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Hotfix 8
2023/08/31
General
- As an experiment, ‘The Ruins’ map can now only be accessed by solo and duo teams.
- Higher quality lanterns have a lower move speed penalty.
- The Ruins' final triple blue portal has been changed to 2 single blue portals.
- One blue portal in normal Goblin Cave near the end has been removed.
- As an experiment, we have removed the entrance fee for the High Roller dungeons.
- The Trading Post and High-Roller features are locked behind a 120-hour time gate for accounts less than 5 days old.
Weapons
- The weapon damage gap between the different grades has been reduced.
- Slight damage reduction to Stiletto Dagger, Short Sword, Rapier, Horseman's Axe, Falchion, and Crossbow.
- Slight damage increase to Zweihander, Wizard Staff, Halberd, Felling Axe, and Bardiche.
- Large damage increase to Viking Sword and Kris Dagger.
- Exact numbers changes can be found here: [[1]]
Rogue
- Rogue’s Caltrops ability cooltime reduced from 24 → 12s,
- Rogue’s Caltrops ability slow duration increased from 2 → 3s,
- Rogue’s Caltrops ability count reduced from 6 → 4.
Bugfixes
- Fixed an issue where the Buckler could not benefit from perks related to the Fighter's Shield.
- Fixed an issue that could cause too much damage to be calculated at once.
- Fixed several known crashes.
Wipe 1
2023/08/28
General
- Many spells' Attribute Bonus Ratio returned to 100%.
Wizard
- Zap:
- Base: 100%
- DoT: 50%
- MM: 100%
- Fireball:
- Direct: 100%
- Splash: 100%
- DoT: 50%
- Ignite:
- Direct: 100%
- DoT: 50%
- Ice Bolt: 100%
- Lightning Strike: 100%
- Chain Lightning: 100%
Cleric
- Holy Strike: 100%
- Lesser Heal: 100%
- Sanctuary: 50% (Heal)
- Locusts Swarm: 50%
- Protection: 0%
- Holy Light: 100%
- Earthquake: 50%
Warlock
- Curse of Pain:
- Direct: 100%
- DoT: 50%
- Heal: 50%
- Protection Potion: 0%
- The All Attributes random modifier can now go up to +3.
- Improved the ratio of recoverable health from 0.5 to 0.65 for taken damage.
- High Roller entrance fee will be kept at 50 gold for now.
- The gold hoard has been removed from the Ruins map.
Items
- All potions now heal for 15 HP. The required duration for the potion decreases as the grade improves. 40 | 35 | 30 | ?? | 20 | ?? | ?? | ?? seconds.
- QuarterStaff MoveSpeed Penalty -35 -> -30
- Zweihander MoveSpeed Penalty -50 -> -45
- All Bandages now take a base time of 5.5s to apply but heals varying amounts of recoverable health based on the grade. 10 | 12 | 15 | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? Recoverable Health.
- Regular Interaction Speed bonus is applied at only 50% bonus when using a Surgical Kit or Bandage. - Francisca Axe price reduced from 24g to 18g and Hunting Trap price increased from 7g to 10g.
Bard
- Bard’s Accelerando: 5/8/11 -> 5/7/9 Move Speed per second.
- Bard’s Allegro: 3%/5%/7% -> 3%/4.5%/6% Action Speed per second.
- Bard’s Shriek of Weakness: -10/-25/-40 -> -10/-20/-30 Armor Rating.
Wizard
- Wizard’s Zap 1s -> 1.25s base Cast Time.
Unlisted changes
- Treasure hoards disappears after it is looted 10 times total.
- Goblin Caves lobby sizes 10 --> 9