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Invasions - Beta
Once the campaign has been completed on Commander difficulty, a random map will be invaded by powerful monsters. This map will be purple on the World Map. These invasion enemies start at level 35.

• If the invasion boss is defeated, enemies will give up invading that area, and send more powerful foes to invade a new area. These enemies will be 5 levels higher than the previous invasion. There is no enemy level cap for invasions.
  
• If all players die during an invasion, enemies will take over that zone and, unimpressed by your resistance, send weaker enemies to invade another zone. These enemies will be 5 levels lower than the previous invasion, to a minimum of level 35.
  
• Invasion enemies have a higher chance to drop enhanced gear and legendaries, which increases further with their level. Invasion bosses drop especially valuable loot.
  
• Invasions are unique per player (not character), and hosts in multiplayer games will be able to bring allies into their invasion.
  
• Invasions are exclusive to Commander difficulty.
  
• If you have already completed the campaign on Commander difficulty, enemies will invade a random zone.
  

Dev notes: This is the quickest functioning version of the system I could put together. Invasions will see significant changes to gameplay in the coming weeks.

BALANCE
Infinite Arena Wave Completion Rewards

• Base Bonus Magic Find increased by 2.5x
  
• Magic Find per wave completed increased by 5x
  

Enemies above level 30 now have bonus magic find applied to their drops equal to 3% per level above 30.

Poison Novas now do an initial Hit of damage.

Fixed Act Bosses sometimes spawning with less health than intended

Updated translations

Fixed a bug where Crescendo rolls on bows would reset once upon being equipped.

Two-Handed weapons now roll all mods at double strength and consume 2x crafting mats (crafting items that don't affect mods, such as Course Correction, are unaffected).

Bow Variants: Bows now drop as either High-Damage or High-Attack Speed. High-Damage bows will have an attack speed rating around 0.6, and High-Attack speed bows around 0.9. Existing bows will automatically adopt High-Damage values.

Bow Re-balance: Bow base damage reduced by 12.5%.
Dev note: Bows were already in a good spot (maybe too good) and didn't need the additional buff of double mod strength. Bows should deal slightly less damage overall.

Grasping Vines
-Root duration decreased from 4 to 3 seconds
-Cooldown increased from 8 to 9 seconds
-Mana cost increased from 75 to 100
-Increased the speed that enemies are pulled.
Dev note: Old values allowed this skill to have 100% uptime with CDR and trivialize content.

FIXED
Fixed meteors spawned by Meteor Forge not dealing the intended amount of AoE damage.
Fixed a bug with items changing price after being moved in inventory
Potential fix for minions spawning under geometry
Potential fix for Grasping Vines crashes

Fixed a bug with items changing price after being moved in inventory