Patch 2 Update 3

NEW ITEMS:
Neanderthal's Tooth: Metallic spells gain -1 requires LOS. Blood spells gain +1 radius. Slime spells gain quick cast.
Wyrm Spirit Armor: When a Dragon ally dies, gain 10% resistance to damage types matching their tags until the end of the realm. Dragon spells gain +2 max charges.
Balor's Eye Staff: When you deal damage with an Eye spell, deal that much damage again in a beam to the target, destroying walls and clouds in the way.
Tundra Mantle: Each turn, soaked enemies in a 5-tile radius are frozen for 3 turns. +2 charges to Ice spells. 75% Ice resistance.
Explosive Spore Manual: Cast your Combust Poison for free at the end of each turn.
Veilpiercer's Monocle: Gain Clarity when you cast a Translocation spell. Buff duration equals the spell’s level.
Wound Rot Amulet: Enemies receive 3 turns of Poison when they take physical damage.
Mask of Woe: At the end of your turn, increase the duration of debuffs on enemies in a 3-tile radius by 1.
Caustic Sprig: Poisoned enemies lose one temporary buff each turn.
Fast Hand Gloves: Consumables are now quick cast.
Helm of Hexes: When an enemy receives a debuff, there is a 50% chance they gain another random debuff for the same duration. (Chosen from Blind, Poison, Stun, Frozen, Petrified, Feared, Silenced)


Bugfixes:
Spell upgrades that add tags now update the current charges of affected spells, and no longer cause spells to load into levels with reduced charges.
Plague of Undeath buff is now correctly typed as a debuff.
Earthwrath updated to not travel over chasms or through walls.
Fixed Death Cleave’s Marked for Death upgrade crashing the game.
Fixed Toxin Burst’s Withertoxin upgrade adding a second Dark tag, causing double dipping from Dark damage bonuses.
Fixed a bug where Lightning Storm’s Particle Storm upgrade continued dealing Arcane damage even after clouds expired.
Fixed a bug where Dreamwalk Nightmare Form upgrade caused a crash when dealing damage from sources without tags.
Fire Wyrm Eggs and Ice Wyrm Eggs should hatch into their worms from any kill effects instead of only damage. (e.g., Mass Calcification)
Fixed a bug where Magnetize Liquid Magnetism reduced the player's Mercurize spell duration to 1.
Fixed a bug with Darkness' Dark Clouds upgrade that caused a crash if minions acquired the buff.
Fixed Natural Healing triggering from all wizard spells, now only triggers from Nature spells.
Fixed Codex of Sacrifice giving Word Spells in Oner (Oner now removes unlearned spells from the Spellbook)
Fixed a bug where certain status effects with shorter duration would override the same effects with permanent duration.


Balance:
Gravity Blade updated to keep the blade active longer, scaling with duration. Pull now occurs on cast and at the end of each of its turns.
Boss modifier HP propagation fixed: now always applies unless the unit is a splitter (e.g., Boneshamblers, Wormballs), matching intended behavior.
Venom Spit gains a duration stat, as implied by its tooltip.
Chaos tags added to Mutant Wolf and Mutant Wizard upgrades to reflect chaotic nature.
Holy Armor smiting thorns SP cost increased from 3 → 4. Now scales with damage stat. (Hovering over the buff shows damage.)
Lightning Storm’s Lightning Star upgrade removed (too confusing/weird to implement), replaced with Surestrike (+50 strike chance).
Chaos Lord updated. Now gives 33% bonus to Chaos max charges, damage, num_targets, num_summons, and minion_damage.
Clarity now clears Stun and Silence effects. (Added Clarity text to the (H)elp page)


UI & QoL:
Can now PgUp/PgDn while hovering over a spell in the left panel to view upgrades.
Can now PgUp/PgDn while hovering over an unlocked portal to examine contents.
Hallucinogenic Spore Staff tooltip updated to clarify when Berserk is applied.
No more duplicate hats in damage conversion chests.
Spells with random damage types now show "or" between types instead of "and".
Plague of Undeath extra examine tooltip now shows the Zombie it summons.
Gates of Helheim tooltip updated to reflect Aelf lightning stats instead of melee attack.
Wyrm Eggs spell tooltip simplified.
Spider spawning skill tooltip simplified.
Faehaunt Garden Guardian Gnomes tooltip updated to show scaling with num_summons.
Death Cleave’s Marked for Death upgrade now highlights connected Reapers when mousing over afflicted units.


Trials:
Weekly was incorrectly setting RespawnAs 100% of the time instead of 10% as intended.
Added 50% damage to all spells to the weekly modifier pool.
Added 50% range to all spells to the weekly modifier pool.
Added 50% max charges to all spells to the weekly modifier pool.
Added 50% duration to all spells to the weekly modifier pool.
Added +3 and +5 turn cooldown to all wizard spells to the weekly modifier pool.
Added +2 and +3 HP cost to all spells to the weekly modifier pool.
Added All Flying to the weekly modifier pool.
Added All Burrowing to the weekly modifier pool.
Added Super Spawners modifier to the weekly modifier pool. (Enemy spawners get 2x HP and -4 spell cooldown)
Added -5 and -10 max HP at the end of each level to the weekly modifier pool. (Will not kill you)
Added Memory Leak to the weekly modifier pool. (Forget a random spell at the end of each realm. Cannot be purchased; SP refunded.)
Added Empty Pockets modifier to the weekly modifier pool. (No consumables)
Added Forgetful 3 and 6 to the weekly modifier pool. (Every 3 or 6 turns, lose a random spell charge)
Added Awestruck 5 and 10 to the weekly modifier pool. (Every 5 or 10 turns, get stunned for 1 turn)
Added Treachery 10 and 15 to the weekly modifier pool. (Every 10 or 15 turns, a random ally joins the enemy team)
Added Thieving 20 and 30 to the weekly modifier pool. (Every 20 or 30 turns, a random object on the level is removed. Includes SP orbs, Portals, Chests, Hearts, Consumables)
Added Crumbling 10 and 20 to the weekly modifier pool. (Every 10 or 20 turns, unoccupied tiles adjacent to chasms have a 10% chance to turn into chasms.)
Added Corrupted to the weekly modifier pool. (Triggers an Orb of Corruption effect when a level is completed.)

Added Corrupted Trial. (Triggers an Orb of Corruption effect when a level is completed.)

Patch 2 Update 2 Notes:

Huge thanks to all the beta players for the feedback, bug reports, and busted strategy discoveries. This update brings some slimy new content, a rework to Devour Mind, a handful of balance tweaks, and fixes for bugs both new and old.

Balance Changes:

Devour Mind reworked:
Level 3
Arcane/Conjuration/Dark/Sorcery
Range: 4
Max Charges: 8
Minion Damage: 5

Deal 24 arcane and 24 dark damage to an enemy unit. Then, if the target is under 50% HP, deal that damage again. If this kills the target, they are raised as a zombie. Can only target living, demon, and arcane units.

Upgrades:
Horde Mode: cost 5 : Zombies raised by this spell can cast it on a 7 turn cooldown.
Gluttony : cost 4 : If Devour Mind kills the target, heal for half the target's max HP. Adds Blood tag.
Brain Freeze: cost 3 : Devour Mind: deals ice damage in addition to arcane and dark. If the target lives, they are frozen for 3 turns. Additionally, each of their abilities gains +3 cooldown. Adds Ice tag.

Slimeshot added functionality:
Now explodes your slime if cast on it and adds that slime’s max HP to the damage dealt

Slimy Boss modifier tuned down:
HP regen reduced to flat 2 per turn
Slime splits when max HP > base HP + 10
Always chooses a matching slime type (Green is fallback only)

Regeneration Aura - Regenerative Goop reworked:
Slimes healed by the aura now heal adjacent allies

Invoke Savagery – Savage Leap tuned:
now scales with radius stat

Pain Mirror – Dulled Pain:
cost reduced from 5 → 3

Spikeball Factory – Defense System:
now prefers spawning Spikeballs over shooting

Codex of Sacrifice changes:
Now only grants SP-learnable spells (no more cheesing those tag specific archmage trials)
The word spell is awarded after other level completion events (Grants the word after spells are awarded in Wild Magic, although rerolling causes it to be lost)

Bug Fixes and Misc:
Various Tooltip and typo fixes. (Thanks for continuing to report these!)
Fixed Holy Flame – Heaven’s Call not refunding charges
Fixed Lightning Form – Crackling Aura damaging allies
Fixed Magnetize damage attribution (now correctly counts as Enchantment tagged damage)
Fixed Rain Storm - Acid Rain damage attribution (now correctly counts the spell as the source)
Fixed Ice Vortex – Drake Calling spawning too many Ice Drakes when combined with Ice Tap or Draco Antiphony Scepter
Fixed crash from cloud removal with Storm Legion Banner & Blizzard Legion Banner
Fixed Vampiricism's Enthrall upgrade incorrectly working on non-living targets
Fixed Glass Orb's Enchantment Refraction recasting all enchantments, instead of only self-targeted ones
Fixed a bug with Slimeshot - Storm Transmutation which caused newly summoned slimes to be hit by the spell

New Content:

Amalgamate Slime: (Spell)
Level 3
Slime/Sorcery
Max Charges: 3
Range: Global
Requires LoS: False

All slime units in a connected group are amalgamated onto the target. The target gains the max hp, resists, spells, and spell damage, of the affected units. Target loses the base slime buff, and gains the Slimy boss buff. This spell must target a friendly slime unit.

Upgrades:
Global Network: cost 2 : Affects all friendly slimes in the level instead of those in a connected group.
Slime Drinker: cost 3 : You may target yourself with this spell. Casting it on yourself causes you to ignore its other effects, and heal for the total health of slimes absorbed.
Absorption: cost 4 : Slimes steal 1 max hp from adjacent enemy units before amalgamating. Adds the Blood tag.
Slimy Mimic: cost 6 : Instead of consolidating into the target slime, summons a random monster with the slimy boss modifier. The monster summoned depends on the total health of the absorbed slimes, with higher health pools yielding more powerful monsters. The summoned monster's health is set to the total health of the absorbed slimes. Adds the Chaos tag.


Slimebirth Cantromancy (Skill)
Level 5
Arcane/Slime

When an allied slime is spawned, it casts a random cantrip you know that shares a tag with it


Macrophagic Mask: (Head Equipment)
When a Living or Slime ally deals damage to an enemy, they gain 1 max HP.


Oozing Scale Armor: (Robe Equipment)
When you take damage from an enemy, spawn a slime matching the damage type. If none match, spawn a random slime.


Slimy Voodoo Mantle: (Robe Equipment)
If you would take damage, deal that damage to an adjacent slime ally instead.