The Empires & Puzzles Beta V80.4 update has just arrived, and it’s one of the most exciting patches we’ve seen in a long time. This update combines festive Halloween content with game-changing new heroes and mechanics, making it a must-watch for both casual and competitive players.

In this breakdown, we’ll cover everything you need to know about the latest Beta patch:

• 🎃 Halloween Brawl
• 🏰 The Sanguine Feast (Halloween Quest & Summon Portals)
• 🕯️ Kadath, the Forsaken Hero
• 🧛 New Morlovia Heroes & Costumes
• 🩸 Fleur De Sang Family
• 👹 Astral Demons Family

Let’s dive right in.

🎃 Halloween Brawl – Seasonal Raid Madness

The Halloween Brawl takes the traditional Raid Brawl format and injects it with spooky seasonal flavor. This special event heavily favors heroes from the Morlovia and Fleur De Sang families, making them absolute monsters on the battlefield.

These heroes gain powerful advantages during the brawl:

• Immunity to Bleed damage, Mana debuffs, and Skill-blocking effects
• Resistance to Mana Reduction
• A +40% stat boost across the board

That kind of buff turns these heroes into raid juggernauts. With 50 wins, you’ll unlock the Raid Brawl Chest, which comes packed with valuable rewards—definitely worth grinding if you have the right lineup.

🏰 The Sanguine Feast – Revamped Halloween Quest & Summon Portals

The Halloween Seasonal Quest has been reworked into The Sanguine Feast, bringing new mechanics and rewards.

How it works:

• 10 replayable stages per difficulty
• Goal: Collect Sanguine Spirits

You can earn Spirits in two ways:

1. Defeat Sanguine Skulls – each drops 10 Spirits (max 500 total).
2. Summon from the Seasonal Summon Portal – each pull gives 10 Spirits.

Every 100 Spirits = 1 free pull in the new Sanguine Summon Portal.

About the new portal:

• 🚫 No classic heroes (goodbye Bane & Dawa frustration)
• 🎯 Features Fleur De Sang heroes
• ⭐ Featured heroes arrive fully ascended (not limit-broken)
• 💎 Steep summon cost: 450 gems single / 3900 gems 10x pull

💡 Pro Tip: Save your gems and maximize your free pulls through Sanguine Spirits. Holding onto your Epic Summon Tokens for October could also give you better value.

🕯️ Forsaken Hero – Kadath, the Accursed Clergyman

Meet Kadath, the newest Forsaken hero. This Legendary Dark Wizard introduces a terrifying new mechanic: Fear.

Fear Effect:

• -35% Defense to target
• Strips & blocks buffs/positive stacks
• Forces the target to deal 130% damage to a random ally whenever another hero fires a Special Skill

This effect is devastating—like an upgraded version of Greed that turns enemies against themselves. While Kadath suffers from Insanity as a balancing drawback, his Fear mechanic could completely reshape PvP and Raid strategies.

🧛 Morlovia Refresh – New Costumes & Hero

The Morlovia family gets a Halloween boost with new costumes and a fresh Legendary hero:

• Ana-Belle (Costume: Baroness of Dust) – Epic Dark Sorcerer, versatile support with healing, dispels, and cleanses.
• Edwin (Costume: Backstabbing Butler) – Legendary Nature Cleric, fast hitter, bypasses defense, debuffs, and applies DoT.
• Hortensia, Fosterer of Flytraps – Legendary Nature Druid, combining minion destruction, reaper effects, fiend casting, and healing debuffs.

While not meta-breaking, these additions make the Morlovia lineup more tactical and versatile.

🩸 Fleur De Sang – The Blood Lily Family

This year’s Halloween spotlight shines on the Fleur De Sang family, a lineup dripping with theme and synergy.

Heroes include:

• Eumachius (Rare Nature Sorcerer)
• Talesie (Epic Dark Rogue)
• Ludovico (Legendary Ice Cleric)
• Elyzabel De Tuillieres (Legendary Fire Wizard)
• Guillemette (Legendary Holy Paladin)

Family Bonus – The Blood Lily Effect:

• Stacks up to 10 times
• Each stack deals 25 damage/turn to enemies
• Damage instantly heals all Fleur De Sang allies

This creates a drain-and-sustain playstyle, making Fleur De Sang teams incredibly hard to kill while slowly bleeding enemies dry.

👹 Astral Demons – Chaos Through Resonance

The Astral Demons family enters with a unique focus on damage-over-time (DoT) chaos mechanics.

Heroes include:

• Agharoth (Rare Ice Paladin)
• Mael (Epic Fire Rogue)
• Anatemah (Legendary Ice Cleric)
• Paimon (Legendary Dark Sorcerer)
• Xshahr (Legendary Nature Barbarian)

Family Bonus – Resonance:

• Damage bounces across the battlefield
• Cannot hit the same target twice in a row
• Damage weakens slightly with each jump

The star here is Anatemah, introducing Astral Orbs:

• Orbs explode after 3 turns for massive damage
• Cleansing an orb still causes Resonance damage
• If a hero gets a second orb while holding one, the first detonates instantly
• Chain reactions up to 2 times per turn

Astral Demons bring unpredictability, forcing enemies to adapt or risk being overwhelmed by chain explosions.

⚔️ Final Thoughts – Is Beta V80.4 the Biggest Halloween Update Yet?

The Empires & Puzzles Beta V80.4 update mixes festive content with meta-defining mechanics:

• Halloween Brawl becomes one of the most rewarding raid events yet.
• Sanguine Feast makes grinding meaningful with Spirits and Summon Portals.
• Kadath & Fear could redefine debuffs and counterplay.
• Morlovia additions refresh seasonal lineups.
• Fleur De Sang heroes blend offense and sustain in a unique synergy.
• Astral Demons unleash chaotic damage with Resonance and Orbs.

Overall, this patch delivers both seasonal flavor and competitive shake-ups—offering something fresh for every type of player.

👉 What excites you most about Beta V80.4? The festive Sanguine Feast, the dark power of Kadath, or the arrival of new families like Fleur De Sang and Astral Demons?

Share your thoughts in the comments, and don’t forget to check back here for more Empires & Puzzles guides, hero breakdowns, and meta insights.