Playtest Patch Notes - February 7, 2024

@everyone Adventurers,

[h2]Please be aware that server maintenance is scheduled for February 7, 2024, from 10:30 to 13:00 (UTC+0). [/h2]
As a result, matchmaking queues will be closed starting at 10:00, 30 minutes prior to maintenance. Ongoing matches will not be affected.

[h3]Gameplay Changes[/h3] [h3]Character Balance[/h3] Cryomancer

• Ice Storm: Freeze duration reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds
  
• Shattering Ice passive: Freeze duration reduced from 3 seconds to 1 second
  
• Permafrost Passive: Now doubles the freeze duration for Ice Storm and Shattering Ice, replacing the previous 2-second increase
  ○Before this patch: 5-second freeze for Ice Storm, 5-second freeze for Shattering Ice
  ○After this patch: 4-second freeze for Ice Storm, 2-second freeze for Shattering Ice
  

[h3]Gear Balance[/h3]

• Adjusted the stats on various equipment
  ○Dev comment: We're keeping a close eye on how equipment stats scale. Our goal is to ensure that higher-rarity gear provides a tangible advantage without making opponents feel hopeless. In this patch, we've dialed back some of the stat rolls on equipment to keep the power of high-rarity items within our desired range. These changes will affect all existing items, but will NOT re-roll your equipment, just the modifier values will be reduced
  
• Reduced attack damage and attack level of high-rarity weapons, especially those of Epic rarity or higher
  
• Lowered the roll values for Physical and All Elemental Resistances while increasing the Max Life percentage roll values for lower-rarity equipment, to weaken the damage mitigation of resistance-stacking builds
  
• Lowered the roll values for certain high-rarity equipment exclusive affixes: Life on Hit, Life Regen per second, Life on Kill, Life Steal, Target's Defense Level Ignored, and Resistance Penetration
  
• ●Increased the defense level of lower-rarity armor pieces
  

[h3]Others[/h3]

• Added a 10-second cooldown to all throwable flasks
  
• Optimized certain aspects of the game to reduce stuttering issues
  
• Lowered monster defense levels to maintain a consistent PvE experience, compensating for the recent reductions in offensive modifiers
  
• Added all-elemental penetration to all elite mobs and bosses to counteract excessively high player resistances. Elites and bosses in Hard Mode feature even higher penetration stats for a more challenging encounter
  

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed an issue where an incorrect popup would appear when purchasing Hard Mode tickets from the Merchant
  
• Fixed an issue where chests in Hard Mode maps were yielding loot of lower rarity than intended
  

Thanks for playing, we’ll see you in the dungeons.