Heroes of Umbra 1.3

New Dungeon: Onyx Keep

• The Onyx is a new dungeon intended for rebirth players.

• It requires a consumable item found somewhere in the Orb Gardens

New Skill Tree: Summoner

• Summon creatures to aid in combat and provide helpful auras to allies in battle.

Prestige Levels

• Upon completing a rebirth playthrough, you may rebirth again, exchanging any Orb Ranks for permanent skills.

• Learning these skills increases your Prestige Level

Orb Garden Improvements

• Significantly revamped the Orb Gardens progression

• Maze size increases and monster changes are more gradual

• Tweaked medusa/snake exp.

• Added several new chunk variants (more map variety).

• Orb rank is deducted when you first enter the garden, not when you run out of time.

• New vendor with a unique bartering system to obtain rare items.

• Mystery gems acquired in gardens now have tiers.

• Higher tiered gems have higher max levels and slightly better stats.

• Higher ranking gardens will drop higher tiered gems.

• Additional tiers of equipment can be unlocked by reaching higher leveled ranks

• Added a gem shard trader in the boss room.

• Included map variants: Purgatory, Fields, and more.

• Fixed a bug where only up to 30 chests would spawn in the gardens.

• Fixed a bug where some mazes would be unsolveable. (oops teehee)

Orb Leveling Changes

• Cards cannot be sold for essence

• Orbs destroyed will give essence equal to their level

• The full amount must be paid upfront to level an orb, instead of 1 essence at a time. (This makes it easier to see at a glance if you have enough essence to level up an orb.)

Balancing Changes

• The exp curve got an overhaul.

• Every level takes a flat 20% more exp (rebirth and normal).

• Rebirth compounded exp needed per rank reduced from +30% to +25%.

• Attack speed is nerfed slightly

• Dagger mastery now gives attack speed instead of damage

• This is primarily to balance swords vs daggers, and keep the playstyles distinct. Attack speed in general is very powerful and easy to max. These changes should require a bit more specialization.

• Crit past 100 gives a chance to deal Perfect Critical hits.

• These have a new animation/sound effect and deal boosted damage.

Other Features and Additions

• Items can be locked to prevent accidental selling/dropping.

• Added many more Orbs

• Rare items now have an aura/ping sound that plays when they're dropped

• Summoned companions no longer need to be resummoned upon exiting/reloading a character.

• Chests sparkle ✨

• Many effect animations got a bit larger: impact/jump/cast

• Many drop icons have been updated

• Players can send emoticons to other players via Slash Commands.

Bugfixes

• Weapon mastery wasn't working correctly with endure.

• Stat points no longer go crazy with multiple rebirths.

• Unopened gates no longer automatically open when relaunching the client.

• Storage items no longer duplicate in specific circumstances.

• Generating new mystery gear/gems now checks if you have enough inventory space, to prevent possibly losing gear.