A new Heroes of Hammerwatch II update released on PC. According to the official Heroes of Hammerwatch II patch notes, the latest update addresses some bugs and crashes.
Since the last patch, players are experiencing problems with the game. Today’s Heroes of Hammerwatch II patch will fix a few of these issues.
Check out more details below.
Heroes of Hammerwatch II Patch Notes – February 17, 2025
- Added Spell Mastery mechanic unlocked by finding a new NPC in Dungeons in New Game+ 1
- Donating resources to the Chapel now gives town-wide permanent buffs like the class titles, these can be seen in the Titles menu and donation is done both by dying in a mission and through donating resources directly at the Tier 5 Chapel
- Each point of Strength now gives Armor Penetration
- Dexterity and Intelligence crit damage scaling changed from linear to decaying growth, below 400 DEX/INT this is a buff, but beyond that they start to fall off
- Holding down a button in the attribute assigner and material trader UIs now repeat the press to minimize annoying repeat clicking
- Material trader UI now lets you change how much to trade at a time
- Mission loadout NG+ picking now rolls around, so doing NGP- at 0 picks the highest
- Fixed Girdle of Might attunement being broken
- Fix for Barracks trap room that can break level layout
- Fixed enchanting menu for “broken” enchanted items (of Insightfulness)
- Fixed being able to buy the same enchant multiple times wasting resources
- Chests no longer only give primary stat equipment and instead bases it on what you’ve picked for attributes
- Fix for warriors Killing Spree – Dauntless being broken
- Fixed prospectors pride drink
- Summons now respawn faster on level switch
- Disabled multiplayer dropin in avatar boss fight and citadel shortcut
- Lowered enchant cost scaling so its a bit cheaper at high levels
- Increased dust/crystal NG+ scaling from +10% to +20%
- Trinkets, debuffs (like bleed), etc now scale with spell power
- Fixed issue where the Mysterious Citadel achievement would not be awarded if you already found the architect forcing you to start a new save to get it
- Added spell tags to Wolf Companion, Summon Fiends, Gargoyle Servant, Conjure Hydras, Animated Sword, Demon’s Tail, and Soul Vortex
Armor
- Negative armor and resistance is no longer half as “powerful” as positive armor (it used to be that negative 100 armor only gave half the debuff as positive 100 armor gave as a buff)
- Armor and resistance penalties from New Game+ now lowered to -120 and -65 to match negative armor efficiency change
- Armor and resistance penetration remade to be percentage based instead of just a constant offset, penetration can no longer push armor below 0
- Adjusted enemy and boss armor/resistance values and scaling to match changes in armor and resistance
- Lowered curse armor/resistance penalty from 4 + 1NG+ to 3 + 0.66NG+
Enemies
- Introducing new Bannermen enemies to Dark Citadel in New Game+
- Ranger enemies in Dark Citadel now scale up their attacks in New Game+
- Made Avatar phase 3 deal slightly less damage and phase 1 slightly more
- Lowered damage for crossbowmen in Barracks
- Increased damage for archers in Courts
- Slightly increased how fast lightning wizards in Courts build up their damage
Weapons
- All weapons above tier 1 now also do damage based on character attributes, so for example swords now do a bit more damage depending on your Strength
- Weapon masteries increased to 5% bonus damage per point instead of 3%
- Dexterity bows secondary attack changed from Power Shot to Arrow Volley
- Strength bow Power Shot now shoots 3 arrows instead of 1 and goes a little bit longer
- Added 10% armor penetration to crossbow bolts
- Increased Crossbow – Explosive Shot explosion size a little
Wizard
- Barrier – Frost Shell armor bonus lowered from 25%/50%/100% to 20%/40%/60%
- Lowered Incanters Flow mana cost reduction and cast speed increase from 2%/3%/4%/5%/6% to 2%/2.5%/3%/3.5%/4%
- Enhanced Physique no longer gives Intelligence
Ranger
- Fixed bug where Entangle – Healing Wisps and Entangle – Poison Ivy weren’t mutually exclusive
- Lowered Wind Weaver cooldown from .25s to .15s
- Increased Wolf Companion attack speed
- Sped up Rain of Arrows a little
- Lowered Archery – Fast Shot skill speed bonus from 10%/20%/40% to 10%/20%/30%
Paladin
- Lawbringer – Punish the Wicked no longer does a damage increase against silenced/disarmed enemies and instead drop Judgement hammers on them
- Changed paladins Inner Flames – Flames of Devotion to add damage per character level instead of flat damage
- Lowered paladins Inner Flames max amount of stacks from 7 to 5
Sorcerer
- Ice Mastery – Ice Block now shoots 3 shards of Ice Nova when blocking an attack
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