The game was updated with patch 0.29d:

I've made a couple of optimizations for the open world loading, which will hopefull really improve perfomance and reduce stuttering, while travelling in open world. Please tell me your experiences in the comments

• You cannot use blessing statues when enemies re around now, or in combat. All blessing statues have guards near them.
  
• Desert canyon map layout changed in dungeons mode
  
• Boosses in dungeon mode will have more health in late game