Striving for Light News

[h3]Major Improvements[/h3]

• Fixed player shield effect progress is now being displayed much more clearly with a radial clockwise progress (0.9.9.2f)
  

[h3]Bugfixes[/h3]

• Fixed not being able to join the race from an selected online save file. (0.9.9.2b)
  
• Fixed flying loot goblin not reducing enemy count on escape leading to not triggering map clear achievement (0.9.9.2c)
  
• Fixed defeated awakened gatekeeper not uploaded to awakened gatekeeper leaderboard (0.9.9.2c)
  
• Fixed stacking sfx for falcon companions (0.9.9.2d)
  
• Fixed unlock weapon dialog not being triggered when having enough light (0.9.9.2e)
  
• Fixed hardcore awakened gatekeeper achievements triggering in softcore (0.9.9.2e)
  
• Fixed legendary vfx of moonblade (0.9.9.2e)
  
• Fixed Noctelle the Fallen AoE effect cooldowns to further prevent attack overlaps (0.9.9.2e)
  
• Fixed a bug that caused pathfinder tooltips to remain active after selecting a map (0.9.9.2e)
  
• Fixed player shield effects from character specialisations displaying the shield-ready effect too early after switching map (0.9.9.2f)
  

[h3]Improvements[/h3]

• New skill node design for wolf companion
  
• New skill node design for falcon companion
  
• New skill node design for chicken companion
  
• Scattering melee skills: Scattering Hit and Scattering Sweep have been renamed to Molten Hit and Blazing Strike to match the recent skill redesign
  
• New skill node design for Molten Hit
  
• New Skill node design for Blazing Strike
  
• New application icon has been implemented for Striving for Light
  

[h3]Balancing[/h3]

• Lifetime of temporary radiant wisp from darokin specialisation have been reduced to 14s (was 16s)
  

[h3]Bugfixes[/h3]

• Fixed awakened gatekeeper seasonal challenges not being triggered on softcore mode
  
• Fixed dodge UI not being updated correctly when increasing your max dodge charges
  
• Fixed the hide tutorial button being visible even though all tutorials have been completed
  
• Fixed a visual bug for helejas blink specialisation
  

[h3]Major Changes and Improvements[/h3]

• Preparations for Race Event
  
• Seasonal Challenge leaderboard is now properly separated for hardcore and softcore mode to prevent duplicated player entries for the different game modes.
  

[h3]Balancing[/h3]

• Iron Frost Awakened Gatekeeper now spawns less AoE effects
  
• Reduced projectile spawn of earth rift trial and rift boss. Further timing adjustments have been made to make this boss encounters easier. (v.0.9.9.1e-f)
  
• Melee Scattering Skills now spawn 2 projectiles (was 3 before) to allign them with the range scattering skill nodes. (v.0.9.9.1e)
  
• Arda the Fallen now spawns less rotating AoE orbs (v.0.9.9.1g)
  
• Enemy Light Ray AoE now has a smaller hitbox (0.9.9.1g)
  
• Bone Lance Dark Wanderer range starting weapon has increased damage 10 (was 6) (0.9.9.1h)
  
• Epic Map Mod Icy Spikes now have less range to prevent getting surprised by offscreen spawned AoE effects (0.9.9.1h)
  

[h3]Bugfixes[/h3]

• Fixed a crash caused by the yesterdays update 0.9.9.1 when encountering bosses without epic map mods active
  
• Fixed weapon attack trail delayed rendering
  
• Fixed a bug that caused dying in tutorial on hardcore mode to lock you out of the tutorial rooms
  
• Fixed melee attack replacer skill effect to not become active before switching your weapons
  
• Fixed negative damage numbers when having emerald staff equipped when playing goladir
  

[h3]Major Changes and Improvements[/h3]

• Elite enemies and bosses now only gain one of the epic map modifier abilities instead of every ability. This will drastically reduce difficulty on pinnacle boss fights.
  
• Trails of player effects are now properly affected by the player effect transparency setting.
  

[h3]Balancing[/h3]

• Epic Map Modificators increase elite spawn rate by +25% (was +20%)
  
• Noctelle projectile life time has been reduced and AoE attack rotation speed has been reduced.
  
• Earth Rift Boss and Trial boss now spawns less projectiles.
  
• Reduced size and durations of several epic map modifier abilities for enemies.
  

[h3]Bugfixes[/h3]

• Fixed layering of epic map modificator enemy effects that caused effects to be covered by other world elements.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused boss abilities to become invisible when freezing a boss and interrupting an AoE ability.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused tooltips for map nodes in the pathfinder to remain open.
  

[h3]Improvements[/h3]

• Improved skill tree algorithm to further fine tune skill spawn chances for base skill nodes
  

[h3]Balancing[/h3]

• Slightly decreased the multishot skill spawn chance
  
• Reduced skill spawn chance for increased projectile speed and range.
  
• Reduced skll spawn chance for increased shot angle
  
• Increased skill spawn chance for increased condition damage skill nodes
  
• Increased skill spawn chance for increased companion damage skill nodes
  
• Ravaging companions now reduce energy/endurance regeneration -40% like all other companion skill nodes
  
• Empowered Companion skill node now increases companion damage by +12 (was +10 before).
  
• Greater Empowered Companions Specialisation now grants +36 companion damage (was 30 before).
  
• Potato Trinket now grants +10 companion damage (was +5 before).
  

[h3]Bugfixes[/h3]

• Fixed range attack offset to mouse pointer