This is your chance to test the new changes ahead of the pack! You have until Sunday 23:59 (CEST/GMT+2) to give your feedback. Please find preliminary patch notes for this build below.
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⏰ Open Beta End Times
| Time Zone | Local Date & Time |
|---|---|
| PDT (US West Coast) | Sunday, 14:59 (2:59 PM) |
| EDT (US East Coast) | Sunday, 17:59 (5:59 PM) |
| GMT / UTC | Sunday, 21:59 (9:59 PM) |
| BST (United Kingdom) | Sunday, 22:59 (10:59 PM) |
| CEST (Belgium) | Sunday, 23:59 (11:59 PM) |
| EEST (Eastern Europe) | Monday, 00:59 (12:59 AM) |
| JST / KST (Japan/Korea) | Monday, 06:59 (6:59 AM) |
| AEST (Australian East) | Monday, 07:59 (7:59 AM) |
1.0.6.17682 (25-06-'26)
📦 CONTENT
📜 7 NEW Scrolls
- SECOND BREATH
Gain a speed stack every second you’re standing still, and lose one every second you’re moving (max 10 Stacks). +2% Move Speed per stack.
- LUCKY SCROLL
Get a random Scroll. An additional Scroll Chest will appear somewhere on the map.
- MAGICIAN COLLISION
When colliding with a teammate, increase both Wizards’ Move Speed by 25% for 5 seconds (10s cooldown).
- PASSIVE INCOME
Luck is capped at 0, but every 5 Level Ups will contain a guaranteed Legendary.
- FIGHT OR FLIGHT
When taking damage, increase Move Speed by 30% for 2 seconds (7s cooldown).
- THICK SKIN
The less Health you have, the more Armor you gain (max 200).
- DRINKING BUDDIES
Whenever you pick up a Health Potion, all teammates will also receive 50% healing. Additionally, whenever a teammate picks up a Health Potion, you will also receive 50% healing.
🕹️ GAMEPLAY IMPROVEMENTS
✅ Added a Scroll HUD that shows cooldowns, triggers, or stacks.
🤝 Delayed Fate will only appear if a player still has rerolls to spend, or if the Reroll Mastery is active.
🤝 Made the following enemies pingable:
- Elder Shaman
- Elder Bloat Crab
- Elder Teethy Worm
- Broodmaw
- Stampeders
- Frostroot
- Baby Manta
✅ Gnashers can now be frozen.
✅ Made sure Bile Spitter, Rift Sentinel and Sol’phish projectiles can destroy each other on hit.
✅ Ghost movement is no longer affected by speed-altering terrain (Roads, Frost Branches, …).
✅ Scroll chests now take damage from enemy projectiles.
🎨 VISUAL IMPROVEMENTS
✅ Fixed the visual for the Rift being too small in its exit animation.
✅ Improved the visuals for the Arcane Broadsword.
✅ Reworked Brimstone splash effect.
✅ Updated the player's death explosion.
⚖️ BALANCING
🤝 Spear Barrage
- Improved Spear Barrage targeting.
- Slightly increased hitbox size.
- Slightly increased cast animation speed.
- Slightly increased the base damage of Spear Barrage.
- Bounce augmentations will no longer reduce damage.
- Split augmentations now work similarly to other “split at end of lifetime” augmentations.
- Shadow Talon augmentation on Talon Slash
- Rear Blades augmentation on Phantom Blades
- Multi-Barrage augmentation on Spear Barrage
- Mul'Gath has a higher damage resistance during phase transitions.
- Mul’Gath’s minions now immediately start healing him over time.
- Bountiful Quests and Go-Getter’s Grace have been made to work retroactively.
- Go-Getter’s Grace’s healing buff has also been increased from 25% to 30%.
- Fist of Support has been reworked to increase both Damage (10%) and Critical Damage (30%) every time you revive a teammate.
- Reworked Power of Friendship to increase Armor instead of Damage.
- Savior Focus, Steady Hand, and Resilient Revival have been removed.
🙌 QOL
🤝 Quests that track progress are now made more visible in-game. This applies to:
- Completing worlds on different difficult levels
- Infusing all different elements
- Collecting 12 different scrolls
✅ Improved the Wizard Trait descriptions so each wizard's effects are more clear.
🤝 Improved scrolling behavior in the Quest Menu.
⚙️ STABILITY & BUGFIXES
🤝 Fixed an issue where buttons in the Pause menu would remain selected after reopening the pause menu.
✅ Fixed an issue where rewards from certain challenges were immediately available in the same run.
✅ Fixed an issue where Scepter Mesh would still damage enemies for a few seconds after despawning.
✅ Fixed an issue where the Necro Whirl visual would clip into the ground if the Stalking Whirl augmentation was equipped.
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🤝 = changes inspired by community feedback
