New World Update 1.9 Patch Notes (Season 1) – April 4, 2023

AI UPDATES

WORLD AI

• Reduced the damage dealt by Anubian Archers.

• Fixed a rare issue where Scarab fell through the world.

• Fixed an issue that allowed the Eruptions from Corruption Breaches to kill players through Death’s Door.

• Fixed an issue that caused Elk charges to not deal damage.

• AI no longer hitch to the left while wandering.

• Fixed a rare issue where AI that were attacked by ranged players would run to the wrong location and attack nothing.

• Fixed an issue where certain enemies caused vegetation flickering.

• Fixed an issue that caused Thunderking Tiger to always drop loot. It will no longer drop loot upon every defeat.

• Fixed an issue that caused some attacks from Barbary Lion to not deal damage.

• Fixed an issue where a player could be ignored by groups of enemies.

• Fixed Range’s fur so it is beautiful, luxurious and wintry white.

EXPEDITION AI

• Fixed an issue where the Anubian Guardian Reavers in statue form would wake up as invincible.

• Fixed an issue that caused the Goliath’s to be unkillable if one died too soon after the other.

• Fixed an issue in Dynasty Shipyard where Isabella would not transition phases correctly if players did large amounts of damage before the end of her transition.

GAME MODES AI

• Fixed a rare issue where AI went under the Fort in Invasions.

• Fixed an issue that caused the visual effects of Priests in Invasion to flash.

NOTABLE FIXES

• Fixed an issue that caused the AI to not attack objectives after taunt effects expired.

• Fixed an issue that allowed light attacks to interrupt Lost Sailor’s attacks.

COMBAT CHANGES

GENERAL

• Updated the 300 STR Attribute bonus to be the new 300 CON bonus. As a result, we also updated the functionality of the STR Attribute bonus to grant increased base damage on heavy attacks.

• Updated the 300 CON attribute bonus to specify all melee basic attacks, not melee weapons, and added Grit to Void Blade basic attacks while at 300 CON.

• Fixed an issue that caused dodge rolling, going prone, and then dodge rolling again to provide more mobility than intended.

• Fixed an issue where the 200 STR and 250 DEX Attribute bonuses were not consistently applying the damage bonus while Slow was active.

• Updated the tooltip for the 250 STR attribute bonus to be more clear.

• Updated magic weapon heavy attack buffers to be more reliable.

• Fixed an issue where players could perform attacks with the wrong weapon through swapping weapons.

• Fixed an issue where road buffs could be granted when on an area above a road, but not actually on it.

• Fixed a number of spells that were consuming weapon durability for each enemy hit instead of just the initial cast.

• Fixed an issue where spell targeting indicators would jump when aiming over terrain with only minor changes in elevation.

• Fixed an issue where toggled abilities wouldn’t be canceled correctly when joining game modes.

• Player collision is now disabled when entering Death’s Door in PvP modes.

• Added text flyouts that will appear when a target Dodges or Evades your attack.

• Fixed an issue where players could immediately transition into a fall and bypass the reaction state if a stagger/knockdown was triggered while jumping.

• Added a 50% max for the Exhaust and Increased stamina regen rate status effects.

• Spell Aiming Indicators will now display more reliably even in busy areas.

• Fixed an issue that blocked jump and using consumables while in a reaction state.

• The timing when players transition between Prone, Crouch, and Stand is now more reliable.

MITIGATION FORMULA

• Updated PvP Damage Mitigation formula to better scale mitigation across a variety of Gear Scores.

• Changed Fortify and Rend to directly scale to the player’s Armor Rating. Increased Fortify and Rend caps to account for these changes.

CRITICAL HITS

• Changed critical damage calculation to be additive instead of multiplicative.

• Adjusted critical hit chance to no longer increase by your total critical hit chance for every non-critical hit that occurs. Now the chance will only increase by the weapon’s base critical hit chance for each non-critical hit.

• Increased base critical hit chance on Fire Staff, Void Gauntlet, and Ice Gauntlet by 6%, on the Bow by 2%, and on all other weapons by 4%.

PVP ENEMY PERSISTENT SPELL VFX

• Ability Area of Effects belonging to enemies in PvP now have colored outlines to help distinguish which zones are beneficial versus harmful to the player.

EQUIP LOADS

• Changed bonuses that increased outgoing CC status effect durations on targets, to instead reduce incoming CC status effect durations on self.

  • Heavy equip load – Incoming Crowd Control Debuffs: -20% reduced duration

  • Medium equip load – Incoming Crowd Control Debuffs: -10% reduced duration

WEAPON UPDATES

TAUNTS

• Added in Taunt Gem compatibility to several weapons and abilities to create additional choices when tanking:

  • Calamity Counter (8s AoE taunt on activation)

  • Mighty Gavel (4s on hit taunt)

  • Maelstrom (4s on hit taunt)

  • Cyclone (2s on hit taunt)

  • Incinerate (3s on hit taunt)

  • Windchill (3s on hit taunt)

  • Petrifying Scream (4s on hit taunt)

  • Blast Shot (4s on hit taunt)

MAGIC WEAPONS

• Removed Mana cost on all magic weapon light attacks.

CROWD CONTROL BALANCE

• Reviewed all weapons to make more clear differentiations between attacks that are intended to be for Crowd Control and Damage. Removed Stagger from damage focused abilities, and reduced damage for stagger focused abilities.

  • War Hammer

    • Shockwave damage reduced from 80% to 60%.

    • Wrecking Ball damage reduced from 130% to 90%.

    • Clear Out damage reduced from 115% to 100%.

    • Path of Destiny damage reduced from 100% to 70%.

  • Sword and Shield

    • Shield Bash intimidating bash upgrade damage reduced from 100% to 75% weapon damage.

    • Shield Rush damage reduced from 125% to 100%.

    • Shield Rush’s Improved Rush Weaken increased from 10% to 20%.

    • Leaping Strike damage reduced from 150% to 100%.

    • Reverse Stab no longer staggers.

  • Spear

    • Javelin damage reduced from 125% to 80%.

    • Perforate’s final upgrade Impactful Strikes no longer staggers and was reworked to inflict a stack of 10% weaken for 5s on each successful hit (3 stacks max).

    • Sweep’s knockdown attack damage reduced from 75% to 45%.

  • Greatsword

    • Calamity Counter damage reduced from 100% to 80%.

    • Steadfast Strike’s first attack damage reduced from 70% to 40%.

    • Skyward Slash’s first attack damage reduced from 80% to 50%.

  • Rapier

    • Added the stagger back into Flourish, and reduced damage of Flourish from 90% to 60%.

    • Flurry’s final upgrade Finalize upgrade no longer staggers and was reworked to apply a stack of the bleed used by the rest of the tree on successful hit.

  • Great Axe

    • Reap’s first hit damage reduced from 70% to 60%.

    • Gravity Well’s upward Melee Swing damage reduced from 99% to 25%.

    • Gravity Well’s Vortex Burst damage reduced from 125% to 100%.

    • Insatiable Gravity Well Perk’s Burst damage reduced from 100% to 50%.

  • Hatchet

    • Feral Rush’s first attack damage reduced from 115% to 80%.

  • Bow

    • Evade Shot damage reduced from 125% to 90%.

    • Rapid Shot no longer staggers.

  • Musket

    • Stopping Power damage reduced from 120% to 90%.

  • Ice Gauntlet

    • Ice Spikes Mighty Spike no longer staggers.

  • Void Gauntlet

    • Scream damage reduced from 100% to 70%.

BLUNDERBUSS

• Notable Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that occurred when entering a menu with Mortar Charge active.

  • Indicator for loaded shots now counts down correctly when ammunition left is equal to or less than the maximum number of loaded shots for a ranged weapon ability, such as Blunderbuss mortar.

  • Fixed the Blunderbuss Blast Shot Preparation upgrade not stating new Rend functionality in the tooltip.

  • Fixed an issue where additional shots could be fired when interrupting the Blunderbuss Mortar Charge ability.

  • Fixed an issue where Activating Mortar Charge and swapping weapons gave the player an extra basic attack.

  • Fixed an issue where Net Shot would sometimes shoot from the wrong location.

  • Azoth Shrapnel Blast –

    • Reduced stamina damage dealt by each pellet by 50%.

    • Increased how much the ASB damage is reduced per consecutive pellet hit from 15% to 20%.

  • Claw Shot –

    • Adjusted cancel windows on Claw Shot to reduce burst damage potential when used in combos.

BOW

• Ability Updates

  • Penetrating Shot and Deep Strike Upgrade have had their damage reduced from 20% to 15%.

  • Reduced damage for Long Range passive from 15% to 10%.

  • Reduced damage bonus for Opening Strike passive from 20% to 10%.

  • Reduce damage for Finishing Shot passive from 20% to 15%.

• Notable Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the Bow Dodge and Weave passive was improperly extending its duration if a subsequent dodge occurred while the buff was already active.

FIRE STAFF

• Ability Updates

  • Pillar of Fire

    • Increased the size of the AoE from 2m to 2.5m.

    • Reduced the time it took to trigger the attack from aiming from 13 frames to 7 frames (6 frame reduction).

    • Removed a 3-frame delay from when the attack actually casted to when the damage was dealt.

    • Reduced damage from 170% to 165%.

  • Arson’s Advantage Upgrade

    • Increased Mana gain amount from 10% to 15%.

  • Meteor Shower

    • Updated ability to channel for 1s then cast the ability. Spell will remain active in the world for 4 seconds post cast.

    • Increased damage of initial hit from 75% to 100% weapon damage.

    • Updated status effect to tick at once per second instead of once every 0.75s.

    • Increased the tick damage while inside from 25% to 50% weapon damage.

    • Updated mana to all be consumed at once upon activation.

  • Immolation upgrade

    • Increased Mana gain per hit from 1% to 3%.

  • Judgment of Helios upgrade

    • Hitting targets inside of the Meteor Shower effect with light or heavy attacks will now inflict a stack of Smolder.

  • Fiery Determination Upgrade

    • Moved upgrade to be the final upgrade of Meteor Shower (This will force respec all Fire Staff mastery trees).

  • Fireball

    • Updated ability to no longer leave behind the burning AoE on impact. Damage is now focused on the Impact and Smolder DoTs.

    • Increased attack damage from 140% to 150%.

  • Scorched Earth Upgrade

    • Now applies a stack of Smolder on hit.

  • Incinerate

    • The attack start up is now faster.

    • Increased damage of the attack from 130% to 150%.

    • Added Grit to the base ability.

  • Flame Out upgrade

    • Removed 2nd hit, changed functionality to grant a stack of Empower for 7s per target hit with the attack. 3% Empower per stack (5 stacks max)

  • Burnout

    • Set the distance increase upgrade to be the base movement distance.

  • Updated the damage over time effect that is applied by the ability to be the same Smolder that the rest of the weapon uses.

  • Increased damage from 129% to 130% (Nice round number).

  • Fixed issue where the fortifying burnout perk was not functioning consistently when used with all other fortify status effects.

  • Heat It Up Upgrade

    • Now triggers an explosion right as the ability ends (if distance is timed properly, extra damage will be achieved).

  • Flare –

    • Added a trade-off to the Flare Upgrade: When upgrading the AoE, the projectile speed will now travel 25% slower.

    • Fixed an issue where the Flare upgrade allowed heavy attacks to backstab, and where Flare attacks could not be blocked.

  • Flamethrower –

    • Reduced how frequently Flamethrower can hit and then increased damage accordingly. This was to fix an issue where Flamethrower was making DoTs tick twice as fast, greatly increasing damage.

      • Flamethrower was changed from 50% weapon damage every half second to 100% weapon damage every second.

  • Updated the Accelerating Flamethrower Perk to be more clear on the activation condition and reduced the amount of stacks of Smolder that need to be on the target to trigger the effect from 3 to 2.

  • Heat Up –

    • Fixed an issue where no damage was occurring when Fire Staff’s Heat Up DoT ability was applied to an enemy.

• Additional Passive Updates

  • Combine functionality of Spell Focus and Flare into one passive, heavies don’t consume mana, and grant 5% mana on hit.

  • Changed Singe from just light attacks to light and heavy attacks.

  • Flare now triggers a 1m splash on impact.

  • Pyromania now increases damage by 10% instead of burning enemies

  • Dodging through an attack with Heat Up now inflicts a stack of burn on the target.

  • Changed activation condition of Trial by Fire from being hit, to hitting a target within 4m of player. Increased damage over time damage from 5% to 20%, Decrease duration from 10s to 5s, Decrease cooldown from 120s to 30s.

  • Updated all tooltips referencing the specific “Smolder” Burn to mention “Smolder” instead of “Burn”. Burn will still apply to all general Fire DoT status effects, including smolder, but Smolder is a unique Burn.

• Ultimate Updates

  • Rune of Helios

    • Increased radius of the AoE from 2m to 4m and reduced damage bonus from 25% to 20%.

  • Reheat Ultimate

    • Changed to hitting a target with a Heavy Attack that has 5 stacks of Burn will pop all Burn stacks and deal 100% weapon damage in an AoE explosion around the player. (10s Cooldown)

• Notable Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where Meteor Shower’s Immolate upgrade was not properly functioning when using the Keenly Jagged perk.

  • Fixed an issue where the Fire Staff Incinerate ability was not able to apply additional stacks of Burn with the Scorched upgrade, or additional stacks with the Flame Out upgrade.

  • Fixed an issue where the Fire Staff combat speed passive and Reheat ultimate 4s timer would sometimes trigger without activating an ability or putting it on cooldown.

  • Fixed an issue where players couldn’t ability cancel the pre-casting aiming pose of Pillar of Fire and Meteor Shower. Those abilities should now be in line with the functionality of similar aiming poses of other magic weapons.

  • Fixed an issue where Mana consumption was sometimes not handled as expected when using Flamethrower.

  • Fixed an issue where the Haste from the Fire Staff passive Combat Speed could persist through weapon swap.

  • Fixed an issue where Meteor Shower could sometimes apply multiple stacks on a target.

  • Fixed an issue where Pillar of Fire could prematurely trigger Rune of Helios.

  • Fixed an issue where Runes of Helios’ cooldown displayed incorrect values when entering a game mode.

GREAT AXE

• Ability Updates

  • Gravity Well is now considered a ranged attack.

  • Updated incorrect range description for Charge from 10m to 15m.

• Notable Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where Engage would hit twice.

  • Fixed an issue where some damage bonuses were not properly functioning with the Great Axe Bloodlust ultimate.

  • Fixed an issue that caused Gravity Well vortex to disappear if a target hit by it immediately died.

  • Fixed an issue where the Roots applied by the Gravity passive for the Great Axe would apply though blocks. Also updated the icons for those Roots to show as red to indicate it is negative.

GREATSWORD

• Ability Updates

  • Tuned Light and Heavy attack homing to be consistent with other melee weapons.

  • Updated tooltip for “Giant Slayer” to be clearer on the target needing to be above 90% health and not self.

  • Increased the time it takes to charge a heavy attack while in the Path Of Onslaught stance to be only 50% faster instead of twice as fast.

  • Increase cooldown for Crosscut from 15s to 20s.

  • Adjusted Relentless Rush and Adaptive Rush Upgrade to reduce the root from 1s to 0.5s.

  • Fixed an issue where the Adaptive Rush upgrade that applied Root prevented dodges while Rooted.

  • Reduce damage for Giant Slayer passive from 20% to 15%.

  • Changed activation condition to trigger off of ability hits and not ability activations for Swift Onslaught passive.

  • Updated several Greatsword tooltips to better communicate when stances take effect.

  • Fixed an issue with Calamity Counter where the hitbox size was bigger than intended and extending past the visuals of the attack.

  • Fixed an issue with Calamity Counter that caused the ability to cause performance issues in certain in-game locations.

  • Fixed an issue where the Greatsword Relentless Rush and Skyward Slash abilities would apply their effects through blocks.

SPEAR

• Notable Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that caused Impactful Strikes to apply to other Spear hits.

HATCHET

• Ability Updates

  • Reduced invincibility of Defy Death Ultimate to 0.5s. Changed health gain from 50% of Max HP to 50% of Base HP (Health value before it is modified by CON or any other bonuses)

  • Fixed an issue where Heartgem abilities would ignore the Defy Death Hatchet Ability.

  • Changed activation condition of Fortifying Strikes from three consecutive light attacks to one heavy attack.

  • Changed activation condition of Enraged Strikes from all basic attacks to both Heavy attacks and Abilities.

  • Updated Berserking Refresh Upgrade to be 5% Life Steal while Berserk is active instead of granting a flat amount of HP while active.

  • Set up a cap of 5 activations per attack for cooldown reduction of Desperate Refresh, to match similar passives for other weapons.

• Notable Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the Relentless Fury and Accumulated Power passive durations could not be extended.

  • Fixed an issue where the Relentless Fury and Accumulated Power passive damage bonuses from the Empower would not be applied to non-slash damage.

  • Fixed an issue where the Desperate Refresh passive was not working with thrown Hatchets.

  • Fixed an animation issue when pressing prone or crouch at the same time as Aim Throw.

  • Fixed an issue where the Critical Throw passive for the Hatchet did not differentiate between melee and ranged throws.

  • Fixed an issue where the Hatchet ability Infected Throw’s upgrade, Mortal Power didn’t properly portray the upgrade’s extended duration.

ICE GAUNTLET

• Ability Updates

  • Ice Pylon

    • Added ability to despawn Ice Pylon by holding ability input for 1 second while Ice Pylon is active.

    • Added Ice Pylon health details to description.

  • Entomb

    • Updated description to include dodge as a way to exit Entomb.

    • Added Entomb health details to description.

  • Wind Chill

    • Added ability input delay of 0.6s after ability starts to avoid accidental cancelations.

• Passive Updates

  • Updated distance of Cold Reach from target from being further than 15m to within 15m of a target.

  • Increase Mana gain of Empowered Frost while performing an attack while inside a frosted area from 3 to 6“.

• Replaced melee-only Perks on the following Ice Gauntlets:

  • Frozen Hope

  • Psychopomp’s Ma’at

  • Dead Claws

  • Gravekeeper’s Glove

  • Conservation of Heat

  • Cold Stone

• Notable Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that caused the Ice Shower’s Punishing Storm upgrade to not properly function when using the Keenly Jagged perk.

  • Fixed an issue where the Ice Gauntlet Entomb ability would bypass the Mana Stop Mutation effect.

  • Fixed an issue where Ice Pylon prevented Gathering Storm from triggering after 3 consecutive light attacks.

  • Fixed an issue where melee attacks homed towards friendly Ice Pylons.

LIFE STAFF

• Ability Updates

  • Updated Absolved passive to be for heavy attacks only. Since all magic weapons no longer cost Mana on light attacks.

  • Removed the required connection between the Absolved, Mending Touch, and Blissful Touch passives in the Healing Life Staff tree.

  • Reduced increased stamina regen rate of Sacred Ground upgrade and Holy Ground from 50% to 25%.

• Notable Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the spell cast target indicator was not moving smoothly.

  • Fixed an issue where players using the Life Staff in specific situations could unintentionally ping by pressing the key bind at a specific interval while running forwards or strafing.

  • Fixed an issue where players using the Life Staff in specific situations could not ping on the map.

• Fixed an issue where players using the Life Staff in specific situations could not ping on the map.

MUSKET

• Ability Updates

  • Traps

    • Adjusted the cooldown to only trigger after the start up of the attack, so that if the ability is interrupted prior to 1 frame before the toss occurs, the ability will not go on cooldown.

  • Tuned Aim Down Sight accuracy to reduce effectiveness of rapid long range shots.

    • Accuracy will be reduced when moving and aiming quickly.

  • Replaced “Ballistic Advantage” passive with a new one: “Steady Hand”

    • Increases Accuracy of any Musket shot when Aim Down Sight is maintained for 2s. Increased Accuracy will reset after a shot is fired.

    • Steady Hand passive activates in 1s and resets on shot while in Shooter Stance.

  • Greater Accuracy

    • Updated to remove accuracy penalty from Hip Shot.

  • Updated the Musket’s aiming reticle’s appearance to better function with the new Musket accuracy system.

  • Reduced Musket’s camera rotation Accuracy penalty by ~20%.

• Notable Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with the reload animation repeatedly playing when spamming an ability key during a reload when Trap or Sticky Bomb is assigned to that key.

  • Fixed a rare issue that occurred when transitioning into Musket abilities from prone.

  • Fixed an issue where the player could sometimes move at a faster rate than intended for a few seconds while tossing the Sticky Bomb.

  • Fixed a rare issue where players couldn’t move during the Sticky Bomb throw if they initiated the throw while idle.

  • Fixed an issue where Sticky Bomb wouldn’t deactivate when teleporting.

  • Fixed an issue where the Musket Trap’s Root was not consistent with the normal diminishing returns on Roots when applying the Root to a target with a trap while the Root is already active.

  • Fixed an issue where throwing a Trap with the Musket sheathed would result in the cooldown being activated even though the Double Trap upgrade was unlocked.

SWORD & SHIELD

• Notable Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the Sword and Shield’s defensive formation ultimate showed the incorrect value for its radius. Incorrectly showed 2m instead of 3m.

  • Fixed an issue where Sword and Shield’s Defender ability visual effects would not display when used by other players.

  • Fixed an issue that considered players “In Combat” when activating Defender’s Resolve without taunting an enemy.

VOID GAUNTLET

• Ability Updates

  • Void Blade

    • Added ability input delay of 0.6s after ability starts to avoid accidental cancelations.

  • Baleful Tether

    • Buffs and debuffs now start at maximum values and no longer scale up.

    • Increased projectile size from 0.4m to 0.5m

    • Increased impact damage from 10% to 100%, and added damage text to the tooltips.

    • Increased tether range from 15m to 20m.

  • Tethered Focus Upgrade

    • Increased Mana regen rate increase from 100% to 200%.

  • Soul Eater Upgrade

    • Changed trigger condition to be if the tether ends or is broken.

  • Essence Rupture

    • Increased impact damage from 50% to 100%, and added damage text to the tooltips.

    • Increased projectile size from 0.33m to 0.5m.

    • Increased projectile speed by 50%.

  • Oblivion

    • Updated Invigorating Oblivion to grant 25% stamina regen rate instead of granting a flat amount of stamina per second.

• Passives Updates

  • Efficient Harvest

    • Removed the condition for being below 25% Mana, and changed health drain reduction from 50% to 35%.

  • Deadly Range

    • Updated the condition to be against targets with an active debuff, and made it work with both light and heavy attacks.

  • Fervent Thirst

    • Updated to work with both light and heavy attacks.

  • Cleansing Harvest

    • Replaces Refreshing Harvest.

    • Changed functionality to be that Harvest Essence removes one debuff from self. (3s cooldown)

  • Leeching Bolts

    • Removed the target health percent condition and reduced the amount of bonus healing from 30% to 20%.

  • Extended Suffering

    • Updated to work with both light and heavy attacks.

• Notable Fixes

  • Fixed an issue that caused the Void Blade to not properly appear on players.

  • Fixed an issue where the status effect from the Slowing Tether perk didn’t properly show its scaled value in the tooltip.

  • Fixed an issue where Baleful Tether wouldn’t always function properly when triggered near the max range.

  • Fixed an issue that considered players “In Combat” when using Harvest Essence.

RAPIER

• Flurry –

  • Fixed an issue where the Bleed applied by rapier’s Flurry would trigger screen shake.