Skills
Earthquake
These changes are to compensate for the loss of a guaranteed stun on the Entangling Roots tree in 0.7.5, and make some balance adjustments.
- Mana cost reduced to 55 (from 70).
- Added damage effectiveness increased to 250% (from 200%).
- Added a new node that adds a guaranteed stun and a cooldown.
- Added a new node that increases stun duration and cooldown duration.
- Small changes have also been made to the requirements of some nodes.
Erasing Strike
- Added damage effectiveness increased to 200% (from 170%)
- Strength scaling changed to 5% increased melee damage (from 4% increased melee damage).
Forge Strike
- Characters with Forge Strike specialized will receive a free respec for its tree
- Added a new node behind Put to the Sword that increases bleed effectiveness.
- Forged by Fire can have 4 points allocated (up from 3), and adds 10 fire damage per point (up from 7).
- Mass Production now adds a 5% chance to summon weapons (it previously stated 8% increased chance).
- Well Forged Weapons now grants 25% increased summoned weapon duration (it previously stated 20%) and can have 4 points allocated (down from 5).
- Removed the Patient Strike node as its damage increase was not working.
- Slightly adjusted connections and requirements
Maelstrom
- Cyclone now prevents Maelstrom from freezing enemies, but also grants 5% increased global physical damage per stack of Maelstrom.
Sigils of Hope
- Each Sigil grants 4 fire damage (down from 5)
- Each Sigil grants 25% increased health regen (up from 20%)
- Characters with Sigils of Hope specialized will receive a free respec for its tree.
- Iron Sigils grants 40 armour per point (down from 50).
- Meditation now doubles health regen from Sigils rather than providing 100% increased health regen per Sigil.
- Sigils of Despair no longer doubles the added damage, but now also grants 15% increased void damage per Sigil.
- Sign of the Guardian grants 1% block chance (from 2%) and 15 block protection (from 5).
- Adjusted some connections and requirements.
Mechanics
- The death screen now shows the type of damage that dealt the killing blow in addition to the name of the ability.
- Your skills are no longer put on cooldown when you transform back to human form. Cooldowns are tracked while transformed, so if a cooldown has 10 seconds remaining and then you transform for 8 seconds, that cooldown will have 2 seconds remaining.
Sound
- Improved Avalancheās sound to be less jarring.
- Fixed Solar Auxiliary enemies not having impact sounds for their arrows.
- Fixed Wengari Raider enemies not having impact sounds for their melee attacks.
- Adjusted the volume levels of enemies in Chapter 7.
Enemy Balance
- Further reduced the damage of Fire Paladinās Earthquake attack.
- Reduced the damage of Holy Fire Novas from Rare Osprix Vanguards by 12%.
Performance
- Improved the performance of Avalancheās visuals.
Bug Fixes
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Fixed item tooltips getting stuck open in some situations.
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Fixed item tooltips displaying icons with incorrect colors if you had hovered over a shard beforehand.
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Fixed duplicate set items causing tooltip to show a higher tier set bonus.
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Fixed instability in tooltips not being shown when moving the mouse between items.
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Fixed the hybrid health leech affix having a tier 3 range of 70% to 20% leech, rather than 17% to 20%.
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Fixed being unable to use Shield Rush if you changed your weapon, which made it seem as if you no longer had a shield equipped.
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Fixed Flame Ward not granting 30% less damage taken as stated on the tooltip.
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Fixed a bug where āwhile channellingā stats did not work with Warpath.
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Fixed Flame Wardās Barrier node not granting less damage taken.
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Fixed bugs where Forge Strikeās Mass Production and Well Forged Weapons nodes had no effect.
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Fixed a bug where Forge Strikeās Put To The Sword node did not increase attack speed.
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Fixed Maelstromās Votex node increasing the damage of Maelstroms cast on yourself, rather than just those cast on your totems.
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Fixed various bugs with the buff display for Sigils of Hope.
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Fixed a bug where the Faith for Sigils of Hope triggered on every hit, rather than just hits that dealt more than 25% of your health.
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Fixed a bug where the Decree of Flame node for Sigils of Hope had no effect.
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Fixed a bug where respeccing the Sigils of Despair node for Sigils of Hope would have no effect until the character was reloaded.
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Fixed the poison chance granted by Skeleton Mageās Putrid Essence node not being converted to ignite chance for Pyromancers or chill chance for Cryomancers.
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Fixed the Diode node for Static granting too much added crit chance.
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Fixed Storm Totemās Stormrider node granting 30% movement speed per point rather than the stated 10%.
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Fixed the Paladinās Shield Wall node granting 5% block chance per point, rather than the stated 3%.
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Fixed a chest being difficult to open in Majāelka.
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Fixed Artemās icon disappearing in the Council Chambers in some situations.
