Ortharion : The Last Battle News

Season 3 and 0.5c

Improvements

Visual changes for Cry of the Forest (all classes), Hurricane Blade (Acrobat), and several enemy abilities.

Balancing

It is no longer possible to equip a wand in the left hand.
Arena boss 4 no longer applies an infinite damage-over-time effect with its double poison projectile ability. The ability it uses when its health drops to 40% has been replaced with one that is more easily identifiable visually.
Talent point refunds are now based on the total points spent across all talent trees, rather than just the current tree, increasing the total cost for higher-level characters.
Abilities that have been modified and have a cooldown are now fully reset to prevent abuse.

Bug Fixes

The equipment effect “Your shouts are cast at 15 meters” now functions correctly and displays the corresponding ground visual to indicate the affected area.
The equipment effect “When you have two weapons equipped, you gain X% damage based on your parry” is now correctly calculated instead of nearly doubling the damage.
The text on the character sheet displaying the number of damage bonuses is now calculated correctly, with additional information appearing when hovering over the area.
The red damage zones of random bosses are no longer visible on the ground; only the effect’s visual remains.
Abilities that consume a current amount of rage to deal damage now properly display the rage bar on the interface.
Hurricane Blade (Acrobat) now correctly takes its cooldown into account.
The pillar in the depths of the guild now correctly displays its name.
Normal monsters no longer have elite abilities, which could happen after killing multiple elite packs.
The Shadow Assassin boss now has proper animations, and its projectiles correctly hit the player.
Buffs of the type “Support of X” (Blade, Infantryman, Incantation, Trap) no longer stack if the ability is recast while the previous effect is still active.
Talent 3551 (Masochist) now works correctly.
The sealing effect is now properly loaded: the icon is visible, and the effect is correctly applied.
Talent 684 now correctly grants 50% cooldown reduction between blocks.
The information on the character sheet regarding blocking now correctly displays the block recovery bonus. This is only a description update and does not affect balancing.
The crafting interface now updates correctly when an item from the character sheet is dragged onto it.
It is now possible to drag an item from the crafting interface directly to the character interface.
Several pieces of information, buttons, equipment effects, and quest rewards related to the non-arcade game mode have been removed.
Several interface fixes have been made to prevent overlapping text and scrolling areas that were not updating correctly.

0.5b

Balancing

The infinite DoTs from major bosses now deal half as much damage.
The gold cost of crafting components has been increased by 50%.
The honor cost of crafting components has been reduced to one-third.
Shadow Step (Rogue): Movement speed bonus reduced from +25% to +15%.
Ninja (status buff for all classes): Movement speed bonus per stack reduced from 1% to 0.5%.
Light Foot (all classes): Base movement speed bonus reduced from 30% to 20%.
Deadly Strike (Acrobat): Attack range increased from 4 meters to 7 meters.

Bug Fixes

Random event icons are now correctly placed on the maps.
Random events are now properly taken into account in the “Snowy Ruins” zone.
All bosses in “The Summits” are now present.
Changing a specific stat no longer hides the sealed item zone.
The “Granock Village” zone now correctly displays the right number of events.
Adjusted how castle textures are handled in the Granock Citadel to prevent crashes.
Talent 3786 (Sorcerer) now correctly updates skill information.
The “Empowerment by Incantation” skill (Sorcerer) now functions correctly.
Skills that stack effects based on the number of summons now properly expire when the effect ends.
Enchanted Mountain: The southeast plank no longer moves.
Talent 6 now correctly grants a 20% attack range increase instead of 1.2%.

0.5a

Fixed a bug with negative talent points (points granted by Ortharion fragments were not loading correctly).
The increase in shout size is correctly taken into account in the description.
Talent 226 (barbarian) now provides cooldown reduction on shouts instead of reducing the cooldown of Fury Shout, which no longer has a cooldown.
Talent 3744 (sorcerer) works correctly.
Talent 3784 (sorcerer) works correctly.
Talent 2148 (mage archer) works correctly.
Talents 1708 and 1743 (ranger) have been modified.
Talent 1847 (beastmaster) correctly applies its effect instead of passing through enemies, which was already the case for talent 1826.
Talent 2848 (priest) correctly displays its description.
Talent 3551 (masochist) correctly reduces a buff skill’s cooldown by 1 second.
Talent 3106 (pyromancer) has a correct description.
Talent 3463 (cleric) works correctly and is properly visible.
Talent 3680 (chaos manipulator) no longer increases mana gain.
The hunter’s mine talents have been modified and work correctly.
Talent 981 (madman) information is correctly displayed.
Talent 1081 (gladiator) information is correctly displayed.
Talent 3785 (sorcerer) correctly has a prerequisite link indicating that another talent is required first.
Fixed text on multiple buff skills (Talent X grants Buff X).
The statistics “bonus to enhancement effects” and “bonus to enhancement effects on oneself” are correctly reflected in skill information. The damage and resistance calculations were already correct, so this does not affect balancing.
Paladin talents for Blessed Hammer no longer require the Footman skill: 408, 409, 430.

0.5

New content

Effect sealing: from 5 artifact keys, you can seal the effect of one of your equipment to have it constantly active on the item improvement interface.
Added 6 new improvement/buff skills that can be activated for classes that did not have them: acrobat, assassin, blade master, protector, duelist.
Arena bosses have been improved.
Legendary campaign bosses have been improved.

Improvement

Monsters are called onto the field more quickly, reducing loading times during games, especially during fights where a drop in FPS could sometimes be visible. Improving performance in general as well (because there are fewer monsters in the game at the same time).
Visual improvement of the following skills: earthquake (fighter),
Changed animations with shield skills (smash, acid shield, shield bash).
The energy shield is constantly recharging and when it is destroyed, then during recharging, it changes color, to have a better visual indication.
Only 5 of the 10 monster groups present in the game had an improvement in loading times, this is now the case for all.
The runic word creation interface has been improved, the runic words are sorted by armor type (helmet, torso, necklace) as well as in ascending order. When an object is placed to have a runic word, all the runic words remain visible and it will be indicated if on each, there are missing runic letters, or power, or an insufficient amount of gold.
Skills to choose from have been added for the rewards of the first levels in order to have a faster progression, more choices directly at the start of the game.
Addition of the transformation category in the skill book.
Several improvements to the interface (the scrollbar on the right of certain interfaces, certain boxes that were empty during interface updates).

Modification

I'm trying some systems to make the game more accessible, reduce the refund rate, so it's not really about improvement or balancing, so I added a specific section for this kind of modification:
There are no more statistics to choose when creating a character, the statistics are already predetermined.
The game mode is directly in arcade mode, that is to say that there is no more lockpicking, identification, weight system in the inventory, I simply made the system non-visible, I can put it back on a next season easily.

Balancing

General

Added talents: Arcanist for Mana Trance, Sorcerer for Divine Aura, Sorcerer for “Enhancement by Incantation”.
Enemies have their maximum movement speed as long as they are not in range of the player.
Elite enemies have a 75% chance to have an offensive skill, instead of 100%.
Ranged Elves: Damage -50%, projectile size -40%.
The number of chests to open required on the zones to complete the tasks has been slightly reduced.
Some enemies have their rotation and movement fixed when using skills.
The maximum duration of the enemy ground zones has a maximum duration of 6 seconds for elites and procedural bosses.
The ranking system has been changed, now the stats counted are: equipment power, player level, stats gained from achievement points, stats gained from the map completion system.
Quest rewards always give items at the player level, regardless of whether the quest is lower or higher level. Experience and gold rewards have not been changed.
Pack difficulty management now takes into account the player level, with 4 levels: lower than level 6, 12, 25, 50. If the player is at a high level, the difficulty of the packs will be higher.
The honor point gain value for boss resistance has been reduced, the boss is always at difficulty level 150 now, the gain based on difficulty level has been reduced from a maximum of X5.5 to X3.
The minimum Honor Point rewards for the Resistance Test are 200 and for the Damage Test 300, down from 100 for both.
Reduced fall damage.
Reduced gold gained from monsters, especially at higher levels.
Reduced the sell price of potions. Low-quality potions restore 25% resources, down from 20%, and larger potions restore 75%, down from 80%.
The Honor cost of item enhancement components has been reduced by 5.
Map Completion System Bonus: Chests grant a maximum of 50% damage bonus, down from 95%. Resurrection Pillars grant 25% damage reduction, down from 18%.
Character characteristics when leveling up have been modified:
Vitality: Stamina regeneration per second goes from 0.2 to 0.1.
Vitality: Maximum hit point goes from 12 to 14.
Dexterity: Critical chance goes from 0.6% to 0.3%
Strength: Damage bonus +1% goes to +0.5% in melee damage.
Intelligence goes from +1% to +0.5% ranged damage.
Energy: Mana goes from +10 to +12.
Charisma: Damage bonus +1% goes to +0.5% for summons.

Skills

Instead of gaining 5% damage per level, skills gain 6% per level, knowing that skill ranks have been removed. So skills gain a total of 150%, instead of 250% at max level with max rank and max level.
Channeling skills all do damage every 0.5 seconds, instead of sometimes 0.1 seconds, the damage of several skills has been multiplied by 5.
Skills that require breath in general require more.
Active enhancement skills still use mana instead of sometimes using souls or elemental symbiosis.
Divine skills are now legendary rarity, their resource cost has been reduced, as well as their damage and required stats buff bonuses have not been changed.
The price of skills for leveling up has been increased, especially for higher levels.
Many skills for warriors and rangers take into account weapon damage.
Dot damage and some damage over time skills take into account weapon damage for a slight reduction in power.
As you level up, upgrades that grant bonus damage, attack speed, casting speed, and critical chance progress more slowly.
Upgrade skills that grant bonus damage have been reduced by 20%.
Reduced the resource cost of the following skills: Call Lightning, Mana-Infused Spirit, Mana-Infused Strike, Divine Aura, Champion of Light.
Shield of Absorption (all classes) is now a status skill, instead of being activatable.
Clay Armor (Sorcerer): Become a Mage skill.
Infinite Mana Aura (Paladin): Become a Paladin skill.
Regenerative Wait (Death Knight): Becomes a Poacher skill.
Regeneration Enhancement (Death Knight): Resource cost changes to mana instead of soul.
Last Parry (Priest): Activates when the player drops below 40% HP, up from 25%.
Forest Cry: Attack distance reduced from 15 meters to 10 meters, cooldown reduced from 15 to 8 seconds, visuals changed.
Blood Tribe (Masochist): Health loss above 40% reduced from 5% to 3%, maximum duration increased from 5 seconds to 7 seconds. The talent to increase duration has also increased, from 8% per point to 10% per point.
Acid Shield (Protector): Breath cost increased from 16 to 32.
Greater Trance (Arcanist): Cooldown decreased from 40 seconds to 0 seconds.
Warning Strike (Soldier): Cooldown decreased from 6 seconds to 3 seconds.
Smash (Soldier) deals damage based on the number of Bleed stacks on the target and places an additional Bleed on the target, instead of dealing 50% additional damage if the target had 5 Fragility stacks.
Divine Aura (Sorcerer): Damage bonus -30% (instead of 20% global).
Paper Demon (Bagger): Damage bonus -10% (instead of 20% global).
Fire Aura (Elementalist): Damage every second instead of 0.5 seconds, damage remains the same.
Static Field (Ranger): Damage every second instead of 0.5 seconds, damage remains the same.
Lich (Necromancer): Damage bonus -10% (instead of 20% overall).
Berzerker's Rage (Berzerker): Keeps its damage bonus intact.
Perfect Immobility (Archer Mage): Keeps its damage bonus intact.
Abundant Critical (Archer): Changes from +5% to +3% base critical.
Master of the Critical (Archer Mage): Changes from +5% to +3% base critical, critical damage changes from +15% to +10%.

Equipment

Rare equipment can no longer have runic power or belong to an equipment set.
Items that are lower than level 15 can no longer have runic power.
Items that are lower than level 6 can no longer have a gem socket.
Decreased the stat values that allow you to activate fast heal when you do fire damage.
Increased to level 1 some statistics based on %, such as “critical hit chance” and reduced at maximum level. (for example goes from 2.5%-7.5% to 4%-7%).
Increased resistances on equipment.
All runic words are available in the game.

Power on equipment:

Blessing with soul gain per second: reduced soul gain, especially for higher rarities.
Damage every 5 seconds based on current lives has been reduced by 90% in divine mode, 75% in rare mode.
Reduced statistics regarding the use of quick heal thanks to fire damage.

Talent

Reduced talents related to quick heal.

Bug fix

The projection zones for projectiles are no longer visible on the ground.
Earthquake (fighter): no longer freezes enemies.
Talent 1031: The modified skill is correctly power javelin and no longer regeneration aura.
The desert boss no longer grants the achievement of the boss of level 5 of the arena.
Talent 610 can correctly be taken with 0 talent points in the talent tree.
The shield skill stat launches “block recovery” is correctly visible.
It is no longer possible to move powers on the character creation interface.
It is no longer possible to put talent points from the research interface.
Monster waves during the campaign give monsters based on the current configuration and no longer always skeletons.
When a skill is purchased and the player clicks on one of the tabs above the skill book interface, the interface is correctly updated.
It is correctly indicated that Ortharion fragments give 2 talent points instead of 1.
Artifact keys are correctly reset to 0 on account change between softcore and hardcore when you return to the main menu.
Fixed a bug that prevented the quest progress of rank 5 from being completed: Finish all maps.
Switching a gem for another on equipment present on the character correctly removes the statistics.
Doing a dash or dying while using a channel correctly stops the channel.
Fixed a visual bug when enemy red aiming zones appear.
Some artifact keys that were not accessible are now accessible.
Ancient artifacts are correctly saved and loaded.
It is no longer possible to have ancient artifacts if you have not obtained the necessary artifact keys.
It is no longer possible to equip several ancient artifacts at the same time on you.
In arcade mode, statistics such as lockpicking chance, identification, maximum weight are no longer visible on the main stat bonuses (strength/dexterity/intelligence).
The enemy's jump attacks correctly have the red zone on the ground that ends.
Several information fixes on skills that were not complete, or duplicated.
Perfect immobility correctly reduces the player's movement speed.
Bosses that have more than X25 health compared to normal monsters are now visible with an X% health, avoiding if you play on maximum difficulty to have a display bug.
When an enemy dies while channeling, this removes the channeling radius.
It is no longer possible to add sockets to helmets, necklaces, torsos, which are not supposed to have them as standard.
Fixed talent 368.

Current progress and season 3!

The updates for Season 2 are now completely finished!

Season 2 has been a way to implement many changes and fixes:

To start, we have the addition of Artifact Keys, which allow you to unlock new content, Ancient Artifacts!

The system is quite simple: collect 5 artifact keys during the campaign. Once these 5 keys are collected, you will be able to upgrade your equipment into ancient artifacts, allowing you to evolve indefinitely. However, you can only have 1 ancient artifact on you at a time.
Several visual improvements have been made, sometimes for the design, the visuals, but also the fact of hiding the new artifact keys.

The guild has new unlockable systems, such as Teleport Pillars, a system that allows you to gain experience on your secondary characters.

Rare bosses are now more powerful and random, some boss areas have also been changed. Many other changes to major bosses are still to come.

Enemies' projectile skills are sometimes more powerful, with a new visual effect. Many other skills now have this system as well.

Ortharion Fragments grant 2 talents instead of 1.
A new interface has just been created, allowing you to have a lot of information on the links between skills.

The category system in the skill book has been improved, allowing to see many new categories, to mix categories to have more information. All of this is linked to the search interface.

Many other content additions, improvements, new skills and equipment effects, balances and bug fixes have been made. You can see this in detail on the individual content of each patch, which is below :

[h3]Update 0.5 and season 3[/h3]

The goal of update 3 will be to implement new content unlockable thanks to secret stones and to slightly change how they work: instead of needing all the stones of a set for the new content to be available, you will only need a certain number, on a common set.

5/12: A new effect usable at any time (a bit like the Kanai cube from Diablo 3).
10/12: Artifact items.

Knowing that the area to unlock this new content is already finished and visible on update 0.4.

Secret stones beyond 10 will allow you to have 5 talent points each.

An improvement of the bosses, the implementation of Steam Cloud and a big balancing will be put in place, the gain in power will be less felt, making the game more difficult at high level.

If you want to know more in advance about the rest of the content planned between now and 1.0, a roadmap was recently updated.

Roadmap

I hope to launch season 3 in February, but I will come back to you when the major patch approaches!