Fortitude - Mage armour bonus increased from 20 to 30, matching Warrior.

Celerity - Mage movement speed increased from 6% to 10%, matching Warrior.

Escape - Mage movement cooldown recovery increased from 12% to 25% per rune. Warrior stays at 12%.

Round rewards - Rounds now drop more equippable items as you progress. Previously, only item rarity increased.

Reaping Turn - Damage reduced by 12.5%. Knockback distance and stun duration reduced by 50%.

Weapon critical strikes - Gravecall's axe and falling skull, and Bloodwake's slash and wave, now roll critical strikes independently. This means that both those Weapons can now trigger Conduit of Calamity twice as often.

Cloudweave Robe - Maximum life increased from 15 to 25; life regeneration increased from 1.2 to 2 per second.

Quicksilver Wraps - Movement speed increased from 12% to 20%.

Round recovery - Clearing a round now restores full life. This is mostly just a presentation change, since previously you would be fully healed at the start of a new round anyway.

Co-op UI/UX - Many improvements:

Co-op menu - Redesigned the party panel, with Steam avatars, clearer player slots and invitations.

Party HUD - Your teammate's life and status now sit at the top left.

Preparation - Redesigned the co-op preparation panel.

Localization - Co-op menus, player statuses and chat announcements now support English, Portuguese, French and Russian.

Rimefang Wand - Its description now explicitly says that hits Chill and critical strikes Freeze. Just a clearer description; no gameplay changes.

Ember Flurry - Reworked while keeping its core identity intact, while also fixing a lot of bugs. Blink between enemies and deliver six area strikes for 50 damage each. After the sixth strike, each strike has a 50% chance to continue, up to ten. Can strike the same enemy repeatedly.

Ember Flurry - Cooldown increased from 6 to 8 seconds. Retargets when enemies die and avoids unsafe landings.

Unfinished Business - Echoes follow the completed Ember Flurry chain, repeating its area strikes for 40 damage each.

Ember Flurry - Several VFX and SFX improvements for the base skill and its awakened versions.

Wild Streak - New Ember Flurry awakened rune. Doubles targeting range, raises the chance of another strike to 90% and removes the strike limit. Long chains become increasingly fast. The true "flicker take the wheel" experience

The Maiden - Phase three now opens with a centered Spiral followed by Nova.

Volley - Updated warning, release and impact sounds.

Combat - Improved performance.

Curse details - Click outside the Read More panel to close it.

Defeat screen - Replaced the old nomination message with an invitation to our Discord.

Rift Strike - Hit area is 50% wider for both the initial dash and Recall.

Frostcleave - Adjusted the slam's visual effects.

Red hints - Clearer warnings when a rune's bonuses do not affect your equipped skills, including active-relic bonuses used with Conduit.

Berserker's Hide - Critical strike chance increased from 12% to 20%; maximum life recovered on kill increased from 0.6% to 1%. This armour wasn't competitive enough with the more defensive-oriented options; this should make it a viable option while keeping its core identity.

Ashwalker's Leathers - Movement speed increased from 12% to 24%; movement cooldown recovery increased from 20% to 40%.

Blackstar Amulet - Critical strike chance increased from 12% to 16%.

Hourglass Charm - Weapon speed increased from 12% to 15%.

Flask charges - Every round now starts with a full flask.

Wellspring - Now refills flasks 50% faster from kills instead of filling them at the start of each round, since that is now the default behavior or flasks.

The Maiden - First appears in round 10 instead of round 8. The encounter keeps its former round-8 scaling, but you now have two more rounds to gear up.

The Maiden - Ordinary encounters return to rounds 8 and 9; the post-Maiden difficulty increase moves to round 11.

The Maiden - Restores one full flask use at the end of each intermission.

The Maiden - Teleport-slash damage increased from 25 to 28.

The Bellkeeper - Life increased by 6%.

The Bellkeeper - Is now much more likely to cast 'Bury The Living' before the first Intermission phase.

Wind - Damage per blade reduced from 28 to 23.

Brute III - Boulder pulse radius increased from 175 to 225, with a clearer visual effect.

Void Nova - Louder charging sound, especially during the quiet opening, to make the buildup easier to hear over music.

Bloodwake - Melee damage increased from 180 to 270; wave damage reduced from 180 to 135. Landing both deals 12.5% more damage, melee alone deals 50% more, and ranged alone deals 25% less.

Rift Strike - Damage increased from 155 to 300.

Rift Recall (Awakened Rune) - return damage is now 375.

Rift Strike - Widened the hit area from 38 to 72, keeping the same visuals and travel distance. Area modifiers still apply.

Ember Flurry - Its 6-second cooldown now starts when the attack sequence ends or is cancelled.

Miremaw - Each spin can now knock you back only once. Later hits still deal damage.

Bellkeeper - Minimum rest between beam phases increased from 7 to 18 seconds.

Ground effects - Lightning, Mud, Fire and Stone now shrink with boss arenas, including their visuals and hit areas.

Ground effects - Areas have approximately 44.5% less are in Bellkeeper fights and 51.5% less area in Maiden fights.

Several improvements to Essence Selection

Everything Is on Fire - Replaces Lights Out. Hold Fire III and Inferno III in the same run. Updated the name and icon; existing unlocks are preserved.

MASSIVELY nerfed the amount of text on curse cards

The full, detailed descriptions still exist, but are now behind the new "Read More" button

Vitality - Increased maximum health from 15 to 35.

Renewal - Increased health regeneration from 0.6 to 0.8 per second.

Fortitude - Increased armour from 15 to 20.

Precision - Increased critical strike chance from 8% to 10%.

Cruelty - Increased critical strike multiplier from 35% to 40%.

Certainty - Increased the critical strike multiplier penalty from 25% to 50%. The critical strike chance bonus remains 40%.

Totemic Bond - Both Hollow Idols now use the Relic key, with two independently recharging uses.

Assassin III - Moved the teleport knives’ random direction change to Assassin IV and doubled their travel distance.

Brute I - Reduced Miremaw size bonus from 69% to 40%.

Brute II - Reduced Miremaw attack area bonus from 96% to 40%.

Coven III - Fire now lasts 20 seconds instead of the entire round.

Curse visuals - Improved Hunger II chunk visuals - the extra chunks from eating goblins are now... half-digested goblins! With different remains for living and undead goblins.

Mosswitches, Veilknives and goblins - 15s → 40s

Miremaws - 15s → 60s

Cinderwicks - 30s → 90s

Festermaws - 40s → 70s

Cloudweave Robe - Increased health regeneration from 0.6 to 1.2 per second.

Quicksilver Wraps - Increased weapon speed from 10% to 20% and movement speed from 8% to 12%.

Eclipse Vestment - Reduced maximum health from 30 to 20.

Fulgur Pendant - Increased Relic cooldown recovery from 12% to 24%.

Blackstar Amulet - Increased critical strike chance from 5% to 12%.

Frostfall - Increased Area now also scales icicle splashes, so it no longer reduces single-target damage.

Bellkeeper - Summons approximately 15% fewer skeletons during intermission phases.

Boss rewards - The extra item dropped after a boss is now always at least Legendary.

Enchanting - Redesigned the enchanting board.

Selling - Hold Ctrl to skip confirmation.

Loot pickup - Loot can now also be collected by walking over an item's label.

Descriptions - Reworked a huge amount of text across the game, including skill, rune and curse descriptions, and added new loading tips.

Volume - Reduced overall volume by approximately 30%.

Spell sounds - Updated Frostfall, life flask and Timefold sounds.

Combat - Improved performance in large fights.

Hitches - Reduced stuttering when starting a run, closing equipment and casting spells for the first time.

Monster reinforcements - Monster curses now keep sending reinforcements throughout the round, instead of stopping after their initial arrivals.

Enemy health - All six ordinary enemy types have 10% less base health. Bosses and their summons retain their existing base health.

Cinderwick - Beyond round 9, its health grows more slowly than other monsters'.

Weapon damage - Stormglass 44 → 50, Rimefang 48 → 53, Moonreave 46 → 52.

Extra loot - Every round now has a 20% chance of one additional item, bringing the average to 1.2 items per normal round and 2.2 per boss round.

Corruption Essence - 5% → 10% chance after ordinary rounds; 60% → 100% after bosses.

Family essences - Each of the four family essences now has an independent 25% chance after ordinary rounds. Bosses still guarantee all four.

Item quality - Early Legendary drops are less common, one-socket items stop dropping from round 13 onward, and Divine items gradually become more common in later rounds while remaining rare.

Miremaw:

Base Cyclone Damage: 22 -> 11

Brute II attack size increase: 60% -> 40%

Cyclone Turn Rate: 55º/s -> 48º/s (-13%)

Crypt Goblin:

Base movement Speed: 208 -> 194 (-6.5%)

Buffed Crit Runes

Changed Candlekeeper's Timings slightly

Added Hint to Ice curse's description