Patch Notes v1.051 – New Levels, New Enemies, New Skills, Legendary Items, Lots of Improvements and Fixes

TL;DR: Go to town and get the new quest from Binder, try the new skills, find some legendary items

NEW LEVELS

Ancient Temple is the first procedural level of Act 3
New Dungeon: Avatar’s Reach

NEW ENEMIES

For now, these enemies are exclusive to the new dungeon to limit the spread of any bugs they might introduce. They will be added to other levels soon.

NEW SKILLS

Voltaic Thrust – Strike with your weapon for 100% primary weapon damage. Lightning strikes the target and chains to up to 5 additional targets for equal damage. Requires a Sword, Axe, Mace, or Staff.
Flame Slash – Charge up and strike with your weapon for 100% primary weapon damage. Target is ignited for 3 seconds for up to 100% of the hit’s damage per second based on charge amount. Requires a Sword, Axe, Mace, or Staff.
Leap Smash – Leap forward and smash the ground, damaging all enemies for 100% of your combined weapon damage. Requires a Sword, Axe, or Mace.
Crimson Rush – Quickly backstep, avoiding damage, then dash through enemies in front of you, dealing 50% of your combined weapon damage to all enemies hit. Applies a stacking Bleed to all targets for 40% of the hit per second over 5 seconds. Costs 30 Stamina. Requires a 1H or 2H Sword. (Suggested by allnewbagels)
Flash Dagger – Throw a dagger that deals 75% primary weapon damage, hitstuns an enemy, and teleports you behind them. Does not respect the GCD. Requires a 1H Sword, Axe, or Mace.
Backstab – Attempt a devastating blow on your target. Deals 100% primary weapon damage, or 400% if behind the target. If the target dies, cooldown is reset. Costs 40 Stamina. Does not respect the GCD. Requires a 1H Sword, Axe, or Mace.
Dual Wielding’s Execute skill has been replaced by Flurry – Rapidly attack 6 times with both weapons.

LEGENDARY ITEMS

4 new Legendary weapons and 3 Legendary armors are now available exclusively from the final boss of Avatar’s Reach
Legendary implicit mods no longer make an item Legendary, your old orange items will now be purple, but their stats will remain the same
Twists of Fate can can still roll legendary implicit mods, but doing so no longer makes an item Legendary

NEW

Items dropped from enemies now drop with all mods rolled
Added 4 new achievements
Added flight animations
10 new bow models
Humanoid enemies now drop their weapons on death

UI/UX

Stamina is now displayed for party members
New HUD indicator shows if you’re in nightmare mode
Main menu character slots now display what class of knight you’ve become
Added a line to the equipment tooltip which shows any necessary requirements for the assigned skill
Added comparison tooltip to shop items
Added comparison tooltip to quest rewards
Binder now shows when you have new quests and quests to turn in
Reduced the size of the Pickup Popup by 10%

BALANCE

Boss health increased at higher levels

Skills

Updated VFX for Flamedash, Frost Shield, Kirkira’s Resolve
Updated icons for Fireball, Firebolt, and Whirlwind
Reduced the volume of Shield Slam

Supers

Kirkira’s Resolve now teleports you upward on use

Blizzard Nerf

Blizzard max duration reduced to 4 seconds from 5
Blizzard max damage reduced to 25% spell damage from 100%
Blizzard cooldown reduced to 15 seconds from 20

Rooting Arrow Nerf

Rooting Arrow cooldown increased from 12 to 16 seconds
Rooting Arrow mana cost increased from 75 to 150
Rooting Arrow damage increased from 50% weapon damage to 100%

Misc

Fireball max radius increased by 15%
Shield Slam now generates 2x threat
All melee strike skills now receive an attack speed bonus from dual wielding
Blink, Frostblink, and Thunder Step now require a Staff or Focus to use
Avatar of Fire, Avatar of Ice, and Avatar of Lightning no longer roll randomly on items. Items with these skills will have their skill rerolled automatically.
Freedom Shout renamed to Liberating Shout

Talents

Verndari passive for Cooldown Reduction has been replaced with Movement Speed
The Alcaeus talent Fighter’s Focus now requires a melee weapon equipped

Enemies

Improved enemy AI
All enemies now regenerate 10% of their max health per second while out of combat
Rampage now has a leap attack
Reduced Grunt Master’s bomb AoE by 30%, updated VFX
Cryomancers now cleanse the Chilled effect from themselves every 2 seconds

IMPROVED

Updated lighting/fog on Night and Cave maps
Improved collision on some rocks in Town

CHANGED

Default Keybindings

Talent Menu now defaults to T
Ready now defaults to Y

FIXED

Corrected the Aggravating Shout description which stated it increased regen by 5 when it actually increases regen by 10
Fixed an oversight where many melee skills did not receive the 30% damage bonus from attacking a target from the back
Fixed a bug where punching did no damage
Fixed some text characters showing as ?
Fixed a bug where a client’s minions wouldn’t be destroyed if they removed the equipment that enabled them
Fixed a bug where dropped items could be duped
Fixed a bug where the chat window would stay open
Fixed a bug with staves jumping around in your hand
Fixed chests not blowing open on clients
Fixed a bug where Heavy Knights would play a loud sound effect repeatedly after dying
Fixed a bug where Fireflies were attacking more often than intended
Fixed a bug where Fireflies were immune to hitstun
Fixed a bug where only 1 shield model was being used
Fixed a bug where Course Corrections could not be used on 2H melee weapons
Fixed a bug where the loading screen would not be properly removed upon returning to Town
Fixed a bug where loot crystals could spawn multiple sets of enemies
Fixed a bug where you could jump while dead
Fixed Flame Dash not working for clients
Fixed a bug with the questline
Fixed a bug with some UI sounds not playing
Fixed bugs with Blink
Fixed some bugs with Firefly aggro and damage
Fixed some bugs with enemy aggro
Fixed a bug with enemy health bar visibility for clients
Fixed a bug with projectile collision in some boss encounters
Fixed some missing UI styling
Fixed hit stun animations for many enemies and summons
Fixed a bug where enemy projectiles wouldn’t play hit VFX and SFX
Potential fix for getting stuck in cave walls