Tangledeep 1.53a

The Lunar New Year event has ended. However, you can now change active special events at the wardrobe for a fee!

BUGS
Fixed bug where if a new monster was created from two parents, the new monster could potentially be deleted or overwritten due to not being assigned a unique ID
Fixed bug where going to New Game+ with a pet could cause some data issues with the pet
When abandoning or failing a quest involving appeasing a food-loving monster, that monster’s quest status should now be correctly removed
(Hopefully) Fixed the constrict/paralyze VFX getting stuck sometimes
Fixed bug where Doublebite Axe, or items with its special affix, could be “stuck” on one elemental bonus in some situations (i.e. dual wielding with the same mod), or could grant both bonuses simultaneously
Knocking out a monster in the 2nd Job Trial now counts as removing it from the map for purposes of beating the trial
Fixed bug where seasonal drops were not working at all


CONTENT/GAMEPLAY
Prep work for the Lunar New Year patch and event!


QUALITY OF LIFE
Added a new prompt if you try to switch gear, when doing so would cause you to fail a rumor.

BUGS
Fixed Steam mod download / workshop modals; they are interactable again
Ultrawide: hidden jobs now properly hidden
Fixed bug where starting New Game+ or Savage World could delete your active pet

BUGS
Fixed bug where after returning to title screen from gameplay, you could not create a new character
Fixed bug where progress was not correctly saved on a heroic or hardcore defeat, leading potentially to pets or items being lost
Fixed bug where monster letters would appear in Shara mode
Attempted bug fix for rare issue where items were not properly upgraded after completing a dream, even with full gold entered

Hello adventurers! Today's patch makes pet ownership in the world of Tangledeep easier and more fun by allowing pets to self-heal outside of combat, gain XP more easily, and inherit more abilities (among other things.) There's also a smattering of bug fixes to keep the game smooth and stable. Enjoy!

BALANCE
BIG CHANGE! Corral pets now passively regenerate health at a rate of 2.5% per turn, if they have not taken damage in 10 turns. This means that your pet can now heal to full relatively quickly between fights, hopefully making many more pet types viable, even if they don’t have self-heal abilities. Also, naturally, they will heal to 100% when in town or campfire areas.
Monster pets now gain 100% of the XP you get, instead of 50%.
When ‘something special’ happens between two pets, the newly-created monster is now *guaranteed* to get at least as many abilities as the least-skilled parent (previously, the guarantee was only 1 power)
The “Opulent” affix should no longer spend gold multiple times per turn, even if you manage to perform multiple attacks in a single turn


SWITCH BUGS
Fixed bug where Adventure mode saves were erased if you quit on the ‘character lost’ screen, or otherwise exited the app before the game saved again


BUGS
Fixed bug where corral pets could potentially need too much XP to level up
Fixed bug where two-handed weapons (aside from swords) were not spawning enough, or maybe at all…?
Effects that increased or decreased healing should no longer apply to MAX HP boosts, such as putting on gear that increases max HP
(Dawn of Dragons) Attempted fix for rare issue where some Dragon areas would not have stairs leading back to the previous zone
(Legend of Shara) Fixed various bugs with Doublebite Axe if its effect was present on a Relic
(Legend of Shara) Fixed bug where “Precision Finish” would give you permanent double gold, sometimes

BALANCE

• “Divine Protection” shield mod now has 33% chance to negate a crit (up from the *actual* previous value of 25%, but down from the previous *displayed* value of 50%)
• “Absorbing” shield mod now has 75% chance to negate a crit
• Doubled the chance that merchants in Wanderer’s Journeys will stock (one or more) Relics
• Gambler’s “Hot Streak” now costs 10 Stamina (down from 20)
• Floramancer’s “Photosynthesis” now costs 12 Stamina (down from 24)
• Soulkeeper’s “Parting Gifts” now costs 12 Stamina (down from 20)
• Floramancer’s “Thornsplosion” now deals 230% Spirit Power in damage (up from 190%)
• Brigand’s Fire Bomb now deals 175% Weapon Power as damage (down from 200%)
• Edge Thane’s “Verse of Suppression” now costs 12 Stamina (down from 15), and has a 25% chance to inflict debuffs to enemies within 3 tiles (up from 20%/2) each turn
• Skill Orb version of “Verse of Suppression” now costs 10 Stamina (down from 15) and now reduces aggro chance by 85% (up from 65%) per step
• Hunter’s “Eagle Eye” now costs 16 Energy (down from 24) and has a 16 turn cooldown (down from 20)
• HuSyn’s “Gravity Surge” now costs 16 Stamina (down from 20)
• (Legend of Shara) “Relic Hunter” passive now grants +2.5% to damage/resists per Relic gear equipped, down from +4%
• (Legend of Shara) “Polish and Shine” now costs 10 Stamina (down from 20) and has a 4 turn cooldown (down from 5)
• (Legend of Shara) “Chakra Shift” now costs 12 Energy (down from 20) and has an 8 turn cooldown (down from 10)
• (Legend of Shara) Calligrapher’s “Combat Biography” now costs 12 Energy (down from 20)

BUGS

• Using the character name “Shara” no longer creates a bad game state
• Fixed rare issue where the entrance to Riverstone Waterway could get misplaced
• Fixed terrain + powerup tutorials appearing at inopportune times
• The “Divine Protection” shield mod that granted 50% chance to negate crits was displaying the wrong value; should have been 25%; but also it has been rebalanced slightly (see above)
• Fixed broken text for some Dragon Soul abilities
• Fixed janky looking sprite on the Adventure tab of your character sheet, if you had a big pet
• Added many extra safeguards to prevent issues where an Adventure-mode character could permanently die
• (Dawn of Dragons) Fixed issues with creating an Echo of a dragon, i.e. the Echo of a Bandit Dragon could steal your food

CONTENT/GAMEPLAY

• (Dawn of Dragons) New Frogcrafting recipe: Any two relics = one relic of similar power. The target power will be the average rank of the two input relics. There is a 50% chance that the new relic may rise slightly in rank, up to a cap of rank 10. To exceed rank 10, the input relics must be 10 or higher.

BALANCE
Tornado / Hurricane champions should no longer spawn tornados near you if they cannot see you.
The price of Rose Petals is now 400g / sells for 200g (up from 100/50).
(Legend of Shara) Increased Orb of Reverie drop chance in Wanderer’s Journeys
(Dawn of Dragons) The Phasma Cannons in the final dragon fight no longer act as often, and summons should appear less frequently
(Dawn of Dragons) Whip base damage is higher now.

BUGS
Damage text missing from certain abilities like Photon Cannon should now appear again
Fixed serious bug when going from a regular save to a DLC-enabled save
(Dawn of Dragons) “Banishing” champions should no longer hit Vinelings for 50% of their health (oops)
(Dawn of Dragons) Fixed issue where mighty vines could disappear forever, making the Ancient Jungle unable to be completed
(Dawn of Dragons) Fixed Echo Dragon’s name, and incorrect coloring for Corporeal vs Ethereal forms.
(Dawn of Dragons) Fixed visual issues with the final dragon
(Dawn of Dragons) Whip damage should now properly scale with Strength and Swiftness as intended

LOCALIZATION
“Legend of Shara” is now localized into Simplified Chinese
Various German and Japanese translation updates

ENGINE
Various performance improvements and optimizations

QUALITY OF LIFE
There should be less log spam when monsters use abilities out of your line of sight.

BALANCE
The “Steadfast” shield magic mod now reduces basic attack damage from the shield’s direction by 50% (up from 33%), while damage from other angles is only increased by 10% (down from 15%).
The “Arrow-Dampening” armor magic mod now decreases ranged attack damage taken by 30% (up from 25%)
The “Phalanx” armor magic mod now decreases melee damage taken by 20% (up from 15%), while the extra damage from ranged attacks is now 5% (down from 15%)
Weapon and quiver mods that deal extra damage to certain monster families (Frog Slaying, Bandit Slaying, etc) now all deal +30% (up from +20%), with the exception of Rust-Biting, as it has an upgraded version (Chrome-Shredding)
The “Emergency” shield magic mod now reduces damage from basic attacks by 50% while under 33% health (up from 25%)
The “Toxicity” magic mod now has a 6% chance to drop acid pools, up from 5%, per step
The ice shot ability used by “Icedaggers” champions now deals less damage (110% of normal dmg, down from 135%) and has a slightly longer cooldown.
Adjusted how Resist-Piercing champions work. Rather than constantly piercing 50% of all resistances, they now add a stacking debuff when they damage their target, which lowers its resists by 10%. This can stack 4 times.
Buffed the stats of the following monsters: Mottled Sandjaw, Heated Sandjaw, Electric Jelly, Cave Lion, Guardian Corsair
Decreased the cooldown (20 -> 16t) and increased the damage (25% -> 35% attack dmg) of the toxic cloud used by Toxic champions
Increased the cooldown of Conjurer / Frogmaster summons from 13 to 16 turns
Unstable Magic (Spellshaper ability) now costs 5 Energy (down from 15) and has a cooldown of 6 turns (down from 8)
In Savage World, monster resistance to status effects now halves the duration *rounded up* instead of down.
(Legend of Shara/Dawn of Dragons) The monster ability Black Hole now lasts 5 turns, down from 7
(Legend of Shara/Dawn of Dragons) The monster ability Energy Shield now has a 16 turn cooldown (up from 14)
(Legend of Shara) In Tower of Ordeals, chance to find shopkeepers per floor is now 25% (up from 20%)
(Legend of Shara) In Wanderer’s Journeys, champion monsters now give +15% rewards per champion mod, which should make them feel more worthwhile to fight
(Legend of Shara) Adjusted difficulty curve of Tower of Ordeals. The first 20 floors now become harder more quickly (more monster power/level gained per floor), however the following 30 floors grow harder more slowly, particularly the final 20 floors. The overall end point of the dungeon is the same. This should make for a more even playthrough.
(Legend of Shara) In all Wanderer’s Journeys, there are now guaranteed Scroll of Job Change scroll spawns every 10 floors (e.g. floor 10, 20, 30…) in chests, somewhere. Gotta explore to find them!
(Dawn of Dragons) During the Ancient Jungle dungeon monster waves, monsters will no longer *only* focus on the vines. Instead, they add Vine aggro every turn, which can potentially be overridden by other sources of aggro.
(Dawn of Dragons) Ancient Jungle now has at least 2 more friendly monster crystals/eggs per map

BUGS
Fixed bug where monsters with the “Hundred Fists” abilities were dealing about twice as much damage as intended.
Fixed bug where abilities could sometimes lose their Energy or Stamina cost if a monster had the same ability
Fixed bug where Brigand’s Silver Job Emblem affecting Smoke Cloud was not affecting cooldown
Poison Evocation and Unstable Magic should now be properly processed by Spellshaping mods (including costs)
The searchbar now correctly filters by favorited items if you use “favorite” as a search term.
Monsters Letters should correctly stack more often now (they will not stack unless all the underlying info is the same, though - who caught the monster, who released it, and the skill transferred)
Sword Dancer’s gold emblem that allows you to parry skills (with 1/3 of normal chance) no longer reduces your *regular* chance to parry to 1/3 normal. Oops!
Fixed bug with Gambler’s Skill Orb version of Double Down inconsistently triggering its effects. Also, fixed Double Down not always hitting all targets
Fixed bug where toggling monster health bars via keyboard binding (“M” by default) would briefly flash them on the screen, even in fog of war
Fixed bug where monsters with the “Monster Pull / Haul” ability (e.g. Puller/Hauler champs) could use this ability on *themselves* to do instant damage. This was not intended. It should only be usable on other allied monsters.
Fixed bug that could bork pet duels. Also, added more safeguards to ensure that helpless corral pets wandering outside their pen won’t get caught in the crossfire and injured.
Fixed visual bug when Sword Dancers parry and create Flame Serpents from their Advanced innate job trait
If you try to equip an item in the dungeon, and you cannot equip it for whatever reason, you should no longer lose a turn
(Dawn of Dragons) The Frog Dragon Break ability now pans the camera while using it
(Dawn of Dragons) The final dragon dungeon event will now trigger as long as you’ve *ever* cleared the final boss on the current save slot (meta progress)
(Dawn of Dragons) Fixed Orb of Reverie + Scroll of Job Change recipe working incorrectly
(Dawn of Dragons) The “Arcane” Quiver mod now triggers 25% of the time as intended (instead of 100%...)
(Dawn of Dragons) Fixed Spectral Crab / Enemy Jelly Trooper not showing up in the Monsterpedia (note: you will have to defeat more of them starting with this patch for them to show up)
(Legend of Shara) Fixed various bugs with Glide resetting (or not resetting) its cooldown when it was not supposed to.
(Legend of Shara) Fixed bugs where, in dream versions of certain maps, you could unintentionally trigger certain events


ENGINE
Further save file size optimizations, trimmed out some garbage data

QUALITY OF LIFE
(Legend of Shara) In longer Wanderer’s Journeys, the special music tracks now play for more floors in the middle and towards the end
(Legend of Shara) Mini Dreamcasters now have a “Swap Places” option

WRITING
Minor writing adjustments in the final battle dialogue

BALANCE
During Gold job trials, you can now use 6 consumables (up from 5)

BUGS
Fixed rare save corruption bug that made the game unloadable
Fixed bug where your corral pet would become ‘disconnected’ from the corral, and you would be unable to return it (among other potential issues)
Fixed soft lock if you leveled up while returning to town at the same time of the Riverstone Grove frog callout
Bosses that can potentially spawn illusions for any reason should no longer cause script/cutscene glitches when you destroy the illusions
Friendly bombs, like the kind generated by Brigand’s advanced job trait, should now always have a green aura (indicating they will not harm you)
The minimap size will now dynamically adjust if it’s open while changing zones
Fixed bug where Medium Armor Mastery was not giving you enough Dodge (8% of Swiftness, instead of 12.5%)
(Legend of Shara) Fixed soft lock related to bringing some gear in or out of the dungeon
(Legend of Shara) Items upgraded in Mini Dreamcasters should now have correct names
(Legend of Shara) Fixed bug where some items found in Journeys could disappear when brought into Hall of Champions
(Dawn of Dragons) When using a hand wrap in your main hand, random offhands should now stop being auto-equipped
(Dawn of Dragons) A friendly Bandit Wrangler should no longer summon hostile monsters
(Dawn of Dragons) Fixed Spirit Sanctuary stair routing issues that made it impossible to get back to your Item Dream once you explored deeper in. Also fixed bug where an Item Dream portal would not appear if you were knocked out there for any reason.
(Dawn of Dragons) Fixed bugs with various crafting recipes sometimes not using all required input items.

MOD SUPPORT
Fixed potential issues in mod loading and icons on some systems

ENGINE
Various optimizations during gameplay

QUALITY OF LIFE
Pet monsters should no longer use self-buffing abilities if outside of combat.
The game now shows what DLC you have installed on the title screen
Bringing a tamed (not knocked out) bandit to the Beastlake Park quest no longer removes it

WRITING
Block, parry, and dodge descriptions on the Character screen now indicate that not all special attacks can be avoided, and that chance to dodge special attacks is halved.

BALANCE
Reduced the gold cost to use non-Lucid / non-Skill orbs by 33%
Reduced the efficacy of monster healing in NG+ and Savage World by 16/32% (this helps the player!)
(Dawn of Dragons) In NG+ and Savage World, the Vinelings in the Ancient Jungle gain increased health and substantially more defense to make up for the increased monster power.

BUGS
Fixed certain inconsistencies with attack calculations when dual-wielding weapons. For example, Sharktooth Axe in offhand was not getting an accuracy penalty, and the third Whip Mastery was triggering off both hands
(Legend of Shara) Fix to Relic loading from meta progress, which was causing serious errors w/ Hand Wraps & Whips
(Dawn of Dragons) Fixed the “1 Gem + 1 Lucid Orb = Random Lucid Orb” frogcrafting recipe, as well as “2 Gems + Accessory = Random Accessory”
(Dawn of Dragons) Offhand attacks with Hand Wraps should work again.

LOCALIZATION
(Legend of Shara) Spanish support added.

QUALITY OF LIFE
You can now search for “gem” in the searchbar of various inventory UIs to filter all your gems.

Update v1.30g:
BUGS
Fixed some game load bugs caused by last patch, sorry
(Dawn of Dragons) Verminespers should no longer be able to charm the vines in the Tyrant Dragon dungeon
(Dawn of Dragons) You should no longer see the portal reveal animation to the Spirit Sanctuary if you’ve cleared it
(Dawn of Dragons) Fixed bug in the 3rd floor of Bandit Waterworks where every switch would unlock the final gate.

ART/VISUALS
(Dawn of Dragons) Whip masteries now have unique skill icons

BALANCE
Flame Cocktail (and all higher level versions) now have an additional square of range
Guardian Lurkers now have a 5 turn cooldown on their laser ability (up from 4)
For rumors that have a limited step count, you no longer lose steps while in Item Dreams or Wanderer’s Journeys
Champions generated by the “Notorious” feat now give 15% more rewards, and have a 33% chance of dropping a useful item (such as rose petals, Orb of Reverie, a healing potion, butler bell)
(Dawn of Dragons) The “Bubble” mod now grants a shield equal to Lvl x 30, down from Lvl x 50.

BUGS
Fixed game error with Ramirel’s Dismantler if an attack was reflected back to you
Fixed mapping bugs with Xbox One controllers
Effects that reduce healing should now work correctly on monsters
Quivers should no longer grant CT when using a staff or other non-bow weapon
The Food Cart should no longer ever use Butler’s Bells as a demanded item
When completing the Beastlake Park bandit pet quest, the pet should now be permanently removed from you as intended. (Remember, you can also simply hand in a knocked out bandit. It doesn’t have to be a tamed pet.)
Porting out of a job trial on the 2nd floor no longer leaves an open portal back into the trial area!
(Legend of Shara) While in Hall of Champions or Temple of the Elements, you should no longer keep *equipped gear* found in the dungeon
(Legend of Shara) Fixed very strange bug with relic names sometimes being saved/loaded wrong.
(Dawn of Dragons) Fixed bug with “the Wolf” mod’s defense being way too high, and also sometimes triggering (or not triggering) incorrectly after dismissing summons
(Dawn of Dragons) Fixed bug where some monsters in dragon dungeons were set to 0% xp/gold/jp rewards
(Dawn of Dragons) The “explosions” mod should no longer work on regular abilities, only items
(Dawn of Dragons) The second Whip mastery should no longer trigger with non-Whip weapon types
(Legend of Shara/Dawn of Dragons) Removed some monster sprites that were not supposed to show up in Journeys
(Legend of Shara/Dawn of Dragons) Fixed issue where Shara could encounter game errors with Dawn of Dragons installed, in some areas (like Frog Bog)

CONTENT/GAMEPLAY
(Legend of Shara/Dawn of Dragons) If you own both expansions, you will now be able to find relic Whips and handwraps

ENGINE
Various small optimizations

QUALITY OF LIFE
Reorganized the Fast Travel/waypoint dialogue to show floors in a consistent order
(Dawn of Dragons) Langdon now has a dialog option reminding you where to go to continue the dragon questline.

ART/VISUALS
Limited the max # of pets displayable in the “Pet Party” hud element, so they don’t take up the entire screen

BALANCE
Paladin’s “Advanced” innate bonus (blocking empowers next damaging skill) now applies to Shield Slam too
Spears now have a new inherent effect: basic attacks pierce 25% of target’s resistance (depending on the Spear’s damage type)
The second Spear weapon mastery now has an additional effect: Spears will strike two targets at once in a line (so if you attack at range 2, it hits the one in between, if you attack in melee, it hits the target behind)
An Axe in your offhand will now correctly execute the 360 degree attack that all Axes have
Adding Skill Orbs to Legendary and Relic items now takes 2x the JP
(Legend of Shara) Default max # of mods on relics is now 3 instead of 4. Higher rank relics can reach up to 5, rather than 6, unless you’re in the Tower of Ordeals!
(Legend of Shara) The final boss of Tower of Ordeals now drops two relics!

BUGS
Monsters should no longer exceed the “Happiness” threshold after breeding
Fixed bugs related to job & feat unlocks using wrong data from other save slots instead of the selected slot
Fixed incorrect text output when Cat’ie bonks a pet on the head
Fixed some ground effects not being flagged correctly as reducing defense
Fixed various status effects added by gear not reading the correct originating actor as the Hero on load. This made some statuses like “increased block chance with even gold amount” not work correctly.
Fixed mod viewer not maintaining scroll position past the first page of mods.
When dueling your pet, your pet should no longer harass your other corral pets
Fixed bug with Sword Dancer’s tier 2 emblem effect that was supposed to auto-attack enemies when pulled or pushed by them.
Fixed bug where trying to put a Skill Orb on an item via Dreamcaster would sometimes display a success rate of 0% regardless of JP added
(Legend of Shara) Relic quivers should no longer use a shield icon
(Legend of Shara) Ranged relic weapons should no longer spawn with Parry mods
(Legend of Shara) Relics shields should now properly have physical damage reduction
(Legend of Shara) The “Eat Weapon” ability of Mimics should no longer be inheritable
(Legend of Shara) You should no longer be warned about failing a rumor while in a Mystery Dungeon.
(Legend of Shara) You should no longer find Orbs of Reverie in Wanderer’s Journeys where you can’t use them or carry them out
(Legend of Shara) Attempted fix for bug where relics would sometimes be capable of getting more magic mods via Dreamcaster than originally intended.
(Legend of Shara) Fixed bug where Mystery Kings would sometimes not drop relics. Sorry!

ENGINE
Switched to a new typewriter text function, should be much more CPU-efficient now

QUALITY OF LIFE
Monsters will now drop all items they are carrying if hit with a Monster Mallet. This should prevent situations like your weapon being eaten by a Mimic, never to be retrieved again.
You should no longer receive a popup about entering Savage World once you have already seen it at least once.

WRITING
(Legend of Shara) The “Armillary Mirrors” effect no longer says “Armillary Mirrors” in the log if you are using a relic with that effect

Update v1.27:
BALANCE
The benefits of the second Dagger Mastery have been reduced from +10% dual wielding accuracy/damage to +7.5% (per hand).
Using a Lightweight weapon or a Claw in your offhand is now a little worse than before, by about 5%. However, if your offhand weapon is both Lightweight AND Claw, it’s still as effective as before.
(Legend of Shara) Slightly bumped up the average monster level in Temple of Elements, along with respawn rate. Also, shops now appear a little less frequently (25% chance per floor, down from 33%)
(Legend of Shara) The base weapon power of all Relics has been reduced by 15%, prior to any other modifiers, multipliers, flat enhancements etc. Since Relics are already pretty strong, this seems reasonable.
(Legend of Shara) Default armor, shield, quiver, and magic mod values have also been reduced slightly for Relics.
(Legend of Shara) The “Precise Finish” skill now grants +35% JP, gold, and XP (up from +20%) when landing a finishing blow with the skill

BUGS
You should no longer riposte while under the effects of Paladin’s Sanctuary
“Heavy” magic mod should now correctly show the CT penalty when hovering over the item
Fairy’s Choker (20% chance to reduce random cooldown by 1 turn when attacked) should work again
Fixed issue with certain directional-based status effects causing game errors occasionally
Savage World / New Game+ selection should work reliably now on main branch (was only working properly on beta, most of the time)
Gambler’s “Wild Cards” ability should now properly test Aces valued as both “1” and max value for the purposes of Straights etc.
Bred monsters should now have the correct Family in all cases
Visual fix for bug w/ ending scenes/credits where gameplay leaked through
Attempted fix for bug where portals were not always created when leaving an Item Dream
Fixed bug with Talrose the Painter sometimes telling you to go to the wrong place
When interacting with the food cart, you should no longer see “Sale Value: 0g”
Fixed some garbage text in the log related to the food cart
(Legend of Shara) Fixed game error that occurred with the “Shard” relic affix (negate magical damage, gain spirit buff)
(Legend of Shara) Attempted fix for Obsidian Band affix on relics that was causing problems when stacked (it should not stack)
(Legend of Shara) Attempted fix for rare bug related to Shara’s Dominate power
(Legend of Shara) Fixed bug where Relics could be permanently lost if eaten by a Mimic, then saving+quitting
(Legend of Shara) Fixed bug where items with the “Does not interfere with offhand fighting” mod were not working on Relics correctly

CONTENT/GAMEPLAY
You can now duel (roughhouse) with your corral pet, in Riverstone Grove. Just use the appropriate pet command. When dueling, you cannot actually defeat your pet (or vice versa). After the duel, you both will be cleared of all temporary negative statuses, and restored to pre-duel Health.

ENGINE
Considerable work on DLC2!

QUALITY OF LIFE
Up to 12 buffs/debuffs can now be displayed (up from 8/8)

ART/VISUALS:

Added a bit more fanfare when defeating a boss

BALANCE:

Dream rumors will now only start appearing  when you are at least level 5  *and*
have the Dreamcaster unlocked

Adjusted the costs of some job  abilities to help normalize the overall  cost of
mastering a job. Passives are now  generally a bit more expensive and  some jobs
that had slightly-too-cheap abilities overall are more in line with the average.

Champion monsters  now give  +10jp base  (scaled down/up  depending on  relative
level)

Elemental Kings now give +50jp base

Bosses now give +150jp base

BUGS:

Fixed text bug in elemental rumor descriptions

Fixed bug where mouse cursor was still affecting menus even when disabled

Fixed some odd  behavior with the  search bar in  the Dreamcaster interface  (it
should now  completely clear  when going  back and  forth between  item and  orb
select mode)

Fixed bug where menu UI could be opened during the pre-boss 3 cutscene

Fixed some visual ugliness when dialog boxes first open

Fixed  AI  bug with  certain  self-buffing monster  abilities  that could  cause
monsters to move around or pass turns instead of doing things
(Audio) Fixed loop point in the ‘escaped frog’ corral theme

The Herbalist quest should no longer reset on multiple NG+ playthroughs

In the Dreamcaster UI, difficulty estimates should be a bit more accurate  (some
dreams were being estimated as a  little too easy.) Also, the dreams  themselves
should now display the correct adjusted difficulty level.

Fixed bug where pets using movement abilities outside of combat (such as  Fungal
Toads’ hop) would reset their “in combat” timer

CONTENT/GAMEPLAY:

Experimental: When trying to use an ability that requires a certain weapon type,
you will automatically switch to that weapon if it is on your hotbar. Once the
ability executes, you will switch back at the end of the turn (once enemies have
acted.)

You can now issue a command to any pet telling them to not attack at all. This
behavior state can be un-toggled at any time from the same pet command menu.
Pets in this state will still move around and use support abilities, but will
not take any offensive actions.

QUALITY OF LIFE:

You should no longer  get elemental rumors targeted  at cleared side areas  with
monsters that only live in those side areas

Reorganized job skill lists  so that passives are  always at the bottom  (except
for Budoka’s Vital Point: Pain, which gets a discount)

When Phasing/Blinking mobs “Reactive Warp” ability triggers, popup and log  text
now appears indicating this

If you have Changed  Clothes in the wardrobe,  your sprite will now  change when
you switch jobs. Previously it didn’t, which meant you could change jobs and not
have any ability to switch to that new job’s sprite (since for Change Clothes to
be available for a job, you must first spend JP in it)

Pushing any direction (arrow keys, joystick) while dialog text is ‘typing’  will
now finish the text.

The Dreamcaster UI now displays ALL  available orbs, but marks unusable orbs  in
red.  Unusable  orbs were  previously  hidden from  view,  which was  confusing.
Hovering over the orb will show you *why* the orb is not compatible.

ART/VISUALS

• Darkened ability cooldown indicators

BALANCE

• Brigand’s Fan of Knives now deals 120% base damage (down from 175%), but deals +30% damage to bleeding enemies (up from +15%)
• Using Sanctuary (Paladin master ability) cancels your Escape Portal. This is now stated in the ability description.
• Max item upgrades via rarity has been limited to 5. In other words, once up to 5 modifiers have been added, the raw power should not continue increasing if you remove and add mods further.
• Increased the value multiplier of food sold on the Food Cart
• The Herbalist quest no longer resets more than once, even if you restart New Game+ again
• This also goes for the Armor mastery quest, and learning Ultimate weapon masteries

BUGS

• Fixed rare game load error
• Fixed dual wielding attack bug
• Fixed bug with Orb of Reverie drop rate
• More weird edge case LOS fixes
• Fixed bug with certain stacked status effects such as Echoes collected
• Fixed bug with Sword Dancer’s 1st emblem ability (empower attack after movement) - was triggering even when not moving
• Fixed game error that could occur when searching for items in shops
• Fixed bug with the side area ‘treasure chest’ icon showing as closed sometimes when it should have been open
• Fixed bug with Library encounter soft lock
• Yet more credits fixes (this time for 900p resolution)
• You can now fast travel FROM Bottles and Brews once you’ve cleared the monsters
• Fixed incorrect description for Brigand’s innate ability that causes bleed. No longer requires “sharp” weapons. You can cause bleed with any melee attack.
• You should now receive rewards for clearing Desert Oasis
• Fixed bug where pressing a menu button twice very quickly (like equipment -> equipment) would cause some UI issues
• Fixed some visual ugliness when moving north on top of stairs or Deadly Void
• Another fix to boss2 issue where attacks were possible during cutscene
• Fixed bug where Edge Thane’s innate passive triggering at <50% Health would sometimes disappear forever until switching from and back to the job
• Fixed Examine Mode / keyboard / controller targeting issue where cursor hover state would be ‘sticky’ on the last targeted object/actor
• Fixed bug with Dreamcaster’s search bar
• Fixed bug with healing item values not displaying
• The Berserk weapon mastery should no longer stun yourself
• Fixed bug where some rumors in side areas would not display the connecting floor
• Fixed bug where three Lucid Shards would sometimes combine into an Orb and leave you with an extra shard left over
• Another pass at ensuring Buried Loot always has a key - if not on the floor, than in a monster’s inventory
• Fixed bug where Righteous Charge could sometimes send you through walls.
• Fixed text issue that could occur in the Job Trial dialogues with Jorito
• Fixed bug where some statuses, in some circumstances, would be added with a duration of 5 turns which was either too high or too low
• Fixed bug that could sometimes cause issues with stat numbers (such as Health, strength, etc) for the player and monsters on saving/loading game, in certain non-US regions
• Fixed visual bug that could occur when dropping items from the same stack on the ground
• Fixed bug where pressing any menu button rapidly could cause the character portrait info to disappear forever
• Fixed bug where the Pandora’s Box reset option in New Game+ would not actually reset your count... oops
• Fixed cursor ‘flip’ happening on UIs other than the skill screen
• Fixed bug where pressing “Compare Alternate” would not change the display instantly on the Equipment screen
• Fixed some wonky AI behavior that occurred when a summoned or charmed creature under your control disappeared or died
• Added extra protections to ensure the Nightmare Queen cannot be damaged prior to the final fight of an Item Nightmare
• Finally fixed issue with glitchy terrain if summoned terrain was added to existing (water, mud, lava, etc)

CONTENT/GAMEPLAY

• New Optional Game Modifier: No Pandora Boxes

MOD SUPPORT

• You can now create new map objects, such as barrels, treasure chests, doors, ground-based fires, spikes, etc!
• Create new or replace existing sprite sheets for any map object
• Create new or replace existing sprite sheets for any in-game battle or status FX (sword slashes, explosions, hovering icons, ability effects, etc)
• If you disable a mod that affects the dungeon itself (such as the official Replicator 88 mod) and try to continue a save that used that mod, the game world will now regenerate from scratch while keeping your character and meta progress. Previously, the save would just not load.

ENGINE

• More engine optimizations for performance
• Data cleanup for faster loading and general optimization
• Game startup and load time optimizations related to data parsing
• Added preventative measures in cases of total data loss due to power outage/save corruption

QUALITY OF LIFE

• When using Paladin’s Sanctuary, you will no longer counter-attack (breaking the barrier)
• Boss 3 arena will now spawn two staircases leading back to both branches which lead to the arena
• Rumors for defeating monsters with a certain element should no longer occur for monsters immune to a given element (i.e. you won’t be asked to defeat an Ember Spirit with Fire)
• The combat log now has subtle line dividers separating messages by game turn
• When visiting the Corral and looking at all your monsters, their Health will now scale instantly to your health - previously, you had to take the pet out for it to scale
• The Dreamcaster UI now shows how many of each Orb you have
• Floramancer’s summoned vines (or those created by Aura of Growth) now show up as friendly @ on the minimap rather than destructible objects/boxes

WRITING

• Added flavor text for Rod of Wild Nature

LEADERBOARDSParticipants of Daily & Weekly Challenges can now compete on Steam Leaderboards to see who reached the highest floor in the challenge! (And if you’re thinking about cheating, we added a few security measures. Tsk tsk!)

You can view both global and friends-only leaderboards in-game from the "COMMUNITY" button on the main menu.

Based on your feedback we may add other types of leaderboards later!

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Moving on, here are all the notes from both 1.07 AND 1.08 combined (sorry for missing a week's post - I was at the Game Developers Conference last week!)

ART/VISUALS

• When you (the hero) are Rooted, the icon above your head now pulses more obviously to indicate that you cannot move.

BALANCE

• Deafening Dream Drums can now occasionally be found as drops in the world.
• Weapons could previously be upgraded infinitely in the Dreamcaster to gain more base power with each Item Dream completion by removing a magic mod and re-adding new mods. This is now capped at a total of 10 upgrades. A 5-mod item naturally uses 5 of these upgrades. You can do the removal and re-addition “trick” another 5 times ;)

BUGS

• You can no longer mark your own corral pet as hostile.
• Fixed keyboard/controller behavior where moving the targeting square above an enemy would not show that enemy’s info (while targeting an ability or firing a ranged weapon)
• Fixed ^number^ tags appearing when viewing some abilities, including on the character creation screen at first load
• Removed visible “\n” tags from certain areas (please let us know if you see more of these!)
• Fixed (again?) visual issue where Floracondas / Guardian Spheres could pull you beneath Deadly Void tiles in Item Dreams sometimes
• Tents should now be removed from the hotbar if you use your last one
• Fixed bug where Delayed Teleport was triggering its emblem-only effect all the time
• Jellies spawned by friendly jellies should now be your faction instead of neutral/hostile
• Heavy Golem’s forcefield no longer lasts forever
• Fixed display error when removing/extracting certain magic mods via Dreamcaster, such as Sheltering
• Fixed inconsistency with Job Trial callout
• Fixed bug with regen Stamina/Energy game modifier
• Removed jank from game credits when at 4k resolution
• Fixed log bug when withdrawing items from the bank
• Fixed bug where Spellshaper’s elemental resist boost from Auras was always in effect regardless of Emblem, and also the bug where Spellshaper’s tier 3 Emblem effect granting elemental resistance based on elemental damage taken was not triggering
• Fixed bugs related to abilities learned from items causing weird states on your hotbar
• Fixed bug where Edge Thane’s low-health effects were sometimes not triggering, stacking, or appearing in your Status list
• Snow Panthox Claw proc rate is now actually 50% as intended, instead of 100%
• Added yet more checks to ensure achievements and events in the special Item Dream occur properly
• Fixed game error that could occur with Butler’s Bell
• Fixed bug when upgrading to Tier 2 Gambler emblem
• Fixed bug where Soulkeeper’s “reflect” emblem effect was not working properly
• Fixed bug where Sword Dancer’s ‘pierce fire resistance’ emblem was not affecting enemies with Fire absorption, such as Ember Spirits.
• Fixed bug where saving and exiting the game in a Campfire area in an Item Dream would cause the game state to get messed up on load (Item Dream would be lost, along with your item)
• Fixed bug where Gambler’s tier 3 emblem Card Toss ability visually cleared your hand, despite only using one card
• Fixed bug with disappearing cursor in the key bindings page (which could cause the cursor to disappear until game restart)
• Your pets can no longer pickup the rewards from K. Dox

CONTENT/GAMEPLAY

• Pandora’s Boxes now ALSO grant slightly higher treasure find (about 0.75%) and gold find (about +1%) per box. Treasure find = chance of getting extra and/or magical items, Gold Find = multiplier on gold drops. Even more tempting, eh?!
• New mid-rank legendary Axe
  
  
• New game modifier: Abilities that normally affect one faction (player or monster) affect both. In other words, “Friendly Fire”!

ENGINE

• Optimizations to map creation time (it should be about 25% faster overall now)

QUALITY OF LIFE

• You can now fast travel to side areas while *in* a safe / cleared side area (from the Portal menu)
• The Skill screen now shows ability cooldowns in your ability list, marking these abilities in yellow instead
• Added a “BACK” button on the ‘Feed Monster’ UI which returns you to the monster list
• If you have an equipped Job Emblem, you can now ask Jorito to destroy it. Doing this will allow you to start that job’s trials again and select different bonuses, should you choose. Of course, you must also pay JP again.
  
  
• It is now possible to forcibly close an Item Dream by speaking to the Dreamcaster with a Dream open. Doing so will return the item you put in the Dream, but it will not be upgraded. You will lose any gold, JP, and orbs put into the Dream, and everything else in it (such as items on the ground) will be destroyed.
  
  
• The “Mark As Hostile” mouse action is now user-assignable in the keybinds section, and is now default set to *middle mouse click* instead of right click
  
  
• When manually selling items, if you attempt to sell a Favorited item you will now get a confirmation popup first.
  
  
• Active skill sort is now remembered on save/load
  
  
• Random pet names should no longer use names already used by any of your living pets

STEAM STUFF

• Four new achievements related to Daily & Weekly Challenges.

WRITING

• Fixed inconsistency with Pandora’s Box/Chest - it is now a BOX