Changelog: Paths to Glory Patch 4

Paths to Glory Patch 4 - Version 26.040.1 - September 18, 2024

This patch focuses on combat balance adjustments and fixes.

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Albion Journal

The following Journal mission has had its conditions changed:

• Keep a city plot you own in an auction cycle → Bid 5 million Silver on a city plot you currently own

Combat Balance Changes

Axes

• Raging Blades (all Axes)
  • Damage per tick: 28 → 26

• Deadly Shot (all Bows)
  • Cooldown: 3s → 2s
  • Energy cost: 4 → 3
  • Debuff duration: 6s → 5s
  • Standtime: 0.4s → 0.3s

• Deathward Climax (Boltcasters)
  • First tick damage: 9.2 → 30.1
  • Damage increase per hit: 9.2 → 5.4 (total damage unchanged)

• Fire Bolt (all Fire Staffs)
  • Damage per tick: 5 → 4

• Raging Flare (all Fire Staffs)
  • Cooldown: 10s → 20s
  • Energy cost: 9 → 16
  • Initial damage: 135 → 187
  • Damage per tick: 5.97 → 7.2

• Divine Intervention (Hallowfall)
  • Cooldown reduction: 40% → 25%

• Celestial Sphere (Redemption Staff)
  • Time between bounces: 0.6s → 0.9s

• Vendetta (Camlann Mace)
  • Cast is now uninterruptible

• Elevated Nature (Blight Staff)
  • Healing (alone): 36 → 33
  • Healing (at least one ally): 42 → 39

• Spiritual Seed (Druidic Staff)
  • Cooldown after recast: 30s → 25s

• Reality Fissure (all Shapeshifter staffs)
  • First hit damage: 87 → 101
  • Second hit damage: 137 → 123

• Wild Onslaught (Primal Staff)
  • Fear duration: 1.2s → 1s
  • Cast time: 0.3s → 0.6s

• Spectral Trident (Trinity Spear)
  • Jump speed increased by 25%
  • Standtime after landing: 0.5s → 0.35s

• Soulless Stream (Galatine Pair)
  • Enemy health reduction: 6% → 10%
  • 0 stack damage: 88.2 → 90
  • 1 stack damage: 140.7 → 145
  • 2 stack damage: 211.05 → 215
  • 3 stack damage: 299.25 → 305

• Growing Rage (Royal Hood)
  • Cooldown: 30s → 25s
  • Buff no longer expires if no damage is dealt after reaching max stacks

• Electric Field (Stalker Jacket)
  • Cooldown: 30s → 40s

• Requite (Armor of Valor)
  • Now increases damage resistances by 40% while channeling

• Evasive Jump (Royal Shoes)
  • Range: 12m → 14m

• Immunity bubble after changing regions now also prevents debuffs and damage-over-time effects from being applied
• Being forcefully dismounted now cleanses crowd control and transformation effects, and provides a two-second immunity to further crowd control and transformation effects
• The following spells are no longer reflectable:
  • Burning Field (all Fire Staffs)
    • Area damage-over-time only

  • Fire Artillery (all Fire Staffs)
    • Area damage-over-time only

  • Frozen Hell (Icicle Staff)
  • Hellfire Potion
  • Inner Shadow (Shadowcaller)
  • Nasty Wounds (Hood of Tenacity)
  • Raging Storm (Bow of Badon)
  • Thorn Growth (all Nature Staffs)
    • Area DoT only

  • Wall of Flames (all Fire Staffs)

Fixes

Spell fixes

• Added missing AoE escalation to the following spells:
  • Burning Field (all Fire Staffs)
  • Combustion (Infernal Staff)
  • Counter (all War Gloves)
  • Crush Charge (Duskweaver Boots)
  • Electric Discharge (Judicator Helmet)
  • Flame Blast (all Fire Staffs)
  • Inner Shadow (Shadowcaller)
  • Pyroblast (one-handed Fire Staff)
  • Snare Charge (all Maces)
  • Tackle (Great Hammer)
  • Triple Kick (all War Gloves)

• Empowering Beam (all Arcane Staffs): Fixed issue where damage buff would not stack if two players targeted the same player simultaneously
• Backhand Strike (all War Gloves): Fixed issue where the same target could be hit multiple times
• Blind Spot (Shoes of Tenacity): Fixed issue where invisibility would persist while attacking or casting
• Fixed issue where the VFX of damage-over-time or healing-over-time spells would prematurely disappear after the affected player shapeshifted into human form

• Fixed issue where the Embalmed Tiger skin did not display in the Appearance UI
• [iOS] Fixed issue where tapping a search result in the Travel Planner UI would not autocomplete the destination

Other fixes

• Fixed issue where some Steam achievements would not register as unlocked when completed on mobile
• Various additional graphical, animation, terrain, audio, UI, and localization fixes

Note: The tooltip for Sanctify (Exalted Staff) currently displays incorrectly. This issue will be addressed in an upcoming patch.