TL;DR - This patch adresses some major bugs, fixes the exploding fungus behaviour, adds further improvements to the environment overall and quality of life features to the Armory.


Armory QoL:
• You can now move items from the Armory to your character Inventory
• Improved sorting when in a preset tab, surfacing most relevant items first
• Added more featured affixes, e.g. "Heal on Level" to the Defensive preset
• Added filtering by item tier
• Transfer to stash now ignores lore books

Environment:
• Decreased Act 3 global darkness so areas with 0 light sources won't be pitch black
• Reordered all the trees on Act 3 and cut some for better pathfinding
• Increased the distance at which trees detect they should fade when players come near

Unique Items:
• Cipher reworked

Blessings:
• Stone Golem summon count scaling 100% > 20%
• Tidal Force chance 60% > 100% (last lvl)
• Sickles of Mort 120% > 150% Attack Damage

Enemies:
• Fungus plays windup animation before explosion
• Fungus now only deals damage on explode, not death
• Fungus explode has attack warning

Optimizations:
• Performance improved on preloading mobs

Bugs:
• Fixed map objects becoming non-interactable.
• Fixed Lady of the Lake getting stuck and freezing in place
• Fixed enemy mobs as well as Lady of the Lake sometimes going out of boss arenas
• Fixed Act 2 bosses not teleporting inside black fire arena
• Fixed summon count bugs
• Fixed ranger not being able to shoot at the top of the boss arenas
• Fixed Necromancer teleport glitch
• Fixed Djinn teleport glitches
• Fixed arbiters infinite damage bug

Enemies:
• Wraiths Dash-Attack cooldown scaling 100% > 50%
• Wraith Dash now has a windup animation
• Moss Guardians now can't spawn more than 2 in a wave
• Fungi damage reduced by half
• Frog King tongue skill damage scaling from darkness 100% > 33%; Base damage -30%

Summons:
• Stone Golem now has proper Spawn & Death animation

Blessings:
• Sickles Attack Damage scaling improved +100% (6% > 12%, etc.)
• Infusions will now no longer be a certain roll

Talents:
• Druid Maniac now gives Dash Recharge Speed %
• Extra Thick! renamed to Freedom! and now required for Eagle form (Since it enables flying over roots without getting stuck and in that sense is essential for the Eagle form)
• Warchief Attack Damage 80% > 90%
• Cooldown 1.2s > 1.0s

Shop:
• Doubled mythic drop rate progression in shop

Locations:
• A certain location now drops Jade Rabbit to help with achievement hunting

Darkness:
Summary: Made easier on higher darkness to support more builds
• Monster Darkness Scaling returned to linear again
• Monster Darkness Life Scaling at 100 made easier - From 170% > 1360% to 170% > 340% over the course of the 20 minutes to support more builds & playstyles
• Monster Darkness Damage Scaling at 100 made easier - From 50% > 133% to 25% > 66% over the course of the 20 minutes to support more builds & playstyles
• Base Monster Darkness Damage scaling slightly reduced
• Base Monster Percent Damage Resistance scaling reduced
• Selectable Darkness Area Max 40% > 30%
• Selectable Duration Max 120% > 60%
• Selectable Boss Cooldowns -300% > -200%
• Selectable Projectile Count for Bosses & Minions replaced with Less Pick Up drops
• Selectable Heals Reduction replaced with Heals Reduction from locations

Localization:
• Fixed broken localizations

Affixes:
Can no longer spawn:
• Heal on Attack-Kill
• Summon Generation
• Rarity Upgrade Offers
• New Blessing Offers
• Level-Up Blessing Offers
• Attack Angle %
Adjusted:
• Heavily reduced roll chance for some minor affixes, eg. projectile velocity, projectile angling
• Summon Life Regeneration roll odds reduced as well, increased Summon Life odds instead
• Summon Movement Speed value 1.5% > 3%
• Buff Damage % vs Enemies Below 50% Life (0.4% > 0.5%)
• Buff Damage % vs Enemies Above 50% Life (0.5% > 0.6%)
• Buff Damage % vs Undamaged Enemies (4% > 5%)

Items:
• The Sage now gives +1 Cast Slot, no upgrade to Master, a bit less Cast damage and a lot more Experience Gain
• Blackheart redesigned due to broken interaction between Base & Percentage stats
• Mausoleum of Eyes now has a 60 second equip cooldown
• Sacrilige Luck scaling factor 100% > 20% on both positive & negative affixes (relation unchanged)
• Pirate Hat Chance to drop gold 10% > 5%

Bugs:
• Fixed Summon Life & Life Regeneration increasing Player life instead of Summons
• Fixed Summon Life and Life Regen not displayed in character stats
• Fixed Summon Attack Speed always displayed, even when 0
• Crash on Boss Spawn should be fixed
• Not able to level multiple Attack and/or Dash blessings fixed
• Fixed missing cooldowns & certain summons not reviving
• Fixed Mayhem not working properly
• Fixed Time Field infusion now reduces cooldown instead of increase
• Fixed Shroom King summons dealing damage to player
• Fixed Iceblock freeze not having cooldown & damage reduction % not working occasionally

TLDR: A lot of feedback has been about traversal and obstacles in the new act. To improve that, we have drastically reduced the obstacle colliders of the trees and the player collider, as well as improving light sources. An optional charm encounter has been added to 2 locations to allow completing the “Face Yourself” achievement, as well as a new rare location that gives +1 Dash slot as an alternative way to get the “Breaking The Rules” achievement. Status can now become Prime damage. Devotions now give damage to the chosen god. Bugs & Fixes.

General:
• Experience from Stronger Monsters increased (Should equalize Act 1 & 2 to Act 3 a bit more for most playstyles)
• Status can now be considered Prime damage group, to encourage status builds
Environment & Visibility:
• Player Character collider with environment size reduced by ~50%
• Trees in Act 3 colliders reduced by ~70%
• Trees in Act 3 colliders all turned to circles for easier sliding off when walking into them instead of the previous precise colliders
• Most Enemies now have a light source to stand out in the darkness
• Most Summons now have a light source to stand out in the darkness
• Strengthened the intensity of lights in the Act 3 environments and slightly brightened some areas, increasing the visibility in more places
• Slightly improved the visuals of all Boss Arenas
Enemies:
• Reduced barrier on Moss Guardian, Naga Warrior, Treefolk
• Thorn Elementals movement speed halved
• Lady of the Lake dash away reduced
• Reduce Lightning special monsters damage
• Removed all enemy abilities that apply Ruptured (will be redesigned in a fair way in the future)
Blessings:
• Radiance Damage per interval 4 > 7
• Trail of Fire Damage ~doubled
• Water Octopus infusion +25% more damage per strike slot
• Devotions now give damage to that god
Talents:
• Druid Freedom! now displays cooldown reduction after scaling factor
Affixes:
• Heal on Level up Value 1>2; AFfix Value cost 2>3
Uniques:
• Reduce Elysium chance by half
Locations:
• Added a Location effect that charms your Summons for the Act 3 achievement to Shard of the Fallen and Necronomicon
• Added a Location effect that grants you a Dash Slot for the Act 3 achievement to the Shrine of Hunting
• Fixed bugged Luck Location missing cooldown, increased experience required 100 > 400
• Essence Toxicity (no heals) 80s > 30s
Darkness:
• Darkness no longer gives enemies Attack Speed by default
Bugs:
• Fixed Malady spreading to Summons
• Fixed triple Crystal Deer issue
• Fixed Damage Reduction not displaying properly
• Fixed Campfire character selection order on controller
• Game crashing on boss spawn *should be* fixed (we couldn't reproduce the issue, please let us know if it still happens)
• Bosses should not be able to go outside of arenas now
• Various other issues

Enemies:
• Frog King Breath attack preparation time 1.3s > 1.65s
• Siren no longer charms summons
• Lady of the Lake no longer charms summons
• Scarecrow missiles made slower and lower range
• Scarecrow attack area made smaller
• Wraiths dash made slower
• Exploding Fungi move slower
• Forest Spirit attach to ally significantly slower, higher cooldown and less stat bonuses
• Naga Warrior dash attack made slower
• Many ranged monster missiles made slower
• All Monsters -10% Damage
Summons:
• Summon charm effects completely disabled
• All summons now have better scaling defenses on higher darkness
• All summons ~+100% Life
• All summons minor damage increases
Blessings:
• Buffed Meteor
• Buffed Landslide
• Buffed Light Rays
• Buffed Lightning Orbs
• Buffed Time Field
• Buffed Lightning Bolt
• Attack Area blessing returned
Talents:
• Buff Sorceress Fire Dragon
• Buff Barbarian Ravage
• Fix Assassin Mind Reaper issue
• Fix Warrior Wolves not respawning bug
• Buff Warrior's Courage Multistrike chance
• Buff Warrior Undertaking Prime Damage increase
• Buff Warrior Heroic Training Damage 250% > 300%
• Buff Warrior Mythology Damage per Status 15% > 20%
• Buff Warrior Song of the North Damage at FUll Life 33% > 50%
• Buff Thrill of the Fight Heal 15 > 20
• Reduce Druid Hunger damage per second taken
• Reduce Druid Feast lifesteal
• Buff Druid Blood Moon form re-enter chance
Localization:
• Fixed various localization errors
Locations:
• Fixed missing cooldowns on certain gifts resulting in overly-high damage bonuses
Item Affixes:
• Summon Count no longer required to increase on_gain type summons (Onyx Dragons, Parrots, etc.)
• Summon Count affix cost reduced
• Summon Maximum Count now spawns a lot more
• Added Summon Life % affix
Uniques:
• Fixed Monster Ring spawn for enemies
• Fixed 215 localization issue
• Other unique fixes
Darkness:
• Reduced darkness monster attack speed scaling
• Reduced darkness bos life scaling
Bug Fixes:
• Ranger Clone animations fixes
• Fixed bosses not spawning
• Fixed Snowflake unique crashing game
• Fixed Serpent & Lightning Lynx minor issues
• Crash fix auras
• Crash fix AI

We’re shipping a fast patch to address some issues that quickly became apparent, so let’s go over them:

Difficulty:
Firstly, elite minions weren’t properly tested. Elite minions and variations (lightning, rupture, freeze) were added very close to the release. The game was largely balanced before they were finalized and with them the act became very overtuned. We also don’t track any metrics on what gear most players have and it seems we’ve missed the mark on the difficulty.
To adjust that, we are reducing enemy health by 30% and enemy damage by 20% across the board to bring them back to player level.

Enemies charming summons:
Speaking of enemies, one of the new ones - the siren that can charm your summons - has been especially problematic. The original idea was to have one or two waves in a run that can pose a greater challenge to summon builds, but in practice those waves show up way more often and make summon builds unviable in act 3.
We are reducing the spawn weight of those waves, as well as their chance to charm from 15% to 1% and the duration from 8 to 5 seconds.
The final boss of the act, the Lady, also has a charm ability, which is essential to her moveset, but we’ve reduced her charm chance from 20% to 7% as well. And finally, we have expanded the summoner build’s toolset to play around charm effects:

• The Titan infusion for the Stone Golem and Two Become One infusion for the Clone will now give charm immunity
  
• The Crystal Deer and Arbiter summons are also charm immune, by default.
  
• Summons will deal less damage when charmed, some heavy offenders like lamp genie have bigger reductions.
  
• Dragons and Clones bug one-tapping players has been fixed.
  
• Summons lose level bonuses when charmed, to not discourage leveling your summons.

On tier 2 and tier 3 items:
A lot of changes have been made since act 2 to make all affixes more balanced against each other. Revivals for example have been increased and added as a core affix to torsoes (instead of expert offers, which is now on jewels).
Master offers has long been much stronger than other affixes and its value had to be adjusted down. To compensate for that, we have allowed master offers to spawn on all item types. This should allow the same master offer builds, without overshadowing other affixes.

Item drops:
Additionally, we are buffing item drops by 100% to help with transitioning from Tier 2 to Tier 3 gear. We hope this will improve the playing experience and speed up farming times. Tier 3 rares are generally the same value as Tier 2 mythics, with Tier 3 mythics having around +60% affix value.

Experience:
Player experience gain has been increased by about 15%.

Other bugfixes:

• Fixed Hook leaving boss arenas & damage bug
  
• Fixed Infusions being offered to temporary blessings by Alteration Ritual
  
• Fixed “Cut The Traitor” achievement not tracking
  
• Fixed issue with getting stuck inside trees
  
• Fixed locations
  
• Data & Localization fixes
  
• Fix White HUD rectangle
  
• Fixed damage numbers appearing on the bottom left

The Lady then came, and with her, the tide,
Transforming the desert where Death did reside.

Marshlands blossomed and grasses grew tall,
Her presence a gift, a green overhaul.

~ Lore of the Land, vol. 4


Once the keeper of sacred springs and silver lakes,
the Lady now walks the still waters beyond the veil.
Her grace remained, intertwined with newfound loyalty to Death.

And thus was born the Darkmoor -
where nature thrives in shadow, nurtured by ancient bones.
The bitter cycle never ceases,
in a masquerade of life, each death feeds a bloom that should not be.


In the realm of the living,
Aegir, God of the Seas, has surfaced from his domain.

Even here, in the land of the dead, water answers his call.
Things long-thought drowned stir once more
and in the deep dark water,
something listens - and answers.

The campfire flickers, small but bright,
a final star against the night.
Two nights before the moon is new,
the Moor shall open - to seal your doom.

Act III: The Darkmoor opens on the 25th of April.

The legendary Snowsfather has returned to spread joy, laughter, and plenty of presents to all who join in the festivities! Don't forget to check under the Snowswatch tree, enjoy the winter scenery and have a happy holiday season!

We are closing the beta branch today and releasing the new Procedural Horde Patch!

• ENEMY SUBTYPES: Face off against new enemy subtypes, each with special powers for both minions and elites.
  
• WAVE VARIETY: Every run now features procedurally generated waves, creating new and varied encounters.
  
• PACT OF GREED: Unlock the Pact of Greed after defeating Act 2—play Act 1 with Act 2 difficulty and get Tier 2 rewards.

• A lot of changes in the formula have been made. Generally, items now tend to drop with fewer affixes, but every item is more tailored to specific builds and play styles. Additionally, more affixes can spawn on more item types to improve build making.
  
• The base affixes of items are now displayed in white and any rolled for or enhanced affixes in green.
  
• Item drops favor the currently played character.
  
• Fixed ranged affixes spawning on melee items and many other data errors.

• Discover new Tier 2 Uniques.
  
• New and powerful Act 2 Locations.
  
• Some new blessings and visual improvements to existing ones.

• Armory now sorts items based on value of currently selected affixes.
  
• Fixed armory tooltip render bug.

• Balance was focused on making more builds viable, especially on higher difficulties.
  
• Underused talents, blessings and item abilities received buffs to promote diverse builds.
  
• Some Tier 1 Uniques have been reworked to support more builds.
  
• Curses from locations like graves, coffins, etc are now temporary, to have less impact on final build.
  
• Bosses now give more Cosmic Essence - (4 → 8 Act 1, 8 → 12 Act 2)

• Fixed bug where selected Talent loadouts were not being saved.
  
• Bosses now try to stay inside the arena.
  
• Fixed bug with enemy damage multiplications.
  
• Fixed enemy projectile velocity too strong scaling.
  
• Fixed enemy projectiles multiplicative damage stacking.
  
• Fixed monster action use cooldown stat not working.
  
• Fixed monster attack times inverted scaling.

We've made a lot of various changes, bugfixes and other improvements – you can find the full list of those in the patch notes in-game.

Quick sidenote on our roadmap and what’s next:
This is the last big patch before the next Act update. We plan to quickfix this week, then go back to our work on Act 3.

Thank you to all the people from the community that helped us with their feedback and input on the beta branch!