• Joldurbraan boss fight should now be completable in all cases. The fight is back to sequenced/gated mechanic with ice walls separating each enemy as originally designed and fix issues with collision/navigation to correct enemy movement.
  
• Added an "Input Queue enabled/disabled" option has been added to the Game section of Settings, allowing players to select and use the previous input handling mechanics.
  
• Corrected false positive cases when saving Settings.
  
• Optimization to the iteration and searches of items in inventory
  
• Reduce hitching and total time dungeon floors take to load by adding cache-friendly lookups to spawn selection.
  
• Optimization for Shadow casting lights by disabling shadows when Shadow quality is lower than 3 (High)
  
• Disabled distance field lighting for small objects that will not contribute to this lighting, reducing the GPU cost on lower performing devices.
  

Combat improvements to make ability selection and melee combat much more responsive and fluid.

• Input | Handle input buffer overflow and loss due to ability failures, allowing for both hold-to-click or rapid-press play styles
  
• Combat | Modified hit detection to improve the flow of melee combat
  
  Camera Improvements – The player camera has a number of improvements to fix popping and smooth out transitions to make for a better overall experience.
  
• Camera | Adjusted offset of camera collision to prevent camera push back due to running into things in front of player
  
• Camera | Prevent enemy weapons from causing player camera pushback
  
• Camera | Remove camera affecting collision from some projectiles that cause camera pushback
  
• Camera | Add option to slightly increase or decrease the size of the camera collision
  
• Graphics | Remove delay causing just exploded destructible affecting the camera before collision being ignored
  
  Sounds – Fixed bugs and tuned the attenuation so they play correctly in numerous instances throughout the game.
  
• Audio | Lady Everleen and her Handmaidens should once again play foley sounds
  
• VO | Prevent enemy characters outside the current fight area and/or boss arena from responding to VO announcements
  
• Sound | Enemies that are part of boss fights should now correctly announce their VO events to their boss fight counterparts and not the entire dungeon
  
• Reduce attenuation of Lady Everleen so her voiceovers are heard from farther away
  
  Lady Everleen Boss fight was reworked to improve playability and be more intelligible to the player.
  
• AI - Lady Everleen’s Life Drain should now only target players, fixing combat engagement and VO on nearby AI
  
• Boss | Lady Everleen will continue to use her Focusing Gaze, removing protection her handmaidens for a short duration, the entire time the handmaidens are alive
  
• Boss | Correct detection for bosses being contained within their fight, fixing triggered boss mechanics such as doors
  
• VFX | Change visuals of Lady Everleen’s Focusing Gaze to only target live Maidens which have not yet been revealed
  
• Boss | Reduce cooldown of Lady Everleen’s Focusing Gaze, giving more opportunity to attack the healing Maidens
  
• Boss | Lady Everleen’s Handmaidens now correctly target a player immediately when switching from healing to attacking
  
• Boss | Lady Everleen’s aura has slightly more distinct VFX to help identify it
  
• Boss | Adjust Lady Everleen’s colors to be all red and distinct from her maidens
  
• Boss | Lady Everleen’s Handmaidens now use a visible shield, as opposed to becoming invisible during their protected phase
  

• Fixed Dungeon warning dialog showing incorrectly
  
• Fixed crash that may occur on a number of AI and abilities across the game
  

Recommendation System

1. Increased the levels to the correct level (including heroism levels) to be successful in a given dungeon & difficulty
   
2. Added a new gear check system that looks for the minimum gear to attempt a dungeon. Dungeons that have split gear qualities mean you would need half of each quality at a minimum to be successful. More of the higher quality will pass this test as well.
   
3. Added a new Challenge Rating value. This value demonstrates the relative challenge related to other content in the game. It is not designed to be exact but is a general estimate of success. If a number is twice a lower number, it represents approximately double the challenge.
   

Improved Loot Quality

1. All dungeon bosses now have a chance to drop +1 quality loot (this means they can drop Epic on Normal, Legendary on Hard and Eternal on Nightmare)
   
2. Crypt of Horrors, The Dark Hollow, The Grasslands, Lair of the Ceranids and The Icy Depths saw the greatest overall +1 quality drop rate adjustment.
   
3. The Dreadforge and The Festerbog had several bosses +1 quality drop rates improved.
   
4. Ragewind Keep is unchanged as all bosses drop only +1 quality loot
   
5. Named Elite npcs (like Sludge) that do not have a boss chests remain unchanged.
   

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed issue with center keep gates in Grasslands causing them to be too small
  
• Reduced damage on Snowtek
  
• Fixed issue text on crafting screen not localizing
  

Loot Updates:

Star Items (End-Game Tiers):

1. All Bosses now have a chance to drop starred items.
   
2. As your heroism increases your chance of receiving starred items increases as well
   
3. As your heroism increases your chance of receiving a higher number of stars increases relative to your heroism level (so a level 100 would have a greater chance at 1,2,3 star items and level 500 hundred 2,3,4 and so on )
   
4. The chance of crafting a star item increases with heroism level now as well as the number of stars received. The overall chance of receiving a star item from crafting has improved as well.
   
5. Star item overall chance from normal NPCs is unchanged but the number of stars does scale with heroism (more stars at higher levels) but much less than Bosses or crafting.
   

Gameplay

Improvements:

• Improvement to AI logic. AI abilities will no longer block load if used while waiting for their corresponding assets. Instead the ability will be temporarily unavailable and not chosen by the AI, preventing hitching related to the block load.
  
• Potion cooldowns have been reduced from 20 seconds to 4.
  
• Crafting fragment drop quantities have been improved from 1 per drop to 3 per drop.
  
• Bosses now have a chance to drop higher quality essences to make crafting more viable.
  
• Fixed issue where corpses were sometimes difficult to loot and players would receive no notification of loot.
  

Loot Updates:

1. Normal, Elite, and Boss enemies no longer drop Common quality items
   
2. Increased the quality drop chance across all enemies
   
3. Reduced drop-rate for Normal and Elite enemies from 35% to 25%
   
4. Reduced drop-rate for destructible items from 62% to 40%
   
5. King Joldurbraan in Icy Depths may now drop Tier 2 Armor Chests
   
6. Molabog the Demon King in Dreadforge may now drop Tier 2 Armor Gloves
   

Difficulty Updates:

Improvements:

• Improved navigation in Ragewind Castle
  
• Expanded in-game errors to provide more relevant information
  
• The damage reduction buff gained during the Slygoth and Norgoth encounter in Ragewind Castle now has a duration of 60 seconds
  
• Champion's Cleave ability attack range improved for smaller races
  
• Further optimizations to Ragewind Castle to improve performance
  

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed some issues that prevented players from looting Cric's Treasure Chests
  
• Client should no longer crash when Ogre's use Throw Boulder
  
• Fixed various issues with the floor mechanic during the Lorg encounter in Icy Depths
  
• Fixed various object collision issues
  
• Fixed some enemy issues where they were using the incorrect version of an ability
  
• Cleric's Heavenly Strike's cooldown should work correctly for clients in cooperative mode
  
• Fixed a drop rate issue with the Bulwark of the Undead Crusher from the Crypt Lord encounter in the Crypt of Horrors
  

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Patch Notes:

Improvements:

• Additional improvements to performance and stability
  
• Call of Oblivion Set Assassinate does not trigger a cooldown for 3 seconds after using Phased Carnage changed to 5 seconds.
  
• Reduced damage of Ice Charge by 30%
  
• Reduced brightness in Heavenly strike
  

Bug Fixes:

• Corrected use of non-localized string for NPC and enemy names on clients of multiplayer games
  
• Correct enemy check that would sometimes cause AI to attack friendly AI
  
• Fixed issue with text on Class Weapon Bonus descriptions
  
• Fixed issue with Channel Heal, it should now heal the caster as well as their target
  
• Channel abilities that overload should be reliable for clients and see the overload effects/cooldown of the ability
  

Heroism Changes:

• Reduced Heroism scaling on enemies by approximately 52% less health and 22% less damage.
  
• Removed additional enemy Heroism scaling on Hard and Nightmare difficulties. Heroism enemy scaling will be the same across all difficulties. Previously, enemies on Hard and Nightmare had additional scaling from Heroism.

Class Changes:

Champion

• Bind Wounds cooldown changed to 16s
  
• Skin of Stone cooldown changed to 18s
  
• Unstoppable duration reduced to 6s
  

Cleric

• Regen duration changed to 6s
  
• Regen Rank 1 healing amount increased to 10%, Rank 2 to 15%, Rank 3 to 20%
  
• Regen cooldown changed to 12s
  
• Channel Heal should again heal the Cleric
  
• Channel Heal ranged increased by 15 meters
  
• Heavenly Strike now removes all loss of control effects on the Cleric when used
  

Ranger

• Healing Vapors cooldown changed to 16s
  
• Ranger's Flask now removes all loss of control effects on the Ranger when used
  
• Ranger's Flask duration changed to 4s
  

Rogue

• Removed the target requirement from Phantom Strike
  
• Phantom Strike cooldown changed to 12s
  
• Shadow Mend cooldown changed to 16s
  
• Shadow Cloak duration changed to 6s
  

Wizard

• Fire Armor now removes all loss of control effects on the Wizard when used
  
• Cauterize cooldown changed to 16s
  

Improvements:

• Improved performance in Ragewind Castle
  
• Improved performance in Grasslands, Crypt of Horrors and Dark Hollow.
  
• Moved the chest in the final Tower in Dark Hollow to make it more easily lootable
  
• Improved scrolling functionality during Character Creation in splitscreen mode
  

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed various enemy sound issues.
  
• Fixed a scaling issue with Clones created from Ember Eruption, both on the baseline ability and the Void Clones spawned from the Chaos set.
  
• Fixed an issue with Phased Carnage and Arbiter's Fury auto casting as a client