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- Chests now also rolls for extra trinkets
- Chests now also rolls for extra trinkets
- Warlock Curse of Pain, Curse of Weakness, and Power of Sacrifice now cost 5 HP.
- Warlock Torture Mastery now no longer heals from all magical damage when Curse of Pain is active on the target.
- Warlock and Bard are now limited by Spell Memory.





Revision as of 09:13, 27 September 2023

Patch 1

2023/09/26

Unlisted Changes

- Chests now also rolls for extra trinkets

- Warlock Curse of Pain, Curse of Weakness, and Power of Sacrifice now cost 5 HP.

- Warlock Torture Mastery now no longer heals from all magical damage when Curse of Pain is active on the target.

- Warlock and Bard are now limited by Spell Memory.


General

- Sounds have been added to UI, Items, Perks, Skills, Spells, etc.

- Water sounds now play when you step on water.

- 7 new emotes have been added.

- A feature has been added to receive server maintenance notices in-game.

- Additional protection added against possible security vulnerabilities.

- Barbarian and Fighter's face shapes have been modified.

- Added new attributes: Manual Dexterity, Persuasion.

- Rarity-specific skins have been added for the Drum and Lyre.

- Cloak's cloth simulation has been slightly optimized.

- Item skins are now displayed properly on the paper-doll.

- Several other changes not listed were included.


Items

- All weapon damage has been rebalanced. Check Here for damage changes

- Most armors have been updated and give additional bonuses in addition to just armor rating.

- Armor rating curve slightly reduced at the upper end due to the higher overall armor values.

- The value range of most random modifiers have been rebalanced.

- Battle Axe now has a slightly longer range.

- Torches and Lanterns give a slight movement speed advantage rather than a penalty.

- 4 new artifacts have been added: Echo of Screams, Soulreaper, Deathbloom, Stinky Stick.

- Lockpick drop rate has been increased.

- Greater Luck Potion has been added to the Fortune Teller.

- New craft and mining items added.


Monsters

- Additional attack patterns added to the Nightmare version of the monsters in the Goblin Cave.

- Skeleton Champion animations have been updated.

- Royal Guard animation has been updated.

- Ruins Golem subboss has been added.


Dungeon

- The names of level modules are now displayed on the minimap.

- Additional layouts added to the Normal Goblin Caves map pool.

- High-Roller Crypt maps increased from a 4x4 to a 5x5 size.

- The Normal and High Roller Crypt now share the same map pool.

- Added an extra Dark Swarm's phase so players don’t need to traverse as much distance at once.

- Updated environments for approximately 40 level modules.

- Level object density for Ruins and Crypts has been increased.

- A portal has been added to the outskirts of Ruins.

- The Rusty Iron Door has been re-added to the High-Roller pool.

- New Royal Coffins have been added to the dungeons.

- Previous Gold Chests have returned to the dungeons as Marvelous Chests.


Trading

- Coin Bag that holds up to 500 gold coins has been added. Must be crafted at the Leathersmith.

- Coin Chest that holds up to 3000 gold coins has been added. Must be found from the Treasure Hoards.

- Merchants updated to sell a much larger amount and variety of items.

- Equipment Slot filter has been added to Trading Post.

- Trading Post now displays a Timestamp.


Bard

- Bard reworked to make the class more gear and attribute dependent.


Warlock

- Warlock's Curse of Pain now has a slightly more generous aim.

- 2 new perks have been added to Warlocks: Curse Mastery, Vampirism.

- 8 new spells have been added to Warlocks: Bolt of Darkness, Evil Eye, Bloodstained Blade, Flame Walker, Life Drain, Ray of Darkness, Eldritch Shield, Summon Hydra.


Rogue

- Rogue will no longer break stealth when bumped if the Pickpocket perk is equipped.

- Rogue's Hide cooldown changed from 45s -> 40s.

- Rogue's CutThroat cooldown changed from 60s -> 28s.


Ranger

- Ranger's Quickshot now fires a different amount of arrows based on the Bow type.

- Ranger's Quickshot cooldown changed from 18s -> 28s.

- Ranger's Multishot cooldown changed from 35s -> 28s.

- Ranger's PenetratingShot cooldown changed from 28s -> 24s.

- Hunting Trap only deals 1 damage per second at all rarities.


Wizard

- Wizard's Fireball damage changed 30/15 -> 25/10.


Fixes

- Fixed an issue where the player character's hair could appear strangely depending on the head armor.

- Fixed an issue where the player character's inner face could be exposed.

- Fixed an issue where T pose could be exposed when consuming a potion.

- Fixed an issue where the ankles could appear turned when sitting down after wearing the Battle Axe.

- Fixed an issue where Reactive Shield and Dark Reflection could not be activated.

- Fixed an issue where sometimes item options were not created properly.

- Fixed an issue where the Torch skin was missing animations.

- Fixed an issue where the lantern would sometimes not light up.

- Fixed an issue where hit sounds would be played when goblins die.-Fixed an issue where Dark Swarm's next area could be designated as the outskirts of the map.

- Fixed an issue where if you drank a potion and used Stealth outside of Dark Swarm, Stealth would not be broken even if you took damage.

- Fixed an issue where the Trading Post's rarity filter was sorted by name rather than by rarity.

- Fixed an issue in Trading Post where text that was too long would disappear instead of being printed to the next line.

- Fixed an incorrectly installed portal.

- Fixed an issue where Warlocks could not be granted Karma.

- Fixed background objects with incorrect collision.

- Fixed several issues that were causing crashes.

Hotfix 13

2023/09/21

General

  • Fixed a bug where gold coins could be duplicated.
  • Reduced the damage of all daggers.
Castillon Dagger
Before 19-20 21-22 22-24 24-26 26-28 28-30 30-32 32-34
After 16-17 17-18 18-20 20-22 22-24 24-26 26-27 27-28
Kris Dagger
Before 20-21 22-23 23-25 25-27 27-29 29-31 31-33 33-35
After 17-18 18-19 19-21 21-23 23-25 25-27 27-28 28-29
Rondel Dagger
Before 17-18 19-20 20-21 21-23 23-25 25-27 27-29 29-31
After 13-14 15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21 21-22
Stiletto Dagger
Before 15-16 17-18 18-20 20-22 22-24 24-26 26-28 28-30
After 12-13 14-15 15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21

Cleric

  • Cleric’s base Strength increased from 11 → 13.
  • Cleric’s base Agility increased from 11 → 12.
  • Cleric’s base Will decreased from 30 → 25.
  • Cleric’s base Resourcefullness increased from 5 → 7.

Rogue

  • Rogue’s base Agility decreased from 35 → 30.
  • Rogue’s base Resourcefullness increased from 15 → 20.
  • Rogue’s Ambush perk damage bonus decreased from 50% → 30%.
  • Rogue’s Hide base duration decreased from 60s → 20s.
  • Rogue now has Hide Mastery Perk that increases their hide duration.
  • Rogue’s Weakpoint Attack’s 50% Weapon Damage Bonus on the initial attack has been removed.
  • Rogue’s Weakpoint Attack’s Armor rating debuff has been reduced from -40% → -25%.
  • Rogue’s Weakpoint Attack’s Duration 5s → 3s.

Hotfix 12

2023/09/14

General

  • Fixed several issues that could cause server instability.
  • Characters lvl 14 and under will be placed in a seperate matching pool. If any member of a party is lvl 15 or above, the entire party will be placed in the lvl 15+ matching pool.
  • The level requirement to sign up for the for the Trading Post has been increased from lvl 10 -> 15.
  • Fixed an issue where the Darkswarm circle would mostly end in the center region of the map.
  • Added an option to control whether items in the following utility slots are automatically placed in your hand after an item is used.
  • Improvements to Ironshield.

Wizard

  • Wizard's invisibility duration has been increased from 3 to 4 seconds.
  • Wizard's Haste duration has been increased from 6 to 8 seconds.


Hotfix 11

2023/09/12

General

  • Fixed an issue where the trade pop-up may not properly close.
  • Movement speed now has a hard cap of 350.
  • The Quarterstaff now deals 100% damage no matter which part of the Quarterstaff hits the opponent.
  • Francisca Axe’s damage has been slightly reduced.
  • The animations of Horseman's Axe, Hatchet, and Viking Sword have been slightly changed.
    • Windup -> Attack -> Combo -> Attack -> Combo -> Attack -> Recover
    • Hatchet
      • Before: 546ms -> 133ms -> 620ms -> 156ms -> 644ms -> 146ms -> 900ms
      • After : 582ms -> 133ms -> 789ms -> 156ms -> 873ms -> 146ms -> 801ms
    • Horsemans Axe
      • Before: 600ms -> 133ms -> 718ms -> 156ms -> 779ms -> 134ms -> 811ms
      • After : 595ms -> 133ms -> 892ms -> 156ms -> 868ms -> 134ms -> 786ms
    • Viking Sword
      • Before: 781ms -> 137ms -> 1009ms -> 151ms -> 1106ms -> 145ms -> 954ms
      • After : 793ms -> 113ms -> 958ms -> 151ms -> 1126ms -> 145ms -> 788ms

Barbarian

  • Axe Specialization changed from +5 Additional Physical Damage -> +10% Physical Damage Bonus
  • Achilles Strike's Physical Damage on hit reduced from 10 -> 0 dmg, Damage taken per step decreased from 5 -> 1 dmg
  • Achilles Strike's Slow debuff increased from -10% -> -30% movespeed

Rogue

  • Rogue's Double Jump slow on landing duration reduced from 3s -> 2s

Wizard

  • Wizard's Haste duration decreased from 12 -> 6s.
  • Wizard's Invisibility duration decreased from 5 -> 3s.
  • Movement speed reduced from 70% -> 65% of base movespeed when casting with a Spellbook.
  • Movement speed reduced from 70% -> 65% of base movespeed when casting with a Crystal Ball.

Bard

  • Accelerando's duration decreased from 12s -> 8s, and movement speed boost decreased from 5/7/9 -> 3/5/7 movespeed
  • Drum's movespeed penalty increased from -20 -> -30 movespeed
  • Bard’s Song of Silence now targets ALL nearby targets including oneself.
  • The effect radius of Bard’s Unchained Harmony has been changed from 600 -> 300.
  • Bard’s Tranquility now heals 1 recoverable hp/s over 10/20/30 seconds.
  • Bard’s Tranquility effect now only applies while resting.
  • Bard’s Chorale of Clarity effect now only applies while resting.

Hotfix 10

2023/09/07

General

  • Fixed an issue where stealth could not be broken when bumping into an opponent while stealthed.
  • Fixes to slightly improve server performance.
  • A few minor bugs have been fixed.
  • Ironshield logic has been updated.

Hotfix 9

2023/09/04

General

  • Fixed an issue where the Quick Slot status of the spectating target may not be reflected properly.
  • Now, after using a utility item, you will automatically grab the utility item in the next slot.
  • An option has been added to automatically equip utility items in the inventory when pressing the utility hotkey.
  • The character's base mesh has been changed for better compatibility with more clothing.
  • Added a new loading image.
  • Ironshield's(Anti-cheat) logic has been updated
  • For the time being, All Attribute options on all items will only go up to +1. *applies only to new item drops.
  • High roller ante is adjusted to 50 gold.

Wizard

  • The attribute bonus ratio for The Wizard's Ignite and Magic Missile spells has been adjusted to 50%.


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


Hotfix 7

2023/08/24

General

- Healing potions have been rebalanced. The time duration of the potions has been increased from 20s to 45s and healing potions no longer stack. Their base heal has been increased slightly (exact numbers to be determined).

  • Junk: 12 to 15
  • Poor: 15 to 20
  • Common: 19 to 25
  • Uncommon: 24 to 30
  • Rare: 27 to 35
  • Epic: 31 to ??
  • Legendary: 42 to ??
  • Unique: 50 to ??


- Protection Potions have had their shield amount reduced significantly and their Attribute Bonus Ratio adjusted to 0%. The Alchemist now sells an Uncommon Protection Potion for 20g.

  • Junk: 15 to 8
  • Poor: 20 to 10
  • Common: 25 to 15
  • Uncommon: 30 to 20
  • Rare: 35 to 25
  • Epic: 40 to ??
  • Legendary: 45 to ??
  • Unique: 50 to ??

- Bandages have been rebalanced. All bandages now heal 15 recoverable health on use. Higher tier bandages take a shorter time to apply.

- Surgical Kits take longer to apply across all tiers.

- Hand crossbow damage decreases dramatically the farther the bolt travels before hitting a target.

- Hand Crossbow movement speed penalty changed from -18 to -20.

- Throwing knives projectile speed slightly increased.

- Hunting traps no longer require a skill check when disarming.

- Attribute Bonus Ratio of all spells has been adjusted to 50%. This does not include skills (Judgement, Smite, Blow of Corruption, Holy Purification, etc.).

Cleric

- Attribute Bonus Ratio of Cleric's Protection has been adjusted to 0%.


Wizard

- Wizard's Fireball splash damage increased by 5.

- Wizard's Icebolt damage increased by 5.

- Wizard's Arcane Shield absorb amount reduced from 35 to 20.

- Movement speed and action speed reduction due to Frostbite have been changed from -15% to -20%.

- Arcane Shield's Attribute Bonus Ratio has been adjusted to 50%.

- Reactive Shield's Attribute Bonus Ratio has been adjusted to 0%.

Rogue

- A new Hand Crossbow Mastery perk has been added for the Rogue.

Hotfix 6

2023/08/22

General

- Shrine of Protection's ‘Physical Damage Reduction’ buff has been reduced from flat +30% to flat +15%.

- Pots and Crates give a little bit of EXP when broken instead of zero EXP. (Unconfirmed)

- QoL - Silver coins now stack to 30 instead of 25 per slot.


- Armor Rating curve has been modified and slightly flattened at the very high range.

Old:

-300 -> -619%

-300 to -3 = 2% per point -> (threshold at -25%)

-3 to 22 = 1% -> 0%

22 to 31 = 0.5% -> 4.5%

31 to 42 = 0.4% -> 8.9%

42 to 52 = 0.3% -> 11.9%

52 to 62 = 0.2% -> 13.9%

62 to 112 = 0.1% -> 18.9%

112 to 162 = 0.2% -> 28.9%

162 to 262 = 0.3% -> 58.9%

262 to 362 = 0.2% -> 78.9%

362 to 500 = 0.1% -> 92.7%


New:

-300 -> -619%

-300 to -3 = 2% per point -> (threshold at -25%)

-3 to 22 = 1% -> 0%

22 to 31 = 0.5% -> 4.5%

31 to 42 = 0.4% -> 8.9%

42 to 52 = 0.3% -> 11.9%

52 to 62 = 0.2% -> 13.9%

62 to 112 = 0.1% -> 18.9%

112 to 172 = 0.2% -> 30.9%

172 to 262 = 0.3% -> 57.6%

262 to 317 = 0.2% -> 68.6%

317 to 400 = 0.1% -> 76.9%

400 to 424 = 0.05% -> 78.1%

424 to 450 = 0.025% -> 78.75%

450 to 500 = 0.02% -> 79.75%


- Physical Damage Reduction now has a hard cap of 85%.

Rogue

- Rogue’s double jump has been modified to apply a temporarily movement speed reduction upon landing -30 Move Speed for 3 seconds. The maximum height of the double jump has also been slightly reduced.

- Rogue’s Weakpoint Attack now reduces the target's Armor Rating by 40% instead of reducing the Physical Damage Reduction.

- Rogue can no longer equip the Hand Crossbow.

Fighter

- Fighter’s Taunt ability’s Physical Damage Reduction reduced from flat +15% to +10%.

- Fighter’s Barricade gives +50 flat Armor Rating in defensive position instead of flat +15% Physical Damage Reduction.

Ranger

- Ranger's Penetrating Shot now grants 25% more Armor Penetration and an error in the description text has been fixed.

Bard

- Bard’s Din of Darkness's ‘Attribute Damage Ratio’ reduced from 10%/30%/50% to 6%/9%/12%.

Weapons

- Explosive Bottle and Oil Lantern now do 3 Magical Damage per tick instead of Physical Damage.

- Instruments are now Bard-only.

- Significantly reduced the values for 'Physical Damage Reduction' that appear as random attributes on items. (TBD)

- Falchion damage has been slightly reduced.

  • 30 to 27
  • 34~35 to 31~32
  • 36~39 to 33~36
  • 39~42 to 36~39
  • 42~46 to 39~43
  • 46~50 to 43~47
  • 50~53 to 47~50
  • 53~55 to 50~52

- Windlass Crossbow has 25% Armor Penetration.

- Crossbow has 20% Armor Penetration.

- The Hand Crossbow has 5% Armor Penetration.

- Flanged Mace and Morning Star have 15% Armor Penetration.

- War Maul has 30% Armor Penetration.

- Magic Staff now have Magical Damage by default. Damage per tier: 5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12

- Reduced the base projectile damage reduction values for Plate Armors.

  • Armet: 7% to 3.5%
  • Barbuta Helmet: 4% to 2%
  • Chapel De Fer: 2% to 1%
  • Gjermundbu: 4% to 2%
  • Hounskull: 7% to 3.5%
  • Kettle Hat: 2% to 1%
  • Viking Helmet: 4% to 2%
  • Visored Barbuta Helmet: 6% to 3%
  • Dark Plate: 12% to 6%
  • Fine Cuirass: 12% to 6%
  • Plate Pants: 9% to 4.5%
  • Heavy Gauntlet: 4% to
  • Plate Boots: 5% to 2.5%

Hotfix 5

2023/08/18

Patch Notes:

  • Fixed a bug where multiple filters in the trade post could not be applied simultaneously.
  • Bard's score for a Good performance has been slightly lowered.
  • The drop rate of Lion’s Head Chest and Gold Chest has been improved.
  • Cave Troll Elite can now drop a Mystical Gem.
  • A temporary timer is displayed indicating the end of the season ranks.
  • Other minor fixes.

Hotfix 4

2023/08/17

Patch Notes:

  • Classes are now free. Please note that currency that was used to unlock a class will be returned in a future update. We apologize for this delay.
  • Fixed an exploit with the Rogue's Pickpocket.
  • Fixed an issue where crossbows could not fire properly.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Trading Post filters from working properly.
  • Fixed an issue where the Giant Centipede's basic attack had too short an attack time.
  • Fixed an issue where Rogue stealth would sometimes not actually hide.
  • Fixed an issue where the Ghost King could sometimes get stuck.
  • Increased the baseline score for the Good rating when a bard completes a performance.
  • Bard's Din of Darkness attribute application factor has been changed from 50%/50%/50% to 10%/30%/50%.
  • Bard's Piercing Shrill's attribute application factor has been changed from 50%/50%/50% to 10%/30%/50%.
  • Bard's Accelerando changed from 5/10/15 to 5/8/11
  • Bard's Allegro's action speed and cast speed per second increase from 5/7/9% to 3/5/7%.
  • Bard's Harmonic Shield Armor and Spell Resistance bonuses changed from 50 to 40.
  • Wizard's Invisibility duration changed from 7 seconds to 5 seconds.
  • Added a feature to set a framerate limit for the menu.

Hotfix 3

2023/08/14

Patch Notes:

  • Ironshield's functionality has been improved and several glitches have been fixed.
  • Fixed an issue where redstone could not be used when launched with the Chafgames launcher.
  • The Armor Rating curve table has been changed. Now takes more damage while naked.
  • The Interaction Speed curve table has been changed. Clerics can now open chests and doors slightly faster.
  • Casting time for all Wizard spells reduced by 0.25 seconds.
  • Warlock's Curse of Pain and Power of Sacrifice cast time reduced by 0.25 seconds.
  • Bard's Shriek of Weakness defense rating reduction rate has been slightly reduced.
  • Bard's Chorale of Clarity spell recovery per tick slightly reduced.
  • Hoard, which was accessible without clearing the boss in Inferno, has been removed.

Hotfix 2

2023/08/11

Patch Notes:

  • Improved the anti-hack system for a cleaner environment.
  • Increased the drop rate of Uncommon items from all chests.
  • Added a small chance of Epic grade items to drop from all chests.
  • Increased the drop rate of Epic grade items from Ornate, Lions Head, and Golden chests.
  • Increased the amount of items sold by the Goblin Merchant.
  • Blocked some cheese tactics for the Cave Troll.
  • Fixed the bug where the Cave Troll sometimes respawned after death.
  • Removed the hoard in the Cave Troll treasure room and simply populated it with items.
  • Fixed locations where you could accidentally go outside the map.
  • Fixed locations where multiple doors would spawn in the same spot.
  • Added protection against characters being pushed by opening doors and chests into locations where they become stuck.


Hotfix 1

2023/08/09

Changes:

  • Fixed a stuttering/rollback issue.
  • Fixed an issue preventing Mimics from appearing in the Normal Goblin Caves.
  • Fixed an issue where the UI were misaligned when setting hotkeys.
  • Fixed some spots on maps that made it too easy to cheese some monsters.
  • Rewards in one of the High Roller Goblin Cave modules has been slightly increased.
  • The item drop rate quality of the Cave Troll in the Normal Goblin Caves has been slightly increased.
  • Giant Worm's item drop rate quality has increased slightly.