Update log
Full ETHYRIAL update
The complete published notes, normalized for clean reading and source attribution.
Extracted changes
- Gameplay
- Balance
- Server
- Store
- UI and audio
- Performance
Steam Patch 2.26.2026
Fishing & Feasts Showcase Master Chef @Sim Shady presents...
• Added 4 new fishing hotspots
• Added 4 new fish species
• Added 20 new T9 basic fish meals
• Added Hydra Meat + 5 new basic meals
• Added 5 new rare ingredient drops, good luck on the hunt!
• Added 5 Feasts + Blueprints
• Feast Blueprints now available from the Master Chef
• T9 Wis food now grants Healing % instead of Damage Dealt • T9 Con food now grants
Damage Reduction instead of Damage Dealt • Unique foods to fit your playstyle Happy fishing!
Note - temporarily the new fish can only be caught during Augem. This will change shortly in the future. There will be other mechanics involved to remove the Augem T9 Fish time gate
Combat & Balance
• Player Movement Sync Rework: Completely overhauled player movement synchronization between clients and the server for smoother, more accurate character positioning
• Aggro Range Fixes: Fixed aggro range calculations for monsters that would leash too quickly
• Envelop Shadows: Reduced DR to 40%/70% from 50%/80%, fixed duration bug
• Assassin Starting Poisons: Assassins now start with 5 Ginshade poisons in their inventory
• Assassin Playstyles Rework:
Noxious Bomb 1s -> 2s stun, 20s CD
Poison Vial buffed
Ginshade Poison:
Reduced CD of Concealed Weapon to 6s
Concealed Weapon DoT has 35% chance to proc Venom Surge per tick (1s/tick, 6 ticks)
on Venom Surge, Reset CD of Shiv to 0 and buff damage 100%
Result: Reactive procs that give rapid fire shivs & feels more interactive Nepbloom Poison:
Full Rework
Neurotoxin stacks to 20, ramping DoT
Abilities apply Neurotoxin stacks
Damage ramps about 20%+ past Ginshade in long fights
Concealed Weapon can be removed from rotation after 20 stacks built
Envenom is now your giga dam ability and scales damage off of total neuro stacks
Result: pew, pew, pew, pew, BAM Envenom
Items & Crafting
• Void/Radiant Wands: Fixed a bug causing offhand wands to fail to proc
• Weapon Proc XP Correction: Corrected Damage Source for Nightarrow, Nightbreaker, Nightseeker, Shadowblade, Scythe of the Seraphim, Draketooth variants, T8 bow variants, Manafused Weapons
• Repair Fix: Fixed an issue where repairing a piece of gear would not register until un-equipping and re-equipping it
Content Updates
• Cooking Material: Added Granpappy's Secret Fish Rub ingredient
UI Improvements
• InfoBar Fixes: Fixed issues with entity info bar display after teleports and stacking; Your current target's nameplate and HP bar now always stay fully visible and slightly larger than surrounding nameplates, even in dense player clumps
• Drag Hotkey: Added hotkey for UI Dragging: CTRL + ALT + Click & Drag
• Game Quit Improvements: Improved application exit flow and exit survey
• Placeholder Slot Skip: Fixed placeholder slots being filled with items when depositing into the bank
• Corpse Fixes: Fixed issues with player corpses on both client and server
• Objective Status Update Force: Fixed an issue with quest UI updating with the correct objective counts
• Swing Timers: Fixed a bug causing Swing Timers to be invisible in some cases, added seconds display to the UI
Performance
• FPS Improvements: Polished up a lot of code that could cause hitches and FPS dips; let us know if performance feels better
• DPS Meter Bug Fix:** Fixed a bug causing FPS drops when the
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