COMBAT CHANGES

GENERAL

• Weaken status effects can now reduce the effects of acid damage.

• Fixed an issue where the Runeglass of Sighted Carnelian Gems caused taunts to not trigger when slotted into Weapons.

• Fixed an issue that made some attack chains cause client/server desyncs.

• Reduced self healing by 10% and consumable healing by 20% while in PvP game modes.

• Increased dodge distance for Medium and Heavy equip loads.

• Updated Medium dodge animations to better maintain speed throughout the animation and improved transition to sprint out of dodge for all equip loads.

• Reduced Medium hit sprint delay to 0.75s from 1s and Light hit sprint delay to 1s from 1.5s.

• Set limiters for a variety of lifesteals across various weapons and perks to either have a 0.1s cooldown if lifesteal is associated with all attacks or the attack is more of a single target focused attack, or a 3 target limit if the attack is more of an AOE or designed to be a cleaving style ability.

ATTRIBUTE BONUSES

• Updated the 250 STR attribute bonus to apply to the entire basic melee attack and not just on start up.

• Added 2 new Attribute Bonus nodes at 25 and 350.

  • Also updated the functionality of and moved around several existing nodes

• Updated the DEX 300 attribute bonus to no longer be dodge stamina reduction. It will now cleanse CC status effects on weapon swap with a 15s cooldown.

• Increased HP gain from levelling slightly, and increased the amount of HP gained from CON slightly. Done to account for the gear score and level increase

DAMAGE CHANGES

• Increased ranged and magic weapons base damage globally, but reduced their base damage back down again in PvP fights. This change was made to increase the effectiveness of these weapons in PvE without disrupting PvP balance.

  • Flyout present in game modes menu and the bottom of weapon mastery tooltips shows balance changes tuned separately for PvP and PvE.

    • Musket - Increased base damage from 78 to 83 in PvE, then reduced it by 12% in PvP (Down to 73)

    • Bow - Increased base damage from 67 to 72 in PvE, then reduced it by 14% in PvP (Down to 62)

    • Blunderbuss - Increased base damage from 78 to 80 in PvE, then reduced it by 9% in PvP (Down to 73)

    • Reduced self healing power in PvP game modes by 10%

    • Reduced consumable healing power in PvP game modes by 20%

• Added inherent crit damage reduction to players based on equip load (Light -15%, Medium -20%, Heavy -25%). This change was made to account for the removal of the Resilient perk.

• Slightly increased the diminishing returns on the damage bonus modifiers from attributes from 351 to 500.

• When doing damage to a target, the abilities equipped by that specific weapon will now be used to apply additional on hit status effects instead of the abilities equipped by the currently active weapon, which can differ.

• Added Acid damage/resistance to various existing status effects, gems, and other effects to allow it to function similarly to any other damage type.