Watcher of Realms Patch Notes – July 1, 2025

Here are the official Watcher of Realms update notes for July 1, 2025, including Special Summoning rate-up adjustments, hero fixes and optimizations, new stage systems, gear and artifact progression updates, Honor’s Gauntlet changes, Drake’s Chasm improvements, and more.

Patch Overview

• Summoning: New Rate-Up Pity Timer mechanics added to Special Summoning pools.
• Heroes: Multiple hero fixes, targeting improvements, description updates, and interaction fixes.
• Stages: Malrik’s Halls of Illusion added, Tower of Deception expanded, and Gear Raid drop previews improved.
• Gear: New Gear Gem Enhancement and Artifact Augmentation systems introduced.
• Honor’s Gauntlet: Schedule adjustments, longer season break, matchmaking improvements, and gear save support.
• Drake’s Chasm: New achievements, a new medal, and reward chest improvements.
• Other Updates: Odyssey quest adjustments, storage improvements, new hero pool additions, and new shop items.

Special Summoning Rate-Up Adjustments

Starting from the update on 07/01 (UTC-8), Special Summoning events will include the following mechanics:

Special Invocation of Spirits, Special Divine Summoning, Beginner’s Special Summoning

• When summoning from the current Special Summoning pools, if you obtain a Legendary hero that is not a Rate-Up hero, the drop rate for all Rate-Up heroes will receive an additional increase in subsequent summons.
• The first time you obtain a Legendary hero that is not a Rate-Up hero, the drop rate for all Rate-Up heroes will be multiplied by 10.
• If you again obtain another Legendary hero that is still not a Rate-Up hero, the drop rate will be multiplied by 10 again.
• This accumulating boost will continue until you successfully summon any Rate-Up hero.
• The drop rate mentioned above refers to the probability of obtaining a Rate-Up hero compared to other heroes of the same rarity.
• This Pity Timer triggers only once during the events.

Special Ancient Summoning

• When summoning from the current Special Summoning pools, if you obtain a Legendary hero that is not a Rate-Up hero, the drop rate for all Rate-Up heroes will receive an additional increase in subsequent summons.
• The first time you obtain a Legendary hero that is not a Rate-Up hero, the drop rate for all Rate-Up heroes will be multiplied by 2.
• If you again obtain another Legendary hero that is still not a Rate-Up hero, the drop rate will be multiplied by 2 again.
• This accumulating boost will continue until you successfully summon any Rate-Up hero.
• The drop rate mentioned above refers to the probability of obtaining a Rate-Up hero compared to other heroes of the same rarity.
• This Pity Timer triggers only once during the events.

✩ This adjustment only affects Special Summoning pools. The mechanics for Exclusive Summoning and other summoning pools remain unchanged.

Heroes

Brokkir, The Frosthammer

• Fixed an issue where Brokkir couldn’t trigger his passive skill Iceberg under certain circumstances in Raids when wearing the Unshaken Will gear set.

Diaochan, Moon’s Radiance

• Optimized the targeting logic for the Penetration boost effect of Thorned Rose, reducing the possibility of targeting allies immune to buff effects.
• Fixed an issue where stance switching didn’t work properly during Auto-fight in Arena.

The fix will take effect after re-uploading the hero’s Auto-fight records.

Nerissa, Song of the Siren

Awakened I description adjusted.

Before:
Increases AoE DMG Reduction from Siren’s Song by 10% and expands Abyssal Favor’s range to adjacent 2 tiles.

After:
Increases AoE DMG Reduction from Siren’s Song by 10%. Increases the range of buffs applied to allies by Abyssal Favor bearer from within 1 tile to within 2 tiles.

Carnelian, The Soul Soother

• Added skill correlation for Awakened III on the hero page.

Zilitu, Infernal Temptress

• Fixed a bug where Zilitu’s ranged attacks during the Ultimate couldn’t trigger the Blaze of Talkiel Artifact effect and couldn’t extend the Burning effect duration.

Twinfiend, The Brothers Grotesque

• Basic attacks during Infernal Rage can now trigger the Rage Regen effect of The Devil’s Gaze Artifact.

Durza, The Bloodtusk Shaman

• Optimized the hyperlink description display of Awakened V.

Talula, The Holly Blue

• Fixed a visual effect issue when Forest Spirit triggers dispel.

Faelin, The Buckthorn Druid

• Fixed an issue where the Initial Rage for her Ultimate was displayed incorrectly in the hero interface.

Lili, The Forgotten Flower

• Fixed an issue where the fatal DMG immunity effect of Thorny Protection couldn’t save allies who died through the DMG sharing mechanic.

• Fixed an issue where some heroes behaved unexpectedly during Take-over mode.

Stages

Malrik’s Halls of Illusion

• New feature: Malrik’s Halls of Illusion is now available for players who have cleared Stage 18 of Gear Raid I, Gear Raid II, and Gear Raid III.
• The trials hosted by Malrik, The Rogue of Runes are now open. Speak with Malrik in the Camp to participate.
• Each challenge requires a Trial Keystone to open the trial portal.
• Trial Keystones can be obtained through other game features.
• Each Trial Keystone contains different Ancient Inscriptions, leading to different trials.
• Once a trial begins, it cannot be restarted. Exiting midway will settle rewards based on current progress.
• Trial Keystones have a maximum storage limit. You cannot obtain more once you’ve reached the limit.

Please use them in time.

Tower of Deception

• Added new Stages 16-20 to the Tower of Deception to optimize the difficulty progression.
• All original stages from 16 onward have been shifted forward accordingly.
• Fixed an Auto-fight bug in the Tower of Deception. When heroes in the Auto-fight record don’t match the challenge modifiers, Auto-fight will be disabled.

This change will take effect from the next season.

• Optimized the drop preview in Gear Raid. All possible drops can now be viewed.

Gear

Gear Gem Enhancement

• The Gear Gem Enhancement feature is now available for players who have cleared Campaign Stage N8-4.
• After reaching Enhancement Level +16, you can access the Gem Enhancement interface through [Gear > Gem Enhancement].
• Various gems with different effects can be used to modify gear:

• [Darkfall Gem]: Enhances the Primary Attribute of Mythic or rarer gear.
• [Evolution Gem]: Converts T1 gear (Mythic or rarer) into T2/T3 gear of the same part while preserving its Secondary Attributes.
• [Variant Gem]: Grants a Variant attribute to an Ancient Mythic Weapon or Bangle, turning it into Variant gear.
• [Transmutation Gem]: Changes the type of one selected Secondary Attribute on Ancient Mythic or Variant gear while preserving its progress bar.

• For convenience, Refine and Recast features previously in the Foundry will be integrated into the Gem Enhancement interface.
• Gems can be obtained through the new feature, Malrik’s Halls of Illusion.

Artifact Augmentation

• The Artifact Augmentation feature is now available for players who have cleared Campaign Stage N8-4.
• In the Artifact Enhancement interface, you can perform the following Augmentation operations:

• [Common Augmentation]: Slightly increases a random Artifact attribute.
• [Advanced Augmentation]: Significantly increases a random Artifact attribute.
• [Runic Augmentation]: Adds an extra attribute to the Artifact, which can be reset repeatedly.

Gear Plans

• Added Groups feature for Gear Plans.
• There are 10 preset groups with customizable names.
• Groups can be filtered.
• When saving or renaming a plan, you must select which group it belongs to.
• Added more detailed guides for [Gear Identify].

Honor’s Gauntlet

• Schedule Adjustment with new time slots (UTC-8):

Slot 1: 00:00 – 04:00 (adjusted from 00:00 – 03:00)
Slot 2: 06:00 – 10:00 (adjusted from 05:00 – 08:00)
Slot 3: 12:00 – 16:00 (adjusted from 13:00 – 16:00)
Slot 4: 18:00 – 22:00 (adjusted from 19:00 – 22:00)

• End-of-season break extended from 8 days to 15 days.
• Optimized the matchmaking rules to help Commanders find more evenly matched opponents.
• Added a save feature that allows Commanders to save the Gear and Artifact configurations for their heroes in Honor’s Gauntlet.

Drake’s Chasm

New Achievements

• [Sauryan’s Nemesis]: Collect 5,000 Dragon Blood from Drake’s Chasm – Abyss I in one go.
• [Sauryan’s Vanquisher]: Collect 60,000 Dragon Blood from Drake’s Chasm – Abyss I in one go.

New Medal

• [Sauryan’s Vanquisher]: Collect 60,000 Dragon Blood from Drake’s Chasm – Abyss I in one go.

Reward Chest Improvements

• Higher rarity rewards are guaranteed when opening your first chest of each level in Abyss I.
• Added Legendary Skill Dust to chest rewards from Nightmare I and higher difficulties.

Other Updates

• Adjusted the difficulty of some Odyssey quests. Any affected quests currently in progress will be automatically completed.
• The corresponding Commanders will receive their rewards via in-game mail.
• You can now move up to 50 heroes at once from Backup Storage to Hero Storage.
• Added Cost display to the Hero interface. Cost can now be set as a filter/sort condition.
• Optimized the [Demon Soldier] and [Demon Troops] interface.
• Legendary heroes Myca, Selene, and Calista will be added to all Invocation of Spirits and Divine Summoning pools after this update.
• Epic Lord hero Rork will be added to all Ancient Summoning pools after this update.
• [Monthly Card of Diamonds] will be available in the Shop on 07/14, 00:00 (UTC-8).
• [Value Cards] will be available in the Shop from 07/14, 00:00 to 08/13, 23:59 (UTC-8).

Source: Official Watcher of Realms update announcement.