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0.21.5a

  • Improved formatting for /channel command
  • Necromancer's Weapon set now has poison accuracy poison
  • Ability accuracy scaling adjusted so that you get the full benefit of your primary style summed with the average of the non-primary style affinities. This makes it much more accurate than in 0.21.5, but still less accurate than 0.21.4 and before.
  • Transform Chances are now revealed in the UI
  • Dungeon Clear time Group message
  • Individual dungeon personal best tracking by difficulty

You will need to log back in after this update due to login changes.

Technical

  • A massive revamp of technical handling of our development environment and updating our tools
  • Login process has been overhauled. You will need to log back in to the game after this update.

UI

  • Revamped Character Selection Menu
  • Updates to a lot of text issues and legibility
  • Added affix slots UI component to match enchantment slots
  • Added notification numbers and in summary for unaccepted quests or ones that are ready for turn in
  • Add Action Queue skip to next

Balance

  • Black Knight's Gauntlet augment cost reduced, stats and aug bonuses rebalanced to make it the obvious Best in Slot for melee
  • Accuracy ability scaling formula has been redone; it no longer massively boosts accuracy just by having other scaling types by takes the average of all scaling values.
  • Wizard's wisdom gives some accuracy bonus
  • Adjusted elven heavy armor crafting recipe
  • Rebalanced a lot of quest objectives to not require a huge amount of time or items to accomplish
  • Rebalance Dark Vault Infernal Dust drops

Monster Balance

MASSIVE overhaul of monster stats. They have higher base stats across the board, but also are much more susceptible to weaknesses. Accuracy will matter a lot more as well. This will make building equipment properly more important as well as make the higher difficulties more of a challenge. This is a massive buff for monsters.

Other

  • Can no longer add temporary icons to profile display because they interact in a buggy way
  • Added Empowered Root Digging to plat shop
  • Fix alchemy amount sometimes being one off intended