Final 0.9.3 Patch Notes

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Chris wrote:

[li]Added new skill prototype - Lightning Warp: Casts a delayed teleport to a target destination. When the teleport occurs, ---->lighting <--- damage is dealt to the area around both where the player was and where they teleported to.[/li]

Ok i know its being a bit pedantic but you missed the N in Lightning in case no one else picked it up lol

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DarPhoenix wrote:

This is a huge disappointment for me. Its cheap way out of uber-skill problem. Instead I would prefer if you'd take the long way and balance uber-skills with high mana cost, so that uber-skills builds are still possible, but require careful planning and items with specific mods.

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Chris wrote:

We did balance the skills around mana usage but found in internal testing that players would max out the mana costs and then complain there wasn't enough mana. By restricting supports to only affect skills in the same item we solved many major problems with the game (such as the inability to actually cast a fireball if it was linked into an uberskill that included say Trapify or Totemify supports). You can still put up to five supports on one skill - that's quite a lot!

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DarPhoenix wrote:

Lets call it SKILL LINK gem. It would be a non attribute support gem (e.g. town portal gem) and you would need at least two of them. Basically two gems placed in different items would link those items slots so that copied active skill's support gems effects are stacked.

This would be a high lvl gem as the benefits would kick in just when you got two 4 slot-all-linked items. Out of those 8 slots 2 would be taken by SKILL LINK gems, another 2 by copied active skill and that would leave 4 slots for support gems (instead of 3 if using just 1 item), which would all be applied to the same copied active skill.

That way more than 5 support gems linking would still be possible, but very difficult and costly to achieve.

Small mana reduction % could be a secondary effect for the gem, that would improve while leveling.

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Yes, and the drop rate will be lower. More will be patched in with each minor patch every few days hopefully!

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Chris wrote:

Yes, and the drop rate will be lower. More will be patched in with each minor patch every few days hopefully!

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You can even find two linked sockets in the very first starting area!

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Chris wrote:

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parianen wrote:

No dual weilding? D:

What do you mean?

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Chris wrote:

Attributes (Strength/Dexterity/Intelligence) now affect the player. Strength provides a physical damage increase and additional Life. Dexterity provides Evasion and Accuracy. Intelligence provides Energy Shield and Mana. This makes it more appealing to specialise in your character's core attribute (as it synergises with the rest of your build), while still providing incentive to splash in other attributes to get the aforementioned benefits.