Skills

Aura of Decay

• Now applies poison to enemies 4 times a second (from 3).
• No longer grants 50% increased poison damage while active.
• The Seeping Wounds node grants 12% bleed chance per second (from 8%).

Black Hole

• Increased duration by 10%.
• Now deals damage more frequently, but deals somewhat less damage each time. This will make its damage more consistent.
• Now fades out when the skill ends.

Bone Golem

• Bone Golems (and their variants) deal 15% more damage and pull aggro from 6% further away. This affects the range at which enemies decide to attack the Golem over other targets, not the range at which they decide to enter combat.

Flame Ward

• Fixed a bug where it gave 10 ward regen by default in addition to its other effects.
• Now grants 400 ward on use (from 300).

Smite

• Converting Smite to a Void skill now also converts the Fissures it creates.

Wandering Spirits

• Spectral Putrescence now grants Spirits a 40% chance to cast a projectile each second (from always casting every 2 seconds).
• Fixed a bug where Soul Of Filth reduced the poison interval by 10% rather than increasing the frequency by 10%, which made it somewhat stronger than intended.
• Thin Veil increases reveal rate by 7% (from 8%) and no longer reduces damage.

Warpath

• You can now move through enemies while channeling Warpath.

Other Changes

• Earthquake, Erasing Strike, Forge Strike, and Judgement now have 300% added damage effectiveness (from 250%).
• Increased Earthquakes radius by 20%.
• Slightly reduced the maximum distance Ice Shards from Ice Barrage travel.
• Manifest Armor now deals 67% more damage.
• Increased Marrow Shards base damage by 18% and its added damage effectiveness by 10%.
• Increased the base damage of Soul Feast by 40%.

Visuals

• Updated Meteors visual effects, including a simpler ground indicator for when more than two meteors are created with one cast.
• Updated Teleports visual effects.
• Updated Warpaths visual effects, which now vary depending on the weapon you have equipped.
• Quest objective indicators and arrows are now silver for sidequests.

Uniques

Eye of Reen

• Fixed a bug where Reens Ire was not granting Critical Strike Multiplier.
• Now displays a buff icon in the UI showing the current number of stacks.

Sound

• Music tracks now smoothly crossfade from one to another when loading a new zone.
• Increased the volume of footstep sounds.
• Changed out many old sounds that were used by Primalist skills and summons for newer ones.
• Added new sounds for Meteor.
• Added a new sound for Teleport.
• Added new summoning and attack sounds for most Acolyte minions.
• Void Husk enemies now use more fitting sounds.
• Updated the sound for Manifest Weapon.
• Updated the sound for Riposte (Vengeance proc).
• Adjusted sounds for the Spreading Frost boss.
• Added a sound for the bridge breaking in The Precipice.

Quests

• Improved the To Shell With It quest so its easier to complete, and fixed an issue that may have prevented some characters from completing it.

Enemies

Enemy Limits

• Individual enemy types can now be restricted to be less common in the Arena and the Monolith.
• Siege Golems and Marsh Beetle Queens are now limited to 1 per wave in the Arena.
• Siege Golems, Wengari Matriarchs, Wengari Patriarchs, Wengari Raid Leaders, Wengari Beastmasters, and Marsh Beetle Queens can no longer appear in such larger numbers in the Monolith.
• Siege Golems no longer spawn in arenas that have significant elevation changes.

Siege Golem

• Immolating Aura now has a 1.5 second delay with an indicator before damage is dealt.
• Reduced Immolating Aura duration to 6 seconds (from 8 seconds).
• Increased Immolating Aura damage somewhat now that it is easier to avoid.

Health Scaling

• Adjusted how Rare enemy health scales with area level. Rares have more health earlier on, but reach about the same amount as before at high levels.

Optimization

• Improved the performance of the Architect Liath fight.
• Improved the performance of tracking health status (i.e. low/high health) and events (i.e. on hit, on kill).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue preventing save data automatically recovering after a OS-level crash or power outage. Characters that were lost in these cases after the release of 0.7.8 should be restored.
• Fixed a bug where stash tabs would reference the wrong tab in some cases. Existing stashes should be automatically fixed if theyre having this issue.
• Did a pass over all passives to correct nodes that have different values than stated on their tooltips.
• Fixed a bug where many stats that depended on having a certain health percentage did not work, such as damage and ailment chance.
• Fixed a bug where your weapon's attack rate would not apply after loading or equipping an offhand until you equipped a weapon another time.
• Fixed a bug where Forged Weapons (such as from Forge Strike) would have very low attack speed if you were unarmed or affected by the previous bug.
• Fixed a bug where Eterras Blessings Triage was always targeting the player by mistake.
• Fixed Meteors Cycle of Fire node not working.
• Fixed a bug where the connection between Ice Barrages Shattered Skin and Jagged Ice nodes did not work.
• Fixed an oversight where the Ice Shards of Skeleton Cryomancers did not have a freeze rate and their Mortars only had half the freeze rate that they should.
• Fixed a bug where Smite would not create a Fissure if its initial hit killed the target.
• Fixed a bug that prevented buffs granted for inflicting Spirit Plague on enemies from stacking.
• Fixed a bug where Storm Totems Shockfury and Shielding Totem nodes were not working.
• Fixed a bug where the Beastmaster's The Chase node was not working.
• Fixed a bug where Death Seals Devouring Release node would create Hungering Souls too close to the ground, preventing them from hitting targets.
• Fixed the Druid's Natural Duality node not granting armor and protections.
• Fixed a bug where the Druid's Turtle Form node had a level requirement of 20, rather than 15.
• Fixed a bug where the Druid's Unstable Ground node had a level requirement of 15, rather than 20.
• Fixed the Forge Guard's Javelineer node granting 10% increased crit multi instead of 10% added crit multi.
• Fixed a bug where the Heal on Block stat from the Forge Guard's Rejuvenator node did not show on the character sheet.
• Fixed the Lich's Decaying Form node not increasing poison damage taken.
• Fixed the Lich's Mental Cacophony node granting increased mana instead of added mana.
• Fixed the Sentinel's "of Sword Mastery" and "of Crushing" affixes granting generic added physical damage rather than added melee physical damage.
• Fixed the Shamans Ancestral Speed node not granting haste.
• Fixed a bug where the Shaman's Tempest Form node granted +1 strength per point rather than +10 health.
• Fixed a bug where taking the Sorcerers Mirror Breath node would break the functionality of the Dragon Breath node.
• Fixed the Future Mind node on the Void Knight tree saying that it still gave 3 health (when it now gives 5).
• Fixed a bug where Spriggan Form and Werebear Form did not have footstep sounds.