Skills

• Renamed the Elemental Arrow node on the Detonating Arrow tree to Mana Arrow to avoid ambiguity with the Elemental Arrow node on the Marksman Tree.
• The Redistributed Steel node on the Manifest Armour tree grants 25% more damage (from 35% increased damage) and 8% less health and armour (from 10% reduced health and armour).
• Amended Smite's description to improve clarity and fix incorrect healing value.

Javelin

• Increased the effective hitbox width of Javelin against enemies by 25%.
• Holy Trail now adds a 3 second cooldown (from a 4 second cooldown).
• Fixed ambiguity with the Surprise Initiative node saying that you would "Lunge" to the Flag when it does not use the Lunge skill. It now says "Dash" instead.
• Increased the damage of Consecrated Ground from Judgement by 14%.

Lunge

• Improved several node descriptions to reduce ambiguity and confusion.
• Lead the Charge affects allies in a 300% larger radius.
• Fixed ambiguity with the Surprise Initiative node saying that you would "Lunge" to the Flag when it does not use the Lunge skill. It now says "Dash" instead.
• Increased the damage of Consecrated Ground from Judgement by 14%.

Vengeance

• Added a new node that prevents hits you riposte from critting.
• Bolster grants 5% less damage taken (from 3%).
• Executioner grants 12% more damage to damaged enemies (from 10%).

Items

• Reduce effect of increased rarity on normal, magic, and rare items by 28%.
  • This is to counteract the effects of us releasing a fix in 0.8.3 for increased rarity not affecting magic or rare items.
• Fixed a bug where the "Brittle" Acolyte idol affix gave 26% to 7% increased minion cold damage rather than 26% to 72%.

Melee Leech prefix changes

• Can also roll on gloves (could previously only roll on weapons)
• Is now slightly more powerful at all tiers

Passives

• The Blademaster node on the Sentinel Tree grants 6% increased attack and cast speed (from 5%).

User Interface

• Added new character portraits for the Scalebane Bodyguard in Majelka Lower District and the Scalebane Miner in The Oasis.
• Updated the font for Chinese characters to be thinner.

Enemies

• Ascendant Embermage meteors have a 50% longer delay between the indicator appearing and the meteor hitting.
• Emerald Nagasa deal 6% less damage.
• Osprix Zealots deal 5% less melee damage.
• Fixed a bug where Osprix Zealots' dash dealt cold and physical damage rather than fire and physical.
• Scarab riders deal 24% less damage and fewer of them spawn in echoes that contain them.
• Spine Hunters deal 5% less damage.
• Silver Elementals deal 5% more damage.
• Gold Elementals have 7% more health.
• Allied Zerrick in Chapter 9 deals 19% less damage.
• Monolith zones that contain Siege Golems contain 50% fewer of them on average.
• Ruby Captain Arjani can no longer spawn in the arena.

Crystal Lotus

• Deals 22% less damage (multiplicative with other changes listed).
• Ruby Slam deals 20% less damage and locks in a target location 14% sooner.
• Sapphire bolt deals 17% more damage and locks in a target location 10% sooner.
• Sapphire Slam attack deals 33% less damage with its initial hit.
• Sapphire Slam attack ground projectiles deal 35% less damage to begin with, but gain 84% more damage over their duration (from 42%). This is still a reduction in damage at all ranges.
• Sapphire Slam attack ground projectiles have a 27% narrower hitbox
• Increased item drops by 33%.
• Now also drops a guaranteed rare item.

Diamond Nagasa

• Monolith zones that contain Diamond Nagasa contain 50% fewer of them on average.
• Sky beam deals 6% less damage and deals pure fire damage (from fire and physical).
• Wave deals 10% less damage and deals pure fire damage (from fire and physical).
• Fixed Sky beam and wave having misleading names displayed if you were killed by them.

Gorgon

• 7% more health.
• Limited to 1 per wave in the arena.
• Fewer spawn in monolith zones that contain them.
• Twister has 4% less radius and deals 10% less damage.

Majasa

• Deals 12% less damage in both phases (includes damage from Essences).
• Phase 1 has 7% less health.
• Phase 2 has 25% less health.
• Melee attacks and blood pools in Phase 2 no longer apply physical shred.
• Armour shred applied by melee attacks in Phase 2 no longer has increased duration (from 30% to 40% depending on the attack).
• Melee attacks in Phase 2 apply one stack of armour shred on hit (from 50% chance of 1 stack, 50% chance of 2 stacks).
• Essence of Opulence can no longer hit the player with multiple lightning projectiles from a single cast (i.e. it no longer shotguns).
• Essence of Opulence has a 15% longer delay between casts.
• Essence of Greed has a 15% longer delay between casts.
• Falling Emeralds spell has 16% reduced duration resulting in fewer emerald falling (does not affect duration of poison pools).

Scalebane Guildleader

• 7% less damage in phase 1.
• 11% less damage in phase 2.
• 30% reduced poison duration.
• 38% more health in phase 2.

Scalebane Bandit

• 7% less health.
• 9% fewer spawn at once.
• Can no longer spawn with the Rampancy monster suffix.

Scalebane Sorcerer

• 3% less damage.
• Can no longer spawn with the Rampancy monster suffix.

Scalebane Rogues

• 7% less health.
• 7% less damage.
• Dash to ranged enemies attack has a 29% longer cooldown.
• 3% fewer spawn at once.
• Can no longer spawn with the Rampancy monster suffix.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where you could die during certain Time Rift sequences.
• Fixed a bug where projectiles were destroyed on impact with several enemy types even if they were supposed to pierce. (This affected 17 different enemy types, mostly from Chapter 2)
• Fixed a bug where the Ravenous Void unique drop from Husk of Gaspar could not be obtained.
• Fixed a bug where Ravenous Void could not drop from random monsters.
• Fixed a bug where Leviathan Carver could not drop.
• Fixed Sacrifical Embrace consuming Abyssal Rite stacks on procced abilities.
• Fixed a bug where the Charged Hand node on the Smite Tree had no effect.
• Fixed Warpaths Cyclone of War granting less leech than intended.
• Fixed many Shade of Orobyss abilities not having reduced damage against minions.
• Fixed a bug where Stone Tablets (intended as a unique only base type for Stormcarved Testament) could drop as normal, magic, or rare items.
• Fixed a bug where the zone level display at the top right of the screen would not correctly update upon entering a monolith or arena zone unless you toggled the tab map.
• Fixed Fire Auras visuals being below the ground.
• Fixed the Cleanse Ailments on Potion Use affix not having an affix title. It is now "Cleansing".
• Fixed a bug where the Cleansing potion affix was displayed in the Attributes tab of the loot filter (without a name).

Known Issues

• The The Scalebane quest cannot be turned in to Zerrick until the Arjani, The Ruby Commander quest has been completed.
  • We have been working on a fix for this but it was not completed in time for this hotfix.