March 08, 2024

Balance Patch Notes

Running List of Class Updates, Balance updates, and More

Read on to see what we've updated, what's been fixed, and stay up to date! 

03/08/24 - Balance Updates

Legion Paladin

We've read your responses to the Legion Paladin rework and we're making changes based on your feedback! One of the most brought up topics was in regards to how Souls and Spirits felt detached from each other, as they couldn't be used in unison very well. To address this, changes to the Soul Convertor skill have been made so that it now applies Spirits regardless of how many Souls you have, and only consumes up to 10 Souls at a time instead of all of them at once. Also by popular request, we've extended the duration of its Focus aura, but have adjusted the damage and cooldown of the skill to match other Focus applying skills. As a result of these changes, Legion Paladin became a lot stronger than initially intended, so some balance changes were made. Maximum damage output should be relatively the same as before, but some of the survivability aspects were adjusted. Read below for a list of detailed changes.

System:

• Soul Stack Limit: 30 > 20
• Souls no longer increase Crit Chance (see rank 10 passive).

Blasphemous Battleaxe:

• Defiled Crit Chance, Dodge, and Haste debuff: 20% > 30%
• Defiled outgoing damage debuff: 50% > 30%
• Defiled No longer reduces Hit Chance.

Soul Convertor:

• Mana Cost: 20 > 30
• Spirits will now always apply regardless of how many Souls you have, but will consume up to 10 Souls each time the skill is used.
• Spirits no longer heal over time.
• Spirits Mana Recovery: 20 Mana every 2 seconds > 5 Mana every 1 second

Incantation of Sin:

• Damage: 120% > 150%
• Cooldown: 12 seconds > 15 seconds
• Focus aura duration: 2 seconds > 4 seconds

Shadowblight: 

• Shadowblight aura duration: 10 seconds > 15 seconds

Heretic's Armor:

• Damage Resistance: 40% > 30%

Soul Infusion (previously Spirit Caller):

• Blasphemous Battleaxe applies Soul Infusion for 10 seconds, increasing your Crit Chance by 5% for each Soul you have at the time of application.

03/01/24 - Balance Updates

We've got a lot of changes in store for this week, which include updates to various classes, enhancements, quests, monsters, and a replacement for an existing scroll.

Classes

Legion Paladin

Please refer to this post for the full rundown

Enforcer/Protosartorium

Enforcer and Protosartorium were performing worse than the starter classes in almost all aspects, so they're receiving a set of changes aimed to improve their farming and soloing capabilities. Rustbucket's skills will remain unchanged.

Jackhammer:

• Range: Melee > Medium
• Max Targets: 1 > 2
• Mana Cost: 17 > 15
• Now applies Fracture, reducing your target's Dodge by 20% for 6 seconds.

Arc Lightning:

• Swapped skill order with Plasma Bolt.
• Range: Long > Infinite
• Damage: 60% > 120%
• Mana Cost: 21 > 20
• Cooldown: 10 seconds > 8 seconds

Plasma Bolt:

• Swapped skill order with Arc Lightning.
• Damage: 150% > 250%
• Cooldown: 8 seconds > 10 seconds
• Flash Bolt duration: 6 seconds > 8 seconds
• Now does increased damage if you're Supercharged (see Event Horizon), but consumes your charge.

Event Horizon:

• Mana Cost: 26 > 25
• Cooldown: 35 seconds > 20 seconds
• Event Horizon duration: 20 second > 12 seconds
• Now applies Supercharged, a 12 second HoT that increases the damage of Plasma Bolt.

Quick Like Lightning:

• Now also increases Hit Chance by 15%.

Legendary (Protosartorium Only):

• Strength, Intellect, Endurance, and Luck increased by 10%.

Chunin

Giving Chunin a few quality of life updates that should also improve its performance a tad.

Chi Blast:

• Damage: 760% > 380%
• Mana Cost: 40 > 30
• Cooldown: 25 > 12
• Stun duration: 4 > 2, now guaranteed to stun
• Can now crit (still can't miss).

Ninja's Prowess (previously Ninja's Gambit):

• Damage Resistance: -10% > +10%
• Now also increases Hit Chance by 10%.

Ancestor's Favor:

• Now has a 0.5% chance to activate each time Chi Strike hits a target.

Weapon Enhancements

Ravenous

While Ravenous provides a unique source of damage in the form of the Execute aura, it didn't see much use as on most classes, it was more efficient to run stat boosting weapon enhancements over it. Therefore, we've shifted some of Execute's power into utility that more classes should be able to make use of.

• Cooldown: 20 seconds > 10 seconds
• Damage: 0% > 75% Hybrid
• MP Cost: 0 > -15
• Execute bonus damage per 1% HP lost: 1% > 0.9%
• Execute now also increases Haste, Crit Chance, Dodge, and outgoing damage by 5%.
• Execute duration: 20 seconds > 10 seconds
• New aura, Ravenous:
• Reduces target's Haste, Crit Chance, Dodge, and outgoing damage by 5%.

Dauntless

We like the utility that Dauntless provides for several classes, but it is vastly outperforming other endgame enhancements. To reduce this gap, we're slightly reducing the enhancement's base damage, but it should still remain a viable endgame option that reflects the difficulty it takes to obtain. 

• Damage: 220% - 660% > 190% - 570%

Smite

Smite them even harder!

• Damage: 450% > 500%

Praxis

Increasing the duration of Spinning Dragon so it's a little easier to time.

• Spinning Dragon duration: 1 second > 2 seconds

Cape and Helmets Enhancements

Touching up some of the lesser used helmet and cape enhancements.

Absolution

• Outgoing damage penalty: -15% > 0%
• Outgoing physical damage penalty: 0% > -20%

Avarice

• Damage Resistance penalty: 50% > 35%
• Dodge penalty: -35% > 0%

Hearty

• Outgoing damage and Incoming Healing penalty: -15% > 0%

Consumables

Scroll of Talon Twisting Removal

Historically, Talon Twisting has been the catalyst of several unintended interactions with certain classes. However, when working as intended, Talon Twisting is a rather underpowered effect that doesn't provide much of a benefit. Due to these factors, we've made the decision to replace the Scroll of Talon Twisting with a new scroll, the Scroll of Bane. The Scroll of Bane applies certain effects to you or your target based on their tag. Any existing Scrolls of Talon Twisting that you have will be turned into Scrolls of Bane.

Scroll of Bane

Max Targets: 1
Cooldown: 20 seconds
Deals damage and applies an effect based on your target's tag:

• Human: DoT that negates all non lifesteal healing for 10 seconds.
• Undead: Scroll deals bonus damage and undead are Stunned for 3 seconds.
• Dragonkin: Reduces target's outgoing damage and Damage Resistance by 30% for 10 seconds.
• Elemental: Increases your outgoing damage and Damage Resistance by 40% for 10 seconds.
• Chaos: Increases your Crit Damage by 150% but reduces your Crit Chance by 30% for 10 seconds.

Monsters:

Ultra Exos

Fixing an unintended interaction with Ultra Exos' Touch of Chaos aura. The cooldown of the skill has also been reduced as it took quite a while to actually fire off.

• Chaos Charge Cooldown: 40 seconds > 15 seconds
• Touch of Chaos aura duration: 30 seconds > 10 seconds
• Touched By Chaos now increases outgoing physical and magical damage instead of all outgoing damage.

The First Speaker

Following up a bugfix with a reduction of the Magia Burn aura's duration, as The First Speaker now auto attacks one less time per rotation. 

• Magia Burn aura duration: 18 seconds > 16 seconds

Quests:

Crash Site

• The /crashsite quests have been rebalanced, with increased gold and XP rewards on each quest and adjusted turn in requirements
• The /crashsite quests are now on a quest chain, and must be completed in order (even for players who have previously completed the quests). 
• Adjusted the stats of the Mithril Man and Protosartorium mobs
• The Enforcer Class and Armor are now a reward from the "Protosartorium Parts" quest instead of as a drop from Mithril Man.
• Rustbucket is no longer a reward from the "Protosartorium Parts" quest. It's still obtainable on the map, but you'll have to find out where. 
• The reason for this change is that we wanted to keep Rustbucket a "joke class", but as Enforcer and Protosartorium have received changes that differentiate them from Rustbucket, it no longer made sense for Rustbucket to be the main reward for completing the Crash Site quests.

Forge Quests:

Forge Cape Enhancement

• The turn in requirements have been replaced with Prismatic Celestial Wings, Broken Wings, Shadow's Wings, and Wings Of Destruction.

Forge Helmet Enhancement

• The turn in requirements have been replaced with 1st Lord of Chaos Staff, Chaos Dragonlord Axe, Hanzamune Dragon Koi Blade, and Wrath of the Werepyre

Absolution

• Removed the Ascended Paladin Staff turn in requirement.

Avarice

• The number of required Indulgence and Penance have been reduced from 75 to 50.

Elysium

• The number of required Bones From the Void Realm have been reduced from 20 to 15.

 

2/2/24 - Class Updates

This week's class updates include changes to NOT A MOD, Dragonslayer General, and Chrono ShadowSlayer.

NOT A MOD

Please refer to this post for the full rundown

Dragonslayer General

While making updates to Dragonslayer last year, we knew that Dragonslayer General would also need a few changes to keep up! The updated Dragonslayer General now plays similarly to Dragonslayer, but with a LOT more punch!

System:

• No longer applies the Seared aura to Dragonkin

Searing Steel (previously Basilisk Strike):

• Damage: 160% > 120%
• Mana Cost: 10 > -5
• Cooldown: 3 seconds > 4 seconds
• No longer applies Sapped Mana
• Now applies Charred, reducing target's Damage Resistance by 15% for 15 seconds.If the target has General's Dragonbane, it's consumed to apply Seared Scales, reducing their Damage Resistance by 8% for 15 seconds, stacks to 5.

Inspired (previously Drake Tongue):

• Range changed to Melee
• Max targets: 6 > 1
• Damage: 100% > 180%
• Mana Cost: 25 > 0
• Cooldown: 20 seconds  > 15 seconds 
• Focus duration: 6 seconds  > 4 seconds 
• Slayer's Inspiration and Dragonslayer's Inspiration duration: 9 seconds > 15 seconds
• Slayers Inspiration and Dragonslayer's Inspiration no longer increase outgoing damage.
• Slayers Inspiration and Dragonslayer's Inspiration now each increase Damage Resistance by 20%. If the target has General's Dragonbane, it's consumed to apply Instilled Fear, reducing their Haste and Dodge by 25% for 20 seconds.

Piercing Wyvern's Eye:

• Range changed to Melee
• Damage: 150% > 140%
• Mana Cost: 15 > 0
• Cooldown: 5 seconds > 8 seconds
• If the target has General's Dragonbane, it's consumed to apply Piercing Eye, reducing their Hit Chance, Crit Chance, and Damage by 10% for 15 seconds, stacks to 5.

Dragon's Demise (previously Ancient Rites): 

• Target: Self > Enemy
• Damage: 0% > 300%
• Mana Cost: 35 > 50
• Cooldown: 25 seconds > 4 seconds
• Applies General's Dragonbane to Dragonkin targets, causing the next skill you use to apply an additional effect.
• Forgone Conclusion duration: 12 > 4
• No longer applies Talon Twisting
• No longer applies Hard Iron

Absolute Resolution:

• Now increases outgoing damage by 25%

Dragon Destroyer (previously Aggravated Assault):

• No longer increases outgoing damage
• Starting at rank 1, all skills except the Auto Attack now deal bonus damage to Dragonkin.
• At Rank 10, if your target is Dragonkin, Dragon's Demise applies Execute to yourself for 1 second, causing your skills to instantly kill Dragonkin below 10% of their max HP.

Chrono ShadowSlayer

These changes buff Chrono ShadowSlayer's baseline and smooth some parts of its playstyle. This also empowers non-Gunslinger mode by proportionally increasing the damage of FMJ Rounds. The class was originally balanced expecting players would get between 6 and 10 Chaos Rift stacks, with some higher, but ensuring the class was nearly as strong without using it. The cooldown change only aims to remove unintended behavior and shouldn't impact normal play at all, limiting shots during Gunslinger Stance to below 20.

Fire!:

• Damage: 105% > 115%
• Cooldown: 0.15 seconds > 0.2 seconds, this should not affect normal play, but does lower the maximum number of Gunslinger shots to around 20.
• Painted duration: 12 seconds > 16 seconds

FMJ Rounds:

• Damage: 147% > 170%

Silver Bullet:

• Now applies Blinded to the target, reducing Hit Chance by 50% for 1 second.

 

12/15/2023 - Class Updates

Glacial Warlord

• Now has a new, chilly set of icons!
• Frozen Heart will now crit if the Frozen Heart aura is active

Miscellaneous

• Battle Healer can now be used by all players
• Added a Battle Warrior class to the PvP merge shops. Battle Warrior uses Warrior's old skills and can only be used in PvP maps

12/08/2023 - Class Bug Fixes and Quality of Life Updates

Hello everyone, Immortal Joe here! This week's class updates are focused on improving the performance of early game classes with the intent of providing a better experience for new heroes. If you're a more seasoned adventurer, we have something for you as well! 

Glacial Warlord

Please refer to this post for the full rundown

Warrior/Warlord

Reduced mana costs, adjusted On Guard's cooldown and duration so it can be used more frequently, added a new effect to Decisive Strike, and shifted power from Decisive Strike onto Prepared Strike. The duration of Off Balance has been reduced by a second as we don't want to set an expectation for new heroes that stuns will always be that long without any drawbacks, but with the On Guard change, overall survivability should be greatly improved. 

Decisive Strike:

• Mana Cost: 15 > 5
• Damage: 190% > 130%
• Now applies Armor Shred, reduces the target's Damage Resistance by 10% for 5 seconds.

Inbalancing Strike:

• Mana Cost: 30 > 20
• Off Balance duration: 4 seconds > 3 seconds
• Damage: 60% > 240%

Prepared Strike:

• Mana Cost: 20 > 10
• Cooldown: 15 seconds > 12 seconds
• If Prepared Strike was applied while On Guard was active, the Prepared Strike Auto Attacks will deal double damage. 

On Guard:

• No longer deals damage and is now a self target skill
• Mana Cost: 30 > 15
• Cooldown: 30 seconds > 10 seconds
• On Guard duration: 10 seconds > 5 seconds

Aggression:

• Now also increases Hit Chance by 10%.

Rogue/Renegade 

We found Rogue to already be in a good spot, but some of its cooldowns were a lot longer than they needed to be, so we've made some adjustments that should make it feel better to play.

Footwork:

• Cooldown: 32 seconds > 16 seconds
• Footwork duration: 15 seconds > 7 seconds

Stiletto:

•  Cooldown: 60 > 20
• Concealed Blade duration: 20 > 7

Incisive:

• Added 10% Hit Chance

Mage/Sorcerer 

Increased overall damage output, reduced mana costs, and changed Explosion to consume Scorched so Frozen Blood can be more easily applied, but reduced the effectiveness of Frozen Blood as it was an incredibly powerful debuff for early stages of the game. Also adjusted Arcane Shield to be active more frequently.

Fireball:

• Damage: 225% > 120%, now deals damage based on Spell Power (damage overall increased)
• Damage increase from consuming Frozen Blood: 75% > 100%

Ice Shard:

• Mana Cost: 18 > 15
• No longer deals bonus damage to targets affected by Scorched
• Now deals damage based on Spell Power (damage overall increased)
• Frozen Blood Haste and Damage debuff: 50% > 20%

Explosion:

• Now applies Detonated to targets affected by Scorched, dealing damage after 1 second and consuming it.

Arcane Shield

• Mana Cost: 5 > 0
• Cooldown: 60 seconds > 20 seconds
• Arcane Shield duration: 20 seconds > 10 seconds

Hot Headed:

• Added 10% Hit Chance

Healer/Acolyte

Giving Healer a much needed bump in damage, though it won't do as much damage as the other starter classes because it's well... a healer... 

Heartbeat:

• Damage: 10% of current HP > 15% of current HP
• Mana Cost: 20 > 15

Holy (previously Clear Mind):

• Target: Self > Enemy
•  Damage: 0% > 350% (also deals bonus damage to undead)
• Cooldown: 20 seconds > 8 seconds
• No longer applies Clear Mind

Pure Hearted:

• Added 10% Hit Chance

Dragonslayer

Dragonslayer wasn't doing a good job at slaying dragons, so it has received a set of changes that should instill the fear back into them while also being more effective against other types of mobs.

System:

• Mana Model changed to Warrior
• Skills that were previously restricted to Dragonkin only can now be used against all monsters
• All skills now deal physical damage
• Swapped the order of skills 2 and 4

Scorched Steel:

• Damage: 210% > 100%
• Mana Cost: 24 > 5
• Cooldown: 6 seconds > 4 seconds
• Now applies Charred to targets, reducing Damage Resistance by 15% for 15 seconds.
• Now applies Cindered Scales to target's affected by Dragonbane, reducing Damage Resistance by an additional 15% for 15 seconds.

Impale:

• Changed icon
• Damage: 110% > 160%
• Mana Cost: 30 > 0
• Cooldown: 12 seconds > 10 seconds
• Impaled aura duration: 12 > 15
• No longer has a chance to stun targets
• Now applies Adrenaline Flow to the caster, a 15 second HoT
• Now applies Infected Wound to targets affected by Dragonbane, another, stronger DoT for 15 seconds. Now applies Adrenaline Surge to the caster if the target is affected by Infected Wound, increasing Haste and Crit Chance by 15% for 15 seconds.

Incapacitate (new skill):

• 200% damage
• Mana Cost: 0
• Cooldown:12
• Applies Incapacitated to targets affected by Dragonbane, reducing outgoing damage by 30% for 15 seconds, and stunning them for 3 seconds.

Dragon's Bane (new skill):

• Damage: 120%
• Mana Cost: 50
• Cooldown: 2
• Applies Dragonbane to Dragonkin targets, causing the next skill you use to apply an additional effect.

Aggression:

• Now also increases Hit Chance by 10%.

Veteran Slayer:

• Starting at rank 1, all skills except the Auto Attack now deal bonus damage to Dragonkin.

Miscellaneous

• Changed the cooldown of Love Caster's Love Torment to 5 seconds to match Elemental Dracomancer
• The amount of Dragonslayer Marshal Medals needed for the Dragonslayer Marshal (Red Dragon) quest has been reduced to 1

NOT A MOD and Legion Paladin Changes are in Development!

A couple of weeks ago, we announced that changes to NOT A MOD and Legion Paladin are in the works. These are still planned to happen, but as both classes are in need of overhauls, it will take some before they are ready to be released. Be sure to keep an eye on the AQW Class Team Twitter for updates as they get closer to release.

 

12/1/2023 - Class Bug Fixes and Quality of Life Updates

Classes

Abyssal Angel's Shadow: 

• Shadowed Flight is now Infinite Range (to match the original Abyssal Angel).

Arcane Dark Caster:

• Arcane Overwhelming no longer stuns, instead it now Silences and increases Dodge by 30%.

ArchPaladin:

• Updated Righteous Judgement's description to state the correct passive effects.

Blood Titan:

• Updated Blood Volume's description to state the correct Endurance increase amount.

Defender:

• Fixed a bug that prevented Infernal Shield from stacking.

Evolved Pumpkin Lord:

• Updated Pumpkin Splat's description to state the correct passive effects.

Immortal Dark Caster:

• Updated description on Forbidden Rite to state the correct stacking amounts.

Legion DoomKnight:

• Updated description of Touch of Doom to state the correct stacking amount.

Legion Revenant:

• Updated description of Depraved Empowerment to state that the Crit Damage buff only applies to the caster.

Lord of Order:

• Updated the description of Edited Timelines to be more accurate.
•  Updated Resilience's description to state the correct passive effect.

MechaJouster:

• Updated descriptions to be more accurate.

Northlands Monk: 

• Winter Wind now applies the correct defense debuff.
• Fixed a stacking bug on the Frostval Spirit aura, duration increased to 8 seconds.

Neo Metal Necro (and variants): 

• Removed the Unhinged Frenzy aura and moved the Haste buff to the Soundwave aura on Shocking Soundwave. 
• Reduced the cooldown of Enraging Pain to 3 seconds.

Oracle:

• Updated Edited Timeline's description for clarity.

Paladin Chronomancer:

• Updated Radiant Rift's description to state the correct duration of Radiant Light.

Rogue:

• Updated descriptions for clarity.

Scarlet Sorceress:

• Reduced the cooldown of Crimson Ritual to 2 seconds.

Troll Spellsmith:

•  Fixed a Crit Chance stacking bug on the Sigil aura.
•  Updated Weakness Sigil's description to state the correct Troll Resilience amounts.
•  Updated other skill descriptions for clarity.

Yami no Ronin:

• Updated descriptions to better reference the Revealed aura.

Quality of Life & Potions

• Added missing periods to various descriptions.

Basic Body Tonic:

• Updated description to state the correct Endurance increase amount.

Basic Crusader Elixir:

• Added missing effect, changed to +20% Heal Boost.

Crusader Elixir:

• Added missing effect, changed to +30% Heal Boost.

Unstable Crusader Elixir:

• Added missing effect, changed to +40% Heal Boost and -10% Dodge.

See any Class & Combat bugs we missed? If so, remember to report them to the Bug Tracker so we can add them to the list! Also, keep an eye out for buffs to Warrior, Dragonslayer, and something cool next week!

11/11/2023 - Grimskull Dungeon Updates

Grimskull was being a bit stingy on the rep rewards, but he's been "convinced" to be a bit more generous. 

• All quests that rewarded 500 rep now reward 750.
• All quests that rewarded 1,000 rep now reward 1,500

Additionally, a few adjustments to the challenge boss have been made:

• Slightly reduced base damage
• Fixed a bug that was preventing its auto attack from hitting multiple targets
• Reduced the stun duration on one of its skills
• Slightly increased the charge time of its final attack

10/10/2023 - The one that involves a DoomKnight

Verus DoomKnight

Reduced the stat buffs from the Unleashed Doom and Darkness auras, but drastically increased the base damage of all skills. Solo damage should be slightly higher than before and damage in parties should be significantly increased. Also made adjustments to the class's utility, reduced MP costs, and increased the duration of the Darkness auras.

Skill Changes:

Necrotic Blade

• Damage: 35% > 80%
• Weakened no longer reduces Crit Chance by 15%
• No longer applies Blinded 

Soul Fracture

• Damage: 40% > 85%
• Cataclysm Crit Chance: 50% > 20%
• Cataclysm duration: 15 seconds > 20 seconds

Life Carve:

• Damage: 50% > 95%
• Mana Cost: 8 > 5
• No longer applies Decay (see Unleash Doom)
• Now applies Lingering Darkness
• Lingering Darkness duration: 12 seconds > 6 seconds (damage per tick unchanged)
• Veil of Darkness duration: 15 seconds > 20 seconds

Doom Spikes:

• Damage: 45% > 90%
• Mana Cost: 10 > 5
• Added a new Unleashed Doom aura called Skewered, which reduces Haste and Dodge by 15% for 5 seconds
• Demise outgoing damage: 50% > 15%
• Demise duration: 15 seconds > 20 seconds

Unleash Doom

• Damage: 60% > 120%
• No longer applies Lingering Darkness (see Life Carve)
• Now applies Decay
• Decay duration: 1 second > 3 seconds
• Unleashed Doom outgoing damage: 100% > 25%

Inner Darkness

• Hit Chance and Haste: 15% > 20%

09/22/2023 - Higure Update + Class Changes

Higure Update

Based on your feedback, we have some some updates to the Higure weapon:

• Now does 40% more damage to monsters, damage range changed to static, and added a 30% Class, Rep, and EXP boost.
• Added an "Empowered Higure" weapon to the /ultrdarkon merge shop. Does 51% more damage to monsters and can be purchased for x1 Higure, x20 Darkon Insignia, and x20 King Drago Insignia. Higure will remain a seasonal weapon, but Empowered Higure can be merged all year round.

Great Thief

Class performance increased.

Quick Stabs

• Cooldown reduced (1.5s -> 0.8s)

Treasure Toss

• Cooldown Reduced (4s -> 3.5s)

Stealth

• Stealth duration increased (10s -> 15s)

Backstab

• Cooldown reduced (24s -> 15s)

Interstellar Knight 

Performance and niche applicability increased. Mana costs increased to compensate for increased mana generation from new Damage over Time effects.

Wane of Dusk

• Perpetual Rend damage increased and formula changed (100%x8 Hybrid -> 300%x6 Magical), and now ticks twice as fast
• Damage calculation changed to Magical

Strike of Dawn

• Damage increased and calculation changed (45% Hybrid -> 90% Magical)
• Temporal Shift now does damage over time, dealing 500%x6 Magical Damage, and ticking once per second

Daybreak

• Veil of Compressed Time defense increased (36% -> 40%), and now gives 40% DoT resistance, and duration increased (6s -> 8s)
• DayBreak Heal damage calculation changed to Magical, name changed to “Daybreak Radiance”
• Daybreak Stun removed
• New aura Twilight Shadows applies when Temporal Shift is not present, dealing 3600% Magic damage over 12 seconds, and ticking once per second
• Mana cost increased (8 -> 12)

Incinerating Era

• Incinerating Era duration increased (6s -> 10s), damage calculation changed to Magical
• Mana cost increased (14 -> 28)
• Temporal Rift/Shift consumed duration increased (1 -> 30) (This does not change the mechanic, it just prevents the “fades” message from cluttering up the UI)

Equinox

• Cooldown decreased (21s -> 3s)
• Subsequent Dusk no longer increases DoT resistance and Haste, instead lowers it (30% DoT Resistance -> -60%), decreases damage dealt (10%), and duration increased (12s -> 16s)
• Subsequent Dawn no longer increases enemy Haste, now lowers damage dealt (20%), and duration increased (12s -> 16s)
• Damage increased and calculation changed (115% Hybrid -> 175% Magical)
• Mana cost increased (14 -> 24)
• Can now crit but still cannot be avoided

Paradox

• Hit chance bonus increased (20% -> 75%), crit chance reduction decreased (-20% -> -15%)

Heroic Stoicism

• Endurance now increased by 75%

Empyrean Chronomancer

Rifts no longer require Deadlock proc states to apply. Instead, Deadlock states now offer a stat bonus for a short time. This makes the class simpler to play, less prone to mistakes, and small cooldown changes make it slightly faster as well, without significantly impacting its performance.

• Taking Eternity and The Fourth Dimension positions switched

Yami no Ronin

A small change to increase quality of life.

Jigen Kogeki

• Can no longer be avoided

 

08/26/2023 - Monster Changes

Monster Changes

God of the Depths is intended to be a more accessible challenge fight in comparison to others. After some observation, we've concluded that it's in a good spot difficulty wise, but it is taking certain parties quite a long time to clear it. Therefore, the resistances of the God of the Depths have been lowered, the debuffs are slightly less frequent, and the Sacrosanct Tendril's respawn time has been increased. 

God of the Depths:

• Damage resistance: 100% > 50%
• DoT resistance: 100% > 50%
• Peer cooldown: 8 seconds > 10 seconds
• Call of Kathool cooldown: 20 seconds > 25 seconds

Sacrosanct Tendril:

• Respawn time: 30 seconds > 40 seconds

08/25/2023

Monster and Item Changes

• Voice in the Sea's Oxidize aura healing reduction: 90% > 66%
• Vigil duration: 8 seconds > 6 seconds

The Vigil consumable is intended to be used on reaction, the high duration was a bit too lenient in regards to that. 

07/21/2023

Warlord Icewing Map

The Warlord Icewing boss at the end of /icestormarena has been moved to its own map. If you are at least level 75, /join icewing to take on the challenge!

Frost Spirit Map

• The Frost Spirit mobs have been moved to their own map. If you are at least level 75, /join icestormunder to take them on!
• The Frost Spirit mob's level has been increased to 255, and now gives 600 EXP and 150 Gold (before modifiers) when defeated.
• The number of Frost Spirit mobs in the room has been increased to 15.

Void Highlord

• Updated icons.

Lord of Order

• Updated icons.

Yami no Ronin

• Updated icons.

Dark Metal Necro (and variants)

• Updated icons.

Nu Metal Necro (and variants)

• Updated icons and added a new aura to speed up its guitar solos a tad.

Subsuming Scream

• Added a new aura called Unhinged Frenzy, which increases Haste by 10% for 8 seconds.

07/09/2023

Monster Updates

A few changes have been made to certain /ascendeclipse monsters, primarily to the Ascended Midnight and Ascended Solstice bosses.

• Adjusted the magic damage stat on the Fallen Star monster.

The Fallen Star's Solar Flare aura is intended to kill the player if a mechanic is failed, but it (still) wasn't doing so under certain circumstances.

• Increased the base damage of the Ascended Solstice boss.
• The Ascended Solstice now only uses its Daybreak skill at 80%, 50%, and 20% remaining HP. (previously, the skill was being used every 10% hp the boss lost).
• Increased the base damage of the Ascended Midnight boss.
• The Ascended Midnight boss now only uses its Nightfall skill at 80%, 50%, and 20% remaining HP. (previously, the skill was being used every 10% hp the boss lost).

The frequent activation of Nightfall and Daybreak auras proved to be quite frustrating, so the amount of times they activate throughout the fight have been reduced. The base damage of the two bosses has been increased to compensate for the change.

07/08/2023

Monster Updates

We are thrilled with all of your responses to the release of our Eclipse Ascent dungeons! A few changes have been made based on your feedback and the data we have collected:

• Increased the DoT multiplier on the Fallen Star monster.

The Fallen Star's Solar Flare aura is intended to kill the player if a mechanic is failed, but it wasn't doing so under certain circumstances.

• Reduced the amount of Dodge the Faithless Deer and Blessless Deer gain per each Lunar Prance stack from 15% to 5%.
• Increased the duration of the Ascended Solstice's Noon of Radiance aura from 12 seconds to 25 seconds.
• Increased the duration of the Ascended Midnight's Midnight of Silence aura from 12 seconds to 25 seconds.

Noon of Radiance and Midnight of Silence are only applied if a mechanic is failed. The effects of the two auras could often end up being largely ignored when certain party compositions were used.

Quest Updates

• The amount of Sliver of Moonlight rewarded from the Night Falls (Bonus Daily) quest has been increased to x3.
• The amount of Sliver of Sunlight rewarded from the Dawn Breaks (Bonus Daily) quest has been increased to x3.
• The amount of Ecliptic Offering rewarded from the Frozen Cycle (Bonus Daily) quest has been increased to x3.

06/09/2023

Frost SpiritReaver

Several changes have been made to make the class stronger and smoother to play. Notably, all damage is now magical and Synchronizing now affects your crit stats instead of magical damage.

Farming Method Updated

With the amount of difficulty it takes to obtain Frost SpiritReaver when compared to other winter themed classes such as Cryomancer and Glacial Berserker, it didn't make sense to keep Frost SpiritReaver's performance around the same level. Therefore, Frost SpiritReaver now requires a Frost Sigil (purchasable in Abel's /icedungeon shop if you have either version of Cryomancer) and Rank 10 Glacera rep in order to begin its quests. 

Miscellaneous: Third and Fourth skill order switched.

Mana Regeneration: No longer recovers extra MP in addition to the mana gained when using Spirit Ripper or Spirit Freeze

Spirit Ripper:

• Damage: 80% > 35%

Spirit Freeze:

• Damage: 100% > 50%
• Now deals Weapon Damage instead of Weapon DPS*
• Damage type: Physical > Magical
• Spirit Chill Hit Chance and Dodge debuff: 10% > 25%

Spirit Banishment:

• Damage: 150% > 75%
• Now deals Weapon Damage instead of Weapon DPS
• Damage type: Physical > Magical
• Skill can now crit
• Spirit Destruction and Spirit Devastation merged together
• Spirit Devastation defense debuff: 15% > 30%
• Spirit Devastation now also reduces enemy Hit Chance by 30%
• Spirit Devastation duration: 4 seconds > 6 seconds
• Spirit Devastation no longer requires Spirit Vanishing to be active in order to be applied
• No longer applies Spirit Vanishing

Spirit Charge:

• Damage type: Hybrid > Magical
• Fully Synchronized Spirit no longer increases Hit Chance or Magic Damage, now increases Crit Damage by 500% and reduces Crit Chance by 100%
• Spirit Vanishing defense buff: 30% > 50%
• Spirit Vanishing duration: 6 seconds > 20 seconds

Spirit Synchronization

• Cooldown: 20 seconds > 2 seconds
• Damage: 20% > 30%
• Range: Medium > Infinite
• Spirit Synchronizing now also increases Crit Chance by 75%.
• Renamed the Spirit Cooldown aura to Desynchronized
• No longer applies Spirit Shattering
• No longer applies Frozen Essence Gathering (Frozen Essence now applies if Spirit Synchronizing is active)

*Weapon Damage deals double the damage of Weapon DPS, while also using your equipped weapon's damage range.

06/02/2023

Nechronomancer/Necrotic Chronomancer

Added a long lost missing skill icon

Legion Revenant

Updated skill icons (and yes, Void Highlord will receive the same treatment in the near future)

Blood Titan

Blood Titan's skills have been reworked to make the class more engaging to play, while preserving some of the traits that originally made the class unique.

Blood Titan proved interesting to redesign as it is a tank based class that utilizes HP for its skill costs instead of MP. This is quite contradictory when you think about it. If the point of using a tank class is to mitigate the amount of damage you receive, but its skills effectively ignore your own defenses by taking away a big chunk of your HP, then how are you supposed to stay alive? Well, you give the class more healing, a lot more. Blood Titan is now a super tank. Its damage output isn't too significant, but it's now able to withstand some of the hardest hitting attacks out there, and can even convert some of the damage it receives into HP under certain circumstances. You will truly feel like a titan when using this class now!

Farming Method Changed

Blood Titan's farming method has been updated. Blood Titan Tokens no longer drop from the Blood Titan bosses, but are instead now rewarded from Shi Mar's reworked quests. The class cost has also been reduced to 200 Blood Titan Tokens. Additionally, Titan's Gilded Crusher now provides a 30% damage boost to all monsters, but it no longer drops from Ultra Blood Titan. Instead, it is now purchasable for 1,000 Blood Titan Tokens in Shi Mar's merge shop.

Stat Model: Tank Melee

Mana Regeneration: Blood Titans don't use mana. They instead channel their life force into their abilities.

Rank 1 Passive - Titan's Bloodline:

• Starting at rank 1, all skills can't miss and can't crit. Additionally, all skills (except Gilded Crusher) heal you for 20% of your max health (before modifiers) over 1 second. 

Gilded Crusher

Strike your target with the full might of your battleaxe. Damage dealt is based on your current health.

• Rank needed: 1 / Auto Attack
• Target: Enemy
• Max Targets: 1
• Type: Physical
• Range: Melee
• Cooldown: 3 seconds

Titanic Smash

Slam your battleaxe into the ground, knocking your target off balance. Deals damage and applies Crippling Smash, reducing your target's outgoing damage by 60% and Crit Chance by 30% for 8 seconds. Also has a 25% chance to stun your target for 1 second. Costs 20% of your max HP.

• Rank Needed: 1
• Target: Enemy
• Max Targets: 1
• Type: Physical
• Range: Melee
• HP Cost: 20% Max HP
• Cooldown: 4 seconds

Titan's Fury

Thrust your battleaxe forward, eviscerating your target. Deals damage and applies Titan's Fury, increasing your Haste by 20% for 15 seconds. Also applies Disemboweled, increasing your target's damage taken by 30% for 15 seconds. Costs 20% of your max HP.

• Rank Needed: 2
• Target: Enemy
• Max Targets: 1
• Type: Physical
• Range: Melee
• HP Cost: 20% Max HP
• Cooldown: 12 seconds

Titan's Curse

Challenge a worthy opponent so that your legend may spread! Deals damage and applies Focus for 4 seconds, which forces your target to attack only you for the duration. Also applies Titan's Curse, drastically increasing your target's Crit Chance but reducing their Crit Damage by 300% for 2 seconds. Costs 10% of your max HP.

• Rank Needed: 3
• Target: Enemy
• Max Targets: 1
• Type: Physical
• Range: Melee
• HP Cost: 10% Max HP
• Cooldown: 16 seconds

Blood Rage

Perform the ancient rite of the Blood Titans. Deals massive damage and applies Blood Rage, increasing your outgoing physical damage by 100% for 5 seconds, but reducing your Heal Power by 50%. Costs 30% of your max HP.

• Rank Needed: 5
• Target: Enemy
• Max Targets: 1
• Type: Physical
• Range: Melee
• HP Cost: 30% Max HP
• Cooldown: 20 seconds

Passives

Crimson Shield

• Rank Needed: 4
• Damage taken reduced by 80%.

Blood Volume:

• Rank Needed: 4
• Endurance increased by 400%, but your increased size reduces your Dodge by 50%.

Titan's Bloodline:

• Rank Needed: 1/10
• Starting at rank 1, all skills can't miss and can't crit. Additionally, all skills (except Gilded Crusher) heal you for 20% of your max health (before modifiers) over 1 second. At rank 10, Gilded Crusher applies Life Drinker, which heals you for 5% of your max HP (before modifiers) every 2 seconds.

 

05/19/2023

Blood Ancient

Blood Ancient has been completely reworked into a mid to late-game dodge class that utilizes the HP bar in order to strengthen itself.
The original version of Blood Ancient didn't fill any particular roles, nor did it feel like it was embodying the strength of multiple vampire warlords. Therefore, the Blood Ancient rework aims to bring a fresh take to dodge classes, while also giving it a more vampire-like feel.

Farming Method Changed

To reflect Blood Ancient's new power level, the latter half of the Blood Ancient farming quests have been updated and the quest line now has a level 50 requirement to begin it. The class now also only requires x1 Ancient Vitae to merge it instead of 25. Finally, like previous reworks, anyone who already has the class gets to keep it with its new skills!

Stat Model: Dodge Melee

Mana Regeneration: The Blood Ancient gains mana when they

• Strike an enemy in combat (more effective on crits)
• Dodge any attack (restores HP as well)

Seeing Red

Gouge your target with your claws. Deals increased damage the lower your HP is.

• Rank needed: 1 / Auto Attack
• Target: Enemy
• Max Targets: 1
• Type: Physical
• Range: Melee
• Cooldown: 2.5 seconds

Bloodshed

Your hunt for blood is insatiable. Deals damage and applies Bloodlust, increasing your Crit Damage by 10% for 10 seconds, stacks to 10. Costs 20% of your max HP.

• Rank Needed: 1
• Target: Enemy
• Max Targets: 1
• Type: physical
• Range: Melee
• Mana Cost: 0
• Cooldown: 4 seconds

Afterimage

Your enhanced speed makes you a blur to those around you. Applies Afterimage, increasing your Dodge by 15% for 6 seconds, stacks to 3. Costs 20% of your current HP.

• Rank Needed: 2
• Target: Self
• Max Targets: 1
• Type: True Damage
• Range: Melee
• Mana Cost: 0
• Cooldown: 2 seconds

Ischemia

Tap into your vampiric strength, temporarily empowering yourself. Applies Blood Boon, increasing your Crit Chance and Haste by 30% for 12 seconds. While empowered, all non lifesteal healing you receive is negated.

• Rank Needed: 3
• Target: Self
• Max Targets: 1
• Type: Status
• Range: Melee
• Mana Cost: 20
• Cooldown: 12 seconds

Exsanguination

Bite into your target, inflicting a devastating wound. Deals increased damage the lower your HP is and heals you for a portion of the damage dealt. Feasting on your target temporarily exposes you, reducing your Dodge by 100%. Also applies Blood Loss, reducing your target's Haste by 30% while inflicting a DoT that increases the lower your HP is. While your target suffers from Blood Loss, all non lifesteal healing they receive is negated. All effects last 1 second. Can't miss. 

• Rank Needed: 5
• Target: Enemy
• Max Targets: 1
• Type: Physical
• Range: Melee
• Mana Cost: 20
• Cooldown: 5 seconds

Passives

Enhanced Senses

• Rank Needed: 4
• Crit Chance and Dodge increased by 10%.

Superhuman Reflexes

• Rank Needed: 4
• Dexterity increased by 10%.

Wonderful Night

• Rank Needed: 10
• Crit Damage increased by 50%.

 

04/14/2023

(Exalted/Dark) Soul Cleaver | Exalted/Dark Harbinger

A set of changes to make the class stronger, more dynamic, and more flexible. Now is very receptive to builds, and is a late-game solo class with end-game uses. Blood Price will no longer kill you as well.

Legion Token cost 2000 -> 5000

Soul Rend

• Cooldown reduced (6.5s -> 6s)
• Can no longer be avoided
• Description updated

Soul Leech

• Damage reduced (100% -> 50%)
• Description updated

Soul Snare -> Soul Pact

• Cooldown reduced (20s -> 12s)
• Mana cost increased (25 -> 50)
• Now targets self
• Soul Snare no longer applies
• New aura Soul Pact reduces damage taken and incoming healing by 50% for 30 seconds
• Description updated

Blood Price

• Damage reduced (166.5% Hybrid -> 50% current health)
• Damage type changed (Hybrid -> True)
• Blood Price now also increases haste by 8%
• New aura For The Legion!! applies to you, increasing Critical Damage by 20% per stack for 10 seconds, doesn’t refresh
• Description updated

For the Legion

• Endurance boost increased (20% -> 50%)
• Description updated

Guardian

A small change to normalize health cost, so it won’t kill you.

Invoke Essence Orb -> Essence Orb

• Damage reduced (375% Hybrid -> 30% current health)

Psionic MindBreaker

A small change to increase usability and consistency.

Psion Drain

• Damage reduced (130% -> 70%)

Extrasensory Perception

• Now also increases Crit Chance by 15%

• Description updated

Evolved Pumpkin Lord

A few changes to make the class more dynamic, and stronger if used well.

Siphon

• Ready to Sprout duration increased (8s -> 30s), effect increased (-20% damage taken -> -30%), now also increases incoming healing by 25%
• Description updated

Explosive Pumpkins

• Damage increase (140% -> 200%)
• Health cost increased (10% -> 20%)
• Description updated

Miscellaneous

• Empowered Prismatic Manslayers damage range is now static

 

04/02/2023

Rustbucket

Ran outta oil.

Skills

• Outta oil

 

04/01/2023

Rustbucket

For far too long, Rustbuckets have been ignored. My compatriots, now is the time to rise up.

• Applied oil

 

03/24/2023

Miscellaneous

• Necromancer, Pinkomancer, and Grim Necro second and fifth skill switched
• StoneCrusher and Infinity Titan fourth skill defensive auras duration increased to 8 seconds

Bug Fixes

• Dragon of Time, Mindbreaker, and Psionic Mindbreaker’s healing mechanic fixed
• Several recently broken boss skills fixed
• Elysium damage on the Enhancement Traits page fixed. This was a typo, and there are no changes to the enhancement in-game.

 

03/17/2023

Chaos Avenger

Quick changes so it stacks a bit faster, has higher base damage (but doesn't stack quite as high), and to make the autoattack scale with Strength instead of Intelligence.

These changes together result in an overall increase in performance for the class.

Chaos Greatsword

• Now scales with STR instead of INT
• Damage coefficient lowered (320% -> 130%), but can do more damage than before because of the scaling change
• Chaos Fury now stacks faster but lower (6%x15 -> 15%x4)
• Description updated

Chaos Siphon

• Defense Chaorrupted now stacks faster (5%x8 -> 10%x4)
• Description updated

Flux

• Crit Chance Chaorrupted now guaranteed to activate (70% -> 100%)

Chaos Bulwark

• Chaotic Armor no longer needs to stack, and grants full effect immediately (30%x2 -> 60%), and has inherited the HoT from Chaotic Regeneration, which also no longer needs to stack (500%x4 -> 2000%)
• Chaotic Regeneration no longer applies (effect combined with Chaotic Armor)
• Description updated

Fury Unleashed

• Fury Unleashed no longer respects Ravaged stacks, and instead grants the full effect immediately (10%+5%x8 -> 50%)
• Description updated

Unending Rage

• No longer reduces INT by 99%
• Now increases Crit Chance by 10%

Miscellaneous

• Blood Titan’s Life Drinker, Scarlet Sorceress’ Blood Lust, and Blood Sorceress’ Red lust now do more damage and heal the lower your HP, but have a lower base heal. This was a mechanic fix, and not a targeted change for the classes.

 

03/10/2023

Darkside

The Darkside Class's skills have been updated to match the Dark Lord Class's skills. (Darkside will still summon the Hate Wolf battle pet though!)

 

02/10/2023

Paladin Chronomancer

Paladin Chronomancer has felt a bit underwhelming as a support class, so we're making a few changes to its skills to improve its support capabilities. 

• Heal no longer scales off of Temporal Rift stacks
• Holy Shield Physical and Magical Resistance: 25% > 33%
• Holy Shield now grants 10% Haste
• Holy Shield duration: 10 > 15

 

01/20/2023

Arachnomancer Changes

Significant reworks to better align the class’s damage types, desired stats, and give it a playstyle. Cooldowns were significantly reduced overall, making the class play much faster. Original niches have not significantly changed, but the class now functions as a strong mid-game high dodge solo class that can scale into early endgame. 

This class presented an interesting challenge in design- it was already strong (if underappreciated), and aligning its damage types and stat model would have made it far too powerful. A light redesign gave it a new way to play while still being usable the same way it was before, allowing it to now function with 100%+ dodge, and encouraging more interaction from the player.

• Now heals you when your foe has Venom Fangs
• Cooldown increased (1.5s -> 2s)
• Damage decreased (80% -> 60%)
• Description updated

• Cooldown increased (3s -> 6s)
• Damage type changed (Hybrid -> Physical)
• Mana cost decreased (12 -> 6)
• Venom Fangs no longer stacks, damage increased (140% Magical -> 225% Hybrid), duration reduced, which increases damage per tick proportionally (8s -> 4s), and reduces enemy dodge by 30%
• Now applies Arachnid Grace to the caster, increasing dodge by 70% for 1 second
• Animation updated
• Description updated

• Cooldown decreased (8s -> 6s)
• Damage decreased (100% Hybrid -> 100% Physical) (Physical damage calculation is a little lower than Hybrid calculation)
• Damage type changed (Hybrid -> Physical)
• Range increased (Short -> Long)
• Mana cost decreased (23 -> 6)
• No longer guaranteed to crit
• No longer applies Webless to the caster
• Web Miasma no longer requires Venom Fangs, damage now increases as your health decreases (325% Hybrid -> 250% - 2250% Physical), and reduces enemy dodge by 30%
• Now applies Arachnid Grace to the caster
• Animation updated
• Description updated

• Cooldown decreased (32s -> 6s)
• Mana cost decreased (36 -> 15)Now costs 10% HP per use
• Damage increase (0  -> 150% Physical)
• Damage type changed (Magical -> Physical)
• No longer stuns
• Animation and Spell Graphic updated
• Description updated

• Cooldown decreased (24s -> 6s)
• Mana cost decreased (27 -> 21)
• Now costs 20% HP per use
• Damage increased (150% Hybrid -> 220% Physical)
• Damage type changed (Magical -> Physical)
• No longer applies Poison Overload to the caster
• Animation and Spell Graphic updated
• Description updated

• Effect changed (+18% dodge -> +18% DoT out)
• Description updated

• Renamed
• Description updated

• Effect changed (+10% STR/INT -> +10% Haste)
• Description updated

Drakel Warlord Changes

Significant cooldown reductions and some damage increases to make the class play faster, smoother, and be more powerful. As well, a small taunt was added to the last skill, giving it some more niche utility. Starts as a tanky mid-game solo class, but scales into late-game.

• Legend version longer purchased in the Class Shop, instead now requires rank 10 Death Pit Arena, merged for 500x Death Pit Arena Medals and 100k gold in the Death Pit Arena Rep shop

01/13/2023

DarkBlood StormKing Changes

Updated to play smoother, be more fun, interactive, and engaging, and more powerful when obtained. 

This is a class that didn’t need that much of a buff to become balanced. We feel that classes like this often get overlooked because they haven’t been updated in a long time, but the case sometimes is that they are strong enough to not need changes urgently. Because of that, we primarily cleaned up its mechanics and gave it a few playstyle spins, and a few fun mechanics.

As we slowly reach the end of F2P classes to receive changes, more cases like this will occur.

 

01/06/2023

Legendary Starter Classes

Warlord, Acolyte, Sorcerer, Renegade, Witch, and Beast Warrior now have a rank 10 passive “Legendary,” increasing STR, INT, END, and LCK by 10%

12/17/2022

Item Changes

Everlasting Blade of Chaos, Dual Everlasting Blades of Chaos, and Titan Drakath's Blades have had their Damage to Chaos boosts increased to 60%.

The Chaorrupter Unlocked Non Member and Legend variants are now AC tagged.

12/02/2022

Item Changes

Chaorrupter Unlocked is a powerful option against Chaos monsters, but it could be easily obtained at a low level. These changes aim to increase the difficulty it takes to obtain the weapons while preserving their damage boosts. Additionally, both weapons will become 0 AC in the near future!

- Chaorrupter Unlocked (Free Player) moved to the Chaos War Merge shop in /chaoswar, now costs x250 Chaos Eye and x250 Chaos Tentacle
- Chaorrupter Unlocked (Member) moved to the Chaos War Merge shop in /chaoswar, now costs x100 Chaos Eye and x100 Chaos Tentacle

Burning Blade of Abezeth was causing some confusion as it could be obtained by players that were unable to equip it. To prevent any further confusion, the weapon has been moved to a shop and made more consistent to obtain.

- Burning Blade of Abezeth moved to the Celestial Champion Shop in /celestialarena, now costs x20 Champion Sash and x3 Gold Voucher 500k
- Champion Sash drop rate increased to 100%, stack limit increased to 20

 

11/25/2022

Boss Skill Changes

Kitsune Shapeshift (invulnerability) duration: 15 seconds > 4 seconds
(Ultra) Iadoa Temporal Prison (stun) duration: 20 seconds > 5 seconds
(Ultra) Iadoa Astral Shift duration: 180 seconds > 25 seconds
(Ultra) Xiang stun duration on self: 15 seconds > 5 seconds
(Ultra) Xiang player stun duration: 20 seconds > 8 seconds

 

11/3/2022

Nechronomancer / Necrotic Chronomancer

Nechronomancer’s farming performance fell behind other classes after the introduction of Forge Enhancements. These changes aim to make the class less frustrating to use while also bringing its farming capability back up to a more competitive level. Additionally, the class has received a set of changes that drastically improve its performance against single targets.

Mortification:

• Necrosis base damage per tick increased: 90% > 100%
• Necrosis tick speed doubled (DoT damage will be halved per tick, but will now tick twice as fast)
• Necrosis max stacks: 5 > 25
• No longer heals based on Necrosis stacks

Bleeding Time:

• Eternal Frenzy damage increase per stack: 6% > 12%
• Eternal Frenzy max stacks: 15 > 8
• Eternal Frenzy and Passage of Time duration: 4 seconds > 8 seconds
• Passage of Time self DoT damage decreased

Temporal Reanimation:

• Now deals more damage the lower your HP is
• Foreseeable Future no longer requires Passage of Time to be active in order to activate

ShadowScythe’s Past:

• Damage: 190% > 200%
• Cooldown: 10 > 20
• No longer guaranteed to hit, but can now crit
• No longer removes Necrosis stacks
• Unleashed Doom’s DoT now deals damage over 1 second, instead of damage after 3 seconds
• Unleashed Doom DoT damage increased
• Added a new aura called Unleashing Doom 
• Unleashing Doom lasts 1 second and prevents Chaos Rift from being applied while active

ShadowScythe’s Future:

• Cooldown: 3.5 seconds > 2.5 seconds
• Empress's Awakening Heal Power: 200% > 50%
• Empress's Awakening tick speed doubled
• Empress's Awakening no longer removes stacks of Eternal Frenzy or Passage of Time
• Removed the Brittle Bones and Slowed Reflexes auras
• Added a new aura called Debilitated 
• Debilitated reduces target Hit Chance, Dodge, and Crit Chance by 20% for 12 seconds
• Added a new aura called Flow of Time 
• Flow of Time removes the Passage of Time aura and increases HoT and DoT power by 20%  for 12 seconds

9/30/2022

• Exiting combat after combat is now slightly faster
• Dage the Dark Lord’s boss shield exponent changed from 0.85 to 0.8
• You can no longer enter PvP matches during combat from challenge boss rooms. 

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