Chronicon update for 15 March 2019

Hey everyone!

Update 0.91.0 is here with some tweaks, fixes, QoL featuers, and a lot of Warden love!

Thanks for the reports, suggestions, and input!
(and if I haven't replied to your suggestions yet, don't worry, I will!)

I hope you enjoy this update, and that I didn't break too many things...

Have a great weekend!

Here's the full update notes:

0.91.0:

Areas:

• Slowed the movement of the background stars in Tinka's Domain

Bosses:

• Doubled the stun duration on Eazima The Dune Mother after she vomits you up

Crafting:

• You can now re-lock unlocked enchants that have been Greater Augmented to max without spending Memory Essences

Enemies & Affixes:

• Blood Nova:

  • Is now an actual nova rather than projectiles

Experience:

• Endgame:

  • Increased the rewards a little bit as the nerf hammer hit too hard last update

• Mastery:

  • Rebalanced the growth rate of required experience to levelup, smoothing out the curve and removing the huge jumps each 500 levels

Interface:

• Updated the Endgame interface a little bit to make some things more clear
• Roman numerals are now generally only used to numbers as large as 1000 because it gets silly
• True Legendary items now show up as big orange T's on the minimap to be easier to see
• Added small icons to item cards indicating if enchants are locked, maximum Augmented, or maximum Greater Augmented
• Runes when applied to gear now list the Rune power name first
• Spell Codexes now show up on the minimap
• Updated the Help sections on stats by adding some clarifications
• Item cards now highlight all dynamic values of powers, runes, enchants, and gems
• Can now hold Shift or Left bumper to sell a full stack
• Can now hold Shift to spend 20x Mastery points

Items & Equipment:

All:

• Added new item:

  • Advancing Army (Legendary Boots):

    • 280% of Movement Speed is added to Companion Damage

• Tome of Knowledge:

  • Now has a Legendary Power:

    • Adds +3% Bonus Experience per kill, stacking infinitely, until an item of Unique quality or higher drops (no, you can't get around this with loot filters ;) )

• Extra-Ordinary Cap:

  • Now requires Rare or lower quality items

Templar:

• Set tomes now roll elemental damage

Warden:

• New items:

  • Windflurry (Legendary Arrow):

    • Double Draw now triggers from Storm skills, shooting Gusts instead of arrows, and adds up to 40% additional chance to trigger

  • Finned Arrow (Legendary Arrow):

    • Seeking Arrow strikes up to 10 additional times, deals 40% increased damage, but is limited to a single arrow

• Windcaller Set improved:

  • 3. Whirlwinds now spawn with a base duration of 7 seconds, rather than a base of 3 and 7 after a merge
  • 3. Whirlwinds now also actively seek out other Whirlwinds as they get closer to expiring
  • Added a small animation for the merging rather than just have the Whirlwinds pop out of existence instantly

• Stormcaller Set Revamped:

  • 2. Lightning Rod applies a burn to foes struck, dealing the same amount of damage per second, for 5 seconds. This burn stacks.
  • 3. The stacked up damage per second of the burn effect is added to Static procs from burning foes.
  • 4. The Warden gains 40% Damage Reduction. Lightning Rod and Static also gain an additional 40% chance to trigger.

• Snowstorm Set revamped:

  • 2. Foes affected by Winter's Chill takes 15% increased damage from Snow Blast, and Winter's chill stacks infinitely
  • 3. When triggered, Snow Blast now also summons a Snow Ball which will hover above the target foe, building up damage based on the Snow Blast triggers. After 3 seconds, a pause in Snow Blast procs, or if the foe dies, the Snow Ball strikes the ground dealing 120% of the stored up damage to all foes within 5 meters.
  • 4. 40% Damage Reduction, increases Snow Ball range to 7 meters (Hail interaction removed)

• Torrential Set revamped:

  • 2. Pummel stacks infinitely and adds an additional 15% damage increase per stack. Pelted Strikes twice as fast.
  • 3. Torrent always triggers, and Pelted lasts forever.
  • 4. 40% Damage Reduction, Torrent restores 1% mana on trigger.

• Storm Pendant:

  • The Rank of the Nimbus spawned can now be Augmented, up to 5

• Trapper's Boots:

  • Nerfed the enchant augment to 100/150/220% (unique, legendary, greater augment)

• Snowpiercer:

  • Now adds proc rate to Snow Blast and Hail

• Winter's Coming:

  • No longer increases Torrent trigger chance
  • Instead increases the Frost damage bonus of Winter and causes Winter's Chill on all foes within 5 meters when Winter is triggered

Loot:

• Endgame crafting materials now glow differently on the ground than regular Legendary items to set them apart a little bit more
• Loot drops should now spawn faster from killed enemies
• Stack sizes of everything increased to 10k

Mechanics:

• Knockback and Leaping:

  • Now animates a lot faster, and after a certain point will scale with movement speed (especially useful for leaping companions)

Runes:

Templar:

• Hallowed Grace:

  • Is now a multiplier rather than percentage, adding a multiple of barrier strength as base damage

Warden:

• Added new Warden rune:

  • Greater Hail:

    • Pelted has a % chance to spawn Greater Hail, dealing damage in a 2 meter radius

• Boomspore:

  • Now detonates all Shrooms instantly on cast rather than all within damage radius

Skills:

All:

• Commander (Mastery Perk):

  • Now also triggers on using Companion skills

Templar:

• Phantom Shield:

  • Now has a range of 7 meters, which cannot be improved with Reach

Warden:

• Double Draw:

  • Double Draw is now direct damage, always triggering on-hit effects

• Gale:

  • Animation updated

• Hail Storm:

  • Now has an instance limit of 4

• Razor Wind:

  • Added visual effect

• Storm Shrooms:

  • Now also deals damage when the Shrooms pop, and works with the Stormcaller set bonuses

• Spore Rain:

  • Now uses the new area targeting mechanic to guarantee a decent number of direct hits

• Toxicology:

• Fairy Ring:

  • Poison Shrooms now deal instant damage and places a poison DoT on foes hit, rather than producing laggy poison clouds

• Overgrowth:

• Forest Ward:

  • Updated animations

World:

• Reduced the spawn rate of the Shady Dealer somewhat

Misc:

• Increased the size of all mouse-over "hitboxes" for shrines, enemies, etc

Fixes:

• Fixed Rune of Focused Lightning not working with Static (Warden)
• Fixed an issue with area targeting skills that would cause missing projectiles to target in a particular pattern rather than fully random
• Fixed issue allowing stash duping if you had not opened the stash in either hardcore or normal mode
• Fixed issue where global progression could be shared between hardcore and normal mode
• Fixed Bloodline (Berserker) not adding Heritage Effect
• Fixed Flash (Templar) not working with Hammerstorm
• Fixed stats and gear power not updating when leveling up equipment via transmutation
• Fixed Shrooms and Spores (Warden) not triggering on-hit effects
• Fixed several issues with Chinese fonts and text coloring
• Fixed on-kill effects not triggering from enemies who died from indirect damage like procs and dots
• Fixed crash on transmuting 3 identical amulets
• Fixed chests, bosses, and champions sometimes not spawning loot
• Fixed odd generation bug in caves
• Fixed some Frozen effects remaining on dead enemies
• Fixed thrown Templar shields hovering in the air without moving sometimes
• Fixed Lost City Cellar "Relic Coffer" chest sometimes requiring a key to be opened
• Fixed Ritual of Summoning (Warlock) not being effected by Ritual Effect stat
• Fixed Master Ranger (Warden ultimate) adding a ton of base damage to Splinters
• Fixed Pyre, Magnetic Blades, Plague, Wall of Fire, and Blizzard not being instance limited
• Fixed being able to portal out of the Blood-Tooth Arena, which would bug the progress and cause you to get stuck until restart
• Fixed Unstable Dimensions spawning in areas that don't generally allow portals
• Fixed rune dupes dropping sooner than expected because of not saving rune data correctly between sessions
• Fixed Disorient (Warden) not working
• Fixed Empowered Shot (Warden) not breaking breakables
• Fixed some skill typos and fixed Critical Hit naming inconsistency for some skills
• Fixed issue which caused characters to sometimes randomly attack when entering the game
• Fixed some generation issues in Desert areas and Anomalies
• Fixed Dragon Storm (Berserker) not correctly limiting to 9 instances
• Fixed Dragon Storm (Berserker) being drawn on the floor rather than at a perceived height
• Fixed Demonic Fury (Warlock) not having a light effect
• Fixed Death Speaker and Amulet of Despair not working as intended
• Fixed Lightning Rod (Warden) proc mastery not working correctly
• Fixed weird issue with Warlock Clot merging (Bloodbinder set) that could alter the player's stats
• Fixed sticky targeting preventing interactions with waypoints, npcs, etc
• Fixed not being able to select Waypoints with gamepads if Radial loot was bound to (A)
• Fixed not being able to resurrect co-op partners in challenge areas in Hardcore mode (Hardcore mode allows deaths inside challenge areas)
• Fixed issue where if a player reached the end of the Crumbling Reliquary before other in co-op, they would be killed and left in the void :(