v0.9.0.0 - Endgame and Improvements Update

This update contains glory levels, itemization changes, revamped XP, Onslaught modifiers, Enclave, and combat improvements.

New Features

• Added glory levels.

• Revamped the XP requirements for all levels.

• Overhauled Onslaught modifiers.

• Revamped the Enclave.

• Added the Enchanting Station to the Enclave where you can extract and imprint artifact effects on items.

• Added the ability to salvage items for ore at the Forge in the Enclave.

• Artifact chests now have a chance to drop artifact runes.

• Added a level requirement for all class abilities.

• Added a simple tutorial for new players.

• Mining now requries to time a simple minigame.

• Increased the maximum allowed skill points in some talents.

• Added abilities to all enemies.

• Added projectiles to some ranged class abilities.

• Added the following enemies: Mummy and Gargoyle.

• Added the following campaigns: Ashington, Parthely Citadel, Crypts of Parthely Citadel, Valley of Durosbain, and Bazaar of Durosbain.

• Added new steam achievements.

Itemization Changes

• Added socket bonuses to items.

• Added the following tier sets: Bladestorm, Sanctus's Blessing, Raging Tempest, Fractured Souls, The High Heavens, and Holy Bulwark.

• Items will now increase your classes's main stat by default.

• Artifact items will now have special modifiers that enhance player abilities.

• Added a new rarity: Unique.

• Added Unique items which are predefined and handmade (not randomly generated).

• Artifact items now have a 10% chance of being a Unique item.

• Added more rune colors.

• Runes now increase a specific stat according to their color.

Quality of Life Features

• Merging two items will now take the tier set of the first item provided.

• The last player you loaded into is now automatically selected on the character selection screen.

• Improved the dialogue system for enemies.

• You are now in combat for a minimum of 4 seconds (was 1).

• Your minions' attacks will now put you in combat.

• Newly created characters now have the Health Potion, Mana Potion, and Rejuvination Potion automatically assigned to the first three consumable buttons.

• Improved the one button targeting system.

• The cardinal will now be auto deselected when he is done displaying all of his dialogue.

• Increased the player's interaction range.

• The Necromancer abilities: Noslrac's Legion and Soul Explosion now glow when you have at least one soul.

• You now automatically target the next available enemy when your current target dies.

• Casting abilities while channeling another ability will cause the channeled ability to be interupted.

• The campaign selector now displays what ore deposits a campaign provides.

• Added floating text after successfully mining to show how much ore you mined.

• Improved and reworked Blightbone's constant movement mechanic.

• Updated the visuals for the Cleric ability: Exodus.

UI Changes

• Improved the game menu.

• Improved the GUI buttons and the background of all panels.

• Improved the background of the Cleric's vigor bar.

• Improved the cast bar visual.

• An item's action buttons are now collapsed and no longer have large gaps.

• Added a minimap to the top right corner of the screen.

• Added a toggable objectives section under the minimap in the top right corner.

• Improved the damage numbers.

• Mines will now disappear after being mined on the minimap.

• Updated the floating text when picking up gold.

• Improved the buff tooltips.

• Improved the tooltips of items on the ground.

• Shortened the numbers on the health and mana orbs.

• Changed the glow color of procced abilities to aqua.

• Added a health/mana bar above the player when in combat.

• Added power indicators that are displayed around the player when you are able to cast spenders.

• Added the settings page in the main menu.

• Added the credits page in the main menu.

Balance Changes

• Converting an item into a tier piece increases it's item level by 30%.

• Reduced the quality of items rewarded from Onslaughts.

• You can no longer unequip and equip items while inside of an Onslaught that is active.

• You can no longer convert items into tier pieces and socket runes while inside of an Onslaught.

• Increased the base amount of ore a mine drops.

• Mines will now drop a higher amount of ore depending on the player's highest onslaught completed.

• Updated how item level is calculated.

• Lowered the drop chance of merge and tier tokens.

• Base attribute points now increase your item level.

• The Champion's skill: Resourceful Ambush now also increases the damage of Ambush.

• AdjustedThe Champion's abilitiesKing's Despair and Colossal Smash no longer have their damage increased by your currently equipped weapon.

• Reduced the damage of the Champion's ability: Colossal Smash.

• The Champion's skill: Sweeping Strikes now also causes abilties to also apply their bleeds on all targets hit.

• Reduced the damage of the Necromancer's abilities: Marrowripper, Hemorrhaging Assault, Raise Dead, Noslrac's Legion, Army of the Dead, and Soul Explosion.

• The Necromancer's skill: Final Service now casts Soul Explosion at 1/2/3/4/5% (was 5/7/9/11/15%).

• Removed the cast time of the Necromancer's ability: Soul Explosion.

• Fixed an issue where the Necromancer's skill: Hemorrhaging Assault was not properly increaseing the damage of Hemorrhaging Assault.

• Reduced the damage of the Wizard's abilities: Fireball, Vaporize, Meteor Strike, Meteor Shower, and Incinerate.

• AdjustedThe Wizard's skillImproved Meteor Strike now causes targets to burn for 5/10/15/20/25% of damage dealt by Meteor Strike (was 30/35/40/45/50%).

• The Wizard's skill: Smoldering Crater now causes targets to burn for 10/14/20% of damage dealt by Meteor Shower (was 5/7/10%).

• The Wizard's ability: Meteor Shower now generates a Combustion charge while Cremation is active.

• AdjustedThe Cleric's abilityAtonement now has it's damage increased by your currently equipped weapon.

• Reduced the damage of the Cleric's abilities: Holy Malice, Atonement, Crusade, and Redemption.

• Increased the duration of the Cleric's ability: Exodus by 10 seconds.

• Crafted items will now have their power increased if they are a Heavy or Medium equipment (without costing more Ore).

• Increased the cooldown of the Necromancer's ability: Army of the Dead to 6 minutes (was 4 minutes).

• Reduced the cooldown of the Wizard's ability: Time Anomaly to 2 minutes (was 6 minutes).

• Reduced the cooldown of the Wizard's ability: Freezing Typhoon to 8 seconds (was 15 seconds).

• Updated how some buffs stack.

• Your health and mana regeneration are now based on your invested dexterity points (instead of total).

• Onslaught Keys will now drop from 3 levels below to 1 level above your highest onslaught level completed (was percentage based).

• Abilities casted by items/skills will now deal 50% reduced damage.

• The Champion's ability: King's Despair can no longer be casted when you have less than 5 demolish charges.

• The Champion's ability: Final Stand now heals you for 10% of your maximum health (was 5%).

• The Cleric's ability: Redemption now deals damage as if the target was at 20% of their maximum health when procced (was 35%).

• The Necromancer's ability: Sacrifice now grants 25% of your maximum mana (was 10%).

• The Cleric's ability: Divine Judgement now causes the other spender to be free (was both).

• Enemies now grant 10 to 20 XP when killed, regardless of level (was based on the enemy level).

• Completing campaigns on the main campaign now grants 500 XP (was based on player level).

• Completing onslaughts now grants 1,000 XP.

• Reduced the range of the Cleric's ability: Genesis.

• Mines now have a 5% chance of giving 1-3 Vulcanite.

• Tier tokens will now only drop when you are at least level 20.

• Reduced the amount of mana drained by Champion or Gladiator enemies with the mana drain modifier.

• Increased the damage of enemies.

• Enemies will no longer melee their target.

• Cleric's absorption shields no longer reflect damage back to attackers.

• Onslaught keys' weights no longer scale with level.

• AdjustedThe Wizard skillsImproved Meteor Strike and Improved Incinerate have switched places in the skill tree.
• AdjustedThe Champion skillsImproved Whirlwind and Frenzied Bombardment have switched places in the skill tree.

• Reduced the range of the Champion's ability: Whirlwind.

• Completing an Onslaught faster will level up the key higher (up to 4 levels).

• Strength now also increases your base defense.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the minimap was only displaying the background.

• Fixed an issue where talking to the Cardinal when he had no dialgoue would cause the game to crash.

• Fixed an issue where armor granting talent points into Magisterial Consecration would cause it to be lowered instead of increased.

• Fixed an issue where dropping health, mana, or rejuvination potions would cause the game to crash.

• Fixed an issue where equiping an item recently merged with socketed runes would cause the game to crash.

• Fixed an issue where selling/dropping miscellaneous items would cause the wrong Onslaught to be loaded or the game crashed.

• Fixed an issue where the cardinal dialogue was not being displayed correctly.

• Fixed an issue where some modifiers would spawn with a 0 on low-level characters.

• Fixed an issue where the Necromaner's ability: Army of the Dead's summoned minions were not lasting the amount of time proposed in the tooltip.

• Fixed an issue where ressetting your skill points would have your skills be at negative values.

• Fixed an issue where the player's casting animation was not lasting the entire duration of the cast.

• Fixed an issue where Regenreation would increase in value the longer the buff has been applied.

• Fixed an issue where could open up chests out of line of sight.

• Fixed an issue where ability tooltips were appearing behind player buffs.

• Fixed an issue where player buffs would start to appear off the screen when the player got more than 24.

• Fixed an issue with the Champion tier set: Expose Weakness's four piece not working as intended.

• Fixed an issue where having low skill points in the Champion's skill: The King's Rally would extend Rallying Cry indefinitely.

• AdjustedFixed an issue where the Champion's abilityExecution Sentence was not dealing increased damage against bleeding targets.