New Shadow Skills (LASER), Massive Balance Changes (Mostly Buffs), Massive QoL!

03 Jan 2026Developer post

Auto-Capture Crafting: New option in the Crafting Inventory to auto-capture crafting items.
Inventory Improvements: Expanded the crafting inventory and significantly increased scrolling speed.
Multiplayer Crusades: Non-host party members can now start Crusades.
Toggle Skills Persist: Toggle-based skills will now persist and stay active between map transitions.
The Gambler: You can now sell items directly to Cass the Gambler.
Unstuck Command: Added a /unstuck chat command for players who find themselves lost.
Dungeon QoL: Killing the dungeon boss in Town now spawns a portal back to the entrance.
Bow Passives: All Bow-related passives now correctly read "Bow and Crossbow."
Efficiency Stats: Added a new tooltip explainer for Efficiency stats.

Lash of Ancient Shadow's Eternal Reaping

Requires a Staff or Focus equipped (Usable while Unarmed).
Unleash the shadow's wrath with a beam of ancient darkness. Inflicts 1 random Curse per tick, deals 10% Combined Weapon Damage per Curse on the target per tick. Inflicts 5 ticks over 1 second.
Costs: 100 Mana, 50 Stamina, 200 Shadow Offering.
Cooldown: 4s.

Voidbolt Barrage (Channeling, Projectile)

Requires a Crossbow equipped
Channel to rapidly fire Voidbolts which deal 50% combined weapon damage and inflict 1 stack of Wicked Resonance.
Costs: 20 Mana, 20 Stamina, and 15 Shadow Offering per Bolt.

Voidbolt Maelstrom (Channeling, Projectile, Area Effect)

Requires a Crossbow equipped
Channel to rapidly fire Voidbolts which deal 65% combined weapon damage and inflict 1 stack of Wicked Resonance at all enemies within range. Volleys twice per second (affected by Attack Speed).
Costs: 70 Mana/Stamina and 50 Shadow Offering per second.

Shadow Clip (Crossbow Skill)

Load a clip of 5 bolts imbued with Shadow. Targets hit grant 10 Shadow Offering per second for 3 seconds.
Costs: 175 Mana, 75 Stamina.

General Changes

Witchfire Arrow: Added Shadow Tag. Now generates 10 Shadow Offering per hit. Charge speed increased by 20%.
Rooting Arrow: Added Primal Tag. Now costs 25 Primal Charge.
Radiant Stance: Now has a 50% chance on hit to generate 1 Divine Fury.
Heavy Attack: Ki Blast size increased.
Renames
Divine Blast is now Litany Against Shadow’s Errant Reign (and now breaks destructibles). Lightbringer's Angelic Sealing Exalted Ray is now Pillar of Sealing Sun.

Buffs & Adjustments

Witchfire Arrow: Mana/Stamina Cost 125 ➔ 100 | Ignite Damage 35% ➔ 40% | Duration 6s ➔ 5s.
Bladecrest: Damage 25% ➔ 50% | Mana Cost 30 ➔ 25.
Consecration: Damage 30% ➔ 60% | Mana Cost 100 ➔ 75.
Void Rain: Mana Cost 100 ➔ 125 | Shadow Offering Cost 50 ➔ 25 | Damage 40% ➔ 100%.
Bat Swarm: Damage 45% ➔ 100%.
Thunderbolt: Damage 80% ➔ 120%.
Shadow Grasp: Damage 60% ➔ 160% | Mana Cost 140 ➔ 100 | Shadow Offering Cost 100 ➔ 50 | Cooldown 9s ➔ 7s.
Poison Nova Arrow: Poison Stacks 8 ➔ 12.
Earthquake: Stamina 175 ➔ 120 | Now inflicts On Hit effects with each tick.
Spectral Claw: Damage 110% ➔ 150% | Primal Charge per target hit 5 ➔ 20 | Now deals damage as a Melee Hit.
Blizzard: Mana 225 ➔ 200 | Initial & DoT Damage 50% ➔ 100%.
Twister: Damage 60% ➔ 100% | Primal Charge gained on cast 5 ➔ 10 | Primal Charge gained per hit 2 ➔ 5.
Necrosis: Mana Cost 150 ➔ 100 | Damage 65% ➔ 30% | Shadow Offering Generated per Second 20 ➔ 16 | Duration 6s ➔ 5s.

Nerfs

Serrated Dagger: Damage 85% ➔ 75% | Mana Cost 25 ➔ 35 | Stamina Cost 50 ➔ 60.
Hammer of Conviction: Damage 250% ➔ 175% | Stamina Cost 0 ➔ 50.
Voltaic Thrust: Damage 175% ➔ 125%.
Backstab: Damage from behind 1200% ➔ 750% | Stamina Cost 150 ➔ 165.

Wythmere Boss: Adjusted to be more active and aggressive during the encounter.
Crusade Goblins: Now take longer to force spawns and have a visual beam indicating their position while channeling.
Godcaller Talent: Damage increased from 70% ➔ 100%.

Curse Logic: When applying random Curses, the system will now prioritize reapplying Curses that are closest to expiring.
Pinging: Pinging the same location or target a second time now removes the ping.
Chat Linking: Ctrl + Right Clicking equipped items will now link them in chat instead of unequipping them.
Training Dummies: Clients in multiplayer sessions can now reset the training dummies at the reset stone.

Fixed an issue where Staff and Crossbow walking animations did not trigger footstep sounds.
Fixed Meditation color not replicating correctly in multiplayer.
Fixed inaccurate training dummy DPS readouts for clients.
Fixed the item description for Fool's Gambles.