# Patch v0.1.1
Hey Dungoneers!
A big rebalance pass on **The Depths**, plus new gear, new enemies, and quality-of-life improvements. The goal: deeper runs should be earned, your build choices should matter more, and survival should come from smart play rather than raw stat snowballing.
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### ✨ Updates
**New stat: Life**
* Equipment can now grant **Life** - a flat boost to your maximum HP that's reliable at any depth (scales multiplicatively with any HP % increases)
* Life now shows as its own line in your equipment bonuses.
* Only Amulets found in Dungeons currently grant Life
**Dynamic Amulets**
* A brand-new amulet drop in the Depths, each rolled at a random **rarity**: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, or Legendary.
* Higher rarities grant more Life - ranging from a small bump on Commons up to a massive cushion on Legendaries.
* Amulets are found exclusively from mob drops
**New Gear (Early Game)**
* **Delver's Kiteshield** and **Delver's Spellbreaker** - defensive offhands
* **Delver's Spellbook** and **Delver's Sight** - offensive offhands for Magic and Ranged.
* **Ruined Ring of Power** (all-round defence) and **Ruined Ring of Agility** (crowd-control resistance).
**New enemies in the Depths**
* **Broken Castigator** - a caster that can **root you in place**, so don't get pinned in the open.
* **Broken Felbourne** - a bruiser that can briefly turn **invulnerable and heal itself**; burst it down before it escapes.
**New Magic masteries**
* Magic builds now have dedicated offensive picks for **Magic Strength** and **Magic Accuracy**
**Swarm protection**
* Focus Fire: When multiple enemies pile onto you in the Depths, incoming damage is now **reduced the more attackers you're facing**
* Does not mitigate damage from Bosses or Revenants.
**HUD improvements**
* Added a clear **"Buy Keys"** button and a live wallet balance readout to the combat HUD.
* Depths Leaderboard now shows USD won for each qualifying entry
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### 🔧 Changes
**The Depths is now 7 floors (was 8)**
* A tighter run with the difficulty re-tuned around the new length.
**Player power scaling reworked**
* Power from leveling is now **linear instead of front-loaded** - every dungeon level matters, rather than early levels giving the biggest spikes.
* Overall power at the cap is **lower**, and you level up **more slowly.**
* To compensate, **defensive scaling** got a small targeted boost.
**Boosts are front-loaded**
* You now get a large **starting set of boost rolls on Floor 1**, tapering off significantly on later floors.
* Later-floor boosts, though rare, still skew toward **higher tiers.**
**Loot rework**
* Artifact Drop rates are now **steady across floors** instead of inflating the deeper you go.
* Bosses and chests give **fewer guaranteed extras**, but the gear pool is **more varied** (new shields, defenders, rings, and the dynamic amulets).
**Rewards buffed**
* Favor earned per run is up significantly (\~3.5x).
* Dungeon Favor was mistakenly 2x below original design
* Last week's Favor will be adjusted slightly to compensate
* Favor will be reduced slightly after jackpots are released
* Favor from Gizmo's Folly and Sword in Stone reduced by 25% (relative to Island favor)
**Crowd control overhaul**
* CC is now driven cleanly by **Tenacity**. Low-resistance enemies can be reliably locked down regardless of type, and high-tenacity enemies are **no longer outright immune** (CC still lands, just shorter).
**Improved Bosses**
* A wave of new staggers, knockups, and roots: **Elder Dragon** (fire stagger + lunge knockup), **Cyclops** (slam knockup), **Broken Legionnaire** (magic stagger), and **Blood Mistress** (faster + staggering while in Demon form). Positioning matters more than ever. **Trogg** has a Roar attack.
**Stress is more punishing**
* Hitting **maximum stress is now a hard lockout** - relief items and effects won't pull you back once you're maxed.
* Higher stress now **lengthens the crowd control enemies land on you**, so stacking stress compounds the danger.
**Poisoned Chalice**
* Now rolls a Boost sometimes on the good outcome
**Certain Passives now scale your level**
* **Melee / Magic / Ranged Defense** picks now boost your underlying **level** rather than your gear bonus, making them a much stronger **late-game** lever. (roughly 5/10/15% DR at late game).
* **Melee Strength / Accuracy** and **Ranged Strength / Accuracy** Passives are also now level-based for more aggressive late game scaling.
* Melee picks buffed: **Life Steal** and **Critical Strike** to 5/10/15%, **Critical Damage** to 20/35/60%.
**Starting food randomized**
* Builds now start with a randomized amount of food.
* Melee starts with extra to make up for not stockpiling ammo.
**Body Rune tuning**
* Body Rune damage reduction reduced slightly at each tier as part of the survivability rebalance.
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### 🐛 Bugfixes
* Fixed several broken enemies in the Depths.
* Fixed missing/broken sounds for the Broken Felbourne and Broken Castigator.
* Fix issue with duplicate affixes being replaced
* More frontend optimizations for performance
* Fix an issue with Run toggle
* Fixes an issue where Quirk UI state stops updating correctly
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