Ascension
We’ve removed Gilding and replaced it with Ascending. Forced skill tree resets no longer exist and you can choose when to reset your skill tree. However, unlike with gilding, most of the stats you previously unlocked in the Skill tree will be kept and unlocking them again will give an additional bonus.
Transcendence
Transcension is an additional reset mechanic that allows you to earn hero souls that you can use to unlock special perks that augment existing skills or increase the value that nodes in the skill tree provide whether it’s individual nodes or an entire set of nodes for a specific stat.
Wizard
Skill tree changes
Due to the removal of Gilding and the introduction of Ascension we’ve had to re-balance all of the nodes on the Wizard. In doing so we’ve made it so that skill tree nodes of the same type no longer increase in value as you get further out in the tree. This was done to prevent the feeling that you need to stay in an ascension for as long as possible to get the most value out of skill tree purchases.
Haste and Flash changes on the Wizard
As some of you may know, there were some issues with haste and the way the Runecorder worked before. We’ve decided to remove haste from items on the Wizard and have changed the functionality of the Flash trait. Instead of Flash increasing the cast speed of skills we’ve now made it so that Flash gives a chance to cast the spell again instantaneously which will also have a chance to burn, chain, shatter, explode, etc.
To compensate for the haste and flash removal, we’ve also reduced the cast time of all spells.
Runecorder changes
The Runecorder has been significantly improved and instead of needing to get all your spells into one Runecording we’ve added the ability to chain multiple Runecordings together. By default, it will now perform each action once and work its way down the playlist, but we’ve also added the ability to selectively repeat each recording as many times as you’d like. However, there is a cap of 20 Runecordings per playlist and you’ll still need to make some longer recordings if you want to have a more complex playlist.
Item purchasing
Unlocking the Runecorder now grants a spell that can be used to purchase items.
Skill tree Randomization
Similar to World Traits, we felt that with Ascension skill tree randomization no longer made sense on the Wizard and we have decided to remove it.
Cid
- Cid’s skills and stats now scale linearly instead of exponentially.
- Clickstorm and the clickstorm variants no longer increase their speed over time.
- All “hastened” nodes have been removed and replaced with Auto Attack Damage nodes.
- World traits have been removed.
- Discharge now deals damage based on the amount of energy spent and your auto attack damage.
- Added Managize = 0 stone.
- Added Multiclick = 0 stone.
- Fixed a bug where the Ruby shop gems could crash the game.
- Added a search option to the Automator panel for Gems and Stones.
New Automator Tree
Cid’s Automator Tree has been redesigned to have more distinct paths and to make getting the upgrades you want easier.
Cid Pre-order skin
For those of you that pre-ordered the game through our website before July 16th, 2018 we promised there would eventually be a unique skin for you to unlock, which you can do so by going into the Miscellaneous tab and then clicking on “Skins”.
If you forgot your Clicker Heroes 2 pre-order key you can request it here:
https://www.clickerheroes2.com/codes.php
General
New Star System UI
The world select panel has been drastically reworked to display the total number of worlds in a Star System and to show your progression through it.
Astral World
Along with the new Star System UI and the introduction of Ascension, we’ve decided to add a new world that only shows up for the last world of every Star System. The Astral world is at the center of every system and contains a variety of unique monsters and a special world boss.
Without spoiling too much, here are just a few of the monsters you will encounter.
Achievements
Achievements have been implemented and can be accessed through the Miscellaneous tab and will be added to Steam in the next several weeks.
Additional features and bug fixes
- Offline progress now provides additional statistics on what you gained and how well your character progressed.
- New stats panel layout.
- Game errors now give you the option to recover from a backup.
- Added a toggle button to the skill tree for the node purchase confirmation popup.