Tomb Kings

• Tomb King Content is now live!
  • New Story Added
    
  • New passive skills added
    
  • New matchmaking filters added
    
  • Tomb Kings added to Relic Hunting mode (for TK owners)

Quality of Life

• Option to display a large map has been added
  
• New Icons have been added to the mini map (teleportation stones, chests, red + green loot, etc.)
  
• Game automatically pauses when a controller is disconnected
  
• Enemy name has been added above the life-bar of semi bosses
  
• Cursor size can be changed in the Graphical Options menu
  
• The mouse cursor changes when interactions are possible
  
• The archetype video is only played the first time a character is used
  
• New tutorial added for using presets
  
• Walk + Run speed has been adjusted for quest NPCs
  
• Gateway selection zone has been increased
  
• Icon has been changed for “Talisman of the Predator”
  
• It’s now possible to switch between builds while surrounded by enemies, or just after receiving damage

Balance

• Characters no longer flash white when under the effect of a DoT spell
  
• Invoking enemies are now invulnerable during their invocation animation
  
• Nuln’s Relic Hunting now requires more enemies to be killed for completion
  
• Bosses now give more God Fragments
  
• Relic Hunting chests now give more loot and more God Fragments
  
• The last level of the Collector’s Guild (Loopable) gives less Link Fragments (20, down from 100)
  
• Enemies can now resist attraction/repulsion effects when the actions are chained
  
• Heroic Jewels trigger effects have been adjusted for critical hits, only direct skills are taken into account (passives, status, counter-attack etc. no longer trigger this effect)
  
• Keeper of Secrets: Damage decreased and life pillars decreased
  
• High difficulty bosses now deal increased damage
  
• Tzeentch relic hunting modifiers have been adjusted, tornadoes damage and knockback distance has been reduced

Vollen Balance

• Benediction of Sigmar: Duration increased to 18s for each rank (from 16), energy regen reduced to 2 (from 3) for rank 2, and the damage bonus has been increased to 40% for rank 3 (from 30%)
  
• Bastion of Sigmar: Stun probability increased to 100% for all ranks
  
• Herald of Sigmar: Armor reduction for enemies has been increased to 30% (from 25), duration increased to 10s (from 5) for all ranks
  
• Blade of Vengeance: Damaged halved, but number of charges doubled
  
• “Magnus’ Gift” Hammer: Dot increased, enemies affected have a reduced healing potency. Damage increase depending on effected enemies has been removed.

Elontir Balance

• Arcane Manifestation: Cooldown reduced to 45 seconds (from 55), damage reduced, explosion range reduced
  
• Walk Between Worlds: Teleport range increase to 10m (from 8m)
  
• Living Magic (Passive): Damage reduced
  
• Spiritual Prison: Cooldown decreased to 35s (from 40)

Elessa Balance

• Summon health pools increased
  
• Wild Incarnation: Summon damage increased, cooldown reduced
  
• “Eternity Armor” set: Bonus increased to 400% (from 200%), however the effect now triggers on enemies with high life values (previously poisoned enemies)
  
• “Symbiosis” Bow: Damage bonus decreased to 150% (from 200%). Traps now have a bleed effect when this bow is equipped

Bragi Balance

• Laceration: Attack speed and health cost increased, range decreased
  
• Scythe: Attack speed and range increased

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the Nurglings could be made invulnerable during the Great Unclean One boss fight
  
• Fixed an issue where some raids would fail in multiplayer
  
• Fixed the tooltip for “Scourge of Pestilence – Mastered”
  
• Fixed a bug that could result in the character appearing in the wrong place after a Boss Rush
  
• Fixed some issues with Russian localization
  
• Fixed some issues with Polish localization

Features:

• Permadeath mode added to the game

• Build Preset options added for equipment, skills, god skills and legendary rank bonuses.
  
• Chaos 8 Difficulty added
  
• All elite enemies are now marked with an icon above their head, this way you can easily spot them as they still have their own specific loot list with better chances for high quality items

Paid Content

• New Pet DLC content has been added

Interface

• Heroic items (red and green) are now displayed on the map
  
• Semi-bosses have been given a life gauge, they still have their specific loot list for heroic drops
  
• Legendary rank is now displayed in all interfaces
  
• New FX added to some heroic items
  
• An arrow on the map now indicates the position of faraway objectives

Gameplay

• ‘Damage over time resistance’ stat has been added
  
• New guild passives have been added, icons have also been updated
  
• New Relic Hunt modifiers have been added for each Chaos God
  • Nurgle: Regular ground AOEs inflicting poison damage
    
  • Khorne: Regular ground AOEs inflicting physical damage
    
  • Slaanesh: Regular ground AOEs inflicting magical damage
    
  • Tzeentch: Regular ground AOEs inflicting fire damage
  
  
• Invasion loot bonus has been increased (+100% per rank, up from +10% per rank), playing at high Invasion rank will give you better chances to loot heroic items

Balancing:

• High level enemy HP gauge reworked
  
• The loot bonus from ‘Death Benediction’ is now 200% (from 100%)
  
• The gold loot bonus from the guild skill is 20% (up from 10%) and the loot rate bonus 200% (up from 100%)
  
• Relic hunt modifier that reduced critical hit rate is -50% (previously -100%)
  
• Resurrection costs increased, 15% of all gold or 50 fragments of each colour (up from 10% and 20)
  
• Enemy kill requirement in Act 1 – Quest 1 has been increased

Elessa

• Health regeneration skill bonuses have been reduced
  
• ‘Crippling Blade’ slow effect rate has been decreased
  
• ‘Elven Shot’ slow effect rate has been decreased
  
• ‘Follow Tracks – Superior’ life regen effect has been decreased
  
• ‘Wild Incarnation’ summoned pets deal increased damage
  
• ‘Lone Hunter’ damage reduction effect has been decreased from 50%/60%/60% to 40%/40%/40%

New Loot Items Added

• New ring added: Improves DOT damage after using your archetype ability
  
• New necklace: Improved loot drop quality based on critical hit, when you use this item there’s a chance to spawn an elite enemy with a unique loot list.

Item Balancing

• The Axe ‘The Impatient One’ now grants 50% life bonus, 50% energy bonus and decreased cooldown of 20s (down from 100%, 100% and 100s)
  
• The Axe ‘Victor’s Tribute’ now grants +50% damage, stacking up to 5 times, lasting 30s instead of 20s
  
• The negative effect of the ‘Ultimate Carnage’ axe has been increased to 20% (from 10%)
  
• The number of rage charges needed to activate the ‘Ultimate Carnage’ axes bonus effect has been increased to 20 (from 10). The negative effect that increased damage received is reduced to 10 (from 20).
  
• Damage and regen bonus from the ‘Dazzling Light’ of the High Elf’s ‘The Impetuous One’ set have been increased
  
• Improvements to the High Elf’s ‘Quaysh Surge’ with increased damage, damage type has also been changed to Magic / Fire / Magic

Bug Fixes

• Some skill tooltips have been added or fixed
  
• Damage over Time no longer generates a counter-attack effect
  
• Vollen’s shield ‘Medics Passive’ generates a potion with only direct damage. DoT and counter-attack damage no longer generate this effect
  
• Elontir’s passive skill ‘The Impetuous One’ is fixed
  
• Some truncated German and Japanese texts are now displayed correctly
  
• The set effect that improved the ‘Walk between Worlds’ skill has been fixed
  
• Elessa’s Bow ‘Undergrowth Fangs’ has been fixed. This effect now deals damage to enemies and heals allies.
  
• Bragi’s axes names have now been fixed
  
• Chest open range has been increased

New features and improvements

• Legendary Ranks added

• Blessing System Update

• Improved the God Skill Tree ergonomics

• Added a new heroic set as T4 (red) and T5 (green) for each character.

Season Pass Content

• Additional God Skill Tree

All Characters

• Added a new statistic "damage over time" (DOT). All damage over time abilities are now linked to this specific statistic and not raw damage.
  
• Reworked the balance between energy gain and damage from skills that generate energy.

• The "Taunt" skill improved by the "Meteoric Iron" armor set now has the correct damage set for enemies.
  
• “Defense stance” skill has been balanced.

• The rage bonus granted with "Eternal Grudge” has been increased from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.
  
• "Call of the Oath" has been modified so it does not generate a 5 stack of rage as it used to.
  
• The aura granted with the "Grimnir’s tatoos" set has been decreased, damage decreased, bonus damage linked to your % of life lost increased, flaming visual effect removed.
  
• “Avenging charge” damage decreased.
  
• Added a damage bonus for allies when using the improved version of “Call of Oath”.
  
• Changed the bonus granted from the "Last Song" set: it now improves the "Deep gashes" passive skill.
  
• Fixed the “Strike of the Anvil” skill bonuses (Mastered version), these now apply correctly.

• Fixed the hitbox of “Elven Shot” so smaller enemies can be hit better and increased range of action when using the “Mastered” version of the skill.
  
• Fixed the distance at which Dryads appear when using “Call of the spirits".
  
• “Tactical retreat” has been balanced.
  
• “Lone hunter” has been balanced.

Gameplay

• DOT no longer kills players when they remove more than 5% of total health at once.
  
• DOT do less damage in very high difficulty levels.
  
• Removed controller vibration on skills that inflict DOT.

Gear

• Critical damage stats added to amulets.
  
• Bonuses adjusted for “The impatient One” and “Heart-Seeker” Slayer axes.

Enemies

• Enemies’ attack speed rebalanced
  
• Enemies’ health and damage have been adjusted based on difficulty level.
  
• Changed enemy patterns:
  
  
  • New skills added to multiple enemies depending on their Chaos faction.
    
    
    • Khorne
      Range cultists, cultist leaders, Bloodletters, Bloodcrushers, Chaos Spawns, Giant Chaos Spawns, Jabberslythes and Mutaliths now have a probability to earn a damage and defense bonus when their health is low.
      
    • Nurgle
      Nurglings, Cultists, range Cultists and summoners now have a probability to move away from the player when their life is low.
      
    • Slaneesh
      Cultists, range Cultists and summoners now briefly move away from the player when they are hurt.
      For a brief moment, Cultist leaders, daemonette, Herald and Chaos Spawn have their attack speed increased when their life is low.
      For a brief moment, Cultist leaders, daemonette, Herald and Chaos Spawn are immune to crowd control when their life is low.
      
    • Tzeentch
      Cultists, range Cultists, Blue Horrors and Pink Horrors now briefly move away from the player when they are hurt.
  
  
• Giant Chaos Spawn do normal damages in close-quarter combat.
  
• Great Unclean One: damage done by the rock fall has been decreased.
  
• Decreased the overall number of heralds in Act 3 (in all game modes).

Misc

• “Elite” enemies have a higher green loot drop rate (T5 gear).
  
• Boss have a lower red loot drop rate (T4 gear).
  
• Creatures summoned by enemies do not give XP or loot anymore.
  
• Fixed some skill and gear tooltips.
  
• Fixed some issues in the Japanese translation of the in-game texts.
  
• Fixed some collision bugs with the props.

New features and improvements

• Matchmaking system modified and game type in public mode added
  
• Manage Players menu modified
  
• New players appear next to the player when added via the ‘Manage Players’ menu
  
• Online players now shown in the interface
  
• New text and translations have been added
  
• Character no longer moves when clicking a button in the interface

Balancing

• Enemy targeting area adjusted
  
• Elite enemies loot lists modified
  
• Invasion mode semi-bosses 02 and 06 adjusted
  
• Secondary objective rewards modified
  
• Controller vibrations have been removed for status damage effects (poison, fire, etc.)
  
• Description corrected for the set The Impetuous One's Armour:
  
  
  • Burning enemies take more damage.
  
  
• Experience bonus added depending on player number and difficulty level
  
• Destructible objects’ life updated to depend on difficulty and players’ level
  
• Skills descriptions now provide more information
  
• Position corrected for the final Chests at the end of Relic Hunt maps
  
• End game level randomization has been improved

• Armor bonuses increased for all characters
  
• Critical hits bonuses increased for all characters
  
• Special bonuses increased for all characters

• Correction to Veteran's Chain Reaction skill
  
• Scout's Chain Reaction provides a better movement speed increase
  
• Duelist's Chain Reaction provides a better critical hit damage increase

• Slice damages are increased. The hit radius has also been increased.
  
• Shielded Charge deals more damages and slows enemies
  
• Sigmar's Blessing provides a bonus that lasts longer
  
• Sigmar's Wrath’s collision zone has been reduced

• Arcane Manifestation particle effects have been slowed down
  
• Arcane Hail burn effect removed
  
• Phantom Blade knockback reduced, but has a wider hitbox
  
• Phantom Blade – Mastered reduces damages taken while attacking
  
• Blinding Light costs more Energy but deals more damage
  
• Blinding Light – Superior costs more energy, burn and slow have been removed, but damage dealt has been increased.
  
• Blinding Light – Mastered costs more energy, generates less health, but deals more damage
  
• Breath of Fire – Superior has been modified: Send forth a blast of fire that damages, burns and taunts enemies.
  
• Aetheric Vortex now costs more energy
  
• Aether Blast costs more energy and burn effect has been removed
  
• Aetheric Storm has a longer cooldown but deals more damage
  
• Reading the Aether – Mastered: the damage boost while using Aether Handling are lowered, but now the skill reduces damage taken

• Living Roots deals less damage but traps now stay indefinitely
  
• Hungry Roots deals more damage
  
• Hungry Roots – Superior has been modified:
  
  
  • Lay a persistent trap on the ground that triggers when an enemy approaches it. Enemies hit are damaged and slowed. All players are granted a damage reduction bonus each time an enemy is hit by the trap. Only one trap of this type can be laid at a time.
  
  
• Hungry Roots – Mastered has been modified:
  
  
  • Lay a persistent poison trap on the ground that triggers when an enemy approaches it. Enemies hit are damaged, poisoned and slowed. Only one trap of this type can be laid at a time.
  
  
• Queen's Wrath cooldown increased
  
• Defiler's Reckoning cooldown decreased
  
• Ambush Specialist has been modified:
  
  
  • Traps deal more damage to slowed enemies.
  
  
• Ambush Specialist – Superior has been modified:
  
  
  • Traps deal more damage to slowed enemies. Performing a roll leaves a trap behind.
  
  
• Ambush Specialist – Mastered has been modified:
  
  
  • Traps deal more damage to slowed enemies. The maximum number of each type of trap is increased.
  
  
• Nature's Herald bonus power increased
  
• The upgraded skill Spinning Blades – Heroic has a longer cooldown but deals more damage
  

• Taunt effect added to Whirlwind of Blades
  
• Scythe and Scythe – Superior hitboxes have been increased
  
• Scythe – Mastered has been modified:
  
  
  • Throw a spinning axe that has a chance to slow down enemies. Enemies who are bleeding suffer more damage.
  
  
• Laceration and Laceration – Superior hitboxes have been increased
  
• Laceration – Mastered has a larger hitbox, but the duration and the bonus’ granted have been reduced
  
• Strike of the Anvil – Superior has a larger hitbox

• The Symbiosis arc bonuses have been increased
  
• The Executors daggers bonuses have been increased
  
• The Tireless Guardians daggers bonuses have been increased
  
• The Debt of the Eternal Queen equipment bonuses have been increased
  
• The Starlight Armour equipment set bonuses have been increased

• Old Ring of Resonance physical damage dealt increased
  
• Old Ring of Dexterity bonuses have been increased
  
• Old Ring of Shadow dodge bonus increased
  
• Potion cooldown reduction effect of the Enchanted Jade Medal, Phoenix Amulet, Pendant of the Rebel, and Spring Talisman necklaces has been lowered

• Kessler’s aura now increases damages taken instead of slowing

• New Invasion’s semi-boss: Skraeling
  
• Attraction skill cooldown for the Daemonettes Herald and Chaosspawn has been increased
  
• Pincer snap hitbox of the Chaosspawn has been decreased. Bleed duration has also been decreased.

• Chest positions corrected at the end of Relic Hunt levels
  
• Cost reduction and cooldown statistic capped at 80%
  
• Invasion mode passive skill Veteran's Chain Reaction fixed
  
• Persistent collision problems with Elessa's traps fixed
  
• Various multiplayer issues fixed
  
• Problem with Invasion menu getting blocked with a controller fixed
  
• Elontir's tornado collisions fixed
  
• Cooldown reduction effect for potions have been removed
  
• New statistics related to potions have been added
  
• God skills are unequipped automatically after resetting the God Skill Tree
  
• Endgame level randomness improved
  
• Resolution detection method changed. This fixes a problem where some resolutions were not found for certain players. Important: for this fix, graphics options will be reset for all players when the patch is applied
  
• Various bug fixes

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