SotR Beta Changelog: February 5th, 2022

SotR Beta February 5th Changelog:


General:

• Experience gain from level 20+ monsters in Normal difficulty has been increased by 65%.


• All monster base attack damage has been lowered by 20%.


• Mana costs have been reduced for all skills.


• Melee Skills can no longer be interrupted.


• Mercenary base Life / Life per Level has been increased by 50%, and Defense / Defense per Level has been increased by 25%.


• Act 5 Mercenaries now properly use Sunder.


• Soul Link node has been updated in the Soul Grid and is now active.


• Life nodes in the green branch of the Soul Grid now grant +25 Life, up from +20.


• Berserker node has been replaced with Ignore Pain in the Soul Grid and is now active. Attack Speed nodes leading up to it now also grant Cast Speed.


• Lucidity and Mental Quickness nodes on the Soul Grid now also grant Attack Speed.



Classes:

Amazon

• Cold Arrow Damage per Level has been increased.


• Magic Arrow Damage per Level has been increased.


• Fire Arrow Damage per Level has been increased.


• Buckshot Damage per Level has been increased.


• Guided Arrow Damage per Level has been increased.


• Shattering Arrow Damage per Level has been increased.


• Barrage Arrow Damage per Level has been increased.


• Strafe Damage per Level has been increased.


• Jab Damage per Level has been increased.


• Charged Strike Damage per Level has been increased.


• Poison Javelin Damage per Level has been increased.


• Impale Damage per Level has been increased.


• Lightning Bolt Damage per Level has been increased.


• Static Strike Damage per Level has been increased.


• Plague Javelin Damage per Level has been increased.


• Skewer Damage per Level has been increased.


• Warp Strike Damage per Level has been increased.


• Lightning Fury Damage per Level has been increased.



Assassin

• Shock Web Damage per Level has been increased.


• Blade Sentinel Damage per Level has been increased.


• Charged Bolt Sentry Damage per Level has been increased.


• Blade Fury Damage per Level has been increased.


• Wake of Bombardment now throws half of the amount of your Firebombs instead of the full amount, and they deal half damage compared to your own.


• Lightning Sentry Damage per Level has been increased.


• Blade Shield Damage per Level has been increased.


• Shuriken Ring Damage per Level has been increased.


• Dragon Talon Damage per Level has been increased.


• Dragon Claw Damage per Level has been increased.


• Dragon Strike Damage per Level has been increased.


• Dragon Flight Damage per Level has been increased.


• Mind Blast Damage per Level has been increased.



Barbarian

• Sunder Damage per Level has been increased.


• Shield Throw Damage per Level has been increased.


• Armor Break Damage per Level has been increased.


• Avalanche Damage per Level has been increased.


• Frenzy Damage per Level has been increased.


• Rend Damage per Level has been increased.


• Earthquake Damage per Level has been increased.


• War Cry Damage per Level has been increased.



Druid

• Poison Creeper Damage per Level at Level 20+ has been lowered.


• Firestorm Damage per Level has been increased.


• Twister Damage per Level has been increased.


• Fissure Damage per Level has been increased.


• Tornado Damage per Level has been increased.


• Volcano Damage per Level has been increased.


• Hurricane Damage per Level has been increased.


• Armageddon Damage per Level has been increased.


• Feral Rage Damage per Level has been increased.


• Maul Damage per Level has been increased.


• Fury Damage per Level has been increased.


• Shock Wave Damage per Level has been increased.


• Feral Howl Damage per Level has been increased.


• Rampage Damage per Level has been increased.



Necromancer

• Bone Spike Damage per Level has been increased.


• Poison Slash Damage per Level has been increased.


• Corpse Explosion Damage per Level has been increased at later levels.


• Poison Explosion Damage per Level has been increased at later levels.


• Bone Spirit Damage per Level has been increased.


• Poison Nova Damage per Level has been increased.


• Poison Maelstrom Damage per level has been increased.


• Bone Spear Damage per Level has been increased.



Paladin

• Zeal Damage per Level has been increased.


• Smite Level 20+ Damage per Level has been lowered, and now spawns 1 less holy bolt in its Level 10 Holy Shield form.


• Divine Storm Damage per Level has been increased at higher levels.


• Hammer of Wrath Damage per Level has been increased.


• Fist of the Heavens Damage per Level has been increased.


• Vengeance Damage per Level has been increased.


• Judgment Damage per Level has been increased.



Sorceress

• Jolt and Combustion have had their locations switched on the skill tree.


• Combustion Damage per Level has been increased.


• Jolt Damage per Level has been increased.


• Enchant Damage per Level has been increased.


• Overcharge Damage per Level has ben increased.


• Icicle Flurry Damage per Level has been increased.


• Charged Bolt early Damage per Level has been increased.


• Fire Wall Damage per Level has been increased.


• Nova early Damage per Level has been increased, along with its base radius.


• Frost Nova early Damage per Level has been increased, along with its base radius.


• Lightning Damage per Level has been slightly increased.


• Meteor Damage per Level has been increased.


• Blizzard Damage per level has been slightly increased at later levels.


• Thunder Storm Damage per level has been increased.


• Hydra base Damage has been slightly lowered, while early Damage per Level has been increased.


• Frozen Orb base Damage and Level 20+ Damage per Level has been lowered.


• Essence Flux base Life / Mana after Kill and per Level has been increased.



Items:

• Riftstones can no longer roll additional Unstable Rifts as an affix. This will be reserved for unique Riftstones in the future.


• Riftstones and Rift Essences now drop less often inside of Riftstones / Blue Rifts.


• Ginther's Rift Black Hole proc Damage per Teleport Level has been lowered, and now deals 20% Weapon Damage instead of 33%.



Monsters:

• Duriel's movement speed, base attack damage, and Frenzy skill damage has been lowered. Maggots have also had their damage and life lowered, and Red Maggots now heal him for less.


• Oblivion Knight Tornado damage has been lowered.


• Blood Raven movement speed has been lowered.


• Nightmare Terror's mana drain has been drastically lowered.


• Fallen Shaman will now resurrect slain allies less often and within in a smaller radius, and will use their Fireball from further away / more often instead.


• Various monsters have had their Fire Wall burn damage lowered.


• Crypt Riftstone's Black Lancer Skewer damage has been lowered.


• Blood Lord (and all variants) have had their Frenzy Skill level lowered.


• Blunderbore (and all variants) have had their Armor Break Skill level lowered.



Areas:

• Maggot Lair has been updated to fix various issues (Thanks Spike!)



Bugs:

• The illuminated presence notification is now displayed in the new challenge areas, and will no longer appear in the old areas.