We have deployed v1.4.0, a major milestone update that addresses key community reports regarding Legendary Gems, loot quality in high difficulties, and server-side performance spikes. This patch ensures your progress is safely stored and your rewards match your effort.
Items & Legendary Gems
- Legendary Gem Rank Persistence: fixed the "Level 1 reset" bug. Gem ranks are now correctly saved in the database across all actions: socketing, extracting, salvaging, and relogging.
- High-Difficulty Loot Fix: resolved the "White Items Only" bug in custom and high Torment difficulties. Loot quality rolls are now properly normalized, ensuring Legendaries and Rares drop as intended in Torment 6+.
- Stats Desync Correction: fixed "Ghost Stats" after modifying gear. Extracting or socketing gems now triggers a full character recomputation (Sets, Passives, Paragon, and Gems) to ensure your Toughness and DPS are always accurate.
Server Performance & Engine
- Atomic Repopulation Budget: eliminated the 200-600ms lag spikes when entering new worlds. The server now uses a strict 35ms "time budget" per frame for spawning monsters, spreading the workload smoothly.
- Database Resilience: implemented an auto-reopening session handler. This prevents "Session is closed" errors during world transitions and ensures data is always saved even during intermittent DB hiccups.
- Minion & Hireling Hardening: added multiple safety guards to Hireling and Minion AI (MinionBrain) to prevent server crashes when their "Master" or "World" context changes abruptly.
Bug Fixes & Power System
- Implemented Power 30348: added the missing "Operate_Helper_Attach" power, resolving a frequent "Unimplemented Power" warning in the logs.
- Difficulty Swap Stability: fixed a critical error when changing game difficulty. Health and damage scaling now use a safe fallback system to prevent out-of-bounds crashes.
Expected gameplay impact
- Safe Progression: your Legendary Gems will now keep their hard-earned ranks forever.
- Rewarding End-Game: Torment difficulties now provide the correct frequency of high-quality loot.
- Buttery Smooth Transitions: drastically reduced "stutter" when entering Rifts or new zones due to the new spawn budgeting system.
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- Zethrone Team
