Shields now possess block value. Wielding a shield grants the Block talent that will block the next attack and allows for a counterstrike.
Riposte talent doesnt provide a free attack, instead it boosts counterstikes


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Death in explorer mode will not be reported in chat


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New "ingredients" system. When you do an action (like killing a monster) you can gain a special ingredient which is automatically added to you ingredients list. Ingredients are now part of the normal inventory and are weightless.
The Brotherhood of Alchemists quest has been updated to use ingredients system; this means you will start collecting needed parts before taking the quests, without risk of loosing some.


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New generic talent tree: Wild Gift/Mindstar Mastery. Available from random zigur escorts and summoners start with it locked


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Darkness (and other block_sight objects) now prevent projected attacks. (LOS check in Actor.canProject and Actor.on_project)
Various tweeks (shortened ranges, lowered hate costs, altered damage, etc)
Added a number of secondary buff/debuff effects to talents: Gesture of
Malice lowers resistance, Madness increases Mind damage, Darkness allows faster movement, Force of Will increases crit damage, etc.
Replaced Unnatural Body's Seeth and Repression with two talents that boost power as you take damage.
Fixed criticals, they work and are applied to all affects.
Gestures allow use of mindstars and provide some bonuses from them.
Shadows scale better with leveling and don't rely on defense/evasion (they have a new fade ability that prevents damage for a turn when they are first hit)


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Shadowstrike now works as a crit damage bonus


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Hydra summoning eldritch eyes can no longer spawn more then one hydra at a time
Autocasting talents will not trigger when confused/terrified



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Flamespit description fixed


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Weapon of Light, Shield of Light, and Hymn of Moonlight no longer deactivate when they don't have enough energy to trigger

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Fade From Time now reduces all status effect durations (good or bad)
Voice of Telos has new effects (check it out!)
Increased Quiver of the Sun capacity to 12
Wards (activatable staff ego that protects against damage)
Staff's now give a bonus to elemental damage equal to their combat damage
Most staves now allow the wearer to switch elemental properties using the command staff talent
Base staff spellpower increased



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Reloading will auto-trigger when auto-explore is activated
Spacetime tuning and gather the threads will now only break on spell cast
Blood lich rarity is now more in line with other liches
Fixed antim-magic tree description

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Two-handed wepaons now have a small eqo multiplier
Daggers now have a small ego penalty
Gaping maw is now anti-magic
Withering orbs and allettas diadem now psionic
Halfling foot now arcane, hareskin sling now nature
Stop talent now properly accounts for paradox level
Foresight now properly senses actors
Greater weapon egos generally less powerful
Lesser weapon egos generally more powerful
New anti-magic egos
Resolve equilebrium and stamina regen more in line with other forms of regen for these resource types
Added costs to ranged egos
Set many artifact material levels to be more in line with their level range (should improve drops)
Buffed many artifacts
Reduced infravision given by many items
Infravision and heightened senses no longer stack
Fixed cease to exist double paradox cost



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Antimagic infused objects are usable without knowing antimagic, but they will incur heavy penalties on spellcasting (failure chances, reduced spellpower)


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Spacetime Tuning reworked now a sustain that reduces paradox over time
Haste values reduced
Static History values reduced


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Corona no longer deactivates when there's no energy to fire
Added Spell Cooldown, Mind Crit, and Crit Reduction to the character sheet
Darkest Light can no longer give back negative energy (for real this time)


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Weapons now (mostly) have three stats: damage, maximum accuracy (used in checkHit()), and critical power (replaces the default 1.5x crit multiplier).
Item tooltips much easier to read
Weapon tooltips display useful information, such as how much damage the weapon will actually do. (This needs further improvement, as it doesn't account for percentage damage increases and decreases, such as those imposed by shield wall or offhand penalties)
Quivers and shot pouches are now non-consumable items, but require reloading using the new 'Reload' talent.
Shields are much more active and focus on damage mitigation.
Riposte now works with a Shield's Block talent
Staff, shield, bow, sling, and ammo egos mostly rewritten.
Resolver for egos has been changed to centralize default ego value information for ease of balancing.
Items can now grant talents (passive or active)
Use talents dialog now displays passive talents, so that item-granted passives show up someplace.



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Three new uniques added to Dreadfell (Borfast, Filio, and Aletta) that can randomly appear in he zone
Four new artifacts (Borfast's Cage, Aletta's Diadem, Hareskin Sling, and Withering Orbs)
Increased rarity of Boots of Spellbinding and Staff of Channeling
New Dreadfell Lore


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Mimic now resets stats on next kill
Preternatural Senses now rounds the range value.
Fixed a Rampage talent on an arena NPC
Outmanuever now gives a physical resistance reduction
Mimic now gives stat bonuses relative to the target's stats instead of relative to player's stats minus target's stats.
Reckless Change now scales range beyond 4.

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Crooked Club confusion duration reduced to 4
Vision Runes now grant See Stealth in addition to See Invisible
Sun Infusions no longer break stealth but instead apply a debuff that reduces stealth power for a few turns


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Hate: Instead of falling to 0, hate falls to a baseline value. The baseline value is set to 50% of your current hate when you take damage, inflict damage or kill something.
Hate: Is now affected by fatigue Cursed Form / Unnatural Body: now scales healing factor from 40% at 0 hate to 80% at 10+ hate. No longer affects damage resistance and no longer improves with cursed equipment.
Cursed Form / Seethe: Allows you to stop hate loss but recieve other penalties
Cursed Form / Repression: now trades up healing factor for loss of hate per kill.
Gloom / All: Mindpower based (% chance to "hit", chance to save v Mindpower)
Gloom / Weakness: Changed to reduce damage inflicted, attacking weakened foes adds hate.
Gloom / Dismay: Replaces Torment; 3 turn gloom effect that guarantees 1 critical hit.
Gloom / Sanctuary: Reduces damage that originates from outside of the gloom Slaughter / Slash: Insidious Poison effect has been changed to Cursed Wound (stackable damage reduction)
Slaughter / Reckless Charge: Number of attacks is now limited by talent level.
Endless Hunt / Beckon: Save v Mindpower reduces chance to move by half.
Taking damage can dispell it (the chance to dispel is cumulative damage / maximum life).
Strife / Dominate: Now mindpower based, Fixed range checking
Cursed Aura: Dialog to take or reject it should only open once.
Cursed Aura / Curse of Shrouds: should no longer cancel rest/autoexplore
Cursed Aura / Cursed Sentry: Fixed (was completely broken)
Dark Figure: Removed
New Rampage/Predator/Fears afflicted trees


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Daunting Presnce no longer causes a cross-tier effect. Debuff effect slightly improved.
Reduced the accuracy of many starting enemies
Reduced a few corrupted horror talent levels in the deep bellow


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New Cunning/Survival talent: Piercing Sight, granting a boost to see stealth/invis
Power is Money provides somewhat less huge benefits


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Saving throws with a minimum duration can now be 'shrugged off'
Accuracy now has it's own cross tier effect, Off-Guard, that increases critical strike chance and critical power by 10%
Off-Balance now reduces global speed by 15%
Slime slow effect reduced to 15%
Hit rolls now cap out at a 20 point difference rather then 10 increasing or decreasing hit chance in 2.5% increments


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Weapon Folding now reduces paradox by a small amount when a weapon hits
Temporal Warden Archery and Dual-Weapon mastery levels reduced
Turn Back the Clock damage reduced
Temporal Fugue and Swap confusion power reduced
Precognition no longer kills the player if he dies during a vision
Moment of Prescience rewritten
Spin Fate no longer increases defense, maximum bonus reduced
Energy Absorption power level reduced
Diminsional Step range reduced
Wormhole exit location is a bit less accurate
Quantum Feed and Strength of Purpose no longer grant saving throws and
have a stamina cost to sustain (in addition to paradox)
Rethread's cooldown reduced
Clarified a few Wilder tooltips


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Attacking stealthed/invisible creatures now uses a normal hit check and then adds a random 33% chance to hit


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Fixes Arena bosses


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