Hello everyone! Gronkins here with patch 0.0.10 for the demo of Legends of Azamar! This patch includes the new Rogue class, new gender options, and various balance changes and bug fixes. So, with that out of the way, let’s get into the patch notes!
New Character Class: Rogue
When creating a new character, you’ll now be able to select the Rogue class. The Rogue is a dexterity-based melee fighter, focusing on fast attacks and avoiding hits. The Rogue has unique Core, Empower and Defensive Abilities which you can select from. Additionally, the Rogue has access to the following armour types:
Dexterity
Strength/Dexterity
Dexterity/Intelligence
Additionally, the Rogue has access to Swords, Daggers and Shields.
Items
Daggers are a new weapon type exclusive to the Rogue. Daggers have an implicit chance to deal a Critical Strike, and have lower damage but faster attack speed.
Dexterity/Intelligence equipment is a new type of equipment that can drop for Rogues. Dexterity/Intelligence equipment can roll both Evasion and Energy Shield modifiers.
As part of some itemisation changes, helmets can no longer drop at level 11.
Character Customisation
New gender options have been added to character creation.
Balance Changes
The Evasion formula has been adjusted so Evasion is more impactful.
To compensate, Enemy Evasion growth has been reduced by 30%.
Maximum Cooldown Recovery Rate: 35% -> 25%
Passive Changes
The Serpent
Twin Fangs: Has been renamed to Envenom. Envenom no longer grants increased Critical Strike Rating. Envenom now grants: Convert 10% of Physical Damage to Nature Damage.
Blooming Wake: Physical to Nature Conversion: 50% -> 25%
Deadly Precision: Increased Critical Strike Rating: 4% -> 5%
The Eagle
Expose Weakness: No longer grants increased Critical Strike Rating. Expose Weakness now grants: +1% to Critical Strike Chance.
Harrier: No longer grants increased Accuracy Rating. Harrier now grants: 2% increased Critical Strike Rating.
Keen Eye: Increased Accuracy Rating: 4% -> 6%
Status Effects
To prevent double-dipping, damaging status effects (such as Bleed or Shock) can no longer Critically Strike.
Chill
Chill effect is now based on Cold Damage dealt by a hit, instead of being a static 20% effect. Chill effect, by default, is now equal to 50% of Freeze Build Up inflicted by the hit. For example, if a hit inflicted 30% Freeze Build Up, and if that hit were to also Chill, it would inflict a 15% Chill.
To compensate for these changes, enemies now have an implicit 750% increased Chill Effect. Note: this should still be significantly weaker than the old static 20% Chill effect.
Bosses now have 50% less Maximum Freeze Threshold to make Freezing them significantly easier.
Bosses now implicitly have 500% increased Chill Effect on Them, meaning that, Chills inflicted against Bosses are 500% stronger.
Shock
Shock damage is now based on 35% of the total Lightning Damage dealt from hits instead of being based on your Lightning Damage stat, meaning that a Shock inflicted by a Critical Strike will deal more base damage. Shock damage is now displayed on the Character Sheet.
Local Enemy Modifiers
Ice Touched: Chance to Chill: 5% -> 25%
Lightning Touched: Chance to Shock: 5% -> 25%
Dungeon
Shrines can now spawn in dungeons again.
Miscellaneous Changes
The visuals of the minimap have been simplified. The new visuals are clearer and should improve performance for some users.
Hit feedback has been improved. Basic Attacks have more screen shake, and Basic Attacks have had various audio adjustments.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug that caused Glyph modifiers to not apply properly when loading a character.
Fixed a bug where Damage over Time values weren’t being calculated correctly when some damage was converted.
Fixed various UI bugs.
Known Issues
Ranged enemies aren’t chasing the player while in range.
Closing Words
So that is everything for patch 0.0.10 for Legends of Azamar! For larger patches like this, you can probably expect them to take at least a month (sometimes even a lot longer). But with that said, if you play the new Rogue class and have any thoughts or feedback, please let me know!
Have fun!