Patch Notes, October 31

Map Changes

• Maps now have a variable number of floors of increasing difficulty
• Each floor contains a boss, who will spawn portals to advance upon death
• Areas are significantly shorter and less branchy
• Maps end with a portal to a new Treasure Room area
• Maps now drop at a lower level than the current area, so reaching deeper floors is required to advance map tiers

Item Changes

• Locking Orbs can now be used again to change which modifier is locked
• Added Stygian Shards, which increase the tier of a map
• Added a powerful new maximum-rarity Unique Belt
• Blue Gems now have more possible modifiers, including an Increased Mana Cost Efficiency prefix and suffix

New Runes

• Magnetic Rune: Attract stackable items to you
• Rune of Guiding Hands: Attract stackable items and items with Favored Mods to you
• Protection Rune: Increased local Armor, Evasion, and Energy Shield
• Striking Rune: Increased local Physical Damage
• Avarice Rune: Increased Rarity of Items Found

Combat

• All hits now deal Knockback, which monsters gain resistance to over time
• Fixed a bug where the Energy Shield regeneration delay could be reduced to 0
• Removed the cap of 90% Physical Damage Reduction from Armor
• Bosses now deal increasing damage for every Enrage stack they have. Monsters gain one Enrage stack per 10 seconds while in combat

Other Changes

• Pressing B now creates an interactable portal instead of immediately returning to town
• Many other small bug fixes, performance improvements, and visual enhancements