Watcher of Realms Patch Notes – March 10, 2025

Here are the official Watcher of Realms update notes for March 10, 2025, including hero and artifact adjustments, Guild War Season 8 updates, new stage content, achievements, and additional system improvements.

Patch Overview

Heroes & Artifacts: Morrigan, Talula, and Lu Bu updates, four new Artifacts, and Artifact effect adjustments.
Guild War: Guild War S8 begins, Gladiator’s Gauntlet schedule announced, Demon Soldier adjustments, and Guild War bug fixes.
Stages: New Faction Trial stages, rewards, achievements, and a Quick Clear feature for Void Rift.
Other Updates: New achievements, Artifact side quests, Soulstone confirmations, and Forge interface improvements.

Heroes & Artifacts

Morrigan, The Burnt Witch

[Awakened III] adjustment: Ultimate’s Cursed Bombs now inflict a 25% Slow effect and increase 1 extra bomb.

Talula, The Holly Blue

Update: When continuously strengthening allies with Forest Spirit through Basic ATK, applies ATK-Based Healing to the hero 1 time every 2 sec.
Fixed an issue where Basic ATK sometimes failed to properly enhance allies with Forest Spirit.

Lu Bu, The Flying General

Optimized Bond Skill icon.

New Artifacts

Mask of Dark Desire
Chaotic Doomblade
Sentinel’s Eye
Cadaver Dagger

Artifact Adjustments

Artifact “Shadow Gaze” effect adjusted to: After every 5 ATKs, increases ATK by 10/12/14/16/18/20% (lasts 5 sec), stacks up to 2 times.
Artifact “Thornheart” effect optimized: Now only deals DMG to the attacker when taking DMG from enemies.

Guild War

Guild War S8 Starts

The attack attempts per round adjusted from 8 to 5, with garrison fortification HP reduced accordingly.
Overall rewards for each Guild War attack increased, significantly improved Guild Coin acquisition, and Ancient Summoning Crystal shards are now guaranteed.
Updated Central Keep and Defense Towers maps for the new season.
Updated new season theme, Avatar Border, and Emote rewards.
Added new season Demon Soldier – Chaos Shaman. The previous Demon Soldier – Frostbourne Scholar can now be obtained from Gear Raids.

Demon Soldier – Chaos Shaman: Periodically grants Enhanced Basic ATK to nearby ground allied Demon Soldiers. This enhancement effect gains a bonus on Demon Soldiers with Mark of Chaos ability.

Guild War S7 – Gladiator’s Gauntlet Starts

Increased rewards for each Guild War attack.
Overall Season Schedule:

Server Group 5:
Gladiator’s Gauntlet Duration: 03/31 – 04/11
Preparation Phase: 03/31 – 04/03
Battle Phase: 04/03 – 04/10
Ranking Calculation Phase: 04/11

Server Group 6:
Gladiator’s Gauntlet Duration: 03/31 – 04/09
Preparation Phasee: 03/31 – 04/03
Battle Phase: 04/03 – 04/08
Ranking Calculation Phase: 04/09

Guild War Balance and Fixes

Balance Adjustments: Increased HP for all Demon Soldiers while reducing their DEF; added Lvl. 3 and Lvl. 7 skills for all Demon Soldiers.
Bug Fix: Fixed an issue where the Faction bonus of The Supreme Arbiters’ Lord Skill wasn’t working in Guild War.
Optimized Individual and Public Guild Quests.

Stages

Added new ultimate trial stages for both Trial of the Esotericists and Trial of the Watchers Stage 13-15, with a drop rate chance for Faction Exclusive Gear.
Added new Faction Trial Star Rewards.
Added two new Faction Trial achievements.
Added new Quick Clear feature to Void Rift: In the Quick Clear feature, monsters which can Auto-fight before will be instantly defeated, except for certain Bosses.
Adjusted skill for Nemesis: When claiming rewards, you’ll receive extra random amounts of Mythril.

Other Updates

Added a new Camp-related achievement: Camp Quartermaster.
Added new achievements:

Grand Necropolis Vanquisher
Trial Master
Legend Among Legends

Added new Artifact side quests.
Added double confirmation when using Legendary Hero Soulstones and Unpolished Legendary Soulstones.
Optimized Forge interface to display details of available Exclusive Gear.

Source: Official Watcher of Realms update announcement.