Blacksmith Expanded! Gear Upgrades & New Uniques | v0.5.1 is LIVE!

Hey Adventurers!

Thank you for your continuous feedback on equipment crafting and combat. In this update, we are thrilled to bring the Blacksmith expansion to the game. Players can now utilize three new types of enhancement stones to upgrade equipment Quality, Rarity, and Level, ensuring a more optimized crafting experience.

Furthermore, we have introduced two new Unique affixes (percentage-based Lifesteal and Overheal-to-Shield), reworked the cooldown system for faster base casting rates, and substantially buffed the endgame scaling of Life on Hit.

Let's dive right into the patch notes!

Patch Notes

⚒️ The Blacksmith Expansion

The Blacksmith's forge just got a massive upgrade. You can now loot three brand-new enhancement stones during your adventures to completely max out your core equipment:

• Rarity Stones:

  • Rarity Upgrade: Spend Rarity Stones at the Blacksmith to bump up an equipment's rarity. You can turn great low-rarity drops into absolute god-tier items, and even upgrade Ancient equipment all the way to Unique!

  • Transfer Cost Change: Heads up! When using the "Unique Affix Transfer" feature to move a Unique affix onto an Ancient item, it will now cost 1 Rarity Stone as an additional material.

• Quality Stones:

  • Spend these to directly upgrade your equipment's Quality tier, further boosting its base stats.

• Level Stones:

  • Got an amazing piece of equipment early on? Spend a Level Stone to instantly scale it up to match your highest cleared Adventure Level! This completely removes the pain of having to re-farm your favorite drops for the endgame.

⚔️ New Uniques, Skills & Balance Tweaks

• New Lifesteal Unique: Added equipment featuring the new affix: "Heal for 6% of damage dealt on hit."

• New Overheal Unique: Added equipment featuring the new affix: "20% of Overheal is converted to Shield."

• Life on Hit Buff: Drastically increased the numerical scaling curve for the "Life on Hit" affix, ensuring you have the sustain you need to survive the deep endgame.

• Cooldown Rework: Removed the hard minimum limit on skill cooldowns. All cooldown-based skills now have a significantly higher base cast frequency, even with 0% Cooldown Reduction!

• Skill Buff - Sky Sword: Increased the number of swords dropped from 2 to 3, buffed damage from 100% to 220% per sword, and optimized the skill's visual performance.

• Skill Buff - Cast Spike on Damage Taken: Damage scaling massively buffed from 200% to 300%.

💼 UI & Quality of Life (QoL)

• uick Clear: Added a "Sell all equipment in Warehouse" button to the Equipment UI so you can empty your bags in one click.

• Reforge UI: The Reforge menu now properly displays Unique affixes.

• Stocking Anti-Misclick: Dragging equipment around in your Stash will now automatically pause the auto-stocking feature to prevent you from accidentally selling an item you are holding.

• Clearer Vitals: Exact numerical values for HP and Shield are now visibly displayed directly over the health orb on the main UI.

• Arena Tweak: To keep the challenge balanced, the selectable difficulty range in the Arena is now restricted to within ±100 levels of your highest cleared Adventure Level.

• Audio Tweaks: Boss encounters will no longer interrupt or restart the background music. I also slightly bumped up the BGM volume during combat.

• Rolling Gold: Added a smooth scrolling number animation when your total Gold goes up or down.

That’s a wrap for v0.5.1! Hop into Loot Tycoon and start grinding out those new enhancement stones. As always, if you run into any weird bugs or have thoughts on the new balance changes, definitely drop your feedback in the community hub.

May your shop be crowded and your drops be Unique!

Catch you in the shop,

Parallel Portal