Hello adventurers! Today's patch is a balance, bug fix, and quality of life update based on your feedback! Before we go over the notes, a couple quick updates on the DLC and Switch versions. Legend of Shara Progress Tangledeep's first expansion is 99% feature-complete! We're primarily focusing on polish, bug fixing, and localization now. We should be looking at an early March release on PC. Switch date TBA. Switch Patches There is a patch headed to Switch as well - 1.0.2 - which you can read about here. The patch process on console is much slower as we can't release things ourselves; changes have to be bundled up and sent to Nintendo for approval, tested, and then released. It can take as little as a few days but up to a month. This, combined with the fact that the Switch codebase differs somewhat from the PC codebase, means you will not necessarily see the same exact list of changes on both platforms. Our goal is to maintain as much parity between the two as possible, but since Switch has some content from the expansion, different UIs/input methods etc., some bugs on PC are not on Switch, some QOL changes are not necessary, and so on. With that, on to the PC 1.23c changes!

BALANCE

• Adjusted how the Banish champion ability works. It now reduces the summon duration of all nearby temporary player summons by 50% of max. Permanent summons like Floraconda will take 50% of max health in damage.
• Staff-type weapons now give +1 base Spirit Power per level (before multipliers)
• The Staff mastery Force Blast now inherits your weapons element, and gains an additional +20% damage from Spirit Power (is now 40%/60% of weapon/spirit power, up from 40%/40%)
• XP/JP rewards from chopping down trees have been increased across the board. The cap on these rewards has been raised, and uncommon/rare trees give even more now.

BUGS

• Fixed bug where elemental auras on champions would not appear if you loaded the game near one
• You should no longer get double money when using a movement ability to land on a pile of coins
• Fixed somewhat broken trigger mechanism for random lightning strikes by champions
• Fixed display bug if you got 0 fountains in a dream (should say 0, not -1)
• Fixed rare game load bugs related to certain blocking objects
• Possibly fixed bug with non-rendering terrain
• Fixed another AI bug related to healing abilities and dismissed or destroyed summons
• Discipline stat should no longer extend the duration of your Escape Portal, causing it to take LONGER to go back to town!
• Fixed longstanding bug with equipment comparisons! If an item had multiple stat mods, it was only calculating as if it had one mod. e.g., A plain Spectacles (+5 Guile/Swiftness) would almost always be better than a magical one (+5 Guile/Swiftness, +2 all stats; only the second mod was counted).
• Summoned monsters like Bonecrabs can no longer be marked for quests
• Finally fixed Hergons Frostplate ice shard bizarre movement
• Fixed AI quirk related to corral pets with lots of abilities (some abilities would be ignored at certain angles)

QUALITY OF LIFE

• You can now hover over stairs on the minimap to see where they lead!
• In the shop UI, when *buying* items, hovering over a consumable item will show you how many of that item you already have in your inventory.
• Divine Smite / Holy Bolt animation (i.e. from Radiant Starhelm, Divine Fury) should execute about 250% faster now.
• Daily/Weekly challenges now have reduced or sped-up cutscenes and callouts.
• Lucid Orb Shards now display the full text for the mod they add in the item description.
• When using Repeat Recipe in the cooking UI, the cursor will now return to the Repeat Recipe button unless you change the recipe.