Witchfire Update 0.8.2 is now live!

PATCH 0.8.2 (68206)

(2025.12.18)

Changes to weapons, spells and gear:

Fatum:

• Increased the cumulative bonus chance to land (3x Element) after each (2x Element) roll.

• Decreased the chance to trigger elemental status effects on each bullet from 25% to 15%.

• Increased the duration of (3x Electro) and (3x Fire) buffs from 7 seconds to 10 seconds.

• Fixed counting non-enemy targets (e.g. traps) as kills.

• Fixed incorrect M1 visuals.

Martyr:

• Fixed Martyr nails throwing all physics bodies with power over 9000.

Buckler:

• Buckler can now be lowered down faster.

• Successful parries now restore stamina.

• Parried melee attacks now deal more stun damage.

• Lowered block and parry charge costs for weaker attacks, while slightly increasing costs for stronger attacks.

Ice Sphere:

• Fixed Ice Sphere heavy spell failing to freeze enemies that teleported inside the bubble.

• Fixed Ice Sphere freezing enemies only temporarily (some enemies, such as bosses, may still resist being frozen).

Tweaks to Rosary beads: Requirements for several beads have been altered to provide more early-to-mid game build variety:

• Light Spell Charge Bead: Blood 20 -> 15

• Ammo Preservation Bead: Arsenal 20 -> 15

• Melee Recharge Bead: Flesh 20 -> 15

• Healing Bead: Mind 20 -> 15

• Sanity Bead: Mind 20 -> 15

• Stamina Bead: Blood 20 -> 15

• Spell Recharge Bead: Witchery 20 -> 15

• Blessed Aim Bead: Faith 25 -> 20

• Adrenaline Bead: Blood 25 -> 20

Tweaks to Incenses:

• AdjustedRestoration Incensehealth threshold increased from 30% to 40%. Healing speed increased by 150%. Added a 7-second delay between receiving damage and healing starting.
• AdjustedBloodthirst Incenseincreased trigger chance for weapons with larger magazines.
• AdjustedPatience Incenseincreased bonus healing from +30% to +100%. Increased healing duration from x4 to x8.
• AdjustedConjurer Incenseincreased healing on light spell from 5 to 8, and on heavy spell from 8 to 13.
• AdjustedResilience Incenseincreased damage resistance from -50% to -70%. Increased healing duration from x2 to x3.

Changes to world, events, traps and enemies:

World Corruption:

• Triggering a World Corruption Rift no longer spawns a Calamity.

• Island of the Damned: World Corruption builds up faster on Gnosis 3, 4 and 5.

• Torments now allow for faster and higher World Corruption buildup.

• Torment Alpha allows full World Corruption buildup without picking up the Latent Orb, and doubles the quantity of patrol spawns.

• World Corruption now progresses faster and further while a Torment is active.

• Torment Alpha now progresses World Corruption much faster and doubles the intensity of the Hunt.

• Picking up the Latent Orb now strongly reinforces the Hunt.

• Stone Golem critical spot should now be easier to hit while it is disassembled.

• World Corruption events now stagger in time instead of spawning all at once.

• Fixed a bug that caused World Corruption events to spawn in the Irongate Castle Vault and at the entrance to the Velmourne Vault.

• Raising World Corruption to the maximum level now affects the atmosphere and triggers its own music.

• Balanced World Corruption sound cue volume based on its current level.

• AdjustedDivine Essenceall sources not related to World Corruption are now worth much more. Costs in the Tower and Witch Mountain have been adjusted accordingly.

• Changed Madness Orb explosion range from 500 m to 40 m.

• Divine Essence can now drop from Cursed Chest events.

Torments:

• Swapped gold for Volatile Witchfire in the Torment reward pool. Increased rewards for repeating already completed Torments and Torment Alpha.

• Fixed target acquisition of the Torment effect "Killed enemies explode with three homing Decay bombs".

• Torment Alpha effects should now be correctly applied during expeditions to affected regions.

• Torment effects dealing damage only to distant or close targets now affect enemies only.

• Torment effect "Only Critical Hits inflict damage" now only affects damage dealt to enemies.

Freezing Crystal Trap (Totem of Clots):

• Lowered its HP so it can be destroyed with a default charged punch.

• Fixed a bug that caused an incorrect name to be displayed.

Warrior Priest:

• Fixed a bug causing Warrior Priest projectiles not to deal damage.

• Fixed a bug causing Warrior Priest projectiles to float endlessly in the air.

• Adjusted projectile tracking to make them easier to dodge, and slowed them down by an additional 16% to slightly lengthen the dodge window.

• Fixed a bug causing Warrior Priest melee projections to appear choppy in certain circumstances.

• Increased the shared cooldown on the Warrior Priest respawn ability.

Various enemy fixes:

• FixedWardenfixed a bug causing the entity to spawn Elite Ascended Elite enemies.
• RemovedGrenadierremoved self-damage from all area-of-effect attacks, also fixing cases where a summoned Rotten Fiend could damage the player.

Various world fixes:

• Fixed a Divine Chest position in Velmourne so it is no longer inside the Vault area.

• Fixed a chest position on the Scarlet Coast so it will no longer float.

• Fixed all inactive gates in Velmourne.

• A Codex Maleficum page could previously be found both on the Scarlet Coast and inside a Latent Orb. The Scarlet Coast version has been replaced with a different page that was previously a random Veiled Chest drop. As a result, some players may now find a second page on the Scarlet Coast.

Changes to SFX:

• Fixed a bug that made the rattling of the "Mirror Lock" event totems inaudible.

• Added a sound alert when the Gravedigger steals player remains.

• Objective Complete sound now triggers when fully charging a Latent Orb.

• Reworked some Surge-related audio notifications.

• Added new sounds that trigger when equipping melee weapons.

• Fixed small inconsistencies in Cricket's shooting sounds.

• Slightly lowered the loudness of Martyr nail base impact sounds.

• Fixed a remaining infinite sound loop after picking up a Surge.

Changes to UI:

• Replaced the old italics font with the new one in remaining UI elements.

• Fixed Torment descriptions in the Inventory using inconsistent text styles.

• Inventory item details now better support longer descriptions and lore, especially when text size is set to Large or Extra Large.

• Inventory item details now better support longer item names.

• Arcana details screen now better supports longer Arcana names.

• Melee weapons now display the number of kills in their inspect screens.

• Gnosis screen now displays a scroll indicator when text size is set to Large or Extra Large.

• Witch Portraits Collection now shows yellow diamonds indicating newly unlocked portraits.

• Fixed incorrect opacity of the Surge Display when activating a new Surge while the previous one was blinking.

• Removed the Latent Orbs counter from the HUD, as it is no longer necessary.

• Latent Orbs are now correctly assigned to Bound and Unbound categories in the Inventory.

• Added a map corruption animation when opening the map.

• Added a Latent Orb HUD objective.

Miscellaneous fixes:

• Fixed a bug preventing Arsenal from influencing some parameters of new weapons.

• Explosive Package: Exploding Head is no longer triggered by player movement.

• Fixed visual issues with player weapon projectiles in some scenarios (e.g. shooting Striga while looking down).

• Fixed the marker position on the Wishing Table.

• Patrols no longer drop Divine Essence before Gnosis 3.

• Fixed stun soul behavior for spiders.

• Optimized turrets.

• Mid-flight crossbow bolts no longer trigger danger indicators.

• Fixed Arcana power scaling with different Omen effects.

• Fixed Hypnosis zoom-in and zoom-out stutters after each shot.

• Fixed navigation issues affecting flying enemies and projectiles in areas with stacked navigation planes (e.g. Irongate Castle bridge and the river below).

• Increased repeatable rewards for Latent Orbs across the board.

• Fixed T-posing monk ghosts on the island after collecting the Scepter.