Oaken Tower News

[h3]Fixes:[/h3]

• [p]Fixed a crash when tripling Flamy War Axe,[/p]
• [p]Fixed a typo on tripled Blazing Bull,[/p]
• [p]You can no longer use the space hotkey while holding LMB.[/p]

[p][/p][p]//Bocary[/p][p][/p]

[h3]v0.2.9.3[/h3][p][/p][h3]Fixes:[/h3]

• [p]Fixed a typo when hovering the Sage encounter[/p]
• [p]Fixed a crash when trying to sell items with the quick-sell S+RMB hotkey during combat.[/p]
• [p]You can no longer accidentally press an encounter option while discovering an item from a chest. (Thx Jeff)[/p]

[p][/p][h3]Balance:[/h3][p]🟢Jade (Common): Now Elven | 4.3s CD --> 4s CD[/p][p]🟢Flare (Common): 4.3s CD --> 4s CD[/p][p]🟢Petal Staff (Common): 4s CD --> 3.8s CD[/p][p]🟡Blazing Bull (Epic): Ability --> "When you apply burn, gain that much bonus shield" | 3.3s CD --> 3.6s CD.[/p][p]🟢How to Grow (Rare): 5.5s CD --> 5.3s CD.[/p][p]🟢Flamy War Axe (Legendary): 8 burn --> 9 burn.[/p][p]🟢Cutlass (Legendary): 55 gold --> 45 gold. | Ability: "When you gain gold during combat, permanently gain that much damage."[/p][p][/p][h3]Other:[/h3]

• [p]Anvil now got the "Cursed Garnet" treatment and will spawn swords very fast if it has queued up more than 5 swords.[/p]
• [p]The S + RMB quick-sell hotkey now also applies to triple chests. Rare chests sell for 15, Epic sell for 20 and legendary for 25 gold.[/p]
• [p]Added a way to manually select server in the settings. Only use US/EU unless you are based in China.[/p]
• [p]Restoration (Priest encounter option) changed to: Increase your max hp by +75%. The intention of this is making early leveling a viable strategy. This percentage increase might not be enough, but it will be a step in the right direction.[/p]
• [p]Right option from Miriel now revives you with 2 lives. This means that you can get up to 4 lives even if you die before the Cleric encounter on day 8.[/p]
• [p]The heart icon at the top will now turn into a skull icon if the next loss is going to end your run.[/p]

[p][/p][p]//Bocary[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p]

[h3]v0.2.9.2[/h3][p][/p]

• [p]Miriel XP option now gives 16 XP (divisible by 4).[/p]
• [p]Fixed a game crash happening if Wild Magic and Absolute Zero happened in the same fight.[/p]
• [p]Tried a fix for an issue causing duplicates of items to be uploaded to the build pool in early rounds. Will have to wait and see if this issue is resolved.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where Life Essence would cap the enemy health at 15000.[/p]
• [p]Added an option in settings to disable hotkeys.[/p]
• [p]Added a new hotkey: Hold S and right-click on items to quick-sell.[/p]
• [p]Cursed Garnet and Conjure Spear will now trigger 5 times faster in the shop if they accumulated more than 5 triggers.[/p]
• [p]The new max-health system from leveling has been slightly improved. The hard diminish in health gain after 15K has been slightly reduced. After reaching 15K health you will now gain 850 max HP slowly ramping down to a minimum of 450 per level.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where the max hp gained from Life Essence would persists between fights against The Oak. (After your run)[/p]
• [p]Icicle removed from the Tailored build lucky shop from Carmen.[/p][p][/p][h3]Balance:[/h3][p]🟢Cursed Tiara (Cursed): 2.3s CD --> 2.6s CD | 1 bleed --> 2 bleed.[/p][p]🟢Cursed Shield (Cursed): 3.8s CD --> 3.6s CD //dev comment: Hopefully these 2 cursed items will be worth picking up now :P[/p][p]🟢Bat Wing (Legendary): 5.7s CD --> 5.4s CD.[/p][p][/p]
• [p]Added a new lucky reroll to Carmen:[/p][p]"Shop only contains Essences."[/p]

[p][/p][p]//Bocary[/p][p][/p]

[h3]v0.2.9.1 - Hotfix[/h3]

• [p]Icicle removed from the game. The Frozen Orb + Icicle combo had unforeseen strong synergy. The item will likely return in the future as a changed and event-exclusive item.[/p]
• [p]The improved matchmaking has been slightly changed.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a game crash,[/p]
• [p]Tome of Blades now light green with the number at 3 daggers (rather than 4),[/p]
• [p]Health diminish per level is now much greater after reaching 15K health.[/p]
• [p]Fixed a bug where the game would show "Average enemy rating: 0" for grandmaster players.[/p]

[p][/p][p]//Bocary[/p][p][/p]

[h3]Greetings, Oaklings! [/h3][p][/p][h2]New Feature: Miriel[/h2][p][/p][p]Miriel is an angel who appears when you run out of lives[/p][p]She will revive you with 1 heart, and you can choose between 2 bonuses.[/p][p]This is inspired by the same revival mechanic from The Bazaar, and aims to give players a last chance to make their build shine.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]New item[/h2][p]Icicle | Legendary | Magic, Frosty | 45 gold | 3.2s cooldown | 0 damage | "On trigger: Freeze a random enemy item for 2s. (This can't get reduced CD)"[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]Other[/h2][p]🔸 Lyra 2nd option rework: Absolute Zero | "Start of Combat: Freeze all enemy items for 2s".[/p][p]🔸 Matchmaking has been improved.[/p][p]🔸 Rating gain has now been adjusted to take average opponent rating into account. (You will gain more rating if you faced opponents with higher rating than you). Only below grandmaster.[/p][p]🔸 You can now see the average opponent rating for your run in the end game screen.[/p][p]🔸 Potions and Special Items have been added to the item codex![/p][p]🔸 Health cap removed. The way you gain Max HP from leveling up has been changed. It is no longer a simple 30% increase, instead an advanced formula is used that increases your max HP by a flat amount + some percentage. The health increase has diminishing returns. The Max HP you gain thoughout the game is roughly the same early game, but a bit more from level 5 onwards.[/p][p]🔸 Walk on Water (Carmen) rework: "Increase your max health by +750 now and at the start of each day."[/p][p]🔸 Added an option under Settings to always offer Carmen in casual mode.[/p][p][/p][p]Hotkeys:[/p][p]🔸 You can now press SPACE to:[/p][p] Continue from the shop.[/p][p] Press the PvP encounter.[/p][p] Press the Priest/Cleric/Miriel encounter.[/p][p] Press "FIGHT".[/p][p] Press "Continue" when combat is finished.[/p][p] Open the shop.[/p][p]🔸 You can now press "F" to freeze/unfreeze the shop.[/p][p]🔸 You can now press "R" to reroll.[/p][p]🔸 You can now press "T" to train.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]Balance:[/h2][p]🟢Harbinger (Forged): 1.9s cooldown --> 1.8s cooldown | 15 heal --> 25 heal | 40 dmg --> 50 dmg.[/p][p]🟢Gold Vial (Potion): 6 gold cost --> 5 gold cost.[/p][p]🟢Morph Vial (Potion): 8 gold cost --> 5 gold cost.[/p][p]🟢Cursed Tiara (Cursed): 2.6s cooldown --> 2.3s cooldown.[/p][p]🟢Cursed Shield (Cursed): 20 shield --> 30 shield | 4s cooldown --> 3.8s cooldown.[/p][p]🟢/🟡Tome of Blades (Rare): "If you have at least 4 daggers" --> at least 3 daggers. | 2.7s cooldown --> 2.9s cooldown.[/p][p]🟢Petal Staff (Common): 4.2s cooldown --> 4s cooldown.[/p][p][/p][p]🟢Sharpen (Blacksmith): --> Give a weapon +8 damage and +30% crit chance.[/p][p]🟢Heavy Armor (Blacksmith): --> "Start each fight with 10% max hp as shield".[/p][p][/p][p][/p][h2]Fixes:[/h2][p]🔸 Lifeguard no longer removes damage from Flamy War Axe.[/p][p]🔸 Fixed a bug where the day 6 potion shop would sometimes get frozen and be available again after you pressed continue.[/p][p]🔸 You can no longer accidentally press an encounter while discovering an item from a chest.[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]As always, the PvP environment will need appx. 1 hour to adjust and rotate out old builds from the build pool.[/p][p][/p][p]//Bocary[/p]