It's the Summer Solstice in Faerûn, which means it is time for Dragondown celebrations!

While the City of Waterdeep celebrates Dragondown by burning dragon effigies to symbolize the city's victories over invading dragons, some smaller celebrations focus on ceremonial bonfires and charms, with mock-spells and chanted prayers performed as the sun sets.

But something has gone wrong in Luskan this year, where locals have drawn the ire of a Bronze Dragon and its kin...

The first Dragondown was the 13th limited-time event in Idle Champions, launching on June 25th, 2018. This year marks our eighth Dragondown event, which introduces Hank the Ranger, the leader and final member of the Saturday Morning Squad affiliation, with today's launch. Our second Featured Champion, Krond, will be receiving a significant update, with a new Champion Update blog coming on Friday, June 6, before his launch next Wednesday, June 11.

For details on Dragondown Year 8, read on!

Featured Champions

Hank

Learn more about Hank in his Champion Spotlight.

Krond

Learn more about Krond when his Champion Spotlight arrives on June 6th!

Flex Champions

Flex Slots allow players to unlock additional Champions and earn chests during events, choosing from a pool of retired Champions associated with the event. This collection of retired Champions includes the Champions from previous years of the event as well as some Champions whose events have been retired. This event's Flex Slot pool includes:

Event Augments

• Augment 1: Free Rerolls (Returning Augment)
  Description: You gain five free rerolls to use on each set of your Weekly Offers during this event!

• Augment 2: Golden Weekly Offers (Returning Augment)
  Description: One of your weekly offers will be Golden during this event. Golden offers provide an additional 10% discount! The Golden tag persists when an offer is rerolled.

• Augment 3: Auto Blacksmith (Returning Augment)
  Description: Event Champions whose recruitment adventure or variants you complete gain common rarity equipment in all slots if they don't already have better. Every tier two or higher event variant completed automatically applies 100 Tiny Blacksmithing Contracts to the variant's Champion's equipment for free!

• Augment 4: Additional Boon Buff (New Augment)
  Description: An additional boon buff at each level increases global damage based on the number of Pigments on Champions in the formation, stacking additively.

You can check out which Augments are active at any time by mousing over the Event Banner.

Steam Local Currency Update

Yesterday, we rolled out an update to Steam players which allows our in-game shop to show their local currencies instead of USD. Steam will now charge players in local currencies instead of a converted USD price, using Steam's standard conversion rates. With this update, local currencies are now displayed in Idle Champions across all platforms except Android, which is our next priority.

Dragondown Feedback Wanted

Are you as excited as we are for Hank the Ranger? What about a potential update for Krond? We'd love to hear what you think!

Your feedback is important to us, and we would love to have you join our community on one of our official platforms:

• The Official Idle Champions Discord.
• The Official Idle Champions Subreddit.
• Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Bluesky, or Instagram.

Hank is the steadfast and courageous leader of the group of friends that has been swept away into the perilous realm of Dungeons & Dragons. As the Ranger, he wields his signature Energy Bow to fend off danger and light the way forward. Though the weight of leadership tests him at every turn, Hank’s tactical insight and unwavering resolve keep the party moving forward in their quest to find a way back home.

Hank is a Support and Control Champion who leads a bunch of kids who have been swept away to the world of Dungeons & Dragons. Hank's stalwart encouragement buffs the damage of Champions next to him, and his unerring Energy Bow keeps the enemies away.

For more information about The Ranger, read on!

Hank

Abilities

Basic Attack

• Energy Bow (ranged) - Hank attacks the closest enemy, dealing 1 hit. (They are also knocked back once the Energy Bow ability is unlocked.)

Formation Abilities

• Stalwart Encouragement - Hank increases the damage of Champions adjacent to him by 100%.
• Energy Bow - Enemies that Hank hits are knocked back. The distance they're knocked back increases the closer they are to the formation.
• Time Gate Piece Scavenger - Hank can help scavenge up to 5 additional Time Gate Pieces when killing bosses. While this cap is not reached, Hank has a 1% chance of scavenging 1 Time Gate Piece each time a boss is defeated. The cap increases by 1/3 every day.
• Every Little Bit Helps - Hank increases the effect of Stalwart Encouragement by 10% for each item that has ever been collected by Scavenger abilities, stacking additively.

Specializations A

• Heart of Heroes - Hank increases the damage bonus of Stalwart Encouragement by 100% for each Champion in the formation with a total ability score of 78 or less, stacking multiplicatively.
• Arrow Alliance - Hank increases the damage bonus of Stalwart Encouragement by 125% for each Champion in the formation with a Ranged attack, stacking multiplicatively.
• Unyielding Unity - Hank increases the damage bonus of Stalwart Encouragement by 200% for each member of the Saturday Morning Squad in the formation, stacking multiplicatively. This also adds the Saturday Morning Squad affiliation to Dungeon Master.

Specializations B

• Tactical Advantage - Whenever an enemy is knocked back, Hank gains a Tactics stack. For each Tactics stack, the Critical Hit Chance of all Champions in the formation is increased by 1%, and the Critical Hit Damage of all Champions in the formation is increased by 10%. Tactics stacks stack additively up to 50 times and reset when changing areas.
• Dragon Slayer - Hank gains the Hunter role with Dragons as his Favored Foe. Non-boss waves spawn a Dragon 50% of the time. Stalwart Encouragement’s effect is increased by 100% for each Dragon defeated in the current area, stacking multiplicatively up to 10 times. In boss areas, non-boss waves always spawn a dragon, and defeated dragons provide 5 stacks.

Ultimate Ability

• Arrows of Restraint (ranged) - Hank fires 5 arrows at random enemies, dealing 1 ultimate hit and stunning each of them.

Equipment

Feats

Champion Feedback

What do you think of Hank? Do you have any feedback about the leader of our Saturday Morning Squad? We want to know!

The best way for us to hear your feedback would be for you to join our community on an officially supported platform:

• The Official Idle Champions Discord.
• The Official Idle Champions Subreddit.
• Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Bluesky, or Instagram.