Content:
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Added four new Unique items, three of which were designed by our Diamond supporters. There are new general mechanics that first appear on these items:
- Consecrated Ground is a ground effect that provides life regeneration to allies.
- Desecrated ground is a ground effect that does chaos damage to enemies.
- Lucky/Unlucky indicates that the random check is performed twice and the better/worse outcome is selected.
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New vendor recipes have been added. These are for specific niche purposes rather than being general currency recipes.
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"Extra gore" effects granted by certain Unique items have been improved, along with slight changes to normal blood effects.
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Added two new cosmetic microtransactions: Demon Hand Cleave and Emerald Rain of Arrows.
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The Alternate Art Redbeak given out in the first race season has been given custom 3d art.
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Graphical Effects have been given to the 3D models for Quill Rain and Rathpith Globe.
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Continued to incrementally improve the art, effects and environments and audio.
Features:
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Improved the forced delay on acceptance when other trader changed or removed items and rapidly accepted in single item trades.
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Reverb has been added to audio in selected areas. Some players may need to adjust their audio volumes in response to this.
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Boss music now stops on boss death.
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NPCs turn to face the player when dialogue is initiated.
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Website forum searches now allow time based queries and filters.
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Skill Gems now display Mana Multiplier instead of Mana Cost Multiplier.
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Added a letter from Piety to Arteri in the Western Forest, with a voice acted passage that explains more of the story related to The Way Forward quest.
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Added the Letters of Exile in the Shore Encampment. This object can be clicked to show information about the history of some of Wraeclast's exiles.
Merciless/Map Changes:
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The content levels for several Act 3 Merciless areas have been changed:
- The Catacombs: 63 -> 67
- Battlefront: 61 -> 62
- Solaris Temple Level 2: 62 -> 63
- Solaris Temple Level 3: 62 -> 63
- The Docks: 62 -> 63
- Market Sewers: 62 -> 64
- Sewers Aqueduct: 62 -> 65
- Barracks: 62 -> 66
- Lunaris Temple Level 1: 63 -> 66
- Lunaris Temple Level 2: 63 -> 67
- Lunaris Temple Level 3: 64 -> 68
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Non-map areas cannot drop Maps with a base level higher than 66.
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Each map type now contains a special monster pack based on the theme of the area. This creates a monster variety between map types that players can plan around and lets us adjust the challenge of different map types beyond their size and layout.
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The threshold level for currency penalty is unchanged. You will not treated as being higher than level 68 for purposes of the currency penalty.
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Merciless Piety now has a dedicated map drop slot with a chance to drop a level 66 map.
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The Catacombs now has a Scribe’s Rack chest that can drop scrolls or maps.
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The Marketplace waypoint has been moved to being outside Catacombs entrance.
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Previously, the item rarity bonuses of monsters would not affect any Maps that were dropped.
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This limitation has been removed, which means that bosses like Piety are likely to drop magic/rare Maps rather than white ones.
Balance:
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Lightning Warp now has increased damage at high levels and it now has a 3% reduced skill effect duration per level after the first.
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Discharge now has increased damage at high levels.
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Freeze Mine has had its cast time for laying the mine decreased to 500ms from 1 second.
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The detonation time for all mines has been reduced to 200ms from 1 second.
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Puncture now has increased damage at high levels and Physical Damage % added to it that increases each level, to match other similar skills. Puncture may now be used with Two Handed Swords.
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The Life Leech Support gem now starts at 5% leech and progresses in smaller increments up to 8.8% leech at Level 20.
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The Mana Leech Support gem now starts at 2% and goes up in smaller increments, reaching 5.1% at Level 20.
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Asphyxia, the boss of the Reef map has been redesigned, with new stats, skills and AI.
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The notable passive Deep Thoughts near the Witch area has been changed to: +20% maximum mana, +20% mana regeneration, 20 Intelligence.
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The notable passive Deep Thoughts between the Ranger and Shadow start area has been changed to a Mana Flows notable passive.
Bug Fixes:
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Town instances now have a 20 second ping timeout rather than 6 seconds.
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Fixed a bug where instances would sometimes crash when multiple players were entering a new map.
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Fixed a bug where Devouring Totem would attempt to raise a corpse on its own location which is then killed, causing an instance crash.
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Fixed a bug where projectiles could appear at the wrong height.
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Fixed a bug where Shield Charge consumes mana when frozen.
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Fixed a bug where a specific skeleton pack in map areas would always spawn as magic.
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Fixed a bug where characters wearing Icetomb were affected by chilled ground.