Dwarven Realms news & patch notes

Important dates & times: Server wipe: June 26th at 12:00 PM EST Season launch: June 26th at 1:00 PM EST

Core Systems Overhaul: Damage & Scaling

To drastically expand build diversity and open up entirely new ways to play, we have fundamentally overhauled the core damage mechanics for Season 6.

• The Damage Split: Player base damage has been officially split into two distinct categories: Physical and Elemental. This change allows for much deeper specialization, giving you the freedom to hyper-focus your build's identity.

• New Damage Formula: We have completely reworked the underlying damage calculation formula. Because of this mechanical shift, you will notice that your overall damage output numbers will be lower during the later stages of the endgame compared to previous seasons.

• Global Enemy HP Squish: To counterbalance the new damage formula, we have massively reduced enemy health pools across the board. The time-to-kill remains fluid, fair, and satisfying, ensuring the game feels better than ever without enemies turning into late-game damage sponges.

New Damage Formula: Physical Damage Output = Base Physical Damage x (Stance Crit Damage + Crit Damage + Physical Damage Bonus + Stance Damage Bonus) x Primary or Secondary Multiplier x Boss Damage Elemental Damage Output = Base Elemental Damage x (Offhand damage bonus + Base Offhand Multiplier + Affinity Damage Bonus) x Fire/Arcane/Lightning Damage x Boss Damage x Offhand Modifiers Damage

Offhand Changes

Death Blade: Summon a smaller Death Blade that circles around the primary Death Blade and deals 130% damage. Each time a small death blade spawns, it adds 15% damage to Arcane spike. (Previously 25%)

Death Blade: Extend the duration Death Blade stays on the field by 2 seconds .(Previously 4.5 seconds)

Delusion of Zelkors: Mages are no longer illusions and remain on the battlefield for an additional 0.5 seconds. (Previously 1.5 seconds)

Delusion of Zelkors: Spawn two additional mages. (Previously three additional mages)

Lightning Plasma: Lightning Plasma stays for an additional 0.75 seconds and deals +55% damage. (Previously 1.5 seconds)

Lightning Plasma: Fires two additional Lightning Plasmas, and deals an additional 10% based on Lighting Plasma range. (Previously 20%)

Lightning Totems: Totems stay for an additional 0.6 seconds and have a 50% chance to pulse with electricity when struck by lightning, dealing 150% damage. (Previously 25%)

Burning Shield: The Shield will stay an additional 2 seconds. When the shield dissipates, it triggers a Fire explosion dealing 500% base damage + 25% more damage based on the shield radius. (Previously Explosion damage was not stacking based on how many modifiers player have)

Carnage of Fire: Impact spawns a scorching fire that lasts 2 seconds and dealing 150% damage. (Previously 100%)

Carnage of fire projectile travels 60% faster.

Rain of Flames projectiles spawn 100% faster and travels 50% faster.

Spinning Blade: Shoots a shuriken from each blade, dealing 25% damage. For each shuriken, the spinning blades get 15% additional damage. (Previously 5%)

Spinning Blade: Spawns another Axe, dealing 30% more damage over a larger area. For each additional axe, gain 25% additional damage. (Previously 10%)

Dragon Flame: Increase radius of fire breath area by 40%, and 33% chance to deal Triple Damage. (Previously Double Damage)

Dragon Flame: The dragon stays for additional 2 seconds on the battlefield. (Previously 3 Seconds)

Toxicity: Pools last 2 seconds longer and deal 100% more damage based on pool size. (Previously 5 Seconds and 45% more damage)

Blood Dragons: The dragons jump towards the player, and deal bonus damage the closer they are to their target up to +100%. Now also affected by the bonus damage from Blood Dragons: Dragons gain a 25% chance to trigger a Dragon Burst that deals 200% damage. Dragon Burst deals an additional 33% based on dragon size.

Eye of the Storm: Eye of the Storm will stay for an additional 1 second, and increasing Eye of the Storm damage by 65% per 57% growth in size. (Previously 1.5 Seconds and 33% more damage)

Monograms Changes:

Gain 3 base Elemental Damage for every Energy point above 100. (Previously 2)

While in Berserker Fury state, gain 5% Elemental damage per 30 of your highest stat (Previously was divided to Fire/Arcane/Lightning monograms and per 40 of you highest stat)

Dark Shroud now also provides +3% Elemental Damage per stack (Previously was divided to Fire/Arcane/Lightning monograms and 2%)

Gain 2% Elemental Damage for every 10 essence available. (Previously 1.5%)

Gain 1.5 Elemental Damage for every 20 essence available.

Gain 1% Elemental Damage for every 40 of your highest stat. (Previously per 50)

For every 30 points of your highest stat, gain 1% Damage bonus. (Previously 20, now affect both damage types)

Gain 1 base Damage for every 75 of your highest stat (Previously 50, now affect both damage types)

Gain 0.15% Elemental Damage per Dark Shroud stack for every 50 of your highest stat (Previously 1.5%)

Shroud Master and Dark shroud bonuses applies for both damage types

Grants Phasing Trance, allowing you to move through enemies. While in Trance, gain 1.5% Damage bonus and 0.5% Boss Damage for every enemy you phase through - stacks up to 50. (Previously 2%, now affect both damage types)

Every 10 seconds of Phasing grants you 1% damage. Now applies for both damage types

Gain an additional 3% Elemental damage per Phasing Trance stack (Previously 2%)

While in Berserker Fury, gain 2% damage reduction each time you're hit. Upon reaching maximum damage reduction, gain +100 Physical damage.

Mastery monograms applies for both damage types

Drinking a potion will not heal you, Gain 15% Elemental damage per potion slot instead (Previously 5%)

Gain base Damage equal to 1% of your maximum Health. Now applies for both damage types Environment & Maps

Map Revamps: We are in the process of completely overhauling and revamping all current maps in the game. To kick things off, the newly redesigned Ruptures 1-15 have already been implemented.

Toon Shader Reverted: We have completely removed the experimental toon shader that was introduced in Season 5, returning the game's visuals to their classic rendering style for a cleaner and more consistent experience.

UI

We are undertaking a massive, game-wide rework of the UI, HUD, and stations to make your gameplay experience smoother and more intuitive. Please note: This is a gradual rollout. You might temporarily encounter a few bugs, legacy screens, or older buttons from past seasons while we actively replace them.

Performance & Optimization

• Offhand Calculations: Completely reworked the underlying offhand damage functions to run much more efficiently under the hood.

• VFX Decluttering: Reduced global VFX particle counts across the game to heavily improve framerates during chaotic combat.

• AI Efficiency: Optimized the underlying enemy AI logic.

June 24th Patch Notes

General Changes

Damage Stones now gives both Elemental and Physical damage bonuses.

Arcane totem now have triple the spawn range.

Added 5 new monograms:

• Offhand abilities can now critically strike at 10% of your Critical Strike Chance..

• Gain 75% of your elemental damage as Physical damage. you can no longer deal elemental damage.

• Gain 75% of your elemental damage bonus as Physical damage bonus. you can no longer deal elemental damage.

• Gain 2% Damage for every 10 points of available Essence, but lose 20% of available essence as Health per second.

• Your maximum Attack Speed is capped at 300%, but all Attack Speed bonuses apply at 50% effectiveness.

Bug fixes

Fixed an issue where enemies that spawned by a Time Tear did not take elemental damage.

Fixed an issue where Trickster's summons did not take elemental damage.

Fixed an issue where Static Charge would not deal any damage.

Fixed a bug where the Monogram: Drinking a potion will not heal you, Gain 15% Elemental damage per potion slot instead gave 5% Elemental Damage instead of 15%.

Fixed a bug where Combat Rating wasn't updating.

Fixed some UI elements.

June 25th Patch Notes

Visual & UI Changes

• Warning Indicators: Warning indicators have undergone a major rework throughout the game to improve clarity and readability during combat.

• UI Improvements: Implemented further general UI improvements and resolved several UI-related bugs.

• Offhand Icons: Added brand-new, distinct icons for all offhand abilities.

Gameplay & Balance

• Delusion of Zelkors: This offhand ability has received a complete mechanical rework to improve it's performance.

• New Monogram - Prismatic Void: Unholy Void becomes Prismatic Void. It now also benefits from your Elemental Damage bonuses, but has a 50% reduced chance to trigger offhand abilities.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed various typos and outdated ability descriptions across the game.

• Fixed a bug where Blood Dragons would fail to deal damage in certain scenarios.

• Fixed a bug where Blinding Rage was only granting a Physical Damage bonus instead of correctly applying to both Physical and Elemental damage.

• Fixed an issue where certain bosses could be lured outside the boundaries of their designated arenas.

• Fixed a bug where the Underrealm Rupture Gate was incorrectly requiring 500 Essence to enter the boss room.

June 26th Patch Notes

General & Balance

Chaos Days Reward: Added the new Prismatic Dragonling pet. As a massive thank you, all players who participated in Chaos Days will receive this pet as a special reward!

• New Pet Variant: Added a brand-new Physical Dragonling companion.

• Dragonling Upgrades: Container pickup delay can now be reduced to a minimum of 1 second. Each upgrade now reduces the pickup timer by 4 seconds.

• Magical Hand Collection: Added a new "Magical Hand" interaction that instantly collects Forager and Celestial dust from Zul and Skorch Racks. (Note: Using this interaction will completely destroy the rack).

• Skill Tree Adjustments: Slightly increased the Physical Damage bonuses granted by the skill tree, and introduced entirely new Elemental Damage nodes to support the Season 6 damage split.

• Optimized the underlying logic and performance overhead for the Corrupted Spears and Sky Swords attacks.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Fire Beam's hitbox was too short on the vertical axis, causing it to occasionally miss targets.

• Fixed an underlying math error regarding the Arcane Golem's damage calculations.

• Fixed an issue with the Arcane Golem's targeting and tracking behaviors.

• Fixed a visual issue with the Earthquake ability indicator.

Season 5.75: Trial By Fire

Important dates & times:

• Leaderboard locks: March 26th at 1:00 PM EST (24 hours before Season Start)

• Server wipe: March 27th at 12:00 AM EST (1 hour before Season Start)

• Season launch: March 27th at 1:00 PM EST

Enemy Scaling & Balance Overhaul

We’ve taken a hard look at how enemies scale as you push into higher Rupture levels. Previously, enemies could quickly turn into massive damage-sponges that hit disproportionately hard. To make combat feel more fluid and fair, we’ve completely rebalanced Enemies Health and Damage across all game.

Damage Reductions

Enemy damage has been nerfed globally across all Rupture levels to make survival feel less punishing and give you more room to experiment with builds.

Enemies Health

We’ve aggressively squished enemy health pools at the top end to reduce the "bullet sponge" effect during endgame pushes.

Offhand Changes

Rain of Flames Damage multi: 58% (Previously: 29%) Cooldown: +500%

Carnage of Fire Damage multi: 112% (Previously: 56%) Cooldown: +1100%

Delusion of Zelkors Damage multi: 220% (Previously: 110%) Cooldown: +200%

Burning Shield Damage multi: 170% (Previously: 85%) Cooldown: +1166%

Fire Beam Damage multi: 80% (Previously: 40%) Cooldown: +504%

Dragon Flame Damage multi: 320% (Previously: 160%) Cooldown: +767%

Chain Lightning Damage multi: 240% (Previously: 120%) Cooldown: +406%

Spark Damage multi: 100% (Previously: 50%) Cooldown: +300%

Vortex Damage multi: 246% (Previously: 123%) Cooldown: +233%

Eye of the Storm Damage multi: 260% (Previously: 130%) Cooldown: +967%

Ferocity of Wolves Damage multi: 40% (Previously: 20%) Cooldown: +256%

Static Charge Damage multi: 140% (Previously: 70%) Cooldown: +287%

Star Blades Damage multi: 60% (Previously: 30%) Cooldown: +197%

Electric Dragons Damage multi: 200% (Previously: 100%) Cooldown: +633%

Spinnig Blade Damage multi: 230% (Previously: 115%) Cooldown: +767%

Toxicity Damage multi: 250% (Previously: 125%) Cooldown: +933%

Death Blades Damage multi: 240% (Previously: 120%) Cooldown: +920%

Arcane Orb Damage multi: 230% (Previously: 115%) Cooldown: +233%

Blood Dragons Damage multi: 250% (Previously: 125%) Cooldown: +1233%

Arcane Apocalypse Now Spawns on enemies location. Damage multi: 186% (Previously: 93%) Cooldown: +320%

Fire Orb Damage multi: 130% (Previously: 65%) Cooldown: +373%

Fiery Totem Damage multi: 220% (Previously: 110%) Cooldown: +600%

Arcane Totem Damage multi: 360% (Previously: 180%) Cooldown: +700%

Lightning Totem Damage multi: 186% (Previously: 93%) Cooldown: +600%

Arcane Seed Damage multi: 280% (Previously: 140%) Cooldown: +833%

Lightning Plasma Damage multi: 270% (Previously: 135%) Cooldown: +733%

New Core Stat: Cooldown Reduction

As you might have noticed from the cooldown adjustments above, base ability cooldowns have been significantly increased across the board. Don't panic! This is because we are officially introducing Cooldown Reduction (CDR) as a brand-new core stat.

Previously, ability pacing was fixed. Now, we are putting the power back in your hands to customize how your character plays.

Balance

Monograms

Gain 1.5% Crit Chance for every 20 essence available. (Previously: 1%) Gain 1.5% Critical Damage for every 10 essence collected. (Previously: 1%) Gain 1.5% Damage for every 10 essence available. (Previously: 1%) Gain 1.5 Damage for every 20 essence available. (Previously: 1) Drinking a Potion triggers your offhand - Removed.

March 29th Patch Notes

• Grave Digger Cove has been reworked (mechanics remain the same)

• Improved performance by disabling unnecessary ticks on items drops

• Fixed Double Mastery Monograms not working correctly

• Fixed an issue where SuchKittyMuchMeow was not spawning cats as intended

• Fixed slugs not moving correctly Fixed an exploit related to quest turn-ins

April 5th Patch Notes

Gameplay & Balance

• Rupture Gate will no longer consume the required essence to enter the boss room.

• Underrealm Rupture Gate Essence costs reduced to 100.

• Archeon items are now guaranteed to roll with at least 1 Monogram.

• Trinkets will now start dropping at Rupture 4 (moved up from Rupture 3).

• Killing the Terror Master will now automatically wipe out any pawns he spawned.

Dwarven King changes:

• Interacting with the Dwarven King before completing the required 10 boss kills will now display a progress message, showing exactly how many kills are still needed to claim your reward.

• Claiming your reward from the Dwarven King now guarantees a random monograms corresponding to your chosen offhand.

• Zul: Players will receive 2 random monograms for their selected offhand.

• Skorch & Dark Skorch: Players will receive will receive a single random monogram three times. (3 Stacks of the same monogram)

Visuals & Environment

• Increased brightness and reduced fog across several maps to improve clarity in areas that were previously too dark or difficult to see

• Completely reworked the Stance Level Up VFX.

• Archeon's Grip: Using Archeon's Grip now spawns a new orb VFX that travels to the player character.

• Time Tears now feature a visual circle indicator that warns players when they are about to despawn.

• Boss Gate Indicator: Reaching 100 Essence now triggers a glowing material overlay on the gates, making it clearer when players can open the boss room.

UI & HUD

• Floating Combat Text: We reworked the text for Lifesteal and Damage Taken so the font and styling match the outgoing damage numbers.

• Removed the Rupture timer bar.

• Countdown timer has been moved to the right corner of the screen

• Minor changes to Essence Collection bar.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with the overlay material was not working as intended when players first unlocked stations in the Homefort.

Season 5.5 Patch Notes — Return of the Dwarven King

Important dates & times:

• Leaderboard locks: January 13th at 1:00 PM EST (24 hours before Chaos Days)

• Server wipe: January 14th at 12:00 PM EST (1 hour before Chaos Days)

• Chaos Days begin: January 14th at 1:00 PM EST

• Season launch: January 16th at 1:00 PM EST

• Server wipe: January 16th at 1:00 PM EST (Season start)

The Dwarven King

The Dwarven King now appears after defeating Zul, Skorch, and Dark Skorch (with plans to expand this system to additional bosses in future updates).

After every 10 boss kills, the Dwarven King allows you to forge a custom weapon:

• Choose the weapon type

• Choose the offhand ability affix

• Receive a weapon with the maximum possible number of monograms, based on the boss defeated

This system gives players long-term progression and deterministic rewards tied directly to boss mastery.

Quality of Life Features

Multiple Elven Skill Tree Allocation You can now allocate multiple Elven Skill Tree points at once by holding Shift + Left Click, making build experimentation much faster and smoother.

Affix Reroll

What started as a bug — and became a community favorite — is now an official feature.

Instead of repeatedly altering an item back and forth to chase a better roll, you can now reroll an affix directly, preserving the spirit of the original mechanic while making it clearer and more intentional.

Performance & Core System Improvements

This season focuses heavily on performance, stability, and scalability.

We performed a major rework of core gameplay systems, including:

• Full pawn system overhaul

• Rebuilt damage number system

• Removal of pawn health bars, which caused performance spikes and visual clutter during high-density combat

These changes significantly reduce CPU and GPU load in large encounters, improve frame stability, and allow us to safely expand enemy counts, effects, and future content without compromising performance.

This groundwork also enables future visual and gameplay upgrades.

Audio (SFX) Improvements

We completed a large-scale audio polish pass across the entire game:

• Improved clarity and balance of combat sounds, including offhands, bosses, elites, and abilities

• Stronger audio feedback for player actions such as dashing, teleporting, leveling up, and taking damage

• New and improved sound effects for boss mechanics, including ground telegraphs, projectiles, charges, and elite attacks

• Reduced overly loud or unclear effects while enhancing important combat cues

• Added variation and polish to enemy sounds to improve immersion and readability

Boss encounters should now feel more impactful, readable, and satisfying without overwhelming the sound mix.

General Changes

• Removed the pawn HP bar setting entirely

• Improved interaction responsiveness across several systems

• Reduced Amenon key stacking limit from 10 to 9, resulting in 10 maximum clears per run (1+9).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed various collision and navigation issues across multiple maps

• Fixed Toxicity behavior when going underground on Skorch

• Fixed multiple references and edge-case pawn issues

• Fixed several offhand, boss, and elite interaction bugs

• General stability improvements

This update lays the foundation for future expansions while delivering meaningful new systems and improvements today. Thank you for being part of the journey into Season 5.5: Return of the Dwarven King.

January 15th Patch Notes

General

• Added commas to damage numbers for improved readability

• Damage numbers now display on bosses

• Fixed reroll resource cost displaying incorrectly

• Fixed a performance issue with damage number

• Fixed pawn attack range and hitbox sizing issues

• Fixed a hole in the Bridge of the Demigods map

VFX

• Updated Rain of Flames VFX

• Optimized Rain of Flames by replacing hundreds of lava and ember particles with a meteor mesh, better matching the ability’s description and improving performance

Offhand Balance Changes

• Chain Lightning: Cooldown increased by an average of 5.2%

• Blood Dragons: Dragons gain a 25% chance to trigger a Dragon Burst that deals 200% damage. Dragon Burst deals an additional 33% damage based on dragon size (previously 15% chance)

• Static Charge: Static Charge increases its damaging radius by 20%. Thunderbolts have a 33% chance to deal an additional 30% damage based on Static Charge time (previously 25% chance and 20% damage)

• Electric Dragons: Each dragon has a 30% chance to shoot a burst of electric meteors that deal 75% damage (previously 25% chance)

• Electric Dragons: For each dragon, all other dragons deal 95% increased damage (previously 85%)

• Toxicity: Triggers a chain reaction; each projectile spawned gains 35% additional damage for each active pool on the battlefield (previously 25%)

• Toxicity: Pools last 5 seconds longer and deal 45% more damage based on pool size (previously 35%)

• Spark: Each spark now propagates four additional times (previously three)

• Arcane Orb: When Arcane Orbs return to the player, they create an Arcane Burst dealing 100% damage plus an additional 15% damage for every extra orb (previously a 25% chance to spawn an Arcane Burst)

• Arcane Apocalypse: Gains a 50% chance to explode a second time and a 25% chance to explode a third time (previously 10% chance for a third explosion)

• Arcane Apocalypse: After an explosion, spawns a black hole that damages enemies over time. The black hole deals 75% damage per tick. Each stack reduces tick time by 10%, increasing damage over time (previously 50% damage per tick)

• Arcane Apocalypse: Cooldown reduced by an average of 5.0%

• Vortex: When vortexes collide, they form a thunderstorm that deals an additional 200% damage (previously 100%)

• Fire Orbs: Orbs now charge for an additional 2 seconds (previously 2.5 seconds)

• Fire Orbs: When fully charged, the explosion deals 100% damage plus 20% additional damage for each extra second charged (previously 10% per second)

• Fire Beam: Gains three additional beams (previously two)

• Fire Beam: Each beam spawns a Fire Ring that deals 90% additional damage (previously 80%)

• Carnage of Fire: Explosion radius increased by 66%, spike damage increased by 50%, and Scorching Fire duration increased by 1.5 seconds (previously 25% spike damage)

• Starblades: Gain an additional blade that deals 75% damage (previously 50%)

• Starblades: For each extra blade, all blades deal 75% additional damage (previously 50%)

January 16th Patch Notes

VFX

Carnage of Fire:

• Fire spikes rise faster and hit harder visually

• Ground effects linger longer, matching offhand timing better

Rain of Fire:

• Less visual clutter during explosions

• Clearer impact zones so enemies and effects are easier to track

Delusion of Zelkors:

• Casting visuals now properly align with target's location

• Fire explosions look cleaner and more consistent with other fire spells

• Removed unnecessary effects that weren’t visible during gameplay

• Smoother visuals during intense combat

Balance

• Gain 3% Lightning Damage for each Critical Chance above 100%. (Previously: 5%)

• Gain 3% Fire Damage for each Critical Chance above 100%. (Previously: 5%)

• Gain 3% Arcane Damage for each Critical Chance above 100%. (Previously: 5%)

• Gain 1% Critical Damage for every 10 essence collected. (Previously: every 5 essence)

• Gain 1 Damage for every 20 essence available. (Previously: every 10 essence)

• Gain 1% Crit Chance for every 20 essence available. (Previously: every 10 essence)

• Gain 1% Damage for every 10 essence available. (Previously: every 5 essence)

• Adjusted stance skill tree node order

General Changes & Bug Fixes

• Adjusted Fire Orb brightness

• Adjusted pawns attack range (previous change made it too easy)

• Added damage abbreviations to EXP numbers, fixing a freeze above level 1214 and preventing number overflow

• Fixed damage number placement on bosses

• Fixed an issue with the Show Damage Numbers setting

• Fixed Shield of the Miner node in the Elven skill tree not working correctly

• Fixed an issue with Mining nodes using old damage numbers

January 17th Patch Notes

General

• Adjusted mini Fire Orb explosion brightness

• Removed dust particles from Drythus attacks and Abilities

• Fixed Mining Nodes showing damage numbers regardless of settings

• Reduced death effect intensity on mobs

• Fixed several issues that could lead to game crashes

Balance

• Gain 2 maximum Energy for every 75 of your highest stat. (Previously: every 100)

• Maximum Energy increased by 75%. (Previously: 50%)

• While Unholy Void is active, gain 3 base Damage for every 25 of your highest stat. (Previously: 2 base Damage)

• While Unholy Void is active, gain 2% maximum Health for every 50 of your highest stat. (Previously: 1% per 40)

• Gain 2 Base Damage for each available potion. (Previously: 0.5)

January 24th Patch Notes

General

• Added a rupture closing horn to clearly warn players when time is almost up.

• Reworked boss arenas in Ruptures 1–4 (camera visibility only). More arenas will be improved in future updates.

• Added new elemental enemy death effects.

• Updated visuals for several abilities, improving both visuals and performance:

  • Arcane Apocalypse

  • Blood Dragons

  • Arcane Orbs

  • Fire Orb explosions

  • Spinning Blade trails

  • Toxicity

  • Fiery Totems

  • Burning Shield

  • Flame Dragons

• Tweaked the toon shader and outlines to be less intense and easier on the eyes.

• Improved damage number readability.

• General performance improvements.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Earthquake spawning outside arena bounds.

• Removed an unintended Christmas tree collision from Homefort.

February 3rd Patch Notes

SFX

• Improved boss audio balance and presence

• Crate open and pickup sounds are now more audible

• Adjusted death sounds to better highlight elemental effects

VFX

• Updated Electric Dragon visuals and improved performance

• Updated Star Blade visuals

• Updated Lightning Totem visuals

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Eye of the Storm hitbox

• Fixed portals colliding with players

• Fixed phasing healing issue with Banshee

• Fixed shadow mobs spawning underground

Season 5 – Forged Fate Patch Note

Chaos Week begins: November 26th at 1:00 PM EST

Season 5 – Forged Fate launches: December 3rd at 1:00 PM EST

New Feature – The Anvil of Fate

A powerful new item progression system has arrived.

The Anvil of Fate allows players to attempt a high-risk upgrade on an item.

On Success: The item gains +10% to all attributes (multiplicative).

On Failure: The item is destroyed permanently.

A true test of courage and greed.

Anvil of Fate Time Tear

The Monogram Time Tear has been replaced by the new Anvil of Fate Time Tear.

When the Time Tear closes, it now spawns the Anvil of Fate, allowing players immediate access to this powerful system.

Massive Quest & Achievement Expansion

Over 140 new quests have been added, spanning from the very first steps in the game to the end game.

Over 140 new Steam Achievements added to support the expanded quest system and long-term progression.

Visual Overhaul – Improved Toon Shader

Based on extensive player feedback, the Toon Shader has been significantly improved.

• Lighting, shading, and overall readability have been refined.

• Myrh and Mardoth Ruptures now feature updated foliage to better match the new Toon Shader and provide a fresher visual experience across the game world.

The is still room for growth, and we'll continue improving it with you feedback.

What to Expect Going Forward

• Ongoing VFX improvements

• Continued performance optimizations

• New and enhanced sound effects

• More Quests and Achievements

• More balance changes

Season 5 – Forged Fate is all about risk vs. reward, deeper progression, and a refined visual identity.

Thank you for your passion, your feedback, and your continued support — the Realm is being forged anew.

Offhand Balance Changes

Rain of Flames: Fire two additional meteors. (Previously: one additional meteor)

Carnage of Fire: Now spawns on enemies. When the fire hits the ground, spawn a flaming spike that gains an 85% damage bonus. (Previously: 65% damage bonus)

Carnage of Fire: Increases explosion radius by 66%, spike damage by 25% and Scorching Fire duration by 1.5 seconds. (Previously: 33% radius)

Toxicity: Your poisonous pool increases in size by 25%. (Previously: 10%)

Arcane Totems: Totems have a 50% chance to explode when despawned, dealing 150% damage.(Previously: 25% chance)

Lightning Totems: Totems will now summon two additional Lightning bolts. (Previously: one additional Lightning bolt)

Fire Beam: Gain two additional beams. (Previously: one additional beam)

Dragon Flame: Increase radius of fire breath area by 40%, and 33% chance to deal Double Damage.(Previously: 15% chance)

Ferocity of Wolves: Your wolves increase their damage by 55% with each leap. (Previously: 45%)

Arcane Apocalypse: Arcane Apocalypse gains a 50% chance to explode a second time, and a 10% chance to explode a third time. (Previously: 25% chance to explode a second time)

Arcane Orb: When Arcane orbs return to the player, there is a 25% chance to cause an Arcane burst, dealing 100% damage and a bonus +15% for every additional orb. (Previously: 15% chance to cause an Arcane burst, dealing 100% damage and a bonus +10% for every additional orb.)

Arcane Orbs: Fire two additional orbs. (Previously: one additional orb)

Lightning Plasma: Fires two additional Lightning Plasmas, and deals an additional 25% based on Lightning Plasma range. (Previously: one additional Lightning Plasma)

Kraken Seed: Kraken Seed shoots 3 tentacle darts, dealing 45% damage each. (Previously: 60% damage each)

Kraken Seed: Cooldown increased by 7.8% average

Eye of the Storm: The cloud will spawn two additional clouds, dealing the same damage as the eye of the storm itself. (Previously: one additional cloud)

November 27th Patch Notes

New Feature - Archeon's Grip

Archeon's Grip has been added as a new endgame feature, It automatically loots all nearby containers when activated. It can be found exclusively in endgame boss ruptures.

General Changes

• As part of our ongoing effort to improve how the game looks and feels, we’ve updated VFX across elites and bosses attack telegraphs, offhands, stance abilities, and Time Tears.

• Containers spawned from elites and Time Tears no longer cost Essence to open.

• Adjusted the movement speed formula for monsters in Ruptures.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a missing portal at Rupture 9.

• Fixed skill tree related quest issues and incorrect nodes.

• Fixed an issue where container displayed the placeholder text "name".

November 28th Patch Notes

New Feature

Dragonling now have a new feature: they automatically collect nearby container every 45 seconds. This new feature and it's upgrade can be achieved through the Dragon Trainer after defeating Elysia.

General

• Melee class basic attacks performance optimizations and VFX updates.

• Added abbreviation to dummy damage numbers.

• Container and Qhik’zichars optimizations and VFX updates.

• Anvil of Fate price adjusted.

• Reward adjustment for dispatching Kordrim to the Grave Digger Cove.

• The donations to the ambassador quest have been adjusted.

SFX

Modified menu UI sound effects.

Modified Teleport sound effects.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where a chest in Archeon could not be picked up by Archeon’s Grip.

November 29th Patch Notes

General

• VFX updates and performance optimizations across the entire game.

• Extended Dragonling container pickup range.

• Qhik’zichars spawn time now varies between 2–8 minutes (previously 7 minutes fixed).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed The Donations to the Ambassador quest.

• Fixed Dragonling and Archeon’s Grip not picking up Dragonling containers correctly.

• Fixed an issue with Finish Rupture 5 quest.

November 30th Patch Notes

General

• Updated Teleport, Dash, and Boss Gate sound effects.

• Updated the general Offhand sound mix.

• Additional visual and performance optimizations across multiple effects.

• Added 30 new quests to the game.

• Removed the container Essence cost modifier from the item pool.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an equipment quest exploit.

• Fixed a Rupture gate exploit where players could open it without paying the Essence cost.

• Fixed an issue where the Dragonling container was not being picked up correctly.

• Fixed an issue with the Dwarf skin when certain pants were equipped.

• Fixed the container beam VFX.

• Fixed Whirlwind VFX.

December 1st Patch Notes

Optimization

All offhand VFX updated and optimized.

General

• New foliage added to the Desolated, Massadian, and Kabarian zones to better match the new visual style of the game.

• Increased the hitbox of the Fire Beam Ring modifier.

• Changed Lightning Plasma behavior to better represent lightning.

• Added an option to hide completed quests in the quest board.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a nav mesh issue in Massadian Firelands.

• Fixed Qhik’zichar quests.

• Fixed an issue where Dragonling upgrades would reshuffle their order in the menu.

• Fixed an issue with certain Dragonling skins.

• Fixed an issue with "Use the Anvil of Fate to forge 100 items" quest.

December 2nd Patch Notes

General

• General VFX updates and optimizations across abilities, offhands, environments, mobs, and elites.

• General SFX updates across several offhands and additional in-game effects.

Balance

• Lightning Plasma: Lightning Plasma stays for an additional 1.5 seconds and deals +55% damage (previously: +40% damage).

• Lightning Totems cooldown increased by an average of ~4.4%.

• Arcane Apocalypse cooldown reduced by an average of ~20.9%.

• Arcane Totems cooldown reduced by an average of ~10.3%.

• Death Blades cooldown reduced by an average of ~13.1%.

• Fire Orbs cooldown reduced by an average of ~20.6%.

• Fire Orbs: Once the Orb finishes charging, it explodes emitting a wave of Fire dealing 100% damage + 10% more damage for every extra second it charged (previously: 65% base damage).

• Increased Arcane Orb range by 50%.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with Emerald Qhik’zichar causing the game to freeze.

• Fixed collision issues in several maps.

• Fixed Harbinger of Doom VFX color.

December 4th Patch Notes

General

• Reduced excessive black in Arcane death effect

• Added indicator on the Quest Board when a quest is ready to turn in

• Quests Board moved next to the Rupture portal

• Added “Turn All In” button to quests

• Shortened quest turn-in animation

• Adjusted Time Tears VFX

• Increased visibility distance for station text in Homefort

• Removed legacy armor static containers from campaign ruptures (weapon containers kept for now)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed dither issue on boss spawn effect

• Fixed Archer base projectile VFX

• Fixed Terror Master and Terror Elite attack telegraph

• Fixed dithering issue in Cave Crusher VFX

• Fixed Mage's Electro Sphere VFX

• Fixed portal confirmation message so it no longer appears in every stage of the campaign

December 8th Patch Notes

General

• Added a damage indicator to the player mesh and the health ball (red flash on hit).

• Added an Owned Resources display to the Workbench so you can see your materials without changing the inventory tab.

• You can now change equipment while using the Anvil of Fate.

• Increased Passage of Shadow map spawn zone size.

• Reduced Lightning Plasma brightness.

• Removed dust particles from the Apexious fight.

• Removed the “Cancel” button from Settings.

• Added ESC = Back functionality in the main menu.

• Updated Underrealm Vault price formula.

• Optimized Khaotika mass-spawn effect and Flaming Drythus mount VFX.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Archeon circle abilities spawning telegraphs underground.

• Fixed pet collision in Underrealm maps that caused pets to get stuck behind the entrance door.

• Fixed armor % description display.

• Fixed quest indicator not lighting up when completing quests outside the Homefort.

• Fixed Workbench Level 5 quest completion issue.

December 12th Patch Notes

General

• We are experimenting with reducing the amount of item drops from monsters. For now this change stays — it helps balance the game and prevents issues caused by excessive items cluttering the map when inventories are full.

• The Anvil of Fate no longer affects item monograms.

• Fixed the “Use the Anvil of Fate to forge 100 items” exploit. We are continuing to monitor accounts that abused this bug, and action will be taken where necessary.

• The “Donate Resources to the Ambassador” quest now always requires 10,000 resources, instead of scaling its requirement.

SFX

• Improved dash sound: slightly louder with subtle pitch variation.

• Added new sounds for opening the Rupture Map and the Quest Board.

• Updated portals,offhand table and the Essence conversion table sound.

• Improved player damage taken sound to feel more impactful.

• Dash sound is now clearer and more present.

• UI menu hover and skill tree hover sounds are now easier to notice.

• Enhanced player teleportation (first phase) with an additional sound layer for clarity.

• Essence collection sound updated with a new sound layer for better feedback.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Static Charge not dealing damage properly in certain scenarios.

• Fixed navigation mesh issues across several maps.

• Fixed a bug that prevented players from changing equipment while the forge was open.

• Fixed several collision problems in Underrealm maps that caused pets to fall through the floor.

December 13th Patch Notes

Hi everyone! The holiday season is here, and with Christmas just around the corner, we’re sprinkling some festive surprises into Dwarven Realms 🎄

Today we’re introducing a set of holiday-themed Easter eggs in the form of new pets, and mounts:

• Mammoth Mount – Unlock it through a secret method and gain access to a portable Disenchant Table wherever you go. (Available exclusively through the Discord Subscription Shop.)

• Bloody Drythus Mount – Charges through the world, destroying every mining node in its path.

• Rock Crusher Mount – Has a 50% chance every 5 seconds to grant 1 Dwarven Stone / 1 Metal Flint / Both!.

• Lucky Sheva (Reworked) – Now has a 50% chance every 2 seconds to generate 2 gold coins.

• Nerdy Demon Pet – Keeps track of how many monsters you’ve slain inside Ruptures.

All of these can be obtained through new secret in-game methods for players who enjoy discovering hidden content.

For those who prefer a direct route, they will also be available on the Steam Shop. (except the Mammoth Mount)

Additionally, after reviewing the recent removal of item drops from monsters, we’re introducing two new container types:

• Epic Jewelry Containers

• Flawless Jewelry Containers

Happy holidays! We’ll be adding more Easter eggs throughout December, so keep an eye out and stay tuned. 🎁

December 14th Patch Notes

Today we’re introducing a brand-new mount: Deipnarch of Olympus! Every few minutes, Deipnarch will cook something special just for you.

You can acquire this mount through a secret in-game method or directly from the Steam Shop.

Additional changes in this patch:

• Reduced brightness intensity on several lightning offhands

• Reduced spark effects on those offhands to improve visual clarity

December 21st Patch Notes

Bug Fixes

• Centered the Nerdy Demon widget text

• Fixed a phasing issue with Cannibals

• Removed unnecessary dust particles from Cannibal attacks

• Fixed Shadow Chests in the Elysia Arena spawning Slugs underground

• Fixed an issue where the Anvil of Fate did not affect Offhand damage affixes

Halloween Hardcore Race – Begins This Thursday!

We’re thrilled to announce the Halloween Hardcore Season Race — kicking off this Thursday, October 23rd, at 1 PM EST! This is a Hardcore-only event, where death is permanent and glory lasts forever.

Schedule

• Leaderboard Lock: Tuesday, October 21st, at 11 PM EST

• Server Wipe: 12 PM EST (one hour later)

• Chaos Gates Open: 1 PM EST

• Hardcore Race Launch: Thursday, 1 PM EST, with a full reset

If you’d like to help us test, join during the Chaos period. If you’re here to compete, sharpen your blades — the real race begins Thursday. And if Hardcore isn’t your style, don’t worry — Season 5 is right around the corner, currently planned for early December.

⚔️ What’s New in the Hardcore Race

• Offhand & Monogram updates – deeper build diversity and reworked affixes

• New Time Tear event – greater risks, greater rewards

• New visual style – a fresh look for the Realm powered by our new Toon Shader

A Message from the Team

Every test, bug, and wipe helps us shape Dwarven Realms into something greater. Thank you for standing with us through every season and every patch — we can’t wait to see who rises in the Hardcore Race.

See you in the Chaos, – The Crater Studios Team

Patch Notes:

New Content

Four new Time Tear types have been added, each focusing on a different kind of reward:

• Mining Nodes - Harvest waves of mining nodes to collect valuable materials.

• Monograms - Interact with waves of monograms to obtain new modifiers for your items.

• Elite Rush - Survive consecutive waves of elite enemies and gain more rewards

• Slugs Rush - Waves of slugs; simple but deadly fun.

General Changes

• Containers now auto-destroy after 45 seconds (Light beam indicator goes down with remaining time)

• Boss containers spawn slightly faster to accommodate auto-destroy timer

• Container spawn rate increased

• New visual style/look for the game

• Season mode changed to Hardcore only - no softcore, leaderboard is Hardcore exclusive

Offhands Changes

Cooldown Changes

• Arcane Totem: Cooldown increased by 23.3% average

• Arcane Apocalypse: Cooldown increased by 17.9% average

• Lightning Plasma: Cooldown reduced by 20.0% average

• Blood Dragon: Cooldown reduced by 16.7% average

• Rain of Flames: Cooldown reduced by 22.6% average

• Carnage of Fire: Cooldown reduced by 16.7% average

Changes & Balance

• Death Blade: When Death Blade despawns, it will summon an arcane spike on a nearby enemy, dealing 100% damage + 20% additional damage for every second the blade was on the field. (Previously: 80% base damage)

• Static Charge: Static charge will now stay for an additional 0.6 seconds, damaging more enemies and dealing an additional 5% per enemy inside Static Charge range. (Previously: *Static charge will now stay for an additional 0.6 seconds, damaging more enemies*)

• Spark: When Sparks collide, they have a 33% chance to spawn a plasma sphere that deals 100% damage. After 2 seconds it explodes for 200% damage. Plasma sphere may consume sparks to gain +50% damage bonus. (Previously: plasma sphere that deals 75% damage)

• Toxicity: Pools last 5 seconds longer and deal 35% more damage based on pool size. (Previously: 20%)

• Toxicity: Trigger a chain reaction, each projectile spawned receives additional 25% damage for each active pool on the battlefield. (Previously: 10%)

• Death Blade: Summon a smaller Death Blade that circles around the primary Death Blade and deals 130% damage. Each time a small death blade spawns, it adds 25% damage to Arcane spike. (Previously: adds 15%)

• Ferocity of Wolves: Your wolves increase their damage by 45% with each leap. (Previously: 25%)

• Blood Dragons: The dragons jump towards the player, and deal bonus damage the closer they are to their target up to +100%. (Previously: +45%)

• Kraken Seed: Kraken Seed shoots 3 tentacle darts, dealing 60% damage each. (Previously: 4 darts) (Dart amount now stacks)

• Lightning Plasma: Lightning Plasma stays for an additional 1.5 seconds and deals +40% damage. (Previously: +20%)

• Lightning Plasma: Fires an additional Lightning Plasma, and deals an additional 25% damage based on Lightning Plasma range. (Previously: *Fires an additional Lightning Plasma*)

• Fiery Totems: Fiery Totems triggered by you gain an additional 25% damage for each Fiery Totem on the battlefield. (Previously: 40%)

• Vortex: When vortexes collide, they turn into a thunderstorm, that deals an additional 100%. (Previously: 300%)

• Amadora Snail no longer counts as an elite for the mod "Killing an elite has a 10% chance to spawn another elite

• Killing an elite has a 10% chance to spawn another elite' now stacks up to 4 times (Previously: 8 times)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where "Kraken Seed: Kraken Seed shoots 4 tentacle darts, dealing 60% damage each" didn't deal damage most of the time

• Fixed a bug where "Kraken Seed: Running over a Kraken Seed will shoot projectiles that explode on impact, dealing the same damage as Kraken Seed" dealt 30% damage instead of full kraken damage

• Fixed code issue causing problems with name selection

Performance Fixes

Fixed memory issues for the following abilities:

Magery: Starfall Strike, Basic Mage projectiles

Necro: Leeching Wraith

Axe: Blazing Earthshaker, Demonic Strike

Archery: Blade Kick, Infused Arrow

Swords: Shadow Slice, Scorching Swipe, Ascending Power, Thousand Cuts

October 22nd - Patch Notes

Visual Changes

• Reduced Dash VFX intensity

New Content

• 6 new nodes added to Elven tree:

• Increase the chances to encounter Monogram Time Tear by 1%

• Increase the chances to encounter Elite Rush Time Tear by 1%

• Increase the chances to encounter Mining Nodes Time Tear by 1%

• Increase the chances to encounter Slugs Time Tear by 1%

• Increase the chances to encounter Time Tears by 1%

• Increase the chances to find a container by 1%

General

• Softcore character creation now allowed in offline mode

October 23rd - Patch Notes

Optimization

• Homefort: Light complexity reduced for optimization

General

• Enrage elites now have a chance to spawn an additional container

• Time Tears after campaign completion now have a larger pool of possible container rewards

• New Time Tear types now only available after Rupture 15

Bug Fixes

• Fixed character creation bug where it always created a human female character

We're thrilled to introduce Season 4.5. This season brings the mysterious Dark Bosses, extends the Underrealm to unprecedented depths, introduces powerful Tier 5 equipment, and delivers a comprehensive rebalancing of the entire modification system. Prepare for darker challenges and greater rewards.

🕯️ Tuesday, August 12th at 1:00 PM EST –Chaos Days begin!

The servers will go down briefly (up to 1 hour) as we prep for the new season. Seasonal characters will be wiped, so don’t forget to migrate the ones you want to keep into Offline Mode! 🎁 Bonus: Everyone who participates in Chaos Days will receive the exclusive Ride of Swordie'm Mount!

🧿 Friday, August 15th at 1:00 PM EST – Season 4.5: Dark Essence officially begins!

The update will be live 1 hour before launch so you’ll have time to get ready. 👉 RSVP to the launch event

New Content

Pants modifications now available - obtainable from monogram station or by defeating Olympus.

Dark Boss Encounters

Six new endgame bosses await in the shadows, each offering exclusive rewards:

• Dark Olympus: Tier 5 Gloves and Chest pieces

• Dark Drythus: Tier 5 Pants and Boots

• Dark Bridge: Tier 5 Helmets and Shields

• Dark Archeon: Tier 5 Bracers and Amulets

• Dark Zul: Tier 5 Rings

• Dark Skorch: Tier 6 Weapons

Tier 5 Equipment System

Tier 5 armor pieces: Now have a chance to roll 3 random modifications

T6 Weapons

T6 Weapons come with increased flat damage, three offhand modifiers (just like T5), plus one powerful unique effect from the list below:

• Gain a 10% chance to get 1000 gold for killing an enemy.,

• Gain Double Mastery Points.,

• Gain 33% Chance to get Double Essence.,

• Gain Double Experience points.

Extended Underrealm

Route expansion: Underrealm now extends to Rupture 500 (previously 300)

New Monograms

• Essence Empowerment: Gain 1 Damage for every 10 essence available

• Essence Precision: Gain 1 Critical Strike Chance for every 10 essence available

• Dark Essence: Hitting an Elite or Boss generates 0.1 Dark Essence per 100 of your highest stat. Dark Essence counts as normal Essence but cannot be used. Stacks up to 500

• Phasing Resonance: While Phasing, grants 1 stack of Phasing every 2 seconds

Balance Changes

Monogram Rebalancing

• 'Lifesteal is now Energy steal. (Previously: Lifesteal is now Energy steal and you do not regenerate Health.)

• 'Elite containers essence cost is reduced by 25%. (Previously: 10%)

• 'While moving, you generate Light Shroud stacks. Damaging an enemy replaces all stacks of Light Shroud with Dark Shroud. Gain 5% damage and 1% Base damage bonus for each Dark Shroud stack, lasts 30s. (Previously: 9s duration)

• You cannot use uncharged Secondary Ability. Charged Secondary Ability deals 300% more damage. (Previously: 100% more damage)

• Gain 5% Critical Damage for each extra inventory slot. (Previously: 2.5%)

• Gain 1% Boss Damage for each extra inventory slot. (Previously: Gain 1% Attack Speed for each extra inventory slot.)

• Gain 1% Critical Damage for every 5 essence collected. (Previously: every 10 essence)

• Gain 20 to maximum Energy. (Previously: 12)

• While Phasing - Gain 30% movement speed and trigger your offhands every 7.5 seconds. (Previously: every 10 seconds)

• Gain 1% Crit Chance per potion slot. (Previously: Gain 2.5% Attack Speed per potion slot.)

• When losing more than 40 stacks of Veil - gain 50% Movement Speed, 25% Health Regeneration and 50% Critical Damage bonus for 40 seconds. (Previously: gain movement speed, health regeneration and critical damage bonus.)

• When losing more than 40 stacks of Light Shroud - gain 50% Movement Speed and 50 Base Damage for 15 seconds. (Previously: gain 50% movement speed and double Attack Speed for 7 seconds.)

• Energy consumption is reduced by 50%. (Previously: 20%)

• Your basic abilities cost 100 energy, but you gain a 200% damage bonus. (Previously: 100% damage bonus)

• When completing dailies, other active fellowship members will gain 20% of their current level XP. (Previously: 1%)

• Each time you get hit, Gain 15% more damage up to 75%. Blessing is 30 seconds long. (Previously: 5 seconds)

• Maximum Energy increased by 150%. (Previously: Gain 25 maximum Energy.)

• Gain 0.5 Base Damage for each available potion. (Previously: Gain 100 attack speed for each available potion.)

• Gain 2 Armor per Bloodlust stack. (Previously: 2% Armor)

• While in Berserker Fury, gain 2% damage reduction each time you're hit. Upon reaching maximum damage reduction, gain +100 base damage. (Previously: While in Berserker Fury state, gain 2% damage reduction every time you're hit.)

• Dark Shroud now also provides +2% Arcane Damage per stack. (Previously: +0.3%)

• Dark Shroud now also provides +2% Fire Damage per stack. (Previously: +0.3%)

• Dark Shroud now also provides +2% Lightning Damage per stack. (Previously: +0.3%)

• Gain 300 damage, and any damage you take will deal at least 50% of your health. (Previously: 75% of your health)

• Killing an elite grants you a Blessing that gives 2% Armor. Lasts 20 seconds, and stacks up to 100. (Previously: stacks up to 20)

• Killing an elite grants you a Blessing that gives 5% Damage Bonus. Lasts 20 seconds, and stacks up to 20. (Previously: gives 5% Attack Speed)

• Killing an elite grants you a Blessing that gives 1 maximum Energy. Lasts 20 seconds, and stacks up to 100. (Previously: stacks up to 20)

• Killing an elite grants you a Blessing that gives 2% maximum Health. Lasts 20 seconds, and stacks up to 50. (Previously: stacks up to 20)

• Your Secondary Ability costs double energy, but deals 150% more damage. (Previously: 50% more damage)

• Killing an elite enemy reduces Berserker Fury's cooldown by 2 seconds. (Previously: 0.5 seconds)

• Gain 5% maximum Health per Dark Shroud stacks. (Previously: per Light Shroud stack)

• Gain 1 additional potion slot for every 50 of your highest stat. (Previously: every 65)

• After completing all dailies, gain 300,000 gold. (Previously: 250,000 gold)

• Every 4 seconds your character pulses with Arcane Damage. Each enemy hit grants a 3% Arcane Damage blessing, stacking up to 100. (Previously: 1%)

• Every 4 seconds your character pulses with Fire Damage. Each enemy hit grants a 3% Fire Damage blessing, stacking up to 100. (Previously: 1%)

• Every 4 seconds your character pulses with Lightning Damage. Each enemy hit grants a 3% Lightning Damage blessing, stacking up to 100. (Previously: 1%)

• While in Berserker Fury state, gain +70% Damage Bonus. (Previously: gain double Attack Speed)

• Gain 500 Strength if no offhands are equipped. (Previously: 250)

• Gain 500 Agility if no offhands are equipped. (Previously: 250)

• Gain 500 Stamina if no offhands are equipped. (Previously: 250)

• Gain 500 Endurance if no offhands are equipped. (Previously: 250)

• Gain 500 Luck if no offhands are equipped. (Previously: 250)

• Gain 500 Dexterity if no offhands are equipped. (Previously: 250)

• Gain 500 Wisdom if no offhands are equipped. (Previously: 250)

• Gain 10% damage reduction. (Previously: 2%)

• Gain 200 Endurance. (Previously: 50)

• Gain 200 Wisdom. (Previously: 50)

• Gain 200 Agility. (Previously: 50)

• Gain 200 Stamina. (Previously: 50)

• Gain 200 Strength. (Previously: 50)

• Gain 200 Luck. (Previously: 50)

• Gain 200 Dexterity. (Previously: 50)

• Gain 25% Damage Bonus. (Previously: Gain 25% Attack Speed)

• Gain 15 maximum Energy. (Previously: 5)

• While in Berserker Fury state, gain 20% Lifesteal Chance and 5% Lifesteal. (Previously: 5% lifesteal chance and 1% lifesteal)

• Your charged secondary ability deals an additional 20% damage for every 65 of your highest stat. (Previously: 5% damage)

• Gain 10 maximum Health for every 100 of your highest stat. (Previously: every 150)

• Gain 0.02% Damage Reduction for every 25 of you Highest stat. (Previously: every 100)

• Gain 2 maximum Energy for every 100 of your highest stat. (Previously: 1)

• Gain 2 base Damage for every Energy point above 100. (Previously: 3 base Damage)

• Gain 1% Critical Damage for every 500 Armor. (Previously: every 400 Armor)

• Gain 1% Damage for every 50 of your highest stat. (Previously: every 40)

• Gain 1% maximum Health for every 50 of your highest stat. (Previously: every 20)

• Unholy Void attacks are 1% stronger for every 60 Damage. (Previously: every 50 Damage)

• Gain 15 Damage for every 150 of your highest stat. (Previously: every 100)

• Gain 1% maximum Health for every 50 of your highest stat. (Previously: every 40)

• Killing a monster or hitting an elite/boss has a 10% to trigger a bloodlust effect, gain 5% crit damage, 2% armor and 0.35% movement speed per stack. Stacks up to 100, lasts 15 seconds. (Previously: 0.4% attack speed instead of 2% armor)

• Landing a critical strike has a chance to provide a stack of Excitement, providing 3% all Elemental Damage. At 20 stacks, become the Juggernaut - gaining +25% size, +40% movement speed, +25% critical chance and double your critical damage bonus. (Previously: providing 3% attack speed)

• Gain 1% maximum Health for every 50 of your highest stat. (Previously: every 20 of your highest stat)

• Gain 1% Damage for every 5 essence available. (Previously: Gain 5% Damage for every 80 essence available)

• Gain 1% Boss Damage for every 50 of your highest stat. (Previously: Gain 1% Damage for every 40 of your highest stat)

• When killing an elite enemy, gain 10% chance to spawn another elite. (This modification stacks up to 8 times)

• Gain 15% movement speed. -Removed

Offhands

• Lightning Plasma now grows 20% longer in range and attacks faster by 13.33%. (Previously: Lightning Plasma now grows 20% longer in range) (This modification can stack up to 3 times)

• Arcane Apocalypse gains a 50% chance to explode a second time. (Previously: 20% chance)

• Spinning Blade spawns another blade on the battlefield dealing 50% damage. (Previously: 100% damage)

• Spinning Blade: Shoots a shuriken from each blade, dealing 25% damage. For each shuriken, the spinning blades get 5% additional damage. (Previously: 50% damage and 10% additional damage)

• Eye of the Storm base damage increased by 10%

• Eye of the Storm will stay for an additional 1.5 seconds and deals additional 33% damage per radius modification. (Previously: Eye of the Storm will stay for an additional 1.5 seconds)

• When Vortexes collide, they turn into a thunderstorm that deals 300% additional damage over 1.5 seconds. Multiple thunderclouds can now exist simultaneously. (Previously: limited to 1 thundercloud)

• Delusion of Zelkors: Spawn three additional mages. (Previously: two additional mages)

• Delusion of Zelkors: Mages' explosions now spawn fire spikes, dealing an additional 20% damage for every active mage. (Previously: 15% damage)

• Blood Dragons: Dragons gain a 15% chance to trigger a Dragon Burst that deals 200% damage and an additional 33% damage based on dragon size. (Previously: Dragons gain a 15% chance to trigger a Dragon Burst that deals 200% damage)

• Fiery Totems: Fiery Totems triggered by you gain an additional 40% damage for each Fiery Totem on the battlefield. (Previously: 10% damage)

• Fiery Totems: Walking over a Fiery Totem causes it to explode, setting off all other Fiery Totems. Totems that explode without dealing damage spawn an Ember Ghost that tracks enemies and deals 120% damage. (Previously: 100% damage)

• Fiery Totems: Fiery Totems you activate become infused with a Fire Vortex that deals 55% damage three times per second. (Previously: 10% damage)

• Fiery Totems: Creates a Wall of Fire in front of the player that deals 33% damage three times per second. (Previously: 110% damage)

• Kraken Seed: Kraken Seed shoots 4 tentacle darts, dealing 60% damage each. (Previously: 40% damage)

• Kraken Seed: Running over a Kraken Seed will shoot projectiles that explode on impact, dealing

• Burning Shield: Surrounds your shields with Fire Swords, increasing the damage by 50% and radius by 33%. (Previously: damage by 33%)

• Burning Shield: Burning shield becomes a legendary fire shield, increasing its size by 10% and damage by 20% and grants a Blessing that gives 1% Fire Damage and 1% Armor, stacks up to 75. (Previously: stacks up to 25)

• Burning Shield: The Shield will stay an additional 2 seconds. When the shield dissipates, it triggers a Fire explosion dealing 500% base damage + 25% more damage based on the shield radius. (Previously: 10% more damage based on shield radius)

• Death Blade: When Death Blade despawns, it will summon an arcane spike on a nearby enemy, dealing 80% damage + 20% additional damage for every second the blade was on the field. (Previously: 10% per second)

• Death Blade: Summon a smaller Death Blade that circles around the primary Death Blade and deals 130% damage. Each time a small death blade spawns, it adds 15% damage to Arcane spike. (Previously: 5% damage per blade)

• Static Charge: Static Charge increases its damaging radius by 20%. Thunderbolts have a 20% chance to deal an additional 25% damage based on Static Charge time.' (Previously: Static Charge increases its damaging radius by 20%) (Note: Chance scales with mod stacks; damage scales with additional time stacks)

• Dragon Flame: The dragon breathes more flames dealing 75% increased damage. (Previously: 50% increased damage)

• Dragon Flame: Increase radius of fire breath area by 40% and have 15% chance to deal double damage. (Previously: Increase radius of fire breath area by 40%)

• Lightning Totems: Totems range grows by 40%. Totems deal an additional 20% damage for every totem in its range. (Previously: 10% additional damage)

• Lightning Totems: Totems stay for an additional 0.6 seconds and have a 25% chance to pulse with electricity when struck by lightning, dealing 150% damage. (Previously: stay for additional 0.2 seconds)

• Toxicity: On spawn 25% chance to fire a toxic projectile that will spawn another toxicity pool. (Previously: 15% chance with no stack limit) (This modification stacks up to 3 times to prevent infinite procs and performance issues)

• Starblades: Gain an additional blade that deals 50% damage. (Previously: 75% damage)

• Starblades: For each extra blade, all blades deal 50% additional damage. (Previously: 70% additional damage)

• Ferocity of Wolves: Your wolves increase their damage by 20% with each leap. (Previously: 35% damage)

• Spark: When Sparks collide, they have a 33% chance to spawn a plasma sphere that deals 75% damage. After 2 seconds it explodes for 200% damage. Plasma sphere may consume sparks to gain +50% damage bonus. (Previously: 15% chance to spawn plasma sphere dealing 50% damage, explodes after 4 seconds, +30% damage bonus from consuming sparks)

• Fire Beam: After a few seconds, the beam expands, lasting an additional second and dealing 55% more damage. (Previously: 40% more damage)

• Electric Dragons: Gain an additional Electric Dragon, increasing its damage radius by 60%. (Previously: 50% radius)

• Electric Dragons: For each dragon, all other dragons deal 85% increased damage. (Previously: 50% increased damage)

• Electric Dragons: Each dragon has a 25% chance to shoot a burst of electric meteors that deal 75% damage. (Previously: 100% damage)

• Carnage of Fire: Increases explosion radius by 33%, spike damage by 25% and Scorching Fire duration by 1.5 seconds. (Previously: radius by 20%, spike damage by 10%, duration by 1 second)

• Arcane Totems: Your totems fire two additional arcane flames. (Previously: one additional arcane flame)

• Arcane Totems: Totems have a 25% chance to explode when despawned, dealing 150% damage. (Previously: 15% chance)

• Chain Lightning: With each link, Chain Lightning does additional 40% damage. (Previously: 25% additional damage)

Offhand Base Damage & Cooldown Adjustments

• Arcane Apocalypse: Damage reduced by 9.7%, Cooldown increased by 10%

• Lightning Plasma: Damage increased by 22.7%, Cooldown reduced by 9.1%

• Dragon Flame: Damage increased by 23.1%, Cooldown reduced by 4.8%

• Burning Shield: Damage increased by 21.4%, Cooldown reduced by 9.1%

• Death Blade: Damage increased by 33.3%, Cooldown reduced by 9.1%

• Eye of the Storm: Damage increased by 18.2%, Cooldown reduced by 9.1%

• Static Charge: Damage increased by 27.3%, Cooldown reduced by 5.3%

• Kraken: Damage increased by 21.7%, Cooldown reduced by 5.6%

• Toxicity: Damage increased by 13.6%

• Blood Dragon: Damage increased by 19.0%

• Lightning Totem: Cooldown reduced by 13.3%

• Chain Lightning: Damage increased by 9.09%

Stance Changes

Scythes reclassified: Now considered Ranged instead of Melee Melee Mastery bonuses: +0.1% Health Regeneration Bonus, 0.01% Lifesteal Bonus, 0.5 Armor

Stance Ability Rebalancing

Scythe:

• Bone Surge: Energy Cost 25, Damage Multiplier 155% (Previously: *Energy Cost 21, Damage Multiplier 170%)

• Leeching Wraith: Energy Cost 35, Damage Multiplier 150% (Previously: Energy Cost 31, Damage Multiplier 160%)

• Frenzied Deathbolt: Energy Cost 30 (Previously: Energy Cost 26)

• Necrotic Maelstrom: Energy Cost 30, Damage Multiplier 165% (Previously: Energy Cost 31, Damage Multiplier 170%)

• Soulrend Crescent: Energy Cost 30, Damage Multiplier 170%' (Previously: Energy Cost 31, Damage Multiplier 180%)

• Echoed Torment: Energy Cost 25, Damage Multiplier 185% (Previously: Energy Cost 26, Damage Multiplier 190%) Magery:

• Discharge: Energy Cost 33, Damage Multiplier 170% (Previously: Energy Cost 21, Damage Multiplier 175%) Starfall Strike: Damage Multiplier 160% (Previously: Damage Multiplier 170%) Archery:

• Rain of Arrows: Energy Cost 30, Damage Multiplier 165% (Previously: Energy Cost 31, Damage Multiplier 180%) Axes:

• Whirlwind: Damage Multiplier 185% (Previously: Damage Multiplier 175%)

• Sky Swords: Energy Cost 28 (Previously: Energy Cost 31) Swords:

• Tornado: Damage Multiplier 185%' (Previously: Damage Multiplier 175%)

• Shadow Slice: Damage Multiplier 175% (Previously: Damage Multiplier 170%) Spears:

• Magical Lance: Damage Multiplier 165% (Previously: Damage Multiplier 140%)

• Piercing Fire: Damage Multiplier 170% (Previously: Damage Multiplier 160%) Fists:

• Deathly Revolver: Damage Multiplier 185% (Previously: Damage Multiplier 170%)

• Blinded by Rage: Energy Cost 33 (Previously: Energy Cost 36) Maul:

• Mystic Maulquake: Damage Multiplier 185% (Previously: Damage Multiplier 180%)

• Hurricane Havoc: Energy Cost 26 (Previously: Energy Cost 31)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Unholy Void bug where a tree node provided excessive damage

• Fixed Vortex Thunderstorm not dealing damage

• Fixed Arcane Apocalypse extra damage calculations

• Fixed Burning Shield damage calculations per modification resulting in less damage

• Fixed Delusion of Zelkors mage count calculation resulting in less damage

• Fixed Fiery Totem damage stacking issue resulting in less damage

• Fixed Kraken Seed damage calculation resulting in less damage

• Fixed a bug where Vortex would incorrectly affect training dummy physics ---

Developer Notes

Season 4.5 focusing on three core pillars: endgame content expansion, player power enhancement, and build diversity. The introduction of Dark Bosses provides new challenges for our most dedicated players, while Tier 5 equipment opens entirely new optimization strategies. The massive monogram rebalancing reflects our commitment to making every build path viable and exciting. We've dramatically increased player power across the board while introducing new scaling mechanics around essence management and secondary abilities. The Underrealm expansion to rupture 500 provides significantly more progression content, while the offhand system overhaul ensures that these crucial build components feel impactful and rewarding to optimize.

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Balance

• 'Killing a campaign boss grants 100 Maximum Health' (New feature)

• 'Stance tree Maximum Health bonuses reduced to 50' (Previously: 100)

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General

• Added translations for newly added text strings

Visual & Performance Updates

• Spark: Complete visual and performance rework implemented

• Dragon Flames: Complete visual and performance rework implemented

• Burning Shield: Complete visual and performance rework implemented

Balance

• Lightning Plasma: Lightning Plasma now grows 20% longer in range, attacks 13.33% faster, and hits 2 additional times. (Previously: 1 additional time) (This modification can stack up to 3 times)

• Ferocity of Wolves: Cooldown reduced by 11.43%

• Burning Shield: Cooldown reduced by 11.43%

• Lightning Plasma: Cooldown reduced by 9.09%

• Static Charge: Static charge will now stay for an additional 0.6 seconds, damaging more enemies.' (Previously: 0.3 seconds)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed various typos across the game

• Fixed navigation mesh issues in some maps that caused monsters to remain stationary

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Wednesday, August 13th Patch Notes

General

• Pants monograms added to all endgame bosses (excluding Dark Bosses)

VFX Optimization

• Arcane Apocalypse: Visual update and optimization

• Eye of the Storm: Visual update and optimization

Bug Fixes

• Fixed few item missing textures

• Fixed a bug where killing Dark Bosses through Underrealm wouldn't provide item racks

• Fixed a bug where entering Dark Skorch through Underrealm would send players to the main menu

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Wednesday, August 13th 2nd Patch Notes

SFX

• Added click sound effects to all leaderboard buttons

UI

• Added pagination to leaderboard boss tokens - players can now view all available tokens

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where certain bosses had fade effects when viewed from above

• Fixed a bug where mastery bonuses provided incorrect armor amounts

• Fixed a bug where players received 500% damage instead of 5% when using the monogram "Killing an elite grants you a blessing that gives 5% damage bonus"

• Fixed a bug where "Gain 200 Stat" monograms didn't provide the correct stats and weren't calculated properly for stat bonuses

• Fixed a bug where certain archer Q&R abilities would clip through floors in specific maps

VFX

• Arcane Totem: Visual rework and optimization

• Toxicity: Visual effects rework and optimization

• Spark: Reduced brightness on spark plasma modification effects

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Thursday, August 14th Patch Notes

VFX

• Adjusted Burning Shield color to reduce interference with boss attack indicators

• Blood Dragon: Visual and optimization rework

• Carnage of Fire: Optimization improvements

• Arcane Orb: Optimization improvements

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where entering Dark Skorch from the NPC would incorrectly load Rupture 44 instead of the correct rupture level

• Fixed a bug where pants monograms caused leaderboard builds to load incorrectly

• Fixed a bug where killing Dark Zul in the Underrealm wouldn't unlock his entrance through Sonia the Dark NPC

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Friday, August 15th Patch Notes

Offhands

• Delusion of Zelkors: Optimization and visual update

• Spark - Plasma Sphere: Fixed low FPS visual issues

• Fiery Totem: Optimization and visual update

• Electric Dragons: Optimization and visual update

General

• Removed Dark Bosses scaling

Offhand Balance Changes

• 'Fire Beam: After a few seconds, the beam expands, lasting an additional second and dealing 75% more damage.' (Previously: 55% more damage)

• 'Dragon Flame: The dragon stays for additional 3 seconds on the battlefield.' (Previously: 2 seconds)

• 'Death Blade: Extend the duration Death Blade stays on the field by 4.5 seconds.' (Previously: 3 seconds)

• 'Burning Shield: Burning shield becomes a legendary fire shield, increasing its size by 10% and damage by 30% and grants a Blessing that gives 1% Fire Damage and 1% Armor, stacks up to 75.' (Previously: 20% damage)

• 'Burning Shield: Surrounds your shields with Fire Swords, increasing the damage by 60% and radius by 33%.' (Previously: 50% damage)

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Sunday, August 17th Patch Notes

Balance

• 'While Phasing, grants 1 stack of Phasing every 2 seconds.' (Changed to work while in combat)

• 'Unholy Void attacks are 1% stronger for every 35 Health Regeneration.' (Previously: every 60 Damage)

• 'Dark Essence: Hitting an Elite or Boss generates 0.25 Dark Essence per 100 of your highest stat. Dark Essence counts as normal Essence but cannot be used. Stacks up to 500.' (Previously: 0.1 Dark Essence per 100 of highest stat)

• Juggernaut buff duration increased to 25 seconds

• Scythe now procs offhand on 2nd attack instead of 3rd and increased basic attacks range

• 10 Stamina = 0.1% Max Health; 10 Stamina = 0.1 Health Regeneration. (Previously: 10 Stamina = 0.1% Max Health)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Juggernaut not activating after 6 stacks of Excitement

• Typos in few places

• Elite dummy now procs Phasing effects

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Monday, August 18th Patch Notes

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the mod 'While Phasing, grants 1 stack of Phasing every 2 seconds' to work while in combat

• Fixed certain abilities clipping through the ground in specific maps

• Fixed Scythe from Zul incorrectly having triple monograms

• Fixed a bug where 'Delusion of Zelkors: Mages are no longer illusions and remain on the battlefield for an additional 1.5 seconds' caused reduced mage spawns when combined with the three additional mages modifier

• Fixed Lightning Totems not targeting Apexius

• Fixed the mod 'Arcane Totems fires 2 additional flames' only adding one additional flame

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Wednesday, August 20th Patch Notes

UI

• Dark Essence buff now displays the maximum Dark Essence achievable

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where "Your secondary attack now charges three times as fast" didn't stack properly

• Fixed stacking for the mod "Maximum Energy is increased by 150%" and corrected wording to "Maximum Energy is increased by 50%" (Value unchanged, wording correction only)

• Fixed Kabarian Wetlands boss chest sometimes spawning out of bounds

General

• Toxicity: Optimization improvements

• Vortex: Optimization improvements, Thunderstorm changed from damage over time to front-loaded damage (Note: Total dummy damage may appear reduced, but this change improves bossing effectiveness)

• Item duration reduced from 70 to 15 seconds to improve performance when items aren't picked up/with full inventory/large quantities on ground

• Drastically reduced boss spawn chances for Archeon Mistress elites

• Bloodlust buff duration increased to 20 seconds

• General optimization improvements across the game

• Arcane Totem: Optimization improvements

• Delusion of Zelkors: Optimization improvements

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Friday, August 22th Patch Notes

Bug Fixes

• Fixed various typos

• Fixed a bug where players could trigger Orin's tutorials multiple times in rare cases

• Fixed a bug where Dark Drythus sometimes died when going underground

• Fixed a bug where minions would fall through the floor in Akkuros Fellowship dungeon

• Lowered the delay for Spike mods in Delusion of Zelkors and Death Blades offhands

• Fixed essence modifications not working correctly without Dark Essence

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Sunday , August 31th Patch Notes

General

• Authentication flow: Resolved security vulnerability

Bug Fixes

• Catacomb 2: Added missing wall

• Unarmed Juggernaut: Text corrections

• Fixed a bug where containers in Akkuros Fellowship dungeon would spawn outside the arena in rare cases

• Added lightning effects to certain chests for improved visibility in specific areas, including Grave Digger Cove

• Fixed Fists Soul Strike giving only one combo point instead of two

• Added confirmation dialog to home portal (Only appears if Rupture level >36, player has essence, or is inside a boss zone)

• Fixed Zelkors not dealing damage in certain cases

Season 4 launches on May 25th!

Stone and Darkness unite!

New Races

New Necromancer Stance

New Home Fort

Season 3.5 - AWAKENING Patch Notes

Monday, March 31st Patch Notes:

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed various visual issues with a bunch of different Mounts.
• Slightly optimized Rain of Flames performance
• Resolved an issue that was causing Earthquake to stay on the battlefield after defeating Archeon.
• Elysia can no longer be pushed off the map.
• Removed spear related item from Archery Underrealm rewards.
• Prime Trux the Imp will now properly display the warning indication of all 3 lasers.
• Fixed _"Gain 0.02% damage reduction for every 100..."_ to work with Highest stat.
• Added description about Experience Stones to Shadow stones.
• Fixed an issue where Sword's bracers would give double crit damage.
• Resolved an issue in Mardoth Bridge that was preventing enemies from spawning.

Gameplay:

• Gravedigger key recipe will now unlock before Elysia key recipe.
• Slightly reduced damage dealt by Shadowreaper boss and Prime Tombshade tornado attack.
• Health regeneration bonus from Quartz reward card increased to 10%.

Tuesday, March 25th Patch Notes:

Bug Fixes:

• Optimized Mistress of Archeon VFX performance
• Improved collision in Min Lodhur, which should prevent players from getting stuck outside Boss Arena.
• Added controller support for Inventory Filter
• Fixed a calculation in Arcane apocalypse's Blackhole modifier. It should now deal the correct amount of damage.
• Resolved a navigation issue in The Hour Glass encounter that was preventing Apexious' minions from attacking the player.
• Removed an exploitable point in Mardoth Bridge that was causing enemies to become stuck.
• Fixed an issue with Archeon reward chest that was causing some items to be invisible.
• Reduced Prime Cavernous Ravager's rock attack damage.

Monday, March 24th Patch Notes:

Bug Fixes:

• A major change has been made to the Character Save&Backup system which should prevent players from losing their character when abruptly disconnecting or closing the game.
• Resolved an issue that was causing Arcane Apocalypse to leave shadows behind even after the skill ended.
• Optimized performance of gaining Blood stacks.
• Fixed an issue where the player could go back to the arena after killing the boss in infused Dhim Tharim.
• Removed several exploitable spots in Ethereal Garden Temple rupture.

Sunday, March 23rd Patch Notes:

Bug Fixes:

• Resolved an issue that was causing Boss encounters to be instantly defeated upon spawning.
• Fixed a bug that was causing elite enemies to spawn on elevated grounds.
• Removed an invisible, blocking wall in The Hour Glass encounter.
• Fixed the issue causing rewards and enemies to spawn out of bounds in Mardoth Bridge
• "Increased mount speed by 80%" now working correctly
• Resolved the issue that was causing players to get stuck in the air during Skorch encounter.
• Fixed the issue making some Fists weapons to be held weird.
• Fixed the issue causing some skins to become twisted when using fists weapons.
• Made slight performance optimizations to Arcane Apocalypse and Fiery Totems.

CHAOS WEEK: Season 3.5 - AWAKENING Patch Notes

Thursday, March 20th Patch Notes:

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a visual issue causing players to still hold weapons while mounted.
• Resolved a physics issue so that it's no longer possible to push bosses out of the arena.
• Fixed an issue causing Time Tears visuals to persist in rupture even after killing their summoned elite.
• Corrected the problem that was causing Exploding Seeds to not deal any damage.
• Fixed enemies spawning location in the Grave Digger's Cove
• Smoothened the dissolve visual effect of containers

Gameplay:

• Archeon Mistress's damage reduced.
• Kaotika (Bridge of the Demigods) damage reduced.
• Attack speed nodes now give % instead of flat attack speed.

Wednesday, March 19th Patch Notes:

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a rendering issue that was causing the Racial Trait tooltip to stick out of the screen.
• Corrected Fist weapon visuals.
• Fixed a bug that was causing players to get stuck running in a certain direction.
• Resolved the Lightning Beam flicker.
• Fixed the bug that was causing auto-attack to become disabled after dashing.
• Kraken Seed "Run over kraken seeds to shoot projectiles" now correctly gives Projectile Affinity.
• Correct a calculation that was causing armor pieces to not receive the intended amount of Armor.
• Slightly increased amount of items that can be dropped by enemies inside ruptures.
• Elites spawning from Time Tear can now properly spawn as Prime.

Tuesday, March 18th Patch Notes:

Bug Fixes:

• Resolved additional navigation issues causing enemies to spawn in the ground or out of bounds.
• Fixed a bug that was causing Spears special ability (dash) icon to not disappear after changing stance
• Corrected an issue that was causing Spark's Plasma sphere to fly off into the horizon.
• Corrected various Typos
• Reduced life-steal's sound effect volume
• Fixed an issue where only parts of a boss enemy would light up on hit indication
• Made performance optimizations to DeathClaws and Empowered DeathClaws

Gameplay

NEW FEATURES IN SEASON 3.5 - AWAKENING

INTRODUCING JUGGERNAUTS: THE FISTS STANCE

NEW RACE - ORC:

• Customize your character with race-specific clothing and appearance options
• Unlock racial traits that boost certain combat styles as you progress. (Applies to Humans as well)
• Crush Everything with a new playable race - The Orcs! and harness their natural strength and resilience in battle.

PRIME ELITE ENCOUNTERS

• Encounter unique and enhanced attack patterns from Prime Elites
• Prime Elites have a lot more health and deal more damage
• Prime Elites feature spectacular visual effects to distinguish them

GAMEPLAY

• Improved Cave Crasher's Rock Trail effects.
• Added tooltips to Essence Turn-in.
• Renamed Charging affinity to Momentum.
• Introduced a new affinity: Hazard - to allow for better distribution of affinities across offhands.
• Health Regeneration% stat now increases the player's base health regeneration - instead of adding a % of health as flat regeneration.
• Default Rupture Containers no longer drop equipment.
• Experience gained through Research Table (Scrolls, Tablets, and Books) has been reduced.
• Experience bonus gained from upgrading the Research Table significantly increased.
• Flat Damage can now only appear as a base affix for Weapons.
• Reduced the number of items that drop in Ruptures.
• Increased Qhik'zichar mount drop rate.

META / BALANCE CHANGES

• We've updated the formulas for enemy health scaling and player damage calculation to improve balance and progression. Enemy health now scales more dynamically based on difficulty, while player damage calculations have been refined to ensure smoother power growth across levels.
• As part of the effort to get more diverse playstyles, we've disconnected the hard link between specific stats and stances. Basically allowing players to combine any stance with any stat distribution.
  • Removed the stat scaling bonuses from Stance Proficiency
  • Legendary (purple) items can now roll with any of the 7 stat attributes.
• As with every season, we've made updates to Offhand Abilities and Monograms. Also Stance Attacks have undergone a refinement of Damage and Energy costs. You can review the full details below

BUGFIXES

• Potions will now only be collected if the player an empty potion slot
• Celestial forge can no longer be closed unexpectedly
• Improved visuals for epic antler weapon containers
• Fixed an issue where lightning beam was not attached to the player

USER INTERFACE

• Added equipment slot-type filtering
• Limited loot popup on lower right of screen to 10 rows maximum
• "Unlearn" option in skill tree only appears after using at least one skill point
• Added Infused rupture selector overlay
• Added search box to mounts, pets and skins lists

Offhand Balance Updates:

• Arcane Apocalypse:
  • Damage multiplier increased (0.84 → 0.93).
  • Buff mod: Chance to gain buff increased by 10% (15% → 25%). Buff now grants 150% Arcane Damage.
  • Explode Twice mod: Chance to trigger increased by 10% (10% → 20%).
• Arcane Orb:
  • Chaos Orbs mod: Damage bonus increased to 25% (20% → 25%).
  • Burst mod: Now gains +10% damage per extra orb.
• Electric Dragons:
  • Meteor mod: Chance to trigger increased to 20% (10% → 20%).
  • Meteor mod: Damage increased to 80% (40% → 80%).
  • Extra Dragon & Range mod: Now grants Area affinity.
• Ferocity of Wolves:
  • Leap mod: Bonus damage per leap reduced to 35% (50% → 35%).
• Fiery Totem:
  • Damage bonus mod: Now grants 10% increased damage per totem (previously 5%).
  • Ember Ghosts mod (Explode on Overlap): Now stacks, dealing +50% damage per stack (previously did not stack).
• Carnage of Fire:
  • Lava Spike mod: Damage bonus increased to 50% (30% → 50%).
• Burning Shield:
  • Fire Swords mod: Damage increased to 25% (10% → 25%).
• Blood Dragons:
  • Chance to explode mod: Increased to 15% (10% → 15%).
• Arcane Totem:
  • Explosion mod: Chance to explode increased to 15% (10% → 15%).
  • Explosion mod: Damage increased to 150% (130% → 150%).
• Kraken Seed:
  • Projectile mod: Damage increased to 40% (20% → 40%).
  • Running over Kraken Seed: Fixed a bug where the two different modifiers for running over Kraken Seed did not work together.
• Toxicity:
  • Chance to spawn a projectile mod: Increased to 15% (10% → 15%).
• Vortex:
  • Gain 10% damage for every other Vortex: Fixed a bug where damage was not applied correctly.
  • Mini vortexes now benefit from the damage bonus as well, by 5% (half of a large vortex).
• Starblades:
  • Gain an additional blade - damage of additional blade is reduced to 75%. (100% → 70%)
  • Damage bonus for additional blades reduced to 70%. (100% → 70%)
  • Chance to strike twice increased to 25%. (20% → 25%)
    • Now grants Momentum Affinity.

Monogram Balance Changes

• New Ring Monogram: While in Berserker Fury, gain 5% Elemental Damage for every 40 points of your highest stat.
• Unholy Void Adjustment: Gain 2 base Health/Damage for every 20 stat increased to 25.
  • Moved to ring slot.
• Stat Boost: Gain 50 stat — Added missing Dexterity, Luck, Strength, and Stamina.
• Damage Scaling: Gain 10 Damage for every 150 points of your highest stat - Damage increased to 15, required points reduced to 100.
• Critical Elemental Synergy: Gain 3% Elemental Damage for every Critical Strike chance above 100% - increased to 5%.
• Elemental Pulse Expansion: Every 4 seconds, your character pulses with Elemental Damage—max stacks increased from 30 → 100.
• Gain 150 damage: But suffer Extremely slow movement / Have no Energy / Getting hit deals 75% HP as Damage -- Bonus damage increased to 300.
• Amadora’s Blessing Enhancement: Now deals 50% more damage (previously 20%).
• Offhand Stat Adjustment: Gain 500 of a single stat if no offhands are equipped reduced to 250.
• Armor-Critical Scaling: Gain 1% Critical Damage for every 250 Armor - Armor required increased to 400.
• Phasing Trance Potency: Gain 10% Potency bonus per 50 of your highest stat - increased to 100 stat.
• BossDamage/MaxHP/Dmg% Scaling: Gain Bonus per 25 stat - increased to 40 stat.
• Potion Max HP : Gain 2.5% MaxHP per potion slot reduced to 1%..
• Potion Scaling: Gain 1 additional potion for every 50 stat increased to 75.

Stance Attacks Balance

• Swords
  • Bloody Strike: Damage Modifier 190% → 180%
  • Tornado Wave: Damage Modifier 190% → 175%
  • Thousand Cuts: Damage Modifier 200% → 190%
  • Shattering Swipe: Energy Cost 31 → 26, Damage Modifier 195% → 160%
  • Shadow Slice: Energy Cost 26 → 21, Damage Modifier 190% → 170%
• Spears
  • Piercing Fire: Damage Modifier180% → 160%
  • Wind Blast: Damage Modifier195% → 160%
  • Magical Lance: Damage Modifier190% → 140%
  • Piercing Army: Damage Modifier200% → 180%
  • Blood Swirl: Energy Cost 16 → 21, Damage Modifier 190% → 180%
  • Corrupted Spears: Energy Cost 21 → 26, Damage Modifier 195% → 190%
• Bows
  • Magic Arrows: Damage Modifier180% → 190%
  • Blade Kick: Damage Modifier150% → 170%
  • Exploding Seeds: Damage Modifier160% → 180%
  • Infused Arrow: Damage Modifier195% → 190%
  • Cyclone Frenzy: Damage Modifier190% → 180%
  • Rain of Arrows: Energy Cost 21 → 31, Damage Modifier 195% → 180%
• Axes
  • Holy Quake: Damage Modifier180% → 160%
  • Spiral Onslaught: Damage Modifier180% → 170%
  • Demonic Strike: Damage Modifier190% → 175%
  • Gods Wrath: Damage Modifier210% → 200%
  • Whirlwind: Damage Modifier200% → 175%
• Mauls
  • Magical Air Dance: Damage Modifier190% → 175%
  • Mystic Maulquake: Damage Modifier 190% → 180%
  • Ethereal Strike: Damage Modifier 195% → 175%
  • Blood Frenzy: Damage Modifier 200% → 190%
  • Hurricane Havoc: Damage Modifier 200% → 190%
  • Blazing Earthshaker: Energy Cost 21 → 26, Damage Modifier 160% → 180%
• Magery
  • Starfall Strike: Damage Modifier 160% → 170%
  • Death Claws: Damage Modifier 190% → 180%
  • Ground Blast: Damage Modifier 200% → 180%
  • Chaos Mine: Damage Modifier 195% → 175%
  • Discharge: Damage Modifier 200% → 175%
  • Energy Spheres: Energy Cost 21 → 31, Damage Modifier 180% → 200%

Season 3.5 - The Awakening launches on March 21st!

The realms tremble as ancient forces awaken!

Master a New Stance

New Races Join the Fight

Prime Elites

• Dragon Flame: - Damage multiplier increased by 11% - Cooldown reduced by 0.2 seconds
• Chain Lightning: - Damage multiplier Increased by 18%
• Ferocity of Wolves: - Damage multiplier reduced by 5% - Cooldown Increased by 0.2 seconds
• Static Charge: - Damage multiplier increased by 10% - Cooldown reduced by 0.2 seconds
• Starblades: - Damage multiplier reduced by 10% - Cooldown Increased by 0.2 seconds
• Electric Dragons: - Damage multiplier increased by 14% - Cooldown reduced by 0.3 seconds
• Blood Dragon: - Damage multiplier increased by 18% - Cooldown reduced by 0.2 seconds
• Fire Totems: - Damage multiplier increased by 24% - Cooldown reduced by 0.2 seconds

Season 3: Frostborn Legacies, Chaos Week

28th of January - Patch and Reset:

Patch notes:

Fun

• Golden Qhickzichar now has a chance to drop a special mount chest with one of the new Qhickzichar mounts!

UI

• Fixed missing Skorch Icon on the Leaderboards
• Fixed Bloodlust description on Spear Proficiency

Bugfix

• Fixed an issue where players would not gain additional damage from Blood stacks per highest stat.
• Monogram station will now show an error when players are lacking resources
• Fixed Fire damage bonus for Berserker Elemental Fury

Balance

• Starblades:
  • Gain damage for every extra blade modifier has been reduced bonus for each extra blade from 150% to 100%
• Vortex:
  • When Vortices collide they spawn thunderstorm modifier - Thunderstorm damage has been changed to deal 150% damage over 1.5s.
  • Damage Multiplier increased from 61% to 67% (+6%).
• Lightning Totems
  • Totems cast additional Bolt: Reduced the damage of additional bolts from 100% to 75%.
• Spark performance optimization - We've revamped the behavior of Spark to drastically improve performance.
  • Damage Multiplier increased from 32% to 40% (+8%).
  • Cooldown reduced by 0.2s
• Monogram: Gain 1% damage for every 20 stat increased to be every 25 stat.
• Corrected Toxicity mod that adds Projectile affinity

Bambi's Optimization Crusade

• Rain of Flames
• Discharge
• Skill tree
• Chain Lightning
• Spark
• Magery Auto Attack
• Vortex

Season 3 Chaos Week - Fixes Patch

26th of January - Meta Breaking Changes ahead:

Patch notes:

Empowered Attacks

• Removed a miscalculation in the new Empowered Attacks system that was causing all players in all scenarios to deal double damage. - Ya'll didn't notice the game was easy as pie?
• Resolved an issue where Empowered Cyclone Frenzy was not dealing damage behind the player.
• Fixed a bug that was causing Empowered Blood Swirl to not receive the correct radius increase bonus.
• Resolved an issue that was causing some Empowered attacks to deal damage to players.

Skill Tree

• Fixed various typo's in skill tree node descriptions.
• Fixed the issue where players were not consuming gold when unlearning nodes in skill tree.
• Fixed 'Taste My Lightning' node to give correct lightning bonus damage.
• Fixed an issue where players would gain _Charged Defense Blessing_ without spending skill points.
• Fixed an issue where players would keep _Infuriated Health Blessing_ after unlearning the node.
• Fixed Blood Boil nodes to give the correct amount of critical damage bonus.
• Fixed the issue that was causing Blood Rage nodes to give Critical Chance instead of Critical Damage.
• Fixed description of Stance bonuses in selection nodes.
• Added Luck as an option to stat selection nodes.

Monogram

• Fixed the issue where Gain additional Potion Slot for per highest stat Monogram was not working properly.
• Fixed the issue where Gain 2 additional Potion Slots Monogram was not working.
• Fixed the Phasing trance effects increase by 10% Monogram to work as intended.
• Fixed the issue where Gain 0.05% Health per highest stat Monogram was not working as intended.
• Fixed the issue where Gain 1% Armor per Bloodlust stack Monogram was not working as intended.
• Fixed the Monogram granting Max Health for Elemental Damage to correctly calculate bonus health.

Fire Orbs Balance

• Fire Orbs: Cooldown increased by 0.2s
• Fire Orbs: Reduced Increasing intensity multiplier from 5% to 3%
• Modifier - Mini Orbs: Damage multiplier reduced to 20% of total Fire Orbs damage
• Modifier - Explode: Reduced explosion damage to be 65% of total Fire Orbs damage.
• Modifier - Explode: Fixed an issue where bonus damage for extra ticks was not scaling correctly.

Stance related

• Fixed issue where Hurricane Havoc was not triggering Offhands correctly.
• Removed Mastery Scaling for early game Spears stance proficiency .
• Corrected the description of Bloodlust in Spears stance proficiency.
• Fixed an issue that was causing Sky Swords to collide with objects and not hit the ground.
• Resolved the problem with Empowered Magical Slash not hitting some enemies.

Misc.

• Fixed the issue that was causing enemies to spawn underground in new Harmonian maps.
• Added missing Ghauxst to new Infused Harmonian maps.
• Fixed an issue where enemies would stop attacking player in Massadin maps.
• Fixed an issue that was causing tooltips to display +0% bonuses.
• Added a scroll bar to the rewards shown in the Essence Turn-in station at the end of Ruptures.
• Resolved a sound issue that was causing Sword attacks to play wrong sounds.
• Tweaked opacity of Chaos Mine animation to reduce visual clutter.
• Resolved an issue that was preventing offline characters from Re:Specing.
• Cleared up incorrect text on Axe proficiency nodes.
• Updated Luck & Attack Speed Quartz card reward to give 15 Luck, in alignment with all other stats.
• Resolved an issue that was causing Dexterity to unintentionally increase player movement speed.
• Fixed sound effect blending for Phantasm Archers.
• Fixed the scenario where picking up fossil gems with a full inventory would cause players to lose gems.

Season 3 - Frostborn Legacies launches on January 31st! The gates will open at 1PM EST and Season 3 will begin.

Pre-Season 3 Chaos Week Update (Launches January 24th at 1PM EST)

Complete Skill Tree Rework

Major Changes

• Affinity nodes for specialized damage types
• Stance nodes for unique combat positions
• Skill enhancement nodes
• Build-defining nodes

New Offhand Affinity

11 New Offhand Available Affinities:

New Empowered Attacks

• All stance-based skills can now be enhanced through specialized skill tree modifications
• Unlock powerful variations of your favorite stance abilities

Harmonian Maps Complete Rework

• Redesigned layouts and environments
• Enhanced visual elements and atmosphere

Monogram System Enhancement

Direct Monogram Unlocking

• Players can now purchase any monograms
• No more waiting for random unlocks to get your desired monogram

Monogram Swapping - Experiment with different monogram combinations

Monogram modifier update

Inventory System Improvements

New Tab System

• Inventory now features materials and keys tabs for better item organization
• Improved inventory navigation and management

Item Locking

• New item locking mechanism to protect valuable gear
• Prevent accidental item deletion or modification

Rupture Monster Overhaul

Combat Behavior Rework

• Redesigned attack patterns and combat behaviors
• Adjusted movement and attack speeds
• More dynamic and challenging encounters

Character Stats System

Stat Sheet

• Certain stats will be hidden from stats sheet for better clarity if they are at 0%
• Added new relevant stats to better reflect character progression
• All base attributes now provide a single, focused bonus

Reworked Stances Mastery Bonuses

• Stance Damage
• Critical Strike Damage
• Max Health
• Armor

New Features

• Added recipe: Trade 5 Bridge Keys for 1 Archeon Key (requires level 165)
• New "Elite" Target Dummy available in Home Fort
• Introduced Free Daily Character Respec
• Expanded Monogram collection with new options

• Venture into a challenging new endgame system where you forge your own path to greater rewards.
• Unlock Requirement: Complete Rupture Level 70
• Entry Cost: Underrealm Key (obtainable from Infused Ruptures)
• Key Features:
• Choose your own path through the Underrealm
• Target specific rewards by planning your route

• A high-stakes gambling system within the Underrealm
• Wager gold for exceptional rewards
• Higher stakes yield greater potential rewards

• The most formidable foe yet emerges from the depths of the Underrealm!
• Surpasses Zul in difficulty and complexity
• Features intricate new combat mechanics

• Obtain exclusively from defeating Skorch the Ash Weaver
• Represents the pinnacle of weapon progression

• Dragon Flame: Increased dragon flame breath, +10% damage per stack
• Carnage of Fire:
• Spawns flaming spike (+10% damage)
• Scorching effect (20% damage/0.33s, 1s duration)
• Fire Beam: Creates fire rings (+10% damage, +10% per stack)
• Blood Dragons: 10% chance for Dragon Burst (200% damage), +10% per stack. Scales with dragon size
• Arcane Orbs: Transform to Chaos Orbs (+20% damage per orb, +10% Arcane Blast chance)
• Delusion of Zelkors: Mage explosions spawn fire spikes (20% damage per mage, +5% per stack)
• Spinning Blades: Shoots shurikens (10% damage each)
• Spark: 50% chance for plasma sphere on collision (50% damage/0.3s)
• Lightning Totems: 25% explosion chance on strike (base damage), +25% per stack
• Electric Dragons: Spawns electric meteors (10% damage/0.5s)
• Chain Lightning: Adds sky strike on link connection (matches Chain Lightning damage)
• Ferocity of Wolves: Wolf transforms into electric bat (+20% base damage)
• Rain of Flames: Lava rain from portals (0.5s duration, matching damage)
• Arcane Totems: 10% explosion chance on despawn (130% damage)
• Eye of the Storm: Spawns additional matching-damage cloud
• Burning Shield: Spawns raging bull (25% damage + 150% explosion), +25% radius per stack
• Star Blades: Summons 3 electric kunai (20% damage each)
• Arcane Apocalypse: 10% chance for aftermath explosion (+10% chance per stack)
• Static Charge: +20% damage radius
• Kraken Seed:
• Shoots 4 tentacle darts (20% damage each)
• Walking projectiles explode for matching damage
• Toxicity:
• 10% chance for chemical splash (50% bonus damage)
• 10% chance to spawn additional toxicity
• Vortex: Spawns 2 small vortexes (50% of main damage)
• Fire Orbs: Launches 2 mini-orbs (50% damage), additional orbs per stack
• Death Blades: Emits arcane spike on circle completion (30% damage, +10% per stack)
• Fiery Totems:
• Creates damage-dealing fire wall (10% damage, 3x/second)
• Adds fire vortex to activated totems (10% damage, 3x/second)
• Lightning Beam (Reworked):
• Fires additional beam
• +1 second duration and +10% damage per stack

• Base Node Adjustments
• Vitality: 3% → 1% HP
• Attack Damage: 2% → 1%
• Armor: 5% → 2%
• Overwhelm: 0.5% → 1% critical damage
• Boss Hunter: 3% → 1% boss damage
• Inventory: 6 → 3 slots per node
• Elemental Changes
• Small nodes: 3% → 1%
• Medium nodes: 10% → 5%
• Large nodes: 25% → 10%
• Major Node Adjustments
• Defiance: Removed elemental bonus, armor reduced 50% → 10%
• Ancestral Barrier: Armor 50% → 10%, regeneration 10 → 5
• Heightened Sense: Critical damage 25% → 10%
• Carrier Has Arrived: 20 → 10 inventory slots
• Warstrike: Base damage 30 → 10
• Beast Mode: Critical damage 15% → 10%

• Now provide constant bonuses instead of stacks:
• Arcane Fury: 20% elemental damage
• Fire Starter: 20% elemental damage
• Taste My Lightning: 20% elemental damage
• Elementalist: 10% elemental damage

• Soul of the Prophet → 5% Wisdom (Foresight nodes: 2% wisdom)
• Invigorating Gust → Vigor (5% Stamina, 10 Max Health, Fortitude nodes: 2% stamina)
• Strength and Honor → Ambidextrous (5% Dexterity, Precision nodes: 2% dexterity)

• Colossal Force: Changed to 5% + 10 armor
• Infinite Wind: Energy regen reduced to 10
• Phantom Strike: Critical chance 5%, base damage 10
• Tolerance: Regeneration 2%, endurance 5%
• Slice n Dice: Agility reduced to 5%
• STANCE TREE CHANGES
• General Balance
• All stances have been rebalanced
• Made adjustments to fit current game meta

• New Bloodlust effect: Kills/boss hits grant blood stacks (1% damage per stack, max 100)
• Unholy Void: 1 base damage per 20 stats
• Adjusted ratio: Per 20 stats gain 1% damage
• New effect: Every 100 stat grants +100% damage to Charged R ability

• All stat ratios increased to per 20 stat
• New: Per 20 Strength grants 1% damage
• Added: +100% damage to Charged ability
• Added: R ability charges twice as fast

• All stat ratios increased to per 20 stat
• New: Per 20 Strength grants 1 Base Damage
• Unholy Void: 2 base HP per 5 STAT
• Critical chance mods moved to boots (adjusted to per 50 stat)

• All stat ratios increased to per 20 stat
• New: Per 20 dexterity grants % health
• R charged attack: 50% more damage, double energy cost
• Removed Features:
• Charged glyph stacking buff
• 500 dexterity trade-off
• Long-range double damage

• Inherited critical chance mods from helmet (now per 50 stat)
• Received "5% bonus per max potion slot" from Relic
• Removed Features:
• All energy regeneration (2/4/6)
• All max energy bonuses (4/8)
• All movement speed bonuses (5%/10%/15%)

• New Unholy Void effect: Triggers R ability when charged
• "5% bonus per max potion slot" moved to Boots

• Close range damage modifier reduced from double damage to 50% bonus

• Enhanced performance for Static Charge ability.
• Reworked the Cathedral of Fire map.
• Improved crafting interface, now displaying missing resources in red.
• Fixed issue with the "Mini Dash" bug.
• Resolved issue with the Burning Shield's explosive modifier.
• Fixed Earthquake indicator not appearing on the floor.
• Offhands locations of burning shield, ED and Spinning Blades are now in rupture 7; instead AA, Zelkor Mages and lightning totems will now be in R5. (Chain lightning in 17)
• Corrected missing interaction texts.
• Fixed the issue where Cave Crushers would die when falling through the floor.
• Resolved the bug where the Shadow Slice attack dealt extra damage.
• Fixed bug where player attacks weren't destroyed on death.
• Removed misplaced slug from Olympus endgame boss map.
• Fixed issue with containers spawning inside interactables at the end of ruptures.

• Renamed to "Energy Spheres"
• Now throws 2 spheres at once, 6 spheres total
• Increased projectile velocity
• Can now aim upwards to throw further
• Overall attack speed slightly reduced
• Dash will cancel the attack if not all spheres have been thrown

• Radius increased by 65% (both hitbox and visual effects)
• Slightly faster attack speed for continuous attacks

• Attack speed reduced by 25%
• Visual effects reworked

Chaos Week 2 Patch Notes

Offhand changes:

• Cooldown reduced from 0.5s to 0.3s at 3 or more of the same offhand.
• Damage increased by 50%.
• Now summons 2 meteors per cast (previously 1).

• Damage increased by 20%.
• Max hits increased from 5 to 7.

• Cooldown reduced from 1.9s to 1.6s at 3 or more of the same offhand.

• Cooldown reduced from 1.5s to 1.2s at 3 or more of the same offhand.
• Damage increased by 33.33%.
• Static charge buff reduced from 5% to 1%, number of buffs unchanged.

• Radius of fire breath increased by 50%.

• Cooldown reduced from 1s to 0.9s at 3 or more of the same offhand.
• Damage increased by 50%.

• Spinning Blade radius now increases by 0.8 meters per Added Axe mod.

• Cooldown reduced from 2s to 1.2s at 3 or more of the same offhand.
• Damage increased by 9.09%.

• Cooldown reduced from 0.9s to 0.5s at 3 or more of the same offhand.
• Damage increased by 30%.

• Cooldown reduced from 1.3s to 1.1s at 3 or more of the same offhand.
• Damage increased by 6.67%.

• Cooldown reduced from 0.6s to 0.4s at 3 or more of the same offhand.
• Damage increased by 10.53%.
• Number of base orbs increased from 1 orb to 3 orbs.

• Cooldown reduced from 1s to 0.8s at 3 or more of the same offhand.
• Damage increased by 22.22%.
• Blood dragon base size increased by 100%.

• The behavior of Vortex has been changed, now following the target.

• Cooldown reduced from 1s to 0.7s at 3 or more of the same offhand.
• Damage increased by 22.22%.

• Cooldown reduced from 0.5s to 0.4s at 3 or more of the same offhand.
• Damage increased by 33.33%.
• Fire orbs will now move on the battlefield and will last longer.

• Cooldown reduced from 2s to 1s at 3 or more of the same offhand.
• Damage increased by 66.67%.

• Cooldown reduced from 0.5s to 0.4s at 3 or more of the same offhand.
• Damage increased by 40%.

• Cooldown reduced from 1.2s to 0.4s at 3 or more of the same offhand.
• Fiery totem damage per totem mod increased from 1% to 3%.

Monogram Update

• Grants Phasing. Phasing allows you to move through enemies.
• Gain 1% attack speed for each extra inventory slot.
• Gain 1% Critical Damage for each extra inventory slot.
• Gain 5% Arcane Damage for each Critical Chance above 100%.
• Gain 5% Fire Damage for each Critical Chance above 100%.
• Gain 5% Lightning Damage for each Critical Chance above 100%.
• Gain 1% Max HP for each Critical Chance above 100%.
• For every 5 STAT* Get 1 Base Damage Point.(Excluding Strength)

• Every 10 seconds of Phasing grants you 1% damage.
• For each available potion, get 100 armor
• For each available potion, get 100 attack speed.
• For each available potion, get 20% damage.
• While moving your character generates a "Shroud" stack, giving 5% damage per stack up to 100% damage multiplier. Hitting an enemy will remove all stacks.
• Reduce the chance to get stunned by 10%.
• Doubles your energy.
• 10% chance to gain 25 gold for killing a monster.
• You can no longer use potions, gain 5% damage for each potion slot.
• Drinking a Potion triggers your offhand.
• Each time you get hit you gain 5% more damage up to 25%. Buff lasts for 5 seconds.

• While Phasing, proc your offhands every 40 seconds.
• For every 5 STAT* points gain 1% damage. (Excluding Strength)
• For every 10 STAT* points gain 1% boss damage. *(All Stats)
• Gain 500 STAT* if no offhand are equipped. *(All Stats)
• For every 10 STAT* points gain 1% MaxHp. *(All Stats)
• For every 150 STAT* you will gain 10 damage. *(All Stats)
• Amadora buffs stays twice as long, and deals 20% more damage.
• For every 10 STAT* you gain 0.1% Damage Reduction. *(All Stats)
• For every 100 STAT* 1 max energy. *(All Stats)
• For every 10 STAT* get 5% Armor Bonus. *(All Stats)
• For every 150 STAT* gain 10 MaxHp. *(All Stats)
• Reduce the chance to get stunned by 10%.

• 15% movement speed while phasing.
• New Bracer codexes:
• Gain 300 attack speed while phasing.
• Gain double damage if you are phasing and no weapon and no offhands are equipped.

• Strength will now grant 0.5 damage per point (previously 1).
• Stats Bonus roll on items is now reduced by 50%.

Gameplay and System Changes

• We're continuing to rework Ruptures and introducing new concepts for Myrh across all difficulty levels, from Rupture 1 to 5 and in the end-game.
• The "Bridge to the Demigod" dungeon key requirements have been adjusted to 3 Imbued Dwarven Runes (previously 5) and 10 of each scroll type (previously 5).
• New offhand ability modifiers are now available. All end-game weapons (level 15+) have a chance to drop with an additional ability modifier.
• Offhand crafting table: Upgrading offhand levels now yields more significant bonuses, ranging from 2% to 5% per level.
• We are now introducing two new ladder leagues: Regular, Regular Fellowship, Hardcore, and Hardcore Fellowship. The hardcore modifier has been removed and will be added later for all players as part of the elven tree.
• Defeating Zul now spawns three weapon racks instead of one.
• A new player tutorial concept is being introduced. Feedback from experienced players is encouraged, especially from those who can provide insights from a new user's perspective.
• Several offhand skills have received enhanced visual effects to improve game aesthetics.

Monogram and Balance Updates

• Life steal has been changed to energy steal and no longer disables health regeneration.
• The chance of spawning a container from elite kills has increased from 5% to 10%.
• For every 100 essence collected, players now receive a 5% damage bonus (increased from 1%).
• Players now gain 10 base damage for energy points above 100 (increased from 3).
• Killing an elite mob now has a 10% chance to spawn an Amadora Snail.
• The previous 1% Critical Chance bonus for every 10 essence collected now applies to Critical Damage instead.
• The 1% critical chance bonus per 10 luck is now distributed across all stats.
• Old monograms related to offhand skills are no longer available. Monograms for all offhand skills can now be obtained on weapons.
• The Dragonling elemental buff now stacks up to 25% with 5% per stack.
• The roll for offhand-specific modifiers has been reduced, while upgrades to offhand items have been made significantly more impactful.
• Adjustments are being made to the difficulties of ruptures and bosses.

• Dive into a third-person view combined with the mob density of a roguelike survivor, facing hundreds of monsters simultaneously.
• Match the complexity and depth of the top ARPGs on the market with intricate systems and dynamic gameplay.
• Discover incredible gear, craft and enhance your loot, and create ultimate builds to suit your strategy and style.
• With hundreds of unique skills, abilities, offhands, and attacks, tailor your character to your preferred gameplay, ensuring no two strategies are the same.

• Experience refined combat and improved character customization to build your ultimate warrior.
• Explore new regions filled with unique environments, each offering challenging encounters and rich lore.
• Thanks to feedback from our dedicated community, this launch incorporates many enhancements directly influenced by player insights.
• Participate in exclusive launch events designed to challenge both new players and veterans alike. Compete for unique rewards and achievements as you make your mark in the world of Dwarven Realms.

• Abilities across the board have been reworked, including gameplay mechanics, visuals, and mods. This is just the beginning, and we'll introduce more mods in the up coming weeks.
• Damage outputs and mob health have been rebalanced to smaller figures to set the stage for meaningful itemization and build strategies.
• Character visuals have been unified with a cohesive design, featuring new character creation options and armor designs suitable for both genders.
• Health potion mechanics revised: start with three potions, with the potential to gain more from elite kills, capped at three to integrate their strategic use into gameplay.
• Mobs are tougher to stun, requiring more strategic positioning and planning to survive.
• Increased overall game difficulty; reaching higher levels early on will be more challenging than in previous seasons.
• Comprehensive UI overhaul with new menus, HUDs, and buttons to enhance the user interface.
• Full support for Steam Deck and controllers implemented, ensuring a smooth gameplay experience.
• Complete audio overhaul for a more immersive auditory experience.
• Adjustments to attack speeds and damages provide strategic diversity in combat.
• Specific game environments, like certain ruptures, have been redesigned as a preview of future updates.
• Continuous improvements to the Elven Capital and Stance skill trees.
• New tutorials introduced to help new players adapt to the game more easily.
• Multiple bugs addressed and performance enhancements made to improve overall game stability and smoothness.

• Permanent Characters: One of our most requested features ever. For players who prefer a non-seasonal experience and want to stick with their character forever, you can now create permanent characters.
• Controller Support: Another highly requested feature. While we're still ironing out a few things, you should now be able to play smoothly with a controller.
• Offline Mode: Many of you have asked for the ability to play without an internet connection, free from leaderboard competition. You can now enjoy the game offline.
• Revamped Rupture Gateways: We’ve merged the rupture and special dungeon gates into a single gateway, and created a map of the realms. This enhances storytelling, showcases the world, and highlights the amount of content available.
• UI Overhaul (Work in Progress): We've started revamping the menus, fonts, buttons, and more to make the interface more welcoming and user-friendly. This is part of a larger project, with continued improvements planned in the coming weeks.
• New Crafting Station: We've transformed the old throne into a new codex system. You can now upgrade yellow items to orange and select the exact modifiers you want.
• Improved Guidance for New Players: New screens now guide first-time players through the basic gameplay experience.
• Experimental Game Cinematics: We're testing new cinematics with voiceovers from a hobbyist game actor and AI-generated imagery. This aims to enhance the narrative and deepen player engagement with the story.
• New End Game Skills: We've added new skills for stances that were missing them. Dual wield for 1H stances, a bubble for Mauls and Staves, mirage archers for Archers, shadow mage abilities for Mages, a deadly round attack for Spears, and a new enraged mechanic for 2H.
• New End Game Progression System: We're building a new system to allow better end game progression with collected resources. Players can now turn in resources to increase faction with the elves and upgrade the elven capital.
• Ruptures Environment Overhaul: We've reworked most of the rupture environments to be more compelling and performant, with changes to earlier ruptures and continued updates throughout the season.
• Bug Fixes and Optimization: Tons of bug fixes and much better game performance and optimization.
• Audio Overhaul: We’ve remade and added numerous new audio effects for all attacks and abilities, aiming to revamp the entire game’s audio for launch.
• End Game Fellowship Progression (Work in Progress): More details will be shared soon.
• Tear Drops in Ruptures: Tear Drops now appear randomly in ruptures. Activating them will spawn mobs and a promised elite mob that drops a chest, making grinding more fun and essence collection faster.
• New Rupture Experience: Includes new mob spawn effects, new mob death by elemental effects, glowing effects when looting containers, and glowing effects when looting collectibles.

• Fire Orb Base Damage has been increased from 1.2 to 1.9, will now tick 14 times instead of 14, each tik will give a damage bonus of 10% instead of 20%
• Spinning Blade Base Damage has been increased from 1.2 to 1.6 Cooldown has been reduced by 40%
• Starblade Base damage has been increased from 1.2 to 2, it will now tik 8 times instead of 4, and mod damage is doubledCooldown has been reduced by 40%
• Static charge wil l now explode 3 times, damage will be lower. Cooldown has been reduced by 30%
• Toxcicity Base Damage has been increased from 1.7 to 2.2 Cool down has been reduced by 1 second
• Arcane Apocalypse Base Damage has been increased from 2.5 to 4, they will tik 25% more and will stay longer. Cooldown has been reduced by 40%
• Arcane Totems Damage multiplier is now 4 instead of 2.5, Totems will now be 0.6. They will stay longer and tick longer. Cooldown has been reduced by 30%
• Dragon Flame Base damage is increased from 2.0 to 2.5, it will now tick 10 times instead of 6, and they will stay longer on the battlefield by 30% Cool down has been reduced by 1 second
• Burning shield radius has been increased by 25%, base damage has been increased from 0.9 to 1.5 Cool down has been reduced by 1 second
• Fire Totems damage has been increased from 1.7 to 2.4, radius has been increased, and number of totems places is increased from 7 to 9 Cooldown has been reduced by 30%
• Cracked Arcane Seed Now ticks 9 times insted of 6. Time between ticks is now 300ms instead of 600ms, damage multipler is now 2.4 instead of 1.7 Cooldown has been reduced by 20%
• Fire Beam Ticks 5 times instead of 6, off hand Mod bonus multiplier is now 40% lower
• Vortex damage has been increased from 1.3 to 1.6
• Rain of Fire damage has been increased from 0.9 to 1.5
• Lightning Plasma damage has been increased from 1.4 to 1.7
• Blood dragons base damage has increased from 2 to 2.5 and will now tik 8 times instead of 4, Cooldown has been reduced by 40%

• Abilities cooldown are now shown to players, so you will actually be able to see how long before you can proc an ability.
• Abilities cool down are reduced the more you have of the same offhands.
• Balance between abilities has been worked, so abilities with slow cool downs will deal more damage
• New Archeon portals now appear in ruptures, stepping on these will trigger powerful forces, causing more mobs to spawn and an elite with the unique containers loot.
• Performance optimization.
• Many bug fixes.

• Complete remake of the combat system.
• Multiple new primary (Q) attacks and ultimate (R) attacks for each stance.
• Special Q and R attacks are no longer part of the 'J' stance skill tree and are now rolled randomly on weapons.
• Over 40 new animations, approximately 6 per stance.
• Weapons now generate attacks from a random pool. You can see the attacks rolled on a weapon when mousing over it or by equipping and trying it out.
• Q attacks are designed for fighting large hordes of mobs in ruptures, allowing you to choose one that fits your style.
• R attacks have longer animations but are much more powerful, with damage and proc bonuses varying by attack.
• Different energy costs for all attacks.
• All attacks are still impacted by attack speed and dexterity.

• Allow players to select a play style that suits their preference.
• Make items and itemization more interesting.
• Make player choices matter, allowing you to customize a build using attacks, offhands, skill trees, attributes, and mods.

• Items will now roll fewer but more meaningful modifiers. Each attribute rolled is relevant to the specific inventory slot (e.g., rings roll Crit Damage, armor pieces roll Armor, boots roll Dexterity).
• Ability to upgrade item rarity.
• Ability to upgrade item level, rolling higher ranges of modifiers.
• Ability to upgrade specific attributes to a higher tier, increasing their bonus range.
• Ability to pick and choose attributes to add to an item.
• Each item will have a limited number of crafting specs, dictating the number of modifications possible.
• Each crafting will now guarantee at least 3 crafting skill progression, allowing more people to reach the elven capital.