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Rune KnightsNewsMajor Update: In-Game Invites, Ping System, New Super, + New Divine Blast Skill!
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Major Update: In-Game Invites, Ping System, New Super, + New Divine Blast Skill!

Rune Knights · published 27 Dec 2025, 06:00 UTC · build 21322401

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NEW

• In-game party invite system! You'll no longer need to rely on the Steam Overlay to handle invites and partying up. A new in-game friends list has been added to the main menu, and on receiving an invite you'll get an in-game notification that will connect you to your party. This should be the end of multiplayer weirdness.
• Ping System! Pinging enemies will aggro your companions and minions to the target. Middle Mouse Button and Left Thumbstick Button by default, this shares default inputs with the Radial Menu, which now requires a 0.4s hold to toggle. New binding added to Input settings.
• If Chain Lightning effects cannot find an enemy in range of the next chain, it can now chain to the caster, and then to any target (even ones that have already been affected by the current chain)
• Campaign bosses now grant small amounts of Gamba
• Explainers on certain talents like Aetherflow
• You can now link any item (including shop items!) in chat with Ctrl+Right Click

SKILLS

NEW SKILL: Divine Blast


• Requirement: Only Usable While Unarmed
• Tags: Divine
• Unleash the heavens' wrath with a celestial beam of divine retribution, dealing 200% Damage over 1 second.
• Mana Cost: 125 | Stamina Cost: 50 | Divine Fury Cost: 3
• Cooldown: 4s
• Dev Note: Kamehameha

• Radiant Stance and Thunderstrike Stance now proc Ki Blasts and Wrath of Ehtiras waves
• Forge Concussive Spidermine: Increased Resilience Damage by 100%
Dev note: This brings it in line with other Heavy Resilience Damage skills
• Divine Immolation: Damage per Second: 100% -> 50% combined weapon damage
• Thunderstep renamed to Stormblink
Dev note: This is because I got annoyed at searching "blink" and not seeing this one.
• Super - Wrath of Ehtiras: Massively increased range.
• Blast Mode on Crossbows now breaks Destructibles

ITEMS

• Shatterwall now procs after 5 -> 3 blocks/parries
• Might of the Divine Mini-Rework: Melee Hits that inflict Hitstun spawn a Divine Hammer which deals 50% of normal damage. -> Inflicting Hitstun spawns a Divine Hammer which deals 50% of normal damage and no Resilience damage.
Dev Note: Now any hitstun will proc this, including things like Bear Form's slam and Forge Concussive Spidermine. The no Resilience damage bit is just to keep the hammers from becoming a self-sustaining loop of infinite hammers.

TALENTS

NEW ASTAROTH SUPER: Construct Iron Legion


• Tags: Minion, Forgeborne
• Requirement: Requires a Mace equipped
• Construct an Iron Legion of elemental mechs to fight for you for 10 seconds. Spawns 5 Mechs of either Lightning, Fire, or Ice elements.

• Arcane Barrier: For every (100 -> 50) Mana spent, increase your damage resistance to the next hit by 10%, up to a max of 50%.
Dev note: Builds up twice as fast now, same cap.

CHANGED

• Penance: Now Shift+Right Click to use 5 at a time instead of Ctrl+Right Click

FIXED

• Fixed items being able to be placed inside of NPCs and becoming unobtainable
• Fixed some passive talents not showing their totals underneath
• Fixed players getting locked in fog doors in multiplayer
• Fixed broken VFX on Dawnray
• Fixed Chain Lightning effects not arcing to nearby enemies if they hit the environment
• Fixed not being able to view skill tooltips and interact with your skill bar when inventory was open
• Fixed a bug with skills occasionally duplicating and becoming unusable

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