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Boss material drops (shadow fang, black giant scales, heart of chaos, and equivalents across all journeys) now scale linearly after floor 1000, reaching 5,000 at floor 2000 instead of the previous exponential growth to 1.1M.
All materials are now capped at 10T; existing saves with amounts above the cap are corrected on startup.
Iron Phalanx reflected damage is now capped at 1000x max health.
Minor UI fixes.
Paragon Levels are now available after reaching the cap of level 100.
Heroes that reach level 100 now continue gaining XP toward Paragon levels
Each Paragon level grants +5% damage, +5% initiative, and +5% vitality
Paragon level is displayed as a badge (P1, P2, etc.) on the hero portrait, headquarters roster, and transfer picker
XP bar remains visible at level 100+ and turns gold for paragon progress
Hover the paragon badge to see current bonuses
Tavern heroes are always recruited without paragon levels
New cursed item: Kelifos, Shield of the Titans — auto-casts Fortify (permanent) and Guard on encounter start, grants 90% damage reduction while fortified, and increases vitality by 200%.
Supporter Pack owners are no longer limited to 6 teams.
It is now possible to delete a team.
Added a stat filter to the inventory to quickly and easily filter items and gems by multiple stats.
New cursed item: Phos, Staff of the Light — permanent Inner Light, auto-casts Angelic Tune every second, and increases healing done by 200%.
Inner Light skill no longer targets allies who already have the buff.
Angelic Tune skill no longer targets full-health allies.
Level achievements now correctly trigger when recruiting a high-level hero from the tavern, not only on level-up.
Fixed hourglass time going negative when changing timezones or adjusting system clock.
Minor performance improvements.
Divine Vigilance: Fixed health threshold check that caused the effect to trigger on every damage event regardless of ally health (was dividing an already-percentage health value by vitality, resulting in always near-zero)
Divine Vigilance: Auto-cast heals no longer contribute to the fatigue counter
New Cursed Item: Inevitus, Staff of Doom — A new intelligence cursed weapon. Its unique effect, Inevitus, casts a permanent Shadow Beam on the enemy with the highest max health based on your first equipped Shadow Beam skill. The beam retargets automatically when the current target dies.
Hello everyone!
Introducing the 7th class of Nocturnal Quest: The Shaman. The Shaman is a very powerful class with a crazy Lightning specialization that fries all enemies, and an essential Spirit specialization that makes every build more powerful. With the Shaman, it is now possible to push to much higher floors, and approach the ultimate feat of 10,000. Here is some lightning fun from one of the most powerful builds of the end game:
The Lightning Shaman has one offensive skill: Chain Lightning. The rest of her skills are debuffs/totems with incredible power. Here is another build powered by the Spirit Shaman:
Dozens more effects are coming soon, that will enable even crazier builds as you ascend to higher floors!
New Cursed Item: Fotia, Molten Whip of Fire — A new intelligence cursed weapon. Its unique effect, Molten Whip, allows your burn damage ticks to critically strike.
New Cursed Item: Flamecaller, Staff of the Sun — A new intelligence cursed weapon. Its unique effect, Flamecaller, causes your Fireball to proc your first equipped Ray of Fire at 10× damage on the target without triggering its cooldown. Only one ray per target at a time, but multiple rays can fire concurrently at different targets.
QoL: Middle click to max talent rank — You can now middle click on talents in the hero view, blacksmith, and bestiary talent trees to add max ranks (same as holding Ctrl).
UI: Quadrillion (Qa) health display — Unit portrait health now shows the Qa suffix for values above 1,000T instead of displaying large trillion numbers.
Fix: Firestarter talent tooltip — Description now correctly shows percentage values (20%/40%/60%/80%/100% × INT) instead of the misleading raw numbers.
UI: Loot popup material formatting — Material amounts above 100K now display with abbreviated suffixes (K/M) for readability.
Bug Fix: Volatility Explosion no longer feeds damage back into the burning pool, fixing a double-dipping loop that caused burn damage to skyrocket exponentially.
Buff: Infernal Cascade proc chance increased from 40% to 60%.
Alt/Shift can be used in the Bestiary talents for +-10/100 talents at a time.
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Monsters on floors below 15 are now 1 level lower (minimum level 1), easing the early game difficulty curve.
Monsters no longer roll for higher rarities until level 6 (previously level 3), keeping early encounters more manageable for new players.
Fixed Burning damage double-dipping with Inferno: burn ticks no longer get amplified by Inferno stacks a second time, since the burn pool is already calculated from amplified damage. Stacks still accumulate from burn ticks.
Fixed Burning debuff showing "Remaining damage: 0" with nearly full duration left — the burn pool now drains by the base tick amount rather than the amplified amount.
Fixed Infernal Feedback gem combo incorrectly using cumulative damage dealt instead of current remaining damage for its feedback calculation.
Totem effects (Air Totem, Grounding Totem, etc.) and other encounter-start effects now apply before turn order is determined, so initiative modifiers correctly influence who acts first.
Various performance improvements.
Added the Spirit Shaman specialization.
Added a new Spirit Shaman cursed item: Aetos, Spirit Staff of the Sky.
Added 2 new gem combos for the Spirit Shaman.
Added number abbreviations in various places.
Toxic Cloud remaining damage stacking has been reduced from 50% to 10%.
Lingering Venom amplification has been reduced from 20% to 10%.
Added another 1000 inventory slot expansion to the Automagus.
Added a new inventory sorting option for "Number of modifiers", so that items/gems with more modifiers (stats) appear first.
Fixed a bug where Vitality Regeneration (Warrior) and Primal Regeneration (Lycan) health regen was not accounting for vitality bonuses from talents like Titanic Vitality and Boundless Vitality if those talents were added afterward.
Fixed an issue where Moonlit Predator could proc while it was the Lycan's turn, making all skills in cd and ending the turn.
Added a new class: Shaman. Only the Lightning spec is available. Spirit spec coming very soon.
Added 2 new gem combos for Lightning Shaman.
Added a new cursed item: Keravnos, Staff of Storms.
It is now possible to click on the "Possible modifiers" section to get the modifier you want, spending as many runes as it takes to roll it.
Max cooldown reduction changed from 85% -> 95%.
Reduced the cost of cloning gems by roughly 50%.
Gold no longer increases exponentially after floor 1000.
Gold is now capped at 100T, in order to restore players that got too high values.
Added a new item effect to help against the dreaded Fatigue!
Added 19 new achievements:
1. Gladiator: Beat floor 1000 in any journey as a Gladiator (Only one hero in team, a warrior)
2. Headhunter: Discover all creatures in the Bestiary
3. Ultimate Conquest: Beat floor 10,000 in the Citadel
4. Wombo Combo: Activate a gem combo
5. Gucci: Equip a level 20 item
6. Classy: Embed a gem
7. Cursed: Craft a cursed item
8. Dusterino: Salvage a gem
9. D.E.I.: Have a team with 5 heroes with no duplicate classes
10. Alchemist: Brew a potion
11. Upgrades!: Upgrade a skill
12. Power Infusion: Successfully infuse an item with a gem
13. Fancy Place: Decorate the tavern with a gem
14. Money Talks: Buy a legendary item at the shop
15. Top Talent: Recruit a legendary hero in the tavern
16. More!: Clone a legendary hero
17. Gem Fever: Clone a gem
18. Unoriginal: Clone an item
19. Leader of the Pack: Beat floor 1000 in any journey with a team of 5 Lycans
New item effect!
New Shadowforge Item: Nurros, Staff of Darkness — A cursed INT staff that automatically casts your equipped Darken Mind, Dark Desire, and Soul of the Infinite at the start of each encounter. These effects no longer expire. Soul of the Infinite now targets all allies.
Added option to sort inventory by Rarity.
Clone Hero — Clone any hero from the hero view, duplicating all equipped items, gems, skills, and effects. Costs Runes of Echoes, Orbs of Power, and gold.
Added Shop Auto-buy upgrade in the Automagus, which displays auto-buy settings in the shop for runes, free item and other items based on rarity.
Added the Bestiary, which tracks enemy kills and awards talent points for powerful town-level effects.
Back-row enemies (Skeleton Warlock, Dark Druid, Frost Wraith, Fire Elemental, Acolyte, Gargoyle) now have a 5% chance to spawn as elite on floors above 150.
Added new cursed item "Lunyx, Claw of the Moon" — a Lycan sword with the Moonlit Predator effect: when another allied Lycan attacks, you have a 10% chance to join them by using your next available equipped Black Claw.
Reduced Shadowforge material costs by roughly 50%.
Updated Howl of Terror and Alpha Howl skill icons with new night-themed artwork.
Fixed a bug where greater modifiers lost their greater status when absorbed through the Conflux.
Hello everyone!
Thank you so much for all the feedback, bug reports and feature requests! I can't believe 3,000 people have played and (mostly) enjoyed the game. In the past 2 months, we have come a long way, with many micro features, QoL updates and polishing. There is a long way to go until 1.0. I would like to encourage all of you to join us on Discord and post (or DM me, @Nykta) ideas about features you enjoy, features you would like to see implemented from other idlers, and things you would like improved or removed from the game. As you may have noticed, the vast majority of feedback is implemented pretty fast!
The development team is just me and my cat Nala for now, but with the new Cosmetic DLC, I hope to hire some help to replace the AI graphics.
If you haven't already, come join us on Discord (https://discord.gg/D9Ds982cQD) to discuss builds and feature requests. I plan to continue shaping this game together with the community, until it is a top-tier idle RPG.
Roadmap:
Dozens more gem combos & item effects (more coming soon)
"Cursed" items with unique item effects (more coming soon)
Town-level perks to improve botanist, alchemist and blacksmith
Overall balancing improvements
More endgame mechanics
Finish the story
Also please don't forget to review the game. It is super important, as it really helps more people find it.
Thank you all for playing and for your amazing support! Keep the feedback coming! 💝
Added Thanatos' Xyphos, a new cursed Warrior sword — its unique effect, Thanatos' Wrath, removes Execute's health threshold and applies a bleed for 200% STR, increased by 50% per empty skill slot.
Increased Rune of Echoes max drop chance in the Citadel from 2% to 10%.
Shadowforge material costs now scale exponentially with item level (1,000 at level 1 up to 100,000,000 at level 20).
Items added to the Jeweler's Conflux will now appear faded out in the inventory.
Blizzard comets from Andar'Al now count toward Ice Comet's skill usage, allowing it to progress toward rarity upgrades.
Intimidating Howl duration now scales with skill level and rarity (15s base, increasing with investment).
Added a new cursed item for poison rogues: Dilitirion, Venom of Death
Void Explosion can now crit, as intended.
Fixed Howling Terror tooltip.
Added an Automagus upgrade to further increase inventory size by 1000.
Added a new cursed item: Nykta, Dagger of the Void
Fixed an issue where enabling auto-ascend mid-run would wait for a win streak before ascending.
Fixed an issue where if a unit died during its turn, it kept casting skills until its turn ended.
Tavern and Shop prices now depend on max hero level, and not on max floor cleared, as intended.
Fixed an issue where selling all similar gems would also sell embedded gems.
Optimized "Salvage All" button to work instantly, even for 10k gems.
Optimized inventory to list thousands of items without lagging.
Embermark cooldown has been reduced to 60 seconds.
Bleeding, Burning and Poisoned will now keep ticking while receiving hits, instead of delaying ticks by 1 second every time.
Gem level on each floor is now visible in tooltips in the floor picker.
Added a new Agility potion.
Added new bosses every 50 and 100 levels, as well as new materials.
Added the Shadowforge upgrade for the Blacksmith, which can be puchased from the Automagus for 10M gold. It allows crafting Cursed items with unique effects and high stats, for Super and Ultra Boss materials.
Embermark now properly increases the hero's damage by the stated amount.
Fixed Alchemist UI material reduction amounts now applying.
Implemented a Turn Tracker in combat view to make it easier to figure out whose turn is coming up.
You can now middle/ctrl click on inventory categories in the filters to exclude that category (useful for quickly hiding gems for example).
It is now possible to buy all runes from the shop with middle click, in addition to ctrl+click.
Implemented a seed auto-buy features which can now be unlocked at the Automagus.
In the Botanist, the 20% bonus of fertilizers and the Ogre trophy is now multiplicative instead of additive, which makes it competitive against hero bonuses.
In the Botanist, Frozen Crown now boosts speed by 20% multiplicatively to other bonuses, as opposed to the current 10% additive bonus.
Fixed an issue that bloated the save file and caused regular fps spikes.
Hidden skill XP from legendary (max) skill tooltips.
Equipped potions will now have a border to indicate their rarity properly.
Daily rewards are now independent of whether the game has been running, as intended.
Fixed: Transfer feature did not set specialization image properly on the recipient of talents.
Fixed an issue in auto gem picker priority logic when using multiple stats.
Auto-gem-picker will now remembers the last used stat priority.
Ctrl+Click or Middle click on the "Infuse" button will try to auto-infuse as much as possible, spending all many gems as it takes instantly! (Of course, it ignores protected/locked/equipped gems).
Added new item effect: Toxic Miasma (Poison Rogue)
Implemented a new set of key binding in item view that cycle through the same slot accross team members (A/D keys) or equipment slots of current hero (Q/E keys).
Added "Middle Click to Max" to the following functions:
Rune of Forging for max stats
Rune of Fate for max value
Rune of Augmentation for max slots
Audo-descend will now only happen when auto-advance is enabled, as intended.
Floor 1 in Iron Mines can no longer roll monster of higher rarity than common.
Added a gameplay option that shows a "Collect all chests" button in the journeys map window.
Added Jeweler leveling system.
Increased the amount of dust recovered from salvaging gems by ~5x.
Removed runes from gem item window since they cannot be applied on gems.
Added the ability to clone gems in exchange for a high amount of Runes of Echoes.
Minor visual improvements.
Added Alchemist leveling system which makes it even easier to automate potion brewing!
Item level is now visible on item icon.
Added the ability to remove an effect from an item.
Added the ability to buy 100 seeds with middle click.
Searing Brand now applies an Embermark of the same Level/Rarity as the first equipped Embermark. If none are equipped, it uses Common/Lv.1.
Removed XP bar when the hero is at max level (100).
Reverted enemy HP boost on higher levels as it was way too big and many players got stuck. It will instead be increased by very small increments over 30 days.
Lethal Coating will not be cast again until it is expired.
Fixed a bug where Lethal Coating would reset poison remaining damage.
Re-worked Alchemist UI.
Fixed a bug where auto-defeat would leave all heroes with 0 health without killing them.
Enemy health has been slightly increased. Please make sure you use the "Infuse" button on item windows to make your items up to x3 stronger (+20) and use the new gem combos and you will be back on track in no time!
Added the option to have multiple Botanist layouts.
Added new Botanist related stats:
Botanist yield +%
Botanist speed +%
Added the option to assign a Botanist hero to boost Yield and Speed.
Slightly increased XP required for Blacksmith to level up.
Many translation corrections.
Gem combos are now related to a class and are grouped by class in the compendium for easier reading.
Gem combos of the items's hero's class in the auto-gem-picker will be hoisted to the top.
Menu icons in the top right are now slightly bigger.
Added a "Deploy" button in the journeys window next to the "Raid" button, that deploys the team without taking the player to the fight. The button will appear once the player has at least 2 teams.
Many translation corrections.
Added Portuguese (Brazil) translations.
Added Russian translations.
Items in the shop can now also be locked with RMB, in addition to "L" key.
Fixed an issue where blacksmith recipe tooltips did not respect material cost reductions.
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