0.9.9 Patch Notes

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Dester666 wrote:

still no act 3

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AlphaBeta wrote:

My only complaint is... why isn't Friday today? :P

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Chris wrote:

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darkjoy wrote:

So i guess, loot dropping from shattered mobs bug not fixed?

This is only true for Shield Crabs, right? As far as we know, all other monsters drop items when shattered.

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hexster wrote:

diminishing returns on magic find is stupid why even bother having mf at all if u cant stack it up for better returns you do know it gimps ur charater to have high mf very dumb idea to even work on ur mf now how will you know when ur mf starts diminishing might has well have none at all now

Increased item quantity and rarity mods are still both very effective. After this change, we can adjust the values of them so that having a few of them grants a reasonable impact.

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Dester666 wrote:

still no act 3

Yes, as we have said many times, that's coming with Open Beta.

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WAWAMELONS wrote:

The majority of the changes in the patch notes seem to be about monster AI. Then a section about totems / mines / traps. While this stuff is nice, many core aspects of the game are still lacking. They didn't even add the trade screen yet, which is an absolute joke. Also didn't address the "spam 1-2 skills over and over" aspect of the gameplay. How much do you wanna bet that these totems / mines / traps are going to be less effective than just holding right click on your 30k split arrow / ice spear / whatever skill?

Also didn't address SO many balance issues with skills. For example:

- Rain of Arrows is completely ignored. What a waste of the best looking skill effect in the game. This is one of, if not THE, worst skill in the game. Come on? Add a slight snare when the arrows hit or something.
- Tempest Shield still terrible
- Puncture still bad compared to other options
- Viper Strike still bad compared to other options
- Why was Discharge damage buffed? Seriously?
- Why was Hatred aura damage buffed?
- Explosive Arrow still bad compared to other options
- Glacial Hammer still underwhelming (needs some sort of AoE effect, this game is a massive AoE fest)
- No chaos damage passive nodes or anything to help boost Poison Arrow's damage a bit. Solo'ing PA is fine but if you tried using it in groups you'd see how useless it is.
- No buff to Spark. Lightning casters are still at the bottom of the barrel compared to Cold and Fire.
- No changes to the terribly grindy and RNG-ish fusing orb mechanic.
- No changes to the FFA loot system.

Thanks for the list of balance concerns. This will definitely be handy.

We generally do not make major micro-balance changes in these large patches. It's better to wait for feedback from players (after playing the large patch) and then tweak numbers in minor updates. Once you've played 0.9.9, we'd really appreciate a similar list of balance concerns. Feel free to PM it to me if you want to make sure I see it.

Don't expect a change to the Fusing orb stuff any time soon, we are pretty happy with how that's currently working. High variance item mechanics are a key design choice! It's pretty easy to get four linked sockets. It's not cripplingly hard to get five linked sockets. Six is overkill and designed to be very rare. I want there to be something for players to strive for in the long term.