Changelog Monitor • March 23

Grim Dawn Public Test Discussion
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February 25

A new build is planned for this weekend to address remaining bug reports and further iteration on UI changes.

Shattered Realm

  • Clearing Shards by hunting down Nemesis spawns has become a too dominant strategy, reducing the viability of AoE builds in favor of single target burst, which is already favored in the boss arenas. To address this, Shard Progress from gathering a Nemesis soul has been reduced by 34%38%. Progress gained from Hero souls has been increased by 33%, and by 50% from Common and Champion souls. Chance of Champion monsters dropping souls has been increased by 18%.

Modding

  • A new template has been added: Skill_WPAttack_Radius. This skill type generates a radius eruption around the target when the WPS triggers, similar to how Shattering Smash for Oathkeeper generates a wave.

Game

  • Reduced Monster Armor by 8%17% on Champion+ enemies.

  • Reduced Monster % Life Leech Resist on Ultimate difficulty. This makes % Attack damage Converted to Health roughly 16% more effective against an average boss.

  • Increased % Life Leech Resist for player summoned pets to 50%, up from 33%.

Itemization

  • Increased % Damage Reduction on Disengage runes by +10%

  • Increased % Damage Reduction on Leap and Shadow Strike runes by +5%

  • Relic - Dirge of Arkovia: increased % Damage Reduction on the summoned pet

Faction Equipment

  • Irrah’s Venomtongue: replaced pet bonuses with 50% Bleed damage and 15% Elemental Resist. A new pet-focused augment has been added, Irrah’s Dominion.

  • Occulant: increased % Damage Reduction on the granted skill

  • Rotgut Venom: replaced Energy Regeneration and % Pet Attack Speed with 12 Acid damage and 50% Bleed damage. A new pet-focused augment has been added, Bloodrot Powder.

  • Rotvine Powder: fixed missing Offensive Ability

Monster Infrequents

  • Aetherscorched Cleaver: added 100% of Elemental dealt as Physical modifier for Iskandra’s Elemental Exchange

  • Fleshwarped Tome: increased % Damage Reduction modifier for Sigil of Consumption to 22%

  • Kra’vall Shoulderpads: reduced % Crit damage for pets to 6%

  • Messenger’s Blaze Cannon: removed Cooldown Reduction modifier for War Cry and increased its Resist Reduction modifier to 28 / 5s. Fixed an issue where the low level and high level versions of the War Cry Fire damage modifier were flipped.

  • Messenger’s Repeater: replaced support for Veil of Shadow with bonuses and modifiers for Dual Blades and Belgothian’s Shears

  • Ugdenbog Arcaneweaver: increased % Projectile Pierce Chance modifier for Fire Strike to 75%

  • Ugdenbog Bilelauncher: replaced % Health with 10% Cooldown Reduction. Increased % Projectile Pierce Chance modifier for Amarasta’s Blade Burst to 66%75% and replaced % Heal modifier for Blood of Dreeg with 8% Health modifier for it.

  • Ugdenbog Boltthrower: replaced Pierce damage modifier for Storm Spread with +2 Projectiles modifier for it

  • Ugdenbog Sparkthrower: replaced Cooldown Reduction modifier for Storm Box of Elgoloth with -10% Lightning Resist Reduction modifier for it

Legendary Non-Set Items

  • Conduit of Divine Whispers: replaced % Damage Reduction modifier for cold variant of Judgment with 300 Frostburn damage / 2s modifier for it.

  • Dreegal’anore: increased % Elemental dealt as Acid to 100% and removed % Physical conversion

  • Hyrian’s Bulwark: increased % Damage Reduction on the granted skill

  • Mythical Adversary: added 16% Cooldown Reduction

  • Mythical Chillflame Evoker: replaced modifiers for Olexra’s Flash Freeze with modifiers for Iskandra’s Elemental Exchange

  • Mythical Dreegal’anore: increased % Elemental dealt as Acid to 100% and Acid Retaliation to 2800-4000. Replaced % All Retaliation damage with 400% Acid Retaliation and bonus to Crushing Verdict with +4 to Heart of Wrath. Removed % Physical conversion. Added modifiers for Amarasta’s Blade Burst. Increased Acid Retaliation modifier for Blood of Dreeg to 900.

  • Mythical Earthshatter Treads: increased % Damage Reduction on the granted skill

  • Mythical Fiendgaze Tome: reduced % Offensive Ability for pets to 12%

  • Mythical Girdle of Stolen Dreams: added 22% Chaos Resist

  • Mythical Hagarradian Enforcer: increased % Damage Reduction on the skill proc

  • Mythical Mark of Calamitous Desires: increased % Damage Reduction modifier for Ring of Steel to 20%

  • Mythical Murmur’s Kiss: increased Acid Retaliation to 500 and added 24% Pierce Resist

  • Mythical Nadaan’s Reach: replaced Pierce damage modifier for Ring of Steel with 80% Weapon damage modifier for it

  • Mythical Overlord’s Iron Grip: reduced % Crit damage for pets to 10%

  • Mythical Pagar’s Betrayal: reclassified as a Dagger, values adjusted accordingly. Reduced % Retaliation added to Attack modifier for Flames of Ignaffar to 12%.

  • Mythical Phantom-Thread Girdle: added 22% Chaos Resist

  • Mythical Quillthrower of Dreeg: replaced Acid damage modifier for Amarasta’s Blade Burst with 100% Weapon damage modifier for it

  • Mythical Soullance:added % Weapon damage to the skill proc has been replaced by a granted WPS skill. Added +3s Duration modifier for Bloody Pox.

  • Mythical Ulzuin’s Torment: added 5% Max Poison Resist

  • Mythical Wrath of Tenebris: increased % Weapon damage modifier for Eye of Reckoning to 24%

  • Scion of the Screaming Veil: replaced bonus to Callidor’s Tempest with +2 to Arcanist SKills and replaced proc with granted WPS skill

  • Soullance: skill proc has been replaced by a granted WPS skill

  • Soulrend (mythical): increased % Damage Reduction on the skill proc

  • Venomlance: reduced Cooldown on the skill proc. Added +2s Cooldown and 100% Damage Modified modifiers for Phantasmal Blades.

Legendary Set Items

  • Armor of the Eternal Night Set: reduced Cold damage modifiers for Ill Omen and Wind Devil to 220 and 340, respectively

  • Barrelsmith’s Destroyers Set: increased % Cooldown Reduction bonus to 14%. Increased damage on the granted skill and added 70% Projectile Pierce Chance to it. Added 24% Damage Reduction / 3s modifier for Grenado.

  • Chillwhisper Blade: reduced % Crit damage modifier for Drain Essence to 22%

  • Dark One’s Grasp: increased % Damage Reduction modifier for Bloody Pox to 20%

  • Dawnseeker’s Light Set: reduced Lightning Retaliation bonus to 1-3550. Increased Lightning Retaliation modifier for Word of Renewal to 1800 and reduced % Retaliation added to Attack modifier for Savagery to 8%. Reduced Cooldown Reduction modifier for Counter Strike to -0.4s and its Radius modifier to 1.0. Removed Lightning Retaliation modifier for Counter Strike.

  • Deathguard Set: reduced Poison damage modifier for Shadow Strike to 330 / 3s and removed its % Crit damage modifier

  • Dread Sigils of Alkamos Set: increased % Damage Reduction on the skill proc

  • Ghol’s Malice Set: increased Acid damage for pets bonus to 34 and reduced % Crit damage for pets bonus to 18%16%. Increased damage and % Resist Reduction on the summoned pet.

  • Light’s Guardian Set: increased damage on the granted skill and increased % Damage Reduction on it. Increased Lightning damage modifier for Storm Box of Elgoloth to 240.

  • Mythical Iskandra’s Texts: increased % Damage Reduction on the skill proc

  • Avenger’s Crusher: increased % Weapon damage modifier for Upheaval to 80%

  • Pyran’s Ruminations Set: increased % Damage Reduction on the granted skill

  • Rah’Zin’s Torment Set: increased % Damage Reduction on the granted skill

  • Sentinel of the Three Set: increased Acid Retaliation bonus to 1900 and increased Radius on the granted skill

  • Rage of Agrivix Set: increased Aether damage modifier for Callidor’s Tempest to 130 and increased % Damage Reduction modifier for Vindictice Flame to 28%

  • The Cataclysm Set: reduced Cooldown on the skill proc and increased % Damage Reduction on it

  • The Vanquisher Set: increased % Damage Reduction modifier for Callidor’s Tempest to 20%

  • Ultos’ Tempest Set: increased Lightning damage modifier for Primal Strike to 140340 and its Electrocute damage modifier to 410 / 3s. Increased Electrocute damage on the skill proc.

  • Mythical Valdun’s Rifle: replaced granted skill withadded 80% Weapon damage modifier for Zolhan’s Technique. Increased % Chaos dealt as Pierce modifier for Flame Touched to 100%and added 32 Pierce damage modifier for it.

  • Veilkeeper Set: increased % Weapon damage modifier for Upheaval to 80%

Devotion

  • Kraken: reduced % All Retaliation damage to 200%180%

  • Black Blood of Yugol: increased % Damage Reduction scaling with rank to 20%

  • Light of Empyrion (celestial power): increased % Damage Reduction scaling with rank to 26%

  • Living Shadow: increased % Damage Reduction scaling with rank to 22%

  • Mark of Rattosh: reduced % Life Leech Resist Reduction to -8%

  • Spear of the Heavens (celestial power): increased Electrocute damage scaling with rank

  • Tainted Eruption: increased Poison damage scaling with rank and added % Damage Reduction scaling with rank

Demolitionist

  • Blast Shield: increased Damage Absorption scaling with rank to 1200 by rank 12, continuing to scale to 2000 by max ultimate rank

  • Demon Fire: increased % Damage Reduction scaling with rank to 20% by rank 12, 30% by max ultimate rank

  • Temper: increased Defensive Ability scaling with rank to 240 by rank 12, 440 by max ultimate rank

  • Ulzuin’s Wrath: increased % Damage Reduction scaling with rank to 28% by rank 12, 38% by max ultimate rank

Occultist

  • Ascpect of the Guardian: increased % Physical Resist scaling with rank to 15% by rank 12, 25% by max ultmate rank

Nightblade

  • Blade Spirit: reducedBleed damage scaling with rank

  • Veil of Shadow: increased Offensive Ability Reduction scaling with rank to -150 by rank 10, -315 by max ultimate rank

Shaman

  • Upheaval: skill has been redesigned to trigger a radius explosion around the target off of Auto Attacks, like standard WPS skills, and no longer triggers off of Critical Strikes only. Many modifiers for Upheaval have been rebalanced to account for this change.

Oathkeeper

  • Judgment: increased Internal Trauma damage scaling with rank

  • Heart of Wrath: increased % Retaliation added to Attack scaling with rank to 24% by rank 12, 34% by max ultimate rank

  • Soulfire: increased % Damage Reduction scaling with rank to 20% by rank 12, 30% by max ultimate rank

  • Summon Guardian of Empyrion: reduced Burn damage scaling with rank

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