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.