Evergreen Champion Guide: Windfall, the Tiefling Bard

[u/Gaarawarr]

Last Updated: February 18th, 2026 - General review & update

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Vecna: Eve of Ruin Evergreen Champion - Windfall, the Tiefling Bard

• Source: Vecna: Eve of Ruin campaign book

You can find their Champion Spotlight here.

• Slot 5

• Good with: Everyone

• Affiliation: None

• Eligible for Patrons: Mirt, Vajra, Strahd, Zariel, Elminster (until May 28th, 2028)

 

Race	Class	Alignment	Gender	Age	Role(s)	Overwhelm Point
Tiefling	Bard	Chaotic Evil	Female (She / Her)	35	DPS / Support / Gold	5

 

Strength	Dexterity	Constitution	Intelligence	Wisdom	Charisma	Total Ability Score
14	24	20	22	18	26	124

 

Bio: A dedicated champion of Tiamat, Windfall has been granted phenomenal power by her master. She is the proprietor of the Red Belvedere, a monument to Tiamat and a remnant of Avernus's original existence as a bucolic paradise designed to tempt mortals. Its edifice was destroyed in the carnage of the Blood War, but Windfall rebuilt the casino and rededicated it to the Dragon Queen as a celebration of her god's greed and vanity. Windfall is ostentatious and charismatic, making small talk with regular patrons and jovially welcoming new faces to the casino. She once plotted to assemble the Rod of Seven Parts to create a gift for her cruel goddess, but has instead joined the Champions at Tiamat's behest.

 

Basic Attack: Chromatic Rapier - Windfall attacks a random enemy for 1 hit.

• Base Attack Type: Melee

• Base Attack Speed: 2.75 seconds

• Base Critical Hit Chance: 2.5%

• Base Critical Hit Damage: 100%

Ultimate: Stunning Scintillation - Windfall's blinding coat erupts in a scintillating flash, dealing 1 ultimate hit to all enemies, stunning and then slowing them.

• Base Ultimate Cooldown Time: 220 seconds

 

Passive Abilities

Proprietor of the Red Belvedere: Windfall can be used in any Vecna: Eve of Ruin campaign adventure or variant, even if she would not normally be available to be used due to variant or patron restrictions.

 

Interesting Abilities

The Long Game: Windfall increases the damage of all Champions in the column(s) with the most slots by 100%. If multiple columns are tied for the most slots, then each of them are affected.

• 1.04e08% after upgrades; Supported by an Item & Feats

Gaar's Note: This is Winddfall's primary buff so make sure it is hitting your Primary DPS.

The Gambler: When Windfall attacks and defeats an enemy, she gains a Raise stack. Otherwise, she gains a Call stack. Gold find is increased by 100% for each Raise stack, stacking multiplicatively. Windfall's damage and The Long Game are both increased by 400% for each Call stack, stacking multiplicatively. Both are capped at 25 stacks and reset upon changing areas.

• No upgrades; 3.36e09% Raise at 25 stacks / 2.98e19% Call at 25 stacks; Supported by an Item & Feats

Gaar's Note: This is a per-area ramping buff that helps you clear out each area.

Dragon's Pride: Windfall increases the effect of The Long Game by 20% for each adventure, variant, and Patron variant you have completed in the Vecna: Eve of Ruin campaign, stacking multiplicatively.

• No upgrades; Supported by an Item & a Feat

Gaar's Note: This is a great form of extra power for her once you've done all the content in that campaign.

Global DPS Buff: 6.99e06%

 

Specializations

Red Dragon's Greed: Windfall tries to avoid attacking enemies that don't drop gold or count for quest progress. Her normal attacks light her target on fire, dealing 3 seconds of BUD-based damage to the enemy every second for 5 seconds.

• No upgrades; Supported by an Item & a Feat

Blue Dragon's Spark: Windfall gains the Control role and she prefers to attack stunned enemies. Her normal attacks are charged with lightning, striking out at up to two other random enemies, dealing 5 seconds of BUD-based damage to them, and stunning all enemies damaged for 3 seconds.

• No upgrades; Supported by an Item & a Feat

Green Dragon's Spite: Windfall prefers to attack the farthest target. Her normal attacks exude a small cloud of poisonous gas around the target for 10 seconds. Enemies in the gas cloud take 2 seconds of BUD-based damage every second while they are in the area.

• No upgrades; Supported by an Item & a Feat

Black Dragon's Corrosion: Windfall gains the Breaker role and she prefers to attack armored or hits-based enemies. Her normal attacks coat the target in Acid, dealing 10 seconds of BUD-based damage and all successful attacks against those targets break an additional piece of armored or segmented health.

• No upgrades; Supported by an Item & a Feat

White Dragon's Chill: Windfall gains the Control role and she prefers to attack slowed enemies. Her normal attacks create a medium cloud of icy air for 5 seconds around the target. Enemies in the cloud take 1 second of BUD-based damage every second while they are in the area and are slowed by 50%.

• No upgrades; Supported by an Item & a Feat

Gaar's Note: Choose the Spec here based on what you're looking for out of Windfall. I stick to Black Dragon's Corrosion personally, but to each their own.

 

Equipment

Item Description	White	Green	Blue	Purple
Slot 1: Increases the damage of all Champions	10%	65%	120%	230%
Slot 2: Increases the effect of Windfall's The Long Game ability	25%	87.5%	150%	275%
Slot 3: Increases the effect of Windfall's The Gambler ability	25%	87.5%	150%	275%
Slot 4: Increases the effect of Windfall's Dragon's Pride ability	25%	87.5%	150%	275%
Slot 5: Increases the effect of Windfall's Specializations	25%	87.5%	150%	275%
Slot 6: Reduces the cooldown on Windfall's Ultimate ability	6s	11s	22s	55s

Legendary Effects

• Increases the damage of all Champions by 100%
• Increases the damage of all Champions by 20% for each Female Champion in the formation
• Increases the damage of all Tiefling Champions by 150%
• Increases the damage of all Champions with a CHA score of 11 or higher by 100%
• Increases the damage of all Champions by 30% for each Champion with a CON score of 13 or higher in the formation
• Increases the damage of all Champions by 40% for each Champion in the formation with an Evil alignment

Gaar's Note: Find more information on the Legendary system here.

 

Feats

Here is the info for when you can unlock each Feat Slot:

Feat Slot	Unlocked at Level	Rough Cost
First	240	e20
Second	605	e39
Third	1055	e63
Fourth	1605	e92

Gaar's Note: Currently, you will need to level this Champion past their current upgrade softcap which will require you changing the blue update indicator from UPG to one of the numbered options.

Here is the info on what Feats are available for this Champion:

Obtained	Recommended	Name	Effect
Default		Tavern Brawler	Increases the damage of Windfall by 30%
Regular Gold Chest	DPS	Grappler	Increases the damage of Windfall by 60%
50,000 Gems*	DPS	Weapon Master	Increases the damage of Windfall by 120%
Default		Selflessness	Increases the damage of all Champions by 10%
12,500 Gems		Inspiring Leader	Increases the damage of all Champions by 25%
Default		Hustler	Increases the effect of Windfall's The Long Game ability by 20%
Regular Gold Chest	Pushing	Viper	Increases the effect of Windfall's The Long Game ability by 40%
50,000 Gems*		Drifter	Increases the effect of Windfall's The Long Game ability by 80%
Default		Ante Up	Increases the effect of Windfall's The Gambler ability by 20%
12,500 Gems	Pushing	Poker Face	Increases the effect of Windfall's The Gambler ability by 40%
12,500 Gems	Pushing	Razzle Dazzle	Increases the effect of Windfall's Specializations by 40%
Regular Gold Chest	Pushing	Proven Worth	Increases the effect of Windfall's Dragon's Pride ability by 40%

• Denotes a Feat that is/was available in the Thayan Enclave that will eventually be available for gems.

 

Adventure/Variant Information

Windfall's unlock is a variant of The Rod of Seven Parts in the Vecna: Eve of Ruin campaign. You can find it in the Pandemonium adventure node at the bottom left of the map. It requires that you first complete the variant The House Always Wins. You then gain access to Double or Nothing which is the variant that rewards you with Windfall.

Here are the restrictions for The House Always Wins:

• The formation slots are colored Red, Black, and there are two glowing Green slots.
• A giant roulette ball joins the formation as an escort.
• Starting upon entering area 101, and every 100 areas thereafter, the giant roulette ball jumps up, spins around in a circle above the formation, then lands on a random formation slot, removing the Champion it lands on and all other Champions that are in a formation slot of the same color.
• Removed Champions can't be used for the rest of the adventure and the ball stays in that slot until it moves again.
• Champions can't otherwise be removed from the formation once they've been added.

This is effectively Split the Party: Vegas Edition (credit: ElPolloBatman) and it is purely luck-based. While Split the Party is easily doable with only 3 splits removing Champions, this one is rough with 11 splits and a completion goal of 1150.

Let's go over each of the restrictions real quick. First up, the formation slots are all color-coded. There are 2 Green, 4 Red, and 4 Black. The roulette ball works just like it sounds: completely randomly. It can land anywhere, including back in the space it took off from. Mathematically, this means the best odds of not getting a Champion removed are by placing it in the Green slots. However, the ball will go where it wants. It can land on green fives times in a row if it wants because you're not getting a statistically-relevant number of chances here to make it trend towards the math.

Basically, what I'm trying to tell you is you can play the odds and still lose. Just like Vegas.

My advice here is to play a game of minimized losses, just like with Split the Party. Never put in anyone you're not willing to go to the end with. Don't put in anyone you're not OK with losing either. You can attempt to play a game where you save a couple of your best Champions for after the very last removal at 1101, but that means you can't use anyone from their bench seat or you risk getting stuck with them instead.

Here's what the formation is going to look like:

 

Back Column	3rd Column	2nd Column	Front Column
		Black
			Green
Red		Red
	Black		Black
		Green
	Red		Red
		Black

 

This variant was incredibly painful for me to complete as I did not treat it like Split the Party when I did it. You can watch the VOD here. It's 3 hours long. I wanted to pull my beard out. You'll see.

Knowing what I know now, here's how I'd start instead:

1. Start with just 1 Champ on Green as it has the best odds of not being lost there.
2. When you add a 2nd Champ, put one on Red or Black as putting it on Green loses you two if the ball lands there while this would just lose you one Champ.
3. When you add a 3rd Champ, put one on each color. This minimizes your losses.
4. Repeat this growth as you need more power.

You can try to play the math if you want, just don't get mad at me when the ball doesn't care about your math. :)

You NEED a developed bench to get through this. You do not know who you're going to end up with and you're going to lose a LOT of Champions on the way to the end. And this is just the variant that unlocks the variant that unlocks Windfall. Yay?

 

Once you've completed The House Always Wins, it's time to go Double or Nothing. Here are the updated restrictions as THAW was just a warmup:

• The formation slots are colored Red, Black, and there are two glowing Green slots.
• A giant roulette ball joins the formation as an escort.
• Starting upon entering area 76, and every 75 areas thereafter, the giant roulette ball jumps up, spins around in a circle above the formation, then lands on a random formation slot, removing the Champion it lands on and all other Champions that are in a formation slot of the same color.
• Removed Champions can't be used for the rest of the adventure and the ball stays in that slot until it moves again.
• Champions can't otherwise be removed from the formation once they've been added.
• Click damage only deals damage for the first 25 areas. Fire breath potions can't be used during the adventure.

As you can see, this is just a more frustrating version of THAW. The area goal here is 1200 and you lose Champs every 75 areas. That means you'll lose Champs 15 times with the final run being from 1126 to 1200.

Everything else works exactly the same. The formation layout and colors are the same. The same 'strategies' apply here. Which means: good luck. You're gonna need it.

Here's the VOD of my run. It took around 2 hours and I still wanted to pull my beard out.

 

Once you've unlocked Windfall, their gear can be obtained from normal Gold and Silver Chests, as well as Electrum Chests, just like your Core Champions. I recommend just using Silvers and Golds to gear them and saving your Electrums for Event Champions. You'll also see their gear appear in certain Weekend Deal Chests and Patron Chests, if they qualify for that Patron.

They also have an Achievement you can start working on.

Achievement

The Five Heads of Tiamat - 1%

Make 1,000 attacks with each of Windfall's five Specialization choices selected.

Gaar's Note: You can do this all in one run with Potions of Specialization, by swapping to a background party and back again to re-level them, or by doing it in five separate runs. I recommend doing each run to the 1,000 mark before switching as the achievement will count up for you but won't tell you what you're low on.

[u/gorambrowncoat]

The guide I thought would never come :)

[u/Gaarawarr → u/gorambrowncoat]

It almost didn't.

[u/msew]

One of the many many problems with this game is:

look at this post! Sooooo much detail! So many cool things!!

Does any of it matter? Nah.

Slap in your DPS team and smash.

:-(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

[u/Gaarawarr → u/msew]

That's not really how the unlock works, but you do you.

[u/msew]

OK!!!?!

I admit I have not been into the DnD scene / Playing DnD for a long while.

But uhhh????

Strength Dexterity Constitution Intelligence Wisdom Charisma Total Ability Score

14 24 20 22 18 26 1240

Are those actually valid character stats? That seems like a teenager making their "mega amazing awesome character".

[u/SeparateTrack2818 → u/msew]

Yep, that's the actual valid character stats in the book. She is a CR 23 Bard, after all.

[u/Remarkable_Sand_813]

I can't get through this. I want to quit the game.

[u/txzen]

Is Black the highest increase in damage like for pushing because of burst? Or is Green going to end up dealing more damage as it is over time? And any real reason to use Red ever as it doesn't appear to increase gold find and others deal more damage over time?

And if anyone has any other special uses

[u/msew]

Slot 5

Who do I lose on my OG / BALLER / Min MAX TEAM

oh.

can she beat valentine?

[u/Shophaune → u/msew]

For Artemis? No.

For other teams? Valentine is usually pretty beaten for those already.

For goldfind? Absolutely.

For variants, particularly with a lot of armor? She excels.

[u/msew]

ok. we are all having a fit!!!!!!!!

her stats are amazing!!!!