ANNOUNCEMENT BOARD

The Delve is wild all through

The Deep Delve no longer has patches of scree to walk through for wild familiars: now they can appear anywhere on a stage’s floor, as in any cave.

• Encounters come at a steady pace across the whole stage, not only in the patches.
• AUTO WALK works anywhere on a stage’s floor.
• Every stage keeps its layout and its treasure, so a run in progress is unchanged.

This board is in the game too

The announcement board now opens when you start the game, once a day, with every update newest first. Choose a post to read it whole.

• CLOSE puts it away until tomorrow. The choice follows your account, not the device.
• START > NEWS opens it any time; a star beside NEWS means a post you have not read.
• New posts reach the game straight from this board, even before you update.

Trade ascensions

Eight familiars now take their last form only when they pass to another Spellbinder. Receive one by Link Trade, Surprise Trade or a Market purchase and it ascends the moment it arrives. No one to trade with? A WANDERER’S CORD (30,000 G, sold in Goldmarch and the harbour) does it alone.

• →
  MAGEBEAR ARCHWIZARD
  ARCANEMUNDANE
• →
  SHROUDLING PHANTOMREX
  SPECTRAL
• →
  BRAWLHOUND FISTLORD
  MARTIAL
• →
  COBBLEDOG MONOLITH
  LITHIC
• →
  KILNGOLEM TERRACOTTA
  EARTHENLITHIC
• →
  STEELHIDE ADAMANTINE
  LITHICMARTIAL
• →
  MONKEYKING SAGEAPE
  MARTIALARCANE
• →
  WYRMLORD WYRMKING
  DRACONIC

What changed: these eight no longer ascend by level. One that is already past its old level waits for a trade or a cord. A refund, a gift or a traveller’s familiar does not count as a trade.

Attunement, quality and the Market

Familiars can now be trained, every familiar has a quality you can read at a glance, and familiars and memory orbs can be sold for gold even while you are away.

• Attunement. Every win trains the stat its foe is known for, one to three points by the foe’s stage, even at the level cap. Up to 100 in a stat and 250 in all; a full stat adds +25 at level 100. VIGOR, MIGHT, WARD, SWIFT and SAGE TONICS (5,000 G) add 10; STILLWATER (3,000 G) washes it all away. See it on the summary’s new ATTUNED page. More
• Quality, 0 to 100. Inborn stats 40, attunement 30, luminous 15, rebirths 10, orb-forged spells 5, from one star (COMMON) to five (PEERLESS). Shown in the vault, the summary, trades and the Market.
• The Market (START > PORTAL > MARKET). Put a familiar or memory orbs up at your price; it sells while you are away and your gold waits in your inbox. The Market keeps 5%; unsold lots come home after a week; six lots at a time. More
• Orbs and gold in Link Trades. An offer can be any mix of a familiar, up to three kinds of memory orb, and gold.
• Listings can ask for quality: a want in the Trading Hall can require inborn grade A or better, full attunement, or both.

Balance: attunement counts in PVP duels too (up to +12 a stat at level 50).

The Trading Hall

A bazaar for Spellbinders, one step from anywhere through START > PORTAL > TRADING HALL. Post a listing with the BROKER, what you offer and what you want, and it floats over your head for the whole hall to read.

• Up to three familiars on offer and three wants: a familiar by name, an element, anything luminous, or open to offers, with a short note.
• BROWSE LISTINGS shows everyone in the hall, with a YOU HAVE tag on anyone who wants what you own.
• Walk up to anyone to read their listing and ask to trade. Your listing stays up between visits, and a traded familiar comes off it by itself.

How the Trading Hall works

The Portal: trading, gifts and events

A new door in the START menu, THE PORTAL, opens the realm’s social side.

• Link Trade with any Spellbinder online: both offers side by side, and nothing changes hands until you both agree.
• Surprise Trade: send a familiar out and a stranger’s comes back (ten a day). If no one comes within twenty minutes, a traveller brings one of a similar level.
• Mystery Gift: gifts for everyone and codes from the Conclave, each taken once.
• Events: festivals of double essence, luminous weekends and featured elites, announced in the realm chat.
• Everything sent to you waits in your inbox and arrives when you are free. Every trade runs through the server, so nothing can be copied or lost.

Gift: PORTAL WELCOME, 5 STAR CHARMS and a MOONMINT for every Spellbinder, under MYSTERY GIFT until 31 October 2026.

The Grimoire explains the new element names

The Grimoire has a new page, ELEMENT NAMES, right under the element chart: each element’s emblem and new name, and what it used to be called. The chart itself is labelled with the new names too.

The elements have spell names

The fifteen elements now carry the names of schools of magic, everywhere in the game and on this site. Only the names changed: every matchup is the same and no familiar changed its element.

The element chart matches the modern games

Four matchups left over from the oldest rules were brought in line with the chart used by the latest monster-taming games. Every other matchup was already the same.

What it means: ARCANE familiars now fear SPECTRAL spells as well as CHITIN ones, and a SPECTRAL and ARCANE familiar takes four times the damage from SPECTRAL spells. See the full chart.

Every element has its own emblem

Elements no longer show as plain coloured dots. Each has its own mark on a disc of its colour: a flame, a drop, a leaf, a bolt, a snowflake, a fist, bubbles, a peak, a wing, a sparkle, a beetle, a faceted stone, a ghost and a pair of horns. They sit on spell buttons, in the party, the vault and the summary.

51 spells and 259 signature spells renamed

Every spell that sounded like a bite, a claw or a kick now has a name a Spellbinder would cast. Only the names changed: every spell hits, misses and bends the fight exactly as before, and every familiar keeps the spells it knows.