Patch Notes v1.35

Patch 1.35 includes big balance changes and brings new tank hero.

General

• Shield: Reworked
  • Factor reduced from 3 to 1.5625 (Legendary LVL40 5-points now grants 500 instead of 960).
  • Now also reduces types of damage (was Physical damage only).
  • Shield amount now technically works as bonus health for visual clarity.
  • Any heal can restore Shield.
  • Damage reduction now scales with the number of Shield equipment.
    • 20% base (with zero items).
    • +5% for each equipment with Shield as primary attribute.
    • 50% max.
    • Potentially at max stats and number of items, grants 3000 shield, which is 6000 effective health.
  • Damage reduction works while bonus health from shields is present.
• Shield Recovery
  • No longer works when Shield is completely broken.
  • Factor reduced from 0.2 to 0.046875 (max 64>15p/s).
  • Technically now works as health regen due to Shields rework.

Classes

Fighter

Class mechanics

• Fixed a bug with wrong in-fight passive mana regen.

Hunter

Class mechanics

• Agility attribute no longer grants Attack Power (because there are no more ways to get this attribute).
• Haste attribute
• Haste attribute now directly increases Attack Power.
• Auto-attacks no longer gives mana.

Abilities

• Aimed Shot
  • Max level decreased from 5 to 1.
  • Now is learned by default.
  • Now pierces Spell Immunity.
  • Behavior changed from Target to non-Target.
  • Now requires to be charged up to 0.75 seconds (can be hold up to maximum 4 seconds) for a shot. Arrow deals more damage and flies faster the longer ability is charged.
  • Base damage rescaled from 40/60/80/100/120 to 54.
  • Attack Power damage decreased from 115% to 95%.
  • Manacost removed (was 20% of max mana).
  • Cooldown decreased from 1.5 to 0.4.
  • Hunter now can move and aim while casting this, but slowed by 30% while.
• Tame Beast
  • This ability has been temporarily removed from the game until its function becomes more meaningful.

Sectarian

Class mechanics

• Fixed Unholy Charges errors.

Warlock: A New Class

Included heroes: Hellchaos.

Abilities

• Life Tap
  • New Ability.
  • Description: Converts Warlock's 10% Health into 10% Mana.
  • Leveled by default.
• Life Drain
  • New Channeled Ability.
  • Description: Drains life from the target, causing damage, and healing Warlock.
• Felburn
  • This is now a class ability (belonged to Hellchaos).
  • Now has 2 seconds channeling cast.
  • Now deals damage over 15 seconds as debuff. Multiple debuffs does not stack.
  • Cooldown decreased from 12 to 6 seconds.
  • Cast range increased from 800 to 1000.

Heroes

Davion: A New Tank Hero

Davion is a tank from Fighters class.

Dev Note: Finally a new hero.

Bloodseeker

Attributes

• Base health regen reduced from 0.25 to 0.

Hellchaos

Abilities

• Agony Bolts
  • Base damage decreased from 30/50/70/90/110 to 10/20/30/40/50.
  • Spell Power damage decreased from 30% to 22%.
  • Now starts with zero souls.
  • Maximum souls rescaled from 8 to 2/4/6/8/10.
  • Souls now recharge one by one instead of independently.
  • Soul passive recharge time reduced from 13 to 10 seconds.
• Incineration
  • Fixed channel time and cooldown affected by Haste.
  • Fixed cast range.
  • Now replenishes one charge of Agony Bolts.
• Ritual of Destruction
  • Damage no longer pierces Spell Immunity.
  • No longer damages two enemies maximum.
  • Now creates explosion at random location within ability radius. Explosion damages enemies in 250 AoE and also damages the caster.
  • Radius decreased from 800 to 750.
  • No longer drains 4% health.
  • Fixed damage calculation.
  • Interval increased from 0.1 to 0.75 seconds.
  • Manacost now used on each proc instead of every second.
• Specialty: Destruction
  • New.
  • Added property: Causes Life Tap to give bonus Spell Power equal to 20% of converted health for 6 seconds.
• Inherited the following class abilities: Life Tap, Life Drain and Felburn.

Talents

• Soul Reverse
  • Now uses pseudo-random chance.
• Nether Protection
  • Old: Reduces the healthcost of Ritual of Destruction by 90%. → New: Reduces self-damage from Ritual of Destruction by 50%.
• Backdraft
  • Fixed chance and reduction effects.
• Suppression
  • Fixed buff source.

Lone Scout

Abilities

• Scatter Arrow
  • New ability replaces removed Tame Beast.
  • Description: Enhances next Aimed Shot with fragmenting arrow that splits into 5 arrows when colliding with walls, trees or enemies. Each arrow deals [16/34/52/70/88 + 50% of Attack Power] and can ricochet up to 6 times.

Queen of Outlaw

Abilities

• Fixed Kombo client-side errors.

Items

Healing Potion

• Maximum channel time reduced from 10 to 3 seconds.
• Heal per second increased from 6% to 20%.
• Cost reduced from 250 to 75.

Shield Repair Kit

• Disabled due to a change in Shield mechanics.