Beta43 "The Coming Shadows" Patch Notes

[Gamer-man]

I thought I'd try reorganizing the patchnotes to see how long it would take.

New Content:
-Introducing a new evolution path for high level characters: Prodigies. They are a bunch of talents tied to having high stat (>= 50) and some other requirement. They are only one level, you may learn one at 40 and one at 50. They can do anything and are *not* class bound.
-Some bosses have been upgraded with prodigies
-Many new artifacts and uniques
-New minor event available in many zones: glowing chests. Can contain nice stuff. But beware.

General Changes:
-In an unpredictable move all traps are gone from most normal zones! Traps can still happen in vaults and a few special areas
-Amulets and Ring egos reworked; all otehr egos will not give effect immunities but them; but they will have much higher values
-Reduced drop rates on greater egos in tier one and two dungeons
-Rewrote and rebalanced many egos
-Removed many redundant egos
-Added many new egos
-Confusion maximum power capped at 50%
-Marauders are unlockable using rogues or shadowblades
-New vault in the old forest

Cursed:
-New zone for Cursed only, around level 20 revealing some backstory

Solipsist:
-Dream actors can not access inventory
-Mind damage from the summoner no longer damages thought-forms
-Distortion bolt no longer rolls crit twice, damage calculations for explosion changed
-Dreamforge no longer brainlocks every turn but has a chance to brainlock instead
-Thought-forms can now spawn with technnique based egos (hopefully reducing the chance they'll spawn without an item)
-Thought-forms in ascii are now easier to distinguish
-Secondary bonuses from thought form unity moved to over mind, over mind range increase removed
-Fixed restless night and nightmare interaction
-Disruption Shield is not deactivated when switching items
-Distortion will now last two turns instead of 1
-Distortion bolt now makes distortion effects ignore friendly targets at tl 5
-Reduced values on many dream-forge talents
-Insomnia now stacks up to 10 turns
-Inomnia now ticks up while the target is asleep, preventing overlapping sleep abuse
-Nightmare aoe increased
-Distortion wave aoe increased
-Inner demons can no longer summon
-Inner demons and waking nightmare now ignore fear immunity if the target is asleep
-Sustaining a thought-form will now put other thought-form talents on cooldown
-Reduced sleep power bonus on insomnia, increased insomnia power reduction
-Dismissal now only blocks 50% damage on a non-crit and 75% on a crit
-Projections spawn more often in the dreamscape
-Dreamscape now ends if enough projections are killed to kill the target
-Dreaming horrors spawn fewer dream seeds
-Fixed timeskip/rune of the rift sometimes leveling up targets
-Mindpower on focus whip nerfed, but it now counts as a gem for mindslayers. As well, damage, level range, and material level increased.
-Mindpower on Serpent's Glare nerfed, but it now activates for spit poison.
-on_takeoff removed from Inner Eye due to uselessness.
-Solipsism damage to psi made less spammy
-Mind Storm damage reduced and feedback cost increased
-Mind Storm bolts now pass through friendly targets


Wyrmic:
-Slight buff to fists of the desert scorpion.
-Mindpower on Nexus of Way nerfed for yeeks and buffed for non yeeks.
-Eye of the Wyrm infinite power fixed.
-Surefire nerfed
-Corpus' Vilespawn weakened.
-Hydra's Bite damage increased.
-Fixed steady mind defense bonus
-Reduced duration of dreamscape
-Dream prison drain is now based on a percentage of maximum psi

Chronomancer:
-Paradox failures etc. now have sound effects and more visible combat log entries
-Fixed Precognition (hopefully)

bug fixes unlisted (may be added later)

i know i missed a bunch, i'll go back and revise this if anyone points out anything (also, lets me know what is solipsist only and what effects all psionics). i'm not sure if anyone else wanted this, but i was going to try to do this anyways to see how long it takes, so i might as well post the results. I'll do this for future patches if there is interest.