RAID: Shadow Legends Update Prep: Relic Mercy, Buffs, and Free Legendary

To prepare for the upcoming RAID: Shadow Legends update, stop spending high-tier relic crafting materials immediately, pause relic inventory cleansing, and preserve rank-up food and Legendary Skill Tomes. Plarium has confirmed that an upcoming patch will introduce a Relic Mercy system, a relic rebalance pass, a new free Legendary champion, and a direct buff to the permanent fusion champion, Rhazin Scarhide.

Adjusting your daily account management now ensures you do not waste rare forge currencies or sell gear that may become viable after balance changes.

Pause High-Tier Relic Crafting Until Mercy Goes Live

Halt all non-essential high-tier relic crafting in the forge until the mercy system is active in the game client.

Without a pity mechanic, crafting high-tier relics relies entirely on unmitigated random generation, making it easy to burn rare materials without obtaining usable Legendary or Mythical pieces. A dedicated mercy system guarantees higher-tier outcomes after a set threshold of unsuccessful crafts, similar to shard summoning mechanics.

Follow these resource rules until patch day:

• Stockpile High-Grade Materials: Save materials gathered from the Forge Pass, Clan Boss, Sintranos, and the Cursed City.
• Avoid Impulsive Crafting: Do not spend rare materials to chase temporary gear upgrades.
• Wait for Threshold Details: Wait until the game client displays the exact mercy counters before crafting in bulk, aligning future craft sessions with Clan vs. Clan (CvC) tournaments or Forge milestones.

Retain Underused Relics Ahead of the Balance Pass

Do not sell or cleanse niche relics until official patch notes confirm which sets receive adjustments. A balance pass targets underperforming relics by updating trigger chances, lowering internal cooldowns, or improving stat scalings to make them competitive with standard dungeon and arena setups.

Keep any relic piece that rolled desirable secondary stats, even if the set bonus is currently weak.

A numerical buff can make a previously ignored relic valuable for high-tier Hydra or Doom Tower teams. Verify all changes before selling off your storage backlog.

Bank Resources for the Incoming Free Legendary Champion

Prepare your vault, rank-up fodder, and skill tomes now so you can level and ascend the new free Legendary champion immediately upon acquisition.

Free login or event champions often provide critical utility for account progression, but maximizing a new Legendary requires a substantial upfront resource investment:

• Save Legendary Skill Tomes: Freeze tome spending on secondary project champions. Free event champions often require 10 to 12 Legendary Tomes to secure cooldown reductions and 100% debuff placement chances.
• Farm Superior Potions: Stockpile Superior Arcane Potions and affinity-specific potions during standard daily Keep rotations. Pre-farming keeps your energy free for events when the champion arrives.
• Prepare Promotion Food: Train five 5-star food champions and store XP brews so you can instantly advance the champion to rank 6, level 60 without depleting resources during active tournament events.

Audit Your Roster for Rhazin Scarhide

Check your collection for Rhazin Scarhide or his required fusion components. As a permanent fusion available in the Portal, Rhazin has long served as a staple for Fire Knight and Clan Boss progression due to his triple-hit A1, A2 Decrease Defense and Weaken, and A3 full turn-meter reduction on Bog Down. However, stat inflation in modern content left his kit sluggish.

The announced buff aims to modernize his performance against newer encounter requirements:

• If You Already Own Rhazin: Prepare gear sets focused on Defense, Speed, and Accuracy. Modernizing his build will allow him to handle higher-tier encounter resistance pools once his numbers are updated.
• If You Have Not Completed the Fusion: Audit your champion vault for the specific rare fusion components—such as Wanderer, Preserver, and Halberdier—required to fuse his four epic prerequisites. Keep those rares locked so you can complete the fusion once the buff takes effect.