Patch Notes: Version: NW.131.20210906a.10

Highlights

With this patch, “Soon” has arrived, and Demogorgon is once again available in a new, more challenging state. Check out the Dev Blog: Demogorgon Rework for more details and rewards.

Release Notes

Content and Environment

General

• Gathering Seeds! For Goodness!: This quest now spawns a portal next to the Tree of Elemental Balance instead of requiring the player to access the travel map.
• The event calendar has been updated through the end of the year.

Enemies and Encounters

General

• Cragmire Crypts: Traven Blackdagger can no longer aggro onto players outside his arena
• Talgath the Undying
  • Adjusted the damage on Chains of Undeath to be percentage based, resulting in the damage increasing significantly.
• Death Sphere
  • Reduced hp of zombies.
  • The Death Sphere will now properly damage and repel players that enter into its designated area.
• Darkness Area
  • Significantly reduced the damage on Annihilation Spheres.
• Orcus
  • Fixed an issue that was causing Orcus to have significantly less health than intended.
  • Fixed an issue that was causing the Death Sphere to be visually active at all times.
  • The death sphere will now properly damage and repel players that enter into its designated area.
  • Fixed an issue that was preventing the Death Sphere from displaying its damage area.
  • Players should now correctly respawn at the campfire outside the fight arena to Orcus in Castle Never.
  • Significantly increased the health of Zombies during the Death Sphere phase.
  • Adjusted the damage on Chains of Undeath to be percentage based, resulting in the damage increasing significantly.
  • Significantly reduced the damage on Annihilation Orbs summoned by Orcus.

Items and Economy

Bard Items

• The Twisted Makhaira for Bards from the Replica Twisted Weapons pack is now known as the "Twisted Rapier".
• The Twisted Rapier is now equippable by Bards.

Character Art

General

• Rank 2 versions of Blessed Armors from Redeemed Citadel content now properly display on male characters.

Performance and Stability

Performance and Visual Quality

• More improvements have been made to how objects are loaded in. There should be very few cases of objects appearing textureless even briefly, now.

Stability

• A moderately frequent PC-only client crash has been addressed.