Expected patch release: Monday, July 21
Free Week
Huge news! Legion TD 2 will be FREE TO KEEP on the Epic Games Store for a week starting July 24th. You heard that right - not only free to play, but free to keep!
Help us get the word out by sharing on Reddit, Discord, Twitch, etc. as we hope to get more people addicted to the game kindly welcome more players into our wonderful community. 
We're also celebrating with tons of events and rewards!
1v1 Featured Event
Teammates holding you back? It's your time to shine in our 1v1 event lasting from July 25th-27th.
Skill-based matchmaking: Play with and against players near your skill level.
Visible ratings: Used for matchmaking and bragging rights.
Event Points (EP) leaderboard: Gain and lose EP by winning and losing games. Additionally, +3 EP each game, so play as much as you can to climb.
Rewards:
Top 10 finish:
25,000 EssenceTop 100 finish:
15,000 EssenceTop 1,000 finish:
10,000 EssenceReach 150 EP at any point:
5,000 Essence
Nova Cup
Monthly 2v2 tournament with an $875 prize pool and 4 divisions
Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 Esports Portal
Tune in at View game page on July 26th and 27th at 10am PST / 1pm EST / 7pm CEST
Casual Champions Cup
Introducing ToHoe's Casual Champions Cup, a super rare 4v4 tournament with a $600 prize pool
8 teams, first come, first served, so sign up soon!
Tune in at View game page on August 2nd and 3rd at 10am PST / 1pm EST / 7pm CEST
Twitch Drops
Watch Legion TD 2 streamers, collect rewards! Event lasts from July 24th - August 3rd. Details here: Legion TD 2 Twitch Drops
Watch for 1 hour and earn
5000 Essence!Watch for 3 hours and earn a random card!
Watch for 6 hours and earn
1000 Premium Essence!Watch for 10 hours and earn a random secret card!
Card Drop and Essence Boost
Card drop rate significantly increased and doubled essence gain from July 24th - August 3rd!
Major Updates
New Mastermind: Miner
Your workers cost 5 gold less
Start with -15 gold
Miner encourages aggressive worker pushes and playing undervalue / on the edge.
New Secret Card: Giga Chad Worker
New Refraction: Infernal Spectral Scallywag
New Feature: Hyperlinks in Taglines
You can now hyperlink Twitch and YouTube links in your tagline.
Please no rickrolling ;)
Improved Feature: Estimated Mythium
Estimated mythium during the battle phase now shows what your mythium is expected to be at the end of the next build phase.
This is much more useful information than what it previously displayed (current mythium).
Game Balance
Read more about our design philosophy on game balance, and use Drachbot to see mastermind, unit, and spell win rates and pick rates!
Masterminds
We believe in incremental changes. Masterminds are largely substitutes for each other, which means if one mastermind is slightly better than another, it takes the lion's share of the pick rate.
It's now harder to deduce an opposing player's mastermind from power score, which allows for more mind games, especially in the early game.
Hybrid 
All fighters can now be sold for 90% on the first wave they are built
Tier 1 cost: 18 → 19
Tier 2 cost: 45 → 46
Tier 3 cost: 85 → 86
Tier 4 cost: 130 → 131
The 90% sell helps for fighters that are very positioning-dependent.
Scrapper
Scrap: Sell percentage: 80% → 85%
Low pick rate and win rate.
Legion Spells
Executioner
Execution threshold: 12% (6% for ranged) → 13% (6.5% for ranged)
Slightly low pick rate and win rate.
King
Giant Slayer: Max health damage: 1.8% → 2%
Lightning Hammer: Max health damage: 1.8% → 2%
Upgrade Attack: 12% → 10%
Upgrade Spell: 6% → 5%
Nerfing king upgrades, as they promote passive gameplay and are currently too strong.
Fighters
Goblin Copter / Whirlybird
Attack speed decreased by 1.6%
Whirlybird is one of the strongest openings in the game.
Seraphin
Damage increased by 1.9%
Low win rate and overshadowed by Devilfish.
Sakura
Damage decreased by 5%
Attack speed increased by 7.7%
Superbloom
Health: 80 (240 on waves 11+) → 70 - 270 based on wave number
Damage gained per stack: 6 (18 on waves 11+) → 5% - 19% attack speed
This change makes Sakura viable at all stages in the game, rather than only being viable on waves 1 and 11+.
Net effects:
Significantly stronger when built in the early game, not as an opening (think wave 5)
Significantly stronger with Pulverizer
Slightly stronger as an opening
Weaker when built in the mid game
Weaker against wave 4
Static damage thresholds make Sakura easier to learn and reduce extreme rewards/consequences for living/dying (e.g. dying once meant you missed the damage threshold to two-shot wave 4)
Harpy / Sky Queen
Attack speed increased by 1.4%
Slightly low pick rate and win rate.
Slime Siren
Attack speed decreased by 3.4%
Slightly high pick rate and high win rate. Shifting her identity to be more for tanking and delay - if you get her to max mana!
Butcher / Head Chef
Damage increased by 4%
Slightly low pick rate and low win rate.
APS / MPS
Attack speed increased by 2.6%
Slightly low pick rate and win rate.
Warp Wing / Void Manta
Damage increased by 2%
Low pick rate and slightly low win rate.
Crab Warlock / Crabomancer
Summoner damage increased by 5.6%
Summon health decreased by 3.3%
Summon damage decreased by 3.8%
Last patch helped by nerfing Crab Warlock in low MMR games and providing a stronger counter (Pack Leader). However, Crab Warlock is still weak in high MMR and slightly strong in low MMR. To bridge that gap, we’re shifting power from the summon to the summoner.
Additionally, here are tips to beat Crab Warlock:
Send Pack Leader and other DPS mercs: Brute, Imps, Ogre, Witch, or Centaur, depending on the rest of their frontline.
Generally avoid tank mercenaries, Hermit, Safety Mole, Four Eyes, or Needler
Send on impact and magic waves, notably waves 10, 13, 14, 16, and 20.
When in doubt, save mythium for one wave longer. It’s important to overwhelm them with a big send and not let the Crab Warlocks hit critical mass.
Lioness
Health decreased by 1.3%
Damage decreased by 2%
Entourage: 9% damage and damage reduction → 10% attack speed, 7% damage reduction, and 70 health
Nerfing synergy with health gain to address a major pain point in Classic, and making Entourage generally more rewarding.
Ocean Templar
Health and damage increased by 5%
Resonance: Regeneration: 2.75% → 3%
Resonance: Magic damage reduction removed
The fun part about Templar has always been the regen, so we’re solidifying that as its identity.
Priestess of the Abyss
Invigorate: Heal: 10 + 3% max health → 25 + 1.5% max health
Azeria
Invigorate: Heal: 20 + 3.5% max health → 70 + 2% max health
Nerfing synergy with health gain to address a major pain point in Classic; otherwise, unchanged.
Hades
Mana regeneration decreased by 9% (mana gained from Necromancy unchanged)
Slightly high pick rate and high win rate.
Crawling Catapult / Wandering Trebuchet
Damage decreased by 2.5%
High win rate.
Mercenaries
Honey Bear
Damage increased by 2.7%
Overshadowed by Safety Mole and Hermit.
Classic 4v4
Masterminds / Legions
Reverted Classic-only balance changes to Castle, Cartel, Lock In, and Legions
Dual Building
AOE damage reduction: 45% → 40%
Balance Watchlist
The dev team is constantly monitoring game balance, between looking at data and listening to community feedback. If anything is being more closely monitored than usual, it will be listed in this Balance Watchlist section. For this patch, the following are on the watchlist:
Radiant Halo, waves 16-20
Improvements
In the loading screen, if you have Classic Ranks enabled in settings, you now see your Classic Matchmaking Rank, which uses a blend of your Classic MMR and Ranked MMR. This is purely a visual change to reduce confusion around matchmaking in Classic.
PvE now shows up a bit more often as a rotating game mode. Tower Defense and Giga Mercs now show up a bit less often.
Fixed cases where estimated gold was not accurate
Fixed Recommended Value in PvE on waves 21+
If you reroll a quest, you will no longer reroll into the same quest anymore
Takeover bots no longer full send mercs when sending income. They will now upgrade the king or save the rest of their mythium
Fixed gold bounties with enemies summoned after a leak (Blob and Froggo)
Fixed a bug where Spectral Scallywag with GA didn't preserve stacks when it revived
Game Translations
Legion TD 2's translations continue to be improved, thanks to major contributions from community members! If you'd like to contribute to improving the game's texts further, visit the following link:
Help Translate Legion TD 2
HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped up to this point! 
Reward for Boosting Discord
Anyone who Boosts the Legion TD 2 Discord will receive 500 Premium Essence each month the Boost is active. Here's how it works:
When you Boost the Legion TD 2 Discord, you'll get a DM from Safety Mole with a code
The code can be redeemed by typing "/redeem code" in the in-game Global Chat
Players who keep their Boost active will receive a new code every month
Codes expire when the Booster receives a new code or if the old one wasn't used
Thank you to everyone for contributing to the community!
Monthly In-Game Reward Code
This month’s ultra-secret code is “gamechanger” to unlock some free Essence in-game!
Each month, a new code will be revealed right here in the patch notes. Codes are only valid during the month they are announced.
Here’s how to enter a code in-game:
Closing Remarks
This patch introduces a brand new mastermind—Miner! It also increases Scrapper's viability, reworks Sakura and Ocean Templar, and addresses raid boss Lioness and Azeria in PvE. And of course the huge free week promotion and all the events!
As always, with any major patch, we'll keep a close eye on things and rapidly hotfix as long as needed. Thank you again for playing Legion TD 2! We hope you continue to enjoy the game. 
If you've enjoyed the game, but haven't left a review yet, please consider posting a short (hopefully positive 
) review for the game! If the game reaches 90% positive, Steam will give it more visibility = more players = more freelo better matchmaking!
If you enjoy these updates, please give it a Thumbs Up, too!
If you have constructive criticism, let's chat about it. Discord and /r/LegionTD2 on reddit are our main channels of communication, and aside from the development team, there are community helpers who can ensure your feedback is heard, as well as answer pretty much anything you've ever wanted to know about the game. If you want a guaranteed answer from the devs, the monthly AMAs on /r/LegionTD2 are your best bet.
Sincerely,
The Legion TD 2 Team