Greetings Adventurers!
This weeks patch brings the next phase of class improvements to the game, a new test area and some bug fixes.
New Combat Testing Area
We have heard from the players that they would like an area in game to test out abilities, rotations and setups outside of standard dungeon combat. Players can find a new area in the latest patch in the Crypt of Horrors dungeon to do this. The camp is located outside the dungeon gates just down the road from where players load in to the dungeon. There is a single target dummy for solo testing and a few target dummies in close proximity for larger group testing. We intend to possibly add more things to this area in the future.
Class Improvements
We will begin our next phase of improving the classes over the coming months. Below is a list of the initial changes.
Champion
- Reduce cooldown of Upheaval
- Increased Shield Throw damage bonus given by Wrath of the Crypt Lord Set
- Increased Shield Bash, Shield Throw and Aggression damage bonus given by Wrath of the Crypt Lord Set
Cleric
- Increase damage of Heavenly Strike
- Increased the damage of Holy Light
- Increased the damage of Divine Sacrifice
- Increased the cooldown of Divine Shield
- Increased the damage and Healing bonus of Avatar given by the Garb of Holy Order Set
- Increased chance to perform a free Regen given by the Garb of Holy Order Set
- Increased the damage of Holy Light, Holy Blast, Divine Sacrifice given by the Vestments of the Harbinger Set
- Increased the duration of Heavenly Strike given by the March of the Demon Lord Set
Ranger
- Increased the damage of Deadly Aim
- Increased the healing of Healing Vapors
- Increased the damage of Poison Arrow
- Increased the damage of Toxic Arrow
- Increased the damage of Blight Arrow
- Reduced the cooldown of Rapid Fire
- Reduced the cooldown of Ranger's Flask
- Reduced the cooldown of Paralyzing Shot
- Reduced the cooldown of Salvo
- Increased the damage of Poison Arrow and Blight Arrow bonus given by Guise of the Crypt Stalker Set
Rogue
- Increased the damage of Backstab
- Increased the damage of Phased Carnage
- Increased the damage of Phase Port
- Increased the damage of Assassinate
- Reduced the cooldown of Tomahawk
- Reduced the damage of Eviscerate
- Fixed issue with Backstab range to activate. It now matches the abilities range, preventing cases where the ability is used but fails to hit because the target is too far
Wizard
- Increased the damage of Ember Eruption
- Increased the healing of Cauterize
- Reduced the cooldown of Meteor
- Reduced the cooldown of Chaos Orb
- Increased the damage of Flame Blast and Meteor bonus given by Vestments of Destruction Set
- Increased Flame Blast damage bonus given by Infamy of Demon Lords Set
- Increased the cooldown of Fire Armor
- Fixed Ember Eruption teleport. It now correctly teleports the player back to their cast location if the ability is cancelled
Gameplay
- Fixed issue with town interaction of NPCs on clients
- Fixed physics object on destructibles so they are correctly destroyed by abilities
- Fixed reliability of hit normals on destructibles from melee weapons, making them fracture more reliably when destroyed
- Fixed issue with Smoulderwing and Umatoxian AI collision causing them to get hung up during their fights.
- Fixed issue where Joldurbraan navigation was destroyed and not correctly restored causing NPCs to navigate incorrectly.
- Fixed issue with Joldurbraan boss doors so all fight NPCs can move correctly.
- Fixed issue with Flame Lords. They should no longer use cooperative abilities when one has died and should not regenerate health when shielded
- Falling damage caused by Smoulderwing and Quoron who have launched players in air are now capped by percentage of max health and should no longer kill players unpredictably
- The cost for upgrading items has been reduced (in terms of essence and magical cores required).
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