Rune Knights News

Fixed collision on Icewastes doorways blocking players in and preventing them from exploring the map

A new NPC has come to Town! Arena Granny will show you any arena leaderboards you desire.

New loot chest model.

• The cursor can now be properly controlled with a gamepad.
  
• While sprinting out of combat, the camera will now rotate towards the direction the player is moving, reducing the need to manually rotate the camera.
  
• Added camera zoom slider to pause menu.
  
• Significantly improved roll directional reading from gamepad.
  

New characters can now choose "Regen Mana" or "Regen Stamina" to be applied to their Utility Flask when created.

[h2]FLASK OPTIONS[/h2]
Instant resource restore options have been removed.
Fortune options have been removed.

Regen Mana: +10 -> +25 Mana Per Second
Regen Stamina: +10 -> +25 Stamina Per Second
Regen Health: +10 -> +25 Health Per Second

Greater Regen Mana: +20 -> +50 Mana Per Second
Greater Regen Stamina: +20 -> +50 Stamina Per Second
Greater Regen Health: +20 -> +50 Health Per Second

Lesser Protection: 10% -> 15% damage reduction
Protection: 20% -> 30% damage reduction
Greater Protection: 30% -> 50% damage reduction

Greater Vampire: 30 -> 35 Health restore per hit

Mercy: Points required 2 -> 1
Bottled Lightning: Points required 3 -> 2


Improved 2H Melee Heavy Attack animation timing.
Increased standard 2H Melee attack animation speed by 10%.

Storm Cyclone
Damage: 120% -> 40% Combined Weapon Damage per second
Dev Note: Somehow this AoE skill got balanced as a single target spell. Oops.

Wrath of Ehtiras
Mana Shield component removed
Duration: 10 -> 8 seconds

Savage Strike
Damage: 200% -> 250%
New animations

Serrated Dagger
Stamina Cost: 75 -> 50
Mana Cost: 0 -> 25

Poison Dagger
Stamina Cost: 75 -> 50
Mana Cost: 0 -> 25

Wolf Form's Lycan Howl
Hinder Duration: 3s -> 4s

Lacerating Strike
Damage: 135% -> 95%
Stamina Cost: 100 -> 75
Cooldown: 0s -> 1s

Chilling Strike
Chill: 30% -> 50%
Damage: 150% -> 125%
New animations
Dev note: Now you can freeze enemies with 2 hits!

Bane Strike: New animation

Enduring Strike Rework

• Enduring Strike is now Siphon Strike
  
• Added the Shadow Skill Tag
  
• Strike with your weapon for 235% melee weapon damage to a single target. Regain 75 Health over 5 seconds on hit.
  
• Mana Cost: 80
  
• Stamina Cost: 80
  
• Shadow Offering Cost: 100
  
• Cooldown: 5s
  

Ground Smash: Damage: 150% -> 250%

Cursed Weapon
Mana Cost: 80 -> 75
Shadow Offering Cost: 25 -> 35


[h2]ALCAEUS[/h2]
Alert removed.

New T1 Talent: Crippling
Melee Hits inflict Hindered, slowing the target's movement and attack speed by 10% for 3 seconds.

Bloodfury Rework
OLD: Gain 3% bonus attack speed for 4 seconds on Critical Hits. Max 10 stacks.
NEW: Gain 3% bonus attack speed for 1 second on Critical Hits. Max 20 stacks. Stacks fall off faster as they accumulate.

Exerted Strikes
Now adds base damage based on Bonus Maximum Stamina (from gear and bonuses) instead of Maximum Stamina (grand total).

Precision Fighter Rework
Renamed to Precision
Damaging skills that cost Stamina consume 20% less Stamina.

Focused Impacts
Damage bonus: 30% -> 40%

Elusive Rework
Every 5 seconds, gain Elusive, causing your next dodge roll to be free and recover 30% faster. Reduces threat generation by 50%.

[h2]ZABAOTH[/h2]
Voracious removed.

Overpowering
Moved from T2 to T1
Resilience Damage Bonus: 25% -> 15%

New T2 Talent: Unyielding
Gain 5% Damage Resistance for each 100 Health you are missing, up to 40%.

Blood Frenzy
Attack Speed Bonus: 10% -> 15%

Vengeful
Total Damage per stack: 3% -> 10%
Max Stacks: 5 -> 3

Brutal
Damage bonus: 30% -> 40%

[h2]EHTIRAS[/h2]
Mana Shield removed.

New T2 Talent: Arcane Resilience
For every 100 Mana spent, increase your damage resistance to the next hit by 10%, up to a max of 50%.

Innate Magic
Non-caster weapons contribute 100% -> 30% of base damage to Spells.

Runeskin
1% -> 2% of your Maximum Stamina is added to Physical Resistance.
1% -> 2% of your Maximum Mana is added to Magic Resistance.

New Legendary Helmet: Truestrike Crest
Your Critical Strike Chance is 100%. Your Critical Strikes deal no extra damage.

New Legendary Shield: Arcane Aegis
While in combat, 75% of spent mana is stored as potential energy, up to 50% of your Maximum Mana. Dodge rolls and Heavy Attacks consume all stored energy to create a shield which blocks damage.

Hexsteel Gauntlets
100% -> 30% of base damage added to Spells


All bosses now have some legendaries exclusively attainable by slaying them.

Castle:
Spire of Teurok
Vessel of The Serrated Claw

Icewastes:
Frostcrag
Frostshard Core

Forest:
Swarmcaller
Venomwood

Cave:
Tectonic Step
Boulder Fauld

Temple of Fire:
Firestorm
Armor of the Avatar

Fort Ironhold:
Orias' Advance
The Ordained

Ironhold Interior:
Magefiend Grasp
Voice of Resonance

Ironhold Dungeon:
Ferocious Sabatons
Warlord's Helm

The Giant Mine:
Shatterwall
Blast Dagger

Kharabad City - Eastern Desert City:
Giant's Girdle
Ruin

River Valtorin:
Legplates of the Avatar
The Ice Star

Avatar's Reach:
Helmet of the Avatar
Thunderlord's Crown

Wythmere City:
Soulbound Aegis
Rite of Infernal Blood


Reduced the movement speed of ranged enemies.

Kharabad Boss
Modified slam attacks to now deal damage instantly in a small area when the slam hits, and increased the distance at which the line of explosions start to create a small safe zone around him. This changes the dodge timing for melee characters to be more intuitive (dodging the actual slam) instead of waiting for the delayed explosions.

• Massively improved gamepad support and fixed numerous bugs related to gamepad use.
  
• Improved the radial menu design.
  
• New loot pickup UI animations.
  
• New stat lines for total Resource Cost Reduction for mana and stamina.
  
• Pact minions that occlude your character can now be seen through.
  
• Further improved multiplayer level traveling.
  
• River Valtorin water ripples are back!
  
• Bosses now have unique SFX on hitstun.
  
• Pact minions now have unique SFX when spawned.
  
• Updated some translations.
  

Reduced the XP reward from quests.

• Fixed the tutorial never showing up.
  
• Fixed meditation options being inaccessible.
  
• Fixed minions aggroing to shrines.
  
• Fixed Whirlwind inflicting multiple hits on startup.
  
• Fixed Wythmere Boss not resetting properly.
  
• Fixed "Respawn Nearby" not working on Kharabad and Wythmere maps.
  
• Fixed Whirlwind not benefitting from effects that target Area Effects.
  
• Fixed animations for Shockwave.
  
• Fixed Chill effects lasting forever.
  
• Fixed physical animation when hitting an enemy not working.
  
• Fixed Korean translation not working.
  

New UI sounds when equipping and unequipping items
New Audio setting for UI volume


[h2]Temple of Fire[/h2]
Revamped some lighting, VFX, and SFX
[h3]BOSS[/h3]
Significantly increased Boss Health
Now only spawns 1 magma pool per cast instead of 1 per enemy target

Frost Nova
Mana Cost: 150 -> 140

Shatter
Damage: 175% -> 150% Spell Damage
New animation, SFX, and VFX


[h2]Kharabad City Boss[/h2]
Reduced intensity of AOE attacks.
Reduced SFX volume of attacks.
Increased SFX volume on melee swings.

[h2]Giant Mines Boss[/h2]
Added missing Roar SFX.

[h2]Ironhold Interior Boss[/h2]
Improved SFX on summoning ability.

[h2]Icewastes Boss[/h2]
Added missing casting SFX.

[h2]Castle Boss[/h2]
Added missing casting SFX.
Added new casting VFX.


Fixed issues with Spell Effects while riding horse.
Fixed bosses not resetting correctly.

• All bosses now have their own unique soundtrack(!!)
• Increased loot quality from Act Bosses and Raid Bosses.
  
• Reduced the intensity of Ignites inflicted by Temple of Fire enemies.
  
• Ignites from different enemy sources now all contribute to a single stack (reducing spell effect clutter).
  
• Reduced the movement speed of some enemies.
  
• Added SFX and Screen VFX when Poison affects the player.
  
• Removed the Frost Aura ability from an Icewastes enemy and replaced it with a Chill on hit effect.
  
• Removed the Demon Wolf enemy.
  

Astaroth's Idol is now Astaroth's Endurance
Entangle with an allied target. While Entangled and within 1000 range, the Entangled ally gains Astaroth's Endurance, regenerating 5% of maximum health per second, reducing damage taken by 20%, and increasing Total Damage by 20%. Lasts for 8 seconds.

Sendatu's Crown Rework
Create an area that applies Brutality, Precision, Lethality, Haste, and Undying Will to allies in range. Lasts for 10 seconds.


Increased hitstop on all melee skills.

All Melee Heavy Combos been replaced with a single heavy attack. Damage multiplier increased from 2x to 2.5x. Removed Heavy Attack Vulnerability.
Dev note: The old heavy combo system was bad. "Don't use it or you'll die" bad. This new system is a great way to capitalize on hitstuns.

Shield Slam
Damage: 25x -> 10x Shield Implicit Level
Stamina Cost: 75 -> 125
Cooldown: 6s -> 8s

Shield Throw
Damage: 20x -> 6x Shield Implicit Level
Cooldown: 5s -> 6s

Shield Charge
Damage: 20x -> 8x Shield Implicit Level
Stamina Cost: 75 -> 100
Dev Note: These were really strong, and made stronger by the earlier change to make shields have double strength implicits.

Dark Grasp has been renamed Shadow Grasp.


Added XP values to the XP bar

Reduced the visual intensity of Ethereal Chains

• Fixed Chill effects stacking higher than intended
  
• Fixed Arc Slash not dealing Resilience Damage
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused enemies to become immortal
  
• Fixed MTX purchases not starting
  

NEW
When disconnected from your party, you will receive a Reconnect Prompt at the main menu to quickly rejoin them.

IMPROVED
Massively improved multiplayer connectivity
Dev note: There was a strange bug with River Valtorin that caused crashes on ANY attempt to travel to the level with multiple players. Strangely enough the fix was to remove the pretty water ripple effects. Game dev is weird sometimes. Hopefully the ripples will return soon.

Improved load time on initial start up

FIXED
Fixed The Fire Temple quest being impossible to complete. Use the "Clear Current Quest" option in the pause menu and reacquire the quest from Binder in Town.