Hello Adventurers!

Improvements:

• Halloween Event bosses will now spawn on all difficulties. Their health and damage scales accordingly along with the amount of loot. These bosses have had their damage and health reduced on Nightmare by 40%, rewards on Nightmare are unchanged,
  
• Backups button will now be highlighted by a shader when a recent backup may be newer than the most recently played session that was loaded
  

Bug Fixes:

• Lorg's floor should fall smoothly on clients
  
• Fixed issue with Whisper of Spider Queen Pods causing spiders to spawn incorrectly.
  
• Fixed issue with Lady Everleen spawning incorrectly.
  

Hello Adventurers!

Improvements:

• Improved creating and customizing a player character for clients
  
• Added a standalone Party Menu in the game menu for managing Party actions for solo and splitscreen play.
  
• Further improvements to text scaling for Item tooltips
  
• Disabled Oculus VR and OpenXR plugins to prevent unintended compatibility issues
  

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed some areas where Graal could become stuck
  
• Reapplying Fire Armor while Fire Armor is already active will work properly now
  
• Fixed an issue with Malorath's Tremor Slam attack
  
• Fixed an issue where the Crypt Lord's chain wouldn't properly display for clients
  
• Fixed an issue where controllers were not being properly detected on PC
  
• Fixed multiple UI issues for multiple languages
  
• Fixed an issue with coloring on equipment stat comparisons
  
• Fixed various tooltip UI issues
  
• Fixed an issue with Cryomancer Blod's statues not always spawning correctly
  
• Fixed an issue with Valu'Nalthala getting stuck on environment objects
  
• Fixed an issue preventing Valu-Lumia from moving at the correct speed
  
• Fixed various issues with the Party Member UI
  
• Fixed an issue with The Migion ragdoll physics
  
• Fixed an issue with Gweyir Dorra not always selecting the correct item to upgrade
  
• Fixed some issues with the Joldurbraan encounter
  
• Fixed an issue with the Lochladan encounter
  
• Fixed an issue with Floating Skulls from not properly dying
  
• Fixed some bad spawns in the Whisper of the Spider Queen encounter
  

Good Morning Adventurer's!

Improvements:

• Updated Quest readability and UI
  
• Improved AI ability focus and view rotation
  
• Added option in trade/storage to withdraw/deposit/select all coins
  

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with Husks walking through closed gates in the Festering Bog
  
• Fixed Victor Von Vindinskarl levers not activating on death
  
• Fixed a rare occurence of AI in the immediate vicinity of just-spawned players being at Normal difficulty instead of the chosen difficulty
  
• Fixed Halloween bosses not spawning in Nightmare
  

Good Evening Adventurers!

Improvements:

• Increased the currency cap to 9999p 999g 99s
  
• Players can no longer trade more currency than their trading partner can accept
  
• Currency can no longer be deposited/withdrawn from the bank if there isn't room for it
  
• Heroism effects are reapplied and recalculated when applied during characters spawning, ensuring accurate values
  
• Increased range of Justice Strike from 1.5m to 3m
  
• Continued improvements to the item tooltip UI element to improve readability and performance
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed incorrect Fire Lord Fragment on Harvest Watcher Merchant. Players may exchange the incorrect fragment for the correct one at the merchant
  
• Fix an issue with Regent Korbas' attacks missing in Crypt of Horrors
  
• Fixed an issue causing the Wizard's Ember Eruption Clone to despawn early
  
• Fixed an issue causing the Wizard's Vortex to not properly apply Conduit
  
• Fixed item purchase menu slider not working
  
• Fixed an issue that could cause the gate at Victor Von Vindinskarl in Icy Depths from respawning after his defeat
  
• Fixed an issue that could cause King Joldurbraan to respawn upon resuming Icy Depths
  
• Fixed various animation issues with Spider Queen Ceradia in Lair of the Ceranids
  
• Removed infinite chests from the game
  
• Fixed Heroism menu showing the wrong player's class in splitscreen
  
• Fixed an issue with spider enemies in the Lair of the Ceranids getting stuck against walls and other objects.
  

• Fixed issues with Lair of the Ceranids
  
• AI should igore Elite Scout Tehsav
  
• Using Ambush with stalker effect active will deal the correct amount of damage
  
• Justice Strike will deal the correct amount of Holy Damage
  
• Fixed issue with camera angle on Cric's Shrine in the Dark Hollow
  
• Fixed issue with Cric spawning outside his cell in Icy depths
  
• Fixed issue with Enraged Forest encounter VO not always playing
  
• Increased the size of merchant buy menu text, and increased the size of currency text
  

Halloween has Arrived in Sundaria!

• 5 new weapon pattern rewards
  
• Class Set Fragments
  
• Magical Cores and Tokens of Change
  

Itemization Updates:

• Weapons will now always roll at least 1 element and a Bonus to the Primary Class Ability (Slash, Smite, Aimed Shot, Eviscerate, Fireball)
  
• Weapons may now have a maximum of 4 element damage rolls on them.
  
• Mighty Blow Threat was removed from some Champion Armor
  

Improvements:

• Improved Malorath's Lightning Barrage visuals
  
• Increased font size in character select buttons
  
• Changed interface settings layout. Separated Split Screen to its own section
  
• Improved Arch Demon of Nu texture so it's more readable
  
• Improved Quest dialog text scroll box will now return back to the top on the next page.
  
• Increased Commander Griev's damage on Nightmare Difficulty
  
• Players can no longer complete a quest without enough inventory space to accept the rewards.
  
• Item stack size and XP bar readability improved
  
• Improved scaling and layout in the Painter menu for narrow/wide aspects
  
• Removed Armor Penetration from Wizard Items
  

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed Malorath Defile scaling, should now correctly represent the area impacted
  
• Fixed where players could not enter stealth due to Stalker buff removal of ability
  
• Fixed spiders getting stuck after spawning from pods
  
• Fixed camera clipping inside Holdurbrans room, and Victor getting stuck on his bone piles
  
• Fixed Plaugemaster Verix should no longer cancel his own ability Void Prison
  
• Fixed split screen players not setting their initial ready state, causing the ready up mechanic to not be consistent
  
• Fixed entrance skip in Festering Bog
  
• Fixed enemies being stuck in the Festering Bog
  
• Fixed potential bug where item generation version may have been wiped when upgrading
  
• Split Screen corrected screen size ratio
  
• Fixed Issue with Reginald and Rorann not resetting
  
• Removed advanced combat effects from Mimic NPCs
  
• Fixed issue with Demon Lord Malorath dropping additional unintended loot
  
• Fixed Merchant, Salvage, and Upgrade menu hints updated to reflect correct bindings
  
• Fixed Upgrade Menu so you can no longer open the upgrade menu for an unupgradeable item by using the keyboard/gamepad activate button
  
• Fixed issue with Minimaps not loading. Minimaps now load correctly when resuming a dungeon and when joining/rejoining a multiplayer dungeon in progress
  
• Fixed Hero name/class/level text blocking clicks in the Lobby
  
• Fixed an issue with completed Dungeons not resetting properly
  
• Fixed merchant sell list changing focused item when clicking outside of the sell confirmation window
  
• Fixed combined level (level + heroism) being used by lootable chests instead of just character level
  
• Fixed item icon showing stacks size of zero in places like purchase confirmation window
  
• AI Should once again look toward players while in combat and able to hit players in a down state
  
• Lady Everleen should no longer randomly teleport beneath the floor and become stuck
  
• Fixed an issue with Cone of Fire itemization causing the bonus applied to be higher than designed
  

Bug Fixes:

• Kadrick has remembered all of the patterns he forgot.
  
• Lady Everleen is no longer hanging out below the floor.
  
• Re-enabled Crit Chance as a possible attribute on Accessories.
  
• Fixed attribute scaling from level 15 to level 20 items.
  
• Actually removed Cauterize Healing, Cone of Fire Cooldown Reduction and Mighty Blow Threat generated from possible attributes on Wizard/Champion gear.
  
• Fixed an issue with long loading screens.
  
• Fixed the Kindled weapon buff for Wizards.
  
• Fixed an issue that was causing abilities to populate into empty ability bar slots when dying or using a checkpoint.
  
• Fixed an issue with weapon swapping for clients in multiplayer games. Champions, go Brutal Strike stuff now.
  
• Removed the Combat Effects system from destructible objects and other things that should not have had it. That scary barrel will no longer Bolster (sorry).
  
• Also removed the Wizard's ability to put destructible and other objects to sleep. Again, scary barrels can't be put to sleep anymore.
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented people that dropped from a multiplayer game from being unable to loot a boss chest upon rejoining.
  
• Fixed an issue with new items not generating correct prefixes/suffixes.
  
• Fixed an issue with Dye vendors not working properly.
  
• Fixed an issue that could cause certain abilities to be cast indefinitely without a button press.
  
• Fixed the issue with the Wizard's Destruction set casting free Flame Blasts.
  
• Fixed an issue with quests that could not be progressed in certain languages.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Bank being unresponsive when first interacting with it.
  
• Fixed an issue with idle traps for client players in multiplayer games.
  
• Fixed some issues with Shademaker and Darkmaster Cenophax damage output.
  
• Fixed some UI issues with new attributes not properly showing up in the Character screen.
  
• Fixed some UI issues with new attributes not properly updating their corresponding abilities.
  
• Fixed an issue with Ambush not correctly displaying the cooldown.
  
• Fixed an issue that could cause the gate near Victor Von Vindinskarl to reappear after defeating him.
  
• Fixed an issue with Kadrick not selling Frozen Patterns.
  
• Fixed an issue with Valu'Nalthala not healing correctly.
  
• Fixed an issue with Necrolord Ioba's boss door behaving incorrectly.
  
• Taskmaster Scarn is now immune to crowd control effects.
  
• Fixed an issue that could cause Cric not to sell his items.
  
• Weapon materials that load after a weapon is equipped will correctly be applied once loaded without re-requipping.
  
• Fixed Ogre attacks that were not landing on the player.
  
• Fixed an issue with Turgamax and Furn audio.
  
• Fixed issue with Hashushu not dropping the correct loot for Wizards.
  
• Fixed sell/storage/etc. menus not behaving the same on double-click and key press, causing some menus to not behave correctly.
  
• Fixed other player's characters becoming visible while using turntable menus (painter, appearance change, etc).
  
• Fix textures loading but not applying to armor until a map loaded.
  
• Defeating Ceranid Lord Andosecun will disable the fire traps in his arena.
  
• Fixed issue with duplicate stat on 2h Champion items which caused 6 stats instead of 7 sometimes.
  
• Auras from player damage (e.g. poison arrow) should correctly apply damage.
  
• Correct auto-aim/homing behavior of Magic Missile
  

• Fixed an issue with Ambush not correctly consuming the Stalker buff
  
• Fixed an issue causing Crafted items to cost no gold
  
• Increased Champion Threat generated by Shield Bash and Shield Throw
  
• Fixed an issue with items having the incorrect amount of stats
  
• Fixed an issue causing Cryomancer Blod to not always spawn
  

Hello Dungeons of Sundaria Adventurers!

• UI Improvements
  
• New Class Abilities and Class Updates
  
• Updated Bonus Ability Attribute Scaling
  
• New Bonus Ability Attributes
  
• New Level Cap
  
• Updated Crafting
  
• New Signature Abilities
  
• New Combat Effects
  

UI Improvements:

• Abilities will now display precise countdown timers
  
• Abilities will now show a small display when they are ready to be used again
  
• Optimized the Minimap
  
• Revamped the Heroism Screen to improve readability
  
• Revamped the Inventory Screen to improve readability
  
• Improved UI Scaling and Menu Sizing for Splitscreen Play
  
• Improved Scrolling functionality in Splitscreen Play
  
• Quest Dialog size increased and scrolling functionality for controllers added
  
• Added friendly text to Town NPCs
  
• Added Class Descriptions to the Character Creation Screen
  

Class Abilities and Class Updates:

Champions

• New Ability - Brutal Strike - Brutally Strike your enemy for 160% Physical Damage and automatically change to your next equipped weapon. On a successful weapon change, your next Brutal Strike deals 300% increased damage.
  
• New Passive - Bladed Bastion - You become fortified by the blade, increasing your Melee Attack Power based upon your Block Amount.
  
• New Passive - Vicious Strikes - Increases your damage by 15% for 5 seconds when you Critically Strike with a Two-Handed Weapon
  

Clerics

• New Ability - Justice Strike - Strike an enemy, dealing 120% physical damage and 120% holy damage. Justice Strike also heals you for 2% of the damage done.
  
• New Ability - Arbiter's Fury - Conjures a hammer to strike your target, dealing 300% physical damage and stunning them for 3 seconds. Hammers continue to strike nearby targets for 3 seconds.
  
• Ability Update - Divine Shield - Shields all Allies within range, providing crowd-control immunity and absorbing 20% of their health as damage for 15 seconds. 30 second cooldown
  

Rangers

• New Ability - Blasting Shot - Jump backwards while firing multiple mines in front of you. Enemies that trigger the mines take 300% physical damage and an additional 135% physical damage over 3 seconds.
  
• New Passive - Nature's Warden - You are empowered by Nature, reducing damage taken by 100% of your bonus Movement Speed.
  
• Weapon Specialization Update - Enforcer now also increases Critical Strike Damage
  

Rogues

• New Ability - Ambush - Ambush your target, dealing 200% physical damage. Ambush will consume Stalker to deal an additional 300% physical damage.
  

Wizard

• New Ability - Vortex - Conjures a Vortex that tracks after enemies, dealing 180% Void Damage to nearby enemies per second 8 seconds.
  
• New Passive - Conduit - Dealing Fire Damage increases your Void Damage by 15% for 4 seconds. Dealing Void Damage increases your Fire Damage by 15% for 4 seconds.
  
• Ability Update - Ember Eruption - Conjures a clone that draws the attention of all nearby enemies before erupting into flames, dealing 450% fire damage.
  

Updated Bonus Ability Attribute Scaling

• Bonus Ability Rolls for Abilities with a cooldown of 8 seconds or less remain the same
  
• Bonus Ability Rolls for Abilities that affect the Duration of an Ability reduced by 33%
  
• Bonus Ability Rolls for Abilities that affect a Defensive Ability reduced by 57%
  
• Bonus Ability Rolls for Abilities that have no cooldown reduced by 33%
  
• Bonus Ability Rolls for Abilities with a cooldown of 8 to 12 seconds increased by 67%
  
• Bonus Ability Rolls for Abilities with a cooldown of more than 12 seconds increased by 130%
  

Bonus Ability Attributes

Champion

• Brutal Strike Damage
  
• Skin of Stone Damage Reduction
  
• Skin of Stone Duration
  
• Upheaval Damage
  

Cleric

• Arbiter’s Fury Damage
  
• Channel Heal Healing Amount
  
• Divine Sacrifice Damage
  
• Exorcism Damage
  
• Heavenly Strike Damage
  
• Heavenly Strike Duration
  
• Holy Blast Damage
  
• Justice Strike Damage
  

Ranger

• Blasting Shot Damage
  
• Blight Arrow Duration
  
• Blight Arrow Damage
  
• Deadly Shot Damage
  
• Poison Arrow Damage
  
• Salvo Damage
  
• Salvo Duration
  
• Ranger’s Flask Damage Reduction
  
• Ranger’s Flask Duration
  
• Rapid Fire Damage
  

Rogue

• Ambush Damage
  
• Assassinate Damage
  
• Backstab Damage
  
• Phantom Strike Damage
  
• Phased Carnage Damage
  
• Tomahawk Damage
  

Wizard

• Chaos Orb Damage
  
• Ember Eruption Damage
  
• Ember Lance Damage
  
• Flame Blast Damage
  
• Fire Armor Damage
  
• Magic Missiles Damage
  
• Meteor Damage
  
• Vortex Damage
  

Removed

• Champion – Mighty Blow Threat
  
• Wizard - Cauterize Healing
  
• Wizard - Cone of Fire Damage
  

Increased Level Cap to 20

Updated Crafting

To Summarize:

• Eternal – Always has Bonus Health and Bonus Power. Limited to 2 Bonus Ability Rolls
  
• Legendary – Always has 1 of Bonus Health or Bonus Power. Limited to 1 Bonus Ability Roll
  
• Epic and Below – Never rolls Bonus Ability Rolls
  

• Common Quality Essence – 1 Silver
  
• Superior Quality Essence – 10 Silver
  
• Rare Quality Essence – 1 Gold
  
• Epic Quality Essence – 10 Gold
  
• Legendary Quality Essence – 100 Gold
  
• Eternal Quality Essence – 1 Platinum
  

Combat Improvements

Signature Abilities

Champion Signature Abilities:

• Brutal Strike – Will perform an additional attack for 50% of the damage done
  
• Mighty Blow – Will perform an additional attack for 50% of the damage done
  
• Shield Bash – Will perform an additional attack for 50% of the damage done
  

Cleric Signature Abilities:

• Heavenly Strike – Will send down a second strike for 50% of the damage done
  
• Holy Light – Will send out a second orb for 50% of the damage done
  
• Justice Strike – Will perform an additional attack for 50% of the damage done
  

Ranger Signature Abilities:

• Deadly Shot – Will perform an additional attack for 50% of the damage done
  
• Poison Arrow – Will explode on the target, applying the damage over time effect to nearby enemies
  
• Salvo – Will root the target in place for 2 seconds
  

Rogue Signature Abilities:

• Assassinate – Will perform an additional attack for 50% of the damage done
  
• Backstab – Will perform an additional attack for 50% of the damage done
  
• Phased Carnage – Will perform an additional attack for 50% of the damage done
  

Wizard Signature Abilities:

• Cone of Fire – Will light the target on fire, dealing additional damage over time
  
• Flame Blast – Will conjure a small Meteor to hit the target for 50% of the damage done
  
• Magic Missiles – Will fire a small Chaos Orb for 50% of the damage done
  

Combat Effects

Enemy Buffs:

• Enemy gains Crowd Control Immunity
  
• Enemy deals Increased damage
  

• Calls nearby enemies for help
  

• Flees to nearby enemies for help
  

• Humanoid enemies will drink a potion to restore some health
  

• Non-humanoid enemies will clone themselves
  

Enemy Debuffs:

• Enemy cannot perform any Actions
  
• Enemy takes increased Damage
  

• Enemy takes increased Critical Strike Damage
  

• Enemy takes additional damage over time
  

• Enemy attacks more slowly
  

Ragewind Castle

Improvements and Bug Fixes:

• Optimized Rim Shading
  
• Optimized Dungeons and reduced texture memory demand
  
• Improved environmental asset LODs
  
• Fixed Hitboxes on Ogre enemies
  
• Ogres Palm Smash attack now should correctly hit targets
  
• Decreased volume on Imp sound effects (wing flapping)
  
• Boss chest highlights should now be visible by the player that owns the chest
  
• Defeating the final boss in a dungeon should now reset the dungeon correctly
  
• Fixed issue where exit portal could stall and not travel correctly
  
• Fixed issue with inconsistent player icons
  
• Fixed Backstab tooltip to show correct range
  
• Fixed bug with Assassinate and Phased Carnage that could proc endless critical hits
  
• Fixed Malorath Bonus Boss Loot chests not dropping the correct boss loot on resume session when a boss had been previously killed
  
• Fixed Issue with Minimap loading incorrect floors at times
  
• Fixed issue with dodging while on ladders or in mine cart
  
• Fixed an issue with menu item slots not showing until focused
  
• Fixed issue where completing a specific quest for a merchant NPC could invalidate their buy tab until they are talked to again
  
• Fixed issue with Hulking Gnolls dropping incorrect loot
  
• Reduced damage of Gnolls in Alchemy area of Grasslands on Nightmare
  
• Reduced Husk damage on Nightmare
  
• Arcane Rituals: A Study of Dark Magic by Asbestor Crucible may now be sold
  
• Fixed issue with Ettin NPCs that were able to clone themselves
  
• Fixed Victor Von Vindenskarl spawn and checkpoint to ensure correct spawning
  
• Fixed essence sell amount to be consistent with scaling factor of quality
  
• Fixed issue where altars could be impacted by status (stun, etc)
  
• Fixed (reduced) Nightmare scaling in The Festering Bog
  
• Improved Navigation on all dungeons
  
• Fixed issue where Thokmog and Lomarg would drop incorrect fragments for Rogue and Wizard
  
• Fixed an issue with Phase Port not triggering Stalker