Neverworks Gaming Blog

General

• Polished up wolf familiar attacks a bit.
• Redesigned the landing page to pave the way for awe-inspiring conversion rates.
• Fixed freeze animations.
• Chill status effects now properly slow mob attack speed (no idea when this broke!).
• Chased down a pretty annoying bug where projectiles weren’t properly hitting charmed mobs.
• Finished up legendary weapon procs.
• The glory days of bleed damage are over. Sorry! Bleed damage is now based on primary weapon’s damage and what type of weapon it is. Bleed damage has a multiplier based on your primary weapon type. The best multipliers, in order, are: piercing, slashing, crushing/punching, 2h slash, 2h blunt/staves.
• Fixed Erudites’ Divine Aegis buff icon duration.
• Rare mobs will now generally spawn more often since they are no longer restricted to specific subzones. This may help Track work more often.
• Fixed double pet summons. Maybe.
• Adventurers have reported sightings of new monsters in Vandamor.

Warrior

• Intrepid Might will no longer activate if it’s still on its cooldown.

Enchanter

• Falling damage from gravity spells has been nerfed against bosses, rares, and champions. Sorry! It was ridiculous and you know it!

General

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused your gold to indicate NaN.
• Made some changes that will help the game load slightly faster.

General

• Removed hard caps on all skills.
• Increased skill caps for all classes.
• Buffed maximum health of mobs in nightmare and hell.
• Fixed a bug that prevented about 75% of the rings and amulets in the game from dropping.
• Fixed damage value on Axe of the Phased Dragon. It was lower than intended.
• Fixed a tooltip on Mithril Chains of the Underdark.
• The ending now only shows the first time you kill Nalatos.
• Fixed a minor bug that causes your level to display one level lower if you ding and then camp.
• The theme music now plays if you’re not logged in at the main screen.
• Worked on strengthening security of earning exp.
• Fixed the damage value of Satyr’s Artifice.
• Many, many spells had their power adjusted to conform to the new skill caps. Particularly buffs that scale with abjuration.
• Server accounts will now start with 100 crystals.
• Fixed the icon for Daimyo’s Yugen. It’s supposed to be a bow icon.

Warrior

• Fixed Furious Scorn’s tooltip.

Cleric

• Searing Revelation’s duration has been fixed to 60 seconds.

Paladin

• Yaulp was improved slightly. Note that this skill’s power is boosted by both alteration and wisdom. Little known fact! Even I forgot.

Monks

• Monks now have the highest feign death success rate at 45%.

Necromancer, Shadow Knight

• Their feign death now has a 35% success rate.

Shaman

• Togor’s Insects now slows targets’ attack speed by 2 seconds.

Enchanter

• Shiftless Deeds now slows targets’ attack speed by 1.5 seconds.

General

• Increased Attack Speed no longer appears on magic/rare items.
• The game now indicates how many players are currently online instead of how many have played in the last 24 hours.
• Mobs in hell no longer “accidentally” summon two pets.
• It now correctly indicates that you gain a talent point after defeated Lord Szarthax instead of General Ovext.
• Probably fixed an infinite stun bug when a mob kills you with a bash.
• Fixed a bug that prevented you from withdrawing money if you have 0 gold on your character.
• You can now continue chaining normal mobs after completing quests in zones such as Nimgaul and Dire Sanctum. You’ll no longer get the “zone is cleared” message.
• Chance for melee attacks to hit has been added to the offensive tab of the character sheet. Note that mob level and dexterity play heavily into this calculation.
• I tinkered with exp penalties and bonuses across the board to encourage killing mobs closer to your level.
• There’s now a 15% exp bonus for killing mobs in hell.
• The server is now more likely to boot you from the game if you fail to communicate with the server.
• Nightmare and Hell difficulties are no longer available in local mode.
• You are no longer notified that you lost experience upon death unless you lost more than zero exp.
• Self-buff icon fade-out animations now work as expected.
• You can no longer run while feared.
• Stun duration from mob bashes was reduced slightly.

Race Changes

• Half elves can now play monks and shadow knights.
• Halflings can now play monks.
• Gnomes are now immune to silence.
• Gnomes now have a new racial called Warp Field that puts your target in a stasis field for 25-30 seconds.
• High Elves now regenerate 1% of their maximum mana per tick.
• Trolls now regenerate 1% of their maximum health per tick.
• Wood Elves’ racial was changed to Camouflage, an evade much like Rogue’s Evade skill, but with a slightly longer duration and damage bonus. However its cooldown is 2 minutes.
• Dwarves’ Granite Visage now provides 50% damage reduction against all damage for 12 seconds (versus 25% reduction to physical only for 15 seconds).
• Halflings now have a passive magic find bonus and can run while stunned or feared.
• Barbarians’ Ancestral Rampage now has a 100% damage bonus over 12 seconds.
• Erudites’ Divine Aegis now sets all resists to 350 for 20 seconds.
• Humans’ Second Wind now restores health and mana over 12 seconds based on your max values. It also enhances all damage by 25% and reduces all damage received by 20%.
• Half Elves’ racial skill changed to Hybrid Vigor. New skill now heals over 7 seconds and breaks you out of stun and/or fear. This skill loses the utility of + all stats, but gains much valued ability to break out of fear and stun.

Warriors

• It’s not well documented, but warrior fury does benefit from Second Wind.

Monks

• Monk punch damage and delay have been improved.
• Monk spirit now benefits from Second Wind.

Magicians

• Earth pet now casts snare instead of root.
• Earth pet’s Elemental Fury attack now snares all targets.

Paladins

• Changed Cleanse to Fervent Prayer. Cleans all DoTs and makes you invincible for 5 seconds. Skill cost has been increased and now has a 30-second cooldown.
• Lay Hands now heals 70% of your maximum health.
• Vengeance’s L20 holy bolts were brought down a notch. The damage range is much wider now.

Druids

Sylvan Grasp was changed to Sylvan Creep. It now snares all targets instead of roots. If talented, the DoT spell does not wear off until the mob dies or combat ends.

General

• Improved the password reset process. It now refreshes the page properly after successfully resetting your password.
• Slightly increased the ambush cooldown, i.e., the minimum interval between possible ambushes.
• Removed triple ambushes. There’s now a 33% chance of a double ambush on nightmare and a 66% chance on hell.
• Turned up the volume of all ambient sounds.
• Changed appearance of Create Account button to reduce confusion with Login button.
• You can now use your Kickstarter banking trinket to deposit gold from anywhere.
• The gold input now only allows numbers.
• The gold input now has an OK next to it instead of on the bank/inventory panels.
• When you click to start transferring gold from your inventory, it now selects the text automatically and sets the value to your gold amount.
• Made the new text shadows super sexy.
• Fixed the positioning of glacial spike’s animation.
• Before showing the Twitter share button, the game will first check to see if it’s properly defined. Some work environments block Twitter’s domain and prevents this library from loading properly.
• Increased the rate of dual wield and double attack success rates. Dual wield rates were significantly buffed.
• Strengthened the power of 1H weapons for all skills on a global (non-auto attacks). These steps were taken to help achieve better parity between 1H and 2H builds.
• Nerfed mob cast speeds. They were actually faster than expected.
• Player chill and snare effects are now differentiated in that snare slows cast time and chill does not. These effects also slow mob run speed and attack speed at the same rates.
• Fixed a graphical glitch that caused Iron Maiden animations to never get removed.
• The “Destroy” button will now indicate “Sell” if you have the banking trinket.
• Removed monetization from Reset Talents.

Ranger

• Snare now doubles mob cast time.

General

• Fixed training costs. This was off by one level.
• Changed Shaman’s spell name from Talisman of Altuna to Talisman of Trogmaar.
• Slightly changed the item icon border & background in the item tooltip.
• Fixed a serious monk bug that was causing their primary weapon slot to eat weapons.
• Fixed a minor bug that stored the last four digits of a credit card with the wrong value if it started with a zero. This only messed up how the card’s last four was displayed on screen.