Christmas Patch Notes Compilation

NEW

Major performance improvements
Non-scaling maps: Maps now have a set level (visible from the World Map), and will not scale to the player.
New Skill: Envenom - For 6 seconds, all damage applies a stacking poison. Each stack of poison deals 10% combined weapon damage per second.
New Skill: Shield Throw - Throw a mystic copy of your shield. Deals damage equal to 15 x your offhand shield's level and bounces to up to 2 additional targets. If no additional targets are found, damage is increased by 25% per remaining bounce. Damage inflicted counts as a spell if wielding a focus, or a melee hit otherwise.
New Skill: Vanish - Become invisible for 5 seconds. You generate no threat and enemies will attack other targets if possible. Enemies near you may detect you.

Added "Screenshake Intensity" slider to the Gameplay menu in Options.
Talents will now reset if your character has allocated a talent which has been removed from the tree.

BALANCE

Infinite Arena now scales with the highest level player instead of the average party level.
Unstable Runes: Now only the player which spawned the rune may detonate it.
Viscera Axe - Healing now takes place over 5 seconds instead of instantly.
Your minions are now killed when you die.
Increased arrow hitbox size by 30%.
Last Word can now be used on Crescendo'd items.
Enemies will now focus more on targets using Taunt.

SKILLS

Siphon Strike - Reduced heal amount from 100% to 30% of damage dealt.
Siphon Strike - Increased mana cost from 100 to 125.
Super: Wardship of Orias stamina regeneration increased from 15 to 30, max resist cap increased from 80% to 85%, now returns 100% of damage received to attackers.
Dragonfire cooldown reduced from 8 seconds to 4 seconds.
Undying Will now increases all maximum resistances by 1% per 50% Boon Intensity.
Super: Strength of Zabaoth - Now increases total damage by 100%, reduces incoming damage by 20%, and grants immunity to hitstun. Bonus damage removed. This is a buff.
Summon Demon Wolf is now affected by Recruiter.
Summon Demon Wolf cooldown increased from 0.5 to 5 seconds.
Summon Bear max summons reduced from 3 to 1.
Frostblink damage increased from 50% to 100% spell damage. Radius increased by 50%.
Thunderstep damage increased from 75% to 150% spell damage. Radius increased by 50%.

TALENTS

Fists of Ruin Overhaul

Fists of Ruin now causes your melee attacks, while fully unarmed, to deal 30% damage in a small area around the target, and doubles Bonus Damage in addition to Crit Chance and Crit Damage.
Increased base damage of unarmed strikes.
Calamitous Strike - Now grants a shield that blocks 1 attack per each enemy hit. Lasts for 8 seconds. Reduced cooldown from 8 to 4 seconds. Reduced mana cost from 150 to 100.

Zabaoth: Replaced Iron Will with Intimidating - Your shouts reduce the damage of enemies in range by 10% for 5 seconds.
Cerridwen: Replaced Frostflies with Telepathic Bond - Your shouts also affect your minions outside shout range.
Cerridwen - Recruiter now only affects summon skills granted by your equipped weapons.
Cerridwen - Swarmcaller has been removed and replaced with a new talent: Volatile Minions

Volatile Minions: Summons that would exceed the max amount cause an existing summon of the same type to explode, dealing their attack damage + 10% of their current health to all nearby targets.

Zabaoth: Heavy Hitter - Now gains 10% Bonus Damage per 150 Max Health, from 10% per 100 Health.
Alcaeus: Swapped the positions of Fists of Ruin and Invigoration Potion
Ehtiras: Swapped the positions of Heightened Spell and Bottled Lightning
Kirkira: Swapped the positions of Greater Heightened Spell and Mana Potion
Cerridwen: Swapped the positions of Recruiter and Infusion on the Cerridwen tree
Cerridwen: Forbidden Knowledge now allows the use of Summon Troll Lord.
Verndari: Sniper - Reduced damage bonus from 10% per 1 meter traveled to 2% per 1 meter traveled. Now caps at 50% increased damage.
Kirkira: Dodge Warp - Reduced stamina cost increase from 20 to 10.

CHANGED

Clarified the description on Runic Serration and Envenom to read "all hits" instead of "all damage".
Summon Troll Lord now creates a portal as intended.
Improved font handling for Japanese language.
Reduced the volume of Death Aura by 50%.
Ravager boss should have an easier time fitting through doors.

FIXED

Sessions not marked as Public will no longer show up in the Find Game menu.
Fixed destructibles still making noise while SFX were muted.
Fixed a bug where Boon Intensity was only working for the caster and host.
Fixed Plague Knights not applying poison to clients.
Fixed Broad Influence not applying Shout effects at double range, despite the shout visual becoming larger.
Fixed shouts playing audio while volume was muted
Fixed summons stutter-stepping
Fixed Wrath of Ehtiras not working after being cast once
Fixed Mana Frenzy not increasing mana regen, but still reducing mana regen after expiring, creating a scenario where Mana Frenzy would eventually stop mana regen completely.
Fixed Lightning Orb not despawning for players who did not cast it
Fixed a bug where rolling while blocking could disable Block completely.
Fixed a bug with dragging and dropping
Potential fix for enemies ignoring minions to get to players using Vanish in arena.
Potential fix for Flame Slash bugs
Fixed a bug where items could be destroyed after closing a trade window.
Fixed merchants not working in non-English languages
Fixed Firebolt's DoT effect not working when cast by clients.
Actual fix for legendaries not working after being resurrected.
Fixed a bug where instant-cast spells could be cast multiple times before going on cooldown.
Fixed a bug where Lightning Orb would do more damage than intended on clients.
Fixed a bug where the mana cost of charge-up skills would not update on the tooltip.
Fixed loot crystals not showing the correct color on clients and sometimes spawning enemies only on the client.
Fixed teleport sounds not playing on clients when teleporting minions.
Fixed a bug where MTX wouldn't apply to shoes.
Fixed some bugs with character equipment at the main menu.
Fixed a bug where Avatar's Reach door would not open if a player was too far from the miniboss.
Fixed some bugs with crafting items in stash.
Potential fix for Ravager boss leaping constantly.
Potential fix for enemies attacking you while dead.
Fixed a bug where Kirkira's Resolve would not be removed from your Supers after removing the talent.
Fixed a bug where legendary weapons would cease to work after being resurrected.
Fixed a bug where knocking the Troll off the bridge to its death on Castle would not give you kill credit for the quest.