Thorns
Balance- STR thorns nodes increased from 11 to 16; STR–DEX reduced from 9 to 6, and STR–INT thorns removed.
- Thorns are separated from blunt-damage clusters. Shared mastery choices are preserved.
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Skill tree
Main Tree
Damage Reflection
Balance- Total tree damage reflection reduced from 78.5% to 26%. The 4%/10% tiers are unchanged.
Attribute Scaling
Balance- Removed eight of nine Strength, Dexterity and Intelligence scalers, including individual nodes granting +500% damage at 1,000 attribute. Dexterity-based bow draw speed remains.
- Repeated armour-based blunt damage bonuses are replaced by thematic affixes using existing tiers.
Adrenaline and Trinkets
Changed- Core adrenaline progression moves from STR–DEX to two existing STR–INT clusters: gain, decay delay, block and consecutive-hit bonuses, and adrenaline-based regeneration.
Barbed Arrows
Balance- The keystone moves to an existing empty STR–DEX location.
- Adds 50% of thorns damage to arrows and bolts, with ×0.25 projectile speed and ×0.25 range. All three values come from the node affixes.
World and exploration
World and combat
Movement speed
Changed- Movement speed covers walking and running only; in water only swim speed applies.
Creature rarity
Changed- 1-2 stars make a creature magic, 3-4 rare, 5 or more unique.
- Starred creatures no longer guarantee a rare item - stars already raise loot; Rare Sight starts at 3 stars.
Crafted item level
Changed- A crafted item gets the level of the biome of its latest material, so runes on it roll that biome's tiers.
Equipment drops
Changed- Four times less equipment drops; the drop slider shows the new norm as 100% (up to 400% - the old rate). Unique items and boss tables are not cut.
- Sockets on dropped items are rare: 1% to 6% by item rarity instead of 45%. Punch them yourself.
Altar of Power
New- Shift+E (twice) resets the altar biome's monster power to +0%.
Interface and usability
Interface
Endurance on the health bar
New- The endurance threshold shows as a yellow layer on the health bar.
Glossary
New- New articles: companion, link, aura, aftershock, spore, ice crystal, endurance.
Eureka counter
New- The profession tooltip shows how many discoveries you have made.
Jewel icons
Changed- New, softer icons for the ten tree jewels.
Path plaque
New- Above the tree points: your path's name and where to take or change it.
Path choice for older characters
New- A character who started before paths picks a path right in the tree window; allocated passives stay.
Fixes
Fixes
Crash at full adrenaline
Fixed- The game no longer crashes when adrenaline fills up.
Craft tree names
Fixed- Runecarver masteries and other craft nodes no longer show combat mastery names.
Path attribute
Fixed- Quick path planning no longer takes Dexterity instead of Strength on old crossings.
Empty keystones
Fixed- Whisper of Niflheim and unique items no longer grant an empty keystone.
Main Tree
Strikes
Fixed- Strike bonuses and Critical Echo no longer apply to explosions, bursts and spores set off by a strike.
- A sceptre's Smite now gets strike and area bonuses, as its description says.
- Only single-target melee actions count as Strikes. Wide swings and Smite’s area explosion do not receive the tag.
Projectile Modifiers
Fixed- Increased projectile speed now combines correctly with its more/less multipliers.
- Arrow and bolt range penalties apply once; projectile continuations inherit the prepared flight limit.
Interface
Stat wording
Fixed- «Swimming movement speed» now reads «swim speed».
- Mass gathering radius shows in metres, not as «+100% range».
- Combined arrow and bolt projectile speed now uses a clear shared label.
- Adrenaline decay-delay affixes now show seconds.
Chisels
Fixed- Chisels now sit under Tools in the crafting window.
Server configuration
Tree Parameters
Barbed Arrows Parameters
Changed- Barbed Arrows now takes its speed and range multipliers from the keystone affixes; thorns.arrow-speed and thorns.arrow-range no longer control this mechanic.