Aethermancers!

The second Quality of Life update for Aethermancer is out now!

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Finally, it\'s time for the highly requested Combat Inspect feature as well as some other updates that will hopefully improve your gameplay experience. But that\'s not all. Despite us really wanting to focus on QOL features, we could not resist to add two little, exciting surprises to this update...

Overview of what has been added today

• Combat Inspect Feature - more details in section below

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• Redistribute Equipment - You can now redistribute old Equipment when replacing it with new Equipment

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• A new playable monster: Ravager! - more details below

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• Festive Pilgrim\'s Rest

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• Clearer combat UI - a target and damage preview of enemy monsters and clearer Aether generation animation

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• An icon in combat for enemy monsters that can be captured

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• ... and more! Check the full patch Notes below

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Combat Inspect Feature

You can now use a Combat Inspect Feature directly in combat. This allows you to check EVERYTHING that\'s going on at any point in combat! You can see active buffs and debuffs, perks, traits, equipment of your monsters, actions of enemy monsters as well as their reset actions and poise.

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Along with the changes in combat UI this should help you see what\'s going on in combat quicker and more conveniently. We likely will improve and polish the combat inspect feature in the future, so feel free to leave your feedback!

Ravager - the new alternative Pilgrimage Path Champion

\"For as long as humans have been around, the Ravager was there to stalk their steps and darken their days. Oftentimes referred to as humankind\'s original nemesis, and yet they are but a shadow to humankind\'s candle.\"

Ravager can be encountered in Pilgrimage Path as an alternative Champion. Alternative Champions unlock once you have beaten the regular Champion monster at least once. Once unlocked, you may encounter either of the two champions (Ravager is currently the only alternative Champion - more to come!).

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Cursed Blood: Aura: For every 10 Critical or Wild damage dealt by allies: Applies 1 Bleed to target enemy.

Ravager is a perfect predator that seeks like-minded companions. Pairing him up with other Critical damage dealers makes for a fatal party composition - quite a boost for Critical type monsters. Bleed stacks help with ramping up damage throughout combat, as well as staggering enemies thanks to their constant Wild damage.

Festive Pilgrim\'s Rest

Winter has arrived in Pilgrim\'s Rest! As a little surprise, we added a time-limited re-skin to Pilgrim\'s Rest to bring some cozy festive vibes to you!

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The Early Access Roadmap

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As described in our dedicated Roadmap post , we first wanted to focus on including QOL features to improve the overall game quality. Before we head off into a well-deserved end of year vacation after a busy year, we start working on the next big Early Access update that will bring a new player class as well as new monsters early next year.

Patch Notes 0.5.0.8

New Content

• Festive Theme for Pilgrims Rest!

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• Added a new monster: Ravager!

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• Can be found in Pilgrimage Path as an alternative champion. Alternative champions unlock once you have beaten the regular champion at least once (Ravager is the only alternative champion for now). Once unlocked, you may encounter either the regular or alternative champion (its random).

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• Types: Terror, Critical, Dodge (Shifted: Terror, Critical, Sidekick)

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• Signature Trait: Cursed Blood: Aura: For every 10 Critical or Wild damage dealt by allies: Applies 1 Bleed to target enemy. (Unchanged for Shifted)

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Small Changes and Improvements

• You can click on the Monster overviews directly in the Pause Menu now to open their details page

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• The UI shows a yellow exclamation mark when a NPC offers new dialogue

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• Add Tooltip to Equipment Select Menu

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• Added a little memento icon for enemies in combat that you have not captured before

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• Added a new animation when unlocking secret rooms

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• Added the Inspect Monster Button to more NPC Events

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• Enemy Mephisto will now only use Alchemical Blast starting from turn 3 in combat

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• Added switch follower monster prompt & last rebirthed monster indicator to the Exploration HUD after rebirthing a monster

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• Resources are now displayed via the Exploration HUD in Pilgrim\'s Rest

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• Added FPS Cap and VSync toggle setting

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• Reworked the visual presentation of Aether generation at the start of the turn

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• Most of the Music tracks got some of their instruments replaced by live recorded Instruments

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• 18 music tracks recorded by live instruments (Flute, Clarinet, Violin, & Nyckelharpa).

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• Were eager to hear feedback how you like those changes!

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Balancing Changes (Monster)

The balancing changes for this update are rather conservative, since the last set of balancing changes was rather recent. We mostly tried to target monsters, types, and skills that have been overperforming or underperforming for a long time.

Medusa

• Adjusted the Signature Trait to trigger for every 5 debuffs cleansed (from 6) and deal 1 x 5 damage (from 1 x 6)

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Naga

• Adjusted the Signature Trait (unshifted) to deal 2 x 4 damage (instead of 2 x 2)

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• Increased 2nd Worthiness Perk (unshifted + shifted) to Shield Generator +3 (from +2)

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Djinn

• 3rd Worthiness perk (unshifted + shifted) increased to Evasion +20% (from 15%)

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• Shifted Djnns health reduced to 30 (from 35); matching the unshifted value

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• Signature Trait (unshifted) was adjusted to grant +35% Crit Chance (form +30% Crit Chance)

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Balancing Changes (Types)

Critical

We decided to give a soft rework to the Critical type with this update. We removed the few skills that apply Force (instead moving them to the Force type). To make up for that, Critical now has easy access to skills that apply Bleed stacks. Bleed stacks open up more potential for synergies for the Critical type itself, as well as for Maverick skills with other types. We think this is a more interesting direction for the Critical type and also helps to distinguish the Critical type from the Force type. We also made some further buffs and reworked some non-aura skills into auras. Please also take note of the new skills we added to support this rework (listed above)!

• Generate Force (Action): Only available to Force Type now.

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• Precision Meteor (Action): Only available to Force Type now.

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• Fire Blast (Action): Crit Chance increased to +30% (from +25%)

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• Stone Edge (Action): Damage reduced to 3 x 8 (from 3 x 9). Added: On Crit: Applies 1 Bleed.

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• Critical Bleed (Maverick Trait): Changed into a regular Critical Trait (no longer requires Affliction type in the party, is no longer a Maverick Trait)

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• Cruelty (Trait): Reworked into a Force + Power Maverick Trait: At the start of combat, and whenever an enemy is staggered: Applies 1 Force and 2 temporary Power to self.

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• Old effect (as a regular Critical Trait): Crit Damage +3. At the start of combat, and whenever an enemy is staggered: Applies 1 Force to self.

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Force

Apart from the Critical rework, the most drastic set of changes are aimed at the Force type, which has been underperforming for a long time. These changes are meant to help promote the intended Force strategy of using Support Actions to build up Force stacks.

• Petal Shield (Action): Force stacks applied increased to 2 (from 1)

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• Air Shield (Action): Force stacks applied increased to 3 (from 2), but Shielding per Force stack reduced to 2 (from 3)

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• Precision Meteor (Action): Damage increased to 1 x 18 (from 1 x 15)

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• Into the Fray (Trait): Adjusted to apply 1 Force to each ally (instead of applying 1 Force to target ally and 1 Force to self)

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• Reinforce (Trait): Reduced the healing to 3 (from 5) and increased the Force applied to 2 (from 1)

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• Fierce Summoning (Maverick Trait): Also Shields the attached monster for 3 when it triggers

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• Massive Damage (Maverick Trait): Health required per +1 Crit Damage adjusted to 15 (from 20)

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Burn

• Burn Hit equipment affixes were buffed: regular affix was buffed to +12% (from +10%) and rare affix was buffed to +20% (from +15%)

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Terror

• Bone Chill (Action): Terror stacks applied increased to 5 (from 4)

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• Panic (Trait): Terror stacks applied increased to 6 (from 5)

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• Nighmare (Trait): The damage hits now ignore retaliates

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• Dark Exchange (Maverick Trait): Debuffs cleansed (and transferred) increased to 4 (from 3)

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• Frightful Lightning: Applies 3 Terror to each enemy (instead of 3 Terror to each other enemy)

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Summon

• New equipment affix: Essence Summoning +1 (Minions summoned by this monster gain +1 Essence). Requires Summon type in the party to be obtained.

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• Protective Servitude (Trait): Increased healing and shielding to 6 (from 5)

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• Summon Mastery (Trait): Increased Minion Damage to +2 (from +1). Removed the aura tag.

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• Impactful Summoning (Trait): Increased the damage to 4 (from 3)

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• Totem Summons: Changed to apply 4 heal + 4 shield (instead of only doing 6 shield)

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• Faun: Heal changed to 2 x 3 (from 3x 2) (This was always meant to be 2 x 3, but was set up wrongly)

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Purge

• Shock (Trait): Damage reduced to 6 (from 7)

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• Split Aether (Maverick Trait): Damage reduced to 6 (from 7)

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• Wildflower Harvest (Maverick Action): Damage reduced to 3 x 4 (from 3 x 5)

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Weakness

• Hexing Strikes (Trait): No longer has Weakness Reduction +1

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• Warlock Party (Trait): Now also has Weakness Reduction +1, but only applies 1 Weakness to the enemy with the lowest amount of Weakness (instead of 2 Weakness distributed to up to 2 enemies with the lowest amount of Weakness)

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Dodge

• Eye of the Storm: Required damage adjusted to 35 (from 30)

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Bug Fixes

• Quicken now triggers properly for big heal numbers

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• Fix Aether Display Animation in Combat being offset

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• Fixed getting the same map generation seed when forfeiting and restarting a run sometimes

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• Fixed players being able to activate the third Aether Spring before Garden District

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• Fixed some small localization related issues

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• Fixed possible softlock on level up skill selection (possible to encounter with shifted Serket)

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• Fixed Npc music being a bit too quiet

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• Fixed Player Monster HUDs not resetting between fights

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• Fixed an issue where the secret rooms wouldn\'t properly unlock when you load into a zone where the secret room is already unlocked

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• Fixed Chernobog Action Display being wrong with less then two actions if the remaining action was stemming from an Arm

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• Fixed Chernobog using player actions which were no longer blocked by the arms

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• Toxic sprawl no longer loses track of consumed regeneration stacks when allies die

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• Fixed Inspect in Starter Shrine Selection selecting wrong Monster if the Random Monster Button was displayed

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• Fixed being able to double soul catch the same monster if it already guaranteed for the next Shrine

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• Fixed Control the Cursed Description for Chernobog

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• Fixed Terror Wild Element applying to wrong monsters when attacking enemies with a mass action that had Terror

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• Fixed Temporary Boons disappearing when loading save file where combats were won

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• Fixed Chernobog not appearing in his Introduction Cutscene

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• Fixed asset layering in Pilgrims Rest

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• Fixed missing lower wall sprites in Garden District in special cases

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• Fixed Garden Protector layering

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• Fixed too strong wind in Pilgrimage Path

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• Fixed too many Samebito The Wise pictures generating in FF

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• Fixed not being able to change the difficulty with the Mouse properly

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• Fixed Start Run Button Description in Pause Menu

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Thank you for a wonderful year!

We hope you are having a lot of fun with Aethermancer\'s latest update and are ready for our roadmap next year - exciting stuff awaits!

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