Monster Keepers!
In this new update, the story of Monster Sanctuary continues with a brand new area for you to explore! Enter: the Underworld.

The Underworld is a forbidden area, permeated with callous beasts
The Underworld is a forbidden area that hasn't been entered in hundreds of years - featuring a new major story arc, which picks up after the story arcs of all other areas currently in the game. Therefore, to enter the Underworld, you will need to have completed all the area's story arcs beforehand. The story of Monster Sanctuary is nearing its finale!
There's a total of seven new Monsters to collect, featuring several new spooky Occult-type Monsters. We hope you're not scared of giant, callous spiders and other arachnid-like Monsters.....
There's also some more equipment! Introducing +5 accessories, the new Scythe weapon and the new Totem accessory.

The grappling hook in action
To enter the forbidden Underworld, you will need to have obtained all four Sanctuary Tokens (from Snowy Peaks, Sun Palace, Horizon Beach, and Magma Chamber). The door to the Underworld can be found in the lower sections of the Blue Caves, near the teleporter crystal.
Patch Notes
Underworld raises the level cap to 36 - and tier 5 attacks are added to all Monsters. This update also introduces some balance adjustments to Monster Sanctuary -- some older Monsters have received buffs, with some Monsters alternatively gaining new Monster-types, to increase synergies for Monster-type auras.
Minor Feature Updates
- Level cap raised to 36
- Tier 5 attacks added to all Monsters
- You are temporarily able to obtain Tier4 food items as PvP and Infinity Arena rewards
- We reduced the champions required for reaching the Keeper Ranger and Keeper Knight rank - there's also a new Rank 'Keeper Champion', following Keeper Knight.
- There are new items available at the shop when reaching Keeper Knight and Keeper Champion rank.
- With the Underworld update, a new PvP season will commence!
Balancing
- Cleanse removing buffs chance increased to 30% (from 20%)
- Forge shield amount slightly increased (shields for 300 + 80% attack instead of 250 + 75% attack)
- Emergency Channel trigger value increased to 25% mana (instead of 20%)
- Charge Shield value increased to 60 (from 40)
- Potions operational in combat increased in effectiveness
- Grey Pearl's Stats slightly increased
- Slash and Lightning Slash now apply Bleed stacks on critical hits
- Utopia now grants 3 charge stacks per turn (instead of 2)
- Stunned now reduces the crit chance by 7% (instead of 3%)
- Weapon Break now reduces the crit chance by 10% (instead of 8%)
- Phoenix Affinity value reduced to 10% (from 15%)
- Berserk now grants 6 Charge stacks, but can only be triggered once per attack
- Charge Amplifier value reduced to 40% (from 50%)
- Shield Burst damage increased but it can no longer critical hit
- Rocky, Tengu, Mega Rock and Kame now have a new passive 'Static'
- Slightly reworked Kame's skills to not include critical related skills and to utilise 'Static' instead
- Goblin Warlock has Occult Power
- Crystal Snail has Defense Overload
- Asura's Lava Wave got replaced by Flurry of Blows
- Salahammer's Full Utility Tree replaced with Kindle, Mana Burn and Attack Plus
- Glowdra now has Breaking Spells instead of Combo Buffing
- Magmapillar has Sticky Impact now, instead of one Empower node
- Dark shifted Raduga got +1 base magic
- Light shifted Rocky got +1 base attack, dark shifted Rocky got +2 base defense
- Light shifted Koi got -1 base health and -1 base magic
- Goblin Miner's base attack increased by 1
- Akhlut both shifts got +1 base health
- Crackle and Sizzle Knight are now 'Construct' in addition to their other types and got +1 base attack and +1 base magic
- Kame is now 'Warrior' in addition to its other types
- Frosty is now 'Nature' in addition to its other types
- Tengu is now 'Nature' in addition to its other types
- Megataur is now 'Warrior' in addition to its other types
That's all for now!
We hope you will enjoy exploring the new off-limits, forbidden area - collecting the new Monsters and finding all of the hidden new items and vast array of equipment!
Let us know your feedback on all things introduced with Underworld, here on the Steam forums - or on our official Discord channel. Come say hi and meet fellow monster keepers!
[ 2020-05-18 13:00:05 CET ] [ Original post ]