Decay Augmentation & Twilight Warding Disabled – Upcoming Changes

Hello all -

We have seen the reports related to some very egregious numbers coming from a few builds/classes. The team has some fixes underway, but in the meantime we will be disabling the Decay Augmentation Witchcraft Power in the game as this is tied to some of these issues. This means players will not be able to equip the power at this time. Players can still purchase this power, but you will not receive it, so we do recommend against doing this until the power has been re-enabled.

We will be working on a fix and bringing this back to players next week. The team will attempt to see if we can do this via a server hotfix, but if we can’t get this in via a hotfix then we will look at doing a quick client patch shortly after 2.1.1 is released.

Additionally, we did want to provide a few other updates on some other class items we have seen bubble up to the top of conversations.

Necromancer: There is currently an issue with the Ring of Mendeln and its interactions with minion builds. We do have a fix for this and it is slated for 2.1.2.

Barbarian: We implemented a fix for the Mantle of Mountain’s Fury back during our first hotfix for 2.1.0. Since then, we have seen some much better results, but we have noticed there was some confusion related to Damage over Time from the quakes and the explosion damage being inconsistent. We do plan on addressing this which will result in some further strength to this build. We do want to note that we will be looking at this build and doing some balance tweaks as we start the next season.

This is just a few items we are looking and there are many more including game loading issues, client stability, and other class related items that go beyond the list mentioned above. We appreciate the feedback and everyone hopping into Season 7 to check out the new Witchcraft powers.

We will provide an update soon regarding the above after the weekend.

We have gone ahead and also disabled Twilight Warding as well this weekend. This was causing some weird interactions that could result in players (especially hardcore) dying unintentionally.

We have a fix being tested over the weekend and will roll that out next week once verified.

Adam Fletcher