Watcher of Realms Patch Notes – May 6, 2025

Here are the official Watcher of Realms update notes for May 6, 2025, featuring hero optimizations, the launch of the new real-time PvP mode Honor’s Gauntlet, new stage content, Guild War improvements, and Dwarven Association updates.

Patch Overview

Heroes: Visual improvements and skill adjustments for Lyra and Diaochan, along with multiple bug fixes and gameplay improvements.
PvP: New real-time competitive mode Honor’s Gauntlet introduced.
Stages: New Gear Raid floors, Tower of Deception Phase 6, and raid mechanics adjustments.
Guild: New Guild War Attack Code and Plan Storage system.
Dwarven Association: Expanded shop exchanges including Demon Soldier units and Legendary items.
Other Updates: Sound improvements, Demon Soldier adjustments, and additional bug fixes.

Heroes

Lyra, The Cosmic Seer

Optimized visual effects for Cosmic Rift.

Diaochan, Moon’s Radiance

Skill Optimization

[Thorned Rose]

Before:
During Serenade of Hope: Continuously grants 10/15/15/20/20% DMC Reduction to allies in range.
During Song of Sorrow: Continuously grants 10/10/15/15/20% Penetration Increase to 2 other allies with the highest ATK in range.

After:
During Serenade of Hope: Continuously grants 10/15/15/20/20% DMG Reduction to allies in range.
During Song of Sorrow: Continuously grants 10/10/15/15/20% Penetration Increase to 2 other non-Healer allies with the highest ATK in range.

Optimized the issue where summons or traps interfere with Commander’s hero deployment on their occupied tiles.
For the following heroes and artifacts, heroes can now be deployed on tiles occupied by their summons or traps, forcing the summons or traps to die and be removed:

Heroes: Sun Wukong, Cyrus, Kai, Dahlia, Elowyn, Ai, Cuke
Artifact: Wailing Skull

Fixed a bug where Kigiri, The Undying Ronin‘s Ultimate could deal DMG to monsters immune to P. DMG in Gear Dungeon II.

Honor’s Gauntlet

Dear Commanders, thank you for your continued support of the Arena. We are excited to announce the launch of an even more thrilling real-time PvP mode [Honor’s Gauntlet]. We welcome all Commanders to experience this new challenge! Honor’s Gauntlet is a comprehensive upgrade from Arena, featuring new settings and gameplay mechanics:

Two players are matched in real time to engage in live battles with real-time controls.
Like the Arena, Honor’s Gauntlet has 3 types of challenges. When two players are matched, they will randomly enter one of the challenges, each with unique battlefield effects.
Added the new Commander Skill system. Players can add a Commander Skill when editing their lineup to disrupt opponents or strengthen their team in battle.
In the match, the player who wins each round will be rewarded with bonus Cost. The losing player faces harsher penalties: their base will continuously lose HP, and the remaining monsters will be strengthened.
Added a new team setup rule: When selecting heroes for your teams, the same hero cannot be used in more than one team.

Stages

Added Floors 22 / 23 / 24 to Gear Raid I, II, and III.
Added Phase 6 to the Tower of Deception, where players will face a joint assault from Tengu and her demonic forces from the east.
Added early wave refresh rules to Gear Raid III and Promotion Raid – Insignia of Marksman. When all monsters in the current wave are eliminated, the next wave will spawn early, reducing battle duration.
Increased Mythril drop rate in Artifact Material Raid.

Guild

Guild War Attack Code & Plan Storage

Added a new system allowing players to quickly copy other Commanders’ Demon Soldier team setups and Auto-fight settings.

Plan Sharing

After each battle, Commanders can share through the Share button in the battle settlement or replay interface to generate an Attack Code.

Plan Storage

Using Attack Codes, players can import other Commanders’ attack team setups and Auto-fight settings into the plan storage.
The plan storage can store up to 5 attack plans per season.
When adding a new plan at maximum capacity, the oldest plan will be replaced.

Using Plans

During Guild War or Friendly Faceoff, players can access the Plan Storage through the Attack Plan button in the Demon Soldier team setup.
Using a plan will replace your current Demon Soldier team setups and Auto-fight settings.
If you switch devices after using a plan, Auto-fight may not work. Simply use the plan again to restore functionality.

Plan Restrictions

Each Attack Code can only be used within the same matchmaking server and season.
When a new season begins, all plans in storage will be cleared and previous Attack Codes will become invalid.

Dwarven Association

Added complete Demon Soldier units to the Awakening Shop. These units can only be purchased if you already own the corresponding Demon Soldier.
Demon Soldiers available include Epic Demon Soldiers, Legendary Demon Soldiers, and Demon Captains.
Different Demon Soldier units will be available for sale each week.
Increased the number of exchangeable Legendary Hero Soulstones to 2 per week.
You can exchange for 1 Legendary Skill Crystal using Legendary Awakening Tokens each week.
Weekly exchangeable Auto-Fight Chances adjusted to 10.
Weekly exchangeable Legendary Skill Dust adjusted to 30.

Other Updates

Increased Demon Soldier drop rate in Drake’s Chasm.
Optimized acquisition difficulty for certain Demon Soldiers.
Optimized hit sound effects for PvP battles.
Optimized judge sound effects in PvP battles.
Optimized sound effects in the PvP battle settlement page.
Optimized the instant victory performance in Void Rift.
Improved the description for Demon Soldier affiliation with heroes.
Players will be marked as defeated and unable to take revenge after a certain number of revenge attempts against the same opponent in PvP.
Fixed an issue where ATK Spd. was not affecting the Rage Regen (Basic ATK) in the displayed attributes.
Drake’s Chasm – Abyss I difficulty now has its own independent team setup separate from other difficulties.
Increased development bonuses that Awakened Legendary Lord Heroes provide to Demon Soldiers.

Source: Official Watcher of Realms update announcement.