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.