StormBorn Update 1.2 - New heroes & more!

Early this morning a new update became available as anticipated. New heroes, revamped in-game chat, expanded levels, quests, campaign and a plethora of other interesting changes have been added.

Here's a brief listing of some of the better additions:
-gem videos - this popular feature from HonorBound is being added to StormBorn, watch to earn
-in-game chat revamp - the old one crashed a lot. the new one works well so far
-additional quests - a lot of new quests were added at the level 15 range and up, very helpful and fun
-a few new beasts and a stack of heroes with titillating abilities at higher levels
-additional builder which was added due to popular demand, gems only (see gem videos above)
-over 600 bugs squashed!

Also, it was revealed that JuiceBox aims to launch the game worldwide next week!

StornBorm Hero Levelling Chart

Here are the Level and Archon prices for levelling up heroes in StormBorn. The total cost for levels 1-33 is 125250 Archon.

2 30
3 70
4 150
5 250
6 350
7 500
8 650
9 800
10 1000
11 1200
12 1450
13 1700
14 1950
15 2250
16 2550
17 2900
18 3250
19 3600
20 4000
21 4400
22 4850
23 5300
24 5750
25 6250
26 6750
27 7300
28 7850
29 8400
30 9000
31 9600
32 10250
33 10900

StormBorn Chests from the Shop

On September 18, 2015 @ ~9:00PM EST StormBorn received a fairly large update. The main additions included Alliances and in-game chat, but this update also added chests to the shop. I'm going to elaborate and include some screenshots related to chests for today. It took me a few weeks to unlock the Ultimate Chest and I didn't want to write this before having access to a few pulls from that chest.

First up is the Basic Chest, of which players can open three per day for free. The server timer resets at 8pm EST daily.

• Chance for uncommon gear, Soulstones and Heroes up to 2 Stars!

The Premium Chest can be opened once per day for free.

• Chance for Rare gear, Soulstones, Heroes up to 3 Stars and a Warlock!

The Ultimate Chest can be opened once per week for free once reaching Stronghold 10.

• Get Epic gear, Soulstones and a chance at Top-Tier Heroes at 3 Stars!

Here's an example of an Ultimate Chest:

StormBorn Single-Player Events!

During the beta we have been pleasantly surprised by the launch of 24 hour single-player events, an obvious test run of the event system that is being deployed for StormBorn. Here I will briefly touch on the five different flavors we have seen so far and just how to gain points towards earning some very impressive rewards.

First off there was Gold Rush! Gold spent on anything in the game counted towards your score for the event. This first one was pretty self explanatory and ran without issue.

The next event was called Recruitment Drive and the objective here was to summon new heroes and have them complete taking an oath.

The third event was called Gain Honor! In order to score points, players had to net gain honor from battling other players.

The fourth event was called Level Up Heroes! Yet another self explanatory event, where players earned one point for each level gained per hero.

The most recent event was called Pillage Resources! Battling other players in PvP for the most resources gained earned rewards.

StormBorn Hero Cookbook

This is a rough guide for how to summon a particular class. Only the Fighter, Mage and Rogue summons listed below are 100% chance. Other classes you can tell if you succeeded by the length of time to summon. The longer the length of time, the stronger the class. Tier 1 Fighter = Fighter + Fighter (15min) Rogue = Rogue + Rogue (15min) Magician = Magician + Magician (15 min) Scholar = Rogue + Bard (30min) Trader = Unknown (requires Portal 3) Tier 2 Beastmaster = Rogue + Magician (5 hours) Duelist = Rogue + Fighter (90min) Darkmage = Magician + Fighter (4 hours) Druid = Scholar + Magician (4 hours) Bard = Rogue + Scholar (4 hours) Captain = Fighter + Scholar (4 hours) Mercenary = (requires Portal 3) Smuggler = (requires Portal 3) Artificer = (requires Portal 3) Scribe = (requires Portal 3) Tier 3 Warlock = Magician + Duelist (requires Portal 2) Bladesinger = Duelist + Scholar (requires Portal 2) Disciple = Magician + Bard (requires Portal 2) Inquisitor = Scholar + Darkmage (requires Portal 2) Quartermaster = (requires Portal 4) Assassin = (requires Portal 4) Envoy = (requires Portal 5) Knight = (requires Portal 4) Noble = (requires Portal 5) Arbiter = (requires Portal 5) Tier 4 Paladin = (requires Portal 6) Shadowknight = Bard (or Rogue) + Darkmage (requires Portal 6) General = (requires Portal 6) Archmage = (requires Portal 6) Source for tier information located here.

StormBorn: War of Legends - Intro & Impressions

Welcome to my initial impressions of the geo-loc beta RPG hybrid game by JuiceBox Games called StormBorn: War of Legends. This is their second title and a lot of player feedback and features from other games have been used to create this unique mobile gaming experience. The short answer is that this game has a lot of potential and is quite addictive. It is currently available on iOS and Android in Canada and Australia. The global launch date has yet to be revealed, but based on the fact that the devs are testing events and actively seeking bugs and feedback leads me to believe this will be before 2015 ends.

Currencies!

Gold - needed to upgrade buildings, abilities or traits

Archon - needed to upgrade research, buildings and hero levels 

Gems - premium currency obtained from quests, levelling or event rewards 

Candles - needed to obtain gear or crafting components, found in the Crypt

Food - needed to battle other players in PvP

Buildings!

The main building is the Stronghold. This building affects amount of resources protected from players who battle your base when you are offline. It also is a main requirement for upgrading most other buildings, and later is needed at certain levels to unlock chests in the shop and Alliances via the Embassy.

The resource buildings are the Gold Mine and Archon Well. If you are one of the unfortunate souls who avoids PvP, you'll want to focus on these buildings early and often. 

The Beast Den is the counter to base defenses. A beast is an extra hero used in attacking players. The main three are Troll, Elemental and Warbeast. Troll is a great front line meat shield with decent damage, the Elemental is a long-range medium-damage and the Warbeast is a slow moving wall breaker that can attract enemy long range heroes once it meets the defenses.

The Crypt is gear central. Initially this is where you go to consume candles for a chance at gear needed to promote your heroes. After a time there are components needed to craft gear here as well.

The Embassy requires Stronghold level 7 and then 5000 gold to build it. Joining an existing alliance is free, but starting up your own alliance costs an additional 5000 gold.

Gear!

Gear sets of 6 gear are needed to promote heroes and unlock each of their three traits. The traits are usually a boost to a specific stat or an improvement to a part of their Ultimate Ability. Traits unlock at Green, Blue and Purple gear sets.

Summoning and Evolving Heroes!

Two heroes enter the portal. Three heroes walk out. Combining certain classes can result in new and more powerful classes. If you wish to sell the hero instead of keep it, you are awarded with class-specific Soulstones which are used to evolve heroes from the same class. Here's a quick chart showing evo costs:

2* = 10 soulstones
3* = 50
4* = 100
5* = 200

As of writing this, 5* evo doesn't work, however I'm told it will be fixed in the next client update.

Battle!

Players attack other players, campaign battles and quests in partially AI controlled situations. Each player has leader slots assigned to the heroes that they want to make use of their Ultimate Abilities. Each leader hero has one Ultimate Ability that can be activated when their energy bar is full in battle. Energy recharges at different rates depending on the hero, but generally if they are attacking a target, it fills up slowly; if they are taking damage, energy fills up quite quickly. If you wait and use multiple Ultimate Abilities at once, you earn a combo bonus of up to x5. Battles have a timer of three minutes so if you aren't able to defeat an opponent within that time, you are defeated.

Check back later for guides, bugs and more! Thank you for reading.

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Disclaimer: This game is still being balanced and tuned. Information contained in this could change over time.