The Slormancer News

Hello everyone!

Another month! Another Slormite Chronicle!


First and foremost,
In the last Slormite Chronicles, we've announced that our goal was to release The Great Forge Update before today. Unfortunately, we were not able to make it in time.

We're sorry about the delay, and we feel pretty bad about how much time this update took us. But I also think we're close to something really nice and fun so I don't want to mess up the release because we failed a couple of features or left gamebreaking bugs. I really hope it's for the best and that the amount of work we've put in will pay off.

However, we are now confident enough in what we have to give a proper release date: The Great Forge update will be released on September 27.
I believe we could be ready a week earlier, but The Slormancer will be participating in an online festival that could/should bring a good amount of new players. So that wouldn't be a good time for us to update a new potentially unstable build. So we decided to postpone.

That being said, this time it's for real.



This last few weeks, we've been working on polishing The Great Forge and making the final additions to the mode. If you don't know anything about it or want a refresher, I suggest you read Slormite Chronicles #15 and Slormite Chronicles #16.

Here are the latest (and final) additions:

[h2]Challenges Rewards: War Chest Effects[/h2]
Small reminder: the War Chest is where your Rewards from The Great Forge are stored. Every few waves, you can either decide to loot it and move out, or to keep filling it and risk losing everything if you die. You can get all sorts of Rewards inside your War Chest, such as Goldus or Equipment but also War Chest Quality or Quantity multiplier.



In the last Slormite Chronicles, I briefly mentioned that we were thinking about effects to apply to your War Chest. The example given last month was: "Increases War Chest Quantity by 2% for every item type inside your War Chest".
Well, we really liked the idea so we created 32 of what we call War Chest Effects.



These Rewards are usually associated with greater Challenges and are quite rare. But we want them to be gamechanging. If you find a War Chest Effect and manage to build your Rewards around it, then we want it to be extremely rewarding.
There is a good amount of luck in getting all the right stuff at the right moment, so we are ok with giving lots of rewards when you get everything. This is not meant to be linear farming.

Here are a few examples:

• For the rest of the Run, your War Chest Quantity is equal to your War Chest Quality.
  
• When looting your War Chest, if you should loot exactly 1 Equipment, it is guaranteed to be of Legendary rarity.
  
• The amount of Goldus inside your War Chest becomes equal to 500% of the Slorm inside your War Chest.
  
• For the rest of the Run, if there is at least one of each Reapersmith Spirit inside your War Chest, following Rewards are increased by 100%.
  

The idea is also to give a lot of value to some lesser Rewards such as Slorm and a non mathematically-resolved Great Forge. What if the most efficient way to farm Goldus inside the Great Forge was now to get Slorm Rewards and a proper War Chest Effect?

[h2]The Siege Leader[/h2]
This is the boss of the environment.
The Siege Leader has unique Challenges applied to him that can either increase his Life or Damage, the variety of its patterns etc... Everytime you pick a specific Siege Leader Challenge, you increase his spawn chance by a small amount.

He has a small chance to spawn every few Waves that slowly increases every wave up to 100% at Wave 100. Obviously, if you don't want to wait until Wave 100 to defeat him, then getting Siege Leader Challenges is the way to go. This will result in a faster spawn, but a stronger boss. It's up to you.



[h2]Obelisks[/h2]
Obelisks are the final addition of The Great Forge. They are a unique type of enemy that are only spawned through Challenges.




Basically, Obelisks Challenges create an Obelisk inside The Great Forge, with a massive Life pool and good resistances. Once they are there, they apply a negative effect (eg: While Obelisk of Revocation is active, you cannot restore Life.) that will stop only once they are destroyed.
This means you have to take care of your current Wave AND get rid of the Obelisk as soon as possible.



But there's a twist. Obelisks always come with a specific Obelisk Reward. Basically, once you've dealt with the Obelisk, it will turn into an Allied Obelisk, transforming its negative effect into a positive one (eg: Allied Obelisk of Revocation adds +12% War Chest Quantity to your War Chest everytime you complete a Wave) but now you have to keep them alive and defend them from the Waves to keep their effect active.


[h2]The Great Forge: Entry Price[/h2]
Given the generosity of The Great Forge regarding rewards and enemy density, we've decided to add a small Elder Slorm fee to get in. This should not be an issue but still something to take into account. I can't give the definitive price since I believe it is going to be changed before the release. Also, since War Chest Rewards are based on your Wrath Level, the Elder Slorm fee will also be Wrath-dependant.
This is basically just a heads up so that you can upgrade your Elder Slorm jauge and fill it before the release. :)


That's about it for today.

We'll upload a Patch Notes with every change and addition we've made to the game a couple of days before the release.

Have a nice day everyone!

Hello everyone!

It's the 6th of the month! It's Chronicle time!
So, if you need a quick reminder of what we're currently working on, I suggest you read Slormite Chronicle #14 and Slormite Chronicle #15 because I might talk about things you're not familiar with. But basically, we're working on The Great Forge, an endgame mode, and it's looking good.



Gameplay is coming along nicely.
We now have a proper wave sytem in place and everything is playable and fun, which is a good thing.




Right now, enemies spawn in various locations and your goal is to outlast them. Every wave consists of around 75 to 300+ enemies (depending on your Wrath Level, the Challenges you're facing and the actual Wave you're facing, so it gets harder and harder over time).
It's going to be faster paced than the regular Battlefied Expedition, with a higher density of trash enemies and packed compositions.

We've tried various ways to spawn enemies inside The Great Forge and we ended up with a simplified lane system: Enemies can come from 7 different lanes all around the Forge, with usually 2 to 3 different lanes active every wave.

Every 10 waves, there is a special wave, with a much higher number of enemies coming from all 7 lanes. Once, you've dealt with it, you have the opportunity to open the War Chest (which I'll talk about a bit later) or to keep going for another 10 waves.





After you defeat a wave, you'll get to choose among 3 Challenges of with different rewards every time.
Challenges can have numerous effects such as increasing the strength of enemies, spawning a Boss or adding new attack patterns to it, or adding a Cataclysm effect etc... And can last from various amount of time: from 1 wave to the rest of the run.

The harder and longer the Challenge is, the better the reward attached to it is.
Once you complete a Challenge, the reward goes into the War Chest.

The Siege Leader
The Siege Leader is the new boss we're adding in The Great Forge.
In here, you get to choose WHEN you want to face him (using Cory's Challenges). And since it adds various bonus effects once you defeat it to your War Chest (which I'll talk about below), you might want to wait as much as you can. But the longer you wait, the harder he'll be.
Defeating the Siege Leader will also be the only way to get your hands on the new Reaper Runes (see the previous Slormite Chronicles).






As I've mentioned above, rewards from completed Challenges get into the War Chest.
You can see what's inside the War Chest at any point during the game, but it can only be looted once every 10 waves.
Obviously, if you are defeated you will lose what's inside.


This is a very empty War Chest, just to give you an idea of what it looks like.

Among the possible rewards, you'll get to loot Reapersmith Spirits which are the main currency that you can use at Cory's Shop (to upgrade Reaper Affinity, Reaper Runes and purchase Slorm Reapers for your other classes). This will be the most important loot there since they can only be looted with Cory's Challenges.
Also, when the Reapersmith Spirit of the reward is the same as the Slorm Reaper you're currently using, you'll get a massive reward bonus. So you can actually farm much faster the Reapersmith Spirits you're looking for.

On top of that, you will be able to be rewarded with Goldus, Slorm, Fragments, Equipment, Slormites and Slormelines.
For Slormites, Fragments, Equipment and Slormelines, the reward is random in the sense that each reward is a "random roll" and can very well be an Epic or a Legendary item (or high tier Slormites).
Basically, you accumulate "random rolls" that are all "resolved" when you open the War Chest.

But there's a twist: there are two other types of rewards: War Chest Quality & War Chest Quantity.
The War Chest Quantity reward increases the quantity of everything that's inside the War Chest by a set percentage (depending on the difficulty of the associated challenge, works on past and future rewards).
While the War Chest Quality increases the chance to get Equipment, Fragments, Slormites or Slormelines of higher quality.

We're also thinking of rewards such as "Increases War Chest Quantity by 2% for every item type inside your War Chest" and so on.



It's a matter of weeks, but since this update is so heavy we have lots of testing to do. So unfortunately, I don't believe we can be ready for August, but only by a few days. Our goal is to get it done before the next Slormite Chronicles (so before September 6).

That being said, I feel like I have to talk about the time it's taking to release this update a bit more. Clearly we didn't anticipate that it would take so long and we should have cut the update in 2 smaller updates, just so you guys get something new to play with every month or so.

Also, we (almost) only get positive vibes when we post Slormite Chronicles and (almost) never feel pressured by our players, besides a couple of negative reviews, which is fair. But we also want you to know that the stress we put on ourselves grows day after day between two updates, just because we're dead serious about finishing this game and because we know that taking 4 to 5 months to release an update is well... not so great.

The positive part is that this update is full of changes, reworks and new mechanics so we have that going on for us which is nice.

Once this update is done, we'll rework the Road Map entirely, and work on smaller chunks of content that can be released much faster. Things that are easy to produce and that brings a lot to the game.

We'll make sure that this kind of delay between two updates never happens again.

Have a nice day everyone!

Hello everyone!

If you're not a regular Slormite Chronicle reader, or if you're not following the Road Map of the game, here's a quick recap: We're currently working on the last part of "The Mage Academy Update" which will introduce a new end game mode called The Great Forge. We haven't revealed much about it yet, but everything's coming along nicely.

We have lots to talk about, so let's get to it.

Gameplay and Rewards



I'll start with what we've made the least progress on. We've worked on a few things, including the environment itself. We also have most of the mechanics down but everything is still very rough around the edges.
But basically, here's what you can expect in The Great Forge:
Your goal will be to outlast as many waves as possible to get as much rewards as possible. Easy.

Every few waves (we still have to figure out the pacing) you will be facing Cory's Challenges:
You will have to make a choice between 3 Challenges that will either add a new Cataclysm for the next few waves, make enemies stronger for the rest of the run, increase the number of enemies, add elites to the next waves, add new attack patterns to the boss, increase its spawn chance, spawn a new type of enemy we're working on, etc...

You may have guessed it, we're introducing a new boss (codename "Siege Leader") that will randomly spawn during The Great Forge and that will get stronger over time.

Each Challenge will have a different / bigger Reward based on its difficulty. Once you complete a Challenge, and once you feel like you have completed enough Challenges or that the difficulty of the cumulated Challenges is getting out of hand, you will be able to leave The Great Forge and collect your rewards.

The reward system inside The Great Forge will allow you to unlock new Reaper Runes (which we talk about below), or upgrade Reaper Runes you already own, or Reapersmith Spirits (which we talk about below as well). That's on top of more regular rewards such as Goldus, Slorm, Equipment and such. We're also adding a "multiplier" type of reward such as "The value of your next Rewards are increased by 25%" or "The value of your current rewards are increased by 10%".

Wraths will work just like in Battlefield Expeditions: Enemies will be stronger but Rewards will be better.

That's the very basic idea behind The Great Forge and we'll be able to share actual screenshots and informations in the next Slormite Chronicle.

The reward system will also tend to reward you with Reaper Runes and Reapersmith Spirits related to the Slorm Reaper you're using. As an example, Challenges that reward you with 3 Astorias Spirits will instead reward you with 9 Astorias Spirits if you're currently using a Slorm Reaper wrought by Astorias.

One of our goals with The Great Forge is to emphasize a bit more on Reapersmiths.



Reapersmith Spirits:
We're adding 7 new currencies called Reapersmith Spirits.
Each Spirit is tied to a Slorm Reaper Reapersmith (or family):

• Spirit of Astorias
  
• Spirit of Adrianne
  
• Spirit of Beigarth
  
• Spirit of Cory
  
• Spirit of Smaloron
  
• Spirit of Fulgurorn
  
• Spirit of Hagan
  

We're adding a new layer called Reaper Runes. We've explored a different approach from what we talked about in the last Slormite Chronicle. Basically, our goal is to create a new "minor" layer of customization for the player, that reuses Hall-of-Fame Slorm Reapers effects in different ways.

There are three types of Reaper Runes: Activation Runes, Effect Runes and Enhancement Runes.
Right now, there are:
7 Activation Runes (1 for each Reapersmith)
14 Effect Runes (2 for each Reapersmith)
7 Enhancement Runes (1 for each Reapersmith)

The idea is to combine 1 of each to create a unique Effect that suits your build the most.
The only rule is that you cannot use an Effect Rune that is the same as your current Slorm Reaper.

DISCLAIMER: Reaper Runes have not been tested or balanced yet so do not take values inside these tooltips for granted. They will most definitely be changed.

Activations Runes offer various trigger conditions. Once you meet the trigger condition, you trigger the associated Effect Rune.



Effect Runes grant you a temporary buff or a single trigger strongly inspired by Slorm Reapers.



And finally, Enhancement Runes allow you to upgrade your Effect Runes or modify your Activation Rune to customize the effect even more.



Each Rune can be upgraded up to Level 15 by using Reapersmith Spirits at Cory Ironbender's Shop or by playing inside The Great Forge where you can loot Rune Upgrades via the reward system.

Just like Slorm Reapers or Equipment, you will be able to change each Rune at any moment.

Slorm Reapers Levels from Equipment
First and foremost, we are removing the bonus Levels that are granted by Equipment to Slorm Reapers.
This will be replaced by Slorm Reaper Affinities, a layer that we will talk about below that is both more progressive and more flexible.
Here are the reasons for that change:

1. The original goal was to ease the transition from a Slorm Reaper to another by allowing the player to purchase the first few levels, which almost never happens.
   
2. The upgrade is not progressive enough. Most of the time, players get to the beginning of the end game (which is when you start using the Blacksmith) with a Level 70 Slorm Reaper and get their +55 Levels for a small amount of Goldus. This usually tend to double or even triple the Damage of the Slorm Reaper without any form of progression.
   
3. When thinking about the +55 levels, we unfortunately completely ignored the fact that some Slorm Reapers had a much stronger Damage multiplier than others. These +55 Levels are not equal for every Slorm Reaper at all.
   
   Here are couple of examples of the Level 100 / 155 differences:
   The Most Powerful Reaper:
   At Level 100: 3524 - 5502 Damage
   At Level 155: 13228 - 20686
   So about a 275% Increase of the Max Damage Range.
   
   Reaper of Necromancy:
   At Level 100: 377 - 527
   At Level 155: 717 - 1005
   So about a 90% Upgrade in Max Damage Range.
   
   It means that a Slorm Reaper that does not have a strong Damage multiplier gets even worse at level 155. This was never intended. We kind of forgot how fast multipliers tend to go.
   

Slorm Reapers Affinity
Slorm Reapers Affinity is a new type of Upgrade that you will be able to purchase at Cory Ironbender's shop with the use of Reapersmith Spirits.



There are 7 Slorm Reaper Affinities, one for each Reapersmith.
Each can be upgraded up to Level 100 using Reapersmith Spirits that you can find in The Great Forge.

The previous Slorm Reaper Levels granted by Equipment will be replaced by Slorm Reaper Affinity. And for the sake of round stuff, it will be capped at 50.

This means that when the update comes out, your Reaper Damage will be reduced, especially if you're playing with The Most Powerful Reaper or a Slorm Reaper with a high Damage multiplier.
For The Most Powerful Reaper, if you had it at Level 155, you will get back to:
3524 - 5502 + 25% = 4 405 - 6 877 Reaper Damage.

After a bit of farming in The Great Forge, you will be able to get back to :
3524 - 5502 + 75% = 6 167 - 9 628 Reaper Damage.
That's about a 50% nerf in the end (Since Level 155 was 13 228 - 20 686 Reaper Damage).

So you will be able to exceed Level 100 and get to Level 150 with the dedicated Equipment.
However, Levels you purchase from Cory are permanent and bound to your save (not your Character).
Slorm Reaper Affinity is a way to permanently upgrade the strength of all the Slorm Reapers of the same "family". They get stronger, are easier to Level and it is also easier to trigger their Primordial form.

Balancing Slorm Reapers' Damage
Most Slorm Reapers are often immediately disregarded by players as soon as they are found because they simply lack Reaper Damage. And even though they add fancy effects or powerful synergies, they cannot compete with the strongest Slorm Reapers (such as The Most Powerful Reaper).

When designing Slorm Reapers, we either try to create a Reaper that is strong from the start that does not require the player to build around it but that does not scale well in the late game or the complete opposite: a Reaper that does not immediately shine but get immensely stronger when you build properly around it.

Easier said than done. And unfortunately, we tend to not give enough Reaper Damage to these Reapers, which lead them to never see the light.

So with this update we are also buffing the base damage of all the Slorm Reapers that needs it, by a lot, if necessary. Our goal here is not to nerf The Most Powerful Reaper for no reason (which is done by removing the +55 Levels from Equipment). We actually want players to find creative options with their Slorm Reapers and get back to what The Most Powerful Reaper was offering with a dedicated build and a good use of synergies. Not just brute force.


Unlocking Slorm Reapers for the first time feels natural and happens at a pace that we currently like, however, we want to change (or at least add new options to) how Slorm Reapers are unlocked for your other classes.
Right now, if you find a Slorm Reaper (even a Primordial Reaper) with The Fierce Huntress and think "oh this would be nice on my Mage", then you basically have to grind until RNG gets you the Reaper you want, which can take quite a bit of time. And for Primordial Slorm Reapers, you then have to farm it all the way back to their Primordial form.

This is why we are introducing a way to forge Slorm Reapers.
To be able to forge a Slorm Reaper, you simply must have found it with at least one other character. This includes Primordial Slorm Reapers as well, though you will also need the regular version to be able to forge a Primordial version.

Reapersmith Spirits costs are heavily subject to change.


If you're curious about the last button in Cory Ironbender's shop. It is where you'll get to purchase a new and unique Slorm Reaper called "Fate-Crusher, Reaper of the Seven".




That's about it for new stuff.

This Chronicle has introduced quite a bit of changes on top of new things being added, so please let us know what you think about all this.


As for the release date.
To be honest, this is the biggest update we've made so far and we're not yet done. So please be patient a little longer, we're getting there. And I believe it'll be worth the wait.

Our best guess for a release date is mid-August.

We're falling behind on the Road Map, but we believe that's a good thing. After all, this update will add an unplanned boss, an unplanned environment and an unplanned layer of customization, on top of various unplanned changes and features. :)

Have a nice day everyone!

Hello everyone!

If you've been following the Road Map, you are well aware that the next update is the release of The Great Forge, a new endgame mode.

In this Chronicle, we'll talk a bit more about the mode itself, why we can't give a release date yet and what went wrong during development (nothing to worry about, just a few stepbacks).


When we first thought about The Great Forge, the most important thing we wanted it to be was some form of "Endless Waves" type of challenge. Something that looked a bit like some of the Wave-based missions that you can find in the story coupled with the pace of Chaos Breaches.

That hasn't changed, so you can definitely expect a Wave-based mode out of The Great Forge.

However, we've been trying to add our own touch to the mode, and that's were things went wrong. We've tried a few concepts and different approaches regarding rewards or progression that were not working the way we wanted to.

To understand how we try to design an endgame mode, we try to offer:

1. A different gameplay loop. Something that moves away from what you can see in Battlefield expeditions, which is the default "Clear Breaches->Clear Floor->Repeat" gameplay loop.
   
2. A form of Progression inside the mode, so you can see yourself progress and unlock new things.
   
3. A form of "Meta-Progression" which should be a new layer a progression that makes you stronger even in other modes. So besides just fun, it should be the one good reason for players to play that mode.
   

For The Slorm Temple, the different gameplay would be the different environment, the fact that you're playing against a timer and against The Temple Keeper and the various Traps waiting for you inside.
The Progression would be to reach the latest floor and defeat the final Temple Keeper while unlocking upgrades that makes your life easier. As for the Meta-Progression, it would be to unlock Ultimatums and purchase Pure Stats related upgrades.

A wild screenshot appears. What's a Great Forge without Lava ?

Just for fun, I'll talk about some of the design ideas we had for The Great Forge.
Please note that they were discarded for the time being at this very moment in development but they may come back later down the road if we find a better approach to implement them.

- The Tower Defense Hybrid: At first, we tried to mix a Wave-based mode with Tower Defenses mechanics. So basically, you had one large arena with various paths where enemies would come in to try and destroy the Forge you had to defend. And you had various towers you could drop on the battefield to help you out. This is the VERY basic idea and I'm not going to detail everything that was involved but basically the main issue was that in the current state, most endgame players would simply not need the help of towers to clear what we could throw at them, regardless of number or scaling. The pace was also pretty slow and involved the player going back and forth between the various lanes. We came up with solutions for these issues but they also came up with their own problems which is why we dropped it. We had super cool ideas for upgrades related to Towers and a very nice Talent Tree that came with it though. :(

- The Reaper Runes: We've tried our best to implement this one, and it may very well come into the game later once we figure out how to make it work. Basically, we wanted to give the player the ability to extract effects from Slorm Reapers in the form of Runes that could then be equipped without using the Reaper itself.
Let's say you wanted to extract effects from Adam Nostrus' Reaper: after a bit of farming inside The Great Forge, you would end up with a Reaper Rune with the effect "Whenever you open a Breach, you gain Adam's Blessing, granting you +20% Attack Speed for the next 5 seconds" and/or another Rune with the "+21 Raw Damage" or with the "+15% Attack Speed" from it.



The player would have 3 Rune Slots where he could equip either Minor Runes (containing "Minor" simple effects and taking up 1 Rune Slot) or Major Runes (containing "Major" effects such as new Ancestral Skills or Synergies and taking up 2 Rune Slots).
What's cool about this idea is that disregarded effects from Reapers deemed too weak could very combine very well with another.
We were not happy with our integration with The Great Forge and couldn't find a proper way to balance the whole thing, so we discarded the idea for now.



What's important is that we came to the conclusion that both ideas (besides the fact that they were flawed and that we still had to fix many blanks) were potentially adding a great number of balance issues that we would later have to fix. And of these, we already have more than enough.

So we're going the other way around: instead of adding fancy things that may very well break the game even more, we're instead looking at some of the issues that needs to be adressed and use the Great Forge as a way to fix them.

This means we're shifting toward a lighter mode, and we will probably go easy on new mechanics, but we really feel like our ideas went too far for where we currently are in development and what our goals currently are, which is to deliver a top-notch 1.0, with a balanced experience, within a respectable timeframe.

The Great Forge, HyonD, 2022. Work in progress


Besides The Great Forge, the next update will also contain a number of fixes and changes regarding Slorm Reapers.

As I've mentioned above, The Great Forge will offer various solutions to some issues we're facing with Slorm Reapers.

Below is the list of issues but the solution for those is still a work in progress. :)

1. We want to ease how regular Slorm Reapers are unlocked with other classes. Basically, if you find a super cool Reaper with your Knight and want to try it out with your Mage, then it should be easier than the classic "pray and farm" technique.
   
2. We also want to ease how Primordial Slorm Reapers are unlocked. The very first Primordial Slorm Reaper you get should remain quite a feat. However, subsequent Primordial Slorm Reapers should be easier to obtain.
   
3. Unlocking Primordial Slorm Reapers should also be drastically easier when you are trying to unlock it for the second or third time on a different class.
   
4. Primordial Slorm Reapers should be much more fun to unlock. Right now the feeling once you unlock a Primordial Slorm Reaper is negative since you know you have to farm from scratch again.
   Basically, there's an abysmal difference between what's required to get the Primordial Slorm Reaper and what you actually feel once you get it. And this has to change.
   
5. We're also looking at reducing the difference of damage between the different Reapers in order to emphasize the mechanics and not only their damage.
   

We're also considering adding a new option from Professor Geranium where you would leave a Slorm Reaper to him and he would work on unlocking its Primordial form while you do your own stuff, just like "Pokemon daycare" if you're familiar with the idea.
This would be on top of other solutions we plan to bring to ease the whole Primordial process but I thought I'd mention it.


Besides Slorm Reapers and Great Forges, we're also reworking a couple of skills from The Mighty Knight for the next update. Right now, we've only changed the "mechanic/feeling" of said skills which should be enough to make them enjoyable.

• Ascension has been reworked so that it is an actual Movement Skill. It's basically much faster and with a smoother jump that doesn't interrupt your rhythm.
  
• Whirlwind has been reworked to feel much better. Most changes were minor but completely changed the feeling: Whirlwind no longer "ticks" every few frames but immediately hits enemies that come within its range. The range is slightly larger and the Cooldown is slightly shorter. Oh, and the Knockback has been removed.
  
• Crest Shield has been reworked so that you are no longer locked in a "Cast" state. So you can now move normally and cast other Skills (or other Crest Shields even) while a Shield is moving.
  

Well, it seems like I had a lot of things I wanted to say, even though we've been struggling with progress lately. And as you can see, development is not a linear process.
We hope you had fun reading it.

That's about it for now!
Have a nice day!

Hello everyone!

In 0.4.2, we are introducing a couple of Quality of Life changes for the Ancestral Legacy Tree and a a few bug fixes.

Once we know this patch does not add gamebreaking issues, we'll move on
This update is mostly about fixing bugs.
Some are new, some are really old.


- There is now a Search Function in the Ancestral Legacy Tree.
- You can now zoom in / out of the Ancestral Legacy Tree.

Technical Issues:
- Borderless Full Screen should be working properly again at startup.

Story:
- Temppopotamus' Bastion should no longer drop a Necromanchovy Emblem.

Attributes:
- Bravery 30 is now properly removed by ANY Critical Strike dealt by you or a source under your control.

The Fierce Huntress:
- Wandering Arrow should no longer target enemies while you are in Bryan's Circle of Protection.
- Immortal Arrow should now grant the proper amount of Instructions.
- Heavy Explosive Projectile Auto Aim System should now aim with more accuracy.
- Self Control should no longer be gained while being Delighted or Tormented.

Reapers:
- Power Crystals from the Ancestral Legacy Reaper should no longer target enemies while you are in Bryan's Circle of Protection.
- Reaper of Retaliating Foresight should now properly trigger at the correct range.
- Sight of Vengeance now explicitly mentions a range of 3 yards in the tooltip.

Legendaries:
- Fenren's Barrage Shot should no longer disable itself when you get back to the village.

Various:
- Enshrining Ancestral Stones now only occur when releasing the mouse button. As a result, dragging the Ancestral Tree around should be smoother.
- Friedrich should now always properly trigger its dialogue when you've unlocked him (and unlock additional features).
- The Avenger Cataclysm should no longer trigger on Reaper of Necromancy's minions.
- Chaos Breaches will now spawn enemies slightly faster (this is more Balance than a bug being fixed though).
- Fixed a few typos.

Crashes:
- The game should no longer crash while a minion under your control is attacking while you have Finesse and Free Membership equipped.
- The game should no longer crash while a minion under your control is attacking while you have Fury
45 equipped.


That's about it for now.
I really wanted to fix more bugs for this patch but couldn't find the time this week.

Once we know this patch does not bring a gamebreaking issue, we'll move on to working on new content for a while.

Have a nice day everyone!