STASH SEASON 2 UPDATE NOTES

Welcome to Season 2 of Stash: A Card Looter!

This update refines the core experience with faster runs, deeper strategies, and more ways to build your squad.

Explore whats changed across Nyveris below.

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MAJOR GAMEPLAY CHANGES

New Run Structure

• Streamlined to 18 total battles for a more focused, tactical experience:
  8 fights in the first region
  7 fights in the second region
  1 final King fight: a win or die challenge
  2 optional Mouse fights (quick start available from run 3 onwards)

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• Goal: Shorter, smoother progression without sacrificing strategic depth.

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King Ghosts

• The ghost decks of your Kings now earn your Leaderboard points until they are defeated and replaced by a new contender!

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Souls New Permanent Currency

• Earned by retiring Heroes.

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• Souls can be spent to:

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• Unlock new starting deck options

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• Reroll Legendary Heroes from a chosen region

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• Occasionally purchase armor upgrades in towns

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Souls carry over between runs.

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Speed System Rework

• The Speed value now represents the exact number of ticks between Hero turns.

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• Weapon speeds now range between 40 and 80, with total battle length at 1,500 ticks.

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• Designed for clearer pacing and smaller gaps between fast and slow weapons.

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Health and Spell Progression

• All Heroes now have higher hit points, supporting more defensive and control-based strategies.

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• All spells level up faster to match the shorter run length.

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• Increased focus on team synergy rather than pure value stacking.

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Heal Efficiency

• Now affects all effects that restore or increase Hitpoints,
  including spells from Meerkat, Crocodile, and Panda.

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NEW AND UPDATED CONTENT

Unlockables

• New Hero: Hedgehog

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• New Weapon: Fauchard

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• New Armor: Regeneration

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• New Relics: Several additions expanding build variety

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Spells

• Lynx now uses the former Gorilla spell (Chance to gain Victory Points).

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• Gorilla gains a new spell that reduces enemy Speed.

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• Bunny now heals allies in its row while increasing Spell Power.

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• Hippo now steals VP from the lowest health ally to heal himself.

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RELICS

Reworks and Adjustments

• Elemental Damage: buffed scaling and progression.

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• Speed Buff for Slow Weapons: rebalanced for the new speed system.

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• Heal Efficiency: adjusted for expanded effect scope.

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• Crit Chance after Spell: significantly increased.

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• Mana on Stun: removed.

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• Retaliate: now triggers only on melee attacks.

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New Relics

• Poison on Stun adds toxic synergy to control builds.

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• Slow Weapon Power slow weapons now grant additional Spell Power.

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ARMOR AND ATTRIBUTES

• Armor attribute scaling adjusted to the new maximum rank of 18.

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• Minor buffs: Poison on Hit, Crit Chance, Hitpoints.

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• Minor nerf: Spell Power.

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• Major rework: Speed, to align with the new tick system.

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HERO BALANCE CHANGES

Heroes have health classes that determine how high their health can roll. We are using those numbers to adjust their rolls.

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Hero

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Changes

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Squirrel

Energy cost increased to 4; Health reduced by 1 class; Slightly slower spell progression.

Badger

Minor improvement to spell progression.

Meerkat

Minor improvement to spell progression.

Lion

Energy cost increased to 4; significant nerf to spell scaling and value.

Deer

Health increased by 2 classes; spell value buffed.

Armadillo

Health reduced by 2 classes.

Bear

Minor improvement to spell progression.

Boar

Energy cost set to 4; minor nerf to spell progression.

Bull

Health increased by 2 classes.

Bat

Health reduced by 1 class; Energy cost reduced to 4.

Gecko

Buffed spell scaling and values; damage is now elemental.

Fox

Health increased by 2 classes; minor spell progression buff.

Chameleon

Health reduced by 1 class; spell scaling buffed.

Snake

Buffed spell value and progression.

Wolf

Buffed spell value and progression.

Panda

Health increased by 1 class; spell value and healing buffed.

Yak

Health reduced by 1 class.

Turtle

Health increased by 1 class.

Panther

Health reduced by 2 classes; slightly slower spell progression.

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WEAPON BALANCE CHANGES

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Weapon

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Changes

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Flail

Damage class reduced by 1.

Crook

Minor improvement to spell progression.

Staff

Spell progression buffed.

Sabre

Damage class increased by 1; Speed set to Slow; Resistance reduction can now go negative (targets take up to 100% more elemental damage); spell progression buffed.

Claws

Damage class increased by 1.

Guard

Damage/Defense class reduced by 1.

Scutum

Damage/Defense class increased by 2.

Cane

Damage class increased by 1.

Axe

Damage class increased by 1.

Dagger

Speed set to Fast.

Spear

Damage class reduced by 1; major improvement to spell progression.

Shield

Damage class increased by 1.

Slingshot

Damage class reduced by 1; major improvement to spell progression.

Elven Bow

Speed set to Slow; Damage class increased by 1; minor spell progression buff.

Crossbow

Speed set to Medium; Damage class reduced by 1; minor spell progression nerf.

Root

Speed set to Medium.

Warden

Speed set to Fast.

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QUALITY OF LIFE AND FIXES

• Fixed an issue where enemy Heroes could not be hovered during combat.

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• Added an option to disable Screen Shake in combat settings.

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• Added a Stashed Card Overview during Loot selection.

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CLOSING NOTES

Season 2 marks a major step forward for Stash.
Runs are faster, spells grow stronger, and strategies are more distinct than ever.
Roam the lands of Nyveris, master your Stash, and let chaos spread once more.

[ 2025-10-30 22:57:15 CET ] [Original Post]