Editing Update:SpiritVale Playtest 0.6.2

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== [https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3918510/view/588409432234262878 Update 0.6.2] - Boss Improvement, Poison and Reflect Revamp ==
''Posted: November 6, 2025 — Type: SMALL UPDATE / PATCH NOTES''

Was just going to do a small maintenance update but turned out to be a big one. (The paladin procrastination is real 🤦‍♂️)

== Improvements/Fixes ==
* Removed blurring in Swamp Wilderness
* Fixed gold not saving sometimes
* Dual wield autoattacks now take main hand element, instead of requiring each hand to have the right element
* Reduced monster hybrid skill damage (75% > 50%), these skills scaled too high due to monsters having alot of both ATK and MATK
* Disabled combo ready for monsters (not summons)
* Fixed some issues with Party UI
* Items in storage now automatically gain substats
* Skills now show its damage type in UI (Melee, Magic, Ranged)
* Negative status effects now shows popup
* Fix some issues with skill usage when silenced

== LeechVale ==
* Party bonuses are now reduced if maximum player level gap in party is > 15
* Each level beyond 15 reduces the party bonuses by 5%
* At a level gap of 35, party bonuses are reduced to 0

== Status Damage Revamp ==
* Poison New Formula: Damage = (100 + STR + AGI) / 4 * stacks
* Poison: removed stack limit, scales fully with aspd and hits
* Poison: removed damage scaling from skill level (fix inconsistencies with Enchant Poison Lv5 vs Venom Strike Lv10)
* Poison: No longer does hp% dmg
* Bosses no longer immune to poison
* Enchant Poison status effects only applied by melee attacks
* Enchant Poison status effects disabled for clones
* Hexbrand Fixed
* Bleed now damages 4% hp per second, scales with StatusDmg%
* Guardian Bond now heals 4% hp per second, scales with Healing%

== Reflect Damage & Counter Stance Revamp ==
* New formula: Reflect Damage = (100 + DEF + FlatDEF/2) * 4 * Reflect%
* Counter Slash: now works with combo ready, melee% & taunt/cutter debuffs and stat scalings
* Counter Slash: now applies leech and autocasts

== Boss/Monster Behaviour ==
* Make bosses more challenging and interesting to fight
* Spell names are displayed at the beginning of cast instead of the end
* Boss now target a random player in range with spells, instead of being taunt locked
* Boss targeted spells have splash
* Added wide status effect attacks to bosses
* Boss minions spawned in a much wider area
* Minions no longer auto change target if boss is hit
* Non-hostile monsters no longer have cast detection (makes things easier for new mages)
* Added cooldowns for Large Area, Medium Area and Wide status skills.

== Element Table ==
* Holy/Shadow a bit too strong vs others
* Removed advantages of Holy vs Poison
* Removed advantages of Shadow vs Undead

== Autocast ==
* Autocasts were too strong across the board, especially the bolts which were balanced by long cast times
* Reduced autocast bolts and CL base dmg by 50%
* Reduced all autocast stat scaling by 50%
* Removed autocast ICD

== Classes ==
* Helping out melee & Bringing back mage combos

=== Shinobi ===
* Clone cost 75% > 65%
* Cloaking crit bonus now works with Shadow Release

=== Warrior ===
* New passive +30% crit dmg

=== Rogue ===
* New passive +50% autoattack dmg
* Poison Exposure debuff on Venom Strike (-20% poison resist)
* Enchant Poison changes weapon element

=== Mage/Wiz ===
* New Fire/Wind/Earth/Water Exposure debuffs on appropriate skills (-20% resist)

=== Acolyte/Priest ===
* Smite debuff: 25% > 20% (to align with other debuffs)
* Fanaticism: Autocast chance 25% > 50%

== Items ==
* New cards for reflect and poison damage
* Buffs for Holy, Meteoric, Tempest, Hellfire, Chainfrost staff
* Atk bumps for swords
* Relic Trident: fully removes cd
* All kunais give chain +1
* 2 new kunais
* 1 new halloween hat
* Wraith of Dawn: reduced atk 35 > 30, reduced range 15 > 10
* Pumpkin Hat (revamped): Grants Death Coil, Autocast Death Coil
* Swampy Hat (revamped): Grants Gunk Shot, Autocast Gunk Shot
* Maces: No longer equippable on offhand/dualwield

== Revamped Weapon Innate Bonuses ==
* Sword: 10% block
* Axe: 10% crit damage
* Twinblade: 50% total crit rate
* Spear: 20 hit, 1 range

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