Watcher of Realms Patch Notes – June 4, 2025

Here are the official Watcher of Realms update notes for June 4, 2025, including hero skill optimizations, Guild War Season 9 updates, stage improvements, Arena reward adjustments, and multiple system improvements.

Patch Overview

Hero Updates: Demi receives major skill optimizations, with fixes and improvements for several heroes.
Guild War: Season 9 begins, new Demon Soldier added, and a new Guild War Sand Box feature introduced.
Stages: Campaign stages expanded and Drake’s Chasm rewards adjusted.
Arena: Apex Coin rewards increased with additional retroactive compensation.
Other Updates: Gear selling improvements, event optimizations, and UI upgrades.

Heroes

Demi, Drummer of the Damned

Hero Skill Optimization

[Lord Skill] Increases faction allies’ basic attributes by 15%.
Faction allies deal 30% more DMG to enemies affected by CC Effects such as Slow, Stun, Freeze, or Immobilized State.
Faction allies’ DMG increases based on the number of enemies in their Basic ATK Range: 5% increase per enemy, up to 35%.

[Elegy of Ruin]

Temporarily removes Invisibility and begins playing the Elegy of Ruin.
Basic ATK now hits up to 10 enemies in range, dealing 230/280/280/330/330% AoE DMG.
Inflicts 50% Slow and Anti-Healing for 2 sec.
Effect lasts for 18 sec.
Rage Cap changed from 1200/1200/1100/1100/1000 to 1100/1100/1000/1000/900.

[Waltz of Doom]

During Elegy of Ruin, when Basic ATK hits at least 4/3/3/3/3 enemies, increases the hero’s Penetration by 3/3/4/4/5%.
This effect stacks up to 4/4/4/5/5 times and lasts until Elegy of Ruin ends.

[Twilight Covenant]

When invisible, reduces DMG taken by 15/20/20/30/30% and restores 10% HP per sec.
During Elegy of Ruin, each time DMG is dealt, restores 3/3/4/4/5% HP for the hero.

Awakening Effects

Awakened I: When Waltz of Doom reaches full stacks, increases the ATK Range of Elegy of Ruin and ATK Spd. by 150.
Awakened III: During Elegy of Ruin, deals an extra 50% DMG to targets with less than 50% HP.
Awakened V: During Elegy of Ruin, if Waltz of Doom reaches full stacks, deals 640% AoE DMG one time to up to 10 enemies in Basic ATK Range when Elegy of Ruin ends.

Hero Fixes & Optimizations

Faelin, The Buckthorn Druid: Fixed an issue where Basic ATK couldn’t hit airborne units.
Beatrix, The Shadow Collector: Optimized the auto-cast logic of the Ultimate. She can now properly cast the Ultimate when enemies appear across the entire battlefield.
Cassiel, The Blade of Justice: Optimized the skill icon of Divine Retribution after upgrading the Ultimate during battle.
Bug Fix: Fixed an issue where immunity to specific debuffs wouldn’t prevent stack accumulation.

Guild War

Guild War S9 Starts

Updated Central Keep and Defense Towers maps for the new season.
Updated new season theme, Avatar Border, and Emote rewards.
New season-exclusive Demon Soldier [Batwings Banshee] arrives.
Previous season Demon Soldier [Chaos Shaman] can now be obtained through Gear Raid.

Demon Soldier – Batwings Banshee: An airborne unit with team support capabilities that can reduce enemy heroes’ DMG output.

Guild War S8 – Gladiator’s Gauntlet

Server Group 5:
Gladiator’s Gauntlet Duration: 06/09/2025 – 06/21/2025
Preparation Phase: 06/09/2025 – 06/12/2025
Battle Phase: 06/13/2025 – 06/20/2025
Calculation Phase: 06/21/2025

Server Group 6:
Gladiator’s Gauntlet Duration: 06/09/2025 – 06/19/2025
Preparation Phase: 06/09/2025 – 06/12/2025
Battle Phase: 06/13/2025 – 06/18/2025
Calculation Phase: 06/19/2025

Guild War Sand Box Feature

Requirement & Access: Unlocked after clearing Guild War Training Stage.
Accessed through the Guild War interface; the Training Stage entry will be hidden after unlocking.
Two modes available: Solo Practice and Player Faceoff.
Player Faceoff allows practice battles with Guild members and Friends.
You can set up a separate Sand Box defense team.
If none is set, the Guild War defense team will be used.
Sand Box defense team gear is saved separately and must be configured independently.

Guild War Interface Improvements

Added gear detail preview pop-up for deployed heroes.
Added quick-view button for minimap.
BP calculation now updates only when gear changes rather than in real time.

Guild War Attack Code Fix: Fixed an issue where Attack Codes would only record part of the Auto-battle if switching to Manual mid-battle.

Stages

Immortal Codex, Drake’s Chasm, Gear Raid I/II/III, and Artifact Material Raid now save the Gear and Artifact info when saving Auto-fight records.
You can now save Auto-fight records after Auto-fight takeover, including gear information from the current battle.

Drake’s Chasm – Abyss I Adjustments

Reduced drop rate of random Mythic Gear chests.
Added Variant Gear drops.
Added Titan Meteorite and Wisdom Meteorite drops.
Removed certain low-value rewards.

Updated new tags for the first 5 Hidden Chamber stages and Boss stages in Tower of Deception.

New Campaign Stages

Hard Difficulty: Chapter IX – Part 1 & Part 2
Expert Difficulty: Chapter IX – Part 1 & Part 2

Arena

Apex Coin Reward Adjustments

Platinum III: 600 Apex Coins weekly.
Overlord: 800 Apex Coins weekly.
Apex Overlord: 2,250 Apex Coins weekly.

Victory Rewards

Platinum III: +5 Apex Coins per victory.
Overlord: 12 Apex Coins per victory.
Apex Overlord: 40 Apex Coins per victory.

Retroactive Apex Coin Rewards

Players will receive Apex Coins based on their highest Arena rank achieved between 01/01/2025 and the update.
Platinum III: 1,000 Apex Coins
Overlord: 1,500 Apex Coins
Apex Overlord: 3,000 Apex Coins
Distributed through in-game mail within 7 working days.

Top 600 players who obtain Lady Alexandra, Royal Assassin will receive a Lady Alexandra Skin Voucher.
This voucher can be redeemed in the Apex Shop at the end of October 2025.

In Arena AoE DPS Challenge, waves 1–4 monsters have reduced HP.

Other Updates

The selling interface now shows how many Ancient Gear or Exclusive Artifacts are included in the sale.
Selling Exclusive Artifacts now grants extra Artifact materials.
Players who sold Exclusive Artifacts before the update will receive compensation materials via mail.
Time-limited Event Pre-Registration rewards improved with additional login rewards.
Removed purchase limit for the Monthly Card.
Improved the interface display and event experience for the Return Aid event.

Source: Official Watcher of Realms update announcement.