Update 1.8.0 — Increased Gold, Stash Expansion, Blacksmith & Alchemist Services

We’ve been listening and we’ve gathered a wide range of feedback. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Based on the most frequently mentioned issues, we’ve prepared an improvement update.

There’s a lot in this patch, so here’s the quick hit first.

Key Summary

• Increased Gold & reduced Altar of Blessings costs

• Stash expansion plus an additional stash

• Blacksmith & Alchemist services added

• Higher item drop rates

• Buffs to skills and Legendary affixes

• Hero/enemy balance adjustments

• More run info and quality-of-life options

Details below.

Details

Increased Gold

• Higher gold drops on mid–upper floors

• Improved level-up scaling for the in-run skill Gold Gain

• Shop buy prices increased for Normal/Magic/Rare items (Normal +200%, Magic +20%, Rare +10%)

• Added a random Golden Mimic event that drops a large amount of gold during runs

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Lower Altar of Blessings Costs

• Total gold required to reach max level halved

• Full refund of the difference for gold spent on leveling prior to the update

• Level-up UX improvements

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Stash Expansion & Addition

• Main Stash: Capacity increased (84 → 105)

• Secondary Stash: Added (42)

• Sorting: New By Attribute sort option

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Blacksmith

• Reset Enhancement Level: Reset an item’s enhancement level so you can enhance it again

• Add Socket: Add sockets to owned equipment

• Unsocket Items: Remove items from sockets. Removed items are consumed or reusable depending on remaining reuse count

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Alchemist

• Craft Legendary Items: transfer a Legendary Affix from a Legendary item onto a Rare-or-lower item to craft a new Crafted Legendary

• Reroll Regular Affix: choose one non-Legendary affix on an item and change it to a new one

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Higher Item Drop Rates

• +10% Overall item drop rate

• +10% Chance for dropped items to be Magic or higher

• Max effectiveness of the in-run skill Magic Item Find increased to +50%

• +15% Socketed item drop rate

• +20% Rune drop rate

• +50% Magic Jewel drop rate, +20% Legendary Jewel drop rate

• “Time for payback!” Added a random Thieving Goblin event that drops items when hit

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Skill Buffs

• Dagger: +25% Damage

• Earth Spike: +30% Damage; 30% Chance to stun for 1s

• Meteor Fall: 5.3s → 3.5s Cooldown; 2s → 3s Flame duration

• Blizzard: +10% Number of falling ice shards

• Ball Lightning: 2 → 3 Minimum piercing count

• Lightning Wave: +20% Damage; 2.05s → 1.7s Cooldown

• Corpse Explosion: New effect — enemies cursed by Corpse Explosion take +30% damage when hit

• Summon Reaper: 8.1s → 6.2s Cooldown

• Blood Whirlwind: +10% Damage; +100% Life restoration

• Swamp of the Dead: +10% Damage; 2.7s → 3s Duration; 55% → 66% Enemy movement speed reduction

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Legendary Item Buffs

• Whirling Flames: 5 → 4 Fire Orb flight speed; 2s → 1.4s Flight time

• Exploding Earth: 0.25 → 0.75 Explosion damage multiplier

• Earth of Chaos: New effect — +100% Damage

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Hero Balance

• Improved effectiveness of Physical Damage Reduction from Armor

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Enemy Balance

• Ranged enemies: +30% Projectile fire cooldown, −10% Damage

• Suicide-type enemies: −15% Explosion damage

• Brood-mother invulnerability while spawning offspring adjusted: 0.5s → 0.35s

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Gameplay Improvements

• Base counts for Reroll / Bless / Ban increased: 2 → 3

• Base Identify charges increased: 1 → 2

• On run failure, the Thieving Goblin steals fewer items

• Earth Spike: Reduced flash/brightness on explosion; improved effect transparency

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