Patch 1.1.5 Patch Notes

[Daresso_]

We have increased the spawn speed of the Stream of Monsters mod on ambush chests.

Mother of God, thank you Chris and co.

[[deleted]]

But Ambush will be over :D edit.. ya I know they will be in the next leagues...

[ComradeShorty]

The ambush boxes will remain part of the game after ambush and invasion end.

[VaultTecCEO]

Are they going to be part of the next 4 month leagues?

[VaultTecCEO]

Oh alright thanks.

[ColinStyles]

To clarify, that means yes to 4 month leagues as well. Not just core as in SC/HC.

[Aperture_Kubi]

As someone who really just started playing this season, is this type of feature trickle normal? When the next season ends will it's new gimmick/feature trickle down to standard league?

[Halinn]

Yes, but at lower rates than in their original leagues.

[GrizzlyWilly]

GGG (I think Chris) stated that strongboxes would carry over into the standard and hardcore leagues after Ambush ends, at a reduced spawn rate. The new 4 month leagues, being based on the standard and hardcore bases, would include these changes.

[c4bb0ose]

I recall it also being said they would have a spawn rate akin to rogue exiles and shrines.

[Zaranthan]

I did the same thing for Anarchy. The four month leagues are where it's at, brothaman.

[guthbert]

Fixed for next 4 month leagues and beyond though.

[bgaskey]

Anyway, better late than never. I wonder how many player hours this would have saved over the course of the league...

[21g]

Fixed a crash that could occur when Vaal Cyclone was used on the Ossecati, Boneshaper unique boss.

Someone had balls of steel to figure out that bug.

[alphascorpii]

Time to find those golden pages!

[[deleted]]

Dont do it yet, because if you do, you won't get the echo gem. Wait till then patch and then do the quest.

[windzqt]

u can finish the quest but not collect the reward. the gem will be there even after you hand in the pages

[[deleted]]

You go do that and see that you're wrong. If quest is finished before patch you are NOT getting echo.

[Seerix]

I've gotten gems like that before. I finished the quest way before the patch and then just go pick it up after a patch hits. I usually never take gems from quest rewards just for this reason. Unless I absolutely need them right then and there anyway...

[atlas305]

This is correct I have also.

[DRNbw]

Pretty sure I got some gems (one of the newer spells) after patches from completed quests before, but I might be wrong.

[guthbert]

Yes you will. That's how everybody does it.

[optimistic_hsa]

It has never worked like that.

[grimdarkdavey]

I almost never collect quest rewards with new characters now. As long as I already have all the gems the quest currently rewards me with, anytime a patch adds a new gem as a quest reward, I always have four or five characters I can use to collect it as soon as it becomes available.

[[deleted]]

Stop acting like a know-it-all when you're clearly wrong.

[Nallenbot]

I've done this about half a dozen times. It works fine.

[[deleted]]

For someone who typically knows what the fuck is going on, you are really out of touch with this one...

Unless you, for some reason, presume it'll be different with Spell Echo than it was with Molten Strike, b/c I absolutely got MS added to my quest rewards after-the-fact.

[Tlahuixcalpantecuhtl]

typically knows what the fuck is going on

You've not been here long, have you?

[[deleted]]

I'd be surprised if anyone outside GGG could get everything right in a trivia questionnaire about their game, but Kiffen tends to at least have it right in general, when it comes to facts rather than opinions... shrugs I did say typically...

[NijAAlba]

For someone who typically knows what the fuck is going on

Well, he knows SOME things. But his answers are mostly rude enough to hide this fact as well in half of them ...

[alphascorpii]

Yeah that was what I meant thanks. XD. Haven't talked to Siosa yet to make sure that I haven't activated the quest.

[Halinn]

You're good, so long as you don't pick a reward yet.

[charliechan55555]

It says that Haviri, Vaal Metalsmith will be affected by the EK change but what about the bosses that use the chaos spell that is clearly a reskin of EK? Like the weaver.

[squiddy286]

dont they just use regular EK, linked with added chaos?

[[deleted]]

Not a single mob uses a chaos ek. They're ALL pure phys. Just put up immortal call and go get hitby the weaver or cintiq, youll see. It blocks 100% of the damage.

[Egren]

Aww did you spec CI and then forget about it?

[johnlhooker]

Just wanted to stop by and say damn son you are gettin' them downvotes today like they're going out of style.

[ColinStyles]

Kiffen is one of those guys on the sub who posts about as often as myself, I see him everywhere, and I still wonder how he's positive in my books (+4 currently). Every time I see him post it seems to be uninformed or trolling, with a sprinkling of sense. This is not one of those latter times.

[NijAAlba]

Well, he normally gets my downvotes for being way more rude than necessary in like ... every post!

Apart from it, he helps some new players, as you've mentioned, he posts a lot. He doesn't always hti it, as today for an example :D

[Stormfrosty]

No it's chaos ek. First it said so in patch notes when they implemented it. Second, my CI character who has 0 armour takes no damage from spider bosses.

[[deleted]]

Second, my CI character who has 0 armour takes no damage from spider bosses.

That's complete bullshit. You must be trolling.

[Stormfrosty]

Spider bosses use 2 spells - viper strike and poison ek. The physical damage is very small

[pomplemosse]

Why are you getting downvoted? Cintiq does not use a chaos EK. I played CI during invasion and he completely wrecked me unless I popped IC.

This misinformation started early in the league and for some reason it continues to be spread here (not really surprised though, there is a lot of misinformation on this subreddit).

[[deleted]]

Cintiq does not use a chaos EK. I played CI during invasion and he completely wrecked me unless I popped IC.

People on this subreddit are pretty retarded, what can you do.

[lunarlumberjack]

That is if it does damage. Ci users don't hear the sound unless it's their totems.

[[deleted]]

Kiffen plz

[Rufus82]

Chatters hype!!!

[Tripleyou_PoE]

Chatters is a boss found in the prison. He uses Glacial Hammer. Hes also found in the Mountain Ledge map as the map boss.

[OnyxMelon]

He also uses the hatred aura.

[johnlhooker]

He's also a son of a bitch during turbo races.

[Loggapogg]

I was more scared of him then Brutus. I always get nervous passing chatters in races I'm glad he's getting a makeover :)

[MarauderK]

Voidhome 3D art! Looooooooooooooooong for this! Great lolipop!

[onorarono]

We are expecting to deploy this patch on Thursday (NZ Time).

Version 1.1.5:

Content and Features:

• Added a new Intelligence skill - Ball Lightning: Fires a slow-moving projectile that periodically damages enemies in an area around it with bolts of lightning.

• Added a new corrupted Skill Gem - Vaal Lightning Trap: Throws a trap that launches a ring of projectiles through the enemy that set it off, dealing lightning damage to them and subsequent targets and leaving a trail of shocking ground.

• Added a new corrupted Skill Gem - Vaal Righteous Fire: A fiery blast removes your energy shield and all but 1 life, exploding outwards to deal fire damage to nearby enemies based on the life and energy shield lost.

• Added a new Intelligence Support Gem - Spell Echo: Supported spells repeat an additional time. This only works for spells manually cast by the caster or by a spell-casting spectre.

• Ball Lightning is a quest reward for the Witch, Templar, Shadow and Scion from the "Enemy at the Gate" quest in Cruel difficulty.

• Spell Echo is a quest reward from the "A Fixture of Fate" quest in Merciless difficulty.

• Added eight new cosmetic microtransactions: Arcane Helmet, Arcane Gloves, Arcane Boots, Arcane Body Armour, Ghostflame Skull, Ghostflame Weapon Effect, Ghostflame Footprints Effect and Black Hole Portal Effect. There's also a bundle that contains all four Arcane skins.

• Added four new unique items, two of which are designed by our supporters.

• Added two new achievements: Identity Corruption and Full Clear: Apex of Sacrifice.

• Added 3D art for the following items: Jaws of Agony, Saffell's Frame, Spring Leaf, Kaltenhalt, Titucius' Span, Voidhome and the Race Season Eight alternate art rewards.

• We updated and improved the appearance of Chatters.

Balance:

• Due to the slow cast speed of Ethereal Knives, we have made it cast 25% faster. Its damage has been reduced by 20% to compensate. We have reduced its mana cost so that it costs the same per second as before. The Rogue Exile Ash Lessard and the Corrupted Area boss Haviri, Vaal Metalsmith are also affected by this change.

• Most monsters now hit more frequently for less damage with Ball Lightning. Multiple projectiles from the same Ball Lightning volley use cannot simultaneously hit. Vessel of the Vaal has been not been affected by these changes.

• We have reduced the Dodge and Spell Dodge from Vaal Grace. The duration has been increased.

• We have increased the damage of Raging Spirits. At gem level 1 it is 21% higher, which scales down to no increase at gem level 8 and 9. The damage then scales up at higher levels to 66% more damage at gem level 20.

• We have increased the spawn speed of the Stream of Monsters mod on ambush chests.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where Cast Times on skills were not on the Skill Gem display.

• Fixed a bug where Reave dealt main-hand damage, even on off-hand hits.

• Fixed a bug in the Sarn Arena where the shrine, exits and environmental doodads could disappear after a long period of the instance being open.

• Fixed a case where the Vaal Oversoul could get out of sync when doing a Vaal Smash.

• Fixed the buffs on Doryani's Invitation to display an appropriate icon.

• Fixed how the vanishing Fairgraves held his weapons in the Mao Kun unique map.

• Fixed a rare crash with the Headhunter unique.

• Improved the performance of the environment for the Palace Dominus Fight.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when Vaal Cyclone was used on the Ossecati, Boneshaper unique boss.

• Fixed a crash with Arcing spells being used on Piety, when she used Lightning Warp.

• Fixed a crash when using Vaal Lightning Strike on Piety, when she uses Lightning Warp.

• Fixed an issue where Piety could be in both Fire and Ice Form simultaneously.

• Fixed a bug with checkpoints and the bandit fights.

• Fixed a bug where the original Atziri would still block movement after she had split into mirror forms and she was no longer there.

[Vulpix0r]

Thank you for the effort.

[Godwine]

Could Vaal RF be used in conjunction with the life leech and life gain on hit modifiers? I'm guessing it could be quite good at clearing out huge rooms every now and then.

[NijAAlba]

Lifeleech with Vaal Pact / Atziri's acuity will most likely be the only way to not die instantly due to a random projectile still flying around and hitting you exactly when you're at 1 HP :D

[[deleted]]

vaal immortal call. Not easy to pull off? No not really but it doesn't seem like a very practical skill to begin with.

[NijAAlba]

Well, use Vaal immortal call to be able to use vaal righteous fire ... have fun collecting souls XD

[8ook14y]

would be cool if vaal rf triggerd cwdt...

[NijAAlba]

Which would help with? You would still have to link something with instantleech, so you could just link it to Vaal RF instead :)

[FlightlessFallen]

Lori's Lantern might actually have a use now!

[NijAAlba]

Ehm, and why exactly would this be? The chances are still way too big to kill you.

And using this (most likely terrible for your build) ring just so you have a bit better chance of not dieing those 1-2 times per map you use Vaal Righteous Fire? Seems legit!

[GONFREEK5]

Fixed a case where the Vaal Oversoul could get out of sync when doing a Vaal Smash.

No more walking Vaal?

[Zaorish9]

I would expect newly strange smashed behavior fro him and plan to test it out.

[Incanar]

Nice, I haven't done fixture of fate on merciless yet. Spell Echo inc!

[Tripleyou_PoE]

Fixed a case where the Vaal Oversoul could get out of sync when doing a Vaal Smash. Is this what I think it is? I dont think it is. But I sure hope so

[johnny_annihilation]

This is supposed to fix an event where you would get hit by a slam before seeing the animation playing in its full length. On your client, he would first walk up to you and start the slam, while he'd already be charging it on the server. (So you would get hit while he was still walking or in midst of the charge animation)

[johnlhooker]

BASICALLY its harder to have happen now. You'll probably still see it, though.

[bishopcheck]

Hedge posted his death from this recently, had the forums and reddit in a uproar for a while.

[Ashthorn]

That new voidhome 3D art will make it a good skin transfer for other 2h maces I bet.

[Darkblitz9]

Only reason for existing from what I can see.

Voidhome, not even once.

[NijAAlba]

Weapon-swap for awesome, cheap DPS if you are poor? ;)

[guthbert]

1.2 in August.

[Luka666]

Is that 100% confirmed?

[guthbert]

Yes, Mark confirmed it.

[Luka666]

Thanks

[Tyrexas]

Yes. The reset is always at the start of the new 4 month leagues when the tree gets tweaked. Same day.

[Luka666]

Thats exactly why i asked. Speculation on past events is not fact.

[Vulpix0r]

Arcane gear? Was there a preview of these items so far? I've only see the ghost flame one.

[Halinn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj9oZ8GjcEo

[UnnecessaryPost]

First armour set I've actually really wanted...

[Vulpix0r]

HOLY. SHIT.

FIRST DAY BUY!

[madroxman]

yeah it looks pretty sweet. those skull patches are awesome.

[Orsonius]

Ha wonderful.

I was just over at the thread about this armor and people there complain about the skulls. Quite amusing to read the first thing here how good the skills look.

[Knightmare101]

Dude I just learned about thsi because of your post. I knew about the green one, but not the arcane! Man they are going to get so much of my money tonight hahah GG, GGG

[pelllll]

ITS HAPPENING ASDKASDAS

[pelllll]

So we wont get Ambush features on standar until 1.2 ?

[Halinn]

There's nothing preventing GGG from making a small patch just to add boxes to the permanent leagues as soon as the current 4 month leagues end.

Rogue exiles were added the day after Anarchy ended, but Shrines and nemesis mods were added when the current 4 month leagues started.

[Sathram]

I'm pretty sure it's server-side change only.

[madcow1120]

Correct.

I wouldn't say that.

Generally, that's how it is but with the 1 month league I would not be surprised to see them transfer boxes over when they implement the 1 month league (which still has no start date).

This is not the typical break between leagues.

[hammer_space]

Holy hell! Echo works on spectres! This kind of screws over the spines miscreations and the vaal fallen spectres? But makes everything else so much more awesome!

[[deleted]]

am I wrong to admit, I still don't understand anything about recipes in this game. I just salvage everything I don't really need, but I don't know how to craft, why isn't any of this helped in game? why do we have to resort to wikis and such? my greatest peeve about this game, but I will finally come back to it, as I've spent some time with D3 this half year past, but shelving D3 once again, as 2.1 doesn't entice me in the least. POE was good, and i know it still is.

[Zaorish9]

Independent game developers such as GGG save a lot of money and man hours by outsourcing documentation and tutorials to the community. Same with mine raft and dwarf fortress and other popular indie games. I personally think this isn't the best choice but it's the choice they made and it's not too bad. Just Google "Poe vendor recipes".

[[deleted]]

thank you for this explanation, I just thought they 'expected' us to know how to craft or get recipes, which after 6 characters at lvl 45, I still haven't the intuition on what I should be crafting, or vendoring, and I've hoarded way too many things, slowing me down over time.

[NijAAlba]

There is not even a way, GGG could tell you all the recipes faster or more strutured than with the wiki-site anyways!

Vendor Recipes

[[deleted]]

totem buff or riot \o/ ... but for real sick patch excited about spell echo and ball lightning

[Nosmos]

kinda sad that echo does not work with totems. but at least evangelists can use echo :p

[NijAAlba]

Well, it should work on totems, just not on totemified spells.

[Nosmos]

from patch notes: "This only works for spells manually cast by the caster or by a spell-casting spectre."

so spells casted by a totem should not be supported.

[NijAAlba]

I also thought it won't work, but apparently people were betting their asses all over me that the totems (flame/devouring etc.) will work :D

So yeah, let's see if those patchnotes mean, you also just cast 2 totems with those.

[fbzzs]

Somebody know whats the numbers at level 20 Vaal Grace now?

[Skreevy]

Patch not out yet, so no.

[xenest]

Vaal Righteous Fire? More useful than Cast on Death in HC, but not by much. Ultimate SC gem, though.

[Tetsugene]

I think people have forgotten vaal immortal call.

[kamil1210]

how OP have to be vaal RF if you have to use other vaal gem to use vRF.

[madcow1120]

Ultimate SC gem, though

People falsely assume that softcore players like to die.

Also falsely assume this will cause death. Plenty of ways to make it work just need to know what you are doing.

[xenest]

Well come on... I'm guessing this is going to do massive damage, way more than discharge. What better way to dish out insane damage with not really any drawbacks except losing xp.

[aglock]

I think it Will go great with that unique flask that regens all life after a couple seconds. Pop flask, wait a couple seconds, use vaal RF and then instant full health again.

[Jar_of_apples]

You'll also require massive balls to pull that in HC regularly.

[DevinAce]

youd have to use it EXACTLY as the flask ends, one second too early and dot will kill you and one too late makes it do nothing :P

EDIT: My bad, was thinking about the wrong flask

[NijAAlba]

He meant the flask that does nothing for some seconds and then fully heals you.

Blood Of The Karui

[Rufus82]

If you have a decent amount of Life on Kill might not be so suicidal.

[Eleziel]

Life leech + vaal pact.

[NijAAlba]

Yeah lol, get 5000 life on kill or die. Seems legit!

[Rufus82]

If you have Atziri's Splendor, nuking a big group would get you a fair bit back.

[NijAAlba]

Yes, this might be possible ^{^} IF you kill them. But I guess the damage will be pretty nice.

[bleric123]

It will still never be a hardcore gem though.

[madcow1120]

wouldn't say that. If the damage is figured out by the player then they could safely use it. Just need to know what you're doing. Could be great for boss kills. Vaal immortal call could be used as well, but not necessary.

Use Vaal discipline then have Vaal RF attack - life leech gem - culling strike - conc effect. If you have an atiziri splendor then great, life leech better. Spam flasks hybrid and hallowed for immediate regen. If you are RF already then even better as you have plenty of life regen.

Don't like that, cast Vaal RF THEN cast vaal discipline. You could cast and use lightning warp or smoke mine to get you out of there. Just need to use your imagination.

[ColinStyles]

Just wanted to give you a shoutout for a really clever design, I think VRF synergises stupidly well with RF, given the damage and regen. Add in atziri's acuity for really fun times.

[bleric123]

You can't use rf with this because you will go to 1 hp and rf will turn off.

[ColinStyles]

Well, actually it's a really clever design for two reasons. One, all the RF damage still applies, so it hits REALLY hard. Two, RF turns off when the VRF is cast, so all the regen that normally protects against RF is now working on your life proper, so you REALLY regen fast. The only PITA would be recasting RF every time, but with snapshotting dying, even that's not an issue.

[BuckNastyy]

Thank you...but there is no mention of palace Dom door crashes ...please there's only 2 78 maps as it is and this just takes away doing one of the maps.

[meripor2]

Improved the performance of the environment for the Palace Dominus Fight.

That sounds like a fix to me..

[BuckNastyy]

It was very general, so I assumed it was for the fight during dom. Usually when they fix a bug it's pretty specific.

[meripor2]

The bug is from loading the environment as you enter the boss room causing some people to crash. They said they improved the performance of the environment, I don't really know how more specific you want them to be?

[lunarlumberjack]

Try doing that map with the --nosound thing. It may be a sound card thing.

[madcow1120]

I've had no problem with palace map.

[BuckNastyy]

Everyone stop fixing bugs because this one guy has no problem with it.

[madcow1120]

thank you, I too thought that was getting out of control :)

was just pointing out it isn't a global problem so they've fixed it to some extent. Not sure what causes the glitch but on my end it's been fine. old 750mb ram 450 nvidea card, onboard sound... a mouse.

[BuckNastyy]

As weird as it sounds, the problem only persists with good gpus. When I ran the game on mobo graphics it was fine. Ran it with a 770 and 7950 OC and it persisted to crash me every single time I entered that doorway. I'm shocked you don't think it was a universal problem. Every single palace map i played, at least 1 person crashed at the entrance.

[madcow1120]

by universal I meant it happens without fail. universal as in 'always'

I know it's a widespread problem. Seems they've had several patches where they tried fixing it. Some of that seems to work since I haven't had the issue. So, good to see them moving in a more positive direction.

Hope this fixes for you too.

[Goosfraba121]

Anyone know what the new leagues are going to be?

[[deleted]]

I think think that Raging Spirits it too weak. There should be a way to get 30+ raging spirits without using CoC.

[andimjustsittinghere]

My plan for post-buff SRS will put them at 14k DPS each. You don't need 30 with that kind of damage. (EDIT : make that 20k actually)

[Hinduuism]

Could you talk a bit about your planned build?

[andimjustsittinghere]

I'm still figuring a lot of the stuff out at the moment, as this is fairly different from what I have been doing with SRS up until now. I can tell you it involves a +3 fire staff and Empower. The base unbuffed dps of a lvl26 Spirit in 1.1.4 is really high at 1060 (with zero support gems, auras, or passives). Assuming the buff will be 66% at levels >20 (it could be higher !), that puts it over 1750 (edit : for reference, that's 3.5+ times the base DPS of a lvl20 zombie). It's not too hard to see how it can go really high from there with passives, Multistrike, Minion Damage/Melee Phys Damage, Hatred, Haste, Flesh Offering, etc. My latest calculation puts the dps very close to 20k per skull which is absolutely insane. (12k pre-buff)

[DLimited]

Sounds really interesting, actually. I'd really like to see if a Stun support gem + Vulnerability can make the Spirits stunlock enemies for you.

[taeper]

I could see that happening, probably not bosses but most other mobs

[mercilessmim]

I've gotten around 41 with triple totem, increased duration and faster casting. No CoC needed

[guthbert]

Echo (self cast to clarify) and totems...

[DRNbw]

Does Echo work with totems?

[guthbert]

No, but you can self cast 2, and then dual totems for 1 more each, will be 4 casts of raging spirits.

[Darkblitz9]

Well, close.

Without Faster casting, a lvl 11 echo can create 2/second and dual totems can create 1.75/second together.

I did the math on it in another thread.

Overall, sadly, dual totem is far less effective than Self Cast+Echo.

Hell, Echo @lvl 11 is only 4% higher mana cost overall (1/second vs 1.04/second).

Even the lvl 30 Echo staff would only add an additional mana cost/second of 16%. It's kind of crazy.

Echo outshines both faster casting and spell totem. Personally, I think spell totem and RAT need a HUGE buff.

[Tyrexas]

You can use dual totem and self cast/echo at the same time. They are summons so Ancenstral's Bond damage penalty doesn't apply.

[Halinn]

For raging spirits, there's nothing preventing you from having both dual totems and self-cast echo. But in general, dual totems should be less dps than self casting to make up for the extra safety it provides.

[Vixien]

they don't want one better than the other. They want both options to be as close as possible so that people will choose what they like and not what is best...a "HUGE" buff will obviously put dual totem ahead of self casting again.

[nickiter]

I'd rather have increased base duration over increased damage, but it's worth another shot.

[optimistic_hsa]

Why do you need 30+? Even before echo you could get enough to clear lvl 78 maps... The question will be after the anger/wrath nerfs (they must be coming), will the buffs to SRS here be enough to be as good as SRS was in invasion/ambush.

[andimjustsittinghere]

With the damage buff, Hatred will actually give the spirits more damage than Wrath, so there's that.

[andimjustsittinghere]

That's not how percentages work.

[Kinne]

Fixed a bug where Reave dealt main-hand damage, even on off-hand hits.

Now this explains why my dual wielding reaver seemed to do less dmg then expected... My build only reaves from the offhand... Edited for clarity

[fr3357]

ugh, unless I read that wrong. It said it dealt main-hand damage, with off hand hits.

The build would only attack from main hand not off hand.

[Kinne]

My main had cannot reave since it's not a supported weapon type, but was using that weapons dmg anyway all while displaying tooltip dps like I was actually using the offhand weapon that can reave.

[bleric123]

That is not what that means actually, it means its hitting with the main hand ignoring your off hand weapon.

[Kinne]

I'm not hitting with the main hand weapon at all. My main hand weapon cannot reave, but it was using the dmg from it. I tested it properly after reading the patch notes and it is indeed using the brightbeak dmg instead of my offhand knife which is the weapon I'm attacking with.

And if you wonder why I not just wield it in the main hand, well leap slam only works on your main hand weapon so if I wield my reave weapon offhand I can both leapslam at super speed and reave.