January 28th 2022 Update Patch Notes
The Onmyoji Arena January 28th 2022 Update sees Lunar New Year Series Events, Jungle Area Adjustments and Balance Adjustments arrives.
Free Shikigami Lineup Adjustments
Onmyoji Arena will change the lineup of the limited-time free shikigami at 5:00 AM on January 31st, 2022. The new free shikigami will be Kidomaru, Hana, Tanuki, Shishio, Inugami, Izaya, Enma, and Yasha.
Onmyoji who own the God of Fortune Month Pact will have the additional free shikigami, Enmusubi and Kingyo.
Of these shikigami, Yasha has a difficulty of Hard. Onmyoji who have been in Heian-kyo for less than 7 days can’t use him in battle for free.
New Events
Lunar New Year Series Events
Dream of Clouds
Event Period: January 28th after maintenance to February 17th, 2022.
The dreamy warm breeze indicates that the festive season is here! Complete the designated quests to get rewards. You can also enter the teahouse to listen to stories and explore the pasts of the five shikigami.
Just in time for the lunar new year, the mysterious antique store, Remembrance Gallery, is open to customers for a limited time! Complete quests to gain Appraisal EXP to obtain Auspicious Daruma, Trailing Pet Sakurako: Teen Years, Return Cursed Seal: Returning Crane, Seal Effect: Blue Butterfly and other generous rewards!
Dream Pavilion
Event Period: January 28th after maintenance to February 17th, 2022.
Hone Onna and Ootengu’s Dream of Clouds skins, Piercing Dust and Feathered Pavilion, are now available for a limited time. Enjoy a 12% discount while the skins are available. Don’t miss out!
Spring Luck
Event Period: January 31st after maintenance to February 2nd, 2022.
May you be prosperous! It’s time for Red Packets! During the event, players level 10 or higher will be able to claim Auspicious Red Packets when they log in to the game! Open them to get Jade, Prayer Ema, Skin Tokens, and other rare rewards!
Happiness and Fortune
Event Period: January 28th after maintenance to February 17th, 2022.
May you have both happiness and fortune, and may good luck come your way! During the event, players will enjoy Coin, Proficiency, and Bond Bonuses throughout the day. Stay online to claim Spring Packs!
Gaming Peers
Event Period: January 28th after maintenance to February 24th, 2022.
During the lunar new year, invite friends to complete Activity quests and accumulate squad points to claim Skin Tokens, Auspicious Daruma, and other generous rewards!
Puppet Show Encore
Event Period: January 28th after maintenance to February 10th, 2022.
Puppeteer’s Shadow Dreams series skin, Leisurely Spring and Tamamonomae’s Shadow Dreams series skin, Repeated Dreams will make their return to the Skin Shop for a limited time! They will be available after maintenance from January 28th to February 10th, 2022. Don’t miss out!
Defense Bounty
Event Period: January 28th after maintenance to February 17th, 2022.
During the event, all Fun modes are available! Participate in Fun Mode battles to obtain Mystery Vouchers, Wish Cards, Prayer Ema, and other generous rewards.
Dazzling Treasure
Event Period: January 28th after maintenance to March 3rd, 2022.
During the event, if your recharge meets the requirements, you can get rewards including Skin Tokens, Skin Token Vouchers, Evolution Form Amulets, a Rare Avatar Frame, Auspicious Daruma Medals and other rewards!
Shikigami Trial Grounds
Event Period: January 28th after maintenance to March 2nd, 2022.
During the event, use Hone Onna’s skin, Piercing Dust, and Ootengu’s skin, Feathered Pavilion, to complete designated quests to claim rewards including Coin Bags and Return Cursed Seal Lucky Gift Boxes.
Special Offer Pack
Event Period: January 28th after maintenance to February 10th, 2022.
During the event, there will be Special Offer Skin Token Packs, Special Offer Daruma Packs, and Special Offer Coin Packs on sale for a limited time. Don’t miss out!
Abundant Jade Subscription
Event Period: January 31st after maintenance to March 3rd, 2022.
Shiranui’s Dream of Clouds series skin, Abundant Jade will be available in the Skin Shop from January 31st, 2022. Onmyoji can now choose to get the skin reminder.
Jungle Area Adjustments
In the new update, we will make all-new adjustments to the jungle. We hope that in the early game, jungler shikigami will have more routes to choose from. In the mid game, through the Kraken and Sougenbi bonuses and sealing difficulty adjustments, we hope that shikigami of all positioning have a chance to contest key resources to gain advantages for the team or themselves. In the late game, through the adjustments to the vision mechanics and the Serpent Priestess, we hope that the competition between the two teams over Serpent Priestess’ Might will become more intense.
Bottom River Large Monsters Adjustments
Namazu, Shinkiro, and Kraken arrive together in Heian-kyo! One of them will spawn randomly in a match. Sealing them grants different buff effects.
Since the bonus after sealing Kraken is a purely numerical increase that is mostly unnoticeable, we have adjusted the buff from Kraken.
Currently, Kraken can create a strong pushing pressure in the early game, providing an advantage for the later stages in the game, with the overall benefits being greater than Sougenbi. We have removed Kraken’s tower push effect and added a trailing pet mechanic. Item drops from large monsters can summon the corresponding small trailing pets, following and assisting the summoner to fight. These trailing pets will not break the Turret protection mechanic.
At the beginning of each game, one of Kraken, Namazu, or Shinkiro will spawn as the bottom river large monster. Only one type of large monster will spawn in each game.
Seal Buffs:
Kraken:
- 1 Stack: At regular intervals, the next basic attack deals bonus magic damage.
- 2 Stacks: Bonus damage increases, and sealing Kraken drops a Kraken Flag.
- 3 Stacks: Bonus damage increases, and sealing Kraken drops a Kraken Flag.
Shinkiro:
- 1 Stack: At regular intervals, gains Shield when dealing damage to enemy shikigami. The more enemy shikigami nearby, the higher the Shield points gained.
- 2 Stacks: Shield points increase, and sealing Shinkiro drops a Shinkiro Flag.
- 3 Stacks: Shield points increase, and sealing Shinkiro drops a Shinkiro Flag.
Namazu:
- 1 Stack: Gains Movement Speed bonus after dealing damage, stacks up to 5 times.
- 2 Stacks: Movement Speed bonus after dealing damage increases, and sealing Namazu drops a Namazu Flag.
- 3 Stacks: Movement Speed bonus after dealing damage increases, and sealing Namazu drops a Namazu Flag.
Sougenbi Adjustments
Currently, Sougenbi is mainly hunted by jungler shikigami only. In contrast, its overall bonus is less than that of Kraken. We hope that the top river large monsters will play a more important role in the early game, so that the top lane players can have more opportunities to contest for team resource in the early game. We have adjusted the weakness mechanic of Sougenbi, hoping to give shikigami from other positions more opportunities to contest for Sougenbi. At the same time, we have also added a new bonus to sealing Sougenbi.
When Sougenbi reveals its weakness, each shikigami can deal bonus damage by attacking Sougenbi, and each bonus damage is reduced.
The team that seals Sougenbi will no longer receive the team HP Regen bonus. The shikigami who picks up the item that Sougenbi drops will fire bullets when attacking a turret for the first 6 times, dealing bonus damage to the turret.
Serpent Priestess
The all-new Serpent Priestess arrives in Heian-kyo. Compared to Orochi, Serpent Priestess has more powerful abilities and more considerable bonuses. We hope that in the process of sealing Serpent Priestess, the disadvantaged team can use the vision mechanics and the Serpent Priestess’ debuff to contest for key resources. Corresponding to the increase in risk, we have also appropriately increased the bonuses of sealing Serpent Priestess.
Serpent Priestess has a new halo, and all nearby shikigami will suffer from a large healing reduction effect, and the increased damage taken effect of the shikigami will be stacked much faster.
After sealing Serpent Priestess, a Laments Banner will drop. The player who picks up the item can summon one Demon Parade Minion Wave at the location of the player when the item is used.
The stats of the Demon Parade have been decreased slightly, but it now deals bonus damage to Super Senshi units.
Daruma Adjustments
We hope to increase the importance of Daruma and encourage both sides to use it as a contestable resource point. At the same time, we have enhanced the functionality of the Daruma Lantern, so that its patrol vision covers a wider range.
Adjusted the spawn position of Daruma to make it further from the lane and closer to the position of the large monsters.
Increased the EXP and Coin bonuses of Daruma.
The Lantern Soul summoned after KO-ing Daruma will patrol the river.
Lantern Soul Adjustments
Currently, the impact of Lantern Soul’s existence is relatively weak, so we adjusted its mechanic based on the concept of “patrolling”, hoping that it can become the guardian of the jungle area. After the adjustment, regardless of whether it is early, mid or late game, summoning the Lantern Soul can provide effective protection for the jungle area for a period of time.
Adjusted the attack mechanics of the Lantern Soul. When an enemy shikigami has been hit, it will add a stackable Armor and Magic Resist reduction effect to the target. Lantern Soul’s HP has been reduced.
Lantern Soul will respawn faster.
After game time exceeds 8 minutes, when summoning the Lantern Soul, two small lanterns which patrol along a fixed path will be summoned together to probe the residences of large monsters in the corresponding halves.
Fixed the issue where the Coins obtained when activating the Lantern Soul was not displaying properly.
Other Battlefield Data Adjustments
We hope to alleviate the problem that some shikigami are too slow when clearing Super Senshi and Demon Parade Minion Wave in the mid and late game, so we appropriately adjusted the stats of Super Senshi, Demon Parade, and the inner turrets. At the same time, since some battlefield adjustments will help the dominant team to expand their advantages in the early game, we will also slightly increase the bounty ratio, in hope that this will give the disadvantaged team more opportunities to come back.
Reduced the stats growth of Demon Parade and Super Senshi.
Adjusted HP of inner turrets from 6,000 to 5,400, and HP of base from 10,500 to 8,640.
Adjusted shikigami kill bounty coefficient from 30% to 40%, and non-shikigami bounty coefficient from 20% to 30%.
Balance Adjustments
Youko
Youko’s suppression in the laning phase is too strong, so we decided to lower his damage capability in the early game while maintaining the same strength in the late game.
Trait: Ki Focus
Adjusted Attack Speed bonus from each stack of Demon Force from 5% to 3% (+0.12%*current level).
Ability 2: Wind Blade
Adjusted Attack bonus of the first blade from 70%/72.5%/75%/77.5%/80% to 60%/65%/70%/75%/80%.
Adjusted Attack bonus of the second blade from 60%/62.5%/65%/67.5%/70% to 40%/47.5%/55%/62.5%/70%.
Ungaikyo
We have slightly weakened Ungaikyo’s tankiness when in Mirror State – Yang and adjusted some of his mechanics.
Ability 1: Solar Rotation/Dawn Descends
Adjusted the duration of Good Karma and Bad Karma to 6 seconds.
Enhanced basic attacks will no longer be able to crit.
Ultimate Ability: A Life of Bitterness
Adjusted the additional increase in damage taken when in the Mirror State – Yang from 150% to 200%.
Miketsu
We have slightly increased Miketsu’s base stats and damage dealt by his ultimate ability to help Miketsu get through her weak performance in the early and mid game better.
Base Stats
Adjusted Armor from 52 to 58.
Ultimate Ability: Ignite: Magic Arrow
Adjusted damage from 150/275/400 to 250/350/450.
Mushishi
Mushishi’s protection ability in the laning phase is relatively weak, resulting in a disadvantage during the laning phase. We have slightly improved her shield and recovery capabilities when in the Butterfly Dream state during the laning phase.
Ability 2: Returning Butterfly
Adjusted base damage from 90/140/190/240/290 to 100/160/220/280/340.
Adjusted Base Regen from 8/11/14/17/20 to 10/14/18/22/26.
Ability 3: Butterfly Shelter
Adjusted base Shield from 100/155/210/265/320 to 160/200/240/280/320.
Kusa
Currently, Kusa’s performance is relatively weak compared to the other support shikigami, so we have slightly increased her Base Regen.
Natural Passive: Mending
Adjusted Base HP Regen from (+3*current level) (+1% of target’s Max HP) to 10 (+3*current level) (+1% of target’s Max HP).
Ability 2: Absorb
Adjusted Base Regen from 30/40/50/60/70 to 40/50/60/70/80.
Optimizations and Adjustments
Reduced the lag of some shikigami at the end of the displacement.
Optimized the smoothness of shikigami when turning.
System Optimizations
Lobby: Added the Recruit button and moved the Send Coins button from the Rankings Page to the Friend List page.
Home Page: Optimized the recording restrictions, optimized the Add Friend button display, and added a Copy button for Player ID.
Friend Request: Added the friend request pop-up prompt.
