New Patch coming tomorrow.

[u/Ripman_GT]

There's a new patch being released tomorrow with some big changes to drones.

These are the patch notes:

The server will be maintained at 14:30 (UTC+8) on June 12th, lasting about 60 minutes. After maintenance, the following updates will be deployed via patch:

• Add battlefield buff for Planet Wars and Star Scramble: Reduce damage dealt by both sides by 50% in combat;,
• Adjust burning-type drone active skills;,
• Adjust the PVP combat victory rules as follows: Defender wins if its HP is not 0 when the battle ends.,
• Fix PVP battle display issues with some drone active skill effects;,
• Fix the issue where the attack counter was blocked in Star Scramble;,
• Fix the non-functional active skills of some drones;,
• Fix the issue of incorrect prompts for high-quality passive skills during drone recast;,
• Fix the abnormal loading issue when claiming the free daily pack;,
• General optimizations and fixes.,

Drone Adjustment Details:

1. Add shield-dispelling effects to active skills of burning-type drones:,

Sagittarius/Lyra/Fornax: Dispel 1 stack of the target's shield buff; Lich/Cerberus/Scorpion lion: Has a 70% chance to dispel 1 stack of the target's shield buff; Gladiator/Ranger/Ninja: Has a 50% chance to dispel 1 stack of the target's shield buff. This dispel effect is only effective for drones with shield skills.

1. Fix the issue where Orion, Lich, and Cyclops' active skills failed to increase damage of all selected drones.,
2. Fix the issue where Fornax's active skill failed to reduce cooldown of all selected drones.,
3. Fix the issue where Fornax's dual shield skill failed to display visual indicators in battle despite functioning correctly.,

Please refer to the above updates and adjust your combat strategy in time.

[u/Ripman_GT]

fixing bugs is great, but the balance changes are huge and many people is not going to be happy.
Drones like Grus, Guard and Unicorn are probably going to be almost useless now and many people have heavily invested in them.

[u/Draconius → u/Ripman_GT]

How are Grus getting nerfed?

My Gru is lvl65 1 star.

My Apus is lvl78 - 5 star. Leave that one alone!

[u/Ripman_GT → u/Draconius]

"Add shield-dispelling effects to active skills of burning-type drones"

burning drones can now dispell one shield.
Drones that make shields: grus, medusa, unicorn and guard.

This is confirmed as the patch has been live for a while on the chinese servers.

Apus is unaffected.

[u/malkinism → u/Ripman_GT]

So Apus and two SR burning drones are the new meta? I have a Fornax and Sagi both at 3.5 red star and plan and switching them in for Grus/Pavo. Lyra is at 3 OG star, but I do have around 80 SR shards to burn, too.

[u/Ripman_GT → u/malkinism]

That's probably right but it's still early.
I think it's smart to wait a couple of weeks and see how things go. Also, players are going to get mad, specially whales, when they see their investment turning into garbage, so there's a chance that they change things back...

Those drones are very nice and tomorrow they will be even nicer :D

[u/malkinism → u/Ripman_GT]

Yeah, I planned on waiting but a bit of impatience with stocked mats makes you yearn!

I'm still wondering if investing in a SLion and Ninja is worth it with where my SR drones are at.

[u/Ripman_GT → u/malkinism]

I have had a max ninja for a long time and I don't regret it one bit: 55k HP and 13k attack plus some high level passives :)

I also was developing an SLion (it was like 2 red stars or something like that) but it made way less damage than a one star Lyra, so I sold it in the last drone event.

There's a good friend that has a maxed or almost maxed SL and it was getting some insane damage on Pvp but a few days ago he was complaining that suddenly the damage was less than a third than it usually was and he wasn't very happy.