Release Notes for The Slormancer

Hotfix 0.4.197 (April 25th, 2022)

BUGS:

Progression:

Doing one of the optional missions in The Graveyard should no longer unlock Mission 12 "Undeads only live Twice".
Missions requiring the player to find an Emblem can now be properly redone.

Act III Boss:

The seal in front of Alarin while he casts should be more easy to see.
The seal that needs to be activated should more easy to spot as well.
The Victory OST should no longer loop indefinitely.
You can no longer hide in the corners of the room to avoid the Multi-Projectile attack.

Critical Strikes Triggers:

Some Critical Strikes Triggers were not properly triggered by "Indirect" Damage (Any source of Damage that was not from your Primary/Secondary/Support Skill). The following Effects are now properly triggered by ANY Critical Strike Damage dealt by you (this does not include Minions under your control).
The Mighty Knight: Building a Wall (Gain a Block Stack)
The Fierce Huntress : Free Membership (Reduces Finesse's Cooldown)
The Fierce Huntress : Golden Strikes (Chance to loot Goldus)
The Mischievous Mage : Shut Down (Silence Enemies)
Attributes: Fury 45 (Increases Primary Skill Attack Speed)
Attributes: Determination 15 (Increases Life on Hit)
Attributes: Bravery 30 (Removes Strider Stacks)
Reapers: Ancient Ancestral Legacy Reaper (Grants Ancient Legacy stacks)
Legendary: Gazloka's Conquest (Grants Conquest Stacks)

Ancestral Legacy:

Burning Rage now properly displays a visual effect on enemies.
Enemies hit by Burning Rage now properly engage the player.
Walking Bomb's Damage is now properly affected by Area Increased Effect.
Lightning Arks should now properly target an enemy nearby and not the same enemy.
Lightning Rod's tooltip should now display the correct value.
Twitching Warp should no longer let you move out of bounds.
Icy Veins is now tagged as an Area of Effect and the Radius of Effect has been added to the tooltip.
Agent of Shield should now properly attract all Shield Globes to you.

Slorm Reapers:

Primordial Reaper of the Goldfish now properly denies Greater Traits only.
Primordial Reaper of the Sleepy Butterfly should no longer increase the Cooldown of your Ancestral Legacy Skills.
The wording of Reaper of Retaliating Foresight has been changed to better reflect the effect. :)

Legendaries:

Soul Eating Mantle should now be properly triggered with Burn Damage.

The Fierce Huntress:

Delightful Rain stacks should now be properly removed when unequipping the Skill or the Upgrade.
Using Tumble right before a Boss cinematic should no longer move you out the room.
Multiple Ravenous Daggers from the same trigger now properly deal damage to the same enemy

The Mischievous Mage:

Speed Gate now grants the proper amount of Movement Speed.
Arcane Clones casting Arcane Barrier should now only cast it once and not cost Mana over time.

Cataclysms:

Projectiles from Fury of the Storm are now properly categorized as Projectiles instead of AoE.
The Wrath Multiplier is now properly calculated in the tooltips of Fury of the Storm and Shadow Curse.

Extras:

Steam Screenshots should be working again.
Sound from The Slorm Temple should now properly stop when you exit the Expedition.
Level and Reinforcement Level of Items are now properly displayed in Inventory on smaller/larger resolutions.
Mana on Hit and Mana on Kill should now be working properly even when the player has Mana Leech.
Additional Informational Tooltips (such as Fireballs, Frostbolts, Arcane Clones or Inner Fire) are now always displayed after being idle for a few frames on your Skills or Ancestral Legacy menu instead of having to hover.
Missing Informational Tooltips should now be properly displayed.

Performance:

The script preventing enemies from staking up has been reworked. This means performance should be better (although maybe not noticeable unless you used to pack dozens of enemies) when large amounts of enemies are on screen and packed or being packed with Skills.

BALANCE:

Elite Strict Tutors: Reflected Projectiles from Elite Tutors have been drastically slown down.
Elite Stric Tutors: There is now a 1 second delay between the activation of the dome and the moment the dome can actually reflect Projectiles.

The Mage Academy Update, Part.2 (April 18th, 2022)

ACT 3

9 new Missions have been added to the game including a new Boss fight.

ACT 1 - Reworked

The diversity of enemies in Act 1 has been greatly increased (from 5 enemies to 12).
Fight composition, diversity and density has been reworked to get more interesting yet approachable fights.
Larger maps have been sized down.
Exalted Breaches and Named Elites have been added in Act 1.
The Great Escape and Nocturnal Escapade (in which you unlock remaining classes) are now optional and can be accessed much sooner so you can actually unlock new characters if/when you want to.
The Cataclysm from "The Laws of Gravity" has been changed from Gravity to Explosive (the mission has been renamed accordingly).
To improve new player's experience and pacing, Adam Nostrus' Slorm Reaper now evolves much sooner (Level 5).
For the same reason, one of the Breaches in Act 1 now has a 100% Chance to drop a Slorm Reaper the first time you close it. The Slorm Reaper you find is based on the class you play.
(A couple of changes were made to Act 2 missions as well).

Ancestral Skill Tree

A new Ancestral Stone can be unlocked throughout the story.
This unlocks 30 new Ancestral Skills in the 4th tier of the Ancestral Skill Tree. Including Imbue Skills.

Level Cap

The Level cap has been increased to 60.

New Cataclysms: 7 New Cataclysms have been added to the game:

Replicant
Gargantuan
Assassins
Assimilation
Reconstruction
Fury of the Storm
Shadow Curse

By introducing Shadow Curse (Shadow-based Cataclysm) and Fury of the Storm (Lightning-based Cataclysm), there is now have a Cataclysm for each type of Elemental Damage. We've made a couple of changes on these Cataclysms, here's how they work now:

Fire Damage has a chance to apply Burn.
Ice Damage has a chance to Chill.
Lightning Damage has a chance to Shock (and stop all Cooldowns for 0.3 seconds).
Light Damage has a chance to apply Armor Broken, Elemental Resistance Broken, Daze or Slow for a few seconds.
Shadow Damage has a chance to apply Shadow Confusion preventing ANY form of Mana or Life gain for a few seconds.
For Cataclysms, the chance to apply their debuff is 100%. This Chance can be reduced by using Resistance Stats such as Fire Resistance (70% Fire Resistance will result in a 30% Chance to get the debuff when hit).
We also plan to add Imbued Attacks to enemies (such as Elites or Bosses or in specific cases): Enemies' Imbued Attacks are yet to be added to the game but their chance to apply the debuff will be around 5-15%.

Fire Damage / Floor is Lava:

Burn base damage has been reduced from 121 to 14.
Burn can now stack up to 10 times.

Light Beam:

The Light Beam Cataclysm has been reworked to be more oppressive and will now target you with greater accuracy.

New Exaltations:

Exaltation of Precision.
Exaltation of Silence.

New Breach Event:

Chaos Wave Event: We've added a new way for Breaches to spawn enemies (so this is INSTEAD of getting 1, 2 or 3 waves of enemies) called the Chaos Wave. When triggered, the Breach will spawn hundreds of enemies, at an accelerating pace and with random compositions. Completing a Chaos Wave adds +5 stacks to your Breach Bonus Reward.

Balance Changes:

"Boss Loot" from Bosses can only occur ONCE the first time you kill them with each class. Bosses will then loot with a greatly reduced multiplier on subsequent kills.
Wrath Levels now also apply a scaling on Armor and Elemental Resistance to enemies, like in The Slorm Temple.

Adam Nostrus' Reaper:

Base Damage is now 22/27 and +6/+9 per level instead of 17/21 +4/6
Bonus Damage has been increased to 3 (from 2).
Now grants +15% Attack Speed.
Now evolves at Level 5 and 12.
Effects from Adam Nostrus' Mighty Reaper have been swapped with effects from Adam Nostrus' Perfect Reaper (basically we switched the effects of its evolutions).

Reaper of the Untouchable One:

Evasion bonus is now equal to your Min. Raw Damage instead of your Average Raw Damage (to prevent an infinite synergy that could occur with Evasive Magic)

Bugs Fixed:

Cataclysms:

Burn applied by Floor is Lava is no longer considered a self debuff (and should no longer apply irrelevant buffs or debuffs)

Reapers:

You no longer have to release the key pressed to recast an Aura or a Skill
Reaper of Alpha and Omega should now deal damage more consistently.

Various:

You can no longer be hit or be targetted while a dialogue is running.
Ondeath Particles should now have the proper size.
Added an Alert preventing from merging Slormites or crafting Slormelines while your inventory is full that would result in nothing being created.

The Mischievous Mage:

Arcane Clones casting Rift Nova will now properly cast Rift Nova when enemies are in their range.

"Infinite Synergies":

Known infinite synergy loops should no longer occur (They have been edited "manually" to what felt the most natural, and if more are found, I'll have to create exceptions to handle them.)
Armor of Illusion (Fierce Huntress Passive) + Indomitable Mountain Legendary : Armor given by Indomitable Mountain is no longer granted BACK as Evasion by Armor of Illusion.
Mana Harvesting Reaper + Savagery 60 Trait : Raw Damage from Good Crop is now ignored from Savagery's 60 calculation.
Reaper of the Untouchable One + Savagery 45 Trait + Evasive Magic (Fierce Huntress Passive) : has been taken cared of with a minor balance change listed above.

Enemies:

Strict Tutor's Dome should now properly destroy Ballista's Light Arrows
Strict Tutor's Dome should no longer destroy Forked Projectiles created within the Dome.

Performance:

Damage Script should be roughly x5 faster than before (from to 2,5ms to 0,45ms on average). This should drastically reduce the amount of lag when casting AoEs (do let me know).
Changes made to various scripts should also result in improved performance at all time even when out of combat.
The Fierce Huntress' Legacy of Pain should have improved performance.
Improved performance on Projectiles piercing multiple target.
Improved performance when multiple Buffs are being displayed on Hero's UI.
Improved performance of the Combo Meter.

Bugs Created:

Due to the nature of some changes, I might have broken a few things that were perfectly working until then. :x
I'm sorry about this.

Hotfix 0.3.107 - Feb 7 2022

0% Pure Stats

The issue with 0% Pure Stats on equipment has been resolved and should no longer occur.
This also includes stats that were Locked on your equipment after loading the game.
Items with this issue have been restored:
Unless I missed something, 0% Pure Stats were not Pure Stat from the start, and only became Pure Stat (at 0%) because of said bug, so your stat should be restored to its Non-Pure Stat version.
Stats that were Locked to your item should also be unlocked.

Major Bugs:

Fixed a crash occuring when being hit by a trap with Emergency Nova equipped.

Slorm Reapers:

Reaper of Concentrated Inner Strength should now deal the proper amount of damage.
Concentration should now work properly and display the correct icon.
Totem from Slormandrite Reaper of the Shaman should no longer benefit from additional projectiles.
Inner Fires should no longer trigger the sound of Wall of Omen

Extras

Treasure Chests should now properly spawn in The Mage Academy.
Minions should no longer benefit from Cataclysms (this time it's for real).
Max Slormite, Slormeline and Fragments Stack size has been increased to almost infinity.
Skill behavior change: You now have to release the button used to cast a Skill inherited from a Reaper or a Legendary before being able to cast it again. This was made to prevent multiple and accidental casts with high Attack Speed.

Enemies

Elite Witchs should cast slower, so that the seal remains avoidable.
Witches' Seals should now properly appear in The Slorm Temple.

Hotfix 0.3.106 - Feb 1 2022

Hello everyone!

Bug Fixes:

Players that couldn't start The Slormancer due to compatibility issues with Windows 7 should now be able to. Please let me know if this is working properly as I have no way to test this myself.
Fixed a crash when entering the Slorm Temple with the Elder Reaper of the Slorm Temple.
Fixed a rare crash occuring when entering Expeditions.

Pure Reaper of the Temple Keeper:

The Mini-Keeper now properly disappears when you unequip the Reaper.
Now properly scales on Minion Increased Damage and Totem Increased Effect.
Now also properly scale with Aura Increased Effect.
Primordial Increased Effect now also properly work.
Balance Change: Now deals Elemental Damage equal to 5% of the enemy's Max Life (instead of 20%). Because we're reintroducing proper scaling to the Slorm Reaper, you should get back to the same result as you used to by simply leveling up the Reaper since the Mini-Keeper now benefits from Minion Increased Damage and Totem Increased Effect while in a Totem form. Basically, it's no longer 20% from the start, which was a bit too much of a gift, but you can easily get back to it, and go beyond with the proper build. That being said, this Slorm Reaper is probably still a bit too strong. We just want to see how things go now that all of its effects are working.

Other Reapers:

Arcane Phalanx and Arcane Sovereign should no longer affect the Totem from the Slormandrite Staff of the Shaman.

Extras:

Your own Minions should no longer be affected by Cataclysms.
Slormite & Slormandrite can now stack up to 999 999.
Fixed a couple of typos.

Enemies:

Witches now cast their seal 75% faster and have about 30% more Life as they felt a bit underwhelming and easy to dodge.

That's it for now! Cheers!

The Mage Academy Update, Part.1 is now available! - Jan 31 2022

Hello everyone!

The Mage Academy Update, Part 1 is now available!

This update will lay the foundations for the next part of the story, which will take place in the Mage Academy. We are introducing a new environment, 5 new enemies and 19 new Slorm Reapers.

The Mage Academy

The Mage Academy becomes available as soon as you have Olorin, the Archmage back in your village (in Act 2). As of right now, the Mage Academy will only be available in Battlefield Expeditions.

New Enemies

The Academy Student: casts 3 tiny projectiles in a line moving toward you. But since he is still a student, it's not effective, it does not deal much damage and the range is ridiculously short.
The Mana-Devouring Imp: jumps toward you when he gets in range, and consumes a bit of your Mana whenever he deals damage to you.
The Academy Witch: silences you whenever you stand on the seals she channels. Silence means that you can no longer cast any Skill (as long as you remain inside the seal).
The Burning Pudding: casts a single projectile that tries to follow you.
The Strict Tutor: casts a dome around him and surrounding allies protecting them from your projectiles. He also smashes you with a really heavy book if you get too close.

Enemies will be slowly unlocked as you progress inside the Mage Academy, by simply raising your Influence level there.

Slorm Reapers

We are introducing 19 new Slorm Reapers to the game. Out of these 19 :

10 can be found the regular way: by closing Breaches in Battlefield expeditions.
1 can only be purchased from Olorin, using Pure Slorm. The option to purchase this Reaper only becomes available once you reach Floor 50 in The Slorm Temple.
1 can only be found by defeating The Temple Keeper for the third time in The Slorm Temple. (If you already defeated him, you will have to defeat him again to unlock the Reaper).
7 will be unlocked by evolving newly added Slorm Reapers.
The 20th Slorm Reaper that was supposed to be added with this update (see the Road Map) is actually done and inside the game but cannot be looted currently as it is tied to an upcoming endgame mode (currently called "The Great Forge") coming in a few months.

As usual, each Slorm Reaper comes with a hidden Primordial form.

Bonus: Crafting Materials Tab

The Crafting Materials Tab frees up 31 slots in your inventory which should prevent quite a bit of trips to the shop and blacksmith. This tab is also shared amongst all classes, so you no longer have to worry about sending Slormites and Slormandrites to your other characters.

It is a first step toward better Inventory management, with more to come.

Bug Fixes

Various:

Effects triggered by "Whenever you're dealt damage" are now properly triggered when being dealt damage by a Slorm Temple Trap or a Cataclysm. -> This includes Nimble Warrior effects, Life Bender effects, Indomitable Mountain, Immortal Grasp, and so on... that were not properly triggered by Traps and Cataclysms.
Pure Stats should no longer be able to roll above 100% of the regular value.
Pure Stats Max Ranges now take your Slorm Temple upgrades into consideration when displaying Max Values at the Blacksmith.
Slorm Temple's Reduced Temple Damage Upgrade should now properly reduce damage.
Slorm Temple's vertical Rays should now properly deal damage.
Life on Kill now works as intended (when actually killing an enemy, not the hit before).
Having more than 100% Critical Strike Chance or Ancestral Strike Chance should no longer increase your Average Damage in your Stats sheet.

The Mighty Knight:

Safety Bubble now reads: You are immune to Area Damage during Deflect (so it's also a 25% buff, but that's what it was meant to be).
Fixed a rare crash occuring with Banners of War.

The Fierce Huntress:

Finesse's Pinnacle should now work properly with a controller.
Using Wandering Arrow with Squad of Eternity should now always trigger the correct amount of Arrows.
Using Delightful Syndrom should now properly display the Huntress' UI element.
Using Tumble while being Rooted should now work properly.

The Mischievous Mage:

Ray of Obliteration should no longer indefinitely grow bigger under certain conditions
Put on Cleats should no longer prevent Burning Trail
Attunement is no longer affected by the Gravity Cataclysm without the Reshape Upgrade.
Echoing Pulse's animation should now be properly destroyed when being Stun while charging.
Primordial Attunement Pulse cast by an Arcane Clone should now properly come back to it.
Arcane Clones casting Rift Nova and Attunement Pulse should now properly target enemies within their range.
Book Smash's Bedtime Story should now properly work on the first target only while using Archivium.

Slorm Reapers:

Non-Primordial Big Fury Reaper no longer has the Primordial bonus.
Since on-hit effects are now properly triggered by Slorm Temple Traps and Cataclysms (see above), Reaper of the Nimble Warrior is now harder to play inside the Temple. This came from a bug that is now fixed, but we'll make adjustments if needed.

Ancestral Legacy:

Soul Bound should now properly work!
Focus should no longer give tons of Cost Reduction when being using with Zeal - 15.

Quality of Life:

The most relevant Slormite is now highlighted when Reinforcing an Item
Pure Stats now display either "!" (Bottom 50%), "!!" (50% to 90% Range) or "!!!" (90%+) based on the Pure Value rolled (relative to your Slorm Temple upgrades).
When buying a random container, Items with Highlighted stats are now properly highlighted.
Collecting the Pure Slorm at the end of a floor in the Slorm Temple now fully heals you.

What's left to Fix:

There is a bug that can bring Pure Stats down to 0 and lock random stats on your equipment. This seems to occur when upgrading the Level of an item. I'm still trying to figure out the cause. If this happened to you, please contact me on Discord, so that I can check your save and get more informations. In any case, don't destroy your item, I apologize for the issue but I'll be able to restore your item to what it used to be once I figure out the cause. So put it aside while I work on a fix.
We plan to work on improving performance, mostly on AoEs triggering on many enemies, but we also know that there seem to be a compatiblity issue causing major FPS issues on some computers. I still have to figure out the cause, but if this something that's happening to you (low FPS, even when doing nothing special or stuttering), please be patient, and if you're willing to, please share your current config and the settings you're using ingame (V-sync? Windowed/Full screen?) and if you've managed to fix it.

That's it for now! See you on monday!

We try our best to limit the numbers of bugs when releasing new content but we always get reports of new bugs in the first few days of a patch.

If you found a bug, then please report it on our forums, or on Discord. We try to fix crashes and critical bugs within a day, so please be patient.

Thanks!