After a few weeks of testing we have decided to enable steam workshop support on the main branch! Thanks to all who tested this, and of course, to all those who uploaded mods!
After a few weeks of testing we have decided to enable steam workshop support on the main branch!
Thanks to all who tested this, and of course, to all those who uploaded mods!
Hello Wizards! We're mostly working on RW3 these days but we did want to do a bit for the RW2 modding community before we moved on entirely. Specifically: Steam Workshop is now enabled on the beta branch, and mods can now be enabled/disabled/uploaded in game on said branch. Big t
Hello Wizards!
We're mostly working on RW3 these days but we did want to do a bit for the RW2 modding community before we moved on entirely.
Specifically: Steam Workshop is now enabled on the beta branch, and mods can now be enabled/disabled/uploaded in game on said branch.
Big thanks to Jacob for getting this one done.
Check it out and let us know what you think!
-Dylan
Hello! The rumors are true. We are making Rift Wizard 3. There are a few big new features: Most importantly, we have added a crafting system to the game. Each level contains a few crafting ingredients, each crafting reagent contains some set of tags. Every piece of equipment in t
Hello!
The rumors are true. We are making Rift Wizard 3.
There are a few big new features:
Most importantly, we have added a crafting system to the game. Each level contains a few crafting ingredients, each crafting reagent contains some set of tags. Every piece of equipment in the game requires a certain number of tags (some specific, some wildcard) to create. Crafted equipment is by far the most common way to obtain equipment in RW3, and we have folded the passive skill system into the equipment system. Our goal is to make it a bit more challenging to get super powerful synergies online early, and create more situations where you can do something weird and be rewarded for it. There are many, many new pieces of craftable equipment.
Also worth noting are big changes to spell upgrades. There are 100+ new spell upgrades and spell upgrades reworked. Systems wise, RW3 allows players to get 2 upgrades to their spells instead of 1, since SP can no longer be used to buy passive skills. Basically we took the stuff Jacob was doing in the RW2 patches and ran with it.
RW3 also features quite a few new monsters. We scrapped the RW2 variant system and returned to something more like RW1: common monsters plus rare ones.
Lastly, for Rift Wizard 3, we wanted to focus on smaller levels. Where RW2 explored big battles, RW3 explores smaller skirmishes where the player can have a bigger understanding of all the actors involved, and a better intuition of the complete gamestate. Also, we wanted to make room for some bigger, more hand drawn Khoops art.
Speaking of art, it's all totally new. Same artist, new style. See for yourself at the store page:
View game pageWere aiming for a June EA release.
RW2 PATCH 3 PATCH NOTES! MISC: Max channel has its own color and stat identity Removed gnome/two-headed snake/ghost mass as respawn options for mutated/weekly, replaced with Mantis, Fire Flies, and Brain Saplings respectively. No more *instant* infinite respawn loops. Several per
RW2 PATCH 3 PATCH NOTES!
MISC:
Max channel has its own color and stat identity
Removed gnome/two-headed snake/ghost mass as respawn options for mutated/weekly, replaced with Mantis, Fire Flies, and Brain Saplings respectively. No more *instant* infinite respawn loops.
Several performance optimizations
Amnesia Shrine will now remove the spell from the spellbook instead of only making the wizard forget it.
Blood Golem, Ophan, Fleshbound, and Slimy Voodoo Mantle no longer give secret shields before damage, and now instead intercept damage before it is dealt.
Fixed a bug that let modified units try to swap non-flyers into chasms and crash the game.
Fixed a bug where Fortresses were able to shoot distant targets while blind if there was an enemy next to them.
Fairies from Glittering Dance and Faerie Arcanists now have flying.
Added Corrupted to the Custom Game options.
Aether Dagger will no longer allow poisoned enemies to heal by removing their immunity to healing.
Misc typos and tooltip fixes.
Effects which dealt damage in a diamond shaped burst have changed to be more circular and generous on higher radii.
This change also fixed a bug where some AI would miscalculate their range or effective radius and miss their attacks.
Breath Attacks also benefit from this change, and their threat indicators should match up with where they can actually reach with their breath. (Looking at you Winterbringer)
BUGS:
Fixed assured destruction annihilate crashing the game when multiple casts were queued simultaneously.
Fixed Fleshbound enemies' tooltips in level peeking to display correct amount of fleshbound enemies.
Fixed Fleshbound redirection of damage using shields as a shortcut to intercept damage, now the damage source will be preserved, allowing things like thorns to work properly.
Fixed restless dead minions' spells sometimes having incorrect values.
Fixed Armageddon blade not inheriting certain annihilate/mega annihilate upgrades.
Fixed Melt's Melting Point upgrade mistakenly giving the Conjuration tag
Fixed Houndlord and Boneguard to properly account for units with modifiers when deciding when to create a new unit.
Fixed Houndlord summoning too early and being damaged by player spells (i.e. infernal blood spear)
Fixed a handful of minions' spells that were granted wizard not getting that spell's upgrades.
Fixed Boots of Imminent Doom to not alter the wizard's version spell.
Fixed a bug with Searing Heat, Frostbite, Megavenom, and Disintegrator: were missing units that should have been hit.
Fixed Icicle Corrosive Shard debuff persisting on wizard across realms.
Fixed Raiment of Eyes where it would allow too many spells to be granted, going negative if there were many simultaneous summons.
Fixed Multicolored Rage Rod allowing for multiple of same tags when items that cast spells on level entry were acquired first.
Fixed Vampiricism crash if the unit died from pain mirror hurting the target via the hp cost of vampiricism.
Fixed many slime spells were not propagating spell bonuses to slime descendants. Should be fixed now for slime orb, eye of blood, melt, slimeshot, slimify, slime drake.
Fixed Dwarf Hat to work as described. (was previously counting each cast of unknown spells as a unique spell, via items or other means).
Fixed Sigil Shop examine not showing correct unit resistances.
Fixed a bug that blocked Orb Detonation if the orb had a boss modifier
Fixed a bug with some staffs that cause the wizard to cast a spell not casting the upgraded version of their spell.
Fixed a bug with Amnesia Shrine that let you try to forget ineligible spells granted by allies, i.e. idol of sorcery.
Fixed multi-tile melee attacks not working and threat indication being wrong.
Fixed a bug with Shrapnel Blast that was causing it to hit wall tiles with shrapnel even when it was missing the appropriate upgrade.
Fixed a bug with Iceball that caused it to count each tile of multi-tile units as an individual unit for the purposes of its Fae Ball upgrade.
Fixed Soul Ward giving shield over the 20 cap.
Fixed missing HP cost on units' spells (typically spells granted by the wizard be they blood spells or in the Blood Rites Archmage trial)
Fixed a bug with Death Cleave that caused it to fizzle prematurely. i.e. Pyrostatic Hex Chaos Casting/ Melt White Flame
Fixed Essence Flux swapping the same multi-tile unit's resistances multiple times.
Fixed Fan of Flames Wildfire not applying to the final turn of its channel
Fixed Thunderblink / Lightning Warp interaction which caused your Thunderblink Thunderstrikes to miss their targets by targeting their original positions.
Fixed a bug that caused the Starwhale to gain a limited minion duration when purchasing the Starhost upgrade.
Fixed Mystic Power Occult Power to longer kill the wizard via enchanters boon or glass orbs.
SPELLS:
Most spell upgrades that add the Blood tag now also add an HP Cost (excluding those that teach blood spells to minions)
Annihilate charges 10->18. Puts it more on par with other level 2 mid carries like silver spear / melt / devour mind.
Mega Annihilate level 5->9, charges 3->1, damage 99->999. Cascade Range upgrade cascade range 4->6.
Goats/Eagles/Gold Drake retaliation is now enemies only.
Summon X Drake spells now use the base monster equivalents rather than unique numbers.
Flock of Eagles base num_summons up from 3 -> 4, minion damage down 6->5, minion health up 18 -> 22, Shielded Eagles cost down 3->2
Poison Sting Acidify will now acidify regardless of if damage is dealt by the sting.
Word of Madness Guardians of Madness now summons 6 of each guardian type.
Floating Eye Regen Shields cap of 4 removed.
Fan of Flames Healing Hearthfire cost down 3->2, Wildfire range bonus lasts until you stop channeling it.
Suspend Mortality Twilight Essence now grants 100 holy and dark resist rather than 25.
Call Seraph Heal Aura now scales with radius. Holy Fire Aura cost 5->6, now scales with radius and minion damage.
Shield Siphon Shield Burn now scales with damage, and triggers per shield rather than as a single aggregate amount.
Hungry Maw Invincible Maw shields increased from +5 to +18.
Dispersion Aura Time Bomb tick damage per turn no longer scales, just the explosion does.
Blizzard Flash Freeze now scales with duration.
Frostfire Hydra Freezing Ice now scales with duration.
Ice Phoenix Reincarnations upgrade, reincarnations increased from +2 to +4.
Earthquake Aftershocks now scales with radius and duration.
Earthquake Magnitude 8.0 cost 4->6, now guarantees hits on all non-allied tiles in radius, and stuns with a scaling amount.
Mercurize Liquid Magnetism, cost 5->6 now has the wizard as the caster of magnetize, base duration of 1 scales with duration bonuses.
Silver Spear Copper Shaft cost 3->5, Astral Spear cost 4->3 and now adds the arcane tag.
Wyrm Eggs Radiant Eggs damage now scales with damage.
Wave of Dread Wave of Tyranny cost reduced to 3
Rain Storm Living Rain cost 2->4, now summons 2 elementals per turn, and this number scales with num_summons.
Holy Flame Divine Blaze upgrade adds the Arcane tag
Imp Swarm Chaos Buddies now summons 2 every 6 turns, and scales with num_summons.
Amalgamate Slime Slimy Mimic can now summon any monster at or below the threshold health value, rather than gating it. The mimic's spells now scale with how much health they have compared to the boss monster version of that monster.
Wall of Ice Hungry Wall, now grants +3 minion range, replaces the base attack with an Ice Lash pulling attack, and grants +1 duration whenever they use the spell.
Lightning Form gained the Translocation tag.
Lightning Spire resistance penetration will now work on lightning immune enemies. cost 5->6
Ring of Spiders amended to stun and poison enemies only.
Summon Wizard Jealousy now scales with num_targets base of 2, and cost 7 -> 6.
Slime Form new upgrade, Chromatic Oozemancer costs 9, adds 4 num_summons and the chaos tag, and makes you summon 4 random slimes each turn.
Cantrip Cascade Orb Cascade upgrade now adds the orb tag to the spell.
Bone Spear Infernal Spear renamed to Blazing Spear for clarity
Eye of Lightning Archon Eye now also damages enemies along the beam, like how archon lightning works. Now adds the Holy tag.
Lightning Storm Particle Cloud now deals its damage directly after the clouds normal lightning damage, rather than just at the end of the wizard's turn.
Lightning Storm Surestrike - cost 2->1
Death Bolt Soul Battery now grants the Wizard the stacking buff, regardless of who cast the spell.
Choir of Angels will now heal the player even if they're the only target in range of their spell.
Choir of Angels Dual Angels cost 4->5, In addition to previous effects, angels now gain the Dark tag, and only deal their song damage to enemy units.
Choir of Angels Mercy: In addition to previous effects, angels' healing is now equal to their minion damage, rather than being fixed to 1.
Shrapnel Blast: 2 new upgrades
Chain Blast: cost 5 : The shrapnel can penetrate or destroy walls. If it would destroy a wall besides the initial target, there is a 25% chance to cast Shrapnel Blast on that wall.
Remote Detonation: cost 2: Grants +10 range and you may now detonate allied Metallic and Construct units in addition to walls. Detonating a unit kills it, and increases the damage of the initial blast of fire by its max HP.
Void Beam: New Upgrade: Void Pulse: cost 4: Sends out a wide pulse which also affects tiles adjacent to the center beam. (similar to Pyrostatic Pulse targeting)
Ironize: Arcane Insulation: now adds the Arcane tag.
Removed Lightning Bolt Channeling Upgrade. Added Lightning Bolt Repeater Bolts upgrade. Repeater Bolts: cost 6 Lightning Bolt will be recast at the target location at the end of your turn for 2 turns.
Lightning Halo now stacks intensity (You can have multiple instances of the buff at the same time)
Lightning Halo max charges down 5->3
Lightning Halo duration up 9->15
Lightning Halo Radioactivity buffed from 50% as poison to full poison and inflicts 15 turns of poison on affected enemies.
Magnetize now properly Stuns multi-tile units. It also now stacks in Intensity by default, so a single unit can have multiple instances of it.
SKILLS:
Focused channeler now adds +100% max channel.
Chaos lord now also buffs cascade range.
Acid fumes now prefers permanent enemies but will acidify temporary units if there are no unacidified permanent enemies.
Grey goo no longer overrides the 1 boss mod / unit rule. Grey Goo cost down to 4
Horror gained the num_targets attribute
Arcane Accounting time limit removed, and language clarified
Sonic shielding damage 3 -> 1.
Serpents of chaos damage threshold 6 -> 9.
Natural Vigor should now apply after any other effects. Previously there were interactions with Legion Staffs and other modifiers which swallowed its effect rather than being additive with it.
EQUIPMENT:
Exotic Pet portal previews now display the creature's name. No more squinting to see if that's fiery red or fleshbound red
Deploying onto a wall tile with Drill Shoes now destroys the wall, instead of the wizard just existing where a wall is.
Blood Ruby damage from 30% to 100%, range from flat 1 to 100%, and increases HP cost of blood spells by 100%.
Stoneeater Amulet now eats all adjacent walls instead of one.
Explosive Spore Manual adjusted to not activate after level completion.
Added damage tracker in description of free-cast staves like Dynamo, Blazeloom, Gloomthorn etc.
NEW EQUIPMENT
Added Quickstep Shoes - Moving takes only half a turn
Added Eye of Tamtu - 33% to dragon minion hp, 33% to chaos damage, 33% to eye duration
Added Arcane Accelerator - Reduce allies’ current spell cooldowns in line of sight by 1 each turn.
Added Cultist's Staff - Each turn, pay 1 hp to deal dark damage equal to your missing hp to the nearest enemy.
Added The North Pole - When a Metallic unit is summoned, cast your Magnetize on it.
Added Chaos Robes - Whenever you cast a Chaos spell, deal 8 damage to 3 targets in line of sight. bolts randomly deal fire, lightning, or physical damage. 25% resist to phys/lightning/fire
Added The Gloomthorn - Cast Prison of Thorns on a random for every 50 damage you deal with dark spells.
Added Slime Capsule - Summon a Green Slime Cube for every 300 poison damage dealt to enemies.
Added Drain Boots - Cast your Drain Pulse for free every 8 steps
BOSS MODIFIERS:
Added Quickened Boss Modifier: gives the unit quickcast on their spells, and quick move (moving takes half a turn). Cuts the unit's spell cooldowns in half (rounding down)
Icy -> -50 Fire Resist
Metallic -> -50 Arcane Resist
Immortal -> -50 Poison Resist
Faetouched -> -50 Physical Resist
Flametouched -> -50 Ice Resist
Trollblooded -> -50 Poison Resist
Slimy -> -50 Dark Resist
Claytouched -> -50 Ice Resist
Fleshbound -> -100 Poison Resist
A small and hopefully reasonable win for the otherwise lacking Poison damage type. For builds that can handle any enemies, this change shouldn't have much impact, but hopefully this will make realm selection more interesting, now that some builds will be stronger against certain boss modifiers, rather than only ever being devastated by their high resistances.
Patch 3 pt. 3 This is mostly a bugfix patch, and hopefully the final one before the beta gets pushed to main. Big thanks to all of you who are playing the beta and giving feedback and finding bugs! (But I had to sneak some fun stuff in too. <3 for all my Lightning Wizards out
Patch 3 pt. 3
This is mostly a bugfix patch, and hopefully the final one before the beta gets pushed to main. Big thanks to all of you who are playing the beta and giving feedback and finding bugs!
(But I had to sneak some fun stuff in too. <3 for all my Lightning Wizards out there.)
SPELLS:
Removed Lightning Bolt Channeling Upgrade. Added Lightning Bolt Repeater Bolts upgrade.
Repeater Bolts: cost 6 Lightning Bolt will be recast at the target location at the end of your turn for 2 turns.
(Lightning Bolt Channeling was anti-synergistic with anything that cast your Lightning Bolt, now you will rewarded more reliably, and have a viable third upgrade option that doesn't harm your build)
Lightning Halo now stacks intensity (You can have multiple instances of the buff at the same time)
max charges down 5->3
base duration up 9->15
radioactivity buffed from 50% as poison to full poison and inflicts 15 turns of poison on affected enemies.
Magnetize now properly Stuns mutli-tile units. It also now stacks in Intensity by default, so a single unit can have multiple instances of it.
Ironize should now properly effect your own units, and not the enemies.
Fix for essence flux swapping the same multi-tile unit's resistances multiple times.
Fix to fan of flames wildfire not applying to final turn
Fix for Thunderblink / Lightning Warp interaction which caused your Thunderblink Thunderstrikes to miss their targets by targeting their original positions.
Fixed a bug that caused the Starwhale to gain a limited minion duration when purchasing the Starhost upgrade.
EQUIPMENT:
Added a new equipment, The North Pole. When a Metallic unit is summoned, cast your Magnetize on it.
Added damage tracker in description of free-cast staffs like Dynamo, Blazeloom, Gloomthorn etc.
Fixed Cultist's Staff so that they properly stack if you obtain multiples.
MISC:
Effects which dealt damage in a diamond shaped burst have changed to be more circular and generous on higher radii.
This change also fixed a bug where some AI would miscalculate their range or effective radius and miss their attacks.
Breath Attacks also benefit from this change, and their threat indicators should match up with where they can actually reach with their breath. (Looking at you Winterbringer)
Blood Golem, Ophan, Fleshbound, and Slimy Voodoo Mantle no longer give secret shields, and intercept damage before it is dealt.
Fixed a bug that let modified units try to swap non-flyers into chasms and crash the game.
Natural Vigor should now apply after any other effects. There were interactions with Legion Staffs and other modifiers which swallowed its effect rather than being additive with it.
Fixed a bug where Fortresses were able to shoot distant targets while blind if there was an enemy next to them.
Fairies from Glittering Dance, and Faerie Arcanists now have flying.
Added Corrupted to the Custom Game options.
Patch 3 pt. 2 Bugfixes: fixed multi-tile melee attacks not working and threat indication being wrong. fixed a bug with Shrapnel Blast that was causing it to hit wall tiles with shrapnel even when it was missing the appropriate upgrade. fixed a bug with Iceball that caused it to c
Patch 3 pt. 2
Bugfixes:
fixed multi-tile melee attacks not working and threat indication being wrong.
fixed a bug with Shrapnel Blast that was causing it to hit wall tiles with shrapnel even when it was missing the appropriate upgrade.
fixed a bug with Iceball that caused it to count each tile of Multi-tile units as an individual for the purposes of its Fae Ball upgrade.
fixed Idol of Beauty fire attack upgrade desc.
fixed Mothman fear passive not showing up in their tooltip.
fixed Searing Orb tooltip to reflect spell's actual behavior.
fixed soul ward giving shield over the 20 cap.
fixes for Fleshbound not returning dmg values. (since sometimes spells track their damage dealt, i.e. lifedrain/soul tax/etc.)
fixed a bug where peeking in a realm would not show the correct number of an enemies fleshbound allies. (happened when multiple rift options contained Fleshbound enemies.)
fixed missing hp cost on units' spells (typically spells granted by the wizard be they blood spells or in the Blood Rites Archmage trial)
fixed a bug with death cleave queue racing with cast on cast spells that caused it to fizzle prematurely. i.e. pyrostatic hex / melt upgrade
fixed a handful of tooltip typos and missing information.
Spells:
Eye of Lightning - Archon Eye - now also damages enemies along the beam, like how archon lightning works. now adds the Holy tag.
Lightning Storm -Particle Cloud -now deals its damage directly after the clouds normal lightning damage, rather than just at the end of the wizard's turn.
Lightning Storm - Surestrike - cost 2->1
Death Bolt - Soul Battery - Now grants the Wizard the stacking buff, regardless of who cast the spell.
Choir of Angels will now heal the player even if they're the only target in range of their spell.
Choir of Angels - Dual Angels - cost 4->5, In addition to previous effects, angels now gain the Dark tag, and only deal their song damage to enemy units.
Choir of Angels - Mercy - In addition to previous effects, angels' healing is now equal to their minion damage, rather than being fixed to 1.
Boss Modifiers:
Did a first past rebalance on most of the boss modifiers. Will monitor feedback to see how people are feeling about this.
Icy -> -50 Fire Resist
Metallic -> -50 Arcane Resist
Immortal -> -50 Poison Resist
Faetouched -> -50 Physical Resist
Flametouched -> -50 Ice Resist
Trollblooded -> -50 Poison Resist
Slimy -> -50 Dark Resist
Claytouched -> -50 Ice Resist
Fleshbound -> -100 Poison Resist
A small and hopefully reasonable win for the otherwise lacking Poison damage type. For builds that can handle any enemies, this change shouldn't have much impact, but hopefully this will make realm selection more interesting, now that some builds will be stronger against certain boss modifiers, rather than only ever being devastated by their high resistances.
Previously Implemented but unmentioned in prior patch notes (:
Items:
Slime Capsule: summon a Green Slime Cube for every 300 poison damage dealt to enemies.
Drain Boots: Cast your Drain Pulse for free every 8 steps
Spell Upgrades:
Shrapnel Blast: 2 new upgrades
Chain Blast: cost 5 : The shrapnel can penetrate or destroy walls. If it would destroy a wall besides the initial target, there is a 25% chance to cast Shrapnel Blast on that wall.
Remote Detonation: cost 2: Grants +10 range and you may now detonate allied Metallic and Construct units in addition to walls. Detonating a unit kills it, and increases the damage of the initial blast of fire by its max HP.
Void Beam: 1 new upgrade
Void Pulse: cost 4: Sends out a wide pulse which also affects tiles adjacent to the center beam. (similar to Pyrostatic Pulse targeting)
Ironize: 1 altered upgrade
Arcane Insulation: now adds the Arcane tag.
Misc:
The Quickened boss modifier cuts the unit's spell cooldowns in half (rounding down)
Beta branch now has v1 of Patch 3: NEW EQUIPMENT Quickstep Shoes – movement takes half a turn. Eye of Tamtu – +33% dragon minion HP, +33% Chaos damage, +33% Eye duration. Arcane Accelerator – reduces allies’ current spell cooldowns by 1 each turn. Cultist’s Staff – each turn, pay
Beta branch now has v1 of Patch 3:
NEW EQUIPMENT
Quickstep Shoes – movement takes half a turn.
Eye of Tamtu – +33% dragon minion HP, +33% Chaos damage, +33% Eye duration.
Arcane Accelerator – reduces allies’ current spell cooldowns by 1 each turn.
Cultist’s Staff – each turn, pay 1 HP to deal dark damage equal to your missing HP to the nearest enemy.
Chaos Robes – whenever you cast a Chaos spell, deal 8 damage to 3 targets in line of sight (randomly fire, lightning, or physical) and gain 25% resistance to those types.
The Gloomthorn – cast Prison of Thorns on a random enemy for every 50 damage you deal with dark spells.
EQUIPMENT CHANGES:
Exotic Pet portal previews now display the creature’s name.
Deploying Drill Shoes onto a wall tile now destroys the wall instead of placing the wizard inside it.
Blood Ruby damage increased 30%→100%, range 1→100, and blood-spell HP cost +100%.
Stoneeater Amulet now consumes all adjacent walls (consistent with Stormeater).
Explosive Spore Manual no longer triggers after level completion.
MISC:
Spell Upgrades can now add attributes to their spell, which should hopefully make parsing spell behavior easier.
Max channel has its own color and stat identity.
Removed gnome, two-headed snake, and ghost mass as respawn options for mutated/weekly runs, replacing them with Mantis, Fire Flies, and Brain Saplings respectively; no more *instant* infinite respawn loops.
Added Quickened Boss Modifier: gives the unit quickcast on its spells and quick move (movement takes half a turn).
Optimized get_units_in_los and can_cast, two very frequently called methods, for significant performance improvements on long-range enemy actions.
Amnesia Shrine will now remove the spell from the spellbook; still reusable but slightly less abusable.
Fixed some typos and tooltip errors.
BUGS:
Fixed assured-destruction Annihilate crashing the game when multiple casts were queued simultaneously.
Fleshbound enemies’ tooltips in level peeking now display the correct count.
Fleshbound damage redirection no longer shortcuts through shields; the original source is preserved so that effects like Thorns work properly.
Fixed Restless Dead minion spells sometimes reporting incorrect values.
Stinging Rebuke will now be properly inherited by Earthen Sentinel.
Fixed Armageddon Blade not inheriting certain Annihilate and Mega Annihilate upgrades.
Removed the unintended Conjuration tag from Melt’s Melting Point.
Houndlord and Boneguard now properly account for boss modifiers when deciding to summon new units.
Fixed Houndlord summoning too early and being damaged by player spells (e.g. Infernal Blood Spear).
Fixed several minions granted wizard spells not receiving those spells’ upgrades.
Boots of Imminent Doom no longer remove the wizard’s line-of-sight requirement.
Fixed a bug in Searing Heat, Frostbite, Megavenom, and Disintegrator that caused them to miss valid targets.
Fixed Icicle Corrosive Shard debuff persisting on the wizard across realms.
Clarified Raiment of Eyes description and prevented its counter from going negative when many summons occur simultaneously.
Fixed Multicolored Rage Rod allowing duplicate tags when entry-cast items were acquired first.
Fixed Vampiricism crash when its HP cost killed the target via Pain-Mirror.
Propagated spell bonuses correctly to slime descendants for Slime Orb, Eye of Blood, Melt, Slimeshot, Slimify, and Slime Drake.
Fixed Dwarf Hat counting each cast of unknown spells instead of unique spells.
Aether Dagger will no longer allow poisoned enemies to heal by restoring their immunity to healing.
Fixed Sigil shop examine showing incorrect resistances.
Fixed Orb Detonation being blocked if the orb had a boss modifier.
Fixed free-cast staffs failing to cast the upgraded version of their spells.
Fixed Amnesia Shrine allowing you to attempt to forget ineligible spells granted by allies (e.g. Idol of Sorcery).
SPELLS:
Most upgrades that add the Blood tag now also add an HP cost (excluding those that teach blood spells to minions).
Annihilate charges increased from 10→18, bringing it in line with other level 2 mid-carries like Silver Spear, Melt, and Devour Mind.
Mega Annihilate’s level requirement is now 9 (was 5), charges 1 (was 3), damage 999 (was 99), and cascade range 6 (was 4).
Goat, Eagle, and Gold Drake retaliation now affects only enemies.
Summon X Drake spells now use base-monster equivalents rather than unique IDs.
Flock of Eagles summons increased from 3→4; minion damage adjusted 6→5; minion health 18→22; shielded Eagles cost 2 (was 3).
Poison Sting’s Acidify now applies regardless of whether damage is dealt.
Word of Madness: Guardians of Madness now summons 6 of each guardian type.
Floating Eye’s Regen Shields cap of 4 has been removed.
Fan of Flames: Healing Hearthfire cost reduced 3→2; Wildfire range bonus persists until channel end.
Suspend Mortality – Twilight Essence now grants 100 Holy and Dark resistance (was 25).
Call Seraph – Heal Aura now scales with radius; Holy Fire Aura cost 6 (was 5) and scales with radius and minion damage.
Shield Siphon – Shield Burn now scales per shield instance rather than as an aggregate.
Hungry Maw – Invincible Maw shields increased +5→+18.
Time Bomb tick damage per turn no longer scales; only the explosion does.
Blizzard – Flash Freeze now scales with duration.
Frostfire Hydra – Freezing Ice now scales with duration.
Ice Phoenix reincarnation upgrade increased +2→+4.
Earthquake Aftershocks now scale with radius and duration.
Earthquake Magnitude 8.0 cost 6 (was 4), guarantees hits on all non-allied tiles in radius, and adds a scaling stun.
Mercurize – Liquid Magnetism cost 6 (was 5), cast by the wizard to trigger on-cast events, base duration 1 now scales with bonuses.
Silver Spear – Copper Shaft cost 5 (was 3); Astral Spear cost 3 (was 4) and now adds the Arcane tag.
Wyrm Eggs – Radiant Eggs damage now scales.
Wave of Dread – Wave of Tyranny cost reduced to 3.
Rain Storm – Living Rain cost 4 (was 2), summons 2 elementals per turn (scaling with num\\_summons).
Holy Flame – Divine Blaze upgrade now adds the Arcane tag.
Imp Swarm – Chaos Buddies now summons 2 every 6 turns (scales with num\\_summons).
Mystic Power – Occult Power no longer kills the wizard via Enchanter’s Boon or glass orbs.
Amalgamate Slime – Slimy Mimic can summon any monster at or below the threshold HP; its spells now scale with comparative HP.
Wall of Ice – Hungry Wall now grants +3 minion range, replaces the base attack with an Ice Lash pull, and gains +1 duration per use.
Lightning Form now has the Translocation tag.
Lightning Spire’s Resistance Penetration now works on lightning-immune enemies (cost 6, was 5).
Ring of Spiders now only stuns and poisons enemies.
Summon Wizard’s Jealousy scales with num\\_targets (base 2) and costs 6 (was 7).
Slime Form’s new Chromatic Oozemancer upgrade costs 9, adds +4 num\\_summons and the Chaos tag, and summons 4 random slimes each turn.
Cantrip Cascade’s Orb Cascade upgrade now adds the Orb tag.
Bone Spear’s Infernal Spear renamed to Blazing Spear for clarity.
SKILLS:
Focused Channeler now adds +100% max channel.
Chaos Lord now also buffs cascade range.
Acid Fumes now prefers permanent enemies but will acidify temporary units if no unacidified permanent enemies remain.
Grey Goo no longer overrides the one-boss-mod per unit rule; cost reduced to 4.
Horror gained the num\\_targets attribute.
Arcane Accounting time limit removed and language clarified.
Sonic Shielding damage reduced 3→1.
Serpents of Chaos damage threshold increased 6→9.
Patch Notes RW2 Patch 2: Rift Wizard 2 Patch 2 This one is BIG — more is in the works, but we had to push this out to the main branch and into your hands! Nearly every spell has been tweaked in some way, with Spell Upgrades being the main focus. Many have been redesigned to feel
Patch Notes RW2 Patch 2:
Rift Wizard 2 Patch 2
This one is BIG — more is in the works, but we had to push this out to the main branch and into your hands!
Nearly every spell has been tweaked in some way, with Spell Upgrades being the main focus. Many have been redesigned to feel both engaging and unique.
Spell Upgrades that introduce mechanics or flavor from other schools now also add the appropriate Tags, unlocking countless new synergies and emergent interactions.
We’ve also added an entirely new school: Slime Magic. Filter for it in the spellbook with (Z), or scroll down to discover all the new slime spells, skills, and gear designed to let you be the Lord of Ooze!
Finally, Rift Wizard 2 now features a Custom Game Mode with a host of new mutators—build truly cursed runs or reward yourself with extra mega chests and SP on every level.
SPELL AND SPELL UPGRADE CHANGES:
Many spell upgrades now add tags to those spells on purchase. Many upgrades have had their costs increased or decreased to reflect these changes or for other balancing reasons.
The general rule is that if it adds an effect or damage type from another spell school, it will also add the associated tag.
The exception to this rule is Conjuration. If a spell transmutes existing matter into a creature, it probably doesn't get the conjuration tag. If it calls it from another plane, then it probably does.
Spell Upgrades which only had their costs adjusted or now add tags aren't all included in these notes.
Spell Upgrades which increased basic statistics and were removed aren't all included in these notes.
What follows is the list of upgrades which have been either Reworked to have their behavior modified, Removed altogether, or are completely New.
====LEVEL 1====
Death Bolt:
Soul Battery: (Reworked) : cost increase to 3, changed bonus to all Dark Spells and Skills but bonus is decreased from 3 to 1
Fireball:
Shaped Blast: (New) : cost 4 : Increase radius by 1 for every 4 tiles away that you cast it. Fireball no longer damages the caster or their allies
Icicle:
Icicle Harvest: removed
Storm Spike: (New) : cost 5 : Deals lightning damage to all units in the radius. Can be cast on any tile containing a cloud. Adds Lightning Tag
Corrosive Shard: (New) : cost 5 : Deals poison and dark also to main target. Main target receives corrosion, a -10% resist debuff to a random resistance. Adds Dark Tag
Life Drain:
Bloody Hexes: (New) : cost 4 : Whenever you cast an enchantment spell other than Lifedrain targeting an enemy unit, Lifedrain is cast for free on that target.
Magic Missile:
Shield Burn: (Reworked) : cost increased to 3, now strips all shields.
Poison Sting:
Stinging Rebuke: (New) : cost 4 : Each turn, cast your poison sting on up to 2 enemies in los who deal damage to you.
Wolf:
Ice Hound: removed
Clay Hound: removed
Mutant Wolf: (New) : cost 2 : Applies a random boss modifier to the summoned wolf. Adds the Chaos tag
Werewolf: (New) : cost 1 : Summons a werewolf instead of a wolf. Adds the Dark Tag.
Fenris: (New) : cost 4 : Uses all charges to summon Fenris instead of a wolf. Fenris has more health and damage for each charge consumed, and continues to grow each time he kills a unit.
====LEVEL 2====
Annihilate:
Assured Destruction: (New) : cost 1 : If you are able, use an additional charge to cast this spell again if the target survives.
Basilisk Armor:
Base duration increased from 10 to 15
Base charges decreased from 4 to 3
Venomous: (New) : cost 2 : Affected enemies are also poisoned for 15 turns.
King of Serpents: (New) : cost 3 : Your dragon allies also receive the buff when you cast this spell. Adds Dragon tag.
Reaction Cast: (New) : cost 4 : Casts your Petrify spell on enemies instead.
Boiling Blood:
Holy Fury & Dark Fury: (reworked) : cost set to 3, combined into one upgrade, Twilight Fury
Endless Fury: (New) : cost 5 : Boiling Blood now has a permanent duration, and deals 1 fire damage per turn to affected creatures.
Fire Bomber: (New) : cost 2 : Affected creatures recieve a fire damage aura and a fiery death explosion effect while they have the buff.
Devour Mind
(reworked)
Level increased 2 to 3
Range decreased from 5 to 4
Max Charges decreased from 11 to 8
Added Conjuration tag
Gained Minion Damage of 5
Deal 24 arcane and 24 dark damage to an enemy unit. Then, if the target is under 50% HP, deal that damage again. If this kills the target, they are raised as a zombie. Can only target living, demon, and arcane units.
Horde Mode: (New) : cost 5 : Zombies raised by this spell can cast it on a 7 turn cooldown.
Gluttony : (Reworked) : cost 4 : If Devour Mind kills the target, heal for half the target's max HP. Adds Blood tag.
Brain Freeze: (New) : cost 3 : Devour Mind: deals ice damage in addition to arcane and dark. If the target lives, they are frozen for 3 turns. Additionally, each of their abilities gains +3 cooldown. Adds Ice tag.
Disperse:
Void Sickness: (New) : cost 2 : Teleported units receive 10 turns of silence and poisoned. Adds Dark Tag.
Dreamwalk:
Memory Walk: replaced with Astral Projection
Astral Projection: (New) : cost 2 : When dreamwalking ends reset all Translocation spell charge counts to what they were at the beginning of the walk.
Nightmare Form: (New) : cost 5 : Damage from dark spells and skills inflict 1 turn of fear. Adds Dark Tag.
Eye of Fire:
Eye of Fireballs: (Reworked) : now Eye of Immolation, casts your Immolate spell.
Fiery Onlooker: Will now be summoned if you recast the spell while active
Eye of Ice:
Eye of Freezing: removed
Icy Array: (New) : cost 4 : Eye of Ice stacks Intensity
Frosty Onlooker: Will now be summoned if you recast the spell while active
Eye of Rage:
Lycanthropy: (Reworked) : now checks if the target is below 25% HP rather than a flat 25 HP.
Healing Light:
Purifying Light: (Reworked) : Now cures Berserk and Poison before attempting to heal units.
Immolate:
Damage scaling per turn now matches the initial damage of the spell rather than being locked to 3.
Radiant Heat: (Reworked) : cost reduced to 3, and now inflicts 3 turns of blind on affected enemies.
Dragon Soul: (Reworked) : cost increased to 3, and removed the level cap of Dragon Spells refunded. Adds Dragon Tag.
Unquenchable Flames: (New) : cost 4 : Immolate gains permanent duration.
Invoke Savagery:
Savage Spree: (New) : cost 7 : Cast Invoke Savagery for free when an ally kills a unit.
Savage Leap now scales with radius.
Magnetize:
Base duration increased from 5 to 10.
Radioactivity: (Reworked) : Now deals poison damage to all units in range each turn.
Hemomagnetism: (New) : Magnetize can now be cast on living units. Adds Blood Tag.
Melt:
Ice Penetration: removed
Plasmify: (New) : cost 1 : summon 2 fire slimes on kill. Adds Slime Tag.
Melting Point: (New) : cost 4 : If you end your turn in range of a Frozen or Soaked enemy, cast your Melt on them.
Mercurize:
Corrosion: removed
Toxic Fumes: removed
Mercurial Temper: (New) : cost 3 : At the end of their turn, units affected by Mercurize with less than half health are berserked for the remainder of its duration.
Moon Glaive:
Steelshaping: removed
Gravity Blade: (New) : cost 3 : Pull all enemies within 4 tiles toward the blade. The blade now lingers at the target tile for 3 turns.
Glaive Warden: (New) : cost 5 : Moon Glaive gains +1 damage for the rest of the level each time a Nature or Arcane ally is summoned. Adds Nature Tag.
Petrify:
Panic: (New) : cost 6 : Enemies in line of sight of the target are feared for 1 turn.
Plague of Undeath:
Now deals poison damage each turn rather than all at once. Base damage down from 6 to 1.
Max Health Loss: removed
Fire Vulnerability: removed
Plague Bringers: (New) : cost 4 : Your undead minions gain access to your version of this spell.
Pandemic: (New) : cost 2 : The curse spreads from cursed units to adjacent living enemies each turn.
Pyrostatic Pulse:
Spirit Calling: (New) : cost 4 : Summons a Fire Spirit for each unit killed by the fire beam, and Lightning Spirits for units killed by the lightning beams. Adds Conjuration Tag.
Regeneration Aura:
Death Defiance: (New) : cost 6 : On cast, grant allies in range +1 reincarnations.
Regenerative Goop: (New) : cost 5 : Slimes healed by the aura now heal adjacent allies. Adds Slime tag.
Scourge:
Redemption: removed
Conversion: removed
Ascension: (New) : cost 6 : When a enemy Scourged Demon dies, casts a random Holy conjuration you know.
Painful Lesson: (New) : cost 2 : The target is feared for 5 turns after Scourged ends.
Soul Swap:
Spirit Tutor: (New) : cost 4 : Swapped undead gains your Death Bolt on a 4 turn cooldown.
Soul Ward: (New) : cost 3 : Target unit loses up to 1(scales with damage) max HP, and you gain that many SH. This will not kill units.
Touch of Death:
Touch of the Reaper: removed
Final Touch: (New) : Touch of Death deals additional dark damage equal to the target's max HP.
Toxin Burst:
Gas Cloud: (New) : cost 3 : Affected enemies are afflicted with 5 turns of blinded and soaked.
====LEVEL 3====
Bloodshift:
Blood Greed: (New) : cost 3 : You and only you are healed by this spell, even if you are out of the targeted area
Blood Freeze: (New) : cost 2 : Affected enemies are frozen for 3 turns. Adds Ice Tag.
Darkness:
Eternal Darkness: (Reworked) : cost reduced to 2, now increases duration by 15 rather than refunding charges for dark damage dealt.
Dominate:
Cult Leader: (New) : cost 7 : Dominated targets gain your Dominate spell on a 30 turn cooldown.
Earthquake:
Safety incorporated into base spell, spell level increased to 4 to compensate.
Shrapnel Quake: (New) : cost 7 : Casts your Shrapnel Blast on affected wall tiles.
Flame Gate:
Searing Gate: (New) : cost 4 : Deal 1 fire damage to enemy units in a 1 tile radius around you each turn. This radius increases by 1 each time you cast a fire spell.
Floating Eye:
Base cost lowered from 3 to 2
Giant Bear:
Base charges increased from 2 to 3
Ghostball:
Haunting: (New) : cost 3 : Curses affected enemies with Haunted, which summons a ghost near them each turn. Lasts for 10 turns.
Glass Orb:
Orb Shards: (Reworked) : cost increased from 3 to 4. Number of shards now scales with num_targets and their damage with minion_damage.
Holy Armor:
Smiting Thorns: cost increased from 3 to 4. Now scales with damage.
Mystic Power:
Occult Power: (New) : cost 4 : Kill allies in a 4 tile radius. Get +1 bonus damage and duration for each one killed. No longer stacks. Adds Dark Tag.
Explosive Power: (New) : cost 4 : Your spells and skills gain +2 radius for the duration.
Mystic Vision:
Now has the Eye tag.
Overwatch: (New) : When you cast Mystic Vision, cast your FLoating Eye on unoccupied adjacent tiles.
Nightmare Aura:
Summons from upgrades are no longer temporary.
Plague of Filth:
Plague Horseman: (New) : cost 4 : If you channel this spell for its full duration, summons a permanent Black Rider.
Prison of Thorns:
Grasping Vines: (New) : cost 3 : Thorns gain a 2 range physical attack, which pulls enemies towards it.
Psychic Seedling:
Parasitic Growth: (Reworked) : HP requirement removed
Sight of Blood:
Gained the Eye tag.
Silver Spear:
Astral Spear: (New) : cost 4 : No longer requires Line of Sight.
Underworld Passage:
Tremorsensitivity: (Reworked) : Now uses num_summons to determine how many worms will be summoned. Worms now receive minion bonuses. Adds Conjuration Tag.
Make Entrance: (New) : cost 1: You can cast this spell from any location. Creates a chasm in the location you cast from.
====LEVEL 4====
Blood Golem:
This unit's redistributed damage will now be calculated after it is reduced by the unit's own resistances.
Greater Thorns: removed. incorporated into base spell.
Iron Blood: (New) : cost 2 : Golems now receive standard Metallic unit resistances.
Bone Barrage:
Piston Barrage: (New) : Damage dealt by Metallic allies is multiplied by 4. Adds Metallic Tag.
Burning Idol:
Bone Explosion cost reduced from 3 to 2
Indiscriminate Hunger: (New) : cost 4 : The Idol of Burning Sacrifice will switch teams each turn.
Call Seraph:
Base minion duration increased from 14 to 20
Conductance:
Mass Conductance: (New) : cost 4 : Targets a connected group of enemies.
Death Cleave:
Base duration increased from 2 to 3
Marked For Death: (New) : cost 5 : If a spell you cast targeting an enemy fails to kill its primary target, summon a Reaper near their location. The Reaper will disappear if the marked target dies. Adds the Conjuration Tag.
Lightning Cleave: (New) : cost 3 : Your lightning spells and skills gain +100% num_targets, +100% cascade range, and +100% radius. Adds the Lightning Tag
Cleaving Whirlwind: (New) : cost 4 : When your spell kills its primary target, teleport to that location. Adds Translocation Tag.
Dispersion Field:
Base duration increased from 7 to 10
Base charges increased from 3 to 4
Num Targets upgrade increased from 2 to 3 Num Targets
Planar Travel: (New) : cost 3 :Teleported enemies take damage of a random type equal to the distance traveled. Adds Chaos tag.
Bombs Away: (New) : cost 5 :Teleported enemies receive the Time Bomb debuff. This effect deals 1 arcane damage per turn. If the debuff is removed or the unit dies, the bomb explodes, destroying walls and dealing 25 arcane damage to all units in a 4 tile radius.
Essence Flux:
Essence Stabilizer: (New) : cost 4 : Allies affected by the spell match the higher of each pair, rather than swapping resistances.
Essence Degradation: (New) : cost 3 :Enemies affected by the spell match the lower of each pair, rather than swapping resistances.
Banishment: (New) : cost 2 : Temporary creatures in the affected area are killed. Adds the Sorcery Tag.
Ice Drake:
Dracolich:(Reworked) : cost 6 : Now summons a Dracolich
Ice Vortex:
Embodied Vortex: (New) : cost 2 : You may cast Ice Vortex on yourself.
Drake Calling: (New) : cost 6 : If a target is killed by this spell, casts your Ice Drake spell at their location. Adds Dragon Tag.
Channeling: (New) : cost 1 : Ice Vortex can be channeled for up to 2 turns.
Lightning Storm:
Lightning Star: removed
Surestrike: (New) : cost 2 : Adds 50% strikechance, making storms guarantee to deal damage each turn.
Orb Control:
Orb Magnets: (New) : cost 5 : Allied orbs become Metallic. Casts your Magnetize spell on each of your allied orbs. Adds Metallic Tag.
Orb Fortification: (New) : cost 2 : Set all allied orbs' resistances to 100%
Orb Pulse: (New) : cost 3 : Deal 25 arcane damage to enemy units in a 3 tile radius around each of your allied orbs. Adds Arcane Tag.
Permanence:
True Permanence: (New) : cost 3 : Permanence duration is now permanent.
Reality Hold: (New) : cost 4 : On cast, temporary allies become permanent.
Immutable Flesh: (New) : cost 4 : You heal for half of all damage dealt to you. Adds Blood Tag.
Petrification Aura:
Duration of the petrification is equal to the spell's duration. Was previously fixed at 2 turns
Charges reduced from 3 to 2
Duration reduced from 7 to 6.
Purity:
Sin Eater: (New) : cost 2 : Each debuff removed grants 3 SH. Adds Dark Tag
Crusader: (New) : cost 3 : Casting a Holy spell extends this buff's duration by 1 turn
Aura of Purity (New) : cost 2 : The debuff removal and the purity buff is are also applied to allies in a 5 tile radius.
Pyrostatic Curse:
Level decreased from 4 to 3
Max Charges decreased from 10 to 5
Radius increased from 4 to 7
Range increased from 9 to 12
Duration increased from 4 to 6
Linear Conductance: Before, didn't do anything, now actually does what it says.
Resistance Melting Upgrade: Resistance 25 -> 50
Pyrostatic Chaos: cost increased from 4 to 5. Now adds the Chaos tag.
Siege Golems:
Assistant Cannoneers: Cost reduced from 3 to 2.
Recycling: Cost reduced from 5 to 3.
Chaos Cannon: Cost reduced from 7 to 5.
Siphon Shields:
Base shields stolen increased from 1 to 3. Base max charges decreased from 3 to 1.
Shield Steal: (Reworked) : cost increased from 1 to 2, now adds +7 to shield steal.
Retributive Siphon: (New) : cost 5 : If a shielded unit damages you, steal one of their shields.
Vampiric Gaze:
Now has the Eye Tag.
Void Drake:
Essence Drake: (Reworked) : Instead of giving a temporary ally +5 turns left, it now makes them permanent.
Wheel of Death:
Channeling: (New) : cost 4 : Wheel of Death can be channeled for up to 4 turns.
Shared Misfortune: (New) : cost 4 : Wheel of Death instead deals damage to 2 targets. The damage to each target is divided by the number of targets hit. (scales with num_targets)
====LEVEL 5====
Mega Annihilate:
Giant Slayer: (New) : cost 4 : Mega Annihilate deals its damage to every tile of multi-tile units
Ring of Spiders:
Base cost decreased from 5 to 4.
Searing Orb:
Matter Melting cost reduced from 4 to 2
Slime Form:
Base cost decreased from 5 to 3. Added Slime Tag.
Duration increased from 8 to 12
Upgrades now make the chosen slime the exclusive summon.
Electric Slime: (New) : cost 3 : Instead of Green Slimes, summon Electric Slimes. Adds Lightning Tag.
Blood Slime: (New) : cost 3 : Instead of Green Slimes, summon Blood Slimes. Adds Blood Tag.
Spider Queen:
Vampire Queen now applies to all summoned friendly spiders and gives them the Blood tag.
====LEVEL 6====
Heaven's Wrath:
Base charges increased from 2 to 4.
Culling: Cost increased from 3 to 4.
Halt Heretics: Cost reduced from 3 to 2.
Twilight Gaze:
Piercing Gaze: (New) : cost 3 : Twilight Gaze affects all enemies, not just those in light of sight.
====LEVEL 7====
Multicast:
Spell Weaving : cost 5 : Your non-sorcery spells gain quickcast for the duration of the buff.
Preparedness: cost 7 : Cast your Multicast for free when you enter a level.
Rain of Thunderbolts:
Now correctly hits only 12 clouds instead of every one.
Tempest Drakes: (Reworked) : Chance to summon dragons decreased from 50% to 25%. Adds Dragon Tag.
====LEVEL 8====
Ion Tentacles:
Growing Power: (New) : cost 4 : The damage dealt also increases by 1 each turn for the first half of the duration and decreases by 1 each turn for the second half.
Bloody Tendrils: (New) : cost 6 : Damage dealt by the spell heals the caster for 50% of the damage dealt. Adds Blood Tag.
Cthulhu Form: (New) : cost 3 : Increase the starting number of targets by 1 for each Eye spell you know. Adds Eye Tag.
Summon Wizard:
Jealousy: (New) : cost 7 : When you cast this spell, an enemy wizard in line of sight of the summoned wizard becomes your ally.
Dragon Wizard: (New) : cost 4 : You always summon the Dragon Wizard. Adds Dragon Tag.
Mutant Wizard: (New) : cost 2 : A random boss modifier is applied to the summoned wizard. Adds the Chaos tag
Global Summoning: (New) : cost 2 : This spell gains global range and doesn't require line of sight.
====LEVEL 9====
Rain of Fire:
Rain of Dragons: (Reworked) : Chance to summon dragons decreased from 50% to 25%. Adds Dragon Tag.
SKILL CHANGES:
Toadblood Transmutation no longer has the Conjuration Tag.
Serpents of Chaos no longer has the Conjuration Tag.
NEW SPELLS & SKILLS
Slime Magic is here.
SPELLS:
Slimeshot:
Level 2
Sorcery/Slime
Range: 12
Max Charges: 6
Deals 12 poison damage to units in a 3 tile burst. Inflict 10 turns of Soaked on affected non slime units. Explodes your slime if cast on it and adds that slime’s max HP to the damage dealt
Upgrades:
Slimification Shot: cost 6 : Casts your Slimify on affected enemy units.
Storm Transmutation: cost 4 : Storms in the affected area get turned into slimes of matching types. Lightning Storms spawn Electric Slimes. Blizzards spawn Ice Slimes. Rain Clouds spawn Green Slimes. Adds Nature Tag.
Slime Rust: cost 2 : Slimeshot deals physical damage in addition to poison. Affected non slime units get a non-stacking debuff which reduces all of their resistances by 10%. Adds Metallic Tag.
Amalgamate Slime: (Spell)
Level 3
Slime/Sorcery
Max Charges: 3
Range: Global
Requires LoS: False
All slime units in a connected group are amalgamated onto the target. The target gains the max hp, resists, spells, and spell damage, of the affected units. Target loses the base slime buff, and gains the Slimy boss buff. This spell must target a friendly slime unit.
Upgrades:
Global Network: cost 2 : Affects all friendly slimes in the level instead of those in a connected group.
Slime Drinking: cost 2 : You may target yourself with this spell. Casting it on yourself causes you to ignore its other effects, and heal for the total health of slimes absorbed.
Absorption: cost 3 : Slimes steal 1 max hp from adjacent enemy units before amalgamating. Adds the Blood tag.
Slimy Mimic: cost 4 : Instead of consolidating into the target slime, summons a random monster with the slimy boss modifier. The monster summoned depends on the total health of the absorbed slimes, with higher health pools yielding more powerful monsters. The summoned monster's health is set to the total health of the absorbed slimes. Adds the Chaos tag.
Slimify:
Level 4
Enchantment/Blood/Conjuration/Slime
Range 5
Max Charges 4
Deals 10 physical damage to the target each turn for 5 turns. Their maximum health is decreased by the damage dealt, and a slime is spawned nearby.
Upgrades:
Rainbow Slimes: cost 3 : Slimes can be of any variety, not just Green Slimes.
Contagion: cost 5 : Slimify will jump to the nearest enemy unit in line of sight if the affected target dies.
Rapid Decomposition: cost 6 : The damage and spawning effects are triggered any time the affected target takes damage from a slime.
Slime Orb:
Level 5
Conjuration/Orb/Slime
Range 9
Max Charges 2
Minion Health 10
Radius 4
Summon a slime orb next to the caster. Each turn the orb summons a slime next to enemy units in a 4 tile radius. The orb has no will of its own, each turn it will float one tile towards the target. The orb can be destroyed by dark damage.
Upgrades:
Adaptive Slime: cost 5 : Slime Orb will attempt to summon the type of slime that enemies are weakest to, rather than a Green Slime.
Explosive Growth: cost 5 : Slime Orb will summon 3 slimes instead of 1 per enemy.
Orb Detonation: cost 3 : Targeting an existing slime orb detonates it, dealing 100 poison damage in a 4 tile burst and summoning a Green Slime Cube in its place.
Slime Drake:
Level 8
Conjuration / Dragon / Slime
Max Charges 1
Range 5
Minion Damage 8
Minion Health 140
Minion Range 7
Upgrades:
Infernal: cost 5 : Slime Drake gets the Infernal boss modifier. Adds Chaos tag
Dragon Mage: cost 5 : Slime Drake can cast your Slimeshot with a 6 turn cooldown.
Oozing Trail: cost 4 : When the Slime Drake moves, it will attempt to summon a Slime nearby.
Eye of Blood:
Level 2
Blood/Enchantment/Eye
Max Charges: 2
HP cost: 10
Every 3 turns, deals 10 dark damage to a random enemy unit in line of sight, healing the caster for damage dealt. Lasts 20 turns.
Upgrades:
Eye of Lifedrain: cost 4 :Eye of Blood instead casts your Lifedrain spell.
Hag's Eye: cost 7 : Increase shot cooldown by 3. Shoots at all targets in line of sight.
Eye of Plasmoid: cost 4 : When it deals damage, the target's max HP is reduced by the damage dealt, and a blood slime is summoned nearby. Adds Slime Tag.
Vampiricism:
Level 3
Blood/Enchantment
Range: Melee
HP cost: 25
Grants an ally Vampiricism, causing them to heal for any damage they deal.
Upgrades:
Vampiric Regent: cost 7 : Grant the target your Dominate spell on a 20 turn cool down.
Wicked Fangs: cost 3 : The target's melee attacks gain +7 damage.
Enthrall: cost 6 : You may cast this on living enemies if you have more health than them. If you do, they become your ally.
SKILLS:
Grey Goo:
Level 5
Slime/Metallic
Slimes you summon receive the Metallic boss modifier and the Ecophagy buff. Ecophagy causes slimes to eat any adjacent walls at the end of their turn. The slime gains 1 maximum and current health for each wall consumed this way.
Slime Time:
Level 5
Arcane/Slime
Whenever an allied slime is summoned, their chance to grow is set to 75% rather than the base 50%.
Slimebirth Cantromancy (Skill)
Level 5
Arcane/Slime
When an allied slime is spawned, it casts a random cantrip you know that shares a tag with it
Slime Lord:
Level 7
Slime
Slime spells get +3 max charges.
Slime spells and skills gain +3 range.
Slime spells and skills gain +10 minion health.
Slime spells and skills gain +2 minion range.
Chaos Lord
Level 7
Chaos
Chaos spells and skills gain +33% to the following stats: max charges, damage, num_targets, num_summons, and minion_damage.
Menacing Gaze
Level 5
Eye/Dark
When one of your Eye spells damages an enemy, inflict 2 turns of fear on them.
Hex Specialist:
Level 5
Enchantment
Each turn, deal 1 arcane damage to enemy units for each debuff they have.
NEW MONSTERS & ENEMY CHANGES:
Added Electric & Blood Slimes
Added Fortress units to the rare spawn pool. Fortresses are like 3x3 spawners, with some special effects.
If enemies are in range, fortresses will fire from each of their tiles to any targets in range of that tile.
Otherwise, they will build an ever expanding network of spawners, pumping out more and more units.
On death, fortresses will spawn 9 of their inhabitants.
Fortress Units:
Duergar Fortress
Gnome Castle
Kobold Camp
Crystal Golem now gains the tag of its current elemental type and no longer overrides other resistance effects.
Aelf's will show up in earlier realms than previously.
Several appropriate units now have the Blood tag.
Previously for Slime and Slimy, max hp would only be gained if the unit was already at maximum. This has been changed to allow excess healing from the buff to increase max hp.
Slimy no longer causes Slimes to be formed from excess max HP, and will instead grow its max HP indefinitely.
This amounts to similar or slightly lower amounts of threat in most cases, but should hopefully prevent some slowdown and screen clutter since generally there will be less slimes on screen.
Player pets with Slimy haven't felt any different, since they are usually getting hit anyway and not getting to that +10 over max hp.
Enemies with Slimy are harder to take down on an individual basis, with varying degrees of impact on realm difficulty depending on the wizard's on-kill effects.
Ghostly modifier now grants flying.
Claytouched modifier now grants burrowing.
FLESHBOUND CHANGES
Fleshbound now redeals damage to all fleshbound allies rather than just those with a matching name, and healing per round is equal to the number of allied fleshbound units rather than being fixed to 1.
Now only redistributes damage dealt by enemies.
Distributed damage is calculated after the initial recipient’s resistances.
Issues a faux damage event for all redistribution targets as though they took the redistributed damage from the enemy (triggers retaliation effects).
Only redistributes as much damage as would have been taken, rather than sending the same damage to every Fleshbound ally (works similar to Blood Golem).
Fleshbound now properly displays its description along with a running total of allied Fleshbound in the tooltip.
Fixes an issue where save/load or corruption could make some Fleshbound units indestructible.
NEW EQUIPMENT AND ITEM CHANGES:
Macrophagic Mask: When a Living or Slime ally deals damage to an enemy, they gain 1 max HP.
Oozing Scale Armor: When you take damage from an enemy, spawn a slime matching the damage type. If none match, spawn a random slime.
Slimy Voodoo Mantle: If you would take damage, deal that damage to an adjacent slime ally instead.
Neanderthal's Tooth: Metallic spells gain -1 requires LOS. Blood spells gain +1 radius. Slime spells gain quick cast.
Wyrm Spirit Armor: When a Dragon ally dies, gain 10% resistance to damage types matching their tags until the end of the realm. Dragon spells gain +2 max charges.
Balor's Eye Staff: When you deal damage with an Eye spell, deal that much damage again in a beam to the target, destroying walls and clouds in the way.
Tundra Mantle: Each turn, soaked enemies in a 5-tile radius are frozen for 3 turns. +2 charges to Ice spells. 75% Ice resistance.
Explosive Spore Manual: Cast your Combust Poison for free at the end of each turn.
Veilpiercer's Monocle: Gain Clarity when you cast a Translocation spell. Buff duration equals the spell’s level.
Wound Rot Amulet: Enemies receive 3 turns of Poison when they take physical damage.
Mask of Woe: At the end of your turn, increase the duration of debuffs on enemies in a 3-tile radius by 1.
Caustic Sprig: Poisoned enemies lose one temporary buff each turn.
Fast Hand Gloves: Consumables are now quick cast.
Helm of Hexes: When an enemy receives a debuff, there is a 50% chance they gain another random debuff for the same duration. Maximum of 10 turns. (Chosen from Blind, Poison, Frozen, Petrified, Feared, Silenced)
Fanged Amulet now deals damage based on the number of SP you have spent on Blood Magic.
All boots that summon per steps have had the number of required steps reduced by a quarter.
Chalice items now refund all charges of appropriate spells, rather than just one charge.
The Boiler now has its own asset and had its damage buffed to 25 per turn.
Fixed a bug where Blood Shield gave shields for using the look and move spells for keyboard players.
Boots of Imminent Doom: Now uses the spell's range rather than a fixed radius of 4.
Sigils should spawn slightly stronger units compared to the level where they're picked up, can spawn in walls, have 80HP, and no longer try to spawn right next to the player. Sigils have been removed from Trinket chests, they're now their own thing, similar to Exotic Pets.
NEW REALM REWARDS:
Miniaturization Shrine: "Turns a piece of equipment into a miniature version of itself."
Duplicator Shrine: "Obtain a duplicate of an existing trinket."
Amnesia Shrine: "Forget a spell and its upgrade. Refunds SP." (Reusable)
CUSTOM GAME MODE:
New custom game mode added.
Very little handholding / sanity checking.
Handful of new mutators added specifically for custom. (for now)
Mutators are applied in order and will override each other if they modify the same things.
TRIALS & WEEKLY
Will now generally have more mutations per run.
Runs now have a chance to roll with boons in addition to challenges. Each boon adds additional challenge modifiers.
Weekly was incorrectly setting RespawnAs 100% of the time. Now set to 15%.
Added 50% damage to all spells to the weekly modifier pool.
Added 50% range to all spells to the weekly modifier pool.
Added 50% max charges to all spells to the weekly modifier pool.
Added 50% duration to all spells to the weekly modifier pool.
Added +3 and +5 turn cooldown to all wizard spells to the weekly modifier pool.
Added +2 and +3 HP cost to all spells to the weekly modifier pool.
Added All Flying to the weekly modifier pool.
Added All Burrowing to the weekly modifier pool.
Added Super Spawners modifier to the weekly modifier pool. (Enemy spawners get 2x HP and -4 spell cooldown)
Added -5 and -10 max HP at the end of each level to the weekly modifier pool. (Will not kill you)
Added Memory Leak to the weekly modifier pool. (Forget a random spell at the end of each realm. Cannot be purchased; SP refunded.)
Added Empty Pockets modifier to the weekly modifier pool. (No consumables)
Added Forgetful 3 and 6 to the weekly modifier pool. (Every 3 or 6 turns, lose a random spell charge)
Added Awestruck 5 and 10 to the weekly modifier pool. (Every 5 or 10 turns, get stunned for 1 turn)
Added Treachery 10 and 15 to the weekly modifier pool. (Every 10 or 15 turns, a random ally joins the enemy team)
Added Thieving 20 and 30 to the weekly modifier pool. (Every 20 or 30 turns, a random object on the level is removed. Includes SP orbs, Portals, Chests, Hearts, Consumables)
Added Crumbling 10 and 20 to the weekly modifier pool. (Every 10 or 20 turns, unoccupied tiles adjacent to chasms have a 10% chance to turn into chasms.)
Added Corrupted to the weekly modifier pool. (Triggers an Orb of Corruption effect when a level is completed.)
Added Corrupted Trial. (Triggers an Orb of Corruption effect when a level is completed.)
UI AND QOL:
Can now PgUp/PgDn while hovering over a spell in the left panel to view upgrades.
Can now PgUp/PgDn while hovering over an unlocked portal to examine contents.
No more duplicate hats in damage conversion chests.
GENERAL BUGFIXES AND CHANGES:
Teleport now lets you teleport into chasm tiles if you have flying, and into wall tiles if you have burrowing.
The game ends if Mordred joins your team.
Fixed a bug that allowed the wizard to channel multiple spells at the same time.
AI units that can't reach the target they're trying to path to will now move around randomly.
Berserk units no longer prioritize the player over other valid targets.
Clarity now clears Stun and Silence effects. (Added Clarity text to the (H)elp page)
Exotic pets should now only have modifiers appropriate to their type. No more Slimy Slime pets.
Raiment of Eyes updated to queue teaching of spells, so tags added by jars etc. will register.
Razorshaping shards now originate from the caster’s position, as described.
Hundreds of miscellaneous typos and bugs fixed.
Patch 2 Update 7 Hopefully the last patch before this beta goes to main! FLESHBOUND CHANGES Now only redistributes damage dealt by enemies. Distributed damage is calculated after the initial recipient’s resistances. Issues a faux damage event for all redistribution targets as tho
Patch 2 Update 7
Hopefully the last patch before this beta goes to main!
FLESHBOUND CHANGES
Now only redistributes damage dealt by enemies.
Distributed damage is calculated after the initial recipient’s resistances.
Issues a faux damage event for all redistribution targets as though they took the redistributed damage from the enemy (triggers retaliation effects).
Only redistributes as much damage as would have been taken, rather than sending the same damage to every Fleshbound ally (works similar to Blood Golem).
Fleshbound now properly displays its description along with a running total of allied Fleshbound in the tooltip.
Fixes an issue where save/load or corruption could make some Fleshbound units indestructible.
BUG FIXES
Fixes a crash when Barklord, Warlock or Bone Wizard attempt invalid swaps.
Fae Malevolence, Amulet of Emerald Flame, Flamenweaver and Scepter of Mischief now accept damage from enchantment skills as well as spells, as intended.
Mass Immolate now affects multi-tile units correctly.
Fireball meteor no longer deals physical damage outside the center tile.
Razorshaping shards now originate from the caster’s position, as described.
Corrects various typos and tooltip errors.
Patch 2 Update 6 MISC: Art added for new items, shrines, spells, skills Small optimization added for Fleshbound BUGFIXES: fixed curse dolls missing their targets if they moved after dealing the death blow, via trample or teleporty buff or other means. fixed pyschic seedling paras
Patch 2 Update 6
MISC:
Art added for new items, shrines, spells, skills
Small optimization added for Fleshbound
BUGFIXES:
fixed curse dolls missing their targets if they moved after dealing the death blow, via trample or teleporty buff or other means.
fixed pyschic seedling parasitic growth being able to cast on any unit tile irrespective of normal spell range/los rules.
fixed slime Rust debuff is now properly classed as a debuff (because there are things that care like debuff removal / hex specialist)
fixed armorer + with only a miniaturized armor crashing the game
fixed the tooltips for ghostly and claytouched units to display their new respective flying and burrowing capabilities.
fixed units that were granted upgraded versions of spells not knowing about their new damage types and so not targeting appropriately.
fixed Slimeshot - slimification shot mistakenly adding physical damage type.
fixed Lifedrain not benefitting from Blood Boil - Twilight Fury and allies casting it on dark immune enemies.
fixed grey goo ecophagy buff not getting applied to descendant slimes.
BALANCE:
Drain Pulse - Ursomancy tooltip clarified. Behavior updated, uses up to 75 points of overhealing to summon each bear. At least one bear is summoned with any overhealing.
Slimeshot now only applies Soaked non slime units.
Slimeshot - Slime Rust physical damage and debuff only affect non slime units.
Amalgamate Slime - Slime Drinking cost 3->2, Absorption cost 4->3, Slimy Mimic cost 6->4
Fenris is no longer berserked on summon.
Acid Fumes small QoL bump, now won't target temporary enemies.
Aelf's will show up in earlier realms than previously.
BOSS MODIFIERS:
Slime & Slimy Changes:
Slime preview tool-tip now uses percentages, which are then updated to numerical values on the buff being applied/unit being created. Wasn't an issue on base slimes, but makes more sense with the variety of units and minion bonuses which can cause the actual values to change.
Previously for Slime and Slimy, max hp would only be gained if the unit was already at maximum. This has been changed to allow excess healing from the buff to increase max hp.
Slimy no longer causes Slimes to be formed from excess max HP, and will instead grow its max HP indefinitely.
This amounts to similar or slightly lower amounts of threat in most cases, but should hopefully prevent some slowdown and screen clutter since generally there will be less slimes on screen.
Player pets with Slimy haven't felt any different, since they are usually getting hit anyway and not getting to that +10 over max hp.
Enemies with Slimy are harder to take down on an individual basis, with varying degrees of impact on realm difficulty depending on the wizard's on-kill effects.
Patch 2 Update 5 BALANCE: Sigils removed from Trinket chests, they're now their own thing, similar to Exotic Pets. Sigils got another small buff. Radius for summon spell on sigils increased 3 --> 6, and max hp increased 40 --> 80 Ghostly modifier now grants flying. Claytouc
Patch 2 Update 5
BALANCE:
Sigils removed from Trinket chests, they're now their own thing, similar to Exotic Pets.
Sigils got another small buff. Radius for summon spell on sigils increased 3 --> 6, and max hp increased 40 --> 80
Ghostly modifier now grants flying.
Claytouched modifier now grants burrowing.
Fleshbound now redeals damage to all fleshbound allies rather than just those with a matching name, and healing per round is equal to the number of allied fleshbound units rather than being fixed to 1.
Amnesia Shrine is now reusable. (Won't disappear after use)
Shrines can now show up as early as realm 5.
Pyrostatic Curse buffed:
Level 4 -> 3
Max Charges 10 -> 5
Radius 4 -> 7
Range 9 -> 12
Duration 4 -> 6
Linear Conductance Upgrade. Before, didn't do anything, now actually does what it says.
Resistance Melting Upgrade. Resistance 25 -> 50
Slime Form buffed:
Level 4 -> 3
Duration 8 -> 12
NEW SPELL:
Slime Drake:
Level 8
Conjuration / Dragon / Slime
Max Charges 1
Range 5
Minion Damage 8
Minion Health 140
Minion Range 7
Upgrades:
Infernal: cost 5 : Slime Drake gets the Infernal boss modifier. Adds Chaos tag
Dragon Mage: cost 5 : Slime Drake can cast your Slimeshot with a 6 turn cooldown.
Oozing Trail: cost 4 : When the Slime Drake moves, it will attempt to summon a Slime nearby.
CUSTOM:
UI adjusted. Should be nicer to look at now, with explanations of what you're doing in each screen.
Troll Regen buff added to EnemyBuff (Trollpath anyone?)
Spell Level Restriction (Only level X spells)
Spell Level Elimination (Level X spells removed)
Skill Tag Restriction (Only Level X skills)
Skill Tag Elimination (Level X skills removed)
WEEKLY / MUTATED:
Will now generally have more mutations per run.
RespawnAs chance increased from 10% to 15%. Removed weakest RespawnAs units in favor of slightly more interesting and challenging ones.
Runs now have a chance to roll with boons in addition to challenges. Each boon adds additional challenge modifiers.
BUGFIXES:
Duplication Shrine should now no longer remove your matching slotted item when duplicating a miniaturized item.
Duplication Shrine now preserves the art of the original equipment.
Amnesia Shrine should no longer crash them game when attempting to use with older summoning spells.
New Shrine descriptions should now show up in their tooltips when mousing over them.
Explosive Spore Manual no longer does the cast animation or sound for combust poison, it was pretty obnoxious.
Memory Leak mutator should no longer crash the game if it attempts to take a spell from the wizard when they have no spells learned.
Fixed a bug that caused certain mutators to show up in the player's skill UI section
Mutant Levels (where everything has the same boss modifier) should no longer roll units with modifiers they aren't supposed to have.
Storm Drakes summoned by Rain of Thunderbolts should no longer be hit by Rain of Thunderbolts.
Crown of Bony Fingers should now appropriately deal fire damage if you've purchased Touch of Death's Flametouch upgrade.
Slime Time should now work as described. Was doing the opposite of what it said before, lowering the chance to grow to 25% rather than raising it to 75%
Fixed a bug with Gnome's thorns not being summoned when attacking multi-tile enemies.
Patch 2 Update 4 Short patch notes this time. Not a lot of content changes, but a new game mode! All spells should now have interesting and unique upgrades. BUGFIXES: Exotic pets should now only have modifiers appropriate to their type. No more Slimy Slime pets. Raiment of Eyes u
Patch 2 Update 4
Short patch notes this time. Not a lot of content changes, but a new game mode! All spells should now have interesting and unique upgrades.
BUGFIXES:
Exotic pets should now only have modifiers appropriate to their type. No more Slimy Slime pets.
Raiment of Eyes updated to queue teaching of spells, so tags added by jars etc. will register.
Fixed a crash with Dream Walk – Nightmare Form.
Fixed a crash involving Starfire Wizard’s Searing Orb.
Fixed a crash when hovering portals or spells, examining a unit within, and attempting to show threat radius.
Fixed spells granted to creatures displaying base stats in tooltip instead of modified/true stats. i.e. Armageddon Blade
Fixed Icicle Stormspike upgrade not working with tab targeting.
Fixed a crash that happened if the level was completed while the wizard was stunned.
Fixed a bug that caused Siege Golems to get odd stats that didn't reflect the tt.
Grey Goo no longer applies to units that are already Metallic.
Miscellaneous typos and tooltip fixes.
BALANCE:
Crystal Golem now gains the tag of its current elemental type and no longer overrides other resistance effects.
Several appropriate units now have the Blood tag.
Helm of Hexes now has a maximum debuff duration of 10 turns. Stun removed from its debuff pool.
Sigils should spawn slightly stronger units compared to the level where they're picked up.
Sigils no longer care about spawning right next to you, and will pick a random location within a 5 tile radius, including on wall tiles. (Hopefully making you stuck less often)
Holy Armor - Smiting Thorns upgrade now correctly attributes damage to the spell.
Watcher Form - Arcane tag removed, Eye tag added.
Eye of Fire and Eye of Ice - Onlooker upgrades now receive minion bonuses.
Petrification Aura - Wormification upgrade now receives minion bonuses.
Searing Orb’s - Flame Rift upgrade now receives minion bonuses and is included in the tooltip.
Work of Chaos – Chaos Spirits upgrade now receives minion bonuses and is included in the tooltip.
Work of Madness – Guardians upgrade now receives minion bonuses and is included in the tooltip.
Fae Court – Faery Queen now scales properly with minion bonuses.
Storm Burst – Spirit Nova description updated. Tooltip now includes Storm Spirits. Storm Spirits now scale with minion bonuses.
Psychic Seedlings - now scale with minion bonuses, which also propagate to their grown trees.
Rain of Thunderbolts gained the Sorcery tag
Prison of Thorns - Icy Thorns now have the Ice tag and are immune to ice damage.
Eye of Rage - Lycanthropy now uses the target's max hp for the Werewolf's hp.
Ice Drake - Broodlings cost down 5 -> 4
Ice Drake - Dracolich cost up 4->6, now summons a Dracolich
Spider Queen - Vampire Queen now applies to all summoned friendly spiders and gives them the Blood tag.
NEW SPELL UPGRADES:
Basilisk Armor:
Base duration increased from 10 to 15
Base charges down 4->3
Venomous: cost 2 : Affected enemies are also poisoned for 15 turns.
King of Serpents: cost 3 : Your dragon allies also receive the buff when you cast this spell. Adds Dragon tag.
Reaction Cast: cost 4 : Casts your Petrify spell on enemies instead.
Dispersion Field:
Base duration increased from 7 to 10
Base charges increased 3 -> 4
num_targets upgrade increased from 2 to 3 num_targets
Planar Travel: cost 3 :Teleported enemies take damage of a random type equal to the distance traveled. Adds Chaos tag.
Bombs Away: cost 5 :Teleported enemies receive the Time Bomb debuff. This effect deals 1 arcane damage per turn. If the debuff is removed or the unit dies, the bomb explodes, destroying walls and dealing 25 arcane damage to all units in a 4 tile radius.
Multicast:
Spell Weaving : cost 5 : Your non-sorcery spells gain quickcast for the duration of the buff.
Preparedness: cost 7 : Cast your Multicast for free when you enter a level.
CUSTOM GAME MODE:
New custom game mode added.
Very little handholding / sanity checking.
Handful of new mutators added specifically for custom. (for now)
Mutators are applied in order and will override each other if they modify the same things.
Excited to get feedback on this and more ideas for mutators!
NEW REALM REWARDS:
Miniaturization Shrine: "Turns a piece of equipment into a miniature version of itself."
Duplicator Shrine: "Obtain a duplicate of an existing trinket."
Amnesia Shrine: "Forget a spell and its upgrade. Refunds SP."
Patch 2 Update 3 NEW ITEMS: Neanderthal's Tooth: Metallic spells gain -1 requires LOS. Blood spells gain +1 radius. Slime spells gain quick cast. Wyrm Spirit Armor: When a Dragon ally dies, gain 10% resistance to damage types matching their tags until the end of the realm. Dragon
Patch 2 Update 3
NEW ITEMS:
Neanderthal's Tooth: Metallic spells gain -1 requires LOS. Blood spells gain +1 radius. Slime spells gain quick cast.
Wyrm Spirit Armor: When a Dragon ally dies, gain 10% resistance to damage types matching their tags until the end of the realm. Dragon spells gain +2 max charges.
Balor's Eye Staff: When you deal damage with an Eye spell, deal that much damage again in a beam to the target, destroying walls and clouds in the way.
Tundra Mantle: Each turn, soaked enemies in a 5-tile radius are frozen for 3 turns. +2 charges to Ice spells. 75% Ice resistance.
Explosive Spore Manual: Cast your Combust Poison for free at the end of each turn.
Veilpiercer's Monocle: Gain Clarity when you cast a Translocation spell. Buff duration equals the spell’s level.
Wound Rot Amulet: Enemies receive 3 turns of Poison when they take physical damage.
Mask of Woe: At the end of your turn, increase the duration of debuffs on enemies in a 3-tile radius by 1.
Caustic Sprig: Poisoned enemies lose one temporary buff each turn.
Fast Hand Gloves: Consumables are now quick cast.
Helm of Hexes: When an enemy receives a debuff, there is a 50% chance they gain another random debuff for the same duration. (Chosen from Blind, Poison, Stun, Frozen, Petrified, Feared, Silenced)
Bugfixes:
Spell upgrades that add tags now update the current charges of affected spells, and no longer cause spells to load into levels with reduced charges.
Plague of Undeath buff is now correctly typed as a debuff.
Earthwrath updated to not travel over chasms or through walls.
Fixed Death Cleave’s Marked for Death upgrade crashing the game.
Fixed Toxin Burst’s Withertoxin upgrade adding a second Dark tag, causing double dipping from Dark damage bonuses.
Fixed a bug where Lightning Storm’s Particle Storm upgrade continued dealing Arcane damage even after clouds expired.
Fixed a bug where Dreamwalk Nightmare Form upgrade caused a crash when dealing damage from sources without tags.
Fire Wyrm Eggs and Ice Wyrm Eggs should hatch into their worms from any kill effects instead of only damage. (e.g., Mass Calcification)
Fixed a bug where Magnetize Liquid Magnetism reduced the player's Mercurize spell duration to 1.
Fixed a bug with Darkness' Dark Clouds upgrade that caused a crash if minions acquired the buff.
Fixed Natural Healing triggering from all wizard spells, now only triggers from Nature spells.
Fixed Codex of Sacrifice giving Word Spells in Oner (Oner now removes unlearned spells from the Spellbook)
Fixed a bug where certain status effects with shorter duration would override the same effects with permanent duration.
Balance:
Gravity Blade updated to keep the blade active longer, scaling with duration. Pull now occurs on cast and at the end of each of its turns.
Boss modifier HP propagation fixed: now always applies unless the unit is a splitter (e.g., Boneshamblers, Wormballs), matching intended behavior.
Venom Spit gains a duration stat, as implied by its tooltip.
Chaos tags added to Mutant Wolf and Mutant Wizard upgrades to reflect chaotic nature.
Holy Armor smiting thorns SP cost increased from 3 → 4. Now scales with damage stat. (Hovering over the buff shows damage.)
Lightning Storm’s Lightning Star upgrade removed (too confusing/weird to implement), replaced with Surestrike (+50 strike chance).
Chaos Lord updated. Now gives 33% bonus to Chaos max charges, damage, num_targets, num_summons, and minion_damage.
Clarity now clears Stun and Silence effects. (Added Clarity text to the (H)elp page)
UI & QoL:
Can now PgUp/PgDn while hovering over a spell in the left panel to view upgrades.
Can now PgUp/PgDn while hovering over an unlocked portal to examine contents.
Hallucinogenic Spore Staff tooltip updated to clarify when Berserk is applied.
No more duplicate hats in damage conversion chests.
Spells with random damage types now show "or" between types instead of "and".
Plague of Undeath extra examine tooltip now shows the Zombie it summons.
Gates of Helheim tooltip updated to reflect Aelf lightning stats instead of melee attack.
Wyrm Eggs spell tooltip simplified.
Spider spawning skill tooltip simplified.
Faehaunt Garden Guardian Gnomes tooltip updated to show scaling with num_summons.
Death Cleave’s Marked for Death upgrade now highlights connected Reapers when mousing over afflicted units.
Trials:
Weekly was incorrectly setting RespawnAs 100% of the time instead of 10% as intended.
Added 50% damage to all spells to the weekly modifier pool.
Added 50% range to all spells to the weekly modifier pool.
Added 50% max charges to all spells to the weekly modifier pool.
Added 50% duration to all spells to the weekly modifier pool.
Added +3 and +5 turn cooldown to all wizard spells to the weekly modifier pool.
Added +2 and +3 HP cost to all spells to the weekly modifier pool.
Added All Flying to the weekly modifier pool.
Added All Burrowing to the weekly modifier pool.
Added Super Spawners modifier to the weekly modifier pool. (Enemy spawners get 2x HP and -4 spell cooldown)
Added -5 and -10 max HP at the end of each level to the weekly modifier pool. (Will not kill you)
Added Memory Leak to the weekly modifier pool. (Forget a random spell at the end of each realm. Cannot be purchased; SP refunded.)
Added Empty Pockets modifier to the weekly modifier pool. (No consumables)
Added Forgetful 3 and 6 to the weekly modifier pool. (Every 3 or 6 turns, lose a random spell charge)
Added Awestruck 5 and 10 to the weekly modifier pool. (Every 5 or 10 turns, get stunned for 1 turn)
Added Treachery 10 and 15 to the weekly modifier pool. (Every 10 or 15 turns, a random ally joins the enemy team)
Added Thieving 20 and 30 to the weekly modifier pool. (Every 20 or 30 turns, a random object on the level is removed. Includes SP orbs, Portals, Chests, Hearts, Consumables)
Added Crumbling 10 and 20 to the weekly modifier pool. (Every 10 or 20 turns, unoccupied tiles adjacent to chasms have a 10% chance to turn into chasms.)
Added Corrupted to the weekly modifier pool. (Triggers an Orb of Corruption effect when a level is completed.)
Added Corrupted Trial. (Triggers an Orb of Corruption effect when a level is completed.)
Patch 2 Update 2 Notes: Huge thanks to all the beta players for the feedback, bug reports, and busted strategy discoveries. This update brings some slimy new content, a rework to Devour Mind, a handful of balance tweaks, and fixes for bugs both new and old. Balance Changes: Devou
Patch 2 Update 2 Notes:
Huge thanks to all the beta players for the feedback, bug reports, and busted strategy discoveries. This update brings some slimy new content, a rework to Devour Mind, a handful of balance tweaks, and fixes for bugs both new and old.
Balance Changes:
Devour Mind reworked:
Level 3
Arcane/Conjuration/Dark/Sorcery
Range: 4
Max Charges: 8
Minion Damage: 5
Deal 24 arcane and 24 dark damage to an enemy unit. Then, if the target is under 50% HP, deal that damage again. If this kills the target, they are raised as a zombie. Can only target living, demon, and arcane units.
Upgrades:
Horde Mode: cost 5 : Zombies raised by this spell can cast it on a 7 turn cooldown.
Gluttony : cost 4 : If Devour Mind kills the target, heal for half the target's max HP. Adds Blood tag.
Brain Freeze: cost 3 : Devour Mind: deals ice damage in addition to arcane and dark. If the target lives, they are frozen for 3 turns. Additionally, each of their abilities gains +3 cooldown. Adds Ice tag.
Slimeshot added functionality:
Now explodes your slime if cast on it and adds that slime’s max HP to the damage dealt
Slimy Boss modifier tuned down:
HP regen reduced to flat 2 per turn
Slime splits when max HP > base HP + 10
Always chooses a matching slime type (Green is fallback only)
Regeneration Aura - Regenerative Goop reworked:
Slimes healed by the aura now heal adjacent allies
Invoke Savagery – Savage Leap tuned:
now scales with radius stat
Pain Mirror – Dulled Pain:
cost reduced from 5 → 3
Spikeball Factory – Defense System:
now prefers spawning Spikeballs over shooting
Codex of Sacrifice changes:
Now only grants SP-learnable spells (no more cheesing those tag specific archmage trials)
The word spell is awarded after other level completion events (Grants the word after spells are awarded in Wild Magic, although rerolling causes it to be lost)
Bug Fixes and Misc:
Various Tooltip and typo fixes. (Thanks for continuing to report these!)
Fixed Holy Flame – Heaven’s Call not refunding charges
Fixed Lightning Form – Crackling Aura damaging allies
Fixed Magnetize damage attribution (now correctly counts as Enchantment tagged damage)
Fixed Rain Storm - Acid Rain damage attribution (now correctly counts the spell as the source)
Fixed Ice Vortex – Drake Calling spawning too many Ice Drakes when combined with Ice Tap or Draco Antiphony Scepter
Fixed crash from cloud removal with Storm Legion Banner & Blizzard Legion Banner
Fixed Vampiricism's Enthrall upgrade incorrectly working on non-living targets
Fixed Glass Orb's Enchantment Refraction recasting all enchantments, instead of only self-targeted ones
Fixed a bug with Slimeshot - Storm Transmutation which caused newly summoned slimes to be hit by the spell
New Content:
Amalgamate Slime: (Spell)
Level 3
Slime/Sorcery
Max Charges: 3
Range: Global
Requires LoS: False
All slime units in a connected group are amalgamated onto the target. The target gains the max hp, resists, spells, and spell damage, of the affected units. Target loses the base slime buff, and gains the Slimy boss buff. This spell must target a friendly slime unit.
Upgrades:
Global Network: cost 2 : Affects all friendly slimes in the level instead of those in a connected group.
Slime Drinker: cost 3 : You may target yourself with this spell. Casting it on yourself causes you to ignore its other effects, and heal for the total health of slimes absorbed.
Absorption: cost 4 : Slimes steal 1 max hp from adjacent enemy units before amalgamating. Adds the Blood tag.
Slimy Mimic: cost 6 : Instead of consolidating into the target slime, summons a random monster with the slimy boss modifier. The monster summoned depends on the total health of the absorbed slimes, with higher health pools yielding more powerful monsters. The summoned monster's health is set to the total health of the absorbed slimes. Adds the Chaos tag.
Slimebirth Cantromancy (Skill)
Level 5
Arcane/Slime
When an allied slime is spawned, it casts a random cantrip you know that shares a tag with it
Macrophagic Mask: (Head Equipment)
When a Living or Slime ally deals damage to an enemy, they gain 1 max HP.
Oozing Scale Armor: (Robe Equipment)
When you take damage from an enemy, spawn a slime matching the damage type. If none match, spawn a random slime.
Slimy Voodoo Mantle: (Robe Equipment)
If you would take damage, deal that damage to an adjacent slime ally instead.
Patch 2 Update 1 Notes: Balancing: Cost Changes: Cleaving Whirlwind: Cost reduced from 6 → 4. Mutant Wolf: Cost reduced from 3 → 2. Fenris: Cost reduced from 5 → 4. Summon Wizard – Mutant Wizard: Cost reduced from 3 → 2. Summon Wizard – Jealousy: Cost reduced from 8 → 7. Burning
Patch 2 Update 1 Notes:
Balancing:
Cost Changes:
Cleaving Whirlwind: Cost reduced from 6 → 4.
Mutant Wolf: Cost reduced from 3 → 2.
Fenris: Cost reduced from 5 → 4.
Summon Wizard – Mutant Wizard: Cost reduced from 3 → 2.
Summon Wizard – Jealousy: Cost reduced from 8 → 7.
Burning Idol – Bone Explosion: Cost reduced from 3 → 2.
Burning Idol – Indiscriminate Hunger: Cost reduced from 6 → 4.
Searing Orb – Matter Melting: Cost reduced from 4 → 2.
Siege Golems – Assistant Cannoneers: Cost reduced from 3 → 2.
Siege Golems – Recycling: Cost reduced from 5 → 3.
Siege Golems – Chaos Cannon: Cost reduced from 7 → 5.
Heaven’s Wrath: Base charges increased from 2 → 4.
Heaven’s Wrath – Culling: Cost increased from 3 → 4.
Heaven’s Wrath – Halt Heretics: Cost reduced from 3 → 2.
Searing Orb – Matter Melt: Cost reduced from 4 → 2
Buffs:
Aura of Purity: Cost increased to 2. Now cleanses existing debuffs when applied.
Boots of Imminent Doom: Now uses the spell's range rather than a fixed radius of 4.
Petrification Aura reworked, the duration of petrify is equal to the spell's duration. (was previously fixed at 2 turns) charges reduced 3 → 2, duration reduced 7 → 6.
Plague of Filth's Plague Horseman upgrade now summons a permanent Black Rider.
Eye Spells with the 'onlooker' upgrade will now summon that unit on recasting the spell.
Dispersion Field now stacks duration by default.
Gave Sight of Blood the Eye tag.
Nerfs:
Floating Eyeball's Eyemage upgrade restricted to other level 2 Eye spells. (2 turns to get 10+ sets of Ion tentacles was a little too silly.)
Bug Fixes
Fixed crash when using Death Cleave's Cleaving Whirlwind teleport over chasms.
Vampiricism no longer triggers Thorns. Thorns no longer trigger on allied attacks.
Fixed Magnetize’s Hemomagnetism upgrade not functioning.
Fixed Icicle’s Storm Spike targeting web tiles incorrectly.
Underworld Passage – Make Entrance: Tooltip now correctly appears.
AI Behavior
Lifedrain AI will now avoid targeting units already affected by the debuff.
Berserk units no longer prioritize the player over other valid targets.
UI & Miscellaneous
Reinstated Fireball's Ash Ball upgrade.
Ion Tentacles: Tooltip now shows more useful information on behavior.
Mass Calcification: Now previews affected allies before casting.
Rain of Thunderbolts Everstorm upgrade renamed to Stormbringer to reflect behavior.
Slime Form – Blood Slimes now inherit all minion bonuses correctly.
Regenerative Goop – Regen Aura tooltip now shows added Slime tag.
Fixed a handful of typos and missing tooltips in examining spell upgrades.
Today we will begin public testing of the next patch. This patch will focus on upgrade revamps and slime magic. TLDR Big Picture Breakdown: removed 15 underperforming spell upgrades modified/reworked 17 existing spell upgrades added 84 new spell upgrades. (this includes upgrades
Today we will begin public testing of the next patch. This patch will focus on upgrade revamps and slime magic.
TLDR Big Picture Breakdown:
removed 15 underperforming spell upgrades
modified/reworked 17 existing spell upgrades
added 84 new spell upgrades. (this includes upgrades which are replacing basic stat upgrades like +3 duration etc.)
removed conjuration tag from 2 skills
added 5 new spells, each with 3 upgrades
added 6 new skills
added 5 monsters
buffed 4 items
SPELL AND SPELL UPGRADE CHANGES:
Many spell upgrades now add tags to those spells on purchase. Many upgrades have had their costs increased or decreased to reflect these changes or for other balancing reasons.
The general rule is that if it adds an effect or damage type from another spell school, it will also add the associated tag.
The exception to this rule is Conjuration. If a spell transmutes existing matter into a creature, it probably doesn't get the conjuration tag. If it calls it from another plane, then it probably does.
Spell Upgrades which only had their costs adjusted or now add tags aren't included in these notes.
Spell Upgrades which increased basic statistics and were removed aren't included in these notes.
What follows is the list of upgrades which have been either Reworked to have their behavior modified, Removed altogether, or are completely New.
====LEVEL 1====
Death Bolt:
Soul Battery: (Reworked) : cost increase to 3, changed bonus to all Dark Spells and Skills but bonus is decreased from 3 to 1
Fireball:
Ash Ball: removed
Shaped Blast: (New) : cost 4 : Increase radius by 1 for every 4 tiles away that you cast it. Fireball no longer damages the caster or their allies
Icicle:
Icicle Harvest: removed
Storm Spike: (New) : cost 5 : Deals lightning damage to all units in the radius. Can be cast on any tile containing a cloud. Adds Lightning Tag
Corrosive Shard: (New) : cost 5 : Deals poison and dark also to main target. Main target receives corrosion, a -10% resist debuff to a random resistance. Adds Dark Tag
Life Drain:
Bloody Hexes: (New) : cost 4 : Whenever you cast an enchantment spell other than Lifedrain targeting an enemy unit, Lifedrain is cast for free on that target.
Magic Missile:
Shield Burn: (Reworked) : cost increased to 3, now strips all shields.
Poison Sting:
Stinging Rebuke: (New) : cost 4 : Each turn, cast your poison sting on up to 2 enemies in los who deal damage to you.
Wolf:
Ice Hound: removed
Clay Hound: removed
Mutant Wolf: (New) : cost 3 : Applies a random boss modifier to the summoned wolf.
Werewolf: (New) : cost 1 : Summons a werewolf instead of a wolf. Adds the Dark Tag.
Fenris: (New) : cost 5 : Uses all charges to summon Fenris instead of a wolf. Fenris has more health and damage for each charge consumed, and continues to grow each time he kills a unit. Fenris is berserked when he is summoned.
====LEVEL 2====
Annihilate:
Assured Destruction: (New) : cost 1 : If you are able, use an additional charge to cast this spell again if the target survives.
Boiling Blood:
Holy Fury & Dark Fury: (reworked) : cost increased to 5, combined into one upgrade, Twilight Fury
Endless Fury: (New) : cost 5 : Boiling Blood now has a permanent duration, and deals 1 fire damage per turn to affected creatures.
Fire Bomber: (New) : cost 2 : Affected creatures recieve a fire damage aura and a fiery death explosion effect while they have the buff.
Devour Mind:
Spirit Eater: included in base spell, increased spell level by 1 to compensate
Gluttony: (reworked) : cost increased to 5, instead of refunding charges, heals you based on the killed creatures maximum HP.
Insanity Attack: (New) : cost 3 : summons 3 temporary insanity imps if Devour Mind fails to kill its target.
Disperse:
Void Sickness: (New) : cost 2 : Teleported units receive 10 turns of silence and poisoned. Adds Dark Tag.
Dreamwalk:
Memory Walk: replaced with Astral Projection
Astral Projection: (New) : cost 2 : When dreamwalking ends reset all Translocation spell charge counts to what they were at the beginning of the walk.
Nightmare Form: (New) : cost 5 : Damage from dark spells and skills inflict 1 turn of fear. Adds Dark Tag.
Eye of Fire:
Eye of Fireballs: (Reworked) : now Eye of Immolation, casts your Immolate spell.
Eye of Ice:
Eye of Freezing: removed
Icy Array: (New) : cost 4 : Eye of Ice stacks Intensity
Eye of Rage:
Lycanthropy: (Reworked) : now checks if the target is below 25% HP rather than a flat 25 HP.
Healing Light:
Purifying Light: (Reworked) : Now cures Berserk and Poison before attempting to heal units.
Immolate:
Damage scaling per turn now matches the initial damage of the spell rather than being locked to 3.
Dragon Soul: (Reworked) : cost increased to 3, and removed the level cap of Dragon Spells refunded. Adds Dragon Tag.
Unquenchable Flames: (New) : cost 4 : Immolate gains permanent duration.
Invoke Savagery:
Savage Spree: (New) : cost 7 : Cast Invoke Savagery for free when an ally kills a unit.
Magnetize:
Base duration increased from 5 to 10.
Radioactivity: (Reworked) : Now deals poison damage to all units in range each turn.
Hemomagnetism: (New) : Magnetize can now be cast on living units. Adds Blood Tag.
Melt:
Ice Penetration: removed
Plasmify: (New) : cost 1 : summon 2 fire slimes on kill. Adds Slime Tag.
Melting Point: (New) : cost 4 : If you end your turn in range of a Frozen or Soaked enemy, cast your Melt on them.
Mercurize:
Corrosion: removed
Toxic Fumes: removed
Mercurial Temper: (New) : cost 3 : At the end of their turn, units affected by Mercurize with less than half health are berserked for the remainder of its duration.
Moon Glaive:
Steelshaping: removed
Gravity Blade: (New) : cost 2 : Pulls all enemies in a 4 tile radius toward the blade.
Glaive Warden: (New) : cost 5 : Moon Glaive gains +1 damage for the rest of the level each time a Nature or Arcane ally is summoned. Adds Nature Tag.
Petrify:
Panic: (New) : cost 6 : Enemies in line of sight of the target are feared for 1 turn.
Plague of Undeath:
Now deals poison damage each turn rather than all at once. Base damage down from 6 to 1.
Max Health Loss: removed
Fire Vulnerability: removed
Plague Bringers: (New) : cost 4 : Your undead minions gain access to your version of this spell.
Pandemic: (New) : cost 2 : The curse spreads from cursed units to adjacent living enemies each turn.
Pyrostatic Pulse:
Spirit Calling: (New) : cost 4 : Summons a Fire Spirit for each unit killed by the fire beam, and Lightning Spirits for units killed by the lightning beams. Adds Conjuration Tag.
Regeneration Aura:
Death Defiance: (New) : cost 6 : On cast, grant allies in range +1 reincarnations.
Regenerative Goop: (New) : cost 5 : Spawns a slime when a non-slime unit in range dies while the buff is active. Adds Slime tag.
Scourge:
Redemption: removed
Conversion: removed
Ascension: (New) : cost 6 : When a enemy Scourged Demon dies, casts a random Holy conjuration you know.
Painful Lesson: (New) : cost 2 : The target is feared for 5 turns after Scourged ends.
Soul Swap:
Spirit Tutor: (New) : cost 4 : Swapped undead gains your Death Bolt on a 4 turn cooldown.
Soul Ward: (New) : cost 3 : Target unit loses up to 1(scales with damage) max HP, and you gain that many SH. This will not kill units.
Touch of Death:
Touch of the Reaper: removed
Final Touch: (New) : Touch of Death deals additional dark damage equal to the target's max HP.
Toxin Burst:
Gas Cloud: (New) : cost 3 : Affected enemies are afflicted with 5 turns of blinded and soaked.
====LEVEL 3====
Bloodshift:
Blood Greed: (New) : cost 3 : You and only you are healed by this spell, even if you are out of the targeted area
Blood Freeze: (New) : cost 2 : Affected enemies are frozen for 3 turns. Adds Ice Tag.
Darkness:
Eternal Darkness: (Reworked) : cost reduced to 2, now increases duration by 15 rather than refunding charges for dark damage dealt.
Dominate:
Cult Leader: (New) : cost 7 : Dominated targets gain your Dominate spell on a 30 turn cooldown.
Earthquake:
Safety incorporated into base spell, spell level increased to 4 to compensate.
Shrapnel Quake: (New) : cost 7 : Casts your Shrapnel Blast on affected wall tiles.
Flame Gate:
Searing Gate: (New) : cost 4 : Deal 1 fire damage to enemy units in a 1 tile radius around you each turn. This radius increases by 1 each time you cast a fire spell.
Floating Eye:
Base cost lowered from 3 to 2
Giant Bear:
Base charges increased from 2 to 3
Ghostball:
Haunting: (New) : cost 3 : Curses affected enemies with Haunted, which summons a ghost near them each turn. Lasts for 10 turns.
Glass Orb:
Orb Shards: (Reworked) : cost increased from 3 to 4. Number of shards now scales with num_targets and their damage with minion_damage.
Mystic Power:
Occult Power: (New) : cost 4 : Kill allies in a 4 tile radius. Get +1 bonus damage and duration for each one killed. No longer stacks. Adds Dark Tag.
Explosive Power: (New) : cost 4 : Your spells and skills gain +2 radius for the duration.
Mystic Vision:
Now has the Eye tag.
Overwatch: (New) : When you cast Mystic Vision, cast your FLoating Eye on unoccupied adjacent tiles.
Nightmare Aura:
Summons from upgrades are no longer temporary.
Plague of Filth:
Plague Horseman: (New) : cost 4 : If you channel this spell for its full duration, summons a Black Rider.
Prison of Thorns:
Grasping Vines: (New) : cost 3 : Thorns gain a 2 range physical attack, which pulls enemies towards it.
Psychic Seedling:
Parasitic Growth: (Reworked) : HP requirement removed
Silver Spear:
Astral Spear: (New) : cost 4 : No longer requires Line of Sight.
Underworld Passage:
Tremorsensitivity: (Reworked) : Now uses num_summons to determine how many worms will be summoned. Worms now receive minion bonuses. Adds Conjuration Tag.
Make Entrance: (New) : cost 1: You can cast this spell from any location. Creates a chasm in the location you cast from.
====LEVEL 4====
Bone Barrage:
Piston Barrage: (New) : Damage dealt by Metallic allies is multiplied by 4. Adds Metallic Tag.
Burning Idol:
Indiscriminate Hunger: (New) : cost 6 : The Idol of Burning Sacrifice will switch teams each turn.
Call Seraph:
Base minion duration increased from 14 to 20
Conductance:
Mass Conductance: (New) : cost 4 : Targets a connected group of enemies.
Death Cleave:
Base duration increased from 2 to 3
Marked For Death: (New) : cost 5 : If a spell you cast targeting an enemy fails to kill its primary target, summon a Reaper near their location. The Reaper will disappear if the marked target dies. Adds the Conjuration Tag.
Lightning Cleave: (New) : cost 3 : Your lightning spells and skills gain +100% num_targets, +100% cascade range, and +100% radius. Adds the Lightning Tag
Cleaving Whirlwind: (New) : cost 6 : When your spell kills its primary target, teleport to that location. Adds Translocation Tag.
Essence Flux:
Essence Stabilizer: (New) : cost 4 : Allies affected by the spell match the higher of each pair, rather than swapping resistances.
Essence Degradation: (New) : cost 3 :Enemies affected by the spell match the lower of each pair, rather than swapping resistances.
Banishment: (New) : cost 2 : Temporary creatures in the affected area are killed. Adds the Sorcery Tag.
Ice Vortex:
Embodied Vortex: (New) : cost 2 : You may cast Ice Vortex on yourself.
Drake Calling: (New) : cost 6 : If a target is killed by this spell, casts your Ice Drake spell at their location. Adds Dragon Tag.
Channeling: (New) : cost 1 : Ice Vortex can be channeled for up to 2 turns.
Orb Control:
Orb Magnets: (New) : cost 5 : Allied orbs become Metallic. Casts your Magnetize spell on each of your allied orbs. Adds Metallic Tag.
Orb Fortification: (New) : cost 2 : Set all allied orbs' resistances to 100%
Orb Pulse: (New) : cost 3 : Deal 25 arcane damage to enemy units in a 3 tile radius around each of your allied orbs. Adds Arcane Tag.
Permanence:
True Permanence: (New) : cost 3 : Permanence duration is now permanent.
Reality Hold: (New) : cost 4 : On cast, temporary allies become permanent.
Immutable Flesh: (New) : cost 4 : You heal for half of all damage dealt to you. Adds Blood Tag.
Purity:
Sin Eater: (New) : cost 2 : Each debuff removed grants 3 SH. Adds Dark Tag
Crusader: (New) : cost 3 : Casting a Holy spell extends this buff's duration by 1 turn
Aura of Purity (New) : cost 1 : The purity buff is also applied to allies in a 5 tile radius.
Siphon Shields:
Base shields stolen increased from 1 to 3. Base max charges decreased from 3 to 1.
Shield Steal: (Reworked) : cost increased from 1 to 2, now adds +7 to shield steal.
Retributive Siphon: (New) : cost 5 : If a shielded unit damages you, steal one of their shields.
Vampiric Gaze:
Now has the Eye Tag.
Void Drake:
Essence Drake: (Reworked) : Instead of giving a temporary ally +5 turns left, it now makes them permanent.
Wheel of Death:
Channeling: (New) : cost 4 : Wheel of Death can be channeled for up to 4 turns.
Shared Misfortune: (New) : cost 4 : Wheel of Death instead deals damage to 2 targets. The damage to each target is divided by the number of targets hit. (scales with num_targets)
====LEVEL 5====
Mega Annihilate:
Giant Slayer: (New) : cost 4 : Mega Annihilate deals its damage to every tile of multi-tile units
Ring of Spiders:
Base cost decreased from 5 to 4.
Slime Form:
Base cost decreased from 5 to 4. Added Slime Tag.
Upgrades now make the chosen slime the exclusive summon.
Electric Slime: (New) : cost 3 : Instead of Green Slimes, summon Electric Slimes. Adds Lightning Tag.
Blood Slime: (New) : cost 3 : Instead of Green Slimes, summon Blood Slimes. Adds Blood Tag.
====LEVEL 6====
Twilight Gaze:
Piercing Gaze: (New) : cost 3 : Twilight Gaze affects all enemies, not just those in light of sight.
====LEVEL 7====
Rain of Thunderbolts:
Now correctly hits only 12 clouds instead of every one.
Tempest Drakes: (Reworked) : Chance to summon dragons decreased from 50% to 25%. Adds Dragon Tag.
====LEVEL 8====
Ion Tentacles:
Growing Power: (New) : cost 4 : The damage dealt also increases by 1 each turn for the first half of the duration and decreases by 1 each turn for the second half.
Bloody Tendrils: (New) : cost 6 : Damage dealt by the spell heals the caster for 50% of the damage dealt. Adds Blood Tag.
Cthulhu Form: (New) : cost 3 : Increase the starting number of targets by 1 for each Eye spell you know. Adds Eye Tag.
Summon Wizard:
Jealousy: (New) : cost 8 : When you cast this spell, an enemy wizard in line of sight of the summoned wizard becomes your ally.
Dragon Wizard: (New) : cost 4 : You always summon the Dragon Wizard. Adds Dragon Tag.
Mutant Wizard: (New) : cost 3 : A random boss modifier is applied to the summoned wizard.
Global Summoning: (New) : cost 2 : This spell gains global range and doesn't require line of sight.
====LEVEL 9====
Rain of Fire:
Rain of Dragons: (Reworked) : Chance to summon dragons decreased from 50% to 25%. Adds Dragon Tag.
SKILL CHANGES:
Toadblood Transmutation no longer has the Conjuration Tag.
Serpents of Chaos no longer has the Conjuration Tag.
NEW SPELLS & SKILLS
Slime Magic is here.
SPELLS:
Slimeshot:
Level 2
Sorcery/Slime
Range: 12
Max Charges: 6
Deals 12 poison damage to units in a 3 tile burst. Inflict 10 turns of Soaked on affected units.
Upgrades:
Slimification Shot: cost 6 : Casts your Slimify on affected enemy units.
Storm Transmutation: cost 4 : Storms in the affected area get turned into slimes of matching types. Lightning Storms spawn Electric Slimes. Blizzards spawn Ice Slimes. Rain Clouds spawn Green Slimes. Adds Nature Tag.
Slime Rust: cost 2 : Slimeshot deals physical damage in addition to poison. Affected units get a non-stacking debuff which reduces all of their resistances by 10%. Adds Metallic Tag.
Slimify:
Level 4
Enchantment/Blood/Conjuration/Slime
Range 5
Max Charges 4
Deals 10 physical damage to the target each turn for 5 turns. Their maximum health is decreased by the damage dealt, and a slime is spawned nearby.
Upgrades:
Rainbow Slimes: cost 3 : Slimes can be of any variety, not just Green Slimes.
Contagion: cost 5 : Slimify will jump to the nearest enemy unit in line of sight if the affected target dies.
Rapid Decomposition: cost 6 : The damage and spawning effects are triggered any time the affected target takes damage from a slime.
Slime Orb:
Level 5
Conjuration/Orb/Slime
Range 9
Max Charges 2
Minion Health 10
Radius 4
Summon a slime orb next to the caster. Each turn the orb summons a slime next to enemy units in a 4 tile radius. The orb has no will of its own, each turn it will float one tile towards the target. The orb can be destroyed by dark damage.
Upgrades:
Adaptive Slime: cost 5 : Slime Orb will attempt to summon the type of slime that enemies are weakest to, rather than a Green Slime.
Explosive Growth: cost 5 : Slime Orb will summon 3 slimes instead of 1 per enemy.
Orb Detonation: cost 3 : Targeting an existing slime orb detonates it, dealing 100 poison damage in a 4 tile burst and summoning a Green Slime Cube in its place.
Eye of Blood:
Level 2
Blood/Enchantment/Eye
Max Charges: 2
HP cost: 10
Every 3 turns, deals 10 dark damage to a random enemy unit in line of sight, healing the caster for damage dealt. Lasts 20 turns.
Upgrades:
Eye of Lifedrain: cost 4 :Eye of Blood instead casts your Lifedrain spell.
Hag's Eye: cost 7 : Increase shot cooldown by 3. Shoots at all targets in line of sight.
Eye of Plasmoid: cost 4 : When it deals damage, the target's max HP is reduced by the damage dealt, and a blood slime is summoned nearby. Adds Slime Tag.
Vampiricism:
Level 3
Blood/Enchantment
Range: Melee
HP cost: 25
Grants an ally Vampiricism, causing them to heal for any damage they deal.
Upgrades:
Vampiric Regent: cost 7 : Grant the target your Dominate spell on a 20 turn cool down.
Wicked Fangs: cost 3 : The target's melee attacks gain +7 damage.
Enthrall: cost 6 : You may cast this on living enemies if you have more health than them. If you do, they become your ally.
SKILLS:
Grey Goo:
Level 5
Slime/Metallic
Slimes you summon receive the Metallic boss modifier and the Ecophagy buff. Ecophagy causes slimes to eat any adjacent walls at the end of their turn. The slime gains 1 maximum and current health for each wall consumed this way.
Slime Time:
Level 5
Arcane/Slime
Whenever an allied slime is summoned, their chance to grow is set to 75% rather than the base 50%.
Slime Lord:
Level 7
Slime
Slime spells get +3 max charges.
Slime spells and skills gain +3 range.
Slime spells and skills gain +10 minion health.
Slime spells and skills gain +2 minion range.
Chaos Lord
Level 7
Chaos
Chaos spells and skills gain +3 to the following stats: damage, num_targets, duration, num_summons, minion_damage, minion_duration, minion_range.
Menacing Gaze
Level 5
Eye/Dark
When one of your Eye spells damages an enemy, inflict 2 turns of fear on them.
Hex Specialist:
Level 5
Enchantment
Each turn, deal 1 arcane damage to enemy units for each debuff they have.
NEW MONSTERS:
Added Electric & Blood Slimes
Added Fortress units to the rare spawn pool. Fortresses are like 3x3 spawners, with some special effects.
If enemies are in range, fortresses will fire from each of their tiles to any targets in range of that tile.
Otherwise, they will build an ever expanding network of spawners, pumping out more and more units.
On death, fortresses will spawn 9 of their inhabitants.
Fortress Units:
Duergar Fortress
Gnome Castle
Kobold Camp
ITEM CHANGES:
Fanged Amulet now deals damage based on the number of SP you have spent on Blood Magic.
All boots that summon per steps have had the number of required steps reduced by a quarter.
Chalice items now refund all charges of appropriate spells, rather than just one charge.
The Boiler now has its own asset and had its damage buffed to 25 per turn.
Fixed a bug where Blood Shield gave shields for using the look and move spells for keyboard players.
GENERAL BUGFIXES AND CHANGES:
Teleport now lets you teleport into chasm tiles if you have flying, and into wall tiles if you have burrowing.
The game ends if Mordred joins your team.
Fixed a bug that allowed the wizard to channel multiple spells at the same time.
AI units that can't reach the target they're trying to path to will now move around randomly.
Miscellaneous typos and bugs.
Patch 1 notes: Added 31 new items, 5 new Trials, 5 new Monsters, 2 new Spells, 1 Skill, and 1 new Boss Modifier, alongside balance changes, tooltip updates, and typo fixes NEW ITEMS: Earthquake Boots: Casts your Earthquake every 8 steps. Rift Key Staff: Creates a Rift at the wiza
Patch 1 notes:
Added 31 new items, 5 new Trials, 5 new Monsters, 2 new Spells, 1 Skill, and 1 new Boss Modifier, alongside balance changes, tooltip updates, and typo fixes
NEW ITEMS:
Earthquake Boots: Casts your Earthquake every 8 steps.
Rift Key Staff: Creates a Rift at the wizard's location upon level victory.
Fanged Amulet: Each turn, an adjacent unit takes 3 physical damage and you are healed for the damage dealt.
Stoneeater Amulet: Each turn, eat an adjacent wall. Gain 1 HP if you do.
Stormeater Amulet: Each turn, consume all adjacent lightning storms. When you do, you regain a charge of your highest level lightning spell of level equal to or less than the number of storms eaten.
Talking Hat: Your enchantment spells gain quickcast (the first one cast each turn does not conclude the turn).
Blizzard Beacon: Each turn, summons a random number of blizzards across the map. The maximum number summoned each turn is the sum of all SP spent on ice magic.
Raiment of Eyes: Grants your allies your eye enchantment spells that they have matching tags for. Each level, a number of allies may be granted these spells equal to the sum of all SP spent on eye magic.
Draco Antiphony Scepter: When you cast a level 4 or lower sorcery spell, your dragon allies with matching types will attempt to cast that spell also.
Annihilator Staff: Deals 2 physical, 2 fire, and 2 lightning damage to creatures before they would be damaged by your sorcery spells.
Crisis Charm: If you would die, your health is restored to full and you are protected from all damage for one turn.
Codex of Sacrifice: At the end of each level, lose 25 max HP and learn a Word spell. Stops functioning once all Word spells are known
Chalice of Light: Whenever you pick up an SP orb, each of your holy spells regains one charge.
Chalice of Iron: Whenever you pick up an SP orb, each of your metallic spells regains one charge.
Chalice of Warp: Whenever you pick up an SP orb, each of your translocation spells regains one charge.
Chalice of Dragons: Whenever you pick up an SP orb, each of your dragon spells regains one charge.
Volcanic Lance: Increases range of Fire spells and skills by 3. When you cast a fire spell targeting an enemy, send out a destructive beam toward the target, destroying walls and dealing fire damage equal to the sum of all SP spent on fire magic.
Erebus Lance: Increases range of Dark spells and skills by 3. When you cast a dark spell targeting an enemy, send out a destructive beam toward the target, destroying walls and dealing dark damage equal to the sum of all SP spent on dark magic.
Crown of Ragnarok: Nine turns after you enter a realm, cast Earthquake, Flameburst, Stormburst, and Word of Chaos.
Blood Shield: When you cast a spell, sacrifice 1 HP and gain 1 SH.
Heavenrender: Whenever you cast a holy spell, deal fire and lightning damage to all enemies in a 2 tile burst around the target. The damage dealt is equal to the sum of all SP spent on fire and lightning magics, respectively.
Storm Legion's Banner: Whenever an ally is summoned, if it is on or adjacent to a Storm Cloud, the summon consumes it, and gains the stormtouched modifier.
Blizzard Legion's Banner: Whenever an ally is summoned, if it is on or adjacent to a Blizzard, the summon consumes it, and gains the icy modifier.
Death Legion's Banner: Whenever an ally is summoned, if it is on or adjacent to a chasm, the summon consumes it, and gains the ghostly modifier.
Terracotta Legion's Banner: Whenever an ally is summoned, if it is on or adjacent to a wall, the summon consumes it, and gains the claytouched modifier.
Blood Legion's Banner: Whenever you summon a unit with a spell or skill, if it is summoned adjacent to yourself or another Fleshbound unit, the summon gains the Fleshbound modifier.
Boots of Imminent Doom: Upon entering a rift, immediately cast your Seal Fate on all enemies in a four tile radius.
Boots of Heaven's Assault: Upon entering a rift, immediately cast your Heavenly Blast on all demons and undead in line of sight.
Staff of Heaven's Vengeance: When you or one of your living or holy allies takes damage from an enemy, this staff deals 7 holy damage to the source of that damage.
Ring of Magnetic Charisma: When you enter a level, turns the nearest enemy spawner or construct into an ally
Hallucinogenic Spore Staff: Whenever poison is inflicted on an enemy, they are berserked for three turns.
NEW TRIALS:
Cryomancer: Ice magic only.
Amnesiac: Your spells, spell upgrades, and skills, are removed and no longer available after you complete a level. Spent SP is refunded.
Wild Magic: After you complete a level, your spells and skills are randomly rerolled. Levels have no SP. Rerolling rifts also rerolls your spells and skills.
Blood Rites: Each time you cast a spell, increase its HP cost by its spell level. If it doesn't have an HP cost, it gains one. Resets at the end of each level
Flawless: You have 1 HP.
NEW RARE MONSTERS:
Shrapnel Beast: A 3x3 Living Fire Metal creature with Shrapnel Blasts, molten spears, AOE spike damage, and physical→fire damage conversion
Animikii: A 3x3 thunderbird that fires huge Lightning blasts, summons more thunderbirds, and punishes you if you kill its allies
Mothman: A 3x3 butterfly demon with regenerating shields and massive Arcane and Lightning attacks
Ultimate Troubler: A 3x3 troubler that fires teleporting bolts in barrages, scattering units around the map
Crystal Golem: A golem that changes color to match its current damage type and vulnerability
NEW BOSS MODIFIER
Slimy: Has a 50% chance each turn to gain 10% current/max HP. On reaching double its original max HP, splits into 5 slimes. Whenever it is damaged, a slime spawns nearby. Can spawn slimes which it has matching tags for.
NEW SPELLS (2 total)
Rain of Thunderbolts: Casts your thunderstrike spell targeting 12 random Storm Clouds each turn. This spell can be channeled for up to 12 turns. The effect is repeated each turn the spell is channeled. Can be upgraded to summon storm drakes, cast Iceball on Blizzards, or summon Storm Clouds.
Wizard Replica: Forges a living replica of the wizard and their equipment. Can be upgraded to refund its charge on the Replica's death, summon a giant immovable statue of the wizard instead, or teach it up to three of your cantrips.
NEW SKILL
Focused Channeler: When you cast a channeled spell, gain 4 turns of Clarity
BALANCE CHANGES:
Monsters:
Giant Mind Maggot queen spawn rates changed, she can now be encountered at earlier levels.
Pope the Frog's damage gating can no longer be bypassed with poison.
Spells:
Dragons' Breath Attack stat has been removed, and rolled into minion damage.
Burning Idol no longer sacrifices allies if no enemies remain on the level.
Blood Anima summons happen at the end of the turn, preventing them from dying to your spells which may have created them.
Pain Mirror now counts sacrificed health as damage.
Gold Drake's Healing Light can now heal the wizard.
Earthquake no longer converts chasms into floors.
Magic Missile's Ricochet now bounces from the most recent target, and chooses the nearest target that hasn't been hit yet.
Lightning Form ends only if you fail to cast a lightning spell
Dreamwalk Dream Form upgrade reinstated, granting multiple high damage resistances during the spell's duration.
Equipment:
Geometer Staff radius bonus increased 1->2
Crackledarkener will no longer hit units raised on the same tile for a given instance of dark damage (for example, it won’t kill your summoned skeleton).
Seasonal Crowns have an increased summon radius for more reliably getting all of their summons
GENERAL:
A damage instance cap of 1000 instances/unit/turn has been implemented to prevent getting stuck in infinite damage loops.
A portal will spawn at the end of the level if none exist, rerolling will always leave an available portal for the wizard to path to.
Soaked, Fear, and Silence descriptions can now be found in the (H)elp screen.
Silence no longer prevents you from using the “look” command (default v)
You can now use the Next Tooltip/Prev Tooltip keybinds (default pgup/pgdown) to navigate up and down pages of text for a turn in the combat log.
Various tooltip/description updates for clarity and excising typos.
UI & VISUALS:
Challenge name now appears in the character panel, hovering over it with the mouse brings up a tooltip of challenge details and mutators
Exotic Pet previews now display correct resistances
An equipment list has been added to the Character Screen (C), navigable via arrow keys or by scrolling down from the skill menu
BUGFIXES:
Summoning units on a full level should no longer crash the game.
Rain of Fire no longer accidentally casts your mega-annihilate instead of annihilate
Orb threat indicators now match their actual threat.
Goblin Wizard's Ignite Poison no longer has global threat range.
Reincarnation no longer duplicates buffs.
Multicolor Rage Rod bonuses can be regained if they are removed.
Spells targeting connected groups can now appropriately chain to and from multi-tile units.
Soul Jarred units will no longer trigger their reincarnation effects until after the buff is removed.
Soul Jarred units with 1 HP will no longer be attacked by AI units.
Healing Light now highlights the units it will affect.
Seal Fate's Genocide upgrade now highlights units it will affect.
Treant threat range fixed.
Teleport spells and effects can now teleport you over a chasm if you are flying.
Hatebolts now ignores portals and objects when pathing.
Silkshifter no longer triggers from minion's teleporting.
Blizzard's Snow Feathers upgrade now grants charges up to max rather than being hard-capped to 3.
Word spell upgrades which apply boss modifiers don't attempt to apply them to ineligible creatures.
Starfire Gate now matches Flame Gate behavior
Chaos Casting only triggers from the wizard’s chaos spells
Plague of Undeath only targets valid creatures and still spawns zombies on those with other respawn methods
Dark Clouds upgrade for Darkness is now functional
Soul Tax can target allies, matching its description
Iceball’s Cloud Combustion upgrade shows the correct impacted tiles when targeting blizzards
Armageddon Blade is only castable on allies, and Mass Armaments shows which allies are linked
Wheel of Death’s Cheat Fate upgrade no longer crashes if only high-dark-resistance targets are available
Ghostly Wormballs now have the ghostly random teleport
Some 3x3 ranged attacks had inaccurate threat range, which is now fixed
Another beta update, probably the last one before we merge to master: General Mechanics You can no longer be silenced while stunned. This prevents overlapping stun/silence lockouts. A cap of 100 damage instances per turn per unit has been added to prevent infinite damage loops. R
Another beta update, probably the last one before we merge to master:
General Mechanics
You can no longer be silenced while stunned. This prevents overlapping stun/silence lockouts.
A cap of 100 damage instances per turn per unit has been added to prevent infinite damage loops.
Rerolling (R) now performs a sanity check to ensure you can navigate to spawned portals. If no valid option is available, a path will be cleared and a portal will be spawned nearby.
Enemies and Spawns
Spawn rates for Giant Mind Maggot Queen and Shrapnel Beast have been adjusted.
Fixed an issue where creatures with player spells still attacked invulnerable liches.
Siege Golem’s death explosion radius is now set to 3, as described in its tooltip.
Spells and Abilities
Pain Mirror now triggers off Lumbriogenesis’ HP cost.
Fixed a bug with the Blizzard Snow Feathers upgrade that previously granted only up to 3 charges of Ice Phoenix; it now works as described.
Magic Missile Ricochet now bounces from its last target rather than staying near the first.
Word of Madness Selective Madness upgrade now heals your minions before causing them to go berserk.
Word spell upgrades that grant boss modifiers will no longer attempt to apply those modifiers to units that already have them.
In the Wild Magic trial, spells in your spellbook are now arranged by spell level.
Dreamwalk upgrades have been reinstated (these may be overhauled in the next major patch).
Dream Form now grants 75% resistance to arcane, dark, physical, and holy damage while the buff is active.
Memory Walk resets your other spell counts to what they were when you cast the spell after the buff ends.
Relevant stats have been added to Lifespark Lantern.
UI and Visuals
Focused Channeler Skill now has its asset.
Exotic pet previews now correctly display their units’ resistances in the realm preview and on the level.
A navigable Equipment list has been added to the Character Screen (C); it can be accessed with the left/right keys or by moving down the skill menu.
Various tooltips have had typos fixed and been clarified to better reflect spell functionality.
More updates to the beta branch today- Interface & UI: Trials descriptions were cut off on some resolutions. They are now fully visible. The challenge name now appears in the character panel. Mousing over it displays details about the challenges and mutators. The “Slimy” modi
More updates to the beta branch today-
Interface & UI:
Trials descriptions were cut off on some resolutions. They are now fully visible.
The challenge name now appears in the character panel. Mousing over it displays details about the challenges and mutators.
The “Slimy” modifier and its description should now appear correctly in exotic pet previews.
Various typos and inaccurate descriptions have been fixed or updated.
Heaven’s Vengeance Staff now has VFX for its retaliation damage.
Summon Simulacrum spell and its upgrades now have associated assets.
New Rare Monsters:
Shrapnel Beast: Living Fire Metal 3x3, that will harass you with Shrapnel Blasts, destroy melee units with AOE spikes, and throw molten spears at you. Oh yeah, and physical->fire damage conversion for its enemies.
Animikii: The OG 3x3 thunderbird, fires off huge blasts of lightning, summons more thunderbirds, and has a retribution mechanic if you kill its allies.
Mothman : A 3x3 butterfly demon with regenerating shields and huge blasts of arcane and lightning damage.
Ultimate Troubler: A 3x3 troubler, that shoots a barrage of teleporting bolts, sending units randomly across the map.
Crystal Golem: A golem creature made of living crystal, its color changes to reflect its spells' current damage type and its own vulnerability.
Spells & Skills:
Lightning Form only expires if you fail to cast a lightning spell on your turn.
Chaos Casting only triggers on chaos spells cast by the wizard, not by allies.
Starfire Gate behavior now matches that of Flame Gate.
Plague of Undeath only targets valid creatures, and its upgrade creates zombies even on creatures with other respawn methods.
The Dark Clouds upgrade for Darkness is now functional.
Soul Tax can now target allies, as per the original description.
Iceball’s Cloud Combustion upgrade correctly shows affected tiles when targeting a blizzard.
Armageddon Blade is only castable on allies, and the Mass Armaments upgrade shows which allies are in the linked group.
Rain of Thunderbolts now prioritizes clouds containing enemies over clouds without, and wont target tiles occupied by the wizard or their allies.
Fixed a Wheel of Death crash that could occur with the Cheat Fate upgrade if only targets with 100% or greater Dark resistance were available.
Natural Vigor is no longer duplicated on reincarnated allies.
Summon Simulacrum name changed to: Wizard Replica.
Wizard Replica Colossus upgrade cost decreased (6->5) and now shows base HP and damage if the wizard has no items rather than 0.
Wizard Replica Blood Reclamation upgrade cost increased (3->5) functionality changed to, restores charge on Wizard Replica's death.
Wild Magic Changes:
Grants a random cantrip at game start.
Gives a random number of spells and skills each level within set bounds (rather than a fixed amount)
Won't give you blood spells you can’t afford to cast.
Rerolls your spells/skills when you reroll rifts.
Items:
Crisis Charm now protects the player from all damage for one turn and only consumes one charm at a time, even if you own multiple.
Codex of Sacrifice was now removes a flat 25 of your max health at the end of each level, and teaches a new Word spell each time, even if you can't pay the full cost. It stops functioning once all Word spells are known.
Fixed a bug with Terracotta Legion's Banner where the regeneration buff wasn't being applied to the Claytouched summons.
Fixed a bug with Death Legion's Banner where the teleporting buff wasn't being applied to the Ghostly summons.
AI & Pathing:
Fixed a bug where units only checked their first spell’s ability to harm an enemy when choosing pathing targets.
Fixed a bug where units would not use self-targeted abilities if they were immune to their own damage type.
The wizard once again avoids portals and shops during auto-pathing.
First of all, please join me in welcoming OpportunityDrive to the Rift Wizard development team! Going forward, he will be the main developer in charge of patches and maintenance for Rift Wizard, and I'll be stepping back a bit to work on prototyping new projects and figuring out
First of all, please join me in welcoming OpportunityDrive to the Rift Wizard development team! Going forward, he will be the main developer in charge of patches and maintenance for Rift Wizard, and I'll be stepping back a bit to work on prototyping new projects and figuring out what my next game will be. This patch is primarily his work.
As for the contents of said patch, so far we've got 31 new items, 5 new Trials, 2 new Spells, 1 Skill, and 1 new Boss Modifier, alongside balance changes, tooltip updates, and typo fixes. This stuff is all very much new, and probably a bit buggy and perhaps imbalanced- hop onto the beta branch and give it a test, and leave any feedback you might have on #rw2-beta-discussion on the discord.
New Items:
Earthquake Boots: Casts your Earthquake every 8 steps.
Rift Key Staff: Creates a Rift at the wizard's location upon level victory.
Fanged Amulet: Each turn, an adjacent unit takes 3 physical damage and you are healed for the damage dealt.
Stoneeater Amulet: Each turn, eat an adjacent wall. Gain 1 HP if you do.
Stormeater Amulet: Each turn, consume all adjacent lightning storms. When you do, you regain a charge of your highest level lightning spell of level equal to or less than the number of storms eaten.
Talking Hat: Your enchantment spells gain quickcast (the first one cast each turn does not conclude the turn).
Blizzard Beacon: Each turn, summons a random number of blizzards. The maximum number summoned each turn is the sum of all SP spent on ice magic.
Raiment of Eyes: Grants your allies your eye enchantment spells that they have matching tags for. Each level, a number of allies may be granted these spells equal to the sum of all SP spent on eye magic.
Draco Antiphony Scepter: When you cast a level 4 or lower sorcery spell, your dragon allies with matching types will attempt to cast that spell also.
Annihilator Staff: Deals 1 physical, 1 fire, and 1 lightning damage to creatures before they would be damaged by your sorcery spells.
Crisis Charm: Restores all life if you would die. Broken after use.
Codex of Sacrifice: For every 100 HP spent casting blood spells, learn a word spell. The HP required doubles each time the Codex is activated. If you know every word spell, instead restores all charges of your word spells.
Chalice of Light : Whenever you pick up an SP orb, each of your holy spells regains one charge.
Chalice of Iron : Whenever you pick up an SP orb, each of your metallic spells regains one charge.
Chalice of Warp : Whenever you pick up an SP orb, each of your translocation spells regains one charge.
Chalice of Dragons : Whenever you pick up an SP orb, each of your dragon spells regains one charge.
Volcanic Lance: When you cast a fire spell targeting an enemy, send out a destructive beam toward the target, destroying walls and dealing fire damage equal to the sum of all SP spent on fire magic.
Erebus Lance: When you cast a dark spell targeting an enemy, send out a destructive beam toward the target, destroying walls and dealing dark damage equal to the sum of all SP spent on dark magic.
Crown of Ragnarok: Nine turns after you enter a realm, cast Earthquake, Flameburst, Stormburst, and Word of Chaos.
Blood Shield: When you cast a spell, lose 1 HP and gain 1 SH.
Heavenrender: Whenever you cast a holy spell, deal fire and lightning damage to all enemies in a 2 tile burst around the target. The damage dealt is equal to the sum of all SP spent on fire and lightning magics, respectively.
Storm Legion's Banner: Whenever an ally is summoned, if it is on or adjacent to a Storm Cloud, the summon consumes it, and gains the stormtouched modifier.
Blizzard Legion's Banner: Whenever an ally is summoned, if it is on or adjacent to a Blizzard, the summon consumes it, and gains the icy modifier.
Death Legion's Banner: Whenever an ally is summoned, if it is on or adjacent to a chasm, the summon consumes it, and gains the ghostly modifier.
Terracotta Legion's Banner: Whenever an ally is summoned, if it is on or adjacent to a wall, the summon consumes it, and gains the claytouched modifier.
Blood Legion's Banner: Whenever you summon a unit with a spell or skill, if it is summoned adjacent to the yourself or another Fleshbound unit, the summon gains the Fleshbound modifier.
Boots of Imminent Doom: Upon entering a rift, immediately cast your Seal Fate on all enemies in a four tile radius.
Boots of Heaven's Assault: Upon entering a rift, immediately cast your Heavenly Blast on all demons and undead in line of sight.
Staff of Heaven's Vengeance: When one of your living or holy allies takes damage from an enemy, this staff deals 7 holy damage to the source of that damage.
Ring of Magnetic Charisma: When you enter a level, turns the nearest enemy lair or construct into an ally
Hallucinogenic Spore Staff: Whenever poison is inflicted on an enemy, they are berserked for three turns.
New Trials:
Cryomancer: Ice magic only.
Amnesiac: Your spells, spell upgrades, and skills, are removed and no longer available after you complete a level. Spent SP is refunded.
Wild Magic: After you complete a level, your spells and skills are randomly rerolled. Levels have no SP.
Blood Rites: Each time you cast a spell, increase its HP cost by its spell level. If it doesn't have an HP cost, it gains one. Resets as the end of each level
Flawless: You have 1 HP.
New Boss Modifier:
Slimy: 50% chance to gain 10% hp and max hp per turn. Upon reaching double original HP, splits, releasing 5 slimes. When this creature is damaged, a slime is spawned nearby.
New Spells:
Rain of Thunderbolts: Casts your thunderstrike spell targeting 12 random Storm Clouds each turn. This spell can be channeled for up to 12 turns. The effect is repeated each turn the spell is channeled. Can be upgraded to summon storm drakes, cast Iceball on Blizzards, or summon Storm Clouds.
Summon Simulacrum: Forges a living replica of the wizard and their equipment. Can be upgraded to heal the wizard for the spell's HP cost on Simulacrum's death, summon a giant immovable statue of the wizard instead, or teach it up to three of your cantrips.
New Skills:
Focused Channeler : Gain 4 turns of Clarity when you cast a channeled spell.
Fixed Bugs:
Attempted summoning with a full level should no longer crash the game.
Upgraded Gold Drake's Healing Light can now heal the wizard.
Pope The Frog's damage gating can no longer be subverted with poison.
Upgraded Rain of Fire should no longer mistakenly cast your Mega Annihilate instead of Annihilate.
Orb's threat indicators should now match their capabilities.
Goblin Wizard's Ignite Poison now uses its appropriate range stat.
Reincarnation no longer duplicates thorn buffs, and it does carry over equipment granted via Armorer.
Multicolor Rage Rod buffs can now be regained if they are removed (typically via Faerie Arcanist)
Spells that target connected enemies should now work appropriately with large enemies.
Reincarnation won't trigger while a unit is Soul Jarred.
Treants no longer threaten the entire level.
Teleport and Teleporters can now successfully target and take you to chasm tiles if you have flying.
Hatebolts pathing no longer blocked by shops and portals.
Earthquake no longer turns chasms into floors, as per its description.
Silkshifter no longer triggers off of minion teleports.
Misc. Changes:
Dragon's breath damage stat removed. Breath weapons now use minion damage.
Added a mercy portal spawn. If you complete a level and there are no portals, one will spawn for you.
Burning Idol no longer sacrifices friendlies if there are no enemies left.
Blood Anima summons at the end of the turn, rather than on cast, so you should be less likely to kill your own bloodghasts.
Seal Fate's Genocide upgrade now does exactly what it says.
Silent Specter and Banshee now communicate their abilities clearly.
Added Soaked, Fear, and Silence status effects to the (H)elp screen.
AI no longer attempts to attack or move toward Soul Jarred creatures with 1 HP.
Players can now mouse over the Challenges Button to see their current challenge modifiers in the examine screen.
Pain Mirror now counts HP spent casting spells as damage.
Geometer Staff radius bonus increased (1->2)