Update:SpiritVale Playtest 0.2.4

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Update:SpiritVale Playtest 0.2.4 August 29, 2025

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Update 0.2.4

Posted: August 29, 2025 — Type: SMALL UPDATE / PATCH NOTES

Overview

• Doing a round of bug fixes and balancing, before moving on to advanced classes and other features.
• After this I'll try to stop myself on further balance changes as its taking a lot of time, and might not matter anyway once advanced classes come out.
• There are still a lot of issues remaining, including memory issues, storage and party bugs. These are harder to track down and will be fixed over time.

Fixes/Improvements

• Fixed attribute exploit
• Fixed being able to move during animation of attack, cast (physical skills), and pickup (may feel more 'clunky' but improves game feel and reduces ranged spam power)
• Fixed multiple weapon element cards bugging out
• Fixed bugs regarding range
• Fixed monster spell circle area being wrong size
• Fixed haste not curing slow
• Fixed calculation bugs with -hp/mp
• Fixed being able to have negative hp/mp
• Card element now always overrides armor/set element (like Sanctified)
• Fixed counter doing no damage if you have no Reflect stats
• Fixed summoned bosses dying instantly if spawned on damage aoe
• Fixed warrior dual wield skill sometimes not working or appearing in two spots
• Reduced bloom/brightness in Forest Maps
• Fixed Vitality Aura still being applied after taking off Codex
• Fixed enemies not being able to hit you while chasing
• Fixed boss drops being common rarity and disappearing quickly
• You can now view Monster Info while dead
• Added DamageFromRanged and DamageRanged to substat pool (also fixed red text coloring for Arrow Catch Wall)
• Fixed gaining Twohand stance bonus from Books and Maces
• Added visuals to Demonic Wail
• Reduced server auto restart threshold (sometimes crashing before it could restart)

Weight/Storage

• Bank weight increased (10k → 50k)
• Character weight = 2000 + 30 * lv (instead of STR)
• Reduced weight of some items (equips ~50%, boss lures 10 → 1)

Trade

• Fixed being able to enter negative gold or more than you have
• Gold value now formatted for clarity
• Fixed being able to change items/gold after clicking ready
• Fixed items visually disappearing if trade was cancelled
• Added info popup when hovering over items

Maps

• Fixed cheese spot in Abyss Library
• Fixed stuck positions on outhouse roof in Festering Woods

Balance

• Removed hit/flee cap of 95%
• Bosses now heal to full health if out of combat
• Ground aoe can no longer trigger autocast
• Monsters now avoid spawning near players
• Attribute points reduced (100–130 = 2/lv, 130–150 = 1/lv, ~70 fewer overall)
• Reduced monster hit growth by ~33%
• Life/Mana on hit now provides flat value + scaling (reduced values: combat knife, brimblade, bat lord card 5 → 3)
• Removed base crit chance of 5 for players
• Removed stat scaling from monster skills (reduces normal monster spell damage ~50%, boss ~30%)
• Reverted +33% atk / -33% matk change from last patch
• Monster ATK per lv greatly increased (~2× at Lv150)
• Increased monster cast times (1.5s → 2s)
• Reduced monster cast chances (25% → 10%)
• Minions of giant monsters no longer cast spells
• Removed many single target spells from normal monsters (except Abyss)
• Increased Reflect Damage scaling by ~50%
• Changed leech/autocast chance reduction: now ICD of 0.1s (no scaling by targets, but full proc chance on each hit)
• Abyss monsters gain new skills: Death Coil, Shadow Strike
• Undead element attacks resisted by Holy/Shadow (125% → 75%)
• Added 2nd slot to master weapons
• Heal shield cast level reduced (2 → 1)

Cards

• Damage card changes:
  • Atk/Matk: 5%
  • Melee/Ranged/Magic: 6%
  • CritDamage: 7%
  • Element Damage: 8%
  • Damage To Element Enemies: 10%
  • Damage with Skill: 12%
• Other:
  • Direwolf card → Perfect Cloak (can hide from Shadow monsters)
  • Death Mage card → Lv.1 Cloak

Class Balance

Rogue

• Poison damage doubled (less STR reliant)
• Cloak/Blade Dance cooldown 4s → 3s
• Dagger Mastery: 10% aspd → 30% double attack
• Smoke Screen: provides perfect dodge instead of blind (25% chance to evade targeted spells/attacks)
• Early-game survival boosted via hit/flee changes and life on hit

Scout

• New skill Mark Target: -20% crit def, -20% flee (debuff, party utility)
• New skill Snipers Nest: +20% aspd, +20% ranged damage, Cannot Move (5s self buff)
• New skill Auto Strafe: +25% chance to autocast Strafing Volley
• Reduced Arrow Shower damage by 50%

Acolyte

• Removed all combo mechanics (reserved for physical classes)
• Reduced Exorcism damage by 40% (no more finisher)
• Reduced Sanctuary healing by 40%
• Reduced Holy Light damage by 20% (no more finisher)

Summoner

• Removed all combo mechanics (reserved for physical classes)
• New skills Summon Attack / Summon Recall (direct commands)
• All spells are Neutral element, inherit weapon element
• Summons now inherit all player stats (including autocast chance)
• Summons gain 5th skill
• Summon stat scaling reduced ~50%
• Summon stats update without resummoning
• Summons no longer aggressive
• Removed -hp from soulbinder set
• Runesmasher cooldown -2s → -1s

Mage

• Spell cast ranges increased (10 → 12); monster aggro reduced (15 → 12)
• Ice Shard/Earth Spike damage 350% → 500%
• Spell areas increased (2.5 → 3)