Updates — legendofsolgard

Forum Closing

RatatoskTheSquirrel — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:18:02 +0000

Solgardians, as you all know, Snowprint has taken over the publishing of Legend of Solgard. King has very kindly continued hosting the forum for an extra few weeks, but that time is drawing near to the end. We'd love to see you all at the active Facebook group! (There's a file in the group explaining what happened, if you weren't aware.)

Any news about new community gathering places will be posted there. For instance, I'm dusting off the official discord, but it's not quite ready As soon as it is I'll be announcing it on social media.

We have great stuff planned and we hope you'll all be there for it. Thanks to you, thanks to King - and we'll see you in Solgard.

Introducing the Guild Clash

RatatoskTheSquirrel — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 19:34:25 +0000

This is the first take on a new guild versus guild feature. We designed something with no timers, something that rewarded guilds who work as a team, with prizes you can work toward whether you win or lose. Your creature army matters, but the important thing is that you try - because used strategically, every guild member’s squad can make a difference.

We have plans for additional strategic elements in the future, but this is the start!

You are eligible to participate in the Guild Clash if you have at least three creatures of each color, are level 12, and belong to a guild. That guild must have at least four people participating in order to start the Clash.

Structure

A Clash is three days long:

One preparation day, where you can choose three unique defensive squads and look over your opponent. You won’t be able to see the opponent’s defensive squads until you meet them in combat. Guild members who do not join during the prep phase may not participate in the challenge. The AI will choose defensive squads for guild members who do not choose during the prep phase.

Two challenge days, where your guild will work together to take down the opposing guild.

There are several components when it comes to matchmaking: Total Hero Level, where we just add up the Hero Levels of everyone who has participated, and where your guild ranks on the Guild Dungeon leaderboard. The Hero Level total plays a bigger role for most guilds, and the leaderboard element plays a bigger role the further up the rankings you go. The last important factor with matchmaking is the number of opted-in players. If you can’t participate, the best thing for your guild is not to join the clash - just be a spectator.

When the challenge days begin, you survey all the people in the enemy guild and choose one to attack. (The AI will play defense for you when the other guild attacks. You control all the moves when you are attacking.) You are trying to bring that player’s Embla down to zero points. Even if you don’t succeed during your turn, the defending player’s points persist from attack to attack and do not reset (unless there’s a wipe - more on that later). As an attacker, your hit points reset after each attack.

Each guild member gets seven attacks. You may use them all at once, or over the course of the two fighting days. Your creatures become exhausted after use when you are attacking, but your defense squads never get exhausted.

Let’s say that Ratatosk starts out with 100 points. You begin the challenge with an attack on Ratatosk and do 75 points of damage with your four chosen creatures. Afterwards, those creatures are now exhausted until the end of the challenge, and you have six attacks remaining. You may now go after Ratatosk with four new creatures and attempt to finish off that crazy squirrel...or leave the 25 remaining points for someone else in your guild to attempt. No one else in your guild can attack Ratatosk while you are fighting him. Once you’ve brought Ratatosk to zero, his second defense squad will appear. Once you and your friends have killed poor Ratatosk three times, he will stay dead until his whole guild is wiped out.

The members of the most successful guilds will work closely together to decide who should attack whom, and when.

To get credit for each duel, you must complete the duel. Don’t close the game! The damage you did will not be saved. (You should still get _participation_ credit, though, so if your wifi goes out, at least you won’t miss out on that at the end of the Clash.)

Update Day!

RatatoskTheSquirrel — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 07:24:23 +0000

Welcome to update day, Solgardians!

If you want all the details, a lot of it is here in the forum! We’ve shared quite a lot over the last few months, and we’d like to welcome you to the community. Lots of people are eager to help you plan out strategies, and brainstorm new ideas.

Here’s a summary of the updates we’ve made to the game:

Brand new creature tier: The Mythicals! These creatures are the next level past the Legendary tier. Even the gods of Solgard have created apparitions of themselves to fight at your side.
Game modes and rarities. We have enhanced all of our game modes - Bounty Hunts, Treasure Caves, the Underworld, the Dungeons, Hero Arena, and Hero Challenge. Players can now battle with all the exciting and different tiers of creatures!
Creature redistribution. We have updated the creatures so there are an even number of creatures in each tier, and each tier has the appropriate amount of power.
Conversion tokens. We have given all Solgardians a heap of currency tokens (based on their gameplay progression) in order to customize creature abilities/ranks to suit new strategies.
Idol system updates and tokens. We have updated the idol system and provided all Solgardians with idol tokens to use on building new and improved idols.
Experience curve enhancements. Embla is now affected by the strength of the army she fights behind, and the number of experience points she needs to advance in each level has been changed.
Dust system update. Instead of colors, dust now comes in rarities.

We are constantly enhancing Legend of Solgard with new features, modes, creatures, and concepts. We want to keep you engaged, moving forward and having fun.

The Blót Festival

RatatoskTheSquirrel — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 21:27:39 +0000

The Blót Festival is the way by which we heroes of Solgard offer tribute to the beasts and gods. By our efforts, we earn rewards.

(By the way, in Swedish, “blót” is pronounced as if it rhymed with “boot” or “Groot.” Please feel free to comment on this document with Groot memes to help all the English speakers remember how to say the Festival name.)

How is the Festival organized?

Remember the Boss Arena? That mode is the ancestor of the Festival you’ll see in the next update.

Each Festival has four Phases of one week each. Each Phase has four sections, each with a miniboss and culminating in a World Boss. Phase One is you fighting through the World One minibosses, culminating in the Midgard World Boss, Nidhogg. Phase Two is you going through the World 2 (Jotunheim) minibosses, ending up with Rungnar. Phase Three is Vanaheim, and Phase 4 introduces Helheim enemies.

Once a Phase is unlocked and you’ve beaten the boss of the section, you may play it over and over again to try and improve your high score, as well as access the bonus score modes. Even after a new phase is unlocked, you can go back to any of the old ones. You can’t skip ahead to the later phases, though.

You may join the Festival at any point while it is running, as long as you’re at least level 10.

Note to our newer players: You have to have defeated the boss in the campaign to play against that boss in the Festival. So, for example, if I’ve only defeated the miniboss at 110 in the campaign, then I can fight in the Festival up to the third miniboss in Phase Three -- but go no further until I unlock more minibosses/world bosses in the main campaign. Anyone who has completed all 160 levels in the campaign will have access to every part of the Festival.

As in the Hero Challenge, creatures become exhausted after doing battle on your behalf, and need time to rest up. This timer isn’t connected to other modes, of course, and your creatures can be refreshed with Festival play passes. It is definitely to your advantage to have a broad army of creatures and to make strategic decisions about when to play them. Any damage done counts toward defeating the bosses.

Come back Monday, 7-October, to learn more about scoring, rewards, and more. For that matter, stay tuned all next week as we share more information about what to expect, and how you can prepare to kick some serious ice.

Changes to Gold and Hero modes - 21-Feb

RatatoskTheSquirrel — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 18:45:17 +0000

We have made these changes in the game - because they're direct changes and not part of the patch process, I don't have patch notes, but they're important enough that I wanted to post something!

Gold

We have made a change to how gold flows to you, and when that flow happens over the course of your journey through Solgard.

Our original design relied heavily on the Campaign mode, and we want to shift that focus to the repeatable Bounties and Treasure Hunts. By shifting the gold from the Campaign (reducing gold in the level/chest rewards in Worlds 2, 3, and 4) to the Bounties, it should have a minimal impact on our new friends still moving through the Campaign, and ease the pinch for our old friends.

Rare Bounties will see level reward increases of 25%. Epic, 50%. Legendary, 66%. Mythical, 25%. Chest for beating a Gang will see an increase somewhere between double and triple the old quantities.

Gold rewards from Rare, Epic, and Legendary Treasure Hunts will increase by 75%, and increase by 25% for the Mythical. Rewards for beating a tier for the first time will increase by 50% to 100%.

Finally, for players whose Hero Level is over 35, the Bounty and Treasure Hunt rewards have an additional extra boost.

Hero Challenge Changes

Effective as soon as the next Challenge starts (0500 CET on Saturday, 22-Feb), we are tuning the matchmaking parameters for Hero Challenge to where all players should be able to find opponents of a power level they can defeat at all stages of the Hero Challenge. (If you were lucky enough not to have this problem, you should not notice a change.)

Hero Arena

We heard the feedback about people feeling like they needed to deliberately lose, because the top rewards in lower leagues were better than the lower rewards in higher leagues...which of course meant people in lower leagues got locked out of the top prizes in their league! We hope this addresses that madness.

These things kick in with the next Hero Arena season:

We have adjusted the requirements for shifting between leagues, to make sure staying in a league appropriate to your power level is more rewarding than dropping down. Then, we’re overhauling those rewards.
Victory awards (those awarded via milestones on the progress bar) in the lower leagues (Apprentice through Expert II) have been improved.
The score required to reach all the milestone rewards has been slightly reduced. The improved win rate, together with reduced score requirements, are expected to increase the rewards obtained from Hero Challenge for most players.
We have changed the reward levels so that the lowest reward in a higher league is better than the highest reward in a lower league. In Legend League, this means the rewards for every position below third place will be better. In Grandmaster III, we’ve reduced the rewards for the top ten, but increased the rewards for everyone else. Grandmaster II sees the most changes, with big reductions for the top ten (no way to soft pedal that, sorry) and small reductions for the top 500. Below that will see an improvement.
Finally, the reward contents have been changed. We want to increase the amount of currency players can be earning from Hero Arena early on. We are increasing Epic Hero Arena currency rewards in all leagues, particularly early on. All leaderboard positions in the season end rewards now also include an amount of gems in addition to Hero Arena currency and chest keys.
As players move up the leagues, their rewards start shifting towards Legendary and Mythical currency. We would like players to continue to be able to use Epic and Legendary currency on a regular basis, and are therefore significantly increasing the rewards in Grandmaster I and above.

TLDR: Being in your proper league for your power, should, once taking into account your daily rewards and milestones as well as the end of season rewards, be more rewarding than ever before. As with all things in the living world of Solgard, we are always watching and making adjustments, so I look forward to hearing your thoughts once you’ve given this stuff a test drive.

Patch Notes - 31 of March

Electra — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 14:21:50 +0000

Patch day!

The Guild Clash is here! Read all about it here
The first Clash preparation day will be April 2nd. See you there!
Excess creature gems are now converted to a new type of currency: Transmutation tokens. These tokens can be exchanged for chest keys in the shop, under the redeem tab.
We have a free gift in this update for everyone who may be playing more than usual - 100 energy, 100 HA play passes for those of you who have unlocked that mode (level 8+).

Hero Changes

The three choices of opponents in Hero Challenge now cover a wider (and at the higher tiers, a slightly lower) power range.
Opponent buffs in Hero Arena should now reflect more recently attained buffs, and should work in a more predictable way

Creature changes

We’ve made a number of changes to creatures (see below for details), and in the case of Elderling and Anuraxe, the changes were significant enough that we wanted to give you some resources to spend on strategic adjustments. Please look under the store tab for packages called “Creature Resources.” They are free, and what’s in the packages depends on what ranks your Elderling and Anuraxe had achieved.

Big (2x2) units no longer provide a hidden +5% block & crit chance
Moonmage’s absorption skill is no longer triggered on sunburst
We fixed Elderling so that his attack is no longer piercing. We improved his strength, as well.
Fixed an issue where Ragnarooster’s Cockadoodle ability would affect friendly units with 0 wait
Fixed an issue where Cage Wight’s “Cage in, Cage out” ability would trigger even when locked
Fixed a bug where Kraken’s wait ability would occasionally skip a target to hit a unit further back
Fixed an issue where Anuraxe could use his ability to deal damage multiple times within the same turn to 2x2 units
Fixed an issue where Bearserker’s attack ability would not deal additional damage to the first unit he strikes
Fixed an issue where Bearseker’s attack ability provided Bearserker with more strength than intended
Fixed an issue where Bearserker and Roughpaw could provide a block buff & strength to units who were just about to attack
Fixed an issue where units who were hurt just as they grew in strength would not reflect the damage they took
Fixed an issue where the pre-game screen would not show the proper Hero Stats when the unit picker was open

Other

Treasure Cave difficulty has been re-balanced and should provide a smoother difficulty curve. (Yes, this includes some changes to Mythical TC 25.)
Aura effects (e.g. Grimbash’s protection aura, among others) have received a visual makeover
Fixed a bug where tapping the “Get more” button on “Not enough diamonds” caused some issues to occur

It's time to fill out your bracket - Round 1

Electra — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:07:56 +0000

It's time to fill out your bracket!

Go to the form here and choose your favorites here.

The form will be open until 19-March at 7 AM PDT/10 AM EDT/2 PM UST/3 PM CET.

As with any bracket tournament, there will be prizes if you guess the results correctly:

* Correctly guess the winner of every match: 3000 diamonds/gems
* Correctly guess the winners of every match, including the final two (but getting the final winner wrong): 1000 diamonds/gems
* Correctly guess winners of every match including the final four (but getting one or both finalists wrong): 250 diamonds/gems

Matchups will be across social media in the form of polls starting Friday, for the rest of March and through the beginning of April. Remember, this isn't about picking the "best" creature, it's about picking Solgard's most beloved creature.

Get ready to campaign for your winners and stay tuned for Round 2!

The Guild Clash...international edition.

RatatoskTheSquirrel — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:41:05 +0000

Grand Chest Revamp, 28-Feb

RatatoskTheSquirrel — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:52:48 +0000

We've pushed this update out to the app stores! To see it in action, please get the update and install it.

The Grand Chest now uses controlled random, or "pity mechanics," which improve chances of high value rewards until they happen. (We are also adding another level to the Grand Chest. Level 12 will now be the first time the Grand Chest upgrades (rares are removed from the possible options in the Grand Chest at that point). Hero level 28 will be the next time the chest odds undergo a change to weight the results more toward Legendary and Mythicals.)

We will start everyone off on this new Grand Chest system by using the “pity mechanics” -- as if you had opened twenty chests without getting any Mythicals. So, for example, if you are over hero level 12, you will see a +2% improvement to your base chances to get Mythicals (for a total of 5%).

In addition to improving your chances per rarity as you open chests, you will also see improving chances to unlock the bigger piles of Legendary and Mythical gems, if your first pile is the small one. These two pity boosts are separate, so if you get the second to smallest possible pile of Mythicals, your chance to _get_ them will be reset to the base chance, but you’ll still have an improved chance to get a bigger stack of them.

As with many things in Solgard, this will make much more sense when you look at the chest in the game

Creature Conversion Plans

RatatoskTheSquirrel — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:14:16 +0000

Remember, this post is part of a series. Questions about dust and gems will be addressed in a future post!

CREATURE CONVERSION

We broke down the number of “steps” involved in maxing out a creature in the old system, and to the best of our ability, determined where that much effort (in time, in gem slots, in gold, etc) would put that creature in the new system.

But it wasn’t even that simple. With common creatures, which now have fewer gem slots, you may find that your creatures are now “maxed” where they weren’t before, and we want you to take the leftover effort and put it elsewhere. And a creature who was maxed out in a lower tier is not maxed out in a higher tier, even though you put in a lot of effort. Rare creatures have a new additional rank, now. Legendary creatures that were maxed out may not quite be maxed out in the new system.

We’ve addressed all of these discrepancies by trying to “make up the difference” with conversion currency.

CONVERSION TOKENS - CREATURE

Our goal here was to recognize the effort you invested into your existing creatures, to thank you for that, and to give you ways to redistribute some of your effort according to any new strategies you might want to try. We tried to make sure you would have options to customize your creatures after the update, and that you would feel like you came out ahead.

The specific number of creature conversion tokens is being calculated with a lot of different factors in mind. It’s impossible to lay out all the details, but broadly, the amount you get per creature will vary depending on how easy or hard the creature was to get, and how easy it will be to get going forward. Your total will depend on your creature’s ranks, abilities, and whether the creatures moved up or down a tier.

Using the creature tokens, you can go to the conversion shop and trade them for:

Dust
Gold
Sun gems
Runes (see next section )

ABILITIES

Eagle eyed Solgardians spotted little dots over the abilities in a screenshot earlier this week. Here’s another screenshot, for reference:

What's a Night Witch? Guess you'll have to keep reading!

Those dots are part of the new ability system. Abilities are now divided into groups of levels called “elevations.” You can use your gold and dust to upgrade abilities within the whole base elevation, even if if your creature is only Rank 1 or Rank 2. You will have to increase a creature’s rank to unlock all the ability levels, similar to the original design. To access the next ability elevation, you will need to use runes. Here are two more screenshots that should make it more clear.

Runes! The elevation will be available, because the creature is high enough in rank.

This creature is only Rank 2, so the Elevation is locked until it gets advanced.

A RARE, LEGENDARY THANK YOU

Grimchop, Cracklehoof, and Nightcast are special cases. These three creatures are each dropping one rarity level, but they will not be converted as the other creatures will be. They will appear in their new rarity as the same rank that they were before the update, with one exception: If you have three gems slotted on Nightcast and Grimchop before the update, those two creatures might be one rank higher (they’re losing a gem slot). If they had one or two gems slotted before the update, they will still have them after the update.

Here’s the fun part: We are going to “mirror” those three creatures. Got a Nightcast? Wait until you see your new rare Night Witch. If you have a high level Grimchop, you will also get a free, high level legendary Grimwall. And if your Cracklehoof was literally a GOAT (“greatest of all time”), you have an even more magnificent Thunderhoof waiting for you in the legendary tier.

If you had old gems stockpiled for Grimchop, Nightcast, and Cracklehoof, they will be converted to new gems for the new versions of them AND duplicated as gems available for your new rare Witch/legendary Grimwall/Thunderhoof.

We hope all you veteran Solgardians enjoy your three new legendaries.

Fantastic Update: Fewer TC/Bounty limits, doubled UW rewards

RatatoskTheSquirrel — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 22:06:43 +0000

We have made some changes behind the scenes, changes that don't require a download and aren't part of the patch notes process. But they're awesome enough that I wanted to make sure we documented them for you! Please be sure to tell your guildmates

- Underworld rewards are greatly improved
- Buying limits in the Underworld shops have been removed - feel free to buy four cores at once, if you've got the mode currency.
- Limitations on which Treasure Caves you can enter (after you have unlocked them) have been removed. There is still a limit to the number of free attempts you can make each day, and the refill timer is still in effect, but you may apply your attempts and play passes to any unlocked Cave you wish.
- Limitations on which Bounty you can play (after you have unlocked them) have been removed. There is still the same limit to the number of free attempts per day, but you may use them on whichever Bounty you prefer -- and you may use play passes to do a Bounty for each rarity every day, if you choose.
- Campaign levels 65, 81 and 121 have had their difficulty tuned to be slightly easier.

We're rolling out the next update! 17-January

RatatoskTheSquirrel — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 20:39:47 +0000

We have rolled this out to a percentage of our Android players for testing. I have been told that Rotbite should appear on Sunday's Hero Challenge whether or not you have the update. Please let me know right away if that's not the case, okay? I would appreciate it.

Muninn Blót

The Muninn Blót begins on 26 January. The creatures you can win are:

Muninn: A purple mythical support critter

Silvertail: A red legendary attack critter

Warulf: A yellow legendary attack critter

Stoutshell: A green rare defense beast

(Silvertail is our #yearoftherat creature, by the way.)

You can also win our old friends Decaptain and Shroomling.

Featured creatures in HC are, in weekly order, Rotbite, Land Wyrm, Raven Master, Wyrm Wrangler.

Creature Changes

Combined Pyroon and Fire Striders will no longer take damage from fire in their spaces.

Moon Mage will do one more round of collecting unmatched units right before she attacks, making her more versatile and easy to use. However, the change did cause a need to lower the amount of power she receives from each absorbed creature. She has also got a slightly lower growth in her Stats, which has been moved to fuse and sync.

Vinebeard will now properly prioritize attacking enemies that are just appearing.

Starting next week, Thor gems will be in the Mythical Hero Arena shop, Decaptain gems will be in the Mythical Hero Challenge Shop, and Bone Juggler gems in the Mythical Treasure Caves shop. Well Dweller and Potstomp will be raidable, so check their creature cards for details!

UI Fixes and Changes

Increased size and put in a new font color on guild chat.

Bug Fixes

When autoplaying in the Treasure Caves, the AI will now properly use Embla’s spear.

Patch release

[Deleted User] — Tue, 28 May 2019 07:17:49 +0000

Patch release for Legend of Solgard

New in this update:

New Bounty/Bounty Mob design, and we've given the Treasure Caves a makeover too
The character base plates have been revamped
Adjustments to the AI to take power changes into account
Various bug fixes and memory usage optimizations

Full list of updates can be found in the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/notes/legend-of-solgard-group/patch-notes-27-may/2315845142030939/

The update is currently being rolled out in stages.

November Update Beginning to Roll Out

RatatoskTheSquirrel — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:11:28 +0000

We've started rolling out the next update on Android. (I always feel slightly like an actual squirrel with these partial rollouts, testing the branch with one paw to make sure it holds before putting my whole body on the line.) If all goes well, everyone should have it by tomorrow, so wish us luck and thank your early adopter friends for their help!

Here are the notes:

* New BlótFestival event is in the queue, featuring everyone's favorite eldritch horror: Kraken! The event is currently scheduled to kick off on 17-November.

* New Featured Creature: Rock Gronch will be the first boosted creature in the Kraken Blót, so if you still need to improve him, he’s featured in your Hero Challenge this week. The way it should work is that everyone should finish this HC season as normal, and he should be featured in the season starting on Wednesday. (And if you’re curious, the next three featured creatures will be, in order, Foulsprite, Vinebeard, and Sun Blade.)

* New creatures: Blazelin (rare), Grizzletoof (legendary), Wispwight (legendary), Kraken (mythical) and Elderling (mythical) have been added to the game. Kraken is an apparition and will act as the face of the next festival event, as Thor was before him.

* The Kraken Blót will feature a reduced creature timer, from 12 hours down to 9.

* Multiple areas of the UI have been improved and display bugs fixed — no more weird overlay issues, we hope! Two other examples:

* There is now little plate saying "max level" under any max level creatures, celebrating the achievement of reaching max level and filling all gem slots on any given creature. (Maxing out Abilities / equipping idols are not necessary for this to show up - this is just about sun gems.) “Excess” gems are no longer displayed on the collection screen, but we haven’t taken them away, since you might need them again someday.

* You will now see how your creatures contribute to your hero stats as you select them in the pre-fight menu.

* We've upgraded our game engine, to comply with new platform requirements. You shouldn’t notice anything, TBH — I mention it because it’s the kind of project that takes a lot of time behind the scenes and it accounted for a lot of our time in the last update cycle

* As with every update, we’ve done some optimizing to make the game more compatible with lower end devices.

* Bug fixes, behind the scene stuff.

Downtime, Wednesday 9-October

RatatoskTheSquirrel — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 11:35:15 +0000

What ho, Solgardians! On Wednesday, 9-October, the servers will be down from 9 AM to 11 AM UTC (5 AM to 7 AM EDT, 11 AM to 1 PM in Sweden) doing some infrastructure improvements. We want to be ready for the Festival! Keep watching this page for more information on that, too.

New Idols

Electra — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 15:15:13 +0000

(This post is part of a series. I realize that some of it will not make sense without the entire series, so bear in mind, when I’m done, you’ll have posts about Idols, Creature Conversion, Dust and Gems, and Dungeons. I can only post things that are through the testing process, so, please be patient with us while we finalize everything!)

IDOLS

The idols have been significantly overhauled. In addition to the major changes to the whole idol system (idols retained their names and some qualities, but there’s no 1:1 correlation between the old versions and the new), we were also looking at such a wholesale change in the creatures that we knew everyone would want to make at least some changes.

So, we’ve gone with the nuclear option. All idols will be removed and destroyed. (Do not panic! How we make that up to you will be in the next section!)

Here is how the new system works. In order to create an idol, you will need:

Molds
Cores (rarity based)
Materials (now in only two flavors, “sun” or “moon”)
Minerals (also rarity based)

Minerals themselves come in two types:

“Type A,” found through regular gameplay, and available in all rarities.
Type B, found primarily through special events, and themselves available in four specialities:
- Generic, all rarities
- Attacker, legendary/mythical rarities
- Defender, legendary/mythical
- Supporter, legendary/mythical

So, for example, in the new system there might be a new Rare Sun Tyr mold, one that would look good on a defender. To make the idol, this mold asks for one common core, four rare cores, two rare (type A) minerals, twelve sun materials, and some amount of gold. A Legendary Moon Tyr would require three epic cores, six legendary cores, five legendary Type A minerals, one legendary Defender mineral, and 110 moon materials.

By the way, a feature of the new system will be that when you dismantle an idol, it will give you back cores that are one level higher in rarity. Dismantle a legendary idol, get mythical cores!

Finally, idols now have both rarity and rank associated with them. A common creature can only use common idols, etc. And your creature’s rank must be equal to or higher than that of the idol you attach to it.

IDOL CONVERSION TOKENS

Once we decided on the nuclear option, it was time to do math. With our calculations, we have taken into account the rarity of the old molds, the number of materials you needed to create old idols, the rarity of the old materials themselves, what you had stockpiled, and more. The result: You will get a pile of idol conversion tokens in exchange for your old stuff. The conversion store will not necessarily have the same number of molds that existed in the original design. The new molds are in many cases more powerful than before.

The store (the general shop will have five tabs after the update, and the conversion tab is the one where you spend conversion currency) will offer all of the components in the new system. Again, there’s no direct correlation between the old system and the new. If you had twenty idols before the change, I can’t say how many idols you’ll have in the new. But we did try our best to ensure that you came out of the change with enough to get the same amount of _power_ (which, again, might not be the same raw number of idols) as before, if not more.

We have been testing the conversion with a small group of actual players, not paid focus groups or company employees. Because we’re still working on the changes, I can’t give you exact numbers. But this is the system you’ll see in the next update.

(Originally posted by Ratatosk the Squirrel)

Creature Revamp Plans

Electra — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 15:01:40 +0000

I know our regulars have seen most of this in bits and pieces as I chat with people in the comments, but it’s time to make sure everyone has seen it. And it’s time to give you a head start on planning your armies for the update.

You know we've been revamping the game to focus on different lanes for different rarities, so that in most game modes, legendaries fight legendaries as opposed to running roughshod over common creatures. The next step in this plan involves adding more legendaries to the game (along with increasing drop rates for their gems and increasing ways to get them in general).

It’s much more than just legendaries, though. We also need to make ALL the creatures suit all the new rarity-gated modes. So once we push the changes to the Underworld and the Arena Challenge live (that update is in testing now), it will be time to bring you the creature revamp.

We've redistributed the original creatures among the four rarity types. In order to accomplish an even mix without swamping you with too many new creatures, we’ve made some changes to the existing army. Some creatures changed “type” or “race” so we could have the proper balance for the type-limited challenges. Some creatures changed rarity, some going up and some going down. That was done not to buff or boost a particular character, but strictly because we needed, say, a particular color’s damage type in a rarity where one or none had been before.

We have invented a few new creatures in order to start you off with exactly the same number of creatures in each of the original four rarities. Unlike past new creature releases, however, we will not be doing that thing where the new ones have a much greater chance to drop. All drop rates are subject to adjustment, however. Nor do we have special events with scorcher stones. The creatures listed below will all just appear, as normal. (We will be bringing back special events once the upheaval is behind us.)
We will be adjusting individual creatures to suit their new roles before the launch, but the smaller adjustments will rightfully wait until the major update is in your hands -- so we can adjust based on how you actually play, not how we think you’re going to play. We also already have plans for new creatures that address some of the strategic gaps. Please, think of this as a starting point, not an ending point.

I know the new lineup, and I’ll post it below so you can start thinking about your strategic choices going forward.

I also know you have lots of questions about HOW we’re going to handle the conversion...and I can’t answer them today. There are multiple factors to consider, all involving your investment. We know you’ve spent time, money, or both on your creatures. We know that if you’re still here after all the changes we’ve made, you may have a certain emotional investment as well. We are considering a lot of possible scenarios, and we’re going to be running our final choices past a group of actual players (not a focus group or a bunch of paid evaluators) before we put this live.

The revamps are almost over. Thank you so much for sticking with us.

If you would like to post your top concern in the comments, I will be making a little spreadsheet with the most common reactions - so feel free to “like” someone else’s comment instead of posting your own. It will count as two “votes” in my table. If you can keep it so I can cut and paste comments directly, I would be very grateful.

Speaking of tables! I know full well this is going to change how people invest, effective immediately...and please know that’s why we’re telling you this even though I don’t even have a patch date yet!

COMMON: Dazzlepaw, Elfling, Roughpaw, Redguard, Mudscrape, Boomline, Grimchop, Gnawbark, Tusker, Nightcast, Mire Wyrm...and a new yellow attacker, does electric damage.

RARE: Rotbite, Glowbuck, Cracklehoof, Hobling, Bog Mage, Gloomfang, Croaker, Witherwild, Mossbow, Stonefist...and two new purples, an attacker and a defender, fire damage types.

EPIC: Firestrider, Sun Mage, Sundrench, Valkyrie, Shroomling, Cinder Wyrm, Flame Wyrm, Rock Gronch, Land Wyrm, Ghast, Dunder Gronch, Foul Sprite.

LEGENDARY: Sunblade, Pyroon, Grimbash, Wyrm Wrangler, Vinebeard, Wink Warg, Lamp Wraith, Moon Mage, Raven Master, and a new yellow, red, and green.

The current list of creatures who have changed race:

Grimchop, Nightcast: Warrior -> Small folk

Fire Strider, Rock Gronch, Dunder Gronch: Spirit -> Warrior

Raven Master: Small folk -> Wight
Please note: “current” means it potentially might change if something comes up in testing. I’m not trying to make your lives harder, I’m being transparent in a situation that is very much in flux.

(Originally posted by Ratatosk the Squirrel)

New version of Solgard is out! 1.8.0

[Deleted User] — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 15:27:39 +0000

Hi guys!

We're currently rolling out version 1.8.0 of Solgard. The rollout will be in stages

New in this release:

New Treasure Hunt design!
Rainbow events now have two variations, one with the chance to drop legendary gems!
All active guild members will now get boss chests, even if the boss died too fast for some to get their hits in
Icons and textures upgraded for more detail and clarity
Various bug fixes and improvements

Check our Facebook group for all the details

New Update Coming Soon!

Journeyman-117 — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:11:39 +0000

So it’s been a while since our last big update and no doubt you’re wondering “What in the name of Niflheim is going on?”. Well just to be clear, it’s nothing to do with an uncontrollable frost issue, or an OP Rock Gronch running wild in the office. It’s much simpler than that.

We’ve had a few things in the game that needed to be addressed and fixed to help make the next update our best yet.

Now to the fun part and a couple of sneak peeks. Anyone interested in a new Legendary creature?

We can’t give you any more details at this point, but trust me when I say “this is awesome”. I’ve seen a Grimbash in action and it’s a beautiful sight to see. Any guesses as to her special abilities or perhaps...her relationship to Grimchop?

What about a new Game Mode? Anyone interested in that perhaps?

This is super secret and still being developed by the game team, so I can’t tell you any more about this right now. But rumour has it…

...Hel, the goddess that rules over the frozen world of Niflheim, may return to reconquer Helheim.

The update is coming soon!

We read all of your feedback, so please share it with us if you have any.

HUGE thanks to everyone for playing the game! <3

New version of Solgard is being rolled out! 1.7.0.155

[Deleted User] — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:10:51 +0000

Hi guys,

We're currently rolling out the latest version of Solgard!

As always we're rolling out in stages so you might not see the update right away.

New In This Update
- UI improvements to help you handle big creature collections. Sort by rarity and power, with filters for type/role/color.
- Changes to the Guild Dungeons to make the mode faster, more rewarding, and more fun.
- Fixed Crystal UI to display damage done to that specific crystal. Overall crystal damage still visible by viewing the main chamber boss.
- The common chest available through the Hero Arena store now contains dust.
- Creature abilities that create randomly placed fire/stun tiles will no longer hit void tiles.
- Wyrm Wrangler and Dazzlepaw strength buffs will now properly affect two rows on your side.
- Underworld Sun Boosts can no longer be poisoned
- Fixed Mire Wyrm's Retaliate
- Ability numbers in description now update when the ability is upgraded
- Sun Drench attack effect will properly expire
- Various other bug fixes and improvements

Guild Dungeons improvements

[Deleted User] — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 15:56:18 +0000

As the new guild season kicks off this week, we’ve got some great changes! We’ve aimed to make the mode faster paced, more rewarding, and to give more treasure to more people, especially those in newer or smaller guilds.

Better rewards across the board
Fewer hit points for bosses and crystals and so more damage done by you!
End-of-season chests for the top 2000 guilds, instead of the top 1000
Shorter seasons so you can win more chests and gain more rewards

More details will be released soon. Check out https://www.facebook.com/LegendofSolgard/ or join the Solgard group for more info.

Not getting any red mystals from Treasure Hunt or Rainbow? Please read

[Deleted User] — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 04:38:37 +0000

Hi guys,

The Troll Gorudo arrived in Midgard before the Red Mystals started to appear and therefore doesn't have any. Future trolls should have them and there should be more sightings soon!

Treasure hunts are kicking things off today and more rainbows are bound to show up during the week. Where there's a rainbow there's bound to be treasure and Trolls should show up to defend it!

New version of Solgard is being rolled out! Version 1.6.0

[Deleted User] — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 09:08:27 +0000

Hi guys,

Version 1.6.0 of Solgard is currently being rolled out in stages over the next couple of days. This is a staged roll out - so far only some Android users have the update to see if everything works OK. You will automatically get a popup in the game when the release is ready to download.

New in this update:

New upcoming legendary creature: Moon Mage. Moon Mage will be available in an upcoming Treasure Cave event this weekend. While the Moon Mage waits out her hold, she'll grow by absorbing nearby uncombined Moon Mages (Shadow Vortex). Her other ability, Lune Blade, does poison damage over two turns.

New upcoming common creature: Mossbow, in a Rainbow/Gnome event in the middle of next month. Mossbow has a shower of arrows attack that sets the target spaces on fire (Flamefall) and the other arrow attack is a guaranteed crit hit that can divide and hit multiple targets at higher levels (Headshot).

• The Hero Arena will now give better rewards to those advancing to higher leagues.

• All players will now earn more gold. Products in the shop priced in gold have had prices adjusted accordingly.

• Autobattle will be available for everyone

• Various bug fixes and improvements

Balance Changes:

The Gloomfang now hits fewer enemies when combined, which will affect growth. He'll also get more power earlier on, but he'll do less bonus damage. Gloomfang's attacking wolves will do less guaranteed damage, but they'll have better luck and do more bonus damage.
The Dazzlepaw hits fewer attacking units when attacking, and will do less guaranteed damage but will have better luck and do more bonus damage.

[Bug fix] Dungeon Boss - healing hearts drains energy instead of healing

[Deleted User] — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 09:39:18 +0000

Hi guys,

We've seen several social posts about an issue with the Dungeon Boss where the healing hearts drains energy instead of healing.

The game studio is aware and has located the issue. The bug will be fixed and a hotfix rolled out here later today.

New version of Solgard is being rolled out! Version 1.5

[Deleted User] — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 13:12:06 +0000

Hi guys,

Version 1.5 of Solgard is currently being rolled out in stages over the next couple of days. Please check your app store in order to update.

New in this update:

New creature: Redguard (Bounty event begins 20-January.) Redguard is a new common creature with "Thorn Wall" (barriers that will also stab your enemies in front and to each side) and "Valiant Spear" (critical hit buff for nearby allies and direct damage)
Various bug fixes and improvements

Testing Notes:

Auto battle option after completing campaign level 19, the training camp. A button will show while playing a level that toggles the Auto Battle feature in-game. An AI will control the creatures for the player. This will be available for 50% of players as an A/B test

How to recover your old forum account

[Deleted User] — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:10:06 +0000

Hi there!

Great to see you again!

We have been busy upgrading the old forum to a brand new format and we have kept all your posts and profile settings. All you’ll need to do is to follow the below steps in order to login:

Click on Login. Once you click Log In you will see a message that looks something like this:

All you need to do is click on the text and it will take you to this dialog box:

Enter your email and click on “Request a New Password”

Check your email! You should receive an email that looks something like this:

(If you don’t receive the email make sure you check your spam folder)

Click on “Change My Password” and it will take you to back to the site.

Last step: Changing the password. All you have to do is to put a new password, confirm it by writing it again below and voilà! Your old account is back and now you can fully enjoy our new Community site!

New version of Solgard is being rolled out! Version 1.3.4

[Deleted User] — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 04:36:26 +0000

Hi guys,

Version 1.3.4 of Solgard is currently being rolled out in stages over the next couple of days. Please check your app store in order to update.

New in This Update:

New Event: Hero Challenge. Bring 12 creatures into Bouts against your opponents. Win Bouts to earn points toward rewards!
Guild Store/Currency: Earn guild currency by helping your guild. Spend your earnings in the Guild Store.
New rare creature: Glowbuck! Event begins 24-Dec.
New common creatures: Bog Mage and Croaker. Event begins 4-Jan.
Bug fixes and polish of graphical elements

Testing Notes

Some of you will be trying out a new “auto-battle” option if you’re past the 19th. campaign level.
The Hero Challenge is the same for everyone, but some of you will see the event lasting two days and others will see it going for four.

New version of Solgard is out! Version 1.3.2

[Deleted User] — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:38:50 +0000

New in This Update:

New creatures: Gloomfang and Witherwild. Follow us on Facebook to learn how to get your own!
Hero Arena updates: Additional leagues, updated timers, Hero Arena-specific currency and shop
Boss Arena now opens on Tuesdays
Performance optimizations and bug fixes

New version of Solgard is out! Version 1.2.2

Xarly — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 11:36:15 +0000

New in the last update:

Foulsprite Event: Introducing the pointy-eared, purple-winged and foul-mouthed Foulsprite. Get Pumpkins in Bounties to Collect this Rare creature!

New Common creature: Dazzlepaw. Check out what this dazzling beast fights the frost!

Downloadable content will now be available in batches, making everything run much smoother on your device!

We even added handy DLC preferences in the Settings Menu. Have a look once you have upgraded.

4 new Bounty villains!

Various bug fixes, balancing, optimizations and other improvements.

Thanks for all your feedback for Legend of Solgard and helping us shape the game!

New Special Event - WANTED!

[Deleted User] — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 05:26:36 +0000

New Special Event - WANTED!

Thieving bandits have made off with a load of Gold and Sun Gems.
- Defeat them all to recover the treasure!

All you'll have to do is make sure you're at least at Hero level 6 before the event starts.

The event starts today at 17.00 GMT and ends 3rd of September at 17.00 GMT.

Bounty Mobs will run daily back to back for the duration of the event so you'll get plenty of chances to grab Gold and Sun Gems!

Don't forget that you can also win Diamonds in our forum contest!

Good luck in shaking the loot from the Mob Bosses!