Public Test Patch Notes for 17/09

Additions

• Added Heroic Difficulty to new instances:
  
  • The Trunk of the Hivetree (and the great Gatsbee)
    
  • Lady Bee’s Palace
• Added Infusion System
  
  • Infusion can be added to your heroic gear. you'll get stronger by having a complete infused set!
    
  • You can loot Infusion recipes at the end of Heroic Instances
    
  • To infuse your gear, you have Infusion crucible in the social hubs
    
    • Navelin
      
    • Tyrna
      
    • Ramburg's Entrance
  • Read more about Infusions and their role in Heroic Difficulty in this blog

Modifications

Balancing (Boss)

• Nepsilon
  
  • Tweaked totem link knockback to feel less clunky
    
  • Added more bubbles in the fight
    
  • Bubbles are slowing instead of stunning
    
  • Getting hit by Nepsilon's skill add one more stack of "vulnerability" debuff. This effect is stackable
    
  • Increased totem healing
  
  
• Reblochonk
  
  • Cheese area sizes increased and now reach max size faster
    
  • Removed explosion damage when two areas collide (not the projectiles)
    
  • Reblochonk now targets a random player when casting the cheese area
  
  
• Crabgantua
  
  • Added visual effects for the bubble cast
    
  • Decreased bubble damage
    
  • Decreased movement speed and HP of the add targeting the Skeleton Shard
    
  • Bubbles slow instead of stunning
    
  • Increased delay between two charges
    
  • Increased time before rocks fall
  
  
• Rastar
  
  • Decreased adds’ damage and HP
    
  • Decreased fire DOT damage and reduced its duration
    
  • Decreased AOE range when Ratsar spins on a fire area

Changes (Weapons)

• Judgement
  
  • Passive reworked
    
    • Rank 1 - After applying a Stun, even if the target is immune, your next Weapon Skill will critically strike with 10% increased damage
      
    • Rank 2 - Bonus increased to 15%
      
    • Rank 3 - You permanently deal 25% increased damage to enemies affected by Stun
  • Brutal Frenzy Rank 3 - Has 25% chance to deal additional Physical damage
• Iron Fins of the Leviathan
  • Groundswell Strike - Damage increased
  • Abyssal Fury - Damage Increased
  • Cascade's thrown axes - damage increased

Other Changes

• Spark Cube - Now store 20% of the damages you deal to each enemy. After 20s all the damage stored is dealt to the enemies.
  
• Infusions - The Infusion Bonus applied to secondary Attribute has been increased
  
• Increased power of Epic Gears and Legendary Weapons
  
• Increased size of player Social Panel (F)
  
• Dummy in social hubs now have the same amount of Armor and Magic Armor than bosses

Bugfixes

• Spark Cube - Fixed damage being able to be critical or affected by other stats
  
• Revive - Fixed cooldown reset when reviving
  
• Rogue - Fixed Issues with Shadow Step not making you avoid a hit
  
• Crabgantua
  • Fixed an issue where the summoned crab targeting the Shell Shard could fail to spawn at the furthest point
    
  • Fixed an issue where players near the edge of the Shell Shard were killed by the big wave
    
  • Fixed issue with rocks falling on the Shell Shard
    
  • Fixed Waves being avoidable by using geyser only
• Fervor - Fixed a bug preventing fervor and other modifiers to increase damages of dots (Damage over time)