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  3. Guild DASHIMAKI-TAMAGO 2026.Week39

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Events

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Official Message: September Events!

  • our familiar Autumn Festival, the return of Prestige with expanded progression, and a new Ascension Season are all waiting for you this month.
  • 🐾 This year, the Autumn Festival is making way for the Mead Festival, and it’s bringing plenty of changes with it! Robin will make his debut during the celebration, while you and your Guild will fill the Honey Barrel, progress through a shared Battle Pass, explore the seasonal map and its Generators, and compete in personal and Guild rankings for valuable rewards.
  • 🏆 Prestige also returns after its short break, now with expanded progression and more ways to get something out of the system. And later in the month, Martha takes the spotlight in the second Ascension Season, bringing two new Ascension Skills focused on speeding up her allies and protecting the backline.
  • There’s plenty more happening throughout October, so keep this calendar close and start planning ahead!
  • 🎁 And don’t forget your bonus! ⚡ CLICK HERE ⚡ The bonus is available until October 4, 2 AM UTC.

Main Event & Update Schedule for October 2026

October 1: New Pet Release

  • A new Pet is scheduled to be released on Thursday, October 1.
  • Based on the release pattern for previous Pets, advance information indicates that a certain number of Soul Stones will be available through paid means, while the other development costs will use regular resources.

October 3 (Tentative): Martha’s Ascension Skills Unlocked

  • Martha is scheduled to receive her Ascension Skills in October.
  • If the release follows the same schedule as Astrid’s September release, her skills may be unlocked on Saturday, October 3.
  • In the 2026 summer–fall meta, Martha is mainly used in Guild Raid, and many players have adjusted her build to avoid raising her Health too much. Careful consideration may therefore be needed regarding whether her Ascension Skills have any negative effects.
[Hero Wars]Martha

October 14–16: Third Major Server Merge

  • Following the partial merge on August 22 and the second pilot test on September 30, a Server Merge involving the majority of servers is being considered for October 14–16.
  • Note: Since the schedule has already been changed several times, these dates remain tentative.

October 17 (Tentative): Distortion Titan Launch

  • The third Distortion Titan is expected to be released.
  • Based on recent release patterns, pre-orders may begin on Saturday, October 17, with the event potentially starting on Saturday, October 24.
  • If the previous pattern continues, the next Titan is expected to be Ohm, a Support Titan.

Patch News: September Event Reward Revisions

  • Overview & Timing: Various event rewards were comprehensively revised during the final week of September 2026.
  • Reward Restructuring Trends:
    • While maintaining their nominal Emerald equivalent value, rewards with limited acquisition opportunities appear to have been made even rarer, following a trend seen in recent events.
    • This rebalancing increases the incentive to obtain scarce rewards through purchases. Since their Emerald equivalent value remains unchanged, these rewards can still be obtained through purchases at the same Emerald equivalent as before.
  • New Hero Events: In events introducing New Heroes, measures such as replacing Emerald rewards with other resources have also been implemented.
  • Official Communication: The official announcement provided an overview of the major changes but did not explain smaller adjustments. Further adjustments and changes may continue in future events.

Official Message: Events update

Hey Guardians, a quick event update! A few upcoming events are getting a reward refresh. We’re replacing some items and redistributing others between different parts of each event. In most cases, the total amount or calculated value of the rewards stays at a similar level or even goes up!

Here’s a quick look at what’s changing:

  • Titan’s Cosmic Battle (Sep 22–26): several Titan Artifact items in the shop will be replaced with Titan Soul Stone options. The lootbox content also changes a bit, but overall value stays the same..
  • Guardians of Outland (Sep 24): Skin Stone Chests will make room for more Enchantment Runes, Essence of the Elements, Eternal Seeds, and Insignias. The overall reward value will increase..
  • Emerald City (Sep 24–29): the free and paid tracks have been rebalanced, but the total amount of rewards remains unchanged..
  • Territory of Titans (Sep 27–Oct 1): Titan Artifact rewards will be redistributed between the Battle Pass tracks, and some of the Elemental Tournament Coins will be replaced with Essence of the Elements .
  • Elemental Synergy (Sep 30–Oct 2): some Ancient Titan Artifact Chests will be replaced with Elemental Tournament Coins, Titan Potions, and Essence of the Elements. The total task value stays the same..
  • Legacy of the Great Ones (Oct 2–6): quest thresholds aren’t changing, but event points will be distributed differently between objectives..
  •  Cosmic Battle (Oct 5–9): the shop is getting an assortment refresh. For example, selected Absolute Artifact Chest offers will be replaced with Eternal Seeds and Pet Summoning Eggs..
  • Tournament of Power: Heroes (Oct 10–15): Daily Rewards will feature Enchantment Runes instead of Absolute Artifact Chests and Skin Stone Chests. Quests will also offer Insignias, Golden Threads, and Bottled Energy..
  • Area of Conquest (Oct 10–14): spending Superiority Coins for the quest chain will now grant Flawless Artifact Chests instead of Skin Stone Chests, with a higher overall reward value. The post-event exchange rate will change from three chests for 1,800 coins to three for 4,000, putting more emphasis on coordinated guild play..

We wanted to share the full rebalance ahead of time, so you know what to expect and can plan for the upcoming events.

Official Community Manager FAQ

Titles are tailored to the content.

1. Impact of Frequent Event Reward Changes and Game Economy Adjustments

[Hero Wars Guide] Hero Tournament of Power
  • Q. Can we just remove the Tournament of Power? What is even the point of playing it when the rewards are this pathetic?When will this constant nerfing of events finally stop? It started with cutting emeralds, but now you are nerfing absolutely everything. In just the last few days, you’ve nerfed ToP yet again, slashed Elemental Synergy rewards (giving 9 fewer coins at spent energy task and add them at spend 200k emeralds), and ruined the new hero event by giving us 20k less Valor Coins, 2 less Saphire Medallions and 30 less Large skin stone chests
  • A. I understand why you’re grouping these changes together. When several events change within a short period and the rewards you care about go down, of course it feels like a general reduction. We’ve talked about this before: the game economy is being adjusted, including both the amount of rewards and where they’re distributed. That doesn’t mean every event will simply give less, but it does mean some older reward structures won’t stay the same. I know you don’t like that direction, and I’ve passed that feedback along. But I also don’t want to imply that we’re planning to revert these changes at the moment.

2. Player Requests for New Gameplay Modes Beyond Hero Additions

[Hero Wars Guide] Freedom Protocol Eva Event
  • Q. I hope Nexters can add more new content and gameplay instead of constantly adding new heroes, Titans, gacha events, or new ways to spend money.Doing the same things for too long gets boring. Even if someone really loves pizza, they can still get tired of eating it every day.
  • A. This is something we’re trying to work on as well. The changes to Adventures and the new Abyss/Archdemon format are one example of experimenting with gameplay. There’s definitely more room to do that, though, and I’ve noted the feedback that you’d like to see more genuinely new gameplay alongside new progression content.
  • Q. Bringing back The Great Storm with some changes, even maybe a rework, could be a good starting point for you to do this. As you know well, this one have been asked many times for many players (including me, of course), and the supposed new pet you promised to release should be a great chance for this come back 🙂 You should pass this proposal to the team? 😊
  • A. We don’t have plans for that at the moment, but it is something I’ve seen players bring up, and I will continue passing along this feedback

3. Player Concerns Over Content Release Pace and Monetization Pressure

[Hero Wars Guide] Exclusive Skin (Somna)
  • Q. Hey dear developers of Hero Wars Dominion Era. Unfortunately, it seems lately that players are no longer being taken into account. Lately, it’s all about money, money, money. New skins that don’t add anything, new Titans, soon a new pet, all just to make money—stop it. So far, you’ve already lost a lot of loyal players and the number keeps growing. Soon you won’t have any cows left to milk… and the game will go under. A few events are OK! But at the moment, it’s just too much. Chill out a bit and many players will stay. If you keep going like this, many paying players will turn away from you and you’ll soon be standing alone.
  • A. I understand, and believe me, I see this feedback quite regularly. The pace of new content, too many overlapping events, and the pressure to keep up have been recurring topics for a while now.I keep highlighting this to the developers and will continue to do so. I know repeating “I’m passing it on” isn’t always the answer you want, but I don’t want you to think this feedback is going unnoticed either.

4. Reduction of High-Value Rewards and Cross-Event Redistribution

[Hero Wars Guide] Absolute Artifact Chest
  • Q. Yet another bout of greedy madness from developers…they’re removing the most valuable items (red artifacts, skin stones) and adding even more useless junk…🤦‍♂️In short, they’re cutting back on some of valuable rewards (red artifacts and skin stones) from static events and shifting them to AoC and ToT (where they’re also reducing coin exchange rates to force everyone to upgrade castle rather than just trading in coins after tournament)😔 🥃
  • A. I understand why you’re unhappy if the resources being replaced are the ones you personally value most. But this isn’t simply a reduction of rewards — we’re rebalancing and redistributing them across several events, and in most cases the overall calculated value stays similar or goes up. Of course, calculated value and useful value for your account aren’t always the same thing, and that’s fair feedback. We’ll be watching how the new reward mix feels in practice.

5. Martha’s Paid Ascension Skill and Financial Burden Concerns

[Hero Wars Guide] Osh Level 160 Battle
  • Q. Martha P2W Ascension is basically a $200 tax on everyone who doesn’t want their Martha to fall behind. An overpowered buff to an existing Hero everyone is already playing anyways is little more than a major nerf to everyone who doesn’t buy it.Next to the competition of HWA Web taking players from this game and maybe merges, at first glance the Martha buffs seem like the worst news yet. At least there weren’t all that many Astra teams out there without the new buffs, so it was like reviving a dead hero. This is just pushing the pay-to-win envolope up an extra $200 a month plus whatever time and effort (and maybe more money) it takes to grind it. 😡
    Being on the Osh teams makes the PvP P2W even worse. If they’re going to pull this level of 💩 this soon into the new Ascension Seasons, what’s next?
    Maybe they’ll add not just the new P2W ascension to some of the other best heroes, but maybe start piling even more monthly charges on soon afterwards to buff them either further, effectively nerfing even the Heroes that people just paid the extra $200/month for. Updates: It also suffers from the problem Lara and Turtles have for new players when they fight against her and the new buff isn’t even available at any price after the end of the season. The scariest part isn’t just what they’re doing, but what they’ll do next.
    Also, to be fair to the first 14 people who stared this, please note that the “tax” reference was added afterwards.
  • A. I understand where the concern comes from, although I wouldn’t frame it as a “$200 tax.” What I do think is fair feedback is that upgrading an already widely used Hero creates a different kind of pressure than bringing a less-used Hero back into the meta. That said, Martha isn’t really a staple of the current top PvP meta. She’s still very relevant for Osh, of course, but she’s also a Hero we genuinely love, a lot of players have invested in her over the years, and we’d like to give them a reason to bring her back into more teams. We’ve also seen different perspectives on which Heroes should get Ascension Skills. With Astrid, for example, some players questioned investing in a Hero who wasn’t particularly relevant to the meta. So we’re not approaching every Ascension Season with exactly the same criteria. Sometimes it may be about bringing back an old favorite, sometimes about creating new team options, and there are definitely some older Heroes we’d love to revisit who haven’t been relevant for quite a while. 👀 The post-Season availability concern is important as well, particularly for players joining or returning later. I’ll keep highlighting that feedback to the team.

6. Lack of Meaningful Endgame and Critiques on Game Direction

[Hero Wars Guide] Lars Team
  • Q. My interest in the game has been endgame and using all opportunities to find new counter teams or hard to beat defenses. now they became too many opportunities. i dont want to spend even more. also i do not want to spend more and more time on this every month.we have been asking endgame content improvements for years. every week:
    • combat logs and testing are bad,
    • in-game communication (chat) is bad,
    • CoW is a lottery of opponents,
    • Asgard is a scripting or amount of retries challenge.
      But nexters keeps ignoring us.
    And they didnt even promise to improve endgame.
    All they have added during the last 2 years has been exhausting gamble stuff that keeps us busy for whole days and costs more and more of a fortune.
    • more gambling or more exhausting events (seers, fates wish, emerald city, TTop, HToP, AoC, ToT, … )
    • more opportunities for spending (monthly: 3 to FIVE skins, 2 heroes/titans/pets/paidascension)
    • more purchases in seasons/battle passes, so even as paying customer i have to purchase a lot of things i cant use at all
    There is few not directly gambling content. but its all
    • more ways to win attacks and
    • hardly anything for making the defense better.
      and this makes whole endgame even more a gamble, because more and more players participate.
    So they obviously have a different strategical interest than i had and have. Also i hate that either i spend extra to do things in my pace or they define what days of the months i have to optimally spend my money or do their events. and i dont even know in advance.
    They dont even tell us recent changes as in a changel log. So for me its very reasonable to stop playing their game.
    and i am very happy about my decision. 🙂
  • A. I’m sorry to see you go, but I appreciate the detailed feedback and I hope you enjoyed at least a good part of the years you spent with us.
  • Q. It’s very simple: The Player is leaving the game for reasons mostly Nexters-related. It seems to me that he’s fond of the player community and of his guild. From what I read, he just doesn’t like:
    • the direction the development is taking, with p2w ramping up too much
    • the empty promises about fixing something, and the lack of meaningful endgame
    • the general ignorance for our feedback by the Nexters, regardless how good job you do as yourself
      His symptoms are very similar as those of any of us. He liked the game for a long time, but considering the current trend, he just had enough. And I don’t think he came her to be somehow represented by a Nexters representative. He can represent himself in front of us, and we’ll sure miss him for a while, then we might leave, too.
    • A. I saw what he posted and included some of the points in our feedback digest. We do pay attention to people leaving and pointing out concerns, and like I said – it is part of my job to gather and forward such feedback to the team.
    • Q. The revenue stream is drying at an accelerated pace, and replacements don’t seem to be coming fast enough. The game is dying, we can argue how quickly or slowly, but either way, it is. Sure, some players would leave just from being bored by playing the same game over and over again. But many are leaving for different purposes. Mostly related to the direction of development. Sure, inaction would lead to people spending less money. But your actions lead to player base dwindling at a greatly accelerated pace. Even players who spent 5+ years playing this game.
    • A. I see your point, and I’m happy to listen and have a productive conversation. I do what I can from my side working with your feedback and highlighting your concerns
    • Q. There can be constructive criticism. But if there is no improvement that follows it, what’s the point of it?
    • A. We’ve talked about it, I think giving feedback doesn’t always lead to immediate change, sometimes we have different plans and different perspective as a company and we do have plenty of examples even from my time working here of your feedback directly affecting the development.

7. Community Manager Responses and Addressing AI Accusations

  • Q. the issue is we hear CM Sandra is a person… however sure sounds like AI to me. Maybe that is why there was a lapse? They replaced a person with ai to “gather” information and ‘pass’ it along. In the end, No one at Nexters seems to have a business clue as to what they are doing.
  • A. I love this discussion on me being AI, that’s a first for me 😺Sometimes, I do use AI to help me get points across properly or fix my grammar, but I try to use my own voice as much as possible. But, do keep in mind that I am at work, and I have to use an appropriate tone of voice and certain level of corporate speak. I can assure I’m not an AI though 😁 And when it comes to your broader points I do hear you, I’ll read it tomorrow properly and will make sure to summarise it and add it to the digest to the devs see it
  • Q. Hey, unless its all in-person and impossible to do, could we see one of your overviews/summaries for the devs one of these days?
    please ;D
  • A. Hm, I will check about that, not sure if it’s doable, but I’ll check with the team.

8. Issues with Password Reset and Google Account Unlinking

  • Q. hello everyone, my guildmate connected his herowars account to his google account like we can see in the ss but now he wants to set a new password for the game but he doesn’t even have the option to change the password and can’t disconnect his google account either so I was wondering if any of you knew how to fix that or who to contact in this case since i doubt that contacting support will fix anything ^^ CM you have any tip for this situation ? Got no answer from human support after a week
  • A. It’s best to wait four our support team to solve this, but if you give me the ticket ID I can try and follow up on this

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