Alchemical Awakening Balancing update 0.7.2.1

Aethermancers!

We just released another small patch accompanying our Alchemical Awakening update! We are nerfing some of the over-performing Echo skills, but also buffing some types that performed not as well recently. We also fixed quite some more bugs!

Small Changes

• Added Skip Button to Khepri Cutscene (for now only works once you are in the “Combat” view part of the cutscene)

• When there is a conflict between a local and a remote savefile the timestamps of when each save file was last saved are now displayed to help with the decision

Type, Monster & Other Balancing Changes

Echo:

• Molten Charm: Changed to: “Applies Echo to target ally. On Echo: Target ally generates 1 Random Aether. Free Action.”

  • Old effect: Target ally generates 1 Random Aether. Applies Echo to that ally. Free Action.

• Ripple Charm: Changed to: “Applies Echo to target ally. On Echo: Applies Dodge to target ally. Free Action.”

  • Old effect: Applies Dodge and Echo to target ally. Free Action.

• Echo Glacier: Reduced base damage to 2 x 4 (from 2 x 5)

• Chorus: Required support actions to generate Aether adjusted to 7 (from 5)

• Blessed Pact: Damage adjusted to 1 for every 4 buffs consumed / applied (from 1 for every 3)

• Overheal: Removed the Healing +1 perk

• Bubbling Echo: Reduced healing to 2 x 4 (from 2 x 5) and reduced shielding to 1 x 4 (from 2 x 3)

• Voice: Echo application adjusted to 1 for every 7 allied Actions (from 1 for every 6 allied Actions)

• Sanctuary: Shielding per Echo stack reduced to 2 (from 3)

• Unbound Aether: Healing reduced to 3 (from 4)

• Echoes of Torment: Echo stacks applied reduced to 2 (from 3)

• Shout: Shielding removed

• Positive Vibrations: Healing reduced to 2 (from 3)

Regeneration:

• Energizing Strike (Action): Damage increased to 4 x 3 (from 4 x 2), debuff cleansing reduced to 3 (from 4)

• Reactive Storm (Maverick Action): Crit Chance increased to +20% (from +15%)

• Massive Regeneration (Maverick Trait): Now increases Regeneration healing by 1 for every 20 health (instead of every 25 health)

Terror:

• Foreboding Rain (Action): Terror applied increased to 4 (from 3)

• Bone Chill (Action): Terror applied increased to 6 (from 5)

• Hail Storm (Action): Terror applied increased to 3 (from 2)

• Chilling Trap (Maverick Action): Terror applied increased to 7 (from 6)

• Tyrant (Maverrick Trait): Terror applied increased to 1 for every 5 shield (from 1 for every 10 shield)

Burn:

• Bonfire (Action): Burn applied increased to 3 (from 2)

• Alchemical Charge (Action): Damage increased to 3 x 5 (from 3 x 4)

• Lightning Charge (Maverick Action): Damage increased to 3 x 5 (from 3 x 4)

• Electrical Burn (Maverick Trait): Damage increased to 15 (from 11)

Purge:

• Mud Fling (Action): Healing increased to 10 (from 7)

• Ebb (Maverick Action): Purged Aether increased to 5 (from 4)

Age:

• Mud Tide (Action): Healing increased to 2 x 7 (from 2 x 6)

• Cleansing Flame (Action): Healing increased to 5 (from 4), debuff cleansed increased to 5 (from 4)

• Summon Wisp (Maverick Action): Shield Upkeep increased to +3 (from +2)

Critical:

• Splatter (Critical Trait): Crit Chance increased to 30% (from 25%)

• Cunning Minions (Critical/Sumon Maverick Trait): Crit Chance per minion increased to 15% (from 10%)

Heal:

• Cleanse Corruption (Trait): Healing perk increased to +2 (from +1)

• Natural Cure (Action): Debuffs cleansed increased to 6 (from 4)

• Auto Heal (Trait): Healing increased to 3 x 3 (from 2 x 3)

• Snow Mark (Maverick Action): Healing increased to 3 x 5 (from 2 x 7)

• Synchronous Healing (Maverick Trait): Healing increased to 2 x 5 (from 2 x 4)

Summon:

• Increased the essence for several Maverick Summon Actions: Faun, Wisp, Yokai, Salamander, Impundulu, to 5 (from 4)

Others:

• Champion Ravager changes

  • Removed Crit Damage +1 perk

  • Vestige-2 trait changed to Cosmic Horror (instead of Nightmare)

• Champion Dullahan changes:

  • Dullahan (both shifted & unshifted): Vestige-1 trait changed to Shared Torment (from Aggressive Purging)

  • Dullahan (both shifted & unshifted): Shielding perk increased to +2 (from +1)

  • Shifted Dullahan: Vestige-2 trait changed to Tyrant (from Cosmic Horror)

• Increased cost of Epic Artifacts at the Merchant to 35 (from 25)

• Domovoy: First perk increased to Healing +2 (from +1)

Bug Fixes

• Adjusted skill acquisition requirements:

  • Fortify: Requires summons in the party

  • Boreal Blessing: Requires summons in the party

  • Ebb: Requires Echo in the party

  • Essence Eruption: Requires summons in the party

  • Aethereal Minions: Requires summons in the party

  • Afflicted Minions: Requires summons in the party

  • Afterstorm: Removed requirement for evasion

  • Bloodletting: Requires Weakness in the party

  • Bloody Echoes: Requires Echo in the party

  • Blind: Requires either Terror or Evasion in the party

  • Chorus: Requires support actions in the party

  • Cosmic Echo: Requires Echo in the party

  • Echo Chamber: Requires Echo in the party

  • Echoes of Torment: Requires support actions

  • Echolocation: Requires Echo in the party

  • Critical Purging: Removed requirement for Crit Chance

  • Dread and Gore: Requires either Terror or Bleed in the party

  • Ember Pact: Requires purging / stealing Aether in the party

  • Immortal Evil: Requires Regeneration in the party

  • Overheal: Requires heals in the party

  • Positive Vibrations: Requires Echo in the party

  • Sanctuary: Requires Echo in the party

  • Torpor: Requires Weakness in the party

  • Tyrant: Requires Terror or Shields in the party

  • Unbound Aether: Requires support action

• Fixed Living Armor weakness reduction not processed correctly when enemies were doing not much damage with their hits

• Added the missing shield cap to Crystalize

• Fixed possible loading issues and teleporting back to Pilgrim’s Rest when entering a portal

• Fixed Evasion Mastery not taking all of the crit chance into account

• Skull can no longer multiply buff stacks applied to your own monsters

• Fixed merchant discount never applied onto the artifact

• Fixed the artifact offered at merchant always being improved version when you had the ‘Merchant Rarity Upgrade’

• Fix being able to get "Interacted with : 9" texts etc.

• Fix Bronze Lion Reset Action description

• Update Alchemical Woods Soulbound Prices for Lilly to match the ones from Pilgrimage Path

• Fix Japanese Loca for the Skill Explosive Release

• Make Khepri 2nd and 3rd Phase Tutorial stop time to avoid weird interactions with retaliates

• Fixed Overheal description

• Fixed Loyal Minions sometimes not applying the 2 Essence bonus

• Fixed Synchronous Healing only triggering one heal instead of two

We also have quite some more bigger-effort reworks and adjustments for some other skills planned (like certain Terror skills), but those will come with the next bigger update!