Double Archboss event, new Tower of Greed season, weapon balance changes, and various gameplay adjustments.

Events

Double Archboss Spawns (new)

  • During each Archboss event, 4x Archbosses will spawn instead of 2x
  • 1x Archboss will be a Guild event and the other 3 will be Portal events

Balance Changes

Healing Reduction Effects (changed)

  • Healing Reduction effects from Knife Throwing, Guillotine Blade, and Infernal Meteor/Hellfire Rain are no longer affected by Weakness Resistance

Shield Block Bypass (changed)

  • Fatal Stigma, Icebound Tomb, Touch of Despair, Curse Explosion, Slothful Cage, Frost Cleaving, Valiant Brawl with Cruel Smite, Guillotine Blade with AoE Damage, Death From Above, and Supernova Collapse now bypass Shield Block Chance

Sword and Shield

Counter Barrier / Concentrated Barrier (changed)

  • Increased the skill cooldown from 21 seconds to 45 seconds
  • Increased the effect duration from 6 seconds to 8 seconds

Morale Boost (nerfed)

  • Effect is no longer granted upon using Survival and Tactics Skills

Resilient Mind (nerfed)

  • Reduced Mana gained from blocked damage while in PvP from 36% to 7.2%

Spear

Javelin Surge / Javelin Inferno (changed)

  • Changed the skill type from Tactics to Attack

Orb

Distortion Veil (nerfed)

  • Decreased Movement Speed from the respective Specialization from 30% to 15%

Temporal Leap (changed)

  • Adjusted the skill description to state that only Attack and Control skills have their Cooldowns reduced, not all skills
  • Changed the skill type from Mobility to Survival

Tevent’s Omniscient Eye / Tevent’s Cinderdust Eye (changed)

  • Added cap of 60% increased Debuff Duration when a target is affected by both Tevent’s Corruption and Enraged Tevent’s Corruption

Daggers

Vampiric Strike (buffed)

  • Increased damage dealt by the Shield Health Decreased Specialization from 320% to 540%

Crossbows

Weak Point Shot (buffed)

  • Increased damage dealt by the Weaken Shield Specialization from 500% to 700%

Longbow

Purifying Touch (changed)

  • Healing Reduction effects are now included in the list of effects that can be cleansed with a priority less than Weaken effects

Battlegrounds

Map Changes (new)

  • Added secondary exit paths near both spawn zones
  • Added new structures throughout the map
  • A lever-controlled gate has been added in front of the Waterway Holdstones in front of both spawn areas

Battlefield Defense (changed)

  • The Battlefield Defense buff now lasts for 7 seconds upon existing the spawn area but is removed upon attacking any target

Control Stones (changed)

  • Capturing Control Stones now reduces Evasion in addition to CC Resistances

Tower of Greed

Season Reset (new)

  • Tower of Greed progress and reward claim status has been reset

Relic Analysis Crystals (changed)

  • Relic Analysis Crystals have been removed as a reward from the Tower of Greed
  • T3 Armor/Accessory Equipment Selection Chests and Weapon Mastery XP will now be granted in place of the Relic Analysis Crystals
  • Relic Analysis Crystals can now be obtained from Combat Coin Merchant, Nebula Stone Merchant, and Dimensional Trials

General

Amitoi Expedition (changed)

  • Boss Raid availability has been extended from 1 hour to 10 hours

Raids (changed)

  • Resurrection Blessing Pouch available from the Raid Exchange Merchant has changed from a Random Chest to a Selection Chest

Housing (changed)

  • Slightly altered the shape of various curtains to ensure they don’t intersect with walls when placed
  • The Craft Furniture menu has been renamed to Workshop

Abyss Dungeons (changed)

  • The Syleus’s Abyss 1F Dungeon Waypoint has been moved outside of the entrance

Bug Fixes

Greatsword

  • Fixed an issue causing the effect to not be granted when hit by the Longbow’s Flash Arrow

Guilds

  • Fixed an issue causing Wave of Corruption to affect targets further than 7m away
  • Fixed an issue preventing some items from being distributed

Tower of Greed

  • Fixed an issue rarely causing players to get stuck while in rising water within the Tower of Greed

Abyss Dungeons

  • Fixed an issue causing players to enter their Swim Morph in certain areas of Temple of Sylaveth 2F despite no water being present

Equipment

  • Fixed an issue where Max Health and Max Mana bonuses from Heroic Equipment were being removed from the player’s current Health and Mana when entering a dungeon

Controller

  • Fixed an issue causing the button selection outline to display incorrectly in the Mirror Boutique

Source: Steam News