New Shadow Skills (LASER), Massive Balance Changes (Mostly Buffs), Massive QoL!

🆕 NEW FEATURES

• Auto-Capture Crafting: New option in the Crafting Inventory to auto-capture crafting items.

• Inventory Improvements: Expanded the crafting inventory and significantly increased scrolling speed.

• Multiplayer Crusades: Non-host party members can now start Crusades.

• Toggle Skills Persist: Toggle-based skills will now persist and stay active between map transitions.

• The Gambler: You can now sell items directly to Cass the Gambler.

• Unstuck Command: Added a /unstuck chat command for players who find themselves lost.

• Dungeon QoL: Killing the dungeon boss in Town now spawns a portal back to the entrance.

• Bow Passives: All Bow-related passives now correctly read "Bow and Crossbow."

• Efficiency Stats: Added a new tooltip explainer for Efficiency stats.

⚔️ NEW SKILLS

Lash of Ancient Shadow's Eternal Reaping

• Requires a Staff or Focus equipped (Usable while Unarmed).

• Unleash the shadow's wrath with a beam of ancient darkness. Inflicts 1 random Curse per tick, deals 10% Combined Weapon Damage per Curse on the target per tick. Inflicts 5 ticks over 1 second.

• Costs: 100 Mana, 50 Stamina, 200 Shadow Offering.

• Cooldown: 4s.

Voidbolt Barrage (Channeling, Projectile)

• Requires a Crossbow equipped

• Channel to rapidly fire Voidbolts which deal 50% combined weapon damage and inflict 1 stack of Wicked Resonance.

• Costs: 20 Mana, 20 Stamina, and 15 Shadow Offering per Bolt.

Voidbolt Maelstrom (Channeling, Projectile, Area Effect)

• Requires a Crossbow equipped

• Channel to rapidly fire Voidbolts which deal 65% combined weapon damage and inflict 1 stack of Wicked Resonance at all enemies within range. Volleys twice per second (affected by Attack Speed).

• Costs: 70 Mana/Stamina and 50 Shadow Offering per second.

Shadow Clip (Crossbow Skill)

• Load a clip of 5 bolts imbued with Shadow. Targets hit grant 10 Shadow Offering per second for 3 seconds.

• Costs: 175 Mana, 75 Stamina.

⚖️ SKILL BALANCE & CHANGES

General Changes

• Witchfire Arrow: Added Shadow Tag. Now generates 10 Shadow Offering per hit. Charge speed increased by 20%.

• Rooting Arrow: Added Primal Tag. Now costs 25 Primal Charge.

• Radiant Stance: Now has a 50% chance on hit to generate 1 Divine Fury.

• Heavy Attack: Ki Blast size increased.

• Renames

• Divine Blast is now Litany Against Shadow’s Errant Reign (and now breaks destructibles). Lightbringer's Angelic Sealing Exalted Ray is now Pillar of Sealing Sun.

Buffs & Adjustments

• Witchfire Arrow: Mana/Stamina Cost 125 ➔ 100 | Ignite Damage 35% ➔ 40% | Duration 6s ➔ 5s.

• Bladecrest: Damage 25% ➔ 50% | Mana Cost 30 ➔ 25.

• Consecration: Damage 30% ➔ 60% | Mana Cost 100 ➔ 75.

• Void Rain: Mana Cost 100 ➔ 125 | Shadow Offering Cost 50 ➔ 25 | Damage 40% ➔ 100%.

• Bat Swarm: Damage 45% ➔ 100%.

• Thunderbolt: Damage 80% ➔ 120%.

• Shadow Grasp: Damage 60% ➔ 160% | Mana Cost 140 ➔ 100 | Shadow Offering Cost 100 ➔ 50 | Cooldown 9s ➔ 7s.

• Poison Nova Arrow: Poison Stacks 8 ➔ 12.

• Earthquake: Stamina 175 ➔ 120 | Now inflicts On Hit effects with each tick.

• Spectral Claw: Damage 110% ➔ 150% | Primal Charge per target hit 5 ➔ 20 | Now deals damage as a Melee Hit.

• Blizzard: Mana 225 ➔ 200 | Initial & DoT Damage 50% ➔ 100%.

• Twister: Damage 60% ➔ 100% | Primal Charge gained on cast 5 ➔ 10 | Primal Charge gained per hit 2 ➔ 5.

• Necrosis: Mana Cost 150 ➔ 100 | Damage 65% ➔ 30% | Shadow Offering Generated per Second 20 ➔ 16 | Duration 6s ➔ 5s.

Nerfs

• Serrated Dagger: Damage 85% ➔ 75% | Mana Cost 25 ➔ 35 | Stamina Cost 50 ➔ 60.

• Hammer of Conviction: Damage 250% ➔ 175% | Stamina Cost 0 ➔ 50.

• Voltaic Thrust: Damage 175% ➔ 125%.

• Backstab: Damage from behind 1200% ➔ 750% | Stamina Cost 150 ➔ 165.

🛠️ GENERAL BALANCE

• Wythmere Boss: Adjusted to be more active and aggressive during the encounter.

• Crusade Goblins: Now take longer to force spawns and have a visual beam indicating their position while channeling.

• Godcaller Talent: Damage increased from 70% ➔ 100%.

✨ IMPROVEMENTS

• Curse Logic: When applying random Curses, the system will now prioritize reapplying Curses that are closest to expiring.

• Pinging: Pinging the same location or target a second time now removes the ping.

• Chat Linking: Ctrl + Right Clicking equipped items will now link them in chat instead of unequipping them.

• Training Dummies: Clients in multiplayer sessions can now reset the training dummies at the reset stone.

🐛 BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue where Staff and Crossbow walking animations did not trigger footstep sounds.

• Fixed Meditation color not replicating correctly in multiplayer.

• Fixed inaccurate training dummy DPS readouts for clients.

• Fixed the item description for Fool's Gambles.