Act 2 for Grim Dawn got released.
Act II Released!!! (Changelog for B17)
We are pleased to announce that Act II, roughly the second third of the full release, has been released to the public!
This release should just about double the available content and raises the level cap to 35. There are many general improvements, including the redesigned HUD, some graphical enhancements, loads of new items and insidious quests.
In summary, you can look forward to:
106 New Items!
23 New Bosses and Mini-Bosses!
17 New Quests!
10 New Enemy Types!
We hope you enjoy and look forward to your feedback.
You can check out the build notes below:
Act 2 is now available!
Warning: Nightblade mastery has experienced some significant revisions which may result in loss of skill points and/or an invalid skill point assignment
Art:
Added Icon for the Inventor.
Updated HUD with new design and animated resource bars.
Updated In-game UI (Character sheet, smuggler, vendors, etc)
Updated Act 1 House Textures
Tech:
Added codex page to the quest log window to store collected notes.
Added in world item comparison tooltips. (Hold Alt and hover over an item on the ground)
Added "move" keybinding. Press and hold to move to the location of the mouse cursor.
Added "force move" keybinding. Hold to prevent targeting of enemies and objects.
Added gender support for localizations.
Added pet icons for aggressive/normal/defensive states.
Added the World map to the Local Map UI, which has been resized.
Added a larger minimap toggle to the top right of the screen which displays a larger area.
Components can now be combined regardless of whether you meet the level requirements or not.
Fixed a bug where the hotbar would fail to reload correctly when it contained multiple skills of the same type.
Fixed a bug where skills on the hotbar would fail to work if a component was moved between items.
Fixed a bug where enemies would get up incorrectly after being knocked down.
Fixed a bug where skills which target in an arc would fail to hit additional enemies.
Fixed a bug where monster pets would display incorrect death behavior when the master was killed.
Fixed a bug where npc quest punctuation would be updated incorrectly.
Fixed a bug where monsters were unable to resummon pets in a timely manner.
Fixed a bug where mouse clicks could be registered by windows behind the skill pick area.
Fixed a bug where pet skills would display incorrect pet stats for the skill level.
Fixed an issue with Physique and Spirit from mastery not granting additional Health/Energy, respectively.
Game:
Some one-shot chests have been removed in Act 1
Rare and Epic drop rates have been improved on bosses and heroes
Hero spawn rates have been increased
The experience formula has been adjusted to scale better into the higher levels. You may notice existing characters suddenly gaining a level or two.
You'll now get a small experience bonus for collecting lore objects / notes
Adjusted mastery life per level to account for fix to physique life bonus. Total life is still a bit higher for each class.
The Strange Key now grants a short quest reminding you to use it. Consequently, this means the key will stop dropping after you open the door. Characters that already opened the door will stop getting more keys to drop if they loot a key.
The Inventor finally received that voice surgery she desperately needed
Challenge areas: Some side dungeons meant to be especially challenging can now have a level offset, so that they spawn enemies and loot as though the player were higher level. Spawns will still be capped at a min/max for that area if the player is above or below that range. Example: Player is level 20, dungeon has offset of +2, it will spawn enemies and loot as though the player were level 22.
A new hero archetype has been added: Frozen. This type of hero is mostly prevalent in Act 2, though you may encounter it in Act 1 as well.
Giant Mosquitos, Wasps, Spiders and Harpies are now easier to target with ranged abilities.
Nightblade: Shifted some mastery bonuses in favor of life to increase durability.
Nightblade: Increased protection on phantasmal armor
Nightblade: Increased frostburn damage on nightchill
Nightblade: Slight boost to shadow dance's avoid attacks / projectiles and changed +%OA to +%DA
Nightblade: Increased bleed on heart seeker and added %pierce.
Nightblade: There is a new tier 1 melee attack called Lethal Gambit and corresponding tier 4 modifier, Amarasta's Blade Burst. It occupies the space Blade Trap was previously.
Nightblade: Blade trap now has a radius effect, trapping the target and any adjacent enemies. The new more powerful version has taken Blade Swarm's place.
Nightblade: Blade Swarm removed from mastery to make way for Lethal Gambit. Blade Swarm didn't fit well as it was a little too casterish and also difficult to balance so that it wasn't either useless or outclassed other skills.
Nightblade: Belgothian's Sheers now causes 1.5s stun to enemies.
Nightblade: Dual Blades is now a passive skill (as opposed to weapon pool with chance to proc) that enables dual wield and provides a constant pierce / %pierce bonus.
Nightblade: Pneumatic Burst heal scaling increased slightly and pierce / %pierce replaced with %total dmg since the former was redundant with the new Dual Blades.
Nightblade: Nightfall and Phantasmal Blades have each been moved up a tier as part of the restructuring.
Soldier: Increased energy cost for blitz and forcewave, reduced %wpn dmg to forcewave.
Soldier: Inreased starting damage on forcewave
Soldier: Adjusted Markovian's Advantage to provide higher initial damage with absolute physical and a flat weapon damage %.
Soldier: Reduced duration of regen on Will to Live by 1s.
Soldier: Reduced scaling on Military Conditioning and Decorated Soldier.
Occultist: Shifted some acid dmg from Blood Burst into poison.
Occultist: Increased pet health slightly.
Occultist: Reduced life steal on Sigil of Consumption.
Demolitionist: Shifted % weapon dmg from fire strike to explosive strike so that the radius damage would benefit from it. In place, firestrike gains % physical dmg.
Demolitionist: Increased speed of all projectiles.
Demolitionist: Grenado cool-down reduced by .5s and radius increased slightly.
Demolitionist: Blackwater Cocktail energy cost increased and damage slightly reduced.
Demolitionist: Mastery bonuses shifted a bit in favor of life / physique to make class a little less squishy.
Demolitionist: Increased health regen on Vindictive Flame.
Demolitionist: Stun Jacks cooldown reduced from 3s to 2.5s
Demolitionist: Added 50% chance of 1.5s stun to Cannister Bomb.
Demolitionist: Added a small slowing component to Flashbang.
Weapon Damage: Increased rate at which base weapon damage scales up.
Enemies: adjustments to life and base physical damage
2h Guns: Increased damage to a level more befitting the 2-hand requirement.
The following components had their stats adjusted: Aether Soul, Arcane Lens, Arcane Spark, Dread Skull, Hollowed Fang, Mark of Illusions, Mark of the Myrmidon, Restless Remains, Shard of Beronath, Spellwoven Threads
Guardsman's Spaulders' Will to Live granted skill has been rebalanced and renamed
New Epic gloves have been added to the 10-20 range (Embergrip Handguards)
New Epic sword has been added to the 10-20 range (Willie's Razor)
Slightly reduced run speed bonuses on items
Chance on effects on some rare affixes have been shifted around so that loot will never generate two skill procs on one item
Affixes affected by this change are: Devastating, Survivalist's, Overseer's, of Fury, Houndmaster's, Sandstorm, Glacial, Thunderstruck
7 new rare affixes were added to accommodate these shifts
