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Puzzle Quest 3NewsUpdate 4.2
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Update 4.2

Puzzle Quest 3 · published 12 Aug 2025, 00:38 UTC

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New Season - The Wondrous Emporium


The Season begins at daily reset (00:00 GMT) on Tuesday 19th August

  • Start - Tuesday 19th August (00:00 UTC) (Release of Season 4.2, Variant Gear, Spells, Minions and Legendary)
  • Chapter II - Tuesday 2nd September (00:00 UTC)
  • Chapter III - Tuesday 16th September (00:00 UTC)
  • Hard - Tuesday 30th September (00:00 UTC)
  • Elite - Tuesday 7th October (00:00 UTC)
  • End - Monday 13th Oct (11:59 UTC)

New Variant: Sparkling

Season 4.2 Sparkling Variant Set: Runic

Sparkling:

At the start of the turn, there is a 2-12% chance to inflict Blind on the enemy for 4 turns.

Available only in the 4.2 Season Cache (or Archive), this item will drop at Legendary rarity.

Emrick’s Grip (Pantheon Set)

  • Increase Power by X for each Skull on the board


“These gloves are said to possess a sliver of the strength of the mighty Goddess Emrick.”

Values in bold are affected by the Spellbook Level or Rarity of the Spell.

Money Buys Happiness (120 Green Mana)


Deal X Poison Damage, plus your Gold Bonus divided by [7→2].

Spellbook Level: Poison Damage, Rarity: Gold Bonus Division

Strength To Power (110 Red Mana)


Destroy X Skull Gems, and gain Y Power

Spellbook Level: Power, Rarity: Skull Destruction

Brain In A Jar

  • Cunning
  • Might: 2-45 Speed: 5-95 Cunning: 8-160
  • Versus Spell: Command Legion (75 Blue Mana)
    • Deal X Physical Damage and remove all skulls from the board. Deal +10% extra damage as Ice Damage for each skull removed.

Mimicoin

  • Speedy
  • Might: 4-70 Speed: 10-195 Cunning: 2-35*
  • Versus Spell: Lure Prey (70 Yellow Mana)
    • Deal X Light Damage. If the target has no Resistance left, deal double as Melee Damage

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Sometimes the hero’s journey includes working retail.

Emporium Berserkers
Only available in the Platinum Season Pass

Platinum

  • Emporimimic

Gold

  • Mimicoin
  • Brain In A Jar

No Pass Needed

  • Money Buys Happiness
  • Strength To Power
  • Gemka
  • Gnoll Pup
  • Sandolisk
  • Mini Sand Golem
  • The Wondrous Emporium
    • Complete Season 4.2 Chapter 3

  • A New Frame of Mine

    • Collect 15 Portrait Frames

  • A Variant Good Look For You

    • Collect 10 Variant Gear Pieces

  • Improved readability of the chest name against all backgrounds when choosing to salvage or open them
  • Updated item search filter to allow a minimum and maximum values for Honed Level and Rarity when using mouse or touch input
  • Updated continue panel in adventures to show the cost of toll gates
  • Updated text on the continue panel so indicate if you can or can’t unlock a difficulty gate
  • Updated art on the continue panel in adventures so the selected option is clearer, and to make it clearer overall
  • When collecting all mail, you can now make choices for any and all mail items that have options for their rewards
  • Added support to show an upsell menu from all confirmation menus if you don’t have enough resources. This applies for Crowns, Gems and Festival Currencies.
  • Added a new setting Disable Camera Motion, If enabled the camera in battle will be entirely static, if disabled it will follow the motions of the characters
  • Reduce Camera Motion setting has been renamed to Disable Camera Shake, any saved setting should be updated appropriately
  • Added setting to skip Rest and Recovery menu in Events and Adventures
  • Continuing to a Toll or Difficulty gate in adventure now centers on that node when returning to the map
  • Added slight zoom effects on the map when starting a battle, conversation, or checking merchant stock in adventures
  • Backing out of the merchant menu in adventures without purchasing anything will keep the map centered on that merchant
  • Burn against Incubus can now be cleansed
  • Fixed critical hit and damage penalties from Confused not applying to some item abilities
  • Corrected heal amount of Consume souls
  • Fiery Sting ability now increases the burn damage on the player, rather then on Thorn King himself. The Burn damage has been updated to the intended 9% instead of 200% of total health. Additionally removed Burn being uncleansable from the ability description,
  • Burn from Firestorm spell is now uncleanseable
  • Fixed world map unloading after looting dungeons and skirmishes only to immediately need to be reloaded
  • Fixed being able to spend resources to go above Northhelm’s max inventory upgrades
  • Fixed bug where skipping Conversations could stop the adventure completed rewards being automatically rewarded
  • Added name and description for the Adventure currency in the Storming the Prison adventure
  • Fixed localization code for festival ending push notification
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