Patch Notes/3.11.1

This is mainly a hotfix for two serious bugs regarding Dungeons and Skill Points, but it also contains some small adjustments that we felt would make the game a bit more consistent.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug that made dungeons display the incorrect value of difficulty, so if you got two-shotted in a normal dungeon, or mobs were mega tanks in a normal dungeon, chances are that it was actually an impossible dungeon.
Fixed a bug that allowed people to get infinite skill points using the skill altar. We have also made anyone who abused this bug get their skill points fully reset
Fixed a bug where players would get affected by a Champion’s effect on-hit until they relogged.
Fixed a bug that made it so Swords and Axes couldn’t get Chilling cloud crafted on to them
Fixed a bug where magnets could not get crafted modifiers added to them
Fixed a bug where Fireshot could trigger Lucky Hits
Fixed a bug where Glacial Shatter could trigger Lucky Hits
Fixed a bug where the Druid Wand transmog was Scrappy (now moved to Epic)
Fixed a bug where Ghost Walk displayed wrong max levels
Fixed a bug where Frost Armour had inconsistent values
Fixed a bug where Healing Efficiency was way too common on armour pieces
Fixed a bug where Jewels could roll legendary affinities.

Changes

Jewel balance was changed a bit, in order to make jewel crafting and looting more valuable and exciting, and better for your current level
- Halved the chance of getting affinities after level 50, allowing jewels to be more relevant more frequently
- Removed the lowest tier of Item Quant & Item Rarity (0.5-0.9%) and started it at 1% instead, this should help early game get some buffs with these affixes
- Removed the lowest tier of Copiously (0,5-0,9%) and moved the first appearance of Copiously to level 20+. This change was made to not confuse early game with too many stats
- Hammer Size can now roll legendary (+2)
- Top tier durability can now roll 900 (up from 800)
Changed the cost of crafting vault gear to 1 vault gold instead of 81 vault bronze, to make it easier for the players to maintain the inventory
Removed Vault Plating as a cost for crafting gear as the plating cost for re-rolling gear was increased.
Vault Plating cost for rerolling gear was halved
Vanilla Shields can now be crafted with their default recipe, but their behaviour is that of a vault shield, they block 5% of the attacks passively
Overhauled Idols, Shields & Wands
- With the implementation of Wands we needed to get some base data on how powerful/weak they were, and more importantly we needed to understand how to differentiate our 3 off-hands. In this update this has led to some rather drastic changes, in order to balance them out. While we did this we also finally said goodbye to a very old (and kind of game breaking) affix: Immunity.
  - Idols
    - Removed Cooldown Reduction, Immunities, Mana%, Reach
    - Added Healing Efficiency and Avoidances
    - Fixed Mana Regen bottom tiers to scale correctly
    - Implicit now rolls Mana, Durability & Affinity
  - Wands
    - Added Cooldown Reduction a an affix
    - Moved +Skill Level to a prefix, all wands now roll AP as their implicit
    - Added Lucky Hit as a suffix
  - Shields
    - Added Healing Efficiency
Overhauled Magnets
- With our new offhands we also needed to iron out what magnets are supposed to add to the gear arsenal, they have always felt like they are in a bit of a weird place and have felt, according to us, as a generic “stat stick”, more than a magnet. We wanted magnets to apply more to the lore of what the item can do, and we deem it possible to affect loot and mining, but not “the player”
- First of all we buffed magnets implicit early game so that they will come with more Range and Velocity by default
  - Magnets Affix Allocation after 11.1
    - Prefixes
      - Velocity
      - Range
      - Mining Speed (Heavily Buffed range)
      - Reach (Heavily Buffed Range)
      - Durability (moved from suffix)
    - Suffixes
      - Copiously (Heavily buffed range from 1-5% to 5-40%)
      - Item Rarity
      - Item Quantity
      - Soulbound
      - Soul Chance
      - Trap Disarm (New)
In order to make up for the “lost mana regen potential” from magnets, we have buffed all armour pieces so the range is 10-100% (prev 5-75%), netting a total of +25% mana regen potential, and we have heavily increased the legendary roll range (armours can now get +200% mana regen legendaries)
When tabbing inside a vault the objective is now moved down based on the online player list

Abilities & Talents

Overhauls

Rampage
- Mana cost per second is now a permanent 12
- The cooldown was changed to 40 seconds (down from 180 seconds)
- The idea here is to match rampage to Empower, a temporary buff that the player can use to clear a dungeon or a tricky POI in a Physical AD build, or use to heal instead of the heal ability, but not keep up at all time.
Shell: Quill
- Added durability dmg reduction (30%)
- Raised mana cost per second and heavily lowered mana cost per hit
- Lowered damage increase to thorns
Stonefall: Coldsnap
- Now makes mobs within the radius chilled (instead of slowed) and encases up to X mobs (level-scaling) in glacial prisons. Fall height determines the radius, but the radius increases with levels in ability
Shell: Porcupine
- We want to make this a viable ability that can be useful, and also follows the consistency of the game
  - Permanent 12m/s no mana per hit
  - Cooldown 40 seconds (down from 60 seconds)
  - Increases thorns damage by 50% per level, starting at 100% at level 1

Buffs

Empower: Frost Armour
- increased the strength of the chilling effect
Totem: Spirit
- Increased the mana regen heavily to start at 100% and scale 25% per level in ability (up from 20% per level and start at 20%)
- Lowered the mana cost to 10 static (down from 30 static)
- Increased the cooldown to 240 seconds, up from 120 seconds
Taunt: Charm
- Heavily increased the AP scaling and the amount of charmed mobs now scale past level 4 (+1 per level in ability). With this new power we also made it have a longer cooldown (60 seconds from 40 seconds)
- This ability has a lot of potential, specifically for more defensive oriented mage builds or pacifist builds, but it definitely was in need of some love
Fireball: Fireshot
- Now conducts on-hits from both off-hands and main weapons.
- Mana cost no longer scales and is a static 20 (down from 24 on level 8)
Javelin: Piercing
- Decreased the static mana cost to 15 (from 20)
Javelin: Base
- Increased its damage to start at 100% of AD, and increase with 40% per level
- Knockback effect no longer scales after level 2
- Mana cost static at 15 (instead of 10)
- Cooldown static at 3 seconds (instead of 2)
Lucky Hit: Fatal Strike
- Increased Damage to 150-450% (up from 100-200%)
Luck Hit (without a talent)
- Increased Damage to 50% (from 10%)

Nerfs

Hero’s Landing
- Removed the level-scaling radius and made it fully scale with fall distance
Mana Shield
- Increased mana cost per hit from 1 to 2 on level one, and then follows that scaling all the way up to max level
- This ability in U11 was absolutely busted, we hope that it is now a bit more balanced with the amount of power the ability has.
Javelin: Scatter
- Scatter has seen a lot of love since it got buffed in U11, which we are happy about, but doing the maths it is a bit too strong for any other javelin spec to have a chance to compete, therefore we have nerfed its damage slightly from 40% to 30%

Additions

Bounty Tables now display an in world indicator if the player has the ability to grab a bounty, or if the player needs to hand in a bounty
Added some more Champion & Goblin Patreons to the list
Party Members remaining scavenger goals are now visible when holding tab inside a scavenger vault

Quest Update

Added a new Quest: Bounty Hunter
Added a new Quest: Trinkets (rewarding player a trinket)
Changed some rewards of early quests to make them more fun
Changed the Soul Shard quest to be “Looting!” and rewards the player with a pouch and upgrades