Blackfaun patch 0.8.3 is now live! Check out the full patch notes below:

GENERAL

• In preparation for the Court of Thorns tileset, the number of stages per act has been reduced from 3 to 2. The purposed for this change is to condense the play experience into a tighter package. This will help differentiate playthroughs and items (and to a lesser extent enemies and bosses) will be seen less frequently.
  
  Enemies and bosses appearing in the second stage of each act now have increased HP to help balance the difficulty curve.
  
  
• The leveling system has been revamped: The skill points you get when leveling up will now increase base damage, luck, and max HP instead of adding to your base stats. Leveling up no longer automatically grants base damage and HP. To compensate for the lack of stats on level up, items have had their stat values increased. Additionally, ancient wisps still grant a passive boost to their corresponding stat color, their stat boost values have been tweaked to accommodate the new level up stats.
  
  The reasoning for these changes was to give players a different method of guiding their gameplay while giving players more meaningful and impactful choices. We felt that the previous stat system was ultimately fighting for the same spotlight as items. What do you think of these changes? Let us know in the discussions!
  
  
• Wisps now explode when impacted by player projectiles, dealing damage to everything around them -- even the player! (except on easy difficulty). They can also be mana bursted into enemies, giving the player more strategic choices in battle.
  

BOSSES

• Relic Guardian
  
  
  
  • Now always spawns on 3-3 and triggers a new scripted sequence.
    
  • The Relic altar has been added to the Relic Guardian’s chamber. ːsteammockingː
    
  
  

ITEMS

• Rune Egg Wand
  
  
  
  • Decreased familiar spawn chance.
    
  
  
  
• Rainbow Wand
  
  
  
  • Increased base explosion radius.
    
  
  
  
• Withered Effigy
  
  
  
  • Decreased curse (stat drain) debuff amount.
    
  
  

OTHER

• Sound effects have received significant upgrades across the board. Overall sound effect experience should be enhanced!
  
• Stoneblade Grunts have traded spots with Dreamsnatchers in the encounter order in Lyrewood Vale. Players will now encounter Stoneblade Grunts on 1-1 and Dreamsnatchers on 1-2.
  
• An indicator has been added to the main menu screen when one or more new talismans have been unlocked.
  

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue causing Stonebeak’s health regeneration effects to work improperly.
  
• Cleaned up the way that talismans were spawning.
  
• Fixed key consumable collection radius.
  
• Fixed an issue which sometimes caused enemies to affect one another with their spells.
  
• Fixed a rare issue that caused enemies to float above the player.