Rogue Frontier Patch #1 is live!

This patch follows up on previous combat balance changes, enhances some less prominent weapons and abilities, and introduces additional changes and fixes. Full patch notes here.

Changes

Item Destruction

• Items can no longer be destroyed if a player is ejected from the Roads of Avalon
• Many item types that previously did not create a trash item upon destruction (e.g. consumable items) began to do so with the Rogue Frontier update
• This has been reverted, and those items once again do not generate trash

In addition, we would like to clarify the changed rate of item destruction in the Rogue Frontier update:

• Equipable items had their destruction rate increased from 30% to 33%
• Non-equipable items had their destruction rate decreased from 36% to 33%
• These rates have not changed at all in this patch

Other Changes

• Energy destruction from Territory Raiding has been increased from 10% to 20%

Combat Balance Changes

Axes

Relentless Assault’s damage has been increased, to help Crystal Reaper find its place in the meta.

• Relentless Assault (Crystal Reaper)
  • Damage: 90 → 105

Bows

Skystrider Bow’s Sky Bolts now deal more damage and hit more easily, especially against close-range targets.

• Sky's Fury (Skystrider Bow)
  • Dash range: 7m → 10m
  • Buff duration: 3.5s → 3.75s
  • Damage per bolt: 130 → 140
  • Bolt hit delay: 0.6s → 0.4s

As Undead Arrows is a toggled ability with a significant downside while active, its cooldown has been reduced to make it less punishing to toggle off.

• Undead Arrows (Whispering Bow)
  • Cooldown: 12s → 10s

Frost Staffs

Hoarfrost has received a significant buff to increase its baseline effectiveness.

• Avalanche (Hoarfrost Staff)
  • Snowball damage: 60 → 120
  • Snowball Knockback distance: 5m → 10m (knockback duration unchanged)
  • Increased slow trail width: 4m → 5m

Shapeshifter Staffs

Pulse Shock is intended to support melee-oriented transformations, but not so strong as to be the default damaging Q. Therefore, its damage has been reduced.

• Pulse Shock (all Shapeshifter Staffs)
  • Damage: 109 → 97

Following the recent range increase to Sinister Swipes, Prowling Staff has gained a lot of stickiness, and no longer requires such a strong baseline movement speed increase.

• Shadow Panther Transform (Prowling Staff)
  • Transformation movement speed: 6.5 → 5.5

War Gloves

Purifying Combination's cooldown has been increased to remove some of Fists of Avalon’s power as a non-commital mobility option.

• Purifying Combination (Fists of Avalon)
  • Dive Kick cooldown: 20s → 25s

Helmets

Circle of Inspiration’s maximum targets have been increased to make Druid Cowl more suitable for large groups.

• Circle of Inspiration (Druid Cowl)
  • Max targets: 5 → 10

Fixes

Spell Fixes

• Evasive Jump (Royal Shoes): Fixed issue where immunities could incorrectly be purged
• Infernal Boulder (Hellfire Hands): Fixed issue where a line of sight was required
• Sky Bolt (Skystrider Bow): Fixed issue where a line of sight was required

UI Fixes

• Fixed issue where islands would sometimes not be selectable in the Travel Planner UI
• Fixed issue where linking Kill Trophies in chat would not display correctly
• Fixed issue where it was not possible to reach Elite Levels on the Destiny Board using the Learn button
• [MOBILE] Fixed issue where chat channel buttons would not work
• [MOBILE] Fixed issue where long-pressing in various UIs would fail to bring up tooltips

Other Fixes

• Fixed issue where Small Treasure Chests had gone missing from red zones

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