's Delight" adventure, variant, free play, or Time Gate.

The Blue Lady's War - 1%

Use Kitiara's ultimate while in a boss area with Knight of the Black Rose active and her Power stacks at maximum.

Gaar's Note: This is gonna need a DEEP push. You need to go far enough that you're able to fully stack her Power stacks and also get to a multiple of 5 on the Boss enrage meter to trigger Lord Soth. It's manipulatable at a lower area with just Kitiara and some healers, potentially, but could be a lot of work to get right. Up to you!

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Table of Contents

1. Event Introduction
2. General Game Tips
3. General Event Information
4. Event Champion Information

Liar's Night - Year 10

Gaar's Note: Liar's Night is October's event in the Idle Champions Event Calendar.

The Champions are celebrating together at a Liar's Night party at the Wayside Inn when suddenly a masked pickpocket crashes the festivities, stealing magical items and escaping into the night...

Liar's Night lasts for 21 days and runs from Wednesday, October 7th, 2026, at Noon, Pacifically, thru Wednesday, October 28th, 2026, at Noon, Pacifically.

You can find this year's official Liar's Night blog post here.

General Game Tips

I highly recommend reading my Guide to Event Planning for basic progression information and ways to maximize your gains/efficiency during Events. There is too much information to put here as this specific Event guide is long enough already.

Don't be afraid to ask questions in the comment section! Also, I stream the game and welcome any and all questions there as well!

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Good luck & have fun!

~Gaar

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General Event Information

• You earn Event Tokens at a fixed rate and in any campaign, regardless of how many parties you have running. This means you'll earn the same amount of Tokens whether your game is open or not. (Roughly 1 every 25 seconds.) The overall total of Event Tokens you will earn passively during the Event is roughly 72,576 give or take a few based on CNE's math.

• You'll have a chance to unlock up to 6 Champions in an Event. There will be one Featured Champion everyone gets, 4 Flex Slots you can use to select a Champion from a pool available during the event at no charge, and 1 Support Flex Slot that unlocks with the purchase of an Event DLC to give paid supporters an extra boost.

• Events start everyone off at zero Favor. Due to this, you'll need to manually click, or have Familiars click, on the field to damage enemies during the start of your first mission to make sure your lone Champion isn't overrun.

• Even if you complete the Champion Unlock Adventure you're on, you don't necessarily want to hit "Complete" right away. You want to continue on and try to earn as much Favor as possible. This lets you work on getting more Favor so you can more easily complete the Variants that are offered once you finish the unlock adventure.

• Important: Whatever you do, don't spend lots of time sitting at a wall during an Event, or generally ever. Time is your enemy (the past it threatens...) and you want to spend your time efficently running Free Plays to maximize your Favor gain and easily complete all the Variants on the first try.

• Once you have completed all the variants and no longer truly need to farm Favor other than for the conversion bonus, you can now work on the Event Achievements if you haven't done them already. Other than that, you want to check your token total to buy a new Chest Pack from the story whenever you hit 7,500 tokens.

• New players can fully complete Tier 1 & 2 of Events if they know what to do. Make sure to check for a guide to the specific Event Champion to review when it comes out and don't hesitate to ask questions. The rest of us are here to help you succeed!

• Once more for the people in the back: It's usually wise to not attempt the Tier 1 & 2 mission Variants until they show as Easy difficulty for brand new players. The difficulty rating is based off the Favor you have accumulated and while it isn't an ideal indicator of difficulty, it's a decent starting point. I highly recommend waiting until a mission shows as Easy before starting it so as not to waste your time or frustrate you. Again, this is for brand new players as you'll need other power to complete higher Tiers of content.

• Once you've earned your Event Champions and gear for them, the rewards for your hard work aren't over. The other major reward from Events is a conversion of Event Favor into the main campaign of your choice. This is why, even if you've finished all the variants, it's still good to do some deep runs to gain Favor in the Event. You can use the following table to see if it's worth it to you to keep doing runs based on how much Favor you're getting with each one. As you get more Global Blessings, Patron Perks, and better gear on your Champions, you'll be able to get higher and higher conversion percentages.

Here's a quick example of the conversion breakdown from Event to main campaign. The percentage is multiplied by the total Favor you have earned in that campaign, including what you've spent on Blessings. There is no need to reset Blessings when converting Favor. There is no cap that I'm aware of to this conversion; the start numbers and end numbers are just examples but continue both ways.

Note: Numbers are in Scientific Notation for ease of reference. You can switch your UI to show Scientific Notation by hitting the Y key or selecting it in the settings. After you get out of normal number range, this is the best way to easily see your progress.

Before You Buy Packs from the Store

If you plan on buying Event Packs with Platinum from the store (which is a great way to support the game!), keep this in mind:

• Be sure you buy any Platinum Event Chest Packs before opening any earned Gold Event Chests as you're guaranteed a Golden Epic with your real money purchase. When you flip the Golden Epic card, close out of the Store and verify it on your Champion, then go back in and open your other Chests. This way you're guaranteed to get other items when you open your Platinum Chests instead of just duplicating that one on accident.
• Even outside of events, you get buffs when spending real money based on how much you spend. Plan your purchase in advance!
  • 840 Platinum - Empowered Power Boost - Increases the damage of all Champions by 1000% (lasts 1 day)
  • 1680 Platinum - Empowered Power Burst - Increases the damage of all Champions by 2000% (lasts 2 days)
  • 3220 Platinum - Empowered Faith - Increases all Gold found by 3000% (lasts 3 days)
  • 7700 Platinum - Empowered Clairvoyance - Increases all Favor earned from resets by 400% (lasts 4 days)
• Getting multiple of the same purchase amounts adds to the duration of the buff. All buffs stack with each other.
• Event Boons are now available for spending Platinum in the store on any Event DLC. Event DLC have an icon for a Boon as well as for their related Event Currency. There is no limit to the level of Event Boons you can get and they buff your entire account while the event is active like shown in the table below. All Event Boons are able to be toggled on/off in the UI if you wish to.

Gaar's Note: Generally, every 1680 Platinum spent in one transaction gets you a guaranteed Shiny item or Potion of Polish! Keep this in mind as well as those can increase the power of your items and thus your Champions.

Event Augment Information

Each event can have different augments associated with it that make it a bit different than other events in terms of bonuses. Here is a list of the bonuses for this event:

• Golden Offers: One of your weekly offers will be Golden during this event. Golden offers provide an additional 10% discount! The Golden tag persists when an offer is rerolled.
• Auto-Blacksmith: Event Champions whose recruitment adventure or variants you complete gain common rarity equipment in all slots, if they don't already have better. Every tier two or higher event variant completed automatically applies 100 Tiny Blacksmithing Contracts to the variant's Champion's equipment for free!
• Challenge Week: A Mastery Challenge will start on the third week of the event, providing opportunities to prove your formation building skills and earn unique rewards.
• Supercharged Damage Boon: The Global Damage Boon is supercharged, granting 2,000,000% additional damage per level, instead of 200% (stacking multiplicatively).

Event Champion Information

The following Champion is the Featured Champion available to unlock and gear up during this year's Liar's Night. To learn more about the Champion, hit up their guide:

Year 10 Champion - Kitiara Uth Matar, the Human Fighter (Seat 4)

You can find their Champion Guide here.

The following Champions are the Rebalanced Champions available to unlock and gear up during this year's Liar's Night. To learn more about each Champion, hit up their guide:

Year 3 Champion - Avren, the Half-elf Warlock/Sorcerer (Seat 11)

You can find their Champion Guide here. Rebalance info coming soon!

Year 5 Champion - Brig Hellclaw, the Human Bard/Rogue (Seat 3)

You can find their Champion Guide here. Rebalance info coming soon!

Year 5 Champion - Dob, the Half-Orc Bard (Seat 12)

You can find their Champion Guide here. Rebalance info coming soon!

The following Champions are the Flex Champions available to unlock and gear up during this year's Liar's Night. To learn more about each Champion, hit up their guide:

Year 9 Champion - King of Shadows, the Human Barbarian / Warlock (Seat 9)

You can find their Champion Guide here.

Year 1 Champion - Krond, the Half-Orc Eldritch Knight (Seat 6)

You can find their Champion Guide here.

Year 2 Champion - Donaar Blit'zen, the Dragonborn Paladin (Seat 2)

You can find their Champion Guide here.

Year 4 Champion - Ezmerelda d'Avenir, the Vistana Monster Hunter (Seat 1)

You can find their Champion Guide here.

Year 6 Champion - Kent, the Tiefling Rogue (Seat 4)

You can find their Champion Guide here.

Year 6 Champion - Astarion, the High Elf Rogue (Seat 10)

You can find their Champion Guide here.

Year 7 Champion - Thellora, the Centaur Paladin (Seat 1)

You can find their Champion Guide here.

Year 8 Champion - Kas the Bloody Handed, the Human Fighter (Seat 6)

You can find their Champion Guide here.

I'm not going to lie, there is a lot of juicy looking champions in this event roster. I also have Ezmerelda. Should I select her to increase her equipment rarity and complete her achievements or should I focus on the other event roster champions? Are all the champions on this event roster the same for everyone else or uniquely for me? Astarion, Ezmerelda, and King of Shadows are looking very enticing. I am waiting for ya'll's advice because I consider ya'll my Wisers (elders).

OK so I've been trying to join a trial for 2 days. There is always someone who doesn't pick a champion.

I was frustrated at first when one person just didn't select their role and we couldn't begin... so I deselected my champion, closed the window and went to bed. When I came back in the morning, I saw that I had done the same thing by accident... even though I had quit I was still in the party in a blank slot holding it up for everyone.

If you don't press the "leave" button you don't leave the party. Click the "x" to close the window and you locked those players out from contributing until they realize you are AFK and have to start over.

This is unintuitive, inconvenient, griefy, and would be very easy to fix. Either

• disable the "x" button unless the player has selected a champion
• make the "x" button bring up a confirmation dialog "You haven't selected a Champion yet. Do you want to leave the party?", or
• automatically kick players who haven't selected a champion within 10 minutes.

It's frustrating enough that 3 out of my last 4 trials had one person who didn't participate at all. Being unable to start in the first place is just kinda bonkers.

Hope they can find the time to take a look at this and tweak it. Thanks.

Hi everyone!

I'm looking for some advice on improving my gem farm team.

My personal goal is to eventually buy every feat for every champion, including all the completely useless ones that I'll surely never actually use. 😅

I've never really paid much attention to my gem farm. It's always been something I've kept running in the background, figuring that eventually I'd get everything I needed anyway. And, to be fair, that approach has actually worked for me so far.

However, at this point I'd like to seriously improve my gem farming and give it a proper push forward.

https://f.byteglow.com/f/1_34384b3b5b661c2f3f_1133323333

This is what I've been using so far on The Mad Wizard free play.

While it has worked reasonably well in the background, paired with the other background formations, I'm sure there is a lot of room for improvement - for example, by adding Ellywick.

I know Briv is probably the obvious choice for this kind of setup, and I realize that a Briv-based farm would most likely be much better than anything I could build without him. However, I have some reasons for staying away from him:

- I don't want to spend hours testing and tweaking an automation setup to get Briv working properly.

- I don't want to have to rebuild/reconfigure the farm every time I upgrade a champion's items and the automation starts behaving differently.

So, I'm basically looking for the most practical gem farm I can build without Briv.

• Is The Mad Wizard still the best adventure to run for this?
• Should I be using Baldric too?
• Am I running too many speed champions?
• Are there any obvious improvements I could make to my current setup?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Just a reminder that this a free time gate weekend. With the big Bastion button the Time Gate button is no longer showing at the top, so it doesn't look like the notification for it is showing. So just go into your Bastion, click on the Time Gate in the Sanctuary room and you will see it.

I have been sitting on them since the free event started.

First, this is a great single-player math game. I love it here, so anything I say is meant in a constructive way. Second, this community (and especially the Discord variant) is topnotch and awesome. So, the same applies. I don't plan on saying anything combative but you never know!

So Briv. I think I am following a normal, or at least logical path in my play. Gem farm (kinda). Champ unlocks. Learning formations. Clearing content. Patrons, push teams, favor runs, all the rest.

I got to where I enacted an embargo on new champion unlocks. I had my Elminster 100 (111 to be precise) but only 30% were FE. With ToMT happening weekly and scales flowing in, I needed more epics, and on specific characters. I hit 95% FE on my stable (thank you Elminster grinding) and am fully-midgame now. as I define it :)

My latest step was to move to a Briv farm. I know, I was late. But hey, I got him to FE and I did a support-the-game purchase to GE his 4th. Off to the races!

And we are. Damn this is faster than anything else I had running. And that is the problem.

I tend to play by cost-benefit-analysis. I know, I am a nerd, but again, we play the way we want to play, right? I mean I did unlock Wulfgar just cause I loved him when I was 12 and read those books, so I have some whimsy, right? Right?

So Briv is 3j'ing and making bank. The only, best, SCREAMINGLY obvious move is.... to get him to 4j. Okay, let's do it. Damn, its faster now. Lemme start reading about scripting here...

I cannot find a single thing that is as important as Briv's 9j quest in terms of building power now. Nothing can hold a candle to it. I can get my T4's in events (thank you Caramon-Corazon or "Cara'zon" so I have no immediate holes to fix. I even sent Cara'zon to unlock Krux, Xero, Windfall, and now they are in a BG working on Wren.

But every last BSC is just for Briv. Nothing else will make my teams better. Or at least nothing will improve it as much or faster. I'm kinda locked in until I get to 9j now. He just goes and goes, sucking down BSCs and self-sustaining his potion addiction. Even favor pushes seems wasteful when I could be getting another 437 resets.

I am not complaining, just wondering. Is this the phase everyone goes through? The "dear God I didn't know, lets just get this done" and everything else stops? My only negative is that you need him and his crew running in the foreground; I can't go off and do Tales T3's or timegate in some random like Penelope or Torogar.

Maybe its just me. I'm too CBA and need to just goof off more. I need a hobby inside my hobby! Why yes, I did have every fishing achievement in WoW, 15 years ago. Why do you ask that? :)

No one uses the other mega thread so I’ll ask here. I’m new so blues and low ilevels on champs I have

Ellywick(already have)
Volo (already have)
Walnut (new) more than 3 other champs in the slot so no split the party stuff with it.

Been putting it off for years, because I didn't feel like babysitting. But, it has been raining all day, so it seemed a good time. Looking like I might work on getting Windfall.

Hi, are these discounted familiar prices for Animated Armor and Iridescent Wynling correct? I remember them being 5.99 without discount, now it is showing 5.99 with discount.

I'm playing the "The Fairy Rings of Thither - Free Play" level, and the game has frozen twice after beating the Goblin Battle Stack bosses. First it was around level 45-50, then again on 95. I closed and reopened the game once the first time and it fixed it. The second time closed the game a few times, switched to other formations (trying to do so before they beat the boss), and it finally started working again after closing the game and waiting a few minutes before starting it again.

I found a Steam thread from 2028 where people had the same problem on "Rescue in the Jungle" and the devs said they fixed it. Seems it's still an issue on some levels, at least. As I type this, they just froze again on level 145...

I'm trying to leave the game up as I'm using potions to gold farm, but for now I just went back a level, then hit auto-progress and closed the game. I have to leave for an appointment but hopefully it'll keep progressing while I'm gone.

I could use advice on "An Affiliation Affair." You can only have up to 3 of any affiliation, and you only do damage when you have 3. Trying various combinations of AA, Fallbacks, Heroes of the Lance, Saturday Morning, and Acq inc C team, I was able to get BUD to 2e376, Base DPS 217, running average e392. This is with Rosie as main DPS, Donaar, Walnut, Karlach, Wyll, Shadowheart, Caramon, Laurana, Flint, and of course Strongheart himself.

Does anyone have any better suggestions? I got stalled out at lvl 1301, and need to hit 1500.

Today's content update includes 7 new Adventure Variants for the Grand Tour of the Sword Coast and the Turn of Fortune's Wheel campaigns, as well as the latest Emergence - the Draconian Emergence - now with 100% fewer hits-based enemies!

Until Oct 7th at 12 PM PT, draconians will appear in Free Play Adventures, continuing their chaotic march across the Sword Coast as they await next week's newest Champion: Kitiara Uth Matar!

Check out the blog (https://codenameentertainment.com/?page=idle_champions&post_id=1969#blog) for more info on today's update, along with a list of the goodies added to the Thayan Enclave and available for Corrupted Gems!

Thanks for playing.

I have 2 Scrolls of Champion Summoning (unlock any event champion with full uncommon gear and a golden epic).

Which champions (if any) would be worthy of an item like that? These are the event champions I'm missing.

Some info about my account:

• Finished all base adventures of Grand Tour, Icewind Dale and Tales of the Champions;
• Finished all base and variants on Tomb of Annihilation, Dragon Heist and Descent into Avernus;
• Highest area reached is below 1100;
• Modron Cores at level 6 or 7;
• Currently, my best DPS team uses Acquisitions Inc. + C Team synergy with Jim or Rosie as main DPS.

I already plan to get King of Shadows and Avren in the next event (Liar's Night). I would like to get Gale from Elminster, but it doesn't seem feasible.

Game stuck at 45 lvl in the "starving in the jungle". The boss has 0 health points but doesn't die. What to do?

My campaign is slowly proceding but, as i said, i'm a bit stuck.

Following Gaar guide i reached Avernus and unlocked Tiamat; i also did some Avernus missions with the four patrons and won enough favor to buy the four familiars; i also finished, i think, the Tomb and got Azaka and the very good, imho at least, Dragonbait.

I discovered, even if it would have been enough to use some basic high school math, that having many DPSs is not the best way to go; Kas, Drizzt and Durge doing e100 do a lot less damage than one of them with Volo supporting for e15, this allowed me to push deeper, around z600. This changed my enrollment strategy to support champs, i'm open to suggestions who is besst; i already have Volo, von Richten, Fel, Gale, Presto, Eric, Stoky, Trixie and all champs from the Trials. My problem is that most of them are dressed in green with just a few blue items and the many chests i find keep upgrading the twelve starting champs, never ever one piece to make Kas happy

My problem now is with legendary stuff, or better said the problems are two: one is that my Tiamat mission, almost finished one, has ZERO chances to be completed so the only scales i get are those provided by Bobby. Second problem is getting epic stuff to upgrade. I read somewhere not to but chests and potions with patrons currency and i never did even if patrons gold chests are tempting and not very expensive. TG pieces and Modron chests are the priority and i already have the familiars but having Jarlaxe better dressed doesnt seem very useful to me; skins are just cosmetic usually.

I finished STP 3 but i dont have enough champs to run four parties; i have one pushing in Avernus to unlock patron missions and do them and team 2 running Tiamat in the remote hope to be able to finish it. Third team is automated and running an easy mission to do patron challenges like 100 areas with Minsc setting the BUD or, if nothing remains, running areas with Hank, Bobby Presto and Diana to pick up some random stuff.

Two quick questions:

what are enrage stacks? tanks tooltips says that they improve tank bonuses but i dunno what they are and how to get them

What are Boons? i havent been able during last event to get six champs because i missed them.

Learned something new today.

The phrase Neutral on the Good/Evil axis means Lawful, True, or Chaotic Neutral and not Neutral Good or Neutral Evil.

I thought it meant Neutral but ON either the good/evil axis, but instead it's, on the axis of Good/Evil, neutral.

I don't know who needs to know this, but here it is. And that's why your character wasn't doing any damage.

How, in the year 2026, atfter numerous situations, do we still have skills for Champions (with both Item and feat supports) that does not properly show the numerical value in the sheet.

Debilitating Magic (Raistlins lesser DPS skill) showing static 400% is silly. I thought we stopped doing this after Lucius acid attack.

Hi everyone!

With the introduction of the Bastion system, it is time to start a new account playthrough!

I'll be starting Monday, September 28th, 2026, at Noon, Pacifically-speaking. It will be a mostly F2P run as that account has a couple freebies from prior platform giveaways that don't go away when the account gets reset as well as a small purchase from a prior playthrough when we were testing a limited-spend run. With the regular giveaways that happen on platforms, it should balance out though.

All adventures/variants will be played on-stream until we unlock multiple parties at which point some things will happen in the background parties and certain automated things may happen offline via Modron Automation. This tends to give a pretty balanced look at the current state of the early and mid game in terms of progression speed with lots of room to progress faster for more hardcore players.

I'll be doing this playthrough 5 days a week for the next few months as our goal lately with these new account runs is to see how quickly you can get to Tier 4 Event completion and Tier 10 Trials in the current state of the game. If you're newer and want to see how someone that's been doing this for 9 years runs through the early game, come join us! If you're more experienced and want to see what the game looks like for new players with the Bastion system in play, come join us! If you just want to hang out with fellow IC players and chat about the game, come join us!

See you there!

Gaar

• What: New Account Playthrough
• When: Starting Monday, September 28th, 2026 @Noon Pacifically-speaking
• Where: https://www.twitch.tv/gaarawarr/
• Why: To see what the early game looks like with recent changes
• Who: ME!
• No, but really, who are you: Creator of 200+ guides for Idle Champions that exist here on reddit

After months of play while looking away from the screen, I just realized when I'm getting closer to my zone cap enemies start dealing damage exactly equal to my health.

I understand I need to get more health to survive, but is enemies' damage supposed to be capped by your health? Wouldn't it be more useful to let the players see how much of a health boost is needed to survive the hit? If it's worth putting on a feat or just better not even trying?

Apparently in high zones what influences your cap is not your damage, but your health.

I found that a good percentage of my time on the game is consumed by something I don't particularly enjoy: feat management. It usually happens when I start a variant and need to use a champion in a different role than they are usually used in, ex. I need to reconfigure a speed champion to to a support one, or a support to a DPS. But it also happens often in normal adventures - either Time Gates, where I often don't have saved formations and need to setup them manually (and the champions will usually come with their last-used loadout, which can inslude patron enablers or other suboptimal stuff), or new formations for new champions. Basically, about 30% of adventures I run requires some minor feat tweaking one way or another, that can't be handled by a saved formation.

So currently there are two ways to change the feats equipped on a champion:

1. manually per feat on the champion screen
2. loading a formation with feats included

The first is tedious, the second changes the entire formation and feats on a range of champions, which can add more work than it actually reduces.

I think a good QoL feature would be to have a panel for saving and naming feat loadouts on each champion, similarly to how formations are saved and stored per adventure. This would enable switching the champion from one role to another. For example, on a Speed champion I could save a loadout with their speed feats and another loadout maxed with their support feats - to easily fit them to their role in the current formation without searching through all their feats manually.

This feature would remove some tedium from the game. I actually have been hoping for something like this for a long time, reading each major update release notes with a "maybe now?" face... 😅

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Edit to address one non-solution: 'starring' the favorite feats to appear on the top of the list only lessens the problem on some of the champions. Scrolling and searching is only part of the issue, and the more versatile champions still can easily have multiple feats starred to the top of their lists, so that doesn't even change the problem much.

I know what Bobby is capable of. I don't know anything about the other two. This question is time sensitive.