Update 48.4
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Patches
Release Information
Released on February 24, 2021
Changes
The Anniversary Event has arrived!
- This year the reward list includes a new Red Crystal Crown, a new Dretch Creature Companion, and the 13 Eberron House Cloaks given away in a prior anniversary!
- A new item has been added to the Store during the Anniversary Event called Party Punch, which provides a 5% chance to earn Party Favors every time an enemy is defeated for the next hour.
Free Gifts!
- A 15th Anniversary Token that can be used to select a named raid item from certain raids for your character!
- A 15th Anniversary cosmetic cloak!
New Raid!
- A new raid is now available called "The Dryad and the Demigod"! This is a Legendary level raid that is included in Fables of the Feywild, and is accessible to anyone who owns the Feywild expansion.
Enhancements
- Many enhancement tree changes in this patch center around two goals, to boost spellcasting ability for Artificer and Bard and to help equalize the disparity between Vanguard's Tier 5 selections and Kensei/Knight of the Chalice.
Epic Destinies
- Changes to Divine Crusader and Unyielding Sentinel.
Feats
- General Notes
- We wanted to boost the DPS and versatility of Single Weapon Fighting to expand to better cater to hybrid builds.
- We also wanted to tone down the DPS of Two Handed Fighting while leaving its area of effect capabilities top-tier.
- Finally, we wanted to add more compelling combat options for Shield Fighting.
- Natural Fighting Feats
- Shield Mastery Feats
- New Feat: Perfect Natural Fighting
- New Feat: Greater Shield Mastery
- New Feat: Perfect Shield Mastery
- Single Weapon Fighting
- Two Handed Fighting
- Others
- Improved Martial Arts
- Epic Eldritch Blast
- Epic Arcane Eldritch Blast has been renamed to Epic Pact Dice
Items
- Enhanced Spellpower from all sources is now typed as Equipment spellpower.
- The Cookie Jar now holds the Cookies from the Anniversary Event.
- All Raid Runes (except for Shroud) can now be used by double-clicking them instead of needing to go to the questgiver NPC.
Spells
- Nukers are fairly strong right now, but we've identified two outliers: Alchemists and Fire Sorcerers.
- Top end spells brought down closer to Acid Well, Iceberg and Thunderstroke
- Lower damage
- Increased cooldown
- Acid Well, Iceberg and Thunderstroke has their cooldown lowered
- Top end spells brought down closer to Acid Well, Iceberg and Thunderstroke
- Many changes to other spells
