Founders' Day 2026 Event!
- Recruit legendary monster hunter Rudolph van Richten as a new champion
- Rebalance three Flex Champions (Nahara, Strongheart, and Walnut) instead of a single reworked champion
- Golden Offers event augment provides one weekly offer with an additional 10% discount that persists when rerolled
- Auto-Blacksmith event augment grants event champions common rarity equipment in all slots and applies 100 Tiny Blacksmithing Contracts to equipment for completing tier two or higher variants
- New dread-domain skins and familiars available throughout the Founders' Day event month
- Nahara's To Amuse or Avenge ability now uses multiplicative damage instead of additive and benefits from feats and equipment buffing the pre-stack value
- Nahara's Strong Society affiliation synergy now benefits from Ultimate Cooldown equipment for larger damage boost in full Black Dice Society formations
- Strongheart's Justice Needs Champions base buff has been increased
- Strongheart's three specialization choices now benefit from feats and equipment as pre-stack buffs instead of post-stack
- Walnut's Documancer ability now removes only half stacks when changing areas instead of resetting completely, with feats and equipment buffing the pre-stack value
- Walnut's Job's Done ability magnitude and duration have been increased
- Walnut's Wolfnut temporary hit point shield magnitude has been increased and base health has been bumped up
- Walnut's Pen-Paws ability changed from additive to multiplicative stacking for significantly greater impact at high stacks
- Walnut's Co-Signer specialization base effect has been doubled for more impact in formations with multiple C-Team Champions
- Walnut's Temporary Alliance specialization changed from additive to multiplicative for better synergy in unaffiliated formations
- Walnut gains a health-boosting equipment piece replacing her Ultimate Damage equipment
Founders' Day has arrived! Recruit the legendary monster hunter Rudolph van Richten, and rediscover Flex Champions Nahara, Strongheart, and Walnut with their fresh rebalances, available today! Complete your gothic looks with eerie new dread-domain skins and familiars released throughout the month! Celebrations are underway to commemorate the founding of the Free City of Waterdeep. Founders Day attracts huge crowds to the Field of Triumph, where audiences watch illusory shows about Waterdeep's history and martial exhibitions by notable Champions and the renown city guard.
Festivities have also brought an ancient power from Avernus, first layer of the Nine Hells. A fallen angel has arrived to collect souls for the Blood War...
Event Updates
This update includes an exciting change to our event structure, with an expansion of featured updates for Champions. Instead of a single reworked Champion this month, THREE of this event's Champions have had targeted rebalances, pumping up their numbers to make them more effective in your formations. You'll find updates to Nahara, Strongheart, and Walnut available for flex slots now! _
Featured Champions
Van Richten
Learn more about Van Richten in his Champion Spotlight.
Flex Champions
Flex Slots allow players to unlock additional Champions and earn chests duringevents, choosing from a pool of retired Champions associated with the event.This collection of retired Champions includes the Champions from previous years of theevent as well as some Champions whose events have been retired.This event's Flex Slot pool includes the following Champions, three of which have been rebalanced:
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Deekin
SEAT 1
Nahara - REBALANCED
SEAT 3
Xander
SEAT 5
Sgt. Knox
SEAT 6
Freely
SEAT 7
Umberto
SEAT 7
Vin Ursa
SEAT 7
Tess
SEAT 8
Walnut - REBALANCED
SEAT 8
Aeon
SEAT 10
Strongheart - REBALANCED
SEAT 11
Nahara Rebalance
- To Amuse or Avenge is an interesting speed and damage combo ability. We're happy with the speed effect, but have adjusted the damage from additive to multiplicative so that it's much more effective at boosting Nahara's damage at low stacks. We've also made it so that feats and equipment buffing this ability will affect the pre-stack value, providing more oomph if she's well-equipped.
- Strong Society is Nahara's affiliation synergy and was her featured pre-stack ability. Unfortunately, it was only buffed by a single specialization choice. To fix this, we've swapped her Ultimate Cooldown equipment over to buff this ability, which should provide for a much larger damage boost if you're running a full Black Dice Society formation with decent equipment levels.
- In addition to the above changes, we have redone Nahara's upgrades to align with his kit updates.
Strongheart Rebalance
- Justice Needs Champions is Strongheart's base buff, and has been bumped up a touch given as he's in a higher bench seat.
- Our main change to Strongheart is to adjust all three of his specialization choices to be buffed pre-stack by feats and equipment, rather than post-stack. This will be especially powerful for people who run his A Righteous Event specialization at high stacks.
- In addition to the above changes, we have redone Strongheart's upgrades to align with his kit updates.
Walnut Rebalance
- Documancer was a bit of a NOMBO for Walnut. Since you start each area with zero stacks and must kill enemies to get stacks, it is very ineffective when you reach your wall. We've opted to adjust how the stacks reset, removing only half of them when changing areas instead of resetting them. Additionally, feats and equipment that buff this ability will now apply to the pre-stack value, rather than post-stack.
- Job's Done intention was to give you a damage bonus at the start of each area so you can get that very important first Documancer stack. With the changes to Documancer, it's more of a passive buff that encourages you to hurry along. We've increased its magnitude and duration to keep it at least somewhat relevant.
- Wolfnut's temporary hit point shield was some of the only health Walnut received to tank with, so we've increased its magnitude. We've also given Walnut a health-boosting piece of equipment (replacing her Ultimate Damage equipment) and bumped up her base health a bit.
- We haven't made any changes to Contractual Obligations, since it's just a basic health share ability. The changes to Walnut's max health and equipment should, however, improve this ability's effectiveness.
- Pen-Paws was a good ability in theory, but just didn't have modern numbers. We've changed the stacking from additive to multiplicative, which gives it several orders of magnitude more impact when fully stacked, as it will definitely be when you're at or near your wall.
- The Co-Signer specialization's base effect has been doubled to provide more impact in formations with multiple "C"-Team Champions.
- The Temporary Alliance specialization has been changed from additive to multiplicative to give Walnut more synergy in unaffiliated formations.
- In addition to the above changes, we have redone Walnut's upgrades to align with his kit updates.
Event Augments
- Golden Offers: 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.
- Auto-Blacksmith: 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!
- Challenge Week: A Mastery Challenge will start on the third week of the event, providing opportunities to prove your formation building skills and earn unique rewards.
- Supercharged Damage Boon: The Global Damage Boon is supercharged, granting 2,000,000% additional damage per level, instead of 200% (stacking multiplicatively). You can check out which Augments are active at any time by mousing over the Event Banner.
Feedback on Founders' Day
Van Richten is the latest Champion to join the ranks. What do you think about him and the rebalances to Nahara, Strongheart, and Nahara? Let us know!
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