Final 0.9.4 Patch Notes

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konfeta wrote:

Lulz. Unless it kills you every time you try to cast something. Given that you can kill yourself with the life absorbing mana flasks, I am actually certain that will be the case.

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Chris wrote:

The static mod that bows have is "is a bow". It's factored into their damage, like axes. Some bows are faster than others and some have larger/tighter damage ranges. The family itself doesn't have an implicit mod (other than doing good damage at a distance) because then that'd be forced on all bow users. They can choose. If we had different families of bows eventually, they could have their own characteristics.

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konfeta wrote:

Lulz. Unless it kills you every time you try to cast something. Given that you can kill yourself with the life absorbing mana flasks, I am actually certain that will be the case.

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Our goal was not to nerf witches into oblivion.

Well, it's not exactly a "few specific" changes. That's a ton of damage and CC lost (coupled with Fending removal).

Cold Witches will probably feel this nerf the least; if Shock Nova still hits like a truck, Lightning Witches won't feel it too hard either; but Fire Witches might actually dip back into weaksause again.

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Wait... fending worked for witches?

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You can, indeed, cast yourself to death with Blood Magic. Using it in conjunction with Chaos Inoculation would be a very poor build design.

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Lonexs wrote:

Well great to see some patch notes, though if I'm honest those keystones are a bit of a let down. Nothing really stands out to me, I expected somthing a little more defining I guess.

We'd love to hear your suggestions for more keystones. We have plenty more planned for the future, and the system is literally mostly untested, which is what you beta testers are for! If it causes problems, we can easily change it. I'm sure there will be many iterations to each.

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Lonexs wrote:

Also as far as I can see this is only going to be a minor buff to weapons at best and bows are still left without a static mod which seems odd. I'm also dreading the change to knockback on flasks, thats really gonna suck for rangers. I guess 9.4 will still be witchs > everyone else for the time being.

Bows are buffed just as much as other weapons in this patch. Also, the stun changes do make quite a large difference now.

The static mod that bows have is "is a bow". It's factored into their damage, like axes. Some bows are faster than others and some have larger/tighter damage ranges. The family itself doesn't have an implicit mod (other than doing good damage at a distance) because then that'd be forced on all bow users. They can choose. If we had different families of bows eventually, they could have their own characteristics.

Our goal was not to nerf witches into oblivion. People have fun playing their witches. Other than a few specific changes (critical strike mods moving around and the curse change), we've tried to leave witches alone while increasing the damage/kill speed/survivability of the other classes to raise their fun.

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Lonexs wrote:

Edit:When you mention the keystones, is that just a brief description and theres more to them or do they just work as posted in the notes?

That's basically what they say on the character screen.

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What damage do you refer to being? The extra critical strike damage? It was never our intention that it would be possible to get that much from items - instead there are passives, curses, support gems, etc to dip into as well.