Balance Changes — October 2024 (Season 64)
The biggest patch of the half-year: after September shipped no balance changes, October pulled back the P.E.K.K.A, Tesla, Zap, and Goblin Drill Evolutions while buffing the struggling Goblin Queen's Journey cards.
September's Season 63 came and went without a balance patch, so this update carried two months of pressure. Much of it landed on Evolutions: Evolved Tesla lost its death pulse (with a base-card hit-speed compensation), Evolved Zap lost its third zap, and the Evolved Goblin Drill's submerge damage was removed.
The patch also included two much-discussed token changes — Magic Archer and Mother Witch each lost exactly 1 hitpoint.
Reworks
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- Evolution: death pulse removed
- Hit speed: 1.2s → 1.1s
The base-card hit-speed buff reverts July's nerf as compensation for the Evolution losing its death pulse.
- Evolution: third zap removed
- Evolution: second zap damage increased by 100% (now full damage)
- Evolution: submerge damage and pushback removed
- Evolution: spawned Goblins now have a deploy delay after submerging
- Evolution: second submerge Goblin count 1 → 2
Removes the chip damage from re-submerging but restores the extra Goblin taken away in August.
Buffs
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- Damage per second: 25 → 30 (+20%)
- Hitpoints: 2196 → 2304 (+5%)
- Death damage: 133 → 145 (+9%)
- Movement speed: 45 → 60 (Slow → Medium)
- Evolution Goblin Brawler hit speed: 1.1s → 1.0s
Nerfs
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- Damage: 230 → 225 (-2%)
- Lifetime after dropping below 50% hitpoints: 10s → 7s
- Damage (1 target): 472 → 320 (-32%)
Second cut to its single-target damage after the August rework.
- Evolution heal per enemy defeated: 471 → 376 (-20%)
First pullback of the P.E.K.K.A Evolution released in September.
- Evolution shield knockback: 4 → 3 tiles
- Damage: 401 → 386 (-4%)
- First hit speed: 0.6s → 0.8s
Adjustment
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