Hellgate:London Singleplayer Patch-Notes 1.2 beta
Verfasst: Sa 5. Apr 2008, 09:33
Hallo zusammen,
ja Ihr lest richtig, es gibt einen neuen SP-Patch für Hellgate:London, der mit 'Beta' Status zum Download bereitgestellt wird.
Ob FSS damit, den generellen Entwicklungsstand von HG:L umschreiben möchte, oder ob es in naher Zukunft den SP-Patch 1.2 Final zum Download geben wird, ist mir nicht bekannt.
Der Patch ist 186 MB groß und soll das SP-Game auf den Stand des Mehrspielermodus 1.2 bringen.
Rheinlander
Quelle/Download: Hellgate:London off. HP
Zitat von der off. HP
-------------------------
Single Player Patch 1.2 Notes
April 4th, 2008
Hello Hellgaters!
We’re very pleased to bring our single-player gamers up to date with this patch. We’ve been putting a lot of focus on the online space where we get a great deal of testing done on our Test Center servers. The consistent feedback and requests to have these same improvement made available for those of you that enjoy offline, single-player gaming has not gone unheard! We’re still a small studio, so getting everything done as fast as you and we want to can be a challenge. So we greatly appreciate your patience while we got this patch into the development / test / release cycle.
You’ll find tons of bug fixes, skill changes, class balances, UI updates, graphic enhancements, and much more in this patch. We hope that it makes your enjoyment of Hellgate: London all the greater!
The Hellgate: London Team
---
General
Based on the number and depth of balance changes to skills in this update, certain characters will be provided a “respec token” that allows them to reassign their skill points. This token is automatically placed in the character’s inventory and can be used at any time.
* The timer and quest requirement have been removed from the mini-game.
* Fixed a bug where chat entry became visible in the Character Select screen after logging in and then logging out of the game.
* Fixed a crash bug associated with exiting out of the Character Creation menu.
* Players that had beaten Normal mode with a character but then were unable to access Elite mode with a new character should now have access to that game mode by logging in once with the character that completed Normal Mode.
* Fixed a bug which caused audio and sound effects to sometimes stop playing.
* Adjusted difficulty of the Nightmare endgame. Decreased the ramp of the damage penalty that players face against monsters higher than their level.
* Fields from different sources can now stack. Please note that the graphics from new fields still override those of previous fields.
* Players must now wait 5 seconds before they can re-enter a Hellrift.
* Fixed a bug which caused weapons to disappear when swapping weapon sets in the middle of performing certain skills.
* Fixed a bug which caused the /played command to display the incorrect amount of time played.
* If a player dies during (or just before) a cut-scene begins playing or the game begins loading, the re-spawn options menu will come up after the cut-scene or loading screen is completed.
* Vendor inventories in Nightmare difficulty should now be stocked with Nightmare-level items.
* The Shock effect now deals damage immediately when it’s applied.
* Several character and monster animations have been improved.
* Fixed known Blueprint exploits.
* Fixed a bug which sometimes caused files to require unnecessary patching.
* Fixed a bug which caused the mini-game to become stuck if the player zoned to town or quit the game immediately after completing a round of the mini-game.
Memory Usage
* Memory manager rewritten for better performance and stability.
* Fixed a UI-related memory leak.
* Fixed a clothing and armor texture-related memory issue.
User Interface/Controls
* Reorganized the De-modificator, Augmentrex, and Nanoforge interfaces to appear in the left-hand panel area.
* Added an auto-transparency feature to the chat window.
* Players can skip all logo splash-screens with a single click.
* The Mini Map is now set to the top right of the screen with character state icons appearing below.
* The Chat Window is now scalable. To adjust the size of the chat window, hold down the ALT key. There is a small tab in the upper right hand corner of the chat interface that can be used to resize the window.
* Skill Retrainers now have a confirmation dialogue to help players from accidentally using them.
* Some UI panels have been improved.
* Fixed two bugs which caused the automap fog of war to be reset either when using a PRD or in levels with hellrifts.
* Shift-activation should now work for skills granted by items.
* The [Shift], [Ctrl], and [Alt] keys are now re-mappable, and may be set as key-modifiers.
Graphics
* Templar melee animations have been tweaked for smoother combat flow.
* Fixed an issue where backgrounds would flicker or disappear.
Graphics (DX10 Only)
* Various distortion effects have been fixed.
* Fixed a Hellrift portal graphical issue in which the image would slide inappropriately.
* Translucent models now render properly against the background.
* Particles and translucent models are no longer out of focus with the depth-of-field effect.
* Depth-of-field blur amount has been reduced and is now more subtle.
* Fixed a resource/memory leak that showed as either Page File or Commit Size growth.
Nightmare Difficulty
* The difficulty of Nightmare has been rebalanced. More overall experience is earned in Nightmare levels and the overall level progression has been adjusted.
Quests
* Fixed a bug with the Cannon Street Rails quest.
* Fixed a bug in the Helping Hands and Triage quests where Maxim and Arphaun occupy the same place.
* Fixed a bug with the Regular Customer quest where Slaughterbeast occasionally wouldn’t spawn as expected.
* Characters stuck in the Holborn station after completing the game in normal mode should be able to progress.
* Certain quests that could not be completed after defeating Sydonai because Emmera was no longer accessible can now be turned in to a new NPC named Sammy.
* Fixed a bug which sometimes caused collection side-quest counters to count down under certain conditions.
* Players can now drop the train part quest items for the “…All the Live Long Day” quest. Also players may no longer pick up these items if they do not have the quest active or if they already have the item.
* Any leftover blueprint items from the “Threshold” quest will now be removed.
* Players who have more than one of an un-droppable quest items now have the option to destroy all but one of these items.
Items
* Improved the drop rate of analyzers and various recipes.
* New blueprints have been added for Focus Items and Boots.
* Focus Items and Boots can now be made by crafters.
* Unique items that were found before Patch 0.5 that are missing special attributes may now be rerolled for free. The process is as follows:
o All mods must first be removed using a Delux De-Modificator. This is available once at no cost for qualifying items.
o Once all the mods are removed, insert the item into an Augmentrex 3000. Now click any of the three "Add Property" buttons to reroll the item attributes.
o All item attributes will be rerolled and the item balance will be up-to-date. If the item level was previously upgraded with the Nano Forge, the additional item levels will be added to the newly generated base level after the item reroll. This means that the new item level may not be the same.
* The Stun Defense granted by the Gyro Stabilizer has been increased.
* Health and Power injectors now show up in high level stations.
* Fire Extinguishers now give the appropriate Ignite Defense.
* Armors with the “minion damage bonus” affix now work for the Engineer.
* Restorative injectors are usable when either health or power is below the player’s maximum since they can help recover both health and power for the user.
* Increased the amount of Shields found on items and affixes, ramping up after level 10. Note that this change is not retroactive and will not apply to existing items; however, newly dropped items and existing items upgraded through the Nanoforge will receive the adjusted amount of shields.
* Id Pulsar weapons should now ignore friendly targets.
World Movement
* Players can now use the /stuck command when in Ghost form.
* Fixed rare instances where certain areas were impassible.
Monsters
* Monsters with the Infested ability have had their damage reduced.
* The Beast of Abbadon, Oculis, and Sydonai will now re-spawn normally, even if the player has previously completed their associated quests.
* Fixed a bug which would sometimes prevent Oculis or the Furuncle from spawning properly.
* Stalkers and Burning Fiends are now part of the Beast caste and Tortured Souls are now part of the Spectral caste. This applies to all types of Stalkers, Burning Fiends, and Tortured Souls.
* Fixed some cases where monsters would get stuck in the ground.
* Wurm no longer spawns maggots when it dies.
* Maggots summoned by Wurm will now automatically die upon Wurm’s death.
* Fixed a bug which allowed the Wurm encounter to be exploited.
* The Lightning now looks like a giant robot as intended.
Crafting
* The limit on number of times an item can be upgraded has been raised to 10.
* Upgrading an item takes 50% less resources.
* A new, rare salvaged material crafting material called Nanoshards are now required to upgrade items.
o Nanoshards can be obtained from any item, but the chance to salvage one is increased when disassembling rarer items.
o The number of Nanoshards required to upgrade an item increases each time the same item is upgraded.
Fixes
* Fixed a bug where characters would not save when they killed 65,534 monsters in one session.
* Fixed a rare bug where equipping the Cleanser and a shield can delete the shield.
* Fixed a rare bug where Templar could equip both the Cleanser and a shield.
* Fixed a bug with mods on weapons not being properly equipped when loading a character.
* Fixed rare cases where the PRD became unusable.
* Fixed a bug where numerous pets would show up in Stations.
* Fixed a bug where already activated Auras would turn on and off when swapping weapons that grant Aura skills.
Skills
PLEASE READ the changes to skills carefully as many have changed. Some skills now have new names to represent their different effects or make more sense within the context of the character class.
* Fixed skills being added to and/or removed from Shift activation when swapping weapons.
* Increased the amount of Shields granted by skills that provide Shields.
Templar
* Aura of Power, Aura of Renewal, Aura of Defense, and Aura of Salvation have been rebalanced. Additionally, their skill rank progressions have been normalized to provide a 33% increase in effectiveness per skill level. Blademasters and Guardians will now see more return on investment in these auras.
* Investing a skill point into an Aura skill will no longer automatically cause it to activate.
Aura of Power
* The power regeneration granted by Aura of Power has been decreased. At rank 10, Aura of Power grants 94% of the power it gave previously.
Blademaster
Path of Righteousness
* Path of Righteousness now applies damage from offhand melee weapons.
Call of the Chosen
* The Taunt and Fear Attack Strengths of this skill now properly scale with the Blademaster's level.
* The range of Call Of The Chosen has been increased.
Crosscutter
* Crosscutter now requires a target in order to use the skill.
Whirlwind
* Fixed a bug which caused Whirlwind to immediately cancel itself.
Guardian
* Prayer of Retribution can now be used while poisoned.
* Prayer of Healing can no longer be used while poisoned.
Aura of Thorns
* Aura of Thorns should now properly increase Thorns damage from items.
* Aura of Thorns has been rebalanced to fit the standard Aura progression model.
Aura of Renewal
* The initial health regeneration granted by Aura of Renewal has been slightly decreased. By rank 10, this aura provides significantly more health regeneration than it did previously.
Aura of Defense
* The armor bonus granted by Aura of Defense has been decreased.
Aura of Salvation
* The initial elemental attack defense granted by Aura of Salvation has been slightly decreased. By rank 10, this aura provides significantly more elemental attack defense than it did previously.
Grand Aura
* This skill now provides an equal percentage increase to the Guardian's Holy Aura radius at each rank, ending with the same total increase at rank 5 as it did previously.
Challenge
* The Taunt Attack Strength of this skill now properly scales with the Guardian's level.
Denounce
* The Taunt Attack Strength of this skill now properly scales with the Guardian's level.
Cabalist
* The Summon Ember and Summon Fire Elemental skills no longer conflict when granted through items.
Brom's Curse
* This spell now heals a fixed amount based on the attacker's level instead of being based on a percentage of the attacker's health.
* The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Brom's Curse affects up to 4 targets for 5 seconds at rank 1. The maximum number of targets is increased by 1, the duration increased by 1 second, and the amount healed is increased by 12.5% per rank.
* This spell may now be cast while moving.
* The range of Brom's Curse has been increased to 20 meters.
* Fixed description for Brom’s Curse to match the actual health gained.
Afterlife
* The power cost of this spell has been reduced.
Elemental Drain
* The power cost of this spell has been greatly reduced.
* The casting time has been reduced by 1 second.
Word of Fear
* The Fear Attack Strength of this spell now properly scales with the caster's level.
* The base Fear Attack Strength of this spell has been increased by 25%.
* The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Word of Fear now gains 33% more Fear Attack Strength per rank.
Evokers
* Fixed a bug that caused Drain Power to charge an upfront power cost.
* Tempest’s targeting range has been increased and properly loses targets that move out of range.
* Fixed a bug which prevented Boneshards from having any effect on every other cast.
* Fixed a bug which prevented Evokers from using any other skills for two seconds after casting Boneshards.
* Skill Rank bonus descriptions have been updated and normalized to be based on their initial rank 1 effect. For example, Spectral Bolt now displays no Phase Attack Strength bonus at rank 1, but displays a more clear bonus of 25% Phase Attack Strength per additional rank.
Spectral Curse
* Spectral Curse now also reduces targets' movement speed by 10%.
* The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Spectral Curse now affects up to 4 targets for a 5 seconds at rank 1. The maximum number of targets is increased by 1, the duration increased by 1 second, and movement speed penalty increased by 5% per rank.
* This spell may now be cast while moving.
* The power cost of has been reduced substantially, and the range has been increased to 20 meters.
* The explosion damage caused by Spectral Curse has been increased.
Drain Power
* The damage of this spell has been increased significantly.
* Increasing ranks of Drain Power now work properly at all power ranges.
Drain Life
* The damage of this spell has been doubled.
Arcane Shield
* The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted, providing slightly less shields at lower ranks.
* Arcane Shield is unaffected by the Evoker's movement.
* This spell now lasts for 10 seconds with a 25 second recast time.
Concentrate Damage
* The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Concentrate Damage now provides a lower initial damage bonus, but grants a greater bonus per rank. Concentrate Damage's new damage bonus progression surpasses its previous curve damage bonus progression at rank 4.
Summon Ember
* The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Additional ranks of this skill now provide 15% more damage instead of 20%, but the base damage of the Ember pet is significantly higher across all ranks.
* The Ember's Health, Damage, Ignite Attack Strength, Critical Chance, Interrupt Strength, Interrupt Defense, and Armor have been increased.
Firestorm
* The rank progression of this spell has been re-designed. Additional ranks of Firestorm now provide a 5% increase in damage rather than an increase in Ignite Attack Strength. Firestorm surpasses its previous damage at rank 3.
* The Ignite Attack Strength of this spell has been reduced.
* The range of this spell has been increased to 10 meters.
Flameshards
* The Flameshards spell has been re-worked. The number of shards fired is now fixed at 7, but multiple shards stack with each other. Individual shard damage has been decreased slightly to take damage stacking into account.
* Increased ranks in Flameshards now increases each shard's Ignite Attack Strength by 25%.
* The spells now has a cool-down time of 2 seconds.
* This spell's power cost has been decreased.
* The base Ignite Attack Strength of this spell has been increased by 25%.
* The range of this spell has been increased to 25 meters.
* The explosion delay of Flameshards has been decreased to 1 second.
Hellfire
* This spell's casting time and initial power cost have been reduced significantly. Additional ranks now provide a slightly smaller decrease in power cost.
* This spell now has a cool-down time of 2 seconds.
* The damage and Ignite Attack Strength of this spell have been increased substantially.
* The range of Hellfire has been decreased to 25 meters.
* The targeting of this spell has been fixed.
* Hellfire can now be aimed as long as the skill trigger is held down, and fires once the trigger is released.
Spectral Bolt
* The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Spectral Bolt now provides an additional 25% Phase Attack Strength per rank. The initial Phase Attack Strength of Spectral Bolt has been slightly increased.
* The power cost of this spell has been decreased, and the Phase duration has been increased by 1 second.
* The cooldown of Spectral Bolt has been decreased to 1 second.
* The base Phase Attack Strength of this spell has been increased by 25%.
Spectral Lash
* The damage of this spell has been increased by 35%.
Spectral Lash Mastery
* The damage of the explosion caused by this spell has been doubled.
* The rank bonus of this spell is now applied to the explosion effect properly.
Lightning Field
* The damage of the Lightning Field has been increased substantially.
* The power cost of this skill has been decreased.
* This spell now has a cool-down time of 2 seconds.
* The splash damage of the initial effect has been increased by an additional 17%.
* The skill description has been corrected to match the actual increase in radius per rank.
Tempest
* The casting time, power cost, and cool-down of Tempest have been decreased.
* The base damage of Tempest has been decreased.
* The strike frequency bonus per rank of Tempest has been decreased to 10% per rank.
* Each Tempest cloud now lasts for 15 seconds and has a range of 15 meters.
* The rank bonus of this spell now properly increases the frequency of lightning strikes.
Arc Legion
* The rank progression bonus of this spell has been changed. Additional ranks now increase the Shock Attack Strength and Shock Effect Damage of Arc Legion by 25%.
* The range of this spell has been fixed at 18 meters.
* The damage of this spell has been increased.
Demonspine
* The rank bonus of this spell has been slightly adjusted to a 25% increase in Stun Attack Strength per rank.
* The power cost of this spell has been decreased.
* The damage of this skill has been increased.
* The base Stun Attack Strength of Demonspine has been increased by 20%.
Boneshards
* The rank bonus of this spell has been slightly adjusted to a 50% increase in Stun Attack Strength per rank.
* The damage of this spell has been increased by 60%.
* The cooldown of this skill has been decreased to 6 seconds.
* The base Stun Attack Strength of Boneshards has been increased by 25%.
* The power cost of this skill has been increased.
Skullsplitter
* The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Skullsplitter now begins with 12 fragments and gains 2 additional fragments per rank.
* Skullsplitter now explodes into a significantly more predictable nova pattern.
* The power cost and cool-down of this spell have been slightly decreased.
Venomous Spirit
* The damage of this spell has been increased and the power cost has been decreased.
* The Fear Attack Strength of this spell now scales properly with the caster's level and has been increased significantly. Additional ranks of Venomous Spirit no longer provide an increase in Fear Duration.
* The travel speed of the Venomous Spirit has been increased significantly.
Venom Armor
* Several bugs with which allowed the swarms created by Venom Armor to bypass its intended cool-down time have been fixed.
* The damage of each swarm created by this spell has been increased, and each swarm now lasts for a fixed amount of time on their target.
* The initial armor provided by this spell has been decreased, but the absolute bonus to armor per rank has been increased, reaching the previous maximum armor bonus at rank 10.
Swarm
* The rank progression of this spell has changed. Additional ranks in Swarm now increase the Poison Attack Strength and Poison Duration of Swarm by 20%.
* The cool-down of this spell is now fixed at 6 seconds.
* The power cost of this spell has been decreased significantly.
Summoners
* Fixed a bug which sometimes caused the Warper minion icon to not display.
* Master of the Flame skill effects now display properly in the skill description tooltip.
Hand of Nostrum
* Hand of Nostrum should now properly increase the number of healing beams used by the Witch Doctor.
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Zitatende
ja Ihr lest richtig, es gibt einen neuen SP-Patch für Hellgate:London, der mit 'Beta' Status zum Download bereitgestellt wird.
Ob FSS damit, den generellen Entwicklungsstand von HG:L umschreiben möchte, oder ob es in naher Zukunft den SP-Patch 1.2 Final zum Download geben wird, ist mir nicht bekannt.
Der Patch ist 186 MB groß und soll das SP-Game auf den Stand des Mehrspielermodus 1.2 bringen.
Rheinlander
Quelle/Download: Hellgate:London off. HP
Zitat von der off. HP
-------------------------
Single Player Patch 1.2 Notes
April 4th, 2008
Hello Hellgaters!
We’re very pleased to bring our single-player gamers up to date with this patch. We’ve been putting a lot of focus on the online space where we get a great deal of testing done on our Test Center servers. The consistent feedback and requests to have these same improvement made available for those of you that enjoy offline, single-player gaming has not gone unheard! We’re still a small studio, so getting everything done as fast as you and we want to can be a challenge. So we greatly appreciate your patience while we got this patch into the development / test / release cycle.
You’ll find tons of bug fixes, skill changes, class balances, UI updates, graphic enhancements, and much more in this patch. We hope that it makes your enjoyment of Hellgate: London all the greater!
The Hellgate: London Team
---
General
Based on the number and depth of balance changes to skills in this update, certain characters will be provided a “respec token” that allows them to reassign their skill points. This token is automatically placed in the character’s inventory and can be used at any time.
* The timer and quest requirement have been removed from the mini-game.
* Fixed a bug where chat entry became visible in the Character Select screen after logging in and then logging out of the game.
* Fixed a crash bug associated with exiting out of the Character Creation menu.
* Players that had beaten Normal mode with a character but then were unable to access Elite mode with a new character should now have access to that game mode by logging in once with the character that completed Normal Mode.
* Fixed a bug which caused audio and sound effects to sometimes stop playing.
* Adjusted difficulty of the Nightmare endgame. Decreased the ramp of the damage penalty that players face against monsters higher than their level.
* Fields from different sources can now stack. Please note that the graphics from new fields still override those of previous fields.
* Players must now wait 5 seconds before they can re-enter a Hellrift.
* Fixed a bug which caused weapons to disappear when swapping weapon sets in the middle of performing certain skills.
* Fixed a bug which caused the /played command to display the incorrect amount of time played.
* If a player dies during (or just before) a cut-scene begins playing or the game begins loading, the re-spawn options menu will come up after the cut-scene or loading screen is completed.
* Vendor inventories in Nightmare difficulty should now be stocked with Nightmare-level items.
* The Shock effect now deals damage immediately when it’s applied.
* Several character and monster animations have been improved.
* Fixed known Blueprint exploits.
* Fixed a bug which sometimes caused files to require unnecessary patching.
* Fixed a bug which caused the mini-game to become stuck if the player zoned to town or quit the game immediately after completing a round of the mini-game.
Memory Usage
* Memory manager rewritten for better performance and stability.
* Fixed a UI-related memory leak.
* Fixed a clothing and armor texture-related memory issue.
User Interface/Controls
* Reorganized the De-modificator, Augmentrex, and Nanoforge interfaces to appear in the left-hand panel area.
* Added an auto-transparency feature to the chat window.
* Players can skip all logo splash-screens with a single click.
* The Mini Map is now set to the top right of the screen with character state icons appearing below.
* The Chat Window is now scalable. To adjust the size of the chat window, hold down the ALT key. There is a small tab in the upper right hand corner of the chat interface that can be used to resize the window.
* Skill Retrainers now have a confirmation dialogue to help players from accidentally using them.
* Some UI panels have been improved.
* Fixed two bugs which caused the automap fog of war to be reset either when using a PRD or in levels with hellrifts.
* Shift-activation should now work for skills granted by items.
* The [Shift], [Ctrl], and [Alt] keys are now re-mappable, and may be set as key-modifiers.
Graphics
* Templar melee animations have been tweaked for smoother combat flow.
* Fixed an issue where backgrounds would flicker or disappear.
Graphics (DX10 Only)
* Various distortion effects have been fixed.
* Fixed a Hellrift portal graphical issue in which the image would slide inappropriately.
* Translucent models now render properly against the background.
* Particles and translucent models are no longer out of focus with the depth-of-field effect.
* Depth-of-field blur amount has been reduced and is now more subtle.
* Fixed a resource/memory leak that showed as either Page File or Commit Size growth.
Nightmare Difficulty
* The difficulty of Nightmare has been rebalanced. More overall experience is earned in Nightmare levels and the overall level progression has been adjusted.
Quests
* Fixed a bug with the Cannon Street Rails quest.
* Fixed a bug in the Helping Hands and Triage quests where Maxim and Arphaun occupy the same place.
* Fixed a bug with the Regular Customer quest where Slaughterbeast occasionally wouldn’t spawn as expected.
* Characters stuck in the Holborn station after completing the game in normal mode should be able to progress.
* Certain quests that could not be completed after defeating Sydonai because Emmera was no longer accessible can now be turned in to a new NPC named Sammy.
* Fixed a bug which sometimes caused collection side-quest counters to count down under certain conditions.
* Players can now drop the train part quest items for the “…All the Live Long Day” quest. Also players may no longer pick up these items if they do not have the quest active or if they already have the item.
* Any leftover blueprint items from the “Threshold” quest will now be removed.
* Players who have more than one of an un-droppable quest items now have the option to destroy all but one of these items.
Items
* Improved the drop rate of analyzers and various recipes.
* New blueprints have been added for Focus Items and Boots.
* Focus Items and Boots can now be made by crafters.
* Unique items that were found before Patch 0.5 that are missing special attributes may now be rerolled for free. The process is as follows:
o All mods must first be removed using a Delux De-Modificator. This is available once at no cost for qualifying items.
o Once all the mods are removed, insert the item into an Augmentrex 3000. Now click any of the three "Add Property" buttons to reroll the item attributes.
o All item attributes will be rerolled and the item balance will be up-to-date. If the item level was previously upgraded with the Nano Forge, the additional item levels will be added to the newly generated base level after the item reroll. This means that the new item level may not be the same.
* The Stun Defense granted by the Gyro Stabilizer has been increased.
* Health and Power injectors now show up in high level stations.
* Fire Extinguishers now give the appropriate Ignite Defense.
* Armors with the “minion damage bonus” affix now work for the Engineer.
* Restorative injectors are usable when either health or power is below the player’s maximum since they can help recover both health and power for the user.
* Increased the amount of Shields found on items and affixes, ramping up after level 10. Note that this change is not retroactive and will not apply to existing items; however, newly dropped items and existing items upgraded through the Nanoforge will receive the adjusted amount of shields.
* Id Pulsar weapons should now ignore friendly targets.
World Movement
* Players can now use the /stuck command when in Ghost form.
* Fixed rare instances where certain areas were impassible.
Monsters
* Monsters with the Infested ability have had their damage reduced.
* The Beast of Abbadon, Oculis, and Sydonai will now re-spawn normally, even if the player has previously completed their associated quests.
* Fixed a bug which would sometimes prevent Oculis or the Furuncle from spawning properly.
* Stalkers and Burning Fiends are now part of the Beast caste and Tortured Souls are now part of the Spectral caste. This applies to all types of Stalkers, Burning Fiends, and Tortured Souls.
* Fixed some cases where monsters would get stuck in the ground.
* Wurm no longer spawns maggots when it dies.
* Maggots summoned by Wurm will now automatically die upon Wurm’s death.
* Fixed a bug which allowed the Wurm encounter to be exploited.
* The Lightning now looks like a giant robot as intended.
Crafting
* The limit on number of times an item can be upgraded has been raised to 10.
* Upgrading an item takes 50% less resources.
* A new, rare salvaged material crafting material called Nanoshards are now required to upgrade items.
o Nanoshards can be obtained from any item, but the chance to salvage one is increased when disassembling rarer items.
o The number of Nanoshards required to upgrade an item increases each time the same item is upgraded.
Fixes
* Fixed a bug where characters would not save when they killed 65,534 monsters in one session.
* Fixed a rare bug where equipping the Cleanser and a shield can delete the shield.
* Fixed a rare bug where Templar could equip both the Cleanser and a shield.
* Fixed a bug with mods on weapons not being properly equipped when loading a character.
* Fixed rare cases where the PRD became unusable.
* Fixed a bug where numerous pets would show up in Stations.
* Fixed a bug where already activated Auras would turn on and off when swapping weapons that grant Aura skills.
Skills
PLEASE READ the changes to skills carefully as many have changed. Some skills now have new names to represent their different effects or make more sense within the context of the character class.
* Fixed skills being added to and/or removed from Shift activation when swapping weapons.
* Increased the amount of Shields granted by skills that provide Shields.
Templar
* Aura of Power, Aura of Renewal, Aura of Defense, and Aura of Salvation have been rebalanced. Additionally, their skill rank progressions have been normalized to provide a 33% increase in effectiveness per skill level. Blademasters and Guardians will now see more return on investment in these auras.
* Investing a skill point into an Aura skill will no longer automatically cause it to activate.
Aura of Power
* The power regeneration granted by Aura of Power has been decreased. At rank 10, Aura of Power grants 94% of the power it gave previously.
Blademaster
Path of Righteousness
* Path of Righteousness now applies damage from offhand melee weapons.
Call of the Chosen
* The Taunt and Fear Attack Strengths of this skill now properly scale with the Blademaster's level.
* The range of Call Of The Chosen has been increased.
Crosscutter
* Crosscutter now requires a target in order to use the skill.
Whirlwind
* Fixed a bug which caused Whirlwind to immediately cancel itself.
Guardian
* Prayer of Retribution can now be used while poisoned.
* Prayer of Healing can no longer be used while poisoned.
Aura of Thorns
* Aura of Thorns should now properly increase Thorns damage from items.
* Aura of Thorns has been rebalanced to fit the standard Aura progression model.
Aura of Renewal
* The initial health regeneration granted by Aura of Renewal has been slightly decreased. By rank 10, this aura provides significantly more health regeneration than it did previously.
Aura of Defense
* The armor bonus granted by Aura of Defense has been decreased.
Aura of Salvation
* The initial elemental attack defense granted by Aura of Salvation has been slightly decreased. By rank 10, this aura provides significantly more elemental attack defense than it did previously.
Grand Aura
* This skill now provides an equal percentage increase to the Guardian's Holy Aura radius at each rank, ending with the same total increase at rank 5 as it did previously.
Challenge
* The Taunt Attack Strength of this skill now properly scales with the Guardian's level.
Denounce
* The Taunt Attack Strength of this skill now properly scales with the Guardian's level.
Cabalist
* The Summon Ember and Summon Fire Elemental skills no longer conflict when granted through items.
Brom's Curse
* This spell now heals a fixed amount based on the attacker's level instead of being based on a percentage of the attacker's health.
* The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Brom's Curse affects up to 4 targets for 5 seconds at rank 1. The maximum number of targets is increased by 1, the duration increased by 1 second, and the amount healed is increased by 12.5% per rank.
* This spell may now be cast while moving.
* The range of Brom's Curse has been increased to 20 meters.
* Fixed description for Brom’s Curse to match the actual health gained.
Afterlife
* The power cost of this spell has been reduced.
Elemental Drain
* The power cost of this spell has been greatly reduced.
* The casting time has been reduced by 1 second.
Word of Fear
* The Fear Attack Strength of this spell now properly scales with the caster's level.
* The base Fear Attack Strength of this spell has been increased by 25%.
* The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Word of Fear now gains 33% more Fear Attack Strength per rank.
Evokers
* Fixed a bug that caused Drain Power to charge an upfront power cost.
* Tempest’s targeting range has been increased and properly loses targets that move out of range.
* Fixed a bug which prevented Boneshards from having any effect on every other cast.
* Fixed a bug which prevented Evokers from using any other skills for two seconds after casting Boneshards.
* Skill Rank bonus descriptions have been updated and normalized to be based on their initial rank 1 effect. For example, Spectral Bolt now displays no Phase Attack Strength bonus at rank 1, but displays a more clear bonus of 25% Phase Attack Strength per additional rank.
Spectral Curse
* Spectral Curse now also reduces targets' movement speed by 10%.
* The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Spectral Curse now affects up to 4 targets for a 5 seconds at rank 1. The maximum number of targets is increased by 1, the duration increased by 1 second, and movement speed penalty increased by 5% per rank.
* This spell may now be cast while moving.
* The power cost of has been reduced substantially, and the range has been increased to 20 meters.
* The explosion damage caused by Spectral Curse has been increased.
Drain Power
* The damage of this spell has been increased significantly.
* Increasing ranks of Drain Power now work properly at all power ranges.
Drain Life
* The damage of this spell has been doubled.
Arcane Shield
* The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted, providing slightly less shields at lower ranks.
* Arcane Shield is unaffected by the Evoker's movement.
* This spell now lasts for 10 seconds with a 25 second recast time.
Concentrate Damage
* The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Concentrate Damage now provides a lower initial damage bonus, but grants a greater bonus per rank. Concentrate Damage's new damage bonus progression surpasses its previous curve damage bonus progression at rank 4.
Summon Ember
* The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Additional ranks of this skill now provide 15% more damage instead of 20%, but the base damage of the Ember pet is significantly higher across all ranks.
* The Ember's Health, Damage, Ignite Attack Strength, Critical Chance, Interrupt Strength, Interrupt Defense, and Armor have been increased.
Firestorm
* The rank progression of this spell has been re-designed. Additional ranks of Firestorm now provide a 5% increase in damage rather than an increase in Ignite Attack Strength. Firestorm surpasses its previous damage at rank 3.
* The Ignite Attack Strength of this spell has been reduced.
* The range of this spell has been increased to 10 meters.
Flameshards
* The Flameshards spell has been re-worked. The number of shards fired is now fixed at 7, but multiple shards stack with each other. Individual shard damage has been decreased slightly to take damage stacking into account.
* Increased ranks in Flameshards now increases each shard's Ignite Attack Strength by 25%.
* The spells now has a cool-down time of 2 seconds.
* This spell's power cost has been decreased.
* The base Ignite Attack Strength of this spell has been increased by 25%.
* The range of this spell has been increased to 25 meters.
* The explosion delay of Flameshards has been decreased to 1 second.
Hellfire
* This spell's casting time and initial power cost have been reduced significantly. Additional ranks now provide a slightly smaller decrease in power cost.
* This spell now has a cool-down time of 2 seconds.
* The damage and Ignite Attack Strength of this spell have been increased substantially.
* The range of Hellfire has been decreased to 25 meters.
* The targeting of this spell has been fixed.
* Hellfire can now be aimed as long as the skill trigger is held down, and fires once the trigger is released.
Spectral Bolt
* The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Spectral Bolt now provides an additional 25% Phase Attack Strength per rank. The initial Phase Attack Strength of Spectral Bolt has been slightly increased.
* The power cost of this spell has been decreased, and the Phase duration has been increased by 1 second.
* The cooldown of Spectral Bolt has been decreased to 1 second.
* The base Phase Attack Strength of this spell has been increased by 25%.
Spectral Lash
* The damage of this spell has been increased by 35%.
Spectral Lash Mastery
* The damage of the explosion caused by this spell has been doubled.
* The rank bonus of this spell is now applied to the explosion effect properly.
Lightning Field
* The damage of the Lightning Field has been increased substantially.
* The power cost of this skill has been decreased.
* This spell now has a cool-down time of 2 seconds.
* The splash damage of the initial effect has been increased by an additional 17%.
* The skill description has been corrected to match the actual increase in radius per rank.
Tempest
* The casting time, power cost, and cool-down of Tempest have been decreased.
* The base damage of Tempest has been decreased.
* The strike frequency bonus per rank of Tempest has been decreased to 10% per rank.
* Each Tempest cloud now lasts for 15 seconds and has a range of 15 meters.
* The rank bonus of this spell now properly increases the frequency of lightning strikes.
Arc Legion
* The rank progression bonus of this spell has been changed. Additional ranks now increase the Shock Attack Strength and Shock Effect Damage of Arc Legion by 25%.
* The range of this spell has been fixed at 18 meters.
* The damage of this spell has been increased.
Demonspine
* The rank bonus of this spell has been slightly adjusted to a 25% increase in Stun Attack Strength per rank.
* The power cost of this spell has been decreased.
* The damage of this skill has been increased.
* The base Stun Attack Strength of Demonspine has been increased by 20%.
Boneshards
* The rank bonus of this spell has been slightly adjusted to a 50% increase in Stun Attack Strength per rank.
* The damage of this spell has been increased by 60%.
* The cooldown of this skill has been decreased to 6 seconds.
* The base Stun Attack Strength of Boneshards has been increased by 25%.
* The power cost of this skill has been increased.
Skullsplitter
* The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Skullsplitter now begins with 12 fragments and gains 2 additional fragments per rank.
* Skullsplitter now explodes into a significantly more predictable nova pattern.
* The power cost and cool-down of this spell have been slightly decreased.
Venomous Spirit
* The damage of this spell has been increased and the power cost has been decreased.
* The Fear Attack Strength of this spell now scales properly with the caster's level and has been increased significantly. Additional ranks of Venomous Spirit no longer provide an increase in Fear Duration.
* The travel speed of the Venomous Spirit has been increased significantly.
Venom Armor
* Several bugs with which allowed the swarms created by Venom Armor to bypass its intended cool-down time have been fixed.
* The damage of each swarm created by this spell has been increased, and each swarm now lasts for a fixed amount of time on their target.
* The initial armor provided by this spell has been decreased, but the absolute bonus to armor per rank has been increased, reaching the previous maximum armor bonus at rank 10.
Swarm
* The rank progression of this spell has changed. Additional ranks in Swarm now increase the Poison Attack Strength and Poison Duration of Swarm by 20%.
* The cool-down of this spell is now fixed at 6 seconds.
* The power cost of this spell has been decreased significantly.
Summoners
* Fixed a bug which sometimes caused the Warper minion icon to not display.
* Master of the Flame skill effects now display properly in the skill description tooltip.
Hand of Nostrum
* Hand of Nostrum should now properly increase the number of healing beams used by the Witch Doctor.
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