Heretical Update – v0.2.9.202503111355

Changelog:

• New skill: Bramble Dance (Pathfinder) - A whirl of barbs stays behind you and another one flies outwards when you attack. After a short delay, they meet in the middle, dealing physical damage to enemies they pass through and applying the bleed effect.
• 2 new Prophecies
• Soldier of Light - Istwan's Prophecy now grants an ability to reroll your first skill choice indefinitely at no costs, but no longer grants additional skill slots.
• Venomous Coating rework: When ready, your direct damage poisons targets. When on cooldown, there's a chance to ignore cooldown and poison anyway. For every 2000 decay damage done in the run, this skill's damage over time is increased by 1.
• Decay Damage now ignores barrier.
• Improved minion AI.
• King's Guard quest reworked.
• Fedy (Wildheart's Minion) has two skills:
  • Demoralizing Howl which slows enemies in a large area.
  • Soul Link: Links either Silva or the player with Fedy, transferring 50% of the damage taken by the linked target to Fedy.
• Silva (Wildheart's Minion) has a new skill: Primal Howl - marks enemies, granting hit points regeneration when they're slain.
• Added a new attack to Gorewarden Cervid.
• Some improvements in the Level Design of the Forsaken Settlement and Deprived Estate.
• Barrier now doesn't automatically scale with your hit points, but instead it's limited by max barrier stat.
• New stat and affix: Max Barrier - increases total barrier that you can accumulate through skills.
• Wraiths in Headmaster's fight now take longer to respawn.
• Many more balance changes.
• Apprentices inside college rooftop arena now spawn with a delay to give you time to react and get to a safe distance.
• Boulder breaker no longer shoots boulders outside of playable bounds.
• Reworked hotkeys for the profile selection screen to avoid accidental profile deletion.