12-25-2013, 04:24 PM
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanakuh, Happy New Year, and all that stuff!
Even with the holiday season in full tilt, GGG didn't take a break from dropping patches. Patch 1.04 dropped this week, sorry it's taken me a few days to make a post up.
This patch, brought us:
DUELING
That's right folks, you can now duel single player, and groups.
FLAMEBLAST
A new, channeled AoE Fire Skill. Channel it to build it up, and then after a short time, or another spell is cast, it explodes. Seems like it is an interesting skill that could use some testing.
FIVE NEW UNIQUES
4 of which are known, the other seems to be associated with the new fishing pole that drops.
Fencoil - a new trap staff, that also seriously buffs your damage, life, and mana.
Wheel of the Rotten Stormsail - It's a very interesting IIR Low Level shield, that also buffs curse duration, both by, and on, you.
Bino's Kitchen Knife. Tailor made for the Poison Daggers passives, and Criticial Strikes.
Veil of the Night. I uh... Well... I'm sure there is a use for it. I'm just not sure what that use may be yet. Increased block and stun recovery, reduced light radius , lightning thorns, increased global defenses, but your resists are set to ZERO.
NEW COSMETIC TRANSACTIONS
A new totem skin
Tribal Storm Call
and the Bloody Holiday Present Sack
New Achievements
Full Clear Catacombs - I'm assuming these are coming for all the random zones.
And Specialist - Allocate a fourth keystone on a character.
Minor Updates
You can now see your uncapped resists in parenthesis. This, is my personal favorite "incremental" improvement.
Heavy Strike now looks different when you are using a 2h'd sword with a marauder
Scions have new block animations
And awesome new RMT protection for general and trade chat
Most of the "added X Damage" gems have been buffed.
Fire gems have been buffed.
A couple of map boss changes
A couple of new gems added to descent leagues.
and a few bug fixes.
All in all, another high quality patch for the game. I'm pleased.
Even with the holiday season in full tilt, GGG didn't take a break from dropping patches. Patch 1.04 dropped this week, sorry it's taken me a few days to make a post up.
This patch, brought us:
DUELING
That's right folks, you can now duel single player, and groups.
FLAMEBLAST
A new, channeled AoE Fire Skill. Channel it to build it up, and then after a short time, or another spell is cast, it explodes. Seems like it is an interesting skill that could use some testing.
FIVE NEW UNIQUES
4 of which are known, the other seems to be associated with the new fishing pole that drops.
Fencoil - a new trap staff, that also seriously buffs your damage, life, and mana.
Wheel of the Rotten Stormsail - It's a very interesting IIR Low Level shield, that also buffs curse duration, both by, and on, you.
Bino's Kitchen Knife. Tailor made for the Poison Daggers passives, and Criticial Strikes.
Veil of the Night. I uh... Well... I'm sure there is a use for it. I'm just not sure what that use may be yet. Increased block and stun recovery, reduced light radius , lightning thorns, increased global defenses, but your resists are set to ZERO.
NEW COSMETIC TRANSACTIONS
A new totem skin
Tribal Storm Call
and the Bloody Holiday Present Sack
New Achievements
Full Clear Catacombs - I'm assuming these are coming for all the random zones.
And Specialist - Allocate a fourth keystone on a character.
Minor Updates
You can now see your uncapped resists in parenthesis. This, is my personal favorite "incremental" improvement.
Heavy Strike now looks different when you are using a 2h'd sword with a marauder
Scions have new block animations
And awesome new RMT protection for general and trade chat
Most of the "added X Damage" gems have been buffed.
Fire gems have been buffed.
A couple of map boss changes
A couple of new gems added to descent leagues.
and a few bug fixes.
All in all, another high quality patch for the game. I'm pleased.
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