Attention, soldiers! Roland Knecht has arrived!

Hailing from many battlefields, the Veteran is now ready to settle in more peaceful pastures. He brings with him a wealth of military knowledge, including the ability to craft Dual Wield Weapons and Quivers!

But that’s not all. As a renowned drill instructor, he knows how to whip those Heroes into shape! His Premium Worker ability allows you to, once per Hero, replace a skill with any skill of your choice. The only restrictions are that it must be a skill that Hero can learn normally, and one that is not already known to the Hero. It can be any skill slot and any skill rarity.

All Heroes, new and old, can benefit from this effect once each.

Roland is available for purchase for players at level 32 or higher.

In a world where ammo is infinite, can there be a market for quivers? If there is a will, there is a way. These quivers are quite the bundle and contain arrows, bolts and bullets at the same time!

Due to this, it also has a few special rules. One, it can only be equipped alongside a Gun, Crossbow or Bow. It’s not too useful otherwise! If it’s equipped alongside another weapon, it will be disabled and provide no stat bonuses.

Two, it bears a special affinity for Bows, which gain a 30% item bonus when equipped alongside a quiver. One cannot name a more iconic duo, after all.

Rest assured however that Guns, Crossbows and Bows can still function without the help of a quiver if one prefers.

Perhaps our most unique item type yet!

From a crafting point of view, Dual wield is conventional. It is its own blueprint line, with its own Ascension Milestones and Advanced Research. Let’s take the Crystal Destroyers blueprint, for example. It is a Dual Wield blueprint featuring an Axe and a Mace. The result is a single item (Crystal Destroyers) that can be sold and equipped normally, benefitting from Dual Wield crafting upgrades, but not from Axe or Mace ones.

When it comes to Heroes though, things get more unique. No Hero class can explicitly equip Dual Wield items. So long as they can normally wield one of the weapons part of the Dual Wield, they can wield it! A Cleric for example could equip the Crystal Destroyers, even if they can’t normally use Axes.

This logic is similar for Hero skills. While no skill specifically enhances Dual Wield, other skills such as Mace Master would grant their full bonus to the Crystal Destroyers. Similarly, a Thief (with its innate bonus to Daggers) with the Sword Master skill would receive the benefit of both skills if equipped with a Sword/Dagger Dual Wield item. Do keep in mind however that a single skill (e.g Warlord) will never grant its bonus twice.

We’ve overhauled the Guild Finder algorithm to more accurately find guilds suitable for the user. We’re also currently working on improving the Member Finder, which should help guilds find members from dead guilds.

• Restored the Guild’s Choice option to the guild settings.
  
• The Scholar now shows up at level 15. Previously, she showed as soon as the player crafted a few enchantments, which could lead to some confusion.
  
• Since everyone’s doing bounties now, there’s a bit of competition on the bounty board. We’ve added 3 new guild upgrades to increase the amount of bounties available at once.
  
• With Dual Wield and Quivers, we now have a lot of blueprint lines with special rules! Deep within the blueprint details of relevant items, we’ve added a line explaining these special rules, if any. In the future, we’ll look into a more visible solution.
  
• Improved the visual clarity of contribution amounts in the guild contribution menu in events.

• Druidic Grimoire Ascension upgrades now reduce the quality of its Noble Ring components to Normal, rather than removing one of them.
  
• “Sell X Gold Worth of items” bounties are now a bit harder, and “Surcharge X gold worth of items” bounties are now a bit easier.
  
• Small talk bounties are now a bit easier to account for the failure chance.
  
• “Spend Resource” bounties are now a bit easier.
  
• Each bounty type normally goes on a cooldown for some time before it can resurface. This cooldown has been halved, allowing them to show up again faster.

Shopkeepers alike — but especially to those who only play on iOS — with the release of the 18.0 Update it will now be possible to redeem promotional codes on the official Shop Titans website!

Head over to the Promo Code Redemption page[playshoptitans.com] once the update has been released and sign into Kabam Cross Connect to redeem any promo code directly from the web. Please ensure you read the information on the page for full details on the process.

Premium Workers will now be available for purchase directly from the webstore, including the all-new Veteran worker, Roland!

Personalized offers Naya periodically brings you will also now be available for purchase from the webstore.

I will be available as a Guest Champion on November 11th until the 14th! But don’t let my presence distract you! I still need these items!

• Fixed the drum-type instruments animating weird during quests.
  
• Added the missing Air affinity on the Nightwing Shoes.
  
• Premium bounties now grant more guild coins, as they used to.
  
• Fixed instances of Cloak bounties not being set as Premium.
  
• Fixed Aurasong bounties showing up as Swords instead.
  
• Fixed the gold counter not being abbreviated in some instances.
  
• Fixed a crash involving bounties in non-English languages
  
• Last Tower of Titans was missing some of its usual rewards. They have been added to the next tower as a bonus.
  
• Fusions will no longer prioritize locked and enchanted items.
  
• Fixed an instance where customers would walk out shop for no discernible reason.
  
• Fixed item value bounties not taking into account milestone upgrades.
  
• Fixed the “Contact Us” button in Settings leading to an invalid page on PC platforms.

This update is slated for release next week!

Halloween is creeping up, but as a spirit herself, Zolea finds the city’s Halloween spirit to be lacking! She requests that all shopkeepers serve trick or treaters with zeal!

For the duration of the event, the entire community must serve 75 million customers! Any sale made in the shop counts, including king sales and Champion requests! If this challenge is completed, Zolea will reward all players with the following:

• 50 Ascension Shards
  
• 50 Antique Tokens
  
• 50 Dragonmarks
  
• 5 Limited Edition!

But there’s more! On the third day of the event, a Secret Challenge will be revealed. Completing both challenges in time will cause Zolea to overflow with joy (and Halloween spirit). She will DOUBLE her Essence regeneration rate for an entire year! You don’t wanna miss that one!

As with last time, event progress will be shared every day through in-game mails as well as on our website. The event will run from October 21st and end on the 26th. If all challenges are completed, the Essence bonus reward will be implemented in the next update.

Another content pass so soon? And it’s got new stuff, too! Complete tasks and gather Candies for a tummy ache and cool new exclusive rewards! On top of cool new blueprints, there’s some outstanding decorations and customizations this time around!

• The Candy Bowl decoration invites customers to take candy from its bowl. This decoration tracks how many candies were taken!
  
• The Ghostkeeper customization uses bedsheet technology to turn your shopkeeper into a very convincing apparition! Your arms are not available, but you don’t need those anyway.
  
• As the Grand Prize, there is the Ghastly Cowl rogue hat! It’s a cool Tier 14 you don’t wanna miss!

Ardent trick or treaters can also unlock the Candy Fiend title by completing every single task in the Content Pass.

The Halloween Neighborhood Content Pass will run from October 1st until the 29th.

Bounty balance has received a significant overhaul. Gone are the days of bounties asking for 9  highly specific crafts. They will now prefer asking for tiers, gold value, or simply crafts of any item or an item type rather than a specific item. In addition, bounties asking for specific item types will scale with your progress within that item type. Most other bounty types have received similar changes to make them flexible. 

Do keep in mind however that once some members of a guild start updating to the latest version, players of the same guild who have not yet updated may see their bounty board stop generating bounties. This is a necessary inconvenience while two incompatible systems coexist in the same guild, but should be resolved once all members have updated.

In addition, any bounties currently in progress will be wiped after updating.

Some blueprints had a particular affinity for multiple elements. In these cases, their Affinity can now support up to two elements! A list of items affected by this change can be found at the bottom of these patch notes.

• Gems earned from level ups are now part of the level up screen itself, rather than a separate celebration screen.
  
• Clarified the rulings for equipment never breaking during single-round quests. Sunglasses will now appear on the party only if the quest is expected to last only one round AND that no party members are defeated. This will guarantee a break-free quest.

King Reinhold will be available as a guest champion on October 14th until the 17th.

• Updated the Dunes and Beachside floorings so that they mesh better together.
  
• Fixed item icons looking a bit crunchy.
  
• Fixed a few Rudo skill strings.
  
• Fixed a few Wallpapers and Floorings that refused to show up as antiques in the antique store.
  
• AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA is gone but not forgotten.
  
• Fixed the Favored Quest popup becoming misaligned when switching from landscape to portrait or vice versa.
  
• Fixed some blueprints (e.g. Artifact blueprints) displaying "x1" instead of "Exclusive" on offers.
  
• Fixed some offers not displaying the tier of a blueprint.
  
• Fixed furniture not properly sorting new decorations first in some scenarios.
  
• Improved the visual clarity of the energy count on customer interaction buttons. (legends say that it's actually true this time).

The following blueprints have been updated to Dual Affinity:

• Zeus Thunderblade
  
• Thorn of Scorn
  
• Wiccan Dagger
  
• Smash Hit
  
• Mjolnir
  
• Whack-o-Lantern
  
• Yule's Herald
  
• Somnus Boltcaster
  
• Baross Backup
  
• Nightwing Caster
  
• Elysium Skylophone
  
• Thorn Baron Armor
  
• Hive Guard Plate
  
• Titan Admiral Coat
  
• Garb of Morpheus
  
• Pumpkin Armor
  
• Thorn Baron Helm
  
• Titan Admiral Hat
  
• Harvester's Hood
  
• Sakura Eboshi
  
• Waterproof Lilycap
  
• Fruity Gauntlets
  
• Pumpkin Gauntlets
  
• Nightwing Vambraces
  
• Fruity Booties
  
• Nightwing Shoes
  
• Luckiest Clover
  
• Tincture of Finality
  
• Supreme Sunscreen
  
• Lost Star Chart
  
• Grimoire Aethernum
  
• Abyssal Artifact
  
• Honeycomb Defender
  
• Sacred Scarab
  
• Jade Lotus Loop
  
• Giant Moth Wings
  
• Coastal Towel
  
• Woven Lilycloak
  
• Vampire Wings
  
• Aura of Sparks