New set, new ranked season, new ranked goals, new me? New you? New us?

Our Champion Augments (formerly known as Hero Augments) are now a core piece of the TFT Augment experience, so we’re giving them a quality of life buff that acts as a continual reminder for their enhanced ability.

Previously, all champions were shown at the maximum quality, regardless of the “character quality” setting selected on desktop or forced quality settings on mobile devices. We’re correcting this to allow you to lower Champion visual quality for improved performance as needed.

For full details on our new mechanic be sure to check out charming author’s piece on the mechanic! But for now, here’s a TL;DR.

We’d like to see Levels 9 and 10 a bit more, and with Charms (that often cost gold) replacing Encounters (that are sometimes inflationary), you may be down, say, 8 gold or so on hitting Level 10—but don’t worry, we’ll comp that difference right here.

We’re adjusting the bag sizes (amount of copies for each champion in the shared pool). We’re making 1 and 2-costs a bit easier to hit, allowing you to hit earlier, but in doing so, we’re lowering their fully starred-up power slightly. In general this should prevent those situations where you don’t hit your reroll carry until Stage 4-5, and end up too far behind the rest of the lobby who has been playing a fast level 8 or even level 9 strategy. This should feel a lot better for low-cost reroll players.

Speaking of reroll buffs, we’re adding one more copy of each 3-cost in the pool. Just by changing that number from 17 to 18, we’re allowing two players to pursue a three star 3-cost without the help of a Champion Duplicator.

Our 4 and 5-cost pools remain unchanged from Inkborn Fables, as we’re happy with the rate that these champions are two and three starred as an accurate reflection of their power. That being said, we’re continuing to monitor these rates and the success of our higher-cost champions, especially as our new mechanic, Charms, affects the space.

Lastly, we’ve added one more 1-cost champion to the set to better fill out the trait web.

We’re taking a pass on Mana generation to make it more intuitive and require less math to optimize whether or not a Champion is good with Blue Buff, Spear of Shojin, or some other source of Mana regen.

We’re making our PVE rounds more consistent and a bit harder, but in doing so, we’re also allowing you to inspect what they do to help you beat them or lose with your “strongest board.” For Elder Dragon, that buff is very slight, but if you have Shred/Sunder, it should be power neutral. For Murk Wolves and Razorbeaks, we’re making it so they don’t just instantly pop. We’re keeping Krugs as is since they’re already difficult enough for Mages.

With our Dawn of Heroes Revival officially announced in our Dev Drop, we’re preemptively renaming Sentinels to Golems to avoid confusion with the Sentinel trait in the set.

There’s so much content coming with Magic n’ Mayhem that we can’t possibly cover it with these patch notes. It’s a good thing we have a few friends in the business of making magic out of mayhem with websites dedicated to helping you learn about the content of Magic n’ Mayhem:

We’re removing some of our least popular Portals to make room for a few new and returning ones.

A new mechanic and some loot-pinata Golems have brought three new Portals! We also welcome the return of two Portals from past sets.

With over 140 new and returning Augments (Including Crowns, High-Stakes Augments, Champion Augments, and more), we need to open up some space in the pool. We chose the list below for a couple of reasons: we either had a better replacement that was similar, the Augment was unpopular, or the Augment has been in recent sets too frequently. The following Augments may be taking some time off, but who knows, maybe your favorite will return one set?

The following Augments have been removed:

We’re bringing back some fan favorites from sets past.

Warmog’s Armor has always been a strong early game item, but it falls a little short in the later Stages. With more bonus Health tacked on, the item should feel better throughout all parts of the game.

Diamond Hands has been one of the strongest Artifacts for a while now. Its power is propped up by the constant stream of gold that may seem small but is incredibly potent when accessed early in the game. A nerf to make Diamond Hands balanced would likely come at the cost of what makes the item interesting, so we’re opting to take it out and replace it with a much more interesting return of an updated Mogul’s Mail! Mogul’s Mail is a defensive Artifact that grants bonus defensive stats, stacking up to (now) 35 times, upon which you’ll gain gold, with even more to come for every 5 seconds the wearer can stay alive. Try using Mogul’s Mail on a super-tank solo frontliner (recommended to add a newly buffed Warmog’s Armor plus Gargoyle’s Stoneplate) with your damage threats sporting a Hextech Gunblade.

We’re reworking Needlessly Big Gem to make it more useful throughout the fight. Previously, the Support Item was only picked by comps that could stall long enough to activate the bonus damage and take advantage of the huge 40% increase. Now the bonus damage is immediate but will ramp over the course of 15 seconds if the holder is still alive.

Spite is our hardest Support Item to use correctly, requiring the wearer to die quickly, while being near key enemy units to reduce their offensive stats but close to strong allies to increase their stats. What this meant for Inkborn Fables was typically force Duelist. For Magic n’ Mayhem, we’re making the item much more flexible while still maintaining its spiteful identity. Spite holders can now be positioned to maximize an offensive buff for their allies and, upon dying, will stun all enemies within 2-hexes.