Champions Online’s release notes for November 3rd, 2026 are a mix of Blood Moon additions, a schedule change and a handful of bug fixes. Onslaught Week now starts on November 10th, Takofanes has a new drop, and players on AMD graphics cards should no longer get stuck before they even reach character select.
Blood Moon and Onslaught
With Takofanes the Undying now stalking Millennium City for the third week of Blood Moon, Cryptic has given players another reason to keep fighting him: Moon auras can now drop from the event boss. The event store also picks up the Dark Jester Pants and Dark Jester Shoes, rounding out the Dark Jester set that arrived with this week of the event.
Those who already have Dark Jester pieces get some extra options too:
- The Dark Jester hat has an additional pattern option.
- The Dark Jester helmet and cape gain additional attachments.
Onslaught Week has been pushed back to November 10th so it doesn’t overlap with Blood Moon. That lines up with the end of the Halloween event, which wraps up on the morning of November 10th, so villain hunters will get the week to themselves rather than splitting their time between two events.
Collectors of travel powers can also look at the Drifter store, which now stocks the Dark Fireball Roll travel device. It isn’t open to everyone, though: players need to own both the Fireball Roll and Shadow Fireball Roll travel powers before they can buy it.
Fixes for AMD users and magic powers
The most important fix in this update is for players with AMD video cards, some of whom could get stuck on the initial loading screen. That issue has now been resolved.
Several powers that lean on magic damage also behave as intended now:
- Sorcerer’s Fist now reliably gets its full 30% damage bonus.
- Thousand Spells deals Magic damage again, instead of Dimensional damage.
- Mystified now consistently applies its heal when its conditions are met.
- Arcane Palm Strike gets the charge sound it was missing.
The Thousand Spells change is worth noting for anyone who has built around damage type resistances or bonuses, since the power was effectively not counting as Magic damage until now.
On the cosmetic side, the Autumn Leaves aura, which was also added to the ZEN store in a four-color pack this week, now scales properly with character size instead of staying fixed. The ZEN store is also running a 20% discount on items and Cosmic Key Bundles until November 10th at 7am PT, ending at the same time as Blood Moon.
Source: Champions Online official news.
