The Armory and Control Update

Full Controller Support

• Full support for XBox, Playstation, Steam, and most other controllers

• Fully configurable and rebindable under Menu -> Controls

New Weapons

• Spear - Medium range melee weapon. When not in use, charges for a thrown attack. Thrown spears root and amplify damage.

• Shield - Captain America style thrown ranged/defensive weapon. When held, blocks attacks to build lightning charges.

• Cluster Grenades - Long range area of effect weapon.

New Race

• Zombie - Convert enemies to allies and chew your way through even the most powerful foes. The bite is mightier than the sword.

New Item Type - Activated

• Apparition Stone - Instantly teleport to a target location.

• Arrowfell Shield - A wave of energy pulses outward destroying nearby projectiles.

• Feather of Sepicles - Winds sweep every creature, including you, in a target direction.

• Severed Hand of the Lich - Resets the cooldown of your last activated skill.

• Silkfang Spinneret - Fire a bundle of silk that roots enemies in place.

Daily Challenge Improvements

• You can now view results from past dailies alongside current leaderboards

• Added a hard mode daily

Keyboard Only Control Mode

• Press J to activate keyboard-only mode, perfect for laptops, traveling, etc

Skill Changes

• Follower health is now based on hits and no longer scales with skill mastery.

• Physical skills now scale half as effectively with skill mastery (still scale fully with attack damage), ex: as your skill mastery increases from 100% to 200%, Whirlwind previously dealt 2.0x damage, now deals 1.5x damage.

• Damage Amplification no longer scales with skill mastery (previously scaled very slowly).

• Stun Durations no longer scale with skill mastery (previously scaled very slowly).

• Cyclone - damage -10%

• Displacement Bolt - added extremely brief invulnerability after activation

• Ethereal Projection - ~10% less initial damage; max upgrade damage unchanged; 10% faster projectile speed

• Flame Wave - damage +5%

• Hook - initial damage reduced by 50%; damage amp from 20/40/60 to 25/50/75; damage amp duration after hook ends from 2 to 1.5

• Rocket - damage +5%

• Shadow Strike - damage from 120/210/300% to 140/245/350%

• Shockwave - damage amp from 20/40/60 to 25/50/75

• Skeleton Mines - tooltip now shows "total damage" instead of forcing you to calculate

• Spirit Walk - max upgrade damage increased by 20% (initial damage unchanged)

• Telekinesis - now deals damage upon initial grip in addition to collisions

• Turret - damage increased by 33%; no longer pierces; health no longer scales with skill mastery

• Unyielding Charge - cooldown no longer changes with skill level

• Vacuum Grenade - increased throw speed, area of effect, and damage

• Whirlwind - damage from 70/123/175% to 80/140/200%

• Elf Strangling Vines - area of effect now increases with skill level; damage amp from 20/40/60 to 25/50/75

• Halfling Sneak Attack - bonus damage from 70/123/175% to 80/140/200%

• Human Squire - corpses can no longer be consumed by flesheaters or raised by necromancers; health no longer scales with skill mastery

• Orc Blood Ritual - health cost reduced from 30/20/10 to 15/15/15

Item Changes

• Sales - items now have a 1/6 chance to spawn "on sale" at ~35% reduced price

• Town stat item gold cost increased from 75 to 90

• Town overworld item gold cost increased from 30 to 35

• Blacksmith/Jeweler set component item gold cost reduced from 100 to 80; stats and completion effects reworked for all sets

• Activated items now appear in the town and bazaar item pools

• Special overworld items now appear in the town item pool

• Normal fights no longer drop overworld items

• Dusting towns now reveals only an additional overworld item choice (not an additional stat item choice)

Weapon Changes

• Crossbow - damage multiplier increased from 0.9 to 1.0

• Dagger - movement speed bonus now increases with skill upgrades (10/15/20)

• Flaming Staff - fixed a bug that resulted in damage calculations above the stated values

• Musket - damage now increases with skill upgrades (0/10/20)

• Stone Sword - damage increase with skill upgrade reduced from (0/25/50) to (0/15/30)

God Changes

• Furere (Boss) - increased health

• Proctus (Boss) - protector respawn is now indicated by a visible timer; protectors now respawn with less health each time a protector is killed

• Sepicles (Boss) - increased health

• Halarin (Enemy Buff) - regeneration rate in god plane and temple fights now decreases by 10% every 10 seconds

• Halarin (Player Buff) - now provides stacking attack damage and skill mastery for each battle the player ends at full health

• Necrus (Player Buff) - now summons 1/2/3 followers depending on favor

• Proctus (Player Buff) - tooltip updated to reflect the fact that followers benefit too

• Sepicles (Player Buff) - tooltip updated to reflect the fact that followers benefit too

Fixes & Misc

• Custom Mode now allows difficulty selection

• While the player is under the protection of proctus getting hit sometimes did not trigger temporary invulnerability

• Summoner/Necromancer spawned Whirler attacks would sometimes not trigger temporary invulnerability

• Temple hover and god favor text updated to make it more clear that only your highest-favor god will grant a blessing

• Improved control rebinding UI

• Alchemist's Amulet now correctly grants bonus gold for minigame clears

• Hovered items now glow in shops

• New death cinematic images for the phoenix and god fights

• Treasure Defense - small goblins are no longer targeted by lightning bolts from furere's blessing

• Hazard hover now informs the player that there is a guaranteed overworld item drop

• Minibosses now take damage from hazards

• Tutorial now informs new players that you can swap skill hotkey ordering in the pause menu

• Fixed visual bug: timer shows :60 instead of 1:00 in bottom right

• Fixed area of effect indicator on furere lightning (previously too small)

• Fixed area of effect indicator on grenades and firespark explosions (previously too small)

• Fixed a bug that could occasionally prevent the player from activating multiple skills simultaneously while attacking

• Lots of minor bug fixes and adjustments based on player feedback