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Hotfix 5.2.3 - 25th of December
Balance changes
- Reverted the monster damage nerf to Dual Daggers and instead applied a 15% damage nerf to Shade’s career skill, to follow along with the general nerf to monster killers in patch 5.2.0
- Increased the base crit chance of Dual Dagger heavy attacks by 10%
- Reduced the base crit chance of Sword & Dagger’s second heavy attack by 10%.
- Outcast Engineer: Increased “Ingenious Ordnance” bomb craft time to 100 seconds.
- Outcast Engineer: reduced the bonus crit chance from “Perilous Overclock” to 8%
- Falchion, Crowbill, One-handed Flail: Reduced stamina cost for pushing to 1 (half a shield)
- Reduced the Masterwork Pistol’s damage modifier vs monsters by 22%
- Chaos Wastes: Reduced Grudge Mark bonus health modifier by 16%
Fixes
- Fixed issue where some Gifts of the Wolf Father illusions were not showing up in the crafting menu for certain players.
The Shade nerfs are meant to bring her in line with the nerfs to other monster killer careers without targeting the Dual Daggers and instead nerfing her directly. Since we’ve also received feedback that the dual daggers could use some love and that the Sword & Dagger are a bit too good, we’ve done a tune up there.
The Masterwork Pistol nerf is also part of the overall effort to reel in all monster killers.
Outcast Engineer is a tad overtuned which is why we’re applying these nerfs to these two talents. We’ll be monitoring the community response to these to see if these changes are enough or if more needs to be done to reel him back a bit.
The Falchion, Crowbill and One-handed Flail have been changed to go along with the general buff to one-handed weapons that was done in the initial balance pass.