Rune Knights News

NEW
New Item Types - Jewelry: Rings and Amulets
•Always drop Crescendo'd
•Always have 2 mods
•Both mods can roll any mod, even those only accessible via Twists of Fate
•Mods roll at 75% strength on Amulets and 37.5% strength on Rings
•Higher rarity drops = higher base mod level instead of more mods, as follows:
White = -5
Green = +0
Blue = +5
Purple = +10
•Legendary mods still roll +10 and are unaffected by the reduced mod strength effect
•Not sold by shop or available as a quest reward
•More rare than regular gear
•Higher rarities are more rare than on regular gear

Added a Skill Merchant to Town. All regular skills are available for 2,000 gold.

Added hitstop to melee attacks
Adjusted melee animations to compensate for hitstop (This may end up being a slight buff to all melee attack speed).

New Mod - Hitstun Resistance: Reduces your chance of being hitstunned.
Note: This stacks multiplicatively with Unwavering (Unwavering + 50% Hitstun Resistance = 75% reduced chance to be hitstunned.)

Added a new keybinding "Show Skill Information" (default Left Ctrl), press this while inspecting an item or Dying Wish to show detailed information about the skill it contains.

Cerridwen: Potion of Recall replaced with Mutual Mending - Your potions also heal your minions for 20% of their maximum health.

BALANCE
Infinite Arena Drop Improvements
-Improved the chance of equipment dropping at higher enhancement levels in Infinite Arena. (In Commander, Boss waves will always spawn equipment that is at least +2. These items have a 3% chance per wave completed to instead spawn at +3, increased from 2% per wave completed.)
-Chance for legendary items to drop has been increased by 10% in Infinite Arena.

Increased the drop rate of equipment.

Minion Health can now roll naturally as an implicit mod on Staves and Foci, and on any gear with Twists of Fate.

2-Handed Melee weapons now have a bonus flat chance to inflict hitstun on any melee hit. (Swords - 10%, Axes - 15%, Maces - 20%).

Shield standard attacks now have a 10% bonus chance to inflict hitstun.

Arena/Infinite Arena: Increased the delay between spawns from 1.25 seconds to 1.5 seconds.

-TALENTS

• Zabaoth: Vampiric Potion - Bloodthief duration increased from 4 to 6 seconds.
  
• Ehtiras: Mana Vampire - Standard melee attacks replenish 2.5% of your maximum mana, doubled while wielding a focus.
  
• Ehtiras: Bottled Lightning now enables the use of potions while at full health.
  
• Wrath of Ehtiras - Increased duration from 5 to 6 seconds
  

-SKILLS
Fixed many damaging skills which had their mana cost affected by Heightened Spell and Greater Heightened Spell, but not their damage.

• Magic Missile damage increased from 20% to 30% spell damage.
  
• Increased the maximum fire rate of Magic Missile and the effectiveness of CDR.
  
• Ice Storm radius is now affected by Cataclysmic Casting
  
• Death Aura now deals 30% combined weapon damage per second in addition to its regular damage.
  
• Consecration damage increased from 25% to 30% combined weapon damage per second.
  
• Whirlwind can now spend Spellblade.
  
• Fixed Undying Will not increasing max resists by the correct amount. This is a buff.
  

-ITEMS
Viscera: Now increases the rate of healing over time from lifesteal effects by 20%, in addition to its regular effect. This effect can stack.

Reduced the price of Last Word from 5,000 to 1,500 gold.

IMPROVED

• Dying Wish now displays the skill icon of the stored skill. This makes shopping for new skills much easier!
  
• Improved humanoid ragdolls
  
• Updated Icons for Envenom, Innate Magic.
  
• Reduced the size of skill icons on the main HUD
  
• Improved filtering options for the Skill Merchant. Skills can now be filtered by weapon type required and by 1H or 2H.
  
• Improved the description of some summons to clarify that the summon takes reduced damage, not the player.
  
• Added a timer after spawn that should remove stubborn chat windows.
  
• New charge sounds for Calamitous Strike and Ground Smash
  

FIXED

• Fixed Bloodthief not turning off once you've run out of mana
  
• Fixed some bugs with talent unlocks.
  
• Fixed Bladecrest remaining active while wearing incompatible equipment.
  
• Potential fix for Ravager boss facing the wrong target when using his Rock Throw ability
  
• Potential fix for clients seeing jittery movement in other players
  
• Fixed a bug where Ctrl + Click would not buy 5 of an item
  
• Fixed Ravager boss not playing a hitstun animation
  
• Fix for losing Legendary item effects after being resurrected.
  
• Fixed a bug with overlapping Boons. Now only the highest intensity boon of each type will be applied at a time.
  
• Fixed a bug with boons stacking from the same source
  
• Fixed supers not being added while playing in non-English languages
  
• Potential fix for talents not working while playing in non-English languages
  
• Fix for the World Map not updating enemy level values in non-English languages
  
• Fixed an issue with character name and save data
  
• Fixed an audio issue with the Zabaoth: Revenge talent
  
• Fixed Barbaric Stomp holding you afloat if you cast while in midair
  
• Fixed shop filters not working in non-English languages.
  
• Fixed an issue with Runic Serration SFX volume.
  
• Potential fix for SFX chaos when applying boons.
  
• Fixed Bloodthief gained from Vampiric Potion still draining mana for the caster
  
• Fixed Recruiter affecting Verndari wolf summons
  
• Fixed Verndari wolf summons dying instantly with Volatile Minions
  
• Fixed Death Aura draining Stored Mana which had not been activated for Mana Shield.
  
• Fixed Backstep Volley procing Venomwood's fully-charged effect
  
• Potential fix for enemy Summoner's minions spawning at level 1 in infinite arena
  
• Fixed skills which inflict hitstun not working for clients in multiplayer
  
• Fixed Death Aura remaining active without draining health or even being available to use
  
• Fixed a bug where running out of mana would disable Death Aura
  
• Fixed some bugs with talent point allocation
  
• Potential fix for Ravager boss leaping out of Arena maps
  
• Potential fix for resurrecting/healing after death
  
• Fixed minor bugs with tooltip comparisons.
  
• Fixed a bug which allowed unintended crafting of jewelry
  
• Fixed issues with overlapping taunts
  

TL;DR: You get 6 more talent points for passive stat bonuses and a free Absolution from Brother Orrian for characters that have reached level 5.

Old system: 4 points in passives allows you to spend your 5th point on a T1 talent. 9 points of total investment in the tree allow you to spend your 10th point on a T1 or T2 talent.

New system: 5 points in passives will allow you select a T1 talent without spending a talent point. 10 points in passives will allow you to select a T1 or T2 talent without spending a talent point.

The end result of this change is that characters will have 6 more talent points to spend on passive stat bonuses at level 30. The number of T1 and T2 talents characters can have is unaffected.

It's easier to give everyone a free respec than to implement a way to make these changes retroactive, so all characters that have reached level 5 will receive 1 free Absolution from Brother Orrian in Town.

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.
  

More localization: Added support for Czech, Dutch, Greek, Japanese, Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Chinese (Traditional)

Hey everyone,

Rune Knights now supports French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Simplified Chinese languages.



[h2]BALANCE[/h2]
Summoning Overhaul

• Added information about certain summons' damage resistance to their skill description.
  
• Reduced damage reduction on Summoned Bear and Demon Wolf, and increased health to compensate.
  
• Increased Demon Wolf's health scaling, final health increase at level 30 of about 13%.
  
• Capped summon damage resistance to 75%.
  
• Cerridwen: Symbiosis - You now receive 5% of damage taken by minions.
  

• Reduced Thunderbolt damage from 75% to 65% spell damage.
  
• Decreased caps on Reduced Mana Cost and Cooldown Reduction from 75% to 50%.
  
• Reduced base CDR per mod from 5% to 3%, reduced scaling per level from .3% to .2%
  
• Blink Arrow now instantly teleports you upon reaching max range. Max height attainable is 500 units.
  
• Removed mana cost on Summon Troll Lord.
  
• Whirlwind now procs "melee attack" effects.
  
• Super: Wrath of Ehtiras damage increased to 100% combined weapon damage per second from 30%, now deals spell damage as intended to proc the Spellblade talent.
  
• Attack Speed gained from Zabaoth: Berserker doubled.
  
• Reduced the amount of enemies that can spawn per encounter on Forest, Icewastes, and Cave maps
  
• Spiders can no longer swarm a target with charge attacks
  
• Summoned Demon Wolf damage reduction increased from 20% to 30%
  
• Thunderbolt projectile speed increased by 30%
  
• Infinite Arena: Doubled the chance of wave completion rewards to roll an additional +1, and increased the quality of loot overall, including legendary drop chances
  
• Increased gold reward from all quests
  
• Added Staff/Focus requirements back to Cerridwen: Summon Troll Lord.
  
• Cerridwen: Swapped the positions of Potion of Recall and Infusion on the tree.
  
• Whirlwind no longer applies spell effects from Legendary items which require "Basic attacks".
  
• Removed 1 spider from the troll encounter in Act 1 Castle.
  
• Increased Summon Demon Wolf mana cost from 75 to 125.
  
• Magic Missile fire rate now affected by Cooldown Reduction.
  
• Flame Dash cooldown increased from 5 to 8 seconds.
  
• A target cannot be hitstunned by Flash Dagger more than once every 6 seconds. A particle effect will show while targets are immune.
  
• Heavy Knights have learned from their spider brethren and now respect the rules of dueling. Only one Heavy Knight can charge a player at a time.
  

Summon Bear Rebalancing
Old values: Cooldown 8 seconds, mana cost 125, base health 300
New values: Cooldown 15 seconds, mana cost 150, base health 200

[h2]IMPROVED[/h2]

• All MTX can now be universally applied to gear, and applies the proper equipment model.
  
• Stash is now filterable, scrollable, and has more expansion available. (Filter functions can be very processor-intensive currently)
  
• Reduced the radius of Rampage's ground slam to more accurately reflect the damage area indicator.
  
• Clarified the effect of some legendary weapons to use the wording "Basic attacks".
  
• Skill icons for Supers now display in red if weapon requirements are not met.
  
• Clarified the weapon requirements for Supers in the talent description.
  
• Reduced the volume of the electricity buff placed on enemies.
  
• Merchant prompts now reappear after closing your inventory - no more moving back and forth to reactivate
  
• Minions now teleport to you on starting meditation.
  
• Updated models and materials of loot crystals.
  
• Added new cursor art to main menu.
  
• Clarified that Heightened Spell and Greater Heightened increase damage and mana cost of all damaging abilities.
  
• When you interrupt one of your abilities with a dodge roll, mana cost is refunded and cooldown is not incurred.
  
• Improved AI pathfinding on Avatar's Reach
  
• Minion and enemy AI and target acquisition improved.
  
• Summoned Bears are no longer able to be pushed by other units.
  
• Summoned Bear and Troll Lord taunts are now continuous and taunt much more reliably.
  
• Ravager boss can now be hitstunned as intended.
  
• Increased the time between Ravager leaps.
  
• Improved the timing and animation speed of 2 hand melee animations to better reflect expected DPS and attack speed values.
  
• Improved Taunt behavior
  
• Improved Feast behavior
  
• Pointer art updated.
  
• Updated icon for Face of Death
  
• Updated equipment slot art while empty.
  
• Characters that die while flying will now fall to earth.
  
• Added screen shake to Leap Smash.
  

[h2]FIXED[/h2]

• Fixed tutorial bug
  
• Fixed Summon Troll Lord not consuming Super Charge
  
• Fixed crafting item amount in inventory not updating after being used.
  
• Fix for talents not being applied for connected clients.
  
• Fixed Sendatu's Crown not applying Bonus Damage as intended.
  
• Fixed a bug with Act 2 Boss' melee range.
  
• Fixed items not being removed when selling.
  
• Fixed Whirlwind not dealing damage to enemies.
  
• Fixed mod slot visuals not updating after using Endeavor on an item in your inventory.
  
• Fixed equipment comparison tooltips not updating after equipping a new item.
  
• Fixed Ice Storm projectiles not making a sound on impact.
  
• Fixed Crescendo'd items still being able to be Course Corrected.
  
• Fixed weird portal VFX.
  
• Fixed doors in the Town dungeon not opening for all players.
  
• Fixed a bug where exiting Spam mode would leave items green/red.
  
• Fixed Blizzard interefering with aiming some abilities through it.
  
• Fixed Blizzard dealing more damage than intended for clients in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed sometimes spawning in the dungeon underneath Town.
  
• Fixed Crimson Rush being able to interrupt itself.
  
• Fixed Shield Slam not dealing damage if it interrupted another of your abilities.
  
• Fixed Blizzard not despawning on clients.
  
• Fixed the Legendary Loadout achievement.
  
• Fixed Consecration, Rain of Arrows, Sendatu's Crown, and Flame Dash trails not dealing damage or detecting units.
  
• Potential fix for crazy footstep noises.
  
• Potential fix for Firefly enemies trying to get in your face.
  
• Inventory bug hotfix
  
• Various fixes for Whirlwind and channeling
  
• Uncapping FPS is now functional.
  
• Fixed skill tooltips not updating after changing equipment
  
• Fixed Death Aura SFX
  
• Fixed MTX getting weird
  
• Fixed an exploit where enemies could be killed instantly.
  
• Fixed the Alchemist buff becoming hidden.
  
• Potential fix for quest bugs in multiplayer
  
• Potential fix for Summoner Knight continuing to summon while out of combat
  
• Fix for Legendaries not working in multiplayer
  
• Fix for abilities becoming unusable in multiplayer
  
• Fixed Bladecrest not dealing damage when cast by clients.
  
• Fixed a bug where Anti-Magic shield was increasing the damage of blocked projectiles instead of decreasing it.
  
• Fixed a bug where MTX could appear on your character at the main menu even when there was no item equipped in that slot.
  
• Potential fix for weird taunt behavior
  
• Fixed a bug with trade
  
• Fix for characters breaking apart during Leap Smash and meditation.
  
• Fixed a bug with skill keys after equipping a shield.
  
• Fixed a bug where heavy armor MTX were not applying correctly when wearing caster robes.
  
• Fixed lags in AI moving to a new target or location
  

[h2]CHANGED[/h2]

• Reduced the volume of Meteor projectiles
  
• Barbarous Stomp renamed Barbaric Stomp
  
• Reduced the number of particle effects on aura buffs
  
• Made some changes to Anti-Aliasing
  
• Leaderboards reset
  
• Can no longer receive new trade requests while a trade request or trade window are open