Update:SpiritVale Playtest 0.1.4

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Update:SpiritVale Playtest 0.1.4 August 7, 2025

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[Update v0.1.4 Playtest 2 Starting Now!]

Posted: Thu, August 7, 2025 — Type: Small Update / Patch Notes

Overview

• Playtest 2 Starting Now!
• Accounts have been wiped

Bug Fixes

• Disabled monster pooling + fixed some reference errors (hope this fixes ghost issues 😭 )
• Improved on position desync (hopefully)
• Dodge is now instant on client + direction bug should be fixed
• Better disconnect handling (instead of getting stuck on load screen)
• Fixed a bug where you still have the overweight debuff after using Storage
• Fixed a bug where Lv.3 Heal item didn't work with -1s Heal cooldown item (and other similar bugs)
• Fixed a bug where crafter can be stuck if you don't have the materials
• Fixed characters get stuck if equipping Cat/Pup hat and card
• Fixed dodge direction being delayed
• Added 4K resolution
• Fixed some areas where monsters can get stuck in Desert / Forgotten Depths
• Fixed issues with sitting animation
• Fixed status display hover info
• Fixed summons dropping items
• Fixed being able to cast Stomp repeatedly / Increased speed of Stomp
• Fixed issues with leech on kill
• Fixed double MATK not applied in Twohand stance
• Enabled dual wield Mace and offhand Dagger, Sword, Mace
• Party members now need to be on the same map to get exp/loot
• Fixed crash when quitting the game
• Added endure to bosses

Features & Improvements

• 1v1 Trade (equips, artifacts, coins only)
• Stylist NPC + around 20 more hairstyles
• You can sit down now for double regen and views (press X / can change hotkey)
• Fast Casting Toggle
• Chat Filter Toggle
• Buff Timer Displays
• Dodge Cooldown Display
• New leech mechanics x% to leech y% health/mana (+new dagger and drooping hat with the new mechanics)
• Extend monster hostility range by 50%
• Non-boss minions now drop items / exp
• Added 15s cooldown to boss minion respawn
• Enlarge/Zoom out minimap a bit

Game Balance

• Reduced mana cost of Bash, Venom Strike, Strafing Volley (25 > 13), Force Shot (37 > 13), Shadow Step (37 > 25)
• Reduced mana cost of basic bolts by 5 (25 > 20 at Lv3)
• Added combo bonus to Force Shot
• Reduced mana regen bonus from int
• Twohand stance now gets double attack from equipped weapon

Exp Rates

• Monster exp has been rebalanced with Lv100 monsters (Demons Maw) giving about +50% more exp than before, making it more worth it grind higher maps
• Level requirements have been increased around 1.5x-4x, if we account for monster exp rescaling it ends up being 1.5-2.5x more kills required.
• Those numbers are for Lv1-100, if we're talking about Lv100-150 its about 2.5-4x more kills.

Drop Rates

• Drops have by reduced by a flat 1%-3%, this means lower level maps mostly retain their drop rates (e.g. 18% > 15%, 12% > 9% etc). But higher level map drop rates got a much bigger nerf (e.g. 3% > 2% and 2% > 1%).
• I think they don't need to be too low, due to random substat farming

Stat Balance

• ASPD and CTR: Reduced breakpoint bonuses by half (a bonus every 10 agi/dex). It should be much more balanced now
• Reflect Damage: I dreamt up this new formula, it may or may not be broken [ReflectDamage = Reflect% * (DamageTaken / DefRatio^2 + FlatDef)]
• Life/Mana on hit/kill: Now fully scales with Vit/Int [HP gained = Value * (1 + Vit/20)]
• Added new form of leech (x% chance to gain y% of damage as hp/mana)
• Monsters now gain additional 1 hit per level (makes flee stacking harder to pull off, another Rogue nerf, sorry)

Class Balance

Different classes now have different health scalings (they were the same before 🤦‍♂️)

Mage

• Reduced max health by 50% 💀
• Reduced Energy Shield 60% > 50%
• Earth Spike: Damage 50% > 40%, Slow Chance 50% + 5% * lv, Cooldown 1s > 2s
• Increased Firewall damage slightly

Summoner

• Reduced max health by 30%

Rogue

• Reduced max health by 15%
• Reduced Lightning Reflexes flee bonus 30% > 20%
• Added ranged atk bonus to Steady Hands, doubled for twohand stance
• Poison damage reduced to half
• Combat Knife Aspd% 5 > 3 per refine
• (Alright maybe I got a bit heavy handed on Rogue, let me know)

Knight

• No changes to max health
• All skill damage increased slightly (10-20%)
• Added 1s cooldown to Taunt
• New skill Spear Quicken: +25% apsd, +25hit/flee, +2% agi scaling for all skills
• Enabled Spears to use twohanded stance
• (The goal was to make knight skills feel a bit snappier, and also maybe open up some new builds for knight)

Warrior

• Increased max health by 25%
• All skill damage increased slightly (10-20%)
• Removed hit penalty from Twohand quicken (felt like a no-downside for crit build, but also forced you to go crit)
• New skill Twohand Parry: +20% block chance in twohanded stance
• All axes reworked, including around +5 base attack boost, also added two new axes.
• (The goal was to give warrior a bit more staying power to do it's damage)