General
Falling damage and knockback effects are no longer affected by the game's performance on your machine.
Knockbacks are now capped on damage for pressure based on the distance that could actually have been traveled, and falls are now capped at a reasonably high amount of damage.
Melee Combat Improvements
The formula for strategy skill was modified, and the endurance reduction curve is now less rough. Endurance costs are much lower at lower levels compared to before, and they are slightly lower by level 50.
Modified Offensive, Ranged and Striker Stance endurance costs. They now use the endurance costs before all item upgrades.
Added accuracy bonuses to upgraded weapons. This is additive with Stance Bonuses. Both melee and ranged weapons gain additional accuracy bonus.
Backstab damage on items now scales with weapon upgrades.
AAs
Added a new AA, Widened Perception, that increases the amount of loadouts available to your character by 1.
A new toggleable AA called 'Point Blank Fire' has been added for Rangers, Rogues, Monks and Berserkers.
The new, auto-granted Point Blank Fire AA ( Rangers, Monks, Rogues, Berserkers) provides always-active passive benefits (no minimum ranged distance & grants the ability to double and triple attack ranged attacks). This ability can also be toggled on to always prioritize ranged attacks over melee attacks when autoattack is activated.
The Weapon Mastery of the Scout AA has had it's damage percentages lowered to 20/40/60%.
Stances
Ranged Stance has been revamped. Ranged Stance will now parallel Offensive Stance:
"Outgoing ranged damage is increased by 100% and your chance to hit is increased by 25%. Every point of bonus damage dealt consumes an equal amount of endurance, with a reduction based on your strategy skill."
Spells
Cancel magic will now dispel detrimental buffs on allies and beneficial buffs on hostiles.
If a hostile cast (PC/pet on NPC or NPC on PC/pet), then only strip beneficial buffs
If a friendly cast (PC/pet on PC/pet ), then only strip detrimental buffs.
If NPC on NPC or any information can't be found, use legacy strip first buff logic.
This does not impact the behavior of cures for buffs not removable by cancel magic.
The spells Alter Plane: Hate and Alter Plane: Sky now benefit from the reagent cost reduction granted by spell ranks. At rank 10, it is not required for the player to possess the reagent at all.
Heart Harpies in the Plane of Sky will proc their AoE mesmerization much less frequently.
Loadouts
Swapping Loadouts with an item equipped that is not Keyring Compatible (ie; stackables like Fishing Grubs) will now send the item into the Inventory.
Achievements
The achievement "Drawing Life from a Stone" is now marked as optional for the achievement Highly Decorated.
Zone Population
Hand of the Maestro will no longer spawn in non-raid Plane of Hate.
The following NPCs are no longer required for
dungeon crawls.
Crushbone:
Ambassador D`Vinn
Retlon Brenclog
Befallen:
Boondin Babbinsbort
Castle Mistmoore:
Ssynthi
Plane of Hate:
Corrupter of Life
Najena:
Linara Parlone
Splitpaw:
Brother Hayle
Brother Gruff*
Kedge Keep:
Auraline
The Warrens:
Aderius Rhenar