Heist league

Sanctum Patch Notes

Rogue's Markers Problem:

• Upon leaving town in Act 6 and killing your first set of monsters, you'd very quickly obtain Rogue's Markers and be told to go back to town and talk to Kurai. This disrupted the flow of the main questline, and you were then directed to do more and more things for the initial Heist quest.

Solution:

• We've removed the guaranteed Rogue's Marker drop from Act 6.

Ultimatum Patch Notes

Heist Changes

• The amount of experience required to level up a Heist Rogue has been reduced by 20% per level.

Ritual Patch Notes

Heist Changes

• Kurai, as well as your first Rogue's Markers, can now be found starting in Act 6.
• Smuggler's Caches now always drop a Quest Contract if possible, in addition to an ordinary Contract.
• Smuggler's Caches now appear less frequently, and Contracts, Blueprints and Rogue's Markers now drop less frequently.
• All quest contracts now reward you with Rogue's Markers upon completion.
• Kurai's second and third quest contracts now spawn more monsters during the escape.
• The number of Rogue's Markers you get from completing contracts above level 68 has been increased. You'll now get (on average) 20% more markers from Level 83 contracts.
• The levels at which Heist Equipment drops has been adjusted to fit the new progression.
• Job Experience granted to Heist participants has been increased across the board to fit the lower frequency at which players will engage in them.
• Blueprints that have been created through duplication (such as via Einhar's Blood Altar) must now be revealed again.
• The Rogue Harbour once again acts like a town and will be populated by other players.
• Vinderi's chance for items from Heist chests to be doubled has been reduced at all levels. It is now 14% at job level 5 (from 20%).
• Huck now grants increased experience to players in Heists, up to 20% at job level 3.
• Harvest rewards can no longer appear in Heists, because Harvest is a thing again.
• Greatly increased the chance of finding Tempering and Tailoring Orbs from Blueprint rewards.
• The experience limit on all Heists has been lowered (as in, you will hit a point at which additional monster spawns grant no experience sooner).
• Whakano's reveal audio no longer overlaps with itself.

Introduction

The Heist league is a challenge league. It launched on September 18, 2020 (UTC), alongside the Version 3.12.0 patch.

The Heist league has the player organizing Heists to infiltrate and steal from fortified caches of valuables. After finding a Rogue's Marker, the player can use it to visit the Rogue Harbour and run Contracts for the rogue's guild known as the Ring. The player is tasked to infiltrate an area containing a valuable item with a help of a Rogue for hire. They must secure the item and take as many other valuables as possible before lockdown occurs, then make their escape through a hoard of guards alive. Smaller contracts can lead into Blueprints used to plan more elaborate Grand Heists for an even bigger payout and exclusive rewards. Players can equip Trinkets and train and gear up their Rogues to improve the heisting experience and rewards. Exclusive rewards in the Heist league include experimented base items with new implicit mods, skill gems with alternate quality modifiers, weapon and body armour enchantments, and replica unique items with similar but different properties to its original.

League mechanic

Enemies can randomly drop stacks of Rogue's Marker or Contracts, which are used for Heists. Occasionally, a zone contains a Smuggler's Cache containing both. Quest Contract can only be obtained from Smuggler's Caches. Using a Rogue's Marker open a portal to the Rogue Harbour. Players can use contracts there to open a portal to perform a heist. Each heist requires a Rogue with the required Heist Job skill and level, as well as a fee.

During the heist, the player must retrieve the target item before lockdown. Opening chests raises the Alert gauge. Maxing out the gauge starts a Countdown phase before the item is locked out. Retrieving the item or running out the timer starts the Escape phase, where the player must reach the escape point without dying. All items taken during a heist are marked as Contraband, which cannot be used and drop on death until the heist is over. Selling the target item rewards you with additional Rogue's Markers.

Blueprints are used to perform Grand Heists. You can use Markers to pay to reveal additional wings and rooms in a blueprint. Grand Heists require multiple Rogues to perform and contain special items in the safe.

The cost for revealing rooms/wings in blueprints increases every time a new component is revealed. These costs are additive and based on the type of component revealed. The increase is approximately ~4.3% every time you reveal a room, ~30.4% every time you reveal a wing, and ~1.7% every time you reveal an escape route. So if the original cost of a revealing a wing was 3000 markers and you have revealed 2 rooms and 1 other wing the new cost to reveal the wing will be ~3000*(1+0.043*2+0.304)=4170 markers.

Minimap

These new icons are introduced to the minimap:

Modifiers

All map and most area have the modifiers:

• MapHeistLeague