Shadow Curse

• Regular enemies no longer cause curse with their attacks, attacks from shades will still cause curse.
  
• Added cursed floor traps to Crypt, Dungeon, Barracks and Courts trap rooms in New Game+.
  
• Added Cursed Chests and Resource Caches when playing in New Game+, these spawn both rewards and shades.
  
• Reduced the amount of shades in citadel shortcut.
  
• Increased shades HP and Armor.
  
• Cultists no longer summon shades.
  
• Changed the Shadow Curse Gain stat to be multiplicative instead of additive.
  

• Added Elixirs that give permanent attribute increases. Every NG+ reached unlocks 3 elixirs to be found for each of the 5 attributes (str/dex/int/foc/vit). These Elixirs can be found in cursed chests and caches, and are awarded for killing the final boss, however you need to be playing a high enough NG+. To find the first 3 elixirs you need to be playing NG1 or higher, for the next 3 you must be in NG2 or higher, etc.
  

• Added rerolling of skill spheres and trinket pickers. When reaching New Game+ you will receive an accomplishment that awards a reroll charge, these can be used at skill spheres and trinket pickers in order to get new choices, at the cost of some curse.
  

Courts

• Updated Courts theme lighting, generation and some visuals.
  
• Reworked Courts trap rooms to use cursed floor traps as well as beam traps.
  
• Added braziers to Courts in New Game+ for purging curse.
  
• Courts archer no longer shoots triple arrows when you're nearby in melee range.
  

• Added Symbol of Zeal, Symbol of Deflection, Symbol of Rejuvenation and Symbol of Piercing trinkets in a set - Symbols of Fate.
  
• Changed Blackjack, Throwing Stars and Kyras Quiver to deal a percentage of Main Hand Weapon damage instead of fixed values in order to scale better with your character.
  
• Parry Medal trinket now also triggers a riposte when parrying which returns 200% Main Hand Weapon damage.
  
• Changed final 5-piece bonus of Soldiers Uniform trinket set to give Life Leech on Weapon Crit.
  
• Added Shield Mastery to weapon mastery trainer for increasing block amount on shields.
  
• Life leech now heals at double the rate, but the pool of life leeched is now reset when reaching full health, so you can no longer overheal and "store" it.
  
• Enemy groups no longer spawn with multiple different bannermen. This should lead to roughly the same amount of enemies buffed by a banner, but much fewer being buffed by multiple different banners.
  
• Fix for healing banners healing faster in multiplayer.
  
• Made the Troll Ruler enemy in Dark Caves more common.
  
• Dark Halls skull "mines" no longer spawn so they overlap.
  
• Updated Accomplishment tooltips in the Guild Halls menu to be a bit more clear.
  
• Improved collision with bottomless pits in Dark Halls so it's less common to be pushed into them.
  
• Fixed issue with players who have very high damage reduction sometimes getting wrongfully hit with massive damage numbers.
  
• Fixed Hand Crossbow not always properly applying armor penetration.
  

This patch changes curse from a combat mechanic to a risk/reward mechanic, and because cursed chests can contain an extra cursed trinket the potential rewards of doing a curse run should be higher. The addition of Elixirs should help with long term scaling of equipment requirement which can feel a bit too steep when you get higher in levels, Elixers being found mostly in Cursed Resource Caches along with crystals and dust gives a nice reward for taking on a fight with some shades.