While this is appropriate for some factions – such as the Empire, where filling the Elector Count seats is the goal of the campaign – for Wood Elves we wanted to focus on offices as a tool for customising Lords and enabling alternative strategies and playstyles. With the Wood Elf offices, we generally sought to avoid too many factionwide effects as these tend to promote recruiting Lords purely to fill a slot, then disbanding them. All items have had their stats tweaked, and Reforged items will now be significantly stronger, so they are viable choices in comparison to permanent upgrades. In addition, we’ve done a balance pass on all the items offered by the Forge. The ‘Naestra leaves’ option that appears when Daith offers to reforge a completed item with now reduce the timer until the next new item is offered by 2 turns Items will now revert back to their previous upgrade level after Reforging expires, rather than their base level We’ve heard your feedback on the Forge, and have implemented a preliminary set of changes to deal with the most prominent gameplay issues:
The update contained bug fixes and alterations to the Forge of Daith mechanic following player feedback. It followed The Twisted and Twilight Update. The Asrai Resurgent Update is an update for Total War: Warhammer II released on 7 January, 2021.