Update 26.9: Commanders, Dragon Traits, Meleys and Smoketail

Summary

"L1 → L5" means habit level 1 to level 5. "Rank" means commander talent rank, 1 to 20.

• New system
  Commanders. Five commanders are fully defined in the data. Each has three talents (ranks 1 to 20) and two favoured Dragon Traits. A new building, the Commander's Seat, unlocks them. It is not confirmed that players can get them yet.
• New system
  Dragon Traits. Each released dragon now has one trait. Many commander talents become stronger if your army contains a dragon with a favoured trait.
• Released
  Meleys, Legendary Warrior. In August, all of its kit was "Work in Progress".
• Released
  Smoketail, Epic Hunter. The live kit is a rework of the kit that was in the files in August.
• Hidden
  Tashix, Battle Guile, now scales with Strength, not Initiative. The in-game text did not change.
• Text only
  Crimson, Tairax and Zivern have new wording. The numbers did not change.
• No change
  No other released dragon changed. The check compared all of the data behind each dragon (habits, abilities, effects, targeting, conditions and value tables), not only the text.

Commanders New

• Commander's Seat is a new city upgrade: "Unlocks the ability to assign a Commander to your army."
• You unlock commanders "through select locations throughout the game".
• Each commander action uses Stamina. Commanders recover Stamina over time.
• A commander increases the troop capacity of the army. Total Power now includes commander power.
• The main part of each talent increases at each rank. The Bonus part increases only at ranks 1, 10 and 20. A talent at rank 1 has approximately 1/15 of its rank-20 value.

Talents at rank 20

The rank-1 value is in grey. Highlighted text is the trait synergy.

Not live yet

Aegon II Targaryen, Aemond Targaryen and Rhaenys Targaryen have no favoured traits. Their talents are developer placeholders ("Unob-talent-able", "Hidden Talent", "Trial by Talent"). In August, all eight commanders had these placeholders.

Dragon Traits New

Each released dragon has one trait. Commanders favour two traits each.

• Unreleased dragons have no trait yet.
• The trait is a new label, added in front of the damage-type labels (Physical, Tactical, Fire). The damage-type labels did not change.
• New ability conditions also check traits, for example "ally is Cunning and not Relentless". Commander talents use these conditions.

Meleys Released

• RarityLegendary
• BreedWarrior
• TraitRelentless
• AffinityCavalry, Archers

In August, Meleys had flat placeholder stats (55 at L1, 149 at L50). Siege affinity is +1, which is too small to show as an affinity.

• VanguardLevel 16+

  Damage Received −8%. Tactical Damage Dealt +16% for the Left Flank ally. This is the same vanguard skill as Arrax.

• CommandScarlet Strike

  Odd rounds: Physical Damage +135% to the enemy with the highest Initiative, and 1 Laceration stack (max 8). Each stack: Initiative −7% (enhanced by Strength).

  At 2 Stars: if the target has Bleed, 50% chance of Vulnerable for 2 rounds and 1 more Laceration stack.

• Habit 1Royal Rend

  Adds to Scarlet Strike. If the target has Bleed: 50% → 100% chance of Vulnerable and 1 more Laceration stack. The text says "increase their Physical Damage Received by −7%" as written in the game.

• Habit 2Nimble Resilience

  Start of Combat: Damage Received −6% → −12%, Initiative +12% → +24%.

• Habit 3Queen's Vengeance

  Each round: 25% → 50% chance of Reflect (100%) against Basic Attacks for 1 round.

• Habit 4Brisk Might

  Start of Combat: Strength +22% → +44% and Initiative +12.5% → +25% for the ally with the highest Strength (enhanced by Intelligence).

• Habit 5The Red Queen

  Rounds 3, 6, 9: Physical Damage +40% → +100% to 3 enemies, and 40% → 100% chance of 1 Laceration stack. 1 more stack on targets with Bleed.

Meleys shares an event banner with Smoketail.

Smoketail Released, reworked

• RarityEpic
• BreedHunter
• TraitRuthless
• AffinitySpearmen

The August kit was in the files but was not live (the dragon had the Work in Progress flag). These are the changes from that kit to the live kit.

Habit order

Habits (L1 → L5)

• Habit 1Ashen Phantom

  Enemies with Weakened get Fire and Tactical Damage Dealt −9% → −18%, doubled against Champions.

  enemies below 50% troops, −5% → −10%.

• Habit 2Ember Snare

  Each round: 30% → 60% chance of Initiative and Intelligence −20% → −40% (enhanced by Instinct) and Burn, for 2 rounds.

  round 1 only, Initiative −20% → −40% on 1 enemy, and one 30% Burn chance per combat.

• Habit 3Unraveled

  For each Weakened enemy: Intelligence, Instinct and Initiative −7% → −14% (enhanced by Intelligence) on 3 enemies, more against Champions.

  for each enemy below 25% troops, −10% → −25% (enhanced by Strength).

• Habit 4Backdraft

  No change. Fire Damage Received +10% → +20% on 1 enemy in the same lane.

• Habit 5Champion's Scourge

  Veilflame gains a hit in rounds 3, 6, 9: Fire Damage +30% → +75% to 3 targets, tripled against Champions. The game data cannot fill the target type of this habit. The 10-star command text gives "3 Enemies in any lane" for the same hit.

  Veilflame had a 50% → 100% chance of extra Fire Damage, tripled against Champions.

Command: Veilflame

Stats

Vanguard (Level 16+): Fire Damage Dealt +16%. Strength and Initiative +20 for the Right Flank ally. This is the Hunter vanguard, the same as Caraxes.

Hidden and text changes

Hidden change: the data changed, the text did not

Text-only changes

• Crimson, command Bloodscale Terror: "afflict Stun on 1 Enemy" is now "Stun 1 Enemy".
• Tairax, command Burning Ward: "afflict Stagger on" is now "Stagger".
• Zivern, habit Cloak of Terror: "afflict Overwhelm on" is now "Overwhelm".

Other changes in the data

Errors in the game data Game bug

The in-game text can also show these errors.

• Smoketail, Champion's Scourge: the habit points to an empty ability, so the text cannot get the target type.
• Criston Cole, Vanguard's Challenge: the text refers to three values that do not exist in the data. The damage reduction values have no source.
• Alicent Hightower, The Seven's Grace: the text refers to a fifth effect, but the talent has only four. The Immunity chance and duration have no source.
• Commander talents: the text says "2x", but the data value is 1.5x.

"Enhanced by" stat

In four habits, the text names a different stat than the data uses. The data decides the result in combat.

Not live yet Watch list

• Still Work in Progress: Belmorghul, Dewdrop, Dreadfire, Moonsheen, Silverwing, Sylveren, Thrandar.
• Moonsheen and Silverwing got a content tag and a new flag. Tessarion, Tairax, Vermax, Sheepstealer, Sunfyre and Moondancer lost their content tag. The meaning of these tags is not known.
• New abilities that no dragon uses yet: Legendary versions of Battle Guile (Instinct and Initiative reduction on 3 enemies) and Battle Rush (Initiative up, Instinct down), and a second version of Queen's Vengeance. These can be for a future Legendary dragon.

Community data corrections

The community dragon database (dragonfire-hub.com) has these errors. The game data shows the correct values. These are not changes in 26.9.

• Bevlorin vanguard: the database shows a copy of the Arrax vanguard. Correct: Recovery Dealt +15% and Initiative +25 for Bevlorin, and Damage Dealt +8% for the Right Flank ally.
• Bevlorin command: rounds 3 and 7 deal Fire damage, not Physical.
• Feskar command: the Physical Damage Dealt reduction is −12.5%, not −12%.
• Venator command: Double-Strike chance on rounds 4, 6, 8, not 4, 6, 8, 10.
• Arrax Habit 1: the drawback is Physical Damage Received +10% (you take more damage). The database says −10%, which reads as a buff.
• Star upgrades are missing from the database. 6-star upgrades: Antares, Arulix, Bevlorin, Feskar, Kalspire, Moondancer, Rhysarion, Seasmoke, Shimmer, Starshower, Syrax, Tairax, Thunderstrike, Venator, Vermithor. 10-star upgrades: Crimson, Shadowrend, Shadowsong, Smoketail, Starshower, Velar.
• Some commands have missing parts. For example, Solstryker has no even-round part.