Beta v0.3.04a Patch Notes

New

• New Emblem - Bone Armor: Enemies sometimes drop bone shards on death. Collecting a bone shard grants you 5 bonus resistances (up to 70). Whenever you take damage from enemies, you lose 2 bonus resistances.

• New Emblem - Death Mark: A random non-boss enemy is marked every 8 seconds. Dashing through a marked enemy destroys it and causes enemies within 5 tiles to flee in fear for 3 seconds.

• AdjustedNew Emblem - Paragon HourglassWhenever you cast a cooldown spell, there is a (crit. strike chance)% chance to instantly reset its cooldown timer. The cooldown timers of defensive spells are instead reduced by 75%.
• AddedReworked Spell - Grasping VinesSummon a wave of vines that move towards target direction, rooting enemies in place and slowing their attack speeds by 40% for 5 seconds. ( see new runes below )

• New Rune - Grasping Vines (Bloom): Vines enchant the ground for 7 seconds as they move. You have 5 bonus life regeneration while on enchanted ground.

• AdjustedNew Rune - Grasping Vines (Sprawl)This spell instead roots all enemies but its base cooldown is increased to 16 seconds.
• AdjustedReworked Emblem - Chronoblade (previously Kill Time)Whenever you deal critical spell damage, all cooldown timers are reduced by 0.5 seconds. This effect can only occur once per spell cast.

• Reworked Emblem - Elemental Dominance (previously Elemental Devotion): The element that is most prevalent among your equipped spells is empowered, increasing damage you deal of that element by 20%.

• Reworked Emblem - Fairy Ring: Every 6 seconds, enemies within 5 tiles are rooted for 2.5 seconds.

• Reworked Emblem - Flesh Weaving (previously Reaper): Every 5 enemies you kill during combat grants you 1 bonus maximum life (up to 100) until end of combat.

• Reworked Emblem - Kinetic Impact (previously Dynamo): Moving grants you charge, becoming fully charged after 12 tiles. Casting a damage spell expends all charge to grant it up to 50% bonus damage.

• Reworked Emblem - Masochism (previously Dark Thirst): Whenever you take damage, you restore (100% unmitigated damage) mana.

• AdjustedReworked Emblem - WithdrawAfter casting a defensive spell, create a small zone at your position for 5 seconds. While in the zone, all damage you take is reduced by 75%.

• Reworked Boss - The Scourge (previously The Matriarch): The corpse of an ancient mage held together by magic and metal, the Scourge summons lightning fists and evil spirits to attack the player.

• Reworked Enemy - Imp (previously Skeleton Archer): Follows the player, occasionally firing flaming projectiles.

• Reworked Enemy - Sentry (previously Clockwork Cannon): Static enemy that occasionally fires a barrage of small missiles at the player.

Player

• Evading damage from most area of effect attacks now prevents player knock back.

Spells

• Cooldown for most spells (especially defensive spells) increased.

• Adjusted mana costs for various spells.

• AdjustedBuzzsawNow has a 6 second cooldown, damage increased from 450% of power to 600%.
• AdjustedElectric FieldDamage reduced from 60% of power per second to 25%, slow increased from 25% to 60%.
• AdjustedIgniteDamage increased from 110% of power to 125%, range increased from 6 tiles to 8, cast speed reduced.
• AdjustedLashDamage increased from 65% of power to 80%, cast speed reduced, sound effect volume and pitch reduced.
• AdjustedMeteor FormNo longer grants bonus move speed, stun duration increased from 2 seconds to 2.5, flight time increased.

Runes

• AdjustedBuzzsaw (Rebound)Damage increased from 350% of power to 450%.
• AdjustedBuzzsaw (Sol)Damage increased from 300% of power to 400%.
• AdjustedChain Lightning (Amplify)Damage increased from 85% of power to 100%, damage bonus per cast reduced from 30% to 25%, stack limit increased from 4 to 5.
• AdjustedIgnite (Jumpstart)Damage increased from 220% of power to 300%, self-damage type changed from true to melee or ranged (whichever resistance is higher).
• AdjustedMeteor Form (Hypervelocity)Base cooldown increased from 5 seconds to 8.

• Meteor Form (Slam): Instead deals (6x bonus max. life) bonus damage.

• Whirling Death (Pirouette): Dash casts now deal 30% less damage.

Emblems

• Aftershock: Instead deals (15% enemy max. life) lightning damage per second to enemies that are stunned, feared, or rooted (rooted enemies take 50% less damage). Deals 75% less damage to bosses.

• AdjustedArcane InvocationBonus resistances per stack increased from 4 to 8.
• AdjustedBackstabMark duration increased from 1.5 seconds to 4.
• AdjustedBlessing of ElusivityBonus melee resistance increased from 12 to 30.
• AdjustedBlessing of ToughnessBonus melee resistance increased from 12 to 30.
• AdjustedBoulder StanceBonus resistances increased from 30 to 60.
• AdjustedBrawlerBonus damage factor reduced from 30% of resistances to 20%.
• AdjustedEmergency SupplyLesser healing potion healing increased from 50% of normal potions to 75%, effect now triggers on spell cast end instead of on spell cast.
• AdjustedEnlightenedBonus resistances increased from 20 to 40.
• AdjustedExcessive ForceBonus critical hit damage increased from 30% to 50%.
• AdjustedGritBonus resistances per stack increased from 4 to 10.
• AdjustedMana ShieldBonus resistances per stack increased from 2 to 5.
• AdjustedReckless StrikesSelf-damage type changed from true to melee or ranged (whichever resistance is higher), damage bonus increased from 20% to 25%.
• AdjustedReflectDamage increased from 100% of unmitigated damage taken to 150%.
• AdjustedSumoInstead deals (4x bonus max. life) damage, refresh time reduced from 3.5 seconds to 1.5.

Enemies

• Enemy projectiles are now standardized into types (basic and flaming) so they deal consistent damage regardless of enemy type.

• Projectiles fired by elite enemies are rendered in black and red to show that they deal significantly more damage.

• Danger zone indicators of missiles/attacks from elite enemies have special indicators along their radius to show that they deal significantly more damage.

• Many boss attacks now scale at lower life.

• AdjustedBoss - The ConservatorGains new attacks: lay eggs and launch drones , trailblaze attack duration and cooldown greatly reduced.
• AddedBoss - The WardenGains a new attack: flail spin , flail slam attack now launches rock missiles in all directions.
• FixedClockwork GolemLaser now deals true damage and turns in a fixed direction.
• AdjustedGiant FrogAttacks instead launch an explosive missile at the player's predicted position, visuals updated.

• Ogre: Attacks no longer launch missiles but instead cause a line of melee spikes to erupt from the ground.

• Screecher: Attacks instead fire a wave of projectiles at the player.

Other

• Healing potions healing amount reduced.

• Default controller button for dash changed from "left stick button" to "A".

• Default controller button for interact changed from "A" to "X".

• AdjustedTome - Melee ResistanceBonus increased from 5 to 10.
• AdjustedTome - Ranged ResistanceBonus increased from 5 to 10.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug which was reducing performice while many enemies were alive at the same time.

• Fixed a visual bug where rune icons for spells in the spell slots were being draw under the spell inventory button.