Season 3.5:Awakening Patch notes

CHAOS WEEK: Season 3.5 - AWAKENING Patch Notes

Thursday, March 20th Patch Notes:

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a visual issue causing players to still hold weapons while mounted.

• Resolved a physics issue so that it's no longer possible to push bosses out of the arena.

• Fixed an issue causing Time Tears visuals to persist in rupture even after killing their summoned elite.

• Corrected the problem that was causing Exploding Seeds to not deal any damage.

• Fixed enemies spawning location in the Grave Digger's Cove

• Smoothened the dissolve visual effect of containers

Gameplay:

• Archeon Mistress's damage reduced.

• Kaotika (Bridge of the Demigods) damage reduced.

• Attack speed nodes now give % instead of flat attack speed.

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Wednesday, March 19th Patch Notes:

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a rendering issue that was causing the Racial Trait tooltip to stick out of the screen.

• Corrected Fist weapon visuals.

• Fixed a bug that was causing players to get stuck running in a certain direction.

• Resolved the Lightning Beam flicker.

• Fixed the bug that was causing auto-attack to become disabled after dashing.

• Kraken Seed "Run over kraken seeds to shoot projectiles" now correctly gives Projectile Affinity.

• Correct a calculation that was causing armor pieces to not receive the intended amount of Armor.

• Slightly increased amount of items that can be dropped by enemies inside ruptures.

• Elites spawning from Time Tear can now properly spawn as Prime.

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Tuesday, March 18th Patch Notes:

Bug Fixes:

• Resolved additional navigation issues causing enemies to spawn in the ground or out of bounds.

• Fixed a bug that was causing Spears special ability (dash) icon to not disappear after changing stance

• Corrected an issue that was causing Spark's Plasma sphere to fly off into the horizon.

• Corrected various Typos

• Reduced life-steal's sound effect volume

• Fixed an issue where only parts of a boss enemy would light up on hit indication

• Made performance optimizations to DeathClaws and Empowered DeathClaws

Gameplay

• Added Luck stat nodes to skill tree

• Slightly reduced enemy health growth algorithm

• Fists:

• Juggernaut Manifest's critical damage augmentation has been reduced to 50% (down form 100%)

• Slightly reduced chance to gain an Excitement stack on critical Hit

• Removed Combo points scaling based on stance Mastery.

• Combo points now augment secondary ability damage instead of adding to it.

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Monday, March 17th Patch Notes:

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue that was preventing containers from spawning properly in Infused ruptures.

• Corrected an issue with Energy Spheres damage calculation

• Removed bottom shadow from environment messages box

• Resolved the issue causing some Legendary items to roll with double stats.

• Fixed the issue causing Spirit shade Nightshade to spawn their walls in the air

• Prime variant of Trux The Imp will now spawn an additional laser.

• Fixed an issue that was preventing Offhands from working properly in the loot area of Bridge of the Demigods.

• Juggernaut Manifest will now correctly increase melee auto attack range by 25% for the duration.

Gameplay:

• Juggernaut Manifest is now available as a monogram on the Helmet slot.

• 'Gain 25% health Regeneration but potions do not heal you' Monogram has been increased to give 100% health regeneration.

• Added Elemental Type description to offhand tooltip

Fists - Major Changes:

• Fists proficiency Mastery will now increase the bonus damage gained from combo points.

• Soul Strike has been revamped, and will no longer causes players to be immobilized, and does not apply 15% damage reduction.

• Ground Pound: Damage modifier increased by 20%, Range increased by 30%.

• Deathly Revolver: Damage modifier reduced by 10%.

• Fervent Punch's attack speed speed has been significantly increased, Damage modifier reduced by 20%.

• Juggernaut Manifest Critical Chance bonus reduced to 25% (100% ->25%), and now doubles the Critical Damage bonus for the duration.

Offhand Abilities:

• Arcane Orbs: Chaos Orbs modifier will now provide Explosion affinity

• Chain Lightning:

  • Additional Damage with each link modifier now gives +20% Damage per additional link (up from 10%).

  • Jump two Additional times Modifier now adds Area affinity

• Ferocity of Wolves: "One of your Wolves turns into a Bat" Modifier no longer provides Sky affinity.

• Eye Of the Storm no longer has Orbit affinity by default.

• Lightning Beam stays longer modifier:

  • Duration increased by 0.5 seconds. (1s -> 1.5s)

  • Damage increased by 10% (10% -> 20%)

  • Now applies Momentum affinity

• Delusions of Zelkore

  • Lava Spike modifier: Reduced time to spawn spikes in order to improve viability on moving targets.

• Arcane Apocalypse

  • Slightly reduced delay between spawn and explosion in order to improve viability on moving targets.

• Arcane Totem now has Ground affinity by default

• **Spark **now has Sky affinity by Default.

  • Plasma Sphere modifier has undergone major changes:

    • Plasma Sphere no longer spawns spark on enemies.

    • Plasma sphere will now explodes when it despawns, dealing 100% damage.

    • Sparks can now jump onto Plasma Sphere, and be consumed in favor of extra damage.

    • Chance to spawn plasma reduced to 15%. (was 20%)

    • Increased time between ticks by 65%, amount of Ticks has been doubled.

    • Damage bonus and chance to spawn Plasma sphere now properly stacks.

    • Plasma Sphere modifier now grants Explosion affinity.

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Sunday, March 16th Patch Notes:

Gameplay

• Legendary (purple) Items will now drop the same Stat for flat and percent bonus.

• All Health regeneration nodes on the skill tree have been increase by x10

• Fist's blessing abilities (Blinding Rage, Zen Meditation) now apply Augmentation instead of Percent. Augmentation enhances or reduces an attribute by applying a direct scaling effect to its **total **value.

• Prime Elites now correctly give double Essence, additional experience, and will always grant a reward container when killed.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved a lot of Navigation issues that were causing Enemies and Containers to spawn out of bounds.

• Excitement now gives correct Attack speed bonus.

• Resolved an issue that was causing items to disappear in the Workbench.

• Fixed the calculation for "Gain 1% health per potion" monogram.

• Skill tree nodes for "Hazard' Affinity now gives the correct bonus.

• Damage in Character sheet UI now shows total damage, including all % bonuses.

• Fixed an issue where players would pick up more potions than they can carry.

• Resolved an issue that was hiding the used abilities in Fists stance from Leaderboard.

• Added Fist Weapons and Items to all boss drops it was missing from.

• Corrected Underrrealm icons and texts for Fists stance.

• Removed a small invisible wall in the Home Fort.

• Resolved an issue that was causing some bosses to teleport out of bounds.

• Fixed an exploit that was allowing players to loot containers an infinite amount times.

• Corrected an issue that was preventing Prime Elites from spawning when an elite spawns through the Monogram bonus.

• Fixed a wrong calculation that was causing Fervent Punch to sometimes deal negative damage.

• Resolved an issue that was enabling Juggernaut Manifest bonus to work while not using Fist weapons.