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.