Disclaimer: this topic is a teaser and everything is subject to change. The full patch notes will be released 2 days prior to the new season.
Heroic Library of Fate evolution
A breath of fresh air for endgame levelling
- Added versions with area levels 133, 136, 139, and 140
- Allows characters to reach maximum level without venturing into the Dimensional Labyrinth
- Due to popular demand: level sizes have been greatly expanded. Added a new map variant and a new Elite enemy
- A brand new type of endgame quest awaits at the pinnacle of this progression, testing your character strength and your wit
Paragon of Fate
- A new category of skills has been added to the reward tab, granting bonuses for reaching character levels above 130
- The first of these will be Paragon of Fate, which allows players to specialize in running the Heroic Library of Fate
- Your grind will be rewarded with more than stats. The bonuses make the Library significantly more lucrative. Rewards include:
- Ability to create portals to the new higher levels of the Rift
- Increased drops of Heavenly Souls and Angelic items
- Ability to reroll Angelic bases with Heavenly Souls
- Exclusive drops: new Rare only Mystic Orbs and Mark of the Angiris chase item
- Invitations to the Trials of the Angiris pinnacle content
We've been busy in the kitchen...
The patch is packed with a huge amount of game improvements
Grit
- Gone are the days when Strength was the worst attribute, time in the gym will now pay off
- Strength will now grant all characters a new stat called "Grit", visible on the first page of the character sheet
- Grit grants a global damage reduction bonus, which is multiplicative with other defences
- Grit scales from total Strength and Character Level, in a similar manner to block
- The maximum mitigation amount is 25%, which will require 6000 Strength for a Level 150 character
- Melee devotion now doubles the damage mitigation gain from strength, but does not increase the cap
eXtreme Self Found
- A new gameplay mode for those who want to take the challenge of SSF to the next level
- In XSF, your character is completely isolated: no other characters, not even your own, can ever join your game
- This means absolutely no trading, no group play, and critically, no muling items between characters
Quality of Life
- Added autocomplete functionality for chat commands, player and account names
- Added copy/paste, cut and clear all functionality to the chat
- Mystic Orbs now display the amount of times they can be applied to an item
- Shrines and Vessels are now 1x1 items
- Enchanted runes and Greater Signets of Learning now have containers
- Dimensional Labyrinth charm upgrade progress will now be tracked on the charm
- And much more...
Sound system improvements
- Added more sounds effects to warn players during endgame quests, where appropriate
- Increased the sound priority for dangerous abilities of endgame bosses, these sound effects will no longer be obscured by others
- Parsed through the sound effects of every single class skill:
- Removed cases of sound effects overlap, improving performance on old PCs
- Balanced the volume to be more consistent, eliminating cases where a skill was too loud or too quiet
- Replaced the sound effects where the existing one was a poor fit for the ability
Build Improvements
Big changes in store for Paladins, Amazons, and oSkill fans
Templar Paladin
- Retaliate: will now consistently hit twice per target. Clear is now stronger and more consistent
- Divine Judgment: increased number of hits while duration remains unchanged. Now performs better against mobile enemies
- Can now pick one of the following paths:
- Consecration: now gives a passive WPD bonus and life leech, on top of the damage to Demons/Undead bonuses. Unable to deal fire damage
- Sanctity: new passive granting and IED bonus, life on striking, and flat Strength and Dexterity. Penalises weapon physical damage
- Lionheart: buffed Vitality bonus and added Deadly Strike scaling based on Strength
- Hand of God stat scaling increased, reworked outdated class specific items to better fit the build and added a brand new weapon
Spearzon
Hyena Strike has been reworked completely, enables a poison themed play style:
- Now places a damage over time debuff on the enemy attacked
- This debuff will spread aggressively to nearby targets for the duration of the skill
- Deals poison damage per second based on Skill Level, your total weapon poison damage
- Each fury charge increases the poison weapon damage contribution by 100%
- At 5+ charges, no longer spreads but duration is doubled
- Careful charge management will be essential to get the most out of this powerful ability
Medusa
Overhauled into a beastly single target ability which scales with minion stats
- Serpent heads no longer have next hit delay, greatly increased weapon damage modifier
- Number of heads scales with minion damage, increasing total damage up to 60%
- While attacking: -5 Attack Rating per Dexterity, +111 Attack Rating per 1% Summoned Minion Attack Rating
- Skill can only be used with scythes and spears, rolls on scythes and soulbinder gloves
Patriot Sentry
It wouldn't be a July 4th announcement without shouting out this rework!
- Removed next hit delay and greatly increased weapon damage modifier
- Converts 60% of your weapon damage to fire
- Gains bonus fire damage based on Skill Level and your combined Fire and Lightning pierce
- As a result, this trap is now an excellent clearing ability for dense areas
Many more balance changes and optimizations for other classes will be included in the full patch notes
And more!
- Rebalanced the Corruption system and made outcomes dependent on the base item. No more irrelevant "successes"
- Greatly improved the rewards of the Hellforge quest, it is now a must do
- New reward system for Heroic Dungeons
- Build enabling reworks to multiple Sacred uniques
- Rare items are now much more powerful early on and viable alternatives for levelling
- Buffs to non-jewel socketables to make them more distinct and competitive
- Changes to many sets, including some oSkill ones
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Thank you again for your continued support, it makes all of this possible and we wouldn't be here without you!
