Balance Changes

• Made all Halloween Spooktacular weapons have level 70 requirement on qualities above mythic for consistency.
  
• Reduced 'Lumeric Staff' base damage by 7.5% to make in on par with the 'Ember Sceptre'.
  
• Reduced the health of the Ranger, Monk, and Knight bosses on Ruthless True Boss Rush checkpoint 4 by 15%.
  
• Adjusted Challenge: Wizardry enemy number scaling on Ruthless.
  
• Reduced all wave 17 enemy HP scaling by 12% in 3-4 player matches on Eternia Gauntlet.
  
• Reduced 'Assault Rifle' projectile slowing effect from 80% to 50% on Eternia Gauntlet.
  
• Reduced Final Jade health by 33% on Eternia Gauntlet.
  
• Reduced Final Amethyst health by 20% on Eternia Gauntlet.
  
• Increased Barbarian move speed and increased her knockback on Eternia Gauntlet.
  
• Made Warping Core: Challenge Pack II maps start one wave later. Warping Core: Arcane Library starts 2 waves later.
  
• Reduced 'Baby Demon Lord' melee damage by 50% (as it was out damaging every pet in the game twofold).
  
• Buffed 'Zamira's Mount' damage by 10%.
  
• Added 10% movement speed bonus to all Emerald City campaign weapons.

Fixes

• Fixed enemies not dying after waves end on Spring Valley.
  
• Fixed an issue with the assault Jade and Amethyst fight where killing Amethyst would disable invulnerability phases, soft-locking the fight on Eternia Gauntlet.
  
• Fixed an issue in wave 17 where a player respawning inside damage volumes would lose control of their character on Eternia Gauntlet.
  
• Fixed an issue in Euclase fight where the start of each phase would have a long delay before floor attacks began on Eternia Gauntlet.
  
• Fixed an issue in wave 17 where floor runes would not appear at the start of the second or third phase on Eternia Gauntlet.
  
• Fixed Barbarian icon on Eternia Gauntlet.
  
• Adjusted wave 17 Ruthless floor pattern's damage volume size on Eternia Gauntlet.
  
• Fixed visual for Barbarian turtle aura on Eternia Gauntlet.
  
• Fixed issue where the player would sometimes shoot upwards while standing inside floor patterns on Eternia Gauntlet.
  
• Added lock icon to Ruthless difficulty label if Nightmare difficulty is not unlocked.
  
• Changed Eternia Gauntlet to Challenge: Eternia Gauntlet for consistency with other challenges.

Quality of Life

• Removed build timers from most maps if Hardcore Mode is not active.
  
• Reduced ogre counts on Ruthless difficulty by 40% for most maps. The Campaign versions of the base Campaign; Glitterhelm, and the four 'Shards' maps are unaffected, as well as all Challenge maps except Temple of Polybius.
  
• Made enemies have a chance to drop extra items on Ruthless difficulty to make Ruthless Survivals more appealing.